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f-H GROWING COI.ORKl) COTTON. Visit to Nlr. Krahham's Cai'in . Olar. in the future it may be possible: produce cotton in all the shades i the spectrum. At least that is tl proposition 011 which Arthur Brabham, of Bamberg county, Souj a ir. rrc? nry./^ AnlW It A Oil vaiunua id eugagcu. uiiuuiju ->? ceed?and he has made eonjsiderab progress?textile manufacture, i * would not be perturbed by tljie scar^ ty of aniline, dyestuffs, justj now t embarrassing problem, incident to tlj ^ blockade of German and allied a teries of trade. The chief object with Mr. Bra,, ham is to produce black co tton, i distinctly bronze tint has been ref l a i^ed by six years of systematic cro^ fertilization of the Egyptiajn broi. with the Russell big boll, a vari ^ - common to South Caroina plan^ tions. Continuation of this 'plan, t ' ! :0 Bamberg county plant breeder is c^ * fident, will bring the hybrid Ma<n , which he regards as the misising li in the basic colors of - his cottj^. scheme. l < -. (Vl Mr. Brabham pointed out wlh r. visited a few days ago whit is tf|! generally known, that alreidv fc I . ,s distinct tints of cotton aire bet^ grown in different parts of the woi^ In confirmation of his argu(ment ]) drew from hi? sample cas^ yelli^ Chinese cotton, grown from jseed L ported from the Far East. Flankijt) I the fence parallel with the |road } his home grew Egyptian brown luxlriant growth, well fruited wj; - shapely bolls, as if perfectly act* mated. , He further emphasized t|]e gray cotton is grown in India, vai?;o ties similar to the Egyptian in and Hawaii and South America, a reddish-liued cotton also in Pet L With black added to these and I native white cotton, he insists thai natural cotton spectrum could / easily built. :.t . \ Bur bank Skeptical. Luther Burbank, whose rare co binations . of bewitching colors f, flowers and magnificant sucesses c hybridizing fruits has won the glcC( ^ ^miration of the world, belies > ^ black cotton is not "an absolute i p possibility." He is slightly increc e lous, though, and comments: "It \] > somewhat doubtful if black cott g. '% will be produced in this generatk a II ever. He wouldn t undertake tl production at any price, he writes. p The fundamental principals w breeding the new variety of cott ^ ; afe exceedingly simple. Early in t t] ,day, when the blossom first ope ]2 wide, the pollen is shaken from t g i blooms of one variety into the bloc * of/ another. The fertilized bloom f; then tied up that bees may not f( tect." Though yrhite the first dc ^ > the bloom turns pink and drops t fj > following day, so that the operati i is as brief as it is simple. The Egy 2 tian cotton used as one basic sto C( / is of a brownish hue. The Russ ^ big boll, on which it is"crosset C) enlarges the Egyptian boll and ad f( quality to the length of the fibi e. T y I seed of the Russell also has a bla Cl [ ket wrapped about of exceeding r; short, greenish, fuzz-like fibre. T n \ elongation of this has had a distin c effect in producing the bronze ty| 0 "' ftf hrhriH Antfnn. 1 . / Vitu VVVWU** Much interest is being manifest* ? ' in .the work of Mr. Brabham, whi< ^ has been carried on throughout p number of years. c Big Mill is Interested. , t One large cotton manufactu j ing establishments which j coi sumes annually *20,000 balek < ^ cotton for ^mercerized" goods!, making elaborate experiments 1 wit ^ the Brabham product. Tests are b< ing made of the tensile strength < the fibre, the fastness of the bole and the calendarizing qualities of tt ^ cloth. Should the experiments' bet c 1 ' S out the general belief of manufa;] ( tares a tremendous demand ^oul p arise for the use of the cottcfn i ^ uvt vyi ib^u guuua ixicniuiatiui 1?. Quietly and unobtrusively the Banl berg county wizard has gone aboi* s his ta?k. Although he has chased tli h elusive ignis fatuus idea of black col s ton through six successive year$ u there has been no blaring of tmm t pets in accompaniment. His n^igh^ u ''' hers only knew that he was abou: hi|! * old pranks of cross fertilizatioi <& different varieties of corn, peasjani ^ . h cotton, to produce something "iiregj * alar.'