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The Press and Banner. iJ ZP-^IRT SZEQQIETID. J SANK TO DEATH. Sixteen People Drowned in At tempting to Cross a River. A FERRY BOAT SINK! Ill the Middle of the Tombigbee an All the Occupants Except Two Ar Drowned?One of the Victims Wa the Son of the United States Engi neer and the Fifteen Others Wer Negroes. Leslie Verneuille, a white boy, o Mobile, and fifteen negroes wer drowned in the Tombigbee river a McCrew's shoals, shortly after noo: Thursday, while crossing the river i: a ferryboat from the government' works where they were employed They were on their way to dlnne when the accident occurred. About midstream the little boa drifted beyond control of the mei Into the rapids and soon capsized Two of the negroesj in the boa scrambled on top as it overturns but the other occupants were throw; into the swift current and wer drowned almost instantly. On ac count of the strong undercurrent res cues were impossible. The young white boy drowned i the son of W. B. Verneuille, the chie engineer in charge of the governmen work at the shoals. Their home i at Oakdale, a surburb of Mobile. Th boy was not employed at the work but was there on a visit to his fathe and was returning home when th accident occurred. % The Tombigbee river at the poin where the boat capsized is ver treacherous and has long been con sidered too dangerous for naviga tion. McGrews shoals is about on hundred.miles up the river from Mo bile and there is no telegraph or tel ?phone communication with th place. GIVEN SIX YUAKS. * Berry Pleaded Guilty to Forgery nn< Embezzlement. G. Raymond Berry, ex-county sup erintendent of education of Mario -county, having pleaded guilty of foi gery, was sentenced by Judge Dants ler to six years in the State peniten "* *"* ? 1 AA tiary ana a nne 01 jiuv. The prisoner submitted to th court a written statement which re cited that the defendant was the onl support of an invalid wife and thrc small children; that the defandan "himself was threatened with a ser] ous pulmonary trouble; that th beenn made good to the..Sierntn amounts misappropriated had a been made good to the county, an that the defendant and. his fami'.j one of much respectability, had sui fered long and deep humiliation c account of the pending charge against him. The statement ende with a netition that the court be a merciful as possible in view of a the circumstances. Solicitor Spears stated that b "would consent to the court being ? merciful as possible, and Judge Dar tzler stated that out of regard fc Ms physical condition he would nc impose the full seven years al'.owe by law, but that it would be necessar for him to impose a heavy sentenc as a warning to other public office; who might be derelict in their dut; PLAIN TALK FROM BISHOP. He Thinks the Pulpit Xeeds "Moi Virility and Less Effeminacy. "What we want is more virilit and less effeminacy,"" said Bishop Y\ A. Candler before the assemble Methodist ministers of Atlanta at tb regular conference on last Monday. "We've got to be more vigoroui We have a big work to perform, an we want to show that we mean litis jiess." Bishop Candler was talking of tb layman's missionary movement, an the recent meeting at Knoxvilh Tenn., and said he had noticed a ter dency in the men to drop away froi the church. "They are leaving things to th women," he continued. "This is n' I hard to account for. Pretty little cur Ied up speeches and curled up were' doii't draw men. They draw menaway. Its plain, straight talk ; ? hard works and business actions tlu attack the kind of people we ar after. We need virility. Thf mo must be fed with something meal.' not shocked to death with adjective: Seminary stuff won't do." A NOBLE GIFT. Fifteen Thuosand Dollars Given fc an Infirmary. TT T-i ~C V,? Mrs. Ann n. uj. umuu ue ^ given $15,000 for the erection of a infirmary at the South Carolina Un versity in memory of her nephew, / Wallace Thompson, who was a devoi ed alumnus of the institution. Th announcement was made' recentl and the donation was accepted ver grratefully by the trustees. i MUCH LOSS OF LIFE. Startling Figures of Dangers of Travel in New York City. From August 5 to September 1 the % ) Accidents Averaged One in One Hour an Twenty-nine Minutes. Every fifteen hours a life is lost in ( New York city under the wheels of a e passenger car, surface, elevated or steam. This fact has been brought s out by Secretary Travis H. Whitney, i. of the public service commission in a table giving a record