Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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PUBLISHED THESE TU s Vi ? ... IBEf CARRY NE 9 YORK, HEW JER SEY. CONNECTICUT, MASSACH? SETTS, OHIO AN) OTHER REPUBLICAN STATES THEY CARRY TBE HOUSE The Republicans Have Been Routed, | Horse, Foot and Dragoon, AH Along the Line, and They Are Dumbfounded and Sick. There was a veritable Democratic landslide in the election throughout the nation on Tuesday, which swept the great state of New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts,' Ohio and Con necticut into the Democratic column, and snowed Teddy Roosevelt nnfr ?o deep that he will hardly scratch ?out before the next Presidential elec-1 ttion. The result has dumbf junded | the Republicans. Dix, the Democratic candidate for| ?Governor of New York, went in with a majority of 60,000 or mor?. The I balance of the Democratic tickei rau [ somewhat behind Dix, and mny n *t .pull through. The Democrats gaia-[ ?ed several congressmen in New York. They carried the precinct at whichJ Roosevelt votes by a good majority. Woodrow Wilson, Democrat, wasj elected in New Jersey and the Dem ocrats gained a congressman or twa! In that State. Judge Baldwin, Democrat, was! elected Governor of Connecticut by] a small but safe majority. "Congressman Foss, Democrat, 'was) ?elected to the Governship of Massa chusetts and the Democrats gained ??a .congressman in the State. |In Ohio Gov. Harmon, Democrat, "was re-elected by a good majority. The Democrats won two or three | congressmen in Ohio. Indiana elects the Democratic | ^Governor and State ticket. The Dem ocrats claim the Legislature, a lac Tennessee elects Hooper, Repuo lican, Governor. The Democrats car Ty the legislature and their usua' congressional districts. Later returns indicate the follow-1 Ing majorities for the Democrats in the States named: New Y'or.:. 55, <000; New Jersey, 10,000 to 15,000; Massachusetts, 30,000; Ohio. 15.000 and Connecticut, 1,500. ?President Taft received the news ot the Democratic landslide at Pitts burg, Pa., and his usual smile d?- J aerted him at once. In addition to carrying the above States, all of which, except Ohio,' has Republican Governors at this time, the Democrats have carried the House of Representatives and will Stain some Senators too. ? Never in the history of the cour. try, perhaps, has so much interest ?centered in an election that wa6 not tor the purpose of electing a Presi dent. It Is recognized that as New York and Ohio has gone, so, in all probability will go the whole ?country tw.o years hence In the'na tional election. Legislatures were elected In 27 States, by which the United States j , Senators are to be chosen. Of the 30 Senators whose terms expire on March 4, next, 24 are Republican and 6 Democrats. Maryland, Mis sissippi and Vermont already have elected their Senators. House or Representatives. All over the United States the peo ple yesterday choose the members of I the sixty-second Congress to repre sent the 14 sovereign States of the Union. Maine and Vermont held their electious in September. The total membership of House! is now 391; majority 196; present Republican membership. 215: pres ent Democratic membership. l(2. vacancies. 4; Republican majority. 43. In order to gaiu control of the House it was necessary for the Democrats to elect 21 members from j the districts now held by the Repub licans, while the Republicans could lose If and still hold control. Of the 24 necessary, to secure control by the Democrats, two members have, been elected from Maine. The vacancies were caused by res-1 ignation and death of members. I Samuel L. Gil more, o! Louisiana, Democrat; Charles S. Tirreil of Mas sachusetts, and Walter S. Brownlow of Tennessee, have died, and Gordon ! Russell or the third Texas district j has resigned. The latest reports leave no doubt ' of the Democrats having carried the j House of Representatives by a ?a>. majority. Just how large the major ity is cannot be figured out now. but I the Democrats have surely carmd It It is not known at this time bo.v the different State Legislatures are, hut it is thought the Democrat* have carried several of them. j CBS A JvTEEK. A VERY DRY COUNTRY THIS IS WHAT THE I<AWr TRIES TO MAKE OP THE SOUTH. But the Internal Revenue Receipts Show It Is Not So Ve^y Long Be tween Drinks. ? The law In. Alabama. Georgia, North Carolina and a part of South Carolina may be dry, but the dry bait is limited to the