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The Horry Herald,! CONWAY, S. C. TIIUKSl)AY, JANUARY, 12, 1900 IeednotfeIr.] I The South iVust Furnish Cotton i for the World. SO SAYS AN ) XPERT. The Much Exploitedn Assouan Dam Across the River Nile Will Have Little Effect in InC^/ising the Production of Cotton in I Egypt. That the much exploited Assouan : dam across the Nile will have little or no ctTect in stimulating cotton production in E,;ypt, as has beencaimed tor it, is the assertion of a gentleman who probably knows more about Egypt and E;vtian conditions than any man , in the United States. This gentleman is Cope Whitfihouse, ' who is now in Washington in connec [ tion with what is known as the Lake I l Morris project, in which he is interested, and which hantu.tracted the at* i tentlon < f the governments of the United btates, G.eat Britian and ( Egypt. EGYPTIAN COTTON GROWING. 1 "In 1894," said Mr. Wbitehonse, in discussing the matter a day or two j ago, "American cotton growers were 1 told that there was an immense area of abandoned land, adarirably adopted to cotton cultivation, l>lug between the cultivated section of the del La and 1 M ditcirauean. in 1887, the late Johu ' Card well, of Houston, then oonsu. general at Cairo made an elab >ra.e report on the condition and prospects ' of the country, as a whole. In treating of cotton, Mr. Card well suid that ' little of that staple was produced prior to the time w? en the trade of ( ports in the cotton-growing states was cut off by the blockade during the p.( vi i Wiur 1?. fnnOono " *' ?. . .. |/v ivur? tuuil I'C^rill UU I bend their energies to supply; so far as lay in their po?er, some of the re sultant deficit. Oao dollar a pound | v/as a great incentive, and the cultlv- ] ation of cotton in the Nile valley be ( came general. In 1880 1887, the total i cultivated area of Egvpt v/as estlma i ted bv him at 4 4(J8,520 acres, with 820,1 <4 acres of cotton in lower Egypt, and less than 50 000 acres to the i south of Carlo. O lly 2 1-4 per cent ] of the population was engagtd in cot* i ton culture. The cotton crop was then a a >rt. of by-product of the general agricultural operations, b?ing grown , for export after abundant provision , had been made for a food supply cf rice, Indian corn, barley, beans, wheat | to the value of $13,000,000, etc. Sugar cane land in upper Egypt was worth $50 an acre. STIMULUS OF BRITISH IN KLUKNCK. ' The EgypilaA cotton was used in the United States in the manufacture of cotton velvets or plushes, prlncl pally, it cjuld never compete with , a merican f-ea 'island eoiton at 30 or 35 cents for tine threads, nor witu the average quality*>f Texan growth, on a' count of tbe prica. The quantity was also obviously limited to tbo .neighborhood of a mi lion acres, so low as there, was no government interference with the food supply. But when the British took possession of ti e ministry of public works and of Una' oe, in 1883-1884, the cotton crop became the end and aim of all their administrative energies. They forced the farmer* to abandon rice so that 1V e water might be used for cotton, and by practic al / abolishing the Importation of frerj/fceed and the substitution of a seed, known as "mit the quantity was iucreas ed and the quality lowered to a point at which it could be used In the Eag Ush mills. At a later period, a reduction was made in the area allotted to sugar cane. Egyptian sugar, in beautiful jeliow crystals, was sent to France to he u >ed with beet sugars, being conveyed in French steamers, M Vxil^ 4k/. 