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HI HI R PRICKS FOR PRODI I h. On? \Vu> Inf I'.nrnl Telephone Can he Uer:l to mi * dwuiUK by the Farm The time h rapidly phasing when t^e farmer Ms to sacrifice his con? signments or market produce a<c whate . ? r pr!?- > the commission m r chant feels disposed to allow him. He Is beginning to learn that It Is better to post himself on market quo? tations before shipment, and If the market it low. to wait until Its tone Improves. To do this Is one of the advantages of hsvlng s telephone. Of courts It costs money for telephone service, much lean than you think, unless you've made Inquiries lately, but n verthe'.cas, this opportunity or getting In touch with deslers in towns* and securing their prices before making shipments is now putting millions of dollars annually into the pockets of th . A merles n farmers. At present there are over 4.000.000 telephones ....Z no calamity Imagina? ble would I ' worse and more disa? terous to social and commercial con? ditions than obliteration of the tele? phone system. R Is the strongest bond that holde the world together. It la man's greatest convenience. The day Is coming whsn everybody. In eluding the farmers of America, will have telephones. Of late years the telephone com? pany has been giving the farmers' neede in the matter considerable at? tention and the result is the forma? tion of a plan by which the resident* of the rural sections m y become connected with the local lines in the cities nearest thsm at very triftllng expanse. besides enjoying sll the ad? vantages of long distance Arvice when desired. And when a party of farmers In a neighborhood get to? gether and build a line, the service can be made to cost as low as 60 cants a month.?LaOrange. <Q.) Re? porter. Sept. 17. Tt Is strange but true that the peo jt pie who will get the greatest beifelt from good road*. In proportion lo what they pay. are usually the very people that kick the hardest when It Ig proposed to spend s considerable ?am of money for this purpose.? Wluston-Salvm Sentinel S -, ?Teur cough snnoys you. Keep en tackln? and tesrlng ths delicate membrane* of your throat if you want to ha annoyed. But If you want re? lief, want to oe cured, take Chamh- r lam*s Cough Remedy. Sold by W. YV. ?fbdM. St f aV Woods, u Darlington negro, who heat his daughter to death, plead guilty to murder Monday and wus sentenced to the penitentiary for life. ?It Is In time of sudden mishap or accident that Chamberlain'* Liniment can be relied upon to take the place of the family doctor, who cannot al* ways be found at the moment. Then tt IS that Chamberlain's Llnimmt 1* aevvr found wanting. In cases of sprains, cuts, wounds and bruises Chamberlain a Liniment takes out the soreaeea and drives away the pain. Sold by W. W. SlberL Onion * Wejhave just received a shipment of Onion Sets. Now is the time to plant them fur an early crop. 10c Quart Red and White list's Dm an W. W. SIBERT. Telephone 183. - 8 S. Main St. The Most Giveable Gifts, Most appropriate, most ap preciatcd. are shown here in all their surpassing beauty. Our Cut Glass display pi a worthv one?inclusive, ex? clusive. Km-.?unique in des?;n< gem combinations tastdlul and handsome, and all quali? ties ARK what they are re presented. Then Hand Decorated China makes a dainty re tnenibrancc. We show ef fects a little out of the ordi? nary. Call. We caminterest you in gifts at very moderate prices. W. A. Thompson, Jew?ier end Optician. Ti e ?iovo.s;, Invasion of \e.v York. An Interesting chapter of the series The Spiritual Unrest," whWh Ra} it innard Baker contributes to the \merlcan Magazine, appears in the October Issue of that periodical; it is devoted to the Jews in America, and ?>al9 with their disintegration and the decline of their religiou-: faith. <>t the part the Jews play in the life and activities of New York City. Mr. Fak er says: "How much the Jewish population means in the life of New York City few people realize. Within the past few yet ;. quietly, almost without no? tice, the Jew has become the chief single element in the population of <?ur principal American city?and in a very real sense one of the dominat? ing factors of bur life. Out of the to ?al population of Greater New York nearly 1,000.000 are Jews, or more than one in every five. Nowhere at any time in the world's history were ?o many Jews gathered together in one locality. Jerusalem the Golden In ill the 5 000 years of Its history never ..Ad a quarter as many Jews as now ive in New York city, and all Pales .ire today, in spite of the efforts of ? ih 8laatic Zionists to fire their peo? ple with s desire to return to their home land has not as many Jewish residents as may be found In half a dozen blocks on the East Side. Not >nly are they the dominant factor on the crowded East Side, but they oc? cupy whole neighborhoods in other parts of the city?In Harlem and the Bronx, in Williamsburg and Browns? ville?almost to the exclusion of other population. And they are not mere renters of homes and tenements; for a considerable proportion of the valu? able lands on Manhattan Island arc now held by Jewish owners. The largest single Industry In the city? clothing manufacture?Is almost en tlrely In the Ugnda of Jews. They