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COTTON ?INNINGS TO JANUARY t Tot?I for Season, 12,910,257 Bales; For Sooth Carolina, 1,173,549. Washington, Jan. 9.- The eighth cotton ginning report of the census bureau for the season, issuod at 10 o'clock this morning, announced that 12,919,257 hales of cotton, counting round as half bales, of the growth of 1912. had been ginned prior to Wed nesday, January 1, lo which date, during thc past Bevon years, the ?in ning averaged 92.8 per cent of the entire crop. Last year, to January 1, there had been ginned 14,317,002 l?ales. ur lt2. l per cent nf thc entire crop; in lillis to that dato, 12,465,298 bales. Dr '.'?"..'.'< per cent, and in 1906 to that dat?1 11,7 11 ,039 bales, or '.?II. I pel een t. Included in the ginnings were 77. 71?7 round hale-, compared with 90. 227 hales last year, IOU,292 hales in i .i m. ii 3,949 bales m 1 909 and 220,572 bales ni 1908. The nuiii'er ot' sea island cotton bales Included were 07.397. com pared with 105,988 bales last year. 89,61 bales in 1909, and S0,:.2S bales in 1 908. Cinnings prior to January 1, by States, with comparisons fur last year and other big crop years, and the percentage of the entire crop gin ned prior to that date in those years, i < 11111 u : States--Year: Ginnings. Per Ct. Alabama 19 12 . 1,289,576 1911.1,618,510 95 . r> 1908 . 1,302,338 97. S 1906.1.190.0(12 '.?.") . 9 A rkansas I'.tl 2. 7:12.2 10 10 1 1 . 786,329 80. ti 1908. 1110,12a 91.4 1906. 73 1.r> 17 81.8 Florida t;ii2. r.f>,oi8 - 1 !l 1 1. 86,4 2 I IH . 5 1908. ?().85.-> 94.7 1H06. 59,011 96.0 Georgia 1912 . 1,767,016 - 19 11.2,02:1.917 9I1.9 1908. 1,930,783 97.7 1900. 1,571.582 90 . 3 Louisiana - 1912. 367,195 - 1911. 3r?2.r)03 9 2.6 1908 . tr>3.2 10 97.1 1906. 836,459 87.5 Mississippi - 19 1 2 . 937,356 - 19 11 . 1,047,299 89.6 1908 . 1,522,100 93.9 1906. 1,289.294 80.9 North Carolina - 1912 . 857.303 - 19 11. 975,223 80.0 1908 . 047,50.-) 94.7 1900 . 571,628 93.5 Oklahoma 19 12. 946,453 - 19 11. 90(1.1119 88 . 6 I 90S. 525,6 1 0 95 . 1 I 9 0 0 . 701,814 80. 5 South Carolina 19 12 .1,173,54 9 1 li I I.1.508.7:.:: 89 . 2 I 908 .I.I 76,220 90 . 7 1906 . 8 0 8,9 7 7 95.2 Tennessee 19 12 . 248,506 - 19 11. 381.281 .ss . 7 I ;MIS. 3 17,011? ?i 1 . 9 1906 . 241,838 82.5 Texas --- 19 12.1.41 6,9 3 2 19 11.3,926,059 95 . 0 1 90s. 3,486,007 90 . 1 1 '.KU;. 3,626,1 I 7 9 1. 0 Other Stales 19 12. 82,013 - I !' 1 I. I 1 0,29 S 79. 4 I90S. 07.777 92.7 1906 . 52.7 10 77.2 The ginnings ol' sea island cotton, prior to January I. by States, follow: Vears. Fla. (ia. S. C. .19 12 .... 2 1,0S 1 39,526 0,79 1 19 11 .... 38.091 63,099 4,798 1909 .. . .27,532 19.9 I I 12,135 1908 .... 32,696 I 1,049 I 2.781 The next ginning report will tn- is sued Thursday, January 23, at le .1. in., aad will announce tho quantity . e." cotton ginned prior to Wednesday, January 15 th. Slot) Howard, $100. The readers ot this paper will be pleased to learn thal there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cur" in all its stages, and that is catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure I? the only positive cnn? now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, re quires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken inter nally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient Strength by building np the constitu tion ami assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in Its curative powers that they offer ono hundred dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address: F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. Sold by all druggists, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for con stipation, adv. Governor Blouse has granted a pa role to Clarence Harber, of Chester county, sentenced to serve twelve years for manslaughter. Harber was con' .'cted in 1910. JOHN I>. It. HAH NO FRIENDS. So Sayn Brother Frank-Sidelights On High Finance. Belvidere, Kans., Jan. 9.