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% ' jg V-m $1.50 A YEAR ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1914. ESTABLISHED 1844 BATTLE TURNS TO RUSSIANS Preparing Attack on Western Front. London, Nov. 24.?The baatle in the region between the Vistula and Warta rivers in Poland appears to have turned in favor of the Russians. A special dispatch from Petrograd to Paris says the Russian army already has won a decisive victory. While this may be an exaggeration, both the Russian and the German official reports suggest that Gen. von Hinden burg's second thrust at Warsaw has been checked. Grand Duke Nicholas, commander in-chief of the Russians, for two days in succession has recorded partial successes and tonight the German general staff says the arrival of Rus sian reinforcements has postponed a decision. Both sides ahve expressed the greatest confidence i nthe out come. Grand Duke Nicholas and Ijeil. vuii muucuuuig uci ciuiui c umv been so successful in their strategy taht their adherents look upon them as almost unbeatable. Talk of Victory. The German papers this morinng were tlaking of a general Russian re tirement, despite the fact that the Russians have been advancing steadily in Galiica, have repulsed the Austro normnn hefnre Cracow, hold part of the German territory in East 1 Prussia and oppose Gen. von Hinden burg's advance on Warsaw. It is the same in Perograd. All the cor respondents there declare the Russian numbers must tell when the Germans 1 have reached the ground on which Grand Duke Nicholas has chosen to give them battle. While undertaking immense tasks in the East ,the Germans, according to all accounts, are preparing to 1 launch another offensive movement in 1 the West. Just where this is to be 1 is known by the general staff alone. 1 It is believed here they will make an other effort to eet throueh to French 1 coast and perhaps at the same time try to force the line of French fort- 1 resses in the Argonne region. Bombard Towns. The Germans have been violently bombarding Ypres in Flanders, Sois sons on the Aisne arid Rheims, while they have attacked in force in the Ar gonne region. The French claim the Argonne assaults have been repulsed ViTiile the Germans say they have been gaining ground steadily. Any or all o fthis activity may be intended to divert attention from the ' quarter in which the supreme attack will be made, but the allies are surr to discover where they must expect the next blow. To ward off the possi- 1 bility of the Germans again trying to move along the coast the British fleet has been bombarding their position? from the sea. Turkey as usual reports victories over the Russians in the Caucasu? and the British in Egypt, but these lack confirmation. The English to night issued an account of successful British operations in the Persian gulf Thp samp statement told of the defeat of a British force sent against Ger- ' man East Africa. ( British naval airmen, including | Lieut. Sippe, one of those who de stroyed a Zeppelin ahcd and an air ship at Dusseldorf before the Ger mans took Antwerp, have made a tsill more daring raid from French terri- 1 tory over Friedrichshafen. According ] to the aviators' acount, they dropped i bombs which damaged the Zeppelin i factory at that place. One aeroplane was brought down by Germans, but the others escaped damage. WILSON A XI) PRIMROSE'S MIN STRELS HERT MONDAY NIGHT NOVEMBER THE 80TH. For seventy years, minstrelsy has played an important part in the annals of American amusements. Messrs. Wil ?.nd Primrose, teh sole surviving mem bers of the famous quartette of black face artists, Barlow, Wilson, Prim rose and West will preesnt their all prominent company of burnt cork ar tists, at the Opera House here on Mon day, Nov. 30th. in a big revue of min strelsy showing its birth, development and triumph. They have given their revival a omst sumptuous pictorial dressing, and the costuming is said to be the most elaborate seen with a minstrel company. THE TEACHERS* MEETING Held on Saturday Morning.?New Of ficers Elected and Several Ad. dresses Were Made. j The first County Teachers' meeting was held in the Court House last Sat- . unlay. Regardless of the very cold , day, thirty-five teachers were present 1 and enrolled. ( Dr. McCain of Erskine, who was to . address the teachers failed to be pres- . ent. Mr. W. R. Bradley, former county Superintendent, made a moBt interest ing talk, telling of conditions of the ' mountain schools of this State. Te 1 spoke of how eager those mountain- ' eers are for an education. He knew of ' some who walk as far as sir miles to ^ school. Yet many find faul chat the schools in this county are as far as 1 two miles distant, we aiso spone 01 uie fine influence that schools are having 1 over those communities and that how lawlessness is decreasing. t