The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, October 27, 1897, Image 1

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VOL. VIII. 1I\ANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, DISPENSARY REPORT. INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE RECOM MEND CHANGES. Would Reduce Stock-Suggests that Bust neas Could be Sun More ?rcltaby by oarryirg a Smaller Stock. The legislative examinimr commit tee of the State dispersary Wednesday made its quarterly reroc r the gov ernor. Attention is called to several matters of mere or ess interest. The report reads: CCLLMm!a, S. 2). ct 2. 1897. To His Excellency W. H. Ellerbe, Governor. Sir: TbAcommittee net on Monday, October 18, and nroceeded to examine the books and financial transactions of the State dispensary ft r the quarter ending Sept. 30. 1S97. The stock of liquors and :upplies en hand was taken on Oct. 1 by Mr. J B. Douthit, representung the board of control, and Mr. J P. Thomas, Jr., representing this c-rnmittee. The amounts of the various inventories appear upon the statement of the as sets and liabilities hereto attached. All the stock and supplies were act ually exhibited and counted aned val ued except certain goods in transit, invoices of which had been received by the bookkeeper and entered upon his books during the month of Sep tember. The original invoices of these goods, to wit.: 360 barrels of whiskey and 50 cases of whisker were exhibit ed, amounting to $25 297.08. These goods were counted as on nand and included in the inventory. The balance sheet of the State dis pensary for the quarter ending Sept. 30, 1897, and the statement of assets and liabilities, and the statement of profits and losses were checked by the books. We append to this renort cop ies of the s9 statements and also copy of the cash statement for the quarter. There appears upon the statement of assets and liabilities under the head of "unearned profits" $45,03114. This item consists of the estimated profits on goods shipped to the county dis pensers and unsold. It has been the bit for some time to estimate these unearned profits and make an entry of them. We recommend that the practice of estimating the unearned profits be abolished, for the reason that the same are uncertain and mis leading. We have examined the original in voices of all liquors and supplies pur chased during the past quarter and also all vouchers for disbursements made. We find the books and entries therein correct, according to the rec ord and data furnished us. The State treasurer's report shows on Sept. 30, 1897, balance of cash in State treasury amounting to $78,530.61, According to the cash book of the State dispen sary the balance of cash amounted on that day to $69,873 24. There was, therefore, on that day $8,657 37 more in the State treasury than was called for by the books of the State dispen sary. The warrants drawn prior to Oct.1 and unpaid amount to $8 651.33 according to itemized list furnished us by the bookkeeper. This makes the difference between the State treasurer and the State dispensary $6.04. At our last report this difference was $16 04. This amount is now reduced to $604 by the payment of warrant No. 38, drawn in April, 1896, which warrant was heretofore been account ed for. We have examined the matter of insurance on local dispensaries and1 find that the amount of insurance runs from 10 to 25 per cent. of stock on hand. If the policy of insuring local dispensaries is to be followed, then, in our opinion, the insurance is inade quate and should be increased. We find that the present law re- 1 quires that all dispensers give a uni-1 rorm bond of $3.000. We find that: -some of these dispensers carry over 1 $7,000 in stock, and in many cases the bonds of $3.000 is totally inade quate. We, therefore, recommend that the amount of the bond required be in creased in those cases where large< stocks are carried.1 We find that the stock of merchan dime at the Stite dispensary and in the hands of local dispensaries on Oct. 1 wan over $350,000. In our opinion the business of tte dispensary could be as profitably and as economically con ducted with a large decrease in the stock. If this policy were pursued the profits to the school fund would be re alized much quicker. Respectfully submitted, Altamont Moses, Senator. John P. Thomas, O. R. D. Burns, Members of House. The following is the quarterly state ment of the finances of the dispensary to the above report: ASSErs. Cash in State treasury, Sept. 30, 1897............................$69,873 24 Merchandise in hand of county dispensers, Sept 30......... 225,155.68 Supplies (inventory)..............2:3,452.52 l achinery and ottce fixtures (inventory).....................2,725.00 Teams and wagons (inventory)... 1,000.00 Personal accounts due the State.. 3,655.31 Suspended acets. (ex--dispensers) 14,954.99 Merchandise (inventory)....125,671.25 Total assets------.........$466,487.99 Personal acets. due by State...$91.771.71 Unearned profits, Sept. 30, 1897. 45,031.14 School fund................... 311,184.74 GeneralFund...-..........;.....18.500.40 Total liabilities............460t,487.99 The following is the statement of the profit and less account for the quarter ending Sept. 30: PROFITS. Discounts................:.... $10,294.53 Profits froma beer and hotel dis pensaries........................ 6,791.33 Contraband.................... 592.45 Permit fees.................... 1:3.50 Teams and wagon (sale of cart)... 6.00 Gross profits on merchandise...70,676.70 Total gross profits............ $,374 51 LossEs. 3reakage and leakage.......$ 440,32 C;onstabulary ,................... 10,28.13 iFreight and express............ 13,mt.59 Labor................... ....... 2,898.58 lusurance.........................792.50 Expense......................... 5,106.85 Machinery and office fixtures... 1 1.40 Supplies........................ 176 07 Sundry acets. placed to profit and loss account (worthless).......743-12 Total expenses.............46,301 Net profit on sales for this guar Total.........................