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:otton-griwmng state and terrtor'. a :entral organization. All of said or fanizatiuas to be compusei of repre ientatives, chosea in t aeh OOLLon ;rowing county or parish, there being 2ot less than one representative from !ach of said counties or parishes. and is many more, not exceeding three rom each. as any of said states or territorits may determine for itself. All of said organizations, bo sever, be ing subordinate to the Southern Co' Lon asscc iation. Second. Tnere shall be in eaCh cotton county or parish, in each cotton growing state or terri tory, an organization to be known as the county or parish organiz -tion, and which sball bear the name of the coun ty, or parish in which organized. It shall be compos:d of not less than two representatives, from each civil sub division of same, or of such other number, note exceeding five, as may be determined in each of said counties or parishes. All said organizitions, however, shall be subordinate to said state or territorial organ z -ti-n and to the Southern C.>tton association Third. There shall be in e:zh cotton ton growing civil sub-division of each cotton growing county or parish, in each cotton growing state or territory asub-organization, to be known by the name or number of each of the civil sub division, in which organized. All said sub-organiz itiovs, however, shall be subordinate to said county or par ish, said organizations, and to the Southern Cotton association. Section five provides that there shall be one supreme organization, known as the Southern Cotton associ ation. It shall meet annually on the third Tuesday in January, and at such place as it shall determine. It shall have power to adj )urn its meeting or meetings to any date it elects. It may be called in extra session by its presi dent or by Its executive committee, In abserce of the president, when deemed advisable. Section six says each and all of said organizations above named shall have constitu tions, which shall be uniform and sub rdinate to this. Such constitutions shall be the ones prepared and adopt Bd by the executive committee of the S)uthern Interstate Cotton conven tion, named by its resolutions adopt ted at New Jrleans, state of Louis iana, on the 26th day of January A. D. 1935. Sec-Jon seven -says the Southern Cotton Association shall be composed of representatives from the followiDg named states and territories on the following bis!s, to-wit: (i) The state of &abam.a, 3. ( ) Tae state of Ar kana:. 2. (- ) Tue state of Fh rida, 1. (1 The state of Gecrgia, 3 (e) The stare of Louisiana, 3. (-) Tae state of Missislippi, 3 ( ) Tio state of Missouri, 1 (:.) The s cd..t; , North Carolina, :1. (i) State of South Carn i a, 2. (j). State of Teanessee, 1. () The state of Texas, 5 (1) The sa-.e o Virginia, I (T) Tue state or Ken tucky, 1 (n) Oklaioma, 1. ( ) T:,e Indian T rritory, 1. Said represen taives sthall be elected for the first time by the rekpect!ve state and ter ritorial organizltions named in see tion 4, at the meeting of same to b: held on the 21 t of February, A. D. 1905. Siid state and territorial o: ganizations to meet for the first time and at any other times at such places as may be named in the constitu tion of each, or at such places as they respectively fix under the powers given each in its constitution. Said state and territorial organszations shall arnnually, as provided in their constitution, elect their respective representatives in said Southaern Cot ton association.. Section eight provides that said Southern Cutte-n Association- shall at its annual meeting elect the following otcers, to wit: A president, a vice president, a stc-etary, a treasurer, and such other ofmcers as it deems necessary and proper for the discharge of business, who shall hold office for one year, or until their successors are elected and qualify. Sectio2 nine says the said Southcern Cotton Association may, from time to time, change the representation of any of said'states or territories, pro. vided each shall always have one rep resentative. No change of basis, of representation, shall be made except on aggregate production In each state or territory. Section ten says realizing that sea sons must always be considered in Sguring acreage and production from a~ny given acreage, under favorable weather conditions, may produce a arge crop, and a large acreage, un der unfavorable weather conditions. may yield a small crop, power is ex pressly confered on the Southern (Cot bon Association to formulate plans nd accumulate capital, so as -to con trol and take care of any annual sur plus, and prevent violent, su-iden and 2nreasonable fluctuations, and so as t regulate the marketing of such sur plus to secure remunerative prices. ection eleven prescribes the powers y the Southern Cotton Association, which shall be as follows: First. They shall cover and em oace each and every matter, special y named, l'n Article 1 of this consti ution vested In tois associat i~n to dopt measures, regulations, plans and proceedings, necessary to corn pass the said purposes, such plass, regulations and measures to be so dapted as not to be violative of state, Gerritorial or federal laws. Second. It hall have power to raise revenie. nird. It shall have pwer to re rise, regulate, direct and formulate lans for the state or territorial or ~anizatons, provided it may adopt such plans, regulations and measures is said state or territorial organizt ions may have already put Into cpera ion. Fourth. It shall have the ower to have prepared a uniformn set >f ginning books and request the de artment of agriculture at Washing on to adopt the same and require the ise of them by all ginners in the sey ra cotton growing states and terri ;ories. Fifth. It shall also prepare Lnd present to the legislatures of said tates and teritories, through the roper comar ittees of same, from time o time, such bills as will put into orce and operation adequate constitu .inal. legislation in furtherance of the teneral purposes of thbs association, io far as procuring, through state egislaton, systematic plans and nethos of gathering statistics for nformation of the membership of his ass>ciation and the general pub ic can be properly done. Sixth. It hall have power to o. iginate, change, mend