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? On Women Superiority in Affairs of the Heart the Final Test By Julius Goldburg am sure that very few will agree with Prof. Metchnlkoffs comments on the relative merits, superiority, or Inferiority of the male sex to the ?em?le. "Statements have been ad vanced by champions of the sex that woman1 has been ex cluded from all higher intellectual occupations, so that her mind has become atrophied, her capabilities blunted, or her talents stagnated. It seems to me that this should not enter Into th? question at issue. I cannot see what re?a? . tioa this bears to the question of the superiority or infer I iority oX either sex to the other.- It ls, as lt always must be, that "broad hu - majiitarianism, unselfishness, love-and. charity malte for the superior mah or wemen, and woman in this regard carries off the palm She rules the world, an! she does so because she ls superior." It ls not true In any sense that man ha., done anything to materially further the advancement of the home. He ls entirely passive there. Nor has he ?ny place whatever in thai home when compared with the divine qualities that motherhood carries. The home is ta* arch of civilization and progress, and woman is its keystone. In making a comparison of the sexes there is but one important consider ation, and that is the qualities of the heart. When the professor states that dornen are superior to men In affairs of the heart, and that is a great deal," he states the case plainly and absolutely for her. With her strength of mind ?nd Intelligence, with her goodness of heart, she must be classed as the su perior to man. What advantage would there be to this world and its prog ress In civilization and morality, if the qualities of the heart, did not have precedence? Of course, it 1B important to possess genius, but man, with his .genius for doing many things, lacks the goodness of heart and spirituality to become woman's equal. When the question at issue here is that of the su perior man or woman, we must conceive that it is the qualities of the heart that make for humanity and civilization, and that she decides the question. Woman may lack genius, bet never humanitarianism. If it is true, as is said of woman, that "the hand that rocks the cradle TtJes the world," what more can be said for her? , Woman's work in the home as wife and mother is doing more for civlli -zsiioii and mankind than our greatest geniuses in art, science and invention. Of course, superior attributes in man's recognized field of endeavor are evi dunce of the superior man, but it is the heart qualities that largely indicate tr e superior being. How stupid to say because a man is a great craftsman ?cr a genius in his work, that he is the superior being ? Since when do we rc ?asure humanitarianism and civilization by such standards? vi. ? p Farm Boys in England ? * + N*a book on "England and the English," by Fred M. Hueffer, he speaks Of conditions in the rural districts as follows: ."With the spread of education, with the increase of communication., there has come not the determination to J; + . better the conditions of life ta the country, but.the simple T**??t***f abandonment of the land. It is, I think, a truism to any one f 8lf who kuows t*1* country . . ?, that there are whole stretches of territory in England where a really full-witted or alert youth of between sixteen and thirty will absolutely mt be found. I visited lately eighteen farms of my own neighborhood, cov ering a space of about four miles by two miles, and on this amount of ground ?aly five boys found employment. Four of these were below the average in telligence, and had at school not passed the fourth standard; th? fifth was so fstupld'-'that he could not be trusted to do more than drive the milk cart to a-ad from the. station. And of all the farm laborers' families that I know well --some forty-six in number^onay two have youths at home, and one of these ass 'something the matter, with bis legs.' Of one hundred and twelve other ?indlies that I know in a nodding way,, not more than five have boys at work hi the fields. Making a rough calculation of the figures as they have pr?sent ai themselves to mp, I find that just over 5 percent of the country-born boys f have known have stayed of their -own free choice on the land." 1 Mr. H. also says that all. tho old. amusements of the countryside*-the fairs, the May-day celebrations, ti e cricket clubs and the like-are dying out -with no