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By EDGAR RIC
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CHAPTER IX.
At the Mercy of the Jungle.
Clayton turned and rushed back
toward the scene. The sailors stood
in a frightened group, with drawn
weapons, peering into the Jungle. The
wounded man writhed and shrieked
upon the ground.
Clayton, unseen by any, picked up
the fallen revolver and slipped it inside
his shirt; then he joined the sailors.
"Who could it have been?" whispered
Jane Porter and the young
man turned to see her standing wide
eyed beside him.
"I dare say Tarzan of the apes is
watching us," he answered. "I wonder
now who that spear was intended
^ for? If for Snipes, then our ape
friend is a friend indeed.
"By Jove! Where are your father
and Mr. Philander? There's some one
** or something in that jungle, and it's
armed, whatever it is. Ho! Professor!
Mr. Philander!'' young Clayton shouted.
There was no response.
"What's to be done, Miss Porter?
I can't leave you here alone with these
cutthroats. You certainly can't venture
into the jungle with me, yet
some one must go in search of your
father. He is more than apt at
wandering off aimlessly, regardless of
danger or direction, and Mr. Philander
is only a trifle less impractical. I
have it! You can use a revolver,
can't you?"
"Yes?why?"
"I have one. With it you and Esmeralda
will be comparatively safe
in this cabin while I am searching
for your father and Mr. Philander.
Come, call the woman, and I will hurry
on. They can't have gone far."
Jane Porter did as he suggested,
and when he saw the door close safely
behind them Clayton turned toward
the Jungle.
Some of the sailors were drawing
the spear from their wounded com*
rade, and as Clayton approached he
asked if he could borrow a revolver
from one of them while he searched
the jungle for the professor.
The rat faced one, finding he was
not dead, had regained his composure
and with a volley of oaths refused.
This man, Snipes, had assumed the
role of chief since he had killed their
former leader,- and so Wile time had
elapsed that none of his companions
had as yet questioned his authority.
fnortAnon wa o a chrilC
of the shoulders, but as he left them
he picked up the spear which had
transfixed Snipes, and thus primitively
armed the son of the then Lord
Greystoke strode into the dense
jungle.
Every few moments he called aloud
the names of the wanderers. The
watchers in the cabin by the beach
heard the sound of his voice growing
ever fainter and fainter, until at last
it was swallowed up by the myriad
f noises of the primeval wood.
^ When Professor Archimedes Q.
Porter and his assistant, Samuel T.
Philander, after much insistence on
the part of the latter, had finally
turned their steps toward camp they
4 were as completely lost in the wild
and tangled labyrinth of the jungle
as two human beings could be,
though they did not know it
It was by the merest caprice of
fortune that they headed toward the
west coast of Africe instead of toward
Zanzibar, on the opposite side
of the dark continent.
When in a short time they reached
the beach, only to find no camp in
sight, Philander was positive that they
were north of their proper destination,
while, as a matter of fact, they
were about 200 yards south of it. Mr.
Samuel T. Philander grasped Professor
Archimedes Q. Porter firmly by
the arm and hurried the weakly
* protesting old gentleman off in the
direction of Capt Town, 1,500 miles
to the south.
When Jane Porter and Esmeralda
found themselves safely behind the
_ cabin door the negress* first thought
was to barricade the portal from the
inside. With this idea in view she
turned to search for some means of
putting it into execution, but her first
view of the interior of the cabin
brought a shriek of terror to her lips,
and, like a frightened child, the huge
black ran to bury her face in her
mistress' shoulders.
Jane Porter, turning at the cry, saw
the cause of it lying prone upon the
floor before them?the whitened
skeleton of a man. A further glance
revealed a second skeleton upon the
bed.
"What horrible place are we in?"
murmured the awe stricken girl. But
there was no panic in her fright.
At last, disengaging herself from
the frantic clutch of the still shriek_
ing Esmeralda, Jane Porter crossed
the room to look into the little cradle,
knowing what she would see there
Derore ever tne tiny nttie sneieton
disclosed itself in all its pitiful and
pathetic frailty.
What an awful tragedy these mute
bones proclaimed' The girl shuddered
at the thought of the possibilities
that might lie before herself and her
friends in this ill fated cabin.
Quickly, with an impatient stamp
of her foot, she endeavored to shake
off the gloomy forebodings, and turning
to Esmeralda bade her cease her
wailing.
"Stop, Esmeralda; stop it this minute!"
she cried. "You are only making
it worse. I never saw such a big
baby."
^ Soon the girl found that the door
was equipped with a heavy wooden
bar upon the inside. After several
| efforts the combined strength of the
two enabled them to slip it into place
?the first time in twenty years.
After Clayton had plunged into the
ffi Jungle, the sailors?mutineers of the
Arrow?fell into a discussion of their
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next step, but on one point all were
agreed?that they should hasten to
put off to the anchored Arrow, where
they could at least be safe from the
spears of their unseen foe.
So much had Tarzan seen that day
that his head was in a whirl of won-1
der. But the most wonderful sight
of all to him was the face of the
beautiful white girl.
Here at last was one of his own
kind; of that he was positive. And
the young man and the two old men,
they, too, were much as he had pictured
his own people to be.
He did not understand anything of
the motives behind all that he had
seen, but somehow intuitively he
liked the young man and the two old
men, and for the girl he had a strange
longing which he scarcely understood.
As for the big black woman, she was
evidently connected in some way with
the girl, and so he liked her also.
For the sailors, however, and especially
Snipes, he had developed a
great hatred. He knew by their
threatening gestures and by the expression
upon their evil faces that
they were enemies of the others, and
so he decided to watch them very 1
closely.
