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% SOOTH'S COTTON' 1 Sold L>st Season tor Ninety-Fire Million Dollars More Than ( THE PREVIOUS YEAR Although the South Produces Over Three Million Hales Ix?ss During Season Just Closed, Money Value Far Surpassed that of Any Other Ywir in History of Country. That the value of cotton, which the South marketed in the commercial season recently closed, far surpassed that of any previous year In the history of the country, In spite of a short crop, was the principal feature of the annual report put out Tuesday by Col. Henry G. Hester, for many years secretary and statistician of the New Orleans Exchange. The modey value of the commercial crop In the season 1909-10 is placed at $778,894,000. showing that while the quantity of cotton marketed was 3,216,000 bales less than the previous season, it brought $86,100,000 more. This does not include the value of cotton reed, which, if added. would show the actual wealthproducing capacity of the Southern , cotton lands for the commercial year closed to have been $902,894,000, a gain over 1908-9 of $1 27,100,000. According to complete reports from both Northern and Southern milling centres tho South for the third aonsecutlve season manufactured more cotton than the North, , and Increased the lead which it held ( last season. Hester's report forms a detailed ( report on the crop which was put out | at the close of business August 31. That report placed the crop for 1909- j 10 at 10,609,668 bales, a decrease under that of 1908-8 of 3.216,789, and under that of 1907-8 of 962,298. , These. Col. Hester says, constitute the face of the figures, but considering the falling off in weight, which , averaged 6 63-100 pounds per bale, there is the equivalent of 138,000 bales, or a crop equal to 10,472,000 bales of last year's weight. According to the report, the grcde was good, averaging practically "Birici middling," a bare chade under last year. The average price of middling cotton for the year is placed at 14.37 cents per pound, and the commercial value of the bales at 73.41, against 4 9.46 last year, and 1 68.10 the year before. The report places the actual 1 growth at 10,389.000 bales, and says that as *he result of the high prices the interior has practically been swept clean, farmers having little or no old eotton left over and Southern mill stocks having been materially decreased. The report on the crop in the principal States is given as follows in 1 thousands o' hales. The tills year s figures are compared to those of last year as follows: Alabama, 1,07 8 vs. 1,4 28. Arkansas, 718 vs. 1,052. Florida, 66 vs. 751. ' Oeorgla, 1,972 vs. 2,118. Louisiana, 282 vs. 485. Oklahoma, 566 vs. 704. IMlesls8lppi, 1,121 vs. 1,673. North Carolina, etc., 67 6 vs." 7 4 7. ' South Carolina, 1,184 vs. 1,298. Tennessee, etc., 316 vs. 4 2 6. Texas. 2,676 vs. 3,189. m Total,crop, 10,610 vs. 13,825. 1 -.1 I .>vhi>iunih ui? cunon consnmp- i tlon by Southern mills the report i says: < "The spindles in the South num- ' her 11,583.359, including old, Idle 1 and not complete. Three yenrs ago consumption in the cotton StateB was 1 ahead of the rest of the United 1 States 220,000 bales; last year the i excess was narrowed to 60,000 and 1 this year it has again increas-M to < 170,000. This refers to American t cotton. The North used of foreign c cotton this year the equivalent in this year's American weights of 135,- 1 000 bales, while the South u*ed the < equivalent of 15,000 but even wUh i these added the South is al'.eao in ' both American cotton and for- < elgn cotton to ' the ex'ent of 60,000 bales. In the South manv i mills were experimenting for the iirst time with small amounts of East in dia cotton and, while the aggregate : was not large, all of 7 4 institutions used various .ebcrlptioni of fo.cign against only 1/ last year." iiiu conjumpi'on or A merlon cot- 1 ton by Northern mills. Col, heste" put8 at 2,174 bales, agains. 2,5'V>,000 last yoar. Ke says the a2ere- ' gate consumption. North an'' South, was 4,515,000 i a;es, while ?h\.* used 5 150,000 bales of foreign cotton, making a total consumption of all kinds 4,665,000 bales, against 5,21?,000 last year. He puts the world's con3'ifuptlon of American cotton at ll.i/topo 2 bales, a decrease under last year of 1,383,000 and under the year befor*' c of 338,000. 