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*m\ ... m. . i ll'J. .y,,-JI -J ? Battle pf Kings Mom Grand Monument and Pal King's Mountain Battle Grou SpeciaL-Thousands of people jo neyed Thursday on a patriotic ] grimage. The battleground of Kin Mountain was the shrine of th seeking. Here in the presence of official heads of North and Soi Carolina two United States Se: tors and two Representatives in C gress-besides others prominent the officialdom of two States, offic dedication was accorded the Kin; Mountain monument-a signal rec nition by the Congress of the Unii States- of the valorous part played the war Of independence by the s di ers of the south. It was a day of many features. P . aided over by Gov. Marin F*. Ansel South Carolina, the exercises of 1 morning which were prolonged ii the afternoon were entirely intere mg. Undoubtedly they were to 1 audience gathered from a vast > panse of many counties in two more Commonwealths. For never 1 fore did such an audience, of wh< the majority stood the entire tin listen for three hours and a half constant making of speeches withe the slightest exhibition of restles mess. Never had lonesome Kings Mot tain been host to such a concoun For a day or two in advance stra? glers had been coming in wagon harbingers of the hosts to follow From Gaston, from Cleveland, frc York, from Chester, from Sparta burg, from Mecklenburg, from M Dowell,* from Cabarrus, from La ?aster, from Union, even from Bu combe they had come, the earliest a rivals pitching camp by the roadsii ?nd in the woods in true pione fashion. Before dawn an endless stream carriages and buggies and wagor ! were rattling and rumbling along tl winding ways. Three roads, tb from Kings Mountain, that froi Clroyer and that from Yorkville hi been put in excellent condition t publie appropriations and priva ira- subscriptions inspired by. civic prid Contributing most brightly to tl Wk animation of the occasion was tl delegation of Daughters of the Amer . can Revolution from Charlotte, fro: ?Yorville and other places. Tl Charlotte delegation, of 1 course, ii eluded the delegates who'were thei attending the North Caroling Coi gress of that organization. It doubtfull if ever before so many-re? xesentatives of feminine culture, i< finement and loyal patriotism climl I ed' breathlessly the cliff which tb plateau overtops. Seven companies of the natani guard of North and South Carolin wera present. Friday they reproduce . the. battle of Kings Mountain wit< the deathless cartridges. One c these companies is from North Care lina, the Dallas company, under th ?command of Capt. A. L. Bullwinkh The others are respectively froi Bock Hill, Fort Mill, Columbia, Corr wall, Yorkville and Spartanburg. I command of these provisional troon DRIFTED BY THE STORrV Port Arthur, Tex., Special.-Water logged, dismantled and with the deck barely above the water, as she wa being towed by the Guffey Compan; jj steamer Winifred) the Kate Flore Capt. Whitney, from Mobile to Cubai ports, limped into port Friday wit! what was left of the crew in tb throes of starvation. Of the crew o . seven which sailed from Mobile, Fri ?day night five are in the hospita THE GEOGRAPHICAL SO Washington, Sp?cial.-The follow ing resolution was adopted at th< meeting of the board of managers oi the National Geographical Society . held at Hubbard Memorial Hall a< an introduction to the reports of Dr F. A. Cook and Commander R. E, Peary, to be printed in the magazine of the society : "We print herewith the reports of Dr. F. A. Cook and Commander R. E. Peary announcing the discovery ol V the North Pole April 21, 1908, and April 6, 1909. Before the society can, WESTERN TRAINS COLLI Topeka, Kan.. Special.-Seventeen persons were killed and ten severely injured in a collision between a freight train and a construction train on the At.chison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad near here Friday. The dead are eleven Mexicans, four section foremen and two brakemen. It is be lieved some of the injured are fatally injured. The work train was backing into Topeka with fifty Mexicans rid ing on the flat cars. As the train was THE COTTON MANUFACTUI At a recent meeting of the Ameri can Cotton Manufacturing Associa tion in Charlotte Friday the following resolutions were passed: "Resolved, That in view of the disparity now existing between the price of cotton and cotton goods, we resolve:' "L That a committee of five be appointed to formulate a curtailment agreement. ' "2. That we recommend to every ff tin Commemorated With ay of Speech-Makin?l Dtic Pride. waa CoL W. W,. Lewis of the First Infantry. In general charge of the whole exercises was Col. J. C. Boyd of Colnmbia.. S. C., Adjutant General. The monument is the third erected in honor of the heroes of this turning point of the revolutionary straggle. Col. Asbury Coward, chairman of the