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GRAFTJRIALS
Bepn h Cotaabia With tke Case Against
Janes Farm
> HOW WYIJE WAS CAUGHT
The Cashier of the Chester Bank
Marked a One Hundred Bill Tendered
Henry Samuels In Payment
of Draft and it Was Returned for
, l?e|K>sit by Wylic.
The trial of the alleged dispensary
gratters commenced in Columbia
Tuesday morning. The first case
called was that of James Farnuui,
which was somewhat sensational.
Declaring that out of Idle curiosity
he had marked one of the hundrel
uollar billy tendered Henry Samuels,
in payment of a draft September 15.
1906, and that this bill was returned
for deposit by J. B. Wylle, along
with bills to the amount of $1,120,
Robert Uage, cashier of the Commercial
Dank, of Chester, witness for
the State in the case, sprang the first
sensation of the alleged graft trials
in the Court of Sessions. The State
announced before calling Mr. Gage
to the stand that it would connect
this testimony with the accused.
This transaction is in line with the
charge in the indictment that the defendant
sent Samuels the draft for
$1,120 to be paid to J. B. Wylie, who
was then a member of the State
board of control. The testimony of
Mr. Gage was the most important
of the opening day's happenings in
the case of the State against Parnum.
Robert Gage, cashier of the Commercial
Bank of Chester, was put
on the stand by the State, and made
a good witness. He recalled cashing
a draft on September 15, 1906.
for Henry Samuels. The ledger
showing the transaction was produced,
and after objection by defence
that ground had not been laid for
introduction of secondary evidence.
Mr. Gage was allowed to testify to
what he knew. He stated that h<
gave Mr. Samuels $1,125 for th?>
draft.
"What did Mr. Snmuels do with
it?" asked Mr. Abney.
"He gnve part of it to Mr. Wylie.'*
"How do you know that?"
"Out of idle curiosity, I marked a
*100 hill, the lower hill of the $100
bills I gave him." The package I got
from the safe contained ten hundred
dollar bills. I had a red pen behind
my ear. I marked the lower bill.
That aTternoon or the following day.
Mr. Wylie deposited $1,020 with
me. The marked bill was in the
number."
Mr. Gage was aKked what made
him take this course, and he replied
that he had had an argument about
the matter, and that ho thought Mr.
Wylie was getting something, but
this testimony was ruled out.
A VERY MEAN MAN.
Sees Ills Wife Go to >11111 for Want
of a Little Money.
Rather than loan bis former wife
$500, which would haV* kept her
from going to prison. Jacob Fickel.
a brewer, saw her sentenced to the
penitentiary for two yearB at Cleveland.
Ohio. Monday. Sentence was
suspended, and Mrs. Fickel's son will
attempt to raise the money and save
his mother.
Mrs. Fickel embezzled $593.76
from the estate of Bertha Rozen
narai, wiuie acting ns guardian to
tho woman last winter. She war
convicted, but Judge Vickory told
Mrs. Flckol she rould go free if she
would repay the money. Mrs. Flckel's
son tried to raise the money but
failed.
"Any man who is half a man would
do as much as is asked of Ficke!
to save the mother of his children,
even though he has no regard tor
her as his wife" said the Judge.
Slain l>y Fellow Convict.
Charlie Lokey, a convict on the
Tift County, Georgia, chain gang,
war killed with one blow Tuesday
morning, while seated at the breakfast
table. l>y Albert White, a fellow
convict. Humming a tune.
Wh|te had walked quickly up he's*;,
hind T.okey. He held behind his back
the hickory cross bar of a wagon.
When he reached his victim he raised
the bar. took good aim and
brought it down with all his might.
I.okev was killed instantly. White
had no chance to escape afterwards
Woman ltrutally Treated.
Attacked in the yard at her farm
home near Marlton, N. J., and benten
Into Insensibility. carried to the
house, gagged, bound hand and foot
nnd then placed between two beds
on the second floor, Mrs. William H.
Mortland, thirty years old, was thus
brutally treated a few days ago by
Samuel Layfleld, a negro employee
of the farm.
A Woman Farmer.
