The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, November 08, 1906, Image 7
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~ FUSED HANGfcD.
A1KUN NEOllO PAY8 THE DEATH
PENALTY FOR
Assault on a White Northern Woman
Who iad Befriended
Him.
The crime for which Isaao Knight
paid the death penalty was the most
hlenous of all the dlabolloal crime i bo
frequently committed by the criminal
class of his race. In the very act of
receiving a courtesy, one the thought
of which would thrill with horror the
average Southern woman, who has
long slnoe learned the b*ute instinou
common to the negro, the fiend conceived
and oarrled out the hellish impulse
of his beastly passion. For three
years and seven months Kulght had
received the kindest treatment at the
hands of his victim, Mrs. Ohapin, &
Northern womar fiVed in her belief
that the negro v Tone of the down
trodden and oppressed race, possess
in. ">J1 nf fr.h A human 1nt-.iiifr.fnria ami
au, ^ a w* umwmm iuvuivivuo auu
sooilki faoulties of the superior raos,
had made KnigA a one of her family.
He occupies a room in her realdenee,
enjoyed his meals at the family
board an was extended every oomfort
of the home of whioh he was in a
measure a beneficiary inmate.
Mrs. Ohapin removed from the North
several years aRO and had made her
home up to the time of the asault in
a section of the county seven miles
south of Aiken. When her alleged
friendly attitude toward Knight became
known the good people of the
neighborhood were at once solicitous
as to her safety ag?d gave her warning.
However, her faith in the negro
was unshaken and the warnings of her
white neighbors were attributed by her
to unwarranted prejudice against a
persecuted race. For nearly four years
Knight, under these conditions, remained
in the employ of Mrs. Ohapin.
A few hours before his execution with
what little feeling there seems to be
in the brute, Knight spoke to The
State's correspondent of the kindness
of the philanthropic woman toward
him and of "the fine.way" she treated
him.
On Sunday night, July 8, tbiByear,
after a day well worn Into the night
with carcusinr In a neighboring negro
settlement, KDlght returned home,
some hours after Mrs Cnapin had retired
for the night. Upon being acquainted
with the fact that he had re?
turned she hurriedly dressed, unlocked
the door and admitted him to the
house Later she had gone to the dining
room, according to the evidence
adduced in the reoent trial of the case,
to give Knight supper, when he fell
upon the victim in the very act of
carrying cut her philanthropic ideas,
and c< mmitted a crime, the hlenousncs9
of which id unprecedented in the
history of the county. II's victim is
an agr d widow, probably 65 years old.
The burly biute was approaching hiB
32nd year.
On the night of the crime Knight
made his escape and all traoes of him
were lost for several days His capture
was accidentally accomplished in Bar
tow, a imm town id jenerson ccunty,
Gaorgla. on Wednesday subsequent to
the cfmo. The Degro appeared suspicious
and his actions oaused the town
marsball at Bartow to arrest him.
When ordered to submit to arrest, be
drew a pistol quickly, and but for the
alertness of the marshal, in knocking
him down, would most probably have
added another to his list of crimes.
After arrest he could not or would not
give an account of himself, and was
therefore held by the authorities there.
Further investigation developed the
fact that the man incarcerated at Bar
tow answered to the description of
K dght and was later identified as the
man who had committed the assault
upon Mrs. Obapin. The negro then
admitted having attempted an assault
on Mrs. Ohapln, but denied that he
succeaded.
He stated that on the night of the
orime he ha^f gone to Vfrs. Oh&ptn's
about 1 o'clook and went to the room
where she was, and waB talking about
the crops, etc., when he suddenly
grasped her and attempted to throw
her down, but she called lor "John"
(his brother in-law) and that he then
turned her loose and went to his sister's
house nearby. Mrs. Ghapln called
his sister. Knight said, and told
her she wanted to talk to him before
he left1 that she told him she "would
have V> haVe him arrested or lyhoh*
ed." He says he told her to kill* him
or do anything else t6 him, as he would
probably be lynohed or banged anyway.
