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AN ADDRESS In Which Attention is Called to the Cotton Scandal. ISSUED TO MEMBERS j? ? t Of the Southern Cotton Association In Reference to the Recent Disclosures of Fraud in the National Agricultural Department and Work Accomplished. President Jordan and Seoretary Cheatham of the Southern Cotton association Tuesday Issued a statement addressed to the members of the association calling attention to the recent disclosures in the cotton statistical work in the department of agriculture, declaring that efforts are being made to divert attention from the "deficiencies" of the system itself "to the thlevlnfc propensities of a few unworthy otllcials" and seiting forth demands to be made on congress to reform conditions. The statement follows: "To the Members of the Southern Cotton Association: * "The members of the association have been apprised through the public press from day to day of the work done by the otllcers of the association at Washington. As a result of their charges the unreliability of the reports of the department of agriculture relating to the cotton crop has been fully disolused, and the ami-administration of that'.dcpartment under its present head had been made evident. "Following these exposures, efforts are now being made to divert public 1- 1 1 auuuuiuuf iuuj ruo uuiuu issuu, wiuuu is, the imperfections of the department, toward au attempted prosecu tion of anybody wiio can be found as a scapegoat. Their punishment, even if it is accomplished, isof secondary importance as compared with the reformation of the system which has made their performances possible, and the purpose of this address is to secure the co-operation of the members of this association in iutluenciug in every legitimate way a reformation of the system, and a reorganization of the department. "The membership of this association, numbering nearly 1,000,000, in eluded the producers of the most valuable product of American agriculture. The cotton crop of the United States, and Us by products is worth between $000,000,000 and $700,000,000 annual ly. It furnishes two-thirds of our annual trade balance, and in its production and manufacture employs many minion individuals, jno oiner product of the United States is of greater or of equal importance. The practical monopoly of cotton which America eDjoys, and the narrow balance which has existed for years between sutll ciency and scarcity in the world's cotton supply, render the cotton market peculiarly and acutely susceptible to the reports of the department of agriculture regarding the condition and prospects of the cotton crop. "Under the present circumstances a great duty devolves upon the members of the association. We are less concerned with what has been done by a few individuals and the c nstquences thereof, regrettable as that they may be, than with such reformation of departmental methods as shall secure for us just and accurate reports in future. iJnder the system at present in vogue) and which promises to be undisturbed unless public attention shall be aroused to the need of reform, the reports issued by the department of agriculture are, in their last analy sis simply the individual opinion of a few olllelals of doubtful experience and honor by which the value of the cotton crop may be, and has been, affected as much as $75,000,000 in a single day. "No such power should be delegated to any individual, or statistical board, except under conditions which guarantee the most incorruptible ex pert and intelligent opinion, arrived at by the application of the most scientitio methods and safeguarded by the most scientific precautions. It is, thereto^, urgently recommended to the members of the Southern Cotton association that through their representatives in congress, and by every other means available to them, they exert their influence and that of t e association toward securing the im mediate reorganization of the agricultural department, especially with reference to its reports on the cotton crop, and that their representatives in congress bo requested specifically to demand: (1) The establishment within the department of agriculture of a bureau, to be known as the cotton bureau, charged specially and solely with the duty of reporting upon the cotton crop and all matters concerning that staple. (2) the appointment as the head of that bureau, at an adequate salary, of a man whose reputaMlm and antecedents shall oe beyond \ f"^^roach, and whose familiarity with I * XtafeultlViition shall be an addl y^jpfuarantee of his fitness. (3) An ^ion ?