he had kept e of transportation accidents from August 5 to September 1. In these 26 days, 145 persons were f hurt in car collisions, and 465 in col e lisions between cars ana venicies. Once in each hour and twenty-nine minutes of the period some person n was struck by a car, making a total a of 405. Sixty-four persons were ins jured in boarding cars and 1,263 I were injured in alighting from them, which goes to show that at least that r number of New Yorkers have not yet learned to face forward when' getting ,t off street cars. a Employes to the number of G41 I. were hurt; 33 persons were hurt ip t derailments; 26 prospective patseni gers fell down stairs and 1881 peril sons were hurt in unclassified ways, e A total of 5,500 were either killed or :- iniured in the 26 days. " KILLED AT THK NAVY YARD. s f Dies in Fall of Forty Feet to Bottom t s of the fit. e The second victim of the braces at s the quay wall being built at the Charr Jeston navy yard dock met his death e Wednesday when Joseph Smith, colored, fell from a brace of the south * coffer dam wall into the pit over 40 * feet below and was crushed to death. l" The Post says Smith, who was employed by the New York Jewel 1-Cone tinental Filtration Company, as a laborer went to work Wednesday afternoon at about 4 o'clock. He was too e impatient to get his working number, and instead of waiting for the timekeeper, C. A. Estes, to come to him on the north wall as was the custom, he started to cross to the timekeeper. ^ In making his way over he stepped ?a t,roi<o anr! feesitatine for 'a UplSU u WI fc?vv, w moment looked backward. As he did I ?- so he brushed his shoulder against n the stone work and fell from the support to the bottom of the basin below. He hit with great force and life t" was crushed out of his body imme^ diately. His face was mashed in, and e his bones broken by the fall. y LIES TEN HOURS IX COFFIN e [t Gruesome Experience of a Victim of Fraternity Initiation. e f To lie for ten hours in a coffin, to 11 see through the glass covering over d his face the glimmer of candles, was r. the fate of Roy Lorraine, a student l- of the Dubukue High School, who >r was the victim of "frat" initiation, s ' The young man. being of the d nerveless kind, was to be submitted s to the most trying order. Gagged 11 and bound he was taken under cover of night to a farm in the vicinity of e the city. Here he was escorted to a is> cellar long in disuse and led down the i- stairway. ?r Candles were lighted and placed >t about In niches in the wall and young d Lorraine, blindfolded, was induced to y lie down in what seemed to him a :e box, and the cover was fastened. The 'S covering soon was removed from his f- eyes, and he awoke to the realization that he was in a coffin. There was sufficient air to keep him from smothering and he remain e ed there all through the night. Early in the morning he was released by some friends. y TO COLONIZE XEGKOES. Company Seeking Incorporation in State of California. s. The project to establish a large ._ colony of negroes in southern California is being promoted by an association to seek state incorporation, g One of the promoters is LieutenantColonel Allensworth, formerly a 'I chaplain in the army. Several million dollars is said to represent the wealth of the negroes and back of e the movement. l Colonel Allensworth said that comI mittees of the association will soon i visit the 90,000 acre track in Riverside and San Diego Counties and is (1 satisfied that they will purchase the Ll land. The colony, he said, w-ill not be ^ communistic, the laud simply will be . offered in small tracks at low prices. s' The object is to esta' 4ish a prosperous colony where negroes will have the opportunity to work under favorable conditions. Literature describing the plan will be sent broadcast throughout the South. >r N COTTON BURNED. t3 Big Loss Caused by Flames Aboard n Steamer at Havre. iL Six hundred bales of cotton on t- board the British steamer Madawase ka, which arrived at Havre, France, y Thursday from Galveston, were dey stroyed by fire Thursday night. 