The speech was very much enjoyed i and we hope to have Mr. Bradley with j us again. c Mr. Lawson, County Superintend-, ( was also present for a short while and l gave the teacehrs some instructions g as to their duties. He explained in de tail how to fill in pay claims. ^ The president followed with a brief statement, of the work done last year r by the Association and placed before r the teachers some things that we hope j. to accomplish this year as follows: j 1. Each teacher in the county to j become a member of the County and ^he State Teachers Association. . r 2. To establish a Teachers' Profes v ?ional Librarv?circulating. ii 3. High School oratorical contest. c 4. To foster corn clubs and tomato c cluhs. 5. Each school to organize an Im provement club. 6. Each teacher to look for and de velop the most needed work in her school district. 7. To hold at the Court House dur ing the spring for two or three days a Teachers' Institute. 8. Filed Day to make it the best ever The teachers present were most in terested and have entered heartily in to the work of the association. The membership fee is only twenty-five cents. One meeting of the assoication will be worth a great deal more than the small fee to the teacher. We want every teacher in the coun ty to send nis or ner name 10 uie aei; retary at once. A short business session was held at ^ which officers for the next year were elected as follaws: g President, R. B. Cheatham, City ^ Schools, Abbevilte, S. C. * a 1st Vice-Pres., R. E. Moody, High tj School, McCormick. p 2nd Vice-Pres., Miss Florence Brad- 0 ford, Warrentdn school, Abbeville. R. 1 s 3rd Vice-Pres., Ralph Syfan, Rock ^ Spring, Abbeville, Route 2. v Sec. and Treas., J. L. Grier, High c School, Due West. The next meeting will be held Sat- * urday, Jan. 9th, 1915. 1 d J OF INTEREST TO VETERANS d And Widows of Confederate Sol- c diers?A Complete List is ' Desired of Abbeville c tonniy. a At the last session of the Legislature a bill was introduced to pension all bona fide Confederate soldiers and widows, and the question"arose as to the number there was in the State, and the following resolution was passed CONBCRBENT RESOLUTION. "That the County Board of Pensions of the various counties of this State, be and are hereby required, to compile and file with the Comptroller General a bona fide list of all Confederate soldiers and widows now living In their respective counties, ir respective ol whether or not they are now receiving pensions. I "Resolved, further, That said Board of Pensions be, and they are hereby, required to revise this list as aforesaid, and to ren der their services herein provided for without further compensation." It is desired to secure a correct and com plete list of every Confederate soldier in Abbeville County. Chairman A. F. Calvert wishes to appoint a committee of two vet- < erans {in each Township to get up this list ; but is unable to get up a list of the com- ( mittees without the aid of those living in the different townships. He will appre- ' ciate it if you will send him in the names 1 of two that will do the work if your town- ] ship is not represented below. ( He has appointed committees as follows: Lowndesville?W. C. Shaw, M. W. Barnes and Dr. A. J.Speer. 1 Donalds?"VV. R. Dunn, and M. W. Matti- ' son. Abbeville Township?A. F. Calvert and J H. Barksdale. Send in a list for your tewnship at once, in order that a complete list may be se cured. The members of the County Pension Board are: A. F. Calvert, chairman; Hon .T. S. Glbert, J. H. Barksdale and D. P. Hannah. WHARTON-GRAY WEDDING. A pretty home wedding was solemn ized on Thursday, November 19, 1914, at high noon, at the home of Mr. Ward law Wharton and sisters, near Iva, when their sister Annie became the bride of Mr. Charles Manning Gray of Starr. At eleven o'clock the guests began to arrive and were cordially re ceived and ushered into the parlor by Mrs. A. B. Wharton and Miss Alkanza Wahrton. The decorations were beautiful. The ball was tastfully decorated with pot plants and ferns. The color scheme in the parlor was white and green, being chrysanthemums, ferns and English ivy. The mellow strains of Mendelshon's wedding march rendered by Mrs. E. tV. Masters of Anderson announced ;he coming of the bridal party. First came Miss Iva Bowman gown ?d in a lovely charmeuse maline net, vi'th frill of real lace and shell pink jirdle carrying a bouquet of pink :hrysanthemums and asparagus ferns ied with pink tulle, with Mr. Keys Bowman, both of Lowndesville, niece md nephew of the bride. Next came the flower girl, little Uice Meschine of Lowndesville, in a lainty lingerie dress, elaborately trim ned in val lace, pink sash and hair ibbon, wearing a locket presented her ?y the bride, carrying a beautiful bas ket of white chrysanthemums and ems. Then came the