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UNION MEETS Many Farmers of the State Gather in Columbia. mamtq nc nn p^atcc liniflLO VI ULLLUn 6 LU As tho Union is a Sonrt Society tho Meetings Are Held in Kxecn- ^ live Sessions, and, of Course, the General Public Are Not Allowed in Their Meetings. The State says about two hundred delegates were present at the opening of the Farmers' Union State Convention at the State House in that city Wednesday night, every J county in the State, with few exceptions, being represented by two or more delegates. President B. ' Harris in his opening address said it was the most representative body of farmers he had ever seen assembled in the State. After the convention was organized, matters affecting the welfare and interests of the Farmers' Union ! of South Carolina wore entered upon and discussed. For obvious reasons many of the questions consider- j ed can not be made public, as the union is a secret organization and j it is not permitted to divulge every- i thing that was said and done until those in authority see proper to give it out. Dr. S. J. Summers of Cameron, made a very eloquent address on , the opportunities and obligations of the Farmers' L'n He spoke of its phenomenal growth, and impressed on the con-: volition that the union by adhering to its principles and through earnest co-operation in everything re- . bating to the interests of tho farmer ; can wield a power that will be felt throughout the world. President Harris submitted a report of his stewardship, in which ho made several recommendations for the good of the order. The report of the president was referred to a special committee, to be named by the president, to pass upon the recommendations made in the report. President Harris' report was in part as follows: "We have now 3 5 ! county organizations in tho State. In all tho counties except three are local unions. We have altogether in South Carolina very nearly 7 00 local unions. The order is growing rapidly, and we have reason to congratulato ourselves on the. work that has hcen accomplished in the past year. We should feel groatly encouraged to press on in tho good . work, the reward of which will ho j not only great to, ourselves but. to' every farmer in tho State." Tho Delegates. About 200 delegates and members attended the meeting of the. Farmers' Union of the State. Tho following is the ofllcial roll of delega(os: Abbeville?,T. A. Gilliam, J. D. ! Wilson, Drown Howie. I aiKen?W. II. Brodie, B. F. McI,ane, S. B. Williams. Anderson?J. B. Douthit, W. W. ( Smith. Bamberg?D. II. Rice, J. E. McMillan. Barnwell?W. T. Walker, T. F. Ilogg, Alfred Aldrich. Berkeley?J. M. Wilder, W. P. Brussell. Calhoun?B. F. Keller, G. W. Fairy, S. J. Summers. Cherokee?E. R. Sapoch. Chester?J. G. L. White, L. T. Grant, M. E. Jordan. Chesterfield?II. G. Hendrlx, F. W. Rivers, G. W. Martin. Clarendon?J. M. Montgomery, J. M. Player, J. E. Kelly. Colleton?L. S. Padgett, J. O.. Jaqucs, W. W. Smoak. Darlington, A. J. A. Perritt, S. .1. Jeffords. Dorchester?D. P. Humph. Edgefield?G. S. Cartledge, W. It. Parks. Fairfield?W. R. Elliott. V)r?rf?llf'o Til Vf T r-1 mr . ..,.~..v,v> 1J. lit. 11IUKO, J. D. I>1C* I Kcn/.ie, J. B. McBrido. Greenville?C. I). Smith, T. H. i Foster, J. A. Fowler, J. Mills Money, j Greenwood?W. L. Anderson, J no. I). Williams. Hampton?G. AT. Riley, M. H. Shnman, It. T. Causey. Kershaw?A. 10. Kennedy, J no. S. Brown, .T. F. West. Lp.ncaster?C. It. MeManus, .T. C. Robinson, J. 10. Craig, J. F. NUbet, C. F. Adams, J. S. Wilson. Laurens?II. J. G. Curry, J. Wado Anderson. Lee?S. N. Weteh. Lexington?J. 10. Haitiwnnger, S. J. Clark, J. W. Shealy. Marion?Douglass Me.Intyre, M. F. Dill, 10. C. Edwards. Marlboro?CharlCB Crossland. Newberry?Dr. W. C. Brown, J. B. O'Neall Holloway, A. 1). Hudson. 