'The [loss is $48,000. j f SUFFERED AGONIES THE BOND CASE, Decided Against fhe State Treasurer on Last Friday. BY A COURT EN BANC. The Decision of the Court Says That the Bonds Bought in Good Faith ** x n. n 1 J wusi Dt Jii-Yi'iiuugcu lur uermiittirs When Offered by Those Who Hold Them?Suits Will be Brought Against Three State Treasurers. By a very close decision the judiary of South Carolina, sitting en banc, decided that the State treasurer should issue certificates of stock for bonds taken from the treasurer's office by a clerk after being offered for cancellation and placed upon the market. The decision means that Attorney General Lyon will at once have to commence suit against the State treasurers who employed the clerk in question. About $18,000 in principal and interest is at stake and the action of the court is far reaching and regarded as very Important in financial circles. < Some three years ago one of the clerks in the State Treasurer's office was arrested charged with misappropriating State funds and bonds. It was discovered that bonds offered for cancellation and exchange for certificates had not been cancelled, but again placed upon the market. Last April one of the bonds, owned by Edward Ehrlich of Columbia, was offered for exchange for a certificate, which is not negotiable unless endorsed. The exchange was f^fused by the State treasurer, on the advice of Attorney General Lyon, and in July the interest was refused. Suit was at once brought, mandamus proceedings, to compel the State treasurer to recognize the stock. The supreme court being equally divided on the matter it was decided to call an enbanc session of the judiciary of Kz* Qfoto fnnRtttutional Questions be tUU UVUbV) ing involved. Friday questions were argued before the entire court, with the exception of Judge Aldrich, who is ill and,unable to attend. For the State appeared Attorney General Lyon and J. William Thurman of Edgefield and Mr. W. T. Aycock of Columbia appeared for the petitioner. The opinion of the court is written by Associate Justice Jones and is concurred in by Justice Woods and Circuit Judges Watts, Gage, Dantzler, Memminger and Wilson. After stating the facts the opinion says: The Court's Decision. "No marks to indicate cancellation were ever placed upon said bond, although the statute expressly declared that such surrendered bond shall immn/iiofoiv nnnn such surrender be cancelled and filed by the State treasurer with the permanent records of his office. It is admitted that relator is a bona fide holder for value before maturity and without notice. The general rule of law Is that a thief of personal property can .not convey to a purchaser, however innocent, any title to the stolen property as against the real owner. But from the highest considerations of public policy the law excepts from the rule negotiable instruments acquired in good faith befdre maturity and without notice and makes the title of such holder good against the world." The opinion goes on to say that "the State bond cases, 12 S. C., show that a coupon bond of the State, valid in its inception, is a negotiable security paper incurs the same responsibilities which attach to individuals or corporations in such cases. There is no question that the bond in question was not valid when originally put in circulation, and it being admitted that relator is a bona fide holder thereof at this time, his title can in no wise be affected by the surrender of the bond to the treasurer by son^e antecedent holder and the subsequent theft by means of which it was again put in circulation. The mofVinri whinh thp State had adonted to take such bond out of circulation by cancellation was not complied with by those intrusted by the State with that duty. The direction to cancel bonds was designed to prevent the very possibility which has happened and the failure of the State officers to comply can not be treated as a circumstance of no consequence, for the absence of marks of cancella: tion make it possible for thp theif to put the bond in circulation." The Discenting Opinion. The discerning opinion is by Justice E. H. Gary, and is concurred in rMiiof Tnettfp Pnnfi ami .Tudsres Klough, Prince and Hydrick. After reviewing the history of the case he says that the first question is in the right of mandamus of the petitioner. Bringing us the case of Lord vs. Treasuruer, the court held that, "mandamus win oniv 10 emurut; a ministerial duty * * * not a discreationary duty. The opinion then says that when a bond is surrendered and a certificate of stock issued in exchange, it loses its legal effect as a subsisting obligation of the State, Cancellation was not a condition precedent upon which the validity of the certificate of stockk which was to be issued in exchange depended and such requirement was required sim Woinan Tortued to Death to Ois- , pel Evil Spirits Before She Was Released by Death. v I Son, Danghter