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. . P\ ^ THE FORT MILL TIMES VOLUME XVIII FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11.1909 *o. aa HE TALKS OUT Bishop Candler Takes a Shot at Job D. R#cWeflit'? Gift |* ERADICATE HOOK WORM . Mr Does Not the NoraaMit and Clausen <1 frith Others Made r1 *??oto HumillUrtc* and Belittle the Honth nnd We Can Take Caw* of OhdhIm. Bishop W. A Candler call* attention to the ft>l wins article which appeared in the l>w Orleans Picayune the mornin after the presB dispatches aunom,><) the formation of Mr. ItockofclleB vermifuge commission : "The n?*C6Ksityfor creating sectional prejudices tainat the Rnnth. crn people and Sues el{<1 not stop vlth the end of be civil war of t S61 -'t>&. "The old hoBt III'engendered ttoen li'is passed away far aa the men v ho fought were ncerned, and tjhe rtllylng of the j ?? nien of tlbc South to the natia^ fla^ in tjbe Spanish war, wberhojy stood ?bou: cer to shmyf' with the men of l|v< * * -i>drth, went far to extinguish tfce i ancient twWonal feeling against this part of the country. "But for some reason not fully understood it has come to light that self-professed and self-appolnt(1 philanthropists have taken it upon themselves to discover and pro- , claim conditions in the South calculated to create further prejudices against the States and people of the South so as to diverse inimiaratlon, ( to alarm the resident population :>nd to place thiR section of the , country before the world as an af- | Dieted and accursed region. I "No sooner had the South begun | to manufacture its cotton on an ex- i nsive scale when it was given out , to the world that most ot' the work ( was done 1 y youths of both sexes ; and largely by children of tender age. and at such pitiful wages that , the manufacturers of the North, j who employed persons of full age ] at high rates of compensation, could , not by any possibility compete with , them, and such a hubbub was raised in the North about it that Senator Itevoridge, of Indiana, offered in | congress a bill to prohibit transportation by interstate railroads of the products of Southern cotton mills where such alleged conditions ob- , taincd. . i "A great deal of exertion was , required to establish the falsity of such slanderous statements against , the South, and this section has not \ fully recovered even yet from them. . Next an outcry was raised that the Southern people had become the , victims of a deadly disease named pellagra," which was charged to the use of Indian corn that caused it. The disease has been traced to Southern Kurope, where It is com- 1 mon, and later information goes to 1 show that it was imported in th?> persons of immigrants. "But the pellagra panic having failed of the exported effect, now comes a howl about the "hook worm. A non-professional writer has devoted many pages and many picture* ! to the hook worm in the South iu McClure's for October. Me says: " 'All through the South-?the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida. Alabama, .Mississippi -those abnormal people, the "dirt eaters," have been known for a century, and anemia is a universal malady s nth of tho Potomac. "It's something these people oat." is tho favorite explanation of it. " 'One's first and ,.t congest impr-?s sion ot tne poor wnites is ot their shiftles&ness. I remombpr o? *\dreadfuliy it used to deptess myears ago when I spent my v.tcati >r in the North Carol.i.;: 111 miiMlna. I have bei'ii in littlj ?indowb's.KtovelesK. one-room cabins, .'he linnu cf at least ten persons, wnere all ihe cooking was done over the primitive open fire?except when it rained down the chimney and pot the fir< out: then there wasn't any cooking till the rain held up? Aand u* i talked with the women I wua alway*. asking myself, 'How can people live lllce this? Why don't they go 10 work and fix i*p things?" " 'It is t-xtlraated that scattered over the Atlantic aeaboard from the Potomac round the gulf, to the Mississippi river, there are today 2.000.000 of these poor whites?onr native-born whites?suffering with arpmla. and hurdly one of tbdae 2.000,000 knows, or even