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THE FORT MILL TIMES. / _ - . _ _ _ ===== : : : ==* 16TH YEAR FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1907 NO. 27 SANK TO DEATH. Sixteen People Drowned in Attempting to Cross a River. A FERRY BOAT SINKS In the Middle of the TonibiRbce mid All the Occupants Kxcept Two Are I>rowned?One of the Victims Was the Son of the i'nited States Kngineer nnd the Fifteen Others Were Negroes. Leslie Vemeuille, a white boy, of Mobile, and fifteen negroes were drowned in the Tomtigbee river at McCrew's shoals, shortly after noon Thursday, while crossing the river in a ferryboat from the government's works where they were employed. They were on their way to dinner when the accident occurred. About midstream the little boat drifted beyond control of the men into the rapids and soon capsized. Two of the negroes in the boat scrambled on top as it overturned but the other occupants were thrown into the swift current and were drowned almost Instantly. On account of the strong undercurrent rescues were impossible. The young white boy drowned is the son of YV. B. Verneullle, the chief engineer in charge of the government work at the shoals. Their home is at Oakdale, a surburb of Mobile. The boy was not employed at the works but was there on a visit to his father and was returning home when the accident occurred. The Tombigbee river at the point where the boat capsized is very treacherous and has long been considered too dangerous for navigation. McGrews shoals Is about one hundred.miles up the river from Mobile and there is no telegraph or tel epnone communicuiion wun inc place.' GIVEN SIX YKA11S. Kerry Pleaded Guilty to Forgery ami Embezzlement. G. Raymond Berry, ex-county superintendent of education of Marlon county, having pleaded guilty of forgery, was sentenced by Judge Dantzler to six years in the State penitentiary and a fine of $100. The prisoner submitted to the court a written statement which recited that the defendant was the only support of an invalid wife and throe small children; that the defandant himself was threatened with a serious pulmonary trouble; that the beenn made good to the. .Sierntnf amounts misappropriated had all been made good to the county, and that the defendant and his family, one of much respectability, had suffered long and deep huml'iation or account of the pending charges against him. The statement ended with a petition that the court lie as merciful as possible in view of al! the circumstances. Solicitor Speurs stated that he would consent to the court being as merciful as possible, and Judge Dantzler stated that out of regard for his physical condition he would not Impose the full seven years allowed by law, but that it wouid be necessary lor him to impose a heuvy sentence as a warning to other public officers who might be derelict in their duty. PLAIN' TALK FROM BISHOP. He Thinks the Pulpit Needs "More # Virility and Less Effeminacy. "What we want is more virility and less effeminacy," said Bishop YY. A. Candler before the assembled Methodist ministers of Atlanta at the regular conference on last Monday. "We've got to be more vigorous. "We have a big work to perform, and we want to show that we mean business." Bishop Candler was talking of the layman's missionary movement, and the recent meeting at Knoxville, Tenn., and said he had noticed a tendency In the men to drop away from the church. "They are leaving things to the women." he continued. "This is not hard to account for. Pretty little curled up speeches and curled up words don't draw men. They draw men-away. Its plain, straight talk and hard works and business actions that attack the kind of 'people we are after. We need virility. The men must be fed with something meatv, not shocked to death with adjectives. Seminary stuff won't do." A NOIUK <J|FT. Fifteen Thousand Dollars (iiven for an Infirmary. Mrs. Ann H. Jeter of Union has given $15,000 for the erection of an Infirmary at the South Carolina University In memory of her nephew, A. Wallace Thompson, who was a devoted alumnus of the institution. The annovinpement was made recently end th6 donation was accepted very . gratefully by the trustees. MUCH LOSS OF LIFE. Startling Figures of Dangers of Travel in New York City. From August 5 to September 1 the Accidents Averaged One iu One Hour an Twenty-nine Minutes. Every fifteen hours a life is lost in New York city under the wheels of a passenger