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VOL. XXXII BARNWELL. S. C., THURSDAY. DECEMBER <5, 1908 NO. 15 SCORES PERISH Two Hundred Lives Lost In Aw- ful Sea Disaster. '■ —4' DEAD MOSTLY ARABS EnglMi Steamer Burnt'd Off tin* Coast of Malta—I'in* Apparatus Was l s**I**ss—I'asscngrrs Trappol and \\>*Tsj thv S«*a and Drown.* Pprttr—Amboy T - N. J.-r-Nov2"^ Following a pitched Rattle hetwp**n l.’<»r<cd to Jiinip Into Valetta, Island of Malta, Nov. 2S —A terrible disaster, in which more than a hundred persons lost their lives, occurred at the entrance to this port Wednesday morning. The British steamer Sardinia, of the Ellerman Line, hailing from Liver pool and" bound for Alexandria, with a crew of -14 Englishmen, 11 first , and 6 second cabin English passen gers and nearly 200 Arab pilgrims aboard, caught fire and. within a few minutes was a roaring furnace, th** flames bursting upward to a height of 200 feet from frequent explosions In the hold. So rapidly did the fire spread that the frantic efforts of the crew t) operate the fire apparatus proyed useless, for it seemed but a moment before the upper works and masts crashed down upon the deck while tin*, ship’ll boats wer • crushed by tltV falling -debris or set fire and quilkfy burned. Wnfety lay in the. sea. for no on" could save himself except by juipp- overboard and, taking chances VOTED FOR TAFT TUT THKIK WALKS WE^E^xVl’ 'I RAISED. According to __ Promise and Then ■ • Shot Down by Deputy Sheriffs Be cause They. Struck About It. in g of being picked up. Assistance wrs hurried to th burning vessel from the war shins in the harbor and the shore, but the work of res cue was greatly impeded by the strong tide that was running. Even the naval launches were unable to go alongside. Among the Arabs flier was a panic thab*ifl$i44-not be controlled. Many of them were, ton frightened to Jump and they bunii'd jb death. Others tb'Misel v * till) Winnie were casting into the wave?, w’ere 700 strikers and twelve deputy sher iffs Wednesday at the factory I the National Fi ep oofing Company at Keasbey. neat hi re in w hich six of the strikers were shot down, Governor J. Fran,klin Fort dispatch ed four companies of the StUe National Guard. at Trenton to the scene to make the men behave tlu'm- selves. A feeling of intense excitement prevails, as t-iTe* strikers declare th4 deputy sheriffs jvere not justified it. firing upon them. Two of the wound ed men are dving here, and the four others woundtd are-painfully hurt. The citizens -fear for the morrow, when the strikers threaten an attack on the plant of the National Fireproofflng Company. For two days there has beeji r!'- .- ine' at Keasbey. and a number of manufacturing towns along he Raritan river. Twoi weeks ago the men employed by the Raritan River Clay Company went on strike .for higher wages. They marched to (In- plant of the P«rth Amboy Fjre Brick Company and induced the men there to go but. Then each succeeding day the strikers constantly Increased in number, marched to other towns to induce employees to leave their work. The strikers say that' tie y were given to understand before Hie election that if Taft was elected tl ep pay would be restored to a day. !t now is $1.3.5. The offrelals of 'h ■ factories d ny that such a pron iso was made. — When Chief of Police Burke s *i>t bring lunch to the depii'io? met with a shrftxver of him to” retreat, later in leaving and secured WHAT WE NEED -V AND HOW , TltE GOVERN MK> CAN HELP. Better Fondgn Markets, Real Regu lation of Trusts am] More Cotto'fT Manufacturing at Home. Tom Waison, of Georgia, at—the* meeting of the Farmers' Union in New Orleans recently made a t apyech from which we make the extract Ue-^ iow: i, ‘Tn civilized go^ rnment there are three great departments upon which prosperity dei>eff(fs?" Tigrlcul- ture Is one, manufacturing is another and commerce- Is another. ff the government keeps hands off and merely protects each man in the pos session of his property,,it Is an open field, and a free fight, ‘root hog., or die.’ The government can do this, or it can protect each and every one of-thina* departments. Ip which case the result would be about the same as In the first. But .when the govern meiit takes up one^at the^expense <»[ the others,—'fhe other, two are 1 n- -Jured. WITeh Tt fakes”tip two at the expense of She third, the thirtl lan guishes , and siiffers. * Analyse 4his situation and you will begin to real ize what la the matiter with the backbone of the country.” Mr. Watson reviewed the history of prcvR'cUa$4n -this country, and de- lared the manufacturers have not only made 8. per cent, but akso dear- $2.0U0.iM)0,(m() besides. He said a mar to ihe latter was stones, comptiling The man succ eled the factory unolserved the food. As he was returning one of tht strikers caught sight of hint and immediately there was a g neial attack., The,man was not injured bombairdtiient w hi ell that Jhe farmer has never asked an\- thing but a free field and a fpir figh*, and had been denied these; tha\ h*. ; had never askfd to have other com modities taken to put money in his own porkTj; that no more unselifish man was ever made in God’s iuiag" on Then -1 ii'.ics- fi gan a —nuriny o l.-i' Th ‘ crew behaved "with admirable courage, serving .out life preservers to the la-t and.working tin,* pumps. W.lu-ii the piunps l^ecame useless, f apt -diaries Little, commander of tlie”iS.'tr**lrf i }fv look the hehnr .W •lire*-’ d his ship towards the shore so long as it j_aiihl he navigated. H. perished at his post. Fir.-t Officer ^Frank Wat-on, a 1 ' three engineers!’ Seagraves, *Hisl )|) and Neill, thirteen of the ship's company and two first class passeng °rs—one of them a boy named Gran,, are missing. Fifty or more bolb- hav been recovi-j-i'd and seventy per-" SOII^ Were rescued. It is Impossible I Jil |,j ' '".say just how many were | drowned or burped to death, the number will doubtless far ceed a hundred. The vos.-cl drifted around, three fine's, and finally was beached broad side on the- recks at th * mouth but (X nearly.,. : every window in ,.the. factr-t-V w as-,smashed • Chief Bn.rke says that two of his men wgre struck by missiles and slightly injured. He restrained his men from o|)i*ning fire fiTfftil the la-* minute, he declares./ Matters had become '‘so* sbWffrtfs-*; hat- tfii- -deputies were compelled to op'ti fin* to pro tect themselves, he further says. At least a dozen of the shots wire fired point black at the strikers, and six men fell. The strikers did not return the fire. The workmen tune el and fled, leaving the wounded or fire ground. Th re was only a tem porary lull in the rioting. Tin* strikers soon returned to Hie factory. They kept at a distance, but it- was evident they were* angered by the shooting down of tin ir conirad(*er~ :> this eavth: that when there is a pestilential swamp to dr;tin, the farmer drains it; that when th re are taxes to pay, the farmer pays them- that in the early history of th< country wdien there were savages to drive back, it was the farmer who houlderyd his musket and did th work. The* capture of Andre was fn- roferred. It OVER TWELVE MILLION RALES. of *!ie b- s - the harbor. S! will be a. total 'The Britis' Asheton, an 1 'TiiirM Fisher . boats, which saving tho i* and bi itiging ashore. I.inb*'s bo iV. ^ which was terribly tnangledf; wns (arided ihi- aftornoon. I ho otlo-r liodu's w*i*r * also mutil.ite'l and burned. Flft -——t*I—LiLe—in)ii n il—are—being—cnrt 1 -! i's still burning and, loss. lie,- admiral. Sir Cnrzon-Howe and Ad-1 din-cted the. n scili'l ~ j did gallant -.work in who were yet alive the bodi s of the deac’ ('omiitisvjoiic'r Watson Estimates Cot ton Crop of 1 !H>8. for res r in the oe-d pa ftccoctit rf "The Ya!( 11 a w.i'’-,- ji- hospitals. One penger? gave a llu* ilisaster. -—— Sardinia," he said of the graphic at X; ’ '"it ‘‘lef* 15 -this- ntnrnlng Wi ;de lb. i In'-bur and lie crew securing the anchor when tin cry of 'fire' was hear I Flames could h,. seen issuing from a vent L Into” In the port pfrft*. A hose was pror ip'ly brought up and a stream piotre"! down the ventilator, but thi* did no good. In less than ten min- utos ftames were streaming- out of ■■»*»*■■ t i I',11 egg’ The cotton ero)i of 1-908 will amount to 1 231,0S'lV'bales, accord ing to the estimate made by Com missioner Watson, of South Carolina as chairman of the cotton commit tee of the Southern States Associe Hon of Commissioners of Agricultun and Other Agiicultural Workers. In aJinoutreinn tlo* stimale, Mr. Watson says; "Our estimates, which is based on. telegraphic reports received from all fhi* States save Georgia, whosa com- mlssioner is absent from the St at* bOi'd Novembr 19. and on the gm neis' re|H).rts of Novemb’er 14, is 1' -’int.OSt) running bales, oxc'ndlti Mntevp. . * Thisconelusioii is reache i he w'hol * vessel admjdshies was wrapped in flatru s.