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This is the city near which the sol diers from South Carolina are eucainped, seven miles out of the mesa, their camp being over 4,000 feet above the sea level. El Paso has a population of 70,000. aud is the natural metropolis of the northern States of Mexico, as of West Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. The pass by the El Paso route over the Continental Divide, is the lowest between the Isthmus of Tehauntepec and Ult? ArUf Ottt Vtt uioiauvc v& ?|iw miles) aud is oi>eu the year round ? and free from storms. Four transft continental railroads cross the divide at this point and a great many over^^^^^^^J^j^^^tomobile routes. Eight railThe primary Paso her are an area 1^501]interest to down here to help mmUI^VII^^enpects, for a person pay five cents car fare and make a foreign tour in 10 minutes. El Paso, modern and thoroughly up-to-date in every respect of the progressive American cities with paved streets, tall office buildings, aud beautiful parks stands iu contrast to the Mexican city of Juare, from which it is separated by the narrow Rio Grande, a typical Mexican city of the Republic of Mexico, with the civilization of the sixteenth century, where language, manners, mode of dress and style of architecture are absolutely foreign in the American conception to those terms of everyday life. The settlement of El Paso is described in this fashion:: That portion of Texas in which El Paso is located first became known to the world through the followers of the Spanish conquiestadores who came this way after the pacification of the southern portion of the country by Cortez. who reached the Ria Grande. or as it was then called the Rio Bravo del Norte, in 1540; here they found rich agriculture colonies of Pueblo Indians cultivations the valley on what is now the Mexican side of the river. The present site of El Paso then, and for many years after, was barren incapable of heintr irrigated by waters taken from the Rio Grande, owing to its elevation and as matter of fact, was never settled until 1S27. when an adventuresome Mexican cattle herder, uamed Fonce l>e Leon, asked for and was given a tract of land on the north bank of the river and built his adobe ranch house on the site of the present Mills building, the largest concrete building, with more floor spacer In the world. This was in 1S27. nol 1855, or within a few years after the signing of the treaty of GuadalupeHidalgo, when all that ]>ortlon of the country north of the Rio Grande l>e came American territory. Alwwt 2<K adventuresome Americans, chiefly en gaged in hauling merchandise fron the markets of the East to those or the Pacific coast, made this station or the great transcontinental stage an< freight routes, and in that year ha< a population of 200, largely made ui of drivers, horse wranglers, corra keej>ers and the keepers of eatinf houses and supply stores. When It Began to Grow. El Paso, or Franklin, as it was thei called, made but little advancemen i? I,,,inline ivnv until after thi in lur cnj i/uuv....n % conclusion of the War Between th< States. At that time the holders o the transcontinental railroads seekin; passes through the Rocky Mountaii district became attracted to the city o franklin, located as it was, In th< id Vicinity i About the City igs Where South liers are Help- . d the United ican Border lowest the Isthmus of Tebauutepec f and the Artie circle. Gen Fremont, the great American pathfinder, made his discovery many years before and attempted the financing and building of the Memphis, El Paso and Pacific Railroad, which would have been the first railway to the Pacific coast, but the civil war interfered with the carrying out of his plans. After the war the matter was revived and then began the great race between rival railroad builders for occupancy of the building of the Southern Pacific, the Texas and Pacific and the Sante Fe, all getting in here about the same time during the year 1882, then the city began to grow. The name El Paso as appplied to he city was not adopted until 1866. During that year President 0uarez, the President of Mexico, who had been, driven out of the Capital of Mexico by the French under Maximilian, named the city of El Paso Del Norte, the Mexican city opposite Franklin 011 the banks of the Rio Grande, the Capital of the