Tarzan wondered why the man had 1
gone into the Jungle. Never did it
occur to him that one could become
lost in that maze of undergrowth '
which to him was as simple as the
main street of your own home town.
When he saw the sailors row away 1
toward the ship and knew that the
gill til 1U 11C1 tumyauivii nctv *u
his cabin he decided to follow the
young man into the Jungle and learn
what his errand might be. He swung '
off rapidly in the direction taken by
Clayton and in a short time heard
faintly in the distance the now only
occasional calls of the Englishman to
his friends.
Presently Tarzan came up with the
white man, who, almost fagged, was
leaning against a tree wiping the perspiration
from his forehead. The ape
man, hiding safe behind a screen of
foliage, sat watching this new specimen
of his own race intently.
At intervals Clayton called aloud,
and finally it came to Tarzan that he
was searching for the old man.
Tarzan was on the point of going ofT
to look "for "them himself when he ,
caught the yellow glint of a sleek hide
moving cautiously through the jungle j
toward Clayton.
It was Sheeta, the leopard. He
heard the soft bending of grasses and
wondered why the young white man
was not warned. Could it be he had
failed to note the loud warning? Never
before had Tarzan known Sheeta to '
be so clumsy.
No, the white man did not hear.
Sheeta was crouching for the spring,
and then, shrill and horrible, there
rose upon the stillness of the Jungle
the awful cry of the challenging ape,
and Sheeta turned, crashing into the
underbush.
Clayton came to his feet with a
start. His blood ran cold. Never had
so fearful a sound smote his ears.
He was no coward, but if ever man
felt the icy fingers of fear upon his
heart Cecil Clayton, eldest son of Lord
Greystoke of England, did that day in
the feastness of the African jungle.
The noise of some great body 1
crashing through the' underbush so '
close beside him and the sound of that 1
bloodcurdling shriek from above test- '
ed Clayton's courage to the limit, but J
he could not know that it was to that <
very voice he owed his life nor that <
the creature who hurled it forth was j
his own cousin?the real Lord Greystoke.
i
The afternoon was drawned to a 1
close, and Clayton, disheartened and (
discouraged, was in a terrible quan- i
dary to keep on in search of Pro- 1
fessor Portor, at the almost certain 1
risk of his own death in the Jungle by (
night, or to return to the cabin, where
he might at least serve to protect '
Jane Porter from the perils which
confronted her on all sides.
He disliked to return to camp without
her father: still more he shrank
froiu ihe thought of leaving her alone
and unprotected in the hands of the
mutineers of the Arrow or the hun- 1
dred unknown dangers of the jungle. ,
Possibly, too, he thought, before this
the professor and Philander had re- 1
turned to camp. He started, stumbling
back through the thick and mat- i
ted underbush in the direction that
he thought the cabin lay.
To Tarzan's surprise, the young man
was heading farther into the jungle
in the general direction of Mbonga's 1
village, and the shrewd young ape
man was convinced that he was lost, j
The fierce jungle would make easy
prey for this unprotected stranger in a ,
very short time if he were not guided
quickly to the beach, thought Tarzan.
Yes. there was Numa, the lion, even
now stalking the white man a dozen (
paces to the right.
Clayton heard the great body paralleling
his course, and now there rose
upon the evening air the great beast's
thunderous roar. The man stopped
with unpraised spear and faced the
brush from which issued the awful
sound. The shadows were deepening;
darkness coming on.
For a moment all was still. Clayton
stood rigid with raised spear. Pres
ently a faint rustling of the brush behind
him appraised him of the
stealthy creeping of the thing. It was
gathering for a spring when at last he
saw it. not twenty feet away?the
long, lithe, muscular body and tawny
head of a huge black maned lion.
In agony the man watched, fearful
to launch his spear, powerless to fly.
He heard a noise in the trees above
him. Some new danger, he thought,
but he dared not take his eyes from
the yellow green orbs before him.
There was a sharp twang, like the
sound of a broken banjo string, and
at the same instant an arrow appeared
In the yellow hide of the crouching
lion.
With a roar of pain and anger the
beast sprang, but Clayton stumbled to
one side, and as he turned again to
face the infuriated king of beasts he
was appalled at the sight which confronted
him. Almost simultaneously
with the lion's turning to renew the
attack a naked giant had dropped
from the tree above squarely on the
brute's back.
With lightning speed an arm that
was corded with layers of iron muscle
encircled the huge neck, and the
great beast was raised from behind,
roaring and pawing the air?raised
o a noallv o a Plo vtnn tvnillH hnvo liftpH
a pet dog.
That scene he witnessed in the twi-|
light depths of an African Jungle was !
burned forever into the Englishman's
brain.
The man before him was the embodiment
of physical perfection and
giant strength, yet it was not on this
he had depended in his battle with the
great cat, for, mighty as were his
muscles, they were as nothing by comparison
with those possessed by Numa.
To his agility, to his brain and to
his long, keen knife he owed his supremacy.
His right arm encircled the lion's
neck, while the left hand plunged the
knife time and time again into the
unprotected side behind the left shoulder,
while the infuriated beast, drawn
upward and backward until he stood
on his hind legs, struggled impotently
in this unnatural position.
Had the battle continued a few seconds
linger the outcome might have
been different, but all was accomplished
so quickly that the lion had
scarce time to recover from its surprise
before it sank lifeless to the
ground.
Then the strange figure which had
vanquished it stood erect upon the
carcass, and, throwing back the wild,
hundsome head, gave the fearsome cry
which a few moments earlier had so
Btartled Clayton.
Before him he saw the figure of a
young man naked except for a loin
cloth and a few barbaric ornaments on
arms and legs and on the breast a
priceless diamond locket gleaming
against a smooth brown skin.
