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VOL. XXII MANNING, S. C. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1907 NO. 7 FELL IN CANAL Woman Aeronaut Had a Thrilling Experience in Augusta. WORST IN HER LIFE. She Drifted Nearly One Mile in the Water Before She was Rescued by Her Husband and Others,--.ihe Had Made Eight Hundred Assen sions, But This Was the Most Ser ious Accident She Had Met With. Drifting almost a wile down the Augusta canal Wednesday afternoon. alone in the darkness, helpless and without knowing how to swim a stroke, was the terrible experience of Mle. Theresa, the plucky woman aeronaixt who made a balloon assen sion at the Georgia-Carolina fair grounds at Augusta just as the sun went down Wednesday afternoon. The Herald says only a life pre server, which Chairman W. T. Field, of the priviledge committee, insisted that -she wear, saved her from imme dSiate drowning. No one from the fair association or her management was near her place of descent and when she landed it was in the &IMA about a quarter of a mile above the aqueducts. A representative of The Herald was the first to discover her perilous position and h informed her husband of the danger. A boat was hastily procured and the trip across Lake Olmsted was hastily made by the two men. Arriving on the oposite side ber husband was horrified to hear from a passerby that hiN wife had been seen drifting down the canal and that there was no one to help ber. Frenzied with fear he was unable to cope with the situation and at direction of The Herald's representa tive he went back across the lake in a boat with Ifistructions to notify the fair officials of the matter being as sured that everything possible in hu an power would be done to save the woman. With superhuman energy he started on his trip of over a mile back to the boat house. In the meantime The Herald's rep resentative went on alone down the canal bank and at the Nixon silk mill about half a mile further down. found Mlle. Theresa and she was res Cued by means of a long pole. In the rescuing party were Mr. C. A. e Holly, superintendent of the mill; Munro Johnson, cloth room boss; W. H. Hopkinson, canal man, and A. T. hristy, all of whom were summoned rom the mill just as it was closing. Mile. Theresa was almost uncon cious when taken from the water nd she had to be carried into the arm boiler room of the mill where restoratives were given and in a short time she was considerably im proved. A cab was called over ther mill 'phone and a message was also sent to the fair grounds giving notice that she had been found and was ine good hands. Amessenger was sent to the boat house to give informlation i o her husband when he pulled in on the boat. To The Herald' Jsrepresentative. ho accompanied Mile. Theresa back 4 o the fair gl'unds, she told an in resting story: "I have been in over 800) ascen sions but my experience in Augustae is the most awful in my life. I was umacquainted with the dangerous waters around the fair grounds and s~tarted not to take a life preserver. Whn I was weil up into the air T saw it was a wise proviso. When I landed in the canal I arose imme diately and drifted slowly down the canal. when to my horrow I heard the rushing and roaring of the wat er and I knew that there was danger near I thought perchance I might be caught in the whirling rapids and drowned, despite my life preserver. However, the darkness shrouded mue, and out of the gloof I could not see any distance scarcely, the dark wat. ers were all around and I was gettng stupid with the cold. "When you people came I could scarcely move and I could not have stood up to save my life when take7 from the water. "My husband and 1 first met in Auigusta some" years ago and we were married In Valdosta a few months after. My old home is in Pennsyl vania. but my husband is from Grand1 Rapids, Mich.. and there we have a hoe. "No. I am undaunted by the ex perience and I shall keep up the as censions." Mle. Theresa. which by the way. is of course, only her cognomem in the balloon ascensions, was profuse in her words of appreciation and she declared that nothing she could do or say would in any way be a recom pense forh service which had been ''Th~ded her by all concernd. rWhen her husband arrived she was safe in the offce of General Manager Moore. Only three were present at the meeting, which was very imnpres sire, giving another aspect to life on the road than which is generally as cribed to it by people in discussimg it in a general way. BLOWN TO FRAGM~ENTS A Man Commrits Suicide With a Stick of Dy-namnite. Calmly lying down on