Mrs. Mary Crowell farms several
hundred acres near Byron. 111., and
makes a specialty of hogs. For six
years she has carried off first prizes
with her hogs In the State Agricultural
Fair, and there are many <
good Judges who say she raises the i
best hogs in Illinois. The other day 1
she sold a drove of fifty porkers to <
a Chicago packing house. 1
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Went up With Wright. 11
Mrs. Von Hildebrand. wife of
Capt. Von llildebrand, of Berliu.
went up with Orvtlle Wright the
other day in his aeroplane. Crown <
Prince Freder'ek anl the Crown f
were present, and Mr.?. V ?n Mild-- a
brand wag loudly applauded after the a
flight, which lasted eleven a id out- ^
half minutes. *
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LOOKS LIKE MURDER
IN CASK OP A TOURISTS BODY
FOUND IN 8AMFIT.
Suspected Party, Former Barber at
Rosemary, Has Escaped?Police
Are Exercised Over the Mystery.
A dispatch from Georgetown says
the mystery concerning the identity
of the white man who was found
floating in the Samplt River some
three weeks ago, has had some light
thrown upon it by a letter received i
by Capt. Hale, of the Clyde Steamship
Navahoe, from a Mrs. Morrison,
of Newark, N. J., who ctates that a
man answering the description of tin
man who was found, had accompanied
herself and companion from
Wilmington, N. C., to Georgetown,
on the steamer.
Her companion was a veteran of
the civil war. a member of the crew
of the Harvest Moon, of Farragut'3
fleet, which was blown up by a torpedo
and sunk in Winyah Bay. The
old soldier made the trip to Georgetown
for the purpose of viewing the
remains of the old ship, a portion of
which Is still above water, a monument
to tho failure of the Federal
gunboats to enter Georgetown harlK>r.
The party went to Georgetown,
spent the while the ship was In port
'n viewing the sights, and together
expected to return North. Tho
stranger did not show up aboard
'he stenmer when she sailed, but a
man named Hiram Newman, who
stated that he had formerly been a
'?arl>er at Rosemary, took passage
'nr New York, telling the captain
that the missing man had .spent
fhe previous night with him, and
sent word that he was not ready to
leave: that he would join the ship
at Wilmington.
It is reported now that there were
some suspicious circumstances attending
the case. The neck of the
Irowned man was swollen abnormally.
and there were purple marks
?hout the throat that might denote
-lossihle strangulation. On board the
hip It was noticed that the man rar ied
a small wallet with money In
:t. He was known to have had at
least $60 upon his person. Only
? few pennies were found upon the
nerson of the wronged man; therefore.
it is possible that the man was
robbed and murdered, and the body
thrown overboard.
At the coroner's inquest a tho-augh
examination was not made as
n whether death occurred by drowning
or not, bet the verdict was tofit
the decease 1 came to his death t *
Irownlng. It is furtier stated by
he captain of the steamer, Tiur-oughs,
that on the Wednesday night
nVe?ceding the departure of the Clyde
?tenmer he heard loud voices and
aursing from a row l>oat In the river,
vith sounds of an evident struggle
\mong the occupants. He supposed
't to be a midnight revel of a boatload
of sailors, and paid no particular
ittention.
The satehell belonging to the miss'ng
man is in posses.-ion of the Clyde
'.ine officials. There is nothing in
it to assist in the identification of
the party except a memorandum book
Inscribed as follows: "From Agnes
W. Johnson, 23G Thirty-ninth street.
*o my Uncle Albert." A program
>f some celebration in Philadelphia
was also found therein. The name
of the missing man was not mentioned
in Mrs. Morrison's letter.
Woman l>ie* of Pellagra.
Mrs. Iluena Dink Ins died at Char'otte.
N. C.. Monday morning of pel'agra,
the eighth victim of the disuse
since Its presence was anuounc d
in that community. The woman
was taken ill a year ago, with what
eemed to he diarrohea. Later eruptions
nppeared on arms, hands, feet
and ankles, then followed internal
Inflammation and swollen tongue.
She suffered no pain, but was emaciated
and very weak. Physicians are
nonplussed. Seven other caseB are
tow under treatment.
Mystery of Triple Crime.
Although a reward lias been offered
for information that shall lead
to the arrest of the murderer of
Hhereaa Proeepio, seven years old,
and Ferdinando Infusino, aged two
and one-half years, the Utica, N. Y.,
police nre still without a clue. Florence
Infusino, sister of the little
hoy, who was shot in the arm, is so
weak that It has been impossible
to question her closely. The motive
for the triple crime i*emains unsolved.