- I he Arab' pasi-eugers wee told to leave the hatcfii. in which clung desperately, but they re r to move. All who remained they fused forward- peri-shed, those who l aped except ■ some into tho wafer. "In the meantime naval pinnaces hurried to the scene. They could not approach cioselv on account o' ttffe-high seas and falling sptirs. -T he gTitat Ttiajrirfty of the European pa c - sengers ‘•urce ded in reaching shore The Arabs, among whoin were nvanv womon and children, clung together shrieking,'and -hut few of ethnn would jump overboard, a'- thonrh urged to drt so. "The ship's boats were Tendond useless by tho flames and no attempt was made to cot them over the side Soon tho hatches were blown off with loud explosions, throwing t ie Arabs into tho air and killing ami injuring many of them. Af'er a a'ftiT due albiwiiince for ',h<* weathe and-other erop^ condiiinns for 1958 Were Ih > estimate based Pn'Arely oji amoimt of ootton ginned* to ^Coven i,or 14, fn years when same■ gituiers r esults were shown, thi* 190S croj would be 1 3.498,879 biiTt's. Rut cmv Mtions have not Iteen the sa.ni' ii rnr viMiniB s*;irg: "Wyre we to take th«* averag amount of cotton for the punt- f-otr wessons to be ginned a'ft<*r Noveliilu 14, we would hav to add 3.704.157 bales, to fho 9,f.30,r,fi3 bales alreadv 0 »-l-ginned, and get a total 3 3 4,1 37 bales. If we amount already ginned crop add Tn of to thi TFT 1908 .amonnt ginned afUr November in 19A.a. to which* year 1 908 con ditions cioselv correspond, we w"T 1 have a total crop for this year of 1 2.<132.92^—bales which, it is seen closely approximates the estimate <> 1 2.552,088 b r >les that thu_^ssocii tion’s committee considers a fai one.” tew'!minutes had Iteen spent in trying to put out the fire nothing remained but to jump overboard."' • i Unquestionably explosions occurr ed. although the jeause of jthe fi^e is not known/and if was first believed that the rapi.d spread of the flam u- - w-a^ due largely to/He lowing'naph*' tha. . Tri * ” . —^sf - ^ THOUSANDS UONTRHU TED. Treasurer Kidder of lieniocrat*! Committee Files Report. * Albany. N. Y., Nov. 26.—Herman Bidder, treasurer of the Democrati National Committee, filed with, tin* secretary of State Monday^Jhis repc of contributions to the Derp^cratic national campaign which total ^620 644.77. Dishurs ments are #\ven at >619,110.06. Leaving a "balance fhb treasurer's hands pfT$l ,524.71 There are over seventy-seven thous and contTibutors'~to the* fund theOutiTWay Out For the Farmer. SOME PLAIN TRU1HS tViritr V\’l*e»t -and took E iirni' i s of tin* West R(*gulate Urices by l.iv- Stabularv _ -»• /• ing at Home, and Soutliern T’.ann-Tni effort to break ers < an if TKTtin* 'Same* Thing * They Will Try tq .Do it Hon. John M. Parker, of New Orleans, discussed the methods of cotton that the forenoon of the last day-of th Farmers’ Union Convention at New Orleans. He spoke as follows-;;'' "It is much more pleasant and safe to 'hand bouquets than it is 1 oe tlirow brick, and, for tha < t/^asoii jrmers in plain, hard words’ evoked much applause. durin d ■and tt—w:i,J sLiTT icTl t hal aptured him - conlu coal. price "No. the ■rs who not Tie bribed. We cotton farmers of the §outh are the only peopl in the world who hau* a monopoly and - don't know what to do with it, continued th;* speaker. The Steel Trust has a ni >- niipoly anD 'knows what to do! Ii sells you plows, and hoes and rakes, ind you have to pay tip* price*' Th ■ Harvester Trust makes you pay th" price. And all the time they ai" selling in South America and Russia it cheaper prices than at home. The Tial Trust fixes the price of ;h< is their business to fix til/ Bid yours to pay the