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&%' - vv/' \y. v *-v ' ? ESrelsif' ; .,;i^f William Jennings Bryan as Sean 1 IPliP^"' -"f ; MMvj iV mmmmamammmm^mm SPEAKS ON MISSIONS In a Churlotte Church After Ills Lecture at the Auditorium?His Observations In the East?Compares Christianity With Other He IfKion, Showing the Strength of Our Faith. The Charlotte News says a strange ma. U! 1? * - *-t otgui ncu uic iiiaiLiiuiK uitu me ttuditorium of the Second Preshpterian church Tuesday night of 800 or 900 men at the hour of 11 o'clock. It was in order to hear Mr. Bryan speak on "Missions," following his brilliant address at the auditorium. It was almost 11 when Mr. Bryan concluded at the auditorium, having spoken for about two hours there, and yet these 900 men, many of them from out of town, filed in, unwearied and still anxious to hear the great commoner from the religious side. The address was under the auspices of the laymen's missionary movement. His address was different from anything ever heard from him before. It gave a glimpse into the spiritual side of this eminent citizen of the republic, and revealed him as a follower of the Christ who redeemed the world. After a warm tribute to his friend. Dr. Hardin, whose father and whose wife's father were his great friends, he began. "The older I grow," he said in the course of his address, "the more I Iam convinced of the need of men of the realization of the conscious presence of personal God to whom we are personally responsible for all we do." This was a sentiment which reminded his hearers of the testimony quoted by Dr. Poteat in his great lecture the other night of such men as Gladstone, Josh Fiskc, Sir Henry Lodge, Brownine and Tennyson, as to the truth of Christiantity. Mr. Bryan was introduced by Dr. Hardin in a brief word, in which he said: "If we have listened with great jggj^L interest to Mr. Bryan in his magnificent address in the auditorium on a political subject, with how great interest must we hear him when he 1 speaks on the greatest of all subjects." Mr. Brvan said that in the limited time he had at such a late hour he could only approach his subject under one phase and that would be the result in favor of Christianity after a comparison of it with the other religions of the world. "I became a member of the church," he said, "when I was only 14 years of age. 1 joined so early thai 1 knew little of creeds. 1 confess it without shame. I have been so busy since that I have not had time to look up the matter. But 1 got a grip on the fundamentals of the Christian religion and I hold it yet, I believe. "My father was a Baptist and my mother a Methodist at the time I was borrij though she afterwards went to the baptist church with my father. 1 [ joined the Cumberland Presbyterian church and later took my membership to the regular Presbyterian church. My wife is a Methodist and though our membership is in the Prer!)yterian church. I am now going with her to the Methodist church to sort of even up. "While I say I am still in the Presbyterian church I have been a little troubled about one doctrine of that church?the doctrine of election, (Laughter.) But I accept the moral in the illustration your own great citizen, Senator Vance, used to give, when his old colored slave refused to be floored by an examination on this doctrine but said: "Boss, 1 ain't never heered of no one being elected 'thouten he was a candidate.' "I am interested in the fundamentals. I sometimes feel indignation over Dr. Osier's remark that a life should be snuffed out at 69. Osier must have spent so much time examining bone and muscle that he forgot the spiritual side of life. There is a continual growth in the moral man. The influence of my wife's father, a Methodist minister, who went blind in later life but who continually grew stronger in spiritual [>ower and enthusiasm, ui>on my children and in my family has been inestimable. I take more interest in Christianity and' the influences flowing from it the older I grow." Mr. Bryan, aftor pointing out the devoutness and abstinence from in- I toxicants, etc., of the Mohamma- I dans, yet pointed to their amorous heaven and their degradation of wo- I men, as showing tne inferiority of their religion to Christianity. "Their religion rests on forct, ours is based on love. Dr. Parkhurst's illustration shows the difference. The hammer breaks the ice, but the sun- I shine melts it. The religion of the I prophet has reached its limit, but Christ's is still spreading. Touching on the tenents of Budd- I hism, which is a reform Hindooism, I Mr. Bryan said that an Englishman who had become a mond of Buddha I at Rangoon in India told him that he I embraced Buddhism because it didnot require him to believe in