suspects, that he Is rnallv Hiifferinc from an internal parasito?that this disease lb caused by the book tfrm. " 'Then years a so even the foremost physicians did not know (be anemia of the South was caused by the book worm; but today, tbatiks largely to the tireless efforts of one man?Charles Wardell Stiles?the wholo medical profession and many of the laltv are awake to the vital Issues of the problem and are preparing a crusade that shall reach from the worst regions of the barrens, where nearly the whole population is suffering to the farthest "cove" In the mountains, and stamp out tho disease.' "In the face of such statements. Illustrated by sensational cuts, It Is useless to contend that the Southern people possessed vigor enough to 5fc<yw up w ttfc able crops of jtato#- - A FIEND LYNCHED AND TWO OTHER FIENDS IIKINU PURSUED BY CITIZENS. A THo of Xogrow Strip, Tie anil Whip a Virginia Farmer and Attack Hit* Wife. : A dispatch from Sutton, W. Va., says two organized parties of men are scouring the hills of that county searching for two negroes believed to have aided Charles Lewis, also a negro, in a dastardly assault upon Mrs. Mary Lockhold, wife of a prosperous farmer Wednesday near tin* small settlement of Exchange. It the negroes are caught, lynching is not improbable. Lewis, the onlyknown member of the party of three, who are thought to have been implicated in the deed, is dead, having been shot and killed by a posse of men late Wednesday whiiu endeavoring to escape. According to Deputy Sheriff Williams. the three negroes late Tues day night went to the home of Qeo. Lock hold. living but a few miles from Sutton, and after tying the farmer to a tree and whipping him on his bare back with willow switches, attempted an assault upon Mrs. Lockhold. Persons who happened to be passing the Lockhold farm heard the screams of the woman and the negroes fled at the approach of the passers-by. A posse of farmers was organized within a short space of time, and after a twenty-four hours hunt. Lewis, one of the supposed trio of the negroes, was apprehended. As ho turned to flee from bis pursuers, after being ordered to throwup his hands, he was shot and instantly killed. Late Wednesday night news reached Sutton that one of the pursuing posses had surrounde 1 the two ne groos in a swamp near the scene of the crime. The courier who brought the news of the imminent apprehension of the men said lynching could not be averted if they were caught alive. At. midnight a telephoue communication was received from Gassaway dating that two negroes thought to have been implicated in the assault nil Mrs. Lockhold bad been captured near that place and placed In jail. Men with rifles are said to be guarding the Jail against a posibl lynching party. Feared to lk* lturied Alive. Fearing that he would lie buried alive, Dr. William J. Dodd. of Jersey City, made a request in his will, which disposes of an estate valued at $250,000, that following his death un/t Knrlnl i*o/llnl be cut by a surgeon. In probating the will I)r. I>odd executor has re ported to the court that the artery was cut as stipulated. Vk-tiin of Queer Accident. Charles Dennett, six years old, is dead as a result of a peculiar accident. While his family was attending his father's funeral the lad's foot was caught in a rope tied to to a bull on their Long Island fartu. jrhe bull ran away dragging the hoy a half nple before the rope broke, cautfing injuries which resulted in his death. Turned Upside I?o?n. At Des Moines, Iowa, twenty-five people were hurt, one probably fatally.