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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-08-23
Calling Mr.. Jordan Down.

The New York Journal of Com
merce, one of the leading financial
papers of the country, has on more
than one occasion commended the
effects of the Southern Cotton
Growers Association in its efforts TO
secure for the farm ors the control of
the price of their cotton, but it de-
spises the habit that Hon. Harvie
Jordan has of emphasizing things by
exaggeration. In recent issue the
Journal says:
We have credited Harvie Jordan,
President of the Southern Cotton
Association, with the degree of in
telligence and judgment naturally to
be expected of one in his position,
but some remarks made by him at a
meeting in Georgia lead us sadly to
doubt. 1t is hardly kind to quote
them, but they afford such striking
example of a fallacious sort of rea-
soDing which is more common than
it should be in country where edu-
cation is popular" that we deem it
duty to set them in the light of a
larger publicity. He was speaking
for the interests of cotton growers
and their relation to the market for
their product, and he said: 1.-THE
use of jute bagging is also another
curse to our country, when we can
use cotton for guano sacks and cot
ton wrapping just as well and much
better than we can the jute, which
we pay $25, 100000 royalty on each
year to have imported to this coun-
try. The farmers have it in their
own hands to demand that their fer
tilizers be sold in cotton sacks, and
demand that their cotton be wrapped
in cotton bagging, and they should
do it. When we demand this it
will be done, and this alone will
utilize 100000 bales of our cotton" !"
AS to that "$25, 100000 royalty"
we do not quite understand Mr.. Jor-
dan. We produce no jute in this
country. During the last fiscal year
we imported jute and jute butts, a
raw material for more or less indus.
try, to the value of $5,500,023 !;
gunny cloth and bagging s348,551 !;
jute bags, S1,745,68O; and burlaps,
which are not used in baling cotton,
Sl4,693,173. Here is 1,287, ,427
paid for jute and its products, a
moderate portion of which went into
cotton baling political or otherwise +?
cit would make a market for so
many bales, but who paid the $685.
100000 royalty, and who got it? But
suppose fertilizers were sold in cot
ton sacks and cotton bagging was
used in baling cotton, thereby "utii-
zing" 100000 bales extra At 10
cents pound bale of cotton is
worth $50, and 100000 would cost
SlOO,OOO,OOO, for sacking and bag
glng, to say nothing of the cost of
converting the raw material. Would
this be economy, much cotton to
take the place of the cheap and
humble jute and furnish work for
the manufactures of the cloth and
OF the sacks and bags? But why not
use it in baling hay or wrapping ap
all sorts of things for which stra W
paper and pasteboard are used :?
Are not those things and all other
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-08-23
Nothing Risked, NothIng..Gained

You risk nothing in buying Elliott's
Emulsified Oil Liniment, because you
get your money back if not satisfied.
Your gain is great, because you get the
best lniment ever made. Best for rheu-
matism, best for sprains and swellings,
best for use in the family and on your
stock. A full pint bottle, costs but 25
cents. No risk, all gain. Walhalla Drug
Co.; Carter's Pharmacy, Westminster.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-08-23
High Money Paid.
columbia Record. l

A total of s63,342 has been collected
through the Comptroller General from
the franchise tax. After final check
up by the legislative committee the
figures were separated into their various
accounts and show that the public ntili-
ties, such as water power companies,
railroads, telephone and telegraph com
panies paid more than any other line, al
though the cotton mills were close
second. The list is as follows:
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-09-17
Wash Fabrics.

Words lack force to express theimportance of these
clearance prices Miles and miles OF dress prints
in silver gray, black lights, indigo blue and reds
during this stupendons sale 01<o
at t...................... S/2~
Colorek lawns and batistes in white and colored
grounds, values up to cents IN
Figured batiste and imported cloth in 1905 spring
styles, white and tinted ground, regular Ro
price 25c; sale price ......H.......... w
Voes in the new mottled and fake effects, light
or dark ground, regular price 2oc; 1C1<o
sale price ..................... -
Silk-fnished foulards embroidered voes and
fsked suitings positively worth 25c 1Io
yard; sale price, per yard .............. L 1V
Linen etamines, voiles, French organdes brilliant
ines, mohairs and Irish batistes, all new Ooo
and dependable, values to soc; sale price. CIV
4o-inch India linens o.
safe price ...................... -
4o-inch India linens worth 2oc, To-
sale price ....................
Persian lawns worth 3oc; ~
sale price. ...................A ~
Checked dimities, values up to 25c; ~
sale price Observation-Disclosures. i III
soc wash chiffons-were considered excel "a
lent values at soc; sale price. .......... .N.tC
Scotch lawns, about 100 styles to select Ol<o
from, per yard ................. ......~ 2O
Table Oil Cloth.
In all colors and shades; positively worth 25c to
soc per yard must go 1CLo
at. .............. ....'.. .
Ladies black mercerized petticoats, worth n o.
S2.oo, sale price Observation-Disclosures. ASS
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-09-17