anything. Buddhism sent delegates to a recent agnostic convention in Rome. The Buddha's heaven is mere absorp1 tion?as Matthew Arnold put it, "a I dew drop melting into the ocean." m incomparable to Christianity. B which teaches that man may be born B again, recover from a wrecked life B and begin a new life over again, with B rnal life in the future. "A Jap |H lose boy told me that Buddhism ^B pomjfed downward and Christianitv |B upward, and that expresses the diffBB rence well," said the speaker. ^Bl repulsive idolitry seen along DB tna. Ganges, the elephant-heade^ana B^l ru-.; i gods in the temples, : * ' sSP MAN EATERS. Awfnl Tales of Cannibalism in k Northeastern Canada. Editor of Fort Francis Times Brings Back Terrible Story After Making Trip of Exploration. A special dispatch to The Chicago Record Herald from Winnipeg, Manitoba, says: Tales of cannibalism and famine among natives of northeastern Can-1 ada, between the eastern bhore of James Hay and Lamrador, are brought back by J. A. Osborne, editor of the Fort Francis Times, who has Just completed a trip of exploration In that country. While at Moose factory, the explorer met a young man who fled thither In terror of his uncle, who he said had killed and eaten eight human beings. There, too, he saw *?. woman who last winter killed aud ate her two children, so great, was the famine. This lack of food primarily was brough about by the fact that the woods seemed almost entrely without the usual number of deer and rabbits, upon which the natives ordinarily subsist. As these occurrences did not seem to cause any'stir in that region, Mr. Oborne come to the conclusion that cannibalism is practiced openly on many occasions among the Indians and half breeds. One village on Main river was wiped off the map because of the gjeai. snow fall last winter. Having no provisions stored up. ahd with streams covered solid with ice, the Indians starved to death with the exception of a party of young men and women, who decided to try to make Hudson bay l.r>0 miles down the stream. After a journey marked by great privation, they reached the fort more dead that alive. A relief expedition sent back to the village found nothing luft 13 corpses in the rude huts which f?r?m nrlcnrl f ho vllln an Osborne says the Indnns and Eskimo population In the region Is diminishing rapdly, due partly to emigration to the coast of I.abrador and partly to the prevalence of disease and frequent scarcity of food. He says nany of the natives are falling prey to tuberculosis. the cultivation of psychic power by self-torture, the obstructing herds of garlanded sacred cattle, the burying of dead bodies in the river, the naked fakirs at the Elahabad fair, one of whom killed a baby snatched from a mother's arms as they marched along, claiming that the deity had ordered him in a dream to do the murder?all these were touched upon by Mr. Bryan as showing the neea of mission work in India. "I believe we owe it to them," he said, "to carry Christianity to them. I am not going to quarrel with you a')out the fate of the heathen in the future?whether they are saved or not?but I do think we should give them the opportunity to get the benefit of life." Mr. Bryan went on to show that Confucianism was far inferior to Christianity. Confuscius' golden rule--" Do not unto others as you would not have others do unto you" ?was negative while Christ's golden rule was positive. One followed out makes a life that is a stagnant pool, the other a life that is a living stream. For instance, a Chinaman will rarely endanger his life to save a drowning man. Confucius' teaching would not impel him to do so. "Reward evil with justice and good with good," taught Confucius. "How, now." asked Mr. Bryan, "can a man with hate in his heart toward a fellow man know what justice is? How infinitely below Christ's 'Forgive your enemies,' etc., is this teaching? I believe the doctrine of forgiveness is the great distinguishing characteristics of Christianity. "A man who keeps a book account of his good works never do enough good to make it worth while to buy a book to put it in. "Confucius' ideals were so low that China has never risen under them. She has stood still. "Other religions judged by their fruits fall infinitely below Christianity. Except when aided by Christianity brought from without, the pagan nations arc where they were centuries ago?-China where she was 20 centuries ago. But the Christian religion has taken our people and led them to hitrher t!"iinc? I na\ra*- rn?i o - * 'iVfv,! itar ized until I got to Asia the influence of our Christianity in its uplifting power. I saw a chain of colleges for a thousand miles?they were built by western Christianity?and their influence was great. "We should never care to boast that the sun never sets upon our possessions, but we may well have a pride in the fact that the sun never sets upon American philanthropy. In India mo9t of the children in Sunday schools are in American schools. We are sending to India for Christianity and education almost $100.