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FARMERS TRUST. A Speech on the Subject by Ex. Senator McLiiuris. ITH WORTH REAPING. He Presented His View? is a Way Which Attracted Not a Little At tention, and He was Apnlaud ed Frequently by His Hearers. We publish below Ex-Senator Mc Laurita speech before the Cotton Farmers Convention In^Columbiadtist ' week: "Jui.t a few years ago," ho said, "the farmers of Kansas and Nebraska were turning grain to reduce a sur plus, tis we have heard recently of burning cotton in Georgia and Tex:.s. For the few years past the crops in the west have been the largest on record and yet wheat ls today selling at nea:ly 81. HO. the equivalent of 12 1-2 cent cotton, while oats, corn, barley, rye and all other foodstuffs are proportionately high. Thero ls a striking analogy between wheat and cotton; they are the two great agri cultural export crops of tho Unltsd States: more and more, the civilized world is looking to oar country for food and clothing. "It is interesting aud Instructive in this crisis to hud out why it is that the wheat farmer has been able fer tho past year to hold prices so high above thc European purity. I ha ven't made thc comparison in some time, but not long ago 1 did and while the European farmers were getting about 80 cents, the American farmer was receiving about 81 per bushel. Right across the border In Canada, wlieat was selling for much less than lt was In Michigan. The wheat farmers know that sooner or later Europ?en supplies will be exhausted at.d they must draw on the Uulud States. Making due allowance for war, which always makes provisions higher would not answer the qurstien, for thai would mean that Foropean price, should be higher than in the United States. "A shortage iu the American cr p of 75,000,000 bushels from last year is not suflicient explanation. The great competitor of cottoti is wool, and trade journals speak of the aimo.' t complete failure of the wool cn p of Australia, and it teetis to ire that, under the ordinary law of supply and demand this should be a factor i:i fixing the intrinsic value of colton, but we fail to see the effect. "Nature has given the cotton plan tera great advantage jver the wheal, grower. While tho Bi uth enjoys an almost complete mt nopoly in the pro duction of cotton, wheat is produced all ( ver the world, iron the Arctic to lower temperate /.ones. "Thero is but one anscer to the problem, the wheat farmer is organ ized and bas learned the lesson of how to riauage his affairs on the business prli clples that govern the other in ri dusi rles of tue world. " S. few years ago they were binging him to sleep with thai: same old song 'ove .production,' coined by selfish gret d co enable the privileged few to rob ohes many. Ile was pointed, as you are, to the laws ol supply and ele mai d-another law of God ?hat has been prostituted and^^ie to turn tfcjd pncv'c?t?- oi* honest labor into the cof fers of those 'who toil not, neither do tile;' spin. ' 'Thc wheat farmers of the west re plied to these doctrinaires. 'Away with your devil's gospel of greed: we do not believe it. Every grain of our wheat is consumed eacb year, and yet we hef.r of famine in Ireland, India, England and Russia; the wail of the hungry poor of New York, London and Paris reaches our ears. There are bread riots elsewhere, while wo burn cornait) feed wheat to cattle. V an economic theory is all a lie, for you tell these millions th it they starve because there ls im br.'ad, while you tell us that we starve because of !ts very abundance.' That ls just what ls being told the cotton farmer today. As Tum Watson said at New Orleans: 'If we make no crop, it is ruin: if we make t crop, it is ruin, too.' It is the devil, fellow citizens, not Ged, who promulgated the creed, 'You can and you can't, you wlil and you won't you are damned if you do and you are damned if you don't.' "Whatdid the wheat farmers dj? They first organ z'-d. They bu lt warehouses all over t h ; west. Whon the fi.rmers can atc re their wheat they get a certificate for this, and they Ci.n go to any bank and "draw their money on it win never needed. Ile needn't force his wheat on the market until tho price is an induce ment. Tho trade j umala told usa year and a half agu that tho farmers had passed the word around that they wanted and intended to have 91 per bushel fur their wheat, and in spite of the combined efforts of the speen lators more than a year ago wheat went to *1 a bushel. For a few weeks they forced the price under ito cents, but the farmers simply refused to sell and today its equivalent In cotton would be 12 1-2 cents a pound. Even in the far ill Argentine they have taken the cue, and fixed upon 80 cen ts as the price they demand for wheat, and at every shipping point there is a warehouse where wheat is stored until it brings the price. Fellow citizens, cotton ia the only prod mt in the world where the prion is fixed entirely by the purchaser, and the mun who makes thc uri ? ele has no voice In lt. You haul a li ad of cot,on Into town, you go to a buyer; he says, 'Wait till Liverpool comos in.' In a few min utes lt is cha!kod up on the black board, and j ( II aro told what yin must take. Gentlemen, this coat I havti on stayed on sumo merchant's I shelf until I paid his price fur lt. He I told nie what he would take and I i either had to pay his price or go with Out. ? '"Che coal trust, thc meat trust, all ? fix t ie price of their products and I they keep them until they get that ? prie;. Vou may starve, you may ] free: e, you may gu inked, but you i mus J pay their pilco o - go without. i "All that the. Now Orleans ph.n i mea' s la that wo, the producers of < the