bride, dressed in a iandsome coat suit of blue gabadine rith black brocaded velvet trimmings, iat and other accessories to match, arrying a handsome bouquet of white hrvsanthemums and ferns tied with / rhite tulle, leaning on the arm of her , :iaid of honor, Miss Elizabeth White, f Ninety-Six, who was gowned in a i Dvely whit silk poplin trimmed in hantilly lace with shell pink girdle. ] ler only ornament was a crescent set rtth pearls, carrying a bouquet of pink i hrysanthemums and asparagus ferns, J led with pink tulle. Then came the groom with his bsst < lan, Mr. John B. Gray of Starr, broth- < r of the groom, where he met the 1 ride before a bank of ferns and 1 hrysanthemums entwined with ivy ( rhich indicated the position of the ( ridal party. Rev. S. J.' Hood, of Iva performing 1 he ceremony, in an original wording ( hat was very expressive and impress fQ. After congratulations the hundred uests were invited by Mrs. J. W. Wharton and Miss Rosa Wharton into spacious dining room which was astfully and beautifully decorated in ink roses and ferns, where a sumptu us old fashion turkey dinner was ' erved by Misses Mattie and Varina !linkscales and Miss Sarah Wharton t-ho were daintily dressed in pink repe and lace. ' The favors were little silver bells ied with pink ribbon, which were >inned on each guest, as they left the lining room, by little Misses Edna /IcGee and Virginia Ligon, who were laintily dressed in the color scheme. In another room the array of pres ets made a gorgeous display, show ng the high esteem in which this :oulpe arc held by their many friends. ?he groom's present to the bride was i beautiful La Valliere set with dia i\onds. Among the guests was veteran W. ( Vatt who, before the war, assisted, at he same place, at the wedding of his leparted friend S. Wharton, the father , if the bride. : Immediately after dinner the bridal ouple left for a short trip after which ] hey will be at home in their beautiful lome near Starr. i IINSTREL SHOW HERE MONDAY. "The minstrel show was built up rom the historic 'first part', the famed semi-circie, witn Dones ana tamoorine it the ends," says George Primrose, :he famous minstrels star, who is igain appearing with his old partner, 3eorge Wilson, in a big production of 20th Century minstrelsy. "This was found in the first real minstrel show, and has continued down to the pres ent day, although instead of two end men we now have twelve. But the old time company had but one "Bones" and one "tamo," as he was sometimes addressed by the interlocutor or mid dleman. The old minstrels were fer tile of songs thatlingered in the memory. Whitlock, the originator of negro minstrelsy may be forgotten, but how many of the older generation have forgotten his "Lucy Long" or "Mary Blaipe." Primrose and Wilson's Minstrels will be here Monday night, Nov. 30th. GOOD IE IS ARRANGED FOR SECRETARIES Rock Hill, Nov. 18.?An event of much importance all over the State is the assem bling next week in Rock Hill of represen tatives of all the commercial agencies of South Carolina. This meeting will take place on Friday, the day following Thanks giving. All alert boosters of Rock Hill?and the last comparatively accurate census of the "good town" taken in 1914, shows .that there are about 11,704 of these boosters here?aie looking forward with much pleasure to this opportunity of entertain ing in their midst this visiting body of boosters on the 27th. It is hoped that every commercial or ganization in South Carolina will have its secretary or president, or both, at this im portant conference. The president of the association. Mr. Albert S. Johnstone, of Greenville, has prepared an excellent pro gram and it is sure that all who wili have a most profitable and enjoyable time. One of the best features of the occasion will be the address of the new president of the University of South Carolina. He will speak at a smoker to be given at the night session by the Rock Hill Chamber of Com merce to the visiting delegation. Dr. Cur reli is a renowned educator and a charm ing speaket, and no one who can arrange to be present can afford to , miss his ad dress on "Education and Citizenship." The secretaries will also have an oppor tunity of seeing the most famous alfalfa fields of the State. These are In sight of the city on the farms of Mr. J. M. Cherry, and an automobile ride is being planned with a stop-over in this field. Right on the spot, in full view of the alfalfa in sev eral stages of its development, Prof. C. R. Weeks, of Winthrop College, will deliver a short lecture on "Alfalfa. There is still another feature which the secretaries anticipate with pleasure. The local secretary, Mr. W. R. Timmons, has just accepted for the president of the As sociation, the invitation of Winthrop's president, Dr. D. B. Johnson, asking for the attendance of the secretaries at a luncheon to be served in their honor In the same dining room with his 870 girls. It might be well to state at this point, how ever. that a number of chaperones will be on hand so the wives of the secretaries need not fear for the safe and heart-whole return of their absent husbands. It is needless to say that Bock Hill ex tends to all who contemplate entering her ?ates on the 27th the same hearty welcofne which she has displayed on so many other occasions, aud it is hoped that a very large number will be In attendance at this meet ing from all over the State. . 