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HY ?JAYNB89 SHBLOIt, SMITH ? STECK.
WALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, AUGUST 20, 1S9S.
NEW SERIES, NO. 21-VOLUME XXiIX.-NO. 84
THE TEXTIL
Col. Orr's Masterly Adc
Objections tc
CI.KMHON, S. C., August IO.-To
day wa? tho ono appointed for tho
laying of tho corner-stone of tho
textile school and an address by Col.
J. IA Orr on "Textile Education."
Unfavorable weather interfered
somewhat with the outdoor proceed
ing, hut the following addresses
were delivorcd by Col. D. K. Norri?,
Col. Orr and Mr. P. A. Tompkins-,
id' Charlotte, N. C. Col. Norries
introductory addroBs was an follow? :
After providing a college where
agriculture ?H taught in its widest
scope, and both scientific and practi
cal niechanicB, the Board of Trustees
of this College, in tho discharge of
their duties as custodians of tho in
dustrial education oommitted to their
care by tho people, feel that thoir
work ?H not complete, if then, until
provision has been made for tho ap
plication of machinery to tho toxtilo
industry. With the rapid growth of
this industry among tis, and tho
?toady demand for trained and cdu
? eated men to lill lucrative positions
m *" in tho mills, this Board would feel
itself dorolict in its duty if it failed
to provide for tho particular training
necessary to equip those among tho
industrial classcR who would be glad
to lill those positions. The soience
of agriculture UH taught hore should
greatly augment tho worth of those
trained here engaged in it. Of those
in mechanics tho work of their minds
and hands so broadened that there
should be no difficulty in scouring
placea of great public usefulness and
pomonal gain. In this textile depart
ment we confidently hope to give
such training and opportunity to
those who avail themselves of it that
they will bo able to exchange their
skill and knowledge for such a meas
ure of remuneration an has never be
fore been attainable. The Board of
Trustees thu*offer to the industrious
youth of tho State, with full author
ity, both from the State and the
great benefactor of industrial educa
tion, Mr. Clemson, this textile de
partment, believing and praying it
may bo the moans of uplifting many
poor, but industrious, boys, and that
it may bc accounted worthy to stand
with its great rivals, agriculture and
mechanics.
It may be of interest for mo to
state that thc manufacturera of tex
tile machinery throughout tho coun
try have boen m'Ont generous to us,
and without further contributions
wo are ready to start the department
on its career of usefulness. The
gifts so far amount in value to over
$10,00(1, and wo will receive more.
COT., ORR'S An?micas.
Col. Norris introduced Col. Orr,
who spoke as follows :
Technical education in its broadest
Bcnso ?H tho training of persons in thc
arts and soionces that underlie thc
practico of some trade or profession,
but it irt most commonly applied tc
tho special training which qualifi?e
a person to ongago in some branch ol
productivo industry. It would b(
but a waste of time to argue tho ad
vantages of special training, because
tho experience of the world around
us, in all tho avocations of life, hat
proved its necessity and suc
cess. A hundred years ago
when knowledge wa? confin?e
to a few, and scientific investi
.gation was in its infancy, wo conk
competo in our respectivo avocations
with neighboring nations, but IIO\N
that wo lind experts in every trade
and profession, we must equip our
selves for the contest, or fall out ol
the procession, which is pushing for
ward at double quick.
Formerly manufacturing was dom
on a small renie, and almost exclu
nively by hand ; then tho arts, mys
terioH and special processes wen
transmitted from master to appron
tices, and these apprentices
after Hoven years' services for no
mina! wages, woro thomsolve
allowed to go into business and bim
apprentices, but the inoroasoof popu
lation was so much greater than th
supply of workmen that machiner
was invented to supply tho deficiency
Al first most of it was operated b
hand, and f,he apprentice systoi
was Ht i 11 sufficient to supply tho laboi
However, with increasing demand
of wealth and population greater prc
dnotion was nooessary, and ?toar
power was applied to machinen
That marked tho practical endin
of tho apprentice system. Machine
wero improved, until they work?
with almost human intelligence ?n
far greator accuracy and dispatoh.
E SCHOOL A
Iress on Industrial Ed
) Cotton Manufacture ii
TURN HKVKN YB ABS J NOW Tl?l???K
MONTHS.