* when the heavily-laden street car on the University line jumped the track while the car was headed for the down-town section of the city early Wednesdny. The car turned upside down. Itutclier's lLurvible Crimes. One of the worst tragedies that ever shocked that county occurred at fine drove, Pa., Wednesday night when Daniel Schoke, a butcher of that place, cut o(T the h'-ads of his wife and twelve-year-old daughter and then committed suicide, oy shooting himself. men and great and gallant soldiers from the time of Washington and .fefttrnoh and a host of others up to the eminent civilians .and the grand soldiers of the civil war. The South is represented to be tilled \\itli n wretched brood of dirt enters. Who that knows the South can for a moment believes this? "Hut now comes the prenomenally wealthy Mr. Rockefeller, the oil king, who proposed to give $ 1.000,0(?0 to "cure the people of tbo South of book worm, and a commission Is to he formed. If it has not boon already, to spend the money. "Well, the South can only submit. Wtb a million of money and a sensational pross cugaged in portraying our section of the union as un accursed country, we cau only accept the situation and wonder what otb*?r slander is to be fulminated against IT. The editorial of the Picayune shows both sense and self-resepct. It la time the Southern people bad berun fesentlug this officious disposition to take care of tberu v^hich certain parties aro addicted to. ItooiitIons may easily, as dutu'-dum bullets, wound where they hit and leave a mortal poison In the bolo they make after being received. W? are certainly ablo to get ourselves clear of worms without Mr. Roeket1 feller's million-dollar dose of vermifuge. W. A Caodlcr a?a?amiiBii? Miami?i WILL GO HIGHER Frank Hayne Says Fifteen Cents is Too Little for Cotton m l THE CROP VERY SHORT The llig (Vlton Man, Who is a Xafive of This Slate, is Optimistic, and Reviews Recent Market III -a. I tory and lHtlum Strong Belief in Yet Higher Price Levels. 1 Mr. Frank B. Hayne. a South Caro- 1 linlan now living in New Orleans. 1 who has labored consistently for ' higher prices for cotton this season. 1 has outlined his reasons for saying 1 that fifteen cents Is too little for 1 cotton as follows. "When the government bureau ( report. Issued on August 2, showed a ? condition of 71.9 per cent, I felt con- t vlnced the crop could not possibly f reach 12,000,000 baleB, and that cot- i ton was selling far below its real f value. When the government report, 8 issued on September 2. showed a con- r dition of 63.7 per cent, I felt satis- i fled that 11,500,000 bales was the 8 maximum possible for the crop and i at that time received a telegram from f Mr. J. N. Wisner of New Orleans, f asking Mr. W. P. Brown and myself t to telegraph him in full our views g on the situation. Mr. Brown was a absent, so I replied to Mr. Wisner i by telegraph as follows: g " 'Wo look at the situation as fol- 8 lows: Discounting every favorable t condition that can arise until December 1, the government report indi- c rates a maximum crop of 11,250.000, r and with unfavorable conditions i might easily lie 1,O0",0On bales less. \ Consumption last year, 13,100,000, v in spite of short time in Kngland < ami continent. With largest American crop cv-r produced the price advanced $*_'0 a bale while being a marketed and the visible supply Is f far less than two years ago. With a a certainty that 1 .".,500.000 will real- ^ ty ih; needed by tin* country and that ,j probably less than ll.oOO.OOO will a bo grown, an eventual advance 16 simply unavoidable. Under normal f conditions the market should have certainly advanced to 13 cents yesterday, but was kept down by the n enormous soiling of the bear clique. These sellers base their action on fl the supposed helplessness of the South, thinking the South will be t forced to sell its cotton at any price ? the spinners are willing to take it 0 at. We consider that the competition between spinners who will Q certainly require 1,100,000 bales Xl monthly will take care o (this so- ^ called distressed cotton. If the n bankers of the South will help the farmer to market his cotton slowly, ? we firmly believe it will be worth r 1F? cents in the next 60 days. The v weakness in our opinion of the c bears' argument is that, although the a producer may be foolish enough to t be willing to sell his cotton far below its actual value, we hardly think j. that the spinner will be foolish t enough, when he fully realizes the j facts of the case, not to start, huy- > ing freely at these prices and thus ( avoid the scramble for spot cotton T that will surely take place some time ^ during the season. , i 11* o''Hi nt I ii i? I HUT UHH hoici HI least 