Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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[up f_ 4 fppOSiU\ 1905. Wm ... - m????????? ?6053 'DO THOU, GREAT LIBERTY, INSPIRE OUR SOULS AND MAKE OUR LIVES IN THY POSSESSION HAPPY OR OUR DEATHS GLORIOUS BENNETTS VILLE, S. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1905. - ? -- m CROP. ?-ii Is Worth by Yield Per Acre. SELLING PEICE Be Misleading as to Value. - Aa mportant Distinction. The Soutb Carolina Weather Bureau's Re port for NoTcmber Con tains Startling Data. The November report of the South Carolina section of the weather bu reau service, Just out, contains much that is of interest to farmers and all others who keep up with crop condi tions. Tne OK st interesting and valuable portion of the report ls in the nature of a reminder, or advice, to farmers as to what makes the value of thc cotton crop, and this ls especially timely just now when thete are t-o many b.zarre notions as to how to in crease the price. Tue report shows that Ilia return on the crop to the In dividual farmer is represented not by the price per tale, but by tho price per acre, and some corrparlsons be tween South Carolina and Texas are made which illustrate the point. The report says on t!< is line: "It ls thc common opinion that the selling' price ^t an agricultural pro duct is alone the measure of Its profit ableness. Theoretically this Is true, but in actual praeMrte it is n.,t wholly true, and in seine instances is not even the most important factor, when product i vcuchs is compared with crop prices. "13y far the greater part of what the average farmer lalses ls for use and consumption on his farm, and the I residue is the surplus on which alone the selling price has any effect so far ~-M^b?tXaajmer:s iiuauces aiecouccrned. The case ?s^?\SJereut with tho cotton farmer, for tinbin M re--production"*..; this staple must bets ld, and none can be piotitably consumed on the farm, and yet a series of comparisons would indicate that the selling price of cot ton is less important than the pro ducilvenei-3 per acre, In calculating the protitabkne s of this crop. "Tue statement that m re money is rece ived for a small than for tx larga M -<;?v "?j3> ?<->. "jheJc" "uaiuun;, of money received for the smaller crop represents a lois to the cotton planter, in com pal ison with the smaller amount lec.-ived for the larger crop. This view is less com mon, und it is based, of couise, on the larger yield per acre of a larne crop than a small one. lt may b : as sumed as un approximate fact that tbe cost bf cultivating an acre i f cot ton \uries but little from year to year, far less than the price per pounh or tim yield per acre, and it may aiso be assumed to be coustant In the. same locality, however widely it may vary in nifforent loalities. "To illustrate all of the foregoing points, the value per acre has been calcuiaied for the total cotton crop of South Carolina and TV xas for a num ber of years, selected to ?epre ent the conditions bruny stated above. In the value per acre, in South Carolina, was ?514 20; in Texas, $22.f>u;the price per pound was 11.2 cents. In 1894, the \alue for South Carollua was $14.3 ?; for Texas, $12.50; the price per pound ti.9 cents. In va?U3.i were, fi r South $15.00; for Texas, SlO.?O; per pound 7.0 cents, lu j eat of greatest production for which values are available, the values were, for South Carolina, $11; for Texas, $13 80; the price per pound 5.U cents. S, "Thu limits of this article will not ti?at>Q k 11 ,u" rlihcu.ssion of the weather i Watcdrevullefl> und l,je acreage eul amounis 'n connection wi ttl the lie safely H zed per acre, but il. can acre is the caed that the yield per profliablencsj ' 18!i(? the Caralira, the price 1808, the that the tolling facU>r in the ?ther mai nf raising cottem, larvte yh-ly^ the price per pound. A the mo;& aQd high price would be the i'^'1 profitable combination, bul ltule of 'supply and demand' as s itself very quickly in such cases, Jratiijg en the variable factor, i. e , ie price. The conclusion is that In ensive farming will do mme to make cotton raising profitable than will var lng the acreage from year to year in the l ope of raising the pi ice by lim ting production or increasing the aonane lo supply an existing defici ency at high prices. If the supply can be made fairly constant the price will remain fairly ci'iistant. The effect of the weather on the growing crop is, afte r all, the main factor in the pr< Stableness of raising cotton." PROOUKSS OF KAUM We>HK. As to the progress of farm work during November the bulletin says: "The weather conditions through s?rembcr were favorable for .crops remained in the ^ilnly of late, scat .''Haugh some , : P'Sing dur rmorith^gathering ad. buKsklng licking ; ted [peas; dit mg and fig sweet potatoes; and g. ^VTinu or crops such as turnip, L?nulg other root crops. . ^ A general killing frost, excep lion? the coast where lt was a beavj frost, m the 15 h, willi freezing tem peraiu'is :mrt thin ice over the uppei larts?l the State, slopped all furthei Trowth except of the very hardies! Srgctables In the coast truck regions fand ended the growing season of n>04 ' Thc temp', rature averaged slight below normal, but was never cole int .ugh to a ff i rd safe opportunity foi |utcherlng farm hogs, have in thc in portions wht re mucn mea! cured and packt d. was delayed by drought, [rain fell (?arly In the month ground and permit kof lands