The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, September 16, 1909, Image 6
GONE TO REST
Col. James T. Bacon Passeo
Away on Wednesday
WAS BRAVE SOLDIER
And Hrillinnt Writer* Col. Huron
Fought Hravely for the South boring
the Civil War and Ably La
Ik)I'(h1 for South Carolina With
His l*on for Many Youth.
Col. .las. T. rtacon, after a linger
lug illness, died at his beautiful
home in Edgefield on Wednesday afternoon,
and a dispatch says all
Edgefield and throughout the district
is sorrow and shadow, for he was
the best known and most universally
beloved man in the county, and
his name was synonymous with all
that is pure, generous, noble and
good. Col. Ilacon had attained his
7 8th year. 11c was descended from
splendid Revolutionary stock. His
ancestors came from Virginia, wliere
tli o family had boon prominent
among the colonists for over a century.
Edmond Bacon, for many
years a brilliant member of the
Edgefield Bar, and the "Ned Brace"
in Longst root's Georgia scenes, was
his grandfather.
Edmond Bacon, although a Georgian
by birth, in early life moved to
South Carolina, and he, with Col.
Arthur Si 111 kins, settled the town of
Edgefield. He had four children,
the second, Edmond Speed, being the
father of the subject of this sketch,
his mother being Sarah Bacon, a
cousin to her husband, she having
married twice, her last husband being
the Rev. Arthur Wigfall. The
Bacon family has been closely connected
with the county's and State's
history.
Col. Bacon had ono brother, the
Hon. John E. Bacon, who was secretary
of legation at St. Petersburg
when Governor Pickens was minister,
and afterwards minister to
Uruguay and Parnguay under President
Cleveland, and a full sister,
Mrs. Baker, of McClellanville, S. C.,
and two half-sisters, Mrs. Kate W.
Cheatham, of Edgefield, nnd Mrs. Dr
Trezant, formerly of Columbia.
A dispatch from Edgefield to The
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T. Bacon was born here, and his
Jong and useful llfo was spoilt amidst
the scenes of his nativity. After
receiving an academic education at
this place, he completed his studies
in Germany, making a specialty of
music, in which ho excelled, and
which was one of the joys of his
beautiful life. After his return from
Germany, he taught music here, and
at Anderson, but it was to journalism
that he devoted his splendid
talents, in which field he won for
himself a name and reputation, seldom
equalled in this country. After
serving with conspicuous bravery in
the War Between the States, he returned
home, and assumed the editorship
of the Edgefield Advertiser,
and the files of that paper will best
tell how ably and brilliantly ho
performed the duties of that office.
Gentle as a woman, yet brave as a
lion, he could write with all the softness
and sweetness of Washington
Irving, but when necessity and duty
demanded it, with all the boldness
and fire of Wendell Phillips.
During Reconstruction times,
when Federal troops were stationed
here, and the negro and scalawag
held high carnival, Col. Bacon
printed the Advertiser in red letters,
and his "Leader" was filled
with such patriotic fire and defiance
as' to cause offence to the Federals.
For this he was arrested, and taken
to Charleston, hut 110 harm befell
him, and he returned home only tocontinuo
the brave fight for AngloSaxon
supremacy. He was a game
cock in those stirring days, as he
ever was, and never did his red
plume lower its crest. After leaving
the Advertiser, he, with his nephew,
Mr. L. W. Cheatham, conducted the
Edgefield Chronicle, a paper that is
loved and read by every man, woman
and child in the county, because
back of it has been the brains, wit,
and eloquence of Jim Bacon. His
pfirrpRnnndftncn trv
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State and special articles t.o The
Sunday News attest the unique style,
versatility, and brilliancy of the
man.
Many of his close friends here
have often urged him to collect and
print his writings, but his innate
L modesty forbade?they would make
a volume worthy of his wit and
genius.
