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Why Hold Cotton? Sumter Watchman. Baaed on the conviction that the present price of cotton is below the | cost of production, and that the economic law that the producer is entitled not only to the cost of production, but a reasonable profit ' on his labor and investment, 1 feel fully Justified in advising and urging the producers, wherever pos-' sible to hold their cotton. First, because the present prices are below the cost of production.' It may be true that where larger yields of a bale and more per, acre are made it is possible to raise cO'.ton at 8 to 9 cents a pound, but the average production per acre is less than twd-fifths of a uaie, ana it is not possible to make cotton with an average of 2-5 of a bale per acre at less than 10 to 11 cents a pound actual cost, j The producer should certainly be entitled to a sufficient profit from his crop to support himself and' family. A 20 per cent, profit cannot be considered excessive. This would make a fair price 12 to 13 cents per pound. Second because the trade expects to pay the producer a profit. And will do so if we do not glut the market by selling too fast. A glance at statistics will show that at some time during the year Cor the past nine years, cottcn has sold at above 12 cents per pound, basis middling. Two crops during the period were practically as large as the present crop bids fair to be, and consumption capacity considered were relatively larger. Third, because the world needs and can use at profitable prices to the raisers a 14,000,000 bale crop this year. For the past five years the acreage consumption of American cotton has been in round fig ures 12,000,000. The 1909 crop fell short of the demand over 1,500,000 and the 1910 crop over! 500,000, so that a 14,000,000 crop is needed to make up the shortage. That the shortage actually exists is amply proven by the fact that the mills depending on American cotton have been running on short time the past two years. I am reliably informed that this curtailment has amounted to more than 1-6 of the total running time. If, running 5-6 of the time the mills use 12,-! 000,000 bales, it will readily be seen that for them to run full time ' more than 14,000,000 bales are needed. Fourth, because to sell at present prices means a loss to the State of South Carolina of more than $20,000,000, and to the South of more than $200,000,000?the difference between what we are receiving, and j what we should receive for the; crop judiciously marketed. Fifth, because the crop of India and the East Indies is reported short and this means a greater demand for American cotton. Sixth, because to hold off the market every bale possible is the only way to check the present de- j cline. The banks throughout thej State realize the benefits to them in savinp tn their rtpnnsit/irs aa ! much of the possible $20,000,000 as practicable, and are ready to lend on cotton wherever properly stored and insured. The present low price is largely the result of glutting the market by selling too fast. Seventh, because a movement will be begun in the immediate future to reduce the cotton acreage in 1912 one-fifth, and to secure definite! pledges to that effect from all planters throughout the cotton belt. Since it seems that we are to get more money for a 12,000,000 bale crop than for a 15,000,000 bale crop as; the trade, overlooking the drought I produced premature opening, says I we are making, is it not good busi-! ness to cut off the one-fifth of the acreage that produced the 3,000,000 j bales and put it into corn, oats, hay and other forage producing crops? | There was never a time when the latter crops were bringing better prices, and the movement to get 1 one-fifth of the 1911 cotton acreage in such crops for 1912 should be successful. Eighth, because on the welfare, and prosperity of the cotton producers depends the prosperity of the j South. Every ointerest in the South is coming more and more to realize i this, and willing to help the produc-b er In his fight to realize a fair return for his product. And it is a ; fight worth while. $20,000,000 lost or saved means prosperity or de- 1 presslon in the State of South Car- i olina not only for the coming year, : but for several years to come. 1 $200,000,000 lost or saved means 1 the same to the South. The cotton i producers should be able to count on the unstinted support and co- ] operation of every Interest In the State and throughout the cotton 1 belt. And now is the time to begin ! the fight. 1 Hold your cotton off the market, i Plant one-fifth of your cotton land In oats and forage producing crops. ] The effects on prices won't take 1 long to show up. R. B. Belser. . ? i Kansas Women in Office. ! A political census of Kansas, Just completed, shows women are holding elective offices in the State as follows: Forty-five county school superintendents. Five county clerks. Five county treasurers. Six Eflstrict Court clerks. Ten register of deeds. Two Probate Judges. One mayor. Total 74. All of these women are holding office by virtue of the vote of men ?ione, except the one woman mayor, who was elected by both men and women. More than 2,000 men are in the public service In Kansas elective and otherwise. Women somewhere now hold every county office in Kansas except sheriff, cororner, county attorney and county commissioner. They do not loaf around the corner drug store, they