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COMES SOUTH Wi Establish a del Farm in the Chadeston DistriCt Soon SOIL SECOND TO NONE General Manager of the National Corn Exposition Will Purchase Several Thousand Acres Near Char leston and Will Induce White Set tiers to Clear and Cultivate Land. The News and Courier says it is authoritatively announed that Prof. George H. Stevenson, general mana ger of the National Corn Exposition, will locate in the Charleston district in the near future for the purpose of operating a model farm" colony. Prof. Stevenson, who is reputed to be one of the largest corn growers in the Western Hemisphere, was in Charleston and surrounding territory last March, at a time when the ques tion of choosing the next place for the 1913 Corn Exposition first came up. He was immediately impressed with the vast opportunities presented In this district to the agriculturist, and did not hesitate to say at the time that the soil here was second to none in the United States. Prof. Stevenson is known to pos ses extensive farm lands in the Wes tern States and had grown rich through the raising of corn. He is, however, so enthusiastic with the prospects in South CarolIna, and par ticularly in the Charleston district, that he will shortly make his home here. It is now understood that he Is .now negotiating for the purehase of about 3,000 acres between Charles ton and Summervilne, on which he expects to build up and maintain a model farm colony. On the occasion of his visit some time ago to Chiarleston Prof. Stev enson stated that he had his own pet ideas as to the operation of a large farm. He is a firm believer in intensive farming and thinks that the climate and soil of Sou-th Carolina are peculiarly adapted for this. Af ter purchasing his land he will induce from twenty to thirty thrifty white settlers- to take portions of the tract and Imediately begin extensive drainage operation. "IT~e settlers will all be men of means and experience and will -there fore be able to get down to work in a comprehensive and systematic man nir without- losing too much time. The latest machinery will be used o4 the mbdel farm, as well as the West ideas in the agricultural world. grade stock of every description wel be purchased and raised. As Prof. Stevenson expects to raise corn along ertensive lines, he will have the corn, both in quality and quan tity, to feed his cattle. Prof. Stevenson is expected to vis it Charleston i nthe near future for the purpose of perfecting his plans with regard to the model farm col ony.. The officers of the National Corn Exposition are: Prof. George H. Stevenson, secretary, treasurer and general manager; E. D. Funk, of Shirly, Ill., president; E. G. Mont gomery, of Linoln, Neb., .first vice president. The board of directors all live in the Middle West. 'lIhe fact that the big corn show Is comring to South Car'oina is recog nalzfd as a big thing for the entire State, and as a big thing for Charles ton and the whole coast country as for any other part of the State. The railroads will make special rates for *he-show--the lowest rates into South Carolina that ~they have ever made; and it is expected that all these tick ets will be good for a journey to any part of the State. Thus the men who go t'o Columbia to see the Corn Ex position -may come right down to Chrarleston witzho'ut any extra ex pense .to themselves. KH~AnD AT A FROIC.' Five Negro.sAre Held for the Mur der of a Woman. At Spartanburg five negroes were committed to jail Monday as acces . sorles to an alleged murder, In which the victim-, Nellie Landers, a negro woman was burned to death.. Mattie Russell, also a negress, will also be - committed to. jail in connection ~*with the affair as, according to the testimony taken at the coroner's in quest she broke a lamp over Nellie's head,-causing 'the burns which result ed in Nellie's death Stnday. I * There was a negro frolic in the woods -near. Cherokee Springs last Friday night. All of those concerned in Nellie Landers' death were there. In ay.ante-mortem statement Nellie said that~ the party started to play a gambllng-game called "skin." She de clined. to play. Mat-tie Russell urged * her to play, telling her she never would: make any money unless she 1 took a chance. Nellie said she re plied that she never did want to make money by gambling. Nellie Landers is the sixth negro viet'im of a homicide in Spartanburg -county In seven weeks. TRIED TO END HIS DAYS. Barnwell Man Wanted to Cut His Own Throat . ,Jerry Snelling, a son of the late Capt. Jerry Snelling, of Snelling, and a brother of John K. Sneiling, judge of probate for Barnwell county, at tempted to commit suicide at his home~ at Snellings 'Monday morning *by cutting his throat with a knife. He. succeeded in making several cuts in his throat, none of them sufficient ly deep,; however, to cause .death. He was carried to -Barnwell as quickly as possible and given medical aid. He is now 3resting quietly. No reason has been assigned for the act. Very Queer Case'. iEd. Turner, a farmer living near r Florence', has suffered from rabies e without bleing bitten by the dog that s had the disease. A dog with rabies s recently entered his yard, . and Mr. Turner killed him with a stick, which c the dog -hit In the scuffle. After wards Mr. Turner in examining the stick,- got some of the poisoned sal- o va on -isan4& and the hand and arm t: s'wsl1~o badly that he went to thed MAKES A CilANGE qEWS AND COURIER OBJECTS TO BLEASE