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VOL. XIV MANNS. C. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1,10 O1 HE TALKS OUT Bisop Ca r akes a Set 4 J D Rakelder's Gi 1 ERADICATE HOK WORK He Does Not Like the Novemtes and Classes it With Othr Made to Huinlitate and Belittle the South and Says We Can Take Care of Oursehes. Bishop W. A. Candler calls at tention to the following articl, which appeared in the New Orleans Picay une the morning after the press dispatches announced the formation of Mr. Rockefeller's vermifuge com, mission: "The necessity for creating sec tional prejudices against the South ern people and States did not stop with the end of the civl war of 1861-'65. "The old hostility engendered then has passed away so far as the men who fought were concerned. and the ralying of the young men of the South to the national Sag in the Spanish war, where they st6od shoul der to shoulder with the men of the North. went far to extinguish the ancient sectional feeing against this part of the country. "But for some reason not funy understood it has come to light that self-professed and self-appoint ed philanthropists have taken it up on themselves to discover and pro claim conditions in tne South cal culated to creace further prejudices against the States and people of the South so as to diverse Immigration. to alarm the resident population and to place this section of the country before the world as an af Aicted and accursed region. .No sooner had the South begun to 'manufacture its cotton on an es tensive scale when It was given out to the world that most of the work* was done by youths of both sexes and largely by children of tender age, and at such pitiful wages that the manufactureres of the North. who employed persons of fu' ag" at high rates of compensation. could not by any possibility compete with' them. and such a hubbub was raised in the North about it that Senator r.everldge. of Indiana. offered in congress a bill to prohibit transpor tation by Interstate railroads of the products of Southern cotton mills where such alleged condition ob tained. "A great deal of exertion was required to establish the falsity of such slanderous statements against the South, and this section has not fully recovered even yet from them. Ne- an outcr was raedtht the Southern people had become the' victims of a deadly disease named 'pellagra.' which a charged to the use of Indian corn that caused It. The disease has been traced to 3outhern Europe, where It is com mon. and later information goes to show that it was Imported in the~ persons of lmmicrants. "But the pellgra panic having' failed of the expected effect, now comes a howl abouit the -hock 'worm. A non-professional rwriter has de voted many pages and many picture' to the hook worm in the South in McClure's 'or October. He says -'All through the South-theCa olnas, Georgia, Florida. Alabama.j M~isIppi-these abnormal people. the "dfrt eaters," have been known for a century. and anemia Is aurn versal malady s-enth of the Poto mac. "It's something these pe'ple eat." is the favorite exlan~at0o2 of it. -'One's Arst andl btrCasest impr's-' slon of the "poor whites" is of thei shiftieseess. I :remnember~ be~ dreadfuly it usel to depress na years ago when I spent my vacat in in the North Car-ouna nans. I have be..n Io little window1e stoveless, one-room cablai th home of at least ten persons. where aU .be cooking was done ove!' the V'rImitiv& open fire-eXcept when It ral:.ed down the chimney and pet the flrr out; then there wasn't any cooking till the rain held up! Aand :a s talked with the women I was alway-. asking myself. "How can people livt like this? Why don't they go to work and fix up things?" .-'it is estimated that seatter"" -over the Atlantic seaboard from th Potomac round the gulf, to- the Mis sissippi river. there are today . 000.000 of these poor whites'-Our native-born whites-suffering with attemia. and hardly one 'of thow' 2.00.000 knows, or even suspects. that he is realny suffering from an iternal parasite-that this disease is caused by the hook wrm. "' Then years ago even the fore most physicians did not know th-' anemia of the South was caused by the book worm; but today. thanks largely to the tireless efforts of one man-Charles Wardell Stiles-the whole medical profession and many of the laity are awake to the rital issues of the problem and are pre' paring a crusade that sbanl reach from the worst regions of the bar~ rens'. where nearly the wrhole popui latio'n Is suffering to the farthes1 -en" In the mountains.-and stain; out the disease.' "ln the face of such statemntst ilusCrated by' se'nsattinal cuts. i' Is useless to contend that. the South emn people possessed vgor enoug2 to show up with able crops of states men and great and gallant soldieri from the time of Washington an< Jegerson and a \"st of others us to -he "Dminwnt er.Ilians and tb grnd soldiers of the cIvil war. Tb south is repre'sen ed to be filled wit1 a wretched brood of dirt eaters Who that knows the South can to a moment believes this? "But now fnomme the reo~enal wonthy M-. Rockefeller. the o?1 LIn j A FNDLYNCHED AND TWO OTHER FIENDS BEING PR E BY CITIZEN. 