do net play cards during offioe hours, and they do not stand any nonsense from the men. k .M t>?AD MAN HEK FATHER. Daughter Swoons on Viewing Victim of Drawbridge Accident. Tampa, Fla., Oct. 27. ? When Miss Ruth Hibbard this morning joined a curious crowd which had gathered at the engine house of n drawbridge, to view the body of a man who had been killed, she dis wvert-a mat me vicum was ner father, Marion M. Hibbard. she fainted at the sight. Hibbard, a machinist, while repairing the machinery, was caught and crushed to death. RUN' OVER RY HIS OWN AUTO Sumter Man franks Machine Left <?n Ixnv Gear. Sumter, Octoi>er 27. ? Special; Mr. W. S. Dlnkins, a well known citizen of Sumter, was knocked down and run over by his automobile Wednesday afternoon when he went to crank the machine after he had unintentionally left it on the low gear. The car jumped forward when it was cranked, knocking Mr. IMnkin down and the front wheel passing over his arm and shoulder. Although his injuries were painful, they were not serious, but Mr. Dinkins will probably he confined to his room for several days. FAILS TO LOU ATM LOYF.lt Norwegian (oil's Ixnig Journey So Far in Vain. Savannah, Gu., Oct. 27. ? Miss Theresa Just, a comely young woman from Grimstad, Norway, has arrived in Savannah in search of Otto Matheson, her fiance, whom she came here to wed. Three years ago the couple were living in Mobile and became engaged. Miss Just went back to her home in Norway and has been corresponding with Mattheson. He said he was in Savannah. She came back to this country and wired him she was coming here. Arriving yesterday she was unable to find any trace of him and is now at the rooms of the Y. W. C. A. She says she is certain her sweetheart did not get her wire and that as soon as he knowg she is here he will come to her. Matheson is supposed to be employed on the river front. SNAKK (HOKES CHILD. Teacher Unwinds Reptile and Whips it to De>ath. New Philadelphia, O., Oct. 25. ? A blacksnake five feet long coiled several times around her neck, nearly killed Lillian Porcher, aged eight, of Port Washington, Pa., while she w:ic at nlav rlnrincr TeeesK at 6chool, The child waG choked unconscious and is in a critical condition. A teacher pulled the suake from the child's neck and killed it. The little girl and a companion were playing in a building in the school yard when the snake dropped from the rafters and coiled around her neck. She tried to dash the reptile to the ground but it gripped tightly and she fell struggling. The other child danced up and down in horror and screamed at the top of her voice. This attracted the teacher. When the later entered the building the Porcher child, black in the face was unconscious. The teacher seized the 6nake by the neck and, unwinding it, whipped it to pieces against the wall. WHAT HE SAYS. Senator Tillman Defines His Position in Gubeniatioaial Race. "The sentiment given by Gov. Blease at Barnwell Tuesday, contains nothing new to me; for it is only a rewrite of a letter I wrote him recently, and in which I wrote nothing to lead him to believe that I had any intention of doing otherwise in the approaching gubernational contest, than 1 stated to you when you were here a few weeks ago; that is thr.t I intend to remain strictly neutralin the campaign," said Senator R. B. Tillman Wednesday, at his home in Trenton to a representative to The Chronicle. "I could not afford to take sides In the contest for both Gov. Blease and Judge Jones are personal and political friends of mine, and I have told Blease that. I also told him that, if I saw reason to take sides ntrotnof hJm ? onr 4 i ITio T nC*T\ iH n 1V would Hot knife him, but would tell him before I told any one else." Senator Tillman smiled several Limes, and winked during the reading of the article to him by the newspaper man ? he somehow had missed getting his paper Wednesday "It in going to be a close fight," he said "and Blease is losing no time. He is campaigning now and has been for months. "He is keeping before the people Mid he is making friends in seemingly doing nothing yet. The newspapers, somehow, always have some kind of a story about Judge Jones. "There are two things in Blease's statement that be is mistaken in though. "One is with regard to Richards being in a frame-up to bring Judge Jones out to oppose him. Why, I know that Richards was seriously considering entry Into the race himself. It has been his ambition to be governor and he thought that with m v AAnHf4(/ui fliinnAao/l 4a KA HUKIO *\mj wttuiVfVH IU UC l'? "It to drop off at any moment ? If he could beat Blease and be governor, be would be In line for promotion and be able to beat any other man; and he was one of the most surprised men in the State when Judge Jones announced himself. "The other error Blease makes is in saying that I was about to publish & letter indorsing him in 1910, but was persuaded from It by a newspaper. "I did write a letter such as he speaks of, but I did not publish it. I changed my mind, and no newspaper nor man connected with a newspaper had anything to do with fchat letter sot ,veing published afA ? ,>$ J-.. ter it was written. "However I voted for Blease in | | the second primary, I voted for Richards in the first." Commenting further on the situ-; ! ation or as he called it, "muddle,"! the senator said that because he ! had proclaimed neutrality it did not follow that he must maintain an