COLONEL. Dolumbia Correspondent Asked to Resign From Governor's Staff, But He Refuses to Do So. Leon M. Green, Columbia corre- R spondent for the News and Courier, iao refused to accede to the demands f his newspaper that he resign an .ppointment recently received upon the staff uf Governor Blease and says he will resign as correspondent i-amediately. His resignation will be handed to the head of the News and Courier's Columbia bureau, Au ,ust Kohn, upon the latter's return in thisweek from a Canadian tour. .. "I resign under pressure," said ut Ir. Green. "I can not comply with pi the demand made on me. When I bl was appointed on the Governor's staff it accepted because of the honor, and st [ know that the position was given o! n the right spirit. For the paper I ex represented to seek to tell me that I ci ,hould resign either from the paper )r from the governor's staff was, in T Y-y opinion, an encroachment upon ce zy personal rights. se "I felt that I could still remain on It, 'he governor's staff, as I have always al ;ought to give unbiased reports of b, ,licial acts of the chief executive of sc ,he State. a] "'the position taken by the paper b1 appears to me. and I have no dobbtt cl will so appear to many others in the iate, untenable, for the particular 1c reason that the position occupied b bere for the paper was that solely of ai a news correspondent. I had nothing w whatever to do with the editorial p01- d4 [cy of he paper. What I have been it ending to the papers I represent was s the news cf the day here-nothing ore." T Mr. Green Monday night gave out io the lettelr below which he stated tt bad been written him by Robert La- le than, the editor of the News and u) .ourier. Mr. Lathan said last night ci hat he had nothing to say concern- n4 ng the matter. Mr. Lathan's letter w to Mr. Green is as follows: H "Mr. Leon M. Green, Columbia, S. C. "Dear Mr. Green: I have just re- cl eived your letter of July 20 and re- P; gret very much to learn of your de- w termination to remain on the staff of sc the governor rather than on that of A rhe News and Courier. ai ."As I wrote Mr. Kohn, I do not re- p] gard it as proper for a newspaper tr orrespondeur to hold two such posi- ta tions at the same time; my under- w tanding of the matter being that the al cceptance of an appointment as one )f a governor's aides entails upon the person accepting it a responsibility i of doing all that he can to uphold bo whatever the governor may do. a] "I think it should be a rule of the c] paper that no one of its staff should ccupy any position which might ex pose him to the criticism that his im partiality might be affected, whether tI such criticism be well founded or not. "It is the desire of the News and V Courier to do every public official t justice fairly and impartially, and In , order to do so I think the above men- t tioned rule a good one. "It is true that Mr. Kohn was at one time an aide to -a goverrior but that wa's before I became editor of the paper. "I appreciate your offer to look after matters connected with the bu- i reau until Mr. Kohn returns, but perhaps,,it would be better to con-h tinue the present arrangement untilc that time, allowing Mr. Horton to di cover whatever may happen, as he bas been doing since you have been away from Columb'ia. * "Let me repeat to you personally ghat I have already said to Mr. Kohn tt s head of the bureau, that the News pa and Courier appreciates the general w excellence of the service you have ,f givn it during the period of your ti :onnection with 'the paper, and that I D: am genuinely sorry that you have :hosen to take a stand in this matter, e a most important one as I see it, to ghich this paper can not give its in iosement. i "Yours truly, te "Robert Lathan." is A FIEND LYNCHED. le Ee Attempted an- Assault on a t Young Womas th ti: -Following an attempt to assault a er oung woman in Monunt Croghan, a ' ;mall town near Cheraw, a negro ~rom North Carolina, whose name tas not been learned, is believed to w tave been lynched. The attempt at assault was coin- w nitted at noon Monday, and all day to 1nd part of TDuesday parties of fren- de ied men searched the woods for the to riminal-.c Parties of men returning Tuesday co norning were non-committal as to pe Vhether the negro was caught or not, m yut it is thought from the bearing >f the pursuers, that the negro was h aptured and put to death in the p goods somewhere. th The victim of the attempted as ault is one of the most prominent ha 1nd well connected young women of hat section, and the crime stirred tp unusual excitement and anger. co Sheriff Douglass, of Chesterfield ounty, was on the scene and sought i o capture the negro, but was an- n uccessful. First Wonsan Victim,. i Mmne. Denise Moore is the first wo- 0 an victim of aviation. She wasin :illed at Etomnpes, France, Monday de ight. Mine. Moore has already rade several fine .ascents and was .bout to make a high fiight. When bout 150 feet in the air her biplane i ras caught by a gust and capsized. t t fell stright to the earth and the 'oman was crushed beneath it, o it Rea Hurt Crop. de The excessive rains recently have o estroyed Georgia's chances of pro- co Eucing a 'bumper crop of cotton, ac ording to State Commissioner of Ag iculture Hudson. "There has been ntirely too much rain all over the tate,' declared Commissioner Hud- no on "there -is no-question but that de: ich damage has been done. to the ha rop of cotton." - Su zz. of Wilson, Clark, Harmon: or any th< ther