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WHAT WAS DONE Campaign Pledges Redeemed in Full by the Democratic Party. EXAMPLE TO THE PARTY Speaker Champ Clark, in Reviewing the Work Done By Congress, Says the Democrats in the House and in the Senate Have Set a Good Exam ple to the Party at Large. Champ Clark, speaker of the house of representatives, in a review of the work done by the Sixty second con gress, declared that the Democratic party set a good example for Demo crats everywhere, and that the party hatt redeemed every promise it made in the campaign of 1910, when the Democrats wrested control of the house from the Republicans. "At this session, the Democrats have made a record which has sur prised our friends and dumbfounded our enemies," said Speaker Clark. It has put heart and hope into Dem ocrats everywhere. The ertra ses sion was extraordinary, not only in the sense being a special sssion called by the president, but also in the amount and the quality of the work done in the house by the com bined Democrats and insurgents and the combined Democrats and Repub lican insurgents in the senate, and especially by the unanimity of action developed by the 'house Democrats. "It was predicted freely, vocifer ously, enthusiastically and confident ly by the 'standpat' press and ora tors that we woud go to pieces. On that account and by reasons of that hope, they rejoiced that the extra session of Congress was called, so that we might go to pieces at the earliest possible date. But we have sorely disappointed all their expec tations. They even set the date when we woud go to pieces, which was the day of the Democratic causcus on January 19, but unfortunately for - them in that case, everything was done unanimously. They then said surely we would go to pieces as soon as we reached the - tariff question, but again they were doomed to disappointment, and we ,did not go to pieces at all. We are more thoroughly united in the house at the end of the session, if possible, than at the beginning. "We have set a good example to Democrats evrywhere. Sneered at for years as a party of negation and as being utterly lacking in ability for constructive statesmanship, we pass ed through the house more construc tive legislation, and better, than has passed through any house in the same length of time in 20 years. We have have set the pace in that regard for future houses. "We redeemed every promise made in order to carry the elections in 1910. We have economized, we passed the reciprocity bill, the wool tariff bill, the free list bill. the cot ton bill with the senate amendments, which included the iron and steel schedule and the chemical schedule; we submitted for ratification a con stitutional amendment providing for popular election of United States senators; we passed a bill for the publication of campaign expenses be fore the election; we liberalized the rules, making the committees elec tive by the house, we passed a reso ution to admit New Mexico and Ari zoa, and we passed a large number of other bills of more or less impor tannce. It is a record of which we may well be proud and on which we will sweep the country in 1912. "To show "how completely the 'stand-pat' Republicans are demoral Ized, it is only necessary to quote the newspapers' ?tatement that there was great rejoicing and congratula tion at the White House, because we failed by a scratch vote to get the two-thirds majority to override the president's vetoes although we have only 63 majority in the house. To this completion has come at last, that the president, who rode into power by a huge majority is glad to escape the humiliation of having his vetoes overridden in a house con taining a majority of only 63. Small favors are thankfully received by the administration. "Notwithstanding the fact that four cabinet members were on the floor of the house lobbying in favor of the veto, all their power, allure ments and patronage of the adminis tration to help them influence votes, 22 insurgent Republicans had the courage and manhood to override the president's vetoes. What's writ is writ, and whatever the future may have in store, the honor of having perfect unanimity among the Denii ocrats and of achieving an extraordi nary amount of constructive states manship at this extraordinary ses sion can never be taken from us. Ev ery Democrat in the house and every insurgnt Republican who stood up to the rack is entitled to his full share of credit. "We honestly and persistently en deavored to relieve the people of some of their burden of taxation, but the president would not have it. To use a sporting phrase 'he blocked the game.' On these issues, we appeal to the country, feeling absolutely cer tain that as we have stood manfully for the best interests of the people, the people will stand by us." The four cabinet officers to whom the Speaker referred as having been on the floor of the house when the tariff revision vetoes wero pending in that body were Attorney General Wickersham, Postmaster General Hitchcock, Secretary of War Stim son and Secretary of Commerce and Labor Nagel. Morroccan Question Unsettled. The Moroccan question which has been causing uneasiness in diplo matic circles of Europe for sometime is yet unsettled. A dispatch from Paris says Premier Calliux is taking counsel of the best diplomatic and political wisdom of France during these days of uncertainty in the Mo roccan negotiations with Germany. Myrtle Reed Found Dead. Mrs. Myrtle Reed McCullough, au thor, was found dead at her home. Police