and Three Others ' Gave Her Violent Treatment A report from Qhicago says five , people, members of the sect of Par- ' hamites, are under arrest at Zion City, accused of torturing to death . Mi's. Letitia Greenlaugh, 64 years old, a cripple for twenty years with rheumatism, to show their belief in the relgion they profess. The people under arest are: Walter and Jennie Greenlaugh, son and daughter of the woman; Harold Mitchell, Mrs. Harold Mitchell, and a Mrs. SijMth. ' * 1 The sect of Parhamltes was found- ? ed about a year ago, by Charles Par- j ham, and numbers about 200. The < members originally belonged to Dow- jj ie's church. Their theory of sickness j is evidence of the possession of the j body by evil spirits.' , The condition of Mrs. Greenlaugh s convinced her son and daughter and ^ the others arrested that she possess- ( ed the evil spirit. They knelt by her bedside and after praying commenced j worn.. , The arms of Mrs. Greenlaugh, stiffened by rheumatism were twisted about in order that the devii might be driven out. The cries of the aged woman were considered those of the evil spirit, and were greeted with triumphant shouts. After a course of ths violent treatment Mrs. Greenlaugh not only became so weak she could not use her limbs, but became incaable of making any motions. Then her neck was twisted for some time. At the coroner's Inquest young Greelaugh testified that his mother's consent was obtained before the treatment was commenced. TWENTY CENTS FOR COTTON j Some* of the Long Staple Kind Sold at That Price. i The Newberry Observer says: Mr. S. M. puncan of Jalapa sold two bales of cotton in Newberry on Wed' nesday for $215.60. One bale weighed 507 pounds, the ocher 572, and they brought twenty cents a pound. It was long staple, and he still has the seed, which he can sell 'for seventy-five cents a bushel. Mr. Duncan planted 57 acres of this kind and will get from twenty-five to thirty bales. SUICIDE FOLLOWS CONFESSION. Aged Illinoisan Kills Himself by Eating Paris Green. , Cyrus Baldwin, eighty-five years of age, one of the wealthiest residents of Kane county, 111., killed himself by eating paris green after he confessed he had murdered his wife by smashing her skull with a hammer. Mrs. Baldwin was found dead and was believed to have been murdered by her husband. * TO WIPE OUT DEBT Major Fant Gives Ten Thousand Dollars to His Church. Major J. K. Fant, of Union, who '"aaIt ormra l?lrot "RahHct uieu mat wccn, 5a*c A Church of that city, $10,000 to pay oft a debt on it. He was a very rich man, and prominent in business affairs. ply to prevent fraud after transaction between the holder of the bond and the States had terminated. "The question," the opinion continues, "whether the petitioner is a bona fide holder is not ministerial but strictly judicial in ts nature and the action of the treasurer is not I oMhiant tn review hv the P.Olirt." ^ OUUJCV.U VW ?-wf ?v ? The attorney general, however, did 1 not urge this question nor the ques- ' tion as to the actual notice the hold- * er had that the bond was not good. c However, the right of the treasurer * to issue a certificate of stock is a * question of power and must be de- 1 termined under the act of 1892, 'c which clearly shows that the legisla- * ture had under contempation but one issue of stock i:or a bond and the ^ treasurer is not authorized to make T a second issue. The "bond debt" cases are quoted to uphold this; where the court held that bonds in the hands of bona fide holders only be regarded as valdi debts. i x. iu. j AS lO LllfcJ lbSUitUlC u L auirmuuai stock. Justice Gary holds that if the act be construed that way there would be no reason why there should a not be a third and fourth issue. "The f case, as quoted above, that bonds is- r sued without authority of law are t void even in the hands of bona fide s holders is clearly law." The opinion S then holds that the duty enjoined t upon the treasurer to issue a second e certificate is ministerial; the court has not power in mandamus proceed- s ings and the action is in in effect a h CIfofA n r V* i r? Vi ic? nn T SUIl (tgaiuai LUC uiaiC) ?y uivu io uu- x constitutional. a As stated, this decision means a F suit on the bonds of Dr. W. T. C. Bates and Messrs. W. H. Timmerman "V and R. H. Jennings, the S:ate Treas- l< urers who employed the clerk. It is li presumed these suits will be started b at once. , ? v ^ ^ ^ n TALE OF THE SEA. Wrecked on a Bleak Island, Starving Sailors Tell a Horrible PTHDV ftC niCACTEID i ui\ i ur uiomo i tiv. rhey Watched Their Comrades Die t From Hanger and Exposure to the Storm?Real Story of Marooned Mariners That Chills the Blood? I Four of Them Perished From Hun* ger and Exposure. "' it.' The story of the wreck of the \merican bark Prussia, ,on Bleak Jtaten Itjland, Terra Del Fuego, "The and of fire," is a thrilling one. Six >f the crew have been landed at New, fork by the steamer from Montevido-'* Tour perished and three are in a hos>ital at Punta Arenas. The Prussia was > owned in San Francisco and IQ!1A^ frrtm \TAT?