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The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1903-09-10
HESTER'S ANNUAL REPORT.
A Remarkable Showing For the Mills
OF the South.

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Of the South.
New Orleans, Special-The totals OF
Secretary Hester's annual report OF
the cotton crop Of the United States
were promulgated Tuesday. They show
receipts of cotton at all United States
ports for the year 7,724.104. against T.
G7s,29O last year; overland to Northern
mills and Canada. 1.0S3,3S3. against l.
103,953: Southern consumption taken
direct from the interior of the cotton
belt, 1,920,072, against 1897 ,437, max
Ing the cotton crop OF the United
States for 19O2-1903. amount to 10,727,-
$50 bales, against 10.6S0,6S0 last year,
and 10.3s3.422 the year before. Colonel
Hester has made his usual investiga-
ton into the consumption OF the South
and has received reports by mail and
telegraph from every mill consuming
cotton in the cotton growing States in
Guiding wooden mills that have used
cotton. and the results show total OF
""n .721. hut of this S0.S57 were taken
from ports and included in port re-
II.i;iS.
This shows that the mills of the
South have used up 62.75S bales more
than during 1901-02 and 379.75S more
than during 19OO-O1, a most remark
able showing in face OF recent trade
conditions supposed to have been
brought about by the abnormal diff
ference between values of the raw ma
terial and the manufactured article.
Colonel Hester's full report will be
issued later and will contain interest
ing and valuable facts showing the
consur,ntion CT the South by States.
the takings and consumption OF North
ern mills and the world S consumption
OF American cotton. He will also give
the crop by States and facts in rela-
ton to the continuance Of the remark
able increase in the spindles Of South
ern mills. In addition to the totals
Of the crop and Southern consumption
as above, Colonel Hester also gave out
the actual crop Of the State OF Texas,
which amounted to 2,S30,625 bales,
against 2,992,649; Of Indian Territory.
which amounted to 4lS.453, against
369,S94, and Of Oklahoma, which
amounted this year to lS6,325, against
130,S12 last year. He also gave the ex-
ports for the year as follows: To Great
Britain. 2.S51.528. against 3,035,497 a
decrease Of 1s3.e69: to France, 7S5.679:
against 745,369, an increase Of 1910;
10 continental European ports. $685.
95Sa5S, against 2,S59,344. an increase Of
1864: tc British North America,
1857. against 22.261. an increase OF
1,416; the total exports foreign, includ-
ing British North American. amount
ing to 6.SO0,S43, against 6,763.071, an
increase Of 37,772. He states that
Japan and China took Of the past crop
1S5. .40S bales, against 169,243, a de-
crease of 1885.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1903-09-10
SKETCH OF BILL ARP
Life and Character of An Original
Southern Philosopher
WAS A WIDELY READ HUMORlST
Belonging to the Old School Of Sou
thern Gentlemen, lie Was Always
In Sympathy With New Ideas.

With the passing Of Major Charles
H. Smith, Of Gainesville, Ca, better
known to the reading public as bill
Arp" a notable figure Of the old
Southland goes out Of the public gaze,
and the South is poorer because OF his
death. He was a connecting link be-
tween the periods that marked the
ante-bellum and the past-bellum perl
ods of Southern history. An "unrecon-
structed rebel he remained to the
last. Yet his sympathics were always
with the young, the progressive, the
modern. He saw with clear vision the
tremendous possibilities Of Southern
development. when others halted on
on threshold OF progress, afraid to ut
ter the talisman. "open-sesame" that
promised to unlatch the matchless
treasure house oe the future.
bill ARP" was seer and a prophet.
He was more-he was philosopher.
plantation philosopher, perhaps, but
his was not the reasoning OF the pessi-
mist who sees no good In the present.
Bill Arp saw the best in the past, the
present and the future. He saw evil
only when abstract evil existed and
then was reluctant to point it out
His delineatlons Of the Old South
were par excellence. His e1coriations
of the carpet-bagger were terrific. His
pictures OF old Southern life were
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1903-09-10
For Southern Navy Yards.