for wheat and acreage o? both grains ug the month. ?or |low, owing to tbo'pre but was.ln the maia satisfactory. Wheat and oats seeding was not finished. "Bice thrashing was practically fin ished, and the yields were not as large as the mid-summer condition indicat ed that they would be. _,"The yields ot corn came up to ex pectation and gathering confirmed tte earlier promising reports. Both early and late planted corn were equally good. "There were generally poor yields of minor fall crops ovtr the western parts attributable to the long and severe drought during September and October; in tho eastern parts where the rainfall was more copious, the fall orcps were generally excellent. "During November, as during the previous gathering sea*on this year, there was practically nu loss In har vesting from bad weather, aud ail orops were laved in toe very best con dition." CLIMATOLOGY FOR TUE MONTH. The main temperature for Novem ber was 41.6 degrees, which is 2 2 de grees below normal. The highest local mean was 57 2 dogrees at Charleston; the lowest was 40 2 degrees at Oreen ville. The monthly extremes were a maximum of 80 degrees at Walhalla, on the 22ud, and a minimum of 22 de grees at Greenville and Sam us on the 15th, making the State range 58 de grees. The greatest h eal monthly range was 66 degrees at Walhalla, the least was 37 degrees at Charleston The mean of the dally maximum tem peratures was 63.6 degrees and of the daily minimum temperatures was only 39.7 degrees, making the average dal ly range 23.9 degrees. Frost (tirst killing of the seis rn) In addition to the list in October: On the IstatCheraw, Dillion. Lugoil. On the 13th at Trenton. On the l i h at I Aiken, Allendale, Anderson, Mites burg, Callie u a Falls, Camden, Edlsto, EUlngham, Georgetown, Kingstree, Pe zar, Plnopolls, St. Georges, St. Mat thews, St. Stephens, Saluda, Smith Mills, Summerville, Teniasseo, York ville. On 15that Beaufort, Columbia, Conway, Society Hill, Walterboro, Winnsboro. Ice-Thin ice wai quite general on the 1st, 14th, and 15th. l'UECiriTATION. The precipitation averaged 2 "8 in ches which ls 0.05 below norma). Tnt greatest monthly amount was 4.39 at York ville; the least was 1.20 at Con ?K""_- Tue Ki'eattaj ~' ?/.our fall wa.1 2.06 at Stateburg on the 12bb-13th The average number of days with 0.01 or more precipitation was 0, rangiri from 1 at Allendale to 8 at Columbia Little Mountain, Saluda and Trenton Sleet-Columbia, 13th. Snow-Twenty seven stations re ported snow on the 13;h, generali} only a trace, but amounting to 2. In ches at. Batcshura. Tho snow malte? Hb ii. ?wi't. * ' V ! Weather-The average number o clear days was 17, of partly cloud] ones 6, and of cloudy ones 7. Winds-The prevailing direction o tho wind was from the wast at 17 sta tlons, from the northwest at 10, iron the southwest at w, from tbe no;tb east at 7, from the nortn at 5, fron the east at 2, and from the s luthwes at one tt itlon. Iliirli Winds-Ililli winds, reacbln velocities of 40 mbes or more, at man places, prevailed over the State on lb 13th. Jordon Iaaues a Cull. President Ilarvle Joid in pt th Southern Cotton Growers' Protect!v nsMDClatlon Wednesday issued a ca for an interstate convention to be bel at New Orleans, Jan. 24 2?, 100; Among the matters for cousi leratlo to be acted upon are the followinj according to the call: "Flhanctn the entire spot otton business of tl south; creating a bureau 6f statist!) for benefit of the producers; tstabiisl ment of a cotton exchange in cac State through which cotton can t sold direct to the manufacturen.; o ganlz\tlon qulekly of all the otu producers In each cotton growir county; reduction of cotton acreai and use of ci mmerclal fertilizers f l?o5, of not less than 25 per cent adoption of a local warehouse syste to meet the praclical demand of bol farmers and bankers throughout tl south; lo make New Orleans the lea lng cotton exchange lu ibo Univ Stales; the formation of a close al ance betweeu all the southern agrioi tural organizjtlons now In existen for mutual co-operation and proti lion. These are among the lead i matters for consideration. They a momentous and some of them invol tremendous propositions. But no are Incapable of quick solution a? practical realization. Tue south pi seascB the brains, the manhood a ihe money to solve any great quest! which threatens her prosperity." "IIOBH I'm Koady To m Tho Ca A special to The Augusta Chronl from Thomson, Ga., says: John Mut and Guy Heed, the two men who wi convicted of the murder of Mr. II. Story herc 21 days ago, were banf. in the jail yard at 10.30 a. m, W nesday. They l otti took the mat coolly, showing but little fear or n vousness. Just before the black < was slipped ov< r the head of Mull with a grin on his face, he said to sheriff; "Moss, I'm, ready to skin cat." The negroes killed Mr. It. Story, a prominent farmer, beca tic would not let them off .from w one afternoon. Tho body was fount a canebrake. A lynching was aver by the quick work of Judge Hcnrj Hammond of the supremo court, c ravening court ano giving then i ...ai. Tue UI..UO wa.committed, criminals trlod and han;ed within days, being the ncord foi-prompt ' ministration of justice in tils St r ?hot Aswkltanr. r In an eft irt to arrest Jesse ^ofT ti Charles Holland, Fred West meei , and a young man named Pattersii . Oakwood Ga., Wednesday night, Puckett, chief of police of that tc I was shot through the bowels ant ? he fell he shot Jet-s Wofford