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\ "he talks ouT Bishop Candler Takes a Shot at John D. Rockefeller's Gift to * ERADICATE HOOK WORM Ho Ikies Not Like the Movement ami Classes it With Oilier* Made to llumllitate aiul Belittle the South and Says We Can Take d\ i v-?i v ui uiu^vivrH. Bishop W. A. Candler calls attention to the following article which appeared iu the New Orleans Picayune the morning after the press dispatches announced the formation of Mr. Rockefeller's vermifuge commission : "The necessity for creating sectional prejudices against the Southern people and States did not stop with the end of the civil war of 1 Sti l-'GT). "The old hostility engendered then has passed a way so far as the men who fought were concerned, and the rallying of the young men of the South to the national flag iu the Qr\n n ic h w q r* n? K/i r K o r? a uVinnl n t.Tii " ni , n m*:i r v 111;^ n\uv./u nuvui der to shoulder with the men of the North, went far to extinguish the ancient sectional feeling against this part of the country. "Hut lor some reason not fully understood It has eorno to light that self-professed and self-appointed philanthropists have taken it upon themselves to discover and pro claim conditions in the South cal* culated to create further prejudices against the States and people of the South so as to diverse immigration, to alarm the resident population (and to place this section of the country before the world as an afflicted and accursed region. "No sooner had the South begun to manufacture its cotton on an extensive scale when It was given out to the world that most of the work was done by youths of both sexes and largely by children of tender age, and at such pitiful wages that the manufactureres of the North, who employed persons of full age at high rates of compensation, could not by any possibility compete with them, and such a hubbub was rnlsed i, ' in the North about it that Senator Deveridge, of Indiana, offered in congress a bill to prohibit transportation by interstate railroadB of the products of Southern cotton mills 1 where such alleged conditions obtained. "A great deal of exertion was required to establish the falsity of such slanderous statements against the South, and this section has not fully recovered even yet from them. ^ Next an outcry was raised that the Southern people had become the victims of a deadly disease named 'pellagra,' which was charged to the use of Indian corn that caused it. The disease has been traced to Southern Europe, where it is common, and inter information goes to show that it was imported in the persons of immigrants. "lint the pellagra panic having failed ot the expected effect, now comes a howl about the 'hook worm. A non-professional writer has devoted many pages and many pictures to the hook worm in the South in MeClure's for October, lie says: " 'All through the South?the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi?these abnormal people, ' the "dirt eaters," have been known for a century, and anemia is a universal malady S'tuth of the Potomac. "It's something these people eat," is the favorite explanation I of "'One's first and .dtcngest impr?s sion of the poor whiten in of their shiftlessness. I remember 1>oa* dreadfully it used to depress no years ago when 1 spent my vacat! >n in the North Carot;nn m ?uiiMins. I have been in littlo w:ndowi"s.? st-oveless, one-room cabins, the home of at least ten jrersons, wnero all ?he cooking was done the primitive open fire?except when it roi.'.ecl down the chimney and pot the tiro out; then there wasn't any cooking till the rain held up! Aand as i talked with the women I was always asking myself, "How can people live tlikie this? Why don't they go 10 work and fix up things?" " 'It is estimated that scattered * over the Atlantic, seaboard from the Potomac round the gulf# to the Mississippi river, there are today 2,000,000 of these poor whites?our native-born whites?suffering with ailemia, and hardly one of those 2,000,000 knows, or even suspects, that he is really suffering from on internal parasite?that this disease is caused by the hook wrm. " 'Then years ago even the foremost physicians did not know the anemia of the South was caused by the hook.worm; but today, thanks V^lafgely to the tireless efforts of one man?Charles Wardell Stiles?the whole medical profession a^d many of the laity are awake to the vital issues of the problem and are preparing a crusade that shall reach from the worst regions of the barrens, whore nearly the whole population is suffering to the farthest "cove" in the mountains, and stamp A FIEND LYNCHED AND TWO