14. Oconee?T. Y. Chalmers, J. B. Picket. Orangeburg?J. IT. Claffey, T. R. McCants, T. It. Smith, T. M. Dantzler, W. M. Bryce. Pickens?J. F. Williams, J. F. Hendrix, R. M. Bolding. Richland?Dr. W. W. Ray, F. H. CO I TON MARKET CROP ADVICES KKNDH PRICES UP A FKW POINTS. The Outlook Indicates a Crop This Your M uch Sinallor Than Lust Year's Crop. In Now York on Saturday owing mainly to unfavorable crop reports and a sold out and oversold condition of the market cotton prices, after some irregularity, advanced sharply. All are looking forward to the government report anxiously. The July condition was 70.G per cent and tho August condition sometimes falls considerably below that of July. The question is whether the recent rains in Texas ami some improvement east of the Mississippi river may not have caused some increased condition during July. Some traders think they have. Many, however, incline to the belief that there has been little or no improvement and that if this turns out to bo so, much higher prices are inevitable. Special newspaper reports of late have been of a kind to stimulate hull speculation. They have come from the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama as well as from Mississippi and Louisiana and talk of a crop of only 1 1,500,000 to 12,000,000 bales has grown louder, based on the axiom that an August condition below SO per cent has invariably meant a small crop. It is true that the acreage is now some 32,000,000 acres as contrasted with an area in former years of 25,000,000 to 30,000,000, but it Is worthy of remark that even in 1007 III t 1, ,1 ...... nil ( i-a null liiny given 51S liu," DC,(>,000 acres and an August condition of 75?about what is now looked for the crop was only 11,375,000 hales. Crops of 13,500,000 bales and over in the last five years have only been raised in years when the August condition was 82.9 to 91.6. The previous high record crops of about 11,250,000 hales in 1 897, and 1S9S on areas of 24,275,000 to 24,9 67,000 acres were produced on August conditions of from 86.9 to 91.2 per cent. Hut low August conditions have never yielded good crops. Meantime speculation is on the qui vivo roi that report from Washington on August 2. Even if bullish, it may be followed by a reaction in prices, hut the consensus is that a report pointing to a relatively small crop?that is, 12,000,000 or below?will he tho signal gun for another outburst of bullish speculation. Tho government report will 'he published today, and we will publls* It Thursday. Tho ginners' report published Saturday put the crop at 11,000,000 hales, and it i9 not likely that the government report will differ very widely from that report, unless tho government is doctored In the interest of the speculators* as was done some years ago. This is not very likely, though, as things have been looked after more closely to stop crop reports from being doctorcd. When people can be genuinely charitable it is to themselves. Often hard to get over?the stone wall. There's no reason *o think the coolest wofclc for this weather is putting up a frieze. Roberts. Saluda?J. W. P. Marmon, P. L. Nicholson, W. M. Wingard. Spartanburg?E. P. Wall, T. B. Thackston. Sumter?E. W. Dabbs, R. J. Brown field. Williamsburg?J. D. Daniel, W. E. Net t les. York?J. E. Burns, J. Frank Ashe. The officers for the past year wore: President, B. Harris; vieo president, A. J. A. Perritt; socrotary, .T. Whitner Held; chaplain, W. E. Bodie; conductor, W. E. Hopkins; doorkeeper, H. L. Calvert; sorgeant-at-arnis, W. P. Caskey. Tlio executive committee of the State union is composed of tlio following: L. L. Baker, J. II. Lambert, .Tasv. L. Keltt, W. R. Parks, O. P. Goodwin, and J. P. Ashe. Officers Elected. The following ofllcors were elected Thursday: President, A. J. S. Perritt, Lamar. Vice president, E. W. Dabbs, Mayosvillo, No. 1. Secretary-treasurer, J. Whitner Iteid, Columbia. Chaplain, W. E. Bodie, Wards. Conductor, W. E. Hopkins, Hopkins. Doorkeeper, A. F. Calvert, ITodges. Sergeant-at-arms, W. P. Caskey, Lancaster. Delegate to national union, B. Harris, Pendleton. Executive committee, First district, L. C. Padgett, Smoaks, No. 2; Second district, VV. R. Parks, Parks- I ville; Third district, J. B. Douthit, Pendleton, No. 2; Fourth district, O. P. Goodwin, Laurens, No. 3; Fifth district, J. F. Nisbot, Lancaster; Sixth district, J. H. Lambers, Marion; Seventh district, B. F. Keller, Cameron. SPAIN BESET King Proclaims Martial Law Throughout Ntaion. CATALONIA IN REVOLT Artillery Used Against Revolutionists in llurcclona?Rloody Rattle With Moors