reports indicate that death was caused by an over dose of sleep ing powders, taken with suicidal in tent. She was thirty-seven years old. She left a note and check for oe thousand dollars to her maid. WANTS PRICE FIED SHOULD GET TWELVE AND HALF CENTS FOR COTTON. A Prominent Georgia Farmer Tells How It Can be Done, and Wants Union to Do It. Mr. John Bostwick, of Bostwick, Ca., a prominent farmer of that State writes as follows to the Atlan ta Constitution: Editor Atlanta Constitution: A demand of a minimum price of twelve and a halt cents per pound for the cotton crop of the South should be the slogan of every South erner, and an organized effort on the part of the farmers, bankers and tJ merchants of the South should at once be inaugurated with the ob- S ject in view not to sell the growing crop for less than that price. The present crop which we are agreed will be around 14,000,000 bales, if sold for twelve and a half cents. or better, would bring about the most prosperous condition the t South has ever experienced; on the r other hand, if the crop is put on the a market as gathered. there will be a f lut In the market, and the price will k go down to eight or nine cents per pound. With this condition there will be no profit to the grower, small depos its with the banks, poor trade for the merchant and consequently stagna- c tion in all lines of business. Therefore it is to the interests of every Southern man to do all he can e tc aid the farmer in securing a fair a and reasonable price for his cotton, which is the South's money crop, and P on which depends the prosperity or adversity of her people. I hold that twelve and a half cents per pound is a reasenable price and that while the spinners of the world would like to buy it for less they would make a good fight at the c price indicated and would take it at that price if the growers demand it e I suggest that C. S. Barrett, presi dent of the Farmers' Union (the b members of which organization b raise probably 40 per cent of the cot tcn of th_ South), should see at once P that his union fix the price of the present crop at not a cent less 0 than twelve and a half cents per t] pound. This done, I feel certain nr that the non-union farmers, supply e merchants, and bankers, through t] state conventions, would endorse the 9 action of the farmers' union, and j< would lend all their influences to t< maintain that price. n I note the fact that the speculators s, are selling cotton for September, Oc- b tober and November delivery in New a York for a fraction over eleven cents t] per pound. Now we know they have b no cotton to sell, and are expecting t to buy cotton for less than that price d to deliver to these contracts, if the P buyers demand the cotton The world should be put on notice now, that the cotton growers of the C South are not growing any eleven b cent cotton, and that they are going ~ to' demand at least twelve and a half a cents for the present crop and put aa stop at once to the speculator selling C it for less.0 The present crop has been raised ' on the idea, that it would bring ~ twelve and a half to fourteen cents -r per pound. Supplies have been t bought, money borrowed, laborers ~ employed at high wages, all with t this idea, and if it is sold for less s there would be little profit. Conceding that the spinners have ~ made very little money in the man-u facture of the 1910 crop, for which ~ they paid about fourteen and a half t cents, yet they used the entire crop C at that price, and as they have be- ~ come accustomed to working on close t margins, I feel satisfied that they can make a nice profit in the manu facture of tie present crop at twelve c and a half cents per pound.f While I know they would like to by for less, I am satisfied that they will pay that price mighty quick if they are convinced that the growers i are demanding it, and that they are backed in this demand by an organ ized effort of the entire business in terest of the South. The necessity for quick action in this matter is evident from the fact that the present crop is now begin ning to come on the market, and from the further fact that if this plan i adopted, the banks of the south will have to furnish considerable money on warehouse receipts and they should be given time to make the necessary money arrangements. a The plan is altogether feasible and practicable to my mind, for the following reasons: There is no ne- t cessi'y for any cotton to go on the$ market before October 1, as there are no obligations for supplies or money, to make crops maturing be-a fore that date If no cotton is mar keted in Septiember I am batisfied$ that it will bring twelve and a half a cents by October 1. c If farmers who have bought sup plies on credit, and borrowed money t to make their crops, will put cotton gathered in September in the ware house, get warehouse receipts, turn. these receipts over to their supply 2 merchant, the supply merchants who have borrowed from the banks, couldk put up these cotton certificates with i~ the banks and renew their notes thir ty, sixty or ninety days, or until the v spinners need the cotton at twelve f and a half cents per pound. b Not to agree on this plan, or somne other plan, by which the present cot- tI ton crop will yield a profit to the r4 cotton producers of the South. would ~ be, to my mind, the greatest mis take Imaginable. Hoping that some action will be taken in this matter immediately, I Si am yours for southern progress and prosperity. John Bostwick. Bostwick. Ga., August 16, 1911. Should Need No Answer. T Occasionally we are asked why we in do not publish all that happens. It ti is fortunate for these particular indi- ju viduals that discretion occasionally sa demands the omission of unpleasant of items. Should we publish all that $3 is told us we would be with the an- ca gels in about 20 minutes after our fc papers were mailed. We try to print T1 all items that are news, or that will G ncourage, help or cheer any of our w citizens along life's rugged road. We pc ll doubtless would enjoy reading am all the news'' when its about the cc other fellow, but we never cared to o' lend aid to the gossips in the spread- ci ing of scandals that only leave sor- in LSKED TO FGHT dier From Secretary Reid to President Barrett About Prices. 