price. Congress could have said: won't burden the agriculturist with uch.loads as these.'" Congress could have broadened your markets, ob- lined greater mercantile trade by ciprocity and pth(*r treaties. One ommodity could be'exchanged for mother on terms fair to both. But its policies have caused the other nations t > adopt retalitory tac i ■ md narrowed th(* foreign markets o the* proolntots of the American ag ricyilturist. ^ ^ -**vHresid.ent MeK-inl y jejpt a C i-m- uTis^ion tp France to negotiate -n Ifiuty tltfat would have inear/f Hi' entry into tliat country of o*»4tniis(*ed pro.cljuos from the South, valued pi 2 0.miivofto a year. But theySeiint, ktll(^ it. and killed it liecius* it ontained a cffiitse favoiing^lfie im portation of French hosiery. Sone- most speakers at farmers’ gathdin.u adopt the former course, and give the hardy sons of toil’ such a sut f it of fl-atterly.as -to make a blunt -sdateniept., ef existing conditions most nnwelcoup*. "jAHwfWri^Fag^ffrsonal experiences have satisfied .me'’The -mivjority are tike children, and prefer a sugar- coated pill to quinine. Sometimes ,t is necessary to give your noMlcine straight. Due to loW prices and the boli weevil, already bvi'r a large sec tion and certain to spread forth'i, the "tike has come for the‘farmer t > take his dose like a loan. "My ’excuse for'fe+rts preface is lia\ ing addressed a number of farliiers gatherings and haAjng been hoot-ii and hissed at, too, I now ask as -i personal favor that you hold up am demonstrations until my short tabi is finished, as it is decidedly unpleas ant for’a speaker to be interrupted with the shout 'Throw hini out,’ ami th n again, it is apt to interfere with this argument. "There is no. pi ore improvident minion earth than the average co' ton planter. In those good old days before the war, of which the orator tells usr history says every farmer had his smok -houst* packed with Uacon. h'< <'(-i). mt.-.t. u.Lih. <m>i ii i) .- w^axed regularly; ami fat and prosp- grist mill fin hi tn the farmer!- t'rous. "Today riot one cotton farmer : f ten raises meat- Not one iji, fiv, raises corn enough to last him.'arid/- shameful to say. thousands aetuatly buv^LheTiav neees.-arv tri sristam Hi ir 'stock. ; v .-"Annuallv now-for some'Years th • - . cotton farmers meet _-m eonvrnjttnu listen-to<some gtfTivL^xilitical speech es. and occasioiirdh^a new joke,, then vigorously xyiMilaud the. fervid oratory denouncing all t^usi-sn-w+nf tiuafly or ganize the biggest k4+nr of a t rust t r gulate prices, agree to (lecreas- acreage mid diversify theircrojis, to •raise what they m-eck at Tiopie, and lie independent of bapk, cotton fai tors or-Tjnerchunts. "Their final resolutions' are en : thusiastically. carried at the- conven tion’hall-, and all conv nie.ntly f(>r- gotten, for by the time they return STILLS CAPTURED TTH.RSDA V AY i^VllR IN •THE COUN TY OF \1 KEN. Officers Vind Some "tilimi .—Itiisily Turning Out the* \ ariefy in Edisto H\vani| Aiken, K. C ; Nov. 24L efforts are being officers that are said river swamps. <' U j -.*•>»« -m-u ebfi.. n tirPriYinV. tfie Vigilant made by the con- of this county in up th blind tiger, to infest' the Edisto The officers, Messrs H. Wallace, AWdnesday from HANGED AT SALUDA SLAVER OF EM-ANUEL CARVER FAYS PENALTY Allot Ills Victim I’ieking Cottoi). Saluda, Nov. His 4 'rl me. While lie un ci Mcrritts bridge, w'here they made a sun^QDiil haul, bringing wfth them a large Copper stiif. that..’;«|tpet(re-J to have rice'My, b. on bought.^" Sunday night the -officers p?tnl--a- vjsit to the vicinity, and found a nt it> of "pyb." blit- th^.-stdlf conspicuously . absent.