and annull any of its by-laws. th. it shall have all powers ine lental to and necessary for putting i-i orce arnd giving effect to the various urposes of its organization. Eighth. .t- shall fix by by-law or otherwise the -ari us bonds to'he given by Its vari ius omers, and to add to or change heir duties from time to time as ex >erienc shall suggest or make neces ay. Ninth. It shall detertiu~e, by iy-law or other means or order, the nditin of all cificial bonds. It shall lx the pay of its own members. C'enth. It shall be the judges of the uaf.,ns of its o wn moehm It) READY FOR WORK. Broad Constition Adopted by the Southern Cotton Association. PLMN A LIBERAL ONE. The Policy of the New Organization WV III be to Develop the Entire South. It is Not Confined to Cotton Growers Alone, but In vites all to Join. We publish below the most promi nent sectioas of the constitution adooted last-week by the committee of the Southern Cotton Growers A.sso elation appointed for the purpose. The committee met in Atlanta and was composed of the following gentlemen: Harvie Jordan, of Monticelo, Ga., president of the Southern Cotton Growers' association; John C. Gibson, of Port Gibson, Miss.; J. A. Browne, of Chadbourne, N. C : E. D. Smith, of Magnolia, S. C.; H. Y. Brooke, of Luverne, La,: R.. I. Dancy, of Dillas. Tex. Section one declares the purposes of the organization are: 1st, Systematic organ'zation to pro tect and develop the cotton and agri cultural interest of the cotton growing states and territories. 2ad. To regu late, by all 1- gal means cotton, corn and grain production, diversification of crops, stock-breeding, fruit growing and all such matters as pertain to ag riculture in said states and territories, or the cotton growing counties and parishes of same. 3rd. To regulate, by I all legal means cotton supply and cot ton financing. 4th. To facilitate, en large, extend any systematize cotton marketing, using every available means to secure broader and more ex tensive markets, and to limit produc tion to demand at remunerative prices. 5th. To reduce to a minimum all ex penses of hindling and transporting catton and its products, from the time it leaves the field until it reaches the consumer. 6th. To promote, stimulate and seek more varied uses for ra v and manufactured cotton. 7th. To en courage, aid and secure buildicog and operation of c itton and other manu factories, tnroughout the cotton grow Ing states and territories. 8 :h. To bring together and in co operation all the various c-tton' interests, cotton manufactories and agencies, with a view to such regulations, as will pro. tect, stimulate and promote all. 9b. To use all agencies and means which will improve, perf( et, enlarge and in crease all southern ports and the busi ness done at ezca. 10th. To bringI before the proper authorities and use all legal means to sezure establish ment of ducks in commodious and available southern barbors for ship' building, ship repairs and naval sta tions. 11th. To urge, encourage and advance k.ny all measures, whichi will' bring about comnmercial- treaties be tween the United States, China, Japan and the entire eastern world, whereby American commerce is extended and -new fields are opened to the preduc tions of the cotton growing states and territories. 12th. To further all measures and evolve plans to turna to the United States Central and South American trade and for extending the use of the products of the cotton growing states and territories asy ell as those of the entire union to the people of those countries. 13th. To formulate a policy, prepare-plans and get ready for the great opportunities which will come to the cotton grow ing states and territories with the opening of the isthmian canal. 14th. To effectuate and make operative clos er bnsmness relations between cotton manufacturers and cotton producers, and dealers In manufactured cotton, whereby neither shall have their bus - ness Interests jeopardized by sudden -and unreasonable depression in prices or by unnatural and entirely specula tive advances in value of raw material. Neither of which are based on supply and demand. 15th. To mature plans and methcds for securing accurate sta tistics from ginneries, private and public, from cotton, manufactolers so as to furnish correct Information as to annual consumption, from farmers, so! as to know general acreage, devoted, from year to year, to any sp c'fic ag ricultural product in the cotton grow-1 ing states and territories; and for se-l curing such other statistics as may be of . value to the general purposes of1 this organization. 16th. To prepare and furnish to each ginner, under sanction of law, a uniform system of gin tooks, for use by all gins, private and public, as will get accurate infor mation from all such gins, of cotton girned, from-month to month, during ginning season, with actual weight of each tale, so that such weights may be aggregated, divided by five hun dred, and the number of bales given by states and counties and territories, on the fixed basis of five hundred pounds each. 17th. To use every proper effort to secure adequate con stitutional legislation to put into for ce and~ effect, where necessary, the meth ods and plans adopted by this organ ization. Section two says no power given and no duty provided in article one shall be so exercised or performed, as to be i violative of the constitution of the United States, for any catton growing!I state, or the laws of the UnitedC States, or any of said states and ter ritories. Section three provides that the organization and all of its asso ciates, under its system. of state and county and sub-civil division organizi- t ticons, are and shall be non-political. I They shall not co-operate with any political party, nor in any manner use their organizations, or membership to aid any political machinery, policy or combine, but shall exercise and per form all powers and duties herein pro vided as a non-partisan agricultural and commercial organization, design ed alone to further the purposes re cited in artIcle 1 of this constitution by and through its system of organiz1 ations, strictly in accordat ce with law, - and by suggestion, presentation of plans and proposed legislation, to such law-making bodies, as, from time tol time, becomes