5.000.000 bales of cotton on which lie realized probably $350 .000,000. It was very hard to con vincp the farmer that 12 cents was not an extreme price for his product, but through the efforts of a few Southern men, they finally realized the fact tiiat they were sacrificing their cotton, and I believe that at least $50,000,000 more has been obtained for the cotton marketed to date than would have been if it had not been for the efforts of. this small coterie of Southern men. "My prediction on September 3 of 15 cents in the next fio days has now come true, hut at that time ! thought the crop would he from 1 1,250,000 1 to 11,500.000 bales. I now feel con- ' fident that the maximum for this crop is 10,750,000 bales. The prob- ' lability is that it will lie under 10,- ' 500,000 bales; and there is a pos- { nihility of its not reaching lO.OoU,- ' 000 bales. I'nder the present con- ' ditions I now feci that 15 cents is ' ns much too cheap for cotton as 12 ' 1-2 cents seemed to me on September ' "In 1903-'04, known as the "Sully year," the crop was 10,011.000 bales and tbo consumption oDly 10,083,- ( 000 bales, and iact year tho coo- ' sumption increased 3.071.000 bales, or 30.40 per cent. Tho visible sup- 1 ply on me 1st of September, tntr season, was 1,472,000 and on the Is: 1 of September, 1003, was 517.000 1 bales or only 055,000 bales less, therefore in the 'Stilly yeor," with a vlslblo supply on September 1 of 517,000 bales and a crop of 10,01 1,000 bales, the world bad 10,528,000 bales of cotton, of which they used 10,083.000 bales. The visible supply on the 1st of September this year was 1.472.000 hales. If the crop should only prove 10.500.00o bales, the world will have a supply of only 11.072.000 bales, while last year it actually consumed In spite of short tiiuo In England 13.157,000 bafes. or a deficit of 1,185.000 bales. "Why. If In the 'Sully year' the crop had only been 7.500.000 to 8.ooo.nnn hales, tho situation wovild !> as acuto as it v1ll bo tf tUis4 THEY SHAKE HANDS THK UNIQUE EXPERIENCE OF TWO SOLDIERS IX THK WAR. Captain Christian and Captain Itaueh Mwt Fop the Find Time Sliur They Tried to Kill Each Other. Standing in the lobby of a hotel luring the late visit to Richmond. Va.. of the PennsyKanians who attended the unveiling of a monument, Sold Harbor, several days ago, was Captain E. D. Christian, a well known reteran of the Forty.first Virginia regiment, who was entertaining a aumber of the visiting Federal veterans with an account of a duel he rad in 1862 with a Pennsylvanian rear what is known as "The. Cow- 1 jens," now the MeehantcsviUe Pike. "In some way," said Captain ' "thrlnttnn "w? w?ro v. " v ? V? v. VUIUU^U l field cut apart by a long line of i 'all fence. As we approached the , enee we saw coming toward uh a ine of blue-coated soldier*. Reore I knew it I waa face to faoe with . i Yankee who waa sending balls at ne, but luckily aiming wrong. 1 1 oaded my musket time and again tnd we bad it there face to face. Presently the Yankee mounted the ence to get a better whack at me or I wbb as bad a shot as he in he excitement of that duel. Well, ' gentlemen, down came the rail fence md down camo the Yankee, Sprawlng on the ground. He managed to ;et up as my old musket banged iway, but the ball never touched dm. "Walt a moment," interrupted one >f the visitors, "and I'll tell you the eat of the story." All eyes turned oward the military form of Captain V. H. Rauch, a Phlladelphian, who ras the centre of the listeners to Captain Christian's story. "Well," continued Captain Rauch. the Yankee Just took to his heels ,t that and you after him. "You ired as long as he wsas in sight nd he ran as long as his.legs would lold him up. The only renson he lid not fly was because he was a man nd not a bird." "That's about right." said the Con ederate and then the two men faced ach other with eyes glued on the aces that had seen the changes of ' learlv half a century. "Hell, man," Captain Ranch cried. ' inally breaking the intense stillness. ' are you the Johnny lteb tlint had i hat duel with me and came near M Halting me a prisoner or putting n?e * nit for good?" 1 "If