Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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SCUTE R WATCHMAN, Eatab _i_ Consolidated Auc 2.18i Cht ?Mattbman ano .Sontbron. I^b heard F.vry Wedm?*dsy, ?BY? O&TCEN PUBLISHING COMPANY SFMTKB. S. C. Torrn?: 11 SO p?r annum?In advance. AoHcrtlsewcwts: One Square first Insertion.$1.00 Every subsequent Insertion.50 Contrscts for three months, or longer will be msde st reduced rates. All communications which sub? serve private Interests will be oharged for ee advertisements. kObit es lie* snd tributes of respect III be charged for. ?II I I. THE NEED OF CX)TTOX. \_-= _ Whjrei the World Will Need | Twersty Million Boles of Southern * ^Coteosi. Tho following very Interesting ar? ticle In the Youth's Companion was given to a reporter by a former cot? ton buyer, who Is now a large cotton reiser, snd he says that the article represents just what he believes to be the condition of affairs This section might lesvs to New Bog land and Europe all the cotton which they now heve, snd not ebte to increase Its cotton mill rapidly enough to tske cere if the world's new needs. South Is producing en average of about twelve million bales of cot? ton a year. The time Is rapidly corn sag when this must be Increased to twenty mtlton bales or more to meet the world's requirements. The geln ?In consumption will require en ever age of half a million halse a year. At this gait It would require but ten years to make It necessary for the South to rslse seventeen million or eighteen sallbon bales annually. There is no reason why the world '111 not eventually need forty million or fifty million bales or more of Sosjthera grown cotton; and wit It good > prices and aa Increase In the labor suppjl. area thin would not, be ?ee sWr st the,'Seeth', ebfltty The practical monopoly of cotton production is a potential power for the South ae greet es would be en equally strong domination of the world'e Iron-ore supply. Sooner or later, when this sec? tion fully comprehends this greet power. It will, make the world pay tribute to Its coffers, just as would or any other country which the world's iron ores. nskTsac-*' ^ "*ai r "? *" . ; y . \ By reason of this condition cotton growers ought to be the most pros? perous farmers In the world, snd In tlms they doubtless will be. Cotton, however. attracts so much atten? tion that the diversified side of agri? culture In the South Is but little resl ised. ThsL section produces over eight hundred million bushels of grain a yeor, snd several hundred million dollars' worth of other crops, which aggregste In value shout one billion three hundred million dollars, mak? ing, with cotton, s total valuation of farm product! of two billion dollars a year, or nesrly one-third of the value of the whole country. This Is a gain ?f seven hundreo and twenty eight million dollars a year compared with ltOO. when the total was one billion two hundred and seventy-two million dollars. During the seme brief period the value of the South's manufactured products rose from one billion four hundred snd sixty-four million dol? lars to two billion two hundred and twenty-five million , dollars, asd the trus vslue of Its property from twelve billion to nineteen billion three hun? dred snd ninety million dollsrs. With a wealth of nstural resources. Including coal. Iron, cottoq, timber, oil. natural gas, phosphate rock, ag? ricultural capabilities, and many uth er things, the South has a combina? tion of advantages on which to build and out of which to pour a stream of wealth absolutely without any par? allel on earth. MONVrr.K WHALE CAUGHT. One Fifty Fret In length ami 27? In Orcumfcrcns-e < gssgggsj st i spe Lfsokout. Beaafert. N. C. May 18 ?A large whale was caught at Cape Lookout Pundsy snd was towed to Beaufort today, where It will be pulled out of the water by the ship yard railways I The monster Is about 50 feet long and IS fest sround the body. It will be on exhibition st the ship yards foi two or three dsys. The estimated vslue of the bone snd oil Is $?00. A monument hss been erected to Joshua Hawkins, a rsvolutlonary he? ro, la Spartan burg. hshed April, 1850. 'Be Just o am GOING BACK TO RH'II.MOM). leffuson Davis on His l*a*t Great Mareli. The following article appeared as an editorial In the Greenville News In 1**9. on the day that the body ot Jefferson Davis passed through South Carolina from Beauvolr to Richmond. It has been greatly admired by Eng? lish scholars and critics as an exam? ple of beautiful prose. It is worthy of preservation and should be in ev? ery scrap book: A. B. Williams, in the Greenville News. In the far South, where the mightiest river of a continent swells to its-most majestic width and the summer winds dance across the biue and sunlit wa? ters of the Gulf to linger languidly in the fragrance of Louisiana's thou? sand flowers, an old man lies asleep. In Virginia, nine hundred miles away, is Hollywood Cemetery. On the slopes of its many hills the grass grows greeny beneath the shade of old trees, and marble monuments to mighty dead gleam through the foli? age, swaying gently In the breath of the breese from