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PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKL^ GOOD FOR LEVER Comes Ost Flat Footed (or tb Fanners Free List in a Speeds. LUMBER WAS INCLUDED Congressman Lever Makes Effective Argument for the Free Entry of Tariff Necessities, Including Lum ber, Which Reverses His Vote in the House for a Duty on It. Two South Carolina Congressmen spoke ic. the House debate on the free list! bill Tuesday. They were 'Messrs. Byrnes and Lever, In the order named. Both spoke with good I effect, md received generous ap-| plause when they made telling) points, as they often did. It was iMr. Byrnes' maiden effort as a member, and his colleagues con gratulated him warmly upon its suc cess. Mr. Byrnes twitted the Repub licans lor their flop from support of Canadian reciprocity to opposition to the ' farmers' free list," and~de recated sectional arguments. Mr. Lever spoke at length upou accomplishments of the Democratic party already in this session, and upou the free list bill now under consideration. He began by vigor ously controverting the idea that the party was wanting in constructive I ability, initiative or cohesiveness. j He chai.-ged that it was a time-worn argument of the, Republicans to frighte::i from the suport of the Dem ocratic party, the over-sensitive bus iness e ement. Mr. .'Lever said "the action of the majority of the Hotjie, during this short nession, must be a cause for unutterable chagrin and disappoint ment to those who expect in thei future to rely upon it. We have done 1 usiness in a business way; we have shown both our power of Initiative and our capacity for con structive work of the highest order and a tincerlty and unity of thought most f'Tatifying to all atriotic citi zens who desire a correction of the abuses which have grown up under Republican administration." He reviewed briefly the work so far accomplished, pointing out first, the ref orm in the rules, which, as he argues, has restored the House of RepreEentativeB to the plane intend ed ? for it by the Constitution, this being done through the selection 01 a committee on committees to as sign members to committees, rather than to allow that authority to con tinue with the Speaker, who abuses it. , Secondly, the election of Senators by.direct vote of the people, which will make the Senate a body respon sive to the people and prevent the recurrence of the scandals connect ed wit 3 election to it. Thirdly, he pointed out and com mended the action of the party in passim; the Corrupt Practice Act, in tended to purify election and "to prevent the use of money for the de bauchery of our citizenship?a prac tice which has become a stigma upon the honor of our country." Fourth, the pasage of the Cana dian reciprocity treaty he lauded as the result of Democratic legislation and Ir line with the Democratic pol icy. He argues, that it is a long step in the right direction. He pointed out strongly that these substs.ntial legislative reforms "have been accomplished without the neces sity of the application of the gag rule, so well known and reiiel upon under the old regime, when 'Cannon ism' was in control. It meaus that the rights of te individual member of tho House have be^n restored to him." . . Finally he took up the free list bill, and argued that it intimates an economic revolution, and means an attack upon a system under which trusts, combines, and monopolies have grown strong almas', beyi nd the power of the Government to con trol. It is a measure to give relief from the burdens of high protection to a large class of our people and that, too, without regard to section al lires." It is no* a free trade measure nor a step in that direction. "The Democratic parly has never stood for free trade." The bill is built up in accordance! with Lhe six principles laid down in the Walker report of 1S46. "This! free list seeks not only for 'impera-j five* reasons to relieve the tariff tax-| payers of the country of some of I their burdens, but at the same time carries into effect the righteous prin ciple that these burdens shall dis criminate 'neither for nor againsi any class or section.' " He quoted from a speech delivered by him in Columbia during his cam paign, that "a Democratic bill would have given the Western farmer freej binding twine, the Southern farmer free bagging and ties, and the Iura-! ber consumers, alons the Canadian) border line, free lumber," and then quoted Chairman Underwood, of the ways and means committee, to the same effect in language almost iden tical, to show that there was no dif ference between the rank and file of the party in the House and its acc redited