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. ? r- .' i v. The Lancaster News LEDGER 1852 REVIEW 1878 ENTERPRISE 189 J VOL. 3. NO. 2. SEMI-WEEKLY. . . LANCASTER. S. C., OCTOBER 12. 1907 PRICE-FIVE CENTS PER COPY. The Cotton Conference, | I Middle Man to be Eliminated --Spinners Anxious to Buy Direct f'om Planters. Atlanta, Ga , Oct. 8.?That the time ia not lar distant when the cotton planters of thy South will sell their product direct to the spinners of Europe and America instead of through the nritldle man, in bales gin-compressed at the plantation with methods in which loss has been reduced to a minimum, was in dicated by today's discussion be- | fore the international conference ot pnttrtn irrnoruro o>.<t jniiitrnfo ? - w?< V" p??\/T?V?r? (?IIU OJ711J UVi D More than 500 delegates were present, nearly a hundred ot these representing the great mills of Germany, Great B'i'iau, Prance, Italy, Spain and Portugal, with an MLgrega'e wealth m farm lands, coMon crop and mills ot nearly $4,000,000,000. Spinnero representing hun cireus ot nulla and millions of spindles (otd the planters that they were not only willing but anxious to buy their cotton direct from the planter, just as soon as the planter can deliver direct. Big planters and representatives of the Farmers' TTninn told the spinners of Europe that already they were organized, had built a chain ot cotton warehouses, had perfected a business system by which the spinners could purchase au almost unlimited supply of graded cotton, and were ready to eliminate the antquated method of selling through a middle man. Hut," said tierr Arthur Kutller, of Vienna, if you planters wsh to trade direct with us, you must give us better seA^ce than the merchant.*' Action furthering this condition took concrete form in the unanimous adoption by the conference ot a resolution present ed by the committee on trade relations between growers and of SDinners. Tnis resolution declar ed that much of the present difficulty iu handling cotton could be eliminated if the growers would adopt what is known as 'he warehouse system and establish selling agents in Europe and America. Further Proceedings of Cotton Conference?Permanent Organization to be Effected. 4 i 1 k ? / It \?/ I ? 1 /lunuiu, *7.?> vv null III* plan adopted by thn International conference of cotton grower* and spinners goes into effect the cotton industry of the world from the time ot planting seed to the time the mills turn out their goods will be under one great organization of planters and spinners. The international 'conference this afternoon decided to make s- the organization permanent, and in doing this will invite the Con. tineptal Spinners association of % Europe aud Sou Island Cotton Growers association ot'the United States to become affiliated with their association. The plan _ adopted is subject to the action of the bodies now forming the international conference. The conference at its session today to?<k an action that it is believed will soon result in vast improvement in the methods ot I putting raw cotton into shape I tor handling by spring with a i consequent saving to them of i fylly $'25,000,000 a year which is now lost by reason of slipshod ( methods of baling. < A shftrp fight, was made over Congressman Heflin's resolution calling on the United Slates gov eminent and British parliament to regulate cotton speculation, but the matter was finally referred to dfferent bodies for independent action. The Farmers' Union and Southern cotton association later took favorable action on this reso uiion. Government crop reports also came ill lor a share of ciiticism, but here, too, the cooler'-nee refused to unite in putting the great organization behind the movement favoring the discontinuance ot government reports. The international coniereuce adj jurned late this afternoon. The first meeting of the new world-wide organization may yuHPiuiy oe neiu in farie next year. News in Brief. William Jennings Bryan will speak in Spartanburg next Friday night. . . . A colored woman dropped dead in Winston-Salem 1 Wednesday at^he sight of a telegrain handed her.... Edmund L. Patton, formerly president iOt Erskine College, died in Washington Tuesday night. He was at one time a