Republic, and set up his national palace in the little adobe town. In honor of the event the people of El Paso del Norte changed the name of the town to Juarez and the Americans living in Franklin changed the name of their town to El Paso, believing it to be more expressive of the natural advantages which would come through commemorating the fact that it was located ln> El Paso (the pass in the mountains.) ' A Upon the arrival of the railroads the I^tle town began to thrive tinued to thrive ever since, until to-day it is . i.e ?1 'he largest cities in the Stale of Texas and the largest city in the district luivirg a radius of 1,500 miles. As a railroad centre it is the largest 011 the American continent west of the one hundredth Meridian. Figures About the City. Something of the size 0 fEl Paso, can be obtained from business figures. Last year there were 1,541 building permits issued at a valuation of $3,612,418. There are 13,704 children of L-,.ii<w,i tn?o n noo of whom are taught in the public schols. El Paso this year completed a new high school at a cost of $500,000. The Texas school of Mines, a branch of the University of Texas, is located here. It has 42 church buildings and is a favored city of the Roman Catholics, who are ! building a new cathedral which will be one of the architectural wonders of the Southwest. The ten banks have a combined capitul of $2,500,000 :;oo. The bank clearings last year reached $112,589,783, a gain of 22 i>er cent over the preceding year. The jobbing and wholesale busiuess has j ipiadrupled in the last five years and the development of the mining district tributary to El Paso makes ,'t .lucrative that it continue to grow. El Paso expects to reap boundless riiins wheu stable government is restored to Mexico, as this will be the 1 gateway for the trade which will pour from the United States into that country. Scores of Mexican merchants refugees from their country, have established business in El Paso and will i probably make this their permanent headquarters rather than Vera Cruz or 'inirpico, after the revolutions are ui.le.l. The agricultural possibilities are , great with the opening up to irriga, ton of the 20,000 acres of land in the ' valleys of the Rio (Irande, in New Mexico and Texas under the Elephant Butte dam. With a never failing supi nlv of water secured through the 1 building of this dam all of those ' lands will become fertile through Ir' rigation. All fruits, except citrus fruits, may he grown. Cereals veg" etahles. alfalfa and other forage, * which can be fed to dairy cattle, hogs " or for beef for fattening puri>oses. 1 El Paso is a great manufacturing ' centre. In the innnediute vicinity of 1 El Paso are great beds of coal. ' Has l p-to-Date Stares. ' El Paso is an imimrtant military 1 ' post, because of its strategic position ' and its transportation facilities. It Is ? a great shopping district and boasts some of the finest retail stores in America. It has an altitude of 3,800 I feet, dryness of air. absence of humidt ity, giving it every jiosible climatic e advantage. Its annual ranfall is less f than ten inches. f Juarez, pust across the river In Mex' (ico, is the seat of horse racing and II large numbers of tourists are attractf ed here every year by these meets, ej Plnty of paved streets, parks, hotele GERMAN DYES REPORTED GOING BEGGLN Manufacturers Refuse to Pay Amouni Asked by Importers of the Deutschland's Goods. New York, Aug. 30.?The extraord uary prices asked for the dyestull brought to this country by the Deutsc land and recently distributed anion the leading importers in this city ai having the effect of fending off proi nective buyers who refuse to pay th prices demanded. This is particulail true as regards alizarine wood and co ton dyes, the users of which seem coi tent to strugle along with the dy< stuffs furnished to them by America menufacturers rather than pay froi ten to twelve times the normal prices In the issue of the Oil, Paint an Drug Reporter, which 1s to appear to dflv. it is said the cnrcn nf dvaatuff ?n board tbe Deu:schland was abou 125 tons net, and in stating that Amei lean textile manufacturers refuse t buy the dyestuffs, the journal advance two reasons for this action. The flri fs that the prices asked are from ten t twelve times greater than those whic existed before the war, and the secon that many