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C SOME P1AIN PACT,?. a Why Cotton Should ba Held for Higher Prices. ' 8 An Official Address to the Farmers j From President E. D. Smith? g Utility "Will Brine Success. f s The Southern Cotton association is t an organization of, by and for the f people. It is not for the few but for ^ the many, not for the farmer alone 8 but for the merchant, professional man, mechanic and laborer, for every e one who makes a living where cotton grows. The objects sought are manifold and far reaching; among them is the establishment of system bcth in production and marketing, thereby creat lng a oondition conducive of fair and renumerative prices. To promote manufacturing where cotton grows, to the extent of our own people selling the finished product' Instead of sending two-thirds of our raw material out of the oountry. But the lmediate anxiety of the S. C. A. is that cotton this year should briog the far11 oents per pound, the price set by the association. * That the farmers are not getting this price is no proof that the association and other organizations made a mistake in estimating the value of ootton, but it does prove that the association is timely and the work is was created to do is an Imperative neoessity. Its weakness is apparent rather <than real; its success under the circumstances is phenomenal. Without , its powerful influence ootton to-day would be selling at as low a price as at any time last year. Never in the history of cotton has ten per cent sur plu3 blended with a succeeding crop without the price running low till the , ? 1 J ?U * TT7? ? Vr |n i&rmer uau suiu uui. tt c arc neon m < proportion as business men and farmers are unenlisted in our common cause, and we will grow in strength . In proportion as the people In cotton growing communities unite with us in . defense of our own rights and interests. We have allowed conditions to ob1 ' tain that robbed 812 cotton counties annually of 1200.000,000 that rightly belonged to them, and the loss of two ( cents a pound this year means 1100, 000,000 gone forever, leaving empty ~ store buildings and paralyzed business i to that extent. , There are reasons why the farmers are not getting 11 cents. . The farmers always distinctly remember the experiences of the year K' before. Now two years the farmer sold on a raising market and after each sale he regretted that he did not hold his cotton a lfttle longer, and resolved not fib t be caught that way again. So last year to profit by his late experience, be was disposed to get his cotton gin, ned and then not be in a hurry to sell. Then when the statisoioal condition . ; showed an Immense surplus he was ' v caught In the awful avalanche of fall : * Ing prices; and he don't yet reallz that last year prices were good for so V long a time, simply because he was a / conservative instead of a precipitate seller. Bemembering the good prices f.'i during the early weeks last year and the trap that crippled him, he resol\ ves to be the early bird, with the re v. suit that at this year a greater per , cent, of the crop is already marketed t than in any season of the past, and this blended with the shrunken skele- , fnn-nf liot. vanr'a cnrr.lna In an shnrt. : a time forms a ormbinaiion that would break down any market, what < v ever the concomitant conditions : might be. Helping this condition the mer- , ' chant netx-s his money and the far-H mer wan Is to pay as soon as possible and while cur bankers are willing to , extend good papers and to grant fur- ] ther accommodations, yet merchant and farmer alike have had so many j bitter lessons that tbey hesitate to ( i drop a moderate certainty for a promi-' . U sing uncertainty. i i.v ' As things have always been, this position of merchant and farmer is j "j>^not unreasonable. , nerewiure uu uunuerueu euurt uas obtained to make the owners *a party to the trade when our farm produots are to be priced. Heretofore no thoroughly organized work has been done to get the istatistical situation for the farmer's use in , time to benefit the farming com? munity. Heretofore no interested organization has been strong enough to Influence market conditions to favor the farmers in time to benefit him. . ' Heretofore all has been uncertain guess work, but this year the statistical situation is well in hand. When the first bale this season looked back over the past year, it saw that 13,000,000 of its brothers had been laid upon the shelf by the fatal I band of cousumption, it looked to the future and saw the dlease spreading in new and wider fields, through i. T nut.