Wliy should a young man bind
himself to work for so von years for
his hoard and clothes to learn a
trade, whoo ho could loam to attond
to ono of thoso niaohines in th roo
months and mako good wages at
once ? The result, however, is that
in this day of advancement, educa
tion and tho perfection of mechan
ism wo have very fow thorough me
chanics. Knch man has learned to
do his particular work to porfcotion,
but has absolutely no knowledgo of
his neighbors, and no interest, or in
formation as to how tho wholo is
accomplished. The overseer does
not want tho bother of training a
man to run a particular maohino
when he does not oxpeel to continuo
running it ; thc hand doos not want
to quit a machine on whioh he is
getting good wages to learn another,
when he will at first earn very little ;
the result is that in any largo estab
lishment you have hundreds of
bright, oompotont men who know
thoir departments thoroughly, and
not ono man who has a general
knowledge of the business in all its
details. This, in my judgment, has
caused tho doniand for technical
education, and to be successful these
schools, which havo sprung up all
ovor Europe and this country, must
meet tho requirements.
It is not skilled hands that tli^y
are to supply, for a man can learn
far more thoroughly and practically
the absolute work in any of the largo
establishments in this country than
in thc best technical college ; but it
is skilled heads.that the mechanical
and agricultural work is demanding.
Your student must loam the gene
ral scope, tho plan, tho reason of thc
work. Ho can learn on the farm how
to plough, to hoc, to ditch-teach
him when to plough and hoe, where
to ditch, what certain soils need,
what crops pay best, how to handle
his products, how to save and build
up his laud, and how to utilize every
thing on tho farm. On his practical
knowledgo of tho work itself graft
the scientific and theoretical, toach
him in three years what it has taken
the agricultural world hundreds of
yoars, by experience and experiment,
to learn. So with manufacturing,
your student can learn to card and
spin and weave in a mill, so far as
the labor of doing it is concerned,
butler than in a technical school and
got pay for his work besides; what
you must teach is how to manipulate
the machinery so as to get tho host
results, the nicest goods, at tho loast
cost.
THU H1MIRRK UNI. A KOKI).
He must bo taught the construc
tion and pcouliarites of the raw
material, how it may be combined
and treated, how handled that all
tho valuable parts are utilized, and
all foreign and usolcss substances
eradicated. Ho must be taught
what a machino should accomplish,
and be able to get tho best results1
from every machine in the mill.
Production has increased much
faster than consumption, and in
these times of fierce competition,
unless we koop fully abreast in thc
improvements of our mothods, utili
zation of every advantage which
nature has given us, we will soon be
out of tho contest.
OOI.. NIC WM AN TUM I DBA I, KAHM KU.
Clemson College has organized and
has in successful operation two
branches of technical education, and
is just embarking on tho third. Her
agricultural department is a credit
to tho farming population of tho
State, and should bo encouraged and
uphold by ovei^ man who has a
spark of pride or patriotism in his
soul. Under the guidance find con
trol of Col. Newman (the best ex
ample of practical and theoretical
farming combined in tho South) we
shall reap a great harvest, and our
children w*ill rise up to call thom
blessed who organized and main tined
such an institution.
Thc mechanical department has
not met with such conspicuous suc
cess until recently, hut it is doing
good work, and with tho field opon
and continued effort it, will give us
results that all will bo proud of. Tho
last fow months has centered public
gaze upon its operations, and tho
number of students of this depart
ment who have passed successful ex
aminations and obtained employ
ment in tho United States Govern
ment sorvico demonstrates not only
tho usefulness, but tho thoroughness
of thoir training.
T CLEMSON.
ucation--Reviews the
i the South.
A third department of toohnioal
training has been organized, to-wit,
toxtile, and I shall discuss that more
particularly.
PURPOSE Ol' THE TEXTILE .SCHOOL.
Textile is applied to all fabrics
which aro wovon in a loora, and its
treatment must, of course, includo
every process from the raw material
to tho finished products prepared for
tho market. Clothes of some kind
or othor havo boon used by the
human i?niily sinco fig loaves und
the hides of boasts woro dispensed
with as olothing and will ho to tho
ond of time.