(XX),000. What sends our missionaries abroad? The love of God and of their fellow men. The missionary abroad is doing a work the importance of which can not be estimated." Drawing a picture of what we at home enjoy. Mr. Bryan concluded: "We owe no nhli<ratirtr> trv w tllUOC distant people that we can not pay in dollars and cents. We owe it to posterity to hand down the blessings we enjoy toothers. It is necessary for us to exert ourselves to the utmost to spread our religion over the earth and I am sure the time is coming when every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Christ is Lord." Nineteen Killed. A train made up of passenger coaches hound from Scotland and the North of England to Bristol, left the rails as it was entering the station at Shrewsbury at an early hour Tuesday morning. Nineteen persons, including ten passengers were killed. \ . r . - .v THE WHITE PLAGUE. The Mate Board of Health Will Al Wage War On It By Instructing the General Public In How Best to Fight the Dread Disease of Consumption. The state board of health has started its campaign of education for ol better sanitation, with the special |t< cuu in vicw ui acquainting me peo- f( pie generally of the state as to how . to care for tuberculosis cases and prevent the spread of this terrible 8* disease. The campaign was initiated in a ci practical way Thursday bv the send- ti ing out of a letter to each county st medical society in the state request- h ing that as early as possible one or vi more public lectures be arranged for tl on some appropriate subject, such nr as the suppression of tuberculosis, ri typhoid fever, smallpox and other si infectious diseases. Already the Sumter and Charles- w ton county societies are doing excel- u lent work of this nature and it it felt G that the other counties of the state f< will readily fall into line. ii Members of the state board are es- g pecially anxious to enlist the hearty cooperation of the weekly and daily t< press of the state in disseminating tl the information given at these coun- c ty society lectures. The members of t< the board think there will not be 0 much difficulty in securing this as- s sistance from the press, as it is rec- g ognized that the newspaper people ti are as anxious to inform the people h along such important lines as the u doctors are to have them informed, b The letter to the county societies w is a particularly strong one. e "To the County Medical Society: v "At a meeting of the executive v committee of the state board of t health it was resolved to urge upon n tne county societies of the state the importance of uniting in an effort to n extend sanitary knowledge among t our people. That we have so often t failed to secure the enactment of h proper sanitary law is largely due o to sanitary ignorance. But sanitary t instruction is more important than t sanitary legislation, for the preiud- t ice that is always associated with ig- s norance may render a good law of i' no effect as is shown by the difllcul- c ty the board is now experiencing in I endeavoring to enforce the present fi compulsory vacination law. t "The extensive prevalence of tu- I berculosis and typhoid fever is in large measure due to sanitary ignor- a ance. And again, sanitary ignorance 1 is often responsible for the spread of t certain of the transmissable disease > of childhood, as well as for the de- F fective development of many school ' children. 1" "In order to remove as far as prac- s ticable this great obstaole to sani I" tary progress, the state board of health earnestly requests each coun- c ty society to arrange more public v lectures upon appropriate subjects, t such as the suppression of tubercu- V losis, typhoid fever, smallpox and other infectious diseases; school hy- t giene, etc. 1 "The example has been set already f by one or two county societies, and ? it is earnestly hoped that all will join in making an aggressive and effective crusade of education. "Respectfully, I Robert Wilson, Jr., "Chairman State Board Kca'th. "C. F. Williams, "Secretary." snarl; attacked man. f t Twine Around lli.s l-cus lint Hk . Hoots Saved llini. l< Robert Rogers, who lives near Plainfleld, N. J., and who is one of New Jersey's best known hunters, hud a thrilling snake experience f while beating through the Passaic valley woods iu search of game recently. ^ He was making his way through dense underliush when he encounter- v ed two copperhead snakes. Before ^ he could jump back, both