The huntins: knife had been return
ed to its homely sheath, and the man
was gathering up his bow and quiver
from where he had tossed them when
he leaped to attack the lion.
Clayton spoke to the man in English,
thanking him for his brave rescue
and complimenting him on his
wonderous strength and dexterity.
The only answer was a steady stare
and a faint shrug of the mighty shoulders,
which may have betokened
either disparagement of the service
rendered or ignorance of the langu^age.
The bow and quiver slung on his
back, the wild man once more drew
bis knife and deftly carved a dozen
large strips of meat from the lion's
carcass. Then, squating upon his
haunches, he proceeded to eat,
motioning Clayton to join him.
The strong white teeth sank inao
the raw and dripping flesh in apparent
relish, but Clayton could not bring
bimself to share the uncooked meat
with his strange host. Instead he
dawned upon him the conviction that
this was Tarzan of the apes, whose
notice he had seen posted upon the
sabin door that morning.
If so he must speak English.
Again Clayton essayed speech with
the ape man, but the replies were in a
strange tongue, which resembled the
shattering of monkeys mingled with
he growling of some wild beast.
(To be Continued.)
American Crops Worth $5,OCX),000,000.
?The nation's principal farm crops
this year are worth about live and a
tialf billion dollars, exceeding by more
than half a billion their value in 1914,
the previous banner value year in the
country's crop history. There has
ceen an unprecedented harvest, many
>f the crops exceeding their best recards,
and high prices due to the influence
of the European war have contributed
to swell the total value.
Statistics announced by the department
of agriculture in its November
crops report base values on prevailing
November prices. Corn, with a production
of 3,090,509,000 bushels?34,000,000
bushels below the record crop
of 1912?is worth $1,913,025,071, the
most valuable corn crop ever grown,
it exceeds the former biggest value
crop, that of 1914, by $190,000,000.
Wheat, with the largest production
ever known in any country, 1,002,029,900
bushels, or about one-fourth of the
world's wheat crop this year, is worth
$932,888,999, or $54,000,000 more than
the record made in 1914.
The oats crop also was a record one,
both in point of production and value.
The harvest was 1,517,478,000 bushels
?almost 100,000,000 bushels better
than the record of 1912?and its value,
tew coo poo io nnn nnn tv>or>
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the record value of the 1914 crop.
Barley, rye, sweet potatoes, hay and
rice were record crops in point of production,
and tobacco almost equaled
its best production. The rye and hay
crops were records in point of value.
The approximate value of the barley
crop is $118,577,682; the rye crop, $37,861,403;
buckwheat, $12,854,750; potatoes,
$218,425,824; sweet potatoes, $42,156,050;
hay, $877,054,890; cotton, $609,000,000;
tobacco, $105,002,500; flax seed,
$30,050,534; rice, $22,313,350; apples,
$164,380,480; peaches, $60,613,736, and
pears, $9,275,634.
Potato prospects declined 9,000,000
bushels during October, the crop now
being placed at 359,253,000 bushels.
Motor-Carried Mail.?There was
much opposition at the outset to the
order of the postofflce department in
giving the privilege of automobile
transportation for the rural delivery
carriers, but the experiment is proving
profitable to such of the carriers
as have invested in machines. The
New York Journal quotes some information
from The Topics showing that
at the present time 400 or 500 routes
are motorized, under the plan whereby
the maximum salary has been
raised from $1,200 without autos to $1,
800 with autos provided by the driver.
Under the existing salary provisions
many carriers are providing their own
motor service on routes varying from
24 to 30 miles in length, finding it
profitable to do so. With the increased
remuneration it is expected that
much longer routes can be covered in
the same way, still providing an increased
margin of pay for the carriers.
A Kansas carrier, now using a light
machine over a 29?-mile route, is
quoted as asserting that the higher
ralary will fully meet the additional
cost to the carrier of serving the
larger routes and leave him a
larger net income than rural carriers
have ever made before. This carrier
figures it out that if he received $1,800
a year for covering 55 miles six days
a week, his net income would be $1,042,
or $200 more than he is now getting.
MARKETING OF COTTON.
Hon. John L McLaurln to North
Carolina Farmers.
WAREHOUSE MEANS TO AN END. !
i
Cotton an Economic as Wall as a Po- 1
litical Issue of Paramount Improve- 1
ment?Financing of Warehouse Re- '
ceipts Points the Way to Rural Cred- <
its?Study of Economics as Applied
to Present Day Conditions. '
Durham. N. C., Nov. 16.?Address-Jl
:???* XT-rv-eU fn rnllnn Cfnfo. T?n f_ I 1
!"?? kilC ..1WI 111 V.OI U11UU UVUWO A. I**
mers' Union, in annual convention
here today, Senator J. L. McLaurin
of South Carolina, outlined the operation
of tho state system in South
Carolina, urged the passage of a
warehouse law in this state, and blazed
the trail towards a system of rural
credits in the various southern states
in the movement for which the state
warehouse system is a large beginning.
His address was listened to with
evidences of approval, and its result
has been to stimulate the vigorous
effort of the Farmers' Union for a
warehouse system in this state along
similar lines to the South Carolina
system. The outlook for a state sys-"
tern in North Carolina, which would
co-operate with the South Carolina
system is very encouraging.
Senator McLaurin in his address
today, stressed the point that a warehouse
system is only a means to an
end; that cotton is not grown to warehouse.
but to sell, and his remarks
clearly and logically pointed to a system
of rural credits, with an illumlnnting
exposition of which he closed
his address.
"For the second time in the history
of the United States," he said, "cotton
has been a political as well as an economic
issue of paramount importance.
