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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE Pubii?b?d Kv<wy Vridmy ' \ g x~ w.i. McDowell. NII.H A M?IX)W?U. PukUAtn C" .'. -?-?r. . . . ssac 33.SK? gas. . , (i m<m4 ilt? Mil ??H?r il (Im Pwlolliu ?l C??4' a, S???k C?r?4iM. I loil N. ilrottd HI. ? 'IMioim* Viti ? " * < rti.Hl.il, K. (ht. I J. lull. pipjHPPpVjniH fP.. ? - VilKi till* Im'HC IM'WhimjHT iu your ?*?>miiiuiiit >? ? autJ uj?e it fur all you itro wortli to help I Mil lil up your ItiiNiui'lt. Thru >4u oilier m If you <i?u. afford lo. t )H< tlitMii all If you ran ? hut uii' I lie Ih sI one firnrt. chief Justice Ira H. Jones Vvuh a passenger on the northbound Southern train on Wednesday. The Judge wan returning from a visit to his mother who restd"** in New berry county. ! : , ' - ? Remember to trade with the homo merchants not only this full hut all the time. 1 ho home mer chants have a splendidly assorted line of goods and uvhu (he moat fastidious person l as no excuse for going out of town o do their shop ping. Tho celebruted McNutuara ease at Lob Angelas ha*t begun. The de fendants are chargi-d with thu ?* plosion which wrecked The Times In that city and caused the death (f thirteen or more , printers. It promises to be one of the longest, pnd hardest fought legal battles 111 the hlHtory of the nation with oapl tal on one aide ami labor unions on the other. -r- A_proa<?hf?r once to.?K le?vtf of hl8 congregation in t! ?? following tnanner.: -'Hrotheis i >a'. s>t>lers,- I I come to tell you good ?ye. I don't think you love me. b'--ituse you hav not paid my salary. Your donations are moldy fruit and wormy apple**; arid the Scripture sayeth, 'By their fruits ye shall know theift.' Mreth-i ren, I am going away to a letter; place to be chaplain of a penlterf- ! tlary. My text this viornlng i?. 'I ko to prepare a pi for you.' and may the Lord ha e mercy on j your souls, good-hyp." The Indies of the Wade Hampton Chapter U. D. C., of Columbia, lire very anxlou* to ?ecure some auth entic Information on Ked Shirt hU to ry. They have re<jue*ted the pre** of the Btate to aid them in the undertaking. Thi* in an im portant matter and all who are pofc*eti?ed of auy important infor mation on the *ubject are urged to Heou it to Mra. H. W. ItlchardaOD, ii-Pti Mai n well Htreet, Columbia, 8. C. Do thl* for the sake of oofrect hltfory. ?ftx-Governor Jos. M. Hrown, of Georgia, announce* himaelf a can didate to Hucceed 'Hoke Hmith an Governor, It wll) be remembered that Wmltb wan elected Udvernor in -1906' and w?? beaten for re-elec tion by iirowu In 1908, whereupon Smith came back and defeated thrown when Drown himself, *tood for re-elation in 191V. Again in augurated governor a few mouths ago, jjmJth wa* shortly,, after eject ed United State* Senator, iibces*lta ting hi* retirement from the gover nor's office. Now, .therefore, an election to fill the unexpired term I* to be 'held and "Mttle Joe," a* t h .? ex - governor in called, hope* | that' Georgia'* political see-saw will Kvork again and restore him to hi* fc. mer , position, The other candi date* are J. i'ope Brown, a promi nent planter and political leader, j and Judgo it. il. Russell, I " ' The war between Italy and Turk ey ,ippi?,.-i to be a kind of one nided game up to this time. Italy to 1 1 1 lit I; she hat* caught the Turk napping, and believe* she can run < km; him and rob him of hi* p a, sessions like Russia ha* done with - China, hut before the end t M iiu; may realize 10 lier sor-j row that, she has awakened a hor net. i( Italy let the negroes whip her out In Aby*ynnia what will she think when sho tackles as fierce and brave a soldier as can be found anywhere in the world. The Turk Is a fighter that, n>an for man, no Soldier would he anxious to meet, and the lazy Italian will find this : out before the end comes. We have | no love for the Turk, and we would i ltko to see Turkey wiped off of j the map and the country partition- j ed among the Christian nations of Kurope. They are a savage and barbarous people, and are a con stant menace to the peace of Eu rope. FIXING COTTOft I'KK'KH. . 