1ANT HIM TO HELP THEM here' |Is No Reason For .Lower Prices of Cotton, and It is Expect ed that the Early Estimate Will Demonstrate the Fact That No Huge Crop Will Be Made. The State says Secretary Reid of ie South Carolina Farmers' Union :onday addressed a letter to Charles . Barrett, president of the National armers' Union urging that he as st in the campaign that has been maugurated to impress .upon the Lrmers of the South to market the tton crop in a conservative manner. "We do not believe," says Secre try Reid, "that there are any good ,asons for lowering prices than the erage for the past season, if our trmers and business men will mar et the crop in a conservative man er." A letter has been addressed by ecretary Reid to the secretary of very county union in the State ask ig for an accurate estimate on the rop for this year Following the action of E. D. mith of South Carolina, in the Unit i States Senate, it is expected that n estimate on the crop will soon be irnished by the United States de artmeat of agriculture. The following is the letter to Pres lent Barrett: "To Charles Barrett, president ational Farmers' unfor, and the tate president of the Farmers' un >n, and the commissioners of agri Alture in the cotton belt: "The Sumter county unioa direct I us to have a conference with the umter Chamber of Commerce on the est way to secure concert of action etween the farmers and the allied usiness interests to maintain a fair rice for their cotton. "From informaiton laid before ur recent conference by members of ie chamber of commerce ana by Lembers of the Farmers' union, cov ring a wide area in this section, we iink that the prospects have been reatly exaggerated, and we sent a )int telegram to Senator E D. Smith >call on Secretary Wilson for im ediate investigation; and we are nding similar reports to all cham ers of commerce, commissioners of griculture and State presidents of 3e Farmers' Union in the cotton elt for thorough investigation trough our own agencies of the con ition of the cotton crop, to be re orted to our national president and ack to us, that we may have the ue condition upon which to base ur idea of a fair price. We do not elieve that there are any good rea ans for lower prices than the aver ge for the past season, if our farmrs d business men will market the rop in a conservative way. But if ur people become stampeded, a pan will result and there is no telling here the price will go before we ecover from the shock We have aken t'his action jointly because we elieve the legitimate business in ests of the South should be indis lubly allied in maintaining a fair ust price for cotton; and we take leasure in commending to the chamn ers of commerce and the farmers' nions throughout the cotton belt e hearty accord that exists between ur farmers and bankers and coin ercial interests generaly in Sum r county. "Over wide areas in this state the rought is not yet broken and the atton is literaly burning up. The a farmers who are blessed with ood crops are as about one to 100 at are below the average. "Asking your immediate and hear r cooperation, we remain, Yours respectfully, "E. W. Dabbs. President Sumter County and Presi dent S. C State Unk~n. 'J. Of. Brogdon, County and State business Agent. CH EAP SESSION. emocrats Have Conducted Congress In an Economical Way. Chairman Fitzgerald of the House propriations committee, in review g the work of the extra session resday stated that the appropria ons of the extra session aggregated 301,052. He declared that no ses on of Congress has ever run so long period and appropriated so little. Mr. Fitzgerald said that more than 200,000 had been saved during this 'ssion by abolishing sinecures and itting gratuities hertofore granted mgressional employes. and such re -enchment was plann(;d for the next Former Speaker Cannon accused ie Democrats of niggardliney, say tg that in order to effect a petty iving they had made it impossible to eep clean the quarters occupied by prresetatives. Representative Palmctr of Pennsyl mina (Democrat) retorted that one irth of the house expenses had een eliminated by cutting off petty raft and that it was the intention of e Democrats to carry out a smilar form in every branch of the gov MUST PAY HEAVY FINE. iot at His Man Four Times With-2 out Any Effect. As a result of his fight with R. G. ibbs. Friday at Spartanburg, in b~mpson and Dillard's store dur g which he fired a revolver four mes, missing Gibbs but slightly in ring Mrs. Jones F. Thompson, a 1 leslady, Magistrate TI. 0. Fowler, Reidville, in police court was fined 0O for disorderly conduct, $100 for rrying concealed weapons and $25 rdischarging firearms in the city. ee evidence was that the attack on bbs was unprovoked and Gibbs as discharged. A charge of trans- 1 >rting whiskey has also been made :ainst Fowler, but this case was ntinued. Fowler has 'been bound er for :gsneral sessions court on arges of assault and battery with tent to kill and carrying concealed < STAND UP FOR RIGHTS WATSON WILL AID IN THE CAM J PAIGN FOR THE FARMERS raking Steps to Help IThem De- I mand Justice and Get a Full Price For their Cotton. -Commissioner E. J. Watson, in ommon with other Southern com- 1 missioners of agriculture, Is press ng the campaign for the proper aandling of the cotton crop and see- I ng that every legitimate effort is 4 nade towards getting a full price for yotton. The following correspondence ex plains itself: State of Georgia, Department of Agriculture, Atlanta, Ga. August 16, 1911. 