* f)ureau estab , \ jp^lished upon thoroughly scientific lines, (. W as will insure no possible bias inlfayor Y of either buyer or seller, or producer or manufacturer can be pre supposed or asserted. (4)'The passage of a law that will be more specific In Its scope, and under which government employes can be prosecuted for giving away or selling valuable information as has been done In the statistical bureau. "We have no doubt of the zeal of the officers of the department, but it seems to be as misdirected in this crises as it was in the antecedent per iod. All the powers and it tiuence of the department, of tbe lawyers and of every man of the government seems to be devoted to the attempt, to dragnet a lot of irresponsible speculators. That there have been for years leak* In the department Is as well known to the trade as the existence of the de partment of Itself; but these are in significant as compared with the fundamental mismanagement. At tbls time, however, there is a manifest endeavor to divert attention from the radical error-i and deficiencies of the department itself to the thlevirg propensities of a few unworthy < ill dais. Let us not be mislead by any such misdirected energy. Let us reform at the top and not on the side. Let us root out the offenders, cleanse the personnel, change the methods and renj - * * uuvuwj liio uepan meriL irom root to branch. Then the cau^e of o itton aud good government will alike be served In Rooseveltian fashion. (Signed) "IIakvik Jokdan, "PrtRident Southern Cotton Assocla tion. "Riciiard Ciikatiiam, 'Secretary." FORGOT TO HANG MURDERER. Man Convicted in 1HUO Han Just Died Natural Death A Howard A. Cleveland is dead at the state prison at Thomaston after bav Ing been confined there since 18G9 under sentence of death For some rea son, never < xplalned, the sentmce was not carried out, nor was it annulled or modified. It seems to have been forgotten, and Cleveland lived on until he died a natural death. The case was one of the mo t re markable in this state. It was the oiby murder ever committed in Orrington The records show that Cleveland was indicted for the willful and malicious murder of Warren G serge. A verdict of guilty was rend red in 1809, Clove land was sentenc? d to death. before fixing the day for the execution, the governor and c>un el submitted th following question to the Supremi Court of Main : "Did the jury, by its verdict, tind Cleveland guilty of murder in the tirst degree?" The jury has mi-rely declared Cleveland guilty of the crime whenof be stood indicted. The indictment's in tent was plain, but there was some difference of opinion among the jus tlces as to whether the man had been legally oonvioted of murder in the first degree. Then the council passed an order "that the government be advis ed to stay the execution of sentence until further advised." The ca<e then seems to have been dropped by the state authorities. The sentence was never commuted. Just why no attempt was made to car ry the sentence into effect does not appear. Since 1814 the laws had left the execution of the death penalty in a measure to the discretion of the executive, without limit of time. The responsibility was so great and the sentiment against the death penalty so active that at one period there was no execution in this state for n?arly thirty years. In 1876 the death pan alty was abolished altogether. In 1883 the death penalty for murder was re established, but in 1887 it was again abolished^ Willi Mail Caught. A nude crazy man, who has been hiding in the wonr s alongside the New Jersey and N !w York railroad tracks, south of liackensack, N J., for the last few days, was captured early Wednesday morning by Con stable Jacob Dunn. He had made a wreath of twigs and tied it around his waist, but it off red little protec tion. ills body was a mass of scars from head to foot He was marly exhausted The wild man said he was John Vincent Gallagher, ard thai his home was in Hoboken, whore he said his biother William lived in Wil low stnet. Beyond this GalUgher could ted nothing about his w>u derings. He has the initials "J. V. G " tattooed on his arm. Constable Dunn found it necessary to g-t clot hes from people living near where Galljgher was captured, in order to dress the stranger before taking iiim to the jail there: Not Allowed to Joke. The yellow fever liar is to be made to suffer in Charleston, as he is pun ished in other communities, the board of health having Wednesday memorialized city council to pass an ordl, nance meting out severe penalty to those who think that there is s imething fuuny in joking about the fever. There is no yellow fever or even the most slightly suspicious cu-e, and the board of health does not propose to have the Jokers Joke about it T n re Is a class of people In every community ready and disposed to joke on matter of serious moment, but. time Is to be called on the fever j >kers in Charleston, for it Is not intended that they should be allowed to J m about, a mat ter of such cono rn ?o the olty. CruHhed lit Ottkdi, Robert W. Oraweil. editor of a weekly publication, wh? was arrestee 1 .. .. .ft. . /v# At.. . I ?... I ft I - -1 1CUU11IIy nil n UI uii ' 111*1 M iri, preferred by II or?