#Allr T 7a UA?A1% 1" fwiivu. Hum iivi v a.t iiiaivu x i , vith a cargo of coal for San Francis!0. Ou June 19 she was off Staten Isand. It. was bitterly cold. Capt rohnson was trying to make New fear's Island light. A storm came up n the night and the bark was ashore t wreck - before the danger was realzed. She broke up at once. Every nan .umped overbdard and 11 of the L3 reached a strip of land which was tomewhat sheltered by overhanging ocks. They kept warm as best ,they sould throughout the night. At lawn Sabata, the cook and Hamnond, a sailor, were missing. The Prussia was gone. The strip of land vas not more than 300 feet long and mpassable cliffs kept the men from 'scaping across the island. The captain ^as so exhausted thatle died early in the morning and va sburied on the beach. The men :ollected what wreckage they could, nade a fire, constructed what shelter hey were able, secured some cans of irovisions, a few biscuits and a barrel of pork and talked over means of ?scape. Carpenter Carl Stark was set to vork at once to build a small boat, He had no tools and had to make hem from iron in the wreckage. All lands helped, but it was a slow tedous jobt and they feared that their )rovislons would not last. It was decideed that two of their lumber would try to work over the nountains, and the lot fell to Porthin md Hosteth. These two scaled the ligh rocks and started across. After i few days Porthin returned, crawlng on his hands and knees.. Hs feet vere badly frozen and Hosteth, he reported had frozen to death. The food had given out. The rocks vere covered with limpets which the sailors collected, and they killed some team max euiertiu me tu?c. me seals, Rainey says, seemed tc acquire ivisdom, and after a few had been cilled avoided the place. The boat jeas finished after 30 days of hard tfork and Mate Hunter, Stark and Seine started off to .find New Year's Island and sent a.rescue party to ;heir mates. It was only thirty miles to the isand, but the frail shell in which they isked their lives had to be favored, md they avoided the open sea and worked in and out of the bays and inla+c Tt tnnt them rIy Hava tn each the lighthouse and they think ;hey went 100 miles. Lieut. Delgado, who is stationed at :he light, called for volunteers, and with six men in a whale boat, with tfunter acting at pilot started to res:ue the men still on Staten Island. The weather grew so bad that they, :oo, spent six days at it, and consumed more than half of the provisions they had taken aboard. The bad weather lasted and they lad to wait six days longer before ,-enturing on the voyage back., with ittle left to eat. Luckily, the voyage :o the light was a quick one, taking )nly one day. The sailors were carefully nursed at the light and sent on )y the tender Orestes to Punta Arenis. Porthin was: in the worst shape, ind it was feared that he would lose joth feet. From Punta Arenas the six men vho arrived at New York last week vere sent by steamship to Montevid!0. TRAIN VICTIM IDENTIFIED Ls Man Who Wanted Roosevelt to Collect Debt of $,10,000,000. The police believe that the body of i man killed by a train, which was licked up on the West Shore tracks lear Hackensack, N. J., on Friday is hat of Orlando Toland, the man who tartled the secret service men at iagamore Hill by apearing close to he President's house on Tuesday light. The man, who was undoubtedly inane. said that he had traveled from lis home in Oxford, Ala., to employ 'resident Roosevelt to collect for him . debt of $50,000,000 from John D. tockefeller. Toland said that he would start Vest to find Mr. Rockefeller to col?ct the debt. A description of Toand, received from his sister In Alaama, agrees with that of the dead aan. . | , ? COTTON KING || Sully, of New York, Talks About ;*';J|i the Staple ''"31 THE SHANAHAN CASE. The Jury Finds a Verdict of Not , Guilty Which the Judge Says the Defendants in the Case Will Not Believe i Themsel ves. . **&.?