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F?BilSHJSi> THBEB TIB ms S^aaish Electrician Bes^asilde . for j ? the Famoas Bis?sjer THE ?RT IS DEMED Hi Colone! Jasper Ewiag Brady, Mein? fjgm ' ?? . ' ? ber of the Army Board? tor the) First Time, Makes Public Verdict of the ItTestigatJjjni^i? a Lecture j at Kansas City. That Jose E. Zalvado, a Spanish! ' Electrician working In Morro. Castlev | and prohab.'iy a fanE.tic, was respon sible for the destruction of the.bat ? tleship Maine' iii th d harbor of Ha- j vana was the statement ' made- on ' Thursday night by CoL Jas. E. Bradyj in correcting a 'report of ,'a speech -made by, him Thursday night. Col onel Brady says ho- Was^one of a committee of foiar ineh who Investi gated the explosion and reported the findings to President McKinley. 0 - ' "Now, I will tell you for the first time the name bit the man who blew up the Maine. [He Is, or was,. Jose . Zalvado. He .was electrician at ' .Morro Castle. It was he who-threw the switch which set off the power ful mine that destroyed*-that ship and sent 207 lives "Into"eternity "in a flash. Zavaldo was afterward shot by order of Gen. Blanco." "Of course I did :aot Bee this man turn on the switch which "set" free" the powerful mines that caused the disaster,'" said the.Colonel, "but the evidence in the case pointed directly to his guilt. Three other army of ficers, whose names I do not, care to give, and myself, reported to the President that in oitr belief Zalvado. was responsible, Fie was later ex ecuted on) the - .command of General Blanco. None, hoirever, was ever able to learn for ^what'reasobu" : Colonel Brady, in an address Wed nesday night at "St. George's' Epis copal church, discussed the Maine ' disaster and attributed it* to a sub? . marine mine exploUton. His state-1 inent brought forth denials from Washington, among other things be ing that no military board had, been appointed to Investigate the case. Colonel Brady explains that" the board never convened to;, make 'ta j report, but reported: incUvidnally\to ' the President. ' "-???^ Col. ? Brady was quoted as saying in hia address that .Cubans were re sponsible for the disaster. He - de nied that he made such a statement. CONFESSES TO ROBBERY. Seventeen Year Old Youth ToUs Po lico Ho Stole. ?Marion Wilcox,* a 17-yearrOld boy ' of Spartanburg, is. In jail .and has made a complete confession to rob ' bing the jewelry store of Arthur W. 'B'iber on last Saturday night. Wilcox wa3. suspected at first by the officers who have been.-on the lookout for him ever since. He has kept himself in hiding and only Wed nesday did the officers catch him. CapL Moss. Hayes, of the local po lice department and private Deason were waiting for the boy at the Sou thern station Wednesday night, hav ing learned that he was scheduled to pass by on foot. The plans were right end Wilcox was hailed on the tracks by sthe officers. He denied his guilt but a search revealed that he had over $400 worth of jewelry on his person when arrested. It consisted of bracelets, lockets, watch chains, charms, etc., many of them with diamond settings. When taken, to police headquarters he made a complete confession and did not implicate any one else, saying he did the deed single handed. VERY QUEER STORY Says He Was Dtunk When He Got Married to a Woman. ? F. H. Rouncevllle, a well-known j young Atlantian, has filed suit for total divorce against his wife, Mrs. iMinnle D. Rouncevllle, alleging that she "roped him In," that she made him drunk and got him to promise to marry her while ho didn't know what he was doing, and that then while he was still staggering and seeing three of her, she got a friend to go after a preacher and got a li cense and that he was married sway ing from side to side so that the preacher had to hold him on his feet; at the benediction, Rouncevllle ?ays he fell to the floor In a drunken stupor, and on waking immediately repudiated his loving bride. Reads Upside Down. 'Charles W. Seirles, of Milbury. Mass., reads newspapers and maja zinnp unfHo down as a matter of choice. When a boy In school he adopted this method of reading.to prevent reoele from reading over his shoulders and making him ner vous. Now: he is 80 and clings to the old habit. i Traveling Man Suicides. ? At Nashiville, Tenn., Robert Mid- J len, aged 45, a traveling salesman of Philadelphia, hangln?, himself ? with a towel in a local hotel Thurs day afternoon. He left a sealed n?iu to his wife, who is In Philadelphia. No cause is known for the suicide. jDBSAVEEK. THE TERRIBLE ACTS OP A PROS PEROUS MERCHANT;*' ' '?? ??