1 Trio of Negroes Strip, Tie and Whip a Virginia Farmer and At tack His Wife. A dispatch from Sutton. W. Va.. says two organized parties of Men are scouring the hills of that county searching for two negrot4 believed to have aided Charles Lewis. also a negro. in a dastardly assault upon Mrs. Mary Lockhold. wife of a pros perous farmer Wednesday near th. small settlement of Exchange. If the negroes are caught. lynching i% not improbable. Lewis. the only known member of the party of three. who are thought to have been im plicated in the deed, is dead. hav ing been shot and killed by a posse of men late Wednesday while en deavoring to escape. According to Deputy Sheriff Wil iams. the three negroes late Tues day night went to the home of Geo. Lockhold. living but a few wiles from Sutton. and after tying the farmer to a tree and whipping him on his bare back with willow switches. at tempted an assault upon Mrs. Lock bold. Persons who happened to be passing the Lockhold farm heard the screams of the woman and the negroes tied at the approach of the passers-by. A posse of farmers was organized within a short space of time, and after a twenty-four hours hunt. Lewis. one of the supposed trio of the negroes. was apprehended. As be turned to 2ee from his pursu ers. after being ordered to throw up his hands, he was shot and in stantly killed. Late Wednesday night news reach ed Sutton that one of the pursuing posses had surrounded the two ne groes in a swamp near the scene of the crime. The courier who brought the news of the imminent apprehen sion of the men said lynching could not be averted if they were caught alve. . At midnight a. telephone commu nication was received from Gassaway stating thai two negroes thought to have been impl'cated in the assault on Mrs. Lockhold had been captur ed near that place and placvd in I jail. Men with riftes are said to h. cuaring the jail against a posibl" lynching party. AUTO KILLS TWO MEN. Two Noth Carolia Men Are Vic tims of Accident. Near GreenriHe. N. C.. J. L. Flem Ing. State senator from Pitt county. and Harry Skinner. Jr.. son of Unit ed States District Attorney Harry Skinner. were killed in an automo bie late Friday afternoon. Mr. Fleming was thrown from the~ machne. breaking his neck and d y lg almost instantly, while Mr. Skin ners skull was fractured. Being rushed to a hospital in Richmond. Va.. be died before the train reached Wilson. N. C, Those in the machine at the time it was wrecked were E. G. Wiana gn. J. L. Fleming. Harry Skinner Jr. and S. C. Wooten. In tryina to pass a lumber wagon Mr. Flana gn, who was drivine the machine. lost contrdt and crashed wi-h terrific force into a tree by the roadside The machine turned a somersault. Mr. Flanagan was caught under the machine and badly crushed. tree ribs being broken and Internal in juries sustained. SHOOING BAFFLES POLIC'E. K~iag of 3. 3. Reed Prove,. Myntery to Authorities of Wins.ton-Salem. . 3. Reed. a local merchaint -at Winston-Salem. N. C.. who was found on the northern outskirts of tw on Monday of last week with a bul let wouind in his 1left breast and on his right temple. died at the hospital Friday. U'p to the time he lost oacousless on Wednesday Reed held to the belief that Erne-st Dy mot, a wdaite man, who is in jail. shot and robbed him of 35. Officers. however, have a pistol owned by Mrs. Reed which was found a few fetC from where the wounded man wasj 'ound, and belief is quite general that Reed shor himself. Dymott will be given a hearidg~ later. It is one of the most mysterious cases the police of that town have ever encountered. Bepites Condemned Murderer. Following the attempted suic-id. late Thursday of Dr. J. M. Elliott of LaGrange. Ga..- sentence-d to hang Friday for the murd.-r of (.-o. U IRivers. Gov. Brown. who was in Sa Ivannas, telepsioned another repbrb-v. for two weeks for the condemnned Iwho proposed to give $1 .'i0't.ie to ere the people of the South of hook worm. and a commission is to be formed. f it has not been already. Ito spend the money. *Well. the South c-an only submi.. Wth a million of money and a se"n satonal press engaged in portraying 1our sction of thetnion a an ae cursed country. .