American manufacturer have so adjusted their lines of good that, with tbe aid of American dy makers, they are getting along nearl as well as In normal times. Dyes quoted before the war at froi .15 to 45 cents a pound, any of whic are embraced in the Dutschland's car go, are in the market at from $4 t S10 a pound. and restaurants make El Paso a far arite city for progressive American! Nearly half of the population of E Paso is eMxican. Thee are less tha 1,000 negroes. A great many Mexlca refugees are residing in El Paso an 4t is a hotbed for Mexican politics. The most notable feature of the val leys of tbe upper Rio Grande in Ne\ Mexico and Texas is the great Elc phant Butte Dam. It is said to be th biggest structure of its kind eve undertaken by the United States re clamatioii bureau. It probes 1000.1 feet below the river bed, and grips tin wfrMrt tied-rock- with a Tfnse t UK'K. li is 10 rise om.o r?ei sueex tapering to a width of 16 feet an< carrying a permanent roadway fror wall to wall of the Rio Grande can yon. It is to be 1,254 feet long oi top. It will contain when fluishe< 610,000 cubic yards of masonry. It will form a lake in the canyoi above it that will submerge 40,00< acres of land?a lake with 200 miles o shore line and an average depth o 66 feet. This lake will be, it is stated the largest artificial body of water oi the globe. It will contain more thai twice as much water as can be storei in the Roosevelt dam and fifty per ceu more than is stored by the Assousai dam in Egypt. This lake will contain 862.200,000,00* gallons of water?enough to spreai inore than two feet deep over thi whole State of Deleware. It will re claim 183,000 acres of the most fcrtll land on the face of the earth. Of thi land 158,000 acres lie within the Unit ted States in New Mexico and Texa and 25,000 acres in old Mexico. Plan are on foot to transform the countr; surrounding the dam into a grea pleasure resort. Making Canals and Dams. The reclamation bureau is nov spending $100,000 a month in diggin canals and building diversion dams i: the Mesilla and El Paso valleys. Ii this work more than 2,000 men ar (engaged. There is already built on big diversion dam, of concrete cor struction, at Leasburg, at the uppe end of the Mesilla valley, and anothe at El Paso. The bureau is utilizin the channel of the river as the mail canal of the system, building thes diversion dams across It at Interval and tapping it with canals just abov the dam. The Mesilla valley ends just abov El Paso. There the means again draN close to the channel of the Rio Grand and heap up into, the mountain, forir ing ''the pass," and making it the sit of the most active and progressiv city of El Paso. Three miles below E Paso the mesas recede and the $1 Pas valley widens out. 4.1,000 acres on th American side ami 25,000 on the Mex lean side. With the delightful climate and th dry atmosphere this is a great healt country. And crops of many kind grow in the irrigated sections. A 'falfa is one of the most abundan five outings a year, yielding from on to two tons each .are obtained. Gai den trucks, berries, peaches, apple pears, corn and grapes abound. (Liv< stock of all kinds flourishes. It 1 estimated that 30,000 hose power c electrical energy can be delivered i El Paso alone from the dam. This is a wonderful country an much more delightful and prosperoi than the average South Carolinia imagines. } The Chronic]*?II per jmt. PRESIDENT WqjON IS G \OlrilED FORMAL At the Summer finite House Wil Hears From Puptnr James the News of Hh( Keoomination. Long Brandt, N.jj., Sept 2.?Da ened skies and izling rain ] almost disappeared by 1 o'clock \v] 1- prominent gueeta reached Shai Cs La nip Chairman McCormi-1:, of h national 1 """llliljfcTifin(In H. Gly ig former governor o?r New York, i 'e Mrs. Glynn; SenofcW James and Re 9- Secretary Lansin^and Mrs. Lansi: ie Henry Morgentbah] former ambat y dor to Turkey,,"alTlGovernor Fielt t- of New Jersey; ^j^re among th i- whom the president And Mrs. Wll ^ greeted on the summer capital's bri n veranda. : %>) n Democratic polligtys were thresl s. out thoroughly by foe president t d other leaders la nwuy conferences. - the leaders say there was compl 's harmony as to thejconduct of it campaign. It was 2 o'clock iben the gates o the grounds were oiened, giving a mission to the croiirfs, and the se 3t on the lawn