law, not to the peo ple,'according to the report the reve nue collectors in these prohibition states made to their chief at Wash ington. These reports are fa'^y steeped in liquor. They tell not only of "booze' being made but of the sale, both in small and in large quantities. In another month Commissioner of In ternal Revenhe Royal Cabell will make public his annual report, 'n which he will quote figures furnish ed by collectors of internal revenue in these states showing the number of special tax stamps which have been sold in the past year. It Is estimated that in Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina and a small part of South Carolina the receipts from the sale of these special tax stamps will amount to approximate ly $105,000 for the fiscal year which; ended June" 30 last. Alabama leads in the number of stamps purchased. The sale of re tail stamps amounted to approxi mately $31,000, and the combined sale of retail and wholesale $vS,500. Georgia comes next with a combin ed sale of $30,56S worth of stamps. It is estimated that $16,000 worth of both kinds of stamps were sold in North Carolina in the past year. Again drug merchants were the heaviest buyers. South Carolina will show a combined sale of about $20,000 worth of stamps. * . I ? ? ? MEETS SLOW DEATH. I Negro Woman Was Caught In- the I Deadly Quicksand. j The State says an unknown negro woman, apparently 65 or 70 years of age, was foum about 11 (o'clock Monday, mired to the waist in the [muddy bed of a little creek which flows into the Congaree river 300 yards above the Granby landing. How long she had been in the quick sand or how she got there is not known. The body was discovered by two white men. I The banks of the creek at the point where the dead woman was I found are very steep. The place is not within calling distance of any house and It was merely by chance that the men saw the body as they were passing. It is possible that the old negress met -a lingering death from starvation or cold A little distance down the creek was ii foot-log. The woman may have slipped down the sleep banks of the stream while hunting for the crossing. The struggles of the wo man in her frantic efforts to crawl j to safety had disturbed the mud ail around the place where the body was found. A few feet away from the body was a basket containing a doz en unshucked ears of corn which she had evidently been carrying when she fell into the creek. TWO NEGROES TO HANG. Convicted of Murder and Sentenced to Pay Dentil Penalty. Two sentences of death, after con victions of murder in the first de gree, which will culminate in a dou ble hanging at Moncks Corner on December 23, were pronounced by the Hon. J. Otey Reed, of St. George 'Monday, in his capacity as special .Judge at the Court of General Ses sions for Berkeley County. They were the first two sentences ever given by Mr. Reed from the Circuit bench, and the two men who will had as a result of his edict an? Wil liam Kellcy, a negro, who was con victed of the brutal murder of Ar chie Smalls, near Saxon on April 15, and James Kdwards, another negro, who was resentenced to be hanged for the murder of his wife about nine years ago at Mr. Holly. Very Sad Case. Ar New York Antonia Schwartz, a millonairo buyer, president of the firm or Brenheimer. Schwartz & Co., shot and instantly killed himself car ly Monday morning in his apart ments. Grief over the recent death of his son, Adolphus. aged 24, to whom he was greatly attached, and to whom Mr. Schwartz had expected to succeed him in business, it attri buted by his friends as the probable cause of the suicide. Twelve Men Killed. fTwo explosions, occurring within a few minutes of each other Monday morning, resulted in the death of 12 men in the Lawson mine at Black Diamond, 30 miles southeast of Se attle. OKANGEBUBG, 8 SOME PLAIN TALK PROM A GOOD AND INFLUENTIAL COLORED MAN. Sentiments That Should Be Endors ed by Every Right Thinking Man, Whether White or Black. To the Editor of The State: 'Most of the readers of this jour nal will remember the terrible crime committed in the city of Columbia some weeks ago by a colored man whose proper name is Minus High tower, a son of Henry Right ower, who lives somewhere near Branch ville. No citizen, white or black, Bhould have any sympathy for that brute who outraged the wife of a white citizen of Columbia. 