-e.fal.. only ace-pt th situation and wnnder what o'hat slander is to be fulminated a;-inst The editorial of the Picayun( shows both senso and self-resepet. -It is time the Southern people had begun resenting this ofecious ditpo siton to take care or them which 'certain parties arc addicted t^ -tonations mar easi':. a'sdm-o bulle. -oumnd where the hit and i leave a mortal poison in ibe~ he': - they make after being received. W. rare cenainly able to r.e ouri--lves cle of .Wms without M-. Rockec WILL GO HGHER Frank Hayne Says Fifteen Cents is Too Lie fr Cen THE CROP VERY SHORT The Big Cotton Man. Who it a Ne tive of This State, is Opimist. and Iteriews Recent Market Hi tory and Deduces Strong DeUef in Yet HIgher Price Levels. MIr. Frank It. Hayne. a South Caro linian now living in New Orleans. who has labored consistently for hisher prices for cotton this season. has outlined his reasons for saying that fifteen cents Is too little for cotton as follows. "When the government bureau. report. issued on August 2. showed a condition of 71.9 per cent. I felt con vinced the crop could not possibly reach 12.00t).000 bales. and that cot ton was selling far below Its real value. When the government report. issued on September 2. showed a con dition of 63.7 per cent. I felt satis bed that 11.500.000 bales was The maximum possible for the crop and at that time received a telegram from Mr. J. N. Wisner of New Orleans. asking Mr. W. P. Brown and mself to telegraph him in full our views on the situation. Mr. Brown was absent. so I replied to Mr. Wisner by telegraph as follows: " We look at the situation as fol lows: Discounting every favorable ondition That can arise until Decem ber 1. the government report indi ates a maximum crop of 11.250.000. and with unfavorable conditions might easily be 1.000.000 bales less. Consumption last year. 13.100.000. in spite of short time in England and continent. With largest Amer an crop ever produced the price advanced $20 a bale while being marketed and the visible supply is ar less than two years ago. With certainty that 13.500.000 will real y be needed by the country and that probably less than 11.600.000 will e crown. an eventual adv-ance Is 1idpy unavoidable. Under normal onditions the market should aTe! ,ertainly advanced to 13 cents y.-& srday. but was kept down by the 'normous selling of the bear clique. 'hse sellers base their action on e supposed helplessness of the outh. thinking the South will be crcd to sell its cotton at any price ,e spinners are willing to take it t. We consider that the compe ition between spinners who willa rtainly require 1.100,000 bales onthly will take care o Ithis so lled dIstressed cotton. If the ankers of the South -will help the ~armr to market his cotton slowly. -et firmly believe it will be worth $ cents in the next 60 days. The ieakness In our opinion of the ~ears- argument is that, although the ~rodcer may be foolish enough to e~ willing to sell his cotton far be w its actual value, we hardly think hat the spinner will,. be foolish enough. when he fully realizes the acts of the case, not to start buy ,g freely at these prices and thus ivoid the scramble for spot cotton hat will surely take place some time luring the season. -The Southern farmer has sold at Least it5.000.00 bales of cotton on which he realizedl probably $350. ".0A'0. It was very hard to con cnc. the farmer that 12 cents was o an extr-me price for his rbro luct. but through .tha efforts of .w Southern men. they finally rea-j lzed the fact that they were sacri-' cin the'ir enttfln. and I believe that t ls'tS -An.n more has be:t' btaindl for the cotton marketed dat" than would have been If It bad not been for the efforts of this small coterie of Southernl men. "-y predliction on Septemi.-rt 3 of' 3 'ents~ in th-e next 60 days has now" ome true, but at that time I thought the crop would 'se from 1 1.250.&ftO to 1 .50.0.~00 bales. I now' fel con fident that the maximum for this ro Is 10.Th0.000 bales. The prob ability is that It will be under 14. )O.000 bales: and there is a pos ibility of its not reaching 1fl.0(00 00 bales. Under the present con ditions I now te'-l that 15 cents is s uch too cheap for cotton as 12 -2 cents s-emed to me on September ..;fl 1903.'04. known as the -Sully year.' the crop was 10.011.000 bales and the consumption only 10-083. 00 bales. and last year the con sumption increased 3.074.000 bales. or 30.49 per cent. The visible sup ply on the 1st of Se-ptemlber. thi.' ~..ason. was 1.472.000 and on the 1r. of September. 190)3. was 517.000 bales or only 9I E-000 bales less. therefore in the 'Sully year.' with a isiie supply on September 1 of, 31.0 bales and a crop of 10. 1ll.0 bales. the world had 1('. 2.~00 bales of cotton, of which the used 10.083-000 bales. The isible supply on the 1st of Sep 'ember this year was 1.4 72.00fl bales. 1f the crop should only prove ..