protessor in 'he South Carolina University ... . Leroy Davidson, a wellknown citizen of Charlotte, is charged with running a blind tiger.... The famous C?seie Chadwick (lied in prison Thurs d?y. She was baptized in bed Tuesday... Leila Jordan, six years old, dropped dead in Salis bury, N. C., Thursday while returning home from school. ... A 2-year-old child fell into a htnk et of wa'er in Greensboro, N. C., t Thursday and wa-. drowued.... Three men were killed and several injured in Ohio yesterday by the falling of a derrick where a railroad bridge is being erected . . . .Ex President Greyer Cleveland is reported to be a very sick man. . . .The body of Miss Jen nie L Stevens, formerly organist in the Wesley Methodist church of Chicago, was found Thursday lloating in the Chicago river. There were indications of Mur der....A difficulty occurred Wednesday at Ward's Gap, Va., between Orvill McMillan and 8) dney Tow, brothers in-law, in which both men were shot, probably fatally. ? H' Before and After. How "Swigs" of Corn Li-1 quor Made the Sorry Crops of Two T^Cr Heels Look. ,lJ. H. M." in the Oharh tte Observer: One* morning between d^ybre >1^ atid sunrise, in the Cape Fear section o: North Carolina, Billv ^ >?i?*. a <?iiehorse farmer, < ,<( e i on' oi the door of h's hou e. dad m a striped calico shi.r and liome-q>nn trousers, held u one tinllus 9M8pende't. ban-f'iL r. d mirl %*>? .? ? - J - ? patteriim about ill* yard, looking alter tlifg and that. It a warm, "mushy" morning in late summer with a thick clamm> mist falling, through which the smoke tdowly curled its way from the ki'chen chimney, where Bill's wile was baking g ?d a biscuits, and frying white mea'. It w a> a "saft" morning as Mee Dodi$ in rtcott'9 "Saint Ruian's Weil,*' described it to the Indian nabi b in the ? dice <^l >'quire? Biinllo'so ? Bill Sears stood meditatively scatching with his big toe the side of a raz ir-back hog, ly ing against the p'g pen, he sft w a man trudging up the road car rying a lougKtrir g back vali-e, that sort ot a grip-rack that lias a mouth like a ullegator's, can hold a barn-lull, and never has anything ?n it* As the man got nearer, Bill recognized Tom Graves, another farmer ot about hie heft, living two or three milea down toe road, and hail ing him : uHellof Tom. Whar you off to tliisarly in the day?'' VOff for Texas, Bill," said the newcomer, as he slowed up to the little gate, and rested the valise on the top rail ol the fence. , "To Texas 1 the land rates!" ' Ye-; I'll starve todeaib here. A fellow ain't got no show. My crop won't nan out. piinimi. - , ? "B" " rtin a seed lick through the winter." "You're more'n half right, Torn. Darn ine if I ain't good der rr.ind to go with you. My corn's not knee-high to a duck, a'd, biame rav hide, it it didn't begin a-tasseling before it got we 1 out of the giou id. Whar about in Texas you aim to pull up, Tom? Along about El Paso?" * ' Wouldn't be surprised it 1 land about thar, Bill." "Well, I've got a brother livine arotfnd there They sav he's doing well, find's got monev. I wish if you see him you'd tell him f say for the Lord's sake to send me a little^help to keep from petering plumb out. But, Tom, I've got a jug of good li quor under the bed. Let's go in, and drink to your trip," Seated on the side of the bed, each tipped the jug up, and took a lone, long pull. "So you're g-g go-ing t^Tex as?" continued Bill, coughing I and his eyes red with the strength of the drink, ^Yes; I think I'd better go. Bu' I tell you, Bi I (. there's come out in tny crop vet." ' So there is mine A< I said, my corn's sorter small, but, Lord* with good seasons it'll head, and make hefty corn. 1 wonder jist w li ?i rsi V\r?n o tlx.i -- . **. ..w/Mo mac ui '? un wi 111 > LiU in. If I knew IM wri'e >o him; perhaps he's a suffering right now, and I'd give him . ? lilt Lel'9 take another drink." "Lord, Tom." said Sears, smack'iiii his lips alter his drain, and lying ba^k luxuriously < u the bed, "you'<i have no ftill 'o put oil' o T^xas, il you was fixed like mo. I jisi don't betieve that when I di- my potatoes they kin natura ly lav on the ground. Th y'll spill over the top rail of 'he teuce." 