-He then got his olothes and
went baek *e hle-aleter's and neat
mottling went out to Montmorenci
Stayed there until the 11:30 tral
came, and got on the train and went
tcfAugusta, where he stayed a while,
and then went to Barto#,- whert he
was taken Into custody.
Kolght #as brought back to Aiken
and placed In jail. Later It was decld
ed by the coo heads, only as a precautionary
step, to take Knlgbt to Columbia
and have him plaoed in the
penitentiary for stfe keeping. This
was done and Knight remained In Columbia*
where he etayed till some time
before the fall term of court, at which
time he #as convicted. He wat given 1
a fair an&kn partial trial before 12 as
eool, fairannde%and honorable jurors
as the oountry afforded, who pronounoed
him guilt? of orlminal assault.
In sentencing the culprit
Judge Gary said:
"Isaac Knight, the jury haa given
you more deliberation than I should
give you. They deliberated on your
ease one hour, whloh showed they are
not ruled by passion. I am not going
to say anything to you exoept pronounoe
the judgment of the law. I do
not understand for the Ufa of me what
passions move the black men. Here
1ft thli lady who oame into your midst
from tha North; extending to yon a
courtesy and kindness and considera
tion and a oharaoter of treatment
whloh the Southern people had not
been accustomed to accord to you;
treated you, I might say, like a gentleman,
and you reward that treatment
with the most brutal oonduot?
whloh goes to show that you are not
fit to assoolate with deoent people."
Tillman Ah a Looturor.
Senator Tillman seems to have dls
tinotly made good on the lecture platform,
as all his available time has
been engaged at a handsome prioe for
more than a year anead. He Is want
ed all over the country and It must bo
because be knows things and says
things that the people feel they ought
to hear. There Is no particular demand
for the services as lectures of
men who have nothing to say.
N If Senator Tillman's conduct on the
lecture platform is as olalmed by
some people in South Carolina, humiliating
or mortifying to his state, they
have a rather blue outlook ahead, as j
t.Vl O XI txj ill A %
vuu/ tt?ii unvg iu pub up W1U1 A KOOd
deal of this sort of activity on his
part. But as a matter of fact, Senator
Tillman has done and is doing the
state of South Carolina muoh more
good than harm and his popularity on
the lecture platform is only an extension
of his usefulness. The Atlanta
Journal says of him:
After all patriotism pays in the republic.
Senator Tillman has not al
ways been a popular figure upon the
lyceum, and the lecture platforms
have not in the past years fallen over
themselvts in anxiety to secure him,
But Senator Tillman bore himself
like a brave man and a statesman in
the list session of the American senate.
He bore the brunt of the people's
tight for the regulation of the railroads,
and he met all comers in that
arena forcefully and fearlessly. Tillman
grew to grand proportions out
of that session of the henate, and
today in answer to an invitation of tho
South Carolina Society of Atlanta his
secretary informs the president of that
society that every day of the sen tor's
time from now until the re-assi mbllng
of congross on Deocmber 1, and that
every day from the adjournment of
the next senate on Maroh 4 to Do
1 nrvl ? 1 J a
uuci \ji i?ui, in *noauy uuuer uju
tract with the various leoture bureaus
of the country. It gives us personal
and professional pleasure to make this
announcement to the multitude of
friends of the senator from South Carolina.
Feeding Cotton Meal.
As a rule it is not advisable to feed
more than three pounds of cottonseed
meal to a dairy cow, says Prof. A. M
Soule In the Southern Farm Magazine.
Where sucoulent foods are used as
muoh as five pounds may be fed. For
beef oattle to be fed exclusively on
cottonseed meal and fattened, say on
some form of hay derived from legumes,
together with shredded,stover
or oorn silage, as much as 10 pounds
may be fed during the last 00 days of
the period. Not more than two or
three pounds should be fed In the be
ginning, and the inorease should be
made gradually. Better results will
generally follow where the meal is fed
with silage or some other succulent,
cooling food, and it is still more de
sirable to feed equal parts of oorn, o:)b
meal and cottonseed meal. Must not
be fed calves under six months old. As
a milk prGduoei It Is unexcelled, and a
small quantity may be fed to ewes after
parturition with advantage. Not
more than a handful a day should be
added to the ration of corn, oats and
bran, and this amount will not be
ulflcient to injure young animals.
