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WILL DO THE WORK THAT IS WHAT IS CLAIM KD FOR THM COTTON l'ICKlCR. Full Description of (lie Machine Written for the Technical World Magazine. The following description of (lie now Complete Cotton Picking; Machine written for the Technical World Magazine by Carl Crow will he read with interest by all, as we ore interested in the picking of cotton : "In my opinion Mr. Campbell has invented a machine that will mean j as much to the cotton pro 'ucer as the harvester has been to the grain producer. It will mean that one man ! can go into the field and pick as much cotton in one day as 20 or 30 men can pick by hand in one day, and the total operating expenses of the machine in one day. in my opinion, based on my actual experiences, will not exceed $10 a day, and the cost of picking the same amount of cotton by band, figuring on one-half I l> (II*; (IV I ( | n ii iiiii uv i w ^ - -w than $4 8. T believe It would not take a Solomon to see that this difference would mean a net profit of $:>S on one day's operation, to say nothing of the trouble that the producer is com pel led to go to to secure these hand pickers and to provide a place for them to live, and many other annoyances tli.it are familiar to the man with a large cotton acreage." During the cotton picking season of 1010 the Price-Campbell Machine was in almost continual operation in Texas, moving from one farm to another. much as the self-binders or the threshing machines move in the Northern States. During the Texas State fair, which is held in Dallas during each October, the machine gave daily demonstrations which were visited by thousands of skeptical farmers, many of them suffering from "misery in the hack" because of many seasons of cotton picking by hand. A more skeptical, doubting .jury was never before empaneled than this one, yet their verdict was unanimous in favor of the machine. Farmers from a hundred cotton planting neighborhoods visited the machine every day and went hack home to tell their neighbors that at last the impossible had been accomplished with the invention of a machine which would pick cotton. The machine itself is built on a I ch assis of about, the dimensions of a 60-Uorsepo\ver automobile. The wheels are steel traction and the axles are high enough to pass over '<htj cotton stalks without breaking Vhem. In the places where the dashboard of an automobile would be are the interlocking steel fingers which pluck the cotton from the opened Vti-tiic n,1 a onnvnvni' wbicb carries the locks to two bins or sacks suspended from the rear of (he machine. As fast as filled these sacks are detached and replaced. In front sits the one operator with a steering wheel and throttle In easy access. The cn^in^ is mounted just to the rear of the driver and is connected by means of a chain drive. Many obstacles are found to the successful operation of a cotton picking machine. In the first phr-e, cotton does not ripen all at once, as is the case with wheat and corn and other crops. In .July the bolls which are newest the ground and therefore the favth?sl advanced may be ready for tbe nickers. On top of (bo same plant will bo many bowers and green bolls. It is important that the picker xaico mio iocks 11 o 111 mic ripened nous withon* harming tlio flowers, ilio (green bolls or the planf itself. Again the co4 ton plant, though sown in parallel rows, like corn, has a great lateral growth and ripened bolls may be bidden by the more rapid growth of branches of the plant above. The machine must not only pick all that is in sight, but it must 0 do no re; its steel fingers must creep beneath the branches and pick out that v ^icli is hidden. This 'bo Price-Campbell machine does, .lust now its flexible steel fingers acquire this almost human touch I do not understand, though 1 have seen. I believe that if Angus Campbell bad invented the cotton picker 200 years ago he would have been hanged as a disciple of 'bo devil and bis machine burned in front of the nearest cathedral. As I understand it, the PriceCampbell cotton nicker does not oni body any strikingly novel features. In 'eed, every mechanical discovery , had been utilized by former inventors. Different ones sought to solve the problem by using magnetism, electricity and pneumatics. One of the latter class of inventors preceded the vacuum cleaner by patenting a machine designed on the same principle. The contraption provided two seats in the rear for boys who aimed the point of the business end of tile suction pipes at tlie opened bolls, securing their swift transportation to the "wheezing interior of the machine. The machine was a success, but so much depended upon the agility of ithe lads who handled the suction pipes that it never proved any faster than the ordinary negro picker. The Price-Campbell machine seemlo be a success because of the (net TOLL OF THE SEA MAHIXK DISASTKHS WILL TOTAL OVKIl $30,000,000. A The Fomlering of Three Vessels?