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' \ " ? r1-". NO. 40. PAMHKN sc KlUDAY. octohku U.IWI. VOLUME XVIII. ' CAMDWN,?. SOUTH CAROLINA ITEMS ? ? ? # ? Newsy Items Gathered From the Different Sections of South Carolina. Mandamus Writ in State Bond Case. Columbia, Special.?Chief Justice Pope has ordered nerved on the State Treasurer Jennings the writ of man <lamus l'or thy exchange of the bond [ now in the possession of Edward Eh rlich of this city and for which a. certificate of stock is wanted: 'To the Honorable It. II. Jennings treasurer of the State of South Car* ! olina: J "Whereas Edward Ehrlich the rela tor herein has therefore delivered to you u bond of the State of South ( Carolina bearing the number 2525, is sued under and by virtue of an act j to provide for the redemption of that part of the Stato debt known as the brown consol bonds and stocks by is- ( sue o? other bonds and stocks np- ( proved Dee. 22, 1892 and demanded, bf you that you issue to him in ex change therefor a 'certificate of stock ( of the St^t? of South Carolina as provided for in said act: and "Whereas you have refused so to do as appears by his relation hereto-' tore served upon you in the forego ing action ,to his injury which rela tion has been adjudged to be true Uy the judgment of the supreme court o?* South Carolina tiled Sept. 27, 1907; and it having been ordered by said I'Ourt that the writ issue such ordci this day being filed with the clerk ( thereof: "Now, therefore, these arc to eon wand you, immediately upon (lie set1- ( vice upon you of this writ, that you issue ip accordance with the terms of the Raid act a certificate of slock of t>e State of South Carolina in the ?um of #1,000 to Edward Ehrlich tlio relator herein in exchange for bond ' No. 2525 referred to in said proceed ings." . 1 Witness the Hon. Y. J. Pope ichiel justice of llifc supreme court of South Carolina, , ? U. It. Brooks, fcjtoik <(Yr the Supreme Court of South Carolina. < Vhc above was served by Col. U. i(. ? ill*.- il %J\J 1 U M IIO OV- I ? V\| ? MJ V'MI. V- ? > ? ? J Brooks, clerk of the/supreme ourl who received the folWwAft from chief Pope: s a jiidgmHtt of .the sa Sonlli^tti feftf Sontli^ttrolina filed f&tf determined that I he wm of mandamus nsloed for in fore going proceedings should be issued as prayed it is I "Ordered that a writ of madnmus, do issue from tfiis court under jts seal and duly attested by the clerk thereof, commanding R. II. Jennings as treasurer of- the State of' South Carolina the above named respondent that ho immediately upon the ser-,, vice upon" him of such writ, do issue in accordance vutb the terms of an act to provide for the redemption of that part of the State debt known ?as the brown consul bonds and stocks l>y issue of other bonds and stocks, vpproved December 22, 1892 a certi ficate of stock of the State of South 'Carolina in tho sum of $1,000 to Ed ward Ehrlich the relator herein in Exchange for bond No. 2525 referred, to in said proceedings. "Chief Justice of the Sdp^eme Court of South Carolina. " | _ "T. J. POPE. 1 " The Bank of Olio Expands. Clio, Special.?The stockholders of the Bank of Clio met and voted to increase the capital stock of the bank from $25,000 to $50,000. The new stock will be sold at the book value of the present stock, which is at a premium of about 50 per cent. News In Brief. r j Dr. Walter J. Quick, of -Gospoir, - Ind., was elected dean of the Virgin ia Agricultural College, at Blacks-, burg. The battleship Alabama limped into New York harbor with a cylin-, der cracked. Guggenheim railroad men shot sis surveyors of an opposition line corp in Alaska. I } 1? Petitions for Pardon. Gov. Ansel received Thursday four petitions for pardon and in nearly ivery ease the petition will have to l>o sent back because all of the facts xvcjp' not stated. - l The most interesting case was that if Burrel Thompson who waa sent up from Hampton county for life for the murder of John Litsey. Thtynas and lien Bennett two white men were convicted of this crime and Gov. Au to) has received a letter from Litsey-a father stating that his boy never con jictsfa) Thomas with the crime. .. a petition waa also received for the, , pardon of Henry Rhabb sent op for .two yaara from Graanvile for steal /rntf fW. Jtaottar petition from tho tame eouity WW for Salmon Lyncu *b? waa ooatanead to ?i* months im Tba facta ar? I Jdc tha par-' Closing Tigers in Charleston. Charleston, Special.?Auditor W. B. West arrived iu Charleston with a bundle of injunctions from the su premo court and hastening to tin: sheriff's ofllce placed them in the hands of an