sprang at c him and coiled about his legs, making vicious strikes at him. 0 The fact that he had long hunting boots on prevented them from inject- C( ing their poison, but the situation un- jj nerved him so that for a moment he n was unable to fight them. (j lie finally succeeding in uncoiling |( one of the reptiles and forced it from w him far enough to blow iis head off a with his gun. The remaining snake ^ attempted to carry on the battle alone R1 but clubbing his gun, Rogers managed to get it on the ground without ^ being bitten. The next instant he ^ had crushed its head beneath his heel, f, Rogers abandoned the hunting trip to j, hurry home for stimulants. p The snakes were each five feet in jj length, a size unusual in this species. Rogers carried them to Berkley Heights, where they are on exhibition at the hotel. ^ I XItMKH KlliLICI). And Another llndly Mangled in a \v Cotton Gin. j, A dispatch to the Atlanta Journal s< says H. F. Jones, a well known farmer, was instantly killed in n gin at the Heath place, about ten miles from p Macon, Ga., Thursday morning. He w was working with the gin when h?? hand was caught in the saws. His body was jerked into the machine, head down. An oil can struck him " in the head, penetrating his brain and killing him instantly. Spivey Fuller, a well-known Ea?t Macon man. was terribly mangled on a Thursday morning, and now lies at n the city hospital. He was working in b the gin, when he was caught in the nr saws and pulled in. Beforo the ma- T chinery could be stopped Ue was ter- i s< ribly mutilated. I si 4 DIED IN POVERTY ftor Making a Fortune Out of His Inventions. i vented the Spark Arrester Now Used on All Locomotives in America and Europe. David Redfield Proctor, 81 years Id, a cousin of United States Sena>r Redfield Proctor of Vermont, was )und dead Thursday in a cheap >dging house at 148 South Clark ;reet Chicago. He had heen in straightened cirnmstances for several year?, allough he made a fyrtune from the lie of royalties on an invention which e patented in the early '70's?a de ice which arrested and extinguished le sparks from the funnels of loco?otives making the kindling of praie fires by passing trains an imposbility. In the Columbian exposition he ras one of the most Picturesque figres who haunted offices of Director eneral Davis and Gnham with of2rs of marvelous plans for enhanclg the beauty and magnitude of the reat fair. He designod the Proctor-Morrison ower which was intended to make he Eiffel tower seems a dwarf in omparison. For the rights to this ower he was offered, it is said $100,00, and a company to build it was tarted under the presidency of Enineer Morrison the "steel construeion bridge builder." But the colipse of steel Mackay's "Sectatorim" theatre caused the business inerests identified with the fair to look dth disfavor upon so gigantitic an nterprise as that proposed by Inentor Proctor, The local tower /hich was to be 1,000 feet higher han the Eiffel tower at Paris, was iot built. When Engineer Morrison was planing to construct at Memphis, Tenn., he largest steel cantilever bridge in he world he intrusted the work of uilding a minature working model f the structure to "Inventer Procor" as he was known. The model was o be only two inches square and was o have 912 joints and almost as many eparate pieces. Proctor completed it a two months. The huge bridge was onstructed exactly after his model, le received $4,000 for the work. The irst "working" gondola launches at he world's fair was designed by Mr. >rnptor When his lifeless body was found t the dingy room in which he had ived and dreamt his dreams of asounding inventions for the last few ears, the narrow little bed was sim>ly festooned with tiny hold carved nodels of Hying machines which he lad guarded and embodiments of ome discoveries that he claimed to lave made in the field of aronautics. Mr. Proctor was a native of Gloucester. Mass. He is survived by a vidow and two daughters, Mrs. Arhur Rowe and Mrs. William H. Perkins of Gloucester. The managers of the lodging house old the police that a doctor, who lad been called to view the remains, bund that death had been due to old ige. INDIAN BUYS MAIDEN. 