(he I'ereiless, tlie Waraiali and the Kurdistan The year 1 J) 1 0 will rank as one of the blackest in the history of Lloyds, blacker even than 1 909, which was one of the worst since the inception of the great maritime institution. The tale of sea disasters makes s:ul i reading. The casualties both to life and property have been numerous so numerous that oven experts are disinclined to calculate the actual financial loss involved. Hut a close perusal of the list brings out the astonishing fact that the more prominent losses of the year alone account for no less a sum than $ 1 ">,000,000. The minor casualties. however, make tip in number what they lack in financial importance, with the result that they swell the total approximately to $30,000,00 0. This fi?ure. huge as it is. by no menus represents the actual loss of the year to the skipping worlrl. Many vessels there are which go to sea whose owners have not safeguarded their interests hv insurance and the loss of which, if taken into consideration, would add considerable to the aggregate. According to one member of the Lloyds the claims settled on the hulls of steamers during the last few months have been quite unprecedented. Added to this is the fact that during this year the cost of repairs to damaged vessels is infinitely greater than has ever yet been known to be tho case. The reason ascribed is the increased cost of labor and materials, caused chiefly by the unrest in the labor world. The biggest loss of the year was I undoubtedly the Aberdeen liner Pericles. which sank after striking a sunken reef off the coast of Australia. The vessel carried a valuable cargo, which, with the hull, was valued at over $3,2.">0.0 0 0. Xext in importance came the ill-; fated Lund liner Waratah, the, claims on which, amounting to about ( $1,500,000, were not settled until this year. The steamer Kurdistan, which foundered while bound from. Manchester to the Persian gulf, also accounted for no less than $1,500,0 0 0. * j that the inventor has worked care-, fully over every detail of the consi miction for eleven years. Of course, the machine is not perfect, but tests have proved it to be far superior to the old hand-picking method. Not. long ago two bales of cotton were nicked from the same Texas field, o"? by negroes, the other by the mael) i no. The bales were sinned separately and then sent to the Wamsnttn mills, it \cw Hedford, Mass., for a thorough tost. Accurate account was kept of the waste in all the processes at the mill and it was found that the percentage was in favor of the machine-picked cotton, its percentage being .07 02, while the hand-picked bale showed a loss of .00,10 per cent. Further tests showed that the breaking strength of the machine-picked cotton is greater. The waste in the cotton field has been mentioned as five to ton per cent, which is usually no larger than when the average shiftless negro is employed to do the work. Doing a traction machine, the picker can not operate on soft ground, but rains will retard hand picking as well. Neither can it operate 011 hilly country for the same reason that, early automobiles could not climb bills. I Doubtless much of the heavy weight its 30-horsopower engine now carries will later be eliminated, just as the weights of the other machines have grown gradually less. You could scarcely lift the first typewriter from the floor, but yon can buy good one now with a wei.ht of loss than six pounds. The gul leys which now would Impede tiio passage of the machine through the average cotton patcli may be filled up or replaced with tiling just as lias boon done with wheat fields. - There are not enough hills in the : cotton producing country to constitute any serious obstacle to the general use of the machine. When Campbell started in to inI vent a cotton picker he didn t stop with that one task accomplished. While studying the growth of the cotton plant, with a view to inventing a picker he saw that much of the other work done in connection ..... ... wiiii mo crop couui Do performer! wiili a machine. To make a machine | pick cotton was the most <li(licult, so after ho completed it to its present st a ire of perfection he made it a handy man of till work around the 1 farm. It will break up the ground with a disc attachment, then plant it, chop it out aft >r the seeds have come up, pick it when it matures, chop up the stalks when the crop lias been picked, and then when the season is over it, can be put in the barn and with a belt around its by wheels, its 30 horsepo?ver can ho used to run anything from a power churn to rt cotton gin. * ? Don't mistake soft words for tender loving