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WILL DO GOOD I ?.? $ CiafrsssMB Lever Will Try ( Amnend the Law Reparls ?f the ? 4 I GROWING COTTON CROP His Object Is to Make the Census Reports on tlie Growing and Mctared Cotton Crops of Real Benefit to the Cotton Growers of the South. A dispath from Washington to the Columbia Record says Representative Cover will introduce a bill, for the preparation of which he came to Washington in advance of the session, and whose purpose is to make more accurate the reports of the bureau of statistics of the department of agriculture, relating to cotton. The hill simplifies tho present method of gathering the reports, and abolishes certain features of the system with a view to greater accuracy. "It is not intended by this bill," says Mr. Dover, "to create the impression that the integrity of these reports of the department, relative to cotton, is called into question. On the contrary, I am satisfied that the reports are fairly gotten up with no idea of giving special advantage to either the producer or manufacturer of cotton, but are predicted upon the idea that there shall be some disinterested source from which shall issue reliable data upon which the cotton trade may act. Since the unfortunate Hyde affair, no one has questioned the personal integrity of those whose duty it is to issue these reports. "During the past 11 years the department of agriculture has made 11 crop estimates, five of which were slightly over-estimated, and six of them slightly under-estimated. In years of over-estimates, the average error was 2.1 per cent; in tnose or under-estimate tho average error was 3.1 per cent; for the entire 11 years the average error was 2.7 per cent and the balance of the over-estimate and the under-estimate shows for the entire 11 years a net under-estimate of .9 of 1 per cent. The l roducer in the 11 year period has had the benefit of .9 of 1 per cent. When it is remembered that the reports of the department of agriculture are estimates and not enumerations the figures here indicate as near an approximation of accuracy as tho present system is capable. It is impossible to forecast with absolute accuracy the yield of any given crop; the best expected is to continue to perfect the system with a view of reaching the nearest approach to accuracy. "T am jinwIlUnf to abandon a svs torn of some kind of crop reporting, after it was Inaugurated and built up at the instance of the producers to protect them against the biased and unreliable reports of the cotton gamf)ler. Such an abandonment at this time, or in the future, will place the producer again, as formerly, entirely at the mercy of the speculative element whose business it is to make his reports in accordance with the side of the market upon which he is gambling. "I am Interested, however, in improving the system and in making these reports represent as nearly as possible the exact conditions, both with reference to the growing cotton and final yield. This bill purposes to rid the system of some of its crudities and inconsistencies and to place it upon a more reasonable and sensible basis. Under the present system the acreage report is Issued the first of dune of ea,ch year, as the 25th of May. That the number of acres in cultivation on the 25th oT May of a given crop year represents accurately the number of acres that will be continued in cultivation is preposterous on its face; and yea, the report as tc the acreage at this time has a sent it mental effect during the entire croj year and does, in a greater or less degree affect prices. Those familial with the cotton business know tha during the month of June for reason: innuemerable hundreds of thousand: of acres of cotton are abandoned The present report does not accoun for this abandonment of acreage unti tlie first of December, when the fina estimate is made and when the re port is too late to ho of value to h producer. My bill makes he acreag report on the first of July when th acregae then in cotton will mor nearly represent the acreage that wil continue to be cultivated. This, regard, as