(0.00t bales. the world will have suply of only 11-9WA.40 bales. while b~st year ti aenlally consumed4 n ie of short timo in England .1.7.n00 bales. or a dfefii of 1. --'hr. if in the -Suily year' the rop had only been 7.500.000 to S. 0.'00 bales. the situation would not be as acute as it will be if this rop only tu:rns out 10.500.000 bales. et in that year cotton sold for ov.. 8 cents. If every American mi asto run helt time from now' iti b- end of th" se"asonl. I do Dot Cefn sider *here would be ennuth cotton to go around. -The spinners' takings to Octn 'er --9. this year. were 1.923.000 THEY SHAME HANS THE UNIQUE EXPERIENCE OF TWO SOLDIERS IN THE W.AL Captain Christin awd Captain RIauch Meet For the First Thoc Since They Tried to Kill Each Other. Stanzdng in then- loblby of a hotel during the late visit to Richmond. Va.. of the Pennsylvanians who at tended the unveiling of a monnument. Cold Harbor. .everal days ago. was Captain E. D. Christian. a w-il known vew.ran of the Forty.first Virginia regiment. who was entertaining a number of the visiting Federal vet erans with an account of a duel he had in 1862 with a Pennsylvanian near what is known as "The Cow peas," now the Mechanicsville Pike *In some way, said Captain Christian. -we were coming through a feld cut apart by a long line of t rail fence. As we approached the it fence we saw coming toward us a s line of blue-coated soldiers. Ble fore I kntew it I was face to face with a Yanimee who was sending balls at me. but luckily aiming wrong. I r loaded my musket time and again i and we bad it there face to face. v resently the Yankee mounted the I fenee to get a better whack at me ' for I was as bad a shot as he in t the eetctement of that duel. Well. t geaUemen. do~wn came the rail fence b and down came the Yankee. sprawl- & Mg on the ground. He managed to c get up as my old musket banged a away. but the ball never touched s him "Wait a moment." Interrupted one D o the isitors, "and I'll tell you the F rest of the story." All eyes turned q toward the military form of Captain r W. H. Ranch. a Philadelphinf. who h was the centre of tae li toeura tv aptain Christian's story. r "Well.". continued Captain Rauch., 'the Yankee Just took to his heels t< at that and you after him. "You a fred as long as he was In sight ' ad 15e ran as long as his legs would a bold him up. The only reason he b aid not fly was because he was a man t ad not a bird." e "That's about right." said the Con federate and then the two men faced , i'-ach other with eyes glued on the j faces that had seen the changes of s nearly half a century. "Hell. man." Captain Rauch cried. U nally breaking the Intense stillte-s. i. are you the Joihuny Reb that ha.. C Lbat duel with me and came n.-ar making me a prbtoner or putting m< ut for good?" If you are the man who jumped p an that fence and fell. and then got r p and ran while a Confederate sct- C 1jer sent bullets after you to het- h move. I guess we have wet before.' y "If any other man had been in :y palce and had not put up a good run." replied Capt~ain Rauch. "h-c l' ould have been a fool. Why tha' E aid thing you were handling looked c; a big as a cannon and sounded h~k two or three of t.hemi.''" yollowing this the veterans :;h -k bands and Captain Rauch took Cap- -1 ain Christian in tow to initrod.uc- .0 im to his wife. Then Captain and a Mrs. Rauch had to get into Captain Christian's autoanobile and te end . was that Mrs. Christian got a t2.- ., phone call to have dinner r..A.;v :o J two extras. The party singz the a vening in the handsome hoj.+ os Captain Christian. who had to *..0'- h ise a visit to the Rauch home ir 'hiladelphia. Before leaving Rich mond Captaa: auch declared that he would no o have missed meeting Captain Chris; ian for all his worldly Pos*-sWo:ts: have ne-v-r forgotten that rebl.'< c said he. "and I see-' him unw i- : 4-ns eyes with his bIg old-tiwe : musket plugging away at me a a theugh I were of no more goo o the world than an ordinary animal.'' Peary' Got There. Cotand.-r Peary was We-dne.s- o day voted a gold .medal by the Nat ional Geographic Soci-ty for hia'ing' reaced the North Pole. The board 1 f anagers of the society accept d unanimously the re-port of th. subcommittee of scientists who had :amined the explorer's records anda proofs, and found them to be con clusive of his claim that he had C reached the Pole. Vitim of Queer Accident. Charles Bennett. six years old, is dead as a result of a peculiar acci dent While his family was attnnd lg his father's funeral the lad' ooot was caught in a rope tied to to a bull on their Long island farm. ~he- bull ran away dragging the boy a half nvile befor.- th.. rop. roke. causing injuries which re sulted in his death. Feared to lBe iluricel Alive. Fearing that he would be b~urie'd aijve. Dr. Williatn J. Dodd. of .Jersey ity. made a request in his will. which disposes of an es-tate valuedi a $Z5.00. that follow ing bis death1 ad before burial the radial artery1 h cut by a surgeon. In probating the will -Dr. Dodd executor has re: p orted to the court that the artery1 was cut as stipulatedl. Bride-Elect Kifls H~er-.ef. Mis Maggie Windbam. daughter of a prominent p:ante'r r-sding near He del berg. Miss.. died late Friday a asthe result of pistol wounos w hi-h he inicted upon herself with suicid a intent Thursday. Mi::s Windhani I-ft a note- to her mother begging; forgIveness. She was to have be-n. married w ithi na fe'w weeks. N"o cu- for t'rn art is k n the reerd taking:- of any re-.4r to that ime'" and against 1.14S.e0e0 --le .he same time in. e903-04. A GREAT EVENT FOR THE CITY OF SPARTANBI AND SOUTH CAiLOLINA. The celebratlon of the Opening Traffic of the Carolina, Clinchi and Ohio Railway. Last Friday was a great day the city of Spartanburg and State of South Carolina. when t -ity celebrated the opening to tr; si the Carolina. Clinchfield and C Railway. The railway had just ; ompleted to Spartanbuzrg. and 1 rogr.