* DunnU AM#) 4- Vt sv 4 JapaiJ, uuiua, xtuooia auu uuo wunu, i including the survivors fewer than I 11,000,000 would be thrown out to 1 . fall before the dread destroyer who is i v eager and anxious to consume 2,000,- 1 v 000 more. 1 Farmer, is not $10 a bale worth i looking after? j . Merchant, is not 50 per cent in- i crease of business worth looking after? t Are you not willing to help oarry the i financial burdens of an organization t that has done so muoh for you and a your own people? Are you not will- 3 lng to help us carry on a greater work g of usefulness in the future? t To all our people let us Bay we are ; seriously in earnest; are sure of our promises, and confidently urge all to stand firm for 11 cent cotton. . Merchant and ban&er stand by the 0 .farmer: Farmer, refU3e to take less 0 than 11 cents; when you unite to ? show the world you are In earnest, f that you understand the situation, the market will quickly respond to ? your demand, for the spinners and speculators know the situation, and * they know you could get 12 cents if * yo-i were unitedly arouse to'demand it. ? Oh! Farmers, Merchants, Bankers, ^ Editors and all the people of our cot- 1 ton growing south, let us stand to- ? gether now a band of brothers and ? we can win this fight; to loose out h means humiliation, and "defeat" will u mar our banner. E. D. Smith, w President S. U. Div. S. C. A. a ATTEMPTED ASSAULT. fen Who Attempted Assault on Lad; May Be Hold*Ups. Dan Slocum, the member of th ang of feather renovators arrestei or attempting to assault a Miss Pad jott near Columbia recently, waive ireliminary before a magistrate, an llocum was sent to jail in default o tail. He has employed no attorney s ar. No evidence was given, and lb 1 liffljult to get at the details of th tlleged assault. It appears from what can be lean id of the affair that Slocum and thre >f his companions found Miss Padget done at her father's home, and tha 51ocum grabbed her, when shescreair id. The strangers -vanished and th leighborhood was soon out searohin or them but it was a sheriff's offioe nrho caught them. Slocum's pals are being held as sui jects. They all claim to be wjrkln or the National Benovator Compan >f Chloago, and oannot be run in fc ragrancy. But It is thought that sons tght might be thrown on the series c lold ups the city has witnessed tb jast few weeks by holding them. Tuesday night A. F. Funderburk, well known furniture dealer, saw veil dressed white man standing unde lome trees near Trinity church, ai parantly waiting for him as he aj jroacfeed. He called to the man, wb ;ave no answer. He asked a negi learby for a revolver and the ma mder the trees taking flight Mr. Fur lerburk and the negro gave chase. I i short time half a dozen police office) lad arrived, but the fug.tlve had a japed through a vaoant lot. But th is not an unusual inoident. Some pr< nlnent Columbians have been subjs bed to this sort of thing almost evei alght for the past three weeks. There are many wild stories goln over the town about these hold-U] One is that a few nights ago a we known Columbian being held up sh( the hold-up man severely, and thi the supposed thug has turned out 1 be himself a prominent Columbia] and that his wounds are being care for in secret, the matter being bush< up on aooount of his name. Of cours there Is nothing in the story but win but In the nature of it It will ni down. Another, In whioh there is ju about as muoh truth, carries the met ory of graft and hold-up. This stoi Is to the effect that the hold-up genii operating about Columbia has gott< bold of Dlgenese and taken his lanfee: away from him the hold-up ooourli in the shadow of the state dlspenBa walls. TEMPTED AHD FELL. Ihli Is the Confession .ol Edwai George Gnnllff*. Edward George Ounliffe, the Adan Express employe who disappear! from Pittsburg, Pa., with 1101,ft in cash, was arrested at PTldgepor conn. T*A A A/\n#AOOfsv?% AVmVflC jjlc luauo a w/U10091UU auu ed his willingness to return at onoe 1 Pittsburg. He declared that ti money which he took is intact ai that it oould be recovered, but deolii ed to tell until his return to Pitt burg, where it is hidden. On his pe son when arrested, the detectivi found $290. Detectives traced Ounliffe to Bridg port. All the hotels were watohe carefully, but Cunliffe was not arres Bd until late In the forenoon, when t was seen walking down Middle stree Ounliffe made no attempt to deny h Identity and oflered no resistance. "T7V?