OTHElt FIENDS DEI NO rLRHl KD BY CITIZENS. A Trio of Nortoos Strip, Tie and Whip a Virginia Farmer and At* tatk His Wire. A dispatch from Sutton, W. Va., says two organized parties of men are scouring the hills of that county searching for two negroes believed to havo aided Charles Lewis, also a negro, in a dastardly assault upon Mrs. Mary Lock hold, wife of a prosperous farmer Wednesday near the small settlement of Kxehange. If the negroes are caught, lynching it not improbable. Lewis, the ouly known member of the party of three, who are thought to have been implicated in the deed, is dead, having been shot and killed by a posse of men late Wednesday while endeavoring to escape. According to Deputy Sheriff Williams. the three negroes late Tuesday night went to the home of Geo. .Lockhold, living but a few miles from Sutton, and after tying the fariuoi to a tree and whipping him on his bare back with willow switches, attempted an assault upon Mrs. Lockhold. Persons who happened to be passing the l,o?'.khold farm heard the screams of the woman and the negroes lied at the approach of tin passers-by. A posse of farmers was organized within a short space of time, and after a twenty-four hours hunt. Lewis, one of the supposed ti io ot the negroes, was apprehended. As he turned to flee from his pursuers, after being ordered to throw up his hands, ho was shot and instantly killed. Late Wednesday night news reached Button that one of the pursuing posses had surrounded the two negroes in a swamp near the scene of the crime. The courier who brought the news of the imminent apprehension of the men said lynching could not be averted if they were caught alive. At midnight a telephone communication was received from Oassaway stating that two negroes thought to have been implicated in the assault on Mrs. Lock hold had been captured near that place and placed in jaii. Men with rifles are said to be guarding the jail against a posibb lynching party. ? BltKAKS TIIK ItlXOIUL Lieut. Lahm Makes a l/>ng Flight in an Army Biplane. Breaking "all former endurance records on the government aviation field, at College Park, Md., Lieut. Lahm, in an Army aeroplane, remained in the air during a single flight Monday fifty-eight and one-half minutes. This exceeds any continuous flight made by a pupil of either Orville or Wilbur Wright in America, although their nunils abroad hav?? irreatlv <>v ceeded this flight in duration. A Wright machine has been kept up over three hours by Orville ami two hours and a quarter by Wilbur Wright, both of these records being made abroad. Respites Condemned .Murderer. Following the attempted suicide late Thursday of Dr. J. M. lOlllott of I Grange, Ua., sentenced to liang Friday for the murder of Geo. 1,. Rivers, Gov. Grown, who was in Savannas, telephoned another reprieve for two weeks for the condemned man. out the disease.' "In the face of such statements, illustrated by sensational cuts, it is useless to contend that the Southern people possessed vigor enough to show up with able crops of statesmen and great and gallant soldiers from the time of Washington and Jefferson and a host of others up to the eminent civilians and the grand soldiers of the civil war. The South is represented to he filled with a wretched brood of dirt eaters. Who that knows the South can for a moment believes this? "Hut now comes the prenomenally wealthy .Mr. Rockefeller, the oil king, who proposed to give $1,000,000 to cure the people of the South of hook worm, and a commission is to ii?- iornien, n u nas noi own already, to spend the money. "Well, the South can only submit. Wth a million of money and a sensational press engaged in portraying our section of the union as an accursed country, we can only accept the situation and wonder what other slander is to be fulminated against it/' The editorial of the Picayune shows both sense and self-rcsepct. It is time the Southern people had begun resenting this officious disposition to take care of thorn which certain parties are addicted to. Donations may easily, as dum-dum bullets, wound where they hit and leave a mortal poison in the hole they make after being received. We are certainly able to get ourselves clear of worms without Mr. Rockefeller's million-dollar dose of vermlfugo. WILL GO HIGHER Frank Hayne Says Fifteen Cents is Too Little for Cotton THE CROP VERY SHORT The llig Cotton .Man, \VIm> in a Native of This Stale, is Optimisfie. iiiul Hoviews Hecent Market HI ? lory and lH'(liicc> Strong lklicl in Vet Higher Price Irvels. Mr. Trunk H. Hayne, a South Carolinian now living in New Orleans, who has labored consistently for , his her