$ %y374.51 The following is the cash staternent f or the quarter: RF.CE!rTS'. Balance in State treasury end July receipts .......-- 6-17 t 94 August receipts ...... 72,712.-6 Sept. receipts ......... 8S'U50 $22,24 Total......................2. ;2 July disbursements... 9:1 220 42 August disbursements 47.'14-.2 Setpt. disbursements.. 77,:;44 14 lS.-'~2 .1 Balance in State treasury. Sent.. ,W0, 18:#7..................... Total ................................. 2 S.402.( 1 The statement of unearned proft is y follows: Unearned profit June :0. 1S,7... $115.8 Net estimated accrued troit for present quarter.................... 19.~':1 Balance unearned from last 'uar ter....................... 2.2... 0'2. , Net proSt on sales for present quarter ............................ 2;;,02 S. Total estimated unearned profits for this quarter ..........,......... 45, R sihray Fat alltiets. Comnlete retu' is of fataliti's ^n the railways of the United States for the year ending Junre 30. 1895, show a ery high death rate among railway erz ployes. One out (.f every twenty-e:et men employed on our railro ds was ir jared and ore cut of every four hun dred and forty-four killed. The t9ol number of railway employes last year was S26,620. Of ti-s number about 30 000 were ir jured and 1.900 were killed. There is an immense discre pancy between the number of passengers and the number tf employes who are victines of railway accide-ts. The number of passengers ir jured last ; ear was one out of 17S 132, while the number killed was only one out of every 2 827, 174. The frequent injary and death of railway employes is due in large measure to the failure of railways to take full advant.ge of the best safety anpiances. Five years ago congre'ss passed an act reouiring that all cars. freight as well as passenger, usd in interstate commerce, should be eq tip ped with Air brakes and automat'ic :ouplers. Few of the railroads .P pear to have taken steps to comply ith the requirements of this law. mhe latest Interstate C'mmerce R )ort shows that only 379.000 out of 1,221,887 freight cars used in inter mtate commerce have been fitted to the equirements of the statute. Accord ng to the terms of the law all cars which cross state lines must be equip ped with safety appliances by two Fears from the first of next January. rhe railroads have prepared in five years only about one-fourth of their sars as the law requires; they have )nly a little more tnan two years in whih to prepare the other three-! ourths, any. tne number of interstate ommerce cars is constantly increas .g. It :ems probable that when ,he time limit szires many railroads will be found -oprepared to comply with the law which is designed to give )etter protection to the lives and limbs )f their employes. As very heavy Denalties are fixed for failura to do so t behooves the railroad authorities to iicken their pace. Death From a Bottle. A little Philadelphia girl was killed he other day by the explosion of a dphon of seltzer. According to bar enders' accidents of a somewhat sim lar although not geferally of such serious character, are not ucc onl-o,. any of them have had their hands md face cut by flying pieces of gaiss. >ut fatal injuries from that c rse ale musual. Not long ago, however, a >artender employed at one of the rincipal hotels, received a wound rom which he died within a few ninutes. He was attempting to draw mu obstinate cork from a bo'tle highly :harged with carbonic acid gas, and tad placed the bottle between his tees to obtain a stronger grip, when he bottle split in half longitud~inally >eow its neck, the part to which the ieck was drawn against the inside of he man's thigh, cutting a deep rash kd severing an artery. He bled to -ath before assistance could be sum noned. It is supposed that the ex plo ion of bottles and siphons heavily barged with gas, is due toi taking hem from the ice directly to a warm r temperature, or grasping them with >erwarm hands. Fourteen Thousand K1iled. The city of Knang Yang, in Hunan rovince, has been captured and its nhabitants massacred by a band of ebels forming pars of a rebel army which is devastating Hunan and Ku ng provinces in southern China. Au rust 27 the bandits scaled the vralls of uang Yang, with the intention of :apturing the provincial prison and eleasing three of their members con ned therein. One band tore down lie prison, setting free several hun hed marderers and thieves and im risoned debtors. Another gang at lacked the central part of the city, rst murdering the magistrate who ad sent the three bandits to prison. is entire family, numbering 32, in-' :luding the servants, were killed. The ight was spent in slaying and plun ering. All mandarins and every ivil and military officer in the city was beaten. The number killed and r jred exceeded 14.000. The insur ens numbered 15,000 men, half of hem armed. Their avowed purpose to destroy existing government in uthern China. The government is ~reatly alarmed, but has no adequate neans of suppressing the insurrecuion. A Sheriff Murdered. A crowd of excited citizens thronged he streets of Manhattan, Kan., Wed iesday night in the vicinity of the ounty jail, threatening summary rengeance upon Ike Warren, the nurderer of Sheriff S. B. Lird, who was killed Wednesday at Leonards rille, a -illage 20 miles northwest of ianhattan. Warren, who had been rrested by the sheriif, shot the latter, tilling him, and attempted to escape. Eis flight was stopped by Banker arks, of Leonardsville, who sent a ullet into the murderer. A summary ynching was prevented only by the iurried removal of the prisoner to danhattan. L'oNT CHEAT THE EmiTo.