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FARMERSJRUST. A Speech oo the Subject by Ex< Senator Mctaurin. ITS WORTH REAPING. He Piteeeted Hl« Views la a Way Which Attracted Not a Utile At- tention, and He waa Apolaud- ed Frequently by Hit --V Hearera. We publish below Ex-Stnatx r Me* Laurins speech before the Cotton Farmers CoDventlon in Columbia last week: "Just a few years ago,” he said, “the farmers of Kansas and Nebraska were burning grain to reduce sur plus. as we have beard recently of burning cotton In Georgia and Texas. For the few years past the crops In the west have been the largest on record and yet wheat is today selling at nearly 11 20. the rqulvaler.tof 12 1-2 cent cotton, while oat*, corn, barley, rye and all other foodstuffs are proportionately high. There Is a striking analogy between wheat and cotton; they are the two great agri cultural export crops of the United States; more and m>ire, the civilised world Is looking to our country for “Thdooal trust* the meat trust, all fix the price of their products and they keep them until they get that price. You may starve, you may fmxa, you may go naked, but you cotton. must pay their prloe or g > without. “All that the New Orleans means ip that we, the producers of the material that clothes the world, Ibtend now and henceforth and for* ever to have a voice In fixing the p roducta of cur ia' food and clothing. “It is interesting and instructive In this crisis to find out why It is that the wheat farmer has been able for the past year to hold prices so high above the European parity. I haven't made the comparison In some tlm\ but not long ayo I did and while th# European farmers were getting about 80 cents, tbe American farmer was receiving about 11 per bushel. Right across tbe border lu Canada, wheat was selling for much less than It was In Michigan. Tne wheat farmers know that sooner or later Europeon supplies will be exhausted and they must draw on tbe United States. Making due allowance fur war, which always mikes provisions higher would not anewer the question, for that would mean that European prices should bj higher than in the United States. “A shortage in the American crop of 75,000,000 bushels from last year is not sufficient explanation. The great competitor of cotton is wool, and trade Ivurnala speak of the almost complete failure of the wool m p of Australia, and it reems to me that under the ordinary law of supply and demand this should be a factor In fixing the Intrinsic value of oo.tcn. but we fall to see tbe effect. “Nature has given tbe ootton plan ter a great advantage uver the wheat grower. While tbe tviuth enjoys an almost complete mt nopoly In the pro duction of ootton, wheat Is produced all over the w rid; from the Arctic to lower temperate zones. “There is but one answer to the problem, the wheat farmer is organ ised and has learned the leasun of how to manage his affairs on the buslqess principles that govern the other in duotriewof tne world. “A few years ago they were singing him to sleep with that same old song 'overproduction, 1 coined by selfish greed to enable the privileged few to rob the many. He was pointed, as you are, to the laws of supply and de mand—another law of God that has been prostituted and mxde to turn the products of honest labor Into the oof fen of those 'who toll not, neither do they spin. ’ “The wheat farmers of the west re piled to these doctrinaires. ‘Away with your devil’s gospel of greed: we do not bel eve it. Every grain of our wheat Is c >nsumed each year, and yet we hear of famine In Ireland, India, England and Russia; the wail of tbe hungry poor of New York, London and Paris reaches our ears. There are bread riots elsewhere, while we burn corn and feed wheat to cattle. Your economic theory Is ail a lie, ’ for you tell these millions that they starve because there la no bread, while you tell us that we starve because of its very abundance.’ That is just what li being told the ootton farmer today As Tom Watson said at New Orleans 'If we make no crop, It Is ruin: If .w< make a crop, it is ruin, too.’ It Is the devil, fellow citizens, not God, who promulgated the creed, ‘You can and you can’t, you will and you won't you are damned if you do and you are damned if you don’t.’ “What did the wheat farmers do? They first organ’zed. They built warehouses all over the west. When the farmers can store their wheat they* get a certificate for this, and they cm go to any bank and .draw their money on it whenever needed He needn’t force his wheat on the market until the price Is an induce ment. The trade J urnals told us a year and a half ago that tbe farmers had passed the word around that they wanted and Intended to have 11 per bushel for their wheat, and In spite of the combined efforts of (he specu lators more than a year ago wheat went to II a bushel. For s few weeks they forced tbe price under 90 C3nts. but the farmers simply refused to sell and today ita equivalent in ootton would be 12 1-2 oents a pound. Even In the far eff Argentine they have taken the cue, and fixed upon 80 oents as the price they demand for wheat, and at every shipping point there is e warehouse where wheat is stored until It brings the price. Fellow citizens, ootton Is the only product In the world where the prloe Is fixed entirely by the purchaser, and the men who makes the article has no voice In It. Too haul a load of ootton Into town, S u go to a buyer; he saya, ‘Walt till verpool oomes In.' In a few min utes It la chalked up on the black board, and you are told what ytu must take. Gentlemen, this coat I have oo Hayed on some meiohant’s shelf until 1 paid his prloe for It. He • what be would take and I bad to pay hie prloe or go wlib- price of the (Cheers ) To talk about tbe law of supply and dem:uid to the. planter Is under pretent conditions an insult to bis Intelligence. Only a year ago ootton that had beln sold for con sumption and exported to Europe was borrowed, reimported Into this coun try and dumped on the market, used again and again, until Sully was broken and prices given a blow from which they have never recovered. “The laws of supply apd demand! What chance have you to take advan tage of the laws of supply and demand when tbe government Jteelf discrimi nates against your product, when tbe wheat farmer is given 25 oents s bushel protection against wheat from Canada and the Argentine and cotton can be brought here free of duty and used to depress the prloe of your pro duot? Cotton la the only gteatstaple product not protected. Wheat gets 26, corn 16, barley, oats, rye and eoerything else (have t trown around It tbe fostering care of the govern ment, while cotton la left to shift for itself, and It Is our fault. If w* had bad a duty of 6 oents a pound on cot ton tnoporta, Sully, Brown and Hayne could have held the market un'll It woujd have declined materially under tbe Influence of a large crop and this crop would have averaged you 10 oen'. a pound. * “Tbe laws of supply and demand, Indeed! How much good are they to you whin the agricultural depart ment spends II 000.000 a year ccllcct ing accurate statistic* on acreage and conditions and before you ever get a chance to market a bale the whole Consuming world knows to almost a pound what you will make. What -f-fsbanoe did you ha the December report; in a few hours cotton was below tbe coat of produc tion. “Wherever they can the benefit of tbe laws of supply and demand., are absolutely denied the ootton farmer, while otheisglory lu their beneflosnoe. Fellow cit zens, the New. Orleans con vention calls upon you to organfza for self preservation. I have beard the "neer, ‘Oh you can’t get the farmers I say f urther, fellow oltlaens, that plan foondltlooi which font a whole people to attemp , the organization of a trust, which, like every other trust, has for Its object the overturning of the na tural lav of supply end demand, brands as someth ng false and ibur I reply the farmers of the west are organized; they control the situation, and tl r s ut^ern cotton planter, In patrKtiain, Intelligence, patient en durance, self control and courage, is the peer of any man, anywhere In this wide world. (Cheers.) “Will you seize tb< opportunity or will you trample undirfootthe advan tages given you by Cod and nature? Let us b gin, let us orgaoiz) for the monopoly given us hy God io the pro duction of raw cotton; it is the first step toward that time when within our borders we shall spin all tbe cot ton made and exporting nothing but the finished products make tbe scu h rich beyond our wildest dreams. There is a fierce battle going on tor oommeicial supremacy. This will not stop with the addition of or two to the price of ootton; there are tasues of greater moment, it II a fight for t^ic supremacy of the south in tire great industrial war now being waged in this world. Tbe watchfires are lighted on the hilltoprAnd tbe bugle has sounded tbe call to arms; the tramp of the legions may be beard from the Cape Fear to the Rio Grand. “The convention at New Orleans threw d iwn the gauge of battle and the captains of the t< ns and hundreds are ‘mustering Isra-Ts hosts “I warn you that the fight will be long, hard and bitter; If we fall it means the world’s contempt for a people who could not use God given opportunities. If we succeed, O, men, and the sons of men, who followed tbe starry crossover the hills of Vir ginia and amid the swamps of the Mississippi, who rejoiced With Jack- son at Bull Run and wept with Lee at Appomattox, It means, O, L >rd God of bathes, that thou hast reversed thy verdict at Gettysburg and Appomat tox, It means victory, victory for the south without tbe shedding of a wi dow’s tear or the loss of a single drop of human blood." Fellow citizens, the issue wa* made at New Orleans, it is Dixie avenue against Wall street! The man who falters and hesitates Is tbe man who would make a few paltry dollam, by increasing his acreage at the expense of his patriotic neighbor, ls a-c Ward and a traitor to bis own section and people. (Cheers.) “The New Orleans • convention found Itself confronted by two pro positions. “First, to take care of the piesent surplus of 2,000,000 bales. Seoond, to curtail tbe acreage of the current year. “Third, to find new markets by 1907, so as to put our Industry on a stable basis and prevent a recurrence of preseot conditions. \ For th«> 2,000,000 bales of ootton a pool has been formed with ample capital to back it If trusts are to be the order of the day, we will cease to be the only victim, and we will have cotton trust, too; not s seciet, dark lantern arrangement but a trust formed for self protection, in broad open day, by the representatives of 25,000,000 people In 20 States of this union, producing the crop upon which the whole world relies for clothing material. ' This is the most gigantic combi nation ever dreamed of. Wb£t the result will be no man can tell > “One thing is sure, if you carry it out like every other trust it will be effective. Refuse to sell your ootton, but instead deposit it In a warehouse and draw your money at tbe banking agencies established by tbe ootton trust, and In addition reduce your acreage; It means that the men who form this pool will have the consumers and bear speculators at their mercy, and you can dictate prices for tbe naxt crop. Whether the power would be abused or not Is another question; but I do say, tbat it yutkea you for tbe time the complete masters of the ootton world, and that you will have to be consulted "about the price of your product. No one will tell y ou what be *111 give, but will anxiously Inquire what you will taka for your wrong tbe politkal and industrial conditions under which its o ours. It presents a problem that or es oat for solution along reasonable, natural linea The statesman who ( enieelt Is a fraud, tbe political economist who shlrxs it is s hypocrite, and the Christian who passes It by Is a traitor to his God and country. As to whether such a gigantic trust, with ite million* of members,Gcan succeed, and Its effect on public Interests, constitute prob lems too deep for me. There U no other solution offered for the Imme diate situation, and It Is your duty and my duty to aland by tbe New Or leans convention, and orginiz? every county and precinct in the State. Tex as and other States are thoroughly or ganized, and South Carolina will be there when tbe long roll sounda, or prove false to all of her traditions. 1 thought and said at tbe convention that tbe permanent solution of the cotton problem would cone from find ing wider markets for cotton goods. No intelligent and concerted action has ever been made on large scale in this direction. “Among tbe 400,000,000 people of China we can tilnd a ready market at reasonable prices for all the surplus ootton the world can produce. It has been figured out tbat the world can use 42,600^000 bales of ootton. “There is another thing tbat is being done on s constantly Increasing scale, ihe Chinese are importing yarns from this country and weaving It into cloth on their hand looms, like thoie our great grandmothers used back In slavery days. What a field there Is here among these people, rich with tbe stored up wealth of oenturles stunted thing, with almost no staple; they can raise too many other crops of greater value for them to make ootton. Sell them bur cotton goods direct and bring back their pamphor, hemp, spices sad teas. I derived most of my mfbrmatlon ah. ut China from Minister Wu, and he said the south would find its salvation In the China markets, and he should certain ly know. to unite, the thing will fail.