The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-02-28

cents. Labor and machinery does
the work and the cost OF that depends
! upon the man and the management
The mill owners can grind that labor
down TO Il starvation price if they
choose to, but Mr. Bailey assures me
that it IS possible aud practicable to
pay these operatives good living prices
and provide good, comfortable cottages
and Il garden and fuel ana All the ne
cessariea and many Of the comforts Of
life and >riil leave good profit for the
stockholders. Now why cant every
town in Georgia do likewise? The
traveller is hardly ever outs of sight of
a smokcstack over here in Carolina. I
am just from the good old town Of
Laurens, orly ten miles away, and
they have a mill there with 10000
spindles and 500 looms, When every
county spins and weaves all the cot
ton it. giows then the South will truly
be independent
But the most beautiful feature of
Clinton is the orphanage--the Thorn
well orphanage in twenty-five
years has developed from a plain
building with rooms for twenty or
phans into a lovely village of rock
built, solid, handsome houses two
stories high and in the best architec-
tural design and where 200 Of theEor-
phans reside No oncwould ever sus-
pect that this village was an orphan
age that was built on faith and chari-
ty.and for all these years has been
maintained in the same way. | visi-
ted and inspected every tenement and
was delighted. | tell you that these
orphans are not orphans very long af-
ter they get here. They are put to
work t.aud to echool and soon learn to
do their share in maintaining the in
stitution. They are put to printing,
carpentcring, shoc-making, painting,
engineering, farming, dairying, dress
making, cooking and everything else
that helps to run household and
everything is mcthodiEed and goes on
like clock work. \ happier, brighter
looking hocS Of children | never saw.
They dress neatly aud keep clean and
their rooms and beds are models of
cleanliness. The advanced boys and
girls have to graduate in the seminary
and then some Of them find place in
the college that is near by. Most of
the boys find good places in the shops
and manufacturing establishments and
printing Offices all oyer the country.
Many Of the girls become teachers and
drcssmakers and they never leave the
orphanage until good place is offered
them. Neither boys nor girls1 are
even bound to anybody. They have
an independent manhood and woman
hood acquired before they leave the
orphanage and they never disbonor or
disgrace it. There are children here
from every Southern State and few
from the North and there is one little
waif from Cuba. He is about ten
years old .and is as happy now as he
was poor and miserable in Cuba. His
father and mother actuallys.starved to
death there during the long trouble
aud this boy was found in n ditch sit
ting by the corpse Of his dead sister.
A Clinton soldier brought him here
and begged q place for him. I forgot
to mention that the advanced scholars
did all thc:wood work in the several
homes and it S beautifully done
stairs, mantols, doors, windows, bed
steads, hatracks and wainscoating is
all their work and is in up,to-datc
style. Their printing goes all over
the country and the girls sell first
|-olass butter in the market. The or.
phauage runs farm eand has herd
OF Jersey cattle and not only supplies
thcir.own meat and vegetables, but al
wa7sihas some to sell. There arc not
less than.225 mouths to feed, and they
arc we'll fed, and they show it in face.
and form and mSvement.
Iscnt this wonderful,ss s and it is all
done by q faith sand trust equal to
Muller S. Theyitell me here that Dr..
Jacobs is in partnership with the
Lord and that Mr.. Bailey.is the Lords
financial agent. Certain is it that
these two work heartily together, and
more SO since Mr.. Bailey son married
DR.. Jacob daughter.
rs Well, Georgia has thirty-seven or
Isphans here and cares for them and /
was proud to know that Cartersyille
NOT only maintained an asylum, but
had a little sharein the mite cottage
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