car, surface, elevated or steam. This fact has been brought out by Secretary Travis H. Whitney, of the public service commission In a table giving a record he had kept of trnn?innrhitlnn 'ippiiliintc from August 5 to September 1. In these 26 days, 145 persons were hurt in car collisions, and 465 in collisions between cars and vehicles. Once in each hour and twenty-nine minutes of the period some person was struck by a car, making a total of 405. Sixty-four persons were injured in boarding cars and 1,263 were injured in alighting from them, which goes to show that at least that number of New Yorkers have not yet learned to face forward when getting off street cars. Employes to the number of 641 were hurt; 33 persons were hurt in derailments; 26 prospective passengers fell down stairs and 18SI persons were hurt in unclassified way ;. A total of 5,500 were either killed or iniured in the 26 days. KILLED AT THE NAVY YARI). Dies in Fall of Forty Feet to Hottoni of the Fit. The second victim of the braces at the quay wall being built at the_ Charleston navy yard dock met his death Wednesday when Joseph Smith, colored. fell from a brace of the south coffer dam wall into the pit over 4 0 feet below and was crushed to death. The Post says Smith, who was employed by the New York Jewell-Continental Filtration Company, as a laborer went to work Wednesday afternoon at about 4 o'clock. He was too impatient to get his working number. ana insieaa or wuiung ror me ninekeeper, C. A. Kstes, to come to him on the north wall as was the custom, he started to cross to the timekeeper. In making his way over he stepped upon a brace, and hesitating for a moment looked backward. As he did so he brushed his shoulder against the stone work and fell from the support to the bottom of the basin helow. He hit with great force and life was crushed out of his body immediately. His face was mashed in, and his bones broken by the fall. LI MS TKX HOI" US IX COMF1 X Gruesome Experience of a Victim ot Fraternity Initiation. To lie for ten hours in a coffin, to see through the glass covering ovei his face the glimmer of candles, was the fate of Roy Lorraine, a student of the Dubukue High School, who was the victim of "frat" initiation. The young man. -being of the nerveless kind, was to be submitted to the most trying order. Gagged and bound he was taken tinder covei of night to a farm in the vicinity ol the city. Here he was escorted to a cellar long In disuse and led down tin stairway. Candles were lighted and placed about in niches in the wall and youn? Lorraine, blindfolded, was induced tt lie down in what seemed to him r box, and the cover was fastened. Tin covering soon was removed from his eyes, and he awoke to the realizatior that he was in a coffin. There was sufficient air to keei him from smothering and he remain ed there all through the night. Earl] in the nuirnine he was released b\ some friends. TO COLONI/.H: NI:<;KOKS. Company Seeking Inemrporntion in Slate of California. The project to establish a large colony of negroes in southern Call fornia is being promoted by an association to seek state incorporation One of the promoters is LieutenantColonel Allensworth, formerly r chaplain in the army. Several million dollars is said to represent the wealth of the negroes and back ol the movement. Colonel Allensworth said that com mittees of the association will soon visit the 90,000 acre track In Riverside and San Diego Counties and is satisfied that they will purchase the land. The colony, he said, will not he communistic, the land simply will be offered in small tracks at low prices The object is to establish a prosper' oiih colony where negroes will hav< the opportunity to work under fav orahle conditions. Literature describing the plan will he sent broadcast throughout the South. COTTON lU KNLl). Big Loss Caused by Flames Aboard Steamer at Havre. Six hundred bales of cotton or bourd the British steamer Madawas ka, which arrived at Havre, France Thursday from Galveston, were destroyed by fire Thursday night. Th< lostf is 948,000. " to" V 4 t THE BOND CASE. Decided Against the State Treasurer on Last Friday. BY A COURT EN BANC. The Decision of the Court Says That the Romis Bought in Good Faith Must Up exchanged for Certificates When Offered by Those Who Hold Them?Suits Will be Brought T? 4oiaii: inanuiTin. By a very close decision the judiary of South Carolina, sitting en banc, decided that the State treasurer should