-The late amented Bill Nye once said: "Do lot attempt to cheat an editor out of is year's subscription to his paper, or my other sum. Cheat the minister, :heat any body and every body, out if lu have any regard fer future conse juences, don't fool the editor. You will be put up for office some time, c r want some public favor for y ourself r friends, and when your luck is aj hing of beauty, a joy torever, the editor will open upon y ou, and knocki your casties io a cocked bat at tbhe irst fire. He'll subdue you, and then y ou'll cuss your stupidnty for drivelI i~ng idiot; go bire surme man to anock' A FMCEi'N 1 G R LOG L'. AFTER D. iNG U' THE GEORG!A"S HE WORKS THE YANKEES. he Begu L. -e Tt e,,ora Wian asr donctl Ot c:; 'he Georgls 'nstent1bry Turns Up i. N w Et gla , with at a 41 t Ung Scbr. Lord B;sr-.r . al s :dnev L:ecel les. alias Sir L ra ':e, R. N , ise Lord 'court ? t. ' c: ; r:n (royed hs i t d t p lt o d S. Lancas:er. N-1v E Al d t l.s * ca the cleve- roente's latest cneo-' "npr ati-n, od once \re has disap peired, kcaing i his wke a trai of bad debts, but fieer bken hearts than has charaeterized ht= previous escapades. His career has been sketch ed in the public prints fron tim e to ilme, but his mov enis since his r lene from the Georcia ;.enitentiary and his s:'bquent mtrriage to an es timable yc.uug w'.aian at Fitzzerald, Ga , are -o-, for the first time placed on record. They form another chap ter in the i;'e story of as fascinatice a scamap &s ever irmponed upo:n 'fe inno cence of woa:el and the co:.fidence of When he d ispiea: ed fr:m Georgia with his young brine, having oeen di 'crced by h's ^orm r wife who was Miss Lillientuia, of New York, it was thought that be had Pone to Alaska. Thas was last Junc. R'ceut develop ments, however. rove the cotntrary. After bis ielease ?-om tue ccnv:ct gang his career in Gaorgia was brief, but eventful. Going to Fi zzerald, he pcsed as a vicdia of circu:nstarcs, and, with the snbi aee of gocd breedius and charm o naanr which lave always char cterized his move ment, succeeded :n gettiog an entree hue best society o; the :lcs. The pretty nineteen-year old daugh er of Alexa.nder P. Iky. o.e of the :own's we-dthiest men, fell head over heels in Jove with the sm-:oth tongued adventurer. She has $50 000 in her own right, but this she cinnot touch until she becomes of age. Beresford or Lasceiles as he wrs caliei in Ftz ge'rald, made desperate love to the girl and ingratiated himself into the good graces of her father. He married the one and oorrowed x5,000 from the other. The money was lost in specu lation, and a second $5,000 loan was requsted. Tnis was refused, and he left Fiizgeraid. There were two war rants for his arrest, one charging him with emotzzlement and the other with oh'.:ning goods under false pretenses. it was believed that he left towvn with a fair amount of ready cash in his po-session. The scene now shifts to Springfield, Mss., and, as they ray on the play bills, two months elapse. One day during the latter part of August a young man with a southern accent entered a restaurant and seated him self at one of the tables. He did not notice the gentleman sitting opposite him until their eyes suddenly met. "Hello: Lascelles," exclaimed the1 young southerner. "What are you doing here? I thought you were in laska." "Pardon me. I think you have made a mistake," reied' the other coly. "iN"se ise. I met you down at Fizar:ald, Geogia. D)xe you re meb:ri" By7 w:ay or f t- ca-l1 spesn e i t.o the so.mrberner tueariug the in scriptron. "F. S. Lancaster Nos. 716 and 717 State Mutual Build in', Wor-I cester, Mass'." The young man, ho w ever, ref used to be blufed, and Lits celes finally admitted his idetity. His acquaintance had no object in ex posing aim, and only told of the cir ustance after Liscelles had shaken the dust of Wo-cester from his feet. Laseelles or L incaster, as he should now be called, inasmauch as that is his atest alas, rent to Worcrster about~ August 1 as g'ener-i se nt for the~ Merchants and~ Manufacturers' Life Insurance company, of Westfield, ant assessment concernl rece atly organizrd. He accomnanied by his wife, and tuey took roomhs at the Bay State Housr, the best hotel in the city. They also engaged a-pew at All Saints' Episcopal Church, one of the most fashionable churches. Here Liracister made the acquintance of tne cashier of one of the city banks, with which he iuanse diaty opened-a small account. Having taken rooms in tne S:ate Murtual building he f urnished them oni credit and advertised for a man with a small amount of capital as partner. In consequence of tais a youang man named .s'rancis is just $250 out of pocket. With his ready wit Lanicas ter made friends easily, and told won derful tales of his experiences in India. The women, as as invariab ly been the rule, were comp letely fasci nated by him. He teemed very fond of his wife, and gave it out that she was the daughter of a very wealthy resident of Hart ford.I After opening his account at the Worcester bank he paid his email bills in checks, bit his large ones run. He took a house inC:dar street in a sshionable rneighborho-od, signing a three years' lease. This helped his credit, and he bought a variety of things for himself and wife. The in surance busmness wass not good. and Lancaster realized thiat some desperate means were necessary to avoid a crash. It was then tnat he decided upon a grand coup attempted to raise money on the prospectus of an emno-yo nic Klondike mining company. This document was re -uarkaole in its character and read as follows: "The Worcester Yukon Mining, Develop ment and Investme~nt Compan. Capital $250,000, in 50,000 shares; $5 per share. nonassessubie. On Maren the 1st, 1898, this company intends to send from Seattle its ow-n steamer with fifty men, under the direction of competent mining engincers., Tne' party will be comnpred entirely of New England men, and each and every one of them must be a stockhol der in the company. Tneir expenses will be paid by the company fromn the1 time they leave~ Wo e ster uti il they return. T 'ro thirds of ine net ear1.igs will go to the compasy, a:.d one third will be allotted for the members of the exediton. Tne "ard.hps, work andl diilieu ties will "e b-rne oy the expeii tion and its organiz r, whose only chance for rewar li in~ th con; e succsi of the enp . A-; al money susie emuot *a an . once snares w'il be sold on the follo ug terms; $s on appJication and ML monthly inereaf terL uus p.d up