effort on the part of the i TIS ti ca to retain them. Into the cities troop tile cleverest of the farm boys; what the author calls he "Anglc-Saxon-Teu tmic-industrial-commercialism that fe 'Modernity" has taken them into ita. ?rip. Human Imperfection | ?y Charles C. J?mes, D.D. / HERE is no perfect church, no perfect book, no perfect in spiration, no perfect knowledge?; and all for the reason that there are no perfect human beings or institutions. All our organizations, whether we set them up in the name of lib erty and justice, ta the name of truth and righteousness, ta the name of religion or of God, are composed, of defective members, and cannot help sharing the imper fe dons of their parts. It ls well to know it fair to admit it; and it ls no misfortune to see things as they are. But now let us frankly recognize the value and uses of thin.js imperfect. There are no perfect marriages, because there are no perfect men and worn ?tm; no perfect societies, because no perfect people to be associated. We must not look for perfection in what now ls. We must work toward lt leaving the things that are behind and reaching toward the tbings that are before. The anarchist finding nothing wholly good, seeks to destroy every thing ; the wise man, finding the same, seeks to improve everyttiing. Yet the good cause is carried forward, as all human affairs aro, by such imperfect agencies and Instruments as the Lord happens to have on hand at ?ach stage of proceedings. This may explain why even we are permitted to Ibear a part The exceeding greatness of his power is shown by the good nrork done with such poor tools. Heavenly strength ls made perfect in earth? ;ly weakness. British and German Physique Ey Jlrnold White EN millions of our people inhabit dwellings, inferior to the kennels provided for the hounds in a well-managed hunt. The results of living in dwellings un?t for human habitation and the prevalence of a dietary scale from which HEnglish ?meat, bread and milk are excluded are fatal to suc J| cessful rivalry with a virile and healthy race where agri II culture is fostered for str?tegical reasons. Having spent hours in watching the arrival of the early morning trains in Berlin and Hamburg, I am appalled with the contrast be tween, the vigorous and well-set-up, broad-chested and healthy-looking clerks, brawny shopmen and stalwart laborers on the other side of the North Sea aj:d*the champagne-shouldered, cow-hocked, pigeon-chested, lack-lustre train ??ls of men of the same classes landed at Liverpool street, Victoria and Charing Cross.-London World. The Zest of Life. .What a poor world lt would be If .our wishes all came true. Fancy only having to wish for . everything ?you i wanted Instead of earning lt. The .only chance you get of triumphing .over life is winning the things you want by working hard for them. Life 'irould lose its zest fer me if I thought tthat all things I desired were walting .tt certain stages of my existence to ike picked sp."--Alphonse Courlasder. Waiting. "Walk in, sir," says St. Peter to the shade who has been sitting on a cloud for several days. "Come right in, I told you it would be all right for you to do so." "Thank you," replies the shade, "I want to wait out here, if I may, until the fellow who sold me cantaloupes last summer romes along. I want to see you send him down the 'chute.' " -Chicago Evening Post. BT HAS -Cartoon by I ELECTRICAL SHOCKS TO BEST Lewis Nixon Says Currents Flashed Tbro Danger From Airships-Destruct . .. Will Be Forced to IE New York City. - Lewis Nixon, I shipbuilder, graduate of the United i States Naval Academy and for s av?rai < years one of the chief constructors pf i the American navy, flouts the theory i that the' airship in any of its forms < will become a formidable war ma- < chine. w Instead, Mr. Niton believes that ' the death-dealing terror of the war of i the future will be the electric shock. i This conclusion has been forced ' upon his judgment by a careful study 1 of the subject of new war agencies and by closely watching tho manoeu- < vres of the Wright aeroplane as it i sailed up tbe Hudson and circled the 1 representatives of the world's great- < est navies. . . ' 1 In Mr. Nixon's opinion warships i can guard against the danger of ex plosives that might be dropped upon 1 them by airships by specially pre- i pared armor. He believes, though, i that sooner or later there will be per- \i fected a gun or some other piece of mechanism for hurling a thunderbolt 1 that will shock to death every man < aboard a warship, irrespective of its I protection. 