ways. EXPRESS RATES DROP FEAR OF PARCEL POST CAUSES COMPANIES TO ACT. Won New Schedule (iocs Into Effect Only One Cliarfje Will He Mu<le oil Sliipuiiienta ' Officers anil representatives of nearly all the transcontinental ex press companies met in New York city tiiis wick and agreed upon a reduction of rale* that means the abolishing of the so-called "doubleTcar'intoe charge." At preseut barges are made on a package by each and all companies that handle it. Th* new rate will he the minimum charge for carrying the package between inter-company points on the basis of the sin.rle company charge. On an average, it is said, the reduction to the ordinary skipper will mean, in the course of a year, a saving of Ive to seven per cent on his oxpressage expenditures. 'Hie action fol'ows an investigation by the Interstate Commerce commission which was brought about !> complaints from thousands of sliipf?ers throughout the country. It has alwavs been customary when express shipments were handled l>v two or more companies whore joint rates were not in effect to make tho charge equal to tho sum of the local charges for each company. Under the new plan only on? charge will he ma'e. An example is made of the shipment of a ten pound package from Plaitifiel 1, X. .T., to Boston, Mass., by way of New York city. Tlie present rate, Plainfle'd to New York, is .1ft certs: from New York to Boston, by way of another company, 1 "> cents, thus bringing the total charge to To cents. Under the new tariffs, tho distance would be considered from Bin in field to Boston direct, as if one company handled the package, which would bring the charge to ."5 cents, a difference of 2ft cents. The real cause of the change of rate on the part of the express companies may he traced to their fear that the Government will carry Us parcel post experiments to a successful result. At present this Government has agreements with all the civilized countries of the world concerning receiving and sending packages by mail. Under this system it 'costs ft 1 cents to send a four-pound I package through the mails bet wee u any two points in the United States. I The same package could be mailed ilo Berlin. flei'many, ror 4S cents ne! cause of Mi3 German parcel post system. Such irregularities as those and 'the fact t.hat Mio Wells Fargo Ex| press company paid a dividend of 300 per cent last year and the Adams Express people one of 2 00 per cent on four per cent bonds in 1 Out, ' made it possible for the Interstate i Commerce commission to force some 'reduction. Tt is still maintained that the express companies contribute to railroad graft and further changes in rates may be expected. * Hubert E. Copes. J The Xews and Courier nays an unstinted and deserved tribute to tb? new judge of this circuit. More is what it says about him: "Robert E. Copes, of Orangeburg, elected Wed jnesday by tho General Assembly Judge of the First Circuit, to fill 'the vacancy caused by the death of '.Judge Charles G. Dantzlor, is one of 'the youngest men ever elected to the 'Bench in South Carolina, being but slightly more than .'5.") years of age. "Judge Cope's education, berun in the schools at Orangeburg, was completed at Wofford College. IB read law under Kaysor and Sutumors the well known Orangeburg flrni, and was admitted to the Bar in 18 0 0 ' After serving one term as County j Treasurer, succeeding his lamented | father, Judge Copes was, in 1 902, : elected probate judge and master 1 which office be since lias held continuously, having been reelected in '191 0. "Although in the actual practice of his profession Judge Copes' ex perienco 1ms been somewhat limited Jon account of bis early entrance into politics, bis duties as judge ol probate and master of one of the largest and most important counties in the. State, where frequently he was called upon to solve intricate legal problems, have undoubtedly served to give bis mind a judicial training and perhaps better equip him for his new duties than if he were called directly from the ranks ol* nr>!ivo nivwl il innni'? " * ' "A student and a thinker, of unspotted character, of a f|uiet. dispo; sit ion, and possessing an attractive personality, .Judge Copes is bound to be well received in every part of the State where his duties will call him and will add dignity and ability to the Heneh of South Carolina." Killed by Knginc. At Newberry .John Pope, colored, was struck by Columbia, Newberry & (/aureus engine No. 3, backing in from the Mollohon mill, just below I the Boundary street bridge, and killed Thursday afternoon. He was about 4 5 years old. ? ? Don't fear to soil your hands in helpfulness if you would avoid <5ellling your heart. THEY ARE AT OUTS JIM TILLMAN THINKS HIS UNCLE SHOWS INGRATITUDE. Exchanging Compliments of the State* Senator, Nephew and Uncle, 1.1....... 