1 write this letter not for the purpose of playing to the galleries, nor for the purpose of getting the approbation of white or black, but to state my feelings in the matter. This morning while at breakfast a cousin of this criminal, Edward Wil lis by name, called upon ms to ask if I would assist him in get ting some physician to examine, the mind of Minus Hightower so that it may be proven at the trial that his mind is unsound. In this way it is hoped to get the mercy of tile Court. He also claims that one of the broth ers of Hightower has always been of unsound mind. I became indig nant at him and could no further enjoy my breakfast. "You can get my assistance tv have him lawfully hanged, dead by the neck, and you yourself ?houid bs glad to see such criminals gotten rid of as speedily as possible, and re joice in the fact that he is dead. If one of my own boys commits such a crime and I am satisfied as to his guilt I would not even go to the trouble to employ a lawyer to de fend him, but would want him. even though my own son, executed speed ily, whether his mind is sound or not." ? I further said to Willis: "1 want you to distinctly understand that 1 have no sympathy for criminals, whether sound minded or unsound minded, especially when it comes to assault upon women. I am a great lover of dogs, especially my own dcgs, but when my dogs go mad I am. ready to see them killed speeds iiy-." Now, Mr. Editor, there are white and colored men today in prison whose necks ought to have been cracked for the crimes they commit ted, but they are living because mer ciful jurors recommended them to the "mercy of the court" because in $he conimlitting of the crime the criminal'was '.'drunk," "excited by heat of passion," or was of "unsound mind" These criminals are turned loose, when their time is out, to ccm mit the same crime or greater ones. Only the other day I was looking at a number of criminals who were working the streets of the city. I a?ked one of the guards for what cause were these prisoners here. The reply was, '"For rape, for murder, for larceny and other things. They are a bad set of men and I must keep my eye cn thorn all the time.'-' To get the approbation of my race, to be called their friend, or to be called a real race man, I am sure j this letter will mar my chances. To do well, to live well and make mou ey, I had rather have the approba tion of my race than that of the white race. But I promised my God 1? years ago that if it cost me my life I was determined to speak out against the wrong, and give right ad vice regardless of consequenses. I would to God every colored man and woman would assist in running down and capturing all such scound drels as the criminal mentioned in this article. "My advice to the while people to do right, has no effect upon them along this line. I would to God that white citizens in South Caro lina would rise up aud uncover the crimes commit ted by white men and see that justice and mercy have full sway. As colored preachers are the I natural leaders of our race I appeal I to them to lift, up a righteous stan dard among the people and do all in ' their power to lessen crime. Perhaps I am writing this letter under great excitement, but 1 eon-! fess that I am mad and indignan/f j because of the appeal made to me by j the cousin of the criminal to assist I in getting him proven ins:in >. I have' no sympathy for negroes or white, men given position of trust who will betray that trust, and all such per sons are warned not to call on me for any assistance to keep them from punishment if guilty. Richard Carroll. Graft Cases Ti led. Ch?.rsed with conspiracy to de fraud the State of Smuh Carolina in, d"a1inuK connected with thn old! S'r.ite dispensary. Jodie, M. ft.i.slin-j son and .John B. Black, former tnoni ber-i of the State board of conirol,! anil H. Leo Solomons, former agent fro certain whiskey houses, ,v.e now on trial in the General a.-ssions Court of Chester County. Says She is Alive. 'BeBe Kim ore Grippen, for w' ose murder Mr. Karvcy H. Gripp-: was hanged on Tuesday in London, is de clared to be alive in this country by Francis Tracy Tobin. a lawyer in Phidadelphia. I . C.? WEDNESDAY, NOV HOW IT ROBSlS ' ? Some Facts About the Tariff That Will Be Read With Interest PLUNDERS EVERY 01 How the Prices of Nearly All We Have to Buy Is Taxed Either by the Government or the People Who Manufacture the Articles We Buy. Do you know how much you con tribute eve.