con? trol many of our greatest banks and other financial Institutions, and their 1 main in finance is rapidly extend? ing: they dominate and direct almost exclusively the amusements, both the? atres and operas?of the greatest mcrican cities. About half of the principal newspapers of the metropo? lis are owned by Jews?and some of the other papers have Jewish editors In Important positions. They control the greatest part of the wholesale and retail trade. Many of our ablest l?w ?vis, doctors and scientists are Jews. V.ore and more the Jew is becoming a great factor In politics; if Tammany Ff*sl] Is beaten at the polls this fall, the Jew will do It. "Many Jewish Judges now adminis? ter our lavfg and not a few Jews In i ?Alf legislatures and in congress are helping to make them. The educa? tion of the children of New York city is. to a surprising extent, in the hands of the Jews?and becoming metre and more so. I examined the lists recently published of newly ap? pointed teachers for the public schools* It reads for long spaces like a direc? tory of the Bast Side. Hundreds of teachers In New York who were born In despotic Russia and who came here only a few years ago, knowing not a word Of English, are today teaching American children the principle* of democracy. Some of the strongest benevolent and civic activities of the city are controlled by Jews and final? ly, the Jews, i?Basting Christianity, have built up at least one religious or ethical movement, wliioh has at? tracted many Chrssttasm. Net a few Christian church?*, stow by surround? ed by Jews, have give* ap tChe strug? gle and the buildings have finally been purchased and tce-srwsnied into synagogues. It may ceone as a sur? prise to many people, hat it Is a fact that there are now 1st m?re syna? gogues (organizations, ?ort buildings) on Manhattan Island than there are Christian churches. The number of Jewish synagogues m greater New York hi 803. of which 7?? are in Man? hattan Island and the Bsnorot. Assur? edly New York city hats "become the New Jerusalem of the Jerw," Wilbur Wright says that too many m n dying now are being led astray by a desire for notoriety. He might have said that too many men are walking, running, motoring, golfing, tenntsing. preaching, shooting, writ? ing, painting, acting, paragraphing and exploring for the same reason.? Savannah Morning News. Joseph Chartrand, survivor of the old French colony at Cahokla, com punloff of Fremont, the "Pathfinder," ?ml friend of John Jacob Astor. is le of He was ninety-three years old. md had been in falling health on ac? count of his age for months at th I home of his son In St. lentis. The life-long domicile of an old lady was situated several feet south <?f th ? dividing line of Virginia and North Carolina, and when that MM ?ion of the country was rewurveyed It IS discovered that the line ran a few fe#( f?'?'f south of the property In j'ostion, gays Success. They broke the news to the old lady that from then on she was to be a resident of Virginia "That's good," she exclaim? ed: "I've always heard North aCro llna was an unhealthy State to live In." NAVY IS SHORT OF MEN. Four iuttleslkps likely to be Laid On the Shell". Washington, Oct. 5.?Secretary Meyer, upon 1 ecommendation of the (General Board, will probably appe.il In congress for a 111 er.il i: crease In the grades of captain, commander and lieutenant-commander and a cor? responding increase in the number of enlisted men in the navy in order that the new battleships now beinK completed may be put in commission without throwing out of service sev? eral of the older men-of-war. Officials of the Bureau of Naviga? tion are confronted with the difficult problem of finding a sufficient num? ber of officers and men available for sea duty to put In service the Michi? gan and the South Carolina, the first American Dreadnoughts, without crippling other ships still in good fighting trim. The Michigan would have been In service by this time had not a number of alterations been nec? essary, which will delay it until No? vember L Had she been ready, how? ever, she could not have been sent to sea without putting one or two cruisers out of service or seriously interfering with the target practice of the Atlantic fleet by taking away ordnance and turret officers. The South Carolina will be ready for com? mission by January 1. Following these will come the Delaware and the North Dakota, the former to be ready, it is estimated, by February 1, and the latter by April 1. They will be put into the battleship fleet in pairs. The Michigan and South Carolina will be added to the fleet by January 1 for the Southern winter cruise, and the other two will be added in the spring, between th:> completion of the cruise and the hold? ing of the record target practice. According to the present intentions, the fleet organization will be main? tained with but 16 battleships, four of the oldest vessels to give place to the four new ones. The four ships withdrawn will still be in good flght 'ng trim after some overhauling, and It is desired to keep them In commis? sion, or at least in reserve for emer? gency use, to be operated as a special squadron. With the four new battleships ad? ded, the Atlantic fleet will be the equal of any organization