Wo have detailed accounts of tho
clothes and manner of making thom
running back 3,800 yoars, and whilo
tho spocd and fineness havo beon
wonderfully improved, still the gene
ral principles aro tho same to-day
that they were in tho most ancient
times. The process, as described in
thc oarlicst accounts, consisted of
hanging a certain number of strings,
as tho warp was then called, from a
stick and fastening at tho lower end
of each a waight, HO that thoy would
not loso thoir position. The idling
was called weft, and wound upon a
short bobbin, which was placed in
side a hollow boat shaped piece of
wood, so as to rcvolvo as tho shuttlo
was passed by. hand in and out
through thc warp, and at right
angles with it ; after oaoh passage of
thc filling a wooden sword-shapod
implement was introduced between
tho threads of tho warp, and many
quick, sharp blows given to drive
tho filling close up.
" "A VAUT) A DAY."
As may bo imagined the process
was very slow and thc most export
weaver could not weave a yard a
day. Think of that compared with
the thousand yards ;i day which good
weavers on tho latest looms aro now
making. In thc very carly times,
however, a clumsy harness was used
to keep thc warp threads apart, aH
thc shuttle passed between, and thin
was operated with thc feet, by a
treadle, vory much as our hand looma
of to-day work.
Soon after this a heavy comb
shaped tool was used to beat up thc
tilling, tho teeth passing between thc
threads of tho war}). In ancient
times thc women did all thc weaving,
and though the process was slow
and thc implements rude, still sonic
of tlic clothes produced were won
ders in beauty and nkil? and dura
bility. An carly Christian sarco
phagus in thc Lateran has thc sym
bolical relief representing God con
demning the future world to labor
tilling tho soil for thc man, ant
weaving for thc woman, lie gave
ears of corn to Adam and a sheep t(
Eve.
THE INDUSTRIA I, SOUTH.
Sonic thoughtless and some ignoran
people have questioned tho wisdon
of thc South engaging in manufac
turing to any groat extent, on tin
ground that it interferes with tin
fanning interests of this country lo
absorbing tho labor ; aside from tin
! well established economic actium
that diversity of interests in tl c fTf<
of any country, wo know from ourowi
exporienoo that notwithstanding th
growth of cotton industry from a fe\
thousand spindles in 1896 to 4,000,
000 in 1808, that thc South lias raisci
large crops of cotton and all th
cereals than she did before thc manu
factures woro in oxistoncc, so w
roap as much advantage as over fro?
farming, and whatever adyantag
thoro is in tho money spent for main
faoturing.
Loaving aside thc many argument
usually made to show thc advantage
which tho manufacturing countr
offers, lot us examine one minut
what tho difference is to tho countr
that raises and manufactures on
halo of cotton, as compared wit
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...Tiing .</, ni ne n> uiKilu Up otoo wild <
Suppose tho bale weighs f)()0 pounc
and is sold at ti cents ; tho conntl
gets tho benefit of frIO, to be di
tributed between tho rent of tl
land, tho labor, the fertilizer, tl
man who makes agricultural imp!
monts, otc; not much profit to ai
of thoso engaged, and only #510
produced for tho country ; now 1
a factory in tho same country whoi
tho cotton is raised buy this cotto
lt pays tho samo fc-'iO for it that tl
foreigner would havo paid, and tl
man who raised it gets tho ann
benefit. Let tho mill now manufn
turo it into say yard-wide shcotin
weighing four yards to thc pouiu
it will pay out for labor, salarii
supplies, findings, otc, 6| couts p
pound, $26.25, in addition to tho
price of tho raw cotton, or #50.25.
After deducting tho IOBB by wasto ho
will receive from the jobbors to-day
8? cents per yard, or #58.80, as
against $30 put in circulation in the
first instance-the country has tho
beneiit of #58.80, or nearly double,
tho omployeo gotting #20.25, and
tho stockholder $2.55 additional.
And it dooB not matter, ?o far as
the South is concerned, whothor tho
mill is run at a profit or not, for tho
$26.25 has to bo paid out for 'manu
facturing in addition to thc prico of
tho cotton, and tho country gots tho
bonolit of it. If South Carolina sold
to outsiders boro 850,000 bales of
cotton sho would havo #49,980,000 ;
in other words, BIIO would bo hotter
off ovory year to tho amount of
#24,480,000. Run theso figures
through your mind and you oan
realizo what tho South would bo
worth to-day if sho manufactured
hor 11,000,000 balcBof cotton instead
of one-tonth of it. Many of tho ob
jections which woro most strenu
ously and dogmatically urged against
cotton manufacturing in the South
havo been ovorcomo by actiiai expe
rience. Tho theory that tho climato
was unsuitable baa boon ovorcomo
by sciontific machinery, an<1 it iii
found that any tomporatnro or degree
of humidity can bo produced .it will.
