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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
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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, :
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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
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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.
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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."
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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
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while beating through the Passaic
valley woods iu search of game recently.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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JNLY ONE MAN SAVED.
rhe Fine Steel Freighter Cyprus,
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lown with her twenty-two members
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Second Mate C. J. Pitt, washed
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>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
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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
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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."
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