executive committee, in present ing Gov. Ansel to. preside over the meeting said: "This beautiful day ushers in a day renaered glorious for the deed accomplished on October 8, 1780. It is the most notable that can be found in all our annals. - "It is peculiarly a matter of com pelling pride because the result of the battle was due to the spontaneous ini tiative of the plain people of that whole section and others contribut ing of their-men to the American forces on that occasion. It was here on this lonely spot that the represen tative of a foreign power was over thrown and a triumph achieved which laid the foundation for the realiza tion of the Declaration of Indepen dence and the existence of the con stitution of the United States-the repository of all our liberties. "The dead wera left unburied after the battle and the place was avoided as haunted territory. Then, about 30 years later, the neighbors came again, buried them at the foot of a stone which recorded their deeds in simple language. In 1855 the counties recog nized the significance of what had happened and gathered to. give ex pression to appreciation. Men like John S. Preston and the great his torian Bancroft, spoke with eloquence of the part played by the men at Kings Mountain. Later came the other monument. And so the recog nition has spread. First the neigh bors then the counties, then the State and now the United States has placed its seal of approval and appprecia tion." The monument first erected is a simple soapstone slab. The second is much more pretentious in monu mental form, and is quite creditable. The third for which Congress ap propriated $30,000, is a granite shaft 831-2 feet high, with inscriptions as follows : On the north and front face: Erected by the Government of the United States of Am?rica, to :he establishment of which the heriosm and patriotism of those who participated in' this battle so largely contributed. West- face: To commemorate the victory, of King's1 Mountain, October 7, 1780. On the east face the names of .the killed, the-:mortally wounded and the less seriously wounded are inscribed. President Snydor of Wofford Col lege was the orator of the day. He was measurably brief but eloquent and historic to the delight of the vast assembly. Senator Overman and Gov. Kitchin of North Carolina, Senator Smith and Congressman D. E. Finley of South Carolina each addressed the enthusi astic audience. Congressman "Webb was detained at home by sickness of his son and his address was read by Congressman Page, his colleague in Congress. The whole occasion was the exe cution of a program most inspiring to young patriots and pride insipiring to the descendants of the heroes whose noble deeds the handsome shaft stands as a perpetual memorial. THEY WERE PERISHING with slight chances of recovery, while another was washed overboard in the recent hurricane, and a second died of starvation shortly before and came to the helpless vessel, washed hun dreds of miles out of her course. The Kate Flore sailed from Mobile about September 12, with a cargo of lumber for Cuban ports. Encounter ing the hurricane, the boat was strip , ped to the decks and waterlogged. JlETY IS STILL DUBIOUS however, accept the conclusions of either Commander Peary or Dr. Cook that the North Pole has been attain ed it will be necessary that the scien tific records and data of each explor er be carefully examined by its committee on'research or by some body or commission acceptable to the board. "The society takes this position, not from any distrust of the personal integrity of either explorer, but be cause of the many calculations that enter into th? determination of the PQhy"_, DE AND KILL SEVENTEEN rounding a curve the northbound freight crashed into' it. Engineer Edward. Ash and Fire man Jospeh Correy on the freight train jumped as soon as the air brakes could be set. The engine on the freight ran over the four flat cars comprising the wreck train and almost a score of men'were pinned down and it was several hours before they were extricated. It is said the wreck was caused by crew disregarding orders. *ERS RESOLVE TO CURT?il mill which is in ? position to do so to sign this agreement and enter upon a general curtailment until the price of goods becomes on a parity with the price of cotton." The committee formulated the fol lowing: . ' We, the undersigned, agree to .cur tail operations of our mills one day or more each week until goods ad vance to a parity with the price of cotton. . COTTON CROPNOTSO GOOD Most Unfavorable Report Issued by the' Department pi Agriculture at This Season of thc Year in Many' Years. Washington, Special.