leader. He combated the charge that the bill was sectional in its character and argued forcefully that all sections were treated with equal and exact justice. He contended that the bill would be beneficial to all classes without regard to sections because it GUNBOATS KILLS TWO HUNDRED REBELS IN ONE CITY. Chinese Brigands Have Sacked Half Dozen Important Towiih ? The Dead Lie Unburied in the Streets. A dispatch from Hong Rung says rebellion, brigandage and anarchy are stalking through the western half of Kwang Tung province. The loy al troops are fighting desperately to crush the uprising, the seriousness of which is revealed iu further dispatch es from Canton. Wu Sum, the Chinese who was ed ucated in Japan, is the leader of the revolt agiinst the Manchu dynasty. The brigand chiey, Luk, of Shuntak, is at the head of a horde of outlaws whose object is robbery and murder. These combined forces have thrown themselves with fanatical disregard of their own lives against the troops and since the first outbreak Thursday night much blood has been shed. Se dition is rife among certain of the troops and it is feared that the dis affected soldiers will desert their of- i fleers if the revolters appear to have the upper hand. Official advice and the refuges ar riving from Canton confirm the sinis ter reports. .Bodies of the slain lie in the streets of the city. Famine prices are asked for foods' u>S6 and the 'shops generally are closed. In the panic there have been few at tempts to bury the dead and the stench from decomposed bodies fills the air. Retreating to the countryuide, the revolutionists attacked and captured Sam Shui, 30 miles west oil Canton, and murdered the prefect. The troops were put to flight and the rebels moved on to Wen Chow and Woo I Chow, both of which towns they took l slight resistance. Tuk's brigands following in their wake looted the shop? of the three towns. The triumphant sweep of the revolutionaries continued west ward along the West river and re ports from that district say that the movement is spreading and the revo lutionists are murdering and pillig ing in other places. While the movement to the west was being directed by Wu Sum,-Luk led personally a force to the north and seized the market at Chunglok, 20 miles north of Canton. Then he made a wide detour-to the west of Canton and fell upon Fatshau, a town, 15 miles south west. Here he first destroyed the palace of the assistant magistrate and tuen turned the town over to his followers to be looted. The battle was' a hard fought one, the imperial troops jiving battle at Tung Shi bridge. Thirty-seven sol diers were killed before the troops fell back. Advices state that Shui Hung, on the West river, has fallen to the revolutionists, who- murdered the prefect. ELEPHANT KILLS TRAINER. Hundreds of People Witness the Horrible Tragedy. Hundreds of perBons yesterday saw an infuriated elephant hurl its trainer into the air and then after crushing him with its weight, re peatedly piece the body with its tusks. The tragedy came while James Hildebrand, the trainer, was endeav oring to put the anir-al, which be longed to a wild west show, into a car, Hildebrand was adjusting the chains which bound the elephant to its mate. Without warning the elephant be came enraged and, wrapping its trunk around the trainer's body, lift ed him in the air, and then dashed him to the ground. It is believed he was instantly killed. With its rage still unsatisfied the elephant began kneading the trainer's body with its forefeet. Then it dragged the body 20 feet along the rairoad tracks 5 a the yard and repeatedly thrust its tusks into it. Attaches of the show ran to the rescue with pitchforks and drove the elephant from its victim. It is not I subdued until its sides were stream-! ins with blood from the goads. Immediately after the tragedy the elephant was shot. Hildebrand had been the trainer for yearo, and fre quently slept beside the elephant. Wants Everybody Pardoned. Following the unusual number of; pardons, paroles and commutations, [the governor of South Carolina has (received a letter, written iu an un ; educated tone asking that he pardOD ' all of the convicts in the State peni tentiary next Thanksgiving Day. The better has been taken under consid 'edation by the chief executive. Over 1100 prisoners have been liberated by j the present governed in three months. * i makes agricultural implements, free ifor the farmers gener&Uy, cotton ; bagging and ties for the Southern J farmer, boots and shoe, and fence jwire for every section of the coun try, food products for the cities, lumber for those along the Canadian border line. Concluding he gave as