natorlul that clothes tho world, 1 intei d now and hence! >rth and for- < over to have a voice in fixing tho | < prlct (>f the products of our labor ; ; (Oh? th.) To talk about the law of 1 supply and demand to the planter is ( undi r pre-scnt conditions an Insult to i his Intelligence. Only a year a?o ^ otton tu?t bad boen sold for con umptlon and exported to Europe was ) arrowed, reimported into this coun try and dumped on the market, used igain and again, until Sully was 3roleen and prices given a blow from which they have never recovered. "The law? o? supply and demand! What chance have you to take advan tage of the laws of supply and demand when the government itsolf discrimi nates against your produot, when the wheat farmer is given 25 cents a bushel protection against wheat from Canada and the Argentine and cotton can be brought hero free of duty and used to depress the price of your pro duot? Cotton is the only great staple produot not protected. Wheat got* 25, coin 15, barley, oats, ryo and eoerything else [have thrown ar und it the fostering care of the govern ment, while cotton is left to shift for itself, and lt is our fault. If we had had a duty of 5 cents a pound on cot ton Imports, Sully, Brown and Hay ne could have held the market until it would have declined materially under the Influence of a large crop and this crop would have averaged you 10 cern a pound. "Tho laws of supply and demand, indeed I How much good are they to you when the agricultural depart ment spends $1,000.000 a year collect lng accurate statistics on acreage and conditions and bet?re you ever get a chance to market a bale the whole consuming world knows to almost a pound what you will make. What chance d d you have last fall after tho December report; in a few hbur? cotton was below the cost of produc tion. "Wherever they can the bene tit of thc laws of supply and demand are absolutely denied the cotton farmer, while others glory in their beneficence. Fellow clt!zeus, the New Orleans con ventlon calls upon you to'organiza for self preservation. I* have heard the ?neer, 'Oh you can't get tbe Tanners to unite, the thing wiil fall.' To these I reply the farmers of the west, are organized; they control the situation, and the southern cotton planter, in patriotism, Intelligence, patleut en durance, self control and courage, I. the peer of any man, anywhere in this wide world. (Cheers.) "Will you seize the opportunity or will you trample uurierfootthe ad van tages given you by God and nature? Let us b gio, let us organize for the monopoly given us by Gad lu the pro duction of raw cotton; lt ls the first s'.ep toward that time when within our borders we shall spin all the cot ton m ule aud exporting nothing but the finished products make the sou .Jo rich beyond our wildest dreams There is a tierce battle goi og on for commercial supremacy. This will not stop with the addition of a cont or two to the price of cot'.on; then are is ues of greater moment, it is a fight for thc Bupn m'?cy of the south in the great industrial war now being wiged in tills world. The watchlires atc hghted on the hilltop!, and the bugle has sounded the call to arms; the tramp of the legions may be heard from the Cape Fear to the Rio Grand. "The convention at New Orlean threw down the gauge of battle and the captains of the tens an! hundred* are metering Israel's busts. "I warn you that the fight will be long, hard and bitter; if we fail it means the world's contempt fora people who could not use God given opportunities. If we succeed, O, men, and the sons of men, who follower) the starry crossover the lillis of Vir ginia and am<d the swamps of the Mississippi, who rejoiced v/ith Jack son at Hull Run and wept with Lee at Appomattox, lt means, O, L ird God of battles, that thou hast reversed thy verdict at Gettysburg and Appomat tox, it means victory, victory for the south without the shedding of a wi dow's tear or the loss of a single dror. of human blood. "Fellow citizens, the issue was made at New (Orleans, lt ls Dixie avenue against Wallstreet! The man whe falters and hesitates ls the man whe would make a few paltry dollars, by incteasing lils acreage at the expense of his patriotic neighbor, H a coward and a traitor to his own s ction and people. (Cheers.) "The New Orleans convention found Itself confronted by two pro positions. ' First, to take care of the present surplus of 2,000,000 hales. "Second, to curtail the acreage ol the current year. "Third, to hud new markets by 1907, so as to put our industry on n stable basis and prevent a recurrence of preseot conditions. "For the 2,00u,000 bales of cottor: a pi ol has been formed with ample ea pi tal to back it. If trusts are to be ehe order of the day, we will cease te he the only victim, and we will have a colton trust, too; nota st ciel, dark lantern arrangement, but a trust formed fer self protection, in broad open day. by the representatives ol .?