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i . . X SPIRITUAL SIDE Of WHHmi JwmMit Biym ** Snd Ay Mm, SPEAKS ON MISSIONS i • ('harlottc C’hurrh Ahcr '.His Lertare at the Auditorium—Hla Olwerratioiui la the Emit—Com- ««r purrs diristiaaity With Other Re union, Showing the Strength of Our Faith. , The Charlotte News says a strange sight was the marching into the au ditorium ojf the Second Preshpterian church Tuesday night of 800 or 900 men at the hour of 11 o’clock. It was in order to hear Mr. Bryan speak on ‘'Missions,” following his brilliant address at the auditorium. It was almost 11 when Mr. Bryan concluded at the auditorium, having spoken for about two hours there, and yet these 900 men, many of them from out of town, filed in, unwear ied and still anxious to hear the great commoner from the religious side. The address was under the auspices of the laymen’s missionary move ment. ‘ His addresa waa different from anything'ever heard from him be fore. It gave a glimpse into the spir itual side of this eminent citizen of the republic, and revealed him as a follower of the Christ who redeem ed the world. After a warm tribute to his friend. Dr. Hardin, whose fa ther and whose wife’s father were his great friends, he began. "The older I grow,” he said in the course of his address, "the more I am convinced of the need of men of the realization of the conscious pres ence of personal God to whom we are personally responsible for all we do.” This was a sentiment which re minded his hearers of the testimony quoted by Dr. Poteat in his great lecture the other night of such men . as Gladstone, Josh Fiske, Sir Henry Lodge, Browninor and Tennyson, as to the truth of Christiantity. Mr. Bryan was introduced oy mr. Hardin in a brief word, in which he raid: "If we have listened with great interest to Mr. Bryan in his magnifi cent address in the auditorium on a political mrbjeet, with how great ih- terest must we hear him when he speaks on the greatest of all sub- Mr. Brvan said that in the limited time he had at such a late hour he could only approach his subject under one phase and that would be the result in favor of Christianity after a comparison of it with the other religions of the world. -I became a member of the church,” he said, "when I was only 14 years of age. I joined so early that - I knew little of creeds. I confess It without shame. I have been so busy since that I have not had time to look up the matter. But I got a grip on the fundamentals of the Christian religion and I hold it yet, I believe. stist and my . father was a Baptu mother a Methodist at the < born, though she afterwards went to the Baptist church with my father. I joined the "Cumberland Presbyterian church and later took my member ship to the regular Presbyterian ehurch. My wife is a Methodist and ’though our membership is in the Presbyterian churcfiTl am now go ing with her to the Methodist church to sort of even up. — "While I say I am still in the Pres byterian church I have been a little troubled about one doctrine of that church—the doctrine of election, (Laughter.) But I accept the moral in, the illustration your own great MAN EATERS. Awfnl Talts of Cannibalism In .Northoattorn Canada. Editor of Fort Francis Times Brings Back Terrible Story After Making Trip of Ezploratlon. A special* dispatch to The Chicago Record Herald from Winnipeg, Mani toba, says: Tales of cannlballsihh and famine among natlvea of northeastern Can ada, between the eaatern shore of Tames Bay and Lamrador, are brought back by J. A. Osborne, edi tor of the Fort Francis Times, who has just completed a trip of ezplora tlon in that country. While at Moose factory, the ex plorer met a young man who fled thither In terror of his uncle, who he said had killed and eaten eight hum an beings. There, too, he saw K woman who last 'winter killed and ate her two children, so great was the famine. This lack of food primarily was brough about by the fact that the woods seemed almost entrely Without the usual -nurabef of deer and rab bits, upon which the natives ordinar ily subsist. • As these occurrences did not seem to cause any atir In that region, Mr. Oborhe come to the conclusion that cannibalism Is practiced openly on many occasions among the Indians tmd half breeds, One village on Main river was wip ed off the map because' of the great snow fall last winter. Having no pro visions stored up, and with streams covered solid with Ice, the Indians starved to death with the exception of a party of young men and women, who decided to try to make Hudson hay 150 miles down the stream. Af ter a Journey marked by great priva tion, they reached