a bed at his oe. John Leckai, aged 50 years. of Eno Station. Pa., Friday evening thew a comfort over himself, lighted a fuse to a stick of d:-y t.vhc he placed under the bed. Fifteen min~utes later neighbors gathered up the fragments of Leckai and the fur niture. The building was entirely SOME PLAIN FACTS About the Different Crops Raised in the South. As Collected by Mr. Henry S. Reid, of Atlanta, and Published in The Cot ton Journal. Permit me. says Mr. Reid, to intro duce some cold figures pertaining to the corn and other crops, besides cotton, grown in the eleven cotton growing States. After reading these figures we hardly think you will be among those who believe that the South is dependent on her cotton crop for her well-being. Here are the amount and value of the different crops besides cotton raised in the South: The Corn Crop. Texas produces 156.000,009 bush els, valued at $78,000,000. Georgia produces 53,000,000 bush-, els, valued at $35,000,000. Alabama produces 48,00.0,000 bush els, valued at $31,000,000. North Carolina produces 42.000,-l' 000 bushels, valued at $28,5e0,000. Mississippi produces 41,000,000 bush Is, valued at $25.000,000. Louisiana produces 26.500,000 bushels, valued at $16,000,000. 3outh Carolina produces 24,000,000 bushels, valued at $17,500,000. Florida produces 7,000,000 bush Is. valued at $4,500,000. Oklahoma produces 66,000,000 bushels. valued at $20,000,000. Indian Territory produces 69,000. )00 bushels, valued at $22,000,000. Arkansas produces 53,000,000 ,shels. valued at $25,500,000. Total: 600,500,000 bushels, valued t $302,500,000. The corn crop in the 11 cotton rowing States amounts to nearl ne-half of the value of the cotion rop, hence one can readily imagine he magnitude of this crop in the ytton belt, should it be given pains aking attention, and how quickly, nder these circumstances, it would ethrone King Cotton. The W~heat Crop. The Southern States do not pre ed to be particularly strong in 1 heat culture. still her crop of as ne wheat as grows, tabulates as fol Oklahoma. 19,000.000 bushels, alued at $10.500,000. Texas, 14,250,000 bushels, valued t $11,000,000. North Carolina, 5,500,000 bushels. alued at $5,000,000. Georgia, 3.250,000 bushels, valued t $3,000,000.. e South Carolina, 3,000,000 bushels, - alued at $3,250,000. Indian Territory, 3,000,000 bush is. valued at $3,500,000. Arkansas, 2,000,000 bushels, val ed at $1,500,000. Alabama, 2,000,000 bushels, val ed a. $1,250,000. Mississippi, 18,000 bushels, valued t $16,000. Total, 52,018,000; valued at $39, ?6,000.I( The Oat Crop. The oat crop for the cotton bel.. aches a considerable item, as the ubjoined table indicates: Texas produces 32,000,000 bush Is. valued at $13.250.000. Il Oklahoma ~produces 2,000,000j ushels, valued at $3,500,000-_. Indian Territory produces 7.000, 00 bushels, valued at $2,250,000. South Carolina produces 8,750.-t D bushels, valued at $2,250,000. Georgia, 3,750,000 bushels, valued t $2,000,000. Arkansas produces 3,750,000 bush Is. valued at $1,600,000. North Carolina produces 3.250, 0O bushels, valued at $1,600,000. Mississippi produces 1,5 00,0001 ushels, valued at $800,b00 Florida produces 400,000 bushels. alued at $275,000. Louisiana produces 500.000 bush ,l valued at $225,000. Total: 71.650.000; valued at $29, The Hay Crop. The hay crop in the 11 States, in ons and dollars, is as follows: North Carolina produces 195,000 2ns. valued at $3,000-000 South Carolina produces 99,000 ans. valued at $1,500,000. Georgia produces 130,000 tons, alued at $2,300,000. Florida produces 3tt,000 tons. val edd at $450.000O. Alabama produces 11 0.000 tons alued at $1,500,000. Mississippi produces 85.1000 tons.I alued at $1.000,000. Louisiana produces 685,1)00 tons. aaued at $6,000,000. Indian Terriory produces 65,000 ans. valued at $360,000. Olahoma produces 420,000 tons. a alued at $2,500,000. Arkansas produces 115,000 tons aalued at S1.200.000. Total: 1,987,000 tons; valued at; $20.1 90.0 0). 