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TILLMAN WRITES OF HIS TRIP. Many Things of Interest In Italy. Poor Farm Methods. ; Columbia, August 1.- Senator Tillman and his companion traveler, Dr. J. W. Babcock, are evidently hav ing a most pleasant trip. They have Kotten as far as Canev?, Switzerland. In a personal note concerning Sena tor Tillman's condition, Dr. L hcock writes: "Goneva, Switzerland, July 19. "Dear Mr. Kohn: "It is a rainy morning, BO I haye taken advantage of the only opportu nity I have had for a long time to get' Senutor Tillman to dictate an account ot our travels for his friends In South Carolina! I am glad to report that tho Senator continues to Improve. Ho ls very active and keeps going all the time. The evidences of his recent threatened paralysis have almost en tirely disappeared. "As ever, sincerely yours, "J. W. Babcock." Senator Tillman's Letter. The observations of Senator Till man as dictated by himself follow: Geneva, Switzerland, July 19. It is practically a month now since we left Naples, and the time has been most pleasantly, and I hope profita bly, passed, both mentally and phy sically. The Journey has been.leis urely which brought us to Geneva, but the sight-Beelng hus been quite arduous. Rome was especially and necessa rily the most exacting in points of interest and the work necessary to see them. We remained there twelve days, and then In despair decided that it would take a year's hard work to gain any adequate Idea of things, and then moved on to Florence. Moreover, there was a constant de sire for books which wero at home to refresh our memories, which are provoking. Tile Crowded Forum. The one thing which ls lncompre henBible, even now, ls the smallness of the Roman Forum; and why so many temples and other massive buildings were crowded into such a small space, and that in a hollow be tween hills, ls a question which every thoughtful traveler will ask himself I am sure the entire area known a's the Forum, including the sights for the palaces, temples, .basilicas, etc, is not ten acres. This Includes the space from the Tarpeian Rock, on which tho capitol stood, to the Arch of Titus. But I cannot undertak any description and only mention this surprising fact as the most strik ing thing in our visit to the former mistress of the world. Roman. Beggars Few. We noticed a marked difference in the Roman people from the Neapoli tans. They are larger in stature, and the beggars, which are so pestiferous at Naples, are very rarely seen at Rome. We reached Florence on the even ing of July 3d, and spent the fourth in this beautiful city. lt hus no ruins, and the bridge across the Arno is perhaps the only structure which has come down from the Roman pe riod. There is sculpture everywhere and we absolutely became surfeited on great paintings. Near the edge of the prlncipnl square and in front of thc old palace where then, as now, was the seat of the city government, there ls a circular bronze tablet let into the pavement over which pas sengers and vehicles pass, with the picture of Savonrola and the legend, marking that as the spot on which he was executed and his body after wards burned, along with the two monks, Fra Salvesto and Fra Dom enico, who were his principal lieuten ants in the effort to reform the abuses of Catholicism. He was equally brave and fear less with Luther, whom he antedated by a half-century or more. I will confess to a greater feeling of sol emnity in looking at this tablet, which may bo likened to a largo bronze medal, than I have on enter ing any church since I have been In Europe. Improvement in People. Again I would mention the mark ed Improvement in the type of the people as compared with the Routh ern Italians. The Florentines are fully as large in stature as the Amer! cans, and the Impression made on one by the people in the streets Is that they are of a highly intelligent, courteous and admirable citizenship It is straining on tho muscles of the neck to gaze at. pictures, and there are so many in the two great galleries here-the Pitt and the Ufflzl-that we we?? glad to move on to Venice, which city w? reached on July 7th. The route carried us across the Appenines, through a large number of tunnels and through pic turesque scenery, after which we descended Into tho gnrden of Italy tho far-famed valloyof tho Po, though the land is no richer than the plain extending from Venice to Milan which is designated as tho plain of Lombardy. Il is difficult to uuy one who has not seen the rich prairies extending from Indiana westward to conceive the richness ot this Und. The land scape, however, ls very different. There are no large fields or open spaces. The mulberry trees, whose leaves are used to feed silk worms, are everywhere In evidence, while avenues of Lombardy poplars and rows of elms are kept pruned to small hoads, and crops of corn? wheat and clover are grown right up to their roots. Every foot ot land ls utilized. A Fruit Region. Wo had seen comparatively little Indian corn till we reached this fer tile region, and considering the in telligence of the people, it ls a very striking commentary on their lack ot experimentation and initiative that they are such poor farmers in corn culture. The corn ls absolutely broadcast, and when you can see any rows at all they are from twelve to fifteen inches wide, with Just room for one furrow with a plow. The corn, must be cultivated