the James Biver. It Is very still and solemn there, and the roses drop their petals silently on the graves beneath and yield their breath to go forth gently through ravines and valleys where the hopes and loves of generations lie buried and the memories of thousands turn backward from all the corners of the earth. The broad, yellow river rolling by on Its course to the sea Is broken there by many Islands, and Its waters surge beneath the drooping branches of willows and are ruffled Into waves by the ledges of rock beneath. The voice of the river rushing amid the willows comes softly among the hills and ravines of Hollywood, like the sound of ceaseless sighing from many thousands of. breasts, and mingles with the whisperings of the old trees as their foliage sways and rus? tles. In Holywood the soldiers sleep In ranks lang sad straight as those of the battle line. Beneath the green turf, shadowed by the whispering, swaying trees, with the roses above them and in the sound of the sighing from the willows In the river, they sleep and wait, silent, stark and mo? tionless, each man In his place In the last array. Today the old man who went to sleep by the blue waters of the Gulf will be brought on his last journey to Hollywood to join the men who sleep there. He will pass nearly a thusand miles through the Southern land to the s.-und uf tolling bells and solemn boom of minute guns and the music of dirges telling of the mourning of millions of men and women. He will be laid In Hollywood for his long rest?will be put there among the men whose hearts thrilled at his name and who crowded the path to death at his bidding. Thirty-two years ago he went to Richmond at the head of a new na? tion, the chief of a people who had taken arms In vindication of the prin? ciples and for the defense of the land they loved. From every part of this wide Southern country men gathered there to him. and his name was high? est among all those whom the swarm? ing hosts honorej with wild enthusi? asm. In the splendid dreams of that time?dreams of a new empire, broad, beautiful, mighty and peaceful, and a flag bearing the Southern cross fluttering on far seas and waving higher than the flags of all the* em? pires?his personality was foremost. Reeling and falling In the choking battle smoke, sickening and dying In prisons, passing away In the crowd? ed hospital wards, his men went from the ranks they filled so glori? ously and from this world. His ar? mies melted away. the splendid dreams faded and his flag went down and was furled forever. He lived to show that the confidence and love his people gaev him were well placed, to Illustrate the heroism of adversity, to show to the world how a manly man and patriot could endure disaster and deprive, defeat of sting and shame. He died an Old man and very tired. He Is going back to Richmond 10 rest among bis veterans who have slept there silently more than a score of years. He will take his place among those whom he reviewed as they pass? ed him In shouting ranks or swept by with clang of sabre and blare of bugle?the fair-faced boys, the bpoggOd and bearded or grtSSled sol? diers who wore the grey and fought and cheered by the inspiration of his name, and fell and died following the flag whereon the Southern cross was blasoned. They will rest there very peaceful? ly amid the rolling green hills kissed jby the river breeze beneath the wide 1 nd Fear not?Let all the ends Thou At tfTER. S. a, WEDN1 i reaching, whispering branches of tho old tqpes. The far-off rushing of the ! river will sigh an everlasting re? quiem through the days of the chang? ing seasons and the darkness of the. nights or when the moonlight silts through the leaves upon the mounds beneath which they sleep. The dreams they dreamed have vanished; the llftJJ they fought for waves nowhere in thM world, flies above the waters of no seas. They memories, with no evidences of them remaining save the ranks of graves and the lingering sorrows in aging hearts. Yet their dream was a glorious one, and the memories of them will be cherished through all this Southern country while the hills in Hollywood endure and the yellow waters of the James rush by their sleeping place. Let the bells toll and the minute guns boom their mournful signals and the music of the dirges go with the passing of the splendid old chief to Join the dead army of his soldiers silently awaiting his coming in Hol? lywood. It Is our right and duty to mourn and honor our dead men and our dead cause. / SUCCESS WITH SUMMER CHICKS. Some Essential Points In Handling Little Middies That are Hatched During the Months of May and June. The road to success with May and June hatched chickens Is a broad one, and one very easily travelled, it on; will only start out right. And, in getting this kind of a start, the first thing necessary is to make the tit ting hen comfortable, and tn insure her freedom from mites and lice. This is not a difficult task, and y.n. a com? plete guarantee of success with *lhe May hatched brood. The i.est of the sitter requires at tenvi-in 11?M and In* preparing It oil old material should be removed, and the n?