* Th \ was *( "ib ulated that if things were lef* aluHsturbed, the "mash" would be made into "blind tigi'r" about Tties- dny afternoon, thai beirig the time 8 A special to The' News arul Cmirter says at—12o’clork on Friday Will Herrin paid with .hi*- life the penalty of the law for the murder of Emanuel Carver in Sep tember. ThivrixWution was.without a hitch. Only a very few minutes were Sumed In preparing t'he lyisoner. for thejlrop. After ascending the s.caf f"bl; Sheriff gamnle^^sked H rrla if he desired to Ffry anything. Ho merely nilimbbuL-a word or two to t-lje effect that Tie had nothing'to sav.' At no time did he s cm to roaiiz ■ what was awaiting him, and he niei his fate withou- the least emotion it would wp’.uld be VISl il. ^--t'liosdify t ht‘. SlFme. ("ileulat ion but' thty eurtv' fn *(|*!i" , b* fe-fi the ■ufllciently soured mash to be iVtorno or th *,v. were m I hoy^j'outid that tb or as mrine weri ('ij.rrv<*i. were jlfst a few hours too i-iK b * he bunch at. work, ■fhey lound t he still, a new copper apparatus all in readiniyss, and t'ie ’mash’’ in ‘ first class condition," ’’/I all other ippurt> i noU(;i‘S read/ for s’,l!ing ba; the op« raation had not actually rdmmenceil , Tl)e\ thought of leaving It in !»lae<* and r tiirninK*.bnt fearing.t at they may have already been dis covered. and that the still would bu tal eii ay.ay if b ft unmolested, they lei'ldeii to "break up" things,* So taking the still in the v hieje with them they destroyed about ]0o ga’ Ions of mash. Iiroke all the harries, iuesr-ete. The sMH wns brought to the city by the officers. Messrs. Ca*n and Samuels are 'he nonntv dispensary constables, and Mr Walla ' - Is a United States rev enue officer. This is the third stt'J '•antured on Edisto river within the oast few mi ntks, and the- officers are .’icing co* cratiBated upon th *ir ~**"" 11 1 n 1 ■vii'k i. * He was pronounced dead in ten'“mir. utes fat»*r the trap was sprung, an I his body was laid in a cheap coffin, furnished by the coutiVyT and carried fo the poor house for burial. V*/ P -IL Croaslaiul wenjt...t.o Herrin s cell tbis morriiug and con ducted a lluig service The ron- deumod man mantt'-sted ab-olu.telv no interest in It. While an effort •AvjMk mail" tb shh^ifPx the execution from the public, scores from posit loos of vantage witnessed it.* Will Herrin ,was^ tr.li*d befnr. Special Judge C. (’. Featherstone at a Special term of the Sessions Uourt in October for the murder of Mr Lilianitel Uarvi'.r at his home in Sep t* nibi*r. Th'* testinionv at the'trial show that Herrin, without any ap parent cai'ise what<'\er, shot Mr. Car ver in the back while tlv* latter was picking cotton and failing to kill him ran upon him, knocked kim *•"5^0. and beat him over the Inal GOES DOWN Sfeamer Finance is Rammed by the Steamer Georgia and SINKS OFF NEW YORK in Ifenne Fog in Oiannel—Three Itiic Collision Occurs Main Eighty-five I'a'scngcrs on tli^ Fi nance, One Member of Her Crew anil .Mm Ii >lail ls»sf. New York, Nov. 28 In the thick of a fog off Sandy HqoIc Thursday 1 the stout steel freighter, G orgic, • I ^ ’he White S'ar Line..- ranpiTi'it and~'' sank the ligfitlw laden Panan>a steamer, Finance, outward bouiid w ith 85 passengofs, the Finance’ go ing down within B'n minutea, cats ryliig to their d* a'h three of .her pas sengers and one o.f the crew. Tho nst,of He- pas engers, who included womefi arid 14 children, as well the-crew were rescin d ipats oR the Gcorglc. The freighter was not damaged. Miss Iren**-Campbell, of Panama, pass* ilWfir wjio 'vas lost, clung fr p of- s .me at a +++—w-1 i.k. Vestenlay nn rning the • run tb - ' rs n’lade at other rajd in the 'icinity Thi- raid wry* made saw mill alMiut four miles Merrltts bridge. They did not find xt. wfill at-this point, but nti efirpty furnace where' a still fTad re cently be* n t.ikeji from, apparently Ycm hurriedly. Five barrels of maSir w-aa (l*a f r^Td here, about 1 ,< _ iL*wris snnpo-ed tnht’thi* operaiors of this still, hearing of the fate of the One near Mcrritts bridge, had hastily removed 1t’to a place of saf ety. licsldes thn. mash. Which was made of- (*m>f.- -five barrtds; one "flei k sTand. a portion of a still "•ifs^Fue-s ;<iul tubs wer-* chopped to with his gun and left him dead Mrs. Carver was a witness to a pa it of the awful deed, she being In the House when -the shot was fired, and running to th** door was horclfi* d to see fier husband dow n and Hegrln standing over him. heating his head into a pulp with a gun As soon as the news of Hu* crime TTY anti*ally to ffiV rail of the siiUtUgg— and criuld not be persuaded to release her hold., nor were the - *m«*n wfio manned the small boats ably to remove h,-r She was hmui cling ing determinedly as th vessel was ngulfed W’m. H Todd, third aa- Dfant tunilrieer, jumiJcd overboard ind was lost. When "a r*dl call of ’h<* p.ts.