issue certificates of stock for bonds taken from the treasurer's office by a clerk after being offered for cancellation and placed upon the market. The decision means that Attorney General Lyon will at once have to commence suit against the State treasurers who employed the clerk in question. About $18,000 In principal and interest is at stake and the action of the court is far reaching and regarded as very important in financial circles. Some three years ago one of the clerks in the State Treasurer's office was arrested charged with misappropriating State funds and bonds. It was discovered that bonds offered for cancellation and exchange for certificates had not been cancelled, but again placed upon the market. Last April one of the bonds, owned by Edward Ehrlich of Columbia, was offered for exchange for a certificate, which is not negotiable unless endorsed. The exchange was refused by the State treasurer, on the advice of Attorney General Lyon, and in July the interest was refused. Suit was at once brought, mandamus proceedings, to compel the State treasurer to recognize the stock. The supreme court being equally divided on the matter it was decided to call an enbanc session of the judiciary of the State, constitutional questions being involved. Friday questions were argued before the entire court, with the exception of Judge Aldrich. who is ill and tillable to attend. For the State appeared Attorney General Lyon and J. William Thurman of Edgefield and Mr W T Avrni'k of Columbia an ' peared for the petitioner. The opinion of the conft is written ' by Associate Justice Jones and is concurred in by Justice Woods and Circuit Judges Watts. Gage. Dantzler. Meniminger and Wilson. After stating the facts the opinion says: The Court's Decision. "No marks to indicate cancellation were ever placed upon said bond, although the statute expressly declared 1 that such surrendered bond shall im' mediately upon such surrender be ' cancelled and filed by the State treasurer with the permanent records of ' his office. It is admitted that relator is a bona fide holder for value before ' maturity and without notice. The 1 general rule of law is that a thief I of personal property can not convey ' to a purchaser, however Innocent, f any title to the stolen property as 1 against the real owner. But from the highest considerations of public policy the law excepts from the rule ' negotiable instruments acquired in ' good faith before maturity and with? out notice and makes the title of such 1 holder good against the world." ? The opinion goes on to say that * "the State bond cases. 12 S. C., show 1 that a coupon bond of the State, valid in Its Inception, is a negotiable se1 curity paper incurs the same respon sibllities which attach to individuals ' or corporations in such cases. There r is no question that the bond in question was not valid when originally put in circulation, and it being admitted that relator is a l>ona fide holder thereof at this time, his title 1 can in no wise be affected by the surrender of the bond to the treasurer by some antecedent holder and the 1 subsequent theft by means of which - it was again put in circulation. The - method which the State had adopted to take such bond out of circulation by cancellation was not complied i with by those intrusted by the State i with that duty. The direction to can! eel bonds was designed to prevent r the very possibility which has happened and the failure of the State - officers to comply can not be treated i as a circumstance of no consequence, - for the absence of marks of cancella? tion make it possible for the theit to put the bond in circulation." The IMsccnting Opinion. The disrenting opinion Ih by Jusj tice E. It. Gary, and is concurred in . by Chief Justice Pope and Judges - Klough, Prince and Hydrick. ? After reviewing the history of the - case he says that the first question - is in the right of mandamus of the t petitioner. Bringing us the case of Lord vs. Trea8uruer, the court held that "mandamus will only to enforce a ministerial duty not a dlscreationary duty. The opinion then ' says that when a bond is surrendered and a certificate of stock issued in exchange, It loses its legal effect is a i subsisting cbligation or the State. - Cancellation was not a condition pre, cedent upon which the validity of the - certificate of stockk which was to be > Issued In exchange depended and such requirement was required aim SUFFERED AGONIES