0 In the South Col. Hener makes t the consumption 218,570 under last e year, and 1 i 8,0 2 5 over the year be- d fore last. Twenty-she new m lis are y now building In the Southern States, v with a total of 360,382 spinriiei ant tl the spindles in the active mills have d - - *: Ife ' -j* : * % MONEY LACKING j VO FUNDS TO ERECT THE PUBLIC BUILDINGS VOTED. ^njfress Made No Appropriation and No New Postofflces May Be J Built in This State. The Washington correspondent of ^ The News and Courier says because of an irftjuiry made a day or two ago by Postmaster Spence, of Charlotte. N. C.. of Supervising Architect Taylor, of the treasury, as to why there was no money forth com ing at the present time for the enlargement of the present postofllce building at that place, it has been found that although Congress, on June 18 last, voted to pass a public ? building bill, carrying what was sup- C posed to be a gen*ral appropriation t of something like $-2,000,000. there is not a dollar now available for the construction of new buildings front a such Act. Ordinai-lly Bitch actual approprta- c tions would be made under the "sun- 1 dry civil" bill at the openina session 0 of Congress and the purpose of the ? law carried out. but as a matter of s fact, however, nothing lias been done ' except a favorable consideration of ^ "authorization." so far as actual money is concerned, with ttye excep- ^ tion of the purchase of sites. All the towns in North and South a Carolina. Georgia, Tennessee. Virgin- 1' ia and Florida, and, in fact, else- ^ where in the United States, which are waiting for work to begin, are ? without money at this time, and 1' may in certain ontingencies be left w high and dry. Should a panic hit the country this ? fall, it is probably that not a dollar v of these authorizations would ever c be seen. It is also quite probable that if the House goes Democratic, n the Republicans may decide to curtail expenses and proceed no further with public buildings until after the r next Presidential election. 'I If everything goes along quietly t( the actual money for new buildings n will probably be voted this winter. but as yet, there is not a cent nvailable for any new buildings for which 11 authorizations were granted at the last session, peculiar as the situation ? may seem. tl ti ARE GETTING RESULTS. '> , P Over Seven Hundred l>og.s Tatea Up y n in Charleston. v a It was reported at the Chailcston t dog pound Th irvday thai k total of n 700 dogs had been captured on the ? streets the past year, and of this e nunvber 616 had been klliod. Seventy-three dogs have been redeemed K by owners, and there ar? now on j, hand at th pound eleven can'nes e awaiting their fate, ekh ? that of n death or going forth licensed v This is a very good record t nc- w that has not been equaled since the a dog cacther was Instituted in Char- 8 lesion. The wagon started out on a its rounds on April 18, and has been steadily at work since that dat- ^ Nearly 2,000 dog licenses have been n sold by the city treus irer, since the n active campaign the stray 0 dog was taken up, and it is owing a to the good work of rhe police, the jj hqalth inspectors and of th-} doe p catcher tliat the results obtain?d 0 have followed. t< Schooners Wrecked. C] Rigolets, La., on the gulf of Mex- h lco, reports that the tramp schooners Pare well and Henry M. were wreck- ii in a severe storm of about an hour'# luration there Friday afternoon. The crews were rescued by a fishing ti vessel. g ft t>een increased by 4 54,568. This, tl tie says, is not to the phenoa*'<nr?i A ihowing recorded year by year bo'ore the panic, but is still an indi- A :ation of progress by the South Ji> P he direction of manufacturing her o >wn cotton. t A Of the total cf 8.18 mills. 77"> have >een in operation, including out- ex- d ilur.ively on forign cotton, 37 were die and 2 6 in course of construction. The season's consumption was divid- ? >d as follows: a Alabama, 240.3 09; decrease 11- A 162. b Arkansas 58 3 9, decrease 199,- o (Jeorgia 507,827; decrease 45,-, tl 182. Kentucky 22.4 86, decrease 3,804. ti Louisiana 10.966; decrease 6.248. if Mississippi 29,241; decrease 9,- tl 150. c< \f ? 1 O AAO. ? ? uimwiui u.oda, decrease 2,158. w North Carolina 682,348; decrease u r 6. ? 