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AQ lodustriai CombioatioiL m A Movement for Developing Cotton Manufacturing in tlie South on a Large Scale, Manufacturers' Record. Some years ago the Manufacturers1 Record very actively urged the desir ability of listing on the stock ex changes of Baltimore, New Yoik and Boston the stocks of leading South ern cotton mills, in order to make them good as collateral for loans in all money censers, and also with a view to attracting the attention of investors tc Southern cotton manu facturing. This suggestion was warmly seconded by a number of miii-owners,. but it was io advance of the times. The idea itself was. j however, right,,but the time was not! propitious Any careful student of Southern busines conditions is forced j to the conclusion that the spirit of unrest and dissatisfaction has been largely due to the fact that the South's best bankable assets-its cotton, raw and manufactured, and its cotton mill stocks-haye not been good collateral for loans at moderate rates of interest. Railroad stocks and bonds can command money at all times, but the South's money is not largely invested in railroad securities. This inability to use cotton-intrinsi cally, one of the best collaterals in the world-is the reason for the great enthusiasm with which the South has received the idea of/bonded cotton warehouses Now comes another plan, as out lined in ont news columns, for the purpose of purchasing for cash the stocks of a large number of Southern cotton mills, and by combining them into one corporation, to create a market for their securities in all lead ing financial centers. So far as the Manufacturers'Record can see, this proposition has in it many strong advantages for the South, without any serious drawback and without any danger to the best interests of the whole South It simply means that a good many millions of dollars, all of which, we are informed, has been guaranteed by the foremost financiers of New York, will be put j Into Southern mills, and thus turn | loose that amount of local capita! now invested in these mills, increas lng to that extent the available money of the South. Take Augusta.. Ga , for instance, and suppose that $5,000,000 of outside money should be put into the mills of that city This would simply release the $5,000,000 of capital thus supplant ed, which would mean a wonderful addition to the wealth of that place. And so it would be elsewhere. Moreover, a combination of this kind, backed by vast capital, could build many tew mills, enlarge those pur chased and push the product of its mills into alt foreign markets The scheme seems to be one of vast ben efit to the South, and, so far as the Manufacturers' Record can learn, the men who are behind it have net heretofore been investors to any large extent io the South. This vast enterprise, which, it is thought, may run op to from $50.000.000 to $100," 000,000, will mean a deep interest in the South by the foremost financiers of the country It will probably mean the foll turning of the tide of capital southward, and its influence must be feit in every line of busi ness. I ,a recent issue of the Manufac turers' Record it was 6tated that the rea! battles of the world today are the battles for industrial supremacy, and that if the South vrants to gain power it most do so on the field of economic production Nature has given us the vantage ground, and rt reste with us to say whether or not we shall fight with the oid muzzle loader against those who use the Krs Jorgensen or the Mauser ; or, in other words, whether we will adhere to the methods and tradi tions of the past simply out of ven erations for what our forefathers did, or whether we wiii use modern methods As the Krag Jorgensen bas supplanted the old mozz:e loader, so modern machinery has displaced old systems. The combination of capital or of industries is simply the modero machinery for doing busi ness ; it is the repeating rifle against the mnzz'e loader, and unless the South falls into lioe aod equips itself, its natural advantage will count for but little Io a late number of Cassier's Magazine Mr. Charles R. Fliot, one of the foremost busi ness men nd financiers of New York, in discussing "Industrial Organiza tion," said : "The wars of today are industrial wars ; wealth is secured by produc tion instead of by plunder; diplo mats devote most of their time to studying trade conditions for the benefit of their home industries, and the most favored treaties are those of reciprocity and commerce. We might as well expect to win the in dustrial battles of today by old methods as to expect victory wiih types of war