-The most unfavorable report on the condition of the cotton crop issued by the Department of Agriculture at' this season of the year for many years has just been made public. Financial and weather conditions combined to make the report unfavorable. The official report indicates that on September 25 the condition of the cotton crop was only 58.5 per cent, of normal, as compared with 63.7 per cent, on August 25, 1909; 69.7 on September 25, 1908, 67.7 on Sep tember 25, 1907, and 67 per cent, on that average for ten years o? Au gust 25, 1909. After the announcement by the Department of Agriculture of the figures recording the average for this month, Dr. S. A. Knapp, chief of thc co-operative demonstration work for the Department of Agriculture in the south, after the conference with Sec retary Wilson, said that the serious falling off in the figures, especially for Louisiana and Mississippi, were due. to two conditions- One was the excessive rainfall in the early part of the cotton crop season, followed by a serious drought and the second was the failure of cotton planters to obtain advances on their crops from bankers. The latter r?ason forced the planters to dismhis a, consider able part of their labor sit a time when the boll weevil was a most seri ous pest. Dr. Knapp Gives Reasons. Dr. Knapp stated that another rea son which induced a falling off in the general average of louisiana, w?p that there was practically 30 per cent, less of acreage in cotton than in pre vious years. The boll weevil did serious damage during the past year in the southwes [ tern quarter of Mississippi, j "In my judgment," said Knapp, ? "the really serious trouble, which ' applies to all of the cotton States, was brought about by the excessive rainfall in the early part of the sea son and the excessive drought in the latter part. In some of the States planters scarcely could obtain water enough for their live stock. This was particularly true of Texas and Oklahoma. What is known as the New Orleans storm, which passed up through portions of Louisiana and western Mississippi, blew out im mense quantities of cotton and served seriously to detract from the excel lence of the crop." Secretary Wilson declined to make any statement regarding the figures given i out by his department. He said that he could talk about the wheat crop, about the condition of cattle in the west and about almost anything else but cotton He said that Dr. Knapp knew more about the cotton crop from practkal observance of conditions in the soath than any other man in the department, and he had: nothing to 'add to ihe statement made by' him. Comparisons of conditions by States on September 25 and the 10 year ?vorag? follow: 10-yr. 13?9 1908 Av. Virginia.....71 78 75 North Carolina .. ..70 69 70 South Carolina .. ..7C 68 69 Georgia.71 68 69 Florida.67 72 71 Alabama.62 70 67 Mississippi.53 70 68 Louisiana .39 55 67 Texas.52 71 63 Arkansas.54 70 67 Tennessee.68 78 72 Missouri.72 70 74 Oklahoma.55 70 69 United States.585 69.7 67 Four Persons Burn to Death. Nashville, Tenn., Special.-Fire broke out here Friday morning while occupants of the house were asleep, over a store. Four of the fire com panies arrived on the scene, but in spite of heroic efforts to enter their apartment in the face of flames burst ing from the windows, every member of the Fishman family but one perish ed. Miss Rachael Marke-son, the oth er victim, lived in same apartment. Cnrtiss Makes a / light. St. Louis, Mo., Special.-Under ad verse conditions, Glenn E. Curtiss, by a flight in his bi-plane late Friday afternoon in Forest park, received the applause and cheers of the 'many thousands of persons who had waited for hours for the wind to slacken. George Francois Ozmonr. and Hugh Robinson of St. Louis attempted to . make their machine fly but failed. Ozmont, after Curtiss hud made his successful flight, ti'?d a second time and his machine was damaged by striking the ground, but he was un injured. Fatal Pistol Duel. Jacksonville, Fla., Special.-In a pistol duel at Lake Butler late Friday afternoon C. A. Rich and John Parker were both killed, Parker dying on the train en route to this city for medical attention. Both left the store where they had r uarreled, but met at the railroad station later and commenced to fire at each other. Rich was in stantly killed and Parker received a j bullet wound in the breast which caused his death half an. hour later. One Killed in Accident on T. & N. 0. Railroad. Knoxville, Tenn., Special.