of a like number of ships now In service. By that time, however, both Great Brit? ain and Germany will have \n service several ships of the "greater Dread? nought" type. Because of the rapid strides being made, not only by Ger? many, which will have a complete fleet of Dreadnoughts in service with? in another year, but by England. Italy, Austria and Japan, memlwrs of the General Board hold that it would be a serious error for congress to fall to relieve the present shortage of officers and men. Every ship in good fighting condition should be perma? nently in commission, they hold. The Ohio, Wisconsin and Missouri, the three oldest battleships in the fleet, together with one of the newer oil es. possibly "the Nebraska or the New Jersey, will be sacrificed to make room for the new vessels. Both the Nebraska and the New Jersey are new, neither haivraag seen over two years' service. The experimental ban on mail at Chicago's poHtoffive '.general delivery windows against iglrts Who haven't their parents' consent, wives who haven't their Jrusband's permission aid nny who coald not identify them s^lves^, under the names td which let? ters were addressed continues to cause conste-rnation to thousands of peopl -? pTtnctpalb' women who call and are confronted With the new rule. Futile lesentment has run high, and th??re has been much declamation about ?'infringement of rights." Over three thousand women a day have been receiving mad at the general de? livery section. PoRtofftce Inspector Stuart now is convi-nced that his ex? periment was needed, for he says that evil has come to thousands of girls under age who have received mail surreptitiously, and that the safety Of thousands of homes has been im? pel Ikd by mail, which husbands and wives have received in general deliv? ery boxe.? Now every person is com? pelled to -inn n card before mail is delivered and Investigation is made of the signer. Parents of girls are n?1 tifled. and some radical changes in the domestic arrangements of love affairs have been caused by the ab? rupt order from Inspector Stuart. Aa usual thousands of innocent persons isufferlng needlessly from the at tcompt t<> discipline guilty folk. Thou? sands of girls and women, whom clr enmstaneee compel to live in cheap boarding houses, and hundreds of foreigner! Whose livings are prccari OUSl) got and who have trusted to the protection of Uncle Bam as a sure? ty tor honest delivery of mail untam pered with. And themselves entangled In red tape. Rev, Dr. John II. DeForest, a vet? eran Congregational missionary at Senday. Japan, has been decorated by the imperial government with the Or? der of the Rising Sun. FAVOR SHORT TIME IX MILLS. ? international Cotton spinners indoiM Americans' Measures fop Tiding 0\er Crisis. Frankfort, Germany, Oct. C?The international Conference of Cotton Spinners, which opened here today, adopted a resolution expressing their pleasure over the news that American, cotton rpinners were limiting the ; hours of work and the production pnd that further limitations in Amer? ica were in prospect, by which the crisis will be terminated. A Bond Issue for Irrigation Projects To Placate Uie Tariff-Ritten West. President Taft, in a speech at Spok? ane on Tuesday, set forth clearly and definitely his views of the conserva? tion of natural resources, particularly in regard to the disposition by the Government of water sites and coal lands in the public domain. The Presldence also announced his pur? pose to recommend to Congress a bond issue of $10,000,000 for the com? pletion of certain projects for the reclamation of arid lands. It is pos? sible his announcement is not con? nected with considerations of political strategy and expediency. Mr. Taft's defense of the Aldrich tariff has given offense to many Western Republicans. The West does not enjoy the blessings of excessive taxation and the conse? quent increase in the cost of living any more that the advocates in the East of a moderate tariff. The reclamation of the arid lands of the West may be a wise and neces? sary policy, contributing to the wel? fare of the nation and adding to the general prosperity. Upon the assum? ption that the West ought, for tin good of the whole country, to have its arid wastes reclaimed and made ari able and fertile, the East and South are logically entitled also to the con? sideration of the national Govern? ment to reclamation projects in the watery regions of the Southern and Eastern States? The people of these sections have to bear the burdens of the Aldrich tariff as well as their Western brethren. Why not open the doors of the Federal Treasury to them? The East and South are not hostile to irrigation projects for the benefit of the West. They do not un? derstand, however, why their sub? merged lands should not receive the tender consideration of Mr. Taft. We have said that President Tait'fc exposition of his conservation policy was clear and definite. But that p d Vcy will not be satisfactory to the public, it will not provide adequate safeguard against monopolistic con? trol, unless the restrictions impo**>d by the Government upon the acqui? sition of water sites and the control of coal lands be thorough and com? prehensive. In respect to the coal lands in the public domain, Mr. Taft suggests the leas* of the Titfht to take coal from these bxnds at a spec? ified compensation per ton, or to sep erate the surface of the land from its mineral contents ana to seftl the coal deposits outright to the miner. As regards waterpowe.r sites, Mr. Taft recommnds that eestrtetiems be im? posed for the use af sudi sites equit? able to !