surance that the revision will be thorough, but sane, conservative and gradual, seeking to correct abuses and discriminations and to destroy the iniquities of the resent law. ORANGEB MANY WERE LOST Survivor of the Sultana Tradegy Recalls Awful Catastrophe NOBODY WAS PUNISHED Closely Following Assassination of Lincoln, Disaster Which Cost 2, 000 Lives Received Scant Atten tion?Most of Victims Were Sol diiers Just Liberated from South ern Prisons. Although forty-six years have passed since the famous Sultana dis aster, one of the most tragic events of the civil war, the details are still vivid in the mind of B. W. Stevens, veteran of Bloomington, 111., and he relates a thrilling story of the wreck which cost 2,000. Only a handful of survivors live and the recurring anniversary recalls gruesome inci dents of the remarkable event, prob ably unparalled in the marine annals of the world. Et was April 27, 1865, that the Sultana was lost. The boat was a side wheeler plying between Mem phis and New Orleans and was re garded as one of the finest boats on the river at that period. As was the case with most of the Mississippi River Bteamers during the war, she was Impressed Into the Government service and was in constant use, transporting soldiers and supplies up and do'wn the great water way. On what proved to be her last trip, the Sultana left New Orleans April 21, 1865, and at Vicksburg on April 21, and picked up 1,965 enlist ed men and thirty-five officers who had been paroled after being imates of Confederate prisons at Anderson ville, Macon and Cahaba. They were en route to the Middle States and many were in a sad condition phy sically from wounds and long impris onment. The captain of the Sultana pro tested vigorously against taking such a load, stating that one of the boil ers was weak and he doubted wheth er it would stand the strain of the long drag up the river. Gen. Mor gan Smith, who was in command of the post at Vicksburg, ordered him to take them all, however, as the lives of many depended upon their reaching home where they could re ceive the care of their families. Gen. Smith ordered the commander to run slowly and cautiously and expressed confidence in a successful voyage. At Memphis, a portion of the car go of sugar was unloaded and the journey resumed. The number of persons on board when the boat left] Memphis, according to Mr. Stevens, was 8,43 4. It wafi about 1 o'clock in the morning of April 27, at a point known as Hen and Chicken Island, eleven miles north of Memphis, that, one of our boilers of the Sul.lana exploded with a deafening report. The boat was in flames almost in stantly, the wind blowing a gale at the time and fanning the fire until it spread over the entire boat, fore-, ing all who could move to leap ovei board. The pilot, an unnamed hero, head ed the boat to the shore and ground ed it. The river was high and rough and this increased the death roll. Life preservers were scarce and the other means of rescue were limited. Many clun, to cotton bales which had been placed around the rail of the steamer to protect ihe pasBsengers und crew from stray bullets fired from the shores. Some of the cutaways who floated a dis tance of forty miles were rescued. The great width of the river at this point hindered the work of res cue. tMnny who swam for miles fin ally sank from exhaustion. Hun dreds of the soldiers were instantly killed by the explosion of the boil ers. As the night was cold, scores were huddled against the smoke stacks and over the boilers and were blown into the river. Manf of the dead were never identified. Others who realized that they could not be saved, scribbled their names and ad dresses upon articles of apparel and thus mude known their identity. The War Department ordered a thorough investigation of the great disaster but it amounted to nothing. Nobody was court-martialed and the only tangible result was the exoner ation of the saptain. It was brought out that he op posed the overload and only yielded when percmptcrily ordered. To have refused orders of such a character at that period would have meant death. Despite the enormity of the disaster, it at tracted but little attention at the time. * The public mind was inflamed with the momentous events of ihe great struggle between the North (and the South, the assassination of Lincoln, which had occurred but two weeks previous, holding the at ' tention of the entire world to the exclusion of all else. It was nev i er known absolutely how many per jsons perished in the wreck of the j Sultana, but the number was not far I from 1.S00. The survivors, a few i years afer the war. organized the Sultana Reunion