'Art -A. ? t:-. * V. .- ? trr~ \ rii<; H?1#Uod of The Froducor To The When the demand exceed* the buppiy, buyer* compete uud a firm market i i'mu it ? ; wbJn the supply ex ceed# i he demand, then client com pete and cause a weak market. For the laat two yea re the de maud, speaking gonerally, wai suf ficleut to take up the offerings of cottofc, aod the heary marketing *vu*on paused with a? advancing tendency. Many who expected a deoiip? under pressure of the Hell ing found thomselven obliged to pay n ore fot waiting. In Jormer year* the tendency was n.ore of ton downward during the fall. Observer* of market condi tion* Haw the evidences of compet itlvo Belling. Thin year again offers a Htrlklng cue. Various circum stance* have conspired to more or I'.'fcH restrict the demand, but noth ing to correspondingly reduce the ofi'erlngH. Now. we have never minced mat : torn lu condemning the tactics of j I arket wreckers. But it 1b rldlc ! uIoub for the farmer spokesman I and politicians, the latter eager to i flatter the farmer vote as election .time approaches, to tell the farm ! era that the lower price# are being j "fixed" by bear Bplnners and spec i ulators in New York and Ltv?rP?ol 'if the price 1b now being "fixed" t by anybody it 1b by the people who in their anxiety to Hell quickly are willing to Bell a little lower than the other man. The proceaB by which this if done Ih quite simple. Suppose the price in a leading; market, say Sa vannah, for instance, stands at 12 cents, business going on at that figure. Hut offerings are rather more than enough to satisfy the demand, and interior holders, anx ious to Bell, offer to furnish the cotton, Hay 1-8 cent lower. When Savannah holders find the interior is selling at 11 7-8 cents, then, of course, they must meet the decline or do no business. So they, too, concede the 1-8 cent, and then the interior man, in a hurry to sell, has to offer at 11 3-4 cents. And so on, eighth by eigth, 1-16 by 1-16, the price is crumbled off through the medium of competitive Belling nuction, goods bought from the lowest seller. This, in effect, is what has been done time and again Ui (he past; it in what is be fog doue thin season. Uwmak?r? and other* undertak ing to put a stop to thin sort of thing will find Home difficulty iu doing anything efficacious, except to make vote* by plausible talk. They would have to paaa two uuw laws *nd, harder still, enforce them. One would be to require and com-i pel spinners to buy for Immediate I and future need* whenever, the sellers thought they should buy, re gard lu*e of the policy or preference of the spluner, And the other would be equally preposterous.' It would be to prohibit any intend ing seller from accepting a lower price for bis cotton than the price aeked by some oue else. In times like these, great sup port Is frequently given the mar ket by speculation. This might take the form of advance buying by spinners, willing to tttock up for future need* at prevailing prices, or It might take the form of buying futures by specu.latpn. Either form of buying Increases the demand, and the market effect is substantially the same. A variety of influences militate against specultlaon this season.! Among these may be mentioned so cial and political unrest lu Eu rope and trade peasimislsm in Am erica, aggravated by politics; also the belief held by many that the crop will prove in etfceBs of re quirements, to which much color ha been Imparted by the great early pressure of cottton due to rapid op ening. Finally, forceful speculation has been paralysed by consequences arising from government prosecu tions of bull speculators. No mat- j ter how urgent the situation, Uiere is a feeling that great danger at tends efforts to sustain prices. The existing indictments against bull leaders have a far - reaching in fluence as deterrents to legitimate speculation. ? v '?? ?' ? * ? Thus we see the market depriv ed of valuable support at the time when such is most needed. Lack ing effective