necessary. without ref-C erence to parties or party policy.,I Should any otteer of this associationi publicly announce himself as a candi-| date for any national, state or county:' cfle, such anrnout cement shall Im-C me diately vacate his position as an of- d ficer, and no persan ollering for, or I holding any of the above named po- s litical omces, shall not be ellgibl3 to i any position in this association. c Section four says the powers of this I organization shall be distributed as folows First, there shall be, in each 9 iLeVenth. It Iarli nane tie various commitiees. standing aud others, and pre erbe tt e duties of each. T welfth. It shall determine and i.V its own rules of proceedure, and shall adopt suth parliamentary rules as it deems necessary for despatch of business. Tnirteenth It shall appoint at its tirst and each substgueut annuali meeting a (cm- iftee on ru'e; which committee shall rep-ort a system of rules at earliest p siblb date. Four teenth. It shall have power to tix the number of its members -neccssary to cunstitute a quoru-n. provided such numter shall not be less than tea. F fteenti. With the concur rence of two-tl-irds of is members nresent and voting it may expel any membar f, r disorderly conduct, in temoerance or contumacious absence from its meetings; provided, sickness, public duties or god cause shall be accepted as surtiient explanation for absence from any meetig. Sixteentb. When any vacancy orcurs sn-oh va cancy shall be certiiied by the presi dent to the pre-ilent of the state or ganz Lion, who shall at once fill said vacancy by an app' iatment which shill h- ld god until the state or ganiz ,tiun shall meet and fill such vacany. SLv.nteeth. It shall keep a mlnute baok . or books, in which all of its pro:eedings, at any ineetirg, shall be entered by its secretary or his deputy, such minutes t-) be ap proved by it. Eighteenth. I t shall provide all stationery, when in ses sion, for use of is various officers. Ninetteatb. All appropriatins of money shall be mAde under same or der. by-law, or resolution adopted by i , and not otherwise. Twentieth. It shall have full and general control over every interest of thit orga! iz t tion, and shall make and C.dopt such rules, regulations and measures as it finds advisable in the fartherance and attainment of the purposes. of this or ganiz tlon. Section twelve says the means necessary for the purposes of this or gan'z .tion, shiall be raise d by the same, as f.1'o.vs: lit. One fourtn cf all dues and other funds, no matter :rom what source, collected by and t irough the sub-organ*zaticns, in erh cotton growing county or parish. or by any of the otbcers of same, or by any of its committees, shall be pa id into the treasury f this associatior. 21. All sums c llected by an c.un ty organ z Ltion, in any state or t=rri tory, and all sums collec:ed by iny parish organlzition, ia ary statc or territory to matter from what sou..ce, shall be diviued in half, oce of wI ich halves shall be retained b3 s.id c, un ty organization for its own uses, Lnd the other shall be sent at once to the treasurer of the state organizit.on. Upon receipt of it the treasurer of said state crganizition shall, at once, remit one-half of the sum so received to the treasurer of this association, said state organization retaining the remainig halt for its own uses and purposes. 3d. Eich state or territorial or zanization shall turn over to thz treasurer of this organization, one half of all other sums of money, which it may collect, through its organiza tion, officers, or committees, of which may be donated to it by any person or corpoietion, no matter from what source derived. 4th. This association shall, by its committees or by its omflers, raise revenue from any and all sources it may elect, and by whatever plans it may ad-apt, whether by donation, subscription, or contribution. 5.h. Said organizations, in the various c unties, or parishes afore-i said, or in the said civil sub divisions of same, shall never be aked for dues, or assessment, beyond the maximum sums iired in their respecective con stitultions. ' Section thirteen declares that as. the purooses set forth in Article 1 of this constitution extendi to and effect every interest in all of the cotton growing s'ates and territories, as well as tend to the general welfare and wellbeing of every indatry and busi ness interest in each; and as some of its purposes extend to interest beyond said states and territories. therefore, each and every ccmmercial organiza tion in any of said states or territories, engaged in growing, manufacturing or handlhng cotton, and each and every banker, the southern press, merchant, ginner, compressman. warehouseman, 'oil mill man, land owner, landlord, teacher, professional man, capitalist, cotton exporter and railroad company are urged to co oper ate with this organ'z tion in effect ing its purposes; also the entire south ern press, cotton exchanges, boards of trade. c.mmercial exchanges, as well as state, county and town or city or ganzations, no matter where situat el or located, in said cotton growing states and territories, are urged to co operate with this organization and 10s subrdinate organzit ons to the attainment of its purpo;ses, which tend to the good of all. TI isorganiza tion, and its c-fibers shall adopt and suggest as well as bring into opera tionall available and prop r means to bring all of said organiz Ltions, per sons and corp rations i ato hearty sympathy and earnest c-operation with it. Stetion fourteen says tte organiza tion shall adopt plans, measures, and. ways the effectin~g the following purposes, to-wit: F.rst, the building and establishment of cotton manufac tories, no matter what kind, in the cotton growing states and territories. Secoad, the co operation of all cot ton manufactories, no matte: where lo cted, to bring about clos' r relat: ons and direct business deaiir gs between them and the producers of cot~ on, so as to prevent ruinous Iactuat ons in the cotton markets; andi to sec.ure cheaper transportation c f raw and manufactured cotton. Third, to a' opt such plans and measures .as will :on tribute to more stable values, an i as il bring the loom and the cotton producer into fu 1 underst~inding. The remaiaing sec:,ions .:f the con [sti ution