>:-..? Killed His Wife, Nine Year Old Son ?p . ??- ?,. ;?? and LR tie Baby, Wounded Older Son and Kills Himself;' ? ?.'.'** * The motive for the terrible trag edy enacted in' Lawrencevllle,' Ga., on Tuesday, when joe D. Wallace, a prosperous merchant, Tidlled his wife and nine-year-old son, Clin*, and desperately wounded another soni'Felton, eleven years of age,: ana then killed himself, is still shr-ud ed in mysfcry. Joe Wallace, a man about 45 years, 'of , age^-had- attended a meeting ol the Odd Fellows, of which crj- he had been a prominent- member tor many years and returned hove about 10 o'clock in the evening. He soon retired and from that moment there is no living member of hi3 famllv who can tell what transpired up to 2:30 o'clock in the morning, when his two daughters, Misses Estello and Lollie Belle, were awakened., by a rapid fire of pistol shots in the!-' mother's room adjoining that of their own; ? ' The eldest daughter, Miss Lena, was also aroused and together the three girlB hastened to the rorin of the parents to find the cause of. Lhe shooting. Upon entering the door way they saw their father standing by their mother's bed, while she lay gasping for breath, with bar night clothing on fire from the pistol shots. ? Wallace turned t? leave the room and seeing his little son, Fel ton, coming in at the door, exclaim ed,"! will get you, too," and at the report of the pistol the child fell to the floor. Stepping over the prostrate form ^Wallace went out the door; after picking up his pants on the floor, and feeling in his pockets for his keys as ho walked, went to his gro cery store, only a few yards below the house, and going In reloaded hia pistol and returned to ihe house. -When Wallace reentered his home he walked'"up to his baby boy, Cllne,' and said, "Well, I have killed your mother," and holding the child out at , arm's length fired , four balls through its heart. Dropping the. quiv ering formi to the boor he walked to the entrance of the next room and placing the smoking revolver to' his head* sent-a-bullet-crash through, hi3 four .times" through the breast and head while lying on the bed. Joe Wallace had been twice mar ried. By bis first wife he had Tout children^ one son and three daugh ters, all grown. The son, Leon Wal lace, has a position in Atlanta and nras not'at home. HisMaugaters are Leno, Lollie Belle and Esteile. Wal lace'^ second wife was a daughtte.* of Andrew G. Bowman, a farmer re siding in the upper part of the coun ty: She took an active part In relig ous work, being a member of sever al societies in tho Baptist churcn, of which he was also a member. Their married life, so far as the gen eral public knew, was< a happy ona, although it is stated by some that she was of a very jealous tempera ment. About seven years ago Mr. Wal lace was awakened at night by a; noise on his front veranda and after opening the door sllrbtly, saw a form in the darkness, whereupon-he called to his wife to bring a lighT, and an she held the lamp he took de liberate aim and shot the man dead. He was a negro who worked for the Seaboard. It is thought that possi bly this occureuce preyed upon his mind and' had some connection with the tragedy. All three of the bodies will bo car ried to Hog Mountain, Mr. Wallace's old home, six mile3 above Lawrence vllle, for burial. WORK OF BLACK HAND. A Man Was Murdered While He Was Fast Asleep. Lying beside her sleeping husband in their home at San Francisco on Thursday night Mrs. Antonio Valen tino heard a crash of glass and a moment later saw two men clim"? through the window of their room from the porch roof without. Too frightened to move or cry out, she watched one of the Intruders steal up to the bed, deliberately plane a pistol at her husband's breast and fire a shot that brought instant death to the sleeping man. By the time the woman succeeded in re recoverlng her voice and raising an akrm the murderer and his compan ion had escaped. Valentino with his wife and three (children arrived about four days ago having come almost direct from It aly. Mrs. Valentino says they left Naples very hurriedly, her husband professing ?reat fear for his life fo: some rcson not revealed to her. L-C.scs an Arm. . Mr. Walter Hoffman, a young white man living near Lowell. N. C, had his left han.l lorn off In a corn shredder which he was operating. The physicians found it necessary to amputate the arm just above the el bow. Six Inches Snow. Northern' New York