4 7. CI South Carolina 650,250; decrease ic 0,102. T JIYnneasee 70,176; Increase 965. Ri Texas 33.752; decrease 8,704. st Oklahoma 2,287; decrease 281. ni Virginia 73,1 24; decrease 4,788. w Total, 2,341,303; net decrease ni 118.570. ti In conclusion Col. Hester points tl ?ut that the past season has been tc nly the fourth time in 21 years that he annual returns of cotton consum- F d by Southern mills aggregated a in ecrease. Otherwise, he says, yetjr by is ear, there has been a marked ad it ance and for no year have the addi- in Ions been so great in those imme- ht lately succeeding a decrease. si) ARMERS' UNION' < leet in National Convention at Charlotte on Last Tuesday. JEW LIFE AND NEW HOPE ays President llnrrett in H.J - % ! dross Huk Come to the Farmers of this Country, Who Are No Longer Deceived by the Wily Politicians Hunting Ottice. The convention of the Farmers' educational and Cooperative Union f America opened in Charlotte, N. on Tuesday morning, with a housand delegates, representing alnost every State in the Union, in ttendance. President C. S. Barrett called the onvention to order and Mr. E. It. reeton made the address of welome, which was followed by the adress of welcome on behalf of the tate Farmers' union by Dr. J. M. 'empleton of Cary, N. C. Mr. B. F. lontgomery of Colorado responded o the welcoming addresses on bealf of the visiting farmers. Following these talks there were ddresses by different members of tie union on subjects interesting the tatesmen of agriculture. The morning's meeting was the nly one that was not executive as he rest of the three days' meeting rill be behind closed doors. There have been arranged numerus entertainments for the visitors rhile in the city and these will bo arried out in the leisure hours. President Barrett delivered his anual address today. He said: Brethren of the Farmers' Union: "It is my privilege to greet and ongratulate you at the threshold of he greatest business era in the hisory of the organized American farter. "It has been an aphorism in Anier:a that the farmer was not a busies8 man. I am here to tell you, and a tell the nation, that that indictlent no longer holds true. Here and here the individual farmer has much o learn concerning business and usiness usages, but the important oint is that the leaven is at work. our shackles are unloosed, past igorance is vanishing and the man ,ho tills the soil in this country is hsorhing with miraeuluous rapidiy the lesson that business principles lust be foremost In the managelent of his affairs. This change is poehial in a revolutionary sense. "The nature of my position has iven me singularly good opportunties for study and observation in very State in the Union. And I now take this statement without reseration. That in each commonwealth rhere the farmers are organized, nd In others where organization is immerlng, there is a new life and freshly kindled hope. "In every State I have invaded, he farmer debates today, not so luch the everlasting round of poliIcs, or the cruelly selfish ambitions f politicians, but how to make his cres return the maximum of dol- 1 irs; how to make best his own oportunities; how to furnish the best pportunities to his sons and daughers; how best to lighten his wife's ill; how best to make attractive, 1 lean, healthful and permanent the ome that shall shelter them all. "We have organized State unions 1 three States during the past year 1 -California, Indiana and Virginia. 1 "Catch the significance of the na- I onal scope shown by these three oranizations. One rests on the Pact- 1 c. tne other is midway of the con- 1 nent, and the other rests on the 1 tlantic. "The year Just closed has seen 1 xed a principle of tremendo i > i:n- ' oitance to the American fanner, < rganized or unorganized, to the 1 merican publi, in general. "This change was unquestionaMx I emonstratv, .r cer experien-* dur- ' vg the latest sessions of congress. 1 or the first time ?r the history of n American farmers' organization ( nd I think, for the first time in merican politics, the lawmaking < ody of our country was waited up- ' n by hona-fide representatives of ( te producers of America. I "As an evidence of the deterni'r.a- ' on of the organized farmer to pint- 1 ih indifferent servants and reward ( lose who have shown their true ( alors and abided by them, it is <\ 1 ell known fact that the Farmers nion defeated several congressional indidates and a few senators in v?ir- > -un wuiui'rn ana western States. 