speak only of the officers and their "'uties. Died in the snow. A dispatch from Macon, Ga., says an unknown organ grinder was found dead Thursday near the line of Jones and Bibb counties on the Georga rail-; road It is supposed be died from exosure to the icy weather Sunday night- is monkey was playing about as far as the chain, which was pipped ia the dead man's hand, would allcw him to go. A resident In the community took charge of te monk~ey. The dead man was buried by the county of Jones. Leapea from Train. A dispa: ch from Lancaster says a male p-assenger on Thursday morn lug's down train, for some unexpiain ed reason, jumped ciff the train a short distance t >is side of Camden, falling: in a heap on the ground. The con ductor wenit back to see hi m, but thej C mn stated that he wma nor. hurt. I CARJiLUI) THE DAY. Bill Passes the House to Build a State F Reformatory. The Bill Appropriates Five Tbous 0 and Dollars to Start on and Use of Convicts. h By a vote of 78 to 20 the house of 0 representatives Wednesday gave fa- b vorable consideration to the bill to e provide for a State industrial school It foi wayward boys This is the bill to provide for a high g'ade reformatory, t, a place in which youthful criminals I will be reformed and proper ideas of I manhood instilled into their hearts. G At half-past 12 o'clock the house be- C gan the consideration of Mr. Patter- I son's bill "to establish an Industrial a school for boys and to provide for its government and maintenance." Mr. k Patterson spoke in defense of his bill. I It is not asking this State to make an C experiment.which has not been tried f elsewhere. There is one in every ( southern State except five, and in I Georgia and North Carolina the gov- I ernors have asked for suoh a bill to a be passed in those States. The indus- I trial school In Alabama was started b with tive boys. The appropriation I was $3.000, with which land was I bought. The boys slept in tents and ' ate in a log cabin. Today there are 1 90 boys in the school in Alabama and ' a prominent judge has said that the i State can better afford to do without I any other institution. In Tennessee thore is such a school which has I turned out 1,000 boys, only 2 per cent. of whom have returned to crime, 1 at d nearly all of them are filling po- I sitions of trist. He expects no ob- e jection to "he bill except on the ground of expense. The penitentiary a last year turned into the State treas I ury $10,000. is there any better use 1 to which thAt money could be put? 1 This money with the $4,000 saved r from the qarantine stations would I give all that is necessary. The bill does call for an appropriation, but the bill will save jail costs, court costs I and other costs. The family of a criminal in 1ew York was traced for I seven geners.tions and it was learned that in the Jails, almhouses, etc., the I State has bean put to an expense of I $1,25G.000. Tae boys will bs taught t a trade and will b put to work on the farms, so that the institution will b, made i;elf supporting. In the 1 State reformatory there ara now 49 negro boys and two white boys. They are taught Sunday school lessons, but e no trade or secular school lessons. There are other white boys on the I chaingangs. What will a white boy ever amount to if he is to be chaint d I to- a criminal negro for 90 days? He 1 ,poke of the moral effect of the bill t in reclaiming youths and saying to s them they are a part of the State. t Several members spoke against the measure because they did not believe s the State could afford the expense to build it at this time. Mr. DeVore -ff red an amendment to the bill to cut the appropriation to $7,500 In place of $15,000. Mr. Otuts favored 3 the general principles of the bill, but be thought $5,000 would be enough for the first year, as some time would be consumed in the board being or- I 2anized and in buying a site. He of- I fered an amendment to that effect and providin-g for the penitentiary to fur nigh labor to erect buildings. Fr. .Patterson announced his wmill 1.agner's to accept Mr. DeVore's I ameniment to cut the proposed ap propriation toi$7,500. After one year's trial the legislature will be well pleas-C ed with its work. By a vote of 37 to 25, Mr. Otts' amendment was adopted and the appropriation will be $5,000 instead of 815,000. The house also I adopted Mr. Otts' further amendment I "that so many convicts as they may require In buildiog or to aid in build ing~ be furnished the trustees by the I directors of the penitentiary without cost to tha. trustees." Mr. Gaston pro posed an amendment which was adopt ed. It provides that three of the sev-ij en appointive trustees shall be laides Those who opposed the bill were: I Messrs. Ashley, Bellentine, Banks, Brantley, Culler, Earhard t,. EKiwards, I Epting, L. B. Etheredge. Faust, I Gause, W. J. GIbson, Hamlin, Har ey, LaFitte. Lester, Taylor, M. W. Walker, Webb and Wimberly. Those who favored the bill were:. Messrs. Ardrey. Arnold, Baker, Bass. Beamuard, Boyd, Bradham, Brant, Brice, Browning, Bruce, Callison, Clifton, Cloy, DesChamps, D.Vore, Dar, E. J. E~heredge, Fishburne, Ford, Foster, Fraser, Frost, Gasque, Gaston, J. P. Gibson, Glover, Gra ham, Gray, D. L Green, W. McD. Green, Hall, Harrellson, Harrison, ~ Haskell, Hemphill, D. 0 Herbert, ~ Heyward, Higgins, Hutte, Irby' a Keenan, Kershaw, Kirven, LaFitte, ~ Lwson, Lester, Little, Lyon, Mc- t Cants. McColl, McFaddin, McMaster, ~ Massey, Miler, Morgan, Moses, Nash, Nicholson, Otts, Parker, Patterson, Pittman, Pollock, Poston, Prince, Pyatt, Rawlinson, Reaves, Richards, y Riley, Sand crs, Saye, Sellers, Sheldon, t Spivey, Sto1, Strong, Toole, Tribbie, r Turner, Ve::ner, J. M. Walker, John J. Watson, Whaley, Whatley and b Yeldell- ________d Eaptized in Ie, 0 In an inv.did's chair a woman past e BO years old and paraliz~ed in one side, ~ wa~s wheeled out on the ice and bap bized in tile Delaware river, nearC Philadelphiit. Those who saw her baken from ohe hole in the ie thought she had succumbed from cold. For a few moments she gave no sign of life. ~ 'be woman is Rosle Bradle y of that sl ,ity. Sne was bapt'zed by Elder a inner of the Church of God. At- G iended by five elders, who wilked on he ice In bare feet, the olc woma~n a ;ang in a feeble, tremulous voice as te was rolled in