* To these - Mr . McLaurtn dftled attention to the fact that while tbe merchant fixes the price on his wares and refuses to sell until he gets a prloe satisfactory, the cotton farmer must take wliat- ever price Is offered. He Is the only class in the world offering a commodi ty for sal(! who has absolutely nothing to do wnh the fixing of the price of that oom nodlty. In 1898 when Here was a surplus crop, one firm opened a new market in China and disposed of $20,000,0)0 worth of manufactured goods. He had been a member of Abe committee to visit the president and to appea to degress. He had teen the president Monday and had receiv ed assurance that Mr. Roossvelt wculd give tbe weight of hia ofifioe^o pro. motitrg the interests of the greatest Industry In the world. He declared a cent that the representatives at Washing ton get far away from their people sometimes until the people spank them and teach them better manners. This being taken 'as a philosophical and good natured acknowledgment of his own'polliical err rs, was greeted with laughter and apt lause. For the rea son that the representatives get so far away, he arguec they should be ad- monished by just such an organ ration as this. In concluding Vfr. McLaurin spoke as follows in re.eeenoe to tariff re vision: • - “Why should the wheat farmer use free twine to wrap his protected wheat, while the ootton farmer uses protected bagging to wrap his free otton?'’ He showed how.the south is discriminated againsHa the tariff. Eistern monopolists have schemed cunningly to plunder the south. Nine ty per cent, of the imports which are admitted to competition In this ooun try are competing with products of the south. “Let us demand that in the oom COTTON PICKER. A StteoMsfol Mac blue Brought to At tention of Govoramont. The Apparatus Waa .ItoatffOKiery. Tested Near Alabama. Tbe Tests Fully Described. A dlspatc i from Washington says reports reaching the department of ag riculture Indicate that a cotton pick ing machine which will really pick ootton has been invented and has stood a practical test;- The patent office is filled with designs of ootton picking machines that have been filed In the past, hot no entirely satUfootery re sults have ever been attained. Last year an apparatus designed bv C. A. Lowry, who Invented the round bale ginning machine, bras brought to tbe attention of the bureau of plant In dustry of the department of agricul ture, and the chief of chat office, Pro fessor R. T."Calloway, arranged to have the Operations of the derice In spected by J. F. Duggar, director of the Alabuna experiment station, and O. H. Billingsley, an agent of the de partment. . The teste were made near Montgomery. Mr. Hillingsley'a report has reached Professor Calloway and has been found to contain many points of interact. It Is as follows: “Briefly stated, tbe machine con sists of a frame on four wheels, two of which are flanged traction or drive wheels; a four horsepower gasoline engine which j&ives the sup porting wheels by means of spiocket ohalu connections, tl us carrying tbe entire machine forward at a rate which is under tbe control of the operator. The engine also drives the mechaniun which c irries the picking belts. Tbe eesentlal part of the machine is the picking arms. There are eight of these—one for each hand of the four operators, who ride on the machine for tbe purpoee of directing these pick Chins is a little ing arms. Last, there Is an engineer to guide tbe machine and four men or boys (preferably boys) to point th tips of these picking arms at the open bolls as the machine moves past the plant. “Etch picking arm’.may be likened to sfiaall tin trough closed on the sides and bottom and open on the trp This trough is about 2 14 Inch* wide and about tbe same deep. la Ita botton runs an endless belt of. cloth and-rubJ her 2 Inches wide andf thickly studden with metal tacks bent upward, some thing like tbe cards used In making bate of wool and cotton. These tacks do tbe picking, tbe contact of even a few fibers being suffloient to draw the entire contents of an open boll against tbe belt; Which carries tbe seed cotton up 4 f t into a receptac'e. This belt travels at the rate of 360 Let per min ute. Tbe lower end of tbe trough ha* no sides or bottom, tlu* exposing about 3 iocbes of the uuder side of the studded belt, as well as its loser end and upper s de. This permits tbe pick' irg of s boll either from above or from beiow or even makes possible tbe pick log of ootton from the ground. I tried the handling of the arms and ft uad them so light, movable and nicely bal anced as to mike the guiding of that an