good -Democrat will suit us for an be Democratic candidate for Presi- rit ent. Eithe~r -e ge wgggj ihe all at LIt . ,in WILL BE NEXT e Nations Chief Farmer is Getting Too Old For His Daties. MNGER MAN NEEDED xcent Developments in the Depart ment of Agriculture Indicate that the Secretary is Lacking in Execu tive Strength, Due Probably to the Encroachments of Age. Because of repeated developments th'e Agriclltdral Departmnet at ashington indicating that the exec ive grip upon it is weak, the im ession is growing that its venera e head, Secretary Wilson, is feel g the encroachments of age to ch an extent that he is incapable handling the complicated machin y of his great dtpartment with effi ency. The Washington correspondent of 2e News and Courier says It is being .id with a good deal of freedom in mi-official circles that some of the ost embarrassing troubles that have flicted the administration might tve been avoided if Secretary Wil n had supervised with the proper ertness and positiveness the various ireaus in which trouble has oc irred. In several important instances it oks as the venerable Secretary has ,en.unaware of what has been going i under his very nese, and only hen a veritable explosion occurs >es he arise to the necessity of do g something to show his authority id accept his responsibility. First, there was the Ptnchot affair. be bureau of forestry is a subsid ry of the department of agricul re. It was built up into one of the ading branches of the Government ider the direction of the former tief forester, Gifford Pinchot, and > one regarded the development ith greater satisfaction than the on. Jeremiah Wilson. When the Taft administration Langed the policy of the interior de rtment and Mr. Ballinger got to Drk to "kill snakes" there is rea on to believe that the Secretary of griculture still sided with Pinchot td that the latter had his chief's ap oval in a number of acts that at acted the ire of the new Secre rd of the Interior. But when it as evident that the President was fgressively backing the Bafiinger licy, and that if the secretary of gricu.ture did not disavow the do gs of Pinchot there would probably a new man h'olding the agricultur portfolio, Mr. Wilson dropped Pin tot lite a hot potato. Secretary Wilson followed the me course with regard to Dr. Wil ~, of the bureau of chemistry. When be policy of safe-guarding the pub against injuriously "doped" food oducts and beverages was being de ~loped, nobody enjioyed it more than e Secreta-ry of Agriculture. But hen the fight came to a crisis and .e "interests" looked about them for me way of stopping the assault on mzoate of soda as a preservative, ~cretary Wilson raised no objection. In the present effort to drive Dr. iley out of the government service, ~cretary Wilson has been revealec an attitude of ignrnnce or of vae ation by no means creditable to mn. He must recommend some urse of action to the Presi 'at with re;;ard to the technical er r in whichi Dr. Wiley has been ap ehended and the task is oppressing e Secretary unspeakably. Another possibility of trouble for e Serretary is found in the charges eferred against the chief of the aather bureau, ~Mr. Willis L. nore, who seems to have done some ing like that which is ascribed to 7. Wiley. It is said- that Mr. Soore hired .rthquake experts out of the einer >ncy fund, which technically should it be -used for such a -purpose. Coin g at this time, the 'Mfoor'e charge nds to enibarass the Secretary if he disposed 'to agree lwth the Attor ly General that Dr. Wiley should ave the service. If Dr. Wiley, why it also Dr. Moore. But the most conclusive evidence of e Secretary's lack -to grasp -upon e situation is the fact that an es nate of the size of the forthcoming cp of cottan was published by his spartmnent and given to the press thout his knowledge or approval. Senator Smith, of South Carolina, 2o is one ~of the leaders of the uthern Cotton Grewers Association mnt to see Mr. Wilson the other day protest against the -policy of the partment permitting such guesses be given out with its authority, using great demorilization in the tton market and giving great fin tus to speculation against the far ars' interest. The Secretary told the Senator that (the Secretary) had not been ap ised of the alleged estimate and at is was without his sanction or rrant of law, and that an estimate d been published by the depart mnt it should never be done again. The estimate was published, of urse, and Mr. Wilson's statement the premises simply shows how1 ich has been :going e' under his minal supervision without his real knowing any more about it than he were at the North Pole. Senator Smith will introduce a res itlon calling upon Mr. Wilson to orm Congress whether or not his partment did issue the advance es sate attributed to it In the news pers; if so, why such an estimate .s permitted; and what fluctuations the. cotton market :have followed i publication of the esitmnate. t There is no telling what may grow t of this incident, emphasizing as does the looseness with which the partmnent of agriculture is being rated under the existing system of trol. Stray Bullet Kills. Mfrs. R. R. Greene, who resides 1I rth of Live Oak, Fla., was acci- t tally klled last week by a rifle ( L fired by some member of the i wannee B~ifles.e Several members the company were out north of city engaged in rifle practice, f. I a stra-y bullet from one of their r ls struck Mrs. Greene, who was s her home, one mile @jtant, lWill- e CORN