'The Potato Crop. The potato crop of the- South is as North Carolina produce<; 1.80 0,000 bushels, valued at S1.35,000. South Carolina produces 730,000 bushels valued at $785.00. Georgia produces 670.000 Ibushlels, valud at $735,000. Florida produces :340-0i0 t:shels. valued at $370,000. AAaaa produces 700,000 bush els. valued at $650.000. MisissiiPi produces 4 80."') buuch eess v alu'd at $4 00 4 Louisiana produces Tsen0 bush els valued at $60C.0(0. Texas poduces 2,400.11Th Iushelr. valued a $2.1 40-''00 I ndian Territory produc" ,0" 00 ushels, valued at 37'&.0'0. els valued at $725.000 Ariansls produc.:s 1.W11. , ushels valued at S1.20~0U". Total: 11,540,000 bus;hel.: valued att $9,610.000. Thle Rice Crop. I h riCe crop of the cott.)n groning HOW THEY VOTED The Result of the Election Held in Several States. THERE WERE CHANGES Republicans Elected a Governor in Kentuckey and the Democrats% Elected a Governor in New Jersey. Johnson Cleans Up Burton in Cleveland and the Democrats Car ry New York City and County. The Democrats carried the county of New York, electing all the county officers, defeating the Independence League and the Republicans who had joined forces. In the State at large the judges nominated by the Demo crats and Republicans were elected er the Independence League can didates. Hearst supported the In dependence League candidates. Republicans Carry Kentucky. it Seems that the Republicans ave elected their candidate for Got rnor. but the Democrats carried the egislature. There was a large fall ff in the Democratic vote all over e State. Saloon Democrats went ver to the Republicans. More Republican Elected. The Republicans carried Nebraska )y their usual majority. They also arried Pennsylvania by a large ma- I yority. Massachusetts went Repub- t ican and so did Utah. Some Democratic States. Maryland, Virginia and Mississip i all went Democratic. So did Rhode sland and it will take the official yunt to determine which party won a New Jersey. The Democrats are :onident they carried the State. Johnson Beats Burton. t Johnson. Democrat, beat Burton, q epublican, for Mayor of Cleveland, t y a good majority. The Democrats I arried both branches of the city e uncil. This is noted victory for the t emocrats as Burton was supported y Roosevelt. a ' Some New York Towns. I In New York the Republicans were d ictorous in the cities of Albany, C ochester. Syracuse. Utica and Os- C ego. Newburg elected a Demo- t ratic mayor for the first time in 'h ighteen years. Elmira. Rome and e Inghamton also elected Democratic J ayors. t SERIOUS CLASH arrowly Averted at Country Ceme- A tery in Georgia. Objection to the burial of the badyl fMrs. B. Whatley, who died Mon v night at Columbus, Ga.. at a E otry burying ground five miles s est of that city Tuesday afternoon. P Imost resulted in a serious clash be- p ween two factions in the community. t ~riends on both sides gathered with o hotguns. Only the advice of cooler s eads prevented bloodshed. A man with a shotgun prevented u he digging of the grave until over wed by superior numbers, also arm- b d and the body was not buried until o he men stood guard to prevent in- e erruption. There was no personal v tuection to the lady being buried. mt there was objection !o future use o fthe ground for burial 1.urposes. b FIVE PERSONS K~ILLED s y the Excplosion1 of a Boiler at Ironr Works.t BY the exppioslon Friday night of dikey engine boiler at the La elle Iron Works at Stenbenville fiv.e r en were killed, three perhaps fatal-I: injured and a portion of the open o iearth plant directly opposite the ex losion was wrecked. The dead: larry Andrews, engineer: Charles eed William Smith. Daniel O'Brien..1 ~illiam Scott. ~The injured: Wil iam Caraham, James Saunders and rames Edwards. states Is represented in th3 followi5g North Carolina produces 19.305 l ushels, valued at $18.344). South Carolina produces 418S.702 ushels, valued at $418.792 G-orgia produces 86.135 busheil alued at $81.R28. Florida produces 82,705 bushiels, alued at $82,705. Alabama produces 31,589 bushels, alued at $31,579. 1 Mississippi produces 2L1720 bush ls valued at $19,548. Louisiana produCes 8. 68-4..566 bshels, valued at $7.771.10. - Texas produces 8,428,536 bushels. -iued at $7,585,682. Arkansas produces 131,440 bush-1 els valued at $111,724. Total. 17,854,768 bushels; valued at $15,617,298. The Tobacco Crop. The tobacco crop of the cott->n growing States is represented in the sujoined table: North Carolina produces 70,000, 000 pounds. valued at $7,000.000. South Carolina produces 9,000,000~ pounds. valued at $1,000,000. Georgia produces 2,100.000 pounds valued at $610.000. Florida produces 5,000.000 pounds valued at $1,700,000. Alabama produces 270,000 pounds. alued at $57,000. Mississippi produces -0,"00 pounds valued at $20,000. Louisiana produces 30.000 pounds.. valued at $8.000 Texas produces 300,000 pounds. valued at $-5,000.I Arkansas produces 675,000 pounds~ valued at $80.000. Total: 87,445,000 pounds; valued1 CLUBMAN POISONED. Declares Harvard Chemists Who Examined the Coirtents of The Dead Man's Stomach and There Will Be Several Arrests Made by the Authorities. Walter Fa. z.. rth Baker, the rich young Boston c. man, who died suddenly at the home of Frank Hurd, at