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The Black By T.P. AR has its black as Sergt. Weir. of tro)p, was exent 1 W erloo, in which he + Wfield was searched f _)f the same regim( his name written in head. This, explair order that the sert fied, and that thereby all susoicion (i of his troop might be averted. After the battle of Sedan. when blood led. the searchers to a shady sq lying dead, with his hand tightly clin< clinched hand was a scrap of paper. was a letter from his little girl of had crawled here to read with the thus: "Dear Father: I miss you so evening, when I used to kiss ycu. kind to mamma. Your loving little gi As I should like to imbue my rea of war, and of the hardening effect ol devil's. work, I shall make no apolog, Ing the draconic discipline of Freder: the king ordered that after a certain alight in the tents under pain of deat obeyed. Frederick went round the ca in a tent. which he entered. Within letter to his wife, whom he worshipp "What are you doing there? Do my wife, Your Majesty. I thought I ter. I implore Your Majesty to par the feet of the king. "Rise!" cried add to it these words: 'Tomorrow I si script was added, and next day Zieter A humorous spy. when he was ce piere. the marshal addressed him wit tencing a man to death. "Brother. yc ':y replied: "Either you or I must it's of supreme importance to you or I must, that's all." The marshal wa he ordered his immediate releast Hearts T) For Ap; By the Rev ++ -:.:.+.. E want appreciation course with friends + + done us a kindness l it. If a man does + + Why should we not . ceived? H ca:ts hur +>+++++ and women in the ..>: things would chang would blaze out int< them what we feel. In her "Life and Letters of Brov -Carlyle had never rendered him pears, which one man of letters mc proclaiming the admiration which he fact was incomprehensible to Brownii be commented on it with a touch-th repeating to a friend some almost e days had been utter~ed tete-a-tete. 'l repeated in public, what good they nr Carlyle has multitudes of imitato that we do not say what we feel. preachers, friends-go through life di and their work are unappreciated, v ing, if we only would tell them what expression of it would change the w<i in the cold today, and would make burg Christian Advocate. ICornforters L By Geo. +++++++++++ N the past decadc ++ 4+M school of incomle * * their methods and I * + old-time theology. * A the methods which ** branch of this cult **+*+OCO'CO* pcsure." They shos MO4M' cheerful friends5 of, magazines and news ness of our politics: the hopeless apat corruption of out' great financiers and islatures, swindling the public with> our fcod. speculating with trust funds press and destroy small competitors: and buying judges and juries. They the gangrene of personal dishonesty ing increase in the number of' bribe-t riotous extravagance of the rich, an ures form the typical current literat grows jaded and st'r~r .ted, the stories our attention. Titt' )ates and his pl modern Sinance. Tihe achievement of to give space to spicy stories of &~' The Mode By WI. G. . HE Whitehead torpet _____ porpoise-shaped wea toeen feet long, and e They are made in b . ~ for firing even a sm They are dlelive wrsof two thous: -cotton in the "war hole in its centre tt rectly connected with the detonating cury. and a percussion-cap. In front -a vecry sensitive nose-which ope strikes, and sets off the whole charge. Behind the war-head comes the that drives this singular projectile tl pumped air at a pressure of about tifP And this, escaping through a valve le motive powet-. Next conmes the mecha depth of the torpedo during its run: a great secret. and sold in turn to th from the tail of the torpedo are plac controlling valve which can he arrang weapon has run a certain distance. evernt of the torpedo missing its tar; Mourning Shoes. Shoes have been specialized for a~ hundred and one purposes. but shoc': 'especially manufactured for those in mourning form a variety of foo:-acar that few manufacturers would think of producing. Such shoes arc madeu in Lynn. Mass. The n:ottrning shoe consists of a dead luster black lcather. made up ont a stylish !ast. and ctrna uerted with mournful !ooking bhac. ribtcns and heads. Ar'abs as-ot that