! But this untiring zealarn ^ persistent application through man: discouragements and failures elidtel a ( no praise and provoked no adirira 11 ition. Like most gifted men he btan the stigma of being a "little cranty.' ^ When inquiry was made for th^j planter in the little town of Olar 1(1 miles removed from the Brab?arri home, acquaintances half aplogetic-? cally attributed the cotton fetish t(i ? this idiosyncrasy! . Home is Isolate<l. He lives alone in a little four-room] frame residence on a community r^ad.j which isn't even maintained as a ppb-i . lie highway and which is hedged in byg thin ranks of sassafras bushes unci s other underbrush. He is the second of four sons and is past his 50tli yoarj a The father died when the boys werq lj f ' in their teens with an estate insolvent! jj I jhrough the efforts of the youngsters, he mortgaged was lifted, and A. W. ^rabham lives today on 100 acres of he original Brabham t-act. Educational advantages were disinctly meagre. The only school he ver attended, he said, was the "old eld" or public school " a few months rhen quite a small boy and got only . smattering of the three r's. But 1 iave always been a student, teaching nyseif." Both his mother and his ifc; who died several years ago, were ighly educated women, and it was hese who guided his {altering efforts irough the devious paths of self-eduation. Commenting on his struggles o acnuire information, he said: "It eems that much of the very little I now came to me by intuition. I ever read a line in Shakespeare until was 21, and, strange to say, I found here many passages I knew, alhough I had never seen them." He 5 an omnivorous reader, particularly n subjects related to nature study nd has contributed many letters to ewspapers on cotton production. Back in the '80s Carlyle McKinley, hen on the editorial staff of the !harleston News and Courier, chalmged Mr. Brabham's idea of produc ag an upland long staple cotton. A pirited controversy was carried on hrough the press. And if the coton planter didn't withstand the inisive arguments and skilled logic of! tie forceful writer, he did contrive to reed a hybrid long staple upland coton from the sea island long and upind "short" which is now grown enerally over the State. Besides the moral impetus and ingllectual stimulation such creative nterprise gives, the economic value f the venture, if successful, would e one of the greatest achievements' f modern science. The use of chemial dyes in textile manufacturing rould be obviated in that, natural olored threads could be fed to the Doms for the various patterns of cot- J on goods. * Bred Hybrid Cow Pea. Mr. Brabham was no less successll in his efforts to grow a "different" ow pea on his farm in Bamberg ounty.' The Brabham is a hybrid besveen the Whippoorwill and Iron. It artakes of the character of both parnts, having the tall habit and proificness of the Whippoorwill and the ime resistance to wilt and rootknot i nd ability to hold its leaves late as he Iron. Enormous yields have been roduced, and a crop can be made here no other will thrive. The yield rom this is always in excess of any hat has been tried in the . sand mds of the southern half of the iaic. As far back as 1897 one cotton armer in South Carolina produced our bales of cotton to the acre. Lgain this year a Lexington county irmer more than duplicated this 9th century record. In 1889 Capt. !. J. Drake established a worldwide orn yield which yet remains intact, rhen he measured 255 bushels of orn from an acre of land. Just a 5w years ago Jerry Moore, an 11ear-old boy, became the champion orn grower of the world when he aised 229 3-4 bushels. These maxilum yields -wonderfully revitalized orn and cotton production throughut the South and wrere powerful facors in demonstrating the value of in5nse cultivation. But the producion of natural colored cotton might roduce even a greater revolution in otton culture, as well as a solution o a problem, menacing just now.? 'hp Statp. HAMPTON COUNTY KILLING. . K. Shuman Charged With Fatally \ Shooting Horace Long. Hampton, Dec. 31.?Horace Long ras shot and killed at Lena, in this ounty, today at 1 o'clock, by J. K. human. Both are white men of rominence in the county and the illing is greatly deplored. From reports reaching.here this afsrnoon it seems as if two witnesses tate that Shuman drove into Lena, itched his horse to a rack near the tore of Long's brother and walked r\ ts-ViT.rxrtor was npfl.l' tv rt AlV* v ?wiiQ ?' ?w he steps. The shooting occurred pon his arrival there and four shots rere fired. It has not been definitely ascertained how many of the shots ook'effect. Death occurred instantif. At the last reports Magistrate A. . Youmans, of Estill, had impanelled jury of inquest, who were proceedig to discharge their duty. Shuman has surrendered to the heriff at the jail at Hampton and is eld pending further inquiry. It seems as if there had been bad lood between the two principals in he matter for several years, which ? 