1 Hon. E. J. Watson, Commissioner )f Ai-riculture, Columbia, S. C.-Dear Bir: The impression has been cre ted throughout the country that the cotton crop this year is going to be the largest ever made. This im pression has already had the effect Df lowering the price of cotton and will carry it much lower, unless something is done to put the world n notice that the crop is not such a large one as they would have 'you think. I know that the crop has deterio rated very much in the past month or six weeks, and, from what I hear, the same is true in your State. I think an effort should be made at once to first disabuse the minds of the people about the size of the cot ton crop and then get the farmers all over the South to hold a sufficiency of their cotton to prevent the price from being forced down to where it will mean starvation to the farmer. I believe that the Southern States ommissioners of agriculture should meet at some convenient point with in the next two weeks and ask all farmers in the cotton States, espec ially the Farmers' Union to join us ir this cause for a widespread move- I ment. I would be glad for you to write to the President of th.- Asso ciation of Commissioners of Agri culture of the Southern States, at once and ask him to confer with the rarmers' Union and other farmers, with a view of calling this meeting at as early date as practicable, and suggest in your letter that the Pres ident name the time and place of. meeting, after conference with the head of the Farmers' Union in the cotton states. If this meets with your approval, which I am sure it will, I would be glad for you not to delay in this mat ter, but take it up at once. I am this day writing a similar let ter to each of the commissioners of agriculture of the Southern States. Very truly yours, (Signed) T. G. Hudson, Commissioner of Agriculture. Commissioner Watson's reply reads: re:August 18, 1911. Hon. T. G. Hudson, Commissioner of Agriculture, Atlanta, Ga. My Dear Sir: I am in receipt of yours of Aug ust 16, and beg to say that under the circumstances I think that your sug gestion for a joint meeting In regard to this matter to be under the call of the president of the Association of of the commissioners of Agriculture for the Southern States, is an admira ble one, and I am today writing the president of the association endors ing the contents of your circular let ter and the suggestion made therein and urging -that the matter be under take immediately. I thik we ought taken go a little further however and notify warehousemen, and particular ly presidents of local banks to partic ipate in this meeting, for with the am ut of money now in the local banks of the South, which is largely due to efforts of the Southern far mer, to my mind, these banks ought to join hands with the farmer and. render him such material aid as will enable him to hold 'his cro-p in the, warehouses and not be forced to rush it to market with consequent demorn lization of price. In this matter the Southern people will have to help themselves and for the first -time in history our banks banks are in a position to render most substantial aid in a matter that involves their own future and pros perity as well -as that of the masses of our people. Very truly yours, E. 3. Watson, -Commissioner. Dther letters along the same line and bearing on the cotton crop read: Mr. E. W. Dabbs, President, State F'armers' Union, Mayesville S. C. My1 Dear Mr. Dabbs: I beg to acknowl adge the receipt of your communica ion in reference to the cotton crop situation and beg to say that it will afford me great pleasure to do any < and everything in my power to aid in he accomplishment of the result de sired. I trust that Senator Smit~hI will succeed in getting the depart-4 -nent of a.gricultu~re to give an intel-1 igent estimate of the crop's condi :ion and get it at once, in order that part of the damage that has been lone might be repaired. I deem It4 >f the greatest importance that the armers be urged in season and out ) season to hold their cotton as long s possible this season, and not to -ush it to market, and that the comn :nreial interests of our (several oowns,-I mean by this the banking: nterests---assist them in such a sub stantial wvay as to enable them to do I am today wiring the Secretary" of1 griculture of the United States de artment, joining in the request that snator Smith has made in behalf of our movement. Anything else that can do will be cheerfully done If ou will kindly advise me as to what o i desire. Very truly yours, 1 E. J. Watson, Commissioner. August 18, 1911. Dr Tait Butler. President, South n States Association of Commis iners of Agriculture, Raleigh, N. .