~ n fto, T>?rtlr f*>. M 4 TO UUUUim Oll/Ol JL vwm UU( money I was sorry," said CunlifTi "but It was too late to do any thin] What can you expect from a man ge ting a salary of 165 a month an handling thousands of dollars a daj [ was tempted and I fell. I h&i bandied larger sums. I rememb< 3noe when I had $250,000 in cash, was tempted, but I thought it ova ind decided to be honest, ''The night I left Pittsburg, I rod in a sleeper on the way to New Tor ind I stuck my head out of my bert icd saw Slater pass by. Slater is oi local manager ft) Pittsburg. I thougt then that I would turn back, bi rooming that he did not see me an :hat I had the money with me 1 sash, I thought I would take tb jhances. "I want to go baok to Pittsburg restore the money and throw myse ipon the mercy of the courts." Husbands tn Revolt. Thorougly disgusted by the unive: al giving up of tbeir wives to socii Functions, 200 citizens of William* port, Warren oounty, Ind., have er >erer vigorous protests against tb practice, and have demanded in n incertaln terms that there must b xiore consecration to home dutieB an ess devotion to clubs. The recen utterances of Mr. Cleveland on th lubjact caused much comment amon ;Re husband, and It was oonclude ihat the ex president knew a thing o iwo about women that he was no ifraid to tell, and the Wllliamspor lusbands determined to be equall >old. This led to protests home, an vhen there were ignored, anothe )lan was advanoed. The husband net yesterday afternoon, had a pin] ,ea of their own, and then marchei n a body to tlie various places, wheri iheir wives were beintr entertainei ind burlesqued their soolal f unctions Che husbands were followed by a lar :e crowd of boys and single men ani he afialr was made as grotesque a KWBlble. "Tailholt" No More. There is no sentiment in the heart f the gentlemen in ohargeof the post fflce dep? fcment; neither is there an: auslo in * leir souls. With owlish wis om and ue disregard of publiofeel Qg they nave deolared "Tailholt" t< >e lacking in euphony, therefore th< ostoffioe of Tailholt, Ind., is no more n its place we are to have Carrollton n the name of all lovers of real poe ry, The Commoner protests. Whei ameB Whitecomb Riley wrote "Thi <ittle Town o' Tailholt" he mad* bat village famous, and he added t< be gaiety of nations. And now t( ave the sordid, unpoetlo, prosalo ant nsen^imental postofflce authoritie ripe *ae village from the map is to* iuch. WHY EE LOST JOB. r The Explanation of the Sammtrr Dia- R miaaal ol a Clerk. e 3 The biggest sensation in government t I. service In Washington In year was the d a dismissal, without hearing or ohance d of defence, of Walter S. Elvidge, a J 1 messenger of the bureau of standards, . o which comes under the department of j is commeroe and labor. c e No reason was assigned for the dls- ^ missal, but it is now known that E'.v- t i- idge is the man who was driving an c ie automobile a few days ago in front of a ,t the carriage of President Roosevelt a ,t and would not move out of the way to j i- let the oarrlage of the president, by 1; e annoying the president by the dust he a a threw hahind. ir As a result of the act of Elvidge, + who was appointed from Minnesota, j- the President Tuesday issued an order g conferring upon cabinet officers and j. y himself the righr of instaut dismissal, y it without notice or nearing, of any em- E e Dloye of the government service ob- t if served to be conducting himself em- D ie properly or to be inefficient. It is sup y posed that the president immediately a gave orders to Seoretary Metcalf to t a have Elvidge dismissed, and this was j >r done Thursday. When seen on the ^ > subject Seotetary Metcalf declined to t y give the reasons for the dismissal of ^ 10 Elvidge or to admit that he was the j. o man who had kept in the way of the s n president. The action of the depart- a i- ment was accomplished with the great- t n est kind of mystery. rs President Roosevelt himself, under t s- -civil service regulations, that existed v is until Tuesday, could not bring about r > tbe dismissal of Elvidge without filing , o- charges agalst him and permitting ( ry Elvidge to file a defence, but under the r new order Elyldge was not allowed a ; ig defence. j ?s The statement of E'.vidge Is that he 11 did not know that he was keeping in )t front of the president's carriage. He it did not know whose carriage he was jo in front of. He remembers that some , a, one (he now,understands it was a secid ret service cffioer) motioned to him to ( >d get out of"Che way, but that he did e, not pay any attention, because if he | d, bad crossed to the other side of tbe Dt street he would have violated District j -,t regulations and laws as to keeping to nf MAf nil nminrv fho DUO Si lit} U1 IIUCI BMGDU| diiuniuo vux | ry other for vehicles coming from &d opus posite dlreotion. , ?n On the other hand It is oh&rgei that rn E vfdge persistently kept his automoig bile In front of the presidential car- , ry rlage doing so In a disagreeable and , unfair way. Fiery Death Shower. At Chicago, 111., five tons of molten metal exploded at the Joilet plant of the Illinois Steel Company