Saw Steamer on Fire.
The liritish steumer Harlow. Capt.
Bruce, from Newport News on June
14 for Port Natal and Manila, reports
that on July 7. while 180 miles from
Durban, she passed a steamer afire.
The vessel whoso name it was Impossible
to make out, was shortly
afterward destroyed by an explosion.
It Is supposed that this yteamer
was the missing British steamer '
IVaratah. which with 3 *0 persons on '
board has not been heard from
July 26. 1
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T>eath of Bishop Ward. ,
Bishop Seth Ward, of the M'-th- ,
odist Episorpal Church. South, died j
it Tokia. Japan, on Monday. The ]
Bishop was on a tour of inspettan t
af the missions of his church In ?be i
East. He was taken sick at Kooe t
in August. Bishop Ward is a na- i
Live of Texas, and was an able raau.
Fatal Fight
la a row at Williamston a few (
lays ago Frank Youns hit Huh Dun- ?
an in the head with a brick. As *
i result, lunsean's skull is fractured ,
ind It is po?iblc that he will die. j'
foung was arrested at Wlllimaton I,
ibout to re on a train. _ , j
JEFFERSON
DAVIS (
A JUST TRIBUTE PAID 111M BY A ,
La
NORTHERN PAPER.
Comment ou the New Haven Regie*
(cp'n Generous Reply to The News JJ
and Courier's Challenge.
A short time ago It was announc- y,
ed that the State of MIssIbsIddI waa i
preparing to present a statute of Jefferson
Davis to the Statuary Hall in
Washington as one of the great MIssissippians
entitled to a place In that
Temple of Fame, says the Now Orleans
States. Some of the newspapers
of the South, however, ex- tl
pressed the opinion that this step hi
should come from Kentucky. the w
native State of both Jefferson and 1>
Abraham Lincoln, which, it was said, t?
contemplated presenting together fi
the statutes of her two most illus- w
trlous sous. In commenting on the ni
project to give the President of the h
Southern Confederacy a place in Stat- w
nary Hall. The Charleston News and n
Courier took occasion to express sur- ti
prise at the silence of the Rochester, E
N. Y.. Democrat and Chronicle and
also the fact that it had failed to W
say something very ugly about the J<
matter. tl
The remarks of The News and p
Courier were In the nature of a chal- g
lenge. which has been accepted by tl
the New Haven Register with the g
declaration that there is something Si
to ^ay about Jefferson Davis and his p
admission to the National Temple t<
of Fame, and it should be said. It o
is high time, the Register asserts, tl
that "the mist which fc half a cer.- w
tury has distorted the North's view w
of this son of the South should be h
e'eared away," and that the man who f<
in his day suffered more thau ?ny o
other Southerner for the cause in o
which he believed, should "cease to a
be reckoned a coward and a traitor u
and esteemed for whnt he o'-iu? > n
brave, true Southern gentleman." si
To this statement the New Haven fi
Register adds the following eloquen' e
tribute to Mr. Davis:
"But the South will never cea.rc S
to admire and honor the man of w
iron nerve, of dauntless courage, of s
ceaseless loyalty, of unsullied honor, t<
of tireless energy, of peerless chiv- ii
airy, who suffered and dared and h
all but died for the cause he loved w
and lost. Of that host of true men t
who gave their best and their all fi
for the Confederacy because in their e
deepest hearts they believed they ii
were doing right, none were more d
sincere than he. Of that multitude si
who lined up for the struggle against n
their brothers of the North, none si
was braver and none was nobler. I
His sacrifice was as extreme as it T
was sincere, and his treatment by tl
the victors after the crash came was tl
sore medicine for a heart that was o
breaking. w
"It is a century and a year since
Jefferson Davis was born. U 'Is ii
near to half a century since his cause h
was lost. It is twenty years since r
his death. What better time could ii
there be to signify, by the placing o
of his statute in the Nation's Capitol, p
that in the blood of brothers shed a
the Union is forever cemented on ei
a foundation that standeth sure, tl
There let his presentment stand, h
erect, noble, commanding, impres- h
sive, as he stood In the days when T
he was master of the destinies of c<
half a nation. Let it there remind a
nn- r?uu111 uini ii was mistaken and a
the North that It misunderstood. Ret a
it pleturo a martyr to a cause that 01
though lost, was not wholly in vain,
since it taught brothers to appreci- ai
ate a relationship they were in dang- '1
er of forgetting." hi
Twenty-live years ago it would tr
have been dangerous for a New If
England newspaper to pay such a hi
tribute to the memory of the great tr
martyr of the Cost Cause, and it T
indicates what, tremendous strides <m
have been taken toward a complete- fc
ly reunited country In little more w
than a couple of decades. We are aj
in perfect agreement with the state- ti
ment of The News and Courier that W
"nothing finer than that has been b<
lone on either side of the old line to
of sectional feeling and sectional distrust."