1 hat is, moreover, merely the be- ( inning of the organization's fight to nnire attention to its demands from t ien in public life. In every instance s here defeat was measured out the r en voted against had ample oppor- t init.v to square themselves with teir former constitutents, but failed r i take advantage of it. i "in a number of States where the t armers' Union has made Itself plain e asking proper legislation from leglatures. It has gotten practically all s demanded. In other States, tor s stance, Arkansas and Alabama, it fl is never been turned down on a t ogle one of its requests. I cite this p HAD IT EASY CAPTAIN ENTERTAINED BY OFFICERS AT WASHINGTON. Nothing Was Too Good Until It Was Discovered He Was Only an Insane Private. An army of restaurant and hotel proprietors in Washington, I). C.. and an equal number of army odicers stationed at various posts in the vicinity of the national capitol are still puzzling over the way they were so easily duped by "Capt." Edward Frank, a private soldier, who escaped from the Government hospital for the insane one day last week, married a pretty girl and lived for more than 2 4 hours as a "little brother of the rich." The restaurant and hotelkeepers are out considerable money for cashing bogus ckecks, while the army officers are also shy some cash, and in addition their vanity has been considerably wounded. Miss Virginia Strouse. of Philadelphia, who was in Washington visiting her brother, and whom Frank took early Wednesday morning as his wife at Rockville. Md., is heartbroken over her experience and is determined ito have the marriage annulled on the grounds that Frank was not capable of entering into the matrimonial contract. It now appears that the paroled inmate of St. Elizabeth's Insane asylum was lavishly entertained as a "brother officer" by several officers at Fort Myer and also at Washington barracks. Nothing was too good for either him or his bride of a few hours, and Capt. Frank, of the Se\enth United States Infantry, was introduced into the best army society of Washington, according to devices received by the police. To the army men"Capt." Frank talked continuously of his days, at West Point and of his service in the Philipines and Cuba during the Sfpanish-American war. He spoke of his brother officers at Fort MePherson addressing them by their first names. Soaring in aeroplanes, conducting experiments for the War department, seemed to be the chief occupation of "Capt." Frank according to the stories he told the officers. All> FOR ORPHANS. Appeal to People for Contributions on September 1!4. The four orphan institutions in South Carolina supported by religious denominations are asking their friends for a combined effort on their behalf Saturday, September 24, next. Request is made that ail friends of these institutions shall devote the proceeds of wages, salary or special earnings that day to the work of supporting the orphan children of our State. There are about 1,000 orphans now being cared for by these institutions, and it is undeistood, of course, that no money whatever comes to them from taxation. They are supported absolutely tind entirely by the free gifts of the people, and there is a very little? endownment possessed by either of them. Indeed some have no endownment at all. If there is a cause that shouul touch the hearts of the people it is that which relates to the care of destitute orphans. Surely there will be many thousands of people willing and ready to join in promoting the plan adopted by the executive heads of Thornwell Orphanage. Epworth firnVi ti r, a o?a tho f'li n e/.K .. ?' }r.>Uil|?^vl me v>? ui tu i i inuu Wi " plumage and Connie Maxwell Orpbanage. There will be no joint rollections, nor will funds be united In any way. Each person may make a contribution to the institution of his own choice and may send the money direct or through his church or Sunday school. The superintendents of all the Sunday schools in the state have been requested to bring the matter to the attention of their teachers and pupils, with a reluest that they be enlisted in the work. One institution in the state of rJeorgin last year came into about (14.000 as the result of systematic jfTort by its constituency on this day. It was more than half of the income >f the institution for the entire year. It is hoped that something generous md worthy may be done this year by South Carolina people for their lenominational orphanages. Such a nuse should speak for Itself and teed no professional advocate. IjaPollctte Reelected. United States Senator Robert T.aFollette has swept the State of Wisconsin in the primary election o you as an indication of what strong organization asserting its ights will accomplish, and as a help o your future guidance. "Today the farmer is alive to his ights and needs. Handed together n a phalanx that resists the assaults >f l?ttle and of great foes, he will mforce the one and fulfill the other. < "All these years God Almighty, ingle-handed, has been helping the i on of the soil. Now the farmer, ful- i llling the Scriptures, is proceeding I o help himself. With God as his artner he is Invincible." i . V \ 8 SINS OF TEDDY Overlooked by the Great Mass of the People of this Couotry. USES BRYAN'S IDEAS People of the West Seem to Ignore Roosevelt I'sing tli?