THU ItUOAHOO OK UN8KILLKD IIKLV.
The great bugaboo of unskilled
help has provod tho groatcst farce of
recent times. Tho help of tho Now
England mills is composed very
largely of foreigners, and that ie
their greatest curso. Th*>re is no
community of intorosts bctM'con thc
employers and employed, while thc
Southern help is tho greatest bul
wark ot strongth wo have. They
aro natives of thc country, animated
by impulses, inspired by ibo tradi
tions and descended from thc same
ancestry as all other Southerners
and tho result is that instead ol
quarreling, bitterness and discontont
which has clogged thc progrcBB o:
our Northern competitor's and lcd U
strikes, shut-outs and violence, w<
havo not only enjoyed uninterrupted
work, but good feeling and content
mont have boen universal.
LAUOK ORGANIZATIONS.
Much stress has been laid on tin
fact that wc have no labor organiza
tions, and while I am thankful tba
such is tho fact, I have novor drcado(
their power in this section, for the;
cannot flourish in native Amoricai
communities. Their effects is to pu
all mon on an equality, not of th
highest, but of tho lowest membei
and all Individuality and freedom o
thought and action is denied. Th
organization, though, of humai
beings is but a tremendous machine
subject to tim power and control o
its master. It is contrary to th
principles of free-born America1
citizens, antagonistic to our form c
government and nourishes bcHt wher
communities aro composed largcl,
of foreign-born citizons.
AUK WK UU1LDINCI MILLS TOO FAST
There is another scaro crow tim
is constantly produced when nei
mills arc spoken of, that thc Sont
is building mills too fast, and wi
crowd each other out.
Now, I admit that it is a ocriou
mistake to build a largor mill tba
you havo tho money to pay for, bc
cause you aro not only burdons
with debt, but having no commoron
capital you must buy whorovor yo
can got credit, without regard t
prico, and sell your product as soo
as it is out of tho machinery at wiri'
over offer you can get. indeed tli
mill that owes if,s selling agont
largo sum of money is in just tl
same condition as thc farmer wti
has givon a lion on his crop an
mortgage of bin stock ; his credit
limited to that one person, and h
production must bo sold just as fa
as it can bo marketed. If we nov<
had another mill I would not advi:
building it until tho wholo amoui
necessary for thc completion w
scoured. Build what you oan pi
DEAFNESS CANNOT UK CURED
by local applications, as thoy cann
ronob the diseased portion of tho o?
There is only one way to cure deafnci
and that is hy constitutional remedii
Deafness is caused by an in Hamed c(
ditton of tho mucous lining of tho Eas
ohain Tubo. Whon this tube gets Inflam
you havo a rumbling sound or imporb
hearing, and when it is ontiroly olos
doafnoss is tho result, and unless t
inflammation can ho taken out and tl
tubo restored to ita normal condith
hearing will bo destroyed forevor. NI
casos out of ten o/o caused by catar:
which is nothing nut an Inflamed con
tion of tho mucous surfaces.
Wo will give ono hundred dollars
any caso of deafness (caused by catari
that oannot bo ourod by Hall's Catai
Curo. Bond for circulars, freo.
F. J. CHENEY A CO., Toledo, O
Sold by druggists, 75 couta.
Hall's Family Fills aro tho best.
for, and as you prosper inorcaso
your Btook and enlarge. If this rule
is adhorod to and men of ability and
oharaotor aro put in obargo of oaoh
eniorpriso I soe no reason why the
South may uot double ber manufac
turing oapaoity in ton yoars.
t?o far as making more goods than
onn bo sold, that amounts to nothing.
I AU tho cotton that has over boon
prodttood hos boen manufnoturod,
and tho only quostion ia, shall tho j
South got tho additional wage paid
and profit for tho finished produot,
or Bhall Bbc bo content with tho half
loaf, tho prico of tho raw produot ?