SHOW TO COM FORTY THOUSAND DOLLARS NEEDED TO FINANCE IT. Dities and Towns Will Be Asked to Aid in the Movement of National Importance. The National Corn Exposition will )e held in Columbia in 1913. This mnouncement was made Monday by 3ecretary Hamby of the Columbia 'hamber of Commerce, and a cam )aign will be launched imediately to secure $40,000 necessary to hold the mxposition. The cities and towns of Bouth Carolina will be asked to help Z the movenment. The following letter was address ?d Monday by Secretary Hamby to the president and officers of the :hambers of commerce and boards )f trade of the different cities and towns of South Carolina. "The holding of the National Corn Exposition in South Carolina in 1913 Is now assured provided the cost of putting it on can be guaranteed within sixty days. "This guarantee is $40,000-$20, 000 of which is to be paid in cash monthly installments between now nd the opening of the exposition, which will be January 29, 1913. "In addition to the above guaran tee, it is necessary to erect on the fair grounds a building sufficiently large to take care of the exposition; this building has been purchased at a cost of $25,000, and Is the largest auditorium in the South, capable of seating 35,000 people. You will see from the above that it required a to tal of $65,000 to finance the propo ition, $25,000 of which has been ledged 'by Columbia for the buildiugs and $40,000 must now be guaran teed. "This is the largest proposition that has been undertaken in this State and is one. of State-wide im portance and benefit. In addition to the expenditure of $25,000 for this building without any solicitation as yet, three citizens of Columbia have contributed $3,500 in cash; one of the railroads entering Columbia, the name of which will be revealed la ter, has subscribed $5,000 toward the_ guarantee; the city of Charleston has already pledged a subscription of $2,000, making a total of $35,000, leaving a balance of 30,000 yet to be ecured in one of the four ways: eith er by guarantee or cash, or both. The officers of the association have already begun their campaign f publicity, securing concessions, arranging: for State and other ex hibits, securing special transporta tion rates, etc. "Monthly installments will have to be paid in cash, beginning immedi ately, and it is therefore necessary that the opportunity be accorded the undersigned to present this matter to every commercial body in every county in South Carolina which may be interested in the agricultural and industrial development of the State as soon as possible after Thursday, August 10. "Time and space will not 'permit me to go into details through 'this medium, therefore I would re spectfully ask that your 'board of di rectors and membership grant me an audience at such a time and place as may be most convenient. As it weill probably be necessary for me to visit 25 or 30 towns in the State, you will see the importance of giving this your earliest attention, that T may be able to arrange an itinerary that can be carried out ~at the least expense and in the shortest time. "Kindly let me know as soon as possible whether you can arrange for such an audience at your regular monthly meeting, or if that time be now past, at some special meeting :alled for the purpose, giving me the :late, place and hour. "I am convinced that this move ment and rebound to the greaftest good to this State, wbich Is now in he very best shape to receive the benefits that will accrue to it from he holding of the National Corn ex position there in 1913. Those who realize the agricultural and indus :rial possibilities of South Carolina vill need no urging in this matter, md its mainly to those wiho 'have not iven it a thougbt that I wish to pre sent the proposition, that~ they, too, nay become materially interested in a undertaking which will not only >e trae best advertisement possible to :he entire Staite, but will put It at east two years ahead of every other southern State in agricultural devel-' pment.I "Thanking you in advance for an ~arly reply, and eagerly hoping that may have the privilege of .1eeting our organization for the purpose bove mentioned, I am." DON'T BELONG TO THEM. adgett U'nknown to South Carolina Methodists. From the Atlanta Constitution omes the report that the Rev. B. L. adgett, claiming to be'e' Methodist reacher from Greenville, S. C., was pprehended in a little Madison ave tue hotel as being unlawfully in the ompany of a young lady, also from e South Carolina city. "Rev. Mr. Patgett says that he has een a Methodist preacher a number d years and that last year and year efore he was president of the South arolina Conference. He declares h~at his record is above reproach and hat when the local authorities are ired about him they will, release iim." A well known minister of the Meth dist Episcopal Church. South, of ~olumbia, says that he does not know f any such Rev. Mr. Padgett. He s not a minister of the authorized ethodist Church. We have no such hing as president of the Conferences.. 