Col. Bacon was never married, but
he was beloved and courted by all
for his magnetic personality, social
attributes and brilliant conversatlonof
powers. One beautiful trait of
his character was his love and loyalty
to his immediate family. Ills
venerable mother, the late Mrs. Wigfall,
as well as other members of his
family, would often urge him to seek
broader fields, where his talent
would have won higher distinction
and greater pecuniary reward, but
he preferred to remain with them,
; and with his life-long friends and
' at the home he loved so well, and
administer to their happiness and
PIUCK IS FIXKI).
Farmers Ask anil Mhoulil <?et Fifteen
Cents for Cotton.
The Farmers' National Union met
at Hit millkham, Ala., last week.
The report of the committee on minimum
price of cotton was accepted
and the executive committee was
instructed to "reveal or raise, or
lower the fixed minimum at their
own discretion," at Friday night's
session.
When the committee report was
first submitted there was jspirited
discussions and the report was sent
back to the committee for amendment.
The amended report was the
one finally adopted. Nothing could
),/> Inni'lunl .1 o Il,n ,?lnt,,ii.n> llv.wl
but it is believed to be about 15
cents.
This shows that the farmers are
very (modest in thejr demands.
Considering the shortness of the cotton
crop this year, fifteen cents is a
modest price to ask for the staple.
It can be easily had if the farmers
will not rush the cotton on the
market. Market the crop slowly
and fifteen cent cotton will be realized
in a few weeks.
Members of the union were in
structed by the convention to use
their best efforts to pet all cotton
warehoused immediately after ginning.
Members were also instructed
to be liberal to brother members in
making loans on distress cotton.
The Alabama delegation presented
a beautiful silver service to Mrs.
I buret t, wife of the president of the
union. President Barrett appointed
the trustees ana executive committee
of ithe National Farmers'
college, which is to be erected within
the next few years.
The executive committee is composed
of C. S. Barrett, chairman;
If. S. Mobley, secretary; It. F. Duckworth,
P. W. Cox and A. C. Shuford.
'i'he trustees are II. S. Mobley, of
Arkansas; It. F. Duckworth, of
Georgia; A. C. Shuford, of North
Carolina; S. 11. Knight, of Florida;
J. J. Fobinson, of Alabama; J. E.
Montgomery, of Tennessee; John
Grady, of Kentucky; T. W. Burkett,
of Illinois; T. J. Douglas, of Missouri;
J. K. Armstrong, of Oglahoma;
A. F. Dornblaser, of Texas; Mr.
McColllster, of Louisiana; S. L. Wilson,
of Mississippi; P. W. Cox, of
Washington, and It. W. Callieotte,
of Colorado. *
THE COTTON MARKET.
The Staple is Coining in Freely and
Reing Sold.
The first bulletlon ot' director of
census showing operations of cotton
ginners for 1909 was issued a
few days ago. It covers a period up
to September 1 and shows that for
that time 37 7,552 bales have been
ginned as against 4 02,229 for the
same period last year.
A comparison is also made with
the production for 1 907, when there
were ginned up to September 1, 200,27
8 bales and with 1906, when the
total to that date was 4 07,551.
The 377,552 bales ginned this
season were distributed as follows:
Alabama, 1 3,37 3; Arkansas, 3 63;
Florida, 3,544; Georgia, 1 05,927;
Louisiana, 3,419; Mississippi, 1,57 0;
North Carolina, 1,0G8; Oklahoma,
1,3 67; South Carolina, 1 9,048; Tennessee,
4; Texas, 227,869. These
figures count round bales as half
l.nlna Tl, 1 1 1 ?J f l.Ann^l
U(lll.TO. 1 11C1U n v I v .1 J | J O I I WUMU
balcB this year and 20.86S last year.
Dispensary Robbed.
The dispensary at Holly Hill was
broken into and robbed Wednesday
night. The dispenser, J. II. Martin,
estimates that between $100 and
$f)00 worth of whiskey was stolen,
consisting of seven barrels, containing
case goods and fifty gallon jugs.
The thieves removed a pane of glass
in the front door and slici the inside
bars and opened the door. The
night was dark and rainy, and the
staff was evidently hauled off in
a wagon. No clue has been found
as yet. The dispensary is closed
until the county board can check up
the loss. This is the second dispensary
robbed in Berkeley county in
the last two weeks.