'I'm fixed jist as good as you ever dared to be, Bill. You jisi orier gee my chufaa. Hang me if I don't believe there's a bushel 10 1 he hill." "Let's have another," snid Bill, j straightening up, and reaching lor the jug. The pessimistic drawl, the calamity whine, were gone, ai d their voices rang with a don't-care exultant optimism. while the ruddy glow ot the corn whiskey had knocked the lallow out of their lantern-jaws. VV hen you frit to Texas." began Bill, pu'ting the jug slowly down? "Damn Texas!" broke in Tom. "What's a man like me want with Texa>-? Why, I kin lay in bed, and hear my corn tairly cracking; and the pea vines 19 jist reaching out lor somethin' solM to ho'd outer as they grow. "Well, Tom, you know we was a-talkin' about Texas; and I wa~ jist going to say when you git to Texas, if you see my brother, tell hjm 1o go to Jericho, poor devil. If he needs any thing? tell him to draw* on me for the whole amount, aud if lie needs it bad, and needs it quick, let him wire, and I'll telegraph it to him, be God! Let's take another." Father Wants to Exhibit Deformed Child for Money. Columbia, Oct. 9.?'/ W Walker, a Kershaw cuntv farm er living near Camden, is here trying to make arrangements to exhibit during fur week a queer human freak ol nature, the subinnf ii<f liiu /*n'i? 1 ^_onu? ^''1 I I B """ ?-.T ?=? ?.U daughter. ' Vhe is 16 years old, weil developed, well formed, of f^od sight and good hearing, but she has never suckled, never talked, never walked, never sat alone and never chewed a mouthfn^of food, liaised her on liqnius," said he, spelling off her accom plishinents and wonders. Mr. Walker says he has spent all his possessions raising the child and is now tryirg to make a living by exhibiting her. j Do you take The News? . \ - - . . . . . .V- . . Need of Winter Work on Farms. Southern Cultivator. One of the greatest needs on the average Southern farm nowadays is more work in winter. Kver sine I could remember it has seemed to me that life on tlie common Georgia farm is loo much of a happy go-lucky s'ylo. To get results in anything one has to keep everl igtinf.lv at. it, so to sp' ak. For years I have heard staid old fanners discussing (all plowing and spring . piowiug, out i have eeen too lit tie ol it in actual observation. There used to be an idea, which is still prevalent, concerning results from 'all and winter plowing. Some argued it was injurious to plow deep in the fall, others that it was ab surd to plow in the springtime to any great dep'h. The truth of the matter is th. t good plowing at any time when the soil is in good condition is a good tiling I to do. Usually in the spring the j subsoil is too wet to plow and when it is turned up, or broken in this condition, damaging result i are likely to occur. The tail presents 1 lie most acceptable time for plowing, for generally the soil is in excellent Iihape. In addition to this the benefits accruing through the retention of winter rains in the soil is something that can not be | overestimated. However, another of the chief benefits lies in the fact that through deep plowing in the tall the soil is prevented from washing and the land preserved in splendid shape. Another consideration comes from the fact that if plowing is done in the I all and winter when there is not a tush of work it will lorseii the amount of work necessary during the summer reason when everything seems to need attention a' once. Farmers who have not tried this plan will find that it will pay handsomely on investments placed in tlie soil. J. O. McAuliffe. Opening of Colored G*aded School. Mr. Editor: This school opened on the 7ih with an increased enrollment over last year. Prospects are bright for a succes-fu! session. ??eh teacher h?s got ten down to work. The Opening exercises were conducted b.v Rev. Dr. King, assisted by Revs. G Lr Black and N. N. Gregg. After reading of the scripture and prayer, some time ly remarks were made by them as to the duty of parents and children to the Institution. They bade us God speed and left their prayers and good wishes for a successful session. M. V. Lee, Prin. ?The Pleasant Grove Baptist ch urch, colored, had a "rally" last Sunday to raise money for the pastor'* salary. The sum of' $t?0.61 wa* realize'!. One member, George Reed, gave $5. ? ?I iiyaitMiM