began fill rapidly, o A battery of mbrt than 60 mov h picture cameras #4n set In place d rectly In front of thetpresldenfs sta s A band began playiK popular mu ,s Senator Olle Jao^s, of Kentuc e made the speech of notification, pn y lng the Wilson administration and chief n Mr. Wilson in htajWdress accept h the nomination of -office of pi - ideut, declared ?1*-belief that o Democratic party Will be kept In p< er by the voters Oj the country cause of its achletenents. The pa has not only fufolledt its own pledj said he, but has alnojenacted into 1 * practically the issue# ftressed by ,l Progressive party asi well, u In dealing with foe relations of t u country with foreignpatlons Mr. \ ll sou said he believes foe United Sta cau not remaip ncsTftl In the n I" * -* ? .'twill Wa great worm war, (>uu?nui ov v take sides in the coqUct He also defined th? policy of e administration in J>4fKrd to the M r lean problem. ? The presiderfjA. jjBgcb ot acce 8 ance wi^i^?8tep8 of 1 Government May T^ke The Road* a Wushington, Aug.; 24.?Presid Wilson's reported statement to 3 railway executives that a natlo 3 strike would be likely to precipit government ownership of the r 1 ways has caused much serious C( meut among memben of congress, f Since the present crisis has becc f acute a distinct trenl toward act ? governmeut control, at least, if 3 ownership, has _ become notices n among men who have hitherto J posed any suggestion of the sort, t The following typical opinions w 1 expressed: Senator Moses E. Clapp, of Min 9 sota: 1 The American people shrdlucml e seriously on the subject of owners - of railroads. Whether one believes e it or not, we can't escape the com s ! ,sion that government ownership is J evitable. It is the logical sequence s government regulation, s "The American people ar vas 1 v "If there shhould be a strike, ty t up the commerce of the whole coi try, the minds of tb^ people will centred upon this problem, and t] v will demand public ownership if tl * " -* Anlw anlllf conciuue mat mm i? me vmj w? n pf the strike problem. u "Labor under ^hose conditi would not be in politics any m than it is now, excepjt that with p t lie ownership it woul<jl seek to bav< voice in dictating the policies of /government in the mutter of mana ment of these public carriers. Th p there would be nc1 occasion 11 Strikes." ^ Senator Albert ]5. Cummins, Iowa: "A general railroad strike, wh we all hope sincerely may be avert e ;would operate as a tremendous v pulse toward government owners e of railroads. I cons: der public 01 ershlp of the railroads as one of e. Unfortunate things thit must come e regulation falls. But I do not th ' strike would be a calamity. If 0 should come, in my >pinion, Its v e magnitude would for re a settlem l* within a short time." Senator Henry P. Ashurst, of 1 e zona: h "A nation-wide railroad stri Is paralyzing the commejrce and trade 1- the entire country, cutting off ne< t, sary supplies for our:congested citl e and stopping the transportation > merchandise of all kinds would si s, people to thinking j of governm J- ownership as they hape never thou Is before. j >f "Everybody hopes there will be n strike and that the president can ] vent it, Whether government owi d ship would be better? for the cour is ior not, it would certainly result n better hours, improved working ( ditions and better wages for the ployes. i Representative CI- inent Brumbi of Ohio, member of the house c it i STRIKE CLOUDS DISAPPEAR Lit' FROM THE NATION'S HORIZO son Senator Borah Critues the New La > and Predicts That Labor Will Some Day Regard It as Tremendous Error. ?rkWashington, Sept 2.?The strii j|a order was rescinded at 8:43 touigh Garretson explained that owing t the difficulty of reaching many ofl >e cials of the brotherhoods on Sunda n?' it had been decided to send out tt ^ rescinding order tonight. ? ug! Washington. Sept 2.?The stril cloud which has menaceed the con ler merce of the nation for three weei 0Sg .passed swiftly beyond the possibllil gon tonight, following the passage by tt 3a(1 senate of the Adamson elgbt-hov law. N ^ The order calling the train open 111(j .tives out on Monday, September 4, we rescinded in telegrams flashed to a ete parts of the country by the brothe the hood chiefs. The decision to end tt controversy without waiting for tt ' t0 signature of President Wilson to tt