you are the man who junfped >n that fence and fell, and then got ' ip and ran while a Confederate sol- ( Her sent bullets after you to help ' aove, 1 guess we have met before.' f "If any other man had born in x ay palce and had not put up a good un," replied Captain Itauch, "he f could have been a fool. Why tha* t Id thing you were handling looted 1 is big as a cannon and sounded like { wo or three of them." i Following this the veterans shv-k ' lands and Captain Raurh took Cap- 1 nin Christian in tow to introdiic : ' tim to bis wife. Then Captain and ' I drs. Ranch bad to get into Captain 'hrlstian's automobile ami the end 1 cas that Mrs. Cbristiaul got a tele >hooe call to have diuner ready f'oi 1 wo eytras. The party spent, t'.u ' veiling in the handsome hn.ee of 1 "aptaiu Christian, who had to .i.oui- ' se a visit to the Ranch home u? ' Philadelphia. ' Hefore leaving Richmond Captain ilauch declared that he would no. 1 lave missed meeting Captain Chris-jl isn for all his worldly possessions j ' > nave never torgotten mat reutM, 1 mid he, "and 1 see him now in ir.y * ulnd's eyes with his big old-tinm ' nuskut plugging away at me as ' hough 1 were of no more good to ' .he world than an ordinary animal.*' ? ? ? Negro Preacher Killed. At Dillon Rev. John McRae* col- ( jred. was struck by a swiftly mov- ( ng train and instantly killed at the ( Main street croasiug of the Atlantic ( Coast Line Sunday morning. The ( it'-v. McRae was on his way to his , church, near Sellers, where he was , to preach his regular Sunday morn- , ng sermon. Rev. Mcltnc was a good ] colored citizen, and his sudden ;uid j tragic death Is greenly deplored by j both races. Peary (lot There. Commandor Peary was Wednesday voted a gold medal by the Nat- , local Geographic Society for having reached the North Pole. The board , of managers of tho society accept ed unanimously the report, of the , subcommittee 6t scientists who bad , examined the explorer's records aud proofs. aDd found them* to be conclusive of bis claim that he bad reached the Pole. crop only turns out 1 0.500,000 bales, yet in that year cotton sold for over 18 coots. If every American mill was to run half time from now until the ood of the season. I do not consider there would be enough cotton to go around. "The spinners' takings to October 29. this year, were 1,923.000 bale?, against only 1.801,ooo bales same time last year (which bad been tbo record takings of any year up to that time) and against 1,118,000 bales the same time in 1903- 04. "Who cap tell what price will disfxyuot the above fact*?" how tojctop rr English Physician Reads Interesting Paper on Pellagra at COLUMBIA CONFERENCE Dr. Snndnikh, ?r I^ondon, Tolls How Italy, Whore I'ellaxTK Is Widely Prevalent, Has Itttlnciil Mortality. Many Cases Found Anions IJfcyp 11aiis?4 rges Preventative ltnle. The following paper by l)r. F. M. Sandwich, of London, England, Gresham professor of physics ?on read at the pellagra conference in Columbia Wednesday afternoon: "I feel that my first words must l>e those of congratulation and encouragement to the many physicians in the Southern Statos who are now working at the rarlous problems connected with pellagra. Congratulation in the first place, because they have discovered the existance of the disease, because they have imprest ed this discovery upon others so that tlie presence of pellagra is now thoroughly recoguized. "If 1 venture also to encourage \merican co-workers, it is not with my improper desire to draw attenJon to my own work, but because 1 happen to be in the unique position ' (with regard to this ono disease), of t?eing able to appreciate their difIculties. "In spite of denials from American authorities on medicine I have ilways suspected that pellagra might 1 ?xist unrecognized in the South, and 1 it one time I requested my friends 1 o put me into communication with 1 he poorest folk of the maize eat- 1 ng districts. I was referred to a >< ttlcmout In Eastern Virginia for ' uuper negroes, but ou investigation found that the inmates lived in itone houses, on pork rations, and ' ceo*) to the conclusion that the ' vord poverty represented no conlitlou in America, which could com>are. with the misery of the impovershesi peasants of Italy, Houinania 1 >r Egypt. 