funds of the co.pan . in b- depomenci with the Uitizens ~Nata bank Wcrester. Reports of progress at d shi pnts of golid will be madiemuh ly from the mines diric: to WVorce, .an siided will amid to tha eckh'oldets as each shipment is re ceied. Application for stock con be mE: w p rs u or by letter to the of : ofi he co:any, Nos. 7tt and 717 e Mutuai buildiLg. Worcester, ';Z:_. A! orders for stck mu:t be -eco a' ed y certiied chEck, ex or ss ro ur :o postcIlice or: er." L ucast. r und every effort to per some Worcester capitalists of ru had the subscription list, Shey all fought shy of it. He found the hardheaded yatiktes less s' eepti' x to nis powersof persuasion tn he pecple of the south. He had been bor. inr small sums cf money i ee-nances, lit evii they - - r -i suspicicus. He had re clhd ire end of his rope, ands the only tein left for hi-n ras tleae town and seek pastures new. From Boston LancaaLer was traced to Buf fa, where he and his travelug com panion registered as C. H. Davis and 1 e, of New York It is believed thet h:- ' ct from Buffalo into Can'da, ard that possibly he hss gone to Eag iacd. Mach sympathy is felt ii Wor cester for the young wife, v-,c is as completely under the speil of the man's inilence as though he ex rted a hypnotic power over her. She will come into her oroperty in about a year and ut.til then this remarkable rogue may be expicted to prey upon his 'ellow men wherever he finds Ihem. Where will he turn up next, and un der vanat name T.i COTTON RAISING INDUST RY. why is Dt b: the Normal Conditto of the Cotton Farmer? The poical Science Qnerterly for Septemoer contained au interesting sketch of the cotton raising industry in this country, under the old regime, as well as under the new. The corrow ing habits of the cotton raiser are ex plained, but the cause is not. Why is debt the normal condition of the cot ton raiser and not of the Northern far mer who raises wheat and corn? Mr. Himmond, the writer of the article, explains the Southern farmer's pre dilectioa for cotton, so far as his career can now be forecast, to raise cotton and buy his supplies from the North west. But the country has been as ured in the last three years by several Southern men that the farmers of their section are raising much more of their own supplies, and, therefore, spend less money than formerly for "hog and hominy" from the West. Cotton wi!l always bring money; it is the only crop on which the farmer can borrow money, and the merchant to whom he owes money insists on his planting cotton, and the crop is one taat segro labor iq peculiarly quali Led to cultivate. It. does not suffer, as other crops do, from occasional neglect, and in the picking the chit dren can be utilized more effectively than in most varieties of farm work. Its culture has been learned by the ne roes, and it is a slow and laborious process to enlarge their knowledge by tenc'ing them to raise anything else. The large cro0s of cotton raised in later years have led to the inference that free labor was more eilicient than slave labor. Mr. Hammond does not think so. He says the general testimony is that the most effective workers are the older men and women who learned to labor in slavery. Tne ex-ension of cotton raising west of the Mis-issippi River, mainly into Texas, ne regar-.s as the reason for the in crease oC the crops. Texas not only has a vs area of ne w soil, which yields well without fertilizing, but it has a larger percentage of white labor than the older Gulf States, and with this more efficient labor the produc tion is more economical. Cultivation by negro tenants on shares has become common because the planters after the war lacked monley to pay wages with, and, of course, the negro had no money to pay rent with. Where the negro tenian: farrei.ra works under -enit" supervision he is fairly efficient, sod if he is working in the immediats vicinity of the oww~r of the pian-a ion he is apt to receire as imperative instructions as thou :h he were work iun for the planter, and to ooey him as docilely. Where he is remots from~ white direction or example, Mr. Ham mond imtimates that his cultivation reacnes aboat the lowest grades of shiftiessness. The two great evils of cotton culture Mr. Hammond believes are this 'cropping," as it is called. the caltivation by negro tenants on shares, and the crop liens, or the mortgaging of the cotton crop to the merchant to secure him for advance of sa pplies. Tne only remedy for the farmer is the hiringf of the negroes for money wages, as they become land owners very slowly. Mr. Hammond says that wherever "cropping" and cultivation by hired labor are carriedi on side by side, the superiority of the latter is appearent and the causes tflat forc:-d the "cropping" system on the Suth nave mainly passed away, so that there is a prospect that evolution may finally rellegate "cropping" to oblivion and cotton be cultivated main ly by hired negroes, but, of course, to some extent by negro proprietors. A Care for Loc1hjaw., The following simple reme~dy for locjev was sent to the Atlanta Jour nal oy Celley Bee: 'I nave noticed severali deaths from "lock ja w" caused from a nail stuck in the foot. I have oten though t I would tell the public of a seemingly strange remedly. Sev eral years ago I had in my service a girl who stuck a nail in her foot. It was very much swollen and I knew nothing to do. Some one told her to smoke the wound with yarn. I had no faith whatever. My lather being a physician, I had been taught to look on such a thing as rediculous. Sim ply to please her I got the yarn and a ter burnincg it ble a the blaze cut and :oked the wound. Well, wiaile I hed the smoke she would say she felt it dra wing T~o my surprise the s well ing was gone nexi. morning and there was no more trouble. I used it on another occasion and the wound gave no trouble. In this case they also comtained of the "drawving sensa tion." I think the press wo aid do a kidness to copy this remedy exten sively. It may be the means of re lieving some satfering mortal. I ask ev:ry one who may nave occasion not to fail to use this remedy. It will be im->osslIe to tiud oUe with iess faith than myself before I used iL." A Freak of Cupid. Uc: j nin F. Hint, ared 87 ; earr, an. .