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The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1869-03-31

? CnISEsE INpUsTRY.-A writer
shows how it is that the vast pop
ulation of China is enabled to live
and thrive ,...- ,,...... .., ....
"From patient and untiring in
dustry, it seems tonne the Chinese
have no equals. Anything which
needs great labor and but little
skill, they can do better than all
the world beside. If it be the
digging of innumerable miles of
canals, or the building Of great
walls that stretch half way across
a continent, they can do it. There
are no more careful, thrifty, eco
nomical tillers OF the soil than
they; even the steepest hillsides
are redeemed from waste by mar
row terraces, and their broader
fields arc kept as tidily as gardens.
They spare no labor nor economy
in the enriching of the soil, ano
work hour after hour to irrigate
it, carrying the water often for
considerable distances in buckets
swung across their shoulders
They use very little agricultural
machinery, and all their imple
ments are of the rudest sort
What they depend on is the cease.
less drudgery of patient manual
labor and by this alone the ayr.
cultural miracle which makes all
China one great garden has been
wrought" .....
The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1869-03-31
Axoxe the sspsr,,i,ions Of the sene.

AMoxs the sapers,itiops OF the Sene.
ca Indians is one Of singular beauty
When q maiden die. they ,imprison q
young bird until il 6rst begins to try
i,s power OF song, aud then loading Il
.!~i,h caresses, they loose il over her
grave, ic the belief that j, will rot
fold lie wings nor close ils eyes until /,
has flown TO the Spirit Land, and de
iiyered lie precious burden Of affection
70 the loved and lost
The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1869-03-31

THOSE who are fixing their eyes up
ward in mock devotion should reme,n =
Der that people do not 60 10 heaven by
stairs. ..,s..-.. a..
The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1869-03-31
A Legend Of Massachusetts Super,
I'U.sS s@Rs stition.

In the history of Gloucester,
just written by Mr.. Babson, he
tells q legend of Peg .Wesson, a
repntcd witch, In the year s1745
q company Of soldiers We're elisted
in Gloucester, as. part of the
force destined to operate against
the French fortress of Louisburg,
Cape Brenton. Some of these
men, before their departure, by
some means, so provoked old Peg
gy's wrath, that she threatened
ve' geance upon them. While IN
camp there a crow was observed
hovering overhead in rather a sim
Igular manner. Several shots were
fred at the bird without effect,
when one Of the men thought it
might be Peggy, and if SO, he
knew that common lead would
have no effect upon her: So he
took pair OF silver sleeve buttons
from his wrist, dropped them into
bis gun, and let her have it. The
charmed missile went direct to the
mark, without regard to correct
ness Of aim or distance. His bird
fell, wounded in the leg, and was
soon dispatched. They afterward
learned that at the exact momen,
when the old crow fell, old Peg
fell in or near her hoise on Back
street, with a broken leg. And
more wonderful still, on an exam
ination of the fractured limb, the
Identical sleeve, buttons that were
| fred at the crow under the walls
of Louisburg were found imbed-
| ded in the flesh. Another version
of this story was to the effect that
q siege train of heavy artillery
was placed in position and in
readiness to open fire, when the
crow was observed flying back
and forth, passing over one gun
and then another, and not q gun
could be "got off," The match
was extineuished, or the powder
would fash in the pan, until the
bird was brought down. Strange
as it may seem, this weird tale
was very generally received as
truth, and it was believed by many
down to a much. later date.
The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1869-03-31

Reap ideas and house them
we'll, but leave the words high
stuhble.
The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1869-03-31

Hopes and cares, anxietics ant
tears, divide our Life,
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1869-03-06