It will be vastly pleasing to Ci
the people of the South, because it a
was so unexpected and so magnifl- al
cently generous and patriotic. Rut tr
there is a lesson to be learned from ai
the tribute, and that Is the honest- th
hearted people of New England are to
today appreciating the noble charao- ht
ter and great worth of Jefferson da- lit
vis, and they have the manly cour- Ci
age to do him the Justice which his it
been so long denied him by those hs
who possess neither the sense of rigll hs
nor the sense of justice. in
MACON MERCHANT MURDERED, pe
o\i
Rlood-St nined Room of Aged Man ,n
th
Tells of Struggle. an
CO
At Macon. Oa., Nicholas Carshell. lo<
an aged Italian merchant, was dis- w<
ruwrt-n i>v nmrerg ruinaav morning
mortally wounded In a little room
In ihe roar of his 4th street establishment.
A bloody hatchet and an
Mood-spattered floor and walls told (,p
i story of an awful struggle. The vo
old man was frightfully wounded ju,
jbout the head and arms. He was ;
vlng on the floor unconscious. The ro
iisorder of the room bore evidence tjj,
hat the room had been ransacked. cjj
ind officers are of the opinion that Qr
robbery followed the assault.
wc
Overwhelmed by Tidal Ware.
Tort of Mulege, on the eatt coast m<
of Lower California, was overwhelmed
by a tidal wave on September 4.
There were several fatalities. Con'idernble
property was destroyed. no
The tidal wave flooded 'he inland
Jistricts for a distance of about two clc
mlisv. a | o?
WEN BK^ SCARE
nek With Pletsare Party Breaks Dawn
ud Day and Night
; SPENT ON THE WATER.
be Steamer Ethel Went to the Rescue,
and the Party of Twenty,
Mostly Women and Children, Are
Hafcly landed, Quieting the Fears
of Relatives and Friends.
The arrival of a launch in tow of
le steamer Ethel at the custom
m? art nlae i? CU 1 ?
vuoo in uuai looiuu muuua/
1th a party of twenty people, most- I
' ladies and children, ended the
?ars of a number of relatives and ]
-lends of the occupants of the boat 1
ho had left Charleston Sunday
lornlng on a pleasure trip about the 1
arbor, had been lost In the bad *
eather of Sunday afternoon and
ight. The following account of the !
-lp is taken from the Charleston
ivenlng Post:
The launch was In charge of Capt.
t. S. Sullivan, and Lieut, of Police
ohn Steencken was the orgaslzer of
le party on the trip. The occu- '
ants of the cutter launch were as
lad to tie up at the wharf as were
leir relatives and frleads who had
rown fearful and anxious for their
ifety. Once the Ethel had made
ast the tow line Monday morniag
j the launch, stuck In the marsh
f Morris Island, the occupants of
tie boat felt better and saw that It
as only a matter of time when they
'ould be safely landed, but still
aving been out all night without
aod and water, tired and s.'ck, wit tint
having slept and wtlh the nerves
f the women badly strained by the
dventures of the night, only the actal
docking of the launch satisfied
tie majority of the party and the
igh of relief could almost he heard
or a block when the party alightd
on the pier.
Leaving the custom house wharf
undav morning about 10 o'clock It
'as the intention of the party to
pend the day in a picnic on the wa?rs
of the harbor, returning durig
the afternoon hours. The trip
ad passed enjoyable, although the
rater was a little rough. During
he afternoon, however, the wind
reshened and the water became
hoppy, the rain pet in and every
ndicatlon was given of worse eonitlons
to lolln*' a.. 111?