-sive city cele-r-ated the ev n keeping with its importance aer own dignity as on.- of the gi rade centers of South Carolina be South. People from all over tat.- had gathered in Spartanb o rejoic.- with her at the consu: ion of oue of the greatest eve n her history. and partake of ;enrous hospitality. The great eve-it of the occas ranspiredi on Friday. but the ni Pefore a protracted demonstrat as given that the road was cc let-d by the arrival of a tr rom Johnson City. Tenn.. and oc points. loaded with guests from T iessee. Virginia and North Caroll ncluding the officials of the new r -ay. This train reached Spartanbi tween eight and nine o*cli 'hursday night and was greeted housands of people who had lii he track to welcome it to Spart urg. The train, as it slowly pas a the Union Station. gave one lo ontinuous whistle, which 1 nswered by the cheers of the embled thousands. Friday morning everybody, early everybody, went out to 'air Grounds. where a first-class f ras in operatipn, and where the val of that train was to be ce rated in a style befitting its gr .p.ortance to Spartanburg and t est of the State. The weather s leal. and everything else seen ) be greased for the occasion, moothly did everything pass < 'he crowd numbered many th< Lds, and every one seemed to appy and entered into the celeb on of the occasion with vim a nthusasm. Spartanburg was happy, and ere all who had gone there to >ce with her on the great oc A little after eleven o'clock i etting was called to order by I N. Snyder. President of Wofft ollege. %ho presided with his ust race and ease. lie introduced t eakers who were to make addre 4. As a preliminary. Dr. Snyt aid a glowing tribute to Presid eori- I.. Carter. of the Caroli: tinchrli.ld and Ohio railroad. w: e said. had made the celebrati Dssible. He declared that the lit ig of the rails would bring il loser relation, not only commerci .but industrially. the people of 1 ast and the West. so tong bar aded against each other by wl eeid to be an lusurmounta ine of mount-nins. Judge A. A. Phiegar. vice prnt et of the nlew railroad, was 1 nst speaker upon the program. ddress being delivered extemperr usly. He declared that a brig r sun never shown than that wh peded the d.-parting trains fri hnson City, and that a warn elcome never greeted a party raelers than -.hat which tU ad found in the city: of Spart: urg. as the train pulled into 1 Lation Thursday evening. Judge Phlegar declared that i *'lding of the rails binding m~a tats togeth.'r. not only cemen'U mmercial and lndustrial inte-re f many Stat.-s. but were love-t etw.-n tb.- various sections of 1 untry. And1 he pray--d that ?h e-ties might be ,'verlast ing. Jru' 'blegar touch.-d upon th.- great e nn mills of this section. glv: tat istcs. Adittig that the railroads w tr.- in the wrong. Judge Phlei cinted to the~ fact that some'tir: he public, too. being human, ' t ault. and he asked of the pee square deal for the C.. C. & alroad and promised the same ehalf of the road. Cheers rent tir in response to this utterance. ayor Rhett. of Charleston. ther speakers. were introduced. -a nade appropriate addresses. TI arnec the barbecue, in which ati w,'lv' hundred guests participa1 t was one of t'.e best managed onducted affairs of the kind t re have any knowledge of. ,arbecue ended the celebration. ft-r it was over the large crc hat enjoyed it dispersed. The wb: elebraton was happily conci Ld carri.ed out without a hitch. ItREAKS TiHE RECORD!. LMeut. Iahrn Mlakes' a Long Fli in an Army Biplane. Dreaking all formaer endura -cords on th" government avtal old. at College Park. Mid.. Li .ahm. In an Army aeroplane. rem: sid in the air during a sing!" fi fnnday nity-eight and one-half a This exceeds any continuous5 fli iiade by a pupil of either Orvill4 W~lbur Wrigh? in Amnerica. aitho 'h.-ir pupils abroad have greatly r'.ded this eight in duration. A Wright machine has been I tu over three hours by Orville wo hours and a quarter by Wil Wright. both of these records b< made abroad. Miinmr Held by Water. Three hemndred miners wer" tprisoned by water rush'ng mIot Tareni coal pit at Ystal Y-F Glamorgals.ire. One' hundred ffty miners were rescued aflve. others are still held Prisoners HOW TO STOP iT 'HG Fog hysicu Rea&s kasm Pape on NOaa of leld LM C*U for Dr. Sandwltch. of London. Teis Sow the hat Italy. Where Pellagra is Wdel fic Prevalent, Has Reduced Morauty. I 'hio een Many Ca.e% Found Among Egyp hat ent tian-Urge% PreivtadUe Rale. wnd The following paper by Dr. F. M. ,eat Sandwich, of London. Enetland. nd Gresham professor of physic-& was th- read at the pellagra conferente in arg Columbia Wednesday afternoo.: * n feel that my first words must bt those of congratulation and .