thirty years hence, men worth 500, ,0OO.-
600 will be M Ore numerous than those worth
800, ,O0O, 900 now, as the latter are more pn
merouS fhan we're those Of s., 600, 900 thIrty
years ago. The wageme are RAPIDLY grow
ing more numerous in proportion to u in
crease Of the whole population, and they are
growing poorer also, comparatively speak-
ing. Ii he working classes Eould think u
such facts they woaid ,erhaps lvok CO their
own interests. They 10 t nos extect that
reforms will come from those who fatten on
the errors in oar system Of legislation.
The fourth table shows that in the year
1900, Eve per cent. Of the people will have
seventy per cent Of the whole wealth 0f the
country, and this five per cent. ii men will
not produce any Of it. They will be the
"drill sergeants'' of the great multitude in
hopeless poverty drilling them, too, as the
expense of three-fourths the worth Of their
toll. At the present ime az shown 10 the
third table, ten per cent. of the people bave
sixty ner CEN. of the aggregate wealth..
This contrast of 1870 and 1900 should
awaken attention to he overhauliug Of the
immense enginery by which such results are
being wrought out-the enginery Of land,
money, manufacturing and corpora mon
Opolies. The second table shows that in
lS40, thirty years ago, less than ten per
cent. Of the people owned les than half,
that IL, forty four per cent. Of the national
wealth
Is this the "progress'' that we loudly
noise abroad 1t is not broaght e The
view of the people, because those who v q
up and talk uRpuf "glsrious achievement"
do not 90 deeply into the subject, for the
very good rrason that the spectacle pres nc
ed would spoil all their 6ne writing and
fanciful speech. They only LOOK at the na
uonal aggregate, as has been 80 much the
custom with political economists. IL is for
the friends OF true progress--the fri nds
o. labor and Of the people, 20 tell the whole
truth Oh this subject. IL is for those who
are injured under bad system TO coneen-
trate their power against the golden crown
ed giant that now holds government, La,
education, religion, and the press Itself sub
ct 70 bis will When the people shall move
for justice, those who seek poaularity will
move also, and not ill shen.-Hines Quar-
terly, fer APr''.
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1869-03-06
The DIstrl butIon of Wealth.

Concerning the distribution Of wealth
among the people. public statistics afford
but little information. 1t is easier to tell
from the statistics Of the United States how
many horses are well .abled than how many
families are well housed.
It is Of the FIRST importance to statesmen
to know the extent to which the property Of
the country IL owned by the people, how
much by the money men, the middle men,
and the wage men respectively. And yet
nothing on This subject is known, except
what one sees within the limits of his OBJ
serva;iou.
We have studied closely the construction
Of some tables which will, at least, serve 20
suggest a more careful compilation Of the
facts by those who take tbs census of the
people. These tables a. submittc to the
attens'Jn Of the reader, who may be induced
20 collect the facts in the range nf hIs ac-
quainsance, in bis city, in his township, or
his county. 10 judging Of the accuracy Of
our tables one NAV do them injustice. by
supposing tnat as it is in his own neghbor-
rhaod so il is in the whole country lie may
chance to live where the property il very
generally distributed among the people, and
where no one is either very rich or very
poor. Il would not be safe to project that
condition very far, as il is not true of IN nv
sections Of this mon0poly-cursed globe.
Throughout the whole West property 10
much better distributed than through the
East, for the reason that it is q younger
country, the population is more srarse, lands
are cheaper, manufactures less developed,
etc. As he country increases in populat ton,
Ii is supposed that the comforts Of life also
incsease bus the fact is, that the number Of
poor increases at a far greater ratio than the
population, and comparatively there are more
whose comforts are less than when the pop
Ealssion was less Property 10 more and more
centralized % the population increases, aud
he fortunate ones rejoice in the increase Of
what they call the "wealth of the country, I"
but which would more properly be desig-
mated as the wealth Of the few.
It has been estimated By one writer that
Eve per cent. Of the pesple own fifty per
cent. OF the wealth OF the United States.
That Is undoubtedly the case in New York
city, as well as in Boston. Philadelphia,
Cincinnati, Chicago, 81. Louis, and other
cities. This author erred in supposing that
the pr0rortion Of New YORK city obtains
over q whole country. Every resident Of
the Frral districts readily detects this error.
In ncinnati We have the facts reported
Thf assessments for taxation IN 1868 shox
thst 2 500 persons own $50, 900 900 of prop
erty ~ rated for taxation. These represent .
pOpuIation OF IL 500 out Of an aggregate oi
$50, 600 people. Tue aggregate wealth Of
the city IL $3.50 per capita, or $l62 ,5O0. .O0l
/ in all Thus is appears that Eve per cent
4 OF the people Of Cincinnati have very nearly
half the whole wealth OF the city. This be
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1869-03-06
From N-u FORK Terad.
The Bond bOIdeTs' Rill.