Ft r growing yearlings and other
rrAfinrr ofA nlr IK In nnnnnollnrl if tdxri in
jruuug O'A;ui IU 10 uuc^unuou u igu in
moderate amount, For ouo and onehalf
to two pounds a day may be fed to
horses and mules with success and
satisfaction. Some animals dislike It
and will not take to it readily, but
some become very fond of It. If
silage Is fed to horses and mules In
the winter time the meal should be
sprinkled over the feed. A moderate
amount of silage will not injure
horses, an many suppose; unsatisfactory
results usually follow from feed*
ing too large an amount.
Throw Them Away.
special dispatoh from Atlanta to
the Augusta Chronicle says State
Chemist M. MoOandless Saturday
completed his examination of the
stomaoh of Mrs. R. E. Hooks, of
nhalsaa. Ohattooao oountv. Ga.. who
died a few weeks ago following the
drinking of the* contents of a bottle
marked "Kodol Nerve Tonic," which
had 6e$n tehfc her through the aaails
from Chattanooga. Dr. MoCandleae
fouhd traces of stfyohnlne id the bottle
from wblohshe drank, and there
was no doubt about the aypearanoe of
this poison in her stomach. As a result
of this investigation the governor
has offered a reward of $200 for
the apprehension Of the party who
sent the bottle to Mrs. Hooks through
the mafli. It is strange that a person
would drink the oontents of a bottle
sent them In that way. We think it
a go6d rule for people to throw kway
all samples of medicine sent them.
Although the orgen of the Protective
Tariff League denounced Congressman
Sereno Payne A an old imbecile,
or even worse, he has been renominated.
The question in the mind
of the ohalrman of Payne's campaign
eoramittee now Is, will the League
prevent the usual flow of campaign
contributions from the proteoted
trusts, or will he have to run the campaign
on reform promises?
iM IP
Trial by Jury in Criminal
Cases Recommended*
TO HIRE ATTORNEYS
CommlMfos " || 1 Separation
of OHnfaul Mi Ohrfl Ou<?BMj
mi Law Heretofore Frowned
Ufou and liBUj? Were Not Alp
lowed to Argue Qmm.
Trial by Jvry did not hare Its orlgIn
In Km gland; the principle Is many
many years older than the Magna
Charta, says ths New York Sun. According
to a translation from the
Pol Yang Kuan Pae which the Minister
at Pekla sent to the State Department,
containing n memorial of
the commissioners charged with a
levislon of the Chinese code, It originated
way back In the good old days
of the Chou dynasty, centuries before
the historic little Incident at
Hunnymede, but It has not yot been
put Into practical operation In the
Celestial Empire. The Chinese didn't
want to be in u hurry about the mattor.
It was the well beloved Chou who
said, and It Is so recorded In his
"ltitos":
"The officers having Jurisdiction
In criminal cases had three ways of
determining a sentence of death,
threo reasons for the exercise of
clemency and three for the bestowal
or pardon, by the use of which the
Minister of Crime was assisted In
hearing criminal cases. The first
method of arriving at a sentence of
death was taking the opinion of the
whole body of Ministers; the second
taking the opinion ef the Inferior
officials; the third, taking that of the
people.M
This, the Chinese commission
holds, was the inception of the Idea
of trial by Jury, and It ?o states In
Its memorial to the Emperor in prayIns
for nn imperial decree to establish
trial by Jury in the empire.
The commissioners not only reoommended
trial by Jury for criminal
offences but also suggests a separation
of criminal and civil cases and
different modes of procedure. They
point out that Japan formerly followed
the Chinese practice, but that
Kinco the revolution she has followed
in the footsteps of the West, and in
tho twenty-third year of Ming-Chih
she published in succession rulcB of
procedure for civil and criminal
cases, with the result that all citizens
of all nations settled there have
become subject to her Jurisdiction.
Tho cause for this the commissioners
assign to the fact that no one any
longer fails in the settlement of
suits at law to obtain his rights.