and the Adl rondacks were covered with six in ches of snow Wednesday morning. The hunters are Jubilant. SAID 1 LIED Traveling Mas Makes Ex-Gov. Glenn Veiy Warm Uoder the Collar. HE BECOMES ENRAGED When Stranger Says That All Dem ocratic Speakers Are Afraid of Marion Butler and Informs the Drummer That He'll Make Him Swallow Some of His Teeth. A dispatch from Marion to the Charlotte Observer spreading like wildfire over the ;city Wednesday went the hews that ex-Governor Rob ert B." "Glenn, who. spoke at Marion Wednesday had become engaged in a difficulty with a traveling-man on the way from the railroad station to the hotel that morning. jit seems that while Mr. Glenn was engaged in conversation with a friend, that the friend had remarked that .Marlon Butler had gotten off the same train upon which the Gov ernor came, at Morganton. In the course of the conversation that followed the friend further re marked that the Democratic speakers and the press were making Ic hot for Butler. .Mr. Glenn replied that it was not necessary for the speakers and the press to make it hot for Butler as he, Butler, had all he could do to defend his record In the Staf?. At this junction a traveling man, Mr. W. O. Crawford, butted into the conversation and said that all the Democratic speakers in the State were afraid of Butler. . 'Mr. Glenn replied that the man certainly did not know the situation or he would not dare make sich .a statement. Crawford said tha* he did know the situation and that lu* still maintained that Democratic speakers were afraid of the ex-Seii atbr. (Mr. Glenn then told the drinwer that what he had said was absolute ly an untruth and that the Demo cratic speakers had met Bur.'e" .In debates and that only their stlf-r.? spect kept them from doing so ag^la. Mr. Crawford made his Oii?inal statement In stronger language, whereupon the Governor told him he was a liar, and'that if he repeated it he would ^wallow it and'also oome. ;oX\-.hisi; .tooth?. -?<?.-. A.t this, juncture the bus had ar rived at the hotel where Mr. Craw ford hurriedly alighted from it and entered the "hotel lobby where h<> registered as "John Smith," from Virginia. BILL NYE DAY. For North Carolina School Children to Contribute. The Bill Nye memorial committee of the North Carolina Press Associa tion met Wednesday in Salisbury an., elected J. P. Cook, of Concord, edi itor of The Uplift, as treasurer of the committee, to succeed the late 7oa?i M. Julian. A resolution will be pre sented to the State superintendent' of public instruction, asking that a date he set apart in the schools of ? the State to be known as ""Bill Nye' day." On this day school children will be asked to contribute to the: fund being raised by the committee: for the purpose of erecting a Bill Nye: memorial cottage in connection with; the Stonewall Jackson manual train ing school located at Concord, N. C. KILLED AND INJURED. By the Railroads of the Country for the Past Year. "Killed, 3,804; injured, 82,374" ?this is the casualty record of the railroads in the United States during the year ended June 30 last, accord ing to the interestate commerce com mission Tuesday. It is an increase of 1,013 In the number killed aud 18,454 in the number injured over the previous year's figures. There were 5,861 collisions, killing 433 people and Injuring 7,765 and dam aging railroad property $4,629,279. In th" 5,910 derailments during the year, 340 persons were killed and 8,814 Injured. During the last three months of the ye&r the total killed or Injured was 20,650. Smoak Under Arrest. J. E .Smoak. for several years a Columbia policeman, is in the police station, charged with attempting to kill his wife Thursday at their home on Div'ne street. They had been separated for some time and Smoak was under a heavy peace bond, lie found his wife in her room and shot at her several tinus. They Are Safe. Only one railroao passenger was kl'led in the United Kingdom by in accident on a train in which he was traveling. In ether words only one man was killed or 1,264.800.000 j journeys and only one person was ?injured out of each 3.200,000 trav elers. Stove Polish Explode.". While poMshing a gas range in the home of Mi?s Bridget Lane In Pittsburg, the liquid solution explod ed and burned Miss Ella Brennen, a servant. The exnloslon was caus ed by gasoline In the polish. LARGE CORN CfM)#? ". it .