Eve's tomb is at Jliddah. in a graveyard surreunded by Side of War O'Connor. well as its heroic side. the Scots Greys. as paymaster of his rom active sCrvice at the hattle of WaT nevertheless fought and fell. When the or the dead and wounded. Corporal Scot. nt. found the body of Sergt. Weir with blood with his dying hand upon his fore ied the corporal. was obvioulsly dlone in eant's bony might be found and identi i his having absconded with the money the dead were being buried, a trace of ot, where they found a French sergeant hed in death pressed to his lips. In his which they forced from it and read. It five which,. when mortally wounded, he ast light of his dying eye, and i:. ran much. I miss you most aorni:.; and i try to be good. as you 1u nw, and ri. Marguerite. ders with my own horror of the horrors these horrors upon all engaged in this for returnin'g to the subject by recall ck the Great. In his first Silesian war hour neither fire nor candle should be 11. To make sure that his orders were mp. and at last caught sight of a light he found Capt. Zietern writing a loving ed. you not know the orders?" "It was to might write. It might be my last let, ion me," stammered Zietern, falling at Frederick. "It wQ be your last letter: tall perish on the scaffold.' ' The post~ n was hanged. ught and taken before Marshal.Bassom h the formula he always used when sen a or I must certainly be hanged!" The >e hanged. Did you really mean that? to me: because if you won't. be hanged 3 tickled w:ith the man's humor that at Hunger reciation . D. Jones. and the expressica of it in our inter and acquaintances. When a man has let us not be ashamed of speaking of us a wrong, we ralk of it fast enough. be equally ready to sieak of benefits re ger for appreciation. and there are men world for ivhom the whole aspect of . whese sky, from being dull and gray. crimson and gold, if we would but tell ning." Mrs. Sutherland Orr writes: (Browning) that service, easy as it ap ist justly values from another-that of privately expresses for his work. The ig-it was so foreign to his nature, and ugh merely a touch-of bitterness when Ctravagant eulogium which in earlier only.' he said, 'these words had been ight have done me!'" rs. It is not that we do not f'eel: it is And so thousands of people--writers. scouraged and depressed. thinking they 'hen they might go on their way sing is in our hearts. Appreciation and the )rld's estimate for many who are living erpetual summer in their souls.--Pitts tbs * * * ~ Fe Magazines I W Alger. here lhas grown up in this country a e idealists, social reformers, who, in eories, seem to have gone back to the Lhey seek to apply to society as a whole failed with the individual. From one has come the modern literatture of "ex us our social sore spots, like the three lob. They expose in countless pages of papers the sordid and depressing rotten hy of our good citizens: the remorseless business men. Who are bribing our leg fraudulent stock schemes, adulterating ,combining in great monopolies to sup td raise prices, who are breaking laws show us the growth of business "graft." imong an honorable peop~le. the depress akers and bribe-givers. They tell us of Ithe growth of poverty. These expos ure of our daily life. As our appetite become more sensational so as to retain ot live again in the amazing historian of the constructive elements has neglected graft and greed.-The Atlantic. rn Torpedo ? lo of today is a, steel cigar, or automatic pon or projectile. from twelve to seven ighteen inches in diameter at its widest. oth sizes for our navy: and when ready all one will weigh over half a ton. red in five sections, which contain tup tnd pieces of machinery. The wet gun wad" is inserted in slabs, each with 'a receive the core of dry gttn cotton di )rimer, which contains fulminate of mer > the primer is screwed the war "nose" ates automatically when the weapon hamber containing the compressed alt rough the water. Into this chamber is en hundred pXonds to the sqluare inch. ading to the little engines, provides the Inism which atutomatically regulates the this ingenious app~laratuls has been kept various nations of tile worldl. Not far A the dlrivin'g engines. There is also ed so as to close automatically after the hus : u)iatinlg a futile explosion in the et. -Harper's Weekly, HER GENTLE KNOCK. The Yung Mlan-Don't you think Kity S weetun has a gracefulm walk? The Young W\oman-Yes: I've no' ticed it. Te poor girl is dreadfully troubled with corns on both her feet, and she has to walk with the greatest care imaginable.