-Three coaches of a passenger'train on the Tennessee & North Carolina railroad left the rails at a point ten miles south of Maryville late Friday and rolled down an embankment, seriously in juring two and bruising all of the re maining twenty passengers. David Ridge, a Blount county farmer, died as a result of his injuries. All mem bers of the train crew except the en gineer and fireman were in i ur cd. Items Gaihere^and?olld While You Not? Your Breath. SOME EVERY BAY HAPPENINGS Lively voA Crisp as They Are Gar nered From th? Fields o? Action Aft Home and Abroad. Dr. Cook says he will acquesce in a ?quest by the American Geograph ic societies in requesting the Copen hagen University to waive its claim to prior examination of his records. In doing so it was to meeti the de mand in America for a scientific test of the claims both of Cook and Peary. Copenhagen does not take well to it but Dr. Cook hopes to make it right and let the examination go on. Samuel E. Herman fell overboard a gun boat and was drowned and H. Daniels and E. Hermaine were aspyx ated with gas in a room as naval casualties last week amid the great Hudson-Fulton celebration. Sheriff- H J. Pope, of Taylor coun ty) Ga., was terribly if not fatally wounded, being shot three times by J. R. Brown, whom he was attempt ing to arrest Saturday night. President Taft was moved to tears Saturday at Portland, Oregon, by School children in drill. They spell ed Taft by rising with flags in form to make each letter and then in-one burst pronounced the word. Two men were killed and a number of other street car passengers in Pittsburg, Pa., were injured Sunday by the breaking of an axle which caused the car to tumble over. Arthur Wright was arrested Sat urday at Portland, Oregon, as he pressed too hard to get near Presi dent Taft with a camera. He was found to have a revolver 3f heavy calibre with a pocket full of cart ridges. Upon further examination it is now believed that he really had no bad intentions toward the President. Albert Pulitzer, brother of Joseph Pulitzer, the phenomenal genius of the New York World, committed suicide - at Vienna Sunday evening. He had been a great sufferer from nervous breakdown. Tho difficulties of Spain, with the Moors in Africa, in which Morocco is about to be involved, is assuming the attitude of a holy war and the tribes;'seem frantic. . Charles A. Gordon,1 who, by con fession of the woman was criminal ly intimate with Mrs. Wm. ?. Faull ing and killed him on account of these conditions, was sentenced ito life imprisonment at Walthourville,. Ga., last, week, . and- Mrs..; Faulling was banished ?rom ithe: State. Mr. and fMrs.- Cnarl?s: Johnson, of . Duncannon, Pa., haire"ia living child weighing less' than two: pounds and that could be put into a quart cup. In ]?rance recently a man was tried for killing his wife... He explained that he did it as an act .of mercy at the request of his 'wife, who was a prolonged and intense sufferer. The jury pronounced him not guilty. St. Louis, Mo., is celebrating the city's centennial in a jubilee of a week. It began on Sunday by 15,000 children in exercises. A farmer named Vostburg, near Lake Champlain, N. Y., recently plowed up stome gold coins. He went to digging out till he had more of the coins' than he could carry, prob ably $50,000. It is believed that the money was put there by some thief in the Burgoyne campaign, who never lived to make use of it. James E. Martin, Jr., is a baby living on Long Island, N. Y., and is heir to $500,000. 'His widowed moth er asked the court for an annual al lowance for his rearing and here are the items as allowed: For a home, $4,000; for maintaining same, $7,500; for an automobile and its keep. $3, 000; for entertaining, recrations, and exercise, $1,300 ; for > medical atten tion and medicines, $200; for cloth ing. $750; total, $15,750. Captain C. E. Bo'rehgrevink, the antartic explorer, opposes the propos ed submission of Dr. Cook's records to the university at Copenhagen and to the committee of .the American Geo graphical Society. He declares that this would not prove satisfactory, both bodies being, he thinks, prej udiced in favor of Dr. .Cook. Cap tain Borchgrevink suggests that the Geographical Society of Genoa, as an unprejudiced body, should be ask ed to settle the matter. The little son of Congressman E. Y. Webb, being critically ill, Mr. Webb could not attend the King's Mountain celebration on Thursday and Friday. The Rhode Island monument wa_ unveiled at New Bern, N. C., on Wed nesday in the National Cemetery. President Taft discarded his car Thursday and took a 30 mile auto mobile ride, viewing Yosemite Val ley and other scenes, making it the best day of the trip. Sellers of near beer are liable to a tax of $1,500 annually divided" equal ly among the State, the county and ? the municipality in the State of Ten nessee. A granite monument 831-2 feel high and costing $30,000, has been erected by the National Government commemorating the King's Moun tain battle. The ceremonies took place on Thursday and Friday, thc 129 anniversary of the battle. Abbott Lawrence Lowell was inaug urated president of'Harvard Univer sity Wednesday, the successors of Charles William Eliot. C. A. Rich and Joha Parker fougut a pistol duel at Jacksonville, Fla., Friday and both were killed. PRESIDENTJAF?'S Enthusiastic Thousands Greet On His Western Trip. After making one of the long .jumps of his trip and traveling '/twenty-five hours through Oregon