th ri : the stomach. Tho latter died she i after while Puckett is in a clange condition. Tiie men were (Irin, and rowdy and when Puckett deavored to quiet them a tlgut fol ed, with the above results. Patter Holland and Westmoreland \ lodged In Jail at Gainesville at i Wednesday. The town, six n south of Gainesville, is gre wrought up over the tragedy. WH AT BEAT BRYAN Some Inside History of the Cam paign of 1896. A COBRUPTION FUND Of Fve Million Dollars Raised by (he Trust Magnates a Few Days Before the Election for Special Use ia Five Doubtful States and Given to Manna. Thomas W. Lawson charges that Henry II. Rogers, president of the Amalgamated Copper Company and one of the leaders of the Standard Oil group, directed the raising of a $5 000, OOO fund to buy Ave doubtful States for William McKinley In the ISD? elec tion. The charge is mad0 1? 1 he Jan uary i/?sue of Everybody's Magazine, the save of whk*'-'^ -. Rogers tried vainly to stop byThreatening criminal libel proceedings against the Amerl can News C mpany, which ls thc gen eral distributing agent for periodicals and magazines. Lawson makes the charge In con nection with his exposure of the secret of the Hay State gas tight between J. Elward Addlcks, of Delaware, and Mr. R ;gers. Lawson for Add.cks liad ar range a settlement with Rogers by which the latter was to be paid 86,000, OOO on a specitic dale for his rival gas plants in Boston and other important ouueessiuus. Tiie money was to be raised by a new Issue cf Bay State Gas stock. Everything was running smoothly, whr n R- ger Foster, a well known New Yolk lawyer, acting for a client, threw the Hay State Gas Company into a receivership, Dwight Braman being appointe:! receiver. The receivership proceedings were put through with such a rush in the Delaware courts that Addlcksonly knew of it after the receiver had been named. DISASTER VACUO SPECULATOR!. Unless the receiver could bc dis charged and Addicks regain posses sion of the comoauy all hope of rais lng the money necessary ttl p?rfect tho settlement arranged with R gers would have tu be abandoned; the war would be continued, and Lawson, Ad 'dicks aud all of their following ci usn tomplated suicide when h? first heard of the receivers-hip. Lawson say.s he went to seethe Bon bon broker lo learn if thc receivership could be ended. He asked the broker; ' What's the price?" and the latter, he says, replied: * 150,000 for the lawyer and his client, who had 8100,000 of Bay State bonds, and 81 ?"io,ooo for himself and those behind him. Law son said he told thc broker receiver that the only hope of getting thc money was from Mr. Rogers, saying: "The question is how to get Rogers to advai.ee so large r?. sum in such a ticklish business. Ile does not want to get mixed up In a matter in which any one man's treachery miglit mean State prison." Lawson then vis'sted Mr. Rogers Ile siys in his article: "Rogers refused absolutely to he a party to any payment that could bc traced hack to him. He canvassed the sources of hazard; first, through treadle ry on the part of Foster, Bra man or Addlcks, he mtg it he accost cl of bribing a court o dicer, the receiver: Addioks might blackmail him by chat ging him with conspiracy, or a conspiracy obarge might be brought by Bay Strte st? ck holders aid he held for tremendous damages. He refused to put himself Into any suth trap. 1 put forward a dcz-m ways to meet the emergency, but he would have none of them. ROGERS1 ALLEGED fl.AN. "Finally he suggested a method which was certainly perfect of its kind. He began by letting me into tlie secret that the chatict s 1 f a Mc Kinley victory in the: election the fol lowing week looked pretty bad, and that the latest canvass of tho States showed that ?nicas something radical were done Bryan would surely win. Hanna bad called Into consult;.'.lon half a dozen of the biggest finan* ^.s in Wall street, and it was decided to turu at let.st five of the doubtful States. To do this a fut.d of 85,000, 000 had been raised under Rogers' direction, to be turned over to Mnrk Hanna and McKinley's cousin, O; borne, through John Moore, the Wall st reet broker, who was acting as R g ers' rcprcssntative in collecting the money. "lt weuld be legitimate for tho National Committee to pay out money to carry Delaware, and he (Bogers) would arrange it that the coin to sat isfy Braman and Foster should come through tblsobannel. Tims he would be complete ly'protected. " 'Lawson,' said Mr. R g^rs, look ing at me with deadly seriousness, his voice ctiarged with c mvictlon, 'If Bryan's elected ibero will ce such a panic in t his country as the world has never seen, and with hts money ideas and the crazy headed radicals he will ?all to Waddington to administer the nation's alfairs busin? ss will surely be destroyed and tho working peopk suffer untold misery. You know we all hate to do what Uncle M irk says is necessary, but lt's a case of some of os sacrificing something for the coun try's go.)d. Bryan's election would set our country back a century, and I be lleve it':< the sacred duty of every honest American to clo what beean to save his land from such a calam tty.' ^ VISIT TO HANKER MOORE. fontinulng, Mr. Lawson write? "jUavlrg clearly sat forth tho politi cal sM-uatton through which we should bo sJvcd, Mr. Rogers proceeded to mape/J11, my own program. First, I must Aorfectan alibi for him by going to Fust/51, an<l Braman and Impress ing t-^?m that he was absolutely out of