Bogata, N. J., was poisoned, de clares the report made b:y chemists of the Harvard Medical school, who finished the analysis of the contents of the stomach and other internal organs. The analysis confirms the report of Dr. McGratb, of Boston, who made the autopsy. "Two arrests will be made before right," was the declaration of Ed ,ard F. Baker, brother of the dead nan. "An extraordinary influence was eerted over him by a man and a roman," he added. "I have seen let :ers from that woman demanding noney from him and he seemed to ear her. I know that be often gave hese people money." The details of the chemists' report vere not made public. although they aid to show that poison Was in the Idney and intestines, where Is im possible to inject the embalming uid. Officeys of the Boston Safe Deposit nd Trust company refused to allow mny person to inspect Baker's will, ut Lawyer May, who saw it, is au hority for the statement that it is ery roughly drawn and is unwit essed. It was dated February 7, ve days after Walter Baker had re urned to Bogota from his mother's 0 uneral. It appears to have been written nder strong excitement, for the andwriting in some sections is al iost illegible. Beyond the date, a here is ncthing to show where it as drawn or when it was placed in e safe deposit vault. Baker was in oston in March, and may have plac d the document in the vault at that me. 0 Although the 12,000 a year ordin rily would more than suffice for C aker's needs, it is supposed that he rew his Ir.come as rapidly as It ac ulated and that in addition, in ctober he came to Boston and tried ' dispose of a part of the $100,000 e received outright from his moth- b 's estate. He told a broker that he a anted the money to buy a new au- 0 )mobile. BOLD ATTEMNPT AT MURDER. t( nd a Much Worse Crime By Two s: Negroes. c News has been received at Pros- u erity that a few night ago John le ickley, who runs a small country it :ore, about twelve miles from thatn lace near Piney Woods church, was ainfully wounded by some one in a ae dark. Bickley had been called b ut to his store to sell two negroes me tobacco. d After closing the store he heard a 10 oise in his lot and started that way. a ome one fired on him from behind ,jt! itting him in the shoulders. He at n ce made for his house and upon j tering found his wife grappling t: ith a negro man. He had her by is ie throat so that she could make no e utcry. 'Upon Bickley's appearance t e ran. Bickley is painfully hurt but not e eriously. The negroes are known .y nd every effort is being made to ap- 13 rehend them. Descriptions of them z llow: Jack Caughtmanl is a tall a lack fellow, about six feet high, a eighs about 150 pounds and wears c is hat pulled down over his face. j at toudemeyer, the other one, is a a ullatto, five feet si-x inches high and b a heavy set fellow, weighing 180 o e more. TOUCHED LIVE WRE ; t Lnd Was Instantly Killed by the lm Heavy Current. Geo. Skipper, a negro brick mason. I hile in the transformer room of the aarolina mills near Greenvillr- where ee had been earlier in- the day atI ork. was instantly electrocuted by uching a high tension cable. The power for the mill is produced tt the plant of the Saluda Powe'' Co-', n the Saluda river and the man uched one of the cables just as it an into the transformer. He was bout 50 years of age aiI! one o'f he best colored men of his trade. SHOT A BEAR. [nters Treed Him in Santee Swamp c and Killed Him. A few days ago in Santee swamp, t lack Oak Island. near Summerton, larendon County. a big -grizzlyji righing 400 pounds -was treed and hot by br~nters, who had gone out .tr deer. President Roosevelt will I 1 well ti investigate, as this is no aature faking story. The farmers aaving places near that swamp have een complaining for some time of :beir hogs being killed by bears . BLIND T1GER. Bing Run in a Negro Church Over in Aiken. A few days ago the county dispen ary constable, Mr. Museo Samuels, made a raid on a collection of the goods' at a negro church at Monet .a Aiken County, and came off with, eight gallons of liquor. No arrests were made, as no one was caught in the act of selling it, but it had evi dely been brought to the church to OUR COTTON CROP. Is The South Dependent on It For Her Prosperity? The Situation As Viewed by Mr. Henry S. Reed, of Atlanta, Ga-, in The Cotton Journal. During a banquet given a short time ago at Atlanta to the Cotton spinners from across the waters, Mr. acara, a most important member of the visiting spinners, remarked that, should the American grower of cot ton make the price for the raw ma terial too high, the