officer for service on th? Charleston hotel ,the Argylc hotel the Occidental cafe, the Kchuetzenplalz and the proj jietors of tlie Isle of Palms. All these places, of business have been restrained from selling in toxicants the Isle of Palms perma nently and the other four tempor arily. Humor coming along with Mr. \V<it>t says that hundred or two more oi these temporary injunctions are bound Charlestonward to ho served on all places where liquor is said' to be sold, th<$rovfenuo license list furnish ing a bpsis for service end that Charleston will also have at ran early date a fWo of constables to be p;ud by the county dispensary board fa enforce the dispensary law rigidly. The coming of Mr. West to Char leston and the closing of the cafes of the hotels, restaurant, ami at the Schutxenplatz have naturally thrown the city in a stale of tense excitement The injunction proceeding's were madt up of a petition for a temporary in junction, the order of temporary in junction on affidavits which have been made out by agents of the audi tor and through his personal work. The blow struck today is i? natural consonuonee of the success attending thfl feltoris of Auditor West to close (he Isle of Palms cafe permanently. From the outlook at present, every cafe and club in the city and every other place where liquor is sold will be similiarly e?psed. In the five nets of papers served all the owners and the cofe -managers wore, reached. A Mr. Curcton said to he the future chief constable for the county ha. been in the city for a couple of weeks at woik getting evidence. He acom* pui;ir?l the sheriff's officer today in ihe fervic?s oiNtho papers. A few days,ago 'a copy of the permanent vi jurc.lion against the Is'ie of J'salrr.s cafe- was filed in the office of the clerk of court'here and along with service -of the permanent injunction papers carhe also* the unexpected tem porary Injunction proceedings. That Rebel Rally. Chester, Special.?The veterans of the Confederate cau5e, together with all their friends in'this county, are looking eagerly forward to the "rebel rally," appointed to be held here on the ICth of this month. Col; J. W. Iteed, a native of North Carolina but for the past 15 years a^residont of Chester is chairman of the committee of arrangements and is vigilant, act ive and untiring in his work to make the occasion a big succes?. He is earn estly supported by the Confederates and their friends in ev.ery community. It need not be added that the good women are doing their part. They al ways do when such patrotic work as this is on hand. Governor Ansel of S^jlth Carolina is to bo the chief sneaker of the day. All of us here sincerely regret that Governor Glenn is unable to attend. We were desir ous of scing the two Governors meet, although wo would not expect North Carolina's Govomor to make that cel ebrated remark. Governor Gleon .bo ing an ardent earnest prohibitionist. Rtiil ho would have mot a most cor dial reception by the veterans and ali tho good peoplo of this county. By Wiro and Cable. The Amorican Baknors' Associa tion ,in sossion at Atlanta, adopted a credit-currency pian reported by the committee. The healing in tho Standard Qil Company case showed that pipe line* oro extremely profitable and tha<. (supposed public lines are sometimes private. \ Cokesbnry Oonfcrence School' Cokcsbury, ,J5pccial.-*--Thc work ol tho Cokesbury Conference school is full under way ami the indication* that this will bo one more suc cessful year. Tho school opened with an increase over last year's lino open ing. County superintendent of edu^ cation of Spartanburg county, Mr: Klmore brought his two sons down' to enter school and he gave a line talk and a lot of good advieo before the students. Rev. ?f. E. Beard and Mr. Jno. T. Wideman, superintendent of education of Greenwood county also trove excellent advice. Man glad in a Gottos Gin. Dillon, 8pecial.-?Henry Hyatt age J 20 yean while attending to the steam gin of bit father three mike Wow here bed hie era caught in the gin The entire limb from linger tip to rhtralder joint wet fearfully mangled, Die. Henriee, Miehaux aod^Goddard were ealled in at onee and d^ iw?if? thing poMiUe to save the yoaag life but he never rallied from shock awl hendying ?? 