mainly with a hoe, but as it is in full silk and tassel now no work ls being done In lt'. As it averages about one foot tn the drill then, must be from 30,000 to 46,000 stalks to the acre. However rich the land or however perfect the cultivation, the light and air are shut out by this method of culture. While I have no statistics JIB to the yield in grain, lt must be relatively small, and there ls no won der that the disease pellegra prevails to such an alarming extent in this country. We were told by the gov ernment official at Rome, who corre sponds to the head of the United States marine hospital service, and who has good usc of the English language, and evidently ls a man of scientific attainment, that there ls no doubt that this terrible disease Is due entirely to the using of unsound Indian corn as food, and this must be due entirely to crowding, as the climate of Milan is nbout the same as that of Charlotte, N. C.; if any thing, warmer, with full opportunity for the corn to mature thoroughly. Poor Farming Methods. We bought some corn at the Place St. Mark, In Venice, to feed tho pigeons with, and the grains were nearly round, ar, though-coming from nubbins. Ami, of course, with thj corn crowdt'', as they grow lt tn Italy, nothing but nubbins are possi ble. As the peasants depend largely on corn for food In Northern Italy, and their poverty suggests or com pels eating whatever grain they can get, the good and bad are ground to gether, hence the disease pellegra. Venice Too Much for an Invalid. Venice is a little too much for an Invalid to attempt to describe. It has no streets, only alleys from six to ten feet wide and canals from ten to thirty feet wide. The alleys cross the canals when necessary on bridges, always high arched for the passage of gondolas and lighters. And every thing, including the people, trans ported tn the city ls either carried on the back or in a boat by water. We did not see a single vehicle of any kind, nor a horse. The paying problem is relatively unimportant in Venice and there ts no necessity for dodging street cars, automobiles, cabs or trucks, all of which we found to be very necessary when we reached Milan. Undoubtedly there ls nothing in the way of contrast greater than that which exists between those two Ita lian cities-Venice and Milan. Decay and former grandeur are written all over Ver'oe, and the si lence which one finds there is typical of the grave. Milan, with its half million people, the commercial and manufacturing metropolis of the kingdom of Italy, ls in every respect, barring the narrowness of some of its .streets, a hustling, progressive, mo dern city, and one can easily imagine himself in St. Louis, Cincinnati or Pittsburg, barring the smoke. The cathedral ls, to my mind, even more pleasing than St. Peter's at Rome. While that is stupendous and magnificent, there is something gar ish about It, and such a studied effort to substitute some pontiff's maxims ns an idol to be Worshipped instead of christ that the simple majesty and beau y and dignity of the Milan cathedral ls very Impressive. This may also be said of the Seville cathe dral. On Italian Lakes. After a day and a half on the Italian lakes-Como, Lugano and Magglore-we left Italy anti came direct to Geneva, coming the entiro length of Lake Geneva from Its eujt ern to Its western end by boat. Our pleasure was much marred by a heavy squall and rain, which drove us from tho deck two-thirds of tho time, and it haB been raining pretty much ever since we got here. N Notwithstanding the strenuous life we have been leading, I feel stronger Served as coffee, the new coffee substitute known to grocer's every where as Dr. Shoop's Health Coffee, will trick oven a coffee expert. Not a grain of real coffee in lt either. Pure healthful toasted grains, malt, nuts, etc., have been so cleverly blended as to give a wonderfully satisfying cof feo taste and flavor. And It Is "made in a minute," too. No tedious 20 to 30 minutes bolllug. A. P. Crisp. and better as time peases, and should the Improvement continue I ought to be strong and well again when I reach home in October. Aa to (tullan Immigrants. Having myself been ver/ pro nounced tn expressing the idea that Italians were undesirable immigrants for South Carolina, a sense of Justice compels me to say tbat having watch ed the people of Italy with that very question in view, I still feel that the people of Naples and those ot Southern Italy, whom I saw at. Sale rum and i'estum, are not .the type we would like to have. From Rome, northward the impres sion made on me is entirely favor able, and I feel sure that if we could get any of the Northern Italians into the Southern States they would make good citizens and help in every way to assist the white race in solving the race problem. Our investigations show that most of these who leave home go to South America, especially to the Argentine Republic, while we also learned that there is a 8 .ung reflux current of those who have come to the United States, both ships on which we traveled having their full complements of 1,200 each re turning home. Qood and bad alike, they all love Italy. Hay Fever and Summer Colds. Victims of hay fever will experi ence great benefit by taking Foley's Honey and Tar, as lt stops difficult breathing immediately and heals the inflamed air passages, and even if it should fall to cure you lt will give instant relief. The genuine is