The fundamental cause of the
War Between the States in the sixties
was the fact that public sentiment
outside of the south was in ^
favor of the abolition of slavery, and v
the election of Abraham Lincoln was c
the expression of that sentiment, g
Opinion in the south was almost un- ^
animous that the monopoly which f
we enjoyed in the production of cotton t
could not be maintained without
slave labor. Therefore, secession was
a perfectly natural sequence. t
"With the breaking out of hostili- e
ties in Europe, cotton at once became g
a national question. Every thoughtful g
man in the south was convinced that c
it was the duty of both state and c
national government to take radical t
action in sustaining the price of cot- s
ton until the export demand revived. j|
I go further than that; I believe r
that it is the duty of the government p
in normal times, by legislation, to ri
stabilise the price of cotton aTld en- s
able the producers to get the benefit fc
of the operations of the law cf supply t
and demand, I mean supply and de- t:
mand for money as well as for cot- t
ton. The south has reached the point i:
where the average production of cot- ti
ton is about fifteen million bales, li
which, with the by-products f'om b
cotton seed, is worth about one bll- ii
lion dollars. A little more than one- s
third of this cotton is consumed in e
the United States, and the balance is a
exported, The price of the product s
consumed at home is fixed by the
price of that which is exported. ii
"Out of our two and one-half to s
three billion bushels of corn only a- F
bout seventeen per cent, ever leaves ii
the farm; the balance of it is con- o
sumed at home. No crop on earth s
creates such vast international com- a
merce as cotton, and for that reason T
it has become, to a large extent, the n
medium of exchange between this r
country and the balance of the world s
taking the place of gold in the settle- h
ment of international trade balances. 0
Cotton is in a class by itself, and pos- v
sesses more of the attributes of legal ^
tender currency than anything pro- h
duced by human labor. It is the cor- I
ner-stone of international finance. r
and cannot be compared to wheat, ^
corn, meat, or anything of that sort. n
It is distinctly an export crop, and
properly baled and warehoused, it is '
imperishable and always convertible F
into gold at a moment's notice. 0
"I believe that the state warehouse r
idea is the beginning of a movement 11
which will revolutionize the market- *
ing of our cotton crop and inaugu- n
rate a prosperity on the south which n
will be lasting because founded upon 8
correct business principles. It will v
pave the way to a system of rural 0
credits based upen land which will c
unlock vast capital now lying idle and e
almost useless. If the product of out v
land, cotton, can be transformed into *
a fluid asset, why can't the same thing r
be done for land, the basis of all n
o
wealth? Our state warehouse re?
ceipts are negotiable Instruments
which are now passing current In the
money centres just like bonds and
stocks. Of course we have made but
a bare beginning, and need further
legislation, both state and national.
"The great lesson which this worldwide
war is to teach, is that our
civilization has reached the point of
complex social and commercial life
without political machinery to give
it expression. The purely selfish appropriation
of the comforts and blessings
of material life for the use of
favored classes is the rock upon
which these nations have founded. If
the United States would be spared
the social, political and industrial upheaval
that Europe will see at the
close of this war, our best thought
should be how to use our land and
its product, our labor and its fruits,
to develop good living and sweet prosperity
for our people as a whole.
"We have seen cotton within the
past year go from five cents to twelve
cents a pound. What Is the use of
talking about the law of supply and
demand, with a fluctuation in price
of more than 100 Der cent.? What c
does that mean? Not that there was r
over-production of cotton, but that f
the price went down because of faul- j
ty distribution and the contraction of j
credit, and that it went up because l
of a loosening up of credits through p
the Federal reserve banking system, s
"The farmers of the south should e
unite, and place cotton, through legls- c
lative action, upon a safe, stable basis j
It would be better for the manu- c
facturer, because he would then be a
spared the necessity of hedging his c
contracts in the future market, and I
It would destroy the gambling in cot- <
ton, which is responsible right now
tor the heavy decline in price. <
"We need to understand finance as
it relates to cotton, far more than 1
warehouses. This great war has de- 1
monstrnted one thing?that money i
is not merely gold, but real money of <
ei country are its products?the things
that feed and clothe mankindand 1
that in a great stress and strain like <
ihe Dresent the nations have verv lit- 1
tie regard for gold. 1
"The money of this country be-11
longs to the people of this country. '
It is made by their agent, the govern- ]
ment, whose flat imparts the legal <
tender quality without which it is not
money. The true function of money
s as a measure of value in exchangng
the fruits of labor. I believe that 1
money should be issued by the government
as nearly direct to the people
is possible. If all the southern states 1
vould inaugurate warehouse systems i
>n the same lines as South Carolina, t
ve can have money issued by the gov:rnment
on warehouse receipts, not c
is a political necessity or a courtesy, j
>ut as a matter of right The pound ]
>f cotton should be the unit of credit,
ind it should be the same in one t
nan's hands as in another's, entitled g
o the same rights and to the same
irivilegcs, and every man know deinitely
just what those rights and r
>rivileges are.
"Up to now," continued Senator t
tlcLaurin, "South Carolina has haa
he burden of this fight. They have the
ystem in Texas, and the Georgia ^
egislature is now considering it, at ^
in extra session. If North Carolina ^
ind the other states will go into it,
ve could have an inter-state board,
vhich would establish a minimum
>rice for coton, and never again will 1
t be necessary to sell a bale of cotton 8
>elow the cost of production."