Continuing, the memorial, which
is regarded as one of the most lmnortant
steps toward reform which
f?hina has taken in recent years,
says:
"In China mixed China and foreign
cases are daily Increasing in
number and complexity. Foreigners
consider our manner of Judgment
wun.Tum iroin uieirs, ana there constantly
arises a difference of views.
Chinese merchants, too, are not familiar
with foreign regulations and
constantly suspect bias, and as such
suspicions accumulate harmony becomes
impossible. Every lawsuit
growing out of some trifling dispute
becomes a question for international
investigation. There have been innumerable
cases of this sort in recent
years."
Tho commissioners then go on to
tell of their examination of the laws
of other countries and express the
belief that, with the separation of
civil and criminal cases In the method
of procedure and tho establishment
of trial by Jury, foreign countries
will no longer demand the enforcement
of the doctrine of extraterritoriality,
an end which the corasloners
express the hope that
China may attain in order that she
may recover her Jurisdiction in ail
cases.
The memorial makes another novel
recommendation, which is to the
effect that lawyers should be emplo>ed.
This recommendation la distinctly
a new departure la China and
places the Dractlee of law t? th?
plra for tha first tlma upo* a roapaotabla
footing. Tha study of tha law
has barutofora baaa frawnad upon,
and axcapt racantly In porta whora
foralgnars raslda lawjara ham not
bean parmittad ta appaar befora
courts to drgua n anna.
In axplalnlng why tha asaplaymant
of lawyars in adrlsahto tha ma
mortal eays that "whan par Has to a
lawsuit am brought in foar and
trombllng into tha praaanaa of tha
court if they say mu?k they talk la
a confused way. Hence they employ
lawyars to talk for them."
Tha memorial also rscorn meads
tha am ploy meat of attorney s who
shall ba counsal for tha Government
and that a definite number' of students
of good charaater and serious
minded ba trained la tha principal
law schools for this purpose.
Tha various reoommendatlons tor
tha reforms suggested In tha memorial
have bean Incorporated into a
oluma of five chapters, and containing
260 regulations, which the
commissioners urge tha Bmepror to
promulgate as tha law of China by
ofielal ad lot.
* i' ? e
Marriage In England.
Under tha English law of tha j
eighteenth century women were absolved
from all debts on marriage.
Fashionable women who had lost
heavily at cards sometimes wedded a
criminal on his tray to the g&lloWd to
escape thetiLfittdUors. I
a
Khosld BUnd Toffetber.
If those whom yout owe want their
money, and many of them are almost
oompelled to bate It, don't sell your
cotton If the price Is not right, but
put It In the warehouse and borrow
money on It and pay your debts, including
your subscription to the paper
you take. We hove no hesitation Id
saying that the present prloe of cot
ton is too low. The Wall street sharks
who never saw a field of oott^n arc
fixing the price, and are not permitting
the farmer to haye a voice in the
fixing. Don't let any one deceive you
on this question. Join your brother
farmers who are trying to resist op
presslon. Don't stand idle. Qet
busy. The Lord helps them who
help themselves. "He who dallies is
dastard; he who doubts is damned!"
Will you stand like a lot of slaves
and be robbed! From the Atlantic to
Oklahoma the cotton farmers are rising
up in their might and banding
themselves together against thler
common foe. Lay aside all differences
of politios, religion, and personalities
uq pa. your si^ulder to the wheel.
You owe it to your wife and children
'o do so. It will not take thirty dayp
to win the fight. Let every farmer
r solve not to sell a pound of cotton
f r less thon ten cents or more
Y u are masters of the situs'.ion
Sti W together and win or divide and
oo ruined. Wa^hoose your cottor
and pay your debts but don't sell
your cotton for less than ten oents per
pound.
Threo TraKodlce.
There were three tragedies in Aug
uata, via., od xuursn&v nignc wituin
four hours time. At 8 o'clock W. J.