>' - ? THIS STATE PRODUCED FJETY . MILLION BUSHELS. Means Much for the Farmers, and *'.? : ? Puts South Carolina In the " List of Great Corn States. South Carolina has produced/;50, 000,000 bushels of cern for 191^: ac cording to an estimate issued'; byifhe. department of agriculture, ? which places the corn crop for South. Caro lina for this year at 4 9,74O,OQ0^ttsh els. This estimate has.been furnish ed the United State?, department of agriculture. ; .['? . The .most gratifying featu? of the estimate Is that/average, produc tion of corn to the acre in/Jth'fs State has Increased from 16.7'^ush els to 21 bushels within a :ye-:r. There was a marked increase'loathe acreage of corn, the greatest In the history of the State. The exact, sta tistics on the. acerage have not ?.beeh prepared. The Columbia State says this* tre mendous crop of corn, mean'that South Carolina farmers will bej able to ship corn out of the State t'o oth er sections and that more than:; $ff, 000,000 spent on corn and corn; pro? ducts will be saved Co the people. As has been stated railroad men familiar with the movement of. corn say that the shipments into.',this State from the est have fallen off materially during the past year and that they expect to haul corn out of South Carolina next year., V The corn crop last; year for-South Carolina was estimated at 37,000, 000, which was an increase of 8, 000,000 bushels over the year'190S. The entire Increase of corn produc tion in the Southern States lastt'jyeir was 13,000,000 with 8.000,000 of that accredited to this State. /There were over 3,000 boys on the farms of this State to plant an; acre of corn this year. Several hundreds of these boyB h?ve produced over 75 bushels of corn on cue acre of land! and have been awarded certificates of merit by the State superintendent; of education and Gov. Ansel. .More than 100 of the boys have produced over 100 bushels ;on..one | acre, and there are several to pro duce over 150 bushels. These boys will be the farmem of the future and the indications point to> South Carolina becoming cne of the. lead ing corn State in the United Plates. ?:The \vo>T^''-bf'th"e'T,Wa'tDcWKRaW; been under the direction of the United States farm demonstration workers, of which Ira W. Williams Is at the head In this State. The champion boy corn grower ..of the world lives in. South Carolina, and he has produced 228 bushels on one acre of land. The boy la not known. He lives in the Pee Dee section of the State and Is a son of a minister. The marvelous yield was secured on.the parsonage land. The records of the boy are in Wash ington and are being considered by the national department of agricul ture, and h's name will be announc ed from there within the next sever al daj'B. The boy has written a story of bow he produced the great yield which will be published. He has de veloped a new plan of corn growing which may be helpful to ail Soutn Carolina larmers. The agitation fpr corn production commenced in this State several years ago and there has been a stea dy In crease. No longer is the far mer " of South Carolina contented with 20 bushels to the acre. The 100-bushel to the acre farmers in South Carolina are numerous. To stimulate the Interest In corn pro duction .over $35,000 In prizes will be given this year. The climax will be the South Atlantic States corn exposition which is to be held In Columbia from December 5 to 8 Over $10,000 in prizes will be given at the exposition. "NOT WORTH A DING." That's What Geraldine Farrur Says About Dukes. Miss Geraldine Farrar, the Ameri can Opera Singer, is evidently not going to marry a titled foreigner, at least not a duke. The soprano was informed, oi her arrival Wednesday in New York on the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grouse, that it was reported that she would wed a duke. "Dukes!" aBked -Miss Farrar. "I've met many of them, and believe me, taking them individually and collectively, they are not worth a ding." i Ballot Heven Feet Long. The voters of South Dakota al I the election of Nov. S will have sub-! mitted to them the longest ballot to be voted in any state In the Un ion. The ballot will me" sure more than seven feet, and will contain prorosed laws which are io be sub mitted to the voters under the refer endum amendment to the state con stitution. It will oe 14 inches in width and fired from top to bottom. High Price for Cotton. A New Orleans cotton firm Th?rs-1 day paid 17 H-4 cr.us a pound for 1,000 bales of cotton pro-Miced on the State convict farms in Missis sippi. The f'eal involves more than $90,000 and is the highest price re corded for spot cotton this season. The Mississippi, deuta cotton :s more