Taking up the matter of direct *
ales, cutting out the profits of midlie
men and speculators, Senator Mc- r
jaurtn said that it must be remem- '(
iered that we do not grow cdtton to r
varehouse, but to sell, and in this
:onnection he also urged state re- r
rulatlon of grading to save the heavy 8
Irain now upon the southern farmers
rom consistent undergradinj of cot- I
on by local ouyers. >
"The greatest burden that the south 0
ias labored under," he said, "has been n
he lack of capital. We have the great- f
st money crop on earth. We have ?
riven a practical demonstration in
Jouth Carolina of how easy it is to i
onvert cotton into a negotiable se- s
:urity as good as any railroad or state
?ond. Through the Federal reserve e
ystem, we have made a break in the b
nterest of rates. It is high interest g
ates which enable the drones and
larasites to devour the workers. The r
iew .currency law is the first great ?]
tepT^and the "next step is to confine
anks to their only legitimate func- 2
ion, to-wit, as a channel for the dis- n
ribution of money and credita It is n
he beginning of a true national bankng
system, not for personal profit, but
o develop the nation. Our great need
s money at a low rate on long time,
ased upon land, to be used only for ^
mprovements or purchases of hometeads.
Then for commercial purpos- P
s, warehouse receipts for non-perlsh- P
ble farm products as a collateral for
hort time loans.
"I believe that this great war now 8
a progress, and the unexpected v
trength shown by Germany and p
Yance, as contrasted with England, d
a due to their different management 13
f the land Question, and unless we do ^
omething to avert It, the same dls- n
ster will overtake the United States. a
'his country cannot exist except as a
ation of home owners. I have just I
ead a very Interesting book on this e
ubject. T'.e author says: "England I
as been developing extensively, while a
lermany and France have been de- c
eloping intensively: while England &
ias been winning provinces, Germany a
as been fertilizing her acres; while!
In gland's drumbeat has been going ii
ound the world and her traders have r
ieen following In its wake, the Ger- a
ians hive has been humming with the n
ELbor of an increasing and well cared t
or population. It is as though im- f
erial Rome had divided, and one-half ii
f her, her lust of conquest, had found
efuge in England, and the other half, ^
ler aptitude for arms and organizaion,
had established itself in Ger- ^
iany.' We have not grasped the full
leaning of this?the two tremendous
ocial experiments that are going on
/ith England on one side and Germany
n the other. They reached their
ulmlnation?these two systems, the
xtenslve and the intensive, one deeloping
colonies all over the world and
he other the acres at home. England
epresents world dominion and Ger- ^
iany invdividual efficiency. From the
utside we have been astonished at the a
xpansion of Germany's foreign trade c
nd her gigantic military power. This 0
ias diverted our attention from the klerman
landschaften, the system of
ural credits that has made Germany ''
he power she is today. The permalency
of all free institutions depends
ipon the relation of the people to their
md, and where this relation is absonte
Innrllnrriism thp elitteriner suDer
tructure of colonial expansion cannot
ave a nation from decay. In England
ess than thirteen per cent of the land
s cultivated by its owners; the other
ighty-seven per cent tenants at exortionate
rents. In Germany Just the
everse is true. Ninety per cent of
he lands of Germany are cultivated
>y the owners. Comparison of the
igricultural output of the two counries
is astonishing, and explains why
t is that Germany, cut off from the
lutside world, is still able to feel her
>eople and carry on a war against *
remendous odds. The products of the c
Jerman farms are four times as great
is those of Great Britain.
"In this country there are no more
>ublic lands open to homestead. The
lome-seeker is thrown back on the
ilder states, where land is high, and
lot popular as a collateral. Hundreds
>f millions of acres of unplowed
American land lie untenanted every
'ear, though rain and sunshine ceaseessly
invite them to produce for the s
rood of the world. Poor men, with '
itrong hands, stand idly in the pres- a
nee of tantalizing opportunity. The
:ost of living grows higher, and men
ire herded more and more into the s
ities, because speculators, corporaten F
ind foreign investors hold this land
>ut of use until the increase in popu- (
lation shall make the "unearned Increment'
of tremendous value.
"Low rates of interest will cause
capital that is now hired out to seek
investment in industrial enterprises
which will develop our country. I look
forward to the time when we shall not
ship our raw material across the ocean
to be manufactured and the goods
brought home and sold to us, but
when our cotton will be manufactured
an southern soil, and all that vast
profit be kept here at home for the
alessing of our own people. Our land,
under a proper system of rural credits,
will furnish the capital that Is
leeded for the development of this
country."
GENERAL NEWS NOTES
Items of Interest Gathered from All
Around the World.
Winston Spencer Churchill, chancelor
of the Dutchy of Lancaster, has
eslgned from the British cabinet,
md will Join the army In France.
The steamer Charles A. Luck, with
l crew of over 2C0 men, Ehiluth to
Juflfalo with grain, is reported lost In
l^ake Superior with all on board.
A Swiss statistician estimates that
he total number of soldiers killed
ilnce the European war began, at 6,100,000
men.
A Chicago financial writer says that l
nonoy is so plentiful in that city and
ntercst rates so low that some of the ,
tanks are actually not making runting
expenses on their loans.
Washington advices are to the effect ]
hat Gen. Carranza has put the ban on
>ull fighting and chicken fights in
dexlco and will encourage baseball and
ither clean sports.
The United States Steel corporaion
announces that it will at once
pend $10,000,000 In enlarging its vaious
plants in order to take care of !
he rush orders it now has on its books, j
A semi-official statement has been I
nade in London to the effect that un- 1
I
ess there is a material increase in the {
lumber of army volunteers by Novem- ]
ler 30, the government will take the
lecessary steps to carry out its con- |
cription pledge of November 2.