her chai: to the lace of baptism. She was lifted off r she chair and lowered throigga. the B ce into the river-.a Talked Too Much. r Frank D. Cameford, a member ofC ae Illinois Legislature frcm Cook t hunty, was expelled Wednesday as a a nember of that body by a vote of 121 a: o 13, and his name stricken from the ols of. the house assembly. His ex ~ulsion was the climax of a series of ~ensational charges of corruption and , Lttempted bribery made in a lecture ti [anuary 31 before the Illinois College Sc >f Lw by Mr. Comeford against ,g nembers of the Illinois legislature t w~hich were investigated by a special g, ~ommittee of the house, and which ci 'ound that the charges brought by tu dr. Comeford were unfounded. Wed- is iesday the committe reported its indings to the house. Negro Found Dead. c A negro, Cal Ashley, was found at lead Monday hear North Edisto tres- da le. Magistrate Johnson was notified e ,nd held the inquest. It Is public is pinion that death resulted from s re-ring. _ THE ORIWINATL BRICE BIL asses the House of Repretentatives by a Large Majority. In the htuse Tuesday night the riginal Brice bill, which has been illed in the senate, passed. In the ouse it was introduced by Rspresen itive Toole and there was a debite of ver an hour on the merits of the ill. On the motion to strike out the nacting words the vote stood as fA )Ws: Yeas-Banks, Boyd, Brantley. Clif >n, Culler, DesChamps, Doar, Dakes. 'iwards, Eting, E. J. E heredge, 'ord, Gaston, Gause, G:over, Graham, ray, Green, D. L. Gyles, Harley, D. . Herbert, Higgins, Hutto, Irby, 'irven, Laney, Lawson, Little, Lo iax, Lyon, Pittman, Turner. -31. Nays-Ardrey, Arnold, Ashley, Bai er, Bass, Beatuguard, Bradham, Irant. Brice, Browning, Bruce, Clty, othran, Davis, DeVore, E irhart, L 1. Etheredge, Foster, Fraser, Fros, Rlb-.on, J. P., Gibson, S. J:, Green, I. McD. Hall, Harrellson, Haskell, lemphill, Heyward, Keensn, Ker baw, McCall, McFadden, McMaster, lassey, Miller, Morgan, Morrison, loses, Nance, Nash, Nicholson, Otts, latterson, Poston, Prince, Pyfaxt, awlinson, Reeves, R!ley, Sanders, aye, Sellers, Sheldon, Sinkler, Spi ey, Stoll, Stoll, Strong, Taylor, 7oole, Tribble, Verner, M. W. Wal :er, J. M. Walker, Whaley, Wimber 7, Yeildell-68. Pairs: J. E Herbert and Richards, esater and Hamel. Out of the 31 votes for the tax five were from Orangeburg, three from exington. Tne others were scitter d. Mr. Frazier's amendment was ,doptel from among the many pre ared on that line. It reads as fol Dv"s: Provided, that a county that ias no dispensary shall not heieafter eceive any part of tho. surplus that nay remain of the dispensary school und, after the deficiencies in the arious county school funds have been nade up as provided by law. All other amendments were killed iy large votes. Mr. Sinkler proposed an amendment n favor of including a vo'e for high icense. He wanted counties to have he right to sell liquors by license. ost. Mr. Gaston moved to continue the ill, and on this another yea and nay !ote was ordered. Tte bill since the ast vote was taken, bad been amend d so as to deprive counties without lispensaries from any part of the sur >lus from the dispensary schcol fund. Che original bill of Mr. Toole made io mention of school money, bnt aim ily repealed the provision imposing a ax on counties voting out the dispen ary. The motion to continue the 11 was lost on a yea and nay vote of i8 to 33. The 1ll was then given Its econd reading with the Frazier ,mendment as t i the school fund. Arrested For Forgrry. E igar P. Mitchell, a youag man 23 ,ears of age, was a-rested at Barnwell >n Tuesday mo:rLing cha:gea with orgery. The arrest was made upon harges preferred by the S'.uthern Ex ress company. An ofial of the ex ress cimpany made the fallowing tatemnent of' the case Friday: The ~get at Williston left his omi.ae for a hort time to meet an incoming train >n Monday morning. Some one en ered the open t B:e during his absence nd took tht refro-n a book containing .8 orders, worth $50 each when filled nt and properly signed. 0Oie of these rders was presented at the express -fce at Blackville on the same after oon. it was signed "W. E Ham'le on." The agEnt at B'ackville cashed ihe order, but learning that the book id been taken from the oxflce at Willston, he became doubtful of It s ~enunenss. Williston was notified, ,d an investigation led to the arrest f young Mitchell at Barnwell on l'uesday morning on the charge of orgery. The young man was bound ver for trial on $1,000 bond until the ach term of court at Barnwell. Lf ter his arrest Mitchell confessed his ~uilt and six of the orders were found n his possession. They had been fill d out by him but not signed. Mitchell s said to be of a well known family n Barnwell county, some of his rela ives being promilnent caunty offlzers. ~bot to Death. A Soartanburg dispatch says Polk )om shot and kliled Houston H. lembree Thursday afternoon near olly Springs. Olom was arrested at ds home Thursday and lodged in the ounty jail. From what was gather d at the coron-:r's inga3est it appears hat the wife of Thos. Hemubree, son f the deceased, left home, and Thom s and a brother and the father were ut In quest or the woman. Some of he party had shotguns. They called t Odom's house, he being a neighbor. bouston Hembree inquired if the wo ian was.'there and received a nega lye answer. He started away and a sw minutes afterwards 03om fired, he bullet of his rifie pe'ietrating the ight thigh (:f Houston Hamibree, verng the fernoral artery. Hem ree walked a short distance an1 roll ead. After the tiring on his father ie of the Hen:bree boys and Odom changed four shots each wIthout re ilts. Deceased was fifty years old, nd leaves a wife and ten children. idom is a young man. Get Good Places. Orders were Issued Tuesday at the avy department assigaing Mids-hip tan Isaac W. Hayne to the Btttle ip Kearsage, flagship of tne North .tlantic fleet, and Midshipman H. F. lover to the battleship Kentucky. ldshpmen Hayne and Gover were ppointed to the uaval academy from auth. Carolina in June, 1901, and raduated on Jan. 30 last, when they ceived diplor.a~s from President oosevelt. They will saIl on Febru y 22 from Baltimore to join their ispectve ships, which are In the arribean to participate in the win. r manoeuvres. Both