4 o'clock # wife 1 ?m wmk i SOME USEFUL RECIPES , / To ImprOy? Quality (uid Increase quantity of Butter. Ileal a< .quantity of good Deodorii ed Cooking (Cotton Seed) Oil lo about blood heat, and just before be ginning to churn, add to the milk, lin ing about one-fourth teacupful to each gallon of uiilk aud proceed as usual. Good Cooking Oil ean be bought at alrnbst any grocers at about 60 cents a gallon which is about 0 1-2 cents pel pou?iui A ^-gallon churning will take half pound of Oil. It will hasten coming of the butter, assist in its better col lection, improve quality of both but ter and buttermilk, and being return ed as butter will giv? an increase yield bl* nearly a pound of butter and a profit equal to the difference be tween the selling price of the butter and the cost price of the Oil. A pro v. ed faej^. Feeding Horses With Cotton Seed Meal and Hulls. Columbia, 8. C., Special.?Ex peri* ments In every part of the South show, that Cotton Seed Meal and Hulls; when properly fed to horses and mules makes the finest and cheap est feed ih the world. Maj. Henry (T, i Hammond of Augusta, Cja., in writing about feeding some of his al'ter tell ing about thb time wheii his two colts were born, he says: "At that time oats were about $36.00 per ton, and' corn about $20.00. 1 began feeding my mares on these ex pensive grains, ground with a little cottonseed meal dusted in. took to it all right, and before theNqJts were six weeks old they were nibblmjj: at their mother's feed. Since moic colts have come. The oldest are now I fivo years old, and Hone of them have evel; passed a day in their lives with out baling some cottonseed meal They have never been out of fix. The older ones weigh 1,100 pounds and are 10 hands high?decidedly larger than dams or sire. They have carried me 50 miles a day without breathing deep. Here is a clean-cut decisive example of cottonseed meal as a com ponent part of a horse's ration. T \Viil simply add to the above testimony/ that for the past five years my sta))}/ has consisted of ten pleasure ?xui:l work animals?one, a mule, could pull a lion out of his denc?and every one of them have been fed dtiily with rt pound or more of; cottonseed rtionl. I have never had a sick one in" thai time, or one that was not ready for wdrk. I have had the good fortune to win some "blue ribbons." New York Carriers Visit Charleston. Charleston, Special.?Fiftv odd let ter carriers of the New York post; office department with a number of ladies arrived here Sunday on the Clyde steamer Iroquois en route to Florida on their annual vacation They hired a special car of the Con solidated company and rode over the several?mutes and into'the suburbs to^ie navy yard, which place they found a most interesting place. .Com ing down from New York the passage a lively one, the carriers being in foi a,pood time and they had it. 0They played all kinds of pranks upon one another and their fun was enjoyed by others than those of their party. Xhis is the fifth annual trip that the car riers have tak&i. They went to Puer to Rico last year and to Nigara Fall* during the previous year. Next year they travel to Boston and then through New England into Canada for a short trip. The letter camiM* who are on the trip have su^tirutec in their places in the New Yo|rk post offlce and in taking this trip/they are utilizing their annual leave of days. They are not an exclusive set, having on this trip as on previous travel invited friends to accompany them the latter sharing JJie cost oi the trip. On the present trip are two lieutenants and servants of the police deparetment and ?a few other people not letter carriers and accompanying ladies. Their itinerary will close on October 16, by which time they must be back in New York. They will go back to New York on the steauiei Arahoe, which >vill ?' pass throngii Charcston on October 14. Tho party wil go up the St. John's river, visit ing St. Augnfttine, Sanford and other places in Florida before starting Northward. Dispensers Want Salaries Raised. Charleston, Special.-?The scheme is being suggested as an inducement 'ftxygreator sales by the dispensaries that the salaries of the dispensers should be put on a proportionate ba sis to the business done. The dispen sers at least the men whp mako the larger sales are desirous of this change in (Jy salary arrangements At present fill the dispensers get the same money, $75 per a month and the man whose monthly sales arc onlv $1,200 get tho same as those who sell about $3,000. Tho latter people of teurse feel that,, they should be6* bet ter compensated than the others. Skootfef Affair at Haiger. Hamer, 8peciaL? Saturday night J. F. Graham and J. F. Martin, two well known and retpieeted fjtitty of tbtt place hyiiw Mgafadidn ib iltwwrtlen m a re volt of wkieh the terwmt is nrio?i| WoondUrt. , Several afcota paaeed be tw?a?Jtbe two vpm tti k ia ?U thai Grakaas opened Art $r*t~ A ball fre? [ItettoVpitlol utmKNw'i Wi ? A NERVY FAKE PREACHER Fake Minister