1 West End. Misses Margaret 'Bradley and Leila i Link of the "Woman's College, Due West, 3pent the week-end In the city with their parents. Mrs. W. A. Tempieton has gone to Mil Lersburg, Ky., whore she expec&s to spend somo time with her daughter, Mrs. John Thorn. Rev. and Mrs. Henry Pressly went to Clinton Saturday. Rev. Pressly preached in the A. R. P. Church of that place Sun day. At the home of Dr. and Mrs. C. H. Mc Murray, on Thanksgiving Day, Mrs. John Lyon expects to entertain her children and grandchildren. Fourteen grandchildren, with their mothers and fathers, are ex pected, and all are anticipating a pleasant time. Mrs. J. A. Dickson and sons, John Albert and Paul, went to the,home of Mrs. John Brownlee Monday to attend the marriage of Miss Elise Brownleq to Mi*. Herman Sharpe. The marriage Is to take place Wednesday evening at eight o'clock. ? Mrs. D. A. Rogers and little daughter 3pent the week-end In Monroe, N. 0-. with relatives. - '' ^ , Mrs. V. D. Lee is in Elberton visiting her daughter. Mrs. Z. B. Roarers. Dr. and Mrs. Tom Davis, of Augusta, Bpent a few days last week with the lnt ter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Stark. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hill expect to attend ' the Brownlee-Sharp wedding. FAMOUS MINSTREL STARS. ] Many stars of the theatrical world have received their first recognition in the Companies of Primrose and Wil son, the famous minstrel stars. To enumerate the list would be to name some of the most prominent comedians and vocalists of teh present day. Mes srs. Primrose and Wilson possess the happy faculty of discovering talent, 1 and then the ability to develop it. The splendid organization gathered to gether by these stars for their big spectacular production of the 20th Century minstrelsy includes many ar tists of the first magnitude, many of ( whom have been individual stars. There are a number of "finds" with i this attraction this season, who will, no doubt, have their names displayed in bright lights in the near future. At the Opera House, Monday night Nov. the 30th. REPORT OF COTTON GINNED Washington, Nov. 21.?Possibility of this year's cotton crop equaling or perhaps exceeding the greatest crop heretofore grown was indicated today in the census bureau's fifth ginning re port of the season, which showed the quantity of cotton ginned prior to November 14, was 11,624,708 bales, the largest on reocrr. In the past seven years the average of the entire crop ginned to the end of this period was 75 per cent. On this basis the present crop would seem to be between 15,500,000 and 16,000,000 bales. The ginning for the period from No vember 1 to 14 established a record of 1,795,626 bales, exceeding last year V,, 1CO ftAft Valae. on/1 1Q11 IlV IKfi ftflO U* AUA,VVV LjUl^ki) bales. For the season this year's gin nings exceed the record by 811,000 bales. In Alabama, Arkansas, Florida and Oklahoma new records for ginning.to November 14 were established. Included In the ginnings were 32, 454 round bales, compared with 74, 187 last year , 62,768 in 1912, and 75,963 in 1911. Sea Island cotton Included num bered 53,875 bales, compared ^ith 51,950 bales last year, 40,389 bales in 1912 and 71,204 bales in 1911. Ginnings prior to November 14, by States, with comparison for the past year follows: ALABAMA? 1914 1,263,430 191 3 ^ ... 1.181,232 ARKANSAS? 1914 735,228 1913 606,388 FLORIDA? 1914 65,903 191 3 53,217 GEORGIA? 1914 1,061,251 1913 1,823,789 I LOUISIANA? 341.34Z 1913 276,271 MISSISSIPPI? 1914 838,355 . 1913 734,988 NORTH CAROLINA? 1914 .. 555,401 1913 493,360 OKLAHOMA? 1914 840,635 1913 666,736 SOUTH CAROLINA? 1914 1,091,289 1913 995,398 1912 883,535 1911 . 1,163,984 TENNESSEE? 1914 238,401 1913 233,663 TEXAS? 1914 3,511,138 191 3 .-.3,313,443 1912 4,020,939 1911 3,473,702 ALL OTHER STATES? 1914 282,336 1913 66,044 Calhoun Falls. Calhoun Falls, S. C., Nov. 23,1911 . Mrs. Granville Beal was in Abbeville last Monday.. . .Dr. Joseph Hicks went to Abbeville last Monday. Mr. J?. C. Black was a business visitor to j A.bbeviEe last Monday. Mrs. Joel McKellar and two children, of Mt. Carmel, passed through Calhoun?Falls on their way to Abbevillo last MoDday. Mr. and Mrs. Saunders went to Elberton last Tuesday to visit the former's parents. Mr. J. T. Poore spent la3t Sunday with his fan^Jy. Dr. was in Abbeville last Tuesday. -One ^riy.the coldest nights was here Thurso /,*ftrhen the menn.