the fort more dead that alive. A relief expedition sent back to the village found nothing but 13 corpses In the rude huts which comprised the village. Osborne says the Indans and Es kimo population In the region Is diminishing rapdly, due partly tp emigration to the coast of Labrador and partly to the prevalence of dis ease and frequent scarcity of food. He says nany of the natives are fall ing prey to tuberculosis. chic power bj , ^ m p? tructmg herds . the bury- the cultivation of self-torture, the ol of garlanded sacred cattle, ing of dead bodies in the river, the naked fakirs at the Elahabad fair, one of whom killed a baby snatched from a mother’s arms as thev march ed along, claiming that the deity had ordered him in a dream to do the murder—all these were touched ubon by Mr. Bryan as showing the need of mission work in India. "I believe we owe it to them,” he saidt "to carry Christianity to thdm. I am not going to quarrel with you about the fate of the heathen in the future—whether they are saved or not -but I do think we should give them the opportunity to get the ben efit of mzT Mr. Bryan went on to show that Confucianism was far inferior to Christianity. Confuscius’ golden . rule—"Do not unto others as you fame I was -would not have others do unto you was negati ve while Christ’s golden citixen, Senator Vance, used tb give, when his old colored slave refused to be floored by an examination on this doctrine but paid: "Boss, I- ain’t - never heered of no one being elect ed ’thouten he was a candidate.’ "I am interested in the funda mentals. I sometimes feel indigna tion over Dr. Osier’s remark that a life should be snulTed out at 69. Os ier must have spent so much time examining bone and muscle that he forgot the spiritual side of life. There is a continual growth in the moral man. The influence of my wife’s father, a Methodist minister. continually grew stronger hi spirit ual power and enthusiasm, upon my children and in my family has been inestimable. I take more interest in Christianity and the influences flow ing from it the older I grow.” Mr. Bryan, after pointing out the devoutness and abstinence from in toxicants, etc., of the Mohamma- dans, yet pointed to their amorous heaven and their degradation of wo men, as showing the inferiority of their religion to Christianity. /‘Their religion rests on force, ours is based on love. Dr. Parkhurst’s il lustration shows the difference. The hammer breaks the ice, but the sun shine melts it The religion of the has reached its limit, but ’s is still spreading. Touching on the tenents of Budd hism, which is a reform Hindoo ism, Mr. Bryan said that an Englishman who had become a mond of Buddha at Rangoon in India told him that he embraced Buddhism because it did- not require him to believe- m any- thing. Buddhism sent delegates to •recent agnostic convention (n Rome. Tue Buddha’aheaven is merq-absorp- tion—as Matthew Arnold put it, ‘ f a dew drop melting into the ocean.” It is incomparable to Christianity, which teaches that man may be born recover from a wrecked life i a new life over again, with tin the future. “A Jap- told me that Buddhism land Christianity i the diff- . MStHMli For instance, a Chinaman will rarely endanger his life to save a drowning man. Confucius’ teaching would not impel him to do so. "Reward evil with justice and good with good,” taught Confucius. How, now.” asked Mr. Bryan, "can a man with hate in his heart toward a fellow man know what justice is? How infinitely below Christ’s ‘For give your enemies/ etc., is this teaching? I believe the doctrine -of forgiveness is the great distinguish ing characteristics of Christianity. / "A man who keeps a book account of his good works never dp enough good to make it worth while to buy a book to put it in. “Confucius’ ideals trere so low that China has never risen under them. She has stood still. ^‘Other religions judged by theit fruits fall infinitely below Christian ity. Except when aided by Chris tianity brought from without, the pagan nations are where they were centuries ago—China where she was 20 centuries ago. But the Christian THE WHITE PLAGUL The ttat« Board of Hutth Will Wan War On It ( By Instruct ing the General Public How Beat to Fight the Bread Dis ease of C'-onstunptkm. The state hoard of health has start ed its campaign of education for better sanitation, with the special end in view of acquainting the peo ple generally of the state as to now to care for tuberculosis cases and prevent the spread of this terrible disease. The campaign was initiated in a practical way Thursday by fate send ing out of a letter to each county medical society in the