prices for cotton this season, has outlined his reasons for saying i that fifteen cents is too little for ! cotton as follows. "When tho government bureau! report, issued on August 2, showed a condition of 71.9 per cent, I felt convinced the crop could not possibly reach 12,000,000 bales, and that cotton was selling far below its real value. When the government report, Issued on September 2, showed a condition of 011.7 per cent, I felt satisfied that 11,000,000 bales was the maximum possible for the crop and at that time received a telegram from Mr. J. N. Wisner of Now Orleuns, asking Mr. \V. 1\ Iirown and my soli* to telegraph him in full our views on the situation. .Mr. Urown was absent, so I replied to Mr. Wisner by telegraph as follows: " 'We look at the situation as follows: Discounting every favorable condition that can a rise until December 1. the government report indicates a maximum crop of 1 1,250,000, and with unfavorable conditions might easily be 1,000,000 bales less. Consumption last year, 13,100,000, in spite of short time in England and continent. With largest American crop ever produced the price advanced $20 a hale while being marketed and the visible supply is far less than two years a so. With a certainty that 13,500,000 will really be needed by the country and that probably less than 1 1,500,000 will be grown, an eveiftual advance Is simply unavoidable. Under normal conditions the market should have certainly advanced to 13 cents yesterday, hut was kept down by the enormous selling of the hear clique. These sellers base their action on the supposed helplessness of the South, thinking the South will be forced to sell Its cotton at any price the spinners are willing to take it at. We consider that the competition between spinners who will certainly require 1,100,000 bales monthly will take care o fthis socalled distressed cotton. If the hankers of the South will help th<-' farmer to market his cotton slowly, ! we firmly believe it will be worth : 15 cents in the next 60 days. The weakness in our opinion of the) hears" argument is that, although the producer may be foolish enough to j he willing to sell his cotton far be- ! i low its actual value, we hardly think j t nut t he spinner will be foolish j enough, when he fully realizes tin facts of the ease, not to start buying fro- Iv at these prioes ami thus avoid the scramble for spot cotton that will surely take place some time ! during the season. "The Southern farmer has sold at : least ">.000,000 bales of cotton or. j which he realized probahlv $350.-1 000,000. It was very hard to con i vince the farmer that 1 li 'tents was not an extreme price for his pro- i duct, but through the efforts of a few Southern men, they finally rea-' lized the fact that they were sacri-I licing their cotton, and I believe that j at least $50,000,000 more has been! obtained for the cotton marketed to date than would have been If it had not been for the efforts of this small coterie of Southern men. "My prediction on September 3 of j 1 ."> cents in the next 60 days has now come true, but sit that time I thought j the crop would be from 1t,250,000 to 11,500,000 bales. 1 now feel confident that the maximum for this' crop is 10,750.000 bales. The probability is that it will be under 10,- J 500,000 bales; and there is a pos- j nihility of its not reaching 10,000,000 bales. Under the present conditions I now feel that 15 cents is as much too cheap for cotton as 12 1-2 cents seemed to nie on September 3. "In 1903-'01, known as the 'Sully year,' the crop was 1 0,01 1,000 bale.1 and the consumption only 10.0X3. 000 bales, and last year the consumption increased 3,07 4.000 ' bales, or 30.4 0 per cent. The visible sup ply on the 1st of September, thbseason, was 1,4 7 2,000 and on th*' l.-r of September, 1 903, was f? 17,000 bales or only 955,000 bales less, therefore in the 'Sully year,' with a j visible supply on September 1 of 517,000 bales and a crop of 10,01 1,000 bales, the world had 10,528,000 bales of cotton, of which they used 10,083,000 bales. The visible supply on the 1st of September this year was 1,4 7 2,000 bales. If the crop should only prove 1 0,500,000 bales, the world will have a supply of only 11,97 2,000 bales, while last year It actually consumed in spite of short time In England 13.157.000 hales, or a deficit of 1,185,000 bales. I THEY SHAKE HANDS TIIK I'XIQl'K KATKKIKXCK <>l TWO SOIJUFKS IN TIIK WAIL <ill Christian and Captain Kauri Mwt For the First Tliiio Sinc? Thry Tried to Kill F.juIi Other. Standing in tin- lohhy of a hote during the late visit to Richmond Va., of the I Vnnsylvanians who attended the unveiling of a monument J Cold llarhor, several days ago, {Captain 12. 