at Melillu Inquietudo in Madrid?Orders Given to Governors to Crush Revolution. A dispatch from Madrid says the revolution in Catalonia has reached a serious stage. There is much bloodshed and artillery has been employed in the streets of Ttsiro<>lr?nn to quell the outbreaks. The city Is terror stricken. The revolutionists are reported to he righting desperately behind barricades. King Alfonso hastened back to Madrid from San Sebastian Wednesday and at once issued a decree proclaiming martial law and tlie suspension of constitutional guarantees throughout Spain. Orders have been given to the governors of the provinces to crush the revolution at any cost withom hesitation and without pity. Wednesday marked a black chapter in Spain's history, for there was both tragedy at homo and abroad The king reached Madrid in time to learn that part of his army at Melilla had had a bloody battle with the Moors, which, though finally a victory by the Spaniards, cost the lives of 2 1 oflicers and a total of 200 Spaniards killed or wounded. An exact estimate of the dead and wounded in the clashes between the troops and rebels in Catalonia is Impossible, owing to the rigid cenj sorship. i no contor or the rebellion Is Barcelona, to which place the government la rushing extra troops. The I greatest Inquietude reigns in Madrid. King Alfonso was closeted until a late hour with Premier Maura and t an official note was Issued saying the situation was exceeedingly grave and that the rebellion must he suppressed with an iron hand, as the Catalonlans were struggling to engulf all Spain in a revolution. The hostility of the people against the Moroccan campaign is based on resentment that the nation has been plunged into a foreign war and that the nation's sons are being sacrificed merely because of opposition to a private mining undertaking. | The poorer classes, from which the regiments are chiefly drawn, are j especially bitter. The greatest antagonism has been aroused by the mobolization of the reserve. Many of the men in the reserve forces havo large families. Advices from the front state that the holy war sentiment is spreading among the interior tribes, who, so soon as their crops are gathered, are expected to flock to the coast and join the Riflians. LAME AND ItLlNl> IUsiege a Nc\? Yoi-U t'hurch l.y Day and Night. It is reported that one of the most remarkaMo roHorinim ? ?*? uuiiiuiiHiruiions ever witnessed in this country has been brought to a close in tho Roman Catholic Church of St. Jean Ilaptiste, in East Seventy-sixth I street, New York, wherein a little j silver case aro treasured two small hones that are believed to bo from the wrist of St. Anne, mother of the Virgin Mary. i On the first of the nine days of the Novena, remarkable cures were reported, among them being a woman who is said to have regained her sight. Tills and many reports of similar miracles caused the little church to be besieged day and night by the lame and the halt and many pitiful scenes were witnessed. Jb'licveing parents sent to tho shrine children who had been ill from birth, others brought men and women so crippled that they could not walk and scores of tho blind were led to the altar rail to kiss the little silver case and frequently utter their prayers to St. Anne for deliverance from the physical woes. The rush of supplicants became so great that special details of policemen formed the crowds into lines and were always present at tho churches to preserve order. Many persons seeking to bo cured come from distant cities, and hundreds came from adjacent localities. Killed in Ills Onico. Dr. Duke Wing, Chinese vice consul at New York, a graduate of Deigh and Yale universities and married to an American woman, was mortally wounded at his ofliee in a lower llroadway building, New York, a few afternoons ago by a man of his own race, who gives valuable but confused and contra- J dlctory reports of himself in pidgin j English. Dr. Wing died shortly after in St. Gregory's hospital. He had been shot in the back with a reTolTer. FAMINE FOLLOWS Mexican Earthquake and Conditions Are Awful. A SMA! I Tinai WAVF w vm mm m i ? v m s v Wtm I Tho Water Receded Thirty-Tliree Feet