So. so values, gigantic sale price. ........ 43o
SI2oo value, gigantic sale price. ........... 7.eS
Sr3. so value, gigantic sale price. ........ $40
SI5oo value, gigantic sale price. .......... o.89
S. so value ladies' and misses coats, gigan-
tic sale price .................... 2.eS
S6. so value, gigantic sale price. ...... $40
$500 value, gigantic sale price .......... 4.9S
81. so value ladies' and misses long coat
gigantic sale price. ................... 3.oS
$1,000 value, gigantic sale price. ....... s.9S
$50 value, gigantic sale price. ......... 7.98
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-09-17
Embroideries and Laces

EmDTOIueTISS anu LdCeS.
A million yards, in different widths and grea
variety OF designs -cambric and Swiss embroid
cry edgings and Insertions new patterns, A =
values up to Isc; sale price ............. IN
Insertion, edging and beading in cambria Swiss z
dainty patterns, special sale price .. "
1000 yards of good torchon laces, edges and *
insertions to match, per yard. d.............. CS
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-09-17

fins, papers LOT ic
Embroideres, yard
Wire hair pins, per package.
Full size heavy white bed spreads. SOC
Extra good quality huck towel. wel...............31 .31c
Sc seller unbleacbed muslin per yard .........4c
Best quality Calico all colors per yard. ......... Sc
Yard wide light percales, per yard ard............7c
Plaid Scotch dress Gingham, per yard .........4hc
Imported mercerized French satteens per yard 2Sc
Ladies' wool skirting, per yard. rd..............2 Csc
Braid dress trimming
Extra quality ladies' black hose. ose.................6c
Chdrens hose, all sizes
Safety pins card lie
Hooks and eyes, card
Thread, spools for 25c
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-09-17
Linens, Linens.


3S-inch bleached table damask. regular soc
value sale price. Observation-Disclosures. 27c
6o-inch white satin damask, would sell regu-
lar for 75c, sale price. e............. age
400 dozen napkins that have always sold for
4oc dozen, sale price, per dozen . Ioc
Plain white or colored border napkins, worth
81 90 per dozen, at at................... 53c
Extra large size napkins, worth SI.5o dozen,
sole price, per dozen. ................ soc
Turkish wash rag, bleached or unbleached,
worth SC, during the stupendous sale at. &C
Excellent bleached barber towels at. .......... &C
Towels that have always sold for ISc at.... &c
Extra large huck towels, sale price ..... &C
Full size Turkish bath towels, regular 2oc
value, during this sale e.............,... Io1c
Cotton crash, in bolts Of so yards, worth $2.5o
sale price, per yard. d................. &C
Stevens pure linen crash, regular price I74c
sale price. Observation-Disclosures. &C
Bed spreads, full size, white crochet bed
spreads, all good patterns, real Marseilles
patterns, $I.25 value for Csc
Best quality bleached seamless sheets, 72xoo,
ready to use at. Observation-Disclosures. ACC
Velvets, Velvets, Velvets.
Our entire stock of velvets and velveteens will
be sold at just half the regular price during this
gigantic sale.
Ladies' and Kisses Suits.
Our entire stock and new fall and winter suits
jackets and skirts sold at prices unheard of before
So so value tailor-made suits, gigantic sale
price. ..,........,,.. .................".S 3.7o
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-09-17

Sheets and Pillow Cases.
In all sizes and grades and the prices speak for
themselves. Just price them.
BELOW WE QUOTE A FEW OF THE MANY THOUs-
ANDS OF BARGAINS TO BE HAD
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-09-17