-M?tati ve J s p L Rhtnock of K ntncky, was Killed Tnurs ay niwho In N^w York by an express tram at the Severn ysecond street station of the subway. The libel charge against Crtswell grew out of the publication of an article reflect ing upon Mr Rhlnock and censuring Representatives Nicholas Longworth of Ohio for having Introduced Miss Al'oi Roosevelt to the Kentucky congressman during the visic of the president's daughter in Cincinnati. GOLD IN DEATH A New York Broker's Body Is Left in His Hall WHERE HE IS ROUND By His Wile, Who May be Made a ] I Maniac by the Shock. The Dead Man j Had Been Robbed of a Dia1 mond Setting in a Ring ( that he Wore. , New York has another murder mystery. Brought home in a covered express wagon and dumped in the vestibule of his house by two express men, the body of James A. Clary, & real estate broker, worth $250,000, was found Thursday by his wife when she returned from a shoping trip. The wife stumbled over the corpse as she entered the vestibule and is now on the verge of insanity. An investigation of the case was be- < gun immediately, with the result that there is a strong suspicion that Cleary i was murdered, lie wore a two and a half carat diamond ring, which some "ne had tried to tear from his linger. Cutting the linger, but falling to get i the ring, the robber took some instrument and bent back the prongs of the ring, sUaliug the diamond. i The case is a deep mystery, and a half dozen detectives have already < b >en put to work on it. Coroner's Phy- I sioiau Riegelman believes Clary died of alcoholism, but his friends say he dr.ink but little, and the doctor has not yet held an autopsy, and consequently the police are not willing to < aco pt the alcoholism theory. The circumstances surrounding the return of the body to the Cleary home 1 in the express wagon were partially i cleared up, but the detectives expect i that before thev get through they ! will learn enough to show that mur- < der was committed. Cleary, who was forty-two years old, i was in the real estate business with two brothers at No. 1U0 Varick street, and lived at No. 1224 Woodycrest avenue, the Bronx. lie had made a great deal of money in the Bronx i bj ra, and is widely known. < Thursday morning he left his home as usual and Mrs. Cleary went out. She returned at 1 o'clock and as she entered tlia vestibule she Btumbled against the door. Throwing the outer door wide open to let the light in she i was horrified to see the body of her husband. " What's the matter with you, Jim," 1 she asked, anxiously, dropping to her 1 knees. There was no auswer. An odor of whiskey was in the vestibule. She i shook the body for a moment and then i felt the face. It was cold. I ''Oh, Jim, you're dead!" she screamed, rising and rushing from the vestibule. The horror of the situation had < dawned on her, and hershrieks brought i the neighbors to the windows, and in a few moments dozens of them were ' at her side, trying to quiet her. A physician was summoned by a neighbor, who thought she had gone insane. Finally some one. entered the vestibule, 1 and, seeing the body, understood. Former Police Captain Brown, who lives directly across the street, was in the crowd, and he b^gan an investig avion at once. It was learned that an express wagon had backed up to the door and a child had seen Cieary carried up the steps by two men. A search for the expresi wagon was hegun at once, with the result that Harry Black, of N ?. 58 Sedgwick ave u^, and James Wilson, of No. 2455 Eighth avenue, were found to be the men who had carried the body up the frir\ n A i. fi rot it*, iuq u iliaii /1?i\ f hu i rurjup. xi u *11 ou iu ucw vi uu^uu i;kh these men could tell the story of how Oleary had lost Lis life, but after hear log their stories the police ac :r.p ed their sta ernents. They bjtb admit t?.d carry in# tiie body into the vestibule and leaving it ihere, saying that they believed Cleary was intoxicated a d that they were doing him a kindness. "We were driving along O^den avenue," said lilack, "when we saw Cleary itting on a low stoop in front of a 1 andy store at No. 1154 Ogden avenue. "I happened to know him by sight and thought he ought