~> 000,000 people in 20 States of this union, producing the crop i pori whlcli thc whole world relies for clothing material. "This ls the most gigantic com bl nation ever dreamed of. What the lesult will he no man can tell. "One thing is sure, if you carry it out like every other trust it will be effective. Refuse to sell your cotton, but instead deposit lt in a warehouse and draw your money al the hanking ag. n.'ks established by the cotton trust, and in addition reduce youl acreage; it means that the men win; form this pool will have the consumers and bear speculators at their mercy, and yt ii can dictate nrleos for the next eri p. Whether the power would be abused or not ls another question; hut I tio say, that it makes you for the time the complete ruaste.!., of the cotton world, and that you will have to be consulted about the price ol your product. Mo one will tell yoe wiiat he will give, but will anxiously Inquire what you will take for your cotton. "1 say further, fellow ol ti zens, that condition! which force a whole people to a; tempt the organization of a trust, which, hiv. every other trust, lias foi Its Object the overturning i f tho na bural law of supply and demand, brands as something false and wronij ?he political and industrial condition! under which its occurs, it pres-, nts t problem that orles out f>r solution dong reasonable, natural lines. The itatesman who denies it in a fraud, [>hc political economist who shirks I! is a hypocrite, and the Christian whe [lasses It by is a traitor to his Goel md country. As to whether such a gigantic trust, with Its millions ol members,'pean succeed, and its effect m publie Interests, constitute pn b It ms too t'eep for mo. There l t ne ?Iber solution offered for the Immo bile situation, and lt ls your duty md my duty 11 stand by the New Or tans convention, and orgaalze every sounty and precinct in the Stato. Tex is and other States aro thoroughly or ?anlzed, and South Carolina will b< there when the long roll sounds, or prove false to all ol her traditions. I thought and said at the convention that the peimaheat solution of the cotton problem would come from find lug wider markets for cotton goods. No Intelligent and concerted action has ever been mace on large scale In this direction. "Among the 400,000,000 people of China we cac hind a ready market at reasonable prices for adi the surplus cotton the world can produce. It has been figured out- that the world can use 42,(300,000 bahs or cotton. "There is auother thing that is being done on a constantly increasing scale, the Chinese are importing yarns from this country and weaving it into cloth on their hand looms, like those our great grandmothers used back iu slavery days. What a fleld there ls nore amoug thete peoplo, rich with the stored up wealth of centuries. Tho cotton plaut in China is a little stunted thing, with almost no staplo; they can raise too many other crop* of greater value for them to make cotton. Sell them our cotton goods direct and bring baok their camphor, hemp, spices aud teas. I derived most of my infor-nntlon ab. ut China from Minister Wu, and he said the south would lind its salvation in the China markets, and he should certain ly know. Mr. McLaurin called attention to the fact that while tho merchant fixes t^ie price on his wares and refuses to sell until ho ?els a price satisfactory, oho cotton farmer must take what ever price is c tiered. Ile is tho only elass in the world offering a commodi ty for sale who has absolutely nothing to do with the Uxing of the price of .bat commodity. In I8i>8 when there was a surplus crop, one firm cpened a new market in China and disposed of $20,000,000 worth of manufactured goods. Ho had been a membe r of the committee to visit the president and to appeal to congress. Ho had seen the president Monday and had receiv ed assurance that Mr. Roosevelt would ^ive the weight of ids office to pro moting the Interests of the greatest industry in the world. He declared that tho representatives at Washing ton wet far away from tiuir p opie sometimes until the people spank them aud teach them better manners. This ocing taken as a philosophical and .!0.'d natured acknowledgment of his iwn political errors, was greeted with laughter and applause. For the rea son that the representatives get so far away, he argued, they should be ad monished by just such an organization as this. In concluding Mr. McLaurin spoke .is f l .vh lu refeeence to tariff re vlsii ? : "Why should tbe wheat farmer use free t'Aine to wrap lils protected wheat, v.hile the cotton farmer uses orotcr'ed bagging to wrap his free c-ittcn?'1 He showed how the south 's discriminated against In thc tariff. Kistern monopolists have schemed cunningly to plum er the south. Nine ty per cent, of th? Imports which are admitted I > competition in ti is coun try are competing with products of the south. ' Let us dem::nd that lu the com ing revision of tile, tariff our represen tativas Sv.e that '.he south ^ets her share of all that ls going, that we aro recognized as an Integral part of this union, ready to share its burden j and if need be light its battles, but de manding in return a full share of all the benefits Of national life. "Let us orgauiz? but keep our or ganization cut of politics. Let the watchword oe "measures not men." I have no con fi deuce in help coming from any political party now In exis tence, until we are strong enough to force it from any party that may hap pen to he in power. A man never gets justice, until he Is strong enough to force lt with a 'big stick.' "Tho great questions with which wo are confrouted have no place in the little cabals, factions an1 caucus es of political parties, for there potty jealousies and selQlsb ambition ever outweigh the country's good. "In conclusion, fellow citizens, I give you this senti mont, God bloss South Carolina; if she ls right I am with her: if she ls wrong, 'bone of my bone, flesh of my ll sh, G jd bless her still 1 am with her.' " CE?aTED A SENSATION. \ New Volk Congressman [)*roB the. HOIIRO to Expel film Before a big vote was take i in the house on the shipbuilding b ll Wed nesday. Mr. Kakerof New Yoi k, creat ed a sensation by offering tin follow ing resolution. "That while Ulis house vlovs with horror the bellberate destruction of human lite, at al' times and under all circumstances, yet it dcelarei as rep rehensible as was the murder of Grand Duke Sergius lt was nit more ; wanton than