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V **. • * NEW YORK COTTON EXCHANGE TO ADOPT GOVERNMENTS Senator Smith Calls It a "Signal Vic tory’’ for ths South—Will Push • Hta 11111 Towards tho Achievement of Compos Reform of Cotton Classification in Exchanges. • '' V • ’ ‘ ‘V . “This is the ihost signal vlctorv Won by advocates of fair dealing for the cotton farmers of’the South yet achieved,” said Senator Smith of South Carolina Wednesday when shown the statement from New York that the cotton exchange of that metropolis had adopted resolutions making the government standard type of cotton the basis for.Jrading after April, 1915. But Senator Smith declared that the adoption of this resolution will not in any way affect him In rushing through con gress his bill which would force the New York brokers to begin this new method of dealing at a much ea*’nc? date. -. ‘‘Np to the present. New York has had 2J or more grades,” said Mr. Smith. “All of these represent an arbitrary and fictitious difference in values, which, of course, was detri mental to the farmers. Ifhe adop tion of these grades as being tha^cnly ones deliverable upon contract will go far towards making the quotations from the New York exchange In line with the real value of epot cotton, it they strictly adhere t> the real values of the gradee. “This means that If the nine grades are adopted,.and these alone are tendnrahlfi upon Ww future delivery of ;otton. and the fix-J ed difference between the grades is ellmina’ed and the real spinning values of the grade '.a Ioum| by the departnient of agriculture under the provisions of my amendment to the last agricultural appropriation hill, that the farmers wl!’. heotv.sranteed a fair and just price for cotton. “I feel that this is an achievement brought about by the fact that the New Yerk exchange saw the inevi table end bowed to It. I am perfeetly confident that my bill now pending will pa— aad . I an glad that the New Yerk exchange baa made it easier far it te pass la that they have at leant recog nized ene fratare of the bill, vis. That the government standardization shall be reeognlzed by the exchanges of this country. Now the othe pronositlen that the exekang— ekali not hare a fixed difference or a de ceptive cemmercial difference, but nhail have a difference based entirely upon the real ascertained spinning values ef the different gradedf Is car ed for also in the bill which 1 have pendiag. t “1 am certain that the finding of the department ef agriculture as to the spinning-valuen of-the govern ment standard grades has been large ly If not entirely responsible for the action of the New York exchange, be cause. in the light of the startling facts wb'ch that test proves at to the small difference in the values of the different grades, no exchange could R to exist which had the absurd r ence now obtaining, he New York exchange makes new grade delivery effective April 1, 1915. This shall not deter me from forcing ( w!th .ill of the vizor at my coibmand t\e passage of my bill at the' earliest possible moment and the puttng of it into effect im mediately upon its passage. I want to'save to’ the farmers the balance of crop at. a better price, and guar- fcee to them, if it be possible, a bet- price for the crop soon to be fed. There is no reason why the New cotton exchange should recom- the adoption of the nine go»- |ent standards a year hence: un- be that they have already com- themselves to the delivery ol a ouantity of cotton at such that they may never hope to escape without a tremendous loss un less they keep in vogue the presem did robbery system to enable them to •erape. T shall call up my bill at the 'e—il^st possible moment, now that It l«-uron the ciUndar, and press it to a finish.’ ptlcea r Spartanburg Gets Hospital. It^was announced Wednesday that the U.\S government bad approprlat- ►4d $4 7\fif>p for a pellagra hospital to pi estabTfrjhed In Spartanburg. Cuts Man and Hides. Albert .fttrtteree of Chester on Sat urday night seriously cut Herbert Woods, and tjas since disappeared. Both of the parties are white. Fire Horse'1>rope Dead. ^^VJerry.H the beet horse owned *|iy the Sumter Fire department, dropped dead Wednesday while maklnj| a lonp rnn to answer an alsm. Officers Seach Auto Preparing to Leave and Find Pistol of Same Calibre as the One Used. Jamie Wbisnant, Hugh Davis, Zeb Bell, Fulton WhisnanC OF” Blacks burg, S. C., are held without ball; in connection with -the ’ murder of Sol Williams, an 18-year-old ne gro who was shot through the head and killed Tuesday night at an over head bridge near King's Mountain, N. C. These four young men. together with Deck Fulton, formed an auto mobile party which came from Blacksburg to attend a carnival. Williams when shot was on .the ;east side" of the road over which is the bridge, while,tie carnival is exhibit ing on the west side. Two shots were heard, but Williams could not be seen, or the ipersons firing, owing to darkness which was intensified by the light behind the large crowd as sembled at the carnival. The chief of police and the mayor heard the shooting and caimTto the carnival grounds. They found the negro Williams lying on, the ground dead. A bullet, had