Wed- j nesday falling in a shower of death on a band of workmen about a conver- j 05 ter. One man is dead, three are fat- j 3d ally burned and half a dozen are Joju )0 red so badly that they may die. The ] t) accident came without warning. The J explosion shook the whole plant, sen8. ding panic into every oorner of the { to great works. Haifa hundred men , ie were within range of the liquid metal ( id and many suffered severe burns. B* Pity Tin So. 8 Churches will sing and sing "Resoue r* the Perishing," but when a member, \ 08 young or old, makes a misstep and j goes wrong, there is very little at- a ?" tempt to rescue. The tendency is to a * push them deeper down, rather than t l' resoue them. This is especially true t *e in regard to girls or women. They f J*' sing rescue" but act "pushdown." ] Id the oase of men it is a little better, t unless his failure is in his business, t 11 Then instead of praying for him they a B> all prey on him. a j. , t- Five Deer Found Deed id Sportsmen about Charleston are fi '? concernedover the number of,dead ^ re deer found in the woods, five being r ? J 1- ? tnlnri 11 JX U19UUVOU iu UUO |KK?U nvcL i/lUK ucau j I apparently without any reason for c r. their deaths. Some of the hunters c sav that parls green used on cotton t le plants to kill caterpillars Is responsl- t k ble for the killing of the deer, which E h have eaten the poison and died from u its effects. None of the deer had it "black tongue." ^ Bryan Welcomed To Japan. c D William J. Bryan and his family ar- o ie rived in Yokohama on Saturday. They c will make a visit of five days to Tokio t rt and Marquis Ito, president of the E If privy oouncll, and Oount Okuma, the t foreign minister, will invite Mr. Bry- a an to a dinner. The Japa -.-American l society Invited Mr. Bryan to address a r- its members at the Young Men's ball f il on Ootober 17. Count Okuma presld ii i- ed at the funotion. D High Direr Killed. 0 J. J. Dorsey, a white civilian em- ? ployee at the United States artillery ! d post, Fort?de Soto, Fia., lost his life t by diving from the top of the pile e driver, nearly one hundred feet Into 2 Tampa bay. Dorsey's body struok d the water with great force and did c ,r not reappear until several hours later, t t, when it came to the surface and was D t reoovered. Dorsey's wife was among 6< y the witnesses of his fatal leap. c A Kansas Jails Crowded. D r Many oounty jails in Kansas are fill ? ? ed with law violators because of Gov. * ? Hooh's crusade against the liquor * a joints. Jails that had been the abode ? ? of mice,bats and owls for months have 1 been opened to the floor of booze ven- P L ders who have been convioted. Be- ~j ' cause of the crowded oudltlon of tlie 3 Montgomery jail Judge Flannely post 3 poned for a week the sentencing of twenty-one joints who had pleaded p _ guilty. u 3 Give Body to Soienoe c' r In accordanca with the provisions ^ 7 of the will of George W. Catt, presi- ~ " dent of the Atlantio Dredging compa' ny, who died on Sunday at his resi3 denca in New York. His body was i? 3 take to the Bellvue Hospitsl Medical ' college to be dissected in the Interest ' of science. Mr. Catt was the husband of Mrs. Carrie Champman Catt, p: 1 president of the International Wo- ti 8 men's Suffrage League. tl ?????? si :> The Philadelphia Press says holders tc > of policies in the big life companies i are at least finding out that they have s been paying too much for their in- 8t 3 surance. That is their part of the rev* 0 elatlons. * " . " ':- .*.1 '7;:- : HE GAVE BOND. ir Daniel Zimmerman Waives a Preliminary Examination. There are no new developments In be Zimmerman case the anouncement in the Record Wednesay that Mr. Zimmerman had come nrward and would appear before laglstrate McMaster and give bond attracted a great deal of attention, laglstrate McMaster consulted with lollcitor Tlmmermao and It was deided to fix the bond at 817,000. This ?ond was prepared and Mr. Zimmeraan appeared at 5 o'clock |wlth bis ttorney, Mr. G-. Duncan Bellinger, ,nd signed bis appearance for the Tdbruary term of court, the bond be K given by Mtssrs. F. H. Weston nd J. Pope Matthews, of Columbia, nd Mr. T. A. Amaker, of St. Mathews. He was accompanied by lis on, Mr. Daniel Zimmerman. An Interesting chapter to this story lowever, is the statement by a num>er of Columbians tbat Mr. Zlmmer* aan had been seen on the Charlotte rain and the statement by Mr. Zlmaerman to Sheriff Coleman that he tad not attempted to elude the sheriff As a result of the statement as to he Charlotte trip, Mr. Coleman sent )aputy Sheriff Cathart to Charlotte Vednesday afternoon in search of lim. Mr. Coleman stated that Magstrate McMaster bad not notified lim Mr. Zimmerman's Intention to urrender, and