Association and each year the owing remaining as semble and recall the incidents of that terrible night. URG, S. C, THURSDAY, MA GIVEN HERO MEDALS THREE HEROES RECOGNIZED IN SOUTH CAROLINA. Jolin R. Graham, Albert Appleby und Boyce Lindsay, a Negro, Honored by Carnegie Commission. Thirty-five awards in recognition of acts of heroism were made Mon day at the spring meeting of the Carnegie hero fund commission at Pittsburg, Pa,, and the issuance of nine silver and 26 bronze medals were authorized. In addition the money accompanying the medals, amounting to $34,100, and pensions to widows of heroes totals $1,310 annually. The money is apportioned as fol l?ws: $6,000 for worthy purposes; $2,200 liquidation of mortages. $3, 700 for other indebtedness; $4,000 purchases of homes; $14,000 or edu cation; $3,200 death benefits and $1,000 for restoration of health. In nine instances the heroes lost their lives and the award Is made to a member of the family. Twenty of the awards are made in connetcion with rescue from drowning, five from railroad contains, six runaways; five In mine suffocation cases, and one for the rescue of an Insane patient from a roof cornice. In Monday's awards a number of heroes In the South are recognized as follows: Richard C. Williams, aged 23, sav ed Melvin B. (Mayo from train at Reusens, Va., June 17, 1906, bronze medal and $1,000 for a home. Park S. Rushford' aged 25, saved Elbert G. Cunningham frdm drown ing at Mannigham, W. Va., Jan. 19, 1907, bronze medal and $1,000 for a home. Benj. Cottle, aged 24, rescued Morris M. Caldwell, aged 3, from runaway at Wilmington, N. C., Aug. 28, 1910, bronze medal and $1,000 as needed. John R. Graham, aged 26, a tele graph operator of Thlcketty, S. C, was awarded a bronze medal and $1.000 to liquidate his indebtedness, but the Carnegie Hero Fund Commis sion Monday, for a heroic attempt to save C. Lee Lipscomb, a farmer, May, 9, 1910, from drowning in Lit tle Thicketty Creek. The men were seining; Lipscomb got beyond his depth and Graham, carrying a meal; sack with five pounds of fish, swam and continued his effort at rescue un-' til exhausted, barely saving his own i life. Albert J. Appleby, Holly Hill, S. j C, received a bronze medal and $2,-' 000 for educational purposes. Apple by, a farm hand, saved Ruth Ella M. Harbison, aged 40, from being run over by a train at Bowyer, S. C, March 11, 1910. The woman was near-sighted and deaf and walk ed in front of a train traveling thir ty miles an hour. Appleby shoved her out of danger as the train rushed by. Boyce Lindsay, colored, aged 16, of Catawba, S. C, received a bronze medal and $2,000 as needed for edu cational purposes, for saving the life of E. Reynolds Smith, aged 11, at j Spartanburg, May 28, 1910. Step I ping over in front of an approaching [train of box cars, Lindsay flung I Smith off the middle of the track, I where he had fallen from his bicycle. : Lindsay was struck on the right shoulder by the train. EDITOR GETS A PLACE. Another South Carolinan Also Finds! a Good Job. Mr. W. B. Bradford, of Fort Mill, S. C, who has had years of exper ience as a practical newspaper man, and also in the Government printing office, has been appointed assistant clerk to the joint printing investiga-! i tion committee of Congress. Thisj Iis an important position. The com mittee will have a great deal of work j ' to do and has been actuated by the | ! desire to secure expert assistance in j jits labors. Mr. Bradford is now the 1 publisher of the Fort Mill Times, j Mr. William H. Barron, of Ches-j ter, S. C, will be messenger to thej j House committee on postoffices and j i post roads. Greatest Political Machine. "The postoRlce department is thej greatest political machine ever con- j structed In this or any other country, and -it is openly administered as a political organization." This was the! charge made on the floor of the house of representatives by Mr. Cullop, of j Indiana, who referred to Postmaster! General Hitchcock as being the crea-1 tor and presiding genius of this or-; fganizntion. * The Worm Turns. Alleging that his wife has treated j him with continuous cruelty for many years, even to the extent of making ' him cook his own meals and then ! wash the dishes he used, John S. Nance, of Atlanta, on Friday applied for a divorce. Nance is a railroad engineer, and has been married 34 years. He also charges that his wife drove him from home at the point : of a pistol. * Would Wear Punts. Miss Susan Fowler, celebrated by . many as the original bloomer woman, 'died at Vineland, N. J., Tuesday. ! aged S7. For many years she has ! wore trousers instead of skirts. Y 4, 1911. FALSE BASIS Congressman