valuade than the ordinary shor; 3ta ble cotton. ' 1MBEB: 5 1910. Dr. C. B. Lafioder Talks? Interestingly o "? : Pellagra.. NO SPECIFIC REMEDY Dr. Lavinder Less Devout in His Be lief About Spoiled Corn Causing the Disease?United State Govern ment Expert Holds a Clinic for Physicians of State at Asylum. The State says wnlie the pelagra clinic Thursday at the State Hospi tal for \he Insane at Columbia was not so well attended as the pre vious one, it was no less Interesting and in all about twenty cases of the disease were demonstrated. The meeting wsb very informal, resolving itself largely into a matter of ques tions and answers and the exchange of Individual opinions and experiea ences. ? In reply to. the question of rfc-j causation of pellagra Dr. C. H. La vinder said that he was op?i>-.'n;nded on the subject and certaiulv loss J< vout in his belief in the spoiled coin theory that he was a year ago. He thought the diagnosis of pellagra dif ficult without the skin symptoms. .Jn other words, that the presence or history of skin symptoms was es sential for the diagnosis. The Ital ians, however, made the diagonis regardless of the presence or ab sence of the skin lesions. It had been well said that until the skin symptoms appeared, the case was. like an unsigned letter. The skin symp toms were the signature by which the, letter was Identified. Of course, tentative diagnosis can be made and treatment instituted. The disease in Italy was very mild Dr: Lavinder sam there in tv/o of three months several hundred case*^ of which only three or four could be considered really ill. In Italy the geography of the dis ease is shifting and appears to be .spreading southward. ? Dr. La vinder considered a generous die tary, careful attention and a gooi nursing highly important as we have no specific remedies. The speaker again deprecated the gloomy outlook usually taken by th* public regarding pellagra. He, does, riot ^enteftain'Tne 'opinTon' that'. pei la?xa is communicable. He woul: not hesitate to bring a pellagrous p3tient in his own house. He also thought that the general practitioners of South Carolina have a great opportunity for studying, t?t epidemiology of the c:sease; that is, to collect data regarding the' home surrounding of patients, their dler ary und habits. Such data would prove of grcac value in helping to solve the mys tery surrounding pellagra. Samhon thinks the disease occurs in the foot hills, near swift-running streams, ac cording to the speaker. pr. J. J. Watsan seated he had seen cases from all parrs of the State from the mountains to the sea, but most of them came rrom the Pied mont section. In Italy, the speaker said, the dis ease was largely confined to th*e peai entry living in tie country, but in this country pellagra patients were mostly urban and suburban and from .those in the best 'circumstances, phy sically, financially and socially. His patients had for the most pui. eaten shipped corn. As alreu^7 s:ted with :us the disease differed from the It alian in intensity. Over 80 per cenL Of his cf.ses were women. The disease was further discuss ed in many of Its phases by Dr. Na pier Thompson, J. H. Taylor, Duck ett Rice, E. B. Sanders, R. L. San ders and others. SERIOUS MISTAKE. Woman Bought Gasolene for Vine gar and Used It. At Evansville, Ind., when Mrs. Louise Volkel sent her son to a groc ery store Thursday to tret vinegar to make pickles he brought back gasoline instead. Mrs. Volkel pour ed the gasoline over the pickles on a hot stove and flames lllcd her kit chen, the house catching afire. She seized the pickle pot, ran out of doors with it and threw the contents into the next yard, setting fire to the house next door. Woman Safe Mower. In running down the clews left by the safe b'ower who has been op erating at Minneapolis, .Minn., the police have dis'-ov-'rerl things that head them to believe tint the work is that of a woman. Footprints ai I the scenes of the last two "jobs" are Ideeidcdly tbn?r> nf ?