Washington. Special - Estimates
have been submitted to Rear Admiral
Endicott, chief OF the bureau Of yards
and docks, for the improvement and
expenditure at various navy yards,
for the fiscal year ending June 80,
1905.
Pensacola, Fla, total $3.50, ,Sl5,
which includes: Central power house
for deDartment Of yards and docks,
s104 500; machinery for the same S115.-
600; shop and Office buildings for the
same, 100000: concrete and granite
dry dock, s. 400. .000: wharf and vessels
under repair, s165,C00; quay walls.
100000.
Key West, Fla. total s315,570. which
includes to continue quay wall, $780,
O00: additional land. s150,0OO.
Charleston, total $780, 900, includ-
ing extension of storehouSes, $4,000
ward and power house and equipment,
s135 900: quay walls. $4OO,COO; pier No.
3I2. 100000; coaling pier and plant,
$3.50 900; dredging for piers, entrance
to dock, s1S0,0O0; loaing crane, $780,
600; dry dock Mol $3.50, 600; ship filters
shop. s150.000; smithery, $l50,OOO; boat
shop. $4,000. ~
Port Royal, s. c.. total, s4,S6s,246,
which includes two stone and concrete
dry docks, s2,2O0,O0O; quay wall. ST.
All 900; dredging basin and widening
channel $500, 900; railroad from Burton
Hill to station. s25S,000.
New Orleans, total sS,S16,19O. which
includes electric light power plant ex-
tension, $3.50 900; improvement OF wa
ter front, 81 10000; electric conduc-
tors and pipe subway. s16O,oOe; paw
ing and bitches s1SO,OO0; railroad sys-
tenn, $4,000: brick boundary wall,
100000; naval supply fund storehouse.
s12O, 900; boat shops s125,OOo; naval
hospital. s15o.0G0; ordnance shop and
offices, $4,000.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1903-09-10
Reduced Tobacco Sa.es.

Winston-Salem. Special.-The sales
Of leaf tobacco during August on the
Winston market aggregated 127 1903
pounds, decrease Of 876,454 pounds
over August of last year. The sales
since October /, 1902. were 1866, ,4S1
pounds, an inc-asc of 7,9SS,567 pounds
over the same months OF the previous
year. The shipments Of manufactured
tobacco this month amounted to about
two million pounds. The exact figures
issued from the Department at Wash
ington which is taken to mean that
such information must not be given
out any more
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1903-09-10
Graves on the Two Races.

Partition OF the races Is the way,
tie only way. If God hath made Of
one blood the nations Of the earth He
hath also established unto them the
metes and bounds Of their habitation.
He did not intend that antagoHistic
races should live together. The preju-
dice of race is a pointing Of Provl-
Ieucc and the antagonism of peoples
Is the fixed policy by which God peo-
pies the different portions OF the uni
verse and establishes the indiyid-
uality Of the nations. The act that
brought II csc people togeLte er on this
continent was a sin OF the fathers,
sin of greed, an iniGuity Of trade
and the sorrow and suffering OF the
present is for the sin Of the past. a
sin against nature and sin against
God. The curse can be lifted only
when nature is vindicated and God Is
obeyed. The problem will be solved
only when the negro is restored to
the bounds of his partition
Neither impossible nor imprac-
ticable. The elements are willing and
the way Is in reach. This is not q day
of impossibilities. The hand Of the AL
mighty is steadily opening the way.
"It may be that the islands Of the
sea were placed by Providence in our
keeping to furnish an answer to the
problem Of the time.
"The South is neither cruel nor un.
patriotic and the North knows it.
The North is neither immovable nor
yindictive, and the South knows it. II
either Of us Is mistaken, and II both
of us are misunderstood, We are yet
one people, and we must meet upon
the plain Of our brotherhood, and our
destiny Of our mighty race. This Is.
our country. We made it. We mould
ed it. We control it, and we always
will. We have done great things. We
have mighty things to do. The negro
Is an accident, an unwilling, blame
less, but an unwholesome. unwelcome,
helpless, unassimilable element n our
civilization. He is not made for our
times. He Is not framed to share in
the duty and the destiny which he per-
pleXes and beclouds. Let us put him
kindly and humanely out of the way.
Let us give him a better chance than
he has ever had in history, and let US
have done with him. Let us solve his
problem-fearlessly, nobly and speed
lily. Let us put 1t behind us. Let US
purify our politics Of the perplexity.
Let US liberate the South to vote and
think like free men upon the mighty
issues Of the times"
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1903-09-10
General tiasselteno Dead.