-/ yesr^to the support of the United State government." The question is .deeply important to you and'shoutd^ause you to put on your thinking cap. There are 90,000,000 people in this Republic?little and big, young and old, Dlack and white, rich atid poor. The Federal Government 1b spending over $35,000,000 every day exclusive f Sundays and legal holi days. Consequently, nearly forty cents a day is what Uncle Sam spends of your money?besides 40 cents for your wife and for each of your chil dren. If your family consists of five per sons, your part of the Federal tax is $2.00 per day! J What do you think of that, son.' For the 300 work days of tho year your contribution to the U. 3. expenses is $C00. (Pretty steep, isn't it? You pay that tax when you consume tobacco, cigars, cigarettes, firewater and man ufactured goods. You can escape the tax on tobacco and whiskey by letting- them alone; but you cannor help yourself when it comes to manufactured articles. They are necessary to your business and to your very existence. Cloth ing, crockery ward, cutlery, furni ture, plantation supplies, etc., you are compelled to purchase, whether i you want to or not; ?Now, let us spe how the protec Itive principle works: I The foreign manufacturer wishes to sell you a suit of clothes, or -a pair of blankets, or a cheap over Icoat, or a bottle of wine or an au tomobile; but our Government will not allow him to come Into our mar kets freely and compete with the American manufacturer. On the contrary, he is forced to pay for the privilege. This takes ?the form of a duty paid at the Cus tom House, where the foreign goods are landed. This duty goeB by the name of the Tariff. When the foreigner brings his wine to our country for sale, he pays a tariff of 37 per cent, at the custom house. When he imports an auto mobile, he pays 50 per cent of Its value for the right to sell it here. If blankets are imported from abroad, they have to pay a duty of 1C5 per cent; if a cheap overcoat, 250 per cent. It must be quite clear to you that the foreigner adds the customhouse duty to his original price; and that you pay the tax when you purchase the imported goods. Consequently, if you buy import ed wine, you are charged one-third more than the foreigner would have . demanded, had there been no tariif duty on the liquor. If you purchase an imported car, you pay one-half more than the orig inal price. If you buy blankets made in Eu rope, the price is doubled, and then increased GO per cent, more, besides, because of the 1C5 per cent, tariff tax. On the cheap overcoat, the price will be four and a half times as I much as the original price. Suppose you purchase ten doll:irs' worth of blankets. In that case your i Federal ;ax on that Item alone, amounts to more than six dollars. Let mo turn it around, and ex plain ii to you, another way; The foreigner comes to New York with a pair of blankets valued at $-1; before he can offer them to you for sale, lie is charged 105 per cent, tariff?duty. Now, l6."i percent >n $4 amounts to $6.60. Therefore, the foreigner, in order to get. bis $4 for his blankets, must add $6.tin to his original price, making the goods cost you $10.60. lint suppose ;ut overcoat of cheap grade is imported ?a coat which can be sold In London for Si. In ili.it case a duty of 250 per cent cutis? !>e paid, before the eo;:t can be sold in this market. Now. 250 percent on $i amounts to $10; consequently the cheap over coat costs you ?l !. In other w< -.'s. you pay the Federal Government a tax of S10, when you supply your self with a cheap overcoat. On ordinary clothing, you pay two prices?one for the goods, tbe oth er for the tariff tax. What the foreigner pays to tho GovernmenGt you refund to tin; for eigne;- when yon buy the imported articles. How lines this system hugely en rich the American manufacturer? By enabling him to add $10 to the price r?f his ??( overcoat and $fi.G0 to his blankets: and to double the price to his ordinary clothing. He knows what the foreigner will have to add to his selling price: and the American manufacturer simply add* about the same to his soiling price as the foreigner actually paid at the custom house. Wrhat the foreigner paid and you EMBEB 9 1910. MURDERER LYNCHED KILLED POLICEMAN AT MONTF- j ZUMA, GEORGIA. I l The Mob Ove?-;X.