state request ing that as early as possible one or more public lectures he arranged for on some appropriate subiect, such as the suppression of tuberculosis, oid fever, smallpox and other ’ectious diseases. Already the Sumter and Charles ton county societies are doing excel lent work of this nature and it it felt that the other counties of the state will readily fall into line. Members of the state board are es- pecially anxious to enlist the hearty cooperation of the weekly and daily press of the state in disseminating the information given at these coun ty society lectures. The members of the board think there will not he much difficulty in securing this ’as sistance from the press, as it is rec ognized that the newspaper people are as anxious to inform the people along such important lines as the doctors are to have them informed. The. letter to the county societies is a particularly strong one. "To the County Medical Society: "At a meeting of the executive committee of the state board of health it was resolved to urge upon the county societies of the state the importance of uniting in an effort to extend sanitary knowledge among our people. That we have so often failed to secure the enactment of proper sanitary laws is largely due tosanitary ignorance. But sanitary instruction is more important than sanitary legislation, for the prejud ice that is always associated with ig norance may render a good law of JinjtwambntbaJThe no effect as is shown by the difficul ty the board is now experiencing in endeavoring to enforce the present compulsory vacination law. “The extensive prevalence of tu berculosis and typhoid fever is in large measure due to sanitary ignor ance. And again, sanitary ignorance is often responsible for the spread of certain of the transmissable disease of childhood, as well a? for the de fective development of many school children. "In order to remove as far as prac ticable this great obstacle to eani tary progress, the state board of health earnestly requests each coun ty society to arrange more public lectures upon appropriate subjects, such as the suppression of tubercu losis, typhoid fever, smallpox and other infectious diseases; school hy giene, etc. "The example has beeff set already by one or two county societies, and j Mf 6 - it is earnestly hoped that all will join DIED IN POVERTY After Majiti a Fortunt Oat of His Invoatioiis. TO DEATH Invented the Hpnrk Arrester Now Used on All LocomotlVes In Amer ica and Europe. David Redfield Proctor, 81 years old, a cousin of United States Sena tor Redfield Proctor of Vermont, was found dead Thursday in a cheap lodging house at 148 South Clark street Chicago. He had been in straightened cir cumstances for several years, al though he made a fyrtune from the sale of royal ties on an invention which he patented in the early '70’s—a de vice which arrested and extinguished the sparks from the funnels of loco motives making the kindling of pra- rie fires by passing trains an impos sibility. In the Columbian exposition he was one of the mostpicturesque fig ures who haunted offices of Director General Davis and Graham with of fers of marvelous plans for enhanc ing the beauty and magnitude of the great fair. He designed the Proctor-Morrison tower which waa intended to- make the Eiffel tower seems a dwarf in comparison. For the rights to this tower he was offered, it is skid $100,- 000, and a company to build it was. started under the presidency of En gineer Morrison the "steel construc tion bridge builder.” But the col lapse of steel Maekay’s "Sectatori- um” theatre caused the business in terests identified with the fair to look with disfavor upon so gigantitlc an enterprise as that proposed by In ventor Proctori The local tower which"wafe to be 1,000 feet higher than the Eiffel tower at Paris, was not built. When Engineer Morrison was plan ning to construct at Memphis, Tenn., the largest steel cantilever bridge in the world he intrusted the work of building a mi nature working model of the structure to "Inventer Proc tor” as he was known. The model was to be only two inches square and was to have 912 joints and almost as many separate pieces. JPrpctor completed it was Several Prominent Yoaag Mea of New York Meet Horrible Fate While oe Pleasure Trip. At New York four young men were drowned and three others, all from good families, were so seriously burn ed In the explosion of a gasoline Isuneh on Raritan Bay early Thurs day that they may die. For three hours after the explosion the three survivors clung to the rsit br less clearly defined experince. In constructed exactly after his model He received $4,000 for Die