>oth the Investor and the pub lie. The Saonetary of Use Interior, hej states, has *k> power, under existing! laws, to prescribe and tmforce restric tttSSl esseatia)) ts? the ?protection of! the public LiegJslatieai by Congress' is necessary, and the President states! that he will recommend the passage! of a law autherfoing the Secretary of the Interior to dispor? <of water sites on terms agreed upan by the Secre? tary and the pxarrdssdser. The propsed law ought to be ex? plicit In its provisioas ?o that monop? olistic control of water ?power will wot be possible under the terms of any agreement l*>tween the Secretary ??f the Interior and tae -purchasers of power sites. Mr. Tart says that for? feiture ought to be t%ne penalty to provent monopoly of ownership Of coal lands or coal rights. That pen? alty ought also to be included in Hie agreements for the disposition of water-power sites. Furthermore, the Sherman Anti-trust act, which has been on the statute book for eighteen years, ought to be invoked against any water power monopolists or coal monopolists who use the resources of tee public domain to plunder the peo? ple, And until Congress has enacted the legislation which Mr. Taft lay* is it; Ispensablo to safeguard public n teiests the Government ought to go ?lowly in opei ing pubH ? lands to .-et tloment, especially when there lertpon to suspect that any Inter iv v> 111 take advantage of ? .-.isting InVtS to establish monopo'y. ?Baltimore Sun. The next time Cook goes out to dis? cvery anything Ii?, will pssibly oblige Peary by carrying a searchlight and a born - Washington Star. Ida Fa I he - Hansen, general super? visor Of public schools of Denmark. Celebrated her sixtieth birthday the other day. She is said to be the best beloved, as well as one of the most brilliant of the women of her coun try. MOCKING AT THE LAW. The grand jury for Charleston County h had before it at the pre? sent term of the court, of sessions twenty-four indictments for violation of the law against the sale of liquor. It has muH? d over these present? ments pretty thoroughly, according to reports. On Saturday it returned the whole lot of them to the court, each and every one endorsed "No bill," and that is the end of these indictments. Which is the sort of thing that has happened before with grand juries here, and, we suppose, elsewhere. But this particular grand jury, in its general presentment at th# con? clusion of the last term of court, set forth its belief that the law against the sale of liquor in Charleston was but poorly enforced and called upon the Mayor and the other executive forces of the city to make more vig? orous proceeding against the viola? tors. It was to be supposed, there? fore, that all the grand jury needed for the Initiation of vigorous pros? ecution in the courts was opportunity to indict somebody for offense against ? be laws. This opportunity was given to the grand Jury by the handing out of twenty-four indictments of alleged illegal sellers of liquor. The evidence was prepared In practically all the cases by the police authorities of the city and fortified by the solicitor with citation of the law. And the grand Jury refuses to bring one of the accused parties to trial. But that is not the end of the grand jury's fate. At the same tlm j that it put on record its rejection of these indictments against the alleged sellers of liquor, the body declared, through Its foreman, in a leUer to the solicitor: "It is the unanimous wish of the grand jury that you make out indictments against the attached list of holders of United States special tax as liquor dealers for the current fiscal year, commencing August 18. 1908." .The list, it is said, includes something like one hundred and fifty names, among which are some, prob? ably all, of the twenty-four parties in? dicted at the term of court and ex? onerated by the grand jury. Why th? ~rr.nd jury should wish tho solicitor to make out indictments against the holders of United states liquor tax receipts it does not say. and this is a serious omission for it can not be readily imagined by anybody else. Certainly it can not be because of a Desire or a determination to bring in true bills against those so presented, for the irrand Jury has already dic charged all the Indictments given to it and, according to the persuasion of the court, for "some other reason than the lack of evidence." It i*' certain enough that the evidence against the twenty-four who 'have been -saved harmless was much strongeT tnan that against the one hundTtd and fifty or so, indictment of whom is invited, can possibly be. There is not only the prima facie evi? dence against these that there would be against the others in the holding of a revenue tax receipt but there is personal evidence, as well, obtained *ry "the police force. Perh?p* the ?grand Jury's purpose in suggesting such indictments as it has proposed to