Sowell, a sowing machine agent, of
Langley, S. O., was run down by a
trolley car on the Aiken line, just
beyond North Augusta, S. C., and
about tive miles from town. He was
brought to the city hospital, where
ha died at 12 o'clock. lie was walking
beside the track, In an alleged Intoxicated
condition, wheu he was oonfused
and blinded by the brilliant headl.ght.
He stepped on the traok d'reotly
in front of the car. George Williams,
a painter, killed himself with a
overdose of morphine at his home on
Montesano street about 10 o'clook.
No reasou has been assigned for the
suicide and as the family refuse to
talk, the facts cannot be made public
until Friday afternoon at the coroner's
request. He leaves a wife and three
children. Mamie Duvall, aged 41, took
au overdose of morphine, with Buioidal
intent at mid night. She was car
ried to the city hospital at 3 o'clock,
and died three Friday morning at ?>
o'clock.
J. Heavy Receipts.
The ootton market tried very hard
last week to climb to and above twelve
cents, but the farmers kept piling the
cotton on the market until the marlrnf
tvn PA uiou flin r\vInn
auu ft < v U Tin/ ?IIU vuu yuuo UVUilUQU
considerable. Every time the market
starts up tho cotton is rushed on the
market, whloh Is found to hoid the
price of ootton down. The cotton
growers Care now the worst ootton
bears in our country?they are the
men that keep prices from rising by
dumping on the cotton every time the
market starts on a rise. We are not
blowing the farmer, because many of
them are compelled to sell their ootton,
but we are only giving a reason
for the depression in the price of cotton.
All who can should market
their ootton slowly, and in that way
keep up prices.
Tiiu*dollar subscription , asked for
by the Republicans having praotloally
proved a failure and most of the government
clerks at Washsngton having
ignored the request for a donation of
5 per cent of their annual salaries,
the Republican committee is scouring
Wall Street for subscriptions from
theitrusts and corporation magnates
with far better suooess.
. Tuky appear to have troubles over
tho servant question even in France,
for a dispatch reports the President
of Franoe has fired his cook. It is to
be hoped that no such trouble will ooour
at the White House, for with a
man of the oholerlo disposition of the
President of the United States, the
result might be disastrous.
The report that'jin some parts of
Pennsvlvania they are gathering a
second orop of plums, must be due to
the constant visits of^boss Penrose to
Oyster Bay and the I White House,
where the process described by the
late boss Quay as;"shaklng the plum
tree" is being imitated by his successor.
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Tiieue Is a great dlfferenoe between
the party oampalgh hoiks.
The Democratic book proves what it
olalms by giving the evidenoe supported
by facts and figures, whereas the
Republican book olalms everything
In sight and proves nothing.
Reports from the White Honsindicate
that Secretary Cortelyou
will suooeed Secretary Shaw as Sees
rotary or the Treasury. This shows
that the oonstant visits of Oortelyou
to Wall Street for theoampalgu funds
have shown the Trust Magnates that
Mr. Oorteiyou may be relied upon to
carry out a "safe and sans? policy, li
Mu.|Hughes, the. Republican can
dldate for governor of New York
will have to watoh the chairman and
treasurer of his campaign oommittee,
or they will surely allow some corporation^
to deposit.?a check to their
oredit, that would compromise Mr.
Hfcigbes.
**???rnmmm?! 11?- ?fc
The prloe of sllve^ is higher now
than slnoe the repealing the Sherman
purchasing aot; the reason being, a
greater demand for the metal and
the greater abundance of gold and
thus a decrease In its purchasing
fOMl
PWFHCTTiT SAWIflPIKD.
The Lecture Wm Appreciated and
D located.
"I don't wish to take up your
time," the caller said, "unless you
think It Is likely I might Interost you
In the subject of life insurance."
"Well," replied the man ut the
desk, "I'll not deny that I havo beon
thinking about It lately. Go ahead.
I'll listen to you."
Whereupon tho caller talked to
him forty-live minutes without a
stop.
"And now," he said at last, "are
you satisfied that our company la ono
of the host, and that our plan of doing
business Is thoroughly safe?"
"Yes."
"Have I convinced you that we
furnish as good insurance as any
other company, and at rates as cheap
as you can got anywhoro?"
