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COTTON SPECULATION DOOMED Ginners Anxious to Buy Direct from Planters-Discussion Before the Cotton Congress at Atlan ta Indicates that the Middleman Will be Eliminated. Atlanta, Ga.. October S.-That the time is not far distant when the cot ton planters of the south will sell their product direct to the spinners of Europe and America instead of through the middle man in bales gin com.pressed at the plantation with methods in which los has been reduc ed to a minimum, was indicated by to-day's dicussion before the Inter national Conference of Cotton Grow ers and Spinners. Spinners representing hundreds of mills and millions of soindles told the planters that they were not only willing but anxious to buy their cot-! ton direct from the planter just as soon as the planter can deliver. Big planters and repreVntatives of the Farmers' Union told the spinners of Europe that already they were organ ized, had built a chain of cotton ware houses, had perfected a busi ness system by w1hich the spinners could' purchase an almost unlimited supply of graded cotton and were ready to eliminate the antiquated method of selling through a middle man. "But," said Herr Arthur Kuffler, of Vienna, "if you planters wish to trade direct with us you must give us better service than the terchant.' Action furthering this condition took concrete form in unanimous adoption by the Conference of a res olution presented by the committee on trade relations between growers and spinners. This resolution declar ed tba-t much of the present difficul ty in handling cotton could be eli minated if the growers would adopt what is known as the ware house sys tem and establish selling agents in I Europe and America. An essential part of this scheme is the adoption of a standard type of contract classification of cot-ton by grade and color alone, the unit to be 50,000 pounds instead of 100 bales net weight, and the handling of cot ton under uniform rules. These points were embodied in the resolu tions presented by the committee on transportation, and these also were unsa.lmnously adopted, by the Confer ence. , Thus two long steps in the great work of the Conference, the raising of the standard of cotton de livered to the spinner and simpler and more economical methods of handling, involving a saving, it is as-* serted, of something like $25,000, 000 a .year, were taken. The great work of the Conference yet remains to be done. This is the final action on the general subject of growing and 'handling cotton. Reso lutions bearing on this were present ed at to-day's session by the commit tee to which the subject was refer red. and after a somewhat protracted discussion were ordered printed, and will 'come up for further discussion tomorrow, with the probabilities that the Conference will devote most of' the final day's session to their consid eration. The recommendations of this committee embodied the follow ing points: That planters select and save their seed for the nex~t crop to insure a high standard.I That freshly picked cotton be hous ed from forty to sixty days before shipment. That planters, as fast as possible, either as individuals or in communi ties, adopt gin compressing and the Egyptian form of bale. The latter means in effeet ginning and compress ing on the plantation. The committee on buying and sell ing, to which was referred Congress man THeflin 's resoilution directeld against cotton speculation, adopted the resolution, and tVhen referred it to t .e sub-committee appointed yester day, of which Mr. Heflin is chairman, for further action. This means that the subject will be debated on the floor of the conference. Spinners and planters alternated to-day in putting forward their side of the question of cotton growimg and spinning. Addresses were made by Thomas Coates and William Howarth, of Eng land: Herr Knffier, of Austria, re presenting the spinners; E. A. Oal vin, of Houston, Tex., and T. J. Brooks, representing the Farmers' Union. and E. D. Smith, of South Car oln,who warmly defended fifteen eetcotton. Saumuel T. Hubbard, of the New York Cotton Exchange, and Mark H. Thomas, of Houston, Texas, defended cotton exchanges. Speculation, said Mr. Hubbard, could never be abolish -ed: it was nature's way of forward :,. -.;]atiomn, and the elimination I ( ii .oiin would reduce the ra tio o)f buyers. FIRST SUNG IN IHARLSTON. "Glory Hallelujah" a Hymn Tune Here, a War Song in Boston. New York Sun. In an unnamed grave on the Com mon lies the first professional com poser of America, William Billings, who was Boston born and bred. I The glorious "Battle Hymn of the 4 Republic." or "Glory Hallelujah," 4 had i:s beginning as a war song at Fort Warren in Boston harbor in 1861. tiowh it was originally a hymn jine in charleston, S. C.