1 "I am convinced," said Mr. Nixon : to a reporter, "that the thing could be done now, but the mechanism is 1 BO crude that the thunderbolt, cr elec tric Impulse, would kill the m: n who should release it. as well as the en- i erny. It is' possible, of coursa, that ? somb foreign nation already has per fected the necessary machin? * with i which to hurl this deadly bolt. I hope, however, that it has not been '. done. ,Vhen the principle is mast- ' ered the result will make war tio ho-r- 1 ribly destructive "that thc human race, ,i through the sheer force of nature's first law ?- self-preservation -rr wili 1 abolish wari . "'The aeroplane is mainly lrterest- : lng now on account of the ;'act of what may grow from it. Possibly we shall see them like swarms bl giant ' locusts flying over and beyond armies. < to occupy positions and to mt off communications. i "For purposes of observation they will be of great use. The ?hel?copter, owing to its smaller dimensions: seems best adapted to such uses, especially to be carried on men-of-war. . - ""Insofar as ? can see, the dirigible, which will combine much that the aeroplane ls now proving out, is the ' ship of the future. "Count Zeppelin has already crossed STARVING ESKIMO St. John's, N. F.-Tragedy in the icy wastes of the Far North formed < the burden of the news brought to thi3 port by the Hudson Bar Com- : psny's steamer Adventure, which' ar- : rived with the crew of the lo rt Dun dee whaler Paradox, in the Etory of an Eskimo, driven to cannibalism by starvation, who ate his child and shot several neighbors who attempted sum mary punishment. The Paradox, one of the fleet of Dundee whalers, met the fate of her companion ship, the Snowdrop, which i was crunched In the merciless jaws of the Ice floes off Baffin Land carly in August a year ago. The crew, with scanty provisions, made their perilous i way over the broken ice toward the mainland and were picked up by the EXPERTS TO ADI Pittsburg. - The Pittsburg Civic Commission, fathered by Andrew Car negie and H. C. Frick, announces that soon there will arrive In Pittsburg one of the most Important and higa priced trio of experts to be had in the coun try for the purpose of giving1 advice on Pittsburg'8 bad street car system, her river front and on plans for lay ing out the $500,000 park which Frick has given the city of Pittsburg through his daughter Helen. Those who have been employed to come at a salary of S800 a day ago are Blon J. Arnold, of Chicago; James lt. Free man, of Providence, and Frederick Law Olmstead, of Boston. Mr. Arnold, who is an eipert on street railways, will do his best to Nearly All Animals in Canadian 1 , Buffalo Herd Escape. ' Calgary, Alberta. - Word was brought here by a man named Ed wards that the Canadian buffalo park at Wainwright, Alberta, had been de stroyed by the prairie fire which has been burning in that section. As the fire burned the fe ace sur rounding the par?s the herd.1: of buf falo, estimated at SCO animals, and a large herd of' elk escaped. Many of the animals were killed. The fires caused a financial loss that will run Into millions. About Noted People. Harry Benedict, of New Haven, Conn., received a telegram from Harry. Whitney saying that he was rushing home after a "hard winter" in the Arctic. Surveyor Clarkson, of Now York City, said that the laws for the pro tection of life on harbor craft were inadequate and that Congress should enact new ones. The Rev. Dr. William T. Manning, rector of Trinty Church, Nsw York City, In a sermon said the country needed saner views on divorce ?nd a' revival of patriotism. BEGUN. Gr.^Williams, in the Indianapolis News. ROY EVERY WARSHIP AFLOAT ugh Air ls Battle Method of Future-No [OD So Terrible That Nations iternational Peace. the Alps and made long voyages igainst adverse conditions in all sorts j{ weather. His airship is larger than the steamship of thirty years ago and nore speedy than those that are now crossing the ocean in record breaking time. I look to see airships of the Zeppelin type half a mile in length. They will hot come down to the earth my more than the Mauretania will ?mchor in a siiallow stream, but will be anchored up in the air, possibly a thousand feet or more. "Explosives will not be dropped lown, as you could not hit a tug with in apple from the Brooklyn Bridge, which is only 130 feet. high. Electri cal guns will be used, of course, and heavy ones like our