1 "In April, 190&, I had the good I ortune to In? at Doston during aft epidemic of cerebro spinal menin- 1 Jtis, and the very first patient whom 1 saw at tlie city hospital by the uuncuj 01 ur. C". K. Withington. was 1 in Italian emigrant, who also ills- 1 ilayed a well marked pellagrous ! eruption. This leads one to wonder whether the United States public ' lealth and marine hospital service >dicers who examine the emigrants it Naples and other Italian ports 1 should uot include pellagra among he prohibitory diseases. "Now, thai the diagnois of polls- : irn has been ilrnily established in io many States, it would be welt 0 find out for certain how many persons are attacked by the disease n the South. In order to arrive it any correct figures, it might be veil to institute compulsory notification of the disease at least as a etnporary measure. In Italy there jus been a law to that efi'iM-t since 1 NX8. 1 w ould also recommend th.it igricultural laborers should be e\imined in the states where peil i;ra is knowu to be prevalent, such is Georgia and North and South ('aiding This might he done in Keb mtry or March, when the eruption s likely to he present. "In 1901 and 1 902 I obtained lermission to examine 500 Egyptian jeasants who were actually at work In the fields. They all stoutly denied that they were ill and their employers who were with them stated they could ail do a fair day's work, hut in every field I found ^arly cases of pellagra, bearing from i.i |.?-r rem in wen-io-no districts to 62 per cent in the inhabitants of the poorest hamlets. "The treatment of early pellagra ?ases without mental symptoms can he successfully accomplished by putting the patient on a liberal diet, excluding maize and by ridding him if the hookworms which are so often co-existent, but the pellagrous symptoms return If he is allowed to resume a diet of musty maize. Various preparations of arsenic are used In advanced cases but when the brain is attacked there is a small hope for the pntient unless by serotherapy. Pellagra is essentially a disease which cries for preventive measures. "Italy by preventive measures, has since 188k reduced the mortality of pollagra from 3.183 to 1.63S. though luring the years 1883 to 1907 the maize area under cultivation has increased from .>.79 to 6.33 per com r>f the whole country. This points the moral that it Is the quality, not the quantity of maize which is a* fault. There are certain general exloms which prove true in Itnlr and Egypt and It will doubtless bo | found that, they hold good In the United States also: "First?lu districts where no mutzc Is cultivated or habitually oaten, pollegra does not exist. "Second?There are many districts where maize bag been cultivated for manv years and yet. pellagra has not appeared. "Third?Well-to-do people in pellagra districts living on varied diet, and consuming maize as an occasional and not as a staple cereal, usually escape pellagra. "Fourth?It 16 not good maize or good ujaizo flour which products HMHHMHI OBJECTS TO CLAIMS MADE IX THE XE WHIMPERS BY OVER ZEA LOIS FRIENDS Of (X)nKn'y.nuiii Ix?vcr That He h Entitled to tlie (Yedlt for Soil Survey of This State. Congressman I). Wyatt Aiken takes Congressman Lever's pres.* agent to task for g'ving the credit for the soil survey in South Carolina almost entirely to Mr. Lever, and thoronirhlv nhnu'c ?n uess of the claim. Here is Congressman Aiken's letter, which explains itself. I To the Editor of The State: I In an article which appeared in < The News and Courier of the i.'1st ? iust. we note the following: "H. | li. Dennett, general field agent of ( the United States bureau of soils, was in Columbia today, and will very probably attend the conference ' of soil experts ir Lexington county 1 during tho week with Co igressman < Lever, to whom the credit of the soil \ survey of South Carotin i chould be c given." Then again, iu tho same i article, the following appears: 1 "Congressman Lever, who Is o mem- i her of the agricultural committee * of the house