1p Could Not Win Her und So Hp Bought Her. A dispatch from Denver, Col., says tnsuccessful in his suit to win the land of an Indian maiden who is in he Carlisle Indian school, Charlie tedhorse, a Ute, departed Thursday norning on an eastbound train, liavng in his pocket a letter from the ;irls's parents on the New Mexican Jte reservation telling that the girl lad been sold' him for the sum of our ponies. The question now arises, and Itedorse has evidently overlooked it, whether or not the girl who has enDyed four years in Carlisle, will lie rilling to marry him, simply because he Indian went through the primeval ustom of handing over four ponies d the girl's parents, who are in need f stock. There is much of Indian romance onnected with the story of Redorse and hiH fair lite maiden of CarHie. Roth were children together on he reservation years ago. Redhorse >ved her and she loved him, but hen she was sent to Carlisle, her flections changed, and when Redorse went to claim her, he was [turned. With the stolidness of the Red Man e did not give up, hut returned to .rizona, where he induced the girl's iither to sell her to him for four onies. With the bill of sale in his ocket he is now on his way to Carsle to claim his property. FATAL PRACTICAL JOKM. Voting Girl .1 tupped From it Second Story. Frightened by hr- s'ster, who was rapped in a sheet, and playing host, Clara Osgood leaped from a ?oond story window at her home ear Redvllle, Ky., and was instantly illed, her neck being broken by th ill. The sister, Annie Osgood, is rostrated with grief, and is he in.-; atched for fear she will take her lite TWO MEX KII-I F1) ly the Hxplosion of a Boiler Out in Texas. Ramie Day, white, the engineer nd Robert Owens, the negro fl.-etan. were killed when three large oilers in the plant of the Helton oil till of Helton. Texas, explodod early hnrsday. The boilers we.-e torn to tap Iron by the force of the explooa. f BURNED TO DEATH Flaming Gasoline Surrounds Crew of Swamped Launch. Several Prominent Young Men of New York Meet Horrible Fate Wlliln OS Plpnuntw T?ln At New York four young men were drowned and three others, all from good families, were so seriously burned in the explosion of a gasoline launch on Raritan Bay early Thursday that they may die. For three hours after the explosion the three survivors clung to the rail of the launch and fought off the flaming gasoline which surro"~J * them in the water. The dead: . Harry P. Barter, bookkeeper of ;he First National bank of Perth Amboy. Floyd McHose, a draghtsman, Perth Amboy. Edward J. Olsen, bookkeeper, Perth Amboy. Charles Wickburg, clerk in the Perth Amboy Terra Cotta company. The injured: Joseph J. Horsby, bookkeeper National Fire Proofing company; badly burned. Nelson P. Macau, a draughtsman, Perth Amboy, burns. Richard Rubedee, a draughtsman, burns. The seven young men started late i at night from Perth Amboy in a J large gasoline launch owned by Macan. for Keyport. When two miles off Keyport one of them lighted a match to ignite a cigar. A spark flew into the drippings of gasoline in the bottom of the boat and Instantly communicated the flames to the 50-gallon tank in the head of the boat. The.e was a terrific explosion and the seven men were hurled into the water. The boat was sot afire and those who survived the first shock?five of them?swapi back to the launch. Two had been drowned at the first immersion. The survivors caught the boat run uli me same sine ana triea to tip It so as to flood It with water and extinguish the flames. Instead the first tip of the launch sent many gallons of flaming gasoline on the water about the swimming men, driving them away from the boat. This time only three of the men returned to the boat, two having been so blinded by the burning gasoline that they were drowned. The three survivors. Hornsby, Macau and Rubedee, held to the boat for three hours while their hands were burned to a crisp by the flames which were shootlsg tip and making a bright torch out on the bay. They were almost dead and ready to drop off and drown when the freight steamer St. Michael, plying between New York and Perth Amboy, came along and, being attracted by the torch of burning gasoline, sent help. HHOUG11T BIG I'lUCF. Corn Soils for Two Hundred and Fifty Hollars Per Ear. Two hundred and fifty dollars was the world's record price paid at Chicago Thursday night for a single ear of corn. The ear from "Hone county" was knocked down to the highest bidder in an exciting auction at the National Corn Exposition at the Colisseum in Chicago. The purchaser of this ear of corn? a bushel sat that rate would have sold at $15,000?was the man who raised It, L,. B. Clore, a tall farmer from Franklin, Ind. He has taken prizes amounting to nearly $8,000, including a Texas farm. He raised it on thirteen acres of land. The ear was taken from one of ten that took the sweepstakes in their class. OFT HHTI QIICK. Cuurcrn Fuils After Spending All Its Iatrge Capital. The Cargill company's branch house at Columbus, Ohio, has closed and e?cited investors are crowding the place asking where the agent, b. Sinclair, is. Mr. Sinclair, according to a circular from the company is in New York at the general offices of the company there, having gone last Tuesday night with the books. The company was a race horse investment corcern