in a yellow package. Sold by all drug gists. HOLD ON TO YOUR SPOTS,. Prospects Not Good for Another Humper Crop. To Holders of Spot Cotton: Now ls the time to hold, and victory is yours. Farmers, do you realize that cotton ls scarcer in the world to-day than it has been for 25 years? If you do not, the sooner you realize the more you will think of the spots you have on hand, and the crops you are grow ing. Now remember that lt all depends on you to make lt bring the mini mum price, 15 cents. If you can be scared out of your cotton for less than the minimum price I do not j blame the fellow for scaring you. I would do the same thing If I were in his place, but you, the holder of spot I cotton, have all under hold In this fight, and If you give up it is because you have not the nerve to stand the fight of the battle. Let me say to you, the holder of spots: Hold to thom, for the next two months is the most critical period, as both the American spinner and the European spinner are about out of cotton to spin. If you, the holder of spots, will not sell, there will be many | mills that will have to close down and not from choice, ?but for" want of cotton. Conditions are all In your favor, but nerve and backbone you lack. Now do not say you cannot j hold. We have plenty of bonded warehouses In our State, and you can put. your cotton In them and borrow money on your receipt. Let mo urge you to do this, and do not put any ? cotton on the market until the mini mum ls reached. The European mills are now out of cotton and they have contracts sold j ahead. They have to come to Amer ica for cotton an--', they will have to j do this now at once. This is the situation, so no cause for alarm. I know the bear side of cotton is using the new crop to bear the market so they may get you to sell the remain der of your old crop. The price will now soon go back up to 12 cents, and they think you will then sell. I know . ome of you have said if I lt reaches 1/2 you would sell. Now the same thing that brings it back to 12 will, if you hold on, make lt bring the minimum, 15 cents. Now as to conditions of the 1908 I crop. I have correspondence from every cotton growing State. There cannot be a more accurate account (than we, the Farmers' Union, can get up, and reports from all the States Is of this character. In the first place, too much wot weather In the early spring, and there was a poor preparation of the soil. When the preparation is poorly done you can not make an average crop. The rains west of the Mississippi river contin ued until July 1st, and the cotton grew to weed too much and Is not fruited well. Now the hot dry weath er has set In with them and much damage is hoing done. In other words, lt is Impossible for the West to make anything like an average crop when they have a wet May and June. Such weather fills the cotton plant with too much malaria and lt i cannot stand the hot sun without great damage. To prove this look how the plant is now turning yellow nnd the leaves dropping from it. This report comes from many of the States. We cannot nov more than duplicate the 1007 crop, and remem ber the shortage of last year's crop of 4,000,000 bales, and Juot remem ber cotton futures cannot be spun. B. Harris, President, S. C. State Farmers' Union. WILL NOT VOTK FOR 15i.CASK. Newberry Preacher* Do Not Favor Hts Candidacy. (The State, Aug. 5.). One of the candidates for the ex alted office of Governor of South Car olina, who has tried to show why his opponent should not be re-elected, has declared in his own behalf that, should the people of South Carolina WIBII to know anything of him, they might inquire of the ministers of Newberry. Yesterday the State received with out solicitation, except by editorial invitation, the following card, com ing without superscription to indi cate when or why the action of the ministers was taken: "In as much as 1 Hers of inquiry, received from different sections of the State, reveal the fact that un warranted Inferences as to the atti tude of the ministers of thc town of Newberry are being drawn from cer tain statements made publicly by Hon. Cole L. Blease in his canvass for the office of Governor, we deem it our duty to say that we do not, directly or indirectly, endorse his candidacy. "(Signed) Edward Fulenwlder, Pastor Lutheran Church of the Re deemer; G. A. Wright, Pasto.* of the First Baptist Church; J. E. James, Pastor Presbyterian Church; D. G. Phillips, 1 astor A. R. Presby terian Church; J. T. Miller, Pastor O'Neal Street M. E. Church; A. H. Best, Pastor Newberry Circuit." Inquiry over the 'phone elicited the information that the action of these preachers was taken in regular meeting and that one who was ab sent has since requested that his name be appended. August time tells on the nerves. But that spiritless, no ambition tool ing can be easily and quickly altered by taking what ls known by drug gists everywhere as Dr. Shoop's Re storative. Within 48 hotfrs after be ginning to use the Restorative, im provement will be noticed. Of course full health will not immediately re turn. The gain, however, will surely follow. And best of alli you will re alize and feel your strength and am bition as it ls returning. Outside in fluences depress first the "inside nerves" then the stomach, heart and kidneys will usually fall. Strengthen these falling nerves with Dr. Shoop's Restorative and see how quickly health will be yous again. Sold by J. W. Bell. Death from Heat in Chicago. Chicago, Aug. 5.