and Then Hushed Hack With Great Force, Submerging Docks and I*iers ? Tho Kurthquakc Shocks Continue. Telegrams from the City of Mexico ?ay that details which are beginning to arrive from tho State of Guerrero, show that tho recent series of earthquakes Jn the valley of Mexico and along the Pacific coast were tho worst experienced in years. It is now certain that the towns of Acapulco and Chilpancingo have been practically destroyed. What the earthquake of Friday failed to do was accomplished by the stronger one of Saturday, which either levelled or rendered uninhabitable every building in these places. In addition to the ruin caused by the earthquake, Acapulco now faces a famine. All of the markets were destroyed in the shocks of Saturday and the country people are afraid to bring more produce into tho town. The people are camping in tho public squares. Tho few buildings that remain standing are being levelled by dynamite, as they are little more than tottering walls that are constantly falling as new shocks come. During the heavy shock yesterday the water in the harbor receded a distance of thirty-three feet and then rushed back, covering the docks and piers. The people are suffering considerably, not only for want of food, but because of their exposed positions. The tents in the public squares and streets do not serve to keep off the heavy rains which fall at this season. Funds are being raised in Mexico City to relieve tho distressed of Guerrero. Tn Mexico City the shock of Saturday was heavier than any yet experienced. As the work of examination continues, more and more evidence of damage is found, though so far as known, no lives were lost in tho last agitation. Many tourists who were stopping at the local hotels are leaving for tho United States. A second telegram from Acapulco states that the quakes continued all of Saturday night and throughout the greater part of the day. No building or dwelling house of any kind is inhabitable. The city authorities are conducting affairs in a temporary shelter under a tree in tlie main plaza. They have telegraphed to President Diaz for federal assistance and asked that gun boats with supplies, bedding and medicine be sent as soon as possible. Tho message soys that tents and food are immediately needed to prevent great suffering. * SUMMER HOTEL RUINED. Hundreds of Vivistors Flee From the . Kuilding. A night watchman's prompt work in sounding tho fire alarm enabled the hundred guests of Hotel Tybec, a summer resort on Tybee Island, to escape safely from tho structuro when it burned before daylight Saturday. Tho lire consumed the main building with a loss of $05,000, about half of which was covered by WK> II lilllCe. When the tire brok out the hotel was in total darkness but the guests got out with remarkably little contusion. A number of the guests lost valuable jewelry, and it is said that the baggage of many of the guests was looted, a number complaining that all of their money had been stolen. Messrs. Stubbs and Keen, proprietors of the hotel, state they will rebuild at once. Their loss is estimated at nearly $100,000 with insurance of nearly one-third that amount. An interesting feature of the burning of the hotel was the aid rendered by a large number of negro convicts in stripes from a convict camp I on tho island. The negroes gavel valuable assistance in saving properly of tho guests. Fined a Proaeher. At Spartanburg F. L. McElree, a preacher, pleaded guilty before Magistrate Wetmore to tho charge of cruelty to animals, and sentenced to 1 servo 20 days or pay a flue of $50. The case against the preacher was made out by J. II. Lee, president of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, alleging that ho beat a mule unmercifully, and failed to give the animal the proper attention and feed. * IIo sang to her in the gloaming, But Cupid supplied the art, For while ho sang, he was playing On the organ called her heart. WORKING^ Why not let yo O rni you: mere is no this than bv inves REAL ESTATE. A FEW E Four tracts situated in Coluni I IO, 183, 400 acres, respective , , .Ten tracts situated in Horry rtO to 300 acres. Prices ranjj Severul tracts in Orangeburg ( Farm of 