easy task. “With cotton stems as brittle as those used In testing the machine, a small proportion of bolls break off and both burrs and seed ootton start up the endless relt. Must of these burrs are knocked off and thrown out by a loose small roller and by a series (f wire pins hi the sides of the trough and about half an inch above the out er surface o the tacks or teetb of the picking bell.. An effective brush re moves the seed cotton fr< m the endless belt very tbaroughly. log revision of the tariff our xepresen- the gin. tatives see that tbe south gete her share of all that ts going, that we are recognized a£aQ integral part of this union, ready to share its burdeni and if need be fight Its battles, hut de mantling In return a full share of all tbe benefits of national life. “Let ustergantze but keep our or ganlzatioa out of politics. Let tbe watchword be “measures not men.” I have no confidence In help coming from any political party now In exis tence, until we are strong enough to force It from any party that may hap pen to be In power. A man never gets justice until be Is strong enough to force It with a ‘b'g stick.' , r* “The great questions with which we are confronted bavapno place In theilttle cibih, faction* and caucus es of polltioal parties, for there petty jealousies and 8?(filsh ambition ever outweigh tbp country’s good. “In ocnoluslon, fellow cit'zuis, I give, you this sentiment, God bless South Carolina; if she Is right I am with her: If she Is wrong, ‘bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh, God bleu her still I am with her.’ ” Want* to ^>e Ja*«e. > A dispatch from Washington says Representative Lever filed with the president Wednesday the app’lcatlon of Col. John C. Haskell to ba teoe of tbe Judges of railroad oourt to be created when the railroad rate bill be oome$ law, If it ever does. Tbe appli cation mentions tbat Col. Haskell la a brother-in-law of Wade Hampton and personal friend of Hugh Tbompscn, who was many years s friend of tbe preeident- ~ Don’t Like Them. A mac named Nick Britton, near Aloolu, 1 red on an automobile con taining J udge Benet and Lawyer P. A. WiIooj. He protested against auto-, mobiles traveling the road. E. A. Jenkins of Sumter tbe.drlver of the machine, dismounted and argued and bluffed Britton into allowing the auto mobile and Ha party to paaa without further n olestetlou. Britten will pro- bably be prosecuted. I consider tbe principles on which tbe machine operates correct and practical, (n a few features it is in an experimental stage. The cotton grower will demand tbe following re qulremente of s ootton picker. “1. Thoroughness of work; that is, the picking of a large percentage of the total seed ootton in tbe field, leav Ing little adhering to the plant or cn the ground. “2 A product in p oked seed cot ton, not exfceasivtly trashy or contain ing much trash beyond the possibility of removal of clearing‘machinery at 3 Durability of constiucblon, with such simplicity and lightness as to bring ite ost within reach without much expenserfor Interest on the In- : ' . _ r ‘Hr E tenomtcal Ope ration rnotrre qulring excessive labor or fuel, and no great degree of technical skill on tbe part of the chief aperator. “5. The capacity to plok truck more cooton per day than could be picked by field hand* equal in number to the crew required for tbe machine. The conditions under which the test were made are described by Mr. Billingsley as follows: "Cotton plants: Entirely dead, neM ly all of tqe leaves dropped; picked once before and now only ab3ut three and one half bolls to the plant. Tbe plants were small, about 20 or 22 inch es high, in 4-foot rows, thick in the drill, poorly thinned so there were many plants together In many oases. The variety was Peterkln, which has very small bolls, and, in this case, contained a large percentage of Im mature frosted bolls only partially opened. “Soil: Sandy or sandy loam, qpi,te dry, in which the machine moved easily. In places crab grass was thick ly entangled with the open ootton, but M^is condition did not prevent satis factory work, although Increasing tbe trash. n “To test tbe thor u^hneas of the work, samples were taken of all tbe seed ootton left unpicked or on the ground on s definite number of plants. This was done where the machine had operated, and, fur oofnparaeou, where the usual hand picking had been done L I found by com pari *an that about two to two and ooe-balf as much ootton was left behind by the machine as by the band pickers. I estimate the amount of trash as, perhaps, double that left by a careful picker, but 1 board one man say tbat he bad had bands to get as mush trash as tbe machine. 