_ ?. v n I'l Ulllll van
aw that ho must heat It to the chnnel
and the boat was turned from the
ound between Morris Island and
amen Island for CominK's Point,
'he weather thickened and to add to
he troubles, Capt. Sullivan found
hat one of the pistons waa out of
rder. and he hud to work along
rith the other.
It was not long before both were
a trouble, and Capt. Sullivan found
imself in the open sea which was
mining high, with the boat showlg
a tendency to drift upon the walls
f the channel and perhaps go to
ieees. The anchor was dropped for
time, and Capt. Sullivan endenvord
to repair the trouble. He thought
fiat he had It corrected, und when
e attempted to run the machinery,
e found that it was still disabled,
he sea was running so nigh that he
auld do little in his present position,
nd he endeavored with the use of
pole, the running of the tide and (
piece of sail to get into a more fav- (
rable position for repair work.
He got into a better position, and (
a investigation disclosed the fact
lat the head of one of lie pistons
ad cracked and the letting in of wa- '
r was the rause of the trouble. ,
e again tried to remedy it, the
;?st that he could, and he decided
> make another try for the channel,
he anchor was not raised quick
lough, the boat dragged it and be>ro
she could be stopped, the launch
as carried into the marsh hard
ground, and with the falling of the
de, the boat was left high and dry.
'hen the tide suited Monday, the
>at was hauled off and towed up
i Charleston.
Tho nn rf v wliK ~?1 *
,?. v, vuv t-Artimiin OI j
*pt. Sullivan, Lieut. Steenekner and f
little girl were sick. The men had t
1 that they could attend to la
ylng to save the boat from loss j
id he women had to look out for
lemselvea. They had to hold on %
the seats, sick as they were, for j
jtirs, to prevent themselves being
'ted out into the heavy sea, and ^
ipt. Sullivan declared Monday that f
was the worst experience that he ,
is ever gone through, made all the j(
trder by the responsibility of hav- (
g the care of the women.
Lieut. Steenekner had a similar ex- j
rlence some time back in being (
it with a party and having the hont (
i aground, spending the night on
e water, but this was a far worse ^
id more trying experience on acunt.
of it8 perilous character, it p
>ked for some time as If the party r
>re doomed to loss.
- t
Killed by Auto. o
Onlc man was fatally 'injured. *
other probably so and twelve oth- *
persons. se\eral of whom were '
ung women, received painful in- m
ries Tuesday when a large auto3bile
Crashed Intn a farm ~?
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ntalning a straw-ride, party from I
e Windsor Terrace Methodist
urch. Brooklyn, at Avenue D and :
ean Parkway. Brooklyn. John M. |
idrews. the chauffeur, of RidgeKid.
died at the hospital; Charles
iok and Edward Sullivan, police;n.
were badly injured.
Sand the rack track man: "Of
ps making of many hooks there is
end."
When the lawyer in bathing hun
>tbes stolen would you say he is I
a-sulUd? | ;
SMALL COTTON CROP .
JIVK8 THK FARMER A CHANCE
FOB OOOD PROFITS.
X. II. Thompsoa, IYm, of tho New
Orleans Cotton Exchange, Discusses
the Outlook Interestingly.
Mr. \V. B. Thompson, president
>f the New Orleans Cotton Exchange,
iafl sent out a most Interesting let:er.
oa the cotton outlook. He says
:he record of the 1D09 crop will con- |
itttute an important chapter in cot- !
' rxn hlofrvetr A 4
.. owi;. n muuvrnie crop cer-]
:alnly, a dangerously short crop prob- 1
*bly, and a wholly inadequate crop
possibly. Is coming to meet a demand
which could be satisfied only by the
greatest crop that was ever grown,
fhis conjunction of an overwhelming
need with insufficient supplies is
Traught with tremendous possibilities
for profit or loss of profit to
the producer and of menace to the
cotton industry.
Whether the Issue from this crisis
shall be fortunate or unfortunate,
whether the producer shall realize
his rightful profit, or shall fall to
use or misuse his present advantage,
and whether the spinning industry
shall go through this year of
shortage with the minimum of inconvenience
or the maximum of
demoralization, will depend upon one
important particular, namely: the
distribution of the crop. With tho
producer and those who help him
abides the power to regulate the distribution
and to shape the result.