-"That brother of mine, John I). Rockefeller, 1? thc most lonesome man in all tho world; there is no man who walks the earth that he can call his real friend." Krank Rockefeller, of Belvi dere, Cleveland and New York, is quoted as saying Rockefeller is spending some time at his big ranch near here, where he coin?s every winter for a few weeks' vacation. He is a brother of John j 1). and William Rockefeller, who has been leading the government a chase which has now ended, as a witness, and was for twenty years genera! Held man for Standard Oil. His 15, 000-acre ranch in this county is call ed "Rockefeller's million-dollar play thing." "I'd rather live on a 150-acro Western homestead, with a home steader's usual fare, than ll vii like John I), does In his palace's. He's the most lonesome man on the face of the earth, lie can call no man 'friend,' " continued Frank Rockefeller. Says Jolui D. is Ostracized. "John I).," he ls quoted as remark ing, "has been relegated to the back ground by all tho big business men with whom he once did business. None of them will have anything to do with him. They don't Uko his way of doing business. "Anyway, brother William is worth .">() per cent more money than John D. is, but peoplo don't know it. John 1). hasn't reinvested his money for many years and is practically out of the game. Ho has the income of his investments, but nothing more. Wil liam invests and reinvests, and to day is worth one-half again as much as John D." Frank Rockefeller is seventy, as straight as an arrow, weighs 217 pounds ard ls an athlete. Regard less of his appearance while In New York or Cleveland, when in Kansas Mr. Rock? iler looks just like an ordinary rancher. And he acts like one, too. He can ride any horse on the ranch; he can out swear any cow boy on the placo and he can use as much tobacco in a day as the noxt man can. His Financial Views. Rockefeller talks very interesting ly of the financial problems of the day. "The greatest question is the trusts, and how to handle them," he says. "The problem cannot be solved by Congress, because the individual members aro not broad enough. It must be solved by a body of men with commercial training. "For instance: The Reef trust is controlled by one of the smartest sets of men in the country. And the gov ernment sent Jim Garfield to investi gate them. Garfield was bright enough, but he had no commercial training. Everybody knows the re sult. Nothing of value was gained. ' The suit against Standard Oil was a complete failure. Tho proper method was not employed. The oil intorests are stronger to-day than be fore the dissolution, and they occupy a position of power they never dream ed of before the conn order dissolved the combination. Regulating the Trusts. "Before, there was just ono com petitor for the independents to light. Now there are 34 'competitors,' all working together. And all because some one blundered. The only di rect and immediate result was that the oil interests cleaned up $180,000, 000 in a jiffy. "A similar blunder was made in the Tobacco case, and the Tobacco people made $90,000,000 in short order. "Rig men must meet big men. A body ol* men with commercial train ing would know just how to go about this business, but men of the caliber now working upon these cases will scarcely do the country any good. They know tho end they desire to reach, but they don't know the road thereto." DOOKS BY PARCELS DOST. Congress Will Probably Amend Fxisi ing Law us tr> Printed Mutter. Washington, Jan. 10.-Il is likely, in tho judgment of authorities of the post office department, to be only a short time until books and other printed matter now handled as third class mail at eight cents a pound, will be made mallabie as parcel post matter. Steps, it. became known *o day, already have been taken to In duce- Congress so to amend the par cels post act as to permit printed matter to be sent by parcels ? ost. In line with tills idea, Post! VS ter General Hitchcock decided -day that senders of parcel post pacKages containing merchandise might en close printed matter descriptive of the contents without, affecting their classification. His order is au amend ment to the existing parcel post regu lations which provide that the inclu sion In a package of any printed mat ter subjects the entire package to tho third-class rato of postage. ? ?LAFLIN SWEPT BY FLAMES. Administration Building Destroyed IA>.SS $75,000 fc> $100,000. Orangeburg, Jan. 9.