Woman Tortuod to Death to Dis pel Evil Spirits Before She Was Released by Death Son, Daughter anc'? Three Other Gave Her Violent Treatment A report from 6hlcago says flv people, members of the sect of Par hamites, are under arrest at Zloi City, accused of torturing to deatl Mrs. Letitia Greenlaugh, 64 year old, a cripple for twenty years wltl rheumatism, to show their belief ii the relgion they profess. The people under arest are: Wal ter and Jennie Greenlaugh, son am uaugnier 01 me woman; Harold fait chell, Mrs. Harold Mitchell, and i Mrs. Smith. The sect of Parhamites was found ed about a year ago, by Charles Par ham, and numbers about 200. Th members originally belonged to Dow le's church. Their theory of slcknes Is evidence of the possession of th body by evil spirits. The condition of Mrs. Greenlaugl convinced her son and daughter am the others arrested that she possess ed the evil spirit. They knelt by he bedside and after praying commence* work. The arms of Mrs. Greenlaugli stiffened by rheumatism were twiste* about in order that the devii migh be driven out. The cries of the age* woman were considered those of th evil spirit, and were greeted with trl umphant shouts. After a course of ths violent treat ment Mrs. Greenlaugh not only be came so weak she could not use he iimbs, but became incaable of makin any motions. Then her neck w-a twisted for some time. At the coroner's inquest youn Greelaugh testified that his mother' consent was obtained before th treatment was commenced. T\\ KNTY CKXTS FOlt COTTt)X Some of the Dong Staple Kind Sol at That Price. The Newberry Observer says: Mi S. M. Duncan of Jalupa sold tw bales of cotton In Newberry on Wed nesda.v for $215.60. One bale welgl ed 507 pounds, the other 572, an they brought twenty cents a pount It was long staple, and he still ha the seed, which he can sell for sever t.v-flvo cents a bushel. Mr. Dunca planted 57 acres of this kind and wi gel from twenty-five to thirty bale; SUICIDM FOLLOWS CONFESSION Aged Illinoisnn Kills Himself by Mai iug Paris Green. Cyrus Baldwin, eighty-five yeat of age, one of the wealthiest resident of Kane county. 111., killed himself l eating paris green after he confesse he had murdered his wife by smasl ing her skull with a hammer. Mrs. Baldwin was found dead an was believed to have been murdere by her husband. T<? WIPK OlrT DKBT Major Mailt Gives Ten Thousand Do lars to His Church. Major J. K. Fant, of Union, wh died last week. Rave the First Rabtii Church of that city, $10,000 to pa off a debt on it. He was a very ric man, and prominent in business a fairs. ply to prevent fraud after transactic between the holder of the bond an 1 the States had terminated. ( "The question," the opinion coi tinues, "whether the petitioner is bona fide holder is not minister!! but strictly judicial In ts nature an ' the action of the treasurer is n< ' subject to review by the court." The attorney general, however, di ' not urge this question nor the que ' fion as to the actual notice the hob er had that the bond was not good. ! However, the right of the treason to issue a certificate of stock is question of power and must be d< termined under the act of 189: which clearly shows that the legisk tare had under contenipation hut or issue of stock for a bond and til treasurer is not authorized to niafc ' a second issue. The "bond debt cases r.re quoted to uphold this where the court held that bonds i the hands of bona fide holders onl be regarded as valdi debts. As to the issuance of additions stock. Justice Gary holds that if tli ' act be construed that way thei would be no reason why there shonl 1 not be a third and fourth issue. "Tli case, as quoted above, that bonds ii ' sued without authority of law ai void even in the hands of bona fid holders is clearly law." The opinio then holds that the duty enjoine upon the treasurer to issue a secon certificate is ministerial; the com has not power in mandamus proceec lngs and the action is In in effect suit against the State, which is ui constitutional. As stated, this decision means suit on the bonds of Dr. W. T. ( Rates and Messrs. W. H. TImraerma ' and R. H. Jennings, the State Treai i urers who employed the clerk. It i presumed these suits will be starte TALE OF THE SEA. " Wrecked on a Bleak Island, Starv- 1 ing SaHors Tell a Horrible ; STORY OF DISASTER. 