It is a large advantage thus possessed
and a grave responsibility
thus entailed. If the power Is employed
unwisely, or wasted In spasmodic
efforts to "squeeze" the buyers
up to a predetermined price, not
only will the producer fail to realize
be maximum of the present benefit,
but he will help to cripple the manufacturing
Industry and curtail its
canacttv for future consumption.
If the power is left unused, and
he producer, dazzled by the present
unexpectedly high prices, rushes his
cotton to market, he will inaugurate
a movement which snnsequent produce
can not arrest, and will reneat
the time-old mistakes of selling
the hulk oi his crop at the time
when the price is at the lowest of
the year. If the power is eniploved
wisely, the producer will distribute
the supply of cotton as evenly as
possible over the year, and thus realize
for his entire crop the highest
price that an eager demand can pay,
and at the same time keep the demand
presently active and keen for
future supplies.
In other and more fruitful years
when the yield has been great and
ithe demand .relatively pmall, ghe
farmer has been compelled to accept
for his crop whatever he could get.
even though the fire turn was less
than the cost of production. When
he complained at his lot, he has
been reminded by opulent philosophers,
that price is regulated by the
law of supply and demand, and thnt
if he made more cotton than was
needed, he must bear the burden.
In this suggestion there is truth.
H?it a good rule must work both
ways.
The law of supply and demand
must be permitted to work for the
farmer as well as against him. If
he has to accept a low price when
he makes too much, he should receive
a correspondingly high price
when he makes too little. If the
consumer profits by over-production
the farmer should profit, by ovcrietnand.
There is no divine right in
the consumer to always make the
profit, nor te there any justice in the
ipparently generally entertained expectation
that the producer must always
sustain the loss.
If it should so fall out that the
spinner has 'to pay ty>r the raw
naterial a price so high that his
season will he unprofitable, it is to
>o regretted, but the misfortune is
10 greater than that of thn farmer
vho has to soil for flip cost of proluctlon.
If such loss is to bo susained
this yoar It should not fall
ipon the farmer; nor will It so fall
f ho will but exercise the same pruionce
in selling his crop that he uses
u buying his clothes. He buys his
dothes when ho needs them and ha*
he price; he should sell his cotton
vhen the other man needs it, and
ias the price.
Efforts have been made to adrance
prices by covenants to withlold
cotton from the market until
in agreed figure should be reached.
These efforts have not been successul.
although they have had the efect
at time of restricting offerings
ind to some extent relieving the
treasure. Hut there are in this plan
wo fundamental defects. The first
s, that it can not be fully accomdished.
and the second is, that if
t could be fully accomplished, it
rould automatically defeat its own
hi r pose.
The farmer can not hold all his
otton from the start; but if he
ould and prices were forced to the
tlpulatnd figure. at that instant
here iiould be such an avalanche
f cotton for sale, that the reaction
mold be a? swift as the advance was
edioiis. But there Is a way by
hlch the desired result may be ae
It was in this very cotta;
from Birmingham, Ala., 1
died of Fever. They had I
son's Tonic cured them q
The two phynlclan* here had 3 very obstln
were Italian* and lived on a creek GO yar
month* standing, their temperatnre ranging
thing in vain. I persuaded them to let me I
ed matter and let the medicine go out In a pi
feet in till three cases wa? Immediate and pel
was no recurrencoof the Fever.
Writ* to THE JOHNSON'S CHILL *
Southern States
BUT FRC
iviechlri^ry
COLU ME
eompllshod. There la a system of
marketing the crop which is not
only feasible, but which would accomplish
Its equitable purpose unerringly
and without fall.
By this system of marketing, the
law of supply and demand would,
in unhampered operation. fix the ,
I price. The spinner would pay, and
the farmer would receive, the natural
value of the crop. It is good
not only for this year, but for all
years. Plans based upon general
agreements have failed because, in
the first place, it has not been pos- j
sible to secure the convenant of all '
planters, and, in the second place,
because self-interests placed a preI
mium upon the breaking of the
agreement. The plan in view is not
dependent upon covenant or agree'
ment, but is self-executory, the mainspring
of its operation being selfinterest.
j It will profit the men who use it,
even though others do not use it.