The best proof that cotton manufac
turing is not only feasible, but as a
rulo profitable, is tho tremendous in
oroaso in this class of work in tho
lastjiftcon years in thc South.
MAKVKI.T.OUH INORKABU IN If) YKABS.
Do you know that tho Southern
StatcB to day havo 4,025,4512 spindles
and 107,600 looms running, against
loBS than 1,000,000 spindles and 28,000
looms fifteen years ago? Do you
realizo that South Carolina has 826,
300 spindles and 80,468 looms, or
one-third of all in tho South to-day ?
North Carolina coming next with
983,130 spindles and 28,585 looms,
and Georgia next, with 749,814 spin
dles and 21,094 looms.
When thcBO throo StatcB havo .3,
057,840 spindlos opt of 4,025,000,
and 84,137 looi^s of tho 107,000, you
must seo how absurd is tho state
ment that tho South is ovcrorowdod,
when tho other ten States all told
havo only 907,592 spindles and 28,
304 looms.
Tho Now England manufacturers
havo moro money and moro skill
than wo ; thc first difficulty wo aro
gradually overcoming by following
their example and selling moro of
our products in the finished state,
instead of ns raw material ; thc
Bccond difti Hilty, want of skilled
hoads, wo can get ovor by establish
ing and fostering, encouraging and
maintaining this textile school.
The only Sonthorn State which it
moving in this direction is Georgia
She is now organizing a toxtile school
in connection with tho Instituto ol
Technology in Atlanta, and hat
$30,000 scoured already. There ii
plonty of room for mere, but at
donison College is tho best agricul
taral school in tho South, lot ut
make her toxtilo department seconc
to none in the Union.
MK. TOMPKINS LBOTUllK.
Mr. D. A. Tompkins, of Charlotte
N. C., made a very interesting ex
tcmpornneous leoturo upon toxtih
education and tho dovolopmont o
manufactures in tho South. lit
showed that by a training on thest
lines Germany has obtained a ohio
place among tho nations of Europe
that the South may woll aspiro U
an equality with any section or an;
country in manufactures. Tho Soutl
was in tho oarly days nhoad of Nov
England. Sho may become so again
If our people aro properly educate*
power and wealth will follow.
Tho conditions aro now changed
Literary education was in doman?
before the war; now industrial train
ing is in domand, and we must rec
ogni/.o this chango.
Prof. Walker oponed the afteruooi
session by a lecture on soils and thci
treatment. Thc soionco of agricul
tum hm? made as much progross i
tho last twcnty-livo yoars JIB an;
other science Tho presence c
nitrogen, prosphoric acid and potas
j will not auffioo to produce tho bes
results. Tho mechanical conditio
of the soils is of thc highest impoi
tancc. Only recently ha" it boo
discovered that the bacteria in th
soil exert an immense influence i
increasing its fertility. Tho Contimit
scratching of tho soil admits oxygei
and thus, doubtless, tho energy c
tho bacteria is increased. Some c
these bactoria aro unliko thoso wine
render tho legumes so valuabh
Thoso bactoria, sonioof them, fix frc
nitrogen converting it into nitritos
others eonvort tho nitritos into n
trates. Tho application of cold wat?
will Burne limo check tito growth <
green house plants-probably by n
effect produced upon tho bactor
concorncd in plant growth.. Gard?
soil soattore? ovor tho stirfaco oft?
inoculates tho ground manured wii
thoso useful bactoria. It is said thi
in nurseries it has been found th
two to throe plantings of trees w
exhaust thc* Boil. This is duo to tl
consumption of humus, tho present
of which is necessary to mninta
soil in a propor moohanioal atm
Humus in burning gives off oarbor
acid gas. Now this onrbonio ao
gas is an important factor in dissol
ing olomontsof fertility looked
in tho soil, Humus also contain?
itself potash, phosphoric add ai
nitrogen.
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Drainage-About five aoroB of
vory poor land was under tho lec
turer^ observation drainod byl tiles.
Somo $450 was spent in this way,
with tho rosult that sovonty*fivo
bushels per acre was produced tho
noxt y oar whom only ii f toon woro
produced boforo. If urah: tiles aro
put in proporly, they ' pormanontly
improvo tho land ; this in caused by
thc formation of a hardpan mado by
tho BOttloment of parti?les of silt.