-Chiicago Tribune, A vessel recently called at Easter Island. the first to visit that out of the way spot in twelve months. The inhabitants seem corntent, however, for no one takes the infrequent op A MOVING EXHIBIT Exhibit to Be Transported to All Parts of the State Free of Charge By the Railroads. coach has beenl loanled to Clem oi college by tlie Southieni railway companv and will be traneported free )! coSt to all parts of the State reach h by the tracts of that company. Tie Atlantic Coast Line Railway -ompany has also agreed to run this :-oach over their tracks free of cost to the college. This will enable the autthorities of Clemson college to reach the people in all portions of Souhli Caro!ina with valuable instru etion on practical questions relaiing to a:-leulture. mechanical. civil and electrial engineeriin,. textile and chemical industry. geology and gen eral ind ustrial education. Experts not only from the college. but from other portions of the country. will be sent with the car to furnish infor Iation on the many industrial sub jects demanding the attention of the people. There will be in this car the needed apparatus. appliances. tools and implinients to make the course >f instruct nion highly entertaining and valuable. Specimens of plants, insects. ninerals, etc.. will be found in this car. A first class lantern, with many lantern slides on many subjects. will be placed in the ear f the free and liberal use of the people. Valualde Records May Be Had. Capt. W. A. Courtenay has written to (ov. 1levward urging that this State cooperate with others of the 13 original States to get from records in European capitals a lot of valuable information relating to these colonies when they were not indepcndqPt States. (apt. Courtenay writes that these manuseripts have been exani ned in the archives of London public record office and inl contitential reposi tories and have been pronounced in dispe(.nsable by such men as Mr. Wm. M. Evarts. Joseph Choate and other arnbassaders. Charters Asked For. The see:etary of state has been ask ed to isste a commission for a com pany to be capatilized at $150,000 which will construct a system of waterworks for Georgetown. the spply to be obtained from the Black river. The Bishopville Mule company and the Hartsville Mule company applied for commissions. The corporators are the same in both concerns, and the capital stock of each will be $10.000. John W. Conder., of Columbia. W. 3. Gregory and J. M. Hood are the par ties interested. The Baptist State Convention. Columbia. Special.- Preparations are being made for the meeting of the State Baptist convention in this ecity the first week of December. The lo cal committee on hospitality, of which the Rev. Walter E. Wilkins is the chairman is making ready for 500 delegates, among whom will be many of the strongest ministers and lay men in South Carolina. The meeting of the convention will begin on the night of Friday, December 1st. and will probably continue until the next Tuesday or Wednesday. New Railroad in Horry County. The Eddy Lake and Northern rail road company has applied for letters of incorporaxtion. The incorporat'ors are W. Mi. Bugan and Norman Jones of Baltimore. Qeorge Officer -md1( J. W. Little of Eddy Lake and R. B. Sear nei~ of t on!way. Crpitalization to be $1 00.000 with privileze of in crasin1g to $200.000. The road will be ot standard gunge. 935 miles in lenshii with 3!arion and Eddy Lake as the terminal points. Trying to Save His Dog He lost his Own Life. Sharon. Special.-Mr. Jule Jack son, a sectiton hand on the Southern railway, was hit and instantly killed by the westbound passenger train Friday afternoon about four miles from 'town. Mr. .Jacksoa was trying to rescue his dog from the track when the train struck him. The A. R. P. Synod. Dute West. Special .