th.) affair, and must under no cir curacuvices be brought into it, I must \ / convince ?ddlcks to the same effect, and in addition tell bim that Mr. Bogers bad angrily refused to get Into the mix up, that I should then hold myself in readiness to meet John Moore and Hanna or O .horne as soon as an appointment could be arranged. That afternoon I got the word and went to No. 26 Broadway, and from there Mr. Bogers and I went over to John Moore's office. " 'Jobn,' said Mr. Rogers, 'I am going to turn this matter over to you and Lawson, and I am to have noth ing further to do with it. What you two agree to will be satisfactory to me, and remember, both of you, every dollar that is paid by the National Committee, but after it's all settled, and if there is no slip up, I will look to Ltwson for whatever ls expended. Is ir, understood?" "We agreed that lt was, and Rog ers lett us." Lawson says that the John Moore mentioned was of the stock broker age firm of Moore & Scbley. Mr. Moore Is now dead. Lowson describes the Washington connections of Moore & Scbley, sajirg they did business for Senators, Congressmen and other na tional .(iUcials who speculated in stocks on their inside knowledge of legislation. When everything had been arran^rd for the quashing of the receivership by the payment of $300,000. Lawson went to Boston with Mr. Rogers' at torney and the directors of the Boston companies. Legal transfers were to be made lu Boston immediately upon telephone news from Wilmington of the retirement of the receiver. An other party, headed by Addlcks and Including the lawyer, the receiver, a representative of Mr. Moore and coun sel for Mr. Rogers, left at the same time for Wilmington. This latter contingent. Lawson says, was to carry the money. Mr. Lawson writes: nOW THE PLAN AVOllKED. "Before I took the train for Bos ton, just after the last deed bad been s'gnrd, I had c uno to a complete understanding in the manner in which the court proceedings the following morning should be conducted. It was understood that no one should take another's word for anything, and con sequently that no money should pass until specific performance of all the required conditions. "immediately on tho release of the receivership Foster and Braman were to be paid their "fee,1 and they asked that thc $150,000 cash comiug to them should bc arranged in separate piles of bills. The two packages contain ing Foster's and part of Buchanan's and Braman's $50,000 were to be in the costody of John Moorer's repre sentative and my partner.^who, with R >gers' counsel and Addicks, had beer assigned to represent the Bay St.* " 'Lawson said that Addicks had planned a revenge upon Foster and Braman after the payment of the mon ey. Some of his political "heelers." Lawson writes, bad learned of the pay ment In cash that was to be made, and bad planned a scuffle on the sta tion platform while the lawyer and the receiver were walting for the traiu that was to take them from Wilming ton to New York, Lawson doesn't state outright that the two men were to be robbed in the scuffle, merely saying: ''Well, many things happen In a rush." (..'ASE KULI. OK MONET. Judge Wales was on the bmch lu Wilmington Circuit Court room the next day, says Lawson. All of the parties to the ai rangement were pres ent and two dress suit cases were staekf d up In the sight of all present. The formal motion to dlsmhs the re receivership was made and consented to. "At once," writes Lawson, "the two drtss suit cases, each loaded with currency, were slipped to Braman and Fuslor, lu tho bustle Braman and Foster, each with his booty tied." They bad arranged for a special train to carry them out of Wllmlng ton, and in this way. Lawson says, the plans of the Addicks men were defeated. Lawson says he learned that the two men bad planned to make a big coup li? Bay State Gas, but he got into Ibo market first, sending the price up from 4 bo 10 a share, and then causing Blump when they got aboard at the high price. In a separate article Lawson again attacks the life Insurance companies, and bo upset the charge that he was actuated by their refusal to Insure him, pilots a fac-smile of a ?1,000,000 bond policy which he hold in the Equitable Life and on which he pays a yearly premium of $144,220. This policy expire.; on August 22,1012. when Mr Lawson Is to recelvo $1, 300,000. Shut ll i uni,-li'. J. B. Harrison, a prominent cotton buyer fatally shot himself at 4 o'clock Wednesday afternoon In his room at Magnolia Inn, at Barnesvlllc, Ga., the ball entering just above the right ear and lodging In the brain. Heavy losses on cotton contracts led to the act. His losses are estimated at about $25,000. He has been despondent for the past few days and Wednesday afternoon bought a pistol from a hardware store. Immediately thereafter, seeing the figures giving the clos? of the market for Wednesday, he went to bis room and shot himself. He was 45 j ears old and stood well among the people there. Besides tho losses sus tained be had considerable property and money left, amounting to $12,000 or $15,000. Killed tho Hoy. At Chicago while E mer Hunt, 10 years of age, balanced a hollie on his head, William Dougherty, who had been boasting of his prowess os a marksman, lt is alleged, attempted to jirulato William Tell by shooting the l ottie. At the second shot Hunt fell to the lLor with a bullet between bis eyes ant1 died almost instantly. Doughert y escaped and the police are searching for