which paid sometimes 3 per cent and at other times 5 per cent weekly. The circular states that the company has met with several losses which has wiped out its entire capital and that an effort will be made to organize the company within 30 days. The capital was $200,000. XMVKK TOO OLD For Cupids Darts to Make u Lasting Impression. It is stated that Bear Admiral Oliver Selfridge, U. S. N.. retired, will marry on next Tuesday Miss Gertrude Miles, of Boston, a long time friend of the family. Admiral Seifridge is about 71 years of age, and his fiance is 65. Admiral Seifridge left the other day for Boston, where his son George Seifridge, has lived for a number of years. Admiral Seifridge was placed on the retired list of the navy in 1898, after a distinguished naval career. WHITK PRISONERS ESCAPE. Life Time Convicts Walk Out of the Penitentiary. Walter Allen and Jim Suddutb. white, both life term prisoners sent up from Greenville, and both trusties, walked away from the State Penitentiary Tuesday moniin" ie?orc daylight and neither of them has been seen since. I SHOULD BE TESTED. I Does Lint Cotton Gain in Weight | by Being Held? Mr. CI. M. Davis, of Georgia, Sayr It . Undoubtedly Does, and Is An .ious " For n Thorough Test. There seems to be a wide'/ preval- 1 ent conviction that eottoD lint gains both in quality and web at by being uiiuwcq 10 nppen on ?e seed for a few months after it 1* picked, and the belief seems to b7" eased upon more or less clearl'- ?eftned experince. In the last ? of the Progressive Far.. tor August was published a sfhtement from Mr. G. M. Davis, State Lecturer of the Farmers' Union for Georgia, to the effect that "it Is an unquestioned fact that cotton held In the seed will gain about one-tenth in weight for the first three months after picking." A month later The Progressive Farmer printed a communication from a correspondent lu Mecklenburg County, N. C.. signing himself J. A. W., who also holds to the belief that cotton will gain both in quality and in weight from being allowed to ripen, the time required being from three to five months. This, he said, he had learned fifty years ago in the days of the old horse-power gins, and he had known seed cotton to yield 3 7 1-2 per cent, of lint after ripening. The question raised is one fairly capable of scientific demonstration and if the results are such as its advocates claim, the truth of the matter is well worth the cost and trouble of demonstration. As to the present status of the matter, the subjoined article from Mr. Davis will be found of interest. A few weeks ago The Progressive Farmer referred to Mr. Davis, the following letter. "Chicago, Sept. 14, 1907. 1 "Editor Progressive Farmer, Raleigh, N. C. "Dear Sir: In the August U9th is- ' sue of your paper, a statement is printed over name of G. M. Davis to the effect that cotton, as a rule, is ginned too soon after picking, and a money loss is the result. Will you he good enough to advise us of the address of Mr. Davis that we may write him for his authority on the subject stated. "We certainly hope Mr. Davis is correct in this position and should like to know more of the matter. "Thanking you in advance for this courtesy, we are, "Very truly, "Dixie Cotton Picker Co., "W. B. Stone, Sec." In reply. The Probressive Farmer has just received from Mr. Davis the following which we are glad to print as a current contribution to this interesting and important topic: "There is no published book or printed authority on the subject in existence to-day, so far as I know. If there is, I have never seen it or heard of it. "The Government Bureau of Agricultural Information has no bulletin on the subject, but this does not argue that there should l>e none in the future. 1 have been trying for some time to interest the Agricultural De partment and some of their special agents in this and othes matters of a like nature, but they all seem too busy with other things to give me a hearing or a chancy to have the matter thoroughly investigated along scientific lines. "My authority is based on experience and investigation along independent lines. That cotton grows and continues to mature and gain in lint weight for from two to three months after being picked, as set forth in a previous article on the subject and for which I am asked to give a specific authority, there is no question. The chief authority is the cold fact known to all growers and handlers ' of cotton who observe cotton closely. "The first cotton which opens is green, and if carried to the gin soon after beng picked the lint it cut by the gin saws and the staple so badly 1 damaged that the loss in price is con- ' siderable. Perhaps the tlrsst cotton ginned is actually worth a cent a pound less to the manufacturer because