-The 102nd general synod of Associate Reformed Presbvierian church of the south met last week here in regular annnal ses ion. More than 100 delegates and ministers were present at the first roll call. The meeting was the most arelv attended in the history of the chmrech. Due West besides being a central point of the entire synod is the centre of interest of the whole "Seeeder' denmination. .Their the ological seminary and both male and female collegtes are located here. White Waitresses. Charleston. Special.-The St. John hotel is making the experiment of employing white girls as waitresses instead of colored waiters. Eight girls arrived here and immediately went to wvork. This is the first time that white help has been employed in such capgacity in Charleston and the result of thle iunnovation will be awaited with interest. The St. JTohn hotel. as the (Charleston hotel and Avzyhe hotel aire now prepring for toitis st'5son. Late News Notes. Several hundred bales of cotton were burned on the cotton plaform at St. Mathews. The fire wa~s acci dental. and threa.tencd to do much greater damage Marshal Law at Cronstadt. St. Petersburg. By Cable.-Martial law has het n declared at Constadt. Vie-Admiral Birileff. minister of ma rine, left tonight for Cronistadt. 4 PALMlTO AFAIRS Occurrences of Interest from All Over Southfarolina MANY ITEMS OF STATE NEWS A Batch of Live Paragraphs Cover ing a Wide Range-What is Going On in Our State. Charlotte Cotton Market. The cotton market offering limited. Low middling..............10% Strict low middling..........10% Middling................. Strict middling .... ......100 Good middling............10:% General Cotton Marihet. Galveston, easy.. ........113-16 New Orleans, quiet . . . 111-16 Mobile, quiet.. ............10/ 1 Savannah. dull. . . 0% Norfolk, steady.. .. .. .... ..3 07 Baltimore, nominal.. .. .. ....11 % New York. quiet.. .. .. .......11% t Boston, quiet .. .... .. .......11% Houston, easy.. .. .. ......111-16 Augusta. !teady .. ...........10% Memphis. quiet.. .. .. ......1 I St. Louis, uiet .. .. .... .... Louisville. firm.. .. .. .......11 /4 Charters and Commissions. The secretarv of state issued a Iarge number of charters antd com missions l.st week. The Cheraw Naval Stores Co. re- I ceived a commission and will be cap italized at $15.000. the corporators being V. F. Stevenson. E. C. Prescott, M. W. Duvall. D. T. Matthews and T. G. Matthews. The Shannon-Stevns-Boykin com pany of Cheraw will be mercantile in character and will be capitalized at .$25.000. The corporators are: C. J. S. Shannon. Jr., John T. Stevens and W. A. Boykin. The Standard Warehouse company of Columbia secured its charter. The officers are: D. C. Heyward, president; E. C. Catheart, treasurer; E. T. Lipscomb, secretary. The board of directors consists of D. C. Heyward. Edwin W. Robertson and August Kohn of Columbia, J. A. Brock and R. E. Ligon of Anderson, Ellison A. Smyth, Lewis W. Parker and W. E. Beattie of Greenville and J. K. Durst of Greenwood. The capital stock of the company is $500,000. The Chester Ice Co., capitalized at $20,000, was chartered with T. L. Eb erhardt as president and treasurer and C. L. Ridgely as vice president and secrethry. The Haile Shoe Co. will be locted in Union and the capital will be $5, 000. The corporators are: Wmn. I. Haile, John A. Fant and Francis M. Parr. The Farmers' Bank of William-< ston will have a capital of $15,000 and] the corporators are: WV. A. Simpson, I Geo. D. Sullivan, E. H. Welbourne, J.i E. Wakefield, Jr., and J. C. Duck-1 worth. The corporators of the Georgetown lub whose purposes are rated as athletic and social are: Lewis t.'Bry an and W.~ S. Moore. The capital is $500. A charter was given the Aiken Cot to'n and Stock exchange, capitalized at; $2.000. The officers are: 0. H. Mobley, president; Nelson Johnson, vice president; W. J. Moseley, seere-1 tary, and R. L. Courtney treasurer. The Seaboard Product Co. of Georgetown will manufacture turpen tine products. Th~e capital is $10,000 andl the corporatorsr are: 'A. G. Jor dan, J. B. Steele and E. W. Kamin-t ski. ' The Oregon Lumber Company of Greenville has increased its capital t from $5,000 to $10,000. c Briefs of State News. Chief of Police -Norris (of Augusta has written Governor Hleyward that D. C. Mupy. life sentence convict s who escapedl from the