Horses
An odd accident occurred recently
at Grass Mesritsch, Australia,
I during the maneuvers of the Austrian
army. The horses of the Sixth
regiment of Dragoons were stamped ed
at midnight by a searchlight played
on their camp by the approaching
"enemy." They ran wildly through
the camp, trampling on the sleeping
soldiers. One man was killed and
19 severely injured.
Killed by Airship.
At Juvis sur Orge, France, E. ,
Lefebvre, the French aviator, was
killed by a fall in his aeroplane in
which ho was practicing over the
aviation field Wednesday afternoon.
M. Lefebvro sustained mortal injuries
when the machine crashed to
the ground. Aid was rendered him
but he died soon after. The cause
of the accident remains a mystery.
support. Now that ho is gone, Edgefield
mourns for him, as never did
she sorrow for man before. He has
left a void that cannot be filled.
WHAT COOK bAYS
I IK DKCLAKKS UK CAN A\I>
WILL PHOVK HIS CLAIM.
Will Send for llis Kskinio (companions
ami Assorts That Peary Took
Food Stored for Him.
At Copenhagen, Cook, shown
Peary's statement Wednesday night
stood by ids gun, declined to enter
into a debate and calmly asserted
that his records would sustain him.
He said:
"1 have been to the North Pole.
As 1 said last night when 1 heard
of Commander Peary's success, if
he says he has been to the pole, 1
believe him.
"1 am willing to place facts, figures
and worked-out observations
oeiore u jonu tribunal ot the scientific
bodies of the world. In due
course 1 shall he prepared to make
public an announcement that will
effcoctually dispel any doubt, if
there can be such, of tho fact that
1 have readied the pole. But knowing
that 1 am right and that right
must prevail, I will submit at the
proper time my full story to the
Court of last resort ? the people of
tho woild.
"1 will not enter Into any controversy
over the subject with Commander
Cearv, further than to say
that if lie says 1 nave taken his
Eskimos, my reply is that Eskimos
ars nomads. They are owned by
nobody, and not private property
of either Commander Peary or myself.
"As to the story that Commander
Peary says I took provisions stored
by liini, my reply is that Peary
took my provisions, obtaining them
from the custodian on the plea that
1 had boon so long absent that he
was going to organize relief stations
for me in case 1 should be alive.
For this I have documentary proof. '
This is Dr. Frederick A. Cook's
reply to Commander Peary. Coming
so quickly upon other dramatic
incidents of the week, Commander
Peary's dispatch denying that Dr.
Cook has achieved the triumph for
which he has been feted and honored
in Copenhagen, beyond the lot of
any other private person, has been
read there with feelings of amazement
and concern. But Dr. Cook
himself seems in no wise disturbed.
Me was perfectly cool and apparently
unmoved when confronted with
telegrams from the United States
saying that Commander Peary had
denounced him as an impostor. His
demeanor has not changed in the
slightest from the day ho landed
at Copenhagen.
When it was suggested to him
that his chances of proving his case
might be ruined unless he made a
satisfactory statement immediately,
he smiled?his usual quiet smile?
and asked how could a man be ruined
by popular clamor calling him
an impostor when be had proofs
of his case which could and would
be published, as he had oft times
repeated, when they were in proper
form to be given out.
Regarding the *c?ntrtoversy over
his alleged taking of Peary's stores,
Dr. Cook asserts that he has written,
and other satisfactory evidence, that
Peary took his stores, perhaps believing
him deadV "Ilarry Whitney
is personally acquainted with all
the facts, and perhaps what he has
to say when he returns may be interesting,"
added the explorer.
Dr. Cook told Capt. Sverdrup and
another friend the day after he had
landed that he hoped there would be
no unpleasantness over supplies with
the Peary party; that he had found
some of Peary's men in possession
of one of his depots and had turned
them out uncermoniously.
It is settled that Cook will send
a ship hack to bring to America the
two Eskimos who accompanied him
on the last stage of his journey to
the pole, as well as some of tho party
who were sent back when the start
of the stage begun. Capt. Sverdrup
may command the expedition; it is
Dr. Cook's desire that he shall do
so. and thov conferred for several
hours a few (lays ago.