assignments -e very desirable as the Kearsage 3d Kentucky are first class battle- t dps and on the home sation. He Was Fooled. Colonel "Bill" Sterrett, of Texas, atched the Serate getting ready for ie trial of Judge Swayne. Latert me one asked him what he thought it. "Why, with all that solemani '," he said, "I expected to seea wayne brought in loaded with i.ns. We never get so serious ast Lat In Texas unless a leading citIzen about to be hanged." A Newberry Church Burned. r The 03eale Street Methodist I turch, In the mill village, was de- Ii oyed by fire about 10 o'clock Mon- 's ,y night. The cirurchn building with c contents was totally burned, but tJ e adojining chapel was saved with b me loss. The church cost $2,500 and ri funishings $500f( HE -ONFESSED. AcCue Cleared Up the Mystery of His Wife's Death BEFORE BEING HUNG. [he Unfortunate Man Declined to Make a Final Statement, But lie Left a Confession With His Spiritual Advisers. lie Met Death Without a Tremor. At Cbarle-ttesville, Va., without a remor J. Samuel McCue met death m the scaffold at 7.35 o'clock Friday morning for wife murder. Hardly 3ad his struggles ceased when his 3nfession was given out by his three pir:tual advisers, Revs: G. L. Petrie, E. B. L-e and John B. Thompson. McCue listened calmly to the death warrant, and when Sergeant. E gers Lsked: "Do you think that If I gave you my arm you would be able to walk to the scaffold?" he replied calm ly: "I can walk without your aid." Oa the way be stumbled once or twice ani the o1fzers proffered assis tance. It was not needed, however. There was no weakness. McCue had merely slipped on the frozen snow. Watched by a silent crowd of perhaps 30 people, McCue mounted the scaf fold. By this time the sunlight was streamiog across the house tops.around him. Not a musole of his face moved. Rogers and two guards ascended the scaffld with him. The prisoner was' placed over tbe trap, bii arms were pinioned and his ankles strapped. The black gown was folded around him and the noose adjuited. All this while McCue stood without moving. The hope that he might make scme statement before he died finally p:assed away. The cowl dropped over his head, and he had seen his last of the v orld. Not a wird had he ut tered. B -fore he placed the rope about McCue's neck Sergeant Rogers put his arm over the condemned man-s should ers and whispered scmething to him. When everything was ready M:. Reg ers again spoke to McCue, asking him it he h -d any statement to .make. "None at all," was his answer. The trap was sprung and 19 minutes after ward McCue was prone unced dead of strangulhitlon. His neck was not -brok en. In order to thwart the curioslty of the morbidly inclinedthe sheriff kept secret the time of the execution. Many p; ole believed that it would be close upon noon. Yet as early as 6 a. m., a well advised few were moving !n the direc-ion of t he jail. An hur passec and b.I this time The few who were to be a! -qed to enter were stand ing witbin the prison enclosure, huddling around a stove. After the ext cution one of McOue's spiritual advisers said "Mr. McCue left this world with feeling of bitterness toward no hu man being in it. His heart was won derfully softened. He was earnest and tender. Friday morning In our presence he offered to God a fervent prayer for his family-for his broth ers and their wives. for his sister, for his uncles and aunts and lastly and most fervently of all for his children. He called them each by name. He invoked the blessing of Almighty God upon them all." Immediately after the execution McCue's three spiritual advisers gave out the following signed statement: "J. Samuel Mc~ue stated Friday morning in our presence and requested us to make public that he did not wish to leave this world with suspicion resting on any hu nan being other than himself; that he a'one was re sponsible for the deed, Impelled to it b an evil power beyond his control. and that he recognized his sentence as jt." J. Samuel McCue was 46 years old, and twice had been mayor of the city of Charlcttesville. The tragedy for which he pild the penalty created more intereso than any other crime that has occu-red in the State in the past quarter of a century. Oa Sunday night, Sept. 4, -McCue, ac.companied his wife to churc,- and they returned ome about 9.15 o'clock. Within 15 minutes after they had repaired to their room to retire for the night the city was aroused by messages announc ing the murder of Mrs. McCue, and friends, physicians and offlers hurrled to the Me ue home. Mrs.~Mcoue was' ound dead in the bathroom and Mc Que was lying on the fdxor with an abrason on his cheek and feigning monscousness. He later asserted nat the attack had been made.by an minnown white man who had cl-mbed ahrough a window. Mrs. McCus had seen dealt a blow that broke her nose mnd .ier let. ear had been almost sev red by a e-cond blow. Death was ~aused b~y a gunshot wound just abve he heart. Mc~ue never was able to xplan the presence in the bathroom f a small piece of cotton undershirt hich fitted exactly a torn place in ,he shl-:t which he had on when he off1c3rs arrived. Two women igured in the reports that circu ated a.' to the cause of the mur Icr, ar d a letter filled ith en learing language sent him by one his wvomen clients was produced aL the :aal. McCue had quarreled with its a number of times Sue was :0 years old and the mother of four 1 ildren. The coroner's jury held Mo ue for the murder three days after ocurred, and he has sInce been onfined in the jail, vehemently pro-i esting 1is Innocence. His trial was1 onclud. d November 5. and he was onvicted, the jury being out only 26 i ainuts.1 Burned to Death. Sx colored children were burned to eath In a cabin on the property of he Okeetee club, about 30 miles from avannah, on Sunday night. This Sthe story told by a lady who came rom the scene. "Richard D~ or and is family, co~nsisting of his wife andt Ix chidren, lived in a log house ong e reservation of the Okeetee lub. Sanday night Door and hiss rife left their six children at home nd wernt a short distance to visits 3me of their neighbors. During beIr absence the children went to .eep, leaving a big fire in the fire lace. It is presumed that a live coal >lled from the fireplace on to the oor, seting the house on fire, burn