work. The first "working” gondola launches at the world’s fair was designed by Mr Proctor/ When his lifeless body was fount at the dingy room in which he hat lived and dreamt his dreams of as tounding inventions for the last few years, the narrow little bed was sim ply festooned with tiny hold carved models of flying machines which he had guarded and embodiments o ’ some discoveries that he claimed to have made in the field of aronautics Mr. Proctor was a native of GIou cester. Mass. He is survived by l widow and two daughter*, Mrs. Ar thur Rowe and Mrs. William H. Per kins of Gloucester. The managers of the lodging house told the police that a doctor, who had been called to % view the remains, found that death had been due to ole I etrec- in making an aggressive and tive crusade of education. "Respectfully, Robert Wilson, Jr., "Chairman State Board Hea th, "C. F. Wiluams, “Secretary.” SNAKE ATTACKED MAN. o , » mcuiuuist minister, w centuries ago. But the Christian ^ in l a * er _'_ e -_ ut . ^Il^religion has taken our people and led higher things. 1 never real- il I got to Asia the Influence them to h ized until _ WL of our Christianity in its uplifting power. I saw a chain of colleges for a thousand miles—they were built by western Christianity-~and their influence was great. "We should never care to boast that the sun never sets upon our pos sessions, but we may well have a pride in the fact that (he sun never sets upon American philanthropy. In India most of the children in Sun day schools are in American schools. We are sending to India for Chris tianity and education «lmost $100,- 000,000. What sends our missionar ies abroad? The love of God and of their fellow men. The missionary abroad is doing a work the impor tance of which can not be estima ted.” Drawing a picture of what we at home enjoy. Mr. Bryan concluded: “We owe no obligation to those distant people that we can not pay in dollars and cents. We owe it to ity to hand down the blessings _oy to others. It is necessary for us to exert ourselves to the ut most to spread our religion over the earth an<H am sure the time is com ing whemevery knee shall bow and ever^r tongue confess that Christ is Twine Around His Legs But His Boots Saved Him. Robert Rogers, who lives near Plainfield, N. J., and who is one of New Jersey's best known hunters bad a thrilling snake experience beating through the Passaic woods in search of game re- was making his way through • —• - ——- - 35 • — underbush when he encounter two copperhead snakes. Before he could jump back, both sprang at Mm and colled about his legs, mak- to the girl’s parents, who are In need Ing vicious strikes at him. The fact that he had long hunting boots on prevented them from Inject ing their poison, but the situation un nerved him so that for a moment he was unable to fight them. v He finally succeeding in uncoiling one of the reptiles and forced It from him far enough to blow its head off with fift'gun. The remaining snake attempted to carry on the battle alone but clubbing his gun. Rogers man aged fa} get It on the grojiud without being'' bitten. The next instant he had crushed Its head beneath .his heel Rogers abandoned the hunting?trip to hurry home for stimulants. The snakes were each five feet in length, a-size unusual in this species. Rogers carried them to Berkley Heights, where they are on exhibition at the hotel. FARMER KILLED. Nineteen Killed. A train made up of passenger roaches bound from Scotland and the North of England to Bristol. left thn the city hospital, rails a«Mt was entering the station at Shrewsbury st an early hour Tuesday moraine. Nineteen persons, includ- tag ton passengers were killed, * And Another Badly Mangled in a Cotton Gin. A dispatch to the Atlanta Journal says H. F. Jones, a well known far- mer, was instantly killed In a gin sit the Heath place, about ten mllpe from Macon, Ga., Thursday morning. He was working with, the sin when his hand was caught in the sawst His body was jerked into the machine, iead down. An oil can struck him n the head, penetrating his brain and killing him instantly. Spivey Fuller, a well-known East Macon man, was terribly mangled on Thursday morning, and now lies at He was working in the gin, whep he was caught in the saws and pulled im Before the ma chinery could bt stopped he was ter ribly mutilated. I s* INDIAN BUYS MAIDEN. He Could Not Win Her aad So He Bought Her. A dispatch from Denver, Col., says unsuccessful In his suft to win the hand of an Indian maiden who Is in the Carlisle Indian school, Charlie Redhorse, a Ute, departed Thursday morning on an eastbound train, hav ing in his pocket a letter