--afy Dear Sir: At the sugges- 1 ion of the Hon. T. G. Hudson. comn nissioner of Agriculture, of the State if Georgia, I am writing to officially ndorse the ideas expressed in his t etter, a copy of which you have no ~ Loubt received, and to join in the re- t nuest that a special meeting of the ~ tssociation1 and the allied interests - ie called at an early date I would g urther suggest, however, that al\ t carehouse men and local bankers be s 1so invited to participate in this 1: athering, for we people in the South e ave reached the point now where all d ff our interests must combine to af . rd th fust protection to our )EATH ON TRAIN' SI hirty-Seven Killed and Sixty hijured at Manchester, N. Y. H( :OACHES LEAVE TRACK rhile Speeding Over Trestle Six Cars th Sh of Train Carrying G. A. R. Vet- Sb erans From Rochester Encamp- w. th ment Fall From Trestle to River op Forty Feet Below. tic to At least 37 persons are believed to ini ave been killed and more than 60 sic jured as a result of the wrecking hi riday of Lehigh Valley passenger co rain No. 4. Speeding eastward be- ve ind time the train ran into a spread fri ail on a trestle near Manchester, N. wi . and two day coaches from the -rear ection plunged crashing downward, PC triking the east embankment op 0 feet below like -a pair of 'projec- ifI iles. kr The wreck was one of the most dis- on strous ever recorded on the system. tr: 'rowded with pasengers, many of qu rhom were war veterans and excur- St ionlists -from the G. A. R. encamp- Tz 2ent at Rochester, the train, made c14 .p of fourteen coaches, drawn by two w, iogul engines, was 40 minutes late pr hen It reached Rochester Junction nd from there sped eastward to w, iake up time before reaching Ge- fo eva, fo Following is the list of the dead at in he Shortsville morgue: In T. C. Madden, Trenton, N. J.; E. at >angbun, veteran, Brooklyn; A. M. hz lunsuoker, Vineland, Ont.; Charles th licks, Newark N. J.; R. S. Uncle, k( kuthfield, N. 'J.; Mrs. A. E. Snd- d< outhfield, N. J.; Mrs. A. E. E. Sud- PC eck, Buffalo, N. Y. Helen Pownell, a .ddess unknown; C. P. Johnson or re r. Johnson, Philadelphfa or Cleve- M and; Mrs. -C. P. Johnson; Joseph Yf lickey, address unknown. The re- C1 ainder of the dead were unidenti ed. P1 The dead at Rochester: D. M. Belt A: eteran, Los Angeles, Cal.; Henry th Weker, brakeman. The other dead b( t the Manchester morgue are seven th vomen two girls, four men and a ta oy. On some are tiinklets with to nitials, but in many cases there is th ittle to work upon. al The engine and two day coaches vc Lad just passed the centre of a 400- 'h oot trestle over Oanadaigua outlet, v2 .50 yards east of the station at Man- w hester, at 12:35 o'clock when the ft ?ullman car Austin, the third of a PI ong train, left the rails. It dragged ni he. dining car with it and the two 07 lay coaches and two Pullmans, in S his order, followed. All bumped ov r the ties a short distance before the oupling btween day coach No. 237 Lnd the rear end of the diner broke. rhe forward end of the train dragged A he derailed Pullman A'ustin and the iner over safely, after which both >lunge down the embankment and oiled over. p The .free end of an ill-fate'i Lehigh ci alley day coach, in which most of s .e victim. were riding, with a :grand ~ [runk day coach, stripped the rear t uard of the south side of the trestle a. nd plunged to. the shallow river bed ip nore than forty -feet below. v The end of the first day coach that: gent over struck the east embank-: d< nent of solid masonry, and with the . ther sixty-foot car behind it, both j y ho~t against the wall with terrific - : *orce. '-cl Both cars were filled with passen- w ers. In a few moments the cars de a-y a mass of battered wood, metal nd glass under which a hundred st cnn women, and chilren, -many of si hoin were killed instantly, were es uried. The greatest destruction oc- ki urrrd in day coach No. 237. A doz- er persons later were taken dead er rom the second day coach, which 'af- bi er following the first car over di napped its rear coupling and thus p1 aved the rest of the train from be- M g dragged along. m This second day coach struck on sa he bottom and stood end up, the yi ear end 'projecting a few feet above he top of the trestle. All of the pas engers in this oar were piled in a angled mass of broken seats :at the Fa ottom of the car. Indescribable pandemon-ium fol owed. The Pullman car Emelyn, c~hich remained on the bridge with ne end projecting over the gulch, la .nd several cars 'behind it derailed 14 .nd in serio-us danger of going over 01 he mass of wreckage below, were B: oon emptied of their passengers, whoM .ided by gangs of rasilroad employes . rem the big freight yards at M~an-- if hester, rushed to help the injured. A t was several minutes, however, be- th ore anybody reached the cars at the N. iottom to help the victlims. The cars did not catch fire. Axes rere secured and body after body tb ras reached and carried by rescuers al :nee deep in the river bed to the en ank on the west side of the trestle. 