ig to death five of the children. The ith child, a girl 15 years of age, es-c Lped tnro'ugh the door, which was e only exIt to the cab-in, but her b 2rns and Injuries were of such a se os character that she, too, died the ~ .1 wingt dy. A e' SHORTER THE C ROI [he Larger the Value of the CottoD Held Over, Ind the Cotton Made This Year. This is a Self- Evident Fact to Every Farmer. To the cotton farmer who keeps nell informed on cotton market situa ;ion It must be obvious that the in vitable reaction has at last sat in, says the Atlanta Constitution. The )ear movement toach- d bottom In January and futures are already luoted well up in the 7s, with spot Dutton higher. The bears are no onger masters of the situation, fur the tenacity wih which the staple elirgi to first hands has left them with the future bag to hold and they must buy the actual cotton fir spring and sumner contract delivery. The situation is sLccinctly summed up in a recent cottoniletter from New Ycrk, as follows: In other words, the market here, in Liverpool and in New Orleans is short, shorter than it has been in many, many- years. This does not mean that the short seller by doubling up on an advance of another half a cent is not going to eventually extricate himself from his position. This will depend on the attitude of the south ern holders of spot cotton-. Should they maintain the same indisposition to sell at TI cents that they did at 61, there will be. trouble ahead for tne s'ort interest in both May and July contracts, as well as in the March option. , Already, then, the cotton farmers' great holding movement has beguna to exert its inevitable bull effect, an im provement In the market that dates from the adjournment'of the New Orleans convuntion. Taus Is being early made manifest the efficacy of concerted, strongly organized acti n working toward a definite, intelligent purpose. It Is now apparent that considerably more than 13.000,000 bales have been grown, and consump tion has hardly kept pace with such a radical increase of production. The farmers could hold their surplus cot ton till doomsday, but if they con tinued to raise bumper crops in suc ceeding seasons they would continue to find the market depressed and their community of interest powerless in the face of excessive production. The sentimental side of the alliarce of the cotton growers Is not influencing the market manipulat->rs. They are looking for tangible effects, and the month of January brought them a straw In the shape of reduced ferti lizer sales which has convinced them that a much smaller crop of cotton is going to be raised in the south hext summer. February will bring them a bigger straw of the same nature. and March will give final confirma tion to their fears. Without such direct and unmistakable evidence of an epidemic* of short planting the coming spring the present holding movement would lose most of its force, and a normal acreage planted to c >tton would bring the holding movement down like a house of cards. The sale of fertilizer in the great cotton producing state o-f Georg la fell off more than 50 per cent last month, and the same hopeful condition ob-. taios every where throughout the cot ton belt. The acreage reductbfn Is not to end In a- mere convention resolu. ton; it is to be made an actuallity. ILet the planters, therefore, under stand the vital significance of reduc ing their cotton acreage at least 25 per cent. A reduction of one-thi--d would be better yet. It Is going to take a very short crop of cotton next season to make It and the millions of bales held over from the past season bring a fairly remiunerative price to the grower. Anything like a normal crcp next winter will mean the con tinuance of present piverty prices. Tne events of the past few months in the cotton world have demonstrat ed that if the crop planted last spring had been kept within the 12,000,000 bales limit, every bale of it wou'.d have brought more than 10 cents beyond a shadow of doubt. It is doubtful, eve'i now, if there wa-s very excessive over planting, had the season proved an average growing and harvesting sea son. Last season will ever remain phenomenal as one year when cotten sed had only to be covered to yield an hundred fold. No amount of agri;:ul tural neglect and discouragement culd prevent the royal plant from growing and maturing its abundant bolls last season. It simply flourished like Jonah's gourd. Such perfection of natural condit i ms is not likely to bappen once in a decade-hardly once In a generation. It was this that fooled everybody. And yet, daspite such redundancy of yield, apparent early in the harvest ng seasen, some two thirds of -the present cotton crop was marketed and eash obtained for it at approximately 10 cents a pound. Miare cash went. nto the hands of the grower for two ihirds of the crop thau had been re eived by southern planters for the inre crop of many preceding crop rears, excepting, of course, the abnor nally small and high-priced crop of 3ully memory. This, surely, is much o feel encouraged over, and In this act lies the Snanclal strength of the >rganiz tion for the control of the narket by the growers. By adhering to their sound busineos olcy of holding and short planting, ihe farmers can later mrrket the sur lus bales now in their hands as a iein ''pick up." Their united act~on ill make the millions of bales now n storage uns->ld as va~uable as the iwo-thirds already sold, If not more o. There Is no use to cry over spil; nilk, but it Is, of course. now clear hat the farmers couli h tva scld this role bumper crop of ootton at ,round 10 cents before the December eport of the department of agricul ure was seized upt n as a bear mas acre signal, had they not stood pat or 12 cmnts. But all's well that ends welP! The otton grower's organ'zation is going o ccomiplisblIts object, whatever in ividual sacrifice it entails, and there rill be no financial holocaust of this ason's overplus. Short planting bis spring will effect the desired con ammaton. And here let the cot n farmer accept It as an axiom that be shorter be makes next season's tton crop, the higher becomes the alue of the surplus crop carried over om last season. Acting on this und and obvious principle cf sue ass, with plenty of hog and hominy, 2e widest possible