\vers the Jailer at tile Jail and Takes the Prisoner and Swings Him. A negro named Walker, who kill ed Marshal Charles Bush, of Mo.nt.k zuma, Ga., several weeks ago, was j taken from the Macon county jail by a mob and lynched about 9:30 o'clock Monday n'ght. His body was strung up over the water from ?h9 Flint River bridge. Walker had on ly been captured two hours. Walker, who was known at thi time of the killing of Marshall Bsi3u, on the Main street of Montezuma, f s William Barnes, was two weeks ago Sunday the prey of a man huut, which lasted three days, through the woods and marshes of the vicinity. He made a clean get-away, despite the fact that track dogs were on his trail. The Governor had offered a $150 reward. l.Monday morning Walker came to the house of a negro named Jones, near Pcwersville, in Houston county, and asked for food. Jones recog nized him and informed a white man that he had Bushe's slayer. They secured a shot gun and upon entering Jone's kitchen Walker gave himself up. He was taken to Oglethrope, where he was identified. He then admitted I the killing and gave his name as Walker. He lay all day in jail. At eight I o'clock Monday night a mob sur rounded the jail, bent on lynching, but dispersed. At nine o'clock they returned, overpowered the jailer and dragged the negro out. To the bridge is but a few hundred y?.rds, and the noose was tied, one end fastened to the bridge and the uj gro, with both hands bound, shoved off over the water. The drop broke his neck instantly. Immediately the mob went home, leaving the body over the water. A BRUTAL MONSTER. Cut His Child's Throat and blushed His Wife Badly. James Sherald, a negro man, whose home is at Parkersville, on! the Waccamaw River, is charged with a most brutal and unnatural crime, committed Monday morning at Georgetown, when i a fit of fren zy because his wife would no-, ac company hini nome at once, he cut the throat of his young child and slashed his wife with a razor 1 j bucI; a manner that it is not expected thx she will hve. The child died almost immediately. Upon the alarm be given Sheraid fled, hotly pursued by negroes, but Sherald outran his pur suers and disappeared in the woods in the outskirts of town. Policemen quickly got on the trail of the no-, gro and succeeded in capturing him about two miles from the city, and he was safely landed in jail. The negroes of Georgetown are much ex cited over the dastardly deed, aad if;they could, would undoubtedly vis it summary punishment upon the prisoner. QUITE A FUNNY M1XLI*. Divorced Wife Glad Her Ex-Husbiutd Weded Her Sister. I With the hearty approval of his divorced wife, Seymour L. Locke married his sister-in-law, Miss Mar garet G. Oreenleaf, a magazine writ er, whose home Ib in Lexington, Ky. The first Mts. Locke was so far from bearing enmity toward her sister that it was at her request that her son was his father's best man at the ceremony. The. newly married couple are. at present at Colenian Falls, Va., on their honeymoon. The first Mrs. Locke obtained divorce in Los An geles, Cal., in 1909, and was grant ed a small portion of her husband's property at Pasodena, Cal. She then returned ro New York where she now resides. When asked to com irucnL on the marriage she s'lid: "He should have married'Margaret in the j first place. I was quite willing be should marry her now." 'rerundeli ?? Government get us yoiir I putt of tin Federal tax. What the Protected manufacturer i of this country added to his Helling price, the manufacturer put In hi.-? own pocket and kept it there. And lie :cc.'s five dollars out of you. where the Government gets one. An your extravagant Government bleeds you to the extent of for'y cents a day lor each member of your : family: and as the unpitylug and in satiable manufacturer bleeds you of i five times as much, it is no wonder I [that tile producers of wealth are un able to keep any of it. Tin.- non producers make tlx- laws, while you are producing the wealth, and these I "laws" are framed for the special) purpose of handing over to the non producing class what the weaith-pro ducers make. Yet there are thousands of the op prcssed victims of these robber-laws j who say they "take no in f rost In politics:" and that if a man will just work harder and talk iess, he' will come out ahead of the game. | That'b exactly what the Special Privilege class want to hear him say. RATES NOT UNJUST COMMISSION UPHOLDS INCREASE IN SOUTH. By a Divided Court, Decision That May Affect Other Important Cases* Goes to Railroads. Upholding the sweeping advances in rates on Southeastern traffic on many classes and commodities, as jusitfied by the condition of the rail roads and the needed improved facil ities, the interstate commerce com mission at Washington Saturday, in a