Tins serves to retain tho manure.
Tho chiof interference w ith tho tile
system in due to tho roots of wil
lows and similar plants, which of ton
stop tho flow.
Roots-Tho moro important roots
as feeders aro tho minuto roots ; as
long as tho plant grows tho roots aro
pushing out, and aro socking water
and plant food. Those roots in
fruit trees may extend forty or fifty
foot. Tho prosonco of these root
hairs is essoytial to tho absorption of
wator and ' tho maintenance of tho
health of thc plants.
Col. Cray ton was called on, and in
very interesting fashion gave his ox
porionco with tilo draining. Col.
drayton was the first man in this
State to go oxtonsivoly into tile
draining. Ho testified that tho re
sult was to enormously laorease the
yiohl. _ _
Everybody Says So.
Casoarets Candy Cathartic, tho mosl
wondoiful medical discovory of tho ago,
pleasant and refreshing to tho taste, not
gently and positivoly on kidnoys, livoi
and bowels, cleansing tho entire system,
dispels colds, ourcs hon?acho, fovor, ha
bltual constipation and biliousnosB
Ploaso buy and try a box of C. C. C. to
day ; 10, 25, 50 couts. Sold and guaran
toed to euro by all druggists.
_-<4 . E?-- .
Mr. Carnegie's View.
Mr. Andrew Carnegie, whoso popu
lar book, "Triumphant Domocraoy,'
gave him somo standing rsa thought
ful student of our institutions, hai
very pronounced opinions on th?
Philippine question. Ho says :
"It is tho parting of tho ways
Wc have a continent to populat?
and develop ; there arc only 23 per
sons to thc squaro milo in tho Unite?
States. England has 370, liclgiun
671, Germany '250. A tithe of th
cost of maintaining our sway over th?
Philippines would improve our into,
nal waterways, dcopon our harbor*
build tho Nicaraguan canal, con
struct a waterway to tho ocean fron
tho great lakes, an inland canal alon]
tho Atlantic seaboard, a canal acros
Florida, saving 800 milos distanc
between Now York and Now Ol
leans, connect Lako Michigan wit
the Mississippi, doepon all tho hai
hors upon tho lakes, build a cant
from Lake Erie to thc Allcghcn
river, Blackwater through movabl
dams tho entire length of the Ohi
river to Cairo, thoroughly improv
tho lower and upper Mississip]
and all our seaboard harbors. A
these enterprises would bo as nothin
in comparison to tho suma require
for tho oxporimont of possessing th
Philippine Islands, 7,000 miles froi
our shores. If tho object bo to roi
der our ropublic powerful among th
nations, can there be any doubt ns t
which policy is tho bettor ?"
These arc words of wisdom. Whil
th oro is considerable clamor froi
somo politicians and newspapers fe
the possession of tho Philippines til
longer the proposition is boforo i
tho moro do wo bolievo that tl
sober common sonso of the counti
will condemn it. Mr. Carnegie
right. To take and occupy tl
Philippines would cost more than
would come to.
--?ot
Mr. A. C. Wolfo, of Dundee, Mo., wi
travols for Mansur and Tibbotts, Impl
ment Co., of St. Louis, gives tra veld
mon and travolors in gonoral, some go?
advice "Hoing a knight of tho grip
ho says, "I have for tho past throo yoai
mado it a rulo to koop mysolf supplii
With Chamberlain's Colic, Cholora ai
Diarrhcoa Remody, ami have found n
morons coonskins to tost its morita, n
only on mysolf, bul on othors as woll.
can truly say that I novor, in a singlo i
stance, havo known it to fail. I coiiBid
it ono of tho best romodios travolors c
carry and could relato many instanc
whom I havo unod tho romody on sko
ties, much to their surprise and relief,
hopo ovory ti 'aveling man in tho Unit
Staton will carry a bottle of this rome
in bis grip." For salo by J. W. Il?
Walhalla; H. B. Zimmerman, Wostm
stor; W. J. Lunney, Sonoca.
Tho boss chunk of gold was d
up in West Australia recently, whi
weighed 1,030 ounces, and is wo?
1(82,600. They dorrt ofton pick
pieces as largo as that.
Two Millions a Year.