him. Kilted hy au Kxploslou, Specials from Covington, a town on tho Georgia railroad about 40 miles east ot Atlanta say: Tho toilers at the electric light plant exploded there I Wednesday and killed the. ilreman, J. ' L. McCullough. Tlie cause of tho ac Icident Is unknown, the boilers being I practically new, having been used but four years. A OARING RESCUE. B|ri|g Life Savers Take Twenty One Men from Ship. VESSEL TOTAL LOSS. e Oil Steamer Northeastern Vt ding to Pieces on the Treach erous Shoals of Cape Matte m ras. Crew. After Great U Peril, is Saved. .a,-. > A'ter hoing Imprisoned on the wreaked oil steamer Northeastern ulm mSlea off Capo Hatteras f jr 3(5 htu*g, Capt. Wilder and his crew of 21 tuen were taken ashore at noon Tht-rsday by the crews ot Klunakeet, Creeds Hill and Hatteras life saving stations. The big steamer is pundlng Dia mond shoals under a terrille sea and is given up by the crew as a total less. Irfcfc bewildering fog Tuesday night the Northeastern, on ber way up the coai.:, from Port Arthur, Ti xas, to New York with a cargo ot crude pet role* ,n, shoved her prow into the deadly sands on Hacteras and was fas> rn tho clutches of the graveyard of sapping before her crew realized wbnf.i bad happened. T^g|Jwas at ll o'clock and before day Shad come the gale that swept over" the country from the middle west had st. uok the s;a and waves Trsrc crashing over thc hui pi ess incess antly. The force of the wind and tide threw her on her port beam and the fl iod of w "i?r extinguished her tires before her "inflammable cargo could become Ignited. Had this not been the case, the 22 man aboard the Northeastern would have met a horrible fate with no ph?slble ohance of escape. When morning dawned the wreck was sighted by the life savers and the weather observatory at Hatteras. She wasriirie miles off shore and the water between was a seething miss of moun tainous waves. No surf boat ever buhu could have lasted one minute in suet', a sea and the life guards on the coerL bad to stand by helplessly and walch: the big ship being pounded by che ? aves. During Wednesday night th" ' :nd diminished, t?ut the temp r ..oed ?bout 20 degrees, add ..ub buffering of tue crew. Tins m . ng at sun-up the hardy life sa\. rs began their attempts to get a sur.'boat to the ship. Again and ugaiu tho life boats were sent bead on into the sea, only to be caught up by a monster wave and hurled back on the beach. Human determination con quered the elements after a three-hour struggle, and at 9 o'clock three life boats, with their brave crews, were safely across the breakers. When the surfman reached the wreck they were confronted with a problem of great danger and difllculty. The sea. while lt bad ub,hied to some estent, was still in an atgry mood ind the little Ufv? boats wore being tossed like cockle shells about the helpless mass or steel. Lines were tina ly strung be tween the boats and the Northeastern and every man was ta-cen from the vessel In safety. It was "ver six hours before the first cf the boats reached shore again. The almost exhausted crew waa cared for by the Hatteras life savers. No statement could be se cured from Capt. Wlider Wednesday, night, owing to the fact that *.he coast wires were broken shortly after the barest fact* c moori, lng the rescue were obtained. The vessel, it ls said, will be a total loss. The Northeastern is a steel ocean steamship, built lu Chicago In luOl, aud ls owned by C. ( cunse'.mau of Cincinnati. The Northeastern sailed for Port Arthur, December 7, from New York, arrived on tho 17th and sailed the same day._ Dr. It?cli;.i il,.on KobtKUS. A dispatch from Spartanbu-g says Rsv. W. R. Richardhon, D. D., has severed bis connection as editor with The Southern Christian Advocate and bas received an appointment from Pdshop Duncan as pastor of the First Methodist church at Pulaski, Tenn He will leave In the near future for his new field of labor, lt ls not defi nitely known who will succeed Dr. Richardson as The Advocate editor, lt fs currently reported that for the present the editorial work will be dono by one of the following gentle men: President Snyder of Wofford college, Pastor E. (). Watson of Cen tral Methodist church, or Rsv. W. A. Rogers, D. D. The departure of Dr. Richardson and his family will be a matter of genuine regret throughout city. As editor of The Advocate and as pastor of Central Metho.ilst church In years past, Dr. Richardson had made many friends, irrespective of creeds, who held bim In high esteem. Whipped White Man. A. D. Lewis, a white man, S3 joars of age, whose home ls In Chicago was whipped in the woods near Natchez, Miss., Wednesday, and ordered out of the State. Lewis was being taken to 4be county convict farm to sorve a sentence for insulting women on the streets. While under arrest, a crowd of six white men look him from the guard, carried bim to the woods three miles from town, stripped him and gave him 60 lashes across the back, then placed him on a t~aln and order ed him to leave tho Stn te. Ha Wan I o oohed. A special from Neal, Oa., says" Herbert Simmons, t=. negro, was lynched there Thursday for the killing of J. A. Park, a white man and one of the community's btst known clti z ns. Tho nogre. was taken from the ofnceis by Infuriated citizens while be ing carried to the Zebulon jail and after belog strung upon a tree his body was riddled with bullets. Mr. Park waa murdered on tho night of D'.o. 27, hld skull being crushed in with a large stick. Tho coronor's ver dlot vas that be came to his death at tho bvnd? of Herbert iilmmona. "HOLD YOUR COT I ON. Huoh Ia the Advice Gi von th? Farm? era on All Hides. The concensus of opinion on ali sides ls that to sell cotton at this time is little short of suicidal. This is the time, lt ls declared, for the farmers of the south to stand firm-stand pat aud nut show their hand. To yield, to s-.