Denver, Col, Special.-General Den
Carlos Hasselteno, a distinguished
scholar and linguist, died at his home
IN this city Monday. He was born in
New Orleans In 1925 Of Spanish par
entage. The generals great-great-
grandfather was sent by the Spanish
King to America to be governor gen.
eral Of the entire Spanish possessions
il the New World. General Hasselteno
was a graduate OF Miami. Yale and
Heidelberg Universities and served IN
the Confederate army. He was cap
trred as a spy and sentenced to be
shot, but escaped. After the war he
was a member Of Commodore Porter's
staff.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1903-09-10
WRECK OF A TRAIN.
a
Engine and Three Cars Go Through
Trestle Near YOrkVille.
SIX KILLED And MANY MJtRtl
nr. B. F. Williford, of Charlotte
Displayed Rare Presence OF rlind IN
Aiding the Passengers to Get Out
of the Wreck.

Yorkville, S. c., Special.-PasSen-
ger train No. Is, northbound, en- the
South Carolina and Georgia Exten-
sion Railroad, formerly the 3Cs, now
operated by the Southern Railway,
went through a trestle forty feet
high over Fishing Creek, three miles
east of here, about 1870 o'clock
Thursday, killing six men and injured
"A. five Of whom will likely die. Three
of the latter are negro passengers.
The dead: Engineer H. c. Brick
man, Fireman Fred Rhyme, Postal
Clerk C. ]. Smith and three unknown
negroes.
The injured: White-Julius john
SON of Rock HILL S. c., perhaps IA
tally; W. L. Slaughter. Hickory Grove,
S. c., seriously; Fred Poag, Lancaster
s. c.; P. W. Spence, Roddy's, 5. e.; !.
N. McLaurin, Bethune, 8. c.; Mrs. J.
c. Rody, Pressly, N. c.; Mrs. H. B.
Buist Rock Hill. S. c.; B. F. Wilt
ford Charlotte; T. C. Hicks, Lancas.
ter, s. c., seriously; w. Harry Willie,
Jr.. Rock Hill, S. c.; r. A. Willis,
Edgemoor, S. c.; F. NJ. Stephenson,
Kershaw, S. c.; Cunningham,
Lancaster, 8. c.; V. B. Hall, Rock
Hill, s. c.; Mrs. Sadie McCaskill, Ker-
shaw, S. c.; two children named
jenkins, of Rock Hill; Conductor Ed.
Turner, Baggagemaster Dukes, Flag
man Whisnant. Colored-Billie Beard,
Rock Hill; Frank Burris. Sharon, 8.
c.; Alec Hurdy, AcConnellsville,
s. C.
All the bodies have been taken out.
save those Of the engineer and fire.
man.
The train consisted Of an engine
and three cars. It left Rock Hill about
IL O'Clock, with about 40 passengers
on hour6. When the train had passed
out Upon the trestle the entire struc-
ture under the cars gave way, hurling
the engine and cars to the bank of the
creek, about so feet below. Engineer
Henry Brickman, Fireman Fred
Rhyme and three negro passengers
we're instantly killed. Conductor Ed.
Turner suffered a broken shoulder.
and W. T. Slaughter, Of Hickory
Grove, S. c., and Julius Johnson, OF
Rock Hill, s. c., were perhaps IA.
tally injured. Marvin H. Morrow, of
Blacksburg, S. c.; T. c. Hicks. OF
Lancaster, and r. A. Willis, Of Edge
moor, S. c., have broken bones,
while a dozen or more other passen-
gers were less seriously injured.
B. F. Willifcrd, Of Charlotte, who
was slightly injured, displayed rare
presence of mind in helping the pas
sengers. OF a half-dozen young men
equally lucky, he was the only one to
try to assist the ladies and injured
men. He told the terrified passengers
in the first-class coach that the dan
ger was over, and that he was there
to see them to safety. He helped
several young men out Of the wreck.
and tried to get them to help Kim
with others. but they selfishly went
of and left him to struggle alone un-
til help came from the outside.
Yorkyille people went down in bug
gies and worked for hours eXtricating
the dead and injured from the wreck
and affording all possible relief.
The rotten timbers Of the ancient
trestle tell their own unquesticuable
story as to the cause Of the wreck.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1903-09-10
Jaranese Make Trouble.