When pooplo buy, try and buy ogaii
moans they'ro satisfied. Tho pooplo
tho United States aro now buying Cns
rota Cniuly Cathartic at tho rato of t
million boxes a yoar and it will bo tb
million befovo Now Yoar's. It me
morit proved that Cascarots aro tho m
delightful bowel regulator for ovcrybi
tho year round. All druggists, t
25o., 50o, n box. Curo guarantood.
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MiNiyei??,
AniorloAn Troops Carried Erorytlilua
ITerere Thsni-Magnificent Charge
A dispatch io the 1 Now Yorl
World from Manila City, dated Au
gust 18, via Hong Kong, says :
The hardest lighting in tho cap
turo of Manila was dono by tho Astoi
battery, which dix .ho advance.
Brig. (lon. MacArthur, command
ing tho brigad? complimontod thou
in tho highest terms right in th<
midst of tho battle for thoir valoi
and success.
Tho A ?tor battery iod tho column
supported by tho Minnesota volun
teers and tho Twenty-third regiment
Tho Utah battery's guns woro tot
heavy to move through tho swamps
Tho march along tho Pasig road
on the right of tho river Pasig, wai
whore tho Hoot could give no assist
ance.
At tho junction of Clingalon roat
tho vanguard carno upon a strong
Spanish entrenchment. Suddoub
the onomy ranged a deadly firo oi
tho Americans, killing two of th
Astor hatter, First Serijoant Holmes
and Second Sergoant Kromins, am
one Minnesota man, Private Patter
son, at tho samo timo wounding :
scoro of othor soldiors.
DIKD AT HIS GUN.
Sorgoant Kromins, after ho wa
shot, staggorod to his gun, fired, ail'
tho next momont fell dead besid
the gun.
Tho Astor battery was forced t
fall back from ,tho murderous iir<
temporarily loaving two guns. Bu
tho rcsorvo under Col. Ovens llinei
carno up promptly and witli thoi
support tho A8tors charged th
oncmy with only thoir revolvers fe
woapons, quickly regained thoir gun
and put both into action again wit
vigor. The Spaniards then wet
speedily put to flight.
The Spanish loss is estimated ?
not less than 200, including bot
killed find wounded, and in tl
neighborhood of 8,000 capturei
Vast stores of military and nav
supplies wore soized. The casua
ties on tho American side wore coi
fined to tho land forces. Not a ms
on the licet was injured.
THK KN ? M Y I'ANIC-HTiilOKKN.
Through four lines of entrene]
mentsj extending two miles, tl
enomy were drivon in a panic in
tho walled portion of Manila. Tho
tho Spaniards surrendered.
As tho Stars and Stripes wo
raised over tho oflicial resident
Captain General J amiens burst in
tears, aw". his suite hid thoir faces
thoir hom"
Almost impregnable fortificatio
had boon stormed, including fo
block houses and innumerable ?tre
block ades. All woro carried witht
pluok and valor characteristic of t
Americans.
In Gen. Green's brigado tho Col
rado and California volunteers ai
the Eighteenth regiment drovo t
Spaniards back in a panic. East ai
West vied in dcodr, of bravory.
Tho soldiers know Friday nig
that an attaok was to bo made.
Tho next morning roviellc w
sounded at 1 o'clock. The troc
arose singing and chooring. V
wooka thoy had\ boon encamped
swamps and in ditches filled wi
water, exposed to tropical rai
They had waited patiently for t
order to attack. Whon it came t
demonstrations were unanimous alo
tho lines.
FOUGHT IN IIKAVY KAIN.
A hoavy rain set in ns tho trot
left camp. The men marched t
miles in mud over thoir shoo tops
tho entrenchments. Each carr
two days' rations and 150 cartridg
Tho American trendies extern
from tho beach on the loft 1,(
yards in a northern direotion, tori
nating in a rico swamp. Tho grot
was colored with water, baml
and rank vegetables. Tho on om
tronches varied from 300 to I
yards. Thc ono in front was I
yards. Tho nearest bosch is
Manila road, and 1/200 yards boy<
is tho Pasig road. Both ro
passed through tho HIICB into
oity. Almost impassable swamps
betwoon the roads.