10 'here the dead and injured were ca id out ontheground and a fieldli ospital was estalished. It was more than an hour before iany of the injured could be re- th ioved and special trains from both p1' 'eneva and Rochester brought phy- Cr icians, nurses and medical supplies. tri rundreds awaited treatment and the tre ailroad station at Manchester, a ci. th er mill and an ice house were used en :> give temporary shelter and treat- tr ient to the suffering. e It was necessary to chop through en Eie sides and bottom of the day J oach -it the bottom and the work of mnoving the victims *moved with inful slowness. Death had come wiftly to many, a large number of all ae dead had their skulls crushed in fr< 'hen they were thrown against the of ar seats and projections. The mor- 1le ility was .h'igh among the older pas- fe angers most of whom were veterans co Sthe Yar between i.he Sections and dr reir wives. fo: The wrecked train was in charge of onductor James Hilloc, of Geneva, -th Engineers Bowman and Callan ni the engines. Conductor Hillock we ad just stepped from the dining car we >the next car in front when the act ining car left the track. He pulled tua le signal for brakes and both engi- mi eers responded instantly. Engineer - wmaa of the second engine me as leaning from his cab window and as! ahe turned on the brakes he look- nu backward to learn the cause of p1h ie trouble and saw the cars toppling rui T the bridge. gr< ATWOOD CHECKED LVIATOR LOST HIS WAY AND WAS FORCED TO LAND. fIs Disappearance Caused Disap pointment and Regret Among the Spectators Along His Route. Lost with his aeroplane in trying o fly from Lyons, N. Y., to Auburn 5 miles distant, Harry N. Atwood, he Boston aviator who is flying rom St. Louis to New York, wander d about in the air for almost an our late Monday afternoon, and fi ially was forced to land in an un xpected spot by the approach of larkness, at a point five miles west f Syracuse. I The delay had caused a serious I: iet back in the attempt to break the I Lviator is making to break the t vorld's record for cross-country fly- 1 ng. Atwood ascended at Lyons with r he purpose of flying in an air line 1 8 miles to Utica before night. s Just after he started he decided s o detour from the course whch he 4 ias followeC. along the tracks of the t qew York Cenrtal railroad and cut Lcross country to give the crowds at a kuburn a chance to see him.. But la er over the farms he lost his bear- 5 ngs and kept circling about, hoping s o pick out Auburn. r Meanwhile great uneasiness was elt as to his fate by thousands of I >eeple who waited In parks and on s iouse tops to see him at Syracuse a Ld Utica. It was 4:24 when Atwood I eft Lyons. At 5:20 he suddenly ap- r )eared over Auburn and landed. At ood left Auburn at 6:45 p. m., un- t :ertain as to his destination. Then >egan another uncertain search for iim, extending all the way from Au )urn to Utica. Ten thousand people at Utica twaiting his approach there until iundown. Syracuse was kept anxious intil at 7:17 word came that he anded safely at Belle Island, five niles west of Syracuse. Atwood said that in Monday's wan lerings he had flown at least 75 niles, but could claim for his record )nly the forty miles between Lyons Lnd Bell Island. His total flying :ime was 1 hour and 28 minutes. Atwood declared that Monday's ex erience was the most exciting that ie had ever had. Tuesday I will disregard all cheduled landing places and will at empt to fly as far as Albany, 163 iles by way of Syracuse and Uti %a," said Atwood. SUiNmfER ADVERTISING. While Trade is Dull Advertising Should Be Pushed. You need the best weapons when I he campaign is most strenuous. qo general would think of partly or ntirely disarming his troops just be ore the .biggest battle is to be foulght. These same principles apply also to a business house. Some merchants a order to curtail expenses during the dull season of the year, begin by utting down their advertising ex penses. The newspaper is at all times your 1 weapon and best medium of publicity md when times are dullest and com petition is keenest you will have to meet these conditions. Advertising is :he appropriation that ouight to be fecreased 'because business is dull; dvertising is not discontinued or ecreased 'because -busines is dull; but business Is dull because you are iot advertising as much as you 3hould. "Don't throw away your weapons when .the hardest battle remains to se fought. Don't discontinue or de rease your advertising when hot weather arrives. "At no time of the year will adver-1 ising apace pay you ,better than right now, if you advertise right. Investigate circulation claims of :he papers you advertise in and make mre that for the amount of money ou are spending, you are reaching he greatest possible number of pee le, and then advertise persistently nd judiciously and solicit business ;hrough the columns of a live news aper as if though you really want ad it and the results will be certain. PROF. J. AVERY FINGER. Educator Succumbs . to Illness of 1 Short Duration. Prof. J. Avery Finger, who had yeen connected with the Charleston chools for nearly thirty years died n that city Saturday night. He was ~ ecognized as one of the leading in itructors of that city, with his sphere >f usefullness extending the schools rith which he was connected. He lid considerable private teaching and ls death is a distinct loss to the 1 :ause of education and is generally| egretted Mir. Finger was a native ' >f Morganton, N. C., a graduate of a Vofford and was fifty-six years of 1 Lge. He Is survived by a widow, a 1 lauhter and three sons. SETTLED FOR TEN THOUSAND. 