Trie# to Get Called to Churches and Has Record Shown Up Unfavorably. Easley, Special.?"Dr." K. V. Mil' lurd who has been in Easley for about two week*; ban been branded as an im|H>?ter. He bus been posing as a Baptist minister and bas tried to se cure a call to several of the churches near here, but to the surprise of-peo ple here a letter was received by Hev. 1). W. lloitt from tbe Dorchester county authorities giving bis history The story is familiar to a great many newspaper readers who remember bow be tkeserted bis wife and children out West and came to South Carolina and married again. It seems that ho had not been heard of in some time until he caHie^rnto the l'iedmont sec tion, HutinJjljr to have been all over Egypt antPtfiving lectures ott his trip abroad., / Last Sunday morning he spoke in the Methodist church and in the afternoon he spoke at the Bap tist Church. ' New School in Klngstree. Kingstree, Special.?Ground was broken last week fur the new $10,000 school building. Mr. W. 1\\ Grimes is the contractor. The new building is expected Iq bo ready for use in a few months and will contain several new class rooms, a reading room and a large rtilditoriUni. II will be erect ed just north of the\.id graded school. Since school closed *|as{ May u par tition has been placed in the chapel of the present building, cutting it into two class rooms, or one class room and a rending room. A new board of trustees lias been elected and they have taken a very active part in all these improvements. The school is ?^low in a very promising condition, the enrollment having already exceed ed 200. As the growth of llie ? ? lias been so grctit an additional teach er was elected aujl the faculty now consists of Mr. P. I*. Bethea super intendent; Mr. K. B. llallinan, prin cipal; Misses Lorena Ross, -'Alice Be ehnni, Carrie Onslow, Sue Sloll and Agnes Earkman, assistants, and Miss Campbell, teacher of music. /" Fell From Moving Train. Ma rion, Special.?Joe Jnro a young white man from Georgetown who was* on his \j/ay frofifl* Mullins to George town fell-.ffom the evening train from Columbia Saturday afternoon and wns very seriously if not {fatally injured. ITis slfull is fracturVd and *ne is very much mutiliatcd about the body. He fell .just before the train reached the freight Depot of the At lantic Coast Line and is supposed to hftve come intd''contact with a switch. The young pinn was accompanied by his brother' and a friend, neither of whom is ,/iblc to ?jive any intelligible aecouiff of how the accident occurred Dr. Mclntyre the local Aalantic Coast Line surgeon was immediately sum moned and did all that was - possi ble to relieve his condition. He was carried to Wilmington aod placed \y" a hospital. Hon. Walter H. W&s Veda. ,Gaffney, Special.?A marriage of much interest to the people al lover the State was tliat of Hon. Walter H. Wells of Florence and Miss Maiul Wilson of Gaflfney which occurred at the homo of the bride Thursday after noon at 3 o'clock. Tho ceremony was performed by Rev. S. B. Harper who used the beautiful and impressive rit ual of the Methodist church. The mar riage was very quiet being witnessed by only a few friends out sWe of the family. The bride is th6 second daughter of Rev. J. B. Wilson and is a most lovable and accomplished young woman. The groom is one of the most prominent of the young men of the State. He has for the past two years served as State senator from his county and was recently ap pointed solicitor o fliis circuit to lilt out the unexpired term of Hon. John S. Wilson. ?? Night School for Mill Folks. Gaflfney, Spccial.?Prof. Spears the efficient superintendent of Gaflfney's graded schools is moving in the miil* ter of petablishing a night school in the mill district for the benefit of the operatives who are unable to attend, school in the day time. Prof, Sipears is to be commendod for inaugurating this movement which is calculated to result in much gootl to those people. Busy Saltillo. Saltillo, Specinl.?Tings are quiet in this little town. Everybody is hard at work picking cotton, gather ing corn, making sorghum, etc. This section is getting out .and selling to the railroads a lot of crossties. Near ly every landing on Tennessee River is piled high with them. There are thousands on^ the landing hare. I Prices Vary. Railroads pay frem 40 to 50 rents apioce. They are loaded on barges and carried down tho river to wh^Ye the railroads iffrons. - Very little interest is taken in politics. Charges are Sensational. Spartanbystr. 