1). Christian, a well known I veteran of the Forty,first Virginia I regiment, who was entei taining a number of the visiting I*? <!? ml veterans with an uccount oi a duel hi I had In 1SG2 with a PennsyIranian j iicur what is known as "Tin I'ow| pens," now the Mcchunit sville 1 K?*. I "In Borne way," said Captain i Christian, "we were coming through j a field cut apart by a long line ot rail fence. As we approached lh fence we saw coming toward us a line of blue-coated soldiers. liefore I knew it 1 was face to face with a Yankee who was sending balls at inc. but luckily aiming wrong. 1 loaded my musket time and again and we had it there face to face. Presently the Yankee mounted tin fence to get a better whack at mi for I was as bad a shot as lie in the excitement of that duel. Well, gentlemen, down came the rail fence and down came the Yankee, sprnwt' ing on the ground. He managed to I get up as my old musket banged away, hut the bull never touched him. "Wait a moment," interrupted one of the visitors, "and I'll tell you the rest of the story." All eves turned toward the military form of Captain \Y. H. Ranch, a l'hiladelphlun, who was the centre of the listeners to Captain Christian's story. "Well," continued Captain Ranch, "the Yankee Just took to his heels at that and you after him. "You fired as lent? as he was in sight and ho ran as long as his legs would hold him up. The only reason he did not fly was because he was a man and not a bird." "That's about right," said the Confederate and then the two men faced each other with eyes glued on the faces that had seen the changes of nearly half a century. "Hell, man," Captain Ranch cried, finally breaking the intense stillness, "are yon the Johnny Reb that had that duel with nie and came near making me a prisoner or putting me out for good?" "If you are the man who jumped on that fence and fell, arid then got up and ran while a Confederate soldier sent bullets after you to help move, I guess we have met before.' "If any other man had been in my palce and had not put up a good run," replied Captain Ranch, "he would have been a fool. Why tin', old tiling you were handling looked is hie :ik .*1 cannon and sounded liU. two or throe of them." Following this tin* veterans shv-k hands and Captain Ranch took Chiptain Christian in tow to introdnc hint to his wife. Then Captain and Mrs. Ranch had to get into Captain Christian's automobile and the end was that Mrs. Christian cot a t.-lv phone call to have dinner ready foi two extras. The party spent tin evening In the handsome ho.ee or Captain Christian, who had to p.utilise a visit to the Ranch home ir Philadelphia. Before leaving Richmond Captain Ranch declared that he would no have missed meeting Captain Christian for all his worldly possessions "I have never forgotten that rebel," said he, "and I see him now in my mind's eyes with his big old-time musket plugging away at me as though 1 were of no more good to the world than an ordinary animal '' I'mrcd to 11^' Itui-H'd .Alive.. K. ariiiR that ho would be ithriod alive, Dr. William J. I)odd{ ol' Jersey City, made a request in his will, which disposes of an estate valued .at $L'f>0,00(), that following his death and before burial the radial artery be cut by a surgeon. In probating the will Dr. Dodd executor has re ported to the court that the artery was cut as stipulated. Miners llehl by Water. Three hundred miners were imprisoned by water rush'ng into the Tareni coal pit tit Ystal Y - For a, Glamorganshire. One hundred and fifty miners were rescued alive. The /xt U.vHi. ? t t 1 U.I .1 I... 1 umri n ni u rsini HVIU jM'IbiMHTS UJlil the water is rising. "Whjr, if in the 'Sully year' the crop had only been 7,f?00.000 to 8,000,000 bales, the situation would not be as acute as it will l>e if this crop only turns out 10,500,000 bales, yet in that year cotton sold for ov? r 18 cents. If every American mill was to run half time from now until the end of the season, I do not consider there would bo enough cotton to go around. "The spinners' takings to Octoner 29, this year, were 1,92,8.000 bales, against only l,8Oi,000 bales samo time last year (which had l>ecn the record takings of any year up to that time) and against 1,148,000 bales the same time in 190,8-'04. "Who can tell what nrlce will discount the above facts?" " HOW TO STOP IT English Physician Reads interesting Paper on Pellagra at i COLUMBIA CONFERENCE I ' I>r. Siniih\il< li, of 'T?''K Mow Italy, N\ In r<> I'rlliiKra is \\ idelj l'ro\alent, lias II4<<I1100<I Moi'nnt.v. Many Cases I'ound ,\tt,oii,^ !._vp* flans?I j?