-quite a I Step from the church to the battle- 4 field. but there was stirring music in religion then. These facts. says Musical America, were delightfully presented by Prof. Louis C. Elson, of tne New England Conservatory, in an "Old Home Week'' lecture on ."Boston in Amer ican Masical History." He filled the subject with old incidents and sang snatches of old songs as illustrations. The Puritans. he said, looked ask ance at music, but one of the more advanced men., Mr. Brattle, actually brought an organ to Boston as early as 1699. In 1713 he was daring I enough to offer it to the Puritan 4 Church. though with compunctions, for he stipulated that in case of re fusal it should be given to the church of England. Thus King's I Chapel won its first organ, the Pur- 4 tans preferrin. their bassoon and 'eel lo as les sacriligious. In such an atmosphere music de veloped slowly. It was not until the I late eighteenth eenutry that America 4 could claim a native professional composer. William Billings was the first to make music his vocation as well as avocation, and he was evident ly not appreciated. It is recorded that a neighbor of the musician tied two cats together by their tails and dangled them screeching over his gate, writing be low "Billings's Music;" also that 4 he was once asked whether he defin ed snorting as instrumental or vocal music. Tha first gathering of the Handel and Haydn Society on Christmas Eve,4 1815, was unique, with ninety male and ten female voices, accompanied by ten orchestral pieces. Music had progressed so far in the general es teem that it was taught in the pub lic schools as early as 1838. In 1831 ame the Boston Symphony O)rches tra, founded by Major Henry T. Hig gmson. Boston 's part in our national- music is certainly picturesque. Just here it should be emphasized that the Hes sians did not bring "Yankee Doodle'' to America in 1768. It was sung in .he street of Boston by the British- " ers under Braddoek as far back as g: 1755 to deride the New England troops with the feathers in their caps. tl: Later, in Revolutionary times, the g British officers raced their horses st aross the Common on Sunday morn ings, and played "Yankee Doodle"' before the Park Street Church to an- u) nov the colonists within. d "The Star Spangled Banner,'' or- Y iginally a drinking song, composed by tt Mr. Arnold. was first known to h America in 1798, when Robert Trent Paine used the tune for his words tof "Adams and Liberty.'' The song r was instantly popular, and Mr. Paine it received $750 for the copyright-an G unheard of sum in those days. is But the song that is distinctly 'Bos- t ton's own is "Glory Hallelujah.'' Prof. Webster's regiment first sang it P1 as a war song at Fort Warren, Bos- I ton harbor, in 1861. and it was not M~ the famous John Brown whom they fc monted. but a humble mcmber of m their own ranks-.t A thiousanld strong they sang it' be marching across the Common. Boston wnt wild over it, and ther New York. ci t spread through the campus until the san that began as a hymn tune ai in South Carolina sang itself into his- es tir as one of the famous war songs of the world. A "Bilious Attack." Symptoms. sour stomach, nasty taste in mouth, sick L headache, sallow complex- A ion, the world your eniemy. La Cuse. Constipation, inact.. A ive liver, overflow of bile L into the system. A Relief. -rreatment for two L A nights before retiring withA 5L AND TONIC PEL.E T8 A One a night, don't worry, sleep A well and Nature'11 do the rest. r.m Tr.atment 25 Ct.. .i The up-to-date pla4 } gentlemen. 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We have added a 2 rs, and the bargains contained on ti e wonder how we can sell goods so < lbs. best Granulated Sugar $1 .oo. achine $25.oo, new Defender Machi r 20 years. We have only two Org ake special offer, $42.50, elegant to: e old reliable.Iron King and Elmo I st on the market. For every five< oice on our bargain counter. Just received our 33d car, making 2 id while it lasts goes for best paten1 rery barrel guaranteed to give satisf: JMCOSE.EY B:EC Prosperity, S. C. EARLESTON & WESTERN CAB OLINA BY. r Schedule in effect June 9th, 1907. 7. Newberry(C N & L.) 12:46 p. m. r. Laurens 1:52 p. m. 7. Laurens (C. & W. C.) 2:15 p. m. r. Greenville 3:40 p. m. 7. Lurens 1:58 p. m. r. Spartanburg 3:30 p. m. r v. Sartanburg (So. Ry.) 3:40 p. m. r. Hendersonville 6:25 p. m. r. Asheville 7:30 p. m. v. Laurens (C. & W. C.) 2:00 p. m. r. Greenwood 2:56 p. m. r. McCormiek 3:55 p. m. r. Agusta 5:40 p. in. 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