the northern half of California, Pres ident Taft arrived at Sacramento Cal., Monday night at 7:10 o'clock ' The President was entertained at din I ner, was taken for an automobile through the city and made an address in the State Capitol grounds. He selected for- the ?j principal feature of his speech the. conserva tion of natural resources, in which he declared anew that before many the Roosevelt policies of conservation can be carried into effect, confirma tory and enabling legislation must be secured and he pledged himself to use all his power to induce Congress to pass the laws necessary. " As he was crossing from thc'-Oak land to San Francisco the army transport Thomas was setting sail for the Philippines and by-"the Presi dent's request the revenue cutter Golden Gate, on which he was a pas senger, was drawn up alongside the big vessel, the sides of which were .lines with soldiers and the families of officers. On the bridge of the transport the Philippine constabulary band was drawn up and was playing, "Hail to the Chief' as the President shouted across the water to khaki-clad sol diers: ' *J "Good-bye, boys; I wish you a pleasant voyage." ? ? Answering cheers came back, to the President. "Does it make you feel homesick Mr. President?" asked a member of the President's party. "Indeed, it does," replied Mr Taft, "and I would give anything if I were going with them." One of the most, pathetic incidents of the President's trip marked his stay in Berkley. He passed in re view of the pupils of an institution for the deaf, dumb and blind. The tribute of flags waved with unseeing eyes, of silent nods of the dumb, and cheers from the blind deeply impress ed the President. An all-day stage ride over thirty four miles of mountain road brought President Taft Thursday night to this little sierra retreat, eight miles from the entrance to the Mariposa grove of big trees, whither the Chief Executive started at sunrise Friday. News that mountain lions were in festing the park held out hope of ad venture for a time, but not even the tracks of one were seen on the road The President declared that Thursday was one of the most enjoyable days of his life. It was the first glimpse of the Yosemite and the impressive sur roundings, the bracing mountain air the freedom from speech-making all contributed to the pleasure of the first day of roughing it in the Sierras. His constant coa<lh companion was John Muir, the noted naturalist and explorer. . ?? ; He alighted from the stage dtiring a portion of the trip and walked a mile or more up the mountain road. It gave him a splendid appetitie for the picnic luncheon of fried chicken, pota toes, fruit and jelly served in the Grouse creek pine forest. The President arrived at Glacier Point Friday evening. The drive from Wawona, where he spent the. forenoon visiting the Mariposa big tree groves, was over twenty miles of mountain road and the President was ready for bed immediately after dinner. He arose before dawn and started for the sequoia trees in a dense fog, which quickly cleared, however. He was deeply impressed with the immense trees, especially in the upper groves. He was photographed at the base of the "Grizzly Grant," the biggest and oldest tree in the world; and he was snapped in the stage as it passed through the trunk of the Wawona, one of the largest of the forest mon archs. The President's speech at Fresno, .Ca., Sunday was in reality another Sunday sermon, the third he has preached since his trip began. His text, quoted from memory, was "He Who Conquereth Himself is Greater Than He Who Taketh a City," and from it the President drew the lesson that popular government must always be a failure unless it. is based upon sound common sense and the self-restraint that goes to make the good loser. He drew an anology between the American people in -this respect and those people who in their attempts at self-government follow an election with & revolution.-, . On his way here President Taft at tended morning service at the Presby terian church at Merced. A feature of the President's visit to Fresno was the presentation of good will from the Japanese residents. "Wc hail you, sir, as the honored Chief of a great nation which we are glad is on the friendliest terms with ours," they said, "and we also rejoice that our beloved country, Japan, has the honor and great priv ilege of reciprocating such fraternal regard. ' ' After an all-day stay at El Paso Sunday he President starts on anoth er long jump, San Antonio being his nevt stop, and there he is to accept on behalf of thc United States army a magnificent chapel and library building, the gift of San Antoninus, as ah appreciation of the American soldier. Seminole-Southern Life Case. Asheville, Special.