-t..->ur her agement to the many physicas. in the Southern States who are now ion working at the various problems con ht nected with pellagra. Congratula ion tion in the first place. because they m- have discovered the exLstance of the a n disease, because they have Impres; ed this discovery upon others w that the presence of pellagra is now na. thoroughty recognized. **If I venture also to encourage irg American co-workers. it is not with ek any improper desire to draw atten by tion to my own work, but because 1 ed happen to be in the unique position i (with regard to this one disease). of' ed being able to appreciate tbeir dif a "In spite of der.lals from Ameri can authorities on medicine I have always suspected that peUlaga milht or exist unrecognized In the Sout and he at one time I requested my friends ? ir to put me Into communication with ar the poorest folk of the maise eat l"ing districts. I was referred to a at *-ttlement in Eastern Virginia fo: pauper negroes, but on investigation I found that the Inmates lived in ed stone houses. on pork rations, and go I came to the conclusion that the tf. word poverty represented no co On- dition in America, which could com be pare with the misery of the impover a ished peasants of Italy, Roumanla nd or Egypt. "In April. 1906. I had the good b so fortune to be at Boston during an epidemic of cerebro spinal menin- d :- gitis, and the very Arst patient whom 9 I saw at the city hospital by the he courtesy of Dr. C. F. Withington. was )r. an Italian emigrant. who also dis- 3 rd played a well ma:k-d pellagrous tal eruption. This leads one to wonder - h whether the United States pubic ss- health and marine bospital service orcers who examine the emigrants nt at Naples and other Italian ports t Ia. should not include pellagra among ' the prohibitory diseases. on ''Now. that the diagnots of pella- E Ik- gra has been firmly established in t -o many States, it would be we: to find out for certain how many hepersons are attacked by the disease ~ int the South. In order to arrive ~ aatany correct figures. it might be ~ well to institute compulsory notif- ' cation of the: disease at least as a r temporary measure. In Italy there ~ hhas been a law to that effect since ~ tSSS. I would also recommend tha* ~ agricultral laborers should be ex t- a mined in the States where ped.l ch:r is known to be prevalent, such ' as Georgia and North and South Car- ~ olina. This might be done in Fteb- 3 ofy ruary or March. when the eruption lielyo e ret n "In 1901 and 1902 1 obtained ~ hepermissioni to examine 500 Egyptian ' peasants who were actually at work ~ hein the fields. They all stoutly de- I nied that they we're ill and their t edemployers who were with them stat- ~ A ed they could all do a fair day-s t i work. but in every field I found I b- '-arly case's of pellagra. bearing fr*om t I:5 per ce'nt in we-ll-4o-do districts 2 ~to62 per cent in the inhabitants of I the poorest hamlets. *The treatment of early pellagra eae without mental symptoms car -r successfully accom~p;ished by put- 1 arting th'- patient on a Iiber-al diet. I excluding maize and by ridding him 1 as of the bookworms which are so of- I ten co-exidstent. but the peliagrous in. symptoms return if he is allowed t,. resume a diet of musty maize. Va herious preparations of arsenic are use.' I oin advanced cases but when the brain I d is attacked there is a small hope for I hn the patient unless by serotherapy. I enPellagra is e.sseatially a disease >t which cries for preventive measures. Italy by prevent ive measures, has I na since ISSS reduced the mortality of' at pellagra from 3.4S3 to 1.635. though I had during the years 1883 to t907 the d maize area under cultivation has in ol creased from 5.79 to 6.33 par cent oeof the whole country. This points tb.e moral that it is the quality, not the quantity of maize which is at fanit. There are certain g..n.ralj exiomis which prove true in Italy and Egypt and it will doubtless be ght round that they hold good in the1 IUnited States also: "First--In districts where no I maize Is' cultivated or habituallyi ion jeaten. pellegra does not exist. sut. 'Second-There are many dis5 tn- tricts where maize has bec-u cultivat ght ed for many years and yet pellagra tin. has not appeared. .