when Mr. Z'.mmerman .ppearedfithere was no warrant for lis arrest. The recognizance was du'y signed, lowever, and Mr. Zimmerman at onoe ?ent home He had no statement to oaee except tnat ne naa not tnea to rude the sheriff and that at a proper iime he would |set forth the facts, rhere was much sympathy expressed Wednesday fcr the family and opln oq is still divided as to Mr. Zimmerman's guilt or Innocence. Pointed Paragraph*. Beware of the willing worker; he nay try to work you* Ycu may lead a fool to talk but you jannot make him think. It's lmqosslble to convince a spinster that marriage is a failure. If a man owes any thing to himself tie is apt to settle promptly. Give a pretty girl a chance to show sft and she'll not get lonesome. If some men were to put their consciences on ioe they would spoil the Lee. It isn't right to Judge a man by lihe company his wife's folks indict upon him. Now is the season fast approrohing when the can-openfer will be mightier than the sword. : Any young man who beliberately jilts an lnnoceot girl deserves to be henpecked by her successor. No Alphonso, we have no data at tiaod le'atlve to any ice-dealer having been driven to suicide by remorse. After reaching a certain age a man oeglns to make up his mind?and a woman begins to make up her face. Nothing makes a woman so angry wgry as to prepare for company that 'alia nnlfioa It1, fa fn hflva i LO&iO IV WUJC C1UAVOO AW UJ WW UWTV company come when she isn't prepared. Big Gannal Projected. President John S. Shaw and the ioa.rd of directors of the Lake Erie inc'l Ohio River Ship Canal Company, iccompanied by a number of engineers iod other advisors, started from Pitts>urg, Pa., Friday on a two days' trip io examine the two routes proposed or a ship canal connecting the Erie jake with the Ohio river. At Ashta>ula, Ohio, the Pittsburg party will >e joined by the officers of th* Ohio ma Pennsylvania Ship canal Company, of which Joseph H. Cassidy, of Cleveland, is president, and the two irganlzatlons will continue the trip toother. One of the two routes is from Lshtabula, Ohio, to Pittsburg, the ither from Erie to Pittsburg. Rich out6 is about 105 miles long, and the ?St of either would be about 130,000,100. President Shaw is of the opinion hat the work could be completed and he canal opened to traffio in the sumner of 1911. Refused a Room. William S. Brown, of Wakefield, Ji J., filed Id the United States olrsuit court at New York a suit for $10,00 damages against William 0. Musihenhelm, proprietor of the New Asor hotel. Browns says that on the light of August 6 he attended the heater in New York with his wife nd was delayed so that he missed his &st train heme. He went to the hotel nd applied for a room, but it was reused to him. The hotel clerk, he says, atimated that Brown was-with a lady iot his lawful wife and refused him ccommodatlons in the presence of a umber of guests in the hotel lobby in uoh a manner as to cause him 810,00 worth of damage to the feelings f his wife and himself. Frenob War Balloons. The huge Lebaudy dirigible balloon, onstruoted under the patronage of he war office, at Toulan, France, has aade its first successful ascent with Dme chief engineers and a party of fficers, who made an extensile reconalssance of the military defences from 'roul to Nancy, near the German rontler. The distance covered was bout thirty miles at a rate of twentyight miles per hour. The officers lade inspections of the forts and took hotographs of them, thus establishing the merits of dirigible ballon s for >ar purposes. Died Playing Chess. News has been receivea from the mV,AMAr jLUiippiuro ui uuo wcauu ui xiiuuua^ , 1. Moss at Manila, a veteran of the vil war and at one time attorney eneral of Kentucky. He died playing less with his son-iD-law, uaptain 7heat, who is chief of the telegraph Ivlsion of the^Phllippine constabu- ; ,ry, Moss was' born at Greensboro, < r. 0., in 1839. I Will Visit Us. Seoretary of War Bonaparte has romised to visit Charleston seme me in November or December, on le cevasion of the presentation of a lver service to the cruiser "Charles- 1 >nM by the oity of Charleston. ' The Marlon county farmers are landing out for 11 cents for cotton, i nly two bales were sold in Marlon on 1 rid ay and none on Saturday. 