entered the back of the negro's neck, severing a jugu lar vein and large artery, causing death by bleeding. On the same’side of the road were four men gathered about an automobile, preparing to crank it up for leaving. Thinking It possible that there was some connec-, tion between their proximity to the negro and his death, the officers stop ped the party and searched them. No pistol was found on the men, but .a quantity of beer and whiskey was found In the machine, while in the rear of the car was a 52-callber Smith & Wesson revolver, covered_by_ a laprobe. Two chambers were empty, the other three- having loaded cartridges. According to the officers the empty shells had been fired with in a few minutes of the time the pis tol was examjaed. A coroner’s Jury composed of some of the most prominent men of town was empaneled and a post-mortem examination revealed the fact that tho bullet which had passed through tho neck and lodged back of the ne gro’s eye was of 32-calibre. Chief of Police Lindsay in the meantime bad gone to Blacksburg and was told on Inquiry that Deck Fulton had bor rowed a 3 2-caliber Smith ft Wesson pistol which appears to have been a duplicate of the one found In the car. Fulton before the Jury swore that he gave the pistol to Zeb Bell, an other of the party/ before reaching King’s Mountain and that he saw it no more. Fulton’s brother was with him at some distance from the auto mobile when tbe shooting occurred. He was not with the crowd when the car was searched. * GIRLS COLLEGE BURNS. Four Hundred Massachusetts Inmates Leave Building Safely. Perfect, discipline, coolness and bravery on the part of the students and faculty members prevented loss of life or Injury when College hall, oldest, of the Welelsley college build ings, at Wellesey, Mass., was burned Tuesday. Two hfjyadred and fifty young women students, fifty, instruc : tors and 50 maids were in bed when the fife* was discovered. Every one was saved and not one of the scores who marched In an or derly procession through smoke-filled hallways suffered so much as a scratch. The building was left a blackened shell.. Within its crum bled walls was wreckage representing a loss of $900,000. Of this amount $100,000 was the estimated value of personal property of the inmates, nearly all of whom escaped In scanty attire. Insurance will amount to about $600,000. OFFERS NO COMMENT. Senator Smith Says it is Every Man'* Privilege to Raa. / When asked If he would make any statement with regard to the report of several others Intending to enter the senatorial race, Senator E. D Smith, at Washington. Monday said “It is the right of any white citizen to aspire Jo any office In the gift of the people If be see* fit. I do noi consider that I have the right to en courage or discourage any one’s can dldacyi I am looking after my own affairs.” Two Union Negroes Fight. Wallsce Howell, a nefcro of Lock hart Mllla. near Union, was killed Sunday ol^ht by Dav# Adams, anoth er negro. In n fight over n woman. ' Killed in OntIMnn. Dr. A. J. Ransome of Oolnoovlllo. Qa.. was killed near Ocala. Fin.. Sat urday, Hit auto ran Bey Barns to Daath. LITlttle Hermans Goawell of Spar tanburg county, was burned to ddath Wednesday afternoon when his clothes caught fire. SHOULD BEAL tlTH HIM It Willing to Listen to Representa tions, But Points Oat That These Should Come From Consuls of t ' ' 'V**' ■ States Whose People Are Involved —Will Heed Those of America. ' * ■ V Gen. Carransa baa consented to have American Consuls look after in terests of foreigners in constitution alist territory where their own gov ernments have no consular represeht- atives. > Where there are such repre sentatives he suggests that, even where their governments have recog nized Hurta, these consuls can unof ficially communicate with him with out Involving their-governments. Also he suggests his willingness to listen and heed any applications made to him directly by the friends and relatives of foreigners whose lives or property may be threatened and Investigate every case and to punish, any of his followers who may be culpable. This Is the substance of a tele graphic report made to Secretary Bryan Saturday by American Consul Simploh. The declaration of Gerr. Ca,rranza was transmitted promptly to the variou.s powers Saturday by diplomatic representatives in Wash ington. . . Embassy and legation officials com mented on the Carranza note only In general terms. One fact Is accepted, however,:.that the United States can not continue to act for them in de- fiance of Carranra’s rafueal to llnf-ew- to representations on the old basis. They f&el that there is no warrant of law, for allowing United States con suls to accept credentials also from foreign governments,- as seems to be required by Carranza—even if the various governments were willing to bestow such powers. Th e text of Gen. Carranza’s reply to Consul Simpich was as follows: ' “As you know, the department at Washington has communicated with me through yourself and the Ameri can consul at Hefmoslllo to make two classes of representations to me. both unofficial, the one concerning Ameri can citizens, the other non-American foreigners. “As you are aware,' I have enter