1 think this trash would all be rem ived by the gin. It la too early to Judge ae to tbe wearing qual- ittes of the machine. Tbe weight of tbe machine, except for th< •wA wheels. It slight. < “Tbs ooetof operation If lummefl op in the stateeBcnt tbat four boys can do the picking and one man can golds the machine. 1 think tbe labor eonld be bad at fit per day, or, at the moat, 12 60 per day. The cost of the gaaoline would be alight. I found that thejnachine moved almost exactly 333 faet per hour, including tbe time lost in turning and removing ootton fr< m the recepteolee. Ae it picks one entire row under the machine and tro half rows ( qual to two entire row* alto gether), in this ease 4 feet wile, the area covered in one hour waa nearly one-fifth of an aote. It la possible for the maobine to be operated faster than it was when 1 Inspected It. Dur ing the test several counts showed that each boy was gathering more than 100 halls per mlnntr, or about 1 pound of seed ootton for each boy per minute, or 60 pounds per bour, or 240 pounds of seed ootton per bour for tbe machire. This is estimating that it would require 100 bolls to make a pound, t ut there are many varieties 70 or 75 bolls of which will give a P'und." c Tbe department of agriculture, .of course, has no Interest In tbe matter, beyond Its general desire to do every thing in Its power to aid the farmers of the country. Five Slen Mala. At Fottsville, Pa., Saturday, five men were killed and thirteen injured In an accident on N i. 2, slope of No, 1 oollery, of the Lvttle operation, by a fall of top rook while a gunboat load ed with eighteen men on their way to work was going down tbe shaft. Three of the killed were fore'lgneflr while the other two were Americans, The bodies were not brought to tEe sur face until noon. Tbe dead: Henry B. Moore. Daniel Degan. - Sylvester Pellook. Peter Mostofskye. 7 George Kutler. Two of tbe lojprrd were removed to the Potteville bo*p!tal and although they are badly crushed abjut tbe body and legs, their Injuries are not thought to be fatal. Toe others were cut ami bruised and suffered from other minor injuries. The trip proceeding the one on which tbe accident occurred the “gun boat” kqpcked Jown some timbers on tbe esst track. - The car containing the men struck the disarranged props »' cfcherefcirom ihS'-top j>f the shaft, causing a fall of rodk." The greater part of the rock fell on the forward end of the car, crushing tbe life out of the five men seated there. Several mm tumped from the “gun boat” when they beard tbe timbers giving away and escaped aim* at oer tain death. Michael Degan, who was but slight^ ly ir j jred, was found lying by the side of his brother, Daniel, wbo was killed. He said that his brother did not die for several minutes after the fall oc ourred and tbat be spnke to him and was answered, while both were weight ed down with tpua of n ck. Tne Wagre ol 81a. A terrible tragedy was enrctel * few days ago in the office of a magi* trate at Jackson vile, Fla. Here is tbe awful story as conveyed by an Asso- dated Press dl-patch: Mrs Joseph H. Freeman lies mortally wound'd, her daughter, Miss May Brown, is dead and City Detective W. B. Cahom is serious y wounded as a resu t of a shooting affray in the court r ton of I. L. Farris, justice of peace, Wednesday morD\rg. Mrs. F.eeman had bronght actio n against, O wen E Loadholotz, charging him with ruin ing her daughter. The partle, of tbe &JSe had gone t > the court roo n pre pared for trouble. According m wit nesses of tbe tragedv, Mrs. Freeman attracted LoaduoldiVs atten 1 ion by calling his name and fired it tim. His reply was prompt and dea dly. He fired five times and every shet took effect Mrs. Freeman was shot four times in the breast and her daughter, who had fired once, was shot in the mouth and instantly killed. Detec tive Gaboon, who was attempting to disarm Loadbolritz, was shot In the back, evidently by one of the women. Loadholdtz was arrested and is in jail. Joseph Brown, brother of the girl who was killed, arrived * n the scene Imme diately after the shootlog and was locked up for a time by order of Jus tice Farris to prevent further trouble, but was soon after released. -;-li ■ ■ . "ii Reward For A Haaeal. _ ^ Notwltbstandlzig the fact that so , . many people have been victimized by troduce your motion td expel!!'