1 e_ They Watched Their Comrades Die j a From Hunger and K\|>osure to the i ^ t s Storm?Real Story of Marooned tl ^ a Mariners That Chills the Hlood? j. Four of Them Perished From Hun- ' 3 ger and Exposure. c a The story of the wreck of the c American bark Prussia, on RlenV - - Staten Island, Terra Del Fuego, "The e land of fire," is a thrilling one. Six ^ e of the crew have been landed at New ~ (York by the steamer from Montevido<* 8 Four perished and three are in a hos- * e pital at Punta Arenas. The Prussia I was owned in San Francisco and I ^ sailed from Norfolk, Va., March 17, 1 ^ with a cargo of coal for San Francis- c l~ co. t ^ On June 19 she was off Staten Is- c land. It was bitterly cold. Capt Johnson was trying to make New ^ Year's Island light. A storm came up s t in the night and the bark was ashore ' (j a wreck - before the danger was real- c e ized. She broke up at once. Every 8 l_ man umped overboard and 11 of the * 13 reached a strip of land which was * somewhat sheltered by overhanging rocks. ( r They kept warm as best they * R could throughout the night . At N s dawn Sabata, the cook and Ham- 1 mond. a sailor, were missing. The e Prussia was gone. The strip of land * s was not more than 300 feet long and 1 o impassable cliffs kept the men from escaping across the island. The captain was so exhausted that h he died early in the morning and ? wa sburled on the beach. The men (I collected what wreckage they could, made a fire, constructed what shelter | they were able, secured some cans of provisions, a few biscuits and a barr rel of pork and talked over means of ? escape. Carpenter Carl Stark was set to l" work at once to build a small boat. He had no tools and had to make j ' them from iron in the wreckage. All lS I...i?t? * uaauo unpen, UUC 11 WHS a SlOW ted- | ious job, and they feared that their , n provisions would not last. " It was decideed that two of their , 3- number would try to work over the s mountains, and the lot fell to Porthin and Hosteth. These two scaled the , high rocks and started across. After | a few days Porthin returned, crawl- ] ing on his hands and knees. Hs feet were badly frozen and Hosteth, he re- ; s ported had frozen to death. , ts The food had given out. The rocks | iy were covered with limpets which the ( d sailors collected, and they killed some , i- seals that entered the cove. The j seals, Rainey says, seemed to acquire ] d wisdom, and after a few had been j d killed avoided the place. The boat , was finished after SO days of hard work and Mate Hunter, Stark and i Heine started ofT to find New Year's i Island and sent a rescue party to i I- their mates. It was only thirty miles to the is- i land, but the frail shell in which they to risked their lives had to be favored, st and they avoided the open sea and worked in and ont of the bays and inlets. It took them six days to i j. reach the lighthouse and they think they went 100 miles. Lieut. Delgado, who is stationed at 5! the light, called for volunteers, and with six men in a whale boat, with (j Hunter acting nt pilot started to res- , cue the men still on Staten Island. The weather grew so had that they, u too. spent six days nt it. and con,t] sumed more than half of the pro|(l visions they had taken aboard. )t The bad weather lasted and they had to wait six days longer before | l(j venturing on the voyage back, with I s_ nine lert to eat. Luckily, the voyage to the light, was a quick one, taking only one day. The sailors were carefully nursed at the light and sent on ! a by the tender Orestes to Punta ArenB. as. Porthin was in the worst shape, i , and it was feared that he would lose both feet. |0 From Punta Arenas the six men I |(, who arrived at. New York last week i wer<? sent by steamship to Montevid- < > eo. TKAIN VICTIM IDKNTIFIKD n ly \s Man Wlm Wanted ltoosevelt to 1 Collect Debt of $."0,<HM>,000. , le e The police believe that the body of d n man killed by a train, which was ie picked up on the West Shore tracks ' s- near Hackensack, X. J., on Friday is ' e that of Orlando Toland, the man who le startled the secret service men at ' n Sagamore Hill by apearing close to d the President's house on Tuesday d night. rt The man, who was undoubtedly In- ' 1- aane, said that he had traveled from a his home in Oxford, Ala., to employ l- President Roosevelt to collect for him a debt of $50,000,000 from John D. < a Rockefeller. i 3. Toland said that he would start < n West to find Mr. Rockefeller to col- 1 s- lect the debt. A description of To- i Is land, received from hit) sister in Ala- I d baraa. agrees with that of the dead I man _ ^ ^ y- It rHE SHANAHAN CASE. Nie Jury Finds a Verdict of Not Guilty iVhicli the Judge Says the Defendant* in the Case Will Not Believe Themselves. D. B. Shannahan and Carrie E. 