the massacre perpetrat ed by the Russian government on Jan uary 22, when thousands of unarmed men, women aud children wer,; butch ered In cold blood; and that lt regards '.he murder of thone helpless, unof fending mon, women and children as oue of the most dastardly crimes ever perpetrated; that, in refusing to ex press the. horror of the peoplo of this country at that fearful b'me, while assorting that both the American gov ernment and the people view the kill ing of Grand Duke Sern I in with ab horrence, the president has not and does not voice the real sentiment of the people of the United States " In an excited manner Mr Maker asserted that he had bean told that if he Introduced the resolution, a mo tion would be made to expel him from the house. Rushing down the aisle and waving the resolution in hl.s hand, he deposited it in abos pro vided for such measures, and detied any one to make a motion to expel hun. ' Make it now!" he shouted. "Ex pel! expel! expel! I tell you to In troduce your motion to expel?!" Previous to this Mr. Haker had pro voked conslderabh distention by con demning tho prt sklent's action in sending a message of condolemo to Emperor Nicholas. WantH to Ot? JudigOa A dispatch from Washington says Representativo Li ver fi!od with the president Wedin.sday tho application of Col. John C. Il iskell to be ono of the judges of railroad court to be created when the railroad rate hill be comes law, If lt ev.;r does. The appli cation mentions tl at Col. Haskell isa brother-ln- la * of -Wade Hampton and personal friend of Hugh Thompson, who was many years a friend of the president._ Uoi ?1 tor Wo?'ord. Tho election of Geo. E. Prince makes livo of tho circuit Judges lu ?Si.uth Carolina graduates of Watford college, and e ne of thc supremo court judges ls also a graduate of that in stitution. A COTTON PICKE R. A Sucoaaful Machino Brought to At tention of Government. The Apparatu* Was Te?toa Near Montgomery, Alabama. Tho TcBta I ully Described. A d spatch 'rom Washington flays reports reachlt g the department of ag riculture indicate that a cotton pink ing mnchlne which will really pick cotton has been invented and has stood a practical test. The pateut otllce is tilled with designs of ootton picking machines that have bsen tiled in the past, hut no entirely satisfactory re sults have ever been attained. Last year an apparatus designed bv C. A. Lowry, who invented tho round bale ginning machine, was brought to the attention of the bureau ot plant in dustry of the department of agricul ture, and the chief of that oi?lce, Pro fessor Ii. T. Galloway, arranged to bave the operations of tho device in sptcted by J. F. Duggar, director ot the Alabama e xperiment station, and C. Il. Uilliiigsley, an agent of ?he de partment. The tests were made near Montgomery. Mr. HIDiogsley's report luis roached Professor Callo way and has been found to contain many points of intere-L. lt is as follows: "Hrletly stated, the machine con sists of a frame on four wheels, two of which are Hanged traotion or drive wheels; a four horsepower gasoline engine which drives tho Bup porting wheels hy mean3 of spiocket chain connections, tl u* carrying the entire machine forward ata rat? which ls under the coutrol of the operator. The engine also drives tho mechanism which carries tho picking bolts. The essential part of the machine ls the picking arms. There aro eight of these-one for each hand of the four operators, who r.de on thc machlue for tho purpose of directing these pick lng arms. Last, there is an engineer to guide tlie machine and four men or boys (preferably boys) to point th tips of these picking arms at the open bull? as the machine moves past the plant. "Etch plcklrg arm may be likened to small tin trough closed on the sides an i bottom and open on the top. Thli trough ls about 2 1-4 Inches wide auc about thc same deep. In its botton runs an endless belt of cloth and rub ber 2 inches wide and thickly studilen with metal tacks bent upward, some thing like the cards used in making bats ol wool and cotton. Tnesti tacks do the picking, the contact of even n few lil ers being sufllciout lo driw the entlre contents of an open boll against the be t; which carries the seed cotton up 4 f t Into a receptacle. This bait trave.t at the rate of 3f>0 feet pi r min ute. rl he lower end of the trough ha no SIO'?S or bottom, tl us exposing about ? Inches of the under side of tin studded belt, as well as its lo w jr en? and uj:per s'.do. This permits tb^ pick lng of a h?ll cither from above cr from below or even makes possible th 3 pick ing of jottou from the ground. I trice the h andling of the arms and found them BO light, movable and nicely bal auc;id is to m ?ke the guiding cf that an eas / task. "With cotton stems as brittle as those used in testing t' -machine, a small proporti ?ri of boh *ak off und both burrs h. sa --juill start up the eu Hess nc lt. Most of fliese burrs are knacked o f and thrown out by a loose :;mall r ?lier and by a series of wire pus in he sides of the ;rough and al out hal an inch above thc out er surface of I ie tacks or teeth of the picking belt. An effective brush re mo\es tba seat: cotton fr<m the endless belt vt ry thoroughly. , "I c insider the prlnolples on which the machine operates correct ano practical. In a few features lt is in an experimental stage. The cotton grower will rljmand the following re qui'-ements of a colton picker. "1. Thoroughness of work; that is, the picking of a large percentage of the total seed cotton in the Held, leav lng httie adhering to the plant or ou the ground. "2 A product in picked seed cot ton, not excessively trashy or contain ing much trash beyond the possibility of removal of clearing machinery at the gin. ':; Durability of const:uc'.lon, with such simplicity and lightness as to bring ita cost within reach without much expense for interest on the In vest ment. "4. 