8. C., Special.?The grand jury of 8pa$tanb?rf county made a moat sensational presentation to Jodg? R. C. Watta li the Court of General petafone with reference to tbr management at the comity chain laek ef harmony among the of (be eoenty hoetd of and the eeniaiM ? (the wi -j -il - iST eoe^aa* I - .{? .....w aw news mm News of Interest Ofttfctrod From AU Part* of th? Oonntry?tftragrapli? of Mora or Lew Import*nc*~ What the World '* Doing. Nearly a hundred cotton manufac turer's from Europe have come to at tend tin* cotton convention in Wash ington and Atlanta. Tli# annual fish fry and squirrel stew In the wilderness near Freder icksburg was attended by a great crowd. A had freight wreck occurred on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad near Martisburg, W. Va. President Roosevelt spoke at Cairo and then proceeded south to Mem phis. Cdl. H. M. Thompson will spend $500,000 limine mouths entertaining 15 guesls ,on a world tour oil a char tered liueh ? Four Italians were hanged together at Lancaster; Ph., for the murder o' a countryman Testimony in the Standard Oil ease showed that the trust sells lubricat ing oil to practically all the railroads at its own price. Hartford stockholders <>f the Illi nois Central Kuilroad bolted the 11 a i - riman ticket and gave Fish 8,000. Percy C. l)igby> Pittsburg's Miss Ing law librarian was found dead in the Alleghany river. Shipments of whiskey into proba tion districts of Kentucky were up held by the State Court of Appeals. Mr. Charles Fngland of Baltimore was given a loving cup by the Nation al Grain Dealers Association upon his retirement as president. No protest is to bo made now by the United States Government against the nppointement of Wii Ting-fang as Chinese minister. The mystery of the murder rtf << woman whose dismembered body was found among some baggege at Mont Carlo has been solved by the con fesion of the murderer. Great interest is shown in the tew nis nrilch between President Hoose velt and the Bishop of London which is cxp?',4cd to take place. Rev. J. E. Tripoictt who has has been for some years rector of the Prcsbyteriftn churches at Ditffields and Shenandoah Junction lnV resign ed. He \vi 1! continue as pastor ot the Presbyterian church at, Kearnoys ville. The Baptist church at Charleston /has extended a call to Rev. L. 30. but ton, of Easton, Md. The Tuna glas plant at Clarksburg W. Va., will start it? fires. It i?i t largest industry^jn the industrial ad dition of Clarksbufg. The plant in cludes six handsome buildings. The Fairmont Coal Company which is-Controlled by the Consolidation f^Coal Company of Baltimore is making provision, for a future s\u>ply of mine ttfnbcr during the year wilt, set out 10,000 young trees on the various properties of the company. Oak sap lings will bo planted chiefly. Tim bor for props, otc., used in mines is becomings very scarce. Ambassador Charlmagnc Tower has written to tho President, asking to be relieved next spring. American Mormons were driven out of Saxony for proselyting. v There has been serious oirting in Calcutta. ' The Makado's mother is said to he serously'ill or dead. Pennsylvania day was observed at the Exposition. Nine miners dropped with ft cage into 70 feet of water in an English mine and perished. Col. Charles S. Smith, Ordinance Department, is to he inado a breiga dier-general. Secretary Straus, in a speech to the National. Cotton Manufacturers' Con vention, virtually advocated tariff re vision. Attomey?General Bonaparte de cides that the coastwise navigation law does not apply to transportation in foreign vessels of coal to the bat tleship fleet. The Houses of Bishops and Depu ties, of the Episcopal convention, met toge^M^ttS" a JT>u^t board of missions. Mr. James M. Ba^c denies that he wilh-withdraw by? resignation as direc tor-general of tlio JamestoVnExposi tion. The Hague Peace Conference in iN, acknow 1 will name Presi dent Roosevelt first. President Roosevelt got such an enthusiastic reception at Memphis that it is thought he may be prevail ed upon to reconsider his determinar tiofi not to^tun again. u Hrvrlir." Charles Ghosliti, president Of Jefferson County Sunday School, Association has issued a call for the annual convention to meet at Shcp herdtown on October 11 and lfc. All preparations have been madp for the Presidential bear hunt in the Ixmitiana eansbrakes. It mi shown in the Standard Oil .bttrinf that ths trust got rates about lialf at low as competitors to Afrie*. Fash is out with another statement that ftko Illinois Central rj paMsd. ? ?' iMm th said that Qorswyr Camming DECLARE FOR 15 CEN1S' Promises of Bevoral Banking Houses to AdyaVce Loaua on Ootton in Warehouse. Orangeburg, Special.