-*t Vox thoroughly saturated on the Inside with coal o^l. Then new material should be put In. The hen should be thoroughly dusted with Persian Insect Powder, or else her shanks and fluff lightly rubbed with coal oil before she Is allowed to take the new nest, only two or three days previously. Then when placed she will be in a .situation that will in? sure peace and quietude for her in the warmest weather. In the mean? time, however, she should have access to a yplace to dust every time she might feel so Inclined after coming from the nest to feed. A day or two before the chicks come, a crop should eb prepared and well sprinkled on the insldes. and on the floor with the kerosene oil and dry earth, or dust sprinkled on the latter. Then when the mother and brood are placed, they will also be In a situation free of vermin. Then a little place or small yard for the hen to be In with her chickens, apart from the main Mock, and she will then be quite sure to bring all her brood uo to the weaning age. The chickens, however, should have free pass after they are ten days old. to the outer free rajige, but the hen confined to her enclosure, This makes a suf?' Sfd sure place r.f refuge for the lit? tle ones, and does away with all care and worry on the part of the keeper when the sudden showers of i-ar!y summer time come up. It also pre? vents draggling and straggling on the part of the mother through the dew and wet grass of an early morning, and almost Insures no gapes In a brood so situated. If this plan should be observed by those setting hens for May. June and July hatching, we feel assured, from past experience, that they would at? tain a very high degree of success with the chickens.?Southern Culti? vator. INSURANCE LICENSE REFUSED. Commissioner MoMastcr Turns IXmii Application of the l/Miisville Com i pany. Columbia, May 1 ft.?The Citizens' Life Insurance Company of Louis vllle, Ky.. through its general agent, Mr. Meihiffle Hampton, end repre? sented by Mr. B. L. Ahne; . today ap? peared before Commissioner McMas ter and applied for a license to do business in this state. The policy contracts of insurance contains a Clause giving the Insured the option of purchasing shares In the capital stock of this Company, Commission? er McMasier held that tins clause l> In violation of the recent act of the legislature forbidding the offering of stock as an Inducement to Insurance. Nine children who were bitten by a dog In Greenville have been sent to the Pasteur Institute in Atlanta for treatment. tns't at be thy Country's, Thy God's ai ESDAY. MAY 20. 19C STOCK MARKET IMPROVED. LAST WEEK THE BEST SINCE THE PANIC BEGAN. Prices of Securities Advanced With Growing Impetus ami Confidence Was Visibly Strengthened?Aujrurs Well for the Future, Although Present Conditions in the Indus? trial World are Still Very tin wit is factory. New York, May 17.?Prices of se? curities advanced last week with growing impetus and increasing vol? ume of transactions, the total sales on Thursday rising to the largest of any day since last summer, before the financial crisis developed. The persistence of the advance and its freedom from influence or check by events seeming unfavorable to values, gave It impresslveness and had the effect of converting a growing num I ber of sceptics in the professional [operating class, who had contested I the advance by short sales at various I stages and had been forced repeat I edly to cover at a loss. The abandonment of the opposi j tlon by this class and their turn to I the long side had not a little to do I with the increased animation and I buoyancy of the market. The easi 1 ness with which obstacles were over I come and prices aggressively advan I Iced from the inception of the pres I ent movement has been conviclng I proof of the wide resources com I manded by the leaders of the move I ment, who are commonly believed to I include great banking houses and in I dividual capitalists, Whose influence I commands the resources of the most I powerful group of capitalists in the I country. The suspicion of a manip I lated origin of the rise in prices, with I the purpose of creating a semblance I of Improvement where the reality I did not exist served to hold aloof I from the market most of the general I public which generally joins in an im I portant market movement. The I confidence and constancy with which I Hie movement la pu.