1 ' -V- ?" THE DISPfcHSABY Hon. J. W. Rigsdale, ol Florenoe, Save It is not Dead. ^ The Washington correspondent of tbe Columbia Record says; Among the prominent bankers of South Carllna who have been here attending the sessions of the American Bankers' Association during the past few days is J. W. Ragsdale, of Florence, who is the president of a bank in that town and also prominent in legal and c, political circlej. t Mr. Ragsdale has been stopping at ? the Ebbltt house. In convention today with a Record representative ^ concerning matters in South Carolina, and especially the future of the dispensary, he said: "The recent elections in South Carolina are not a cor- j rect index to the real sentiments of ] the people on the dispensary qies- i tion. In every oounty except F4or- 1 ence they have voted out the dispan- I sary, but in each of these counties except Florence restrictions were tnrown arouna tne oanot tnai prevented thousands of white men frO a expressing their wishes at the polls. In Florence county, by an agreement between the dispensaryltes and the antl-dlspensaryites the primary rules prevailed and the dlspsnsary system was retained. In my op'nion, the dbpsnsary system will win out next year when the white people of the state .will be allowed to express their wishes In the primary, and when the questions will be discussed on the stump, and ! wh en they will take an Interest in polltios and prooably $5 or 95 per cent, of them will turn out and vote. Recently the elections have been con- ! fined to about 25 par cent, of the I white voters In each county In which i the dispensaries has been voted out. SUE TO CLERICAL ERORB. The People of Dorohester H?ye Faltb N!u in Their Treasurer.mim ? A dispatch from St. Georges to The State says thelrecent suspension by Gov. Heyward of County Treasurer Whetsell and bis refusal to reinstate Mi. Whetsell comes to the people of Dorchester county like a clap of thunder from a cloudless sky. With very few exceptions if any, the people of the county believe that Mr. Whetsell is an honest man and that he has been guilty of no criminating conduct during his mcumbenoy as treasurer of the county, but on the contrary, they feel satisfied that if there is any error in his office it is due entirely to olerical mistakes. Tcur correspondent asked Mr. Whetsell Friday for a statement, but) Mr. Whetsell said that uDtil a complete and impartial examination of his books and accounts was had he did not c%re to make any statement for publica tion, for he felt tbat his conscience was clear and to prove tbat this assertion is correct, and that his actions are characterized bv honesty throughout. he nut up the alleged shortage in order that his constituents might not even run the chance of losing a peony. Mr. Whetsell did say, however, thai the alleged shortage arises from annu al settlements previous to four years \ ago, which annual settlements were made by the then corptroller general ( I for whom the present comptroller general was auditing clerk and made j the settlements himself and pronouo- ed the same all right at the time. Mr. Whetsell's frieods look upon the j recent occurrences as very unjust to ] Mr. Whetsell but Mr. Whetsell being ( a modest man, does not himself use such harsh expressions. Toe consensus of opinion here is that Mr. Whetsell will obtain complete vindication of the whole matter as soon as an im- , partial investigation as to the condi oiuu ui uia uiiiup ib uciu. OhesD Bates, The Atlantic Coast Line announces < rate of one first class fare plus twenty i five cents, plus admission to the Fair < Grounds, fifty cents for adults and ' twenty five cents for children, to Columbia S. C., and return account the State Fair, October 24 27 oh. Tickets I on sale October 22 to 26th and for } trains due to arrive in Columbia before noon 27tb. Final limit October 29 Dh. Je There will also be a special rate of one ' cent per mile per capita for Military t Companies and Brass Bands in unl- t form twenty or more in each direc- t tion. Fbr further information call on < your ticket Agent or Communicate ? with W. J. Craig, c General Pafssnger Agent, ( Wilmington, N. C. Japan's Debt. ^ Former Japanese Foreign Minister e Okuma, referring to the sudden ex- c pansion of Japan's finance, said that i when the withdrawal of the troops is j completed she will find herself confronted with a debt of $1,250,000,000 the annual interest on which alone, roughly speaking, will be 175,000.000 or nearly twice the revenue of the 0 county ten years ago. The per ' capita rate of taxation before che war 2 war 82. Now it is 88. The per capi- F ta share in the national debt before the war was $6. It is now 825. ? Where He Lived. & The idenity of the Captain Rumill, p who with four of her crew, was murdered in a mutiny on board bis schoo- a ner, Harry Berwind, in Southern waters was established as Capt'Edward R. Rumill, of Pretty Marsh, Mount Desert, Maine. He was 40 years old, and leaves a widow and two children at Pretty Marsh. Tbey received the news of the tragedy ti through press dispatches today and 1 were prostrated with grief thereby. I A BJr Crop. la The census bureau has issued a bulletin showing the production