The big wire rope plant of the John '
t. Roebling's Sons company at Tren- (
on, N. J., was damaged more than $1.- :
00,000 by a suspicious fire Thursday
nornlng. The plant had large orders
or the Allies. More than 1,000 men
/ere thrown out of work.
A Douglas, Arizona, dispatch of
Thursday, says that six Carranza
pies were put to death within the
''ilia lines on November llth. The excutlon
was witnessed by a large number
of Americans on the United States
ide of the border.
John D. Rockefeller contributed
nore than $5,000 at Cleveland, O.,
.'hursday to buy tickets to the big
lower show being held In that city for
5,000 children. More than 100 pollcenen
and a score of firemen were
iecessary to handle the crowds.
The du Pont Powder company of
Vilmlngton, Del., has received orders
rom the Allies for powder to the
mount of $65,000,000. The contract
oes not call for delivery of all supplies
until 1917. All of the du Pont
lants will have to be enlarged to take
are of the orders.
Dutchess Skylark Ormsby, a Holteln-Frersian
cow, has broken the
zorld's record for > milk and butter
production, says a Minneapolis, Minn.,
ispatch. The cow, produced 27,161
pounds of butter and 1,205 pounds of
putterfat in one year. One week's
lilk production totaled 558 pounds,
nd butter 34} pounds.
Raphael Conn, treasurer of the
Uuefields Steamship company, travled
2,400 miles from Honduras to
'hiladclphla, to testify in the suit
gainst the United Fruit company,
harged with being the "Banana trust."
lr. Conn only answered one question,
nd his answer was "Yes, sir."
The postofflce department at Washngton,
has issued a formal order diecting
postmasters to refuse acceptnce
of parcel post packages for Gerlan
and Austrian points, because of
he refusal of the steamship heretoore
carrying such mails to accept it
a the future.
A dispatch from Berne, Switzerind,
says that German and Austrian
iapers are openly rejoicing over the
destruction" of the Bethlehem, Pa.,
teel plant. An "Austrian personage
f high rank" is quoted as saying in
n interview that the Americans had
een repeatedly warned, Just as they
/ere before the sinking of the Lusiania.
Greatness of the United States.?
'he United States covers considerably
?ss than six per cent of the earth's
rea, and contains only about five per
ent of the earth's population, but
fflclal records show that the United
States produces:
76 per cent of all the corn grown
n the entire world.
iu per ueui ui me tuiiuii.
72 per cent of all the oil.
59 per cent of all the copper.
43 per cent of all the pig Iron.
37 per cent of all the coal.
35 per cent of all the tobacco.
26 per cent of all the silver.
24 per cent of all the wheat.
21 per cent of all the gold and conains
more than 33 per cent of all the
wealth in the civilized world.
These figures were compiled July
915, by Dr. Joseph Caccavajo, C. E.,
rom the government reports and staistics
for the year ending June 30,
914, and were therefore uninfluenced
y the present war.
The reports show that the United
States produced 2,762,804,000 bushels of
orn In 1914.
16,103,143 bales of cotton, 1914.
10,434,600 gallons of oil, 1913.
546,643 long tons of copper, 1913.
30,966,152 long tons of iron, 1913.
508,971,540 long tons of coal, 1913.
953,730,000 pounds of tobacco, 1913.
891,017,000 bushels of wheat, 1914.
{40,348,100 silver, 1914.
$88,884,000 gold. 1914.
Should the United States "shut up
ihop" just now, all the rest of the
vorld would find the situation very
wkward. to sav the least.
, m , I
John Temple Graves, of the editorial
taff of the New York American, pro
loses to make a number of lectures on '
National Preparedness" in South
Carolina at an early date. (
SECEDERS IN COUNCIL
Decennial Gathering at Old Homestead.
WHERE FELLOWSHIP IS THE PASSWORD.
Story of Duo West and Glimpse into
the Life of the People?People With
Serious Mission, but Nevertheless,
Abundantly Human?Sidelights and
Insights as to Unique Gathering.
I have Just returned from Due West
where I have been in attendance on I
the annual meeting of the Associate 11
xveiurmeu aynuu, unu i am kuiqk 10 '
give some facts, impressions and descriptions
that will be of peculiar interest
to those who are familiar with
the things of which I write and perhaps
of general interest to many others.
Due West, as perhaps most of my
readers are aware, is situated in Abbeville
county forty miles south of
Greenville and about half way between
Anderson and Greenwood. Up to a
few years ago it was entirely cut off
from railroad communication with the
outside world; but now has an independent
line that taps the Greenville
and Columbia division of the Southern
at Donald's, four miles away.
The history of this famous old town
goes back to a period previous to the
American Revolution when it became
a Convenanter preaching place. The
first church, however, was not erected
until about 1794. A small hamlet
grew up around the church, and flourished
along slowly until the establishment
of Erskine college in 1838. The
college had its origin in the desire of
the Seceders to educate their own
preachers, and was followed in due
course by the establishment of a theological
seminary and a college for
women. These institutions brought
in teachers with their families, and
naturally and steadily the place has
grown into the educational center it
is today. The population, including
ihe two colleges, is about 1,200. The
principal buildings of course, are
Erskine college and the women's college,
a big Associate Reformed church,
a small Baptist church, and numerous
handsome residencea The town has
Beveral stores, including a drug store,
family and fancy grocery store, dry
goods and millinery stores, stores
carrying plantation supplies and heavy
groceries, a bank, postofflce and telephone
exchange; but no telegraph office.