-suvd had grow I lng Influence on sentiment last week, I and had the increasing effect of caus I ing a belief in the satisfaction thus I expressed on the part of the great I capitalists with the degree t in im I provement of facts. I The development of the money I market was clearly enough percept I Ible. For the easy money market I to further the success of financial I plans of corporations, however, there 1 was necessary the addition of a dem 1 onstration of confidence in the securl I ty of values. The rise in the stock I market has operated as such a dem I onstration. The scepticism with I which it was accepted at first I was due to the conflicting evidence I of news affairs in general. This dis I crepency continued last week, in I spite of the growing forces of the I rising stock market tide. That I prices of securities continued to rise I in spite of unfavorable industrial and I commercial advices was assumed to I mean that promising signs could be discerned beyond this immediate .slt I uation that prompted the large com I mltments to holdings of stocks which I were being made from day to day I in the stock market. For instance, I the declared purpose of the prlncl I pal allied interests in the iron in? dustry to hold prices of that great I basic commodity was evidently <iui I etly abandoned and practically an jopen for iron established. While I conditions there are still greatly un 1 settled and no change is reported in I the demand for finished products, it is conceivable that the way to im I provement may be opened by the new demand for iron brought out by the concessions. The same holds true I of the copper industry, where suc? cessive reductions in price have been of discouraging effect, while neces? sarily representing progress toward the siage of stability, where demand will overtake supply and revival of the industry set in. Great influence in reviving effective demand for commodities is derived from the success of the new bond issues by the railroads. As a speculative medium, which the stock market undoubtedly is. fu? ture and not present conditions are expected to be outlined in its action. The comprehensive and aggressive uplift of prices must be read in this light, and as representing views thai pierce beyond a present that in? cludes the largest surplus of Idle freight cars in the history of the 'country, an Iron market with but slight stirrings from a condition of stagnation a shrinkage in hank clear? ings that is an unmistakable index of commercial quiet, railroad earn? ings that reflect a struggle to con? serve a margin over expenses for distribution to stockholders and com? plaints of traffic managers that condi id Truth's." THE TRI >8. New 8er tiOM from week to week are without improvement. Even on the side of the crops, the assumed success of which is a necessary condition to the revival which the stock movement seems to produce, the immediate events of the week were not inspiring, the unfavorable weather portending some decline in conditions, which is not, however, believed to be serious. The great abundance of money market resources has not been at all affected with the improvement by the withdrawal of Government de? posits, while the resumption of gold exports and by various financing is? sues through syndicate incident to the new issues of securities. The re? laxing tendency of money markets is the rule, not only here but abroad, where an early satisfaction of all demands upon us seems to be indi? cated. NOT TIME TO SELL. President Harris of the Farmers l'nion Advises Farmers to Hold Treir Cotton. President B. Harris, of the Far? mer's Union calls on the farmers not to sell their cotton, despite the recent jump in prices, but to hold on until the price demanded is given. Mr. Harris has sent out the following call in circular form: "HOLD SPOT COTTON FOR THE MINIMUM." "If there ever was a time to hold It is now." Cotton has advanced 3-4 of a cent per pound In one week. What is the cause? "It is because, trade conditions are I better or a cause of necessity? Fut I ures cannot be spun and woven into I cloth, if they could, cotton would I not haev made this advance. Do not I let a little advance In price influence I you to sell. Hold on till the minimum I is reached. Remember the cotton I broker has sold your coton to the I mills, now make him give the minl I mum before he gets it to deliver it to I the manufacturer. They are calling him I for cotton Is why It has advanced. I "Now, boys, freeze to it1 and th-3 I price will get right. The spot cotton I is In your hands, and It is yours. The I other fellow is beginning to want It I badly now. Remember 4.500.000 I bales short, means something and I the shortage Is all in your favor. We I all know that crop conditions ar?' I bad, not only east of the Mississippi. I but west also. I "The cotton crop is at least three I weeks late and bad stands, and thr I cold weather has caused much iv I planting. Every day will have to he Ian ideal day from now until the crop Iis made for us to duplicate the 190" I crop. I J'Miss Giles says the general con?i I dition of the crop is lf> per cent, bet I ter this year than last. Remember I this is only guess work with her and I is a guess that is far wrong. She getf I pay for this guessing. "The European mills now want I cotton and they will need 1.000.000 I bales more of American cotton this I year than they have been using. The I Egyptian and India crop is 2.000.000 I bales short and they have been get I ting most of that cotton. "High grade cotton is scarce, not I enough to fill orders that have been I contracted for. Holding off the mar I ket has been the cause of the rise. I "Boys, if you hold, the minmium I will come, so do the right thing at I the right time, hold; remember corn Iis $1 cash now. still plenty of time to I plant yet, so raise enough food crops I to do you next year. "B. Harris. I "President State Fanners' Union." MI RDER NEAR RIBGEWAY. Negro Kills Man and Woman of His Own Kace. Ridgeway. May IS.?Not a little ex? citement was caused Iren* by the n?'