and dis- 8( bribution of the cotton of the United E States available between September 1,1904 and September 1 1905, to be 14,455,994 bales. Of this amount 91 per cent was exported, 30 per cent was used in domestic CDnsumption, leaving a surpus of 9 per cent. The domestic consumption includes 36,776 bales destroyed by fire. L a) A negiio was taken from constables ti iear Bain bridge, 6a.. on Saturday and ir iynohed by members of his own race & for assaulting a young colored woman, w O R S B ( AUGUS Bookkeeping,"Shorthand, Ty] guaranteed coarse 20 weeks. Sin Land, 8 mos. 12 calls for graduate oand. Write. COTTON QINNER SAND Write for Prices c Babbit Couplings Guages Drills Guage Cocks Oil Cup lack Saws Oil Cans Belt, lej ?itting9 Injectors Pipe jace Leather, Packing all kinds, Sbai else in macb Colombia Supply Co.. AAAAAAAAAAAAAA/SAAAA/NA/WVW ? THU ftTTTNARn ' ' COJvUMl | { Manufacturers Brick, Fire Fro (i Flue linings and Drain Tile. I || or millions. it fliiffiif !! Own Your Own Home. It Is surprising the amount of ren i man will pay, if be stops long ehougl bo figure it out Many yonng men wb< marry and "settle down" and begin t pay rent will be far better iff in tei years If they begin purobasng propert; this year than if thev contliue to pa; rent. Many of them do not stop Iodi enough in their dally work to think o a possible rainy day and yean of oli age, but go on spending the fruit o their toll until the time comes wnei they have to step down and out t make room for the young men of tb future. Then comes the old, old quee tlon. They are not prepared for a emergency of this kind, and they wis) that they had bought when they wer young and have a home of their owi when the the time of acquiring it 1 passed. Ninety-nine times out of hundred the property purohased is creases in value. Why not Ague thJ out to your own satisfaction, make a your mind and start at once to pn pare a home, Where were you ah eight, ten, or fifteen yean ago an what did you have. If you have pal reDt all these years you have your ren receipts to show where your, mone bas gone, but where is,the home yo might bave owned if you had beei paying your money towards a home o yc ur own. What will you have tbem Will It be a home of your own or bundle of rent reoelpts. All real e? tate has a value, and 11 purchased a this value tbe buyer oannot posslbl lose. Lock around you, If you are a old resident of this olty, you knoi about what certain pieces of propert sold for ten or fifteen years ago. Whs are they worth today ? We do no need to answer. In the history of th past you have many models, and a 02 fore you is an almost absolute oei tainty that real estate valores wli continue to rise, with the increase c population and the natural demand tor residential and business looatloru +ft*A MMA VT U1QU UU yuu |UC1Q1| Uig wuuvt? v r ur own home or & package of ren receipts, and live.in the other fellow' House. Why longer pay tribute t 3aesar? Why not be Independent? CHEAP SXGUB8I0V EATE8 TO - r *. Columbia, 8. C, And Return, Vil Southern Km LI way. The Southern Railway will sell ex mrslon tiokets to Columbia, S. 0., an< return, from all points within th< State of South Carolina, and fron Dharlotte, N. 0., Asheville, N. C. Wilmington, N. C., Aoguita, Ga. Savannah, Ga., and intermediati joints, account Stats Agbicultubaj lnd Mechanical Faib, Octobbi 24 th?27 tb, 1905, daily October 22nc <o 26 th inclusive, and for morninf iralns scheduled to arrive in Columbli jefore Noon, October 27th, at rate 01 >ne first class fare plus 25 oents plui >0 cents for round trip, the fifty centf jovering one admission to Fab Grounds. For Military Companies and Brast Bands in Uniform, 20 or more on one ilcket, one cent per mile traveled ir lach direction pluss arbitrages pei aplta. Dates of sale sameaa for Ofcrllans as shown abovo. Tinal Limit All Tickets Octobee 29th, 1905. Southern Railway, in addition tc he regular passenger trains running n convenient schedules to Columbia, 7ill operate speolal trains Ootobei 5th and 26th between following oints: Between Branchvllle, Camden, Sumer and Columbia. Spartanburg and iolumbia and intermediate points. Lnderson, Belton and lntermeadlate oints to Columbia. For further information, apply to ny tioket agent, or write R. W. Hunt, Division Passenger Agent, Charleston, S. C. To Chicago, III. , And Return Account National Baptist Convene Ion (Colored), October, 25th-31st, 905. Jne fare for the round trip, 'iefcets on sale October 23rd and 24th mlted to return leaving Chicago not iter than November 5th, 1905. Jb'or iurcuer liuuriuai/iuu aa tv iawa, jhedules, etc., call on any Southern .allway Agent or address, R. W. Hunt, D P. A. Charleston, S. C. Brooks Morgan, A. G. P. A. Atlanta Ga. Killed by Oars. John Turner was instantlyjkilled at umber, Florence county on Monday rternoon by being caught between no log cars while the train was In lotion on the tram road of Wllllan s i McKlthans company, of whloh he as an employe. DRN E'Sjf- J >ta -a * jk JL '**~9 pe-writing, English branches, Full n gle course of either Business or Short- ? 