The printing establishment of
the Associate Reformed Presbyterian
Is located here, and the only other enterprise
requiring the use of machinery
Is a cotton oil mill. There is also e
a small well kept hotel, at which a
guests are treated as members of the c
family. e
With very few exceptions all the t
preachers in the synod have been 11
educated at Due West, and having a
each spent from three to six years f
In the town, are familiar with every t
adult citizen, evt-i'y home, every flower n
yard, and every mud puddle. Each and a
every one of them feels a kind of a j
proprietorship over everything in the f
community, and although some of the f
ministers have passed their three score1 a
years and ten, and others are still in
their early twenties, there is among
them all a kind of sympathetic and appreciative
fellowship that is hardly
conceivable anywhere else other than
In an ideal family of brothers.
I had never been in Due West before;
but as long as I expected to have
the company of Rev. J. L. Oates, who
belongs to the family, I felt no concern
on that account. When it developed,
however, that Mr. Oates would be
kept back on account of an unexpected
engagement, I began to feel a little
nervous. This was especially so because
we had been instructed to secure
the next meeting of the synod to be
field with the Yorkville church and I
was counting on Mr. Oates to turn the
I rick. But the nervousness did .not
last long, for at Sharon I struck up F
with Rev. and Mrs. E. B. Hunter,(e
coth to the manner born and acquaint- q
?d with all the signs and passwords 8
if the order, Mr. Hunter having served
his time in the college and semllary,
and Mrs. Hunter having graduated
from the woman's college and
presided thereat for some years as a P
eacher of mathematics. Mr. Hunter
nformed me that he had already made
jp his mind to vote for Yorkville, and
Mrs. Hunter promised to win all the f<
/cites she could. From thence onward ^
[ felt more encouragement.
It had been arranged that a big 8
party of delegates was to assemble in n
Greenville and go from there In a a
special train to leave at 3 o'clock. Our c
ittle party from Sharon, including Rev.
F. Meek White and Elder W. S. Love, h
vas alone for about three hours; but h
i late train from toward Charlotte r
jrought a party of about sixty preachers
and elders, with a number of ladles. 8
rhere were almost enough to fill two c
;oaches of the special, and within a a
short time after we got aboard, Mrs.
Hunter reported that Rev. W. W. Orr
ind Elder J. H. Ross were after synod v
tor the East Avenue church (Taber- I
tacle) at Charlotte. Of course we got ^
susy. We found that Drs. R. G.
White and R. G. Miller and others
tvere pledged to Dr. Orr and Ross, t!
jut Dr. J. C. Galloway, promised his tl
yote and that of his elder without j,
hesitation, and Revs. G. L. Kerr of
King's Mountain, and R. R. Caldwell of 1
Bessemer City, came out flatfooted in v
jur favor. Also Mrs. Hunter landed y
several other votes and it was not but .
i little while until the opponents bejan
to squeal "that if we do not reach c
some kind of a compromise, the western
delegates will take advantage of g
the split and carry us away off, you
3o not know where." But it was no 8
:ime to compromise yet. There was S
too much work to be done and it was <j
still anybody's fight. _
After reaching Due West, I ran up- ^
Ml Rev. B. G. Pressly of Hickory n
3 rove and Smyrna, Rev. W. H. Steven- e
son of Neely's Creek, Rev. W. P. Grler j,
3f Bethany, Clover and Crowders'
Jreek, Rev. A. S. Rogers of Rock Hill. F
\11 of them were with us, and made d
no hesitation in saying so. Mr. Ste- r
yenson took it quietly, said what he j
ivould do and left it at that. Mr.
Rogers was emphatic in the view that
Forkville ought to have synod, and so s
was Mr. Grier. Mr. Pressly went to ti
work as if for a favorite candidate in
i primary, and the next day he reported
to me that the next meeting b
it synod would meet in Yorkville. I b
have not yet learned just how he ^
went about it; but from the way he
nade his report he seemed to have no ?
further doubt, and afterward he c
?ave his attention to other matters. ^
Mr. Oates had turned up about that n
ime. and he also had learned in a re
Tiarkably short time that it was all P
ever but the voting. It was my first a
experience with that kind of politics; 8
put whether they like it or not I am
?oing to hand it to them that some
it these preachers certainly understood P
the game. s
Synod did not convene until Wed- t
lesday morping at 11 o'clock. The
college boys had a vacation for the 8
iveek, and nothing to do with the vacation
except to go to church which s
was optional. The most public ~
[dace in the town is on the corner opposite
the drug store and in front of *!
the postofflce adjoining. A crowd of h
twenty or thirty boys gathered on this e
corner about 9 o'clock. Presently one
it them rolled an empty barrel that
le found standing nearby up against p
v tree on the edge of the sidewalk, p
Then he picked up a copal stick about .
Ave or six feet long and commenced
poking in the barrel. He handled the d
dick and worked his expression as
though there were an o'possum or a
coon in the barrel. Other boys joining
he crowd would follow their curiosity
tnd look in the barrel. With each P
'bite" it meant loud shouts of laugh- q
!er. Presently the delegates beean p
irriving at the postofflce, and marking
their victims as they came, two or *
hree of the boys would look into the c
parrel one after another, and if neces- p
*arv, let drop some inquiry as to
'Where did they catch him?" or "What
lo they feed him on?" Several of the P
venerable elders, all unsuspicious of
anything like levity in a place like
oue West, walked up and looked into
ihe barrel, and most of them showed
by their faces that they had been
sold. Of course the boys enjoyod it
nugely. All of the preachers were too
wise to be caught, borne of them discussed
the idea of looking into the barrel
to make the boys laugh; but they
did not quite dare to risk it Rev.
Dr. F. Y. Pressiey came along and
looked into the barrel; but walked on
witnout any change of exprecsion, and
ilthough tne boys gave him the horse
laugh they were evidently not quite
jure whether they had tooled him or
be was kidding them. It was & ludicrous
situation at times and lasted
learly an hour.