> woman's shoe. A Queer Match. Two months after the death of her husband, Judcre Joseph Rood, of To^okn, Kan.. Mrs. Mary Muir Reed became the bride of her stepson, her first sweetheart. They will reside In Chicago. HI. Killed by Falling Dirt. At Staunton. Va., W. S. Spruise lost his life and three others had narrow escapes from death while at ..,_v Thursday in repairing a cave ,a there. They were caught under falling dirt. PEON KIDNAPS GIRL LABORER1 STEALS BEAUTIFUL AMERICAN GIRL. Young Lady of Nebraska Staying on a Ranch With Her Parents Mys teriously Disappears. A kidnapping such as one has been wont to reed about In novels of adventure has taken place in Mexico, a young American girl being the vic tim of a treacherous Mexican. Miss Grace Rolph,-the 17-year-old daugh ter of Dr. and Mrs. Rolph, of PenderV Neb., was kidnapped last week, from a ranch near Checoy, Mex., by a Utek'oan peon named Segunda. The ranch is owned by G. S. Harris, of Lincoln, Neb. f, i He is a! friend of Dr. Rolph who for years1 was one of the promi nent residents of Pender. A year ago the doctor's health became such that he felt the need of a change of climate and ?accepted che offer of Mr. Harris to hake his home for an in definite time on the ranch. His daughter is highly cultured and of attractive appearance. Segunda has long been in the em ploy of Mr. Harris, and is more than twice the age of the girl he kid naped. He once killed a man, but Mr. Harris did notr egard him as vic loua and.trusted him. Segunda was the ranch hunter, being exceptional ly skillful in bringing in venison and other wild game He prided himself on his marksmanship and horseman ship. He ls-very Illiterate and una ble to speak a dozen words in En glish. , Mr. Harris, who receutly returned from hlB Mexican property, said at Lincoln a few days -ago, that Segun da had never, so far as he knew, shown any particular fondness for Miss Rolph, and ? if ne had he was quite sure it was not reciprocated. The country around Checoy, while wild and Inhabited chiefly by Mex icans cf the lower class, has never been regarded as lawless; and Mr. Harris thinks Segunda will not be protected by the natives. There are a few other American ranchmen In the country, and those, Mr. Harris believes, will band together and run down the kidnaper. . The son of Mr. Harris, who is man ager of his ranch, has posted a re ward of $1,000 for the apprehen sion of Segunda, and communication has been opened withMexican ofii .cials^M*;iici>,C.^ es "ambassador there and the State department officials at Washington. A QUEER MIX UP. A Daughter Steals Her Mother's Husband From Her. Mrs. Johanna Husselmann has been awarded $9,800 damages from her daughter, the wife of Dr. Wil liam Becker, in the Circuit court, at .Milwaukee, Wis., in a $25,000 alien atlon-of-affections suit of mothei against daughter. , iMts. Husselmann and Dr. Becker were mcrried in Chicago bn March 17, 1900. She was then 46 years old. He was 31. Sac had two daughters. One of them was Mrs. Rattle Bott, aged 26. Mra. Botl was then living In St. Paul. Her husband was Dr. Henry C. Bott. Shortly after the marriage Mrs. Bott went to Milwaukee to visit at the home of her mother and her new stepfather. The result was that on Sept. 29, 1905, Mrs. Becker and her husband separated. On Nov.. 3, 1906, Mrs. Husselmann got a di vorce, resumin?. the name of Hus selmann. On Nov. 9, 1906, iMes. Bott began suit for divorce from Dr. Bott. She got the divorce Nov. 24, 1907. Five days loter, according to testimony, Mrs. Bott and her stepfather were married. The. mother said, among other things, that ber daughtei "willfully, maliciously and wick2d ly" gained the affections of Dr. Decker and sught to entice him to desert his wife. Dare Proves Fatal. In taking a dare as to how much pain he could stand, Edward Wil liams, a young men of Chicago, slowly ran a hatpin Into his knee. The point broke off when attempt ed to extract it, znd an operation was necessary. But tetanus deve; oped and the young man died later in a hospital. Were Dead from Gas. At Chicago on Monday the po lice broke into the room of Michael Slovcnky. forty years old, and round him and his friend, Hynian Infield; Ju y^ars old, dead. The children, ?.x and seven ye-rs old, respectively, were unconscious, but were- revived oy physicians. A?broken gas tube io blamed for the accident. Big Bid For Cow. An offer of $1 0,000 has been re fused by W. W. Marsh, of Waterloo, i.i., for bis pet cow. Dairy Maid of Piueburst, the champion cow of tue ?vend. A.though jus*- a month ov er three yeurs old, the cow producta 1,003 pound3 of butter duriug the last year. Arm Torn Oil' iu Gin. At Pickens Claude Mann, the son of A. O. Mann, had his arm torn off Ut the elbow Saturday morning in a cotton gin. Claude is 16 years of age and was working at the gin at the time. WO CENITS PER COPY - Hold Informal Meeting in Colombia au$ Hear Good Talks From WELL KNOWN SPEAKERS The Large Gathering Was Galled to. Order by President Perritt, cf the-" State Farmers Union, Who Intro duced Senator Smith and Other*. Who