mills in foreign ands will encourage cotton cultiva tion elsewhere and become indepen ient of the Yankee as a source of pply. This diplomatic statement by the mlnent Brithisher may cause cold hills to course up and down the pinal columns of some, but It is ot likely many will be thus affect d, for, if it were possible, as almost Werybody knows, for the foreigners o do more than has already been one to encourage the production of otton elsewhere than in America, hey will certainly not be slow in erforming the new stunt. Talk as they may, the spinners of he world, If they keep their mills unning, are absolutely dependent on he cotton grown in the United States. re we, the cotton growers, depend nt upon the cotton mills of the 'orld for our well-being, Can we i the South prosper in a manner be tting the situation of well-bred, cul ured people without the support of he men who threaten us with a with rawa 1 of their patronage unless heir desires are met and our conduct e such as to conform to thei:- ideas f what it should be? Must we never be permitted to iake a price on our own? Must re always sell for what the buyer 'ishes to give and buy at the price amed by the seller? No, a thous Lid times no. The grower of cotton ill soon take his place in the com ercial world and receive proper re >gnition from the other principal ictors in the world of business. Are the Southern States dependent i the cotton crop for well being? ould they prosper and maintain ieIr position in the galaxy of States tould cotton for any reason become profitable? Of course 'tis not ex cted such a condition will ever nfront us, but the Southern States ave actually suffered by reason of is great crop presenting as it does farm valuation of nearly $700,000, )O. Cotton is easily grown and it mat rs not how unfavorable the climatic >nditions there is always a fair eld and since 'tis easy to grow and .nce the merchants and loaning con rns both big and little, base credit the amount produced per individ al, it has become the principal mon ' crop of the South. The capabil ies, however, of the cotton belt are t alone in that direction. Had the Pilgrim fathers landed bong the gulf coast, instead of on the arren rock-ribbed shores of the orth, the New England States of to y would be the home of the beasts prey and the wealth of the North 'ould be in the Sunny South. Des y plays her pranks in the lives of ttons and States as she does in the yes of men, and the less favored at ue beginning finish first sometimes the race, but in the final adjust Lent, the proper sphere is allotted all. The Southern States is one grand panse of agricultural domain, 'herein each and everything grow g to prefectionl in the temperate e can and is produced, and in ddition thereto, the tropics lap over. ; it were, and furnish many of the oicest products of the warmer zone. goes without saying to those who re well informed, that Dame Nature as done more for that region south fthe Ohio and east of the seaboard om the Rio Grande, than any other nd-under the sun, of equal expanse. It is the poor man's paradice and ie rich man's Eldorado. The soil so varied that many agricultural roducts are indigenous and so rich ucertain localities,. that to tickle 'Ith the hoe brings forth an abun nt harvest. The fuel .denied the ome seekers in the West, it had for uere comfort of picling it up. Water s pure as ever flowed from the iountains of the gods. bursts foirth om a thousand springs, 'furnishing fe and healtli to- all tha.ture. wit-hin ue scope of its influence. Climate excelling in salubrity, the tned slope of southuern California nd the south of France, neither old in winter nor hot in summer, vigorating and pleasant and' con uctive to~ longevity.. Great water ower ar.d small shoals for the far er to install his inidividual plant for peratig.his farnl machainery. For ts abounding ~i many varieties of .ber from the most expensive to he cheaper building stuff. Lands nd homes .that have never .been oomed by~ the encroaching immi rants; hence values are normal. In eed, go where onie may. there can Lot be found .a country as favored as When it is said 'that thue'oultui'e of otton has caused the South to suf er it is meant that cotton is para nount. all other crops are secondary. 