1 must be a member of one of the ects that inhabit the mountaIn parts f the State." Parole a Negro. Governor Blease paroled Lorum 7ashington, colored, of Darlington, rho killed John Scott in a fight fol wed a baseball game over which hey had disagreed. Superintendent eriffin, of the Penitentiary, said he ad made a excellett prisoner. In every one of his eligible lists or the presidency Bryan puts Wood ow Wilson at the head. Yet it is aid Champ Clerk is Bryan's first [ hoice for the Democratic standard DREADED DISEASE J ASIATIC CHOLERA IS KNOCKING AT OUR VERY DOOR. Some Facts About This Awful Plague that Will Be of Interest Just at the Present Time. Six deaths in New York and one in Boston of victims of Asiatic chol era give warning that the United States is seriously menaced by the -plague which is so serious in Italy that the authorities of that country will not permit any information as to actual conditions there to be sent ut to other countries, says the Wash ington correspondent of the Charlotte Observer. It does not follow that the plague is likely to become opidemic in this country, for proper precautionary measures will' preclude that. How-. ever, the plague is at our doors, and public health authorities, both Fed eral and State, realize that they have a serious problem to handle. That they have the situation well in hand, is generally recognized, but it is also recognized that conditions might de velop such that the United States would :have a genuine cholera scare. Fortunately the Federal health of ficers have been preparing for this t emergency for more than a year. Cholera is a world disease and moves E In cycles. For eight years the pres- i ent pandemic has been spreading over Asia and Europe and it was expected i to reach the United States this year. A year ago the United States public I health and marine hospital service i issued a bulletin on "Cholera: Its Nature, Detection and Preventation,' which gave warn-ing to the coming of the plague and told State and munici- t pal health authorities how to deal - with the problem when it reached them. This Is by no means the first time 1 the United States has been threat ened with this plague. For centu ries there :have been epidemics of cholera in India, but it was not until early In the last century that It as- i sumed pandemic proportions and j swept over the world. Since 1817 there have been six great pandemics of cholera, as follows: 1817-1823; 1826-1837; 1846-1862; 1864-1875; 1883-1896; 1902-1911. The first pandemic spread slowly, involving India, Java, Borneo, Maur itius, the Phillipines, China, Persia, Mesopotamia,. Arabia, Syria and Egy pt. The second had a wider spread. Europe became infected from Persia and Turkey and it was carried to England, Canada, the United States, Cuba and South America. Since then each pandemic has covered practical If the entire world. The fifta pandemic was perhaps the most serious. It is estimated that in two years, 1892-94, over 800,000 people died of the cholera in Russia, and a terrific outbreak in Hamburg in 1892 cost the lives of 8,600 persons. In 1893 the disease reached 'the port of New York i-n the person of immigrants from Europe and a few cases occurred in Jersey City. The present pandemic began in 1902 and spread through farther In dia and China to the Phillipines. In 1903 It spread as usual by way of Afghanistan, Persia and Arabia to Egypt, Syria, Palestine, Asia Minor and the Black Sea. In 1904 It fol lowed thie caravan routes from Cen tral Asia and the following year spread over Russia and Poland and appeared in Prussia. No great spread of- the disease has occurred in the German empire, be cause of Che constant vigilance exer cised by the German sanitary author Ities, although the continued persist ence of .the disease in Russia has fur nished Ge'many new infections al most yearly. The presence -and spread of cholera In Italy, a country from whici this country receives more immigrants than from any other cou-ntry, makes the menace of chol era toc the United States more direct1 and threatening than at any time since -1892-3. EATEN BY AN ALLIGATOR. Watch of Missing Girl Found in the Reptile's Stomach. A dispatch from Forsyth, Ga., sayst the finding of a valuable watch and chain in the stomach of a large alli gator that died in a pond near there Monday night is believed to solve the mystery of the disappearance of 12 year-old Janet Thom-pson from the home of her parents at Island Grove, Fla., two years ago. The alligator was captured near Island Grove some weeks after the -girl disappear ed -and was brough-t to Forsyth -by J-. M. Jackson. The little girl has never been heard from since she disappear-e ed. When last seen she was stand-i ing on the banks of the lake near where Jackson captured the alligator. and was wearing at the time a gold watch with her initials engraved ona the back. The same inititals are on the back of the watch found -inside the dead alligator. It -is believed by Jackson and others that while the I girl was playing on the -bank of thev lake the alligator came upon the bank and devoured. The -parents ofc the girl have been notified and the watch will be returned 'to them. * Saved Life of Many. With a shirt torn from his back. E Robert Cook, of DeGrac, Ohio flagged Big Four Flyer No. 11 at Quncy aurve, probably saving the 150 pas engers from death. The Qunty . 3urve is the sharpest on the Idianap- * lis division and Cook, while walking along the track discovered a broken ~ rail. He ripped off his shirt and run-P ing a milt up t'he track flagged the. :rain.. * 3 The Wages of Sin. C. A. Manker, sixty-fivt years old, i rose 'from his 'flop"~ in a water front odging house at San Francisco st- t 3rday and surprised the proprietori b ay declarin; "I -am a fugitive bank r from Pearl, Ill. I embezzled $45,- - )00 foin the Bank of Pearl, wrecked <c :he institution and escaped. I am tarvin~g and I want to give myself ip, I have been hunted since .908."