State prison. is now in jail in Swainsboro. Murphy 3 was sentenced to be hanged for the e murder of County Treasurer Copes ( of Orangeburg, butt has his sentence s commuted to life imprisonment and t was sent up March 26, 1897. He es- ( caLoed soon afterwards. Mr. Oscar van dler Meensch has opened a bureau in Ghent. Belgium, to represent Sou-:h Carolina in the immigration and colcuization line. He ] is a delegate to Belgi.um. Holland and France. Mr. Powell Evans of Phila delphia, a soni of Dri. Jamnes Evans) of Florence has been appointed special ~ commissioner to France. Gov. Samuel W. Pennypa cke r of Pennslyania, has written to Gohv. Hewardl suggesting~ a monument at Talley Forge from .?ach oft the thir teen original States. The troops5 from this State were camped there and the general assembly may appro-t priate a sum for a small memorial. The governor has received a peti tion for a pardon for Allen Milan. who is serving a 32-year sentence from Pickens county for conviction of manslaughter. Milan killed J. Ca non in 198. Both .we niegroes. I The annual mneetir~g o fthe Sons of the Revolution in this State will be I held in Charleston rmn Decemnber 14. e Governor H-erwardl Las been asked to I deliver the annual adtdress at the ban- g jiet. The Spartanburg city council ha'i decidedl to maintain its owvn chain gang andl will shortly build a stock ade. For a number o'f years the city S has been turning over the prisonerst from mavor' court4~ t<, 'he counlty aul- r thorities~ to work the road and an arrangrement was madec by which tis work would be0 returned at stated e Arth.ur Adams and Robert Sawyer,. two of1 the three mutinou. sailors from te~ schooner Harry A. Berwind, were e convcte a+ Wilmington, N. C. L. R. P. SYNOD ADJOURNS argest Attendance in History of the Church-Baseball at Erskine Ex cites Debate. Due West. Special.-The 102nd ynod of the A. R. P. Church of the outh held its final session in the local hurch Tuesday night. adjourned at 1.30 after transactin all the business hat had come up for consideration. :xcepting the resolution adopted re ative to the enlargement of the for ign mission policy of the church by stablishing a station in India. there rere no matters of unusual sirnifi ance discussed and yet the mceting f the synod of 1905 will*be memor ble from the fact that it was proba lv the most largely attended meeti"r n its history. At Monday night 's session it was lecided that Rev. A. J. Ranson of lie Spartanburg church be allowed to anvass the Second Presbytery for ullicient funds' to erect a suitable ouse of worship ot that place and hat Rev. G. W. Hanna of the Little ock. Ark.. field be instructed to can -ass the remaining presbyteries of the .hurch for Vie same purpose at his tation. The synod approved the action of he board of trustees of Erskine Col ege providing for a ten per cent. in rease in the salaries of the profes ors, and that the salary of the prin ipal of the fitting school be raised to 900. The faculty were also given >ermission to select tutors for the eparteents in which they were so 'dly needed. that of English, chem strv, languages and mathematics. Right of way over campus 'of 40 eet to be used for a street leading o. the proposed depot was grahted he promoters of Due West-Donalds ailroad. This action was strongly pposed by some members of the' *ynod. The matter that elicited the most ttention and consideration, espee ally on the part of the students of rskine, was the action of the synod n the report of the board of trustees f the college recommending that Er kine be withdrawn from the S. C.I. L A. and be allowed to play no base iall off the home grounds with any ollege. The main argument of those ii favor of such action was the pre umed fact that gambling had large y entered into the sport and like ille alities were practiced by the stu ents when on a baseball trip. After ome lively discussion, led by Col. T. . Kirkpatrick and representatives f the faculty on behalf of the ynod voted down the resolution. and he boys clapped wildly, ignorant of he sound of the moderator's gravel. Rev. T. G. Boyce, D. D., who was tntil lately the junior editor of The s ociate ~Reformed Presbyterian, the hurch paper, asked the synod to co p rate with the newly elected editor, ~ref. G. G. Parkinson, in making the >aper a success and for the quench ng of any sectional feeling against hat organ. A resolution was offered and adopt d to petition the president in his oming message to congress to give ome attention to the great need of bolishing the liquor traffic. After several other unimportant natters had been disposed of, the' ynod was led in prayer by Dr. Neill .Pressley of Mexico and after a ong was adjourned with benediction iv the moderator. to meet at Camden. la. Thursday after the second Sab ath of November, 1906. Greenville Goes Dry. Greenville, Speial.