00 acrcw situated in Carolina Sa WE SELL YOUR PROPE nn a \ir.cc UIVm^ULwL Southern States Machiner: nPy Plumbing COL.U M E PUTS A QUESTION. A Woman Asks Mr. Rockefeller to "Ileal It." The August American Magazine publishes a letter, signed "An American Woman," in the department, "The Pilgrim Scrip," in which the author claims that men have come to realize that in modern industrial conditions the majority of them cannot conduct a paying business and live according to the tenets of the Christian religion. "Put," she continues, "they rebel against the hyprocisy of such a course. Americans may be cynics but they are not hyprocites. The motto of the majority may be, 'If religion interferes with your business, then cut out your religion,' but on the other hand, the instinct of the majority is also to demand of those who profess religion that they shall practice it. "It is, for instance, one of our great American jokes?it has already been celebrated in rag-timo ballad?that Mr. John P. Rockefeller teaches Sunday school. The attitude of the averago American toward this fellow-citizen of our might bo translated into those words: " 'Conduct your business as you wish, Mr. Rockefeller, for, after all. we rather admire sharp practice when it makes Rood. Put your helpless competitors out of the game, drive them to failure, despair and suicide, buy up the Upper House, create a Third House. But don't on top of that, don't we beg of you, have the face to preach the Golden Rule. Really, Mr. Rockefeller, when J it comes to this Sunday school proposition, you're nothing but a joke. Beat it!'" THOUGHT TO HE SUICIDE. Was Not Murdered as Had Boon Reported at First. Benjamin Nittinger, who wa9 found dead with a bullet in his brain in Newark, N. J., on Sunday night, the eve of his marriage, is now believed by the police to have committed suicide instead of having been murdered. The young woman to whom he was engaged, declared that ho had represented himself as being wealthy, and that immediately after the wedding ceremony he was to have taken her to a $10,000 home, which he said he had provided at Elizabeth, N. J. The police have learned that Nittinger was a machinist, earning less than $15 a week and that instead of being wealthy he had a hard time to support himself. On Sunday he had told a friend that unless ho made a very important move in the meantime a sensational disclosure would occur immediately after the marriage, a disclosure which he said WOlllfl Pnmnnl I " 1 ? ? " mm iu luuvu ino vicinity. 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DeLooff, Dept. 6, Grand Rapids, Mich. Work for yourself?Learn how to make raised letter signs; used everywhere; bLg wages made by anyone. Full instructions sent for 2 5 cents. Wm. Wamock, Beevillo, Texas. Box 328. Teachers?Write for free booklet, "A Plan,", showing how we help you get a better position. . Thousands excellent vacancies open, paying $30 to $150 monthly. ^ Schools supplied with teachers. Southern Teachers' Agency, Columbia. South Carolina. Make Your Own Will?Without the aid of a lawyer. You don't need I one. A will is necessary to protect your family and relatives. Forms and book of instruction, any State, one dollars. Send for free literature telling you all about it. Moffetts' Will Forms, Dept. 40, 894 Broadway, Brooklyn, New York City. O !- ^ > o SO O C g Cotton | , p; ^Highest wagew. TX/T-in K coShortest hours. lVIllI ' Apply . d Fulton Bag and Help ? Cotton Mill,. x ^ Atlanta, Ga. Wanted g f f A nnounceinent. This being our twenty-fifth year of uninterrupted success, we wish It to be our "Banner year." Our thousands of satisfied customers, and fair dealing, Is bringing us new customers dallv If you aro contemplating the purchase of a piano or organ, write us at once for catalogues, and for our ^ special proposition. MALOXF/S MUSIC HOUSE, Odumhln, S. C. Pointed Paragrapus. Shady transactions?the parasol bargains. The faster a girl can run away from a man the sooner she can catch him. A woman dresses pretty much tho same way to go outdoors In sumnier as she does to go to bed In winter. j ??v , BEARING DRILLS or the Smallest Smithy to those " Carriage Factory ,Y CO. Columbia, S. C. J