-**ng**rs of the Finance was Bed, it was found thiiL Charles If. Schwitnler. a policeman of Panama, 'Hid II nry Muller, a railroad con ductor of Panama, had disappeared uid Iherty is little doubt that they were drowned. Tin* disaster occurred In the main wns—run dr tn'lghhors soon found away,* and tyo n >-|(tA^takq$ 6im into, custody, 'wag nuA home, they decide to plant a lit th they keep ir Mttle old New England /riiill would-.Ts^ie have been affected, 50*1 a—vear fo the an^ so $20,000. South hud to b *- sacrificed. In 1907, the sal of cotton afi.ro’a 1 imoiMiH'd In !) 7 ns lino halos. Th’* udcxl 3\v 'Ottnij^vas nianufactureil and shin ned ‘back again and sold at higher prices, so that (he net profit to Cur ■ountry was only $9.000,0101. Don i that show that we are selling eotioi wo low?- Why not mannfaeltiro ev ery ba-le right here? The Figh tariff and Inis* sisteni has restricted ami narrowed - narket. cut off th** demand and bit more cot tori, and in the same -old way. "Do you ever hear the wheat grow r, or th** corn grower, ar the oat grower, or the niule raiser ca I onyen'ions to'‘rekiilate prices?’ Not on your life. 1 He goes ahead, skimps close until he gets out of dose debt, th n njglcs Hie value of his pro duct and holds it unfir lie* gets it He don’t sit on the fence and cn for either moral o,r jin aortal ^ympn thy. _/7 v i ■ ‘The curse of our cotton plantm >bf. and until he gets out of d(*i> he will never realiz* his dreams of pi c**s v “ lOyl 11 lTirm.es. • '■'x KILI.ED A PLANTER. Three Negroes .\rr**ste«| Charg***! Willi the Crime. '• Gr<* =tfidf r pendence. nsboro, Ala., Nov. 28. Bh*'*- iff <■(win has nuptured three negroes, diarged with ih<* murdTr of Forme.- Sheriff R. -W. Drake, near l.aneville, Ala., Thursday nigtit. (Vue of tin* negroes confess d and implicated th* other Two. lie says that he held ’be light while-the other two negroes killed Mr. Drake by knocking hjiu in the hok'l with an axe; th^L4fi«*y 1 Iiiiii saturated his dfTthTn'g anfFTli b d elothing with oil and set tin "Jfi_Uiein. Stefis have been taken to call a. special term of court to try the negroes because of the feeling .. v riave^you ever thought that lip ffi-e ereat chain of the credit system 1 lie. |'**4 iH'H-pl**"H-<*-t*—ffttuns (UK-■■erf -He. .1, left i surplus, The remedy. lies In a low er tariff. Let the foreigner in. re- luce the price of American good- that are now protected, and fhcreby increase th** demand for raw cotton for the greater th** demand is the pricu +Ht* important links? How tho t riant burrows, from ’lie planter, who bor rows" from the merchant or factor, who, in turn, borrows from the local bank, which borrows in one of Hit great firtwricral centers, which, in turn, borrows from t ho-financial ci n- i■ i-./ntf—Europe.- utrid bnw m -nu'mr cotton bill of That' greater will be the the permanent remedy. Now for immediate and temporary relief. I like th;ist_warehouse plan R*,. That tak"S'it off. -T4re e«4fee grow rs wi.'.rp ewfifronted wit.lv a situation ffl' most similar tortliat which n*w con fronts the colt op farmer. Dlqsthe; swamp the inarket with their oVer product ion ? No, they put all t r surplus .in warehouses, raised the price and compelled the consumer to pay for not only w hat was market ed. but also foU what was never sold at all. • in Kill***! by train. Covington, La.. Nov. 26—While pasing the station a* Fiorenvilf*. I.a., one cag; of a Great NorDiere railroad .gravel train jump d the track and entHriirf into the dejiot. ; -MrOyL \V. Cop'or, wife^pf the >Insurer of the Covinrton Nival Stpres Comping who was waiting for a train earl negroes boih from the picking of th* to the |}nal sending of Hi ■ exchange to reiniburse the European center completes the chain? ‘"Credit- is the whole system, ‘with the high prices and eVe .