-At the elee ion held in Greenville county on ~uesday to determine the question of ispensary or prohibition. the dry icket won by a nmaj'ority estimated losely at 4 to 1. Killed By a Negro Boy. Greenville. Special.--Doyle Jack on. a 16-year-old regro boy. shot and astantly killed a wvhite man named \Card Sunday mnorning at 10 o'clock. ni the plantation of Maj. Bellew in lassv Mountain township. .Jackson urrendered himself immediately after ie tredgy. and wvas brought to the reenville jail by Maj. Bollew. arim in at midnight. To Colonize in the South. Columbia, Special.-Commisionerof mniigration Watson is at work on: a hteme to have the Salvation Arnmy cople estaliish a large colony in this eet ion. Representatives of the army now in this locality preparmng the or colonization in the South from the est and Southern Illinois. Indiana. )hio, Pennsylvania and Western New ork. and it is thought that colonies ill le established in several pf the ~othern States. These representa ves will also visit Mohile. Chiatta *ooga and other Southern Cities News in Brief. The silver jubilee of the Federation f Labor beguan at Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Rev. Stephen M. Merrill. Methodist piscopal Bishop, of Chicago, died at eyport, N. J., aged S0 years. President McCall. of the New York ife Insurance Company. was order d to demand ".Judge'" Andrewv amilton 's return to tell the investi ating committee about the disburse 2ent of the . yellow-dog fund." Charged With Peonage. Gaffney. Special.-Deputy United tates Marshal A. L. Hallman re rneikd from Blacksburg where he ar estedl Johnu Mart in. Thomas Martmi id Ellen Martin, charged wvith p)eon e. The parties are all white. They ie residents of the northeastern aart of Cherokee county and are harged with holding a boy. Fitzhugh Thite in peonage. They were car ed before United States Commis oner E. A. Trescott, at Blacksburg. .. cr ey gav a .$500 bond each BLEASE TRIAL' OPND Change of Venue Denied by Judge Memminger. Siluda, SPeeial.-lWhen edr iir on vened Thursday morning t1he case of the State against E. S. Blease. eharg ed with murdef, was called. The so licitor and Mr. T. S. Sease. who is assisting in the prosecution, formally. moved for a change of venue. the mo tion being based upon the affidavits of 299 eitizens of the conty that they did not believe the State could obtain a fair and impartial trial. Defend ant's counsel in reply. read the affi davits of 325 ditizens who swear that a fair and impartial trial in this case can be had in Saluda county. In ad dition to. these affidavits were submit tevd hv 20 eitizens who stated that they had signed affidavits for a change of venue under a misapprehension. Besides these. defendant 's counsel submitted affidavits of the county supervisor of Saluda county, the slip erintendent of education. several mag istrates in the county. those of an ex lupervisor and an ex-sheriff. The so lieitor. in presenting his side of the case stated that this 'was a rare case and should not be tried by the strong friends of either side for it matters not how the case should terminate. improper motives would be suspected. The-ailidavits show that a State sena tor from this county is charged with the killing of another man almost qually as popular. and that under such cirenmstances it would indeed be difficult to procure a jury free from bias and prejudice. The affidavits as well as the records show that the State could not get representation at the local bar, but that on the other hand. every member of the legal fra ternity at this place represents the defendant. The purpose of all judicial investi -ations