the solicitor may find explanation I in the expression of the court that "the possession of a revenue license in sufficient for a true bill, but with that alone the solicitor could not ex? pect a jury to convict," as "something more is necessary." - It may be that the grand jury, wishes to give the holders of these license an immunity bath, relieving them of the liability to prosecution for the remainder of the term of their licenses. Certainly it must have some benevolent ob? ject in view toward the parties whose indictment it desires. What are We going to do about it in Charleston, anyway? There has been a good deal said of late about the awakening of public sentiment to the necessity of enforcing this law against the illegal sale of liquor. A good many people have professed to believe that if cases were presented to the juries convictions would he recorded, though heretofore the petit juries haw, almost with exception, acquitted the accused illegal sellers of liquor. But here we are against the fact that the cases aren't even brought before the petit juries. The grand jury kills them upon the very threshold of the court. It looks as if we have made mighty little progress ,n this matter, alter all. !s there, then, nothing in all this talk :th'>ut a letter sentiment an I a d.te:min.-i desire for th ? enforcement of toe ! st tute? Are we not only to ignore but also to mock at the law??Char? leston Post. w. B. McLaughlin, whit -, of Dar? lington, charged with violations <>i the dispensary law, failed to appear When called. Ib- was tried in his ab? seiicr ami a verdict of guilty remb-rd. Tin- sentence was not published. Mc? Laughlin was a member of the grand Jury all of last year and was drawn to serve for this year, but upon being j charged With violations of the dispen- j sary law, was excused at the spring term of court from further service for this year. SEMMKS, OF ALABAMA. A Yankee's Broad-M.mb <| Climate Of a Soutlyra Naval lloro. From the New Haven Register). Secretary of War Dickinson tells the story of the grandchild at Admiral Raphael Bcmmee, of Alabama, rush? ing to the presence of his f;.th?r, Gen. Luke B, Wright, with tears in his ey< s and demanding, "Was my grand? pa a, pirate?" Had such I question been asked anywhere in the North, even up to the present time, tt is to be feared that the answer would have been unhesitating and affirmative. This year of centenaries is big enough, perhaps, to give room and justice to even Semmes, of Alabama. He was born 100 years ago this 27th of September. Maryland was his birth State, but it is Alabama that today is observing his centenary. It is with Alabama that his reputation is con? nected. That State gave name to the vessel which he principally used as a privateer. The bitterness of the North, smarting under the steady destruc? tion and capture of its small fleet of merchantmen during the war, was di? rected against Semmes. To the South he was, per contra, the great naval hero of the war. It is probable that Admiral Semmes did not wholly deserve either the hatred or the praise. He was a loyal son of the South, and gave his best for its cause?sincerely, as did his brethren. Great Britain made pos? sible the most damaging of the de? struction he did, and to Great Britain, not Semmes, or the South, the worst of the hatred should have been di? rected. It should not be forgotten that the Alabama was an English built vessel, manned by a British crew. Admiral 3emmes was her clev? er commander, and he did good work in his place. Eut his accomplish? ment, costly as it was to th.; North? and eventually to Great Britain?was only an incident in the strtlCgt** It taught the needed lesron, as we can see it now, that the harassing of mer? chantmen and the destruction and capture of property not properly con? traband of war, only prolongs but does not settle such a strife. As for Raphael Semmes, he was a Southern gentleman, a good seaman, and before the war did good service for the united country. iHs part In the strife was not a pleasant one, bot he did what at the time seemed to him- best. At the distance of nearly fifty years we can afford to remember the good deeor, and let the recollec? tion of those which at the time vexed us sore be burled with his bones. Long's saw mill, Hampton County, was burned Monday. Less $10,000 wjt,h no insurance. CASTOR IA lor Infants and Children. The Kind You Hate Always Sottght Rears the Signature BUILT ON HONOR SOLD ON MERIT There are no ifs and ands about our guarantee, and no rebate schemes about our sales. We prefer to believe that our customers are sensi? ble people ir search of a square deal, and we make it our business to tr*at them as ?ucn. When you buy a Stief f Piano you get what you pay for. and pay for what you get. Exper? ienced buyers know that this constitutes the only bargain you can count on?all other bargain forms are gambles, and the purchaser is usually the loser. Honesty may not be the best indlcy, but y? are of practice convince us that it is gOSd enough. If you COntCSS plate the purchase of a p..'.no. don't fall to examine the Meiff* A showdown is our ?1 light. Chas. M. Stieff, Manufacturer. Baltimore, - Md. Southern Wareroom 5 West Trade St. Charlotte, - N. C. C. R. \\ li.mux m. Manager.