armed neutrality." "But," he said, "if Tom Felder or any one else goes before the legisla-; ture and proves?actually proves?, that Blease is, or has been, crooked, I'll take sides quick and fight him; for South Carolina is a proud State and will not stand for rottenuess if she knows it." i^vuaivi , uuv . DiCrtBf HI nir> (statement that there are no differences between you and him. Is that itrue?" was asked by the newspaper man. "There are 110 friendly, personal differences between us. I suppose that is what he meant." The senator said that he does not know who is responsible for the candidacy of Judge Jones but that lie had no idea but what Judge Jones told the truth when Judge Jones said he had been urged by letters and n;en all over the State to run, and that lie had a laudable ambition to he governor and "in line of promotion" for the senatorial toga "if anything should happen to me." "Don't you think the attitude of the governor toward him as chief justice, and the clashes with him tlie governor lias precipitated had something to do with his announcement?" was asked. "Why, if a man lias any spirit, and pugnacity in him at all 1 should think iie would want to get at the other fellow, under such circumstances ? meet him 011 his own plane?and fight him. Don't you? 1 If now I won 1/1 | "And that is just what Jones has got to do if he expects to win? fight him. He lias got to take the stump and fight?and he's got to use Blease tactics. If he does that and makes his fight on Blease's record, he will win." CHILDREN FAKE STORY. Kittle <?irl Had Been Moved By Stories to Stir up a (J re at Sensation. Several days ago a 6ery sensationj al story of an assault on two little girls at Rocky Mount was told in the papers, and the man, who was i suspected was arrested, and was identified by the girls, one of them ill years old and the other 10. I Nothing has been said of ttlie matter lately; it was left like the 6enJsational stories in the papers, right i where it was the most sensational. The mob was after the negro and j it was uncertain whether the sherj itf could protect him or not. The story comes from Rocky i Mount that the whole storv was a fake gotten up by two girls to create an excitement. The sheriff was suspicious of the i story w hen it was told by the children but the mob believed it and | thought that they were doing their (duty by their families and the race ! in trying to lynch the negro. It is understood that the children j had been hearing and reading seu-j sational stories throughout the coun , try which have been very frequent! in the papers recently and they I i thought that they would get up a! I sensation on their own account, so j they made up the tale and only the I ' fact that the sheriff was a level ! headed man saved that section of i the country on outbreak of lawless-1 ness. I The sheriff got the story from the! children after some persuasion. AITTO TURNS OVER. One Man Killed and Man and Wo-! man Hadly Hurt. S. M. Butler, of New York City, i was instantly killed near Tifton, |Ga., Wednesday morning when the 'automobile which he was driving in ! the Glidden tour was overturned. ! T. J. Walker and his wife were in! jured. Mr. Butler was chairman of the 1 contest board of the American Automobile association. Walker is the . referee of the Glidden tour now in progress. The accident was caused by the steering knuckle on the car breaking. The car was wrecked and Mr. Butler was instantly killed when he was crushed by the wheel hub. Referee Walker's injuries are believed to be serious. Referee Walker is president of follfnpnl. 1 v.?v vmuvi ma iiuiumvuncouviation. Mrs. Walker's arm was broken. The injured people were carried to Tlfton hospitals. The fatal accident took place at 9.20 o'clock three miles from the city. TJie machine was running at a good speed, when the steering apparatus went wrong. It plunged forward on its nose and turned ? somersault and settled on its side. Butler was caught beneath a wheel, while the other occupants were thrown to the road. Other machines came to the rescue and with the aid of a rope pulled the car off Butler's body. He was badly cut and crushed. His body was placed aboard a train and brought to this place. The Walkers, who also are from New York, were brought to the lo cal hospital. Walker has a dislocated shoulder and broken collar bone. Mrs. Walker la sufferin; more from shock than from her broken arm. Oharles F. Kellman, of Rochester, N. Y., was in the same car, but escaped injury. TRAGEDY IN IjAMAR STORK Albert. Windham Kills Joe Slater Before Many Witnesses. Uraar, uct. 28. ? Special: Albert Windham, a young white farmer of this section, shot and killed Jpe Slater, a negro, in the store of B. 9. Stokes, here, this afternoon. It seems that Windham and the negro had some words a day or two ago, and happened to meet In town this afternoon, when the quarrel was renewed, with the above result. . ' ifrtftflreirl' -v* - I It van stated by eye witnesses that the tragedy that the negro had put his hand to his hip porket when Windman fired the fatal shot There! were probably fifteen or twenty witnesses to the affair, the store be-' ing crowded with customers. Windham has not been arrested. SHOT ON STKKKTS OF SAIJ-F.Y. Howell Cooper Victim of Henry Corley's Pistol. Salley, Oct. ^S. ? Special: This usually quiet little town was the scene of what is expected to term mate in a terrible tragedy last night, and