The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-12-07
MANNING. S. G. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 1904
day q large proportion of the troops
Of the different countries wear cotton.


OF the different countries wear cotton
The navy, too, uses an enormous
amount OF khaki duck-even more
than when sailing vessels constituted
our men-of var. Nor has the decline
OF the sailing vessel diminished the
use OF cotton duck for ships; 1t is en-
ployei so extensively tor awnings, fol
coverings for laurc ches, and for other
things, that tie amount Of the ma
terial used remains just about the
same as b, fore. In South Africa and
other Ct the British possessions the
fax duck has been displaced as covers
for fat cars and vans md for tents
and wagon covers
| COTTON AND RUBBER.
Cotton is an absolute necessity tc
the rubber trade. It is used IN rubber
oelting, in the airbrake hose on rail-
roads, in automobile tires and garden
aud fire hose. In firemens coats and
the storm hats worn by sailors, and
the loose weave Of osnaburge Is the
foundation Of rubber overshoss.
In the leather business it is equally
indi. psnsible, being used as drills in
the lining of shoes, and as the basis OF
the enameled goo3s called leatherolds,
OF which wagon tops, cushions, ETC.,
are made. In the 'slickers" worn by
teansters both drills and duck are
used.
Other coats for which it is estimat-
ed 10, 900, 900 yards are used annually
are the cotton duck overcoats with
blanket Innings, before which the
heavy wool and fur articles have given
way in the northwest. Though IF COT
ton they are waterproof and are even
considered warmer. Oae other conclu-
sive evidence that the nations OF every
cline will eventually make the feecY
staple their covering.
Flour mills, sugar re6neries and salt
concerns use cotton bags in the hand
ling Of their goods; the government
Uses 100000 yards Of cotton duck
every year Tor coin bags, csmant is
put into cotton bags; and coal; and g..
100000 yards Of duck annually are
made into feed bags for horses. In
mining heavy duck is used for drain
ing the less accessible portions Of the
mines, and the wick in the little lamp
which the miner wears In his hat Is OF
cotton. Paper mills and pottery estao-
lishmsnts use great quantities Of
duck; the one as dries and the other
in abstracting the water from the
clay.
IN localities where tobacco must be
grown under shade, Stats are giving
place to canvass. Immense sheds with
the cloth covering stretch over acre
upon acre, thus giving rise to demand
for cotton goods In another direction.
Ole tobacco COMPANY alone in Cuba
and Florida employs one million yards
of cloth for this purpose. And the
same company converts every year four
million yards Of cloth into bags for
smoking tobacco. The lines OF bust
nsss which employ cotton in some
fvrm are so many it almost appears
that expansion of trade is but new
and increased demand for the product.
With the discovery Of every new oil
well there is the need Of mere heavy
duck for fltering; and every large
modern building constructed calls for
asbestos jackets to ,yer the steam
pipes-in the making OF which cotton
is employed.
NEW NEEDS EVERY DAY.
Where formerly blankets we're made
only Of wool, they are COW made large
ly Of cotton, and in South Africa, it
is said, the woolen blanket has been
completely driven cut by the cotton
blsnket.
New needs are being discovered for
cotton every day-many OF them
small, that is, calling tor small out
put to meet a given need-yet each in
itself necessity OF prime considers
ton, and in the aggregate footing up
to an enormous total. For instance,
the proportion in which cotton enters
into the composition OF paper is not
great, and perhaps will not increase
to any extent, but think Of making
bricks for building houses Of cotton,
and tiles Of the same for hearthstonss
and laying pavements! To what e1-
tent may not this grow!
Truly it would appear that 30 long
as the inventive genius OF man lends
itself to meet his requirements there
will be no end to the uses to which
cotton may be put.
Is is even believed that what may
be called the concealed uses Of cotton
Invisible and unrecoguizsbls plina
tacie-wlll in time come to exceed
those others where its employment Is
patent and general. Certainly it enters
into the manufacture OF more articles
OF commerce today than any ether one
agricultural product.
PAUL LINCOLN.
Proved His Case.