'ou, who at one time lived near r.iv ngston in Orangeburg County, tire in rouble in Columbia, where they were ried for adultery last week. Both Ihaunahan and the Pou woman are vhite. Sliannahan left his wife in ake up with the Pou woman, who leserted her husband to go with lhannahan it is alleged. The trial onsumed the better part of two days ind resulted in the conviction of both lefendants. The defendant was represented by dr. F. G. Tomkins, of Columbia, and dr. A. H. Moss of the Orangeburg >ar. Before the jury was drawn two lours of the time of the court were :onsumed in hearing and determinng motions made by counsel for the lefense. A moton to quash the indictment vas overruled, although the judge stated that the draft of the indictnentwasnot in accord with his views >n what the required form should be ind added that if he were the solictor he would nol pros the case and Iraw up a new indictment. A motion was then made to rejuire the solicitor to elect upon vhich charge in the indictment he vould go to trial. This was objected o strenuously by the counsel for the State, but .Judge Johnstone ruled that he trial would have to proceed upon >nly one of the two charges or 'counts" in the indictment. The soicitor entered a nol pros as to the second count in the indictment. This is an interesting ,case and Thursday attracted more than the lsual attention. The prosecutor in he case is Mrs. D. B. Shannahan and she was the first witness for the State. Mr. Pou, the husband of the voinnn with whom it is alleged Shanlahan is living in shame, was also in ourt as a witness for the State, and * 111 he put up probably to testify hat his wife has heen livingly openy with the first named defendant. Mrs. Sliannahan testified that her lushand had not been living with her since January, 190fi, and that she oegged him since that date to give up the Pow Woman and live with her is man and wife should. She also estified that Shannahan carried on a :orrespondenee with the Pou woman oefore he finally left her and went to living with his codefendant. Mrs. Sliannahnn testified that she and the defendant. D. B. Shannahan, were married in Orangeburg County In 1901. They had but one child, a laughter and she died on July 5 of this year at the home of Mrs. Shannahan. She told of a visit to her husband's "home" and of getting some of her own wearing apparel out of the trunk of her husband's alleged paramour. She said that she was offered $300 to compromise the case against her husband, but declared that she refused the offer and would not agree to accept any money for a settlement. After heing out for twenty-four hours the jury in the rase returned with a verdict of not guilty. Turning to the jury. Judge Johnstone remarked in his most sarcastic iui.c. ueiuieuioD, me aerenuams au not believe your vertiet." It was considered by the Court, very evident, that the prosecution had made out its case and many others thought so too. hut the Jury did not see it that way. R ESC I'Kit IS REWARDED. Railroad Engineer Receives Check With Another to Follow. A special front Kendall. Wis., saysJohn Franklin, a Northwestern engineer, running between that place and Sparta, his received a check for $10,000 with a promise of another for saving the life of a woman at Devil's Lake a few weeks ago. Franklin, with his wife, was spending a few days at the lake. At the same time, Williamson, a wealthy Chicago man. with his daughter and Miss Jenkins, a sister in law, also were encamped at the lake. One morning while out in a boat !hf? irirl jnwl \1 iu^ Innl/Jnu to a spring to got a drink. As Miss fenkins attempted to get back into the boat she slipped, falling into the ivater. The impact drove the craft From the shore', and although she managed to get hold of the boat, she 'ould not draw herself from the whit, Franklin rescued her just as her jtrenth was about failing her. 1'KOI'LK DitOWNKI). In Spain by Hnins Wliich laisted for Many Months. Eighty eight persons have been Irowned in Spain and the entire Mnltga district Is inundated as a result ?f torrential rains, prevailing for 45 hours. The lowlands are covered vith water to the depth of several Feet. There is much suffering and :he military Is distributing food to ;]ie