Made Speeches. The State says a large number ot tho Farmers' union members who were attending the Srate.fair on Far mers' Union day assembled In the Richland county court house Th?rs-' day night. The meeting was called' to order by President Perritl of the' union. ? . .. With a few introductory remarks as to the nature of the meeting, the president introduced J. B. O'Neall' H?lloway who had been at work .la.;, the Piedmont section as" a field rep-.' resentatlve of the Farmers' union. ?Mr. Halloway spoke of the inter est that he found in that section of/ the State. His work had been along, educational lines to revive" and. strengthen the union. He emphaA sized the interest that he found ia' the schools and the educational de^' velopment. Education is at the. foundation of the whole social struc-. ture, In the opinion- of the speak er. The future of the. Farmers" union depends upon the proper edu-' cation of the boys and girls of today.' The farmer of today must use hi* brain's. Let the farmer "apply Ihe> same business principles, and sclent!-' fic methods that the merchant, the/ banker or the manufacturer puts in to his business. He will then'see Sir wonderful revolution in "the results.! ' Ira W. WilliamB was then Intro-' duced. He spoke of the ,great work , Of the Farmers' union in educating, the farmers of the State. .Much of' the credit for the revolution in tho methods of farming exerted by tha United States farm demonstration, work Is due to the Farmers' union. The union helped to put the work before the people and'get them in terested was' the statement by Mr. Williams. The organization was ?& very powerful factor' in introducing J this educational development. Tue" com 'contest^'df the'hbys'all-oVerth'ar1 State grew out of work of the union, he said. ? He spoke of the importance of keeping up the organization. We should not >>e deceived by prosperity ' and be tempted to become careless ? In this respect. The moral force of ' organization is .of great value. " The 1 union Is a power in the land.' Senator E. D. Smith was then In troduced by the'presldent In corapil-'' mentary terms. ? . !' Senator Smith emptiasizerl the fair portance of being Independent. A man who Is -at the beck and call of/ another is net a full human being?' he is simply a biped. He must rise-, above the level of mediocrity and Tre1-1 come something of force and power. .Three steps?wealth, leisure, learning?necessary to the acquisi tion of power. Wealth is secured byr increasing productive power. How many of the farmers reallr know all the products of their cotton ! and the markets and how, it is- teniL led from start to finish? How many know all-the products of cotton see* and how they are handled? Knowledge is power. Let us know more about our resources, then we' will be^ in a position to be more in dependent. E. J. Watson made a short" ad dress. "Wo are now dosing a most pro?; perous year," said the speaker. H* emphasized the importance of edW cational work in the agricultural de velopment. For many years the far mers sent a very large 'part of the money receive* ror cotton ouf of Die State for food for both man. and beast. The corn crib was out West. "We are now moving the corn crib to this State," he ccntiued . All the forces are now combining to educate the farmers. Great in crease in the production o)' corn. 'Much rotten and unsuitable corn ha* been kept out of the State by laws recently enacted. 1 There has been great advance ;ni the live stock industry in the State "This year marks the greatest ad- : vance that has been made In agri culture in any single year In our past history," he continued. The farmer Is the keystone to tho.- ? economic arch of the country, In thu [ opinion of the commissioner. The local union, he said, should; be made a live place for educational! work as we'l as for business pur- > poses. The union is a valuable or ganization, and its power and. strength, the speaker couiinued, should be Increased by thG-.-afcOveT"^ work of the individual .members. 'B. Harris, former president of tha State union, spoke. He? emphasize! the importance of diversification of crcjjs. "By means of-this we may become independent," he said. He stated that many animals brought here for exhibition at the fair had been sold at the owener's'own price. The owner could make his-.own prico and get it because or the fact that he had diversified his productive power on his farm. After some announcements and ' conference -about appointments for meetings, the meeting adjourned.