1 - A ^ ^ + ^v/-l n ir in t H r? rl AO f 1"* A f Uillilllclieu tuua v in. mc u^am \ji ,ong. Horace Long married a siser to Shuman and they were cousins. Easily Fixed. "Some soot blew over this steak." "That's easily fixed. Give it a prinkle with the pepper pot." An alarm clock for the deaf that wakens a sleeper by administering ght blows with a paddle has been ivented in England. CAPTAIN HAS BEKN PUNISH Kl). Agrees With Uncle Sam as to Laws oi' Humanity. London, Dec. :i 1.?The Austrian I ! reply to the second American note on ; the Ancona states that the command-j er or tne Austrian suumai me nu? been punished for not sufficiently taking account of the panic aboard the: Ancona, which rendered disembarha? tion more difficult. The reply of the Austrian govern-; ment is forwarded ro Reuter's Tele-;' gram company from Vienna by way of Amsterdam. The note says in part: "In reply to the second American Ancona note the Austro-Hungarian! government fully agrees with the Washington cabinet that the sacred laws of humanity should be taken into' account also in war, and emphasizes that it, in the course of this war, has given numerous proofs of the most humane feelings. "The Austro-Hungarian government, too, can positively concur in the principle that enemy private vessels, so far as they do not flee or offer | rooiotonpo choii nr?t hp rlpstrnvpd he-I 1 VyOIOVUllVVt kJUMU AAW MW v?w~v. fore the persons aboard are secured. "The assurance that the United States government attaches value to the maintenance of the existing good relations between Austria-Hungary and the United States is warmly reciprocated by the Austro-Hungarian government, which now, as heretofore, is anxious to render these relaI tions still,more cordial." Results of Inquiry. ! The Austro-Hungarian government then communicates the results of the inquiry into the sinking of the Anr cona, which was recently concluded. "The inquiry showed that the commander of the submarine, from a great distance in the first instance, fired a warning shot on the steamer sighted at 11:40 in the forenoon, which he at first believed to be a transport steamer, at the same t'ime giving a signal for the vessel to stop. As the steamer failed to stop and tried to escape the submarine gave chase and fired sixteen shells, of which three were observed to hit. The steamer only stopped after the third hit, whereupon the commander ceased nring. "Already during the flight, it is deI clared, when at full speed the steam; er dropped several boats fi21ed with people, which at once capsized. After ; the steamer stopped the commander of the submarine observed that six boats were fully manned and they speedily rowed away from the steamer. "Approaching nearer the commander of the submarine saw that a great panic prevailed aboard the steamer and that he had before him the passenger vessel Ancona, on account of which he gave those aboard more time than was necessary to | leave the vessel in lifeboats. '"At"least ten lifeboats still were aboard, which would have more than sufficed to rescue the persons remaining on the vessel, but as no other preparations were made to hoist out the boats the commander decided, after the expiration of forty minutes, fr?tt\oHn tho vpsrpI in snch a man tv/ l/VA J/VV4V V**V ? WWMV* -r ? w? ner that it ought to remain afloat for a still .longer time in order to leave sufficient opportunity for the people still aboard to he rescued." , m Answer Pleases Uncle Sam. Washington, Dec. 31.?Austria's reply to the Ancona note not only meets' the cardinal points of the American demands, but gives assurances for the future which are considered more satisfactory in their extent than those which were given by Germany. The full American official view will not be known until after President Wilson has studied the Austrian reply, which was received today from Ambassador Penfield, and was immediately dispatched to Hot Springs, by a white house messenger. It may be stated authoritatively nevertheless, that danger of a rupture of diplomatic relations has passed and the controversy now enters the same stage as the Lusitania negotiations with Germany, and on even a more favorable basis. Austria in the Ancona case has subscribed to the principle that no ships will be.sunk, unless they offer resistance or flee, without the persons aboard being brought to safety. This is considered an assurance that is far-reaching and satisfactory. Germany only, promised not to attack "liners" until the persons aboard had been placed in boats. The extent of the designation of liners never has been cleared up, and the American government does not concede that placing persons in boats necessarily assures their safety. Sure Signs. "Did you ever notice any signs of insanity about the patient?" "Well, when he got a legacy from his uncle, he paid off the mortgage on his house .instead of buying an automobile." Read the Herald, $1.50 per year. You've hit the M right tobacco W # when you fire-up some M Prince Albert in your nj/J old jimmy pipe or in a j makin's cigarette. And J\ you know it! Can't get Ijl in wrong with P. 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