-Orangeburg was visited by one of the largest lires in its history this morning when the large main building of Clan In Uni versity, a negro college supported by tho Northern Methodist Church, was practically destroyed by fire. The alarm was sent In about 11.40 o'clock this morning, and when the fire de partment reached the scene the roof was a mass of llamos. Tho origin of the Uro is a mystery. When discov ered tho lire was a roaring (lame, ap pearing to have been burning some time. Tho main building was a three story brick structure and a very large building. In this building were lo cated class rooms, girls' dormitory, president's office and other offices, dining room, kitchen annex, etc. All of the students were gotten out of tho building In safety. A large amount of the students' personal ef fects were saved and some personal property of the college, but the loss of personal property was great. The large malu building of the Stato college for negroes, which is a four-story building, was in close prox imity to the fire, but at no time was in serious danger of destruction. About two years ago Badham Hall, girls' dormitory of tho State college, was destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of about $20,000. There was a stiff wind during the fire, but luckily the wind blew In the most favorable direction to prevent t:>e spread of fire to adjoining build ings. Although the firemen fought valiantly, the wind fanned the flames and the building was reduced to ashes, except the kitchen "annex, which was saved. The building destroyed was val ued at between $75,000 and $100, 000. The insurance carried upon the building amounted to $50,000 and on the furniture $5,000, making a total of $55,000 insurance. Dr. L. M. Danton, president.of Claflln Univer sity, stated that the school would run smoothly along, as plenty of room would be provided in other buildings for class rooms and dormi tory accommodations. Dr. Dunton stated that the administration build ing would be rebuilt as soon as pos sible and that a magnificent structure would be erected to replace the one destroyed. The present Claflin Uni versity plant is valued at over $3 00, 000. AN ILL-FATED BOAT. Nineteen Perish When Steamer on Tombigl>oe Uiver Explodes. .Mobile, Ala., Jan. 10.-Nineteen perished and 2 2 were injured when the steamer James T. Staples ex ploded on tho Tombigbee river yes terday n?ar Bladon Springs. Tho captain, the pilot, the engineer, the second clerk, all Mobile men, are among the dead. Four negroes are known to have he^pi killed, and I 1 missing are be lieved to bo dead. One week ago Capt. Norman Sta ples, who built the boat, committed suicide here, following financial re verses. Cough, Cold] Sore Throat I Sloan's Liniment gives I quick relief for cough, cold, I hoarseness, sore throat, I croup, asthma, hay fever I and Bronchitis. HERE'S PROOF. Mn. A CBS HT W. PRICK,of Frodorda, Kan., writes : " Wo uso Sloan's Lini ment in Hi" family and fintl it an ex cellent relief f<>r Colds and buy fever Attacks, lt .stops coughing and guoox iijg almost instantly." SLOAN'S LINIMENT RELIEVED SORE THROAT. MRS, T.. n1tKWK.11, of Modeilo.Fla., writes: I bought ono bottle of your Liniment and itdld monti the good in the world. My throat was very Boro, and lt cured ino ot my trouble." GOOD FOR COLD AND CROUP. B MR. W. H. STRANOK, 8721 Elmwood I Avonuo, Chican.?, BI?, writes: "A Ut- ? tlo boy next door had croup. 1 gave I the mother Sloan's Liniment to try. ? She gavo him titree drops on sugar I brfor? going to bed, and ho got up I without tho croup lu tho morning." Pr loo, 28o?w BOG m, $1mQO I HI H ill OF CLEMSON GOUDGE. "I Am Responsible for Clemson Col lege," Says Dr. J. W. Daniel. (News and Courier Special.) Walterboro, Jan. 9.-"I am respon sible for Clemson College, and I am proud of lt," was said by Dr. J. W. Daniel, presiding elder of Charles ton District, at a meeting of the board of stewards at the first quarterly con ference, held Sunday night, at Bethel Methodist church. To a newspaper man present this was rather a startling statement. Sen ator H. It. Tillman has been receiv ing cedit for the achievement in this neck of the woods, and doubtless in every other "neck" where the state ment of Dr. Daniel has not been heard. So the newspaper man pres ent sat up and took notice. Th;- discussion of the efforts being made to raise funds for the purchase of the new district parsonage in Charleston caused the remark. Dr. Daniel is very much interested In this recent purchase by the Methodists of the Charleston District, and was ask ed by a member of the board to tell tho(.e present about it. This occur red in one of those