present powder suns. "Ships at anchor will Bend up bal loons or kites to carry special illum nants; and in time of war the heavens ill around will be brilliantly lighted with special forms of rockets. "Men-of-war will be protected best by special armament for attacking air craft. The airship, however, will rap idly develop as a peaceful device and will soon be as much a necessity of modern civilization as the automobile. "The attraction of gravitation, be ing a condition of matter, may soon be comprehended in such a way that the repulsion which some way or some how balances attraction may be utilized to man's advantage. "The gas engine bas made the air ship possible. Years ago the French found- that each horse power could lift thirty-two pounds, so as much as we develop our horse power below this weight so much net lifting power 3hall we gain. "Bu t you. asked me as to the mili tary possibilities," continued Mr. Nixon. "We are on the eve of a tre mendous and far-reaching change in warfare. As Ipng ago, aa 1900 I pointed out that' soon ihunderboltB would be thrown: . Th? significance of a news item published about a year ago of a man receiving a shock which nearly proved fatal rhile talking over a wireless telephone was not then fully appreciated. It would be possi ble at the present day to shock to death every man on a vessel at five miles distance, but so far the impulse cannot be projected at any one mark. But direction and aiming will be mas tered after a while, and then thun derbolts will be thrown just as sheila are thrown now." SLAYS HIS CHILD, Hudson Bay Company's steamer Pell? can, which,took them to Fort Church ill, where they remained until the ar rival of the Adventure On1 her regular fall trip. The Adventure also brought Beveral missionaries, surveyors and prospectors from the Northwest coun try. The Adventure's report oT the can nibalism says the Eskimo's fishing and hunting season had been a fail ure, and, dTlven mad by hunger, he cut the throat of one of hhs children and then ate the little victim. When the m?n's neighbors learned of the crime they attacked him, according to the primitive law of their race. The outcast beat off all assaults, shot sev eral of the attacking party and es caped into the wilderness of Ice. -JfcAi-. ttSE PITTSBURGH figure out a way In which the trans? portation facilities of Pittsburg can be bettered. It ls conceded that the Btreet car service ls about the worst In the country. Mr. Freeman ls the hydraulic engineer whom President Taft is said to have paid $500 daily for making the trip to Panama, and he will taka up the matter of Pitts burg's water frontage and suggest ways and means of saving the city millions yearly lost through the riv ers' overlow. Mr. Olmstead will tell the people of Pittsburg hov they can best beautify the park land gi7en them by Frick. It is understood that Mr. Carnegie and Mr. Frick share equally the $800 a day paid to this trio ot experts. Coal and Coke Advancing; Roads Short of Cars. Baltimore, Md.-For the first time since the early part of 1907 the rail roads entering Baltimore, especially those having a large coal tonnage, are face to face with a car.famine. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad began distributing coal cars on the percent age basis. In West Virginia scarcity of cars is more pronounced. Practically every mine in Maryland and West Virginia is being operated to the capacity of the railroads. Prices of coal and coke are rising. Newsy Gleanings. Fire in the Executive Offices of tht White House caused about $100 damage. An aurora borealis temporarily stopped telegraph service all over th? United States. Shot by an enemy. William Richter staggered Into a ballroom at Linden hurst, Ii. Li and fell dying among the dancers. Fifty retail druggists of New York are planning to combine against the United Drug Consumers' Company, which ls behind a mysterious move ment to absorb many stores. CHESTER'S CORN YIELD Farrier Raises 71.9 Bushels on One ?cre Result of Demonstration Work. Chester, Special.-Mr. J.L. Miller; l prosperous farmer of the county, entered at the first of the year the contest for the prize offered by.thc agricultural department of the Starte for the largest yield of corn on one acre. The corn has been gathered and measurement was made by a committee of disinterested though competent farmers. They declare the result to be 71.9 bushels-the largest yield yet known in the county. The corn was cultured according to the lirections furnished by Dr. . Seaman A. Knapp' co-operation farm demon stration work, for which Mr. R. L. Cunningham, one of Chester coun ty 's very best farmers is agent. This demonstration work has been prac ticed ip this county for several years and has brought forth good results. Both Participants Fined. Spartanburg, Special.