-y went down to about L degrees, and continued cold nrifh Kmj.it -orinriq hlnwinc. throucrh Satur Jay. \ Dr. F. E. Harrison, of Abbeville, was < here last week on business. ] Mr. Augustine T. Smythe, of Charles- < ton, spent several days In Calheun Falls, j the guest of If r. J. Q. Carlisle. Mrs. Jno. G. Carlisle and little son Jack , left last Saturday for San Francisco, where they will spend some time. 1 Mr. Koger Simpson has moved his fam- ' ily to Calhoun Falls and&re now located in 1 the Campbell house. Mr. and Mrs. Rock, Mr. Geo. Gilliam < and Mr. Johnnie Gilliam arrived from Winchester, Texas, and are at the home o their parents. \ , United States Flag Free. We direct the attention of oyr loaders to the advertisement of the Haddon Wilson Company in this issue of the Preb? and Banner, in which they tell about th? Unit*" ed States Flags that they are giving away to the boys and girls, and the big flags that they have for school houses. This popular Dry Goods store is always at the front when it comes to a "Special;" so you will do well to look at their line be fore buying. \ SYSTEM KEADY. I Letter from Commissioner Jno. L. McLaurin Says He Ex pects Great Benefits. To the People of South Carolina: I have completed the machinery to put the State warehouse sytsem into operation. Application blanks may be had from this office, also the form of contract. Under the act I can only pay rent after all operating exepnses are met; consequently, I am forced to take the warehouses that are offered ui u nominal rem, ana require me owners to pay all charges and ex penses, Including 3 cents per bale per month to the Statd, to meet the cost of postage, telegrams, express, travel ing expenses, printing the reeciptR, tags and other blanks. I find that the charge does not cover the cost, but I will use the appropriation as far as it will go, and submit the matter to the next general assembly. I do not expect to use a cent of the salary given me, unless there is a further ap propriation, as all the money , will be needed to continue the acceptance of warehouses. I only want my actual expenses ,and no receipts will come in until cotton is taken out,\which may be a year, while Insurance, etc., is paid in advance. I hope to have some information later as to the use of State warehouse receipts as a collateral, but do ^lot wish to make a statement until I can speak advisedly. Dr. Wade Stack house submitted the receipts to cer tain capitalists in'New York, and his report was that the State receipt would be preferred by them to that fjf any private or corporate receipt for cotton on storage. A New Departure. This is a new departure in both Inance and government. It will take iime and patience to inaugurate it, ind I especially ask the farmers of <his State to give me their confidence ind support. Don't expect miracles. I im not "a miracle man," as one of ;he newspapers intimates, nor the man ivho "found a shoe string and built a .'actory." My purpose is to inaugurate i sane, sound system of marketing :otton. I notice in the morning paper a lecisiori by Associate Justice Gage, ivhich further emphasizes the decree in the warehouse case of 11912. No lurist has in clearer language set forth ;be prinicples upon which such leg islation as the South Carolina, Louis iana and Texas warehouse acts are based. Judge Gage says: "Cotton, and that includes its seed, Is the staple product of the State and 3f the South; in this year of grace the frightful collapse of Its price, inci 3ent to a wellnigh universal war, has shocked two continents; the whole policy of the State is hound up In the growing the sale and the manufacture :>f cotton." The Individual cotton grower is powerless to protect himself. If we :an unite the units, we can control the situation. Cooperation spells suc cess. We will never get this except through our State legislatures. If our experiment fails, then no other State will try it Expects Benefits. I am only meeting such opposition as I expected. I am depending on my fellow farmers?not those whose interests are against us. Some of the nflwononnra havo hppTi liberal and fair while some have been harsh and un just. Try to sift out the truth. If you 3o not understand anything. Write me and do not let your mind be poisoned by insidious methods of belittling me for the purpose of destroying a meas ure which will be of inestimable ben efit to you and your children's chil dren. I accepted unsought the tremen lous responsibility, and if my health holds out, I will see it through. To jell cotton at present prices is prac tically the confiscation of $50,000,000 )f property belonging to