of representatives, has f done more towards securing a soil I ,oir\ey of the State than any oil. . man, and it iu largely through his c efforts that tho federal government t has taken so much Interest." e Then, a few dayt later, we note 1 in The State: "Mr. Bennett has juHt i had a conference with Director Harper of tho State experiment station d and leaves today for Lexington for r a conference with Congressman Lev- i er, who had the soil survey work n started in this State and who has I done much toward Its establishment upon a practical basis, not only in i South Carolina but throughout the s United States." c Th..s.. . i - iliO f,v? IVA> Mil" 111 fl claiming lor Mr. Lrvvr, and In reall- r ty, arv calculated to do hint Injury, v It is ci rtain that Mr. Lever would not claim us much for himself. Un- b rorluuately for th?. force of the v statements made by the correspon- \ dent to The News and Courier, he c published in the same article a tabu- / lated statement, showing the work i that has been done entirely in the n matter of soil survey in this State. a and the dates of the surveys. This u shows that the surveys, known as the Abbeville, Anderson and Oconee surveys, embraced almost entirely the Third district which I have the honor ^ to represent, covered an area of J.108 square miles. The survey 01 Omnctjbuj'K, Lee and Sumter, all the work done in Mr. Lever's dlstriet, covered 1,707 square miles. ' If this matter has been left extlu alvely to Mr. Lever, as his t'rien-.. > would do him the injustice to inti- f mate, would the initiative have be?-u ?* taken outside of his district and " would he have favored other sections i rather than his own? The first survey made in Mr. Lever's district was v the Orangeburg survey, made in < tout, and the two other surveys i were in Lee and Sumter in 1907. The survey in Abbeville county i was made in tOOi, while Senator > Latimer was in congress, and before t Mr Lever was a member of 'he ag- r ricultural commitl'M'. Tin? surveys in f Hurliugton and Horry were made tb? same v.nr. while Mr. Scarborough r wjik in congress. These men had ( been serving for some years when (In* surveys were made, and both ol t tlirni wen* known to be active and c aid representntives. Mr. Lever was 1 then a new man in the house, and t it is unreasonable to supjiose that t these men of longer service would appeal to him, even before his ap- 1 pointnient to the agricultural com- i mittee, to have surveys made in their respective districts. t Without assuming to speak with ^ reference to the surveys made in Lancaster. Cherokee and York. Mr t Finley's district, which, to say the ? least of it. he was competent to have \ secured on his own motion, I may i and do speak detintely of the sur- f veys iu Anderson and Oconee. 1 i know that these surveys were made i upon my request direct to the department. nnd not through anyhodJ as intermediary. There were surveys at later dates j in the dstrlcts of Messrs. Johnson and Legare. They would probably want some credit for having them made. This is written in no unfriendly s spirit for Mr. Lever, who I esteem ) highly as a personal friend, and ap- i predate as an able and faithful public servant. And T do not holievo mar jir. Lover would himself do < InJuKtloe to his colleagues; but bit> i friends. In this wholesaslo claiiu for him. have overstepped the hounds of reason, and do tnjustico both to Mr. Lever and his colleagues. It is not likely that soil surveys were made here Immediately on the request of any person, as preliminary arrangements are always necessary. And yet t>hero wore soil surveys hero as early as 1002. Mr. Lever is doing a good work in his efforts to push the soil surveys. If other members are not equally successful. |t is not because they are no equally interested. Wyatt AikenAbbeville. Oct. 25. b ? ? pellagra: the disease requires for its production a babiOual use of 4<*193$o4 nuiso in soiipo force " AGED MAN LOST Tfcc Mysierious Disappearance of Mr. W. N. Elder of Columbia. VANISHED COMPLETELY Ho Was Last Strn Walking Briskly Along the Southern Hallway Traek-s, Skirting the Canal?Came From York County Where lie Was Prominent Socially and Politically. Mr. William N\ Klder. of Columbia, formerly of York county, for four terms a member of the York *ounty legislative delegation, formerly a trustee of Wlnthrop Col lego. ;or several years a bookkeeper Cor I .he State dispensary aud recently a I and surveyor, has completely dlt?