ad- bill was reached at a conference lx ats tween A. B. Garretson, W. S. Stoni W. S. Carter and W. G. Lee. lug The union leaders are satisfied wit dl_ the victory obtained The railroa nd. executives are disgruntled and char? sic. they have not had fair play. The! fcy, position is thus stated by Senator V P Rnrah of Idaho: na* ? tts "Vicious From Every Standpoint." "The eight-hour bill is vicious froi ing every "conceivable standpoint, es- "It does not establish an elgrff-hot] the day at all, but it does undertake t ow- Increase wages for a stated length < be- time. That is, it undertakes to glv rty ten hours' pay for eight hours' work jes, matter most doubtful in constitutioi aw al law and even more doubtful i the morals. "This increase of wages ,of cours< his ultimately will be passed on to tb Ml- people who pay the freight We art ,tes ^therefore, undertaking by law, witl ext out any hearing upon the part c to those who ultimately must pay it, t fix a large increase of burden and, i the it should remain permanent, a tr< ex- mendous increase. To Increase Wages, pt- "In addition to that, while it he the been said that society sanctions a 1th eight- hour 0ay, this bill ?oes not pu ln?. port to establish an eight-hour da; but to increase wages, and it does n< k purport to increase the wages of moi ent than 20 per cent of the employes ( the the railroads. About 80 per cent t nal these employes some of whom r< ate ceive very low wages and perfori all* arduous services, are not benefited b >ia- this bill. The bill purports to cove only those who are actually opera me ing the trains. The other 880 per cer oal are left out entirely, cot "Labor will some time regard as ble treraenduous error this whole prop< ?P* sition." r nXVtiiAt+a *voa tho nnlv R( OCUllLUl Xiaruiiciit, *< um w? ? ere publican voting for the measure. Th Democrats who voted against It wer ne" Clarke of Arkansas and Hardwick c Georgia. W The remainder of the legislativ program has been abandoned by th! *u session of congress at least. :lu* esf Htaca51ooutiSw?,toshrrdluhcmm in of t AUGUST INSURANCE FUNDS MeMaster Turns Over $33,660 to Stat ww Treasury. *u8 Columbia, September 2.?Accordln un" to a statement Issued by Commlsslor 1)6 er F. H. McMaster, the Insurance d< ^ partment has turned Into the Stat iey treasury. $33,660.01 for the month c iou August, this year, making a total tc I day of $174,681.45. The total collet ons, tlons for the year 1915 were $179,988 ore 20. ub * a THE ASYLUM DEAfTH RATE tlie Big Decrease Due to Bettered Cor ge" ditions. eu' Columbia, September 2.?The Stat tor Hospital for the Insane reports onl 160 deaths there for the first si of 'months of this year. There has bee ? /l/vornoon In fhP (iPflt fUUMUClOliiC uuivaov ? . Icq rate there, due principally to the bel tered conditions there, according t the State board of health. hip the mitte on railways and canals: > if "I don't think labor trouble of tb ink present kind point necessarily to goi it ernment control of the railroads, a ery though if either side in the contrc ent versy is so unreasonable as to finall thwart a peaceful settlement that a( trl- would be a powerful argument 1 favor of the government talking ovt Ike, the business. A strike in the preser of case would be a tremendously impor ?es- |and Incident, but would not necessa: iees ',ily bring a conclusive resullt." of Named Electors For Uiis State, iart The state Democratic ex)bcutiv ent committee met Tuesday and announ* ght ed tlie esults of the recent pr mary and selected presidential ele no tors. The following are the elector pre- in order of the congressional di aer- tricts; J. R. Dingle Summerton; V itry Blenheim; Joe Sparks, Columbia; f( in berry; R. W. Hamilton, Jonesvilk ion- W. S. Hall, Gaffney; W. G. Kinne em- Blenheim; Joe Sparks, Columbia; fo< the state at large, S. R. Mellicham age, Orangeburg, and S. C. Carter, < om- Chester, 1 MANNING WILL WIN DECLARES < N TILLMAN w "Woodrow Wilson will be re-elected ^ president of the United States next November and Richard I. Manning w|ll be renominated governor pext le Tuesday," said Senator B. R. Tiiman t yesterday afternoon as he was leaving :o for his home at Trenton, after spendi ing the day in Columbia. 