-ll at this time, i-s to simply .add to the panic and give the bears a still further chance to beat down prices. lt ls argued that if the crop should reach the unprecedented figures of 13,000,000 bales, not more than 10, 000,000 bules of this will be marketed before the decreased acreage of lu05 ls a faot. beyond dispute. A heavy cur tailment of the acreage planted this ? spring means a higher market and a rush pf spinners to secure st? ck for ? future use. There ls common sense in this view. The Augusta Chronicle says the be lief is strong among the cotton men j of that city that the fleecy staple is already far below its real market val- j ue. They feel that the reaction is , bound to oome. Tuey argue that Jan- < u L ry contracts for exportation have al < ready been supplied and hence there < are few seekers of cotton on the mark \ st. But there are Febiuary, March aud April contracts yet to be arrang- ] cd, and factors claim that the borrow j lng Boheme speculators and exporters' t lf^eoti attempted just before the hull- ? rlays, is a proof that they fear the j jonsrqncnces if forced int? the mark- c ?t later as purchasers. The advice j [rom all s- ctlons of the south ls the j jame, to hold c tton. The further t id vice is to the effect that throughout r Lhe south the colton factors and farm- t sra will hold what hos not already c been marketed. It ls a fact, the cot- t ton men a ni rm, that the farmers were aever in a better condition to hold s the resin ne or their crop not already ( sold than now, and that not to do so \ ls to give up the fight when every- t thing points to ultimate success-the i whipping of the tight. j Factors called attention to the fact j that New York financial papers ad- a nit that throughout the present c jrisis cotton has been friendless on s ibelr exchange; "a friendless waif" la c their term, and had been umercifully ( Hammered down by the bulls, bent on c the freezing out of the southern hold ?rsof the goods. Under these condl- t tiona they are not surprised that cot- t Lon is as low as it ls. They wonder c that the slump did not continue. That [ t did not they.'argue is good evidence t that the bulls know the staple is fear- r fully undervalued. W. P. Brown, aa j lutbority on cotton in New Orb ans, t ia cut In a long interview along the t ?ame line, urging the holding of cot- s LOU at ail hazards, and, as u see./ml [ neasure, a reduction of acreage next \ pear. He urges that the farmers of c the south hftve the situation In hand if the/will remirii qtrmr? ^ j1Ql? cot. ton. J The Indications are that the advice 1 will be.carried out to the letter by the 1 ppople of the South. Buyers and ex- I porters' agents report from all over i the cuutry that no spot cotton ls be- < lng offered for ssl3. At Meridian, Miss., factors refused to sell where i offers above prevailing prices were made and the parties stood ready to I buy in any quanitles. The New York letters and papers are loaded with telegrams from Southern representa tives to the effect that farmers are 1 determined to hold what cotton they j have? and that none is being offered j on the markets. They cannot buy. They are not buying. The consensus of opinion is that cotton should be held and acerage reduced for the next season. It is the hope of the southern farmer. The belief ls firm that the speculators and manipulators are In the main responsible for the severe slu np of the past few weeks, that cotton is at least two centB below the real market value, and that the pre sent crisis is precipitated hy the bears only in the hope of breaklug the hold of the farmers on the tleecy staple and thus easing off the situation which they have created. Commissioner of Agriculture Ste vens of Ceorgia Bays: '"The thing for the farmers to do is to hold on to the cotton they have now. If they will only hold, and cut down the acre age next year you will see tho price go 'shuting up' instead of down. If every one would cultivate only ten acres of cotton to every ph u/h and produce instead of 11,000,000 bales, only 6,000,000, then you would see tile price go skyward in a hurry. A man eau make more money out of a 5,000,0C0 bale crop at 12 to 15 cents luau he can out of a 11,000,000 crop at ti cents. Then by confining him self to ten acres of cotton to the plow lt would give him an opportunity of plantii g more grain, and moro things upon which to live at home. If he doesn't want to do tbathecould allow I his land to rest. If tho farmers will see cotton bringing 12 cents next year this time. "I am going to talk with Commis sioner Poole, of Alabama, over the telephone Friday afternoon. Ile is president of the Commissioners of Agriculture of the Southern States. My idea ls to have a meeting in New Orleanu some time next month to dis cuss tho situation. If each commis sioner in the cotton growing states would write a personal letter to each farmer in his btati, advise him to hold what cotton he now has on hand and to plaut only ten acres to the plow. I believe lt would have a wonderful ef fect. It did in 180? and wo got ten cents for cotton. 