Mr. Mlrfon, The SENATOR from Indiana.
IN discussing Nj Sherman's Dill in relation
90 the public ueDt and currency. said the
conn Ttse- seemed 20 have haep at q lcss fnr
Al appro riate t.lle tor the bill, and tha.
he Thought tbev ght have better cal cd IL
bill to improve Ct = value Of the BOMBS OF
the country. Mr.. Morton hit the nail fairly
on the head that time for the principal ub-
Ject, II not the only one, Of tie Sherman
bill is 10 raise the value of he United States
bonds and to increase the property of the
bondh olders. Indeed, to have named il
right, il should have been called the bonf
holders bill. From the extraordinary ef-
turts made nv the h ancial qlacKs ia Con
gress TO benefit the bnnjholders IL might be
supposed by the ignorant that these bond
holders are suffering aud an Oppressed
class OF people-they have beer and are
treated very badly by the government.
These poor, hard pressed people gave three
or four years ago from sixty to ninety dol
Iars Tor bonds worth nov hundred and
ten, are exempt from taxation a.d draw
regularly SIX per cent interest 10 GOLD. or
more than eight Der cent ID currency. lne
grtater purt IL The bonds have nearly
doubled IN value over the price paid Fur
them orr ina y. TIE interest on the cagi-
tai actually invested a first, amounts tO
sixteen per cent, 70 say nothing of toe ex
emptlcn from taxation, wnlcn il two ur
three per cent more. Yet this H. the only
cl4ss VI the Community "a wBOln many Of oar
leading Congreesmen appear TO be iuteresJ-
Z Tor whom thy care 60 legislate. Ibel
all beSln al The wrong end, anu ar 5ef0gy-
ed Oy toe OH bJlllvnIst THEORIES Of currency
and hnauce. Toe hrst thing should bv ~
reduce the interest IN the JsDI aud I0 bu,
mp and caucal u many of the Oonis a. pos
slole while the Currency is amr lie ana the
revenue large. Iu all other respects, or for
any o,her purpose the currency and bonds
snVllj be lei alone. Iae DOndnolders aIe
well taken care u and not AkeiY ID suffer
l. Il the overtaxed people tnat Congress
should relieve by suitable legIsls. ion i,asIeai
OF tlnkering WIN toe finances Tor the bene.
b. Of oondholders, lew capitalists aud
| stock vbDeIs
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1869-03-06
A Western Village.

This is Western Village-a sample Of
many which are strung on the iron thred Of
the Michigan Central Railroad. Ii is nsith-
er better nor worse than it's neighbors. 1t
has two fine brick school houses, where the
accomplished teachers teach the young idea
how to shoot and what 20 shoot at. The
common schools Of this State wiil not suffer
in comparison with the best common schools
of New England and New York; indeed
they embrace the best points to be found in
she system OF instruction which prevails in
the Empire State. The principal OF these
schools 10 a graduate OF the highest gram
mar class here, and he has eight subordi-
mates who assist him. Their united salaries
amount to ABOUT six thousand dollars per
snnum, and tue average attendance OF
scholars il about seven hundred each school
day. The common branches are taught
thoroughly, and few take lessons in Lat
in, French, and German. A few persons
have been fitted for College in these schools
There are four churs shes 10 the place-one
Presbyterian, one Methodist, one Baptist,
and one Universalist-and each one has d
Sunday School. The preachers are men OF
'saverage ability" and not averse to theo-
logical controversy. There is only ope pa
per PtAusCa AcKCg anu WAS 10 cuAtc1 80 uAb
creetly IL seldom rolls the blood OF It's p1-
litical opponents. Every day there 10 an
inundatlon of newspapers from Chicago,
Detroit, and more distant cities-conse-
qaently the little sheet printed here is dsvo-
ted mainly to local matters, for i. cannot
keep pace with the steam and lightning Of
the metropolitan journal.
The village has the usual "Per centage''
OF stores and shops, and mills, aud plenty
OF liquor saloons-those carbuneles on the
body politic. IE seems TO be q paradise for
Ihs negroes in the neighborhoo4. There
are several well. to-do colored farmers, d
negro blacksmith, n negro carpenter and q
negro cooper, all doing business on their
own account, and q negro barber who owns
considerable real estate. Two families Of
Indians live In th town, and having mean.
at their command, they are mot back ward
10 their expenditures to keep pace with ths
advancing civilization. Their children at
tend the common school, and son and
daughter Of one Of the families are gradu.
atss Of 0livst College, The name OF she
village lDODagiGc,) } indicates its Indian or
lIgin, (if am NOS misinformed, )-bus thrr
are no traces OF savage life here, save wheI
some Of It's topers gst drunk sad sraiss
lrow.n
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1869-03-06