- " Third-Wl-to-do people In pel ght lagra districts lIvlg on varied diet -or andI cogsumng iaire~ as a oca!cna. Eand nt as a staple cereal. usually a-escape pellagra. - -Four'th-I? is rt- good maize or :, .ood maize dlour which products and wI tlagra: the disease requires for hur i's produ.ction a habitual use of ting damaged maize in some form. Butcher's Blorrible Crimes. One of the worst tragedies that i- ev-er shocked that county oeecurred the at Pine (t'ove. Pa.. Wednesday night era.- when Daniel Schoke. a butcher of and that place, cut off the heais of his The wife and twelve-year-Old daughter ar 3: t.e -comate estiiec T- shoot OBJEcTS TO CLAIES MADE IN THE NEWSPAPERS BY oVER ZEAWiCS FRIENDS Of Congressman Levr That He is Entitled to the Credit for Soil Survey of This State. Congressman D. Wyatt Alken takes Congressman Lever's pres3 agent to task for giving the credit ror the soil survey in South Caro-. Ina almost entirely to Mr. Lever. nd thoroughly shows up the false ess of the claim. Here Is Congress-I nan Aiken's letter, which esplains self. bI ro the Editor of The State: to In an artice. which appeared In ce he News and Courier of the 21st er ,st. ve note the following: *H. to 4. Bennetr, general eld agent of tb he United States bureau of Goi!- lai ras In Columbia today, and will &p rery probably attend the conference be f soil experts ir Lexlngton county da turin; the week with Co 1gressman. wl .ever. to whom the credit of the soil of urvey of South Car-uint rhould be in rven." Then again. in the same He rticle, the following uppelrs: in, -Cogressman Lever. who is a mero- wz >er of the agritatural committee fo1 of the house of representatives. 'aa be lone more towards securing a &)a rvey of the State than any other of an. and It Is largel through his th forts that the federal government " as taaen so much intereet." Ue Them. a few days later. we note n a The State; -Mr. Bennett has just ad a conference with Director Rar- de; er of the State experiment station rim ad leaves today for Lezingtoa for jn , conference with Congressman Lev- a r. who had the soil survey work is tarted in this State and who has one much toward Its establishment In pon a practical basis, not only in 9W outh Carolina but throughout the = Urted States." Wo These statements go too far in c. lalming for Mr. Lever, and in resli- wt F. are calculated to do him Injury. is certain that Mr. Lever would be ot clalin as much for himself. Un- wi1 srtunately for the force of the Ma atements made by the correspon- ot ent to The News and Courier, he AD ubshed in the same article a taba- go kted statement, showing the work nu bat has been done entirely in the Ag watter of soil survey in this State. unj ad the dates of the surveys. This bows that the surveys. known as e Abbeville.- Andessos-Aud, Ococee arveys. embraced almost entirely the bird district which I have the honor represent. covered an area of :. 08 square miles. The survey of hwntra-urg. Lee and Sumter. all I e ork done in Mr. Lever's dis- to rt. covered L,707 square miles. Gr this ~matter has been left exclu ey to Mr. Lever, as his friend -oud do him the Injustice to inti- exc iate, would the Initiative have heen aken outside of bis district and i ould he have favored other sectionsca ather than his own? The first suir ey inade In Mr. Lever's district wasth be Orangeburg survey. made- iJ 904. and the two other surveysj' ere In Lee and Sumter In 1907. Th survey In A bbeville county *s made In 190?.. while Senator ,atimer was in congress, and before [r. Lever was a member of the a~g cultural committee. The surveys in irlngtonl and Horry were made the ane year. while Mr. Scarborough as In congress. These men had en serving for some years when be surveys were made, and both of bern were known to be active and o ble representatives. Mr. Lever was hen a new man ina the house. and tbh s unreasonable to suppose that sb bese men of longer service wouldkl ppeal to him. even before his ap ointment to the agricultural comn ltee to have surveys made in their thi espective districts. Without assuming to speak with . eftrenc'e to the surveys made in tn ,ae-rt". Cheroke' and York. Mr t nley's district, which. to say the est of it,. he was compet-t to have I ecured on his own motion. I may th ad do speak defintely of the suir-i -eys In qndersoni and Oconee. In now that these surveys were made n ipon my request direct to the <'e artment. and not through anybodl i s intermediary. There were surveys at later dates n the dstricts of Messrs. Johnson sad Lega~re. They would probably. rant some credit for having them This is written y no unfriendly, sa: prit for Mr. Lever, who I esteem go 1.ighly as a personal friend, and ap- ini recate as an able and faithful pub- wi Ic servant. And I do not be'lieve- is .at Mr. Lever would himself do of njustice to hi. colleagu.-s; but his ch 'riends in this wholesasle claim for ta: sm. have overstepped the bounds Is >f reason, and do injustice both to Cl kf. Lever and his coll--agues. It ui s not likely that soil surveys were ade here immediately on the reg " toest of any person. as preliminary a arngemets are always necessary. ~3 %.nd yet there were soil surveys here it 1. cary as 1902. in Mr. Levr? is doing a good work lot [a his eorts to push the soil sur'Im reys. If other members are not ith squa lly suc'esafii!