* 'p la Booze Wins in Texas. I The anti-prohibitionl measure won < .t In Texas at the Saturday election 'al ecording to figures compiled by the:7 Dallas -News. The total vote to date:t s: Again'st the amendment, 234,- ii I ILL MEN KICK' arif Pan Proposed by Democrats on Cotton Goods Stirs Them Up )PPOSE LOWER DUTIES he American Cotton Manufacturers Association Laps a Statement of r Its Views Before the Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee of the House. The plans of the Democrats in the Louse to materially reduce the tariff m cotton producfs has raised a howl rom one end of the country to the ther from man-ufacturers who see t -uin staring them in the face. The I nanufacturers ask among other 1ings why the cotton industry is elected for tariff revision among the irst when its prod-ucts .have advanced east of all the great commodities luring the past ten years. In order to understand thorough y the positioi the manbufacturers ake, the tarif committee of the .erican Cotton Manufacturers' as ociation has jiust placed the follow ng statement before Ciairman Un lerwood of the ways and Means com nittee of the house: We are opposed to any revision hat will increase the percentage of mportations to total United States :otton manufactures that now exists. In figuring percentages of impor ations on manufactures we call at :ention to the fact that importations nder the cotton -manufactures schedule were 17 1-4 per cent. of :he total cotton manufactures for :he year 1910. including laces and >ther such luxuries that- are as yet iot made in great quantities in this :ountry, allibiough it is interesting :o note that .the manufacture - of aces in the United States increased n value from $3,500,000 in 1900 to iearly $10,000,000 in 1916. We believe that any way it may >e considered that the present im ort-ation are sufficient to protect he consumer by regulating prices, .or there is no monopoly or restraint Af trade, but on the contrary, the keenest competition among cotton anufacturers of the United States. 5tates. We do not believe that. anything. ore regulative of prices can be se :ured, however much Importations nay be increased, for Amer.ican nan ifacturers are already down to cost, ind without radical ciitting of ;ages, which it is not believed would >r could be effected the chief result of egislating more foreign goods Into :his country would only transfer that work todforeigners, for the importers I* not usually undersell a local mar tet except enough to bring in their goods. We believe that the cotton sched 21e bears its share of the customs revenue for the su-pport of the gov rnment, and that there is no call Eor increasing the amount collected inder it. We are opposed to revision with yut adequate data. We offer our assistance in obtain .ng such data. We are in favor of such revision as 'ill protect all clasi-ficatio~s under ;he schedule primarily in pkoportion o their labor costs, and afe espec ally in favor of simplificatidn of the ~chedule. We are opposed to any revision :hat does not take into account dif ~erence in other conditions as well Ls labor costs, particularly on ac ~unt of Southern mill conditions. We are opposed to reductions of i-uty on machinery and other items meering into the cost of niills, ex :ept such as will keep them on a arity with our own industry as to abor and cther costs at home and troad. We do not want our prop rty depreciated, nor do we want roadly to injure other industries to ielp our own. Let eachi case rest n its merits and benefit equally. We at' opposed to personal hear nas; too often it has been 'glieged hat unfair advantage hasabeen taken bat way in making the tariffs of the We are in favor of publicity and ecord, and of the freest and, most >pen discussion and consideration of eveytng relating to tariff making. We demand that the data .upon hich revision is based be made pub ic and a matter of record ~except rith such concealment of names that rood faith dictates with those fur ishing data. If publicity is good for ther things, and we -believe it is, it ertainly is desirable in such vitally1 mportanit matter as the tariff. We also demand a definite state aent as .to just what It is intended y its makers tha.t the revision' shall .complish. W'at measure of protection is it ntended to accord to American man ifacturers, equality in labor cost on ', equality in cost of production, or rhat? How much relative increase or de rease, is intended in importations, rhic~h means how much more or less ompetition is it intended to impose pon us? If more competition. how are we xpected to meet it? If we are expected to cut labor, ow is tha' labor to be compensated or the r'duction. and what can it rfinitely expect ir: lesser cost of liv 1 to offset the cut? What amount of revenue is the ~ ew tariff on cotton manufactures ex ected to yield. What reduction is expected, if any, Sthe cost of articles of cotton man facture to t'he consumer at retail ores? - I We ask consideration of the arbo've s 1 the spirit in which it is offered. We intend no reflecu1on: we mere- q r sk tc have our way pcinted out b y those who make the way. n We beg leave to hare it borne in ih tind that our industry directly con- t arns 2000,000 people, and Indirectly o iany more; that we are not simply Lanufacturers and employes asking rotection for our property and our .bor, bht we are consumers, and thi.t hb -e are citizens most of whom votd ri >r th-e party preposing this revision b' ad who expected not only that any a avisions would be made with as di ich prudence as wou-ld 'be exercised ... ,private business matters, but also t PEOPLE WILL DECIE LECIPXOCITY QUESTION TO BE VOTED ON BY THEM. 