a substantial improvement "Again, the present system make the report as to the condition of col ton on June 1st as of May 25th. Thi report I have always regarded as a absurdity, for I am too well acqualnl ed with the actual growing of cotto not to know that no matter what th conditions of the crop may bo on Ma 25th, It can be on the 25th of Sej tomber when the crop has ripened, .could never see any reason for thi v report, and yet it does have a sent! mental effect which is hard to over come, because in the cotton trade, 1 Is the Urst Impression that is th juost lasting. The same reasonin holds with reference to the July re port of the present system and t remedy these defects, my bill pro fe : , . WORKED FOR MORGAN HONDURAS OFFICIAL ACCUSES THE UNITED STATES OF , Forcing Morgan Loan on Southern Republic Under Threat of Causing Rebellion. In a 200-page bcok published at tral American republic will mean rades, former minister of ilnance of Honduras, declares the state departmont at Washington encouraged the Uonilla revolution in Honduras last winter in an attempt to force the Honduran government to sign the Morgan loan agreement. Parades asserts the Washington state department virtually submitted to President Davila of Honduras this statement: "The protectorate and the Morgan loan, or the revolution." President D&vila, Parades declares in his book, was forced to agree to the loan proposition and ordered the rmistice signed. Correspondence that passed among the governments of Great Britain, Honduras and the United States is published in Parades' book and in this connection he asks: "Js it the intention of President Taft to subjugate Honduras, and turn the country over to the dominance ~e ^xroii of T*nnt ? WMll rlnllnr riinlnnia c> go this far? "The subjection of the little CenNew Orleans 011 Monday, Juan E. Pathe abandonment of the Monroe doctrine, the destruction of the PanAmerican union, a reproach to the United States?which has so long championed the rights of independence, freedom and democracy?and a source of bitter feeling and hatred between the races on this hemisphere." Parades was opposed to ratification by the United States senate of the Morgan loan treaty and his book is intended for presentation to senators and congressmen at Washington. POUND DEAD IN WATER. Mystery Surrounds Death of Stranger at Beaufort. Friday morning a man's body was found face down in the water near X ?1 X ~ C \Tm.f h .(iTAr LIIO WUbltM ii nuji t wi iiuuu 11 v us f about three miles from Beaufort, N. C. The man had evidently taken off his outer clothes, a3 they were piled on the bank, and waddee into the river clad in underwear, hose and shoes and fallen on his knees in the shallow water. The clothes contained only a watch, pocket drinking cup and 20 cents in silver. The dead man arrived in Beaufort on the 11 o'clock train Thanksgiving Day. Ho went to the Innlet Inn, where he registered as C. Hauber, Washington, D. C., had dinner and was shown to a room. His body was found next morning at the above place by a Mr. Fulchet. No letter or papers were found to the clothes an nothing but toilet articles In his bag at the hotel. The * 1 ' ^ _ i man was eviuenuy a uerman 01 guuu appearance and well dressed. He was about 5 0 years of gae. poses to abolish the condition reports of June and July and make the first condition report on August the 1st, when I think all will agree the condition of the crop at that time does give a fairly accurate forecast of what we may expect finally of it. The September and October reports of the present system are continued, because I regard them as of great value in advising the public as to the ultimate outcome of the crop. The far1 mer should have this that he may the ' better sell his crop and if the government does not furnish it to him in a thoroughly unbiased and unprejudic' ed way, the speculator will, in such . manner as best serves his own pur5 pose. > The final estimate of December is - continued and this estimate has prov > Oil 111 IIIO p.lbL IU UHlHt? NYJIU ill ? i informed of great benefit to the r trade. I am confident the