delightful infor mal lKiiiods punctuating all of Dr. Daniel's meetings with the stewards of his district, when be becomes rem iniscent. He said that when he was quite a young man, having just entered the ministry, be was sent 'o the Old Pen dleton charge. At th.it 'imo Thomas G. Clemson was an old. eccentric man, and a sceptic. He had never been known to go to church, but af ter several visits by Dr. Daniel, he came at once to his church. Dr. Dan iel said there seemed to spring up a liking for him by the old man, who was quite a talker. About this time a meeting of the local Agricultural Fair Association was held, and Governor Perry was present as a speaker. Attention was thus directed to thc subject of agri cultural development. Shortly after this Col. Simpson came to see Dr. Daniel, and In conversation Informed him that Mr. Clemson was thlnk'i.g of leaving his i>ossesslons to f.und a mining college. Col. Simpson, being an alumnus of Wofford College, was anxious to get this property for his alma mater. Dr. Daniel said to Col. Simpson : "It would be foolish for Mr. Clem son to leave his money to found a college on mines or mining, as there is nothing to mine in this Stato but a few fish bones down on the coast, aud if he wants to found a college, why doesn't he found an agricultural college?" Col. Simpson, Dr. Daniel said, was very much impressed with the suggestion and stated that he was going right over and suggest it to Mr. Clemson, which he did, and Mr. Clem son at obce became quite enthusias tic. '.This," said Dr. Daniel, "was the birth of Clemson College, which has become such a sp ndid school. Mr. Tillman and other nay not like me to say this, but these are facts." After the meeting adjourned Dr. Daniel was asked by the reporter if he had any objection to the use of his remarks relative to the founda tion of Clemson College. "None what ever," was the reply. "They are facts, so why should I mind?" It requires no stretch of the imagi nation, to one who knows Dr. Daniel, to believe that this was the real birth of Clemson College. A close student of conditions am! affairs, and with an intensely prac*!' M mind, such a suggestion was but a logical sequence. A book, which is now in tho hands of the publishers, written by bim, shows how very practical he can be. This book, "The Pottom Hail," will create a sensation, it is predicted, when lt comes from the press, and perhaps will have as far reaching effects as the suggestion to Mr. Clemson that ho leave his money to found an agri cultural college. Sir Isaac Pitman Centennial. All over the world elaborate prep arations are being made for the cen tennial celebration of Slr Isaac Pit man, tho great lOnglish stenographer. Porn January 4, 1813, at Trowbridge. Wiltshire,longland. This great scholar devoted most of his life to the study of phonography and shorthand. He was the Inventor of the celebrated Pitman system of phonography,which he later applied to shorthand. He was for fifty years tho editor of the Pho nographic Journal, also known as the Phonetic Journal. He was also greatly interested in the reform of English spelling. He was knighted In 1894 In recognition of his ser vices to stenography. Ho died at Bath, January 22, 1897. For Worn-out Pastors. A dispatch from Camden, Tenn., says that tho will of A. I). Vick, a P '((minent citizen who died Monday, makes provision for the building of a home for aged and worn-out Meth odist ministers, to bo maintained by a 160-ucro farm, the remainder of tho Interest to be devoted to this cause. Low I TO ' Fertile N ONE-WAY SPRING COLO* DAILY MARCH IB TO API Western Montana, Idaho, W ( 'olunibla. ROUND-TRIP IIOMESEEK1 1st and 3d TUESDAYS EAC in the Northwest United Stat und stop-overs. Travel < Northern 1 and connect ii MINN ESOTA, NORTH DA Iv WASHINGTON, OREGON, HATCH IOWAN, ALBERTA, ] Will send free illustrated li west United States and full ern Pacific rates of fare and quest, lt costs you nothing. W. W. NEAL, Traveling Pass'r Ag< J. C. EATON, Traveling Immig. A T THE WHOOPING COUGH MICROBE Professor at Harvard Medical School Makes Important Discovery. Another important discovery has been made by an officer of the Har vard Medical School. Dr. Frank Mal lory, associate p:ofessorof pathology, work'ng in 'ne pathological labora tory of tb j Boston city hospital, has definitely proved that the