Pekin, By Cable.-A telegram has
been received here announcing that the
steamer Stanley Dollar formerly a
Danish vessel, but now owned by an
American), sent by Russian COM
pany from Tien Tsin fo Yongampho
at the mouth Of the Yalu river. Corea
for a cargo OF lumber from the Russian
concession Of the Yalu river, was pre-
vented from entering the port OF
Yongampho by Japanese gunboat
whose commander said Yongampho
was not an open port and that foreign
vessels had no right to enter.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1903-09-10
BRYAN Goes to Ohio.

Lincoln, Neb., Special.-W. ]. Bryan
left Monday night for Ohio to begin
his campaign in behalf Of the Demo
cratic State ticket. Mr.. Bryan said
his telegram to Tom L. Johnston had
been misunderstood; that he had not
cancelled any. dates in Ohio, but busi-
Iess matters kept him at home, and he
vas unable to speak at Toledo Mon
Gay night, as had been arranged. He
would he said, fill postponed dates la
ter in the campaign, probably in Oc-
tobeY.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1903-09-10

wretchedy, utterly desperately Disappointed
necessity with because OF
Of
enay
things contre make
herself
his letter darling dear has been
known to osendbr sraightway violent Mysteries
precious which
called yesterdays leera meannsu love term
Could he have anybody IN Chcao
between that between them:
heart
sleeps burning low to read certain
OF
Of their she esraphs
( if he loves her still
her letters
tie sa hours OF
below
Of
If married
thermometer
boorsh gallant;
dmneerng chvaous not stupid
and bungln patient
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1903-09-10
Wooden r1ills Resume.

Boston, Special.-Most Of the score
or more of mills in Massachusetts,,
New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Yer
mont and Maine, owned by the Ameri-
can Wooden Company, which have
been shut down from one to two
weeks, will be re-opened. The shut
down was ordered by the Boston office
of the company, to give the 10000 or
more employees vacation and to per-
NIT changes to be made.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1903-09-10
PENNSYLVANIA Democrats.

Harrisburg, Pa, Special.-The indi.
cations are that Wednesdays Demo
cratic State convention will be very
quiet and harmonious gathering. There
is apparently no opposition to the can
didacy of Senator Arthur G. Dewalt
of Lehigh county. for Auditor General
The platform will declare against the
Gra6y-Salus libel bill, passed by the
last Legislature and signed by Govern
or Pennypacker, and condemn the
last Legislature for the passage OF the
ballot reform bill by the Republican
majority.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1903-09-10
News In Notes,

The Marrying Parson" Is dead. II.s
was Elder James Calvin, Of Youngs-
town, Ohio, who died few days ago
In his 91st year BY trade he was a
tailor, but he was an ordained minis
ter, and it is said he never refused to
marry a couple that came to him for
the purpose. He used to boast that none
OF his marriages turned out unhappy.
Efforts will be made by friends OF
the Ship Trust to secure the passage
OF a subsidy bill at the next session OF
Congress-.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1903-09-10
A Seyeae HailStOrm.