of the damage to the staple than the same cotton would be if loft to dry and ripen in the house. In this respect cotton only follows the natural laws followed by till other agricultral products. Melons, fruit and a hundred other things ripen after being gathered. "The greener and wetter the cotton the more closely it sticks to the seed, and the harder it is to seperate when J being ginned. Kvery man who has . had a day's experience about a cotton | gin will bear me out In this state- i ment. The closer the lint adheres to | the seed the less the lint from the | cotton when ginned- In other words, I more of the lint is left on the seed | and a proportionate lost is the result, j "It now seems to be an unquestioned fact that the seed is the lint producer of the interior cotton boll. ^ The seed is the mother upon which the lint feeds and grows long and fleecy. The oil which the seed con- ] tains is, in part, conveyed to the lint to give it the rich, silky gloss, and feel that it ought to possess in order !j WE CORDIALl i Ail who visit Columbia during the Fair Piano and Organ Kxhibit o! Take Notice?We do not exhibit at 1428 Main street, and have some rare I: Write for catalogues, price, and ter MALONK'8 MUSIC HOUSE T TUT-: ONLY j in Columbia, South Carolina, makin 1 thing In the Machinery Supply Lin | Write us for prices beiore placl COLUMBIA SUPPLY Ct On corner opposite Seaboard Air |l. =1 / LAKE DISASTER. 'wenty-One Men and a Fine \ Freight Steamer Lost JNLY ONE MAN SAVED. rhe Fine Steel Freighter Cyprus, Launched August 17, Lost?Founders in I .alee Suiicrior and the Only Survivor is Washed Ashore Lashed to m llalt, Half Dead and Unable to Tell the Story. Hound down from the head of the akes on the second trip she had nade since being launched at Loralo, )hio, on August last, the fine steel reighter Cyprus, 4 40 feet long and >wued by the Lackawanna Transpor uviuu vuiii|inu,i, ui v,it;tt;iuuu, VSU1U., oundered Saturday night in Lake Superior, off Deer Park, taking lown with her twenty-two members >f the crew. Second Mate C. J. Pitt, washed ishore, lashed to a rail, is the only >erson left alive of the ship'8 crew, ind his condition Is so critical that tiuce he was found on the beach, he has only been able to gasp out the tame of the sunken ship and the fact that twenty-two lives were lost. Pitt is suffering from the dreadful exposure in the icy waters of Lake Superior, in addition to the buffeting lie received from the breakers. Until lie recovers sufficiently to talk the story of the wreck and exact cause if the stout steel ship foundering will not be definitely known. Deer Park is about thirty miles south of Grand Marais, on the shore jf Lake Superior. Several bodies Troni the wreck have washed ashore, and two are known to be those of the first mate and the watchman. Marine men suggest as possible explanations of the foundering that the engines became disabled; that the plates opened and that the ship sprang a leak and that the hatches may not have been securely battened, permitting the stenmer to till with water from the waves washing over her decks. FA SIKH TlliiKK WKF K S. Dog in it Dry Well Without Food for Twenty-Three Days. On the night of the 17th of September. .Messrs. Wade Lamar. Brooks Cato and Dave Gaston went fox hunting near the town of Sally. When at Mr. Phillip's place they missed one of the hounds, a white and spotted dog. They searched all the neighborhood the next day without finding her, and came home presuming that she had been stolen, and was shut up somewhere. Well. 011 Monday, the 14th of October. Mr. Phillips came to town and reported that during the middle of the week before he had found the hr.un>l l.?, ? r _ .? uuu>.u ??< ihit iiuuuiii in .1 urj wmi on his farm. She had remained in the well for twenty-three or twentyfour days without food or water, and of course was extremely emaciated and weak. She was carried to Aiken and delived to Mr. Lamar. This occurrence is so remarkable that it would seem incredible if all the parties concerned were not well known, and highly reputable citizens of Aiken county. to class as first-grade cotton. If this lint is seperated from the seed immeditately after the picking process there is no chance for this to take place. "Fifteen hundred pounds of cotton in the seed, when picked dry, may not weigh in the seed any more three months afterwards than it did the day it was picked, but the lint, ginned m ? from the seed will weigh more. "I am especially anxious for the riovernnient to have this thoroughly tested, and a complete bulletin issued in the subject, and 1 believe if the people will demand it that the matter will be taken up at once." P f Low Price* "" Q""~ Hy/ Kye? 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