* Platform of tlie (ireiit Commoner.?Truth is Mighty, but the Public is Very 1lliii<l to it. "They say. the philosophers do. that for all things great and sniaP in this world there is just to>::pei?sation. They have told us that truth is mighty and will prevail, that truth crushed to eartli will rise again, thrt as delicately and as accurately 1)' Ianced as old mother earth is on its axis, and as accurate, is there a like balance in all human affairs. 1 really wonder if it is so." Thus soloquizes Gach McGhee in a letter to the State after hearing Roosevelt speak at Kansas City, Mo., to thousands of people. After mentioning the great ovations to Roosevelt wherever he went in the West, and for particularly at Kansas City, where he hear.l him speak. McGhee says that great ovation to Roosevelt I witnessed was last night. Early this morning I went down to the union station !n Kansas City to take the train 1 am on. On the way down 1 read the paper describing the throne of people who last night followed him to the station, and I recalled the crowds of enthusiastic people I had watched lining the streets yesterday as he passed along. Edging my waythrough the seething, jamming, elbowing, almost suffocating time of the day or the night at this throng one always encounters at nny Kansas City station, I came to a place a little less crowded than elsewhere and there in a corner .alone and tinnoticed by any one of the vatt crowd save one young man. I came sudden.lv tllton William Jt>nnim?K Urvun He had lectured somewhat in Missourri last night and was going to lecture in another town near Kansas City tomorrow. I watched his grip for him while he went into a telephone booth. Then he shook hands, remarked that he was interested in watching the way the Republican conventions were adopting the Democratic doctrines, smiled pleasantly, picked up his grip and edged his way through the throng to catch his train. And he left me with some mighty thoughts surging through my brain, which my typewriter is wholly unequal to, so they will not be inscribed. Not all of them will; but, do you know that I have been sitting all this day looking out of the car window and wondering if it is real-> ly true that Truth is mighty and will prevail, at least wondering if it will during our generation. Here 1 saw the man who would have been president of the United States instead of Roosevelt if it had not been for wholesale and criminal corruption of the electorate in 1896, the man who llrst gave national voice to the great policies which Roosevelt took up after his election had twice been bought for him, the man whose championship for such measures as the initiative and referendum, railroad regulation and others since come to be almost universally recognized as inevitable as well as right was taken as an excuse for denunci auon by tlie very men who bought the presidency for Roosevelt?here was this man in one of the great cities of the country alone and unnoticed. while the one who had profited by the corruption, himself caught in one of the most scandalous political intrigues in the history of our country, and who now has taken up the Bryan policies because he sees them inevitable, is hailed as almost a god. Had the great nionied interest of the country not put up their many millions into the hands of Mark Manna to purchase votes, directly and indirectly, in ISOfi, which money was used to corrupt the electorate in Ohio, Indiana. Illinois, in several far Western States. MeKInley would not have been elected and Roosevelt would ne\er have been president The iireat impetus of his pieturesqtie and vigorous personality, the dissatisfaction of the people, especially of the Middle West, with the methods employed In the nomination of Judge Parker, and the sentiment about the assassination of McKinley which Kept men in itie Keputdican party might have elected Roosevelt in 1900 anyway. Hut to make his election sure he called upon Harriutan, the railroad king, to help him to ra'se a corruption fund, and he entered into a scandalous bargain with the Moitmon church, which agreed to turn over to him the electoral votes of several States in return for his guarantee that Reed Smoot would hold his seat in the United S'.atefc cenate. When I see the continued adula- 1 lion of Roosevelt printed in the i newspapers throughout the country, 1 in many of whose oflices I know the editors and reporters to know the i many such facts as I have named ' r 