vessels, manned by men who, as Joe Jefferson said, "had never had any rehearsals," as against those modern combinations ol steel, electricity, powder and dyna mite handled by men who had re hearsed. "The time has gone by when it is necessary to argue as io right to exist o capital for the purpose of industrial development Every great movement in the world's progross has been opposed Machinery bas done more for the benefit of labor than ali the acts of reformers and govern meets, yet originally the class most benefiit'ed endeavored to prevent its use /The introduction of fast coaches in Great Britain was opposed to such an extent that petitions were present ed to the King and council, asking that no public coach be permitted to go moie than thirty miles a day. Macaulay in commenting on this historic fact, was prophetic wheu he wrote : 'We emile at these things. It is not imposible that our descend- j ants, when they read the opposition offered by cupidity and prejudice to i the improvements of the nineteenth j century, may smile in their turn.' " Mr Flint was writing of the im portance of industrial combination* aiding the United States to deveiop our manufacturing interests and to gain foreign markets, and if this be true, as it surely ie, for the country at large, bow much more important is it for the South to appreciate the need of these new methods. Unless the South follows the world's lead in industrial combination it will be fighting its battles with the muzzle loader against the world's industrial army fully equipped with* repeating rifles. Where we should stand in the end is only too plain. This great cotton mill combination ought to become the South's most powerfai weapon for gaining the control of j She world's cotton manufacturing interests. No Right to Ugliness. The woman who is lovely ia face, form and temper will always have friends, but cn* who would be attractive must keep her health. If she is weak, sickly and all run down, shs will be nervous and irritable. If she has constipa tion or kidney trouble, her impure blcod will cause, pimples, blotches, skin eruptions and a wretched complexion. Electric bitters i:; the best medicine in the world to regulato, ;stom ach, liver and kidneys and to purify the blood. It gives strong nerves, bright eye?, smooth velvety skin, rich complexion. It will mike a good-looking, charming woman of a run-down icvalid. Only 50c at J. F. W DeLorme's Drug Store. 2 Cotton Seed O ! in Demand. (From ice New York Commercial.) The cotton seed oil market is in a j state of wild confusion. 80 unsettled are the conditions that the two leading manufacturing concerns in the trade have refused to make any contracts whatever for tb future delivery of oil Prime summer yeilow in la.rge quantities was sold ic the New York market last week for 30 cents per gallon, when the highest price obtained last year at this time was 22-i cents per gallon So strong is the situation that the trade geoerally is looking for 40 cent oil before 1st of next mooth. The causes leading to the advance this year are two-fold, the scarcity of seed at home and the short production of olive oil in Italy and the Mediterranean section. The season is folly three weeks late this year, and it cannot be said to have fully opened even new. The mushars through the Soutb are complaining that, they cannot gee seed enough to begin crushing, and up to date no: a gallon of new crude oii has been offered 00 the New York market. Seed is selling at twice the price it sold last year. In Texas there have been 33 P8 as high as ^18 per roc, delivered at the mills, while the maxi mum price last year was 3 per ton, aod some sold zs low as $6 Thc development of the cotton seed oil industry bas been marked within the j past five years. Where only ooe-third j of the s e crop 12 former rimes was utilized for making oii, it baa grown until now two-thirds cf ali the seed is converted 3to a merchantable product, instead of being spread upoo the ground as a fertilizer. Earcpe has also learned to substitute cotton seed oil more sod more for olive oil. The use of oil in codkiog in italy, Fraoce and Spain and, in fact, through out the Continent has so increased' that the olive crop ess been insufficient to supply the demand even in a bounteous year. * The demand for cotton seed oii as a substitute or for the purpose of mixing with olive oil has grown to enormous proportions. The exports from the United States have grown from 2,690. 