support, it is clear that prices can only decline as long aB holders are so eager to sell that they will continue to strive to un dersell eaph other. ? Savannah Cot ton Record. Mr. S. B. Hall carried his little 9-year-old daughter to Columbia on Tuesday last to have an operation performed on her throat. Too Much Credit. Pay aa you go, and if you can't pay don't go. That lit a good rule that needs to , be 1 11 ?t tiled anew into the pre vent generation. There haw been a time J.n this Country when every uian worthy of the name, regarded hits credit aw his moat priceless poaaesslon, and *the thing is true now, except that (here are not ao many men who are worthy of the name. There wan a time when the dead beat apeediiy became an object of public oontempt; but that ia not true now. It ia not uncommon now a-daya to hear thoughtless, churac terleaa deadbeata, actually boasting of {he aucceaa they have had in rob bing people. Neither the burglar, the yeggrnan, nor the highwayman la u? dauger ouh to the peace and good order of ftocjety au ia the dell)>erato dead beat-- the fellow who will take h.is neighbors money or gooda on pre tence of an obligation to pay back wh?n he has no idea of living, up to tuch obligation. lluti it 1h a fact, however humilia ting the fact may be; but fact nev. tertheleaa, that almost every commu nity In thla country la filled with people who have no other idea of getting along In the world than aa leeches on the body politic, than an "old men of the sea" on shoul ders of honeat, lnduatrlous produc ers. However, there la no good ground for complaint along these lines, for other things, especially intelligence, belQg equal, the confidence man is but little more blamable than the man who will allow himself to be swindled. WJhlle It would never do to ar gue that credit should be abolished, fthere ia no question of..JJio fact that credit ahouid be restricted ?to, tb,oae who are entitled to it, and when a business man extends cred it , to a doubtful crditor, if there f>e no other ulterior motive;' it is not unfair to suggest that h?~ ia probably moved by greed, and ? -'if so he is deserving of no sympikthy when he loses. - There are many poor, honest and struggling men who are entitled to ?dredit, and we are glad to believe that all such are generally able to find all the accomodation to wfiTffeh' they are entitled. It is a fact that credit generally Zemp's Drays When you want your Trunks ?, hauled or any other drayage done, Tele phone 37. Prompt and safe delivery guaranteed. J. B. Zemp In thin country Ib too cheap, and where credit is too cheap deadbeata naturally grow more and ,more nu merous. If business people generally *ould be more careful about the extension of credit, ' )lmiting that favpr only to those who are enti tled to it, then thOro would be few er deadbeats, and the burdens of honest producers would be consider ably lessened.? Yorkvillo Enquirer. Will Sue For Six Millions. Jacksonville, Fla., Oct. 7. ? Suit 'for jthe, recovery of $6,006,000 dam ages was filed in the United Statoa eOyrt hej-e against the Seaboard Air Tilhe" , jftallway, the Knickerbocker Trust., (fi'ouip'any of New York^ Chas, -l|.. Kqop, Franeis Henderson, R. V. ^tthews, C. W. Lucaas and Frank v CL, 0'6rion, o fXew York and H. Ilelruan Duval, of New Jersey, the Plaintiff in the suit being the Flor ida Railway Company, of which Frank Drew of this city is presi dent. lUr r Have "Brooks," Camden, 8. C., file you gin saws. Tuesday, October 17th, at the Camden Opera House ENGAGEMENT EXTRAORDINARY POSITIVELY GUARANTEED ATTRACTION LATIMORE-LEIGH CO. Presents BERT LEIGH in Horold McGrath's Delightful Comedy With same excellence of production and Brilliance of cast that characterised its sensational engagements of two year* at the Madison Square Theatre, New York and su months at the Grand Opera House of Chicago. You hare read the boolc, now see the play. Seats on sale at P. Leslie Zemp's Drug Store, Price 50c, 75c, $1 and $1 5( MOST IMPORTANT THEATRICAL EVENT OF THE SEASON-GREATEST SUCCESS IN YEARS yWSSmOE^- t*' *? *