crop diversifica on, and economy all along the line, e will be none the worse off for the 1st season's experience, but Infinite- I ,tteir' In more ways than one. 1 MANY LIVES LOST In Foundei iug Steamer Near Coast of Nova Scotia. Blinding Sn w Storm. Which Riged Por Twenty-four Hour was Cause of Wreck. A dispatch from Halifax, N. S., says that daring a raging gale and blinding snow storm, which swept the Nova Scotia coast for about twenty-four hours, the ocean steamer Damara, of the jFarnens line, ran on the rccks at Musquodoboit, thirty miles east of Halifax, early Tuesday, and Is believed to have foundered with the loss of many lives. The first officer of the ship, with eighteen of the crew, escaped in oce of the life boats and landed at Pleas ant Point, after a terriffic struggle with wind and sea. Captain Gerst, master of the Da mara, four passengers and the rest of the steamer's crew left the vessel in another life b at. They have not - been heard of since, and It Is feared that they have perished., The occu pants of the boat which reached shore were utterly exhausted and many of them were badly frost bitten. They had a harrowing experience, battling in the darkntss for hours in the open boat against tempestuous seas on a treacherous coast,. with the thermeter ten degrees below zero and an Arctic b:izird. They landed on shore some time during the day and reached the tele graph office at Musquodobott harbor in the evening, whence they wired the first news of the disaster to the agents of the Furness line to Halifax to which point the Damara was bound. The survivors- say that .the steamer struck about 2 o'clock Tuesday morn ing when the bl!zznrd was so thick that it was imposible to see a ship's length ahead on what proved to be Mawquodobolt ledge, five mils from the mainland. An immense hole, through which the sea pured In torrents, was smashed inthe bow of the steamer. The shock of the impact awakened eiery one on board, and huge break ers swept the vessel fore and' aft. Life boats Immediately were ordered over the side, and all hands left the ship. It Is believed that the steamer must have foundered quickly and smal hope is entertained by tme survivors of the wreck that the captain and other ccupants f the missing life. boat could have successfully withatood the extreme rigor of the weather pre vailing on ihis coast for many hours which have passed. The wind Tuesday night was Cf sliore and if the missing boat has not already swamped it has- been. driven seaward many miles and is'. now probably adrift on the Atlantic in the worst wrather this season. The cilef dfficer of the Damara re ported that the steamer struck some ubj ct about five miles off shore early Tuesday and at once sprang a leak - and began to sette. A blindingsnow storm was raging at the time,. Whej the life bod drew away the stamer was deep In the water. Captain Gerst. and the othmers who were In the see ond boat stood by the steamer -and~ nothing has been heard Qaf them sines.. The Darnara left St. John, K: . last Saturday with 900 tons of cargo.. The weather was stormy along the coast and a heavy sea was runnirg all' Tuesday. I'ugs left Wednesday night\ to search for the missing life boat. ATTENT1)3, CATTLE OWJES.* Dr. Klein ;Warns Them Against Cer-. tain-Misrepresentations. As a protection against the imposi tiom being practiced b) a New ~York drug fi m, Dr. Louis A. Klein, State veterinarian 'of Clemson college, has Issued the following statement, which~ is of interest to all cattle owners in South Carolina. Dr. Klein says: '"By promisilng results not warranted by the demnonstrate~d fa~ts a New York. drug firm is endeav~oring to sell what is represented as Prof. Von Behring's turberculosis vaccine to the catt.e owners of this country. The repre sentation is made that two-inocula tions of this vaccine will Immunize an animal against tuberculosis for life, when, sea matter of fact, all thabhas been proved so far by Prof. Von Bsh ring's experiments is that by certsi~ methods of inoculation, much more.: prolonged and laborious than the double ino~ulation method set forth, cattle can be rendered Immune to a great extent against artlficial Infec tion with tuberculosis, but whether the vaccination is a safe operation, whether the Immunity thus establish ed Is of a sufficient degree -to be of practical use and how long It will last are points not yet determined, Experiments to test these points ar4 being conducted in Pennsylvania by the State veterinarian, and also in Germany, Austria and Hungary under the direction of Prof. Von Behring a'ad others. The last report publish ed by one of the foreign Investigators shows that In some cases no Immun ity was established by vaccination. While it is the expectation of the American Investigators that a practi cal and safe method of .Jaccination will soon be available, it should be understool that at the present t~ the process is only in the erp t al stage. Bgy14s/Slowly. A dispatch frcm Charlestonusyt1# shipmaat of fertilizer is now much short of the usual figures but ths dealers are expecting the orders to pile in, necessitating a great rush at almost any time. Usually at this time of thie year the a:i1 enriching stuff f7s going out of Charleston at the rate of almost 400 cars sa day and now the movement is less than 100. The re duction Is due to the Indecision of the farmers on the matter of planting cotton. The farmners are waiting on one another to see what will be done in the way of reducing the cotton crp. It is yet time for the big rush of orders to set in,- but in the mean while the wvarabouses are well stocked and the lack of orders and small ship mnt has rssulted In the reduction of the employes at the mills to the ex tent of clot e to 1,000 men. A Bad Start. A dispa' ch from Darlington says a haDpy coni le from the country, Mr. W. C. Cullrey and Miss Isgett, came to Darlington Wednesday morning and Lt 11.30 o'c lock went to the offce of apt. John Floyd, magistrate, where hley were lmarried. Immediately af ~erwards s.e bride and groom started or their buggy In the rear of Sligh's tore, and bne bride slipped down on he Icy pav ement and broke her ar~n n two places. She was taken to Dr. Iward's cfie, where her arm was et, after which Mr and Mrs. Culley 'eturned to their home in the coun