- I tppeared. no tract of him having I i>eon discovered einice last Thura- 1 lay morning week ago at 8 o'clock. I vhen he left the locks at the head I >f the Columbia canal for bis home 8 n that city, liio Pendleton street. I le was seen about this time walk- I ng briskly down the Southern rail- I vay tracks skirting the canal bank I or most of the four-mile distance ? M>tween the locks and the city. I One Of his sons, Mr. M. L. Elder. I >f Plttsheld. Mass., who has led iu I he night and day search since then. I aid that the family did not be- n leve the old gentleman bad fallen I nto the canal. I They are of the opinion that uu- I ler somo sudden seizure he lo6t his I eason and 1b now, perhaps, wander- ra g about the woods and fields in I i demented condition, if indeed he I s yet alive. 9 His great height, six feet, two 1 nches, his gray goateo and his 1 oldlerly bearing mako him a rather I ommnnding figure and for this re?- I on it is all the stranger that no 1 lue whatever has boon found to his I vh? reabouts. I At the hoiue of Pendleton street ic loaves his wife. Mrs. Sal lie Elder, I nth whom just now is the son from lassacbuHctts above mentioned. The ither children are \V. C\ Elder, of llabamn, and Mrs. J. 1*. Moore, of luthries, York county. The family noved to Columbia about eight years go. This bids l'air to be another unsolved Columbia mystery. WOMAN SEEKS 1HVOIU-K lecausc She Soys tier Husband Kissed Her Too Much. Hecause he Insisted on kissing her o a point of cruelty John E. McIrew, a farmer living near Trenton, ieb., is made defendant in a suit or divorce, llis wife declares ho xceeded the limit and brought liltDilation on botli hint and herself n the eves of everybody. She delares further that he neglected his cork, left the crops go to ruin and i lint he did not raise enough this ear to "feed a chicken." According to Mrs. MefJrew's statenent she and John were married a ear ago. Kor six months she stood be kissing without, a murmur. hut> losing that in time bis oscillatory ever would subside Hut instead, be kisses have become more freHjeDt. The McCJrews occupj a farm >f i 00 acres. Mrs. McCirew avers tlint the first hing in the morning John insisted in not one but dozens of kisses. Hem he started out to the barn to !o the work. Tteforc he could set hu milk pails down on his return the declares he had to have more tisaes. After breakfast there would ie several more rounds. At 10 a. m. he would return from he fields for more kisses. Noon vould not pass without a lot more ind in the afternoon he would reurn to the house and in the pres nce of company or otherwise he vould have to spend half an hour n Kissing. Mrs. McOrcw alleges his made her the butt nf imieK n their community and she does lot propose that it shall continue. i IUI.ES FOK MAIlltlFI) PEOPLE. kuiisns City Spiritualist Outlines Plan for Domestic Peace. A dispatch from St. Ixiuis, Mo.. ;ays "Tho man who thinks he Is going to he happy in heaven, playing a harp of a thousand strings while his wife down hero on earth Is playing a washboard in tbo key of bigb G to support the five or six ; children be left unprotected is cor- ;; tainlv going to bo fooled." ThlB ; Is what A. Seoft IMedsoe of Kansas ' City in a lecture at the Htate spiritualist. convention said. Mr. ivledsoe's rule for keeping * "ooo's self unspotted from the \ world." as applied to women was, "Make your husband tbink be knows it. all. Dou't nag bltn. Man. according to a scientist, is or should be. only a good animal. You ran do more hv making blm comfortable than hv all the nagging in the w-orld" T-"? men hi- advire war:. "Never Jo anvthing you wouldn't want your wife to do; never -ay anything you would not want your wifo to say; never go anywhere you wouldn't want your wife to go. This will keep you unspotted from the world." V