-- The farmers of this, the Mi"ato#t cotton producing county in South .Carolina, took steps towanl holding their cotton for a min imum price of 15 cents per pound. This is tho minimum agreed upon at the last meeting of tlic executive com mittee of the Southern Cotton associa tion. The South Carolina members of the committee tiro t>uid not to have favored this minimum, but after tho committee as a whole hftd acted tho leaders of the cotton farmers in 11?im State have sounded the call and have begged the to hold their cot ton. * r; < The meeting h#ro was caled to put the matter squarely before the peo ple of Orangeburg ^njntjL This county has sold quite a lot ?<T cotton already, but it is declared freely that about 40,000 of 50,000 bales will be held, for that which has been sold is said to have come from the crops o4 negro farmejs, who could not hold There were Interesting ppoeches, some earnest and convincing argu ments. The principal rtddresses of the day were delivered by ex-OoV. I). C. 1 ley ward who was invited because he is the president of the Standard Warehouse company, which has ware houses in severeul parts of the Stale, ?iid Mr. B. I). Smith, field agent of the ,-iouthern Cotton Association. A short but interesting speech whs made by Dr. W. \V. Hay, who attended the ex ecutive committee meeting, and '"an other by Mr. K. If. Weston, secretary of the South Carolina Cotton Grow ers associal iot). The meeting was fairly well attend ed nil hough it was Mnturdftv and there were r.everal thousand people on the streets and the merchants could not well leave their stores. Mr. John F,. Wanuamaker of St. Matthews, who called the meeting and is president of flic Orangeburg county association, mrde a few very earnest introductory remarks. -Mr. Wuunamaker stated among oilier things find he had had "a good, natured controversy recently with the editor of a great dailv news paper as to the advisability of holding for 15 cents and he wished lo com mend to tho farmers the spirit in which his communications had been received. But he declared the fact that the pros of the South is not afire with, enthusiasm in the. fight to push the |?priee o fthe staple to 15 cents, for the press is the mightiest force ill the countrv and if all of the papers should become enlisted in the cause and should make an uncompromising fight for 15 cents, it would not be long until the people would be educat ed to realize the value of their staple and the crop would be held back un til the fanners would got their 15 cents. " ' ?>? Dr. W. W. Rav, member <?f tho ex ecutive committee front South Caro lina, was called upon by Mr. Wanna makor to t.rivo an account of that meeting. Dr. Rav, after introductory remarks, told o ftJhe meeting at Jack son, Miss. Tie had met there men of great intelligence and vast experience as cotton raisers. They wore the rep resentatives of their several State as sociations. Reports were submittal. The information came that Texas would hp 1.000.000 -billed short this year; Louisiana and Mississippi re-' ported short crop?, qnd nearly all of the other Slates reported that crops would fall below tho . production of ln6t year, South Carolina alono re ported n good crop or about .fin aver age crop. In view of the reports received, it was estimated that the crop this year would be .11,750,000 boles. ? Therefore the committee very deliberately con cluded that the value of tho crop would best be obtained by holding out' for 15 c^nls per potind. "We appeal to the bankers and hiuuflrss men to help us win this fight,snul Dr. Ray. "We are .dependent upon them as well as they are dependent upon us. The future of?the South is entirely dependent upon the income from the sale ot cotton, and as the scarcity of labor has lniscd the pricc of produc tion and as the price of all commodi ties has increased, tho farmers feel that they havo a right to demand more for their cotton and they bp^ lieve 15 cents per pound to be thCK ri?ht figure." Following Dr. Ray, cx-Qov. Iley ward was introduced. Gov. Hoy ward'a admirable addre?s is printed in full at the request of officers of the associa tion. Gov. Hey ward did not go the fuii length and advise that the farms ers hold for 15 cents, for he is iii the warehouse business and should far riers, acting on his advice, put their Lcu^ton in tho warehouse to be held for7l5 cents?