Johnson Shows Fallacy of The Protective Tai ff. LUMBER TRUST ACTIVE In a Letter to One of HJs Constitu ents the Congressman Tells Why He Opposes the Doctrine and Points Out Who Profits by the Timber Duty. Congressman Joseph T. Johnson of South Carolina states that he has recently received a number of let ters from various sources in his dis trict, suggesting that he use his in fluence to induce the Democratic majority in the house to "go slow" in Its handling of the tariff question The following letter, ? written by j him to one of his constituents and friends, shows how he stands on the subject: "I have your favor of the 21st, in which you state that before the tar iff question is agitated very much and before I commit myself, you would like to say some things to me relative to the manufacturing in terests of the South, and in the North as well. "I have committed myself 20 years ago on that question, and so has the Democratic party. I do not believe in the doctrine of protection. The Democratic party has always contended that the government has no right to levy a tax, except for the purpose of raising revenue to de fray the expenses of the government. The other political party contends that the government has the right to levy taxes not for the purpose of raising revenue, but for the pur pose of protecting American manu acturers from competing with the manufacturers of other countries. It is unfortunate that many people in this country have actually come to believe that business prosperity is dependent upon laws that give cer tain classes- special privileges. "During all the last week we were engaged in considering the Canadi an reciprocity bill. All speakers in opposition to that measure professed their belief that the American farm-j er would be ruined if Canadian pro-1 ducts were permitted to come into this country free of duty. I do not believe it. The statement made of tener than any other against per mitting the importation of Canadi an products was that land was cheap er in Canada than it is in Minnesota and other States in that section of the Union, and that the farmer on high-priced land could not compete with the farmer on cheaper land. "This proposition won't bear anal ysis. The lands in every State in the Union vary in value. The lands in every county in every State in the Union vary in value, and yet all farmers compete with one another. There are farming lands in every county of the Fourth congressional district of South Carolina that readi ly sell for SI00 per acre, and in ev ery case within ten miles there are lands equally as productive that pell for S20 per acre. The arguments that I have heard in favor of protec tion, when analyzed, are about on a par with the one above suggested. Southern farmers have no protection upon their products, but we sell cot ton in Liverpool in competition with the low-priced labor of Egpyt and India. As a matter of truth, thej Northern farmer has no protection. It is true that the tariff law levies B duty of 23 cents a bushel on wheat, and similar duties upon corn, barley and various products of the farm; but those duties are put there for the purpose of fooling the farmer and getting him to vote the Repub lican ticket. The Northern farmers not only make all the wheat we can consume in the United States, but: they make a surplus of many, many! millions of bushels, which is export ed and sold in the markets of the world in competition with thej wheat that is grown in Russia and In other wheat growing countries, j "The most active opponent of j Canadian reciprocity was the lum-j her trust; but the lumber trust nev-j er shows its own hand. It spent Its energies in trying to get the farm ers and others to protest against Canadian reciprocity; but the real object of its activities was in or der that the great timber lords! rai^bt hold up the American peopl". There are three holders of limber in the United States who have SS.0O0, 000 acres of standing timber? an area nearly three times < s large -.s all the cotton fields of the Southern States. These three holders own timber enough to build a cottage for every family in the United States The lumber on the land at its pres ent prices is worth 1". 