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New York Bankers Offer to Finance Crop. EXACT PARTICULARS NOT YET PUBLISHED Farmers Offered Advance on Kuril Hale at a Charge (if $1 per Halo for Grading ami Ifuiiliiiur, llu> Cotton not to lie Taken from the Channels of Trade Proposition Hazy. New York, Nov. 21.?New York hankers who have been conferring here for the last few days with rep resentatives of the Southern Cotton congress, announced this afternoon that they had raised a fund of $.".0, oo(i,(hhi to be placed in the cotton belt for the purpose of handling the cotton crop of 1911 and enabling growers to participate In any rise in the market. The negotiations were conducted on behalf of the South by Gov. Kinmet O'Neal of Alabama; Senator Hailcy of Texas, who has been advising Iiis ! colleagues as to the legal aspects of the proposition; B. J. Watson, presi dent of the permanent Southern cot ton congress, and commissioner of agriculture of South Carolina, and Clarence O. Ousley of Forth Worth, Texns. reprcsontinng the governor of his state. The Money Powers. The bankers who will furnish the fund according to the statement are headed by Col. Roberl M. Thompson, of the brokerage firm of 11. P. Pell ft Co. of this city. The financial sup port of several of the strongest banks in New York has been given to the plan. The plan proposes to advance the grower $25 per bale upon his cotton based on the market value at the time of the loan. No interest will be paid upon the loan, the only charge being $1 per bale, which is regarded as a legitimate minimum charge for the ex pense of grading and handling. The cotton is not held, nor taken from the channels of trade but is placed at the best advantage. The grower is given the right to designate the day of sab; prior to January 1, 1913, and will participate in any advance in price to the extent of three-fourths of the rice of the market. Details Not Arranged. Details of the plan are yet to be worked out. It has been decided, however, to place the funds through the State committees named by the governor or commissioner of agricul ture of a State, and these committees shall be empowered to sell when cot ton reaches 11! cents and compelled to sell when it reached 13 cents regard less of advice from the growers, Pro vision against any violation of the Sherman ant,-trust law is contained it, the agreement "Of course," reads the statement, "everything depends upon the accept ance of the plan by the individual farmer In connection with his pledge to reduce acreage the coming year." Following is the announcement of the plan, issued after today's confer ence, The \ unounccniont, "The nhnounccmCnl was made here today following the conference thai have been in progress for several days between prominent bankers of New York and leading representatives of the South such as GOV. O'Neal of Alabama, Clarence Ousley, represent ing Gov. Colqult, of Texas and E, J. Watson, president of the permanent Southern Cotton congress and com missioner of agriculture of South Carolina, that a proposition has been presented to these gentlemen, repre senting respectively the governors' conference and the cotton congress, composed of producers and business men and bankers of the South, which means the placing in the cotton belt States of about $.*>0,000,000 Immediate ly for the handling of tho cotton crop of 1911, "In Other works, the proposition is to give tho farmer $25 per hale ad vance on his cotton without interest, charging him only *l per bale to cov er expenses of grading and banllng, letting him turn over the cotton to tho holders, who wilt advance him $2.1 per bale and give him the oppor tunity to designate tho dato of tho sale prior to January I, 1913, and to participate In any advance In price to the extent of three fourths of the rise in the market. The Chances. "It is calculated that by the pres ent ordinal s holding plan the farmer 1,,'it'H all the chances of the rise in the market. By this plan he takes no more chance than ho did before and has every opportunity of maximum price in a rising market, and saving the losses sustained by damage and by loss of weight und warehousing charges. "Provision Is made against anv ap parent viol.-lion of the Sherman anti trust law i;i that each committee nniiu d by the governor or commis sioner of agriculture of each State has power to name tl o day of sale If cot ton reaches I- or 13 cents, which ac cording to the testimony gathered !,:\< s only a close legitimate profit on the cosl of production. "Of course everything depends on the acceptance of the plan by the in dividual farmer in connection with his pledge to reduce acreage the coming year. Individual farmer alone can make success possible. Bunkers Behind it. "The undertaking is fathered by a number of hankers of whom Col. R. M. Thompson is tie head. The com milteemen here have been offered as suran es from some of the strongest hanks in the city of a thorough bach ing of these already strong interests. "These gentlemen lore, as well ;is President Bar/ett of the National Farmers' union consider the plan ac ceptable to the growers, and they are tonight returning to their respective States to present it to their people, and if it he agreeable to the pro ducers to put it into immediate opera tion. "Senator Bailey has been advising as to the legal aspect of the proposi tion." The Orphans und Thank Sgl ring. In view of the fact that Thanksgiv ing day or the Sunday following, is the only church collection, recom mended hy the Synods of South Caro lina, Georgia and Florida to he taken upfor their orphans. the following items in regard to the Thomwell Or phanage, which is owned hy the three Synods aforesaid, may he of interest to the readers of this paper. The Thorn well Home and School for orphanage was founded in 1876. Its one building has increased to twenty and each cottage will give a home to twenty pupils more or less. In iss", the school was so graded as to cover fourteen years, ami in 1892 a Techlncal department was added, so that the boys might he taught Rome useful trade. This education is given entirely free to deserving orphans of any de nomination and from any part of our country. .Near a thousand youths have been under its influence and enjoyed its training. The provision for the support, education and other expens es of these children. (2G5 now with us i i.