symptoms of whooping cough are caused by the bacillus pertussis. Dr. Mallory has described tho lesions characteristic of the disease and the way in which they are produced. Whooping cough has been ascribed to various micro-organisms, but only one has received serious considera tion, the bacillus pertussis, which was seen and described by two French bacteriologists at the Pasteur Insti tute in Paris in 1902. It was found ?that this micro-organism was con stantly present in all cases in the acute stage of whooping cough, but never In health or associated with any other diseases. A Russian investiga tor later confirmed these findings. Prof. Mallory has demonstrated not only that the bacillus is found in connection with the disease, but that. It Is found In definite connection with certain characteristic lesions which are capable of producing the symp toms of the disease. Tried Whiskey by Parcels Post. Savannah, Ga.. Jan. 10.-The acci dental dropping of a parcels post package in the post oiflce yesterday disclosed the fact that liquor dealers are trying to use the system. About 25 packages from the same addressor are now being held at the post office. One and two quarts of whiskey ap pear to be in each package. They are fixed up like jewelry packages, and only the accident disclosed the nature of the contents. The clerks noticed the large number of packages of a similar size. One was dropped, and immediately the odor of liquor perinea I cd the entire office. Post master Baker is holding them for the order of the addressor, who loses the amount put on them in parcels post stamps. If HMSO Mixi High-Gn Are I White Soja Beans Good for forage crops, proving worn out lands. ( with dense vines. Cucumber: Cotton and other seeds o' vitality. The kind that grr< Mixson* I fill every want for truck farm, gi Especially adapted to Southern creased profits for you. Low | orders. Every farmer should and price list before ordering copy to-day. W. H. M?XSO CHARLES': mmkmmW?mmmmmkmmm ares rHE ort hwest HST TICKETS ON SALE Uli 15, 1013, to points in lushington, Oregon, British OBS' TICKETS ON SALE H MONTH to many points ivs and Canada. Long limit >n tho Pacific Ry ng lines, tm OTA, MONTANA, IDAHO, or to MANITOBA, SAS BR1TISH COLUMBIA. tera tu re about the North information about North service promptly upon re Write to-day. mt, 10 No. Pryor St., Atlanta, Ga. gt., 40 E. 4th St,, Cincinnati, O. DRIFTED ASHORE ON PLANK. Survivor of Wrecked Steamer Tells How Shipmates Died. Astoria, Oregon, Jan. 9.-How the seamen of the oil tank steamer Rose crans met death after the vessel crashed ashore at the mouth of the Columbia River yesterday morning, was told to-night by Fred Peters, the quartermaster, who drifted ashore on a plank at Tioga. According to Pe ters, Capt. Johnson, of the Rose crans, remained to the last at his post in tho pilot house, directing and cheering his crew, although he was suffer ng from a broken leg. There were eight men on duty at the time of the disaster and twenty eight men were in their berths. The night was a wild one, but it was de cided by the officer in command that it would not be too hazardous to at tempt the entrance into the Columbia River. In the storm and rain the man at the wheel, according to Peters, mistook tho North Head light for the lightship, which is an chored off the Columbia, and steered the ?vessel upon the rocks. "The backbone of the Rosecrans was broken, and there was nothing to do but to wait," Peters said. "Ef forts to launch the life boats were futile. Tho wind and waves broke them from their lashings before any of the crew could man them. The men waited calmly for the death that appeared inevitable. Capt. Johnson stood at his post, directing the crew, although his leg had been broken by a falling spar." Peters had just talked with Capt. Johnson, when a big wave washed over the ship, carrying him over board. Ile grasped a floating plank and rode; it for five hours before he" Anally drifted ashore. Firemen to Ask Arbitration. New York, Jan. 9.-The firemen of fifty Eastern railroads agreed with Hie railroad managers to-day to ask assistance of mediators Knapp and Neill in the controversy over wages, and working conditions. Better a tramp in the woods than one In tho kitchen. ion s ide Seeds Jest. -heavy, rapid growth. 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