DOES IT PAY TO MAKe RAG CARPETS we
think it d'es not, and viii give sJme reasons
for onr decision
In tbr first place, if vnu reckoa ylur time
a. worth ,nvthiGg. " ila't paY.
In the second ulacs ~ v0l cut and tear WIZ
garments which mi 4ht be worn longer as
they are, or cut over for some other purpose
il don't pay.
II you buy new cloth, -cl ar green I
have known women tn do don't Day
II you devote All vnur time w II, t0 the
utter exclusion Gf other du ie> il dou't paw.
Il yru nlre il woven, and pay fifteen cents
per yard, j; don't pay.
" you weave il Yourself up- stairs Ill a
cold room, or in thu wood house, and take
q cold which may terminate III something
very serious, u not fatal, Il don't pay.
If you buy your dye-stutis at the present
prices. it don't pay.
II you can 90 anv other kiad OF work. and
earn a carpet. il dom pay.
u ID il male ior toe "othe- room" aud IN
10 be kept immaculate from the tread of
profane feet, except on company days it
don't pay
If il involves the sitting up az half the
night when nature demands rePose, it DONE
pav.
II ~ uhhFH NtA Nervous ana cross. and
you scold your husband, and soanx he chill
dren, it dOo't pay.
If your husband only knew bow many
sick head-aches, sud sieerless nights, ana
matrimonial squalls would never have been.
but for the making Of the rag carpet, be
would pat ais willing hand into bis pocket.
and give you money to buy a nice, ingram
floor covering, and say to you, ''Meallie,
never make another rag carpet; il don't
pay.
Now ladies we have given our opinion.
let us bear yours. Count the cost Of y0ar
rag carpets, and give Us the results. Doa't
forget TO count how many "a sss-sk-,s and
4 aprons, how many sheets and blankets went
4 into It's makings; count the cost Of every
\ item, and make candid ssatenent to a.,
and others, who like as, are NOT little scep-
teal upon this important question.
/ ANOTHER Way or SAVING HANS For 100
\ pounds ~ hams or shoulders, use IL pounds
or salt, (roek salt is the besE,l salt pesre four
I ounces; mOlasses, two quarts, with water
enough to co-rr the meat Large hams or
( shoulders should be cut in two. Smoke the
harrel twenty hours, By turning it over a
pan Of burning cobs, or saE dust before
packing. Put down in this manner they NAV
be kept year or more, aud are always
ready for use--no trouble ol ffcshanlng, n
packing. Flies nor bugs never trouble, as
the pieces remain IN pickle until thy ags
wanted for use. j. ". DEPUY.
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lne handsome cottages With bsautifu
surroundings-the stores filled with valua
pie articles Of merchandise, the streets lined
with teams from the fine farming eorntr-
ABOUT the yieinIry-the rosy lads and lasse
going to and r-turBIng from scboDl-th,
gay e"uipages dashing here and there-th,
tall spires pointing like fingers 70 heaVsn
and tie well dressed men and women has.
euIng 20 church On the sabbath, show wba,
strides have been taken along tbs path W
pro-ress at the We-t. With come person.
tnat are coarse, rude, ignorant and pugna-
ci0u-, are many Nhose character aud scson.
plishments wOnld adorn any society. Grace
'ul and scholarly man ard wam.n rive /.
t"ne 70 the bet -0ciety. NJ IsIc and raint-
ing and the language are cultivated ~
some individuals wITh as much care a. they
are at ihe East.
A Western man il an Eastern man enlar0-
ed-br n expanded without laOseuing tba
hber. He - brsaJened BY his nu,roundings
L-E me IIiustrnfe nv pcint A fnrner comes
from between the bills u some .ster toSp
HIS money hss been .ined from he sweat
u BIZ brow. lie looks at II twice before
-penaaa@ 0nce. A grrepback IL some
tning which Keeps him n his own back. lie
oe-itasea long time before be parts with
bis hard earbsdr dollar. See him as ~
puils from bis ? jcket a greasy old wallet,
"eo np ~na an iBsermInsble string. His
eyes gr"W wider and wider as be unwinds
tne stinEy string and you trace the faan-
ciA- iurro~ dssPering in bis futed forehead
as ne reaches ~ teD-c-nt stang which o.
pays Win reluctait bands TO the impatient
recipient. When be has been at the West
ie~ months, what change comes over the
man wnu Was On the verge Of miserhooa
HIS face wears q cheerful look-his step il
buoyant- his voice is full snd cIear-nis
pockets are accessible-his pocket book
larger and uncsiOus wish greenbacks-and
there Is 40 long yarn of any kind about it's
Iat and larded leaves. Why, he paws out
hve hundred dollars with fewer words and
less loss OF time than be formerly paid out
me. What accounts for the change
he has been educated u his surroundings;
the vast lakes and prairies have been has
teachers, and be has Nidenel bis entire ma
ture.
The people Of the Western villages a. a
class are wide-awake, active, and spirited
They make money ragidly, and seem 10
place less value upon it than the same class
" persons do Ia the East. Tie greatest
drawback 70 social aud literary cu ture
arises from ths brassy and vulgar men who
press themsely es with their bad manners and
worse moral into places of public trust In
temperance Is anOsber hIndrance TO pro-
gress. and r.. s- 10 say that multi-udes oi
younz men mere indulge shAmelessly ID hab
IT'S u drunkenness.
Grace Greenwood has a brother living
lsIe, aud she ir'qusnty honors the place
with her presence. 4 resident Oi New L ~.
iana ~ho pitcues hIs tent here need no.
pine ior ne Advantages X his home, .for he
ran hnd them here. He can hnd refined
ana cultivated sociey y. good schools sound
i'T Teachers, aud meaus II swift 10, motion
Aho communicate on, for tae railroad aud the
teie-rapn touc every point Of tne cpmpass
W. BnHgay in hVrri Wear Yorker
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creases the pyoductiveness OF labor, the cd
dltion OF internal improvements enh ees
We value OF property, and as new a.
lions assist the productive power Of lauor.
u follows that national wealth will increase
somewhat more rapidly than the population.
Durlng the past thirty years our population
has increased about IS per cent. for each
decade. Between 1850 aud 1860 our rail-
way system was chiefly developed, and the
consequence was, that the increase Of lhe
vaiue OF ouf ~eal.h Was unprecedented, and
the future will probably present no parallel
TO L. The main lines are now chiefly built
ana our railway progress hereafter will only
H'tie more than keep pace with the gener-
~ development and the progress Of the cOun-
Try. For thirty years to come our popula-
llon VIII inerea % at the rate of 81, % and
~ per cent. for the decades respecuvely.
Making a fair allowance for the increase of
tne above mentioned aids to labor, We can
put tne future increase Of wealth at forty
per cent FOR each period Of ten wears.
another point 10 be considered l.. thar
tne assessed wealth OF the country i NOS
ball It's actual value Every enc on looking
Z tne facts about bin can at once see taat
tne assessed value i in many cases not
more tnan one-fourth, and IA other cases
one-third TIE cash value on quick sale. To
De safe We will not quite double the assess
"a value 20 get the true value. On this ba-
SIS, We viii uut the aggregates for the United
states as follows, with the population at thr
several periods:
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A Pertinent z nesIlnn