you. The State is attempting to aid you. It is not only a function, but it is the duty 3f a government to protect citizens in their property rights as well as in life ind liberty. The declaration of Judge 3age is a splendid enunication of this principle. I wish some case would oc :ur giving him an opportunity to Jefine with the same clear Insight, just what the constitution means by pro tecting a citizen in the ownership of property. Does it include the use of that property or does it mean merely physical possession? If restricted to mere physical possession, then the constitutional guarantee is a hollow . _ > mockery, for combinations of capital san confiscate the profits and thereby JepriYe me of my property by de stroying its use. LEO F Li NoW Looks Like He May Hang. m Washington, Nov. 24.?Justice Lam ar today refused to issue writ of er ror to supreme court for review of conviction of Leo M. Frank for murder of Mary Phagan, a factory girl in At lanta, in 1913. Attorneys for Frank ap plied to Justice Lamar for a writ on the ground that a right under the con stitution has been denied Frank when the jury's verdict was returned during his absence from the court room. Henry Alexander, attorney for Leo Frank, said he was unable to announce whether the application for writ will be presented to other lustip.ea nntil he . 19 conferred with his associate, Heni'y ' ' ,.;v Peeples.who is absent now from the Mr. George W. Cochran, aged 65 years, died at his home in Abbeville last Saturday ; morning, as a result of injuries he received last Friday night in an accident at the Ab-j , ^ beville Cotton Mills, where he was em- j ployed as night watchman. Mr. Cochran is survived by two daugh ters, Mrs. Eugene Nance and Miss Harvey Cochran; one sister, Miss Mattie Cochran, and one brother, Mr. S. H. Cochran, all of ; Abbeville. ^JEhe bereaved family have the sympathy of many relatives and friends. The funeral services were held at the y . $ Methodist Church on Sunday at 8 o'clock, conducted by his paptor, Kev. S. O.Cantey, ' . and the interment was at Long Cane Cem etery, the following acting as pall bearers: J. F. Bradley, Richard Sondley, J. L. Per rln, Judge M. E. Hollingsworth, Jas. M* Taggart and Fred Cason. city. I \ Death of Mr. Cochran, All of these questions must be final ly adjudicated in the courts of the land. I feel that this worldwide war is the end of one epoch, and the he ginning of a new one in the science of government and finance. The ul timate aim of a true democracy Is to give to each individual his just rights and no more. This must involve an equitable division of the burdens, of organized society, as well as the bene fits. A situation like the present offers a fertile field for money and power to fatten at the expense of weakness and poverty. The farmers can not bear, without destruction, the entire bur den of this situation. It must be dis tributed over the entire body politic, and there Is no force strong enor to curb money and its power, save or ganized government. This is the log ical sequence of the statement, "the whole policy of the State is bound up in the growing, the sale and the man uiacture or ocuon. Strong Protector. What a grand conception of govern ment it is to stand strong, curbing human greed and protecting human weakness. Do not be deceived; the entire world is deeply interested in getting your cotton at the lowest pos sible price. They intend you to shoul der the entire loss on this crop and let you make another one If you can. The more cotton you make, the less you get. If one-half of the cotton crop were destroyed, the portion left would sell for more than the whole. Why is it that as soon as Liverpool and New York settled their straddle contracts, this the exchange opened? They are knocking the price down ? W?itt Anoa Tint tTlf? Stock trvcij uaj. ?r , exchange open? Because it would lower the price of stocks and bonds. These are held by capitalists, while cotton is held by the Southern farm er. These capitalists wish to use high-priced stocks, through the re gion reserve system .to get money to buy 6-cent cotton in the South. Cotton in Europe is now worth 22 cents per pound. If they can get your cotton at 6x?nts .they will make the biggest "killing" ever seen. Any government that will stand for such infamy and not hold out a protecting hand to the producers is unworthy the support of an honest man. If I had the warehouse system that I pleaded with the legislature for one year ago, I would he,.opening up di rect trade with Manchester and estab lishing a stable price for cotton. The only remedy is to warehouse your octton and get money on the re ceipts to ease up your creditors. If you will plant grain, raise stock and produce no cotton in 1915, you will got the benefit of war prices later. Respectfully, John Lowndes McLaurin,