* rascals pretending to be representing periodicals for which they take sub scriptions at quite a reduced rate—but always payable in advance—a sharper got in his work here recently and se cured the names of many subscribers to The Saturday Evening Post, pub lished by the Curtis company of Phil adelphia. This Is a standard family and fireside paper, and it requires lit tle solicitation to get subscriptions. One of those victimized here wrote to tbe company, and-Wednesday received ed the following answer: “The man who secured your subscription is an imposter, for whose arrest we have of fered a reward of $25. He has no au thority whatever to act for us, and are dolng-everything In our power to secure hts apprehension. If you can in anyway in tiefutip* c operate with us in securing his conviction we will be glad to turn over to you tbe reward of $25.—The State. (jetting Uaeaav. A dispatch from Charleston says there Iji tome uneasiness among the numerous Republican officeholders in CharlestQOJmlt else where In South Carolina on account of the latest or der of President B osevelt notifying the officeholders that they can not re tain their federal oommi*sions if they occupy political positions. Many of ficeholders are affected, chiefly State Chairman Deaa,. whom many mem bers of his party have been trying to depose for some time. Collectors Ci urn of Charleston, Small of Beau fort and other (ffidals are effected. District Attorney Gapers' positional referee and adviser to the president and members of tbe national commit tee cones in a different class mnd be will not be Involved In the op ration of tbe civil service regnlstions which arc about to be applied in South Gar- ollna. - : I wUl •end free to my man •Imply upon hiawrittea request a copy of mr M-pwe book oa loot manhood, nervous debility. Impotency. stricture, Tarieocei* enlargement of the prostate, blood poiaon, and re- flex diseases resulting from the above, such oo ernp' rlnary disorders, tell fa plain mod i to know. It la . Ill show a Oil wav of euro In your own homo,prlvatelyund without the publicity on* is of a local doctor ordruiftat. I have been practicing this speciality for i k a quarter of a century and have in my vaults the names of hundreds» tiooa of th* akin, rheumatism, urli plies, rectal disease*, etc. It will tell simple Nkofmeo all that yoa want to L . __ entertaining and Instructive and wlu open your eyes. It will show a simple ‘ ~ ‘ty and ex- _ r for more than a quarter of a century and have la my vault* the names of hundreds upon hundreds of men whom I have eured of these disease* after they had written me for the book. In these H years I hove developed o system of cure that Is entirely oe* and original end differs widely from the old methods. With It I am enabled to eure men in halt th* lime, to a simple yet effective way., Write me and I will show you th* wag to get back roar vitality and strength, your manhood and health, no matter how old or worn you are. and so thoroughly that you will stay cured forever. I f you will mention how yoa are affected 1 will enclose besIdestheM-pogebookaSelf Examinatloo Blank on your disease so that I can make a study of your case and report to you free of charye. I have eight omer medico* books that I willSeod to men free on receipt of name and address, in a plain unmarked eavekMiW Write me today sure. Wt. J. 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O. ugan Habit C. Confidential oorrespono A New Yotk Cong re earn an Dares the • MUSIC. " House to (Expel Him. Before a big vote was taken in the house on the shipbuilding bill Wed nesday. Mr. Baker of New York, creat ed a sensation by effering the follow ing resolution. “That while this house views-with hqrror the bellberate destruction of human life, at all times and under all circumstances, yet it declares as rep rehensible as was tbe murder of Grand Duke Sergius it was not m jre wanton than the massacre perpetnt- j ed by tbe Rut-sian government on Jan uary 22, wben thousands of unarmed men, women and children were butoh- tar-*- ■ r L When yoj make up your mind that I om .