the hearts of the good people of the town are sad to-day over the probable mortal wounding of Howell Cooper by Henry H. Corley about !? o'clock. The shooting occurred on the streets of Sal ley. Both parties to the affair are prominent young unmarried merchants of this town, and were numbered among the leaders in enterprise and thrift. Wounded .Man's Statement. In what is supposed to lie his dying testimony, given before James H. Fanning, attorney and notary public of Springfield, Mr. Fanning having been sent for this maining. Mr. Cooper, who seems to realize that lie cannot live, stated thai last evening he entered the store ol Mr. Corlev, and they engaged in an argument, in the presence of Mr. I>. Hammond Salley; that it becoming dark, he secured a lantern at the drug store of Dr. Curlier, returned to the store of Mr. C'orley, where, after showing Mr. C'orley that his pistol wouldn't shoot, he threw the same on the floor, which was later picked up and handed to him; that he left with Henry H. C'orley. who closed the store; D. Hammond Salley and Dr. Robert Gardner; that the three parties named were walk ing ahead of him as he came along with the borrowed lantern. Receives Two llullets. Continuing the wounded man said that somewhere near the water trough Mr. Corley called to him and told him not to follow him, and that he replied that he was not following him, but was simply returning ihe borrowed lantern, when Mr. Corley turned and immediately shot him twice, one ball entering about where the neck and chest meet and the second going into his abdomen, entering from near the point of the right hip. After the shooting Mr. Cooper was assisted to the drug store by Mr. Hammond Salley.and later taken to his home, where he was attended by Or. Robert Gardner and Dr. H. J. Salley, who called in Dr. Paul A. Phillips this morning. After holding a consultation, the wounded man was hurried to the Columbia Hospital, where an operation will be performed. N'ot Expected to Survive. From a statement made by the attending physicians it "will be a miracle if Mr. Cooper recovers. It was reported in the town of Salley that the town council of Salley had required Mr. Corley to put up a bond of fifty dollars, and that he had not been put under arrest. From information received it seems certain that Mr. Corley will plead self,defense, but no statement was received from either Mr. Corley or Mr. D. Hammond Salley. The prominence of the parties concerned nnlv n'Hc to *1? ..J I.1.UO IVF 11IC OCIIUUOIICBtj UI IIIC matter. Both Well Connected. Mr. Howell Cooper was raised from his infancy by his uncle and aunt, the Rev. and Mrs. Howell W. Cooper, the former of whom died several years ago. The grief of his aged aunt, bent with the weight of time, fully four score years old, as she bent her white head over the strong form of him who was dearer to her than a child, as she had never known any other motherhood, was almost beyond the power of description. Mr. Henry H. Corley is a son of Mr. John Corley, a highly respected gentleman, and is connected with the well-known Salley family. Both parties have manny connections in this town and section, who regret and deplore the arrair. A ROBESON MAN KILLED AT FAYETTEV1BLE. H. J. Chason, of I'ark ton Killed By Constable Whom He Sta.l>bed. Charlotte Observer. R. J. Chason, of Parkton, brother of Chief of Police Chason of Fayetteville, who was killed there three years ago by Tom Walker, a negro blind tiger, was shot and instantly killed this afternoon by Township Constable Al. J. Pate, after Chason had inflicted what may prove a fatal wound on the officer, as a result of a row between Chason and a youthful lemonade vender outside the grounds of the Fay f_i_ rrv. i lair. uje itiuunaae man, in the rush of the home-oomlng crowds, spilt some lemonade on a woman's dress, when Chason, who was said to be intoxicated, took the matter up and attacked the vender, stabbed him in the back. Constable Pate Intervened to save the life of the younger man and received the knife in his own throat. He fired and killed his attacker almost instantly. Pate was removed to the Highsmith Hospital, where he is now lying in a precarious state. This is the first fatality that has occurred in connection with the Cumberland fair in forty yeans, a man having been killed a.bout that number of years ago at almost the same spot as that of tb-day's tragedy. Chason Well Known and Considered a Hood Citizen. Robesonian. Chason is survived by his wife o n/1 emro vol nh UH ron Ho woo rnoH supervisor of Parkton township and was considered a good citizen, so The Robesonian is advised in a long-distance 'phone message from Parkton. It is thought that Constable Pate will recover and the lemonade vender was not seriously wounded. God bless the man with an idea. It may be visionary but it starts something. That's it's glorification. Because you have done it for forty years is probably the beet excuse for changing your method. Rightly employed, the reason is not a check to piety, but is a regulatro. It chastens and refines the FOK KKNT. ? OXK HOI SK ON reasonable terms. Apply to Hox 50?, Dillon. 11-26-tf "l||| IfieBesM NOAH'S LINIMENT givei and Muscle Aches and Pai other remedy known. \ triple strength and a po PAIN RF.MF.nY A 25c per bottle and mone] WHAT OTt Cured of Rheumatism "I had been suffering with rheumatism for three years. 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