4- 1 ? w 111 ii* I i in i UuvUll W( UI 111 nrililSll ves sels to English and Scotch mills. OKEAT PLAN FOR IRRIGATION. It. was in 1887 tnat Mr. Card well tOf k cognlzmce of tyr, Wbitehouse's work. In nis report, he said that "toe curious historical and scientific researches of a citizen of the United States had unfolded a huge plan of irrigation, known to the ancients, and the present Egyptian government, after at first turning a deaf ear to his proposition seems at this time dlspost d to proww by this man's phllsopny." Jlut ne added a warning that, benefits would not be realized "unless foreign power again established decay." Under the head "A Grand Soheme," he then described Mr. Whltehouse'8 Lake Morris projected. In the early part of 1882, Mr. Wnitehouse visited Egypt and went 1 to the dmcrt, where he found a valIty corresponding In shape, depth and portion to that which he had found depicted ru a map copied nearly 500 Tofti arH before from a more ancient map the de*A! more lban 1 200 years before \f}e. It was by the vse of this I I length leading t ff from the 11 >oded area of the Nile about 70 miles up Btream from Cairo that it v>as expected to double the ava'lat le supply of water during the p -rloo known as low Nile. "Although the great African river looms long and huge on the map, f r more than th^ee mouths every year it 1 ceases to discharge any water Into the Mediterraenan. Hence, before there could be any Increase in cottou cultl- ' vatlon It was nc cessary to store tiood ] water, and the amount proposed to he stored by Mr. Whitehouse was 3,- ( 1)00,000,000 cubic yards. This could 1 have been obtained from tbo UH.vau k valle.v, with a depth cf 220 feet and ( a surface area of 250 t.quare miles, by v allowing the Nile to raise the level of ] \ ho proposfd lake to that of the in undatiou in toe adjacent valley, and ( tlien closing the slu e *, gates, to be * opened in March. As the Nile rises 1 bbout 20 feet, it was, and is, Mr. Whifcehouse'a opinion that tills differ ence would have been mure than suf- ! lTolent. NO DANUKU TO AMERICAN COTTON. "1 take much interest in this question," wrote Mr. Card well in his report. "1 desire to see the scholarly efforts and the persistent researches of one of my countrymen succeed; to see American mind do good as a c unto ibalance to harm done by European armies But years have elapsed and the swamps and sand strewn regions of]1 tun oeii-a remain as they were whon I the Texas man ? as consul general at 1 Cairo and for 1,700 years before that, although the }>corpoln infested and. hyena haunted depths of the "region of Gehenna" have been traversed, measured and explored by a score of 1 experts employed by the Egyptian 1 government, or representing scientific societies of Europe and the United ' States. "While the srejessful carrying of ( the pn ject w( u<d obviously have a I wounderfully stimulating < lToct on < eottou growing In E-cypt," said Mr < Whitehouse in discussing this phase 1 of the case, "the cotton growers 0f ? the south need not bar that a single ' acre will he added to Egypt's cotton < area through mv j IT >rts for at least * tive years. In 1891 and again In 1894, * It seamed certain that the work would ' be undertaken at once. In 1898 a 1 sontract was ma':e for a reservoir aam J it the tirst cataract; and even so well > informed a representative of the I United Stales as Hun. E C. Penlield, < appointed by President Cleveland, ' ventured the prediction that 1 (100, I [100 icres would be added before 1900 with an Increase In the agricultural yutput of at least 20 per cent. THE DAM NOT A SUCCESS. * 1 Bitth 8 i expectations have proven | to be baseiess. The dam itself Is a , well a mile and a quarter in length l rbe English engineers who designed j It as a private speculation for an K ig- , lish company declared that it would ( jffer no obstruction to the high Nile, out that the Hood would pass as freely j through the sluiceways as a river hrough the piers of a bridge. On | August 8, last, when the reservoir , should have been empty, the Nile had } heade d up over 30 feet and was tear- , Ing through 140 passages, about 40 < to 60 feet in length, and 7 t'> 21 in | wloth, at a rite of more than 50 miles , an hour. Deep crevices had developed on the downstream side, and it was . necessary to construe& buttresses in , groat haste. It will take at least two years to complete tnese and other re- , pairs. "The cotton er-p has ben increas- ( ed by the transfer of sugtr cane land cotton cultivation," continued Mr. Whitehouse, ''but the official reports ( show that the crops bafore 1898, when the contract fur the dam was signed, have actually exceeded those raised , since its completion. There has been a loud outcry to the effect that the wnole iC-ieme^Nvas a