Cannibals Mat Them.
Advices received from the French
Congo say that cannibalism is rampant
in the Matab and Sanghar regions,
where the blacks are in complete
revolt. They have killed and
eaten a number of factory employes
and r. telegraph operator was slain
at his key and devoured. Natlv'e
c'rtachmonts, headed by four Frjic i
officers, have left for the scene to
punish the cannibals.
Ill-others in Fatal Fight,
As the result of an encounter between
two brothers on the McO.'nness
farm 10 miles south of Salem.
Ind., Luther MeOlnness, aged 48,
is mortally wounded and Horaco
McGinnis, aged 45, lies at his home
In a serious condition. Since tho
death of William MeOlnness, father
of the men, who was found dead In
a barn six weeks ago, 111 feeling
has existed between the brothers.
SOIVlt GOOO AliVlCt
ABOUT Til 10 CAltHFUL HANDLING
OF GINNED C ?TTON.
; It is a Mutter That Involves a Loss
of a Bij; Sum of Money to the
South.
The time for picking cotton having
arrived, has it ever occurred to
you to look into the question of
damage brought about by a lack of
care for the staple from the time
it is ginned to the time of marketing?
Having lived on a plantation
twenty-one years, and at the proson
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v ill. III. lllllf, HUM IP|H'I >' lllft 17111", ur>
well as being in the cotton business
for the past ten years, 1 thought
possibly that my observations along
this line might tend to show the
great amount of money lost to this
cotton producing country. 1 desire
to impress upon the farmer the
necessity of caring for his cotton after
laboring hard all the year to
make it, and thereby lessen friction
between producer, buyer and manufacturer.
A large portion of the
farmers, as well as the carriers, treat
the staple as though it were coal,
allowing it to lie on the ground for
months after ginning, subject to climatic
conditions, which results in
rot and country damage.
When the cotton is ready for the
market it is picked up and offered
for sale, the damage, as a usual
tiling being disregarded until subjected
to the buyer's inspection, who,
in protecting his interests, will either
dock for damage or have the cotton
picked, resulting in great loss
to the farmer. Unquestionably it is
to the farmer's interest to store his
cotton in a reputable warehouse,
thereby protecting himself from loss
by lire as well as damage, and in
addition ho can secure warehouse
receipts for same, which is prime
mercantile table, and can be discounted
at any bank, allowing the
farmer to sell his cotton when he
desires to do go.
My object, however, is to mpress
upon the farmers to house their cotton
as soon as it. is ginned, whether
It be in a warehouse, or in their
barns, or dwelling, thereby reducing
the element of damage to a minimum.
To my mind one of the most important
things the Farmers' Union
and the Southern Cotton Association
could handle is the caring for cotton
after it is ginned, and up to
the time it is marketed. Having
personally handled, during the past
ten years, about 3 00,000 bales of
cotton of all grades and staple, this
cotton being shipped here from Texas
and Oklahoma on the West and
to North Carolina 011 the East, I do
iiiink i am in a very fair position
to speak intelligently of the item
of damage, largely caused by carelessness.
In addition to the rotten cotton
on thousands of bales, varying from
five to as much as three hundred
pounds per bale, all of which has
to bo picked off before selling for
and which is caused by allowing the
cotton to sit on one end or be on
one side in the mud and rain for
months before being offered for
sale, there Is anotner element of
damage which is not so easily detected,
but which has a more farreaching
effect on the buyer, as well
as the manufacturer. 1 refer to what
is called country damage.
When cotton after beimr ginned i?
allowed to stand in the weather for
any length of time, although the ,
owner may turn it about from side ,
to side to keep it from rotting, the
staple of the cotton on the outside
of the bale is affected just in proportion
to the time it is allowed to remain
exposed to climatic conditions.