<?s l*i'?'v*'iitaf ivo l?uh\ T!ie following |?api-r r?y l>r I". M. Sandwich, of Ixmdon. Mnglt.ul, (ireHham professor of phy.sj. s was read al the pellagra ronlervn m Columbia Wednesday aftornooa ; "I 1 feel that my lirst words most bo those of cungral illation and eu. jurngement to the many phyao-'u as 11 tho Southern Slalom who are now wo! king at tho various problems con nected with pellagra. Cong'Jtuiu 1 tion in the tirst place, bectiUN! tho> have discovered the cxtstunee of ?h> disoaso, because tin y have impress od this discovery upon others b-; that tho presence of pellagra is now thoroughly recognised. "It" I venture also to oncourngo 1 American co-workers, it is not with 1 any improper desire to draw attention to my own work, but txK/.auso 1 happen to bo in the unique position (with regard to this out; disease), ot being able to appreciate their diflicult its. "In spite of denials from American authorities on medicine 1 hav? always Hus|)oototl that pellagra might exist unrecognized in the South, and at one time I requested my ti e nds to put me into communication wit it the poorest folk of the maize eating districts. I was referred to a settlement in Kastern Virginia torpauper negroes, but on investigation 1 found that the inmates lived in stone houses, on pork rations, and I came to the conclusion that the word poverty represented no condition in America, which could compare with the misery of the impoverished peasants of Italy, Houmania or Kgypt. "In April, 190a, I had the good fortune to he at itosfon during an epidemic of corebro spinal meningitis, ami the very first patient whom I saw at the city hospital by the courtesy of Dr. C. F. Withington, was an Italian emigrant, who also displayed a well marked pellagrous eruption. This leads one to wonder whether the I'nited States public In-altli and marine hospital service officers who examine the emigrants at isapies and other Italian ports should not include pellagra among the prohibitory diseases. "Now, that the diagnois of pellagra has been tirinly established in so many States, it would be well to find out for certain how many persons are attacked by the disease in the South. In order to arrive at any correct figures, it might in* well to institute compulsory notification of the disease at least as a temporary measure. In Italy there has been a law to that effect since 1X88. 1 would also recommend that agricultural laborers should he examined in the States where pe?l tgra is known to be prevalent, such as (Jeorgia and North and South Carolina. This might be done in Kobruary or March, when the eruption is likely to be present. "In 11101 and 1902 I obtained permission to examine hoO Kgyptian peasants who were actually at work in the fields. They all stoutly do nied that they were ill and their rinplovers who w"re with them stated they could all do a fair day's work, hut iu every field I found j early cases of pellagra, hearing from 15 per cent in well-to-do districts to t>2 per cent in the inhabitants of the poorest hamlets. "The treatment of early pellagra cases without mental symptoms can be successfully accomplished by [Hitting the patient on a liberal diet, excluding maize and by ridding him of the hookworms which are so often co-existent, but the pellagrous symptoms return if he is allowed to resume a diet of musty maize. Various preparations of arsenic are used lu advanced cases but when the brain is attacked there is a small hope for the patient unless by serotherapy. Pellagra is essentially a disease which cries for preventive measures. M I t u 1 e l\*r a?\ I *?/% ?*> (?>? V* ?? #. mil; i>,? j>i* unniirc iiiraoili ll.irs Kince 1888 reduced the mortality of pellagra from 3,4 83 to 1,635, though during the years 1X83 to 1907 the in a i ze area under cultivation has increased from 5.7 9 to 6.33 per cent of the whole country. This points the moral that it is the quality, not the quantity of maize which is at fault. There are certain general exioms which prove true in Italy and Egypt and it will doubtless be , found that they hold good in the United States also: "First?In districts where no maize is cultivated or habitually eaten, pellegra does not exist. "Second?There are many districts where maize has been cultivated for many years and yet pellagra has not appeared. , "Third? YVell-to-do people in pellagra districts living on varied diet and consuming maize as an occasiona! and not as a staple cereal, usually A GREAT EVENT . I FOU TIIK CITY OF .SPAItTANDCAfl I AND SOt'TM < AHOLINA. I H Th?4 Olcbiatioii of (>??* 0|H'ttii?q < f I Traffic of tin* Ourotiiui, ClinchA^M I I nod Ohio ICailway. ? Last Friday was a j.