10 :onomical operation; not re quiring excessive labor or fuel, and no great degree of technical skill on the part of the chief aperator. '';>. The capacity to pick truck more coolon per day than could be picked by Hehl hands equal in number to the crew required for the machine. The conditions under which the test were made are described by Mr. liillingsley as follows: "Cotton plants: Entirely dead, near ly al! of the leaves dropper/; picked once before and now only about three and ore half bulls to the plant. The plants weie small, about 20 or 22 inch cs high, in 4 foot rows, thick in the drill, poorly thinned so there were many plants together in many oases. The variety was Peterkln, which has very small bolls, and, in this case, contained a large percentage of im mature frosted bulls only partially opc?t (1. "Soll: Sandy or sandy loam, quite dry, In which the machine moved easily. In places crab grass ?va'? thick ly entangled with tho open cotton, but this condition did not prevent satis factory work, although increasing the trash. "To test tho thoroughness of the work, samples were taken of all the seed c itton left unpicked or cn the ground on u definite number of plants. This was done whore the machi ie had operated, and, for comparssou, whore tho us\ al hand picking had been done. 1 f mm by comparlsan that abo it two io twi and one-half as much -xjtton .vas left hohliid by the machine as by tho b md pickers. 1 estimate thc aonuu - of trash as, perhaps, double that 1 oft by a careful picker, but 1 hoard one man say that ho ha 1 had hands to get as mu di trash sa the machii e. I think this trash would all be cm ved by the gin. It is too early 11 Judge as to the wearing qual ities ot thc machine. The weight of the m iclalno, except for the engine and wi cols, is slight. "Tb> cent cf operation ls summed up In the statement that fcui boys can dc the picking and ono mau can guide tho mac'due. I think the labor could Va had a ? $2 per day, or, at the most, S 2 50 pi day. The oost af tho gasolina woulc bo Blight. I foun 1 that thc ma iii! ne ir >ved almost exactly 3:t;i ftU?t-p?" hqur, ncluding the Lime lost in turningiant removing cotton fri m. tho re'??ptieU': As it picks ono entire, row ur der rh< machine and two half rowa ( qualVo two entire rows alto gether), in '/lils case 4 feet wida, too area covered In one hour waa nearly one-fifth of- an nc re. It ls possible for the machine to be operoted faster than it wis when I inspected it. D?r ing the .est several counts showed that eacir hoy was gathering more than 100 bolls per minute, or about 1 pound of seed cotton for each boy per minute, cf 60 pounds per hour, or 240 pounds ot seed cotton per hour for the machine. This ls estimating that it would require 100 bolls to mike a pound, t ut there are many varieties 70 or 75 bolls uf which will give a p -und." ' The dorjartreent of agriculture, of course, h:<a nu interest in the matter, beyond its general desire to do every thing in Its power to aid the farmers of the country. .. t iv? Alun Ulalu. At Pottsville, Pa., Saturday, five men were killed and thirteen injured lu an accident on N >. 2, slope of No. I collery.'of tbs Lyttlo operation, by x fall of top rock while a.gunboat load ed with eighteen men on their way to work was going down the shaft. Three of thc killed were foreigners, while the other two were Americans. The hodics were not Urought to the bur face uutll noon. Tho dead: Henry B. Moore. Daniel Degan. Sylvester Pollock. Peter Mostofskye. George lvutler. Tv.oof the Injured were removed to the Pottsville Lospltal and although they are badly crushed about thc body aud legs, UK ir lujuries are not thought to be fatal. Toe others were cut and bruised and suOVred from other mluor Injuries: The trip proceeding the one on which the accident occurred the "gun boat" knocked down some timbers on the eist, track. The car containing the men struck the disarranged props and tore others from the top of the shaft, causing a fall of rc v The greater -part of the rock fellVv / the forward ,eud of the car, crushing the life out of the ti vo men seated there. .Several rn;n lumped from tho "gun boat" when they heard the timbers giving away and escaped almost cer tain death. Michael Degan, who was but slight ly injured, was found lyiug by the side )f his brother, Daniel, who wa? killed. He said that his brother did not die f< r several minutes after the fall oc curred and that he sp ;kc to him and was answered, while both were weight ed down with tons of r< ck. THU WHKI't) ol SIM. A terrible tragedy was enactei * few days ago in the office of a magis trate at Jacksonville, Fla. Here ls tho awful ?tory as conveyed by an Asso ciated Pr?ss di: patch: Mrs Joseph II. Freeman lies mortally wounded, her laughter, Miss May Drown, is read iud City Detective W. Ii. Gaboon is seriously wount ed as a result of a ?hooting affray n the court room of ?. L. E trris, justice of the peice, Wednesday morning. Mrs. Freeman had brought actio n against Oweu E Loadholotz, ohar^irg him with ruin .ug lier d.nighter. The parties of the ..ase had gone t' the court room pre pared for trouble. According to wit nesses of the tragedy, Mrs. Freemau ittracted Loadhold'.z's attention by calling h s name and fired at him. His reply was prompt and deadly. He fired five times and every shot took elleot Mrs. Freeman was shot four times In the breast and her daughter, who had fired once, was shot In the mouth and instantly killed. Detec tive Cah( on, who