The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, February 02, 1911, Image 8
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.
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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
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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
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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. *
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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'?
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' "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.
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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,
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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." *
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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.
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The Little Tell Tale which tolls the
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the day, the week, the month, and
the year. Price 10c. Address,
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address envelopes, fold, mail
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Correspondence solicited.
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North State Life Insurance Co., o'
Kingston, N. 0., operates only in
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Caroitna Uvea insured than any
other Carolina cofpany. Afrits
wanted where the company '* not
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rnrni Lands?1 have for sale magnifleont
iarm lands in South and
Southwest Georgia, the best cotton
-Towing part of the State.
Theso lands are perfectly level
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In order to introduce my high grade
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More money made by
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lvianapror r'ranic ?J. JShaugnncssy,
of the Virginia League
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bruises, scratches, stiffness.
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,Both were immediately relieved of soro-^^
nofts and al)lo to resum<y throwing wilh^""
their former speed. Have also used iiP
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Hoanokc, Va."
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Murli Liquor Money.
Columbia pot $02,915.99 in excess
of Its estimated income. The dispensary
income was estimated at j
$60,000, while the actnal Income 1
was $1 24,262.07, from this one J
I source for 1910. f