divided decision dismissed cases instituted by the railroad commis sion of Alabama and Georgia and the A. P. Morgan Grain company and others. The decision may have an impor tant bearing on other pending cases ?the Southwestern shippers' case, which was heard by the commission and taken under advisement and the wholesale increases in rates by the railroads generally, now suspended by the commission pending investiga tion. The decision involves the At lantic Coast Line, the Louisville & Nashville and other roads as defend ants. The advances Involved were made on August 1, 1908, and the majority opinion written by Commissioner Cockerill held that they were not found to be unjust, unreasonable nor unduly discriminatory. The decis ion covered the advances generally to Georgia, Alabama, Florida and the Carolinas from Ohio and Missis sippi river crossings. The majority opinion holdB that both the adjust ment of rates between Birmingham and Atlanta and the advances made August 1, 1908, were based on in creased taxation and on the prices of material and labor. "The condition of most of the rail roads in this section of the coun try." says the majority opinion, "is not yet up to the highest standard and in order that their facilities may bo improved and extended to the ul timate lasting advantage of the peo ple of the South, it Is necessary that the carriers be permitted to charge rates that aret fully compensatory for the services they perform so long as such rates have not been shown to be unjust, unreasonable, or ex cessive with respect to the public. We are unable to hold that an ad vance is unreasonable because some part of the benefit therefrom will accrue to a carrier that during the period of the last ten years has reg ularly paid interest on its total bond ed debt and in addition thereto has recently paid dividends upon its stock." Jt was alleged that these increases were only a part of a general ad vance made or to be made in the freight rates throughout the South The decision, however, Is confined to the specific matters now In i^ne, the commission says, and is not to bf construed as extending o 'yond fbem or as indicating in any legree approval of other further advances in rates. The. advances were in meats, flour, grain, packing house products, etc., mostly time freight that must be moved promptly, the wheat and corn milled In transit without extra charge and the loss and damage claims higher than the average on all commodities. : .Dissenting opinions were filed by Commissioners Lane and Clements. Mr. Clements contended that there was no justification for the threaten ed burden upon the transportation of this section of the country eithsr In the needs of carriers, the history of rates or the ability of the public to pay 12 cents per capita more for the staples affected. CLEARED FOR ACTION. United States Gunboat Threaten* to Shell the Rebels. United States gunboat Princeton, at anchor off Amapala, Honduras, was cleared for action and General .lose Vnll ad ares, leader of the revol: against the Da vi la government, not ified by Commander lluyee that i! foreigners were molested the gov ernor's residence would be shot hi!! of holes. The dispatch adds thai chaos reigns throughout the western poi tlon of Honduras and inflammatory manifestos Inciting the, people to re bellion against President Davila rrv being circulated. Manuel Bonilln, former president, whose recent revolutionary was nip ped in the hud. is being urged take advantage of the present situa tion and gather his forces for a march against Tegucigalpa. Bond la is now in Guatemala. 4 Automobile Victims. Kor the year ending July 31st the deaths and serious injuries by au tomobile accidents amounted to 632, as against tif?3 deaths caused by railroads. 2.1;"2 by horses, 1.723 by street cars. I'M by guns accidentally fired. On this list of death dealing causes the unto mo bile occupies the lowest place. Cracksmen blew the safe at the Home Savings bank at Mettamorc, Ohio, early Tuesday morning and stole $2.000. The explosion arous ed the sheriff, who, with a posse, started after the robbers but they succeeded in escaping in a rig they had stolen from a farmer. Kohhtii a Rank. - .?E 'WO CENTS PEB COPY A CAILTO WAR A Big Conference to Battle With the IWfl Weevil is Called to MEET SOON IN ATLANTA The Call Very Truly Says That Vax* mers, Merchants and All Business Men Are VitaUy Interested in Out Important Gathering, and Many Notables Will be at the Meetia?. The