\vs of a double killing of negroes about a mile below Ridgeway. George Lorhorn and Judy White died from gunshot wounds at the hands of John Wesley, alias John Shed. So read the coroner's verdict and with which all the facts in the case seem to agree. It appears that both the men had been at the home of the girl paying a call and finally Weslew rose to leave, saying g??d night to both the others and seemingly in a pleasant humor. About an hour afterwards he return? ed to the house end finding Lorhorn and Judy still there he entered and said to George: "I'm going t? kill you." and tired two shots at htm and one at the girl. The girl died almost instantly, but Lorhorn lived about an hour after he was shot. The sound of the sheds noised the neighboring darkies, who rushed to the scene of the shooting only to find the girl dead, the man dying and the slayer escaped. von JE SOUTHRON, Established Jane, ISM les?Vol. XXVII. No 42 INVESTIGATING MUT IT A Ii COMPA? NIES. Several South Carolina Concerns to be looked Into by Commissioner Mc Master. Columbia. May 19.? Insurance Commissioner McMaster will, within a few days, commence an investiga? tion of some of the State mutual fire and life insurance companies now do? ing business. So far he has a list of about 60 of these companies on his books and among these there are several complaints because of failure to pay losses. The law gives him the authority to look over the books of all companies and should fraud be dis? covered he is authorized to put them out of business. Commissioner McMaster has also received from the receiver of the National Mutual Fire Insurance com? pany of Omaha a letter stating that the court has given him until August 1 to receive claims and that the total amount due South Carolina policy holders for unearned premiums amounted to about $2,500, with an un? paid fire loss of $1,400. Among the list of policyholders are several fra? ternal orders, notably the Congaree lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fel? lows, the Columbia encampment and the Wassamasaw lodge of Red Men, all of this city. It will be necessary for the policyholders to send in their claims at once. The bond of the company, amounting to $100,$06, - de? posited for business In this State, is officially in the possession of the in? surance department. DEAS SNUBS TAFT. Would Not Call on Secretary Though He Was at the Depot. Florence, May 18.?Secretary of War William H. Taft passed through the city last night on his return trip* from Panama. He came through on I passen ;er train No. 82, and as the train only stops at Florence IS min? utes he did not get off the car. A number of Republicans here heard that he would pass through and met the train. He did not discuss politics directly, but spoke of the Philippines and their needs. He laid special stress on the need of colored physi? cians there, saying that in a number of provinces there were 2,000 people to every physician. The secretary was on his way to Washington, from whence he will go to Nashville, where he will lay the cornerstone of the Car- " negie library. Edmund Reas, the "Duke of Dar? lington." was at the depot last night, but made no effort tomeet the secre? tary and did not even board the car. Deas is strongly anti-Taft. t -> IS ASHEYILLE DRY? * ? Said to he 85 Government Liquor Li censes In A she vi Me. Asheville. May 18.?A statement made semi-officially that here are F5 government whiskey licenses in force here has resulted in the prohibition forces getting busy and it is stated t<?day that the Buncombe ceunty pro? hibition xecutive committee has em? ploye,', an officer at Statesville to procure a list of the names Sf those who hold these licenses. Members of the executive committee ?tated that they are sure that there are not 85 licenses here. It is further said that the government licenses in force here were issued last July to run for a year and there has been no in? crease since prohibition became ef? fective. However, several of the pro? hibitionists are considerably exercis? ed over the report of 85 licenses in existence in Asheville?a "dry" town. Lawful to Whip. Greenville, May If.?H. H. Dill, former chelngang overseer in this county, was today acquitted in the general session court of the charge of cruelly whipping a convict. 'The warrant f<?r his arrest was sworn out by a former convict, who claimed that he was unmercifully whipped. The state took the ground it was un? lawful to whip convicts. Judge Prince charged it was legal to whip them as much as it was necessary to carry ?*lt sentence of the court as to hard labor. The case was hard fought. The jury was out only a shert time. If the case was decided against Dill it probably would have meant that the whfping post at the penten tlarj would have been abelished. If you want to sell. buy. rent or ra ehange anvthlng, if you want a posi? tion, if you have found or lost any? thing. Just advertise in the Item's Want Column and watch the results. They come quick.