THR New Orleans Picay lIae relates the
foil wing incident as having occurred on a
Mississippi steamer
few days since there was n wedding on
Baronne street, celebrated with great eclat.
and the newly welded set out at once "a a
bridal tour. The ceremony took place at
four O'Clock in the afternoon, and at FIVE
O'Clock they we're on board a spben did steam
er bound FOR the Upper Mississit ii. As soon
as the vessel was unLer way the passengers
crowded the saloon. and mIrth and revelry
began to hold festival dance was i'm
provised, and JOY. and merriment was pro-
tracted into the "aee' sma' hours" Now
it go happened that the berth next our new
married friends was occupied BY lively liz
tie matron and ner infant. Wishing to en-
JOY as much pleasure az possible, she had
inTrasted her babe TO servant, with in
structions to pal il TO bed ~ soon as it
went 70 sleep, while she, herself, joined IN
the dance. BY a strange mistake u SER
want mistook the state room and disposed
the rosy infant in the bridal couch. Nov,
when the hour for retiring came the groom
led bis bIusning bride TO the door, and Md
estly waited outside for her 70 disrube and
retire One can very readily imagine his
untV8tbuMC1sD JECy Whru buC Dt4b I'D
slant be heard tIs name called frantlcally ',
and in accents Of surprise and distress.
Opening the door he looked in dubious
ly-
"Whas 10 the matter, my love2'
20, Henry, look here ~
"Why, bless me, it's d baby 70
"Ies, but oh, Henry, how did it come herr
do you think iPs ours f''
"Weli, mo-" replied Henry, solemly, :"
think iI almost too sOoH."
s'Oh il certainly il. bnt then what shal
we DO 7'
| Just then the anxious voice Of the rIothe
was heaId iDqairIng for the baby aud IL va
restored 20 her, vesy much ~ the relief o
The yOung p-Ople-
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AsorHER "slendid naval station" on which
the nayies Of the world can ride, has turned
up IN the West Indies, and can be had by
our government cheap tor cash. Tnc Sc
vance islands, In the CarrlbbsAn Sea, nave
already been purchased by the AmsricAn
Company for The sake or their guano, a. ID
the group Of islands incIOse bay which can
BE- had At merely nominal price by the
American government.