from the girls s parents on the New Mexican Ute-reservatlon telling that the girl had been sold him. for the sum of four ponies, r The question now arises, ajud Red horse has evidently overlooked It, whether or irot the girl who has en- jqyMJfiUr. years in Carlisle, will be willing to marry him, simply because the Indian went through the primeval custom of handing over four ponies of stock. There is much of Indian romance nnected with: the story of Re horse and his fair Ute maiden of Car lisle. Both were children together on the reservation years ago. Redhorse loved her and she loved him, but when she was sent to^jCarlisle, her affections changed, and when Red horse went to claim her, be was spurned. . “ With the stolidness of the Red Man he did not give up, but returned to Arizona, where he induced the girl’s father to sell her to him for four ponies^ With the bill o* sale in his pocket he is now on his way to Car lisle far claim his property. ~ FATAL PRACTICAL JOKE. A Youdg Girl Jumped From a Second Story.— Frightened by he- s'ster, who was wrapped in a sheet, and-*piaying ghost, Clara Osgood leaped from a second story window at her home near Redvllle, Ky., and w^ajjpstantly k ( Ule<(. her neck being broken by th<j Odl." The sister, Annie Osgood, is prostrated with grief, and is being witched for fear she will take her life <• TWO MEN KILLED, By the Explosion of a Boiler Out in Texas. Ramie Day, white, the engineer, and Robert Owens, the negro fire man, were killed when three large boilers, in the plant of the Belton oil mill of Belton, Texas, exploded early Thursday. The boilers were torn to scrap iron by the force of the explo sion, X > of the launch and ffaught off the flaming gasoline which surrounded them in the water. The dead: . Harry P. Barter*tookkeeper of ;he First National bank of Perth Amboy. Ffoyd McHose, a draghtsman, Perth Amboy. Edward J. Olsen, bookkeeper, Perth Amboy. ; Charles Wick burg, clerk in the Perth Amboy Terra Cotta company The Injured: Joseph J. Horsby, bookkeeper Na tional Fire Proofing company; badly burned. Nelson P. Macau, a draughtsman, Perth Amboy, burns. Richard Rutfedee, a draughtsman, burns. The seven young men started late at night from Perth Amboy in a large gasoline launch owned by Ma- can, for Keyport. When two miles off Keyport one of them lighted a match to Ignite cigar. A spark flew into the drip pings of gasoline Jn, the bot tom of the boat andT instantly com municated the flames to the 50-gallon tank in the head of the goat- There was a terrific explpsion and the seven men were hurled into the water. ; v .JTSe boat was set afire and those who survived the first shock—five of them—swam back to the launch. T*o had been drowned at the first immer sion. The survivors caught the boat rail on the same side and tried to tip It so as to flood it with water and extinguish the flames. Instead the first tip of the launch sent many gal Ions of flaming gasoline on the water about the swimming men, driving them^away from the boat. This time only three of the men returned to the boat, two having been so blinded by the burning gasoline that they were drowned. The threfe survivors, Hornsby, Ma cau and Robedee, held to the boat for three hours while their hands were burned to a crisp bx.the..flames whtcb were shootisg up and making a bright torch out on the-bay. They were ahnost dead and ready to drop off and drown when the freight steamer St. Michael, plying between Nei? York and Perth Amboy, came along and, being attracted by the torch of burnlqg gasoline, sent help BROUGHT BIG PRICE. Corn Hells for Two Hundred end Fif ty Dollars Per Ear. Two hundred and fifty dollars was the world's record price paid at Chic ago Thursday night for a single ear of corn. . The eer from "Bone county” was knocked down to the highest bidder In an exciting auction at the National Corn Exposition at the Coiisseum in Chicago. The purchaser of this ear of corn a bushel at that rate would have sold at 115.000—waa»fche man who raised It, L. B. Clore, s tall farmer from Frasklin, Ind. He has taken prizes amounting to nearly .