tained the representations Secretary Bryan thought fit to make when na tionals of his country were concern ed, the said representations, however, being used by me as Information'‘to redress and avoid the wrongs to which they relate. In kis letter to you about the injuries suffered at the Desengano mine at Guanacevi, Sec retary Bryan tells you that countries which have recognized the Huerta government can not apply to me, since every nation can have but one diplomatic corps accredited to one other and consequently those coun tries which have recognized Huerta can not make representations to me. “This Is clearly, my understanding and I have never claimed that those governments accredit diplomatic rep resentatives to me. But these same nations may very well, under interna tional law and diplomatic usage, have unofficial Intercourse with me in my capacity of commander-in-chief of the constitutionalist army which dominates a large#art of the nation. “This unofficial manner may be availed of by the aforesaid countries through their representatives accred ited in Washington or through their consuls residing in the Mexican ter ritory controlled by the forces under my command, and if there should be no foreign consuls In the territory controlled by the constitutionalist forces, pointed out by Secretary Bryan in connection with the Efesen- gano mine case, then the government concerned may very well authorize other persons who may well be the consuls of the United States to pre sent their unofficial representations In the name qf those governments, the power being properly drawn up. ‘‘As I truly do not see what objec tion foreign nations can have to that method of communicating with me. all the representations I have receiv ed or may receive hereafter dealing with non-American foreigners do and will serve the sole purpose of bring ing to my notice, If not already re ported by the Mexican authorities, the fact that this or that foreigner has suffered som# Injury*and of my Issuing appropriate orders that all in dividual guarantee! be extended to foreigners, punishment, when occa sion arises, being Inflicted on the re- sponaiblle parties whs. In violation of tbe law and dsregard of their duty and my orders, should ever so slight ly mslest foreigners, nor would there be nny need of welting for any rep- roeeatatloaa. for H ts ene of my pur poses that’ Justice and the law shall be respected to the utmost la my sonhtry. at No Expense. Every farmer In South Carolina Who plants corn should begin select- lig his seed for planting at once. Is the advice of Prof. W. L. Hutchinson, of Clemson college. Prof. Hutchin son urges every fk,raer to make a ger mination test of his seed, which nu merous experiments have proved be yond a doubt .win result in a large Increase in yield. An ear-to-row test with seed that has been tested for germinating powers will be sure, to pay* a farmer handsomely In future crops, hut eVen If he makes only the germination test this year, he ts like ly to have Ws yield .increased from five to ten bushels an acre, at least. The-test is so simple and requires so ftttle time In proportion to results that there la no farmer in the State who can not make It. The average farmer In this State selects his planting ears by sight alone, picking out the ears w hich ap pear sound, Unless he Is an expert k and has had training in corn judging, this method Is not of great value to him. What ho should do is to select his,best looking ears and then put these through a germination tost. After selecting the best looking ears, arrange them sido by side pn planks, driving a tenpenny nail after each tenth ear. The ears should then be numbered consecutively, which can be done by marking the number of each ear on the plan with .lead pencil. Thpy should then be* left until after the germination test, Is completed, except when they are taken out one by one for the Purp^j^ettln g J L ej;-|^ ; uels frum-nrenT ion a ron can. Although Naturally Expected r _ Take the Leadership In Such Mat ters, the Upper House la Calmly Waiting to See What the Lower House Does. Nothing has occurred to reverse the probability that congress will subordinate its own views to those of the president with regard to charg ing our own ships for passing through the Panama canal. This probability would hardly exist If con gress did not believe that serious diplomatic considerations, apart from the mbrits of the canal-tolls controv ersy, has Impelled the president to revisejhe opinion expressed by him self In the 1912 campaign that the exemption of otrr own coastwise ship ping from tolls was propfer. The Senate seems determined to do nothing about the repeal until the House has shown Its hand. The original Idea of the adralnlstraiion was to have the Senate act first, as the body which shares the president s treaty-making functions, but the Sen ate was not found In a mood to set the- pace. On the House side the situation Is relieved, to some extent, by the fact that more than one-third of the 14 members who voted for exemption in May, 1912, are no longer In congress. Therefore, only about 90 of the pres ent representatives will have to face the problem of reverjinj yie; One cjf the