gigantic swindle; that a group of Engllsn speculators, of whom Sir Earnest Cas^ei was the ( principal, quietly acqured over 1,000,- | 000 acres, at prices ranging from the government registration fee of 13 / Arvf o " a-a -? ? * ? A 1 '* 1 Ai% A vcun pci BVi?u up l() <5 i U RMU $ZU, HMO then agreed to build tne dam in order to raise prices and enable them to unload the land on the French and E >glisii public during the ftur years the GOHduuc u)u ' ork was in progress. Even Lor.i Cromer appears to have oecome alairrd at toe impending ' crash. The price rf The lands was forced up to near'y 1500 an acre, and when the speculators nave unloaded the ground c mid not be remunerative to the cuI ivator at any such prices. , WILL NOT EFFECT 1'IUCK. "Hut to return to the c )t?on ques- ( tton," said Mr. Whitehoure in conclusion, "the Anaerlcau growers 1 ave 1 nothing to fear. The Egyptian crop j of this year is estimated to l>a no larger thau( that of 1897 8 or abuut 1.200,- , 000 bales." , A resolution calling on the state de- i partment for all the papers relating to Mr. Whitehouse's operations in Egygt has been introduced by Senator Lodge and adopted, and tbo data 1h now lu course of preparation at the department. Picked np at Hen. 1 Advices were received in Charleston on Thursday of the safety of four flseermen, John Plnokney, Lawrence , Washington, Mlney Gibson and Frank Simmons, who were picked up at sea by a passing vessel and carried into ( Norfolk. The men were though to nave been lost and that they were safe was pleasing intelligence to their relatives and frieuds. They belonged to the fishing smack Charleston and , while otf snore last Saturday, their small boat got adrift in a sudden squall and otsappearod from view. The fimack rcturmd to part without the m?u and there was only one conclusion?thas they had b3en swept o : . j KILLED IN FLORIDA. An < >r?ng' Uurg Negro McetH Wl(l) r Tragic Death. Some time last summer a negro man by the name of John Thomas while on a train on the vSouthern Railway eomirg from St. Matthews bo Orangeburg pulled out a pistol aud tried to shoot some one on tne train. When the train slowed up ju-.t before Altering Orangeburg Thomas jumped jlT and left for parts unknown. It eeras that he made his way to Florila, where be got In trouble and was ihot to death by a mob or a police of leer, win in he had cut with a knife, roe following letter, which was resolved by Sheriff Dukes recently, rays 1 mob shot Thomas, while the arMcle ve publish below says a police ( ffijer >hot him. At all events he was killed ly some ore f? r his lawlessness. Her< 1 m the letter that was sent to Sheriff Dukes: St. Petersburg, Fia., Dec! 28. To the Sheriff of Orangeburg County: Was there a negro left your town bhai you wanted by the uameof Law* ern.e Thomas. He murdered a pol.eemen here on December 25, aud 1 5augbt him and put hlrn in Jill, and \ mob took him aud shot him. 1 heard tie was wanted In your town and that bhere was a reward c ffured for him. He has a wife lu Orangeburg by the aarae of Emma Thomas. He some times went. o> the name of Mitchel, jut his name was Thomas. Yours trulv, W. J. Mukpiiy, D puty bher.ff. A special dispatch from St. Petersburg, Florida, savs the coroner's jury investigating the killing of (Japt. .J. J Mitchell, ar d of John Thomas, colored das rendered a verdict that Oapt. Mitchell came to his death at 1 he hands jf the negro while In the discharge of dis duty, and that the negro met his leath frooi a pistol shot tired by Capt. Mitchell. The latter feature of the verdict caused surprise, as It v/as generally believed that the negro had been slain by a raob. The jury, however, claims to have had proof that Japt. Mitchell shot the negro fatally ifter he had received a mortal knife wound from him, and that the negro was in dying condition when taken to jail and actually dead before the mob ;ot possession of htm. Excitement ran ligh at St. Petersburg all day Tuesday and there was some talk abt ut running all negroes out of town, but this proved only idle talk. fieldh Turned To Gold, The American f irmer arises, agrijultural report in hand, to remark that It is all a mistake about Ids being "stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox." lie owns the ox, be gosh, m d it is the fattest and slickest ox that treads the earth. The ox's va us ixgemer Willi that (if the rest )t the farmer's stock, figures up to the magnificent sum of six billions of duiars. The wealth of the American farmer 8 the wonder of the. world. With .he magic of Midas he has turned all lis fields to gold. The wealth production on farms In 1905 has rs&ched the highest amount ever attained hy the farmer of this or any other country. The total figures?