1 y The senator says he is enjoying * ie fin? health and he appears to be in 1 the best of spirits. He left Washing-' * :e ton about two weeks ago and since! ^ a- that time has been resting on his farm * is at Trenton. He says that he does not * :y expect to return to the national capi- ( ie tal until next December, ir While speaking of the South Caro- ^ Una race for the governorship, (he I i- was extremely emphatic and the old- 3 us time battle fire gleamed in his eye. He 1 11 says that Blease will probably get a r- small precentage of the Cooper vote, I ie the remainder going to Governor ' ie Manning. 1 te "There is not a bit of use to get d J- stampeded,' said Senator Tillman. "If P e, the people do as I expect and think 3 they will Blease will never be elect- * h ed." He felt sure the people when 4 d once aroused would go to the ballot ^ (? box, and if they did he was satisfied f Mr. Manning would be nominated. ^ He claims that there are fully 25,'000 enrolled voters that did not go to * the polls last Tuesday but that If ' n Ihey have the good of the state at a "heart, they will vote against Blease In v ir fche next primary. And he is firmly of 8 0 the opinion that they will. "The good Lord has nothing against a e South Carolina," said the senator, ' a "and he will not let a man like Blease again be governor of South Carolina. 8 n But the lord helps those who help 7 themselves, and it is up to the voters s1 e* to get out and give an emphatic vie- G 'e tory to Governor Manning and' a like 11 emphatic defeat to the personal ambitions of Cole L. Blease." 8 While in the city yesterday Sena- a ? tor Tillman called at the executive 1 office to see Governor Manning, but 13 ^he Governor was out and did not get e to see the senator. J n 18 TO REVISE COMMANDMENTS XI i f > r" Proposal to be Submitted to Fp^eopal ^ Convention. t ] New York, September 2.?A pro- 8 ^ posal to revise and shorten the first a ^ five of the following Commandments 1 wil be submitted to the next general e convention of the Protestant Episcopal p Church. The proposed changes are rec ,a ommended by a committee of Bishops r ' clergy and laymen. j I The revised version is as follows: e "First?Thou shalt have no other h God but Me. o g "Second?Thou shalt not make unto y (thyself any graven images, nor the a llikeliness of anything that is in the c] (Heaven above, the earth beneath or | (in the water under the earth; thou 2 * isbalt not bow down unto them, nor worship them. "Third?Thou shalt not take the '6 j name of the Lord, thy God, in vain. ^ "Fourth?Remember that thou keep ^ holy the Sabbath day. c a "Fifth?Honor thy father and thy q mother." p ^ Chance That Danes May Adjust Dif- ^ ferences Without Going Into General Elections. ? i- T j- ??? ^ London, Sept. 5.?A Copenhagen ^ ^ dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph ^ ( company says the Danish political ^ crisis arising out of the proposed sale of the Danish West Indies shows ^ signs of collopsing suddenly. "Although a general election seemed inevitable yestrday," the dispatch adds, "it now looks as if the sale p ' mloht tain ho noonmnlishod without 1/v an election. Tlie lender of the Con,e it. y servative party today (Monday) pro- * posed to the premier that negotiations for the formation of a coalition h cabinet be reopened and the premier E t_ consented. Tht fact appaars to btt 11 that all th parties are ^beginning to ? feel hat an election woul ^y>e a ea- ^ lamity now and should be avoided if w possible." ? e The Mob in Ohio. n r- "Where will the lynch-spirit lead p 1- next? asks the New York Evening s< >- Post, commenting upon the latest ? y manifestation of that evil. Nobody A ;t knows, but at least it seems clear d< n that it is leading northward. The out>r .'break of the lynch spirit to which the it Post refers took place at Limn, Ohio. " t- and the whole country knows the de- d r- tails by now. They are not surpassed H In horror or in sinister significance by any affair of the sort south of h a Mason and Dixon's line. The sheriff s< > I having previously removed his prls 1- oner to ft place of' safety, the mob T c- turned on the sherig, took him to the b s, (turned on the .sheriff, took him to the it s- public square, cut him in many places, o: 7. tore off his clothes, kicked him, beat o: >r him. broke t^vo of his ribs, and placed zt >; a rops around his neck, threatening y, to hang him if he did not reveal the h >r negro's whereabouts. Incidentally the .A p, (sheriffs little daughter died of shock K 3f sustained when the mob invaded the 'I sheriff's home at the jail. & r DOMING CROP OF COTTON UNDER TWELVE MILLION farther Deterioration in Growing Plant Has Brought Estimated Condition Down to 61.2 and Predicted Yield to 11,800,000 Bales. Washington, Aug. 31.?Further deerioration of the growing cotton crop luring August has reduced the estlnated final production by 1,116,000 ? 