simplest and best meth ods of testing is the use of a saw dust box. Use a box about two teqt square and four inches deep. Fill the box to within an Inch and a half of the top with sawdust, well packed. Select a piece of white cloth a little larger than the box and mark this to tell the number of any of them with out trouble. By leaving outside rows racant all around the box, there will be about one hundred squares. Tack the cloth Inside the box so that it rests firmly and smoothly over the sawdust. : With the box near at hand, take the ears from the plank one by one. Se lect from each ear six kernels, taking them from different parts of the ear and no twciirqm the aame row. Place the six kernels from near No. 1 In square No. 1 on the cloth, and so on with all the ears. Kernels should be laid with the germ side np. Put each ear back In ita place on the plank. When each square In the box, ex cept those in the outside rows, con tains its six kernels, sprinkle water into' the box until the corn and saw dust are thoroughly moistened, tak ing care not to disturb :the .kernels. Then place a dry white cloth carefully over the kernels and another cloth on top of this one. Finally, cover the top cloth with sawdust until the box is level full. Keep the box In a fairly warm room, leaving It undisturbed for seven days. Then catch the ends of the top cloth and raise the cloth care fully from the box. This will take off the top layer of sawdust without disturbing the corn. Raise the sec ond cloth, still using great care, and it is then possible to read the tests. See which kernels havq germinated well and which have germinated poorly.. If square No. 16 shows poor germination, £0 to your plank and ♦ake out ear No. 16. throwing it into the food pile. Do this with each ear whose kernels show poor germinatlne powers. The ears left on your plank will then be good ones and you are ready for your planting. "-Tf you do not secure a good crop you can feel certain that It was not the fault of the seed. Use one box for every one hundred ears. If desired, however, a larger box may be used. But that described above is the most convenient size to handle and should satisfy the needs of the average farmer. The time to make tljls test Is really in winter, when the ear* which turn out well are stored for planting In spring. However, If It was not don#' in winter, there is still ample time to make the test now and the farmer who makes It has the unanimous opinion of all the experts that It will bring him rich profits. Two of the former members who escaped the ordeal are In the presl dent's cabinet. They are Secretary Of Commerce Redfleld, who was care fully paired for exemption of our coastwise ships from tolls, and Se'rn tary of Labor Wilson, who voted for exemption. It Is true, moreover, that the majority of the Democrats par tldnatlng In the roll call of May 23 1912, voted against exemption. The almost solid Republican vote for ex emptlon turned the scale In Ita favor Speaker Clark did not vote^&t all One «f the Democratic members of the present House who have declared their positive decision to vote and spak against the repeal of the exemp tlon clause of the canal act Is Repre sentative Ragsdale of the Sixth South Carolina district, who holds that the platform plank la sufficient Justifies Mon for his stand and arguea that President Wilson had no right as the leader of his party to advocate re versal. In the laat congress Mr. Rags dale's dlatrict was represented by Mr J. E. Eller be, who voted In favor of tolls and against the Doremus amend ment. On the xote In 1912, which was taken before the Democratic national convention met, the South Carolina delegation as a whole was decidedly acalnst exemption. Besides Mr. El lerbe, Messrs. Finley and Byrnes were present and voted for tolls. Mr Lever was paired, with a statement that he was for tolls and that his pair partner was against tolls Messrs. Aiken and Johnson were pair ed with Republicans who would pre sumably have voted against tolls. The late Mr. Legare, who was 111, waa the only member of the delegation absent and unpaired when the roll call came ramd. There was po vote in the South Carolina delegation in favor of the exemption clause when-It was adopt ed; but the outlook fA'Yhat there will be OHje or two votes in the delegation against exemption’s repeal. A shift of the kaleidoscope not exactly par cllel, but very interesting, is seen In the circumstance that Representative Small, of the First North Caroilna district, who was the only member of his delegation who voted for ex emption In 1912, Is now leading the delegation In advocating its repeal; while Representative Kitchin, of the Second North Carolina district, who was not present at the vote In 1912 and did not leave any atatement of his views with the pair clerk, is out spoken now against repeal, agreeing with Leader Underwood, whom h*- ts slated to aucced when the Alaba- mlaa goes to the Senate. After a vigorous defense of wo man suffrage In the Senate Tuesday Senator Borah of Idaho shocktd«ur-~ frage advocates on the fioor ana i.» the galleries by declaring^ It waaTTitt^ practicable and impossible for wo men to obtain the vote by constltts- tional amendment. He predicted that after 15 years of vain endeavor, women would renew their abudoft- ed request before the people of tbe State, because in seeking an amend ment to the Federal constitution they had loaded themselves down with the negro question, tbs' Japanese quee- tion and a dozen other State’s rights problems. “You will never carry ths required 36 States for a constitu tional woman suffrage amendment, M said the Senator, “until you repeal - the fifteenth amendment.’’ Asserting that the fifteenth amendment, giving the negro the right to vote, was a blunder in the first place, and now a dead letter, not being enforced In a single state. Senator Borah asked whether ad vocates of the women suffrage amendment now pending, for a mo ment supposed Southern states would add 2,000,000 to the list of thosei whom they must disfranchise. “Vio lation of law Is a bad thing,” he add ed. “It is demoralizing to the negre race to place in the constitution the form of rights that we do not mean to see they shall enjoy.” I The fifteenth amendment, the sen ator said, was a blunder, engendered sptfjt blush of sat isfaction the North bad connived at the South’s violations of 1L-. The amendment Infringed upon State’s rights, and might furnish a precedent for an amelTdment declaring tbe right to hold real estate or attend school should not be denied of raee or color. ‘ I have no desire,” explained the senator, “to bestow tbe franchise on the 19.000 Japanese on tbe Padfie slope, or yield up to the Federal gov ernment the control of the sehoel questions of the Pacific coast.” Answering a question by Senator Thomas. Senator Borah said he wee In favor ef repealing the fifteenth amendment If woman suffrage could be obtained In no other way. The Idaho senator and Senator Vardanian of Mississippi engaged la a tlR over the progress of the negro nee. TIED HIM IN SACK. Express Messenger Sees Bandit Es cape With Thousands. After Messenger Martin was put Into a gunny sack, a mashaA Wedesday robbed the express ear at tached to northbound Gnlf, Oolonde ft Santa Fe passonger train of sev- eral packages of currency, estimated to amount to about flt.OOC and es caped from the train at the village ef Helblg. twelve miles north of Beau mont, Texas. Posset In automobiles i chased the fobber but have not found iraejuof the bandit, believed to be hiding In the dense forest about the village. Martin says the man ordered him to turn over his keys and that he obeyed and then was bound and forc ed intq the sack. That was all Mar tin says he saw or heard until the train crew forced an entrance. Into the car and released him at the town of Sitsbee. several miles north of Helbig. The suspicions of the train crew were aroused when the mes senger did not come from the car at the next stop. Farmers Have Fatal Fight. J. C. Keene and F. R. Crawford, farmera of Fnlford, Fla., quarreled Thursday over the division of their crops. The former waa killed. Child Disappears. The two-year-old daughter of Frank Bragg, of Vienna, Gg., disap peared Tuesday. It la supposed to have been kidnapped. Shot by Poeae. ' iamael Godwin, an Insane inhabi tant of Relfdntalne. Ohio, waa shot aad killed Tuesday by a posse after he had rnn amuck. Rescue IOO Bales of Cotton. Wreckers have raised 100 bales of cotton from the sunken Monroe hlch went down when hit by tbe Nantucket. \ Homicide* Freqeeet In New York. Two Miners Die la Exp] Twp men were killed end mu property damage done is an stoa In a Buxton, Iowa, paint Wed- ’Beaming this a anitahla epporta - Pariag ttll 4k0 homicides took Routed by the Wind. \ A strong aorth wind Monday night reduced “Genera!” Keller’s sriny. which la penned op at Sacrameate. Cal., to SM men. ■tty. I wish to say further to yoa that if th« foreigners er their relatives will address their penes a) repraaaa- tatieas to me aad bespeak my pro terttoa ef their lives add interests they vftr he Immediately attended to vines la New York. • umhersd only 24R. Tbe arrests Negro Woman Killed. , Ida Keller, colored, was killed by vttheet any netd of their govern- Washington, alee a aagre. In a neat effieUlly er aaoflcially tetar- j aertpe near Hoaee Path Sat. veatog.” f SOLVED AFTER TWELVE YEARS. Mystery of Chicago Man’s Disappear, ance is Over at Last. Dramatic sequel to'the mysterious dlaappeance of Horace Greely Clarke, prosperous Chicago lawyer and board of trade operator, from a lake boat twelve years ago took 'place in a' morgue at Cudahy, Wis., Thursday when the body of a “Harry Harrle”, a railroad section laborer was Identi fied as that of Clarke’s. The lawyer disappeared from the boat on June 28. 1902. He was traveling with hie young bride. A country-wide search for blm was unsuccessful and finally It was decided he had fallen ^from the steamer and drowned. Clarke's aie- ter, a Mrs. Carson, of Iowa City, made the identification. Ap acci dental over dose of a drug had cann ed the man’s death, physicians said. __ Train Kills Negro/ The body of a negro, Charles Gi£ bert, waa found horrlblp. mangle# near Ada, in Union county. It to supposed that n train caught an#, killed him. Tie* up Three men bona# Jar of Laeoaia. N. H„ In bin and ant •ro to H. nesday and s tho tftoo of