'e best atte~ntion, the choisest-land nn the ripest thoughts are given to his great staple, while the other rducts' of the soil are given that light attention cotton growers deem ufcient. And figuring such odds, he South holds the rec, 'or the argest yield of corn per in the. ntted States. South Co... m ia pro uced 237 bushels of corn on a sin-I le acre, and Issaquenla county, Miss. . cording to the census report of 88O, holds the record for the larg st yield of corn per acre for an en ir county anywhere in. the United t ates. . rom South Carolina to Mississip POLITE THIEF. A Trembling Burglar Promises to Repay Stolen Money. HE NEEDED THE CASH Is the Reason He Gave for Holing Up . Man and His Wife, but He Said He Hated to Take It and Would Return the Amount Taken. He Said He Was Desperate and Lett. With his face covered with a black mask, tied with ribboias of a delicate shade of pink, and carrying a revol ver of which he seemed to stand in mortal fear, a highly nervous burglar entered the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Simmons, No. 144 Willard place, Bloomfield, N. J., recently. He held up the husband and wife, ac cepting $20 from a roll of $200 which they showed him, and depart ed on the trolley car for parts un known. "I hate to do this, but I need the money," was the burglar's excuse. In a very faint voice he threatened to kill both husband and wife If they did not comply with his demands. He was so nervous that Mrs. Simmons, fearing the pistol would explode, agreed to give him money, which he solemnly promised to repay. It was about two o'clock in the afternoon when Mrs. Simmons saw the man walk around the house. She alled her husband, who is just re- 4 overisg from a severe illness. He 1 obtained a revolver, and with his I wife went down to the cellar. There they found the burglar hiding behind the fursace. As they approached he stepped out and nervously command "Throw up your hands'" He tried to point the revolver at t Mr. Simmons, but his hand trembled ( so badly that he could hardly hold it. 4 However, Mr. Simmons obeyed, and I threw up his hands, one of which I eld his own revolver, which the c burglar took. At anothr command husband and wife marched up to the kitchen, fol- t [owed by the burglar. Here, Mrs. g 9mmons, with a woman's eye for I ress. noticed the pretty pink ribbons s which fasttned the mask. . I "Give me some money at once or g [11 kill you both," faintly whispered ; he bandit. "I'm desperate. I must I tave money. It hurts me to do any- I hing like this, but I'll pay you t 3ack." "Charlie's life is worth more than noney," declared Mrs. Simmons. 'You wait here and I'll get you some. I She went to her husband's coat and took out *200, the Winter's coal -oney. The sight of so much real sioney evidently paralyzed the rob- d ,er, for he stood passively by while s he took a $2& bill from the roll, e anded it to him and put the rest y ,ack. "I .iust know he would have killed ap" said Mrs. Simmons later, "and hat was $20 compared with oura ives." Politely thianking Mrs. Simmons r or the money. and reitErating his t ~romise, the birglar put away his revolver, much to the relief of both 'Ir. and Mrs. Simmons, opened the a rnt door and went out. He went 5 own Willard pliace to Bloomgeld a ~venue, and patiently waited for a A little later Mvrs. Simmons remem ~ered that she ought to tell the po-. Lice. Chief Collins and his force took i :he trail, and afte: careful investiga-" ion discovered how the burglar got [nto the house. Still later, when the ~rmed desperado had had time to, et a long distance away, a posse of ~itizens started a man hunt, which was reported to have been in vain. GRAND ROBBERY SCEME. Gotten Up By a Slick Rascai to. -- Fleece Negroes. In the arrest at Richmond, Va., of . Augustas Wright. a negro. for fraudulent use of thie mails, postof fice inspectors believe they have sup pressed a systematic and weal de fined, scheme to rob the negroes of irginia. Many thousands of dol lars are said to have been fraudulent 7 obtained. Wrght's ~scheme was worked in such a way as to make detection dif ficult. He advertised in various coun try newspapers that he was conduct ing a sick benefit insurance company and invited correspondence. In re ponse to inquiries he would state that $2.50 would secure a sick bene fit policy that would pay $6.50 a week in case of sickness and $100 at death. I Upon receiving his money. Wright I would explain that the organization was a brotherhood and entirely se ret. Not even its name was to be mentioned to any one except himself o member knew who the other members were, and there were no meetings to' attend. pi, we have spanned a wide territory and found supremacy on both sides. t is not because the soil is deficient or because the climatic condition that orn is not produced in paying quan tities in the South, corn to feed and orn to sell, but because it is sub servient to that mighty old king, cot