1 outhern Pays MJan for Death of Wife and Children. C s R. G. A. Jeter, of Santuc, Union I ounty has settled with the South- r in railway for damages sustained d y him in the death of his wife, Mrs. t imma Bobo Jeter, and their two r hildren, who were killed by a South in train while they were driving t .cross the road's track near Santuc e tugust 4. The settlement was made r rith M. Jeter hImself, no suit hav- r ng been brought, and the sum paid s as $10,000. In crossing the road t he buggy with three children and I rs. Jeter a train struck it, killing c .11 save the baby, which although t; lasped in its mother's arms at the ime of the accident escaped without Burned by Forest Fires. Advices from Halifax, N. S., say a, hat millions of feet of fine timber o iere destroyed by forest fire. Thirty- h bree dwellings and two lumber mills tF re in ashes at Clyde River. d reatest staple crop, and to my mind, n be bankers of the South are now in B~ uch financial condition as to afford u lvaluable aid-a class of aid with- a ut which nothin~g practical can be e one. Yours very truly, t E. 3. Watson, o kFT TRYING TO TRIM [IP FOR POLITICAL STORM HE SEES COMING. Wants A Progressive Republican as a Running Mate in Place of the Standpatter Sherman. President Taft has made it known at he does not want "Sunny Jim" erman for a runnin mate next year. erman believes in a high tariff. He nts it sky high-higher even than a Payne-Aldrich law-and says so, enly, brazenly, without equivoca >n. His high tariff courage is equal Cannon's. He doesn't dodge an h. And President Taft, who ned the Payne-Aldrich law, the ghest tariff law ever passed in this untry, and who recently used his to power to save those high rates m the slightest cut, Is through th Sherman. "Sunny Jim" from the Taft stand Int, makes the mistake of being enly sincere. To sign a high tar bill, at the behest "of men who ow exactly what they want," is e thing. To blab about the coun r that you believe in such a law is ite a another matter. Between Mr. erman's tariff's words, and Mr. Ift's tariff's acts, there isn't a parti of difference, yet the President mts no more of the present vice esident. It is well known that fr. Taft )uld like very much to have Sena r Cummins on the ticket next year r the vice pr .sidency. The Iowa surgent has little use for Mr. Taft. his speeches in the Senate, and out the country, Senator Cummins s said all the hard things he could ink of about the Taft - failure to ep campaign promises of revision wnward. He has even made his itical contempt for the President personal issue, and for months he fused to go near the White House. r. Taft is well aware of these things t he would gladly 'have Senator immins for a running mate. Senator Cummins preaches and 'actices tariff revision downward. Long with LaFollette, Murdock and e other insurgents he fought, as t he could for the principle that e Republican campaign promise of riff revision downward was made be kept. Mr. Cummins has been on e side of the people. He is popular td if he were on the ticket many Oters would doubtless remember the mest, bard fight he made for re sion downward. 'And while they are remembering . Mr. Cummins' ;ht for real tariff revision many obably would forget that Mr. Taft illified that fight. Upon that the y Is built the Taft desire to 'have nator Cummins for a running ate. FOUGHT TO THE DEATH. Real Bull Fight Takes Place in Streets of Atlanta. A dispatch to the Greenville Daily edmont says one of that city's prin pal thoroughfares has been the ene of a real bull fight. Not a earranged affair like the ones in e bloody Spanish and Mexican are s where thousands pay their good sos to witness a fray. But still a ry bloody bull fight took place. There were no matadors or cica rs or pretty senoitas, bedecked Ith guudy colors, cheering on the ctim from boxes, but instead about ie thousand Atlantians of every ass gathered at a safe distance and atched two giant bulls battle to The animals were being fed from a ock yard to a slaughter pen, when ddenly they became enraged at ch other. Casting aside their repers, the bulls made at each oth .In the middle of Edgewood av Lue they fought for a half an hour, ocking traffic, autos,. trolley cars, 'ays, etc., while a thousand peo e gathered. The street was as any exican arena, while one of the ani als killed its opponent and then nk beside the body to die, himself a KILLED IN TRAIN WRECK. ital Accident on the Atlantic Coast Lumber Line. As the result of a wreck on the At tic Coast Lumber Company train 1 at Coopers siding, five miles east Kingstree. :Monday morning, T akely, white, of Trio, and Willie eCrea, a negro were killed out ht and four others were painfully not seriously injured. The train left idrews early Monday morning with e logging and track crew for camp As it reached Cooper's Siding, run g about 20 to 25 miles an hour e engineer saw the open switch ead. He immediately reversed the gine and jumped. His fireman fol wed his example. The engine and rs rushed ito the open switch, coi ing with a car of logs that had en placed there Saturday night. Blakely, it is said, was riding on e pilot of the engine and was com ately mangled in the collision. Mc ea was sitting on one of the off] icks and when the movement of the in was ca'ecked was thrown under< e trucks and mashed to death. Thei gine and cars did not leave the tk. The injured are: J. H. White,1 neral woods foreman; John Smith, gineer; D. Long, fireman; and J. Barwick, tie.1 Have to Haul Water. ) A dispatch from Lexington says hough there have been showers1 m time to time in most sections the country rains that have fal Sseem to have -nrd but little ef t upon the wells and water LGrses, and, as a consequence, hun-i eds of farmers are hauling wateri miles to their stock. Fatal Auto Plunge.1 F. H Martin, of Stockton, Cal.,1 .s instantly killed and five persons< re seriously hurt in an automobile ident GiMonday night when the car -ned ove.r a thirty-foot embank t. d ied on the track gave promptt stance. Appeals for doctors -and rses were sent to the nearby .ces and