-As a sequel to the difficulty between Charles 0. Bearon, editor of The Herald, and C. 0. Smith, a former dispenser, which occurred here Monday, each partici pant was fined $2.50 in the mayor's court for disorderly conduct Wednes day. Smith offered two witnesses and Mr. Hearon expressed himself as be ing satisfied wi?h their statement of the case. The evidence was to the effect that Smith had followed Hearon into the store where the difficulty oc curred and demanded an explanation of Mr. Hearon^ as to the use of his (Smith's) name in the paper, which being refused, he started to curse the editor, the cursing being interrupted by a blow by Mr. Hearon. Crushed to Death Under Log. Greenville, Special. - Meredith Gossett, aged 40, was instantly killed near his home near Marietta Satur day morning by being crushed be neath a log weighing 3.000 pounds. Gossett and companions were sawing the log in half bn a hillside, Gossett being on the down side. As the saw penetrated deeper the log became weaker and finally broke. The chock which was holding the log in its po sition, on the hill . flew out, striking Gossett in the breast and knocking him down the hill and before Gossett could move had crushed him to death. He was a prominent farmer in that section and was unmarried, but leaves many relatives. Juror Perry Fined. Columbia, Special.-Judge Mem minger disposed of the contempt pro ceedings growing out of the John Black mistrial case of last week. He fined Juror J. D. Perry, who com municated with his clerk, C. M. Dom, from the hotel window where the jury was confined) $25 and ordered that he also forfeit his pay as a juror. Mr. Dorn was fined $?Q..}:?The remain der of the jury, whosej;pay he . had held up, he ordered the clerk to pay. Judge Memminger announced his decision without comment, and Mes srs. Perry and Dorn received iheir punishment quietly and sadly. To Make" Wood Alcohol. Georgetown, Special-The E. I. Du Pont Powder company have effected arrangements whereby they- will lo cate a plant here for the purpose of making wood alcohol. The plant will be located near the large mills of tke Atlantic Coast Lumber corporation, from which they will obtain the ma terial for making the alcohol. Work has already began on the plant, and it is said that operation will com mence about the first of the year. This is a fine enterprise for George town. . Nightwatchman Shot From Ambush. Bolton, Special.-L. V. B. Simmons, a watchman, while attending to his duties at Makatoka, one of the camps of the Waccamaw Lumber Company, was shot by some person in ambush. He is not seriously injured, ..though 27 bird shot took effect, principally in the right leg. Sheriff Knox made an investigation, but no arrest was made. Train Wrecks Auto; No One Hurt. Greenville, Special.-An automo bile belonging to Dr. Stevenson of Greer was completely "wrecked Wed nesday morning near Taylors by train No. 39. No one was injured. The occupants of the car were about to cross the track at the mouth of a cut and were not aware of the approach of the train until too late to save the car. By hastily jumping they saved their lives, but the car was caught in the middle of the track and com pletely demolished. Two men were driving the car. To Rebuild Burned Cellege. Columbia, Special.-Plans were made last week at the meeting of the executive committee of the board of trustees of the Columbia college for immediate reconstruction of thc buildings recently destroyed by fire. Architects Shand & LaFaye were em ployed for the work, and the build ings will be along the line of pre vious construction, although there will be some changes that will add to their beauty. Lightning Burns Barn. Bishopville, Special.-During the electric storm Wednesday night lightning struck thc cotton house on the DuRant farm about two miles above town and set it on fire, which consumed the building and its con tents, about 1,700 pounds of seed cot ton and the seed out of 20 bales of cotton. The damage sustained by Mr. A. C. DuRant, the owner of the building, is about $400, while Mr. S. J. Strickland, the tenant, lost the seed und seed cotton worth about $400. Neither had insurance. ?NSDMNK TAXES Amount Received By Each County in the Distribution. Columbia, Special.