\usi Julia Ann Sherman, aged tN years, were mar ried at Waterto vu, N. .,on last Wednesday. Tne we~d ding was an event in Watertowvn's so Cial circles. Afer the ceremony the venerable couplie received congrat gratulations and an ela borate collation IT IS A HUMBUG. THESC-ZALLED JACKSON LEAFLESS OR AFRICAN COTTON. What the Director of the ,Georgia State Experimental Station Says About It Our Farmers Should Let It Severely Alone. The following report from the Geor gia Experiment Station on the so call ed "Jacksons Limbless Cotton" which has been so extensively advertised in some of the papers will be ?ead with interest: This Station has rec incd a number of inquiries from the farmers and oth ers in regard to the rreri's of the so called "Jackson's Limbless Colton;" and as similar inquiries will probably be received in the future, it has been thought best to give the desired infor mation in this form. Aside from this consideration, however, and in the ab sence of any inquiries of this nature, it is the duty of the Stations to give infcrmnation to the farmers in regard to the "capacity of new nlants or trees for acclimation," and in general to give to the farmers the resuits of - such other researches and experi ments bearing directly on the agricul ture of the United States as may be deemed advisabble." This so-called "Jackson's Limbless Cotton" was first brought before the public, under this name, in the fall of 1896. It was said to have sprung from seeds obtained in 1895 in Central Africa. It was claimed thatit belonged to a new genus; that it would produce four to six tales of lint per acre on ordinary upland; that the lint is extra long, fine and strong, etc. The claim of African origin, and that it is of a new genus of Gosypium. seems to have been abandoned, and the schedule of its merits is as follows: "This cotton has become famous throughout the cotton gro sing world, and it seems destined to work arevo lution in the cotton business. e (1) It is entirely limbiess. (2) The stalk grows from 10 to 14 feet high. (3) The fibre is incomparably the finest in the world. (4) The fibre is remarkatly strong and one and a half inches - long, per fectly white, and has a satin like touch. (5) We have four acres in cultiva tion this season, and expert cotton growers say that we will get twenty bales from the four acres-that is five bales to the acre. (6) It is the most prolific cotton in the world.' The price first fixed for seeds of this "Limbless" was $L00 per 100 seeds, or $2.50 per 500 seeds. At $1.00 per 100 seeds one pound would cost $60.00, and one bushel $1,800.00! The price has recently been reduced to $7.00 per pound of seed, or $210.00 per bushel!" Tne above are the claims put for ward for this remarkable cotton by its promoters. After considerable diffi culty the-Director succeeded in getting a small quantity of the seed (of un questioned purity) and they were planted in direct competition with twenty other varieties comprising the Stations "-Variety Test." Of course all the conditions affecting the twenty one varieties were made precisely the same as far as practicable. The fol lowing table gives the total yield per acre of each one of the twenty one va rieties. up to October 6, which was the date of the third picking: Total Yield per Acre to Oct. 0, 1897, of Twenty-one Varieties of Cotton, on Georgia Experiment Station. Lbs. No.. NME Seed Cotton Per A cre Stexas Bar................. .... : .37' 2 Nancy Hanks.............. 1,37 :8 Lee's Improved.. 1..... '-5 4 l'hrasher's Select ........ ~1,23 5 >lpepper's Improved... 1, :20 SJones' Reimproved....... A,3l 7 Mascot...................... 1,29 b Strickland's Improved..... 1,28' r Trner-'s Improved....... 1,24 10 .ucas'sCYN wouILss...... 1,27) 11 Roby's Prolific.......... 1.75 12 King's Improvel (Red)... 1 1.23 1:8 Smith's Improved....... 1, 4 14'Kings Improved (White).. 1,21:8 15 FIutchinsin's S. P. Prolitic.. 1.208 16 Allen's Long Staple..... 1 205 17 Minor's Improved ....... 1,18 1& Pride of Georgia......... ,N l Pine apple-................. 17 20 Texas Oak.................. ,14b 21 Mitchell's Twin 13o1...... 1,040 * A vER ACG................... 1,254 The final pickings will probably make a material change in the rank of ime of the varieties; but it is not probable that No. 10 will be material ly changed.. Very soon after the cotton com menced to limb and square, and each variety to develop whatever was pe euiiar to itself, it was suspected that the "Jackson Limbless", was either identical with a certain old variety, or closelyrelated to it. After the bolls commenced to open the Director be csme satisnled that tbe so-represented ne w, "limbless" variety, was identical with the old variety abo~ve alluded to, viz: "Welborn's Pet," which was grown on this Station in 1S90 and 1892. Correspondence with the origi nator of "Welborn's Pet" variety, and exchange of sections of stalks, con firmed this conclusion of the identity of the so-called "limbiess" with "Wel born's Pet," in the judgment of both Mr Welborn and the Director. It is therefore confidently affirmed that "Jacksois Limbless Cotton" and "Welborn's Pet" are one and the same variety. "Welborn's Pet" has been before the people for 10 or 12 years. Now for the specific claims made for the "Jackson Limbless" by its promo ters, before e anumerated: (1) It is not "entirely limbless." but is inc lined to produce several (often five or six) long branches from near the ground.. When very closely :ro'vded in the drill, however, many staiks will be without thnese limbs, and their normal tendency (as with "clus ter" cottons generall.) to grow tall is much increased. (2) The stalks grow from 15 to 20 per cent taller than most ordinary varieties on the same soil. On exceed ingly rich soil, such as a rich alluvial, or a very hignly manured spot, they may attaim a neight of 10, 12 or even 14 feet. (3) The