"Yes; I am satisfied with what
you say?perfectly satisfied."
"Well, don't you want to take out
a policy with us?"
"Mo? Oh, no! I'm a life insurance
agont myself. I thought I
might bo ablo to got Bomo tips from
you!"
So Wduld Wo All.
Connie Muck, tho noted baseball
man, was talking In Philadelphia
about the Importance of Hllenco.
"No ball played," he Huld to tho
group of young men around him,
"accomplishes anything by being
noisy. If a decision goes against a
player, if the umpire Is unfair, lot
him keep quiet. Let him rofrain
from oaths, shouts, accusations.
Noise, in the midst of u game, only
damages the Ill-treated player's case.
"To Impress on my men this doctrine
of sllonco T often tell thora
about a married couple. "The wife,
In the middlo of tho night, was
awakened by the loud snores of hor
husband. She endured the horrible
racket as long as sho could. Then,
pinching tho man sharply, sho said:
" 'Herbert, you'd make less noise
If you kept your mouth shut.'
''Herbert, sleenv and snrlv. mu?
tered:
" 'So would you.' "
Two Offers.
Dr. Wood row Wilson, the preside
nt. of Princeton, was sauntering
down n shady lane one day in tho
early summer when lie met a tall,
handsome youth.
This youth had just been graduated.
Ho was very poor and very
intelligent. In all his courses ho had
taken honors, and in uthletlcs also
great honors had been his.
"Well, Smith," said Dr. WilBon,
'through at last, oh?"
"Yes, sir," said tho young maji,
smiling and blushing.
' And now what are you going to
do?"
"1 hardly know yet, sir. I have
had two offers."
"Two? Wonderful!"
"Yes, sir. One Is from a scientific
society, offering mo a secretaryship
at $5 a week: and tho other Is from
a baseball magnate, offorlng me a
live years' contract to pitch at
$5,000 a season."
7
Peculiar Malady.
jpBS^
She?That throat trouble of yours
Is most distressing. Does it attack
you frequently?
lie?Yos; every time you eat ice
cream I have to cough.
She Was a Prevaricator.
Little Johnny's father found his
young hopeful holding up one of his
rabbits by the ears and saying to
him: "How muck Is seven times
sevep?"
"Bah," the father heard the boy
say. "I knew you touldn't. Here's
an easy one, six times six Is how
much?"
"Why, Johnny, what lu the world
are you doing with yeur rabbit?"
asked the father.
Johnny throw the rabbit down
with disgust. "I knew our teacher
was lying to no,** was afl ho said.
"Why, how?" asked his lather.
"Why, she told us this morning
that rabbits was the greatest, multipliers
In the world."?Toadies' Homo
Journal.
In the Family.
"Young Dr. Walker always Impressed
me as having nerves of Iron,
Judging by the cool way ho perfoims
the most serious operations," remarked
his friend, "but yesterday
when 1 met him In consultation he
was the most excited man I havo
seen for a long while."
"It must have been a most unusual
and extraordinary case."
"No; one of the doctor's own children
had a mild attack of measles."
The Vain Quest.
I sought for a woman of thirty?*
In vain. It Is plain to me
That all women nnder fifty
re not over twenty-three!
?Cleveland Deadest
PBICK8 OF COTTON
MUST GO flIGHKft SAYS PRK8IDKNT
B. D. SMITH.
Bates His Opinion on the Beport Recently
Issued by the Government.
Mr. E. D. Smith of the South Carolina
Cotton association has Issued a
statement concerning the recent ginning
report made by the department
of agriculture. Mr. Smith Bays that
the figures shows as predicted by the
asscoiatlon that the crop Is a short
ore and the farmers should obtain 12
1-2 oents per pound for the product If
ihey will only hold their cotton. Mr.