* is not home without a Piano or an Organ, come here, or write us, and we will sell j >u the right sort of an instrument. Kosy terms. an<1 rail value. Addr-iM. MALONE’S MUSIC HOUSE, C0LUMBD. S. C. PIANOS AND ORGANS. Mtafl W Wf f TVS. HOI LEYMAN, M.D., THE SPECIALIST. ered in eoknflobd: and that It regards 1 Cujee all diseases of men. Lie the murder of those helpless, unof ; ®Fnhood, syptilis (blood polen), fending men, women and children as F°norh tea, gleet, stricture, varldcaela, one of the most dastardly crlmes ever j bydrucole and ail private diseases of perpetrated;' tbat, in refuting to ex-' press the horror of the people of this country at that fearful t me, asserting tbat both tbe American gov ernment and the people view the kill ing of Grqnd Duke Sergiu i with ah' horrence, tbe president has not and “Ours: i-a. m. to 7-p. m. Sunday's does not voice tbe real sentiment of the people of the United States men. Catarrh in all forms cured quickly. Pile* cured without opera- while 1 t * nn ur detention from business. .Under guarantee. Rooms 421 and .422 Leonard building, Augusta, Ga. Write for home treatment. " Office boars: 9 a. m. to 9 a. m. to 2 p. m. In ah excited manner Mr Baker asserted tbat he bad been told that if be intreduoed tbe resolution, a mo tion would be m .de to expel him from the house. Rushing down the aisle and waving the resolution in his band, he deposited it in a box pro vided for such measures, and defied any one to make a motion to expel him. ' Make It no«!" he shouted. “Ex pel! expel! expel! - I tell you to lu- TftBXOF 8IX T Y YlAJLfl ... tv ' In Prison M*i >r Carrington of ( cor gi a for Stealing. Previous to this Mr. Baker had pro voked considerable dissention by con demning the president’s action in sending a message of condolence to Emperor Niobola*. « A Mi-siing Bridegroom. A dispatch from Florence to The State says last Thursday morning a man named Dave Ballenberger came there from Rrsemary, Georgetown county, and registered with his wife at Berry’s hotel. Ballenberger bought from Mrs. Boucheit the next day $44 w r >b (f c'othing and gave in payment a check on the Georgetown bank. Mrs. Boucheit found out tbat Mr. Ballen berger had no money in the George town bank, and he was made Ao re turn the goods, and Mr. Berry, bear ing of this asked them to leave their boarding place. Billenberger has not been heard of since. His wife was left Major Frank Dc L. Carrington, who has been given the remtrkable sen tence of sixty years and five days by a co rt l.i Manila, Is a native of (tor- gia, and was appointed to the mil tary acxdemy from Georgia on the L t September, 1874. He has si rved throughout bis service as an efflo r In the First infantry, with tbe exoe] tion of the period of the Spanish war, * /hen he was lieutenant colonel of the 8th California Infantry. He was assigned for duty In com mand of the battalion of Filipino sooute at the St. Louis exposition. After reaching St. Louis charges were filed against him, and he waareoelved from duty there and ordered back to the Pnilippinea for trial. Major Car rington was entrusted with certain funds to be expended In thta coirectl a of certain positions of the Philippine exhibit. While on s transport en route to this country w f th his scouts an auditor discovered tbe alleged short age. As stated in the dlspxtchee. Major Carringtou made praotloally no defense, bis attorneys contenting themselves with ratsing-the question of Jurisdiction and other technical polote, and tbe result was his oonviotlou oa to Georgetown, her home. The son df the misting man was there Thurs day looking for him, but so far has heard nothing of him. Ballenberger Is said to be a very go.d man by thru# who know him, and has lived nsqr Georgetown for a number of yean. He had been married married there and "was on his bridal trip .when he mm ii itaum —— ^ Allied Hinaoelf. Ool. Charlefe f. Arnal, one of the beet known insurance meo In the south and distinguished citizen of Atlanta, committed suicide Thuis- day at his residence by shooting. No reason is known for the act. He rep resents a Hartford, Conn., company. The remains will be sent to Staun ton, Va. Capt Arnal’s former borne; for InMnooDt. there In the city at tbe mercy of those who would help her. The city 0Qpppi,l’j( attention being called to the matter, — gave her money tp pay her way back ® 7e dl ” eren t counts, for each of which he wa* sentenced to twelve years and one day. The trial was not by c jnrt martial, but was under tbe civil law of tbe Is lands, which Is built on the old Spanish law. Tne heavy sentence Is said by t fficlsis of the insular bureau to be in keeping with tbe policy of the Island courts to be particularly hard upon Americans convicted of crime, for moral effect upon the Filipinos. As Major Carrington Is now 60 years old, the chances for his living opt a sen- tenee of sixty years cannot be said to be particularly good, even in tbe sal ubrious surroundings in which Billbid prison is situated. - A four Bio ootton crop this year means cents ootton next Fall Wbo wants to raise cotton to sell at that print Dent oil speak at o»wt.