fibre (lint) is fairly good, but nothing extraordinary. It does not compare at all with Sea island, Egy ptian, or even Allen's Long Sta pie in the above lis:, and would not ommand a higher price than the or dinary upland Short Staples. (4) Tne tibre is not remarkably stron and is not ne and a half inches long. Its length from 1 2 to S 4 of an inch long, averaging about 5-8 of an inch. (5) The Director visitcd and exam ined the "four acres" referred to. ear ly in September, and estimated that a yield of 112 bales per acre might pos sibly be secured, with favorable future cor'ditions. The land on which the four acre patch was urcrin has been under very high culture for years and was heavily fertilized with cow droppings and commercial fertiliz rs the prm=.t year; and in the opinion of the Direct ris capable of prcducirg 60 bushels of corn per acre. (6) The Station tMsts of 1890 and 1892of "Weiborn's Pet" aid of "Ja.ckr son's Limbless" the present year prove that it is "not the most prolific cotton in the world." In conclusion the Director desires to say that this cotton is a fairly good variety on rich soils, or under high culture. Mr. Weiborn says it is not suited to poor land and poo- culture. For years past he has been carefully developing its peculiarities :with a view to fixing a variety that will be better adapted to harvesting with the Machine Harvester. Especial attention has herein been called to this so called "limbless" be cause of the extraotdinary claims that have been made for it and the unpre cedented high price asked for the seed. These claims are so apparently plaus ible that the unsuspecting and confid ing farmer is liable to be induced to pay at the rate of over X200 a bushel for the seed when the identical same variety of seed may b.e had for proba bly less than $2 00 n bu;h-4. R. J. REDDING, Director. CUBA SHALL BE FREE. The Patriots Will Have This or the War BF in Go O2. Three Cuban patriots direct from the scene of the terrible struggle on the island have been in St. Louis the last twenty days p-ccuring and shipping ammunition for their compatriots. Their work is at last completed and they have left for Cuba. One of them is authority for the statement that dur ing their stay they have purchased and forwarded to a Texas port $255.000 worth of cartridges, dynamite, rifles, pistols and saddlery intended for the insurgent army. Two expeditions conveying these supplies have sailed from a Texas port between the city of Bagdad and Port Galveston and in the Caribean Sea will meet two other expeditions that Sunday night set sail from New York. The Cuban egents are Col. Geo. Johnston, of the stuff of Gen. Carlos Roloff. Col. Eduard Bet ancourt and Capt. H. A. Smith. Col. Johnston who was interviewed by a reporter, said: "Our mission has been to buy sup plies for the department of the east. Owing to quarantine we could do nothing at Key West, and cane to St. Louis. We have accomplished our mission here by the purchase of $225, 000 worth of ammunition and the like." Col. Johnston continued on the subject of Cuba: "Autonomy ? No: Nothing but absolute freedom! We have 60,000 men under arms in Cuba. Virtually the whole island, except Habana, Ma tan zas and Cienfuegos, is in our hands. We could take Habana by means of dynamite, but we would have to no tify the foreign consuls, who, of course, would notify the enemy, else we should blow up our friends. "At a meeting of representatives Of the whole army of the east and of the west as late as ct. 4 at Holquin, at which I was present, and which has rot yet been meniioned in the papers, it was reiterated that Cuba woulo. ac cept nothing but absolute freedom. It is a waste of time for the United States .to deal with Spain relative to granting atonomy or anything else short of absolute freedom. What we want of the United States is the granting of belligerent right. With that, in less than 72 hours we wculd have out of the various ports of the United States 42 vessels flying tbe Cuban flag. "Before the American congress meets again there will be events which we hope will compel congress to re cogniza us. We have been on the de fensive heretofore. Now we are on the offensive. We begin to retaliate. The armies of the east and west are about toconsolidate. They will short ly attack Mantat~zas. Possibly Haba na will be assailed. We are about to show congress that we mean business, if we have not shown it heretofore. "With belligerent rights the island will be free Dec. 31 of this year. With. out recognition we shall be free before March of next year." Dor't Trim Podtat Uards. Henry J. Bothc ir, publisher rM The Illustrated Rec~ra, of New York, originator of many clever schemes for pushing his paper, innecently violat ed the postolfice regulations a couple of weeks ago, 'and, as a result, is out $500, besides what he confidently ex ected to secure through Lhe scheme. Mr. Bothoff recently purchased a .list of several thousand names and ad dresses, intending to send out a batch of business circulars that would bring in replies. He bouaht postal cards to be sent cut with these circulars and h~d envelopss addressed. It was then that he discovered that the postal cards were a trifle too large for the envelopes. Wishing to avoid delay that the readdressing of the envelopes would neessitate, he had the postal cards trimmed off one-eighth of an inch and then sent them out. When the cards had been remailed by the parties they had been sent to, the pos tal, authorities detected the slight change in the s'ze of the cards, and Mr. Bothoff learned for the first time that he had violated one of bncle Sam's rules. The postal cardis were decared worthless, an~d the puilisher of The Illustrated Record svas oui:ged to pay an additiona! cent for every one that was mailed to him. he wvarns other publishers and business men against making a similar niistake. National Advertiser. Tiere are somie very interesting facts shown in tne annual report o: the interstate comsmerce comimission. We have in this ::ountry 182,77d miles of railroad, :33, 5J lo::omotives, and 1,297619 oars in use. Tsere were 511,772,737 passengers carred during the year, of whoan uiy 18t were a;le or only one i 2.827,474. Cu~ld dg ures better illustr-ate the extruime s:.:e ty of railway travel and tne success o. iventon in o;ercomiag danger: There are hS8,.260 empiuyes in thie ser vice, and their wagys amnouat to per cent. of the total operatinag tx nense. This means more than raifa million homes made prosperonrs ci this ne industr iN ANOBLECAUSE. 