$0,415,000,000? are almost beymd comprehension. It may help in real:/ ng the enormity of this amount to know that If the farmer keeps up this rate of production three years more he will have produced an amount of wealth within ten years equal to one-half of the entire national wealth produced In three centuries. It may help still further to know that tne agricultural exports?the surplus left over after all home wants were supplied?have amounted in six teen years to a round billion of dollars tnore than the value of all the railroads in the country. Yes, the farm t:r has been doing things on a scale so big that ordinary comprehension hard ly can i Ise to It. And the t.hinou Un or?iio ?< ?? ??? .... t ' >> OV11(1) M u |^1 1 which make fiction tales of wealth look shrunken and mean, by no means represent the total of his riches. He sti) 1 owns the e.'?w which this year has yielded him $655'000,000 He keeps toe hens mat pay hltn half a billion a year. A single year's increase 1q the value of his farms equals the entire national debt.. He has money in the bank- big wads of it. Indeed lie owns banks that are numbered by the hundreds. Tne 1,7.")! country banks organized in the last live yt ars are almost wholly owned by the farmer. Tne farmer la king of the land. The.cornstalk Is a humble scepter, but It yields 2,700,000,00u bushels, and that Is more than any other kind's ssepter, though of gold and jeweled, ever did for him lu all the history of the world. Tue farmer may have hayseed In hlu hair, but he has 1605,000,000 worth of hay In the market. We may laugh at the straw in his mouth, but must bow down In respect before the most valuable wheat crop ever pro duced in any year in any land. A reasonable amount of food throughly digested and properly assimilated will always Increase the strength. If your stomach Is a "little oil" Kodol Dyspepsia Cure will digest wnat you eat and enable the gestive organs to assimilate arid transform all foods into tissuebuiidng blood. Kodol relieves Syur Stomach, Belching, Heart burn, and all forms of Indigestion. 1'alatable and strengtheLir g. Sold by Conway Diug Co. Frank Steunenberg a former governor of Idaho, was killed at his front gate In Boise City on Saturday by a 4 LOOKING FOR BAD M IN. Postc llloe IiiHppctorN ami l>?t? ctlvot at Wot k. PosU rtlco inspectors and secret ser vice men are quietly workin around in the V e imont section agalu looking for Gus Daforri, the noted >eggman who escaped from three United States deputy marshals *hlle on his way to Charleston for trial, by jumping through the window of a dying passe uger train mar Cades. lie is one of the most notorious safeblowers in the country, and bears the traces of frequent narrow brushes with federal < ill ;ers, who have a most hear ly respect for his nerve i nd intelligence, There are time largo fcoars from bums on his left fore arm, ugly slashes on the forehead and left jiw and a long out on the top of the lii-ad, extending down across the forehead. This was made by the f-ur Inch bladt uf a pole axe. With all his scars, however, DeFord who is twenty.three, years old but looks twenty eight, Is a dapper, well dressed fellow who has the ear of be Ing "stuck on hlmsc t" aud loitors ab ut bowlin alleys and pool rooms, lie is an expert pt ol plajer, well known In Richmond, Norfolk, Baltimore and New York, under one or t.he other of his numerous aliases. Some of those are Augustus DeFord, Wra. n. omun, uus 13. Ford, G. M. IXF.ird, W. W. P. Thortou, C C. Carter Lawrence Bailey, Lawrence (Jockrell, Gus Walter. Amoug his yegg nicknames are "Gus," "Walt," "Dick" and "lJuggsy." Deford was wanted by the posti tilee inspectors for the burglary of safes in the postctbce at Cameron, Uewesville, Montmorenc!, Batesburg and Encco, and was Indicted witti several other yegg man for these burglaries in the United States district c ?urt at Guarlestonon April, 8, 11KK3. He was found at Ohuichville, N. Y., where local authorities were holding him oil cnarge of bank burglary and started south In charge of three United Stated deputy marshals, but escaped by leaping head lorg from the train at Cades. He lias not been seen since, although the inspectors have several times' een hot on his trail, and tiave a tip now that lie's looking about for likely spots f r his operations in tho Piedmont of South Carolina. The chief postoftlc* inspector has offered a reward of $250 for his apprehension as a fugativo from justice, and inspector Gregory of North Carolina and Pulslfer of South Carolina would give years of tholr lives just to see him onc3 more. TO TAKP ACTION. Tito Policyholdcri* ol' (ho liifiiraiico Competition to i>l?;ot "In view of the widespread lnterpst in life insurance and the etiorts that may be mane at the approaching annual meetings to obtain control of the companies, it has been deemed wise by worn? of the South Carolina policyholders in the New York Life and the Mutial Life to bold a meeting cf the policyholders in S nth Carolina for the purpose of organizing an association and to secure proper representation of the policyholders at the annual meetlug of these companies, which will be held in the spring. The object of this meeting will he to secure the policyholders in their r'ghts and it is not the purpose to ir.vjive the com pauies in litigatiun or take any other action which might tend to impair the value of the polices. There will be uo cost upon any policyholder who participates in this meeting. "All policyholders who are In sympathy with these purposes as outlined above are request d to notify the om mittee named belo , or any one of them, whether It v. i I he agreeable to attend either in person or by proxy the .meeting to be held in the city of Columbia on the 18th day of January at nnun In the city council chamber. "(Signed) W. M. Ilamnr, Dillon; L W. Parker, Greenville; J. A. Fant, Union; P. A. Wilcox, Florence; H. F. Mnuldin, Anderson; J. C. Sheppard, Edgefield; S T. MoOravy, Spartan uu.f; x. ji. Kctcnin, Wlnrsboro; J. M Klnard, Ts'ewberrj; J. K. Durst, Greenwood; Leroy Springs, Lancaster; 't. R. Kohn, Orangeburg; J. L, Glenn, Chester; E. L. Lloyd,Georgetown; T. li Stackhouse a?.d J as. A. Hoyt, Columbia; J. II Manning, Latta. "Committee: W. M Ilamer, Dillon; T. B. Stack ouse, Columbia; J as. A. Iloyt, Columbia." Indigestion Ik easily overcome by the use of Kcdol Dyspepsia Cure, b< cause this remedy r igests what you eat and gives the stomach a rest? allows It to recuperate and grow strong sgaiti, Kodc 1 relieves Inditres I tion, Belching of Gas, Sour Stomach, Heart-Bum, etc., and enables the digestive organs to transform all foods into the kind of rich red blood that makes health and strength. Sold by Conway Drug Co. .AnhuhhIii, Charles Zimmerman, who shot and Instantly killed Jim Stevens just across the Saluda line In Edgefield county Wednesday night, was lodg d in Jail there this evenlr g for safe keep lng by Messrs. W. D. and J. G. Padgett. Stevens, it is ?aid, was sitting in his home and was shot by Zimmerman through an open wirfdow. Both parties are negroes. The secret of successfully ridding the system of a c: 11 is a thorougn evacuation of the bowels. Kennedy's Laxative Honey an1 Tar dots this? L'quid Cold Cure, drives all cold cut. of the system. Best, for Coughs, f BANK OF OON W/ CAPITAL STOCK, $20,000.00 TOTAL ASSET jQ?F1C R. (!. COLLINS, Phfsioknt. C. P. QtJATTLERAUM, V-Pkfs. Our Rank, being a local instituti building of ILorry County and for tht suing thiH policy we take pleasure in accommodation when consistent with With gratitude for the liberal | cordially solicit your future business. Respectful P. A. S P i V E Robt. R. Scarborough, II. L President. Vicc-P RANK OF Conwai > Capital Stock 1)1 RFC Robt. R. Scarborough, llal L. Buck, Goorgo .J. Molliday, Wo will pay you 5 per cent, inter ish savings banks to those wishing Try our plan for saving your niekles i these little banks and the interest wo help yon. the "hu: stf* m Cfl & M&r* A A SHOE FOR This brand, on a shoo moans i THE BEST for your money oal J. 10 IV nolii m. Ucavr, The tfrave In which 11' s the body of the man she called husband was yes-1 terday daeded away by M-s. V. J. Dubois, of 1)38 Moines, 'or $40 to Mrs,. Mary Dubois, of Denver, wuosc oUi u ?s wife of the san o man has been substantiated by the courts. Wltu the transfer tfues the Dosm Is woman's claim to the body ?