Richmond, Special.-A terribly de-
structiye hail storm Is reported from
Amherst, Nelson, Appommattox and
Charlotte counties. 1t swept from AL
bemarle southeast through the State,
and levelled crops everywhere within
It's pathway. In Appomattox alone II
DESTROYED a million tobacco plants.
The hailstones at some points were as
large as hen eggs, and crashed every
thing growing to the ground.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1903-09-10
Young German Nom mated.

Baltimore, Specialized. A. P. Cor
man, Jr., the only son Of United States
Senator A. P. German, was nominated
Wednesday by the Howard county
Democratic convention for the State
Senate, having won a decisive victory
over his opponents. Col. German is
30 wears old and begins his political
career where his father begun 80
years ago.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1903-09-10
The Gift Of q Light Heart.
By Professor Lattimer.

possible hsart? Probably not; but all
IS !
Of all retain
like Tho-eau and St France!
"a EE brought with heavy heart
philosopher, be har-
~ e. aside
Ey he idle sorrow He
nothing earthly and feared MOTH
ing earthly in all places troubled hF no
trouble rand waiting
of Italian
the highway robbers in his
He Knew pauy
The founder
quantity called the
abroad without q
smile Of havss in his followers
had habtua
private and do before the
thus downcast'
make their IS
fairly good lighter hearts than those
Of The high spirits which TO De
enioyed by the sounds which come
paeceanns 10 Weh
journalism
disappointment IN
professional people Certainly IN e
literary generally lost early yet the man
OF all men,
in his mind and is like composer
who S eIccutan
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1903-09-10
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A White Race i'm
By o..r.. Harvey. the Philippines.
By George Harvey.

in informs that the Government
@
proposes downth the existence of race OF
mountains OF the ISL
in that an e3neul
~ penetrate into the interior OF MIL
Il and nd exist there Ih story
persistent The best version
be IN Manuel Castro Fill
n pipo Claimon Castro claims
which, he has lived N the
Spaniards anu
or the tpe
privacy Dy
Fipnos The
surprisingly
athletic
Cairmonts not IN
officer Philippines who ha
truthful person ana
knows whereof speaks interesting item OF ethnoosa
useful makers comic
certain companies OF isolated Jews m
China
ont to be rue-H Weekly.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1903-09-10

the fact that all be said was 80 good
naturedly said, that every Southerner
felt that Bill Arp" echoed his own
thoughts and feelings. From the time
that he asked "Mr. Nnkhorn for a
leetle more time to the present day.
all have looked to him to express what
they feel. At first those letters were
written in the Josh Billings style OF
spelling but this was Afterwards laid
aside.
ORIGIN OF BILL ARP.
The non de plume Bill Arp" was
adopted in this way: When President
Lincoln called for volunteers at the
outbreak Of the war, Mr.. Smith, who
was living at Rome, Ca, wrote lu-
dicrous criticism on the call He read
the article to a group OF friends on the
street corner, and after hearty laugh
they begged him to publish it; but he
said he was not willing to have his
name signed. In the crowd, attracted
by the reading, was country wag
named Bill Arp, who suggested that
his name be put to = At once the
signature became popular.
The Courier-Journal said OF his let
ters to Artemus Ward in 1865, that 1T
was the first chirp OF any bird after the
surrender, and gave relief and hope TO
thousands OF dropping hearts" An
other paper said: His writings are a
delightful mixture OF humor and phil
osophy. There is no cynictsm in his
nature, and he always pictures the
brightest side Of domestic life, and en-
courages his readers to live up to 1t
and enjoy it."
Bill Arp told much about himself
and mis- family in his letters, which ne
sent out for thirty years. They were
talking letters" as Coleridge would
call them.
HOME WITHOUT MOTHER"
He bought a farm at Cartersville,
Ga, in 1878 and there he lived and
wrote until within the last few years,
when he moved to town. His late
homo, THE Shadows" is situated on
Erwin et,and has large slopins
lawn studded with giant oaks. His
description OF the condition OF home
without the mother showed hom help
less he felt withou. Mrs. Arp" He
said:
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1903-09-10