to be home. We looked on it in the light of a joke to take him home in an express wagon, so we lifted him into cur rig and drove to his hotsi. "Carrying him up the steps we rang the bell and waited for some one to answer, but there was no one at home, arid after making him as comfortable as possible we left, never having the slightest suspicion that it was any thing but a case of intoxication." B *t.n men were closely questioned . . * - . m k-w m 4 n* k. ? fr 4 . . * j 1 - . ? aijuuu mio rn g uuu unt*v utiiicu au-tumtely knowing anything about It Ttiey and they had not noticed if the i?m. nd was in it. or if the tt< ger as injured when they found him. They said they were positive that he was not dead when they left him, and that he was breathing heavily, ike an intoxicated man. CJro-s-exam inatlon failed to bring out any further information. T eir story was partially substantiated by others who saw Oleary on the candy store stoop, and thought ne was intoxicated, aud the express men satisfied the police that they had told all they knew. SAVES A TRAIN Filled With Passengers from Awful Doom and When Offered HIk'i l'kluoatloii 11?t IVarful Uovo Marries ller to i'revent Iter "Growlnic Up a Lmly." Little Nannie Gibson, a 15-year-old mountain girl, saved a whole trainload of people from being dashed down the mcuntain-side In front of her home in the mountains of North Carolina not far from Ashoville. In recognition of this heroic act, the Southern railroad promised her a college education. Her mountaineer lover, finding it out, married her by stealth, in hopes to prevent her going. Her future is now depending jn a suit for divorce which her father is bringing for her. Nannie lives in the mountains, 20 miles east of this city. The dream of her life has been to receive an education and grow up a lady. Its realization had always seemed to be as far away as the skies. Now it seems to be at hand, and she has been simply dvzed by the fairy-like prospect. It all came about one day when Nannie discovered that a landslide had blocked the track at a sharp curve of the Southern railway near her home. Even as she looked there sounded trio whistle of a passenger train thundering down the mountain. Nannie met the emergency by sending Patty Gibson, her 13-year-old sinter, down the track to guard against the remote possibility of a wreck from that direction. She chose the post of danger, lunning with all her might to meet the coming train. When it drew into sight she frantically signaled the engineer to stop. lie hesitated. But her earnestness was so great that he realized a disaster was Imminent. The airbrakes were applied and the train brought to a standstill with a sharp jolt only a few rods from the blockade. When he saw the danger big Conductor Weaver snatched her up in his arms and swore she was the bravest girl In North Carolina. Grateful passengers, learning of their narrow escape showered tier with money. Asa preliminary tribute the company in a day or two sent her $25. The railway olllclals, however, rightly surmised that to a girl reared In the freedom of the mountain wilds money meant little. So one of their number was delegated to visit the cabin in the hills to ask Nannie the momentous question: What did she most desire in the world. Nannie's little face, tanned by a southern sun and wind, turned pale. Then her story came out In a little gush of tearful words. She didn't want money; she didn't want clothes, for her father, with growing pride in his pretty daughter, had made sundry trips to Asheville and returned with wonderful "creations" of white and unwonted shoes and stockings; but ihe did want an education .and to grow up a lady. The papers are now going the rounds of the railway (tibials, with one favorable recommendation after another, and it seems as though Na iure s great. wish is to ne grathiea. There is one serious obstacle in the way, though it will probably be removed. Nannie has been married. She had a lover, Abe Smith, an open faced, laughing, careless mountaineer, eight years older than she. In almost startling contradiction to his burly swagger and incessant ciga rette smoking is his gentle, caressing voice and his courteous and kindly manner. To this st urdy mountaineer the realization that Nannie was going to leave for years, probably and that he might lose her, was unbearable. He must marry her and prevent her going. He sent a friend to town to get a marriage license. Then with the friend for a witness and sr magis t.rate for the ceremony he went to Nannie's home one morning when he knew her fa'her was away and marrh d hor. Little could Nannie have to hay, for in tho absence of her father he knew no law except that of her Impetuous lover. The enraged father was quick to action. He caused the arrest of Smith and the man who had procured the license on the around that. Nannie was not of legal age. Ha also began unit to bavo tho marriage set aside. Up in the success of this suit will depend largely whether Nannie is to get an education, the one great dream of her life. F?