Smith In his statement says:
"The bureau's report on ginning
makes the total amount of cotton ginned
up to the present 4 1)10,000 bales
South Carolina Is 390,000 as against
639,000 last year. 1 think all will
agree that at least 60 per cent, of
South Carolina's orop was ginned up
to the 18th of October. This being
true, we will not make much over 700,000
bales of cotton. Last year's orop
was al>out 1,125 000. This will leave
South Carolina something like 400,000
bales short Georgia, Alabama and
North Carolina all show about the
same percentage short. Texas makes
up In excess lacking 80,000 bales of
bringing it up te last year's glunlng.
"The next ginners report, 1 am
confident, will show that our contention
that the orop is short, Is true.
Last week and the week before the
mills and the oottcn buyers gave 11
cents readily for cotton. If they
could alTord to buy it then at that
uKuix', ib ib worm mat much now, for
the reason that they bad placed their
oontraots months ahead and could afford
to give 11 cents and show a handsome
protlt.
"There is no reason why you, tht
farmers of tho South, should sacrltlce
what cotton you do sell them, because
somebody predicted there was a much
larger crop. Demand from them that
they shall give for what you do sell
them from now on, what they have
Veen paying for It for the last two or
three weeks at least. Cotton Is worth
today on the markets, In view of the
price aud the scarcity of gcods, 12 1 2
cento a pound. If the farmers will
just absolutely refuse to sell It for
lees, this price can be obtained for the
balance of this crop.
"Of course everything depends upon
the unanimity with which they hold
cotton. I am still ccnv need that on
recount of the frost and storm maklDg
anything like a top crop is impossible;
that this orop will not appreciably
exceed last year's and therefore
octton Is bound u tlmately to go very
muoh higher. The world will need
12,600 000 bales and cnecf the test
posted men In the cotton world wired
me that if the crop should turn cut
12,000,000 bales, It would rapidly
bring 7d, 'r Krgland. 1 do not tblDk
anyone looks for a orop asgieat as
12,000,010 La,es. Let the faimcrs c*
the country settle this question and
Bettle it now by absolutely refusing to
part with their property, except at a
value satisfactory to themselves. The
break in the market of one cent a
tound within three days entailing a
loss of *5 a bale oompared with the
labor of the farmer for 12 months to
make that bale of cotton, Is enough
10 arouse blm to a sense of bis duty
In the DramlRPH "Tn w to
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to pioduoe that wMch speculators and
gamblerB can take 10 per oent. from
It* value In 2'1U boors is enough to
either make a man quit growing cottcn
or show that he 1h a man. The
wirld la waiting to see whether you
are men."
Mr. Smith 1b now at work on the
plans for the organization of the mammoth
holding ocmpany whloh Is to buy
and hold all cotton cfferid at less
than the sgieed price. Some time
ago a full statement of tbe purpcses
of this ctmpany was given In The
State and aince then the association
has reoelved many letters seeking Information
about the oompany. Another
state ment will be given the press In a
few days.
Cotton Deed Too Low.
Professor J. M. Johnson, of the
University of Georgia, says that $16
per ton is low water mark for this
year's cotton seed erop. Prof Johnson
figures tbatssoh dollar put on to
tbe selling prioe of seed means an Inorease
of $5,500,000 to the farmers ot
the Booth. At present prices of ootton
oil and meal the farmer should
get at least $18 for their sesd, whloh
amour ts to $5 per ton less to the
farmer on each ton that he sells for
$13, or a loti over twenty five million
dollars on the whole orop of the
South. This loss on seed In one seaton
would pot op enoogh warehouses
to take care of half the ootton
orop of the whole South. The Parmers
Union experiments lass rear
proved that ground cotton seed paid
nsarly $25 per ton under ootton and
oorn. Farmers, don't $ell yonr seed
for six or elgnt dollars per ton less
than the sesd Is worth for fertiliser.
v aimers must look more alter the
business tide of tbeir farming for
their own Intereat and quit taking
the other man's figures on everything.
Hobbed by Piratev.
The correspondent In Hong Kong
of the London Evening Telegram
sajs the launoh Flenam has been
seized by pirates on the West river.
The passengers and orew of the launoh
were robbed, and the pirates then
raided several Chinese launohes and
engaged In a runlcg fight with an
armed launoh of the salt commlisto ns.
They finally escaped in the darkness
with booty of $10,000.