special relief trains were( i from both east and west. Soe at was the number of injured that r me wanrk for alL FHEY ARE GLAD 'eople of 1Xw Mexico and Ari=a Grateful to the D-mocrats WILL VOTE WITH THEN Ielegrms to Washington Tndicate That the People of '-Lese Two Ter ritories Are Pleased That the States Were Created Even at the Expense of the Recall. A special dispatch from Washing on to The State says it is the opin on of Mr. Flood, chairman of the iouse committee on territories, that both Arizona and New Mexico will be ;olidly Democratic. The resolution ts signed by the President is identi !al in every particular with the Flood esolution which passed the house Uay 23 and the senate August 8, and vas vetoed by the president August L5, except, in accordance with the views of the president's veto mes sage, it requires the people of Arizo ia to eliminate the recall of the Ju liciary from their constitution be rore that territory can be admitted as 3. State. The pasage of this resolution is a riumph for Mr. Flood, as there was onsiderable opposition on the Dem acratic side of the house to yield ing to the president in any particular a reference to it. The original Flood resolution was regarded as absolute ly fair to both States It proposed changes in both the New Mexico and Arizona constitu tions but submitted these changes to the people of the respective territo ries at the election which are to b,% held for the elecion of county and State oficers and members of con gress; in other words, the people vre allowed to vote as their convic tions dictated upon these questions without reference to its effect upon Stathood. -Mr. Taft's veto requires the perple of Arizona to vote in a particular way. They could get tatehood if they voted for an amend ment to their constitution, which met those views; if they did not they were denied statehood. Mr. Flood and his committee took the position that while the action of the president was arbitrary, the in terests of the territories demanded that under existing conditions they yield to the president and get the Statehood resolution passed. This was done after a warm discussion in the house Saturday, and today the president signed the resolution. As indicative of the sentiment in Arizo na upon this question, Speaker Clark received the following telegram: "The Democratic party'of Arizona is eternally grateful for the states anlike action of the Democrats of ouse ind senate in passing the Flood resolution. The responsibility for nul lifying it is now on the president alone We now earnestly beg you if the bill can not pass both houses ov er his veto to amend the Flood reso lution in the Eingle partiCular of making the elimination of the judic iary recall mandatory and pass it again before the special session ends. The president's action, following the stand the Democrats took for Arizo na relieves the Democratic party of any responsibility for the coercion, and Arizona will go overwhelmingly Democratic. The people of Arizona and the Democratic party earnestly petition 3 on thus to give us State hood. (Signed) "J. p. Dillon, Chairman Territorial Democratic Central Comittee; attests: J. H. Robin son, Secretary." Mr Flood said: "A'good many Arizona and New 3fexico people have been here and they assert that the fight made by the Democrats upon the statehood bill will insure both of these new States to the Democratic party. . Ar izona is certainly Democratic, and every Indication now is that New Mexico will go also the same way. Indeed, it was through the attitude of the Republicans in endeavoring to prevent Statehood was due to the fact that they realized that both of tese states would elect Democratic electors in 1912. WHAT FREE MEALS DID. Story of Their Success With School Children in England. Philanthropists and others who have been identified with the project to provide food for those school children, who through force of cir :umstances, might otherwise often go hungry, will read with interest of the success that has greeted a similar movement to feed the children of the poor in England. Not only were Iree meals provided in cases of school 3hildren actually needing food, but records were kept to determine how much good the extra feeding was do ng. The report shows that the first ain an ill-fed child makes on being properly fed is often in height. There as also a satisfactorily increase in veight, although this increase was ot ini proportion to the increase in eight. The youngsters, after being roperly fed for a week or so, be :ame better scholars. They seemed ;o take more interest in their lessons and they gave the teachers far less rouble than formerly. In dealing with the report the Lan et says that encouragment should e given to the plan of the feeding of i-fed school children, since there 1as already been proof that such eeding results in a rapid gain in eight and a gain in weight. Town Marshal Shot. Robert Chasten, city marshal of llin, Ill., was shot and killed by inidentified persons. He. with Wil-. iam Farrell of Cobden, Ill., who was atally wounded, was in a saloon hen two shots were fired through a vindow. Four negroes who are be ieved to have some knowledge of the rime were later arrested. Native Charlestonian Dead. The Rev. Dr. Edward 0. Clavius ~lagg, said to have been New York's ldest preacher, is dead at lhis home here. He was born at Charleston, .C., eighty-six years ago, and was or fifteen years assistant rector at ;race Church, from which he resign d 20 years ago. His latter days rer devoted to composing poems