was attempting to disarm Liadholdtz, was shot in the hack, evidently by one of the women. Loadholotz was arrested and ls in jail. Joseph Brown, brother of the girl who was killed, arrived on the scene imme diately aftar the. shooting and was locked, m for a time by order of Jus tice Farris bo prevent further trouble, but was soon after released, Kt-WKr<l For \ Kaooal. Notwithstanding the fact that BC many people have been victimized by rascals pretending to he representing periodicals for which they take sub scriptions at ?iuite a reduced rate-but always payable in advance-a sharper got in his work here recently and se cured the names of many subscribers to The Saturday Evening Tost, pub lished by tlic Curtis company of Phil adelphia. This is a standard family and fireside paper, and it requires lit tle'fcoTlcitatu n to get subscriptions. One of those victimized here wrote tc the company, and Wednesday received o l thq-'felhiwing answer: "The mac who-.secured your subscription is ac imposter, for whose arrest we have of fertd a reward of ??25. He has no au thority whatever to act for us, and we are doing everything In our power to secure his apprehension, if you eau in anyway in tue future cooperate with us in'securing his conviction wo will be gi .id to turn over to you the reward of >25.-The State._ A Stiirttilnjc Bridegroom. A dispatch from Florence to The State says last Thursday morning a man named Dave Kallenbergcr came there from R isemary, Georgetown county, and registered with his wife at Berry's hotel. Ballenberger bought from Mrs. Bouoheit the next day 8-H worth of clothing and gave in payment a check on the Georgetown hank. Mrs. Boucheit found out that Mr. Hallen berger had no monry in the George town hank, an i he was made Lo re turn the goods, and Mr. Derry, hear ing of this asked them to leave theil boarding place. Ballenberger has not been heard of since. His wife was left there In the city at the mercy of those who would help her. The city council's attention being called to the matter, gave her money to pay her way baok to Georgetown, her home. The SOE of the-missing man was there Thurs day look og for him, but so far baa heard nothing of him. llallenbeiger ls said to ho a vi_ry go td man by those who know him and has lived rear Georgetown for a number of ye irs. He had leen mirrled married tier?! and was on his bridal trip when hi came to Ifiorencs. (?utting I'licasv. A dispatch f om Charleston says there is tame uneasiness among thc numerous Republican officeholc cn in Charleston and elsewhere in South Carolina on account of the ,latest or der of Pr?sident Roosevelt notifyln? the officeholders that they can not re tain their federal commissions if they occupy political positions. Many of ficeholder* are affected, chiefly State Cbalrmao Deas, whom many mem bers bf lilt party have boen trying tc depose for some time. Collectors Crura of Jharlcton, Small o? Beau fort and ther < t?lclals are affected. District ; tunney Capera' position a* referee aid adviser to tho president and members of >he national commit tee co.nes in a different clasn and he will notb? involved in thc operation of the civ 1 sorvlce regulations whioh are about to be applied lu South Car olina. I \ TERM OF BIX i Y YI ABS In Prison Major Carrington ol Geor gia lor Stealing' Major JTrank Do L. Cirri e.; ton, who bas been given the remarkable sen teneo of sixty years and tl ve days by a court IA Mantle., isa native of Geor gia, and was appointed to tho military academy from Georgia on the 1st of September, 1S74. He hts served throughout his service as at t Ulcer in the First infantry, with the exe. ption of the period of thc Spanish war, when he was lieutenant colonel of the 8th California infantry. He was assigned for duty in com mand of the battalion ol' Filipino Boouts at the St. L mis exposition. After reaching St. Louis charges were filed against him, and he was received from duty there and < rdered baok to the Philippines for trial. Major Cir r lu g ton was entrusted with certain funds to be expended in the collect i n of certain positions of the Philippine exhibit. While on a transrjort en route to this country With bis scouts an auditor discovered tbe alleged short age. AH stated In tho disp itches, Major Carrington made practically no defense, his attorneys contenting themselves with raising the question of jurisdiction and other technical points, and the result was lils con -Mellon on five different counts, for each of which ho ww sentenced to twelve years and one. day. The trial was not bv court martial, but was under the civil law of the is lands, which Is bulltoo the old Spanish law. The heavy sentence is said by officials of the insular bureau to be in keeping wiih the policy of the island courts to be particularly hard upon Americans convicted of crime, for moral effect upon the Filipinos. As Major Carrington-is nov? 50 years old the ^chances for his living cut a sen tfijice of sixty years cannot be said to be particularly good, even in the sal ubrlous surroundings lu which Bilibld prison ls situated. ltotatio.i of Uropa. Let not our farmers be dlshoarten ed about the price of cottjn, says Mr. Charles Petty in the Pr< g ress! ve farm er. This was a great country before any cott/>n was made. If cotton never gets to 12 cents again, we have the land, the cllma'.e and the facilities for making lt a most prosperous and pro gressive section of the union. The first step in improving thc soil is a wise rotation of cops. This ls ?he season of the year to plan for that. There can be no ratotion without small grain. This fs not a clover sec tion. Alfalfa may do well, but it will not be planted generally. Our farm ers will