-Commissionei MeMaster' last week issued a state ment on the collections of "Add' tional license fer," based on 'pre miums collected by the insurance com panies licensed to do business hi South Carolina from the six month ending June 30,1909. The amount is $50.418.71. The following is the statement of amount of this fund going to each county according to the term of the act of the General Assembly: Abbeville.$ 339.45 Aiken.-. 594.93 Anderson.. .. .. .. .. .. 1,465.53 Bamberg. 241.G7 Barnwell.. 357.54 Beaufort.1. 242.59 Berkeley. 168.76 Calhoun. 78.81 Charleston.. .. ..*.4,446.29 Cherokee. 272.24 Chester.. ..:. 433.30 Chesterfield. 265.47 Clarendon. 294.35 Colleton.. 211.02 Darlington. 5:4.22 Dorchester. 271.55 Edgefield. 234.6-1 Fairfield. 244.47 Florence.'.. 559.50 Georgetown.V 651.38 Greenville.1.303.4? Greenwood. .. 540.34 Hampton. .. 220.95 Horry. 196.73 Kershaw. 329.05 Lancaster. 388.66 Laurens. 533.32 Lee. 187.63 Lexington.. ... 253.05 Marion. 663.40 Marlboro... 632.65 Newberry. .. .. 590.24 Oconee. .. .. 215.54 Orangeburg.... ;. 825.67 Pickens. 210.79 Richland. . 2,238.73 Saluda. 89.60 Spartanburg. 1,540.54 Sumter. 872.93 Union. 542.60 Williamsburg. .. 259.49 York.-656.38 F. H. McMaster, Insurance Commissioner, L. M. G. Burglars Are Caught. Lancaster, Special.-There has been a series of burglaries in Lan caster the past week, but at the re quest of the police department and Sheriff Hunter no mention had been made of the matter in order to en able the officers to work up the case. On Sunday night the store of th? Heath-Jones Company was robbed of twenty-one dollars and fifty cents; also the store of the Makie Drug Company was entered and about four dollars was taken from the cash drawer. Yesterday Sheriff John P. Hunter started on the trail of the burglar, and in a short while had Will Elliott and Henry Brye in the toils. Elliott making a full confesi?n, stating that he had secreted himself in the store of the Heath-Jones Company and had secured the money in the cash drawer and later, with the assistance of Henry Bryce, who lifted him over the transom of the J. F. Mackie Com pany, he robbed the cash drawer also. Foster Protests Innocence. Spartanburg, Special.-Dock Fos ter, who is held in the. county jail under suspicion of having murdered bis wife, Martha Foster, and bu ned her mutilated body in a woodland on the suburbs of the city, submitted to an interview, but would answer few questions. "God knows I am an in nocent man," he repeated time aryi time again. He has not explained his movements on Tuesday and Tuesday night. Young Man Killed on Grade Crossing. Greenville, Special.-Asa Batson; a young white man, was instantly killed and his father, W. Y. Batson, was slightly injured near Marietta last week by the Greenville & Knoxville train, the accident occuring as the two were trying to cross the track in a wagon. The train was coming around a curve and was not seen by the men until it was upon them. Left His Child; Fined $200. Spartanburg, Special.-H. A. Sack, money delivery clerk of the Southern Express Company at Savannah, en tered a plea of guilty to the charge of deserting his child in this citv Saturday night. Be was sentenced to serve nine months or pay a fine of $200. He paid the fine. The case against Mrs. Sack, charged with de serting the child, was nolle prossed. Sack says that his wife was nervous and excited and when she took the train here last Saturday night, left the child in the waiting room-of the station. Girl Beater Found Guilty. Spartanburg, Special.-L. A. Mat thews, a well knowjj citizen, who on September 9, whipped Miss Elizabeth Morrow, his adopted daughter, in flicting injuries that came near causing her death, was found guilty on the charge of assault and battery with intent to kill. He was sentenc ed to pay a fine of $800 or serve eigh teen months at hard labor. Thc pris oner broke down and wept when sen tence was passed upon him. South Carolinian Dies of a Rare Dis ease. Rock Hill, Special.