1 iJ* 11 OAA AAA kola. miCS IU tl LULtt 111 li,OVV,UVV uaico* That forecast of production was made oday by the department of agricuure, basing its calculations on the ;ondition of the crop on August 25. The condition of the crop on August 15 was 61.2 per cent, of a normal com- ^ >ared with 72.3 last month, 69.2 last rear and 72.5 the average for the last en years on August 25. The crop of 11,800,000 bales comlares with 12,916,000 bales forecast rom July 25 condition reports and 4,266,000 bales forecast from conlitions existing June 25. Last year's roduction was 11,191,820 bales, two ears ago 16,134,930, three years ago 4,156,486, and four years ago 13,703,21. During July heavy storms caused lamage to the crop causing a loss in iroduction calculated at 1,350,000 ales. In a statement summarizing condiions the department said: "August ras unfavorable for cotton in almost 11 sections of the cotton belt. In the restern section, the crop deteriorated everely in Oklahoma and Texas beause of extreme drought over large reas which caused the plart to stop ruitlng and shed. Weevils damaged he crop considerably in eastern and outhern Texas, southern Araansas, western Florida and southwestern [ppi, Alabama and portions of Louisieorgia and disastrously in Missisma. Much of the crop in southern Misissippl and Alabama, because of rain nd weevil damage, will require from y 0 to 20 acres of land to produce a ale of cotton. In the Carolinas and / orgia hot sunshine following the / uly rain on the sappy plant caused "Lack of fertilizer which was leachil from the soil by ji'ly rains, or with irawn by grass and weeds; -was SbowA > y the appearance of the plant, which ^^^91 eems to have reached maturity with * , small stalk and a lack of fruit. ^ 'here are mank grassy fields in the astern states. Caterpillars are reported in Texas, Louisiana, Florida nd fieorgia, but have (lone no mateial damage as yet. "Picking is general over the southrn half of the belt, and even in Oklaoma, where there is much premature penlng. Virginia, Tennessee, northrest Mississippi, eastern Arkansas nd Missouri have good to splendid pops of cotton." Comparisons of condition on August 5, by states, as follows: Aug. Aug. July. 25, 25, 10-Yr. 25. State 1916. 1915. Av. 1916. Virginia ....90 85 82 87 forth Caro. .65 76 70 70 louth Caro..57 71 75 65 (eorgia 62 69 75 68 'lorida 53 70 77 62 Jabama ....45 65 75 54 lississippi ..49 69 72 65 .ouisiana 64 65 65 77 exas 66 67 70 78 .rkansas ....71 72 74 85 'ennessee -..80 82 81 82 lissouri ....60 81 81 80 klahima ....56 71 71 84 alifornia ...92 93 (*)96 100 nited States 61.2 69.2 72.5 72.5 Six years average. Thfl flno pnnHltinn renort of the de artment of agricuture will be issued ionday, October 8. homas Edison Is Supporting Mr. Wilson. Saratoga, N. Y., Sept 3.?Thomas A. dlson, the electrical wizard, Repubcan aud supporter of Theodore oosevelt for the presidential nominaon today announced that he would ork and vote for Woodrow Wilson, ie said: "Not since I860 has any campaign lade such a direct call on Simon tire Americanism. The times are too ?rious to talk or think in terms of tepuhlicanism or Democracy. Real uiericans must drop parties and ;ret own to big fundamental principles. "More than any other president in i.v memory, Woodrow Wilson, lias i?en faced by a succession of tremen011 s problems, any of which decided ie wrong way would have had disstrous consequences. Wilson's decis>ns so far have not got us into any ?rious. trouble, nor are they likely to "He has given us i>eace with honor, his talk about the United States eing despised is nonsense. Neutral? nmtithtn fn-lnir nnlifv hilt back la uiiiigui; ?; ?o ? * f it are international law, the rights f humanity and the future of civillaton. "Roosevelt was ray choice. He had ad experiendb and is one of the best .merieans, but the machine controlled Republican party would not have him. 'herefore I am for Woodrow Wilon." .. 4 v*t?. - ???# ???*' mA