-vdve.ebarges which must fie made to cover th*; lisk i nvolved. "Have you evf r beetT" .through which is rininitig high. •m l colicky piub's’ are a disgrare. —"No nt-h-n—.igriruli m al~ pi'liijud ' is- as abused as cotton. It is imprqiierly covered, improperly eared for, an th re is not ;.t train out of New ()i- Jeaus /mm w hose car 'windows you *eii11'riot$ sec picked cotton lying out iiverHiiglst exposed to weather, bal of •cottoTi iiibrM'"7r lying ■e, 6r on Fit the ground or iriTmTirri' of w?t Ohio. Illinois, Indiana, or’kwxCT. and seen the farmers of those sectjon<? at, splendid barns filled'with hav and corn am] oats and silage. Th< pasture with sleek cattIn arid sheep and hogs, the tool-lioH«t« filled wi'h wadl-kept iiiademetrts, *'\ rvtliin.r neat and orderly, and some profit on every a rt id** raised. They—rotate crops in" tfipsp 'Ftetlons. - and ki'eii their property up, and have moti'v’ in hank. "Why do our planters still adhere' to the razor-back hog and scruji cat tle when at a less expense—jifi »\ coiild raise fine stock, which wiil! improve the farm and go a long ways towards lifting th<* mortage’. Ti#’ loss and abuse of farm implements annually represent a fortune. Hp«-s, plows, harrows,, rryjwlng machines and wagons often lie, for months * x^ posed to the elements and whui th< ciyips oTi'oihi r.n^ cotyog arc gather: rm ter, ]'itti eh up haggling rotting and cotton daily' being damaged. Such planters don’t deserve the name c cotton farmer. They are merely cot ton producers. "Most business men or professional men will averag • at least working days-*a year. On the prop rirtjes under my control last season the greatest time any tenant actually WQifked ni ihe fields”’ was 14f’> days. ]he -least time 112 days, and the known some rif (^arxir'*-' went the srnne and Herrin a little 'distance ii|fon advauclriif on him /utakyi him Into, eustody, \w aff nn s*!Th a vplley of curses and fin d up on with a stock less gun. he having broken the weapon while beating arver. One of the party wa sprinkled with shot, and t|^e«rowif in* turn fired at Hcrin and ••ffecL* L his capture. For a while a lynching was imminent, but cooler counsel prevailed’and the riilprit_wns turned over to thq sheriff and brought to .Saluda and lodged In Jsfll. There was :i trMBtembms crowd oreseut to w It m sf* 1 Herrin's trial, bu* the best of order prevailed Th * de fondant was the only negro In the Court House during the trial, exeepi the porter, arid to all appearances wns the least disturb d by what wa ta king^pl ace. The only defence that could pos- ibjy have been made in Herrin f behalf was Insanity, and this quo: tion was fairly submitted to tin jury, and under-ethe testimony m oth r verdict than that reached could have been returned. Herrin was, however, a man of very low order of iutellig nee. WAITING FOR DINNER TICKETS Victims of Fail A lt*-|in Id lean Prosperity Into a Pit. New York, Nov. 28. One hundre* needy persons waiting patiently in drizzling rain on Wednesday evonin in front- of -a mission house In AYesr- Tbirty-Focond street -to receive‘tick <*ts for a Thanksgiving dinn over a part of the new Pennsylvan funnel system and disappeared in the darkness below”. Shouts- ami cries.arose from the pit and a crow which Collected gazed down upon tangled heap of arms and !i*??s il.rnrrtrr'rrrl AVhcnrT'hcy f*HHI(i - 4-b-iH- -out-v- - t wo -mr* rt- **m- 4o»4- been lnjur*'d, and these only slightlv When calm had been restored th* hungry ones lined up and receivi their precious tickets and disperse rubbing their bruises. SHOCKING TRAGEDY. 1 3*8 days, ox less, j/han- onr**-• bonr w "nf~Tmfr iriiTiardson, at Woo f time put in by-the merchanr '-siomi-l man. It was either or too cold, too wet or too any old excuse to keep out . was killed outright Sfv-lied they arF'jjhamefiiHy cared^ for es were ladly Injured. • The leaky bard* with damaged'corn i 1 / • j . _ Northern farmer works twice hard as we do and under Fixe Persons Rimed up in a Hicisv in Alahama. Hartsell, Ala. Nov. 28 Th X i > t Imrs the <iiIp channel off Sandy Hook rit 8 o'clock this morning, and as both ves sels were groping their way through fog. The’ Finance had weighed anchor and was picking her way down th** Swash Channel, when fit plain Mofbray, who* was on the brldgu; heard the whistle of an ap- urosi'Fipg. liner. The K/nancc wag M, immediately started astern, and'wva lowly backing when s the Georgic, jl^lMtund (from Llv rpo.of, loomed out »f rtp^fog and a