-Mr. M. A. Johnson of the Highland Park mill village died Friday afternoon and was buried here Saturday. Mr. Johnson was afflicted with acromegaly (disease of *he giants), an affection that causes an abnormal enlargement of everything about a person. Mr. John son's entire body was enlarged, his hands, nose and ears being two or three sizes larger than the average. PALMETTO li?PF?NIN?S News Netos of General Interest From All Parts of the State. SOUTHERN TEXTILE ASSOCIA TION. Fourth Regular Meeting of This Growing Organization of of Cotton Mill Men to Be Held in Raleigh, N. C., Wednesday, Oct. 20. The Fall meeting of the Southern Textile Association will be held in Raleigh, N. C., on Wednesday, Oct. 20th. As this will be at the time of the North Carolina State Fair the sessions of the association will be held in the morning and at night/" giving time in the afternoon for"vis iting the fair and looking through the Textile Department of the State Ag ricultural and Mechanical College, which consists of a fully equipped model mill with competent instructors who take an active interest in the work of the association and will ren der assistance in any possible way to make the meeting of interest and value to every mill man who may at tend. The program of the association' will include addresses and papers on Weaving-by Prof. William Nel son, form?rly instructor in the LowoH Textile School. The Spinning Frame-by Supt. T. F .Cuddy, of Clio.'S. C. The Card Room-by Supt. Alfred N. Landau, formerly of the Maginnis Mill, New Orleans, La. Power Economy in Mills-by Chief Engineer G. F. King, of King's Mountain. Humidifiers-by Mr. W. P. Hazel wood, of Atlanta. Care of the Operatives' Health by Supt. A. S. Winslow, of-Clinton. s.e. The Southern Textile Association composed chiefly of superintendents and overseers of departments in the actual work of cotton manufacturing had its birth in a meeting held in Charlotte last fall which was attend ed by a number of representative men in these lines, chiefly from North and South Carolina. A permanent orgar!zation was ef fected with provision for holding meetings quarterly; and the next reg ular meeting held at Greenville in April was attended by large delega tions from the leading mill towns of the Carolinas with representatives from other Southern States. The neeting at Spartanburg in July was thc largest yet held when the_at .tendance was over two hundred, the membership at that time and by ad ditions since having grown to consid erably more than 300. Lake City Tobacco Sales. Lake City, Special.-The official re ports filed with, Commissioner Wat son by the three Lake City warer houses show tobacco sales for Sep tember 1,738,406 pounds, which sold for $165,937. Sales in the Lake City market this season aggregate to the close of September 4,793,598 pounds, selling for $390,970.34. The aggre gate deposits in the Lake City banks as given by cashiers on September 30 were $468,149.81, less than $9,000 of which was county, school, dispensary, estate money or funds under court control. The aggregate value of tobacco, cotton and cottonseel sold this season to September 30 is $602,000. This is exclusive of $50,000 worth of ber ries and truck shipped this spring. The official record shows 3,005 bales of cotton shipped and 750 tons of cot ton seed. The cotton production of this section will largely exceed that of last year. John Wallace Sentenced. Darlington, Special.-John Wal lace was 'Wednesday afternoon sen tenced to be hanged Friday, Decem ber 10, for' the murder of John Grooms, at Lumber last July, motion for new trial having been withdrawn by Mr. T. E. Stokes, who represented the defendant by appointment of the court. Cured of Pellagra in Laurens County. Laurens, Special.-According to a statement from her father-in-law, Mrs. E. E. Pitts, who lives'in this county, near Ware Shoals, has been cured of pellagra! Mr. J. Y. Pitts of the Poplar Springs section of the county, father-in-law of Mrs. E. E. . Pitts, in speaking of the case, stated that complete and permanenl cure had been effected by Dr. J. L. Don nan of Ware Shoals, and that there was no doubt as to the nature of the disease. A number of authorities were consulted,' among them Dr. J> W. Babcock of Columbia. . Telephone Man ,is Electrocuted. Greenville, Special.-At noon; Thursday while lineman L. R. Liv- . ingston of the Bell Telephone Com pany was working ou a main stree!; cable he wa* electrocuted, falling from the top of a.70-foot pole to tho pavement below. Livingston cam? here from Asheville. Dies Victim of Pellagra. Anderson, Special.-Benjamin F Fant, aged 38 years, a prominent merchant of Anderson, died carly Wednesday morning in a Greensboro, N. C., sanitarium, a victim of pel lagra. He was taken to the sani tarium two months ago for treat ment and several days ago he de veloped the dreaded disease. He was a member of the firm of Rufas Fant & Bros., who run two book stores in Anderson.