1 s in about 20 days. Can't supply de? 1 MACHINERY OWNERS. 'f in the Following Lubricators Belt. Gandy is Belt, Rubber Drill Press :<|H ither Ejectors Hammers j Files Pulleys ] ting, Collars for ShaftiDg and anything ('3a ! inery supplies. I > - Columbia, S. C. 'VWVWWWWWWWVWWNA^AA ^ IMMMMMMMMMMMMtPr * M Brick Works, i J bia.. s. o. ;; m of Terra Ootta Building Block or J \ >repared to fill orders for thou andi ?. | ISHHMMtlMilNISHHM V";|j t Honest Treatment for % \ Weak Discouraged men. J o Do Not Throw Your Money Away on I P Worthless Treatments, But Write J f ' to Dr. Hathaway, the South'a V- ;'J8 j Most Expert Specialist, 1 3 Who Can Be Depended I * Upon to Cure You.? a o 25 Years Experience. Ji ? MEDICAL BOOKS F^EE, Wirte for Thca J 1 If you are a man suffering from . 3 I- discharges, emissions, premature discharge, or ' t from a complete loss of your manhood, do not la _ throwsjour money away oa the many worth* | ' lees treatments from fake medical compenies^ f D "institutes," eta, bat dt right down and write IV to Dr. J. Newton Hathaway, 88 Tt" " Puf.| J y Atlanta. Ga, This physician has perfected* mafvnil a# tpaatmanf ffo? avav ^5 voan nr# I perience that Will positively restore say weak. 't wornout, discouraged man to a type of perfect jS e manhood, whether tho patient is yonag, old or /yjU II middle-agec. Beady made medicines cannot ;~Mw poaaib'y care thla condition, but each and /dnH * every case requires specially prepared treat* iaW U ment administered by an expert physician who J if if oompetent to understand juat what your _ oase requires. The vast exper'enoe of Dt. . J3M Hathaway has given him a knowledge of this -aB I. condition in men not possessed by any 6ther .? m 1 phyai-nan; and every man in thla oonditlCB . % t should write him without delay. Everything ' rH| ia kept stritcly confidential, and hll medf- - >331 8 cinee. which are prepared in his own labora* M 0 tory, are sent in plain packages. Daring the _ Ejb and years he has been established is Atta he has conducted his business in as ''ralfl honest, straightforward manner, and his repo- - J vdM tation is known to all He will send to sack V>SM sufferer his book for men, entitled ' Manli- I ness, Vigor and Health." He also cons all ' :M fl other disease? of men such as Strictm* Va> ...B rlcocele, Gleet, et<x, and if yon are aflHotad '3M .write him for a book on your disease. Ho S has a ^timber of them. Have no hesitancy in writing bim. The address is J. NEWTON '* HATHAWAY, M. D, 88 Inman Bldg, Atlan- M 3 ta, Ga. J-1 ORGANS .. ! || 2 of the best puality $45 up 2 | Upright Pianos fl S From $225 tip. ! \ '"WSk Write Us /m 1 2 for catalogues and terms. ! \ - J9 ? Z Makme's Music House, !! 1 r 1432 Main Street B ) Z Almost opposite Masonic < > ' .ofl Is ? Temple- ? |!fll| * Columbia, S. C. i The son of one of the life insoranot r presidents olaims that he Iworked B twelve years for $1,050,257. Poor boy he most have started from the fl i bottom of the ladder of finanoe and 'B been shot up. fl , When young men are willing to H , commence at the foot of the laddez K and ollmb up round by round, they '^| > most alwayssuooeed, while when they H try to get hold and start half way up H they nearly always fall to the bottom. /fl If you have in mind anything that H will help the town to grow and pro?- 91 per let it be known that thoee inter* 9 ested in pushing the town to the H front may have the benefit of your H judgment in the work they have had. Hj A man in South Haven, TTan?a?, has a greivanoe against an editor and BIB oonsulted a lawyer to And out the best H way to break up the paper. The lawyer told him the surest way would be to buy the paper and run It himself for a few months. A Massachusetts paper says the newspaper Is the bible of many an American home. If this be true, the mothers should be careful to seleot the right papers. Some of the red and blue score sheets are a long ways ' from being blblcal tracts. . Every enterprise that benefits tbe town benefits every man in It. If your neighbor starts a new scheme to help along, don't Jump on it with both feet inof nnn /34r1 nnf. hennan fn juju u^vwuav ;uw uiu uuv u?|/^vu vu think of It first. Aid Mm to boost it. H It will help you too. H The Augusta Herald says: "Caro- 'flH Una's graft is not confined to the dis, pensry alone, no matter how wloked mm I folks would have us believe It." That B is too true. B