*r?at day Jo? I rh? ? it> <>l Spartan and lt? I State of South Carolina, v%;. ?? that ity celebrated the opening to trnJft'. of the Carolina, Ciim ;itl? iii ami <)> *> Railway. The railway had just be? > com pit t to Spartanburg, anil tl>; i progressive rity cel.'Prated tho ovi i tit keeping with its iin)M>rtaiice . ?* her own dignity as on* oi tin- grt. t {ratio centers of Sni>?n Carolina ami the South. Ceople fro at all over tbe State hail gathered in Spartanbu?g to rejoice with hi" at the consumption of one of the greatest events in her history, am) partake of I?m ^ generous hospitality. ^ i he great event of the oce.ix^ n transpired on Friday, hut the iMglt b? fore a protracted demonstrate n was given that the road was cox*pii ted by the arrival of a train from Johnson City, T? na., and otf?* I points, loaded wit h guests front 'C? n nesnee, Virginia and North Caroline, including the otllcinls of the m w railway. This train reached Spartanburg between eight and nine o'clock Thursday night and was greeted J 3 ' 1 thousands of people who had 1 i 11 * rf the track to welcome it to Spartanhu g. The train, as* it Onwlv unc*. .? - * ' ' * J WV* '4 J fo the Pnion Station, gave one loi?g ! continuous whlstl\ which was iinswcri'd by tbo cheers of the assembled thousands. Friday morning everybody, * ? nearly everybody, wept out to tieFair (Jrounds, where a hrst-class fair was in operation, and where the hrrival of that train was to be celebrated in a style betlrtin^ its great j importance to Spartanburg and the | rest of the State. The weather waM ideal, and everything else seemc<|, to be groaned for the occasion, 10 smoothly did everything pass of* The crowd numbered many thdo sands, and every one seemed to be happy and entered into the celebration of the occasion with vim ai-l enthusiasm. Spartanburg was happy, and s> were all whp had gone there to rejoico with her on the great occasion. A little after eleven o'clock the meeting was called to order by Dr. H. N. Snyder, President of WotTord College, who presided with his usual grace and ease. lie introduced the speakers who wore to make addresses. As a preliminary, Dr. Snyder paid a glowing tribute to President (ieorge L. Carter, of the Carolina, Clinch field and Ohio railroad, who, he said, had made tin1 c?*lohratlO)> possitde. lie declared that the linking of the rally would bring ii)M closer relation, not only commercially, but industrially, the people of the Cast and the West, so long barricaded against each other by what, seemed to be an insurmountable range of mountains. Judge A. A. Phlegar, vice president of the new railroad, was tho lirst speaker upon the program, headdress being delivered extemporaneously. lie declared that a brighter sun never shown than that whi> v? speeded the departing trains from Johnson City, and that a warm# t welcome never greeted a party ? 1 travelers than that which th*:j had found in the city of Spartanburg, as the train pulled into the station Thursday evening. Judg- Phlegar declared that tho welding of the rails binding many ' States together, not only cement* ! commercial and industrial interest*? of many States, hut were love-th u between the various sections of the * country. And he prayed thai these love-ties might he everlasting. Judg'*. Phlegar touched upon tho great ok ton mills of this section, giving statistics. Admitting that the railroads were often in the wrong, Judge Phlegar pointed to the fact that sometime i fh?> public, too, being human, wan at fault, and ho askod of the people a square deal for the C., C. & O, railroad and promised the same id : I behalf of the road. Cheers rent the air in resj>onse to this utterance. Mayor Rhett, of Charleston, and other speakers, wore introduced, who made appropriate addresses. Then came the barbecue, in which about twelve hundred guests participated. It was one of the best managed and conducted affairs of the kind that wo have any knowledge of. The barbecue ended the celebration, anil after it was over the large crowd that enjoyed it dispersed. The whole celebration was happily conceived * and carried out without a hitch. Twelve Are Killed. 1 . A MOfirfh - -- - ii.imihiunii II1U flight in the mine of the Cambria Kt'-rl Company at Franklin, Pa., where an explosion occurred Sunday evening, failed to increase the number of fatalities. Twelve men were kill o<l outright, one is dying and three are seriously injured. escape pellagra. "Fourth -It is not good maize or good maize Hour which products pellagra; the disease requires for its production a habitual use of damaged maize in some form."