change* t suggested by my bill will make these 3 reports more reliable and more sat 3 isfactory and I have hope of favorable . action upon it. t "I am now preparing another bil 1 through which it is intended that ai I we have given reports as to the pro - duct Ion, it is a matter of justice t< e the producers that we should giv< 0 them a full report as to the mil e takings, mill holdings, warehouse e holdings, consumption and demanad II This is only fair, though the prob 1 lorn of arriving at tlio figures I i. much more difficult. It will be rc s m em bored that several years ago had passed a resolution directing th s bureau of the census to Issue quar n terly report along these linos. Thes t- reports are being issued as directed 11 by law, but time has proven tha e they are not sufficiently comprehen y sive nor are they issued with suffici >- ent frequency. I have taken thi I matter up with the director of th s census and in conference with hii I- and the chief of the division of agrl - culture we are endeavorlnTg to wor t out a plan by which we can furnifel e along with the glnners' report, a com g prehenslve report as to consumptio - and demand, and the like of cottor o I hope to have this bill in readinei - for introduction early in the week. ) RIBtLS LYNCHtl) , GOMEZ AND EIGHT OTHER MEN 1?UT TO DEATH. Citizen* Take the Unfortunate Men Out of Jail, March Them Out and Shoot Tliem. A dispatch from Mexico City says "Che" Gomez, whose rebellion at Juchitan resulted in a clash between President Madero and the governor of Oaxaca, was lynched Tuesday afternoon at Rincon Antonio. Eight of Gomez's partisans met a like fate. Gomez, who was on his way to the capital accompanied by ten of his followers, was taken from the train at Rincon Antonio, Oaxaca, Monday r* -1 - 1 ~ 1 ? ~ K.r cil 1*01*110011 cllill JJiclV/CU in jau uj vi uvi of Gov. Juarez, In spite of the fact that he had been promised safe conduct by the president and bore a passport signed by the executive. He and eight of his followers were taken from the jail by a, mob of residents of the little town ,augmented by hundreds from the neighboring regions, marched two miles from town anid shot to death. Noting the ugly temper of the people and anticipating trouble, the local authorities reported the situation to Gov. Benito Juarez, who was in San Geronimo, about 40 miles from Kincon Antonio. He secured the consent of Gen. Merodio to send troops to the village. Before the troops arrived, however, the guard of nine rurales constituting the entire military force of the town, which had battled with the mob of 1,000 or more., had been overpowered by the rabble, and the prisoners were carried off into the hills. The mo had stopped with its prisoners at a little station. As the train appeared it was recognized as a troop train, and without waiting longer the prisoners were riddled with bullets and the assassins iled into the hills. Only the bodies of their victims were encountered by the soldiers when they alighted from the cars. Reports from San Geronimo tonight were that mobs of Oaxacans paraded the streets shouting "Viva Juarez," "Viva Oaxaca libre," "Independence" and "Death to Madero." Among the lynchers were many of the former followers of Gomez who declared he had betrayed them. Numerous commissioners are reported to have called upon the governor and assured him of their loyalty and support. ? ANOTHER GOOD ROADS TRAIN. The Atlantic Coast Line Railway to Operate One. That there is no end of benefit to acrue from good roads is a fact which cannot be denied and a fact which is recognized all over the country. So much importance is attached to this subject that the two leading railroad systems of the south have taken up the matter of educat" - -i ii,:? T ^ , i Hlg TIM* people iiion;; ima i.nt- auu have sent out good roads trains. Already one of these trains has visited this city and within a little more than a month another such train will be here being sent by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. The Southern Railway sent such a train hero during the summer gone which was operated out of Richmond. The one from the Atlantic Coast Line Railway will bo sent out from the same point and is scheduled to reach this city on the morning of Jan. 9. The train will spend the greater part of the day in this city. The train is made up of several coaches which are lilted up with the latest devices for road building and traveling with the train will be several government experts who will make addresses and show those who visit the train just how to build roads and how to keep them intact after they have once been properly , constructed. I TIIE SENATOR AT 1IIS POST. ) ? 