-v r LtuNDH fan I c. Since a report of a suspicious case of fever at T-xarkana, Texas, a sort of panic Is seizing some of the towns and counties in northeast Texas and shotgun quarantines are being put into effect. Gregg county has given orders that trains shall not stop in the county either from the north or south and that all stations must be approached with doors locked and windows tightly close, while all car doors in freight trains must be sealed whether the oars are empty or loaded. The terror appears to be spreading and railroad otliclals fear serious re suits. KiiiiMi HiitiHftir. At C)lumbus, Gi., BUnohard F McGehee, president and manager of the Columbus paper company and a member of a pr< mlnent Columbus family, Ci mmitted suicide Thurschy morning by shooting himself through the ttmple with a revolver, lie was at home al'?ne when the fatal sho* was tired. His wife and three children survive him. No cause has been assigned for his rash act. V BANK OF OON W A CAPITAL STOCK, $20,000.00 TOTAL ASSKTf offic: B. O. COLLINS, President. C. 1\ QFATTLEBAUM, V-Pres. Our Lank, being a local institute building of I lorry County and for the suing this policy wo tako pleasuro in accommodation when consistent with t With gratitudo for tho liberal p cordially solicit your future business. Respect ful Jg A JB FIVE Robt. 11. Scarborough, II. L President. Vi co-Pi BANK OF Conway Capital Stock 1)1 RFC Robt. R. Scarborough, Hal L. Buck, George J. Holliday, Wo will pay you 5 por cent, inter isli savings banks to those wishing Try our plan for saving your nickles i theso little banks and the interest we help yon. / A GH08T &T0RY. Tho l'ooplo of a CJoor^ia Town Very Much Ivxor eimMl. A dispatch to the Atlanta Journal says the neighborhood known as Uoanoke, which is located about one mile from Fitzgerald, Ga., is very much ' excited over the appearance of a sup j posed ghost. It made it appearance for the iirst time last Sunday night in 1 the family of H. Sharp. It gave an i exhibition that thoroughly alarmed! the family. It appeared in the kitchen and fairly made the house ring with music from a dish pan. Mrs. Sharp appeared on the scene and his ghostship disappeared as if by magio. On leaving the room the music again com-, mcnced. This time Mrs. Sharp returned with the same result. She thought to bribe Mr. Ghost so she left a piece of money on the tabic and left the room Again the dish pan danced about and the dishes rattled as though an earthquake had taken place. Mr. Ghost did , not accept the price ottered for ills departure, but instead walked about the place. On approaching it, it disappeared and would bob up at a distance. Shooting at it had no effect whatever. Monday night crowds of people visited the place from the neighborhood and the city. Some claimed to have seen it at a distance. Krom tho waist up it was dressed in white. At times It- Iw. 4-U? r% I _ ~ ? - IU OUUU1UV4 IU UC liuauu^ JU CUB till IJUtll the grouad. Again It would lean I against, a tree or fenee. Sometimes it would appear as though approaching the parties, but before getting in speaking distance It would disappear " to bob up at some other point. It has , ouly visited the Sharp family, but is claimed that several neighbors have seen it. A lady from the north died in the neighborhood about a year ago and her husband disposed of their household elfccts and returned to the north. Among the things so'd was the dish pan that has played the leading role In this story and has caused tills fami- 1 ly much worry and fright. It Is thought by some that this pan should be buried at the grave of the deceased and then the spirit will contine his ghcstship to the graveyard where he properly belongs. ?l ?l I !.' Its lifft frvrm < I il iiij UK/yij ^uio iw ??vm? _ * food properly digested. I ITenlthy digestion means pura I blood for tho body, but stomach I troubles arise from carelessness M in eating and stomach disorders upset tho entiro system. Iinprop* erly masticated food sours on tne stomach, causing distressing pains, belching and nausea. B When over-eating is persisted in B i the stomach becomes weakened jB and worn out and dyspepsia fl claims tlio victim. Thedford's Black-Draught H cores dyspepsia. 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