is to get a trial even above suspicion. In spite of the fact that the- sympathy is alwayS*with the de fense in cases of this kind the State shows by the affidavits of 299 men that there is no probability of a fair trial in Saluda county. All that the State asks is that it be transferred I to some county where thereis on rea on to believe bias or prejudice ex ists. When the affidavits on behalf of the defendant had been read the solicitor sked for time to procure other affi davits for the State. This Judge Mim minger promptly refused. At the conclusion of Mr. Sease's argument Judge Memmiuger held that the showing made by the State was in uthicient and declined the motion. TO EXTEND C. & L. Work on Extension of Chesterfield & Lancaster 4ailroad From Ruby to Gum'Springs Now in Progress.. Cheraw. Special.-Mr. A:.~ G.Page, eneral superintendent andoie~ off the largest stockholders of the Chester-. field Lancaster Railroad is authority for the statement that -the road is to extend immediately from Ruby. the present -teriminus, to Gum Springs, a distane' of about eight miles.' Ahe work of cutting out the right of way being now in progress. Maj. Charles H. Scott, a prominent and experiene ~d civil engineer of Elliins, West i~r ginia. has charge of the survey of the extension and will personally puper N'se the construction of the work,, For a number of years he was con nected -with the engineering depart mnent of the Cheaspeake & Ohio rail road and recently has been employed -by the Hon. Hem-y Gassaway Danis mn the construetitont -railway work in W~est Virginia. 'The extension of the C. & L. Rail roadl from Ruby will follow what is kn,.n as the upper rouite. with sever al slight alter'tions in the line of suir ve. ro <Ruby to Giun Springs~ it wi'll go a little south of the old nor thern survey, leaving Mgt. Croghan to th right a short ~distance.; several thousand dallars being saved by this slight alteration. From Gum Sprmngs t-he road will be built to Fox Place, and from'there to the river; it js hard' to say which route it will take. but likely the upper one. via -Dudley, toucing the river near -the Wildeot stream opposite the' little town d Trdesville. in Lancaster county. To Pledge; S. C. Farmers. Coubia. S. "C., tSpcial..-Secre tar F. H-. Weston, of the South Car oliiia .dis-isio'nof -he southern dto Association'in an interview said Td? I i in receipt of instruer tions from headquarters in Atlanta to institute'a. movement tvward securny~ pledges from th'e farmers foi- the cot ton which they now' have og~ hand for 13 ents. "We know that there is a most ac tive decman'd for dry goods and thmt the mills have not the cotton neces sar to run them to fill these con trvts. The association considered 11 cents a faii- but iiot unreasonable price for cotton, but inl view' of the :ei y aggressive campaign that has been instituted against cotton mn the last few days it would be absurd for the Southerri Cotton Association to stand by and see the producers o>f cotton t'hroughout the South despoil edl of millions of dollbrs. "We must convince the pinniers of the world that the price of cotton is to be fixed b~y the producer and not by the speculator. pr~pose to pay these canvassers for their work.' Barn Burned Near Gaffney. G;afney. Special.-The crib and barn of Mr. -J. F. C. Seruggs. who ives in the western part of Cheroked 'ounty, was burned Wednesday even ng entailing a loss of three cows and all the corn and forage of Mr. erggs. The insurance on the des rayed property amounts to $110..The fre is thought to have been the work f an incendiary. This is the third lire which has ocurred in that vicini t within the i'at fwelve mnonths. Notes of Southern Cotton Mills and Other manfacturing Enterprises. Watkinsvifle, Ga.-Watkiasville is to have a $1W0,000 eotte6naill at an early date. A company ls een or ganized to place the new mill in oper ation. At the head of the company as presi'dent, secretary and treasurer is Hon. E. B. Thompson, of Qeonee county, one-of the best armers in this State and also a well known busi ness man. A. J. Baxter. of High Shoals, is to. be -the superiftendent of the new mill. Lr. .Bait- is a man of wide experience in the mill busi ness.. The directors are- A. W.