'he Fate of tht New Measure De pends Upon Complexion of New Parliament Soon to be Elected. A dispatch from Ottawa, Ontario, ays the eleventh Parliament of Can da passed out of existence Saturday nd upon the political complexion a tew one, to be elected September 21, v.ill depend the fate of the reciproci y agreement ibetween the United tates and Canada. Premier Lauritr decided to ask or an mmediate dissolution, at a neeting of his cabinet Saturday af ernoon, and at once notified Earl rey the Governor General. Practically every member has Itft he Capital and the campaign on the -eciprocity issue will be begun all >ver the Dominion. The announcement of the disso ution came as a great surprist, as 'ew persons expected it before next veek, if -at all. The new Parlia nent will be summoned to meet Oc ;ober 11, and supply bills will be vot -d at once. It is generally agreed that the two nonth's campaign before the country ill be vigorous, and even bitter. teciproci-ty~ will be the sole issue, ilthough the conservatives in Que sec may seek to inject the naval is mue into the campaign. The anti-annexation cry has been 'sed by the Conservatives in all yarts of the country. - Sir Wilfred urier and his ministers will take ;he stump and conduct platform cam aigns in all provinces. The Parliament just dissolved had i membership of 133 Liberals, 85 Ionservatives and 3 Independents, ;iving the Government a working ajorty of over 40. The ebsence of t closure ruit, Ihowever, made t im possible for :the majority tp force a ote against a filibuster. Should the present Liberal Gov .rnment be retuTned with anything Ike a workinf majority, it will mean :hat a vote can be takktn on the ree procity resolution, and that the trade agreement will go into ecect. A 3onservative victory at the -polls eans the pasage -of the La-urier gov -rnment and the permanent killing )f t-he reciprocity -pact. * WILL PASS OTHER BILLS. ienator LaFoUette Tells What, Wil Be Done Soon. "Ten the people of Georgia,":says t Washington special to the Atl anta rournal, "that Thursday's vote oi the wool bill in the senate clearly demon ;trated that Governor Smith's vote ill not be needed for the passage y tariff legislation at this session of ongress," said Senator LaFollette, :be insurgent leader, Saturday night, ollowing the passage of the compro nise wool bill. "Moreover, Gov. Hoke Smth's vote won't be needed to -put the farmers' ree list ibill through the senate," idded Mr. LaFollette. "We will join the Democrats in roting for that measure, and will suit the matter squarely up to the President, you may rest assured, and nay inform the farmers tof Georgia :hat more than enough progressive Republicans will vote for the free list bill to make Its passage certain, all of the Democrats stand up. as :hey did on the wool bill." Senator LaFollette's statement :oncerning the attitudp of the in mrgents with reference to the far ners' free list bill Is the first posi :ve intimation tlhat has come from :he insurgent camp concerning this 11 im.portant measure. Its signifi sance is not to 'be underestimated. * PROTEST TARIFF REDUCTION. fil Man Saiys it Will Turn the Mills Into Soup Houses. R. M. Miller, Jr., of Charlotte, N. 3. chairman of the tariff committee >f the Americ n Cotton Manuifactur rs' Association Friay gave oct tihe ~ollowing official statement, :protest ng against the propose reuction in he cotton .tai-ic schedule: "The so-called Underwood bill on e revision of the cotton tariff sched i1e is a bill formed apparently solely n the interest of the importer and oreigner-wholly unfair and u.njuast o .-ignoring entirely the interest. t the American cotton manufacturer Ld the American laborer and if en tted into a law will turn the cotton nills of our country into soup iouses. "Based 'upon to-day's prices o-f cot on yarns as best that I can ftgure, in rder that the manufacturers of this ountry may meet the reductions in he proposed schedule and to com ete with imported yarns, It will at essitate a cut somewhere from 25 to 0 per cent in the wages of our cot on mill operatifes. This means pau ter wages to our American labortr to neet the pauper wages of Europe. Vill American labor stand for it? ['he American cotton nuanufactilr rs protest against it. * Takes a Long Sleep. After sleeping almost continuous 7- for 105 days, Miss Hazel Schmidt, if Vandalia, Ill., the 1 8-year-old girl rhose strange case has puzzled phy-j cans for weeks, was awakened for te hour Saturday and ate thrte 2eals. She sad she felt no 11 effects rom her slumber. Attendng physi ians say the girl's trance is broken *d that she soon will be herself gjn. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Killed Man in Her Room. At Macon, Ga.. Eva Goodwyn, a 9-year-old girl from Tampa. Fla., tabbed and killed Clarence C. Peavy,f f Cordele, Ga.. a bar tender, after aa uarrel in the girl's room at her I oardg house about 5 o'clock this< iorning. She says that he attacked j em first. She is now in jail and willi e tried in November on the charge' 1 f murder.