moriient'later crash ed iiito the port side, and just aba f t -’tho'beam of the Finance. The prow rtf* the freighter penetrated the side it the Finartji* n/arly ten feefl, tear- jiiH..a»;^x ar^igog/Cftpled-. state room ind leatmTg* a ragged holb, through- which the water rushed in. . The Panama keeled far over it larboard, while men and women, many of whonj had l»«*en awaken'd fnini a sound sleep, were thrown from their berths. Hastily covering 'hi mselxes witli lied ylothing. they iishcd in a panic to the main deck, ■w-hieh was fast sinking to the sur face of the wat r. Many of the pas sengers jumped overlioard. not stop ping even to provide themselves with life preservers. That mo'-e were not lost was due to the discipline of the r*w of the Panama, and the prompt ind intelligent work of the sailors from the Georgfc.- Immediately - ( aft**r the accident, the freighter backed off and anchor 'd, her command r ( Capt. Clark, In the meantime having. ordered >ht: life boits lowered. The boats of th** Panama were also rut away «s quickly as possible, though with dif- fleulfy because of the heavy list of the sinking steamer. A score or more of those wl'o jump'd overboard were picked up by th** small boats. Meantime the Finance was Fettling steadily. .To add to th*^ con fusion a moment after th" impact there xvas an explosion of an ammonia tank in the forward hold of the Finance and the fumes drove the engineers and firemen fo ffle deck. VVm. Todd, the third as- sistant (Wgineer, was iialtially over come hv the fumes, he, staggering, 'o the rail, threw himself overboard. Il*' was not seen again. Probabl; half of the passengers with the crew, stood by the ship, awaiting rescue, it ml TTfiy** were gotten off with r - TTi :i Ik ■'XTn^ittTtiTft ’ • Captain Mowbray and a u-rage. half-1 he or prof* too hot dry. or (if ’ll*' field. "The as nam as we do and under grea djeadvantages, and to the full appr*- "ciat s th** old motto: ThF Lond Helps those who help themselves.’ "Quit resolving and resolutlng. Get to work. Diversify yoilr crop. Raise good stock. Get your Con gressman to send you the latest Gov ernment bulletins., Get jh ■ best seed. T^ise whaj you can-at home. Above all. g«*t out of debt. Stay- out of debt, and then hold your products until you get value for. them, and the whole world, instead .of demnlng, w'ill applaud your dom." *— •*-* '* Cvt seventeen miles east con- w in land Mills here, was burned to ,, the ground Wednesday night, and Richardson wife, mo’hi r and three children were fiurned to,,death. Th" r**mains of the children were found in the burn ed barn which adjoined the house. Sex eral-theories have been advance'll, all rif -whirh“is robbery. Richardson missing is missing, Sftit his found In -lh" ruins. tiody was '*nor T«*ll-Tnl«* Wo ii n *1***1. Salshury, N. C., Nov. 25. War ren Whitmirej colored, was amisted here when h4L t appealed Co a physic ian -for treatment of a gun.-hot. It Is charged that he is a burglar who was shot by Mrs. .Maud Feamster in her home in this city ••krih week, tfhen she ffred-ripon someone in the I darkness at her, bedside.' several of ’he crew remained in a life boat near tho .sunken ship.- Only the masts, stacks and part of the superstruc ture of the Panama remained abo\ f e the surface. ‘ The shipwrecked passengers an l crew were brought to this city to- - night and placed aboard the Panama sMamer, Alliance, where the women and children were provided with (lotbea. The'passengers will depart nn th\* next outgoing liound steamer * * * - for Panama. of the Georgic. states that he wmcTfeeling his wav into port slowly, and hearing a Whistle on his jMirt blow, tried to veer off arid thought he would clear the Panama steamer, which unfor tunately began to go astern, with >the result that the two steamerH collided. The Finance had over s-ven hundred bags of mail aboard. Four elephants In the Georglc’s hold were undisturbed by the collision. • 7 —^-(‘ununits JHUicide., New. York. Nov. 28.—George Schuester, 62 year old. a veteran of the German army, shot himself with the old army pistol that he carried through the campaigns of the Franco-Frussian war. He had been out of work fo! two months. ■ -„ -t. »