1 He Was in His Seat When the Senate Opened Monday. When seen at his hotel la Washj ingto Monday evening Senator T3. R 3 Tillman appeared to have stood the trip to Washington very well and ^ showed by his conversation that lit j had already begun to put himself ir I touch with government matters. II< e attended tho session of the Senate wnere ne was warnny wiMcumeu uj his colleagues. The Senator says h( g will "go slow" for a while, undei the advice of his doctors and friends j but that ho will keep a watch 01 0 proceedings as well as ho can witl his limited ocular equipment. Afto 0 a stay of about a week the Senato will return th his h^ino in this Stat< ^ until after the holidays, as in hi: opinion there will bo no serious worl [_ before tho new year, when ho wil 8 go back to Washington. e * n Murderers Publicly Hanged. I- At Palatka, Pla., Mill McCoy an< k Edgar Youmans, negroes, were hang i, ed in the Jail yard at noon Fridaj t- having been convicted of the murde n of a man and women of their ow i, race some time ago. Fully 2,50 is people gathered to wttuess the ei " yard. BURN UP CITY ant te 8U? Up Water Werki LtaWaij Las Aifles al Mercy cf Fire PROPOSE AWFUL CRIME McManigal, as a Part of the Plan, Was Sent Rack to Dynamite the Auxiliary Plant of the Times,. Rut lie Ralked at the Murder it Would Involve. "If another dose of dynamite doesn't unionize Los Angeles we'll blow up the waterworks and explode enough mines to burn the city! We n.iirn iiiom fill fli#?lr nrnnnaod U tt I 1 ^3 A V 1> 1A V> AAA (?i A VA? V*? ? "??" ? ? ? Panama Exposition in 1915, and if they haven't mended their ways by then we'll make that place an example the world will always remember." This, according to a heretofore unpublished portion of Ortlc iMcManigal's confession, was the substance of a threat made by the McNamaras after they had blown up tne Los Angeles Times and murdered twentyone of its employees. The plan was discussed, McManigal said, in connection with his trip to Los Angeles last Christmas, when he dynamited the Llewyllyn Iron Works?the crime to which John J. McNamara pleaded guilty of being the instigator. McManigal, who was James B. McXamara's chief assistant in more than a score of dynamite outrages, was sent here to ' give the Times a second dose." Undeterred by the appalling loss of life the Times disaster, the McNamaras determine;! to nreaa the defiant spirit of General Harrison Gray Otis, owner of th* paper, by placing a bomb against the auxiliary plant in which the paper was published after its main building was destroyed. McManlgal confessed that he came fully intending to blow up the auxiliary plant. "But when I got here," explained McManigal when retelling his story Tuesday. "I found the place so closely guarded that I couldn't do anything without taking some lives. So far'as I am aware, my stuff never killed anybody; I was always careful to set my clocks to go off when tnere would he nobobdy on the job. Ana I wasn't going to be rjmurderer even to 'get the Times,' so I took the suitcase bomb which I had nrougnt on a passenger train from Chicago and left it at the Llewellyn Iron Works." HATS DESTROY HIS FOHTUNE. President's Aid Sought in Redemption of Hank Notes. The life savings of Jack Simpson, of Aitken, Minn., amounting to $2,5 65, securely hidden from burglars, were reduced to pulp by hungry rats and mice, and in a letter received by President Taft he appealed for the redemption of the pulverized fragments by the Federal treasury. His wealth accumulated to