20 and SO times what they paid for the land, and the land after the timber is cut off is worth many times what they paid I'cr it. And these powerful in fluences have put every agency in operation to kill tariff revision?not because they can; anything about the farmer's wheat or his buckwheat or his barley--but because they want still further to be able to mul tiply their almost countless millions by holding up our people on the price of lumber. "Our New Bedford friends, who have evidently written to you, are not concerned about Southern mills, but they want you to pull the chest MEMORIAL HOSPITAL DR. H. B. BARUCH WILL BUILD ONE EN THIS STATE. To bo a Charitable Institution and Will Cost One Million or More Dollars. The State says Columbia will prob ably have an opportunity to secure a charity hospital costing about $1, 000,000, the erection of which, it is understood, is contemplated by a former South Carolinian, now one of the wealthy physicians of New York City. The report is that Dr. Herman B. Baruch of New York city Is investi gating desirable points in this State with a view of lacinfANOIakTEERM with a view of placing such a hospi tal at the most desirable point- This charity hospital will be a memorial to his late father and . mother,' Dr. and Mrs. Simon Baruch, formerly I residents of Georgetown. For such a hospital Columbia of fers many and superior advantages, as the climatic conditions are ideal, and with the steady growth of this city and the State of South Carolina at large, euch an institution located at Columbia would mean much. This was brought out at a meeting Tues day at which the situation was dis cussed. The medical fraternity, as well as the Columbia people, will ocer every I inducement to secure this memorial to his father and mother, former South Carolinians. Physicians of the State have avail ed themselves of the present hospital facilities offered in Columbia. How ever, with the increasing growth of the community, present facilities are not ample. Information as to the erection of this memorial reached Columbia as a rumor; however, it is known that there has been a meeting of the medical fraternity to outline the ad vantages of the city and offer such inducements as would attract Dr. Baruch's attention favorably to Co lumbia. BABY ONLY TRAGEDY WITNESS. Athens, Ga., Mun Kills Wife, then Commits Suicide. With a little wide-oyed baby girl, i the only witness, R. W. McKinney, until recently of Newport, Tenn., shot and killed his wife and then himself at 9.30 o'clock Monday night, within earshot of a revival, which was progressing at the Young Harris Memorial Methodist Church, at Ath ens, Ga. It was at first believed that the two people had been murdered by a third party, but a careful exam ination of the ground and room in which they were found by the police served to convince them that the j man had first shot "his wife and then himself. No cause for the shooting is known. j nnts out of the fire for them; and if I could reach the ear of every bus iness man in the South, my advice to him would b*-to watch for the hands that dare not show their mo tives and not allow them to work upon the fears of our people. The South has never gotten anything out of the doctrine of protection. It is the law that has enabled the steel trust, the rubber trust and the paint trust, the sugar trust, the lumber trust the rubber trust and the meat trust to garner their millions at the expense of all the people. They don't want this great privilege cut off, but they dare not come out in the open and plead that they should be al lowed to continue their exploita tions, and consequently they resort to bring pressure to bear upon their representative in congress to prevent them legislating in the interest of all the people. "The ways and means committee of the present congress is composed of careful, painstaking, conscien tious men. They have no desire, and the members of congress have no desire, to do anything that will in jure or hinder legitimate business. We realize . erfectly that the coun try has been operating upon a false foundation and upon a false doc trine, and that however vicious that system may be, we must destroy it gradually, conservatively and cau tiously. The house is Democratic, hut the senate is Republican and I the president is a Republican; so our tariff legislation must of necessity be !moderate, or it could not pass a Re 1 publican president. I realize fully that it is possible for these great in fluences to cans" depression in bus iness just as I know a man may cre ate a stampede in a theatre by shout ing "?Fire:" when there is no fir.'