The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-01-13


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in the nil service for & years.
packing room T observed tfat a fae
bales are marked 10 Shanghai China.
and 4 heard that China IS THE best eas
toner Of southern mills. That gogarn-
ment used TO buy>& from New England
and ola England. bnt8hey buy al their
goods BY weight aud not 81 the yaEd.
and ia course 81 time John BuH ana the
yankee got TO mixing white clay with
the starch to make the cloth Weigh
heavy, and 50 they turned their trade
down south, where people didn't adult
terate everything they make to sell
Said Mr.. Guy to me; There Is no siz-
ing in cheese goods except that made 81
pure boiled corn starch"
Nearly all the capital as these great
mills is from The south; and there's mil.
lions in them, for Piedmont IS On the
same river and Is only five miles away
and has two large mills and another ii
going up at Bolton, q few miles below
In fact, the traveller through upper
Caroline is hardly ever out Of sight Of 6
smokestack. In q few years that state
will consume all the cotton that Is.
grown in it. What a glorious prospect.
All around Pelzer and Piedmont the
farmers are prosperous for they have q
regular, eager market for everything
they grow, and saw their wagons com
ing in on every road. Twisted Piedmont
and stayed a day and night. It IS most
efficiently managed BY Mr.. James H.
Orr, Jr., q son Of the governor and
statesman. He, too, is a king and a
car, and his word is law about every
thing. He is respected and loved BY
every man, woman and child intPied'
mont; and the stockholders have moth.
ing to 40 but look on and receive their
dividends semiannually. Piedmont IS
more elevated than Pelzer, and she
views from her hills are charming. And
then her flowers; oh, the beauty Of
them. Outdoor chrysanthemums and
roses were in all their glory. Mrs. Rich,
ardson sent my wife a box full by yes.
terday's express that exceIled anything
that 1 ever saw in a conservatory. She
gave a caution to the expressman in
these lines on the box:
IF you desire to climb the golden stair,
Handle these flowers with exceeding care
If you expect to play the golden harp,
Speed them with safety to Mistress Arp"
The lyceum and public library al
Piedmont is an interesting place to visit
and is literally patronized by the work.
ers in the mills. Connected with it is
a homemade insurance or benefit asso.
citation, a kind of savings bank where
for a deposit Of ten cents a week the
family Of the depositor gets $40 when
ever a death occurs. This Is, Of course,
to provide for funeral expenses and q
decent burial In this library is the
finest collection Of Indian relics lever
saw anywhere.
Fortunate people to have such philau-
thropic guardians. Old Father PelzeE
does not live there, but be Is near
enough to keep q fatherly eye on these
numerous children. He is a Charleston
millionaire, but lives at his up-country
home, not far from the beautiful Mill
City that he founded and which bears
his name, just think of it, my Georgia
friends; 10000 spindles turning 10 one
room, and 1,400 looms weaving in two
others. Why should not every cotton
growing county in Georgia, yea, in
South Carolina, do likewise. Our coun-
ty produces 10000 bales annually and
surely u farmers can build a mill
large enough to manufacture It and
double its value.-Bin Arp, in Atlanta
Constitution.