In wool and cotton, just half price during this SALE
Magnificent Half-Price Sale of Silks.
Think what this means to you, Remember there
Silks imported in original and special designs. The
price is cut in halt Secure your porton-they
will not last long at these prices.
10 pieces illuminated taffeta silk in street and
evening shades ranging in price from $3.50 to
$2.4o per yard will be sold at half price Lc.
$2.4o quality for sIao; $I.3o grade at. OJl
A furry in silks that will prove an interesting
topic-Taffeta and Jap silks in plain colors, de-
sirable shades-were considered good at On.
soc values; sale price. ..........,........ O1l
Genuine Harutal wash silks, "a inches wide; the
quality is unexceled; as long as the 40.
stock lasts they 60 at at.............. ZJL
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-09-17

The Bn an Gut% values OF o in he face
ii grade
mppuuy to dress In such ri a
OF
Sos G m
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-14

mons and Mr.. Overman will not have
an opportunity to do their constit-
uents so substantial a service as to
take the lead in pressing this legisla-
ton. 1t is worth more than every
other measure that will come before
the next Senate, and it would be a
proud thing for North Carolina to
see it's Senators ably espousing the
principle and answering the speciOus
arguments which are now being pre-
pared by the ablest lawyers in Amer
lea for the railroad side of the mat
ter The cause of the shippers, the
manufacturers, the consumers needs
champions on the floor who will give
to the Senate and the world the strong
argument, accompanied by facts and
statistics, to confound the special plans
that are even now preparing. 1t will
take work and study to lead this
fight, but that is all the greater rea-
son why our Senator'S should be ready
to be in the front and on the firing
line when the fight begins.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-14
TOBACCO.

The Interstate Tobacco Growers
Association Of Virginia and North
Carolina is doing some aggressive
work just now, and it looks DIS if the
tobacco farmers are as fully aroused
to the need OF organization as the
cotton farmers. Subscriptions have
been opened for eight antitrust fac
tories in Virginia, farmers and mer-
chants are taking stock, and on some
the work OF building has already be-
gun-$25,000 or more being first sub
scribed. In Rocky Mount, n. c., and
Madison, n. c., antitrust factories
are also to be started, the one at the
last named place to cost $4,000.
There was q great meeting of tobacco
farmers at Wentworth last Tuesday
representing four counties. and the
Madison factory idea was enthusiast
Cally endorsed. At the same place
on the second Tuesday in October the
farmers will meet to report progress
and develop plans. Grand Lecturer
Sharp who has studied the situation
rather closely tells us that he does
not expect the North Carolina bright
belt to make over 65 per cent Of last
years crop. Prices are a shade bet
ter than last year, but only shade.
The expected substantial Improvement
Gas result of Japanese competition)
has not materiallZed.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-14
The Cigarette Trust Steals Your Money
by Taking Your Tobacco al Star
walton Prices and Ruins
YOur HOyS
Monroe Journal.

Monroe Journal.
A thoughtful gentleman who gen.
orally sees things in clear light re-
marked til other day that the cigar
cite evil WAS rapidly extending among
the you'll. men and boys. even to tic
country districts it not being uncOm-
mon now 10 see boys coming in haul
ing cord wood and putting away at
cigarettes as vigorously as profess
sional town loafer. I'VE hear" said
the gentleman referred to, "a great
deal about the evils of the beef trust
and the oil trust, but neither of them
is to be compared to the tobacco
trust. They have built their bust
nesses up by fraud pure and simple,
and of course are out of the range
of legitimate businesses, but in this
the tobacco trust is on the same sSane.
Here. however the difference begins
those companies do not do a bust
ness that is an evil in itself, but the
tobacco trust does. The use of oil
hurts no one and the use of beef
hurts no one, but the smoking of
cigarettes is an evil of itself that is
sapping the life and vigor out of
thousands of American boys every
day. Yet we hear little of the evils
of the tobacco trust There is a vast
difference. What is the trouble?' ~
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-14
\ Cotton Goods Commission.
Manufacturers Record.