following call for a boll wee vil conference, which! s self-explana-. tory has been issued by the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce: A boll weevil conference is called' for November 22 and 23, at Atlanta, and all interested in the subject are invited to attned. The opening ses sion will occur at 3:30 p. m. on Nov ember 22, and there will be two ses sions on November 23. This conference will take place in. the Atlanta auditorium. It has cost the states of Texas; Louisiana and Mississippi millions of dollars to ignore the boll weevil un til it arrived. It'.cut down the cot ton crop of Louisiana from 955,000V bales in 1S06 to 275,000 bales fa 1909, representing an annual loss to; the farmers of Louisiana of $40,f 000,000 per year in cotton. The boll weevil has spread well ov er Mississippi and this fall entered! several counties In southern Ala bama. It is Georgia's turn next and/. Georgia is face to face with a con dition that will cost an absolute lost on our cotton crop of 550,000,000 to 875,000,000 per year unless we rad ically change our agricultural meth ods during the next two or three' years. The question of fighting the boBi weevil is of vital importance to every farmer who grows an acre of cot-' ton; to every merchant, wholesale dealer, manufacturer and banker In*. Georgia and this southeastern sec tion. The Atlanta Chamber of Com merce ,the representative business; organization of Atlanta calls this con ference after a full investigation on_ this subject through its committee on agriculture and after consulting with officials of both the United: State and state department of 'agri culture, the state board of entomol ogy, -and the State College of Agrir culture, as well as prominent farm ers and representatives of the lines* of business most closely identified? with the cotton industry. This conference of our business and farming Interests has a two-fold' object; first, to bring home to every farmer and business man In Georgia. and nearby states just what t?e holt weevil is and how destructive It is when the farmer is not. prepared la advance: 6encond, to consider the best methods to pursue to reduce the damage done by the weevil to a min imum when It does reach us. On November 22 and 23 the com missioners of agriculture of the southern states will bo In session in Atlanta and several of them wha have had experience with boll weevil* in their own states will address thi* conference. Hon. James Wilson, secretary- of the United States department of ag-' riculture writes us that he heartily approves the conference and will send tho best boll weevil experts of his; department, men who have fought the weevil in the states west of us. We will also have on our program, representatives from the state ag ricultural colleges, experiment sta tions and the Farmer's union and the business interest in this andt other Georgia cities. You can get approximately hail Tare rates to Atlanta on November 22 and 23 from all Georgia points, tickets good returning until Novem ber 27. The business interosts of Atlanta, and Georgia are ready and anxious, to cooperate with farmer-;, through Georgia in every way possible in com batting this destructive pest which, is almost upon us. H?ing firm be lievers in the old saying that "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." the chamber of commerce, of Atlanta, representing the business interests of the city, cordially in vites every farmer and merchant and ofbers inieresLcd to attend this con ference. November 22 and 215. Tne. subject to l>c con side rod Is of vital" importance. Georgia is prosperous now and we wish to conserve that prosperity for the future; tu begin to fight now. whal will bring on a per iod of depression and poverty to our agricultural and all other interests unless advanced steps are taken at this time. It is too late :o thinb about insuring when your house ie on tin'. (Signed) W. G. Cooper. Secretary; V. .1. Paxon, President: .1. T. Holle man. Chin. Committee on Agricul ture; H. G. Hr.stings. Chm. Gommik tee on Poll Weevil. Hmik Worm Claims Victim. Garrett Dewey Whetstone, age 12 years, son of Mrs. L. E. Whetstone, whose home is in Cow pens, died on Monday at the Good Samaritan hos pital, Spartanburg. after suffering1 several weeks from the effects of the hook worm disease. The body of the young man besame smaller and smaller each day, until when death came it was but half Its usual size. No suffering accompanied; death.