'n M rtument of the Noble Women of the * Confederacy. The work of creciUg a monument to the women of the Confe:'racy, 1w'e has bzen urceraken by the Se*.ns, is beginning to take some . The veterans of South Caro 1, i tend to do their work well. The fcilo riti call to tha members of the committee for a mcetir.r to be held durir the approachircg ate fair has j'> b:en issued ,r. ion Confederate Veterans: Tne general cDo.n.ittee cf the moun n r-t to be dc e o d he wcmen of th.e Confederacy will olase meet in Colum'bia oi Thurdayr of the fair *ei. 'N io ice will be given of th e v':e_.:d hour Wr. The com Anders" -- ?al. JL . L ' Rambo - F M. B-ma . Brklaue - . Beaufor;.-Cap';. u. N1 Charleston-Col. Jas. Arh. . '. Chester-J. W. Reed. Chestereld-J. A C'ra-g Cherokee-J. L Strain. C1^ randon-D. J. 3radam. Colleton-C. G. l-eiderson. 1 Darlington-W. E. James. Dorchester-George Pupper. Edgefield-Gen. J. W. Carwiie. 1 Fairfield-Capt. T. W. Woodward. Florence-John S. Scott. Georgetown-T. M. Merriman. Greenville-Col. W. L Mauldin. Greenwood-C. A. C. Waller. Hamp:on-J. W. Moore. Herry-B L. Beaty. Kershaw-O. C. Laiie. Lancaster-L. C. Hough. Laurens-W. W. Bail. L-xingtcn-M. D. Harmon. Mariboro-Judge J. H. Hudson. Marier -E H. Gasque. NeTberry-.. W. Gary. Orangeburg-Hon. Samuel Dibble. Oconee-V. F. Martin. Pickens-D. F. Bradley. Richland-Capt. R. S. DesPortes. Saluda-W. Scott Allen. Sumter-T. V. Walsh. Spartaaburg-D. R. Duncan, Union-J. T. Douglass. York--Major Beckham. Williamsburg-Louis Jac bs. Gen. Walker and staff are also re quested to meet with the committee. The members of the committee will please press the work of organizing counties before the meeting.' Let us all be up and doing to accomplish what we have undertaken Comrades, come fully and squarely to the front. "Forward" is the word. S. P. H. ELWELL, Chairman General Committee. Bryan's Bomance. Is there a romance in the life of Williat Jennings Bryan, which he has kept .acredly guarded from the world? Tai. question is being asked by members o' the party who acc'm panied Mir. Bry.n on his tour of Kea tucky lst week. It was called forth by an incident which happened at Loret to, Ky. At this place there is a school for girls, which is in cnargo of the Nazarene sisters. When the Bryan special reached Loretto the girls of the school had gathered to greet the great silver leader. Three hundred of them walked to the rear of the coach and gras ped his hand. Then the sisters, who:were in charge, pressed forward. One by one they clasped his hand and passed on. The sixth stopped. It was in the deep twilight and the lights of the little town were struggling in. the autumn haze. She raised her cowl and locking up said. "Mr. Bryan, I knew you in the long ago." Mr. Bryan was startled. He leaned* forward and a name was whispered in his ear. He still clasped the hand of the nun, whose cowl had fallen back and revealed a face that showed traces of great beauty and evinced a a person of superior birth. There was a whispered'conversation. Mr. Bry-; an's face lighted up. The cro wd about the train had fallen back and they stood alone in the gathering darkness. Tnen the bell for the train to leave sounded, but still they talked with hand clasped. Not until the train moved slowly away and tore their hands aoart did Mr. Bryan leave the step of the coach. "I knew her, long ago," was all the explanation he gave to those off h's party.-Atlanta Jour nal. spanish Methods of WarfarA. In the three fortresses in Havana. there are now confined 4,727 political prisoners, and, counting those deport ed to the Isle of Pines, there must be 10,U00 of- the whole Cuban cammand. From the commencement of the war until this date, 8 274 people have been denorted to African penal settlements; 427 prisoners of war have been s.hot in the Fcsse de los Laurels. Havana, alone, and 103 people, chiefly Ameri-' can citizerns, have been expelled from the island. Counting the enormous number of persons who have disap peared from their homes and never again been heard of, the deaths of pa ciieos from starvation and disease, the captured rebels executed in the in terior, the massacres of sick and wounded, and appalling lines of Span ish graves marking every movement of the imuerial forces, some adequate idea may be gained of the inferno into which tue "'Pearl of the Antilles" has been turned. During the month of August 23.470) soldiers were admitted into the hospitals with yeltow fever and dysenmery, and these may be dIu plicat-d with the menaunfitted for duty bu'. invailid-d into the barracks of the Samter to Have a HospicaL An examination of the will of the late Tiunothy cTusty, of Sainter, who died a srhort timne aao, rev-eals the facts tasat Mr. Toumsey leM thebu.k of Ihis property to his wife curing her lifetime arod then it pase mio t'e hands of the ex:ecutors, M-ssr. R. D. Lee, Nt-ili O'i9unell an -. - b - Baker, who t're to ir.ns n em until not itss thana ma h-s buea accumulated. With this sum a neCspt tal for :h -o Jbat respectable' peo pieo of umceris to ebuilt. Tne in camec from te estae wuil be adegaate~ to euur:m e oial. TIhe hospital is- ii ) Juar se contri of seven trees z.: ae nrea executors aboIe an or asucessors, the So t-mi.r) r jyo of the city, two erotpore aldermenC of the city andi one cinzL of uAtner county, not a reddun of ine city, to be chosen by the otuer trustees. Tue hospital is to be non sectarian and the pro visions of ine will forhid auy favoritism in the OUR STATE FAIR, GREAT PREPARATIONS FOR THE AN NUALGATHERING IN COLUMBIA. The People all Over South Carolina More Than Usually Interested-varied Exhib 'e and a Great Crowd Already Assured some Prominent: Features. COLUMBIA; S. C., October 25.