1 have a list of ovor 30,000 farmers In my otfice, and 1 can get them out leUera In a very sheri while. Coming from the head of the agricultural department in eaoh state I feel sure that the farmers would take notice of it, and many of them would act accordingly, It is a quos tlon for the farmers to determine? bm, i am fully convinced if they will follow my plan we will have twelve cent cotton next fall." Skates Like a Boy at MO Years. William Hammel, eighty years old, went bktttlng Wednesday with the rest of the "boys" at Shiloh, N. J. Ho wrote his namo on the loo, cut the figure eight, and then raced u mile with a much younger man and won. The venerable skater used the skates he bought In Philadelphia slxty-sov'on yw.. ago, THE GOSPEL OF THE COEN. On? Scientist Worth Millions to the Farmers of Iowa. One single scientific brain, study ing on the subject of scientific, om raising, bas earned in the last year for the State that employs him over 310, 000,000, and this ls only a beginning. Professor P. G. Holden, of the Iowa Agricultural College, in Ames, ls the man. He began as a school teacher, teaching about 'jrain as a side issue. Now he is koowa BS an agronomist and preaches the ' 'gospel of the cora" from special cars drawn throughout the rural districts. rho farmers ol iowa once laughed at tho idea of a professor with such a title teachirg them, the best corn Krowera In the world, anything about raising om. Now tbey flock from miles away tb listen to him and he ls revered and obeyed os no other man In the State. As a result, in large part, of follow ing bis advice, they have raised about jnc hundred million bushels more SOTO this year tban In any year of this ?entury, and tbey exp-ct to add an )tber one hundred million bushels to jhelr crop next year. Prfessor Holden became an agrono nlst-that ls, an expert in grain .alslng-by acoldent. When he .aught sahool in Michigan he got up i eora growing eintest among his luplls. He induced the boys to pick JUL the earliest, biggest and most :erfect ears from the fields, save them ind plaut from them the best and nest perfeot kernels. Tue result, kided by scientific methods of cultiva ion, was that the boss raised more :orn on their little patches than any )ody had ever dreamed of. Professor Holden worked on his ystem until it was perfected. His ame spread, and the Funk b^t?eTS7! vhoowna 25 000 acre farm/in uni mis, offered hlm_a_h?g-malary to run t. He plantea 20,000 acres of corn a rear for tb^m, land added to their 'leid-ffivxrinihaa one hundred thous md bushelB the first year. Tht. State if Iowa thought he was a good thing ind engaged him to occupy the chair )f agronomy in the Iowa Agricultural College, in Amf;S. The chair was sreated especially for him. Professor Holden made the farmers lelieve after a time that he knew nore about corn raising than they lid. He travelled all over the State n special trains last spring and win er, making "tail end" speeches and jelling better crowds than any Vice presidential candidate saw later in ihe season. He told the farmers how o select their seed corn, hov to plant md cultivate lt, and on what sort o' rround to plant diff?rent sorts of cora ind hov to handle it under different conditions. The results are read in the crop re ports on Iowa's corn yield this year. Tani avora?e or?P of Iowa corn for li>041? ^forty bushels to the acre. , i ne>i?ars it has been 27 1-2 aushels. Thiarf.Tr- pro 1M ntT[rrft <ate 350,000,000 bOjSJ abouti )00,000 more than ?Mi>?^fiJJS i The crop is worth about 830^1^,,^! cnore than a year ago, and Profess^ ?olden is universally oredlted with a t third Interest in the extra yield. Burned to Death. Three persons lost their lives in a Ure which totally destroyed tho farm residence of Cbas. McMillan at the head of Cmesus Like, N. Y., on Thursday. The dead: Charles McMillan. Lottie McMillan, his sister. Frank C. McMillan. Lula McMillan, another sister, escaped. The cause of the fire has not been explained. The McMillan's were among the prominent families of Livingstone county. Tue three McMillans lost their lives In an attempt to save the house from destruction. Amused by the crackling of the Hames the family fled from the bouse in their night clothing and awoke a farmhand who occupied a house a few roads away." Ho arrived on the scene Just lu lime to see Charles, Frank and Lottie rush Into the burning building with palls of water. Lula McMillan and Mary Doman, a servant, were restrained by main force from following the others. The charred bodies of the victims were found In the ruins, lt Is sup posed the third body ls still in the debris. Iteport Inoorreot. At a meeting of a number of gin ners of Georgia and Alabama at At lanta, Frlde.y, two vice presidents were named from Georgia to attend the next convention of cotton ginuer* to be held at Dallas, Texas. President J. A. Taylor of the National Ginners' association was presentat the meeting and mide an address urging the gin ners to retain Information regarding cotton produced. Among other things he said: "The government report of the cotton crop ls totally incorrect. These reports are as far wrong as any thing I know. Many ginners did not count-thelr bales correctly, often add lng many hundred bales more than they hai In reality ginned. In many Instances the number of laies giuned was ?ue9aed at. I hiive como to the e. mc: inion that I and the otbor gin ners were chumps for giving out