buy a farm. Simpson explains, was placed in a box and deposited between ine upstairs floor and ceiling. No human being disturbed it, but when ho took it from its hiding place he found it had been reduced to dust by the ravages of rodents. (iiunption on the Fhrin. Take the frost out of your grindstone beforo you grind the ax, but do it gradually, and not by using too hot water. That would injure the quality of the stone. | DON'T SUFFER WITH Neuralgia when a 25 cent bottle of Noah's i Liniment is guaranteed to drive i this terror away?or mcney refunded. At the first twinge, emptied as difectcd, Noah's Liniment will give immediate and effectual relief. It quiets ' the nerves and scatters the con, gestion, penetrates and requires ) very little rubbing. r Noah's Liniment Is the best remedy for Rheumatism, Sciatica, Lomo Back, Stiff r Joints and Muscles, Soro Thro<tt, Colds, r. Mr it ins, Sprains, Cuts, j!|! 'u 1 Tho genuine has Noah's I fV^fViyUJ 129 Ark on every packago Pi tuul looks llko this cut, |TJ|yW|Y3 I but has RED band on |kllffl|Kl^H front of package and ly?y|UCJ 1 " Noah's Liniment" al- |||?|fuNvll B ways ill RED Ink. Bo- CUmIMLmJU w a r e o f Imitations. l4irgo bottlo, 26 cents, r And sold by all dealers In T - -tt.. n medlclno. Guaranteed or money refunded by """A.'*1*' II Noah Remedy Go* Ino., mmmmtmm Richmond, V*. t I H^^F U Its beneficial m B feet? are tisua ^ felt very quid I ??/ p Makes rich, red, p H system ? clears the brain ? s A positive specific for B1 Drives out Rheumatism an H is a wonderful tonic and bod [ f. v. L1PPMAN, Mr. Buyer! ? GET IN TOUCH WI FRUITS and F. W. Me, CHARLESTON. - - WANTED " * graphy, Salesmanship an them in banks, business a eminent service. Write rales with positions guaranteed. Wo * .? liU tion may learn ana pay aitor posiuu sired. SOUTHERN COMIV Charleston and Greenwood, 8. C. C Rome, Ga.; Winston-Salem, Wilmii The South's Highest Endorsed and Fn Opens in Bristol, Va., and J WE CARRY THE LARGEST BELTS We have the 14 in 6-ply and the 16 the Original Red Stitched Canvas Belt on the market, but you can always t ery 10 feet (Gandy). We also have This belt has a national reputation, fhed belt. Write for prices.. OOL1 CLASSIFIED COLUMN Want^h^r^npu^haf^^ 1 low poplar logs. Tarver-McMillan Lumber Company, Savannah, Ga. Agents Wanted to sell the original Native Herbs $1 box of 250 tablets for 60c. P. Melrose, Columbus, Ohio. Good Farm for Sale?near town, and and graded school. Write for par-J Honiara, w. H. Parrish, Coats N. C. *| For Sal??-Buff Plymouth^ Rocks, one cock $2.50, two cockerels, $1.50 each. Positively the last chance. J. R. Dean, Spartanburg, S. C. Established 1704. D. A. Walker. 152 Meeting St., Charleston, S. C. Marble and granite works, Iron and Wire fencing. Send for prices. For Sale?Trained coon and oppossum Hounds, Red Bone Fox and Cat Hounds, trained Pointers and Setters. M. L. Crawford, Tiger, Ga. Bookkeeping or Shorthand $35. Combined Course, $05. Subjects taught by Specialists. Address the Greensboro Commercial School, Greensboro N. C. for literature. % Southwest Georgia Farm, and pecan lands. Any sized tracts. Best country in the world. Write for illustrated booklet today. FlowersParker Realty Co. Thomasville, Ga. For Sale?-Pure Breed Pekin Ducks. White Sherwood Chickens, Rhode Island Reds. Plymouth Rocks (Barred) at $4.00 for trio of either. Address Mrs Mary E. Littlejohn, Jone8ville, S. C. Apples for Sale?Strictly fancy handpicked Ben Davis, WInesap and Stayman Winesap. Largest size $5.15 per barrel. Second size $4.40. Third size $1.85. Boiling Hall, Waynesville, N. C. Well Broken Beagles and large Rabbit Hounds, Fox Hounds, Coor Dogs, Setters and Pointers; young dogs of above breeds partlj trained; also pups, Boston Bulls Fox, Black and Tan Terriers anc West Gprvnln Street, Columbia* ft. O Dull Terriers, Poodles, Spaniels Collies, St. Bernards, Newfound* lands, Great Danes. As represent ed or money refunded. Harrj ! Boeder, Thorndale, Pa. Wanted?Men to take thirty day'i practical co?r?? In our machine shops and learn automobile bust ness. Positions secured graduates $25 per week