. Hut what I want to warn you and all my friends in the South against is permitting yourselves to be stam pepded by these peopplc. who do not wish to conn- out in the open, but who are crying "Fire!" and business depression in order tn create alarm throughout the country and try to stampede congress from doing what the people want it to do. and what is right." I'. H. McGo. Died in the Bath. With his face and the upper portion of his body lathered, George L. God win was found dead in the bath tub at Ms house in Augusta Sunday. D th was due to an attack of acute intigestion. Godwin was seen to go to the bathing room Saturday night, but was not missed until Sunday morning when his body was found. TWO CENTS PER COPY. WORTHTRYING A Setter Staple of Cqtton is desired aid Ii Cao Be Raised Here. BRING HIGHER PRICE LAs Result of Experiments During Past Year it Has Been Learned That the Better Grade of Cotton Can Easily Be Cultivated in the State of Soutli Carolina, A movement of consequence that has been Inaugurated in South Caro lina by the United States farm de monstration work and the South Carolina Cotton Manufacturers,' as sociation is that f r a better staple cotton. The culmination of this movement will be a cotton exposition to be held in the fall in con nection with the state fair and sev eral thousand dollars in prizes wiil be given for the best resr.lts to be shown. The movement for a better staple of cotton was started in a quiet way last year by Ira W. Williams, state [agent of the farm demonstration l work and Lewis W. Parker of the cotton manufacturers' association and the state department of agricul j ture. It is the purpose of those in terested in the movement to induce the farmers of the state to grow a staple of cotton that can be used in the textile plantB of the state in-1* stead of the raw material that has to be bought in the Mississippi val ley and elsewhere. The demonstra tion work has chosen Ion;; staple seed I which have been distributed general ly throughout the State. As a result of the experiments some valuable facts have been ob tained. It. has been demonstrated that whereever first-class seed of sta ple cotton was distributed this cot ton has been producing equally as much and in many cases, more per acre than short staple. This has proven most encouraging to both the manufacturers and the farm demon stration work. It has also been de monstrated that the staple of the cot ton grown has been such as to en able it utilization in the most suc cessful manner in the mills oi! the State. The cotton sells readily and last year, for instance, a lot of long staple cotton in Lexington county, brought as high as 23 cents a pound. In the past one of the greatest i losses to the State has been in the raising of a poor staple of cotton both as to length and strength of staple. Many possibilities have been opened up by the campaign and it is toward these possibilities the cot ton exposition will tend this fall. The pushing of an active cam paign in this regard and the deter mination'to announce the proposed cctton exposition for this fall was the result of conferences held between Mr. Williams and lMt. Parker. It was deemed that the saving to the state all the cotton growers would pro duce a better staple of cotton would amount to about one-third oi the total value of the cotton crop. Not only are the mills in the State, but the mills in New Englam. and Germany are very much interested in the growing of a better staple from the varieties recommended by the farm demonstration work. The campaign is not designed to cut down the volume of the South Carolina cotton crop, but to add to its money value by increased yields per acre on the same or less acreage and by reason of the improvement of the staple. Another feature of the campaign for the growth of long staple cotton is found in the fact that it will be readily bought by the South Carolina mills and that a great saving wjll result both to the farmer and manu facturer in the matter of heavy freight charges. TWELVE PERISHED. More People Were Killed in Wreck Than Thought. One more teachers. Miss Margaret Jones, 43 Eagle street, Utica, is re ported among the missing, and it is assumed she perished In the wreck [at Martin's Creek. Counting Miss Jones dead, the total of the disaster at this time is 12, eight Uticans, and : four" railroad men. i All of the injured at the Kaston \ hospital are recovering, those most, seriously hurt showing marked im iprovement. The only victim of the wreck who has been identified is Miss Louisa Lind am an of Utica. She was identified by the buttons on her cuffs, which were not destroyed in the fire. All the bodies of the unidentified will be shipped to Utica tomorrow ? in a special train over the Pennsyl vania and Delaware. Lackawanna western railroad. Tornado in Missouri. A tornado swept Jo'lnson County. Mo., Monday destroying svores of I houses. Fain Kelley, 10 years old, ! was carried a quarter of a mile by jthe wind and thrown against the : ground and his brains dashed out. His mother was struck by flying tlm I bers and may die. His father's home ja mansion of ante-bellum days, was I demolished.