$8,000, ihcludiug a Texas f&rip. He raised it on thirteen acres of land. The ear was taken from one of ten that took the sweepstakes in their class. • GET RICH QUICK* Concern Fails After Spending All Its Large Capital. . The Cargill company's branch house at Columbus, Ohio, has closed and excited Investors are crowding the place asking where the agent, L. Sinclair, is. Mr. Sinclair, according to a circular from the company i* in New York at the general offices of the company there, having gone last Tuesday night with the books. ,The company was a race horse In vestment corcern which paid some times 3 per cent and at other times 5 percent weekly. The circjilar states that the company has met with sever al losses which has wiped out its en tire capital and that an effort will be made to organize tbe company within 30 days. The capital was $200,000. NEVER TOO OLD For Cupids Dart's to Make a Lasting /' Impression, It is stated that Rear Admiral Oli ver Selfridge, U. 8. N., retired, will marry on next Tuesday Miss Gertrude Miles, of Boston, a long time friend of the family. - Admiral Selfridge is about 71 years of age, and his fiance Is $5. Admiral Selfridge left the othftr day for Boston, where his son George Sel fridge, has lived for a number of years. Admiral Selfrldge was placed on the -retired list of' the gaTy in 1808, after a distinguished naval cartjer-i— 1 WHITE PRISONERS ESCAPE. Life Time Convicts Walk Oat of the -rt Penitentiary. • ~ -- Walter Allen and Jim Sudduth/ white, both life term prisoners sent up from Greenville, and both trusties, walked awav from the State Peniten tiary Tuesday morning bofore day light and neither of them has bean sets slace. SHOULD BE TESTED. Dm* fart CattK d* k wmir wj 0wlii K TwMty-OiM Mm t*i ■ Hn Frdztit Stttmr L*tt Mr. G. M. Davis, of Georgia, Says It Undoubtedly Does, and tai Anxkhw For a Thorough Test. There seems to be a widely preval ent conviction that cotton lint gains both in quality and weight by being allowed to rippen on the seed for a few months after it is picked, and the belief seems to be based upon more the last issue of the Progressive Far mer for August was published a statement' from Mr. G. M. Davis, State Lecturer of the Farmers' Union for Georgia, to the effect that "it is an unquestioned fact that cotton held in the seed will gain about one-tenth in weight for the first three months after picking." A month later The Progressive Farmer printed a communication from a correspondent In Mecklenburg County, N. C., signing himself J. A. W., who also holds to the belief that cotton will gain both in quality and In weight from being allowed to rip en, the time required being from three to five months^ This, he said, he had learned fifty years ago in the days of the old horse-power gins, and he had known seed cotton to yield 37 1-2 per cent, of lint after ripen ing. The question raised is one fairly capable of scientific demonstration and if the results are such as its ad vocates claim, the truth pf the matter is well worth the cost and trouble of demonstration. As to the present status of the matter, the subjoined article from Mr. Davis will be found of, interest. V A fear Weeks ago The Progressive Farmer referred to Mr. Davis, the following letter. - "Chicago, Sept. 14, 1907. "Editor Progressive Farmer, Raleigh, N. C “Dear Sir: In the August 29th Is sue of your. paper, a statement is printed over name of G. M. Davis to the effect that cotton, as a rule, is ginned too soon after picking, and money loss is the result. -W-4H -you be- good enough to ad-f* vise tis of the address of Mr. Davis that we may write him for his au thority on the subject stated "We certainly hope Mr. Pavia Is correct in this position and should like to know more of the matter, "Thanking you in advance for this ;eourtesy, wrire/ 'rT'"Z " v "Very truly, V* "Dixie Cotton Picker Co., “W. B. Stone, Sec.” In reply. The Probresstve Farmer has just received from Mr. Davis the following which we are glad to print as a current contribution to this in teresting and important topic: "There Is no published book or printed authority on the subject !h existence to-day, so far as I know If there is, I have never seen it or beard of it. "The Government Bureau of Agri cultural Information has no bulletin on the subject, but this does not ar gue that there should be none in the future. I have been trying for some time to interest tbe Agricultural De partment and some of their special agents in this and othes matters of a like nature, but they all seem too busy with other things to give me a hearing or a chance to have the matter thoroughly investigated along scientific lines. "My authority Is based on experi ence and Investigation along inde pendent lines. That cotton grows ahd continues to mature and gain in lint weight for from two to three months after being picked, sr set forth in s previous article on the subject and for which I am asked to give a spe cific authority, there is no question. The chief authority is the cokt faet known LAKEMSASTtR i— ONLY ONE MAN SAVED. The Fine Steel Freighter Cypres, launched August 17, Foun ders in liake Superior and tbe Only Survivor is Washed Ashore Lushed to n Raft, Half Dead and Unable to Tell l he Story, Bound down from the head of the lakes on the second trip she had made since being tannebed at Lorain, Ohio, on August last, the fine steel freighter Cyprus, 440 feet long and owned by the Lackawanna Transpor tation Company, of Cleveland, Ohio., foundered Saturday night in Lake Superior, off Deer Park, taking down with her twenty-two members of the crew.