- I D. B. Bhannahan and Carrie E. j Pou, who at one time lived near Livingston in Orangeburg County, are in trouble in Columbia, where they were tried for adultery last week. Both fihonnohan Tl*,.. ? ?? auu cue iuu wuuiuu are white. Shannahan left his wife in take up with the Pou woman, who deserted \iier husband to go with Shannahan it "is alleged. The trial consumed the better part of two days 1 and resulted in the conviction of both ^ defendants, > - i The defendant was represented by n Mr. F. G. Tomkins, of Columbia, and ^ Mr. A. H.\Moss of the Orangeburg bar. Before the jury was drawn two & hours of the time of the court were consumed In hearing and determin- Sl ing motions made by counsel for the c defense. \ n A moton to quash the Indictment was overruled, although the judge c stated tnat tne arart or the indict- jj mentwasnot In accord with his views s* on what the required form should be and added that if he were the solid- c tor he would nol- pros the case and t] draw up a new indictment. A motion was then made to re- ^ quire the ' solicitor to elect upon ^ which charge in the indictment he [( would go to trial. This was objected to strenuously by>the counsel for the C| State, but Judge Johnstone ruled that . the trial would have to proceed upon only one' of the two charges or n "counts" in the indictment. The solicitor entered a nol pros as tfo the c< secqnd count In the indictment. This Is an Interesting case and J" Thursday attracted more than the usual attention. The prosecutor in the case is Mrs. D. B. Shannahan and she "was the first witness for the jj State. Mr. Pou, the husband of the ? woman with Whom it Is alleged Shan- ^ nahan is living in shame, was also in u court as a witness for the State, and g will be put up probably to testify t] that his wife has been livhjfly open- d ly with the first, named defendant. 11 Mrs. Shannahan testified that her husband had not been living with her h since January, 1906, and that she 0 begged him since that date to give up the Pow Woman and live with her * as man and wife should.. She also S testified that Shannahan carried on a 0 correspondence with the Pou woman P before he finally left her and went to living with his codefendant. . w Mrs. Shannahan testified that she P and the defendant, D. B. Shannahan, h were married in Orangeburg County ii In 1901. They had but one child, a ? daughter and she died on July 5 of n tuis year at tne nome 01 Mrs. anan- ? nahan. She told of a visit to her * husband's "home" and of getting d some of her own wearing apparel out f< of the trunk of her husband's alleged p paramour. She said that she was a offered $300 to compromise the case against \her husband, but declared S that she refused the offer and would d not agree to accept any money for a h settlement. ci After being out. for twenty-four a hours the jury in the case returned si with a verdict of not guilty. Turning to the jury, Judge John- a stone remarked in his most sarcastic c tone: "Gentlemen, the defendants do il not believe your vertict." b It was considered by the Court, w very evident, that the prosecution v had made out its case and many oth- o ers thought so too, but the jury did not see it that way. fl RESCUER IS REWARDED. i ? e Railroad Engineer Receives Check a n 3 With Another to Follow. A special from Kendall, Wis., says John Franklin, a Northwestern engi- sj neer, running between that place and it Sparta, has received a chpck for $10,- ni 000 with a promise of another for a saving the life of a woman at Devil's ir Lake a few weeks ago. tc Franklin, with his wife, was spending a few days at the lake. At [he m same time, Williamson, a wealthy in Chicago man, with his daughter and lu Miss Jenkins, a sister in law, also cc were encamped at the lake. tt One morning while out in a boat w the girl and Miss Jenkins rowed over as to a spring to get a drink. As Miss e) Jenkins attempted to get back into cc the boat she slipped, falling into the water, me impact arove me cran 01 from the shore, and although she Ti managed to get hold of the boat, she Us could not draw herself from the wa- w ter. Franklin rescued her just as her ro strenth was about falling her. cl PEOPLE DROWNED. Jj , th In Spain by Rains Which Lasted for ki ed Many Months. Eighty eight persons have been drowned in Spain and the entire Mal. . . . .. rv aga district is Inundated as a resun ^ of torrential rains, prevailing for 45 hours. The lowlands are covered with water to the depth of several feet. There is much suffering and in the military is distributing food to At refugees,^ da \ND ABOUT THE SOUTH 'M n Interview He Says the Consnmi* V$fS tion of Cotton by the World Will l Reach Fourteen Million Bales the rjnmincr Vm? n " m iuu?rreuicuon OI 1UU9 ' ' *$& 1 Close to Fulfillments?Will Spin ' ';^jM Oar Own Cotton. 