700 gallons io 1889 to 40,230,784 galions in 1898 There is practically no oil on the market at the present time, and there is a Urge demand. Warships Ordered to the Philippines. Washington, Oct. 4 -The president today directed the immediate dispatch to tbe Philippines of number of ve. aela of the navy including the cruiser Brooklyn and the gunboats Marietta and Machias. The action is the result of Admiral Dewey's interview today, in which bc went over the Poilippioe situation with the president The orders even are in line with the expressed de-ermination of thc president to furnish thc army and navy every resource for f-rampiog oat the Philippine ior-urrecrion at thc earliest possible time. g CUBAN RELIEF cures Colic, VNeuralgia, ami Toothache in fiveminutes. Sour Stomach and Summer Complaints. ! 'rico. 25J. Sold by Hughson-Ligcn Co. Death of D. E. Converse. Pounder of the Great Clifton and Glendale Factories The following sketch of the life of D E. Converse, of Spartanburg, whose death on the 4th instant has been announced, appeared in the telegraph dispatch fron that city Dexter E. Converse was president of the Clifton and Glendale cotton factories, leader in the building of Converse college, Spartanburg and one of the most prominent, success ful and influential cotton mill men io the country He bad been ill about three v?eeks, and although bis frauds, who included the entire population of the community, hoped until the last, his death was Dot un* expected Mr. Converse was born in New Eogiand about 72 years ago He was thoroughly grounded in tbe cotton mill business there, and came to th 6 country in 1857 or 1858, and applied to John Bomar, Sr, who then had a small frame yarn mill OD the site of the present Glendale yarn mills, for employment. Both of them used to relate with glee that Mr Bomar was at first disposed to reject the proposition and did refuse flatly, but Mr. Converse persisted and at last was given work. He quickly proved his value and remained at the mill until 1861, when he volunteered as a private in the Confederate army, going out with a Spartanburg com pany. Although born and brought up in New England. Mr Converse was throughly convinced that the South was right and the Confederacy had no braver or more devoted soldier than he was There was urgent need for yarns both by the government and people, however, and because of his skill in j the milling business Mr. Converse was detailed and sent back to Glen dale where he worked until the end of the war. A few years after the war he had developed the business so far that he buiit r> brick mill at Glendale, one of the first in the State, and consideied at that time a very fine one. Later he bought the shoals at Clifton and in the seventies he began to build a new mili there The business has steadily developed until theie are j now three mills at Clifton and the' enterprises there and at Glendale1 represeut a capital of 2,000,000 Mr Converse holds large shares of the stock of both establishments. He was worth between 750,000 and 1,000,000 He was one of the leaders in the es tabiisbmeot of Converse College, and has given to it 55,000, or, per haps more. He was a member of the Presby terian Church' and a liberal giver. In fact no call was made upon his be nevoleoce or his public spirit io vain He was always ready not only to do bis foil part io money but to take active personal interest io everything that promised good for mankind or the community. One peculiar and besoti ful trait of his life and character was that he was rarely, if ever, koown to speak evil of any man He leaves a widow, who was Miss Twitebei!, sister of the treasurer of the Clifton and Glendale mili , and one daughter, Miss Marie Converse. CUBAN OIL cures Cuts, *fVl& Burns, Bruises. Rheuma JF tism and Sores. Price, 25 cts. Sold bj fiughson-Ligon Co. The South's Good English. Writing in the Pall Mall Gazette for October on "The American Lan guage,'' or the difference between I English and American modes of j speech, Mr. Wiilian Archer falls into error in assuming that the northern custom of pronouncing "u" as "oo" is general in the United States, the fact being that such pronunciation is not favored south of Mason and Dixon'8-Iine. Mr Archer has found many of his American acquaintances pronouncing Dewey as "Dooey," and once heard Chief Justice Fuller pronounce constitutional "constitoo tionai," but his inference that "the liquid 'y o' is very seldom heard in America" is entirely too wide. Throughout the south "yoo" is deemed the only correct pronuncia tion of "u" in the class of words suggested, and the same is to be said of well educated people in Mas sachusetts In other words, the southern people and the better edu cated people of Massachusetts agree that Now York is not "Noo York," union is not "oonion,'' duty is not "dooty " No doubt a great many fairly educated people in the north have fallen in with the popular mis pronunciation of "u," but even there it is not accepted generally by care ful speakers as the correct sound - Baltimore Sun. Lindon, Oot G -The Pans corres- 1 pondent of The Daily Mail Fays : "I j carn that Germany is about to hand ovej" documents which load tn the quashing of the Dreyfus verdict." 