- Second Mate C. J. Pitt, washed ashore, lashed to a rail, is the only person left alive of the ship’s crew, and his condition is so critical that since he was found on the heath, he has only been able to gasp out thb name of -the sunken ship and the fact that twenty-two lives were lost Pitt is suffering from toe dreadful exppsure in the icy waters of Lake Superior. In addition to the buffeting he received from the breakers. Until he recovers sufficiently to talk the story of the wreak and’ exact cause of the stont steel smp foundering will not be’"TI(*flnltely known. Deer Park is shout thirty mileu south of Grand Marais, on the shore of Lake Superior.-- ' Several bodies from the wreck have washed ashore, and two are known to be those of the first mate and the watchman. Marine men suggest as possible ex planations of the foundering that the engines became disabled; that the "plates opened and that' the ship sprang u leak and that the hatches majknbt have been securely battened, permitting the steamer to fill with water from tbe waves washing over her decks. , FASTED THREE Dog to a Dry Well Without Food for- Twenty-Three Days. On the night of the i7th of Sep- tembfer/Messrs.-Wade Lamar, Brooke Cato and Dave Gaston went fox hunt ing near rhe town of Sally. When at Mr. Phillip’s place they missed one of tbe hounds, a white and spotted dog. They searched Vll tbe neighbor hood the next day without finding her, and came home presuming that she had been stolen, and was shut up somewhere. - Well, on Monday, the 14th of Octo ber, Mr. Phillips came to town, and reported that during tbe middle of the week before he had found the hound at the bottom of a dry well on his farm. She had remained in the well for twenty-three or ts four days without food or water, of course was extremely emacisted and weak. She waa carried, to Aiken and de li ved to Mr. Lamar. This occurrence is^ao^ remarkable that it would Incredible if all the parties concerned were not well known, and highly rep utable citizens of Aiken <4>u&ty. to all growers and handlers of cotton who observe cotton closely. ——The first cotton which opens Is green, and if carried to the gin soon after beng picked the lint it cut by the gin saws and the staple so badly damaged that the loss in price is con siderable, Perhaps tbe flrsst cotton ginned Is actually worth a cent a 1c«lJq-the .manufacturer be cause of tbe damage to the staple than the same cotton “would be if left to dry and ripen in tlte house. Tn this respect cotton only follows the natural laws followed by all other agricultral products.. Melons, fruit and aj hundred \other things ripen a*f- ter being gathered. The greener apd wetter the cotton the more closelyiit sticks to the seed, and the harder it is to separate when being ginned. Every man who has had a day’s experience about a cotton gin will bear me out In this state ment. Tbe closer the*lint adheres to the seed the less the lint from the cotton 'when ginned. -In other words, more of the lint is left on the seed and a proportionate lost is the result. It now. seems to be an unques tioned fact that the seed is the lint producer of the interior cotton boll. The seed is the mother npOn which the Unt feeds and grows long and fleecy. The .<>11 which the seed con tains is, in part! conveyed to the lint to give yit. the rich, silky gloss, and feel that it ought to possess in order to class as first-grade cotton.^ If this lint is seix-rated from the afcud Im- medllately after the picking process there is no chance for this to take place. ~ ’ - "Fifteen hundred pounds of cottoa in the seed, when picked dry, may hot weigh in the seed any more three months afterwards than, it did the day it was picked, but tbe lint ginned from the seed will weigh more. ^ ”1 am especially anxious for the Gorernmenr to hari* this thoroughly tested, and a complete bulletin issued on the subject, and I believe if tbe people will demand it that the matter will be taken up atvoaee.” —- Lew Meat 1 W Fitted JVmtwto fee*. FREE mrmminmti** CRYSTAL OPTICAL COMPANT ttt T—ii* can. Attests, Qm FRECKLES, As well s , Tan, Moth, Pimples and Chaps, are cured with Wilson's Freckle Cure. Sold and guaranteed by druggtota. 60c. 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