classics Of English what
colleges MAKE he d OF
entrance requirement.
then ask reading Of
teaching science
operated but merely neglect OF liter
that these negeers OF Hera-
reading scientific works Perhaps
have literature in
all students should are with us in abund
his friendships with the masters or
him under the consta OF the
adventure without limit
without end 1t the old story Books are as Huxley
music The this to-day tie thing
college
OF that much mtsu thing-Cuture.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1903-09-10
II
Tke Peril to Liberal Education.
By DR.. Andrew F. West, Dean Of the Graduate
School of Princeton University.

II not fact that majority of college students to-day are
not familiar with commonplaces literary information and
tho standard books Of history poetry on? DO they
know the greatest book Of the English Bible as
their fathers did? What have Of them been read
The newspapers Of and fconnot always the bete
fiction AS between the short stories in magazines
how few read the speaking OF the hard books
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1903-09-10
How to Hold a Wife.
By Elizabeth Bacon Wa11ins.

OLD you the sweetheart by gaanry and devo-
re repetition has threshed the truth
threadbare saying Mans love is of mans lie
thing apart; womans whole existence
this Of by reassn of his peculiar
masculine organization his breadwinnng training would maze
it So lives in her emotions To the woman who
love she is
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-06-24
TERROR AT ARLINGTON.

Miss Carrie o. Millspaugh re-
ports that the people of Arlington
were apprehensive of such disas-
ter as that which deselated Hepp.
ner during a large part Of the day,
Tuesday.
@Black, heavy Clouds" she said,
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-06-24

Chamberlain's Stomach and
Liver Tablets are just what you
need when you have no appetite,
feel dull after eating and wake up
with a bad taste in your mouth.
They will impr, We Y)ur appetite,
cleanse and invlgorate your stom-
ach and give you relish for your
food. For sale by Allen & Wood
ward.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-06-24
Notice of Final Settlement.

Notice is hereby given that 1, G R Farra as
administrator of the estate of Thomas Graham
deceased. have filed my final account as such
administrator in the County Court Of Ben.
ton county, State of Oregon, and the said
court has fixed Wednesday the Sth day
OF July 1908, at the hour of / O'Clock In the
afternoon .said day as the time, and the county
Fcourt room in the county.court house In Cor.
wallis, Oregon as the place for hearing any nd
all objections to the said final account and for
settlement thereof.
Dated this June s, 1903.
G. r. Farra.
Administrator of the estate of Thomas Ora.
ham. deceased
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-06-24
Administrators Notice.

Notice is hereby given that the undersigned
has been duly appointed by the County Court of
Y the State Of Oregon for the County of Benton,
administrator of the estate OF Elizabeth Jane
Shipley, deceased All persons having claims
&sent the same properly verified as by law re-
Quired at the office of Yates d Yates. Corvallis,
5Oregon within six months from the date hereof.
Dated at Corvallis, Oregon, this 10th day Of
f9May, 1908.
Al. SHIPLEY,
administrator of the estate of Elizabeth Jane
Shfpley, deceased.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-06-24
Call for Warrants.

Notice is hereby given that there is
money in the treasury to pay all city
warrants ordered drawn on the general
fund and endorsed prior to May nth,
1907, Interest will stop on same from
this date.
Dated at Corvallis, Oregon, June aOth
1903.
VIM. McLagan, N
City Treasurer.