ton. Were it not for the easy cul tivation of cotton, corn would re eive attention in the South, and the South would produce corn as gener ously as it is now produced in the Read an article in another column~ headed "Some Plain Facts" and you will see that the cotton states produce big crops of other things besides cot ton. The figures there given will astonish you unless y'ou have real MANY PEOPLE CHEER The Arrival Of Big Ocean Liner at New York, The New Steamship Lusitania Brings Ten Millions in Gold to Relief of Banks Needing Gold. With ten millions of gold tucked away in her hold, the richest cargo of money that has ever crossed the Atlantic on one ship and a new trans Atlantic written in her log, the btg Cunard turblner Lusitania steamed from Quarentine Friday morning and pushed up the lay to her pier at New York. The money on the ship had come in time to be distributed among the banks, so badly In need of cash. When the vessel nosed her way into her pier, wagons were there for the i-ellow metal and there were men to anload it and others to guard it as it was sent away for distribution. Along the river fronts crowds were rathered and as the vessel came close ;he was greeted with cheers. Every Inch of available space on he Cunard pier was taken up. An Ldmission of fifty cents was charged >y the comparny to prevent over: rowding, but this had no effect. The rowds could not be barred by so ;mall a charge. Because of the wealth she carriec Lud the record she had brok~en, small raft and big vessels gave her wel ome with ear-splitting whistles. ;ome of the boats steamed up close < o the Cunorder and sayed by her intil she drew into her slip. C The west-bound trip had been I ade In four days, nineteen hours i nd ten minutes, approximately. The xact time however, can only be i :nown by official reckoning. Her r Lourly average has been a little bet- 1 er than 25 knots. Her former trip, 2 ompleted on October 11, was made 1 a four days, 19 hours and 52 min tes. The average speed on that trip I -as 24 knots an hour for the distance I f 2,781 miles. The best days run i 'as 617 knots. Though improving on every run, t he Lusitania has not yet met the c overnment requirements that entitle t ,er to financial favor. To earn this ubsidy, she is required to make an i ourly average of 24134 knots during i round trip. She has one year in 2 -hich to develop this speed and her i erformances since she was launched E adicate she will fulfill -these eXpecta- E ions. SHOCK KILLED HDI. el Dead As He Turned Off the Electric Switch. nthony Koerns, a clerk in the e rug store of Dr. William Sellers, at E ea Cliff, L. I., was shocked to eath the other night in the base ent of the store.s The electric lights were burningc oorly and he went down to investi ate. He found sparks being emitted t the switch and called Dr. Sellers.t Finally after a discharge, Koerns marked he was going to shu't offt e power, at the same moment s aching up to pull the switch out connection. Dr. Sellers grabbed his rm, but it was too late. Dr. Sellers I 'as badly shocked through Kcoerns' lothing and was knocked down.t oerns fell beside him. dead. c A BOLD THUE ome of Anderson an Entered byd Ex-Cone - Mrs. Bannister, a bride of one onth, who lives twelve miles south ast of Anderson. was surprised Fri .ay afternoon by Wad Burris. colgr d, who climbed in her house through window. She gave an alarm and e negro was frightened off. A loodhound, owned by a neighbor,. as put on the track of the negro, ,nd he was traced to a negro house ive miles distant. His arrest follow d and he was lodged in the jail here. Burris has just completed year's sentence for housebreaking nd larceny. He says that burglary as his object in entering the Ban ister home. The negro bears a bad eputation. SOME BOLD BANDITS. lade Citizens Put Out Lights In Their Houses. At Canova, S. D.. seven armed ban its on Friday blew up the safe in the uterstate bank, secured $6,500 and scaped. The occupants of a hotel cross the street were aroused by the xplosion but the robbers opened fire nd drove them back. The hotel was iddled with bullets. Where lights ere burning in homes, the bandits. Lt the point of the gu, forced the iwners to extinguish them. DROWNED IN HOLLAND. dinister of State With His Brother. and Their Wives. A dispatch from Amsterdam says 1 Iinister of State John Keheer Pan uys, his brother, Emayor Lek, and heir wives were all drowned Thurs ay night while out driving, their car-1x age falling in the canal at Hloog- I erk during the dense fog-. FIR OSSES LESS. igures of Fires in United States and Canada Compiled. The losses