-Spec ial: The prospects for an unusually good exhibition of the State Agricul tural and Mechanical Society this year are most excellent. Some months ago Capt. L. D. Childs, the president of the Society, began making arrange ment that should insure varied and extensive exhibits and should invite a large attendance including people from every section of the State. The premium list has been carefully re vised, to as to give due recognition to all the icterests and industries which the Society seeks to promote. The nrmber of these pamphlets distributed much larger than usual-a fact -r - itself indicates increased in terest o: .1- part of the farmers, arti sans and mnL."acturers of the State. President Childs, with a view fur . e- to bring the fair to the notice of far r, i s different sections of South Caroli .. s?-it out upwards of ten thousand letters, calling attention to the approaching fair, and asking the co operation of the people of the State, in making it the best in all the history of the Society. These endeavorers of Captain Childs have been earnestly sec onded by other gentlemen connected with the organization, and the pressof tn3 State have, as usual, done their part in urging the people to contribute by their attendance and their exhibits, to assure a great success. All these efforts will bear good fruit. Every thing points to a successful fair. The grounds have been put in first class condition. All the buildings will have been thoroughly renovated before the first exhibit shall have ar rived, and no pains will be spared to promote the convenience and insure the comfort of those who shall come to Columbia at any time during fair week. The entries of standard-bred horses have been unusually large, and this de partment will be one of the great fea tures of the fair. As fine specimens of equine flesh as can be seen any where will there be shown. The entries of thoroughbred cattle have also been more numerous than usual. Eir.ecially is this the case with Jersey cattle. The cattle depart ment of the fair will be a joy and de ight to all lovers of fine animals of the bovine species. The usual assortment of fancy wire jewelery makers, glass blowers, side shows, fortune tellers, etc., will be on hand to make the fair lively and afford unlimited opportunities for the investment of spare nicklesanddimee. Great care has been taken, however, to have on the grounds not one exhi bitition, of any sort. that shall be o;en to the charge of immorality or even indelicacy. The effort has been to enforce most rigidly the require ment which the Legislature has coupl e'd with its grant of aid to the Society. If, through the trickery of any show man, any exhibition of an objectiona ble character shall slip into the grounds, it will be promptly suppress ed. Effective measures will also be taken to keep off fakiers and gamblers, however these may try to disguise the real nature of their business. Letters are being received from peo ple having shows at the Nashville ex osition and who want to exhibit at the fair. Their inquiries are prompt 17 answered, and they will be per mnitted to use the grounds, provided they shall be free from objection. But it should be understood, on all sides, that whatever the apparent merit of a show, considered as a means to draw a crowd, no exhibition will be toler ated that is open to the charge of im morality, indelicacy or fraud. The people of Columbia will do their part, as usual, to provide attrac tions in addition to the many that the fair itself will afford. Already a good sum of money has been subscribed for this purpose, and further contribu tions are assured. The citizens' com mittees have not yet completed their programnme, but it will be a good one. One feature already assured will be of interest to men and women all over South Carolina-the military encamp ment, review and sham battle. Thlere will be a number of companies here, and the parade promises to be the best of its kind in very many year. The cadets from Clemson College will be resent one day at least, and the Cita el boys are expected also. Ample provision will be made, at hotels, boarding houses and private residences, for the accommodation of guests. An officer of the Agricultur l Society has this matter already in hand, and the arrangement will be as nearly faultles- as hard work and great care can make them. The Coluu:.bia Hotel, just renovated throughout and brougnt well up to moderL standards of style and com fort, wili be ready to receive the large share of the big crowd that will just ly be its portion. Everybody should come to the fair and bring somebody else along. The railroads will of course give special rates. Destitution in Nova Scotia. Windsor, N. S., recently suffered from a great fire; hundreds of families were burnt out of house and home. The extent of the destitution which pervades the town was signally dem onstrated last night when the first dis tribution of chothing and bedding was made from the relief stores. The stairs eading to the Avonian club rooms where the supplies were stored were thronged with people carrying away blankets. comfortables and wearing aucarel.' All the labor-giving indus tr33 aru des.;"'s little work will be arsmlable curing the winter, so that handreds of perscns must leave the town. The calamity has attracted crowds of visitors from all parts of the provicee. More than 500 families are mi need cf food and clothing. IAn Enragett Elephant. At Greensboro, N. C., last Satur day, a big elephant nelonging to the John Robinson and Franklin Bros.' circus, became enranged at one of the empcyes and was about to stamp him in the ground, when a keeper 'rushed to the man's assistance, and was in trn atnacked by the big brute, who picked up the keeper in his trunk and forced him in his mouith. When res cued the man was found to be badly in jured: but his physicians say he will Irecover. The elephant was tortured with hot irons and acid until he was tmmhorugl subdued.