8parUDburg, Oct. 4 -D E Con verse, died herc at 6.30 tai-* r.f:crt:oon after a tun days' illness He was 72 sears of ao-c. Tt;e funeral services wiil be held in Converse College audi torium at ll o'clock Friday morning. Winds Will Not Blow For The Great Racers. Second Attempt to Solve Question of Supremacy Fails New York, Oct 5 -Again the sea today refused the Shamrock Co lumbia a fair contest ; again today the multitude which went out to watch the contestants for the yatch ing championship of the world returned disappointed and not a little disgusted The question of supre macy of the two great yachts is stiil as much an open question as before they first met, as the contest today was in some respects more of a fluke than that of Tuesday It was a drifting match aimost from start to finish. The yatch crossed the line with a breeze of five knots and the wind never blew more than six knots, most of the time less than three and part of the time not a breath of air was stiring. After sailing four hours and 43 minutes the yatchs having covered only 12 miies of the course to the outer mark, the regatta com mittee declares the race off, as it was manifestly impossible with the breeze then blowing for the boats to round the stake before the time limit expired, much less to take home again. During the time in which the yachts were at it the wind, which carried them dead before it over the line, had hauled around until at the finish they were beating into its teeth. While the wind held astern tue Columbia steadily outfooted her rivai until she was fully half a mile a head, but io the shifting, baffling ?snnds following during the last three hours, with the great sin gle stickers tacking and beating and gybing to catch every streak of wind, with fortune helping one about as much as the other the Shamrock gradually worked her way up until, when the race was declared eff the tr*o boats were about on even terms, the Shamrock perhaps half a length ahead, but so ciose was the Columbia that Capt. Barr could have thrown a buscuit to the foreigner. The oniy lesson learned by the nautical sharps from today's trial of the abilities of the two boats is that in light weather conditions the Columbia is the super ior in running and reaching, and the Shamrock sightly better in beating There has yet been no indication of what either boat can do in a piping whole sail breeze .jt CUBAN OIL cures (Juts, Burns, Bruises, Rheuma tism and Sores. Price, 25 cts Sold bj Hughson-Ligoo Co. Deatn by Suffocation. Those who remember tue mikado's "object ali sublime," will fiud evi dence of oontinued study in the report, that the Japanese government is con sidering the advisability of inflicting capital punishment by means of suffo cation-placiog the subject io an air tight chamber and then exhausting tbe air from toe chamber by means of a pump. The "death" or ''vacuum" chamber, as it is to be koowo, is to be an air tight esl built io or adjourning the prisoo. it is to be eight feet in height, ten feet wide and ten feet i ng- The foar eides are to have each an air-tight odow of three quarter ioca plate glass, so that tbs operators, prison and orher cjfiaials maj have an opportunity to witness the executioa 2nd aeterciine to results'. "The cell will be cmnected with an air pump which will bava a power of oausinji the expulsion o the air ic- tbe cell io ooe minore aod forty seconds, thus acting so quickly as not to allow the victim to become suffocated or dis tressed in even the slightest degree, but, instead, causing almost; instant death. In fact, it was shown when the experiment was tried upon a large St. Bernard dog that the animal was dead a minute and a half after the vacuum was completed. Columbia, Oct 5 -The 30 days' notice having been given and no one having raised objection under the railroad incorporation act, the secre tary of state yesterday issued a com mission to the Chattanooga, Augusta and Charleston Air Line Railroad company, which is to construct the Seaboard Air Line's proposed road from Charleston to Elberton, Ga., via Augusta, Ga. Des Moines, Ia , Oct. 4 -Marza Townsend of Decorah, Ia., about 2u years old, waB killed on the Carnival circus grounds this evening while attempting a parachute leap. 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