-In the case of Seminole Securties Company by its receivers against the Southern Life Insurance Company, Judge Pritchard issued an order Saturday directing Julian S. Carr, J. G. Patterson and G. W. Hudgins to show cause here Octo ber 21 why they should not be en joined from prosecuting suits in the superior court of Durham county in volving the property now in charge of the Federal court. t COTTON MILLS TO CURTAIL Cotton Too High or Goods Too Low to Encourage Manufacture. Boston, Mass., Special.-A gigan tic movement, born of unrest of. long standing, is in progress throughout the leading cotton textile districts of #he worlds looking towards a general Curtailment of production during the remaining months of this year and in 1910. The principal reasons ad vanced for the movement are the gradual increase in the cost jf raw material and the failure of the dry goods markets to respond in a way which would assure continued profit to manufacturers during the next twelve months. In Lancashire the yarn spinners have been running their mills on short time for two months, and recently many other English mill owners voted to shut down two days each week un til, November 8. On September 15 the Arkwright Club, of Moston, representing 14,000, 000 out of 17,000,000 spindles in New England, sent out to all the cotton mills in this district, which is second in the industry to Lancashire, forms of an agreement for signatures for a curtailment. The investigations of the executive committee of this club convinced it that no difficulty would be experienced ,in securing the signa ture representing seven million spin dles. CURTISS PLEASES ST. LOUIS." Makes Spectacular Flight Against Adverse Circumstances. St. Louis, Special.-Under the arch of a brilliant rainbow, Glenn H. Cur tiss thrilled thousands of rain-soaked spectators here late Saturday by an aeroplane flight of more than a mile over the tree tops of Forest park . Curtiss was in the air one minute and forty-nine seconds, and in that brief time he covered close to nine furloughs. At first rising to a height of forty feet he dipped, then rose gracefully over the tree tops as he turned in a great arc and came back to the starting point. The landing was on rough, soggy ground, but it was so skillfully executed that no jar was noticeable. Curtiss literally risked his neck and his machine in the flight. Previous trials had shown that the aviation field under the shadow.of Art hill, in ' Forst park, was too carmped for se curing manipulation of the delicately poised aeroplanes. A group of trees 50 yards from the starting point was an obstacle which George Osmont, operator of the- Curzon-Farman bi plane had tried in vain to overcome during the week and was the indirect cause of his accident Friday. But Curtiss*, flying in the face of a fitful breeze, the remains of a gusty wind that had raged all day, rose over the tree tops, and although his bi plane tipped as he turned1, he calmly righted it. The exercises in connec tion with centennial week closed Saturday. Asylum Building Burns. Cleveland, O., Special.-Fire de stroyed "the men's convalescent cot tage Of the Cleveland State hospital for the insane at Newburg, a suburb of Cleveland, Saturday night. Fifty in?ane invalids, awakened from their sleep by the flames, fled to the street in paroxysms of fright, or, huudled in corners, resisted the urging of atten dants who besought them to leave. A hasty roll call when the building was evacuated showed that all had escap ed. The fire broke out beneath the roof of the building. It spread rap idly and in a few moments after its discovery the entire building appear ed to be in flames'. Efforts of the fire men were hampered by the necessity of caring for the escape of the pa tients and the upper portion of the building was completely gutted be fore the fire was brought under con trol. The structure is regarded as a total wreck. Freight Collides Wtili Passenger. Troy, Tex., Special.-Running at a high rate of speed, Missouri, Kansas & Texas passenger train No. 3 col lided head-on with a fast freight train on a curve near Troy late Sunday afternoon. Three of the crew of the I passenger train were injured, but the passengers escaped unhurt. The de livery of a wrong order by a tele graph operator is said to have caused the collision. Will Test Corporation Tax. Cincinnati, 0., Special.-P. D. Gold of Raleigh, N. C., was Saturday elect ed a member of the executive com mittee of the American Life Insur ance Association, which closed its three-day convention here. The meet ing adopted resolutions declaring that the convention would contest tho con?tutionality of the corporation tax in the courts, that a tax over one per cent is confiscating for insurance com panies, and that all States should have the same tax on insurance busi ness. There seems to be a growing pre judice against the surgical contre temps manifest in sewing sponges, forceps, scalpels and what-not imo patients. The loss of the material may De a trifle, admits the Philadel phia Ledger, but several subjects of operation have objected to being load ed with junk, and made a real fuss abcut lt. GO TC HARLING Before insuring elsewhere Old Line Companies. HA?U/?G Ot The Farmers .' i! WASHINGTON NOTES J! ' < . :?'