>f the prominent and wealthy Dftfl Molnrsconf rac tor, 10 T. Du >ois, who was found to have three wive-, one in D s Moines, one in 1) ?nvt r enr< or n in New Orleans. It is sa (11 hat Did) ?ls ^leo hvi family c inner,lions in New York aid Philadelphia. It was only that the tit e mi^ht rest with the le^al wife that the transfer was made Mis. V J. Dubois, tirmly b^livin^ that *he otn- j er women were importers, had purchased the lot in tue c met try, a??d the possession < f the ^rave remained wlt.h her until tho courts decided that the j loyal rsuhls rested in M Hn. I hois of Denver, and she then parted with the remains of her supposed husband for $ 10. Perfection can only be a-fta'md in the physical by al cwin^ Nature to appropriate and not dissipate her own rt sources. Carihartlcs irripe, wrakei?cib^'pito, while DaWitt'a Little Karly Risers simply expel all piiitrid matter and btR, tnus ali< win# '-be livor to assume normal activity. Good for the complexion. Sold by Conwav ?)*-ii?f Go. I Wine of Carduii I Cured Her. S y Atlanta, Ga., March 21,1905. |$| I suffered for four months with $ fcj extreme nervousness and lassitude. El I had a sinking fooling in my Nh Bid stomach which no medicine seemed Fvi to relievo, and losing my appetite Eg r?j I becamo weak and lost iny vital- H rJ ity. In three weeks I lost fourteen hj} Ei pounds of ilesh and felt that I must Es E3 find speedy relief to regain my Bfl Kg health. Having heard Wine of Em I Cardui praised by several of my H I friends, I sent for a bottle and was H I certainly very pleased with the H I results. Within three dars my I appetite returned and my ti.mnoch H I troublc<l me no more. I could I digest my food without difficulty I I and the nervousness gradually H I diminished. Nature performed I ?9 her functions without difficulty I 1 and 1 am once more a happy and I KB well woman. M OLIVE JOSEPH, Treat. Atlanta Friday Night ClnK i I Secure a Dollar Bottle of Kg ft^Wine of Cardui Today. Live y and Drayage. 'Plione 36. Horry Tobacco Warehouse, CONWAY. ^V, S. O. SUUItPLI'S FUND, $20,000. S, $180,000.00. lEItS: 1). A. SLMVEY, Cashier. ' / M. W. COLLINS, Asst. Cashier. ion, has always striven for the uf>> betterment of lior citizens. In percxtonding to our customers every sound banking. mtronage received in the past, we ly yours il V C a s h ' e r i. Ruck, \\"i 11 A. Freen an, resident. . Cashier. IIORRY, jr. s, c. $25,000 rOUS: W i? r a V I JC ?? in, W. A..Johnson, 1 Will A. Freeman eat on yearly deposits. Will furnto open small accounts with us. mil dimes, and you will find that will pay you on your savings will BTrlmoEL "TEK- * ! MEN - 5 ? something! I f you want 11 for "The H ub. For sale by ichols. Professional Cards. McCord & McCord, SURGEON DENTISTS, Conway, S. c. JBSF-Over bank of Ilorry. M- M- Burroughs, Physician and Surgeon, Oonwe*:/, SR BrSClRBROUGlT CONWAY, S. C., ATTORNKY AT LAW O. WOODWARD, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, CONWAY, S. XJ. B. Wcfford Wait, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Conway, S. C. Office in Spivey Building. Dr. C. S. Deitz, DENTIST. Conway, S. C. Pnnm ? -I, U|im: y uuiIUUlg. Spivey & Collins Co, Fire Insurance. HKOIv ICl^AU 10. I). A. Sivoy, President. M. V\r Collins, Secretary, Conway Market Fresh Meats and Sausage always on hand. r\-.i ? * * ? wiuuih are uikcii and promptly delivered every day. Geo. L. Marsh, Propvetor. Conway, Coast and Western R. R. DA1I Y SCHEDULE. KAST BOUND. Lv Conway 9:00 a. m Lv PlrtelftlnDd 9:30 a. m. Ar Myrtlo Beach . * 9:45 a. m WEST BOUND, i Lv Myrtle Beach 3:30 p. m.