The hospitality of the people of Due
(Vest is proverbial. Much has been
written and printed on the subject;
}ut it must be experienced to be fully
rppreclated. It has been said that all
)f them look forward to opportunities
o entertain as their most pleasureable
>rivllege and it must be so. Ail the
lelegatea to synod of whom advance
nformation could be obtained, were
issigned to homes, of course, and there
vero lists of willing hosts looking for
he unassigned. The big crowd of 126
>r more was absorbed without effort;
jut it did not stop there. As soon as
he visitors are located, the residents
>egin the rounds with their engagenent
lists and made appointments
vith friends, acquaintances and
'strangers," if there are any, for
iunch," "tea" end even breakfast
tome go at you with an invitation to
iunch." You have a previous engagement
Then it is for "tea," and
f that is engaged, the would-be host?
he bound-to-be host goes over the
'outine of the next day, and the day
ifter, and finding no ct>en engagenents
for lunch or tea, includes breakast
Others, with note book and pen:11
in hand, come at you like this:
'1 know you have your engagement
1st pretty full; but can't you find a
dace where you can take lunch, tea
>r breakfast with me?" And the
linners that ere served make one take
lotice?anywhere from half a dozen
o twenty guests seated at once, at
ables loaded with the choicest food
iufiiclent for fifty. And of course
hese parties are always pleasant. Evirybody
not already acquainted with
iverybody, is of course made acquainted.
and there is no lack of suificient
:ommon interest to furnish abundant
feasant conversation.
A detailed account of the proceedings
of synod would, of course^ be of
Ittle interest to the general reader, be
:&use there was much in the routine
hat was of concern only to the Assoliate
Reformed church. However, the
>rogramme was quite interesting, and
he talks and addresses at the dlffernt
conferences showed an earnestness
i.nd zeal that were Impressive. At a
onference on home ml salons, considering
the question as to how best to
irosecute the work, the speakers were
5r. R. Q. Miller, Dr. W. M. Hunter,
md Rev. L & Caldwell. Each talked
rom five to ten minutes, and these
irief illustrations will show the sentllents
of each: Dr. Miller told a humoriub
anecdote of two frogs that had
umped into two cream crocks in a
armer's spring house. One of the
rogs began to hollow "help, help,"
ind the other hollowed "hustle, husln"
Next mornins the "helD" frog
vas dead and the "hustle" frog: wan
ittlng on a chunk of butter that he
lad churned In his struggle. The
peaker said that the salvation of the
tome missions was to be found in
lustle. Dr. Hunter described the
rials and discouragements of the
tome missionary in a seemingly unln'lting
field; but advised that he must
;o down into the well and trust his
lelpers above to stand at the windlass.
Jr. Caldwell said that as a rule the
onverts won in a foreigp missionary
leld belonged to a class that we would
tardly speak to on the street here, and
hat we must keep that fact in mind
nd go after the same class at home.
There were also interesting and
irofltable conferences on Christian
ducation, and foreign mlsslona and
[Uite a lot of routine work at business
essions. W. D. O.
CAU8E OF PELLAGRA FOUND
'ublic Health 8ervice Makes Announcment
of Goldberger's Discovery.
Discovery of the cause and cure
or pellagra was announced formally
Lst Tuesday night by the public health
ervice at Washington. The announcelent
follows the recent publication of
. report by Surgeon General Joseph
toldberger on a year of experiments
i co-operation with southern states'
ealth officers, demonstrating the corectness
of the theory that a one
lueu Uiei I&CKIIlg IU piviciuo n vu*u
ause the disease and that a well balneed
diet would cure it
"The spread of this dread malady,
rhlch has been increasing: in the
Inited States at a terrific rate during
he past few years, may now be checkd,
and eventually eradicated," says
he service statement. "It is estimated
hat 75,000 cases o'f the disease will
ave occurred in the United States in
915, and of this number at least 7,500
/ill have died before the end of the
ear. In many sections only tubercudsIs
and pneumonia exceed it as a
ause of death."
The final dietary tests made by
lurgeon Goldberger and Assistant Sureon
G. A. Wheeler at the farm of the
fisslssippi penitentiary, where half a
ozen of eleven convicts were given
ellagra by feeding them for five
lonths on bountiful meals, consisting
ntirely of cereals and sweets and lackng
in meats, milk, eggs, beans and
eas. The convicts recently were paroned
by the governor and are being
estored to health through a corrected
let.
"Although the occurrence of nervous
ymptoms and gastro-intestinal disturbances
was noted early," says the
tatement, "It was not until Septemer
12, or about five months after the
eginnlng of the restricted diet, that
he skin symptoms so characteristic
f pellagra began to develop. The
onvlcts upon whom the experiment
ras made were kept under continuous
ledical surveillance. No cases of
ellagra developed In camp except
mong those men who were on the retrlcted
diet. The experimenters have
herefore drawn the conclusion that
ellagra has been caused In at least
Ix of eleven volunteers as a result of
he one-sided diet on which they subIded.
"On the basis of this discovery the
tates of Mississippi, Louisiana and
Florida have laid their propaganda
hrough their respective boards of
ealth for the eradication of the disase."
In earlier experiments about 200
atients had been cured by balanced
atlons, and at the end of a year th?re
ad been a slight recurrence of the
isease in only one instance.
L. L. Bultman, state dispensary aud or,
reports that South Carolina dlsensaries
sold S344.451.70 worth of 11
uor during the month of October,
tichland county led with total sales of
81.066.35, while Charleston county
ame second with $46,084. The dlsensary
auditor reports that the value
f stock now on hand In state disensaries
is nearly $1,000,000.
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