1 INFANTILE PARALYSIS WESTERN EXPERT LIKENS IT TO YELLOW FEVER. It Is Contagious, Dangerous, Har-I to Cure and Ought to be Reported as Soon us Found. Infantile paralysis Is contagious dangerous, hard to cure, and ought to be reported as soon as found and JkI isolated as soon as reported. This is the opinion of Dr. Lucian Mark, OI X\euraSKa, appointed by Cov. Shallenberger to investigate this disease in the Eastern cities and SB reputed to he one of the best-known authorities on infantile paralysis *n the United Stales. Dr. Stark went H to Washington on a visit after attending a conference of the Naw York Medical society, where he read a paper. "Don't take any chances with acute anterior plicmyelitis. 1 live 'n. ' Aurora, Neb., and two physicians were fined recently for their failure ' ^ _ to report. There Is a law against I carelessness in regard to this very w everywhere, I am told there is no I complaint, and there ought to be one e such law iu the District of Columbia. There Is where somebody is making a mistake. The disease had taken hold here, and it will bo beyond controlled unless every force possible is nsed to stamp it out while it is embroyonic. "A great many physicians cjuiise "** this infant disease with spinal meningitis in their diagonsis. It is even worse than meningitis. It is worse than smallpox. It is more contagious than any other plague on the face of tlie earth except, perhaps, cholera, yellow fever, or the babonic plague, lis symptoms are somewhatlike ptomaiuo poisoning. "It seizes the patients with a suddenness thd is einiost harrowing, and they are paralyzed bef( ~e it has actually been discovered as infantile paralysis. "One of the most certain proofs of the fact that infantile paralysis is contagious is that it follows a railroad f:oin town to town in my State, and '.eaves its deadly imprint wiier- 1 ever it spreads, unless checked by iunlntlnn A * ? .WW niusuiutc ij U(U ti II' i III" 5 the only method of handling the dis- i ease. "The physician in charge of a caso o" infantile paralysi" punctures ih? spinal cord at the base and withdraws 22 minims of the fluid. Salt solution tn the amount of 11 minims is Injected, and the rest of the treatment consists almost entirely of massage. It is successfully treated by any good doctor where discovered in time; but otherwise it is almost ex- ^ ceptlonally lott; hence the ne> d f">r ^ prompt action. "I have had 7 00 cases; 7 per cenr. of deaths and 3 5 per cent, of complete recoveries. I dare say there Is no better record in the United States on this particular disease than mine. Doctors in the Bast don't think we Western doctors know anything about this disease, but I think we know a little more than they know I in the Bast. "A spray of gvcothmoline two or three times a day and complete isolation of the children is the best preventitive of the disease. It is contracted through the nose and throat." Dr. Stark's father was a Ueproscn tative from Nebraska some years ago, and was an opponent of the governor who appointed Dr. Stark to investigate infant's diseases. Showed Fight HclurM. At Chicago Edward Hurke, manager of the Congress Hotel company, was arrested Tuesday for allowing an exhibition of the Johnson-JetTrieft fl?ht pictures in the hotel on the night of August 26th, during tho course of a banquet. above concerning Mr. Roosevelt, do you wonder that I sit down and look out of the car window and ponder, asking myself over and over if the time will ever come when tho American people will open their eyes to the truth, whether the newspapers of the country will ever get the consent of their owners to print the truth about this man, and then again asking myself whether alter all old Itanium wasn't right ab?ul the American people, that thev sunt to be humbugged and are willing to pay for it? suppose the--' had been a fair election in 18f?C, or suppose two years ago the voters of Ohio, Indiana, New York and some other States had not been roereed, as f have recently found out for certiin that they were roereed by the threat of losing their jobs should Bryan he elected, would such a score at I winessed last night and this morning have been possible? Mr. Bryan was not humiliated, mind you. So far ns I know it never occurred to him that he w.u? in any way nelgected. Roosevelt ha ! ^ Indorsed the Kansas platform, wh'ichi had In it so many of the Bryan po'?'cies. He was Interested. Mr. Bryan said he was. In noting how Republican conventions had been adopting Democratic measures. But, he agreed, they still stand for the prelection tariff graft.