Manufacturers Record.
Four or five years ago it was sug-
gested that a commission be appointed
to devise means for the expansion of
the markets for American cotton
goods. The project has been revived
from time to time, and just at pres
ent is receiving endorsement of one
kind and other. 1t may be suggested
here and now that such q commas
sion, if it ever eventuates, should be
composed of practical cotton manu-
facturers, if any of them may be in
duced to take holiday from their task
of filling orders for foreign markets
in order to enjoy junket at the eX-
pense of the taxpayers of the United
States, and that it should not be
composed of rowing LOomises at large
eX-statesmen frantic to butt in again
journalists still political creditors, or
politicians who know too much for
the comfort of the powers that be to
be left off the national pay-rool. y
committee of brOadminded, Well-ln-
formed manufacturers might possibly
learn much by a study on the ground
of foreign markets, but it would be
worse than folly to SEND on sucn
mission men who are not thorough,
practical experts in the cotton indus
tlV
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-14
BOTH FOR REGULATION.

Recently the Greensboro Chamber
of Commerce passed resolutions in
favor of the Esch- Townsend bill Civ
ing to the Interstate Commerce Com
mission the power to regulate inter-
State railway rates. In reply to let
tiers, both Senators wrote to Secretary
Newman. Senator Overman said:
Il beg to assure you the same shall
receive my earnest and most careful
consideration
Senator Simmons wrote:
without committing myself to any
particular bill. / wish you to assure
the chamber which you represent that
l am in hearty sympathy with it's
demand that the Interstate Com
merce Commission be given power to
regulate railroad rates. and that L
shall both advocate and support leg
islation comforting that power upon
the commission"
The people of North Carolina look
to see their Senators take a leading
part in securing the passage of the
Esch- Townsend bill. We would pre-
fer a better bill. but that is by all
odds a better measure than we had q
right to expect would pass Republi-
can House, and it is that bill or
nothing. or worse than nothing, for
Elkins and the big bosses are working
on a bill that will look very nice on
its face but will prove to give no real
relief. If they stay in the Senate all
their lives-and it is so nice berth.
they would love to do so-Mr. Sim
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-14
Spirit of the Press.
Eastern Carolina Railroad and Land
Changes.

New Bern Journal.
The transfer of the contracting par
ty OF the PamliCo Oriental and WeS-
tern Railroad, as noted in these col
umns on the tenth, which means the
virtual transfer of this railroad prop
erty into new hands, is another link
in the consolidation of railroad lines
in Eastern Carolina. which was COM
menced when the State let go of the
Atlantic and North Carolina Rail-
road.
The change into new hands of the
Norfolk and Southern, and some short
lines of railroad in Eastern Carolina,
and the purchase of large land and
timber tracts, has every appearance
of being done by capitalists who are
strictly in touch and harmony.
The plan to bridge from Morehead
City to Beaufort, to make CoallnS
station at Cape Lookout; the proposed
plan to bridge Albemarle Sound, and
do away with the ferry from Mackay S
to Edenton, these look like big plans,
and so they are, but in this century,
the absence of money is the only
obstacle which prevents any kind of
accomplishment and as the interests
which ire quietly absorbing railroads
and lands in Eastern Carolina are
meeting no OppOS1tlOn, IL Is no guess
to say they must have ample means
to both buy and extend the properties
purchased
The fact that there is absolutely no
conflict with these purchases, that
transfers are easily made and no out
side railroad people interfere. indi-
Gates a unity of railroad interests, a
non-interference which is remarkable.
when past history is reviewed and
the many conflicts. suits and bad feel
ings which have been aroused i'll this
State by a hundred part of railroad
buying, leasing or building that has
taken part in this section within the
past two years.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-14

attract to our city lawyers of ability
and litigants in important cases from
this and the neighboring States. 1t
will be recalled that prior to the APP
pointment of Judge J. c. Pritchard
the legal luminaries of this jurisdic-
ton were wont to make periodical
pilgrimages to Charleston, where the
late lamented Judge Simonton occu-
pied the circuit bench. Since the
present incumbent of that high office
has made Asheville his home the law
yers of this State have come to ap-
preciate the great convenience and
pleasure which the presence of the
Federal court in this city affords.
The appointment of Judge Pritch-
ard to this circuit not only secures the
Court of Appeals for Asheville, but it
will also insure the enlargement of
the present Federal building, or the
erection of a new one.
Where Ashevile has cause for con-
graduation the whole State should be
satisfied, by reason of the fact that
the present circuit judge has demon
strated that the law will be admins
tered in equity and justice to all in
terests and all classes.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-14
Prosperity and Money Madness.