.->, Washington will soon be in the fall .wing of governmental work under the direction of the heads of the de? partments. Two members of the Pres* ident's Cabinet-Secretary of thc Navy Meyer and Secretary of Agri culture Wilson-are "sitting on the lid" of the government and twa others-Attorney G?n?ral Wicker sham and Secretary of Commerce and Labor Nagel-are also on hand. The crop reporting board of the bnreau of statistics, Department of Agriculture, estimated the cotton crop on September 25 at 58.5 per cent of normal, compared with 63.7 August 25, and 69.7 September 25 last year. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Keynolds will retire from his office on November 1," for a longer period ?'ian any of his predecessors for some regimes back. Mr. Reynolds has held that office, much of the time as act ing head of the department, but Wed nesday he will go away on vacation and when he returns at the end of the month he will .devote himself to the work of the tariff board of which he is a member. "This is the home of the Ameri . can flag which you carried to th? North Pole," was the hearty expres sion given Dr. Frederick A. Cook by H. B. F. McFarland, president of the District board of commissioners, in officially welcoming the explorer at the municipal building Monday morn ing, in the presence of a crowd thal taxed its capacity. . Approval has been given by the navy department to the findings of the court-martial in the case of Frank R. Bitter, chief boatswain's mate, who, with four other enlisted men, were tried as the result of the cap sizing of the tug Nezinscott off Hali but Point, Mass., August 11th. Bitter was found guilty on the charge of inefficient performance of duty and was sentenced to six months confiner ' ment and discharged from the navy. The relief work of the Mexican flood victims is being continued unr der the direction of American con suls, according to a dispatch received at the State Department Sunday from Consul General Hanna, at Mon terey. Frost has made it appearance ?in all of the stricken districts and has injured the corn crops, which have been reduced fifty per cent by it, says the telegram, and many of the rural district* will need outside assistance until new crops can be raised. If he finds time, Secretary of the Navy Meyer will make a visit to Char leston, S. C., early in November at the time- President Taft reaches that section on his journey homeward. The secretary was cordially invited te come to Charleston by Mayor K. Goodwin Rhett and J. Adger Smyth, president of the Chamber of Com merce. If he goes Mr. Meyer will1 make a tour of inspection of the Char leston navy yard and also will look into the workings of the marine^school of application at Port Royal. Lee McClung, treasurer of Yale University, who has been appointed United States Treasurer to succeed Charles H. Treat, was at the Treasury Department Friday and met many of the officials whom he will be-associat if with. Mr. McClung will leave Fri day but will return in time to assume office on November 1st. With the removal from Fort Myer, Va., Wednesday of the Wright aeroplane owned by the gov ernment to the new aerodrome at Yoi lege Park, Md., the work of teaching the signal corps officers of the army was begun in earnest, Wilburg Wrig-at is the instructor. The Panama Canal Commission Friday forwarded an estimate of $43, 063,000 as necessary to continue the construction of the canal in the fiscal year of 1911. This estimate is $10, 000,000 more than 1910 and $15,000, 000 more than 1909. Fifteen and a half million is for labor; $20,000,000 for supplies and the remainder for general expenses. Two hundred and ten million dollars has been appro priated for the canal to date.' President Tait and his party on their return from the around-th continent trip will be taken on a cruise of the Cape Fear river.? The revenue cutter Seminole has been de tailed to take the Presidential party /; at Wilmington, N. C., on November . 9 on a short trip down the river, when the local reception committee will show the President the conditions along the stream. The people of Wil mington are planning the decorations of the wrater front and a great nar rine parade in connection with the visit. The sentiment of Kipling's recent poem has attracted so much attention that little has been bestowed on Ita splendid craftsmanship. Possibly the author is weak on prophesy, ob serves the Philadelphia Ledger, but he still is albie to marshal words in an orderly manner and cause them to say things. ) SEE i & BYED &? We^represent the Best & BYRD* Bank of Edgefield