< derived from personal donations of interested persons, or from Church and Sunday School collections. The Thornwoll Orphanage is located in Clinton. So. Ca. Xo surrender of children to its guardianship is requir ed of relatives. Pupil;' may leave at their own choice if they do nol wish to remain, Children are not given out to service. The only business of the In.StltptiOll is to leach and train them, (.ills may he s< lit to Kev. Win. I'. Jacobs, President, Clinton, s. C. ZEMO MAKES ASTONISHING EC/.E.MA CUKES "We Prove it". Every day ZIOMO gives relief and 0tires men, women and children in ev ery city and town in America whose skins are on lire with torturing EC ZEMA rashes and other itching, burn ing, scaly, and crusted skin and scalp humors. ZIOMO and ZEMO (ANTISEPTIC) SOAP, two refined preparations will give you such quick relief that you will feel like a new person. We give you three reasons why we recommend and endorse ZEMO and ZIOMO Soap for all skin and scalp eruptions. 1st. They are clean, scientific prep arations that give universal satisfac tion and are pleasant and agreeable to use at all times. 2nd. They are not experiments, hut are proven cures for every form of skin or scalp affections whether on infants or grown persons. 3rd. They work on a new principle They do not glaze over the surface, hut they penetrate to the seat of the trou ble and draw the germ lif" from tinder I ncalli the skin and destroy it. In this Wfiy a complete cure is effect' id in :" v case of SKIN OP SCALP ERUPTION. Endorsed and sold in Laun us hy the Unuri ns Drug Co. A BOLD ROBBERY ON COAST LINE I,one Robber Holds up Kailwnj Postal Clerk and Takes Iluult Sums of Mon ey* ? A masked white man robbed the ? mail coach on Atlantic Coast Lino train No. 55 Friday night about 11:25 o'clock between the block ofllCO at Roystcr, just south of Coumbln and Lowe:- street, the southern boundary! of tn.> cflv Tbn rnhhor In Id II I,. I Meredith, the mail cb'ik, and Ids ne gro helper, U, S. Dreher, at the point of a pistol and took possession of the i registered mail. Then he pulled on the [emergency brake and leaped oft tho train just before it reached the cross lag tit the corner of Whulcy and Sumter st roi ts. It is impossible to state the value of the registered packag s gotten by the robber, but it is believed that j they an- worth thousands of dollars. For boldness and daring, the rob bery of Atlantic Coast train No. .">"> within a mile of tho Stnt/e bouse equals anything in ti e annals of train hold-ups. Rcgistt red Mall III Pouch? When trahi No. da hi C?olumhln from Wilmington, N. ('., at 11: It) p. in. reached the block ofllec at Roystor it was running 11 minutes Inte. Mr. Meredith, tho mail clerk, had just finished putting the r glstered mail packages in a pouch in readiness to carry them to tht ::..?il transfer olllcc tit the union station. I. 1). Minnie, the conductor of train No. got oil' to register tit the block office and then signaled bis train ahead. Soon after the train began to move, a masked man threw open the front door of the mail car. the second from the engine, stuck a pistol in the mail clerk's lace and demanded the registers, "Give them to me," he said, "and be quick about it or your head will have a hole through it!" Hacked Out at Ooor. After he got possession of the pouch containing the registered mail, he sorted over the packages taking the most valuable ones and leaving a few which contained only merchan dise, all the while backing toward the door by which he bad entered. While he was preparing to make his exit, Dreher, the negro assistant to the mail clerk, moved and the robber shifted bis gun on him, and demanded that be bob! up Iiis hands. Then the robber seized the cord gov erning tho emergency brake and pulled it. In less than a minute the train, which was moving slowly, came to a stop just at the corner of Whaley and Sunter streets. As soon as it began to slacken speed the masked man jumped back, slammed the door and made off. Conductor Mlnnls was in the third car from the engine when Mr. Mere dith rushed in and told hint that a masked man had held up the train and taken the registered mail. Illoodiioiinds fail. Tho train pulled on into the union ' station, where the rphbcrj was com municated to the police by telephone. They In turn telephoned to the peni tentiary for bloodhound's, and In less than half an boar after the. affair tin-I dogs were on the spol where tho rob her is supposed to have |< ap< d off the train. They fail .1 to strike a trail. If. I.. Meredith of Wilmington, the mail clerk. Is positive tli .t the masked robber who held him up is a white man. lb' noticed his hands: and his nose and eyes, which were not cov ered by tho mask. The coolness and deliberation dis played by the robber suggests that he is an old hand at his trade. His knowledge of the registered