Philadelphia North American.
That an ordinary shameless politi-
clan, who must live by his wits, should
want to steal, or that forlorn wretch,
who has little or nothing, not even the
fag-end of a conscience, should De
tempted to rob his neighbor, is COM
prchensible enough. But why should
man who has more millions than
he can count, more income than ne
can spend or even give away, a man
who can satisfy every rational desire
Of A human being, and yet have
enough over to support 10000 people
in comfOrt-why should such man
be willing to commit crime to get
money?
The answer is that he has lost his
mental equilibrium; he has become
money-mad. He is in precisely the
same case as the man who, because
of infatuation for a wanton. gives up
his wife and children, his home. his
religion, his reputation and his money
and that kind of performance is re-
corded in the newspapers nearly every
day An evil passion has got possess
sion of the soul of the money-mad
man, Just as alcohol or opium gets
possession of the body of man who
is d drinker or a doDer. Why did
Napoleon, having all the rest of the
Continent Of Europe at his feet. and
literally drunk with glory, want to
conquer Russia and then Asia? Be-
cause he was ambition mad. He had
lost his balance. He had parted with
his sense of the right proportion Of
things.
The money-mad man is similarly Il
victim, but Of another mania. An
insane person is one who is no longer
able to perceive things as they are.
Everything is distorted as he looks at
1t. Always he exaggerates his own
Importance: invariably he gives a
false value to some other person or
thing. The multi-millionaire who is
so hot for more dollars that he will
plunge into criminal projects and
cover his hands with filth and his
name with ignominy to reap a harvest
Of money that he wants no more than
he wants II toes, is n man who has
lost his head. The police might fair
~ collar him, but his rightful guar
dian is an alienist.
If. indeed. it be fact that he and
his kind are multiplied. and their
passion for spoil is made hotter by
prosperity, may we not consider
whether as we look around upon the
Increase Of graft and development of
mopey-madness. this country could
not obtain some benefit from a brief
spell Of hard times?
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-14
The Cases of Nall and DR.. Mckee.

Salisbury Post.
It is hard for one who knows him
to believe that DR.. Mckee, superin-
tcndent of the Raleigh Hospital for
the Insane, purpoSed to conceal any
OF the facts known to him connected
with the death of the patient, Nall. 1t
appears now that Nails death was
due to brutality on the part of attend
ants and the case has very properly
gone into the courts. Surely no class
of the States charges are entitled to
more consideration than the insane,
and the suggestion that in this civil
lied age a demented creature should
be murdered for the commission OF
acts for which he was in no sense re-
sponsible is revolving. His blood cries
out for vengeance and no opportunity
should be given the attendants VINO
are held responsible for Nails death
to escape.
We cannot see it to be DR.. McKee's
duty. as do the esteemed Wilmington
Messenger and other contemporaries,
to resign If he has deliberately with
held information which he knew
should have been impaired to off,
GERS it will be proven and his resig-
nation demanded. But, on the other
hand, if he is guiltless of omission of
DUTY he would be working himself in
justice in retreating under fire.
Dr. Mckee has rendered the State
and her unfortunates no mediocre
service as superintendent of the Raj
eigh hospital and if we are correctly
advised the results during his admin
istration have compared favorably
with those of the leading institutions
of the kind in the country. COmbin-
ing, as he does, with ability, ire
proachable character we cannot be-
lieve that he would by criminal 81
lence have attempted to shield men
charged with unspeakable brutality.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-14
His Best Friends Are in the Land of
Cotton.

Columbia State.
Surely the negro is justiged in the
belief that he has come upon evil
times. He is turned down" by the
Maryland Republicans; he is refused
hotel accommodation in Massachu-
sets; and now the word comes that
in Kansas City in the State of John
Brown. the authorities have decreed
that hereafter there shall be Jim
Grow" schools, whites and blacks be-
ing separated. The puzzled colored
brother is ready to eXclaDm, Where
are my friends that used to be %