The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, August 05, 1909, Image 6
UNION MEETS
Many Farmers of the State
Gather in Columbia.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
When a man likens a girl to a
flower she has a right to think she
is his pick.
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FOR MONEY!
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ibtiH County, N. C., containing 75,
ly. Priced $2 to $15 per acre.
' County, S. C.t containing from
;o from $5 up to $-<> i>er acre.
County of from 75 to 150 acres.
Pickens County, S. C. A bur gain. ,j
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supply company
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Supplies* WfifiF
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A good worm powder for horses and
mules. Safe and effective. Sent
postpaid on receipt of 25c. T. E.
Wannamaker, Cheraw, S. C.
: Fair view llonse, Clyde, X. C.?Fino
view, good water, good table.
Kates $5 and np per week. No
consumptives. Dr. F. M. Davis.
Wedding Invitations and announcements.
Finest quality. Correct
styles. Samples free. James H.
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
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This being our twenty-fifth year
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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,
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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
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or the Smallest Smithy to those
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