by fire in the United tates and Canada during the month ff October. as compiled by the Jour al of Commerce. aggregate $13, 50,25 or about half a million less i han was charged against the same enoth last year. PAPER TOO HIGH And Publishers Want Roosevelt ti Reduce the Price BY TAKING OFF DUTY On Print Paper and the Raw Ma.t ial Out of Which Print Paper is Manufactured in Foreign Countries So as It Can Be Imported FPee and Thus Reduce the Price to the Consumer. President Roosevelt Thursday In dicated to members of the comittee Du paper of the American Newspaper Publishers' association, that he will recommend to congress the abolition >f the tariff on press paper, Wood pulp and the wood that goes into the manufacture of paper; also that he will make a recommendation to tLa lepartment of justice that it tai mmediate steps to ascertain wiether he anti-trust- laws are being obeyed >y the manufacturers of payer. The promise of the recommenda ions by the president was obteinid fter he had listened to the riepre ;entations of the members of the .ommittee and to a petition from th. gational Organization of Printers, 3terotypers, Pressmen and others, all )f which set forth the evidence of a xombinatlon on the part of tie. .n facturer of papers. for the Purposes f controlling the -output, regulating mud greatly increasing the price and therwise making burdensoie rei ations governing the source -of sup-. )ly and delivery of paper. The call upon the president was nade in pursuance of the following esolution adopted by the American qewspaper Publishers' Association,, t a special meeting held in New ork on September 14th Last: "In view of the Information sub itted to the American Newspaper 'ublishers' association by Its con nittee on paper, indicating that uh awful combinations of paper makers ad been accofplished and that Judi al prohibition of such efforts had een disobeyed, the American News aper Publishers' association hereby structs its committee on .paper to vite the attention of the president nd department of justice to this 6ovenent. which we regard as con piracies in restraint of trade aid we fe this instruction to the committee a order: "Tirst. That the authority of ex sting statutes for repression of trade ombinations may be invoked: "Second, That the defiance of re ent judicial action prohibiting par cipation in such combinatfon by rtain western mills may be puinish "Third, That the president may be ut in posession of information wbifch all equip him to advise congress f the abuse of tariff favors by paper akers. "Resolved, That it is the sense of is meeting that the duty on papers, ood pulp and all material entering he manufacture' of printing. paper ould be immediately repealed." The history and facts which make p the protest were presented by edill McCormick, of Chicago, after rhich the president indicated the sc on he would take. An investigation f the so-called paper trust has been a progress for some time by the. de artment of justice and It is undler tod that the president Will Imme ~lately call for the facts which have een ascertained up to the present .ie. FATAL FIGHT. 'wo White Sailors Stabbed by a Negro Sailor.. Officers at the navy yard of New ork refused to give the names of wo white sailors who were stabbed y a negro in a fight aboard the bat eship Rhode Island. The three sailors were clenmo. ckers and had a dispuite over a d1& ision of the work. Onle of the staite mien and the,..negro came to blows Lnd the negro drew a kiffe. The ird man went to the asistance of is mate and both were stabbed, one the abdomen. Four marines arrested the negro ad had to run to the receiving ship ancock to save him from violence t the hands of the enraged sailors ho threatened to lynch him. Both nured men were operated on. One rll die. MAIRRIED WIFE'S MOTHER kndl the Grandson of His Little Son. Dr. Horace Marvin, father of Har ee Marvin. whose kidnapping held :he attention of the whole country stsrnhas married Mrs. Flora Sthspn Swift, mother of his late ife. and grandmfother of the little oy The wedding ceremony was erformled at Livingston,- Delaware, mear the Bay Meadows Farm, to -hich Mr. Marvin removed from ioux City. An effort was made to keep the Lews a secret. Mrs. Smith has pub~ ished a book of verses entitled "Love 'oughts" while she is the grand other o~f Dr. Marvin's youngest hildren, she is young in years. BOILER EXPLODES. iften Persons Are Killed On Ger man School Ship. The boilers of the German schpool hip Blucher exploded Friday mocrn g while the vessel was near Mur ri. It is stated that 15 men were tmed and 30 dangerously injured.