-Ash foi-d; A. C. Jackson. Daye Osborne, Henry Thomas and . T. nCrowley. n addition to- the establishment of the new eotton mill pla%) the company will also establish a water. works and electric light plant that 'ill serve the purpbse 6f the- cotton imill and at the same- time give -the..town: of Watkins ville a good. supply of water for domestie uses and fire protection and light the streets of the twn. with incandescent lights. Graham, N. C. .The ,Leo% Cotton Mill Co. takes over and will operate the plant of the Voorhees Manufact uring Co.. -at-Grham, N-.:T.be mill has 1248 spindles, 136 looms, dyeing equipment, steam. powerplagt,etc,for manufacturing cloth*. Its iailinerv is bod ina-ris intil6ing.three stories igh, 75x121!feet; t17r i6 also a loppe-ho se.lye-hous Ahid: - loiler house. The Leota corporation was reported several weeks ago as incor porated with capital stock of 125. 000 by Messrs. Jas. V. Pomeroy, Wm. E. White and J. H. White. Mr. Pom erog has been 'electe e ry . Lineville, Ala. Vend Lewis rosA& Co., have pulAfia t rge farm ofJ. T. Smith and will put up a cotton mill soon. They have also closed a deal for shoals on the Talla poosa river abov& tie -Imouth of Crooked creek,. .vhere they will install an ele'etric plari-to operate-th cotton mill and furnish power. ,for other machinery at this lace.' Athins, Ga. The Stai Tire'ad Mills Capt James- White, proprietor, are planning to effect exterisive enlarge ments next ;year, and the capacity kill be nearly' doubled. Some 5,000 spindles :will be added and electri city will be used for motive power. The star mill, now has 7,000 spindles (ring) in place, and makes farns. Besides this enlargement, Captain White will develop the power of thie Barnett Shoals on the Oconee riyer, and..Utiliz it . migs trnsmit tigiexrergyylerii Atlanta, Ga. W. H. Carter, has about .a-ompleted arrangements to build a cotton bag factory and .later a11,000,000& cottonrilt 'st-Mempis Tenn. He .has interested I. F. Peters. B. W. Iirsch .and~iB. J. .m , of Menphis, ifisipro .i*n a $30,000 company will be fori to build the-bg factory first. Charkote, X. C. The Orie is are to be sold on the 25th o~this month at public sale, by F.G. n ston, plaintif, for debt. It is v ble property, consisting of two br ac tories with 13,200 spindles an p20 looms The' lot 'contains 13 1-2 *s ind there are 13 tenemn't ho . It has been, ascertained: that ~Y~id . Clark is, the'promnoter of thie ne' t ton factory company regarding ~ch' there have been -rumors at .Cha4te, N.. C. .*A capital ste og' 50 is contemplated., If. the plan mdrm~i lizes. the -product will be coarse~eot ton yarns. - Opelousas, ILa. Steps Nare Vn taken for the erection of a cottd e~ tory here. -Messrs. Little and La er, of this pldabeigi deyorted isthe interested parties. New Orleans, La. It is most griga ble that- the Lane and Mag'innis mills will consolidate. Meetigs otfhe stockholders were called for the'ith, presumaly to consider the deal( . all subscribed', an~d givinig employ ment-to 300 -personrsnorassured for this city. Spinniny liill asid alt 4the" franchises and real and personal property of the Madison Manufacturing Company, were sold at auction.MIonday in accor danceavith's recent decree of the Un ited States Supreme Court. gained by the Farmers' Loan & Trust Company. of New York. . The mill .has about 15.000 spindles- andiintil suspension' enployed' 2.50 people. The Charlotte Tubing Company is the latest industrief. enterprise to be launched in Charlotte.. Drs..G. A. and M. A. Blaind and J1. S. Loughead are the incorporators and ah application for a charter was made-recently. The company will be capitalized at $20,000. The company will at once begin the erection of a plarit near the city for the manufacture of cotton mill tubes along modern and improved lines. Whitney, N. C. . It is reported that contracts have been closed with the Whitney Reduction Company to fur nish 6,000 horse-power of electrical energy at the four Cannon mills--one at Concord and three at Albemarle. The aggregate amount of :'.e contract will be between $123,000 and $135,000 per year. Spray, N. C. Mule-spun yarns on I the woolen system will be mnaufact ured by the .'.nericau Thread Comn pany, recently organized by B. Frank Mebane. - -