the reports." Shot In a Cotton Mill. At Spartanburg Arthur Leister shot and killed George McAllister In the card room of the Appalacbe mill at Arlington Wednesday morning. Leister was card room boss, and had discharged ono of McAllister's family Tuesday, and this caused a quarrel be tween the two. This quarrel was re newed and resulted in Leister shoot ing McAllister three times, thc latter I dying almost instantly from tho ef fects of his wounds. Lsister came to Spartanburg and gave himself up to tho sheriff. He wa? lodged In the county Jail. Falling Tree Killed Two. A special from JEUiJay, Ga , says that Wm. Cantrell aud Joe Cbastine were killed and a brother of Chastlue seriously Injured near Hurnt mountttn by a falling tree. The tree was blown by a high wind across a saiall frame house in whloh tbs mon were sitting at the timo. A In thc Price of . Cotton on Ac count of dinners Report OF THE GOVERNMENT. Prices the Lowest ia Tire* Y tar?. Thc Report, ax Given Out by the Cent us Bureau, Indicates a Yield ?f Thirteen Million Bales for this Year. A dispatch from Now York saya thl ??tton market broke 30 to 35 point! sn the connus bureau's ginners^epov Indicating a crop in excess of thu gov ernment'!; estimate. There -was very tieavy tradlug on the decline. The oears contend that the glnners' report probably forecasted a crop of nearly L3,000,000 bales. Following the re port prices, which bad shown weak ness since the opening, broke sharply, -vitil January Belling around 6.66, March 6 81 and May 6 96, or a net de dine of 22 to 25 points and a break of practically $6 a bale in two weeks' iime. The market was very active luring Wednesday afternoon with big ihort interest's covering while / jere vas also heavy liquidation ar( ! on ?very little bulge the bears ,sd " : ilsposed to withdraw their-.-1* irders and sell more cottc^f' lgure8 reached in tn/^ S?tf?y three years. THE OIKNEES' KEPOB>^ The census bureau'" Wednesa?i? med a report glvlng the quantity iotton ginned in 737 "counties up December 13 last to have been ll, ?86,614 running bale.?, which ls the qulvalent of 11,848.113 commercials jalea. The commercial bales reported ?o the same period for 1903 amounted to 8,747,669. In arriving at the number of coaa nercial bales, round bales are cou; d half bales. The report to tho same date i 'ear covered 812 counties as agV; 37 this yr ar. The report for iresent year covers the 19,527 ginneries, while 29,527 ncluded in the report for 1 uoduct of the different state rear, in runnsng bales, December 13, ia as follows \iabama.... ; Arkansas. ..... Florida. Georgia. Lndian Territory Kentucky. Louisiana....... yiissisllppl. Missouri. H or th G^?^iiv 6? j /J' iX c.oPYR<&?r SEH uiu.."..,>.( MAS, it A dispatch frc ni New Oinx. p,y> wlth the rexdiug of the ginuers' ?v,^ . on the cotton exchange Wednesday \ cotton slunped 47 to 55 points. Ex- ? traordinar/ excitement attended the I break. The market was hammered with grea. energy. After the first excitemeni the market grew quieter though thc decline was not arrested. January cotton went to 6.40, which is a decline of about four cents during the last three months. Cotcon LSuniod A dispatch from Atlanta, Gav one bale ot cotton was burned ? streets of Fort Gaines Thursday a1 noon by farmers of Clay county, w?\ set'fire to-the neeoy staple after mass mee lng in which the cotton1?, planters o! that county declared they * were wlllit g to burn their interest in ^ the two m ilion bales representing an / excess crop produced in the oottwVl o states. The burning WM aceotf^h in by great ceremony vt^a^ilo^A . still greaser excitement. Much XT: tbuslasm was i , ideuoed at the moss meeting ol the farmers at which this (radical action was planned and adop ted. Several speeches were made and then followed the resolution whloh provided that Clay county should take the Initiative and burn the 2,000,000 bales above the normal crop. Other counties have been asked to follow this action and in this way rid the market of the surplus crop. Murdered in ? Club Koona. Travis Johnson, a well known citi zen, was foully murdered Wednesday tn rooms at the Arlington olub, his head being nearly severed from his burly by either a knife or a hatchot. John Griffith, marine engineer, was ?arrested almost immediately after the assassination and charged with the crime. The victim was at breakfast when he received a telephone message to return to the club rooms, as some one wanted to see him. Ho was ac companied into the roona by Griffith, who was seen a few minutes there I after leaving the place by a rear en trance. Fooling against the prisoner intense and a qulok trial is de manded. The motive for the crime was probably robbery,- as nearly $200 was taken from the umrlered man. Trains in Fatal Crash. The ncavy fog caused a fatal aoci d mt on the New Uaven road Wednes day night. Tho Hoston express due at 7 03 In charge of Conductor J. A. Daly, of Hartford, and Engineer Charles Bahyn, of Now Haven, crash ed into an accommodation train in tne Stamford depot. George How land, a travelling conductor, of Mouut Vernon, was killed, and many were Injured. _ Poor Fellow. At Calcago on Friday, after buying a collin oat t si ;il ly for a friend) Lf.roy K. Nesbit, a banker, e<n.-imit,te.d sui cide Friday lu an undertaking estab lishment. Scribbled on a cart! In tho banker's pocket was a note saying; "I ara tired of being a cripple.M Nesbit had a shrivelled log, and snout thousands of dollars in