It is simple, but effective, and Is this:
Let the producer of cotton market
ten per cent of his crop each month
for ten months. An instant of reflection
will convince any thoughtful
man that whether the crop so marketed
be large or small, aud whether
, a hundred planters or a hundred
thousand employ the method, the
result will be better than If the crop
was sold at once, or the attempt made
to hold It nil. If the plan is good
for one planter, it Is good for all,
and If all, or any great number
of planters adopt it, the problem
of marketing the crop is solved.
But It will be objected to by some
that thn farmers' needs are too pressing
and that he cannot meet his obligation
by selling ten per cent of
his crop in September, ten per cent
ia October and to on. Alone and
unaided he can come nearer doing
this now than he could heretofore,
because he has made this crop on
a more economical basis than ever
before and owes less. After this
year it will be easier still, became
he has himself largely made his
staple supplies for another year and
' because in the near future ho will
| have a great central public warehouse
in which he will lie able to
t borrow money at a very low rate of
Interest.
But even now the farmer Is not
alone in the fight. Every banker
and merchant and landowner in the
South ir, or should he. with him.
If the cotton crop could be marketed
evenly through ten months, instead
of unevenly in three or four,
bnnk stocks would enhauee in value,
the merchants business would expand
and become more profitable;
lands would yield more in rental
and in sales, and the South would
receive each year the addition of
many millions of dollars to its
wealth.
DANCERS OF WESTERN CORN.
Its I'sc May be the Cause of Pellngra
in the South.
The Augusta IleraUl very wisely
sums up the matter of Western corn
and its results as a food for man
and beast. The Herald says it is
not in corn that donger lurks, but)
in Western corn. The reason for
thiH Is clear. Western corn does
not fully mature before the season
ends. Frost falls upon it before
the kernels are hardened and the
cob is dry.
In this condition it Is gathered
and housed or stacked. It then goes
f h rnn oh n ^ - ' r ? 1 *
....uunn a (uui'M 01 lermem hi ion
which produces the jehemleal chang?3
that convert n healthy food for
man or boast Into a subtle poison
Fed to horses it gives them blind
"taggers and thousands of horses
tnd mules are killed by it everv
ear. Eaten by men it produces
pellagra.
Fortunately a simple preventative
will avoid all risks in this matter.
That is to use only Southern grown
corn either for making corn bread
or to feed to the horses. And an
Atlanta case may show that grits
ground in the North should also be
excluded. Let our farmers ponder
his matter, and raise corn enough
for all our needs. Pellagra is becoming
entirely too frequent In the
South. *
ltudding genius is seldom found
he hind a 1.1 ..-"Homing nose. K.'iifinlier
this, hoys.
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ge in Brookside, 15 miles
that three Italians nearly
>een ^ick 3 months. Johnuickfy?read
letter below:
Hrookslde, Ala., May 4. 1WM.
ate rases of continued Matailal Fever. All
df> from my store. These cases were of three
from 100 to 104. The doctor* had tried evcrv:ry
Johnson's Tonic. I removed all the printaln
bottle at a regular prescription. The efniunent.
They recovered rapidly and there
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A Baptist preacher nf Ear{ Lake,
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able to attend to his dut'os. A
friend put him on Johnson's Tonic,
and in three weeks he wrote he was
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The half-well kind can put on
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A bomb was found a few nights
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Juarez is across the Mexican border.
More than thirty arrests were made.
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Radium has been put on the Jree
Tfst and the hottoni has fallen out
of the market. The frugal and economic
housewife can now purchase
this household necessity at. $2,000.000
an ounce.
The newspaper reporter mav
really be looking for a good story to
take home to his wife as an ex
cuse.
Sometimes it is the strapping big
fellows who get. strapped.
The "young blade" of a fellow
Is not always sharp enough to make
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In her outfit the average rummer
elrl likes to have a manly looklnc
suitor two.
The Whirling Dervish doesn't
have to have his wheel when he
wants to go out for a little spin.
The baker says when a man is
well bred you can tell when he was
raised right.
Speaking of table manners. It it
always considered the proper thing
to turn the tables?
Even the true tenor may be a
base deceiver.
Easy money is the hardest to keop.
It is all right to be selfish with
vonr troubles.
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