and up. Charlotte Auto School, Charlotte, N. C. Maternity Sanitarium?Private, re fined, homelike, limited number o patients cared for; homes provide< for infants; infants for adoption Mrs. M. T. Mitchell, 26 Windso street, Atlanta, Ga. v* < V ? v mmmmmmmmmmmmmm?m?mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?mmrn Aih, Poke Root and Potassium)I Powerful Permanent I ef- Stubborn cases Good results are 11/ yield to P. P. P. lasting?it cures H idy when other medi- you to stay cured cines are useless . P. P. I tire blood?cleanses the entire trengthens digestion and nerves. H lood Poison and skin diseases. H d Stops the Pain; ends Malaria; I y-builder. Thousands endorse it. H SAVANNAH, GA. J L n - ir r? ?iri i . .. . . " iiT" D?_1 I I iYir. DiuH.cn TH US FOR YOUR [ PRODUCE per & Son, - SOUTH CAROLINA YOUNIi MEN AND WOMEN To begin at once preparing for Bookkeeping, Banking, Typewriting, Teled Civil Service positions now uwaiting uid railroad offices, and in the govor call at once for special Christmas rtby young people unable to pay tuiu is secured. Lessons by mail If dejfcV ' /ifppiai MVJH A WM ihattanooga and Johnson City, Tenn. ngton, Salisburg, and Durham, N. C. istcst Growing Business College. )eeatur, Ala., Jan. 1, 1912. IN STOCK IN SOUTH OAKLOINA. I and 18-in 8-ply Gandy Belt. It 1* There are a great many imitation? :e01 the Gandy, for it Is stamped ? the 14-inch 5-ply Giant Stitched. It is the Original Seamless and StltTMWI4 SPPPIiY COMPANY. *99 Agents Wanted?We trust the people everywhere. Ladies Lay Wool Capes ? Special Price $7.50. Black, Brown, Gainet, Navy. One dollar cash, the balance 25c weekly?agents wanted. National Sales Campany, Charleeton, S. C. Yon Want 4*Knlg!it*s No. 7 Arc, unsurpassed for Church, Store and Street Lighting. Get full particulars addressing M. L. Pommer, Dis tributor of Gasoline Systems, Mantles and Supplies, Charleston, S. C. Agents wanted. Pillows Free?Mail us $10.00 for 36pound Feather Bed and receive 6pound pair Pillows, freight prepaid. New feathers, best ticking, satisfaction guaranteed. Agents wanted. Turner & Cornwall, Feather Dealers, Charlotte, N. C. Frost-Proof Cablmge and Lettuce Plants, tied in bunches, selected. Delivered in South Carolina and Georgia. One thirty-five per thousand. The largest earliest heads, are grown from our plants. Sea Island Plant and Seed Company# Meggetts, S. C. Complete Course in Automobile construction driving, repairing. Graduates assisted in getting employment. Best equipped auto school I In South. Graduates getting $15 to $4 0 weekly. Write for particulars. Automobile School, 108110 Liberty St., Savannah, Ga. For Sale?A carriage and buggy shop, full line of up-to-date machinery for manufacturing buggies; good trade established, both now and repair work. No better place in the South for a buggy factory. The demand for new bugi gies greater than the supply. C. i Julius Johnson, McGregor, Texas. The Poultry Yard. It is not good for hens to dust in ^ coal or wood ashes only, some folks claim, but we find that a few ashes lighten up the dirt. , Noon is a good time to supply the , stock with some green stufT, such as cabbages or roots of any kind. The , latter can bo cut in half, and the . hens will then pick them to pieces. i Have the floors of the houses well ' bedded with some light litter, so that 7 the biddies will be induced to scratch, , and thus warm up their bodies these 1 cold, frosty mornings. Drafts in the chickens' homo are more dangerous when the rowis are ' quiet on the roost than when they are stirring around during the day; but a cold air current sweeping 7 thr.ough the house is a bad thing at any time. I Poultry feeding has been much 1ma proved and simplified by the Intro duction of the hopper method. The . old-fashioned way of preparing and b mixing a wet mash is done away with, on account of its tedious and need less expense of time and labor. The - hopper is filled with a variety of f ground grains, and placed wnere It 1 is accessible to the fowls at all timet, i. With this arrangement the hens need r never go to roost without sufficient food.