-Chicago to-day entered upon its twentieth day of continued intense heat and its fif teenth day without rain. Four deaths overnight were reported. The tem perature at ll a. m. was 84 degrees and the humidity 74 per cent. THE COME AND SEE SION m A. This sign is permanently attached to the front of the nv.in building of the Lydia K. Pinkham Medicine Company, Lynn, Mass. What Does This Sign Mean ? It means that public inspection of the Laboratory and methods of doing business is honestly desired. It means that there is nothing about the bus iness which is not44 open and above board." It means that a permanent invita tion is extended to anyone to come and verify any and all statements made in the advertisements of Lydia ?. Pinkham':- Vegetable'Compound. Is it a purely vegetable compound made irom roots and herbs - with out drugs ? Come and See. Do the women of America continu ally use as much of it as we are told ? Como and See. Was there ever such a . person as Lydia E. 1-lnkham, and is there any Mrs. Pinkham now to whom siok woman are asked to write ? Como and See. Is the vast private correspondence with sick women conducted by women only, and are the letters kept strictly confidential ? Come and See. Have they really got letters from over one million, one hundred thousand women correspondents ? Come and See. Have they proof that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has cured thousands of these women ? Come and See. .This advertisement is only for doubters. The great anny of women who know from their own persona) experience that no medicine in the world equals Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for female Ills will still go on using and being ben efited by It ; but tho poor doubting, suffering woman must, for her own sake,be taught confldence.for she also might justas well regain nor health. The Kind You Have Always Bought? and which has been In use for over 30 years? has borne the signature of and has been made under his per sonal supervision nineo tts Infancy* Allow no one to deceive you in this* All Counterfeits, Imitations and ?? Just-as-good" are but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children-Experience against Experiment? What is CASTOR IA Casto? la ls a harmless substitute for Castor Oil? Pare Corfe? Drops and Soothing Syrups* It ls Pleasant* It contains neither Opium? Morphine nor other Narco tia substance. Its age ls its guarantee* It destroys Worms and allays Feverishness* It cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic* It relieves Teething Troubles? cures Constipation and Flatulency* It assimilates the Food? regulates the Stomach and Bowels? giving healthy and natural sleep? The Children's Panacea-The Mother's Friend* GENUINE CASTOR IA ALWAYS Bears the Signature of The Kind You Have Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years. i ?merr, MN? ?OR? cn-?. 4 THE Mllili SITUATION IS BLUE. Smith-Draper Co., of Charlotte, to Shut Down-Other Closings. Charlotte, N. C., Aug. 2.-The tex tile manufacturing situation in this section ls decidedly blue, nor do mill men know where and when lt will end. The big Smith-Draper mills, it is learned to-day, will shut down to-morrow. While it is given out that the shut-down will be only for one week, well-informed mill men understand that it will be for a much greater period. . It is believed that the cessation of operations by this company will mark the real com mencemeut of a general closing down of mills in Piedmont Carolina. Four big Spartanburg mills clos?d down last week, and only one of the dozen mills in Charlotte is operating full time, the others being shut down completely or running part time. The Smith-Draper mills are five in number, having a capital of nearly $2,000,000 and employing several thousand operatives. They manufac ture white sheetings principally. For months the situation in the cotton goods market has been serious and grows no better. Prices are low, and there ts little or no demand even at the bottom figures, and for months the mills which have been running have simply piled up manufactured goods In their warehouses. With the mills which have been on part time lt has been merely a matter of keep ing their otherwise idle operatives to. gether and the operations have been conducted at a loss. Cheapest accident Insurance-Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil. Stops the pain and heals the wound. All drug gists sell lt. Campaign Meetings. Campaign meetings in Oconee county have been fixed by the execu tive committee as follows: Picket Post, Thursday, August 13. Little River, Friday, August 14. Tamassee, Saturday, August 15. Westminster, Monday, August 17. Cheswell Mill, Monday, August 17, 8.30 p. m. 8alem. Thursday, August 20. Walhalla, Friday, August 21. Walhalla Mill, Friday, August 21, 8.30 p. m. _._i_?_~ Kl LL TH? COUCH m CURB TM? LUNGS wiT Dr. King's New Discovery FOR Gtm* AND ALL THROAT AND LUNG TROUBLES. GUARANTEED SATISFACTORY OS MONET REFUNDED. C. R. Houchins. WE ARE DETE RMI] LIVERY E FOR THIS COMMUNITY. COME ON AND GET YOUR TEAMS. HAULING TEAMS, SINGLE AND DOUBLE BUGGY TEAMS AND SADDLE HORSES, ALWAYS ON HAND. Prompt and polite service at rea sonable prices. Teams sent out at any hour, day or nit it. 'Phone 10 or ll for quick teams. , HOUCHINS Sk KING, Walhalla, 8. C. 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