- It is not b.cuse tey arc no equally tntereste-d. Abbille. Oct. ZKA5.-. Negro Preecher Hiled-. u At Dillon Rev'. John McRae, col ored. was struck by a swiftly mno' lng train and Instantly killed at t Main street crossing; of the Atlantic i coast ite Sunday morning. Tob ev. M'Rae was on his way no his j chureb. near Sellers. where he was a to preach his re:;uiar Sunday morn-'a lg sermon. Rev. McRae was a good tI clored citizen, and his sudden and f< tagic death is greatly deplored by e kED MAN LOST t stefis snpwuce rri. W. N. MerusCIIL VALVSED COKMLY 9 Was Last Seen Waling Brisk. ly Along the Southern Railway Tracks. skrting the Canal-ca.e Fom York County Where He Was Prominent Socially and Polticafy. Mr. William N. Elder. of Colum a, formerly of York county, for r terms a member of the York unty legislative delegation. form ty a trustee of Winthrop College. r several years a bookkeeper for e Stat. dispensary and recently a d surveyor. has completely dis peared. no tract of him having en discovered since last Thurs y morning week ago at 8 o'clock. ten he left the locks at the head the Columbia canal for his home that city. 1110 Peodleton street. was .seen about this time walk ; briskly down the Southern rail y tracks skirting the canal bank r most' of the four-mue distance tween tbe locks and the city. Oe of his mons, Mr. X. I. Eder. Pittased. Man. rbo haUs led In a night and day search since then. d that the family did not be re the old gentleman had fallen a the' canal. Ther -pe of the opinion that an r somi sudden seisure be lost his son and is now, perhaps. wander r about the woods and Seld in demented condition. if Indeed he yet alive. is great beight. si! feet, two hes, his gray goatee and his dierT bearing make hMna rather nmanding fgure and for this rea t it is all the stranger that no e whatever has been found to his ereabouxs. At the home of Pndleton street leaves his wife. Mr. Salle Elder. :h whom just now is the son from asachusetts above mentioned. The ier children are W. C. Elder. of Lbama, and Mrs. J. P. Moore, of thries, York county. '1e family vd to Columbia about eight Yeara L This bids fair to be another olved Columbia- mystery. WOMAN SEEKS DIVORCE ase She Says Her Husband Kissed Her Too Much. 3ecause he Insisted on kissing hekr a point of cruelty John E. Mc Mw. a farmer living near Trenton. . is made defendant in a suit dvorce. His wife declares be eeded the limit and brought ha ation en both him and herself the eyes of everybody. She de res further that he neglected his rk, left the crops go to ruin and ~he did not raise enough this t ew'sstate at she and :Johb-were married a tr ago. For six months she stood kissing without a murmer, sup ping that in time his osculatory er would subside. But instead, kisses have become more tre- . tnit. The McGrews occupy a farm 104) acres. Era. McGrew avers that the first ng in the morning John insisted not one but dosens of kisses. en he started out to the barn to the work. Before he could set milk pails down on his reture Sdeclares be bad to have more ses. After breakfast there would several more rounds. At 10 a. m. be would return frotn felds for more kisses. Noon uld not pass without a lot more f in the afternoon be would T ' to the hoose and in the pres of company or otherwise he aid have to spend half an bour Kissing. Mrs. McGrew alleges s made her the butt of much talk their community and she does t propose that it shall continue. ULES FOR MARRIED PEOPLE. insas City Spirlt~Ien Outlines Plan for Domestic Peace. A dispatch from St. Louis. Mo.. -- The man who thinks he is ng to be happy in heaven, play ; a harp of a thousand strings ille his wife down here on earth playing a washboard in the key high G to support the five or six idren he left unprotected is cer iliy going to be fooled." This what A. Scott Bledsoe of ansas ty in a lecture at the State spirit i convention said. Mr. B'ledsoe's rule for keeping ne's self unspotted from the >rld." as applied to women was. fake your husba;d think he knows all Don't nag him. Mlan. accord g to a scientist, is or should be. Jy a good animal. You can do re by mnaking him comfortable 3D by all the nagging In the To men his advice was. "ever Sanyting you wouzldn't want your [f to do: never say anything you yid not want y'our wife to say, -vcr go anywhere you wouldn't want sur wife to go. This will keep -- u unspotted frecm the world." Turned U'pside Down. At Des Moine~s. Towa. twenty-flVI 'ople were huirt. one~ probably fat ly. whe'n the heavily-laden street r on the tUiver'sity line jumped te track while the car was beaded r the down-town section of the ty early Wednesday. The car turn I mida: dow.