4 _ rjAtuaii^ui^ * uinpiiiiiiirui The Spartanburg Journal says that when Col. James H. Tillman, who is 111 in Asheville, saw the statement to the erect that he was dying in a lonely cottage, poverty stricken and friendless he replied through the press that this was a mistake. And when Senator Benjamin it. Tillman was asked about this statement he replied, as stated in the Journal Saturday afternoon. He is reaping what he has sown. Nemesis is dogring his footsteps and will dog them to the grave." On learning that the Senator had made this remark about him, James Tillman called his sister, Mrs. Ceo. A. Bunch, of this city over long distance phone and said to her: "Senator Tillman can go to hades, lie has not yet reaped what he has sown ami when lie does, it will be much bitter than that which James H. Tillman is reaping, lie thinks that he is fooling his Jesus but he is not." Mrs. Munch in an interview with a reporter for the Journal said: "It is a poor kind of gratitude that Senator Tillman is showing hut we are not asking for anything. He seems to have forgotten that James Tillj man is his own nephew and that Col. <Jeorgrt Tillman, father of James I Tillman, an dmy father, and an older ? brother of Senator Tillman was more like a father to him than a brother. Why he assisted him in an educational manner and helped him financially and politically. He borrowed money from him when he made the race from him when he made tne race for the governorship of South Carolina. "If this branch of the Tjllman family was as anxious for publicity and wanted to get in tlio limelight as much as Senator Tillman does, some sartling revelations might be made public. Things of which the public has never dreamed of. ".Tames Tillman does not need anv money from Senator Tillman nor has he asked anything of the Senator. Futhermore he will not ask anything of Senator Tillman. It was on account of Men Tillman that lames Tillman first sot into his trouble and be was being used as a tool bv Ben when his downfall in the political world started. James was following the advice of Senator Tillman and was not heeding the advice of his own father. Yes, it is hard to believe that this is the kind of gratitude that is being shown for it. and It seems hard to believe that lbm Tillman would say: "He is reaping what he has sown." "1 have just returned from Asheville," continued James Tillman's sister," where I have been some time with my brother. His health is fine. I have never soon more marked improvement in any man. Why, when ho was carried there it was on a stretcher and the man was scarcely able to lift his head. Tt. was necessary to got him out of the train on the stretcher and his condition was 1 grave. Now he is able to sit up on 1 the porch and eat many things. He was well enough to phone to me Saturday night. And it will bo soon that his health must bo pretty Rood, as a sick man could not write a renlv to a published statement as James did. lie has everything he wants, ineluding the services of T)r. Carl Reynolds, one of the host physicians in Asheville and a trained nurse. It ' is true that we changed nursese but it was because the previous one was - too meddlesome and it is said, that she wrote to Senator Tillman for money. If she did it was without the knowledge of James or myself. ' She perhaps was trying to obtain other money from the senator to use for herself. Since she left we have learned how this same nurse was 1 discharged from a hospital in Baltimore for meddling in some of her patients' private business. "James lives in a nice little cot tage which is very comfortable. He " has m'nre fruits and other delicacies jthan his physicians will allow him to - eat. The statement that he Is fr'iend5 less and dying in poverty is the most 4 absurd tiling that I have hoard in all 4 my life." ' M,.? P...,.* *11 in, I > l i 111 11 ( U II I III III*I I ll?" lllrtl. 'statement that, wo saw appeared in 1 | an afternoon paper in Ashoville. I ' was on the point of leaving and had ' already hoarded a train when James sent a message to the station asking ine to come hack for another day. j The shock, at seeing lies in print ' | made him worse for the time and the iexcitement that it brought on did him no pood. I stayed several days I longer with him in Ashevillo and will go hack to him at any time I can he of service to him or can help him in any manner." * ? ? ? A dispatch from the Philippines says General Pershing, commander j of the department of Mindanao, has ended the punitive campaign in the jpavao district, having killed or captured all the marauders and dispersed all the lawless Man a bo bands. Just such dispatches as the above use to be sent out by Spain when she owned the Islands. We then condemned them. J J i! 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