refugees^ ?? *? COTTON KING Sully, of Now York, Talks About the Staple AND ABOUT THE SOUTH In Interview He Says the Consump* tion of Cotton by the World Will Reaeh Fourteen Million Hales the Coming Year?Prediction of 1IMKE Close to Fulfil lmeut?Will Spin Our Own Cotton. In an interview concerning cotton. Daniel J. Sully, said in New York on Thursday "I recall that my prediction in. 1903 that within five years fifteen. /' million bales of cottou would be used, was considered very optimastic. "I'll venture right hero to makt* some other predictions. "Within twenty-five years the southern states will spin fifty per cent, of their own cottou, whereas now they export sixty per cent, of it. "Within twenty-five years fifty per cent, of the spinning industry of England will he situated in the southern states of America. "My prediction of 1903 is very* close to fulfillment, and I predict that" this coming year, the consumption of' cotton by the world will reach fourteen million bales (if it can be obtained) at better prices than ever hefore. "And this will bring back into tbi* country enormous quantities of gold instead of our exporting big quantities of it. to such an extent that front I October. 1907, to July, 1908, tile re- , ceipt of gold into the United State* * will exceed by fifty per cent, any im- ^ I port of gold ever known by the Auter lean people. ji "Does that look as if there is any- ^ thing the matter with American finance? Does that look as if Walt Street of Egos, or hysterian phantom chasers can ruin this country?' Does that look as if we were in danger of war? Does that look as ifi - there is any reason why this is thw day for the man with the patch oni his pants? "What a hobo dream? And every*, hobo at. once began to have a dream of his exaggerated Ego, and to think the time had arrived when all tlm wealth aud brains in the United States will he rnmmnn.1^ II? tlllt>W~ off their clean linen and adopt hi*patched habiliments. , "There will never come the day when the man with the patch on hi* pants will rule America, because T have shown In the foregoing it is an inevitable certainty that the laboring man of the United States will be. more proud than ever that he is abundantly provided with all ha wants, can maintain his family as he desires, and can save tip his surplus for surplus he will have) from the progress of this nation which nothing; can stay! "The world outside the United! xyV; States would be delightful to see the M day when the man with the patch on w his pants swayed America; but the conception is as absurd as the utterance of trite epigram, devoid of substance. "I cannot leave the topic of cotton! anymore than the American people can leave it if they would, or should i If they could, because It Is Inseparably identified with the advancement which this nation is to make, an advancement entirely beyond the power of any man to portray in words. ror years ttiat turty growth that flecked the southern belt was neglected, half-scorned and abused specimen of vegetation begun to hear th eiviliz, ed world shout across the Atlantio .'and Pacific oceans, "Send us cotton! Send ua cotton!" "Then we began to take some notice of that scrawny plant, and began! to appreciate that it bore for us at, significance that was to be written: in the future in such revenues that -J no man dared measure their volume!! V And we don't begin to measure the* V( ! import of what cotton actually mean** to the United States yet! "We haven't any conception of the millions of acres that are today seemingly sterile which in a few years will luxuriate in snowy tufts of that prerous product directly responsible to the demands of the world. Of course, wo are a people wondrously energetic. as it. is, but we haven't our energiea ^ ^ even yet stimulated as they will he- * come. " l "i vl I !I7II t Iml Clinnnt niluonnn ? j out the help of American ij They must have it! And it rests us if they must not also use wheat. America is depopulating fcu- *" rope by taking its brain and muscle. and the day is almost above the horizon when the best human capacity the world contains, and by far the best material wealth the earth knows anywhere, will make the United States sway the globe." H'SIT.VMA AT LIVKHI'OOL. I Covers Ocean in Five l>uy*, Four Wfll Hours, Nineteen Miuntrs. 1 The steamer Lusitaia has arrived 1 in Liverpool. Her time across tho J Atlantic was little more than Qv?i I days, with au ave.agQ ot 2Z knotty