-and tlipn not get that I pri/ce?he would feel that ho had in-1 ju^ed thorn. But the address showed, so much thought upon > the general question and was such good reading matter in a general way to, show the value of cotton as a staple and as a monopoly that the association will thave it published in other States. Gov. Hey ward in the outset assured Chairman J. E. Wanna maker that the banking institutions and the pre** would support -the cotton producers in their fight to tontrol the, price of their own monopoly. Later on, joe* Loss and ~ ?gjR" A CM COIl iW Gathering in Atlanta of Users and Producers WILL FIGHT Tilt SPECULATORS A lively Fight 07?r the Regulation or Prohibition of Spsculitlve Deal ing. ii tUoStaple JfromUcv to Ba the Chief I'eUtuvo of 11.2 International ConfcrfcncO. Atlanta, (la., Specirh V> ith dele gates present ropier entiu^ every phase of tho cot (oil industry fio.a tho time it loaves the planter's hands' to the time when tho product woven into fabric* is sent to u/arkct.< of the worlds , and including vepi esontativos of many foreign countries, tho inter national cdfifciVuco of cot toil spin ners and growers mot at tl?o Stale Capitol building in thw city for a three-day session. Moie than 500 delegates were present, nearly a hun dred of these ropiesenting the, great iniJIs of Germany,. (heat Britain, France, Italy, Hpaiu and Portugal, with an aggregate wealth in farui lands, cotton crop and mills of nearly foiir billions of dollars. (hiring the sessions tpiestiohs of the greatest importance to grower and spinner alike will be taken up for discussion and action, and it is hoped that this meeting wil result in a hot ter understanding between ^ho men who produce-cotton and those who weave "the staple into fabrics. Thut this will result was ihdicated by Aho talk of many of the delegates alter the addresses at this i session, in which the great losses to spinners by reason of poor methods of hand-? lin# and shipping tho raw product were shown and the great saving that would bo effected to both grower and spinner if more system and care were used in the initial handlitig of the pro ducts of the Holds. A lively fight for regulation or pro hibition of speculative, dealing in tun was also indicated before ihe com mittee on buying apd selling when ( ongi cssimvn Heflin, of Alabama, in trod need n resolution asking the con ference to mempralizo Congress and the British Parliament to stop specu lation in cotton except that actually owned. But the fact that a? io.veslt gat ion following a similar resolution had resulted in a refusal by the Brit*" ish law-making body to disturb exist ing conditions was brought out, and a favorable report by the sub-eom mittoc to which tho matter wag flu, ally referred will undoubtedly be a<* complished by a vigorous minority re jwrt against any such action. Governor Hoke Smith, of. Georgia, in his address of welcome to tbcdelfiv gates, caused mlicli applpuse by 'id* vocating the ginning, compressing and baling of cotton on tbo plantation and abolishing the manipulation ol the middle man,- and undoubtedly this feature of the cotton industry will iccnve much attention. The morning session Wajt taken up laigely with addresses of weWomi and response* and the appointment of committees. "V,: In hia opening" address Mr. MaeoU outlined the objects of the conference and made suggestions for the elimi nation of diueicnces between growei and splnnflr. ftn<j of Infflrtai Ing the value of the product of the grower. He said that the planter, if he wants to sell direct to tho spin ner, must in some way do tho work of the middleman and have the same financial responsibility; no must grade, carry and finance the cottoo as the merchant does now. He added that gin-compressing would effeet ao enormous savttig in transportation and insurance, and -enable the ov? burdened railroads to imve more peditiously. the ever-increasihg e Ho made a plea for a uniform biL_ lading and1 expressed himself in sym pathy witli the report recently issued by a committee of the New York cot* ton exchange on the 'certification ol cotton and improved classification as' to grade and staple Mr. Bac6ll w* quested earnert co inednstnroi arotcw _fp*ested earnest consideration of the question of trading ?ih futures and speculation resulting therefrom.. He concluded bv urging the formation o< a permanent international organisa< tion of growers and ppinners. Naahvile Warehouse Destroyed by Fire, Nashville, Tenn., Special. ? The. warehouse of Byrd Douglass & Co., grain dealers, was destroyed tor* fire; early Friday night: Ws $100,,000, fully itasijrcd. The elctrie power plants o ftbe-pity and of the Kash* ville Railway & Light Company are' nearby apd both were, for the time, put out of business:' The eity was in da rkiiesft-and street railway suspended at a/ume when th wem geekifcgCwjjCurn from the w?ek was fair whore UrtfSj&M crowd < mm