* Killed in Boiler Exlosion. Miss Tine Blackwelder is dead and er father, brother and sister are se lously injured, as the result of a oiler explosion at the father's saw t tLl J in Cabarrus County, N. C., Fri- f Ly. * e e publicity that was generally prom WILL HELF SOM Vhat the Riciprscity Agreemt Wil D for the Cossmers. LL CHEAPEN GOODS some of the Benefits that the Red. procity Agreement with (unada Will Confer on the-Great Mass of Consumers in the Cities and - Towns and Country. In presenting the prospective ben afits of the reciprocal trade agree nent between the United States and Oamada, it Is necessary to consider that under the present tariff law many of the duties have been whol ly prohibitive. The present amount f importation or the present income to the-United States through the me lum of the custom house is, ex ept In a few instances, no index to the future trade in any particular ar ticle or commodity. The restrictions of the past re moved, certain articles, to-day only ominally upon the list. of Imports from the United States into Canada and from Canada into the United States, must, in the Immediate fu ture become Imjortant articles of trade in one direction or. the other and in some Instances in both direc tions. The following are among the impoitauit changes in' the present trade conditions with Canada, which the agreement ratified by the bill - passed will put into effect at once. The question, then, Is What will rec procity accomplish? It will 1. Admit to the United States free of duty articles to the value of $39, 811,560 under which the Payne-Ald rich tariff law there is now a duty. In return Canada by a remission of her duties, will admit free, products of the United States to the value of $21,957,605, according to the sta tistics for last year obtainable for purposes of calculation. 2. Place upon the free list wheat, rye, oats, barley, buckwheat, dried peas and beans, and corn upon wbich the United States at present imposes a varying schedule of duties ranging from ten cents per bushel. for Tye to 45 cents per bushel for dried beans. All this benefit to the consumer being accomplished at a revenue cost to the United States of less than $300,000. 3. Place upon the free list cattle, horses, mules, sheep and swine at present dutiable at rates approxi mately 25 per cent., but at a revenue cost to the United States of less thah $275,000. 4. Place upon the free list vegeta bles of all sorts, including potatoes, cabbages, onions, sweet potatoes and yams, now taxed at from 25 cents to 40 cents per bushel, .and all other fresh vegetables not enuerated at 25 per cent advalorem, a .J at a cost to the United States of $380,000. 5. Relieve from the tariff of 1-4 cent per. pound the annual Importa tion of 31,841,153 pounds df fresh water fish, and from the tariff of from 3-4 to 1 cent per pound of 13, 341,921 pounds of mackerel, ells, amelts, halibut, and herring; 17, 085,091 pounds of cod, haddck, hake and other dried, smoked and salt fish, and 10,000,000 .pounds of salted and smoked mackerel and herring, at a revenue cost to the United States of $380,000. 6. Remove the existing tariff on pulp - wood and print paper, thereby admitting to the- United States free 160,217,569 'pounds of pulp wood now dutible, and 86;766,027 pounds of print paper, according to the Ima poitations of 1910, at arevenue cost to the government of $300,000, and 75,446,109 pounds of chemically pre pared unbleached and 19,345,312 pounds of bleached pulp wood at a revenue of $175,000. 7. Place lumber upon the free list thereby relieving the American con sumer of the tariff of $1.25 per 1,000 feet .upon the 975,975,000 feet of sawed lumber imported last year at a revenue sacrifice of $1,219,970. 8. Reduce the present tariff on fresh meats from 11-2 per pound to 1 1-4 cents per pound for the return concession on the part of Canada of a reduction of 3 cents a pound to 1 1-4 cents. Reduce the tariff on ba con end hams from 4 cents per pound 'to ~1 1-4 cents per ;pound, on ll other dried and smoked meats from 25 per cent advalorem to 1 1-4 cent per pound, In return for a re duction on the part of Canada from 2 cents per pound to the same fig. ure. These changes In the meat tariff to be effected at a revenue. loss to the United States of less than $8,000. 9. Reduce the duty on canned veg etables from 40 per cent advalorem to 1 1-4 cents per pound, at a reve nue loss of $6,000. 10. Reduce the tariff on flour from 25 per cent advalorem to 50 ents per barrel of 196 pounds, at a revenue loss of $18,000. 11. Reduce the tariff on maple sugar and maple syrup from 4 cents per pound to 1 cent per pound, at a revenue loss of $72,000. 12. Reduce the tariff on lathes from 20 cents per 1,000 to 10 cents per 1,000, and upon shingles from 50 cents per 1,000, to 30 cents per 1,000, at a revenue loss for the two items of $200,000. 13. Articles to the value of $47, 33,158 are affected by the new re iprocal agreement. Upon these .ar :icles the total tariff levied at present . $5,649,826 per annum. Of this -evenue the United States will remit ltes to the amount of $4,849,933. Triplets Hold Reception. Hundreds called on -Mr. and Mirs. eorge C. Livingston of Pittsburg, ass., Tuesday afternoon -to see their ~ourth of July triplets. The parents >f the pair of boys and a girl were o beset they decided to hold a public -ecption. Many of the visitors left ~ootees, flannel coats, tiny dresses d other baby wear. Both Pass Away. Sir. Ellie Hyatt, a young farmer, 8 years old, died at his home at neknow, in Lee county, Monday af ernoon, after being Ill for the past w days. Within one hour after t had breathed his last his wife, rs. Mollie Hyatt, died of heart fail Ire. The remains of both were buT na wa Lucknow.