To illustrate, a bale of cotton ginned ,
and packed December the first and
allowed to remain in the weather
until the first of March, will have
about half as much country damage
as the bale would if it remained in
the weather until May the first and
when the manufacturer opens the
bale, ho will find that the cotton
sticking to the bagging and extendinginward
is practically without any
I strength of staple, and as a result
all of this affected cotton will go
in waste or be found in the shaftings
overhead.
Should the buyer detect this eoun
try damage the farmer is the loser,
should the buyer not detect It, the
buyer is the loser, in any event,
dissatisfaction is the result, all of
which could have been avoided by
housing the cotton. The amount of
country damage varies in proportion
to the time the cotton lies out in
the weather, and will vary from
three to twenty-five pounds per bale.
I have carefully estimated that on
every 1 1,000,000 bale crop produced,
the producer, the carrier and
the compress together allow 250,000
bnles to be destroyed by rot
and country damage, and when you
figure this at ten cents per pound
It amounts to $12,500,000, all of
which could bo saved to the producer,
the buyer and the manufacturer,
should they exercise the proper precaution
against damage.
Three years ago a farmer brought
twenty bales of cotton to the warehouse
for storage in March, which
had been out in the weather since
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it was ginned in the fall. Some
of the bales were so badly damaged and
water soaked that they weighed
one thousand pounds a bale. I ask
ed him why he allowed his cotton to
get in that condition. He replied
that he was so busy making preparations
for another crop that he had
not cared for what he had already
made. When the cotton was conditioned
for market he had about ten
bales of merchantable cotton left out
of the twenty. A bale of cotton ginned
dry and houson until marketing
will hold out better than one allowed
to remain in the weather subpecc
climatic conditions, and will not possess
the element of damage, and will
also retain its strength of staple even
to the bagging.
Travel where you will, and you
will see cotton sitting at the rail
road stations in tho inua and rain,
or yon will see it lying* on the
ground around farm houses, where
it will remain until ready for mitket;
and when marketed, the bagging
will be so rotten that you cannot
handle the cotton.
Owing to tho seeming negligence
displayed in the care of cotton afte"
ginning, the buyer, when purshanng
a !ot of cotton, has to lake into consideration
the element of damage,
or lie would rather send his classer
to receive the cotton, thereby establishing
the amount of damage before
payment is made. Where you fln.l a
section of country where great care
is taken with the cotton, after ginning,
and before marketing, there
you will find cotton sought after by
tho buyers, and, everything else being
equal, a premium will be paid
for same.
The point I desire to impress is:
Take care of your cotton, handle it , 1
l? t hflinrll vr>n tlwMirrlif onninltiinn ,?f I
v t< v 4< t? v/ u v i? vi f-j 11 v kiuiuvtiii \j k
it. If you cannot put it in a warehouse,
where it is insured and you
2nn use the receipt, put it in your
barn, or shed room, or anywhere to
keep it from climatic condition until
you market it, and by doing this
svery pound will be spinnable, and
110 dissatisfateion between producer,
buyer and manufacturer will result.
There are some places in South
Carolina where warehouse faoilities
are adequate, but are unfortunately
not utilized. My own experience is
that four lots of cotton out of every
five shipped from places where cd t?\
ton is not warehoused are badl&d
damaged; due to the fact that it is1' ^
allowed to sit on one end for weeks *
and months in the open before It fk
offered for sale, and as a result,
heavy claims are made, and yet the
best character of cotton, so far as
body and staple Is concerned, is produced
at these places, and would be
very much sought, were the element
of damage eliminated.
In conclusion, I would strongly
urero that this matter be hrouflrht to
the attention of all concerned, and '
thereby save twelve and one-half
million dollars per year to the Southland.
Very truly yonrs,
John D. Frost.
Columbia, S. C.
Figures Were Wrong.
Tn our Tuesday's issue, we stated
that there was about $1,500 worth
of cotton sold at North. Since then
we have received a letter from a
resident of that place, who says that
the sales for Thursday, Friday and
Saturday of last week were $1 5,000.
Railroad King 1>ea<l.
E. H. Harriman, tho railroad
King of America, died at his home in
Arden, New Yoi^k, on Thursday. ?
He was about fsixty-ttwo years of 1
age.
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