si lok to cotton, com, small grain, peas, and in some s-wtions to tobacco. We consider th's a wis ; ro tation: Corn, with per s planted or s iwn fl st year; small grains followed with peas se wn broadcast or planted thick and cultivated tho second year; cotton the third year. That will bring back bo corn again. Dm lng Lt's three year period each lot of lanti s muid be sub s -lied once or twice. I ? w.mld be better to do i : every year. Such a ro tation v? i I improve pt.or land and keep up better land to a hi;,h s ate of production. The farmers who have Leen following this plau s-3' eral years generally have something o s Ml the year round, and If they are holding a few bales of cot to. t, they a: e not shed ding many tears Boodle in Court. At butler, Mo., whileC! aries Kel ly, ex-member of the St. L ouis house of delegates, was testifying Friday in the trial of Charles Kratz, there was a great stir at the door cf the court room caused by the entrance of five detectives and the local ext resit agent with the package containing the $f>0, OOO boodle fund. Ooe dote c'.lve car ried a shotgun. The money was pro duced while the lawyers and detec tives crowded about. Tne notes were taken out and counted before the Jury. K'aU, thc defendant, suddeuly ba came pale and it was necessary to as sist him to Judge Dinton's privat: room, lie lost consciousness T.'ie trial was delayed for more than a bc If hour before Kratz again entered thc room. He trembled notlcebaly as oe walked to his accustomed s^at. ComuiKB Suicmh . At Gcorget >wu ou Monday night of last week a sailor, Arthur L. Hare by name, a mere boy of 22 j ears, com mltted suicide with o:tlo-ofo.*m on board the schooner Edgar C. Ross in Winyah bay. From appearances, young Hare belongs bo people of means and refinement. Ho was well dressed and possessed an excellent wardrobe. He was the pe', and life of the crew. Loiters containing en dearing terms in excellent composi tion and handwriting v-ere found on his person from his father la Toronto, Canada, and his sweetheart, a Miss Hertha Hayes of Chicago. Kool Killer Needed. In taking leave of Johns Hopkins ,to become* regius professor of medi cine at Oxford, Dr. William Oder de livered an address In whim he de clared that men over 40 joors of age are not worth much in the world and that men over ?? are practically use less and might as well be chloroform ed. Dr. Oder may change his opin ion when he readies bis three score years. Will Fight It Out, Thc Czar his decid ?d that he wih tight it out with Japan If lt takes all summer and there is much logic in Iiis contention that a withdrawal from the war at this time, when Russia's resources are far from heine exhaust ed and the military sltuath a is by no means hopeless, would give the ene mies of tho government real ground for complains of a betrayal of the country's interest. Mail?) to Order. A French newspiper as crts that the trade In "artificial" mommies in Rgynt amounts every 3 eat to more than ?200,00.). Most of tho np-to "mummy factories" are in Italy, but thorn are albc a great numb jr of them In Germany, Franco and Er gland. Family Shot. Jno. T. Hunt, who conduits a res taurant in Columbia, was shot and prehaps fatally wounded on Yjesriay night week by Charley Wall or. Some time ago Walker was arr sled and Hunt wont on his bond. V alker not appearing for trial tho bone was for feited and Hunt had to pa/ lt-and this was the oHgin of tba trouble No Mi Mn. Gov. Hock, of Kansas, b's signed the bill providing tor sepe ate high schools for whites and black at Kan sas City, Kansas. Tho w .lien de manded scperato sohools, a a result af the stabbing of a white p ipil by a negro. AFREi"QOt FOR M EN X Trill send free to a n y m un slmmy onn3 hid wrlttcu requT? a copy of mr W-pago book on lott manhood, ? nervous debility. Impotency, stricture, varlcocele, eclan?emcjt ot tho prostate, blood poison, and re flex diseases resulting from the above, such ns erup tions ot the skin, rheumatism, urinary disorders, pl lei, rectal diseases, etc It will tell In plain and simple luccuRiro all that you want to know. XS M entertaining oed Instructive and will cpea your eyes. It will show a slmplo Way ot eure la your own home.-prlvatoly and without tho publicity and ex? pcnsoofalocnldoctorordrurcl.it. I bavo been practicing this speciality for morn tban a quarter of a century and bavo in roy vaults tho names of hundreds upon hundreds of men whom I have cured of these diseases after thoy had written mo for the book. In these 85 years I havo developed a system of cure that ls entirely, bow and original and differs widely from the Old methods. With it I am enabled to euro men lo halt the time. In a slmplo yet effective way. ? Write mo and I will show you tho way to not back your vitality and strength, your mnnhood and ural th. no matter how old or worn you aro. and no thoroughly that you will stay cured forever. If you will mention bow you ?re affected I will enclose besides tho&l irngu book a Self Examination Uiank on your disease so that 1 can muUeaRtady of your ease and report to you freeof charge. I haveo!i,htothermedlca? books that I will send tomen free on receipt or Dam? end uddruu. In a ijlaln unmarked eavolope? Wrlto mc today sure. UR. J. 