Gen. Grocn's brigado occupied
loft from thc beach across tho Mai
road tc thc ?iwamp. Gen. 1.1*10
thur's brigado had tho right on 1J
sides of tho Paeig road. Direoth
front of Gen. MacArthur's wer
Spanish battory and a blook ho
Tho troops arrived in position
the lines at 8.80 A. M. Four bat
ions of rosorves hold tho Pasig r
1 and thc general reserve, five full
[ talions hack of Gon. Groen, held
looatlon botwocn tho boach and
Manila road.
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THU OPENING. OK Tl IK IJATTI.K.
Tho monitor Monterey at 9 A. M\
steamed slowly aoross tho bay in
front of Manila. Tho flagship Olym
pia, thc cruiser Raleigh and tito gun
boat Petrel followed. Tho onomy
had two linos of entrenchments in
front of Gen. Groen. Rack of thoRO
linos was tho Rio Cingalon, a small
Btream. Noxt boyond was thc pow
der Magazine, an auciont fortress,
mounting guns on ono side. I inmenso
trenches surrounded thc fortress on
tho south and leeward sides, (-lon.
Anderson was in command of tho
division which was composed of two
brigades.
Suddenly, at 0.30 A.M., tho Olym
pia opened fire with her st board
five-inch gun at a range of 4,000
yards. Tho troops cheered and
waved their hats. Tho first shots
foll short, but again and again tho
guns roared and tho projectiles foll
olosor and doner to tho enemy's
stronghold. Thc Raleigh and Potrel,
covered with tho national colors,
tried their live-inch and six-inch
guns at 3,500 yards. Sholl after
sholl burst in the fortress and drovo
the Spaniards panic stricken howard
Malato. Every shot was marked by
debris hurled Ugh in tho air.
Soon tho onomy deserted tho lines
in front of Gen. Green, but ran into
tho Rio Swamps. Then they began
guerilla war. Two shots from tho
battery in tho magazine was the only
reply given to tho Hoot's fire. Roth
were 300 yards short. Tho gunboat
Callao and tho launch Baroola ad
vanced within 1,500 yards and bogan
Bonding a deadly hail from their rapid
i fire and machino guns.
i CIIAKGK OK TUB COLORADOS.
i Ry this timo the fortress was do?
sorted and tho licet began firing closo
i in. Tho signal to advance was given
i and tho Colorado t roops marched in
? column with Hag Hung to tho bree/.o,
i and dashed into tho Rio, wading
waist deep. Tho Californians fol
I lowed. Tho enemy's Mausers bogan
. to crack in thc bushes in front, but
i thc shooting was wild.
) Thc Colorado men ran up to tho
s fort and took possession. Private
Phoenix climbed to tho rampart and
pulled down tho Spanish Hag. As
1 ho was raising oho American standard
) ho was shot dead. Thereupon Pri
vate Richard Holmes seized thc Hag
and ran it up on tho polo.
Tho Colorados, Californians and
tho Eighteenth infantry drovo tho
I Spaniards through thc streets of
i Malato. The enemy throw away
. guns and ammunition in tho Hight,
i Their trenches woro filled with Mau
I gor CiO'tvidf/OH.
Tho troops followed them, oaptur
! ing tho Luneta battery, and chased
i tho enemy into tho walled city.
; Gen. Green passed around tho
walled city and took Rinondo on the
north side of tho J'asig river, whero
? ho established headquarters.
, HOT KUiHTINti ON KIOHT.
, Meanwhile, Gen. MacArthur's bri*
I gado, over on tho right wing, was
having tho severest kind of fighting.
I Two guns of tho XTtnh battery
) opened on block house No. M and
. soon knocked it into splinters. Thou
j thc troops advanced by tho Rasig
) road toward tho city. Tho* Astor
) battery was in the lead, and, as pre
) viously described, had tho hottest
) lighting of tho day at the junction of
j the Cingalon road.
. Tho Spaniards soon retreated and
Gen. MacArthur entered tho city
' and established headquarters nt
} Malatc.
j Tho insurgents followed up tho
advance of our troops. An attompt
was made to keep ?.'icm out of tito
3 city, hut it was found impossible.
* Thousands entered in companies,
- took possession cf empty houses and
j began pilfering. Malato and Krmitn,
tho fashionable rcsidonce districts,
1 wore dcHorted. Tho troops scattered
* and stoppod tho insurgent pillaging
i. as far ns possiblo.
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