1 In an Interview concerning cotton, . |9 )aniel J. Sully, said in New York on 'hursday . "I recall that my prediction ia 903 that within five years fifteen* ;j lillion bales of cotton wonld be used,. ? y -as considered very optimastic. 1 "I'll venture right hero to makat ? \ ome other predictions. /' j|8 "Within twenty-five years the* outhern states will spin fifty per? Syt; ent. of their own cotton, whereaar ow they export sixty per cent, of it.. ';ii? "Within twenty-five years fifty per* J? ent. of the spinning; industry of Engind will be situated in the southern!. J tates of America. "My prediction of 1903 Is veryV v.;$h| lose to fulfillment, and I predict that* ' lis coming year, the consumption off Dtton by the world will reach four? ; jen million bales (if it can be ob-=* iined) at bettet prices than ever be- V lra )re. "And this will bring back into thiac ( r||fl Duntry enormous quantities of gol<C istead of our exporting big quanties of it, to such an extent that from? /JS ctober, 1907, to July, 1908, the re? ^Ipt of gold into the United States? . ill exceed by fifty per cent, any im- * ix ort of gold ever known by the Amer-* :an people. , "Does^that look as if there Is any-* '.' * 3 ling the matter with American fl-* . ' .$? ance? Does that look as If Wall / vt|g treet of Egos, or hysterian phan-* >m chasers can ruin this country?^ ioes that look as if we were in dan- ^ er of war?. Does that look as lfl j- / iere is any reason why this is thet 1;Vj ay for the man with the patch om is pants? "What a hobo dream? And everyt obo at once began to have a dreamt f his exaggerated Ego, and to think? f le time had arrived when all the V " ^ realth and brains in the United ?';: tates will be comnianded to throw, f ff their clean linen and adopt hia atched habiliments. "There will never come the day. 'hen the man with the patch on hia >;Ih ants will rule America, because I ave shown In the foregoing it is an. levitable certainty that the laboring lan of the United States will be* : lore proud than ever that he ia ^ bundantly provided with all -he rants, can maintain his family as ho esires, and can save up his surplus, >r surplus he will have) from the % rogress of this nation which nothina jfyvj an stay! "The world outside the United! tates would be delightful to see the ay when the man with the patch on! is pants swayed America; but the onception is as absurd a^ the utter-> nee of trite epigram, devoid of sub* tance. "I cannot leave the topic of cotton! nymore than the American people an leave it if they would, or should ! they could, because it Is inseperaly identified with the advancement * * 'hich this nation is to make, an ad ancement entirely beyond the power f any .man to portray In words. "For years that tufty growth that ecked the southern belt was neglectd, half-scorned and abused specimen f vegetation began to hear th civil izd world shout across the Atlantic nd Pacific oceans, "Send us cotton!i. end us cotton!" _ "Then we began to take some no* ce of that scrawny plant, and begani4 ) appreciate that it bore for us at' ignificance that was to be written 1 the future in such revenues thai: o man dared measure their volume!| nd we don't begin to measure thei nport of what cotton actually means > the United States yet! "We haven't any conception or tne lillions of acres that are today seemigly sterile which in a few years will ixuriate in snowy tufts of that pre>us product directly responsible to , y te demands of the world. Of course, e are a people wondrously energetio 3 it is, but we haven't our energies ren yet stimulated as they will be>me. "Civilazation cannot advance withit the help of American cotton. hey must have it! And it rests with. > if they must not also use our heat. America is depopulating Euipe by taking its brain and muse. and the day is almost above the jrizon when the best human capaty the world contains, and by far e best material wealth the earth iows anywhere, will make the UnitI States sway the globe." LUSITAXIA AT LIVERPOOL. , >vers Ocean in Five Days, Four Hours, Nineteen Miuntes. The steamer Lusitaia has arrived Liverpool. Her time across the tlantic was little more than flva iya, sitU an average ot 22 Uaota* it"