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Wc agree with The State that it is a great mistake to ch cry the useful ne s of the militia. Tue natioual eon s .itMtiuu tis if assuns . s that a well regu ated mili iJL :,s "qece s try bo the s>curity of a free S'ate." In South Carolina it is peuu.iirly noctssuy. Tuen- are sectloi s in tho. outlying por tioi s f the Sta.e where the militia is the sole power for lawful retraint. If there is is)rderof any sort, it is to the local militia company that the Slate must look for preservation of the lives and property of her cit zms. Ia those sections without b'-'s securi ty it has not been an unprecedented event for the city soldiery to be called to their assistance. Tneiav mhe.rs of these organizations are no "tin sol- ! diers." They are, in large, serious and 1 patriotic men who are eking the duty in those spa!s ly peopled localities for which pclicemen are paid salaries in the mote populous cent'-rs. Any legis labor wis ling ti discredit the n i li Lia man had tirst better make sure that he is himself as t s ful and patri jtio a cit zan. Kill.i u Soldier. Thomas Harris, 27 yearsoldof Kill more, N. C., a corporal In the Thirty first company, c.ast artillery, sta tioned at F rt Caswell, N. C., died Thursday as the result of a gunshot wound perforating the stomach and ind cted hy Sergeant Lee Kye of the same command, on Mond ty night. Kye had been asdgned to special duty in running down the iilicit gale ot l.'qu?r on tue government reservation aud accosted Harris iu the dark, com manding him to halt and consider himself under arrest. Harris, it is said, gave the sergeant an insolent command in return and started to run when the sergeant tired. The re mains wore brought Thursday en route to the young man's former home. Kye is under arrest aud Maj. li ;ade, in command of tho post, is conducting un investigation of the a ifalr. Kool Inti (?irla. A dispatch from Indianapolis, Indi ana, sajs a hill was introduced In the Legislature o' that Stats to prevent whites from marrying persons having more than one-ei^ht Filipino blood. The bill grew out of a sfuttioa at Bloomington, where Filipino students are attending the State university and are tl rting with white girls. Parents of these girls are fearful of marriages and have requested the passage of the bin. Killed His Doole. Tuesday evening ab nit dark B. B. Cliav s shut aud killed his uncle, Mor gan Chavis, near thc John Smith place, in Jefferson county Ga. There were no eye witnesses to the shooting.; lt ls thought that both of the men were drinking to some extent. B. B. Chavis claims he did the killing in .self-defense. Both parties concerned . moved from South Caroliua to this county. Don't lil ko rhom. A man named Nick Britton, near Alcolu, tired on an automobile con taining Judge Benet;and Lawyer P. A. Wilcox. He protested against auto mobiles traveling tho road. E. A. Jenkins of Sumter the driver of trie machine, dismounted and argued and bluffed Britton into allowing the auto mobile and Iis party to pass without further molestation. Britton will pro bably be oroseoutod. Killed Himself. Col. Charles S. Arnal, ono of the best known insurance men in the. soutli and distinguished citizen of Atlanta, committed suicide Thurs duy at his residence by shooting. No reason ls . nown for the act. Ile rep resents a \Iartford, Conn., company. The remaiitv; will be sent tu Staun ton, Va. Caht. Arnal's former home, for Interment.) KOO|,>H i'll O Money. The suit u/John R. Platt, the oc togenarian millionaire, to recover $(j*?,0O<) P.i'id by him at various times to the ne?ress, Hannah- Ellas, has been dismissed, thc New York court holding ttf.at lt was paid voluntarily. T. S. H0I^EYMAN,S^f6., THE SPECIALIST. Cures all diseases of men. Los manhood, sypu lis (blood pols JO), gonorhoea, gteet, stricture, varioceele, hydrooele and a l private diseases of men. 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Hore are tiie South Carolli a flags to ha returned: F.ag, number of regiment ur known, by Tnirty-ninth New York, ai Antie tam. -Flag, number of regiment ur known, by E ghty-seoond Pennsylvania, at Malvern Hill. Eleventh South Carolina, Inscribed "Port Royal, Cedar Creek, Swift Creek, Petersburg, June 24, Weldon railroad." Sixteenth South Carolina, by Oae Hundredth and Fifty seventh Penn sylvania, at Five Forks. Twenty-seventh South Carolina by Eighteenth Massachusetts. E ghth South Carolina, captured by Gen. Sheridan's forces. S util Caiolina State flag, history unknown. Flag cf Sumter's Fiylng artillery, by Custer cavalry at Appomatox. Sumter Heavy a-tillery, by First New York Lincoln Volunteer cavalry, at Sailor's Creek. No Mixing Karoo. At Richmond, Ky., Berca college was fined ?1,000 for violation of the Day law, which prohibits the coeduoa tion of the white and colored races. Wm hi tue law is general in form, it was aimed direc'. ly at Berea college, Which has for fifty years conducted a j school and college for the education of all youth of go id moral character. When the law WM passed the college authorities ar. once declared their in tention to abide by its provisions paneling a decision as to its oostltu il?muliy. lu order to raise the ques tion a technical violation ot the act was committed and on s-ich violation, by consent, the eollege as a corpora tion was indicated. The college de murred to tho Indictment, and the question of co istltuL onallty was thus raised. Bric fs were field by both std es, "Thursday Judge Benton over ruletl the deniurrer and held the law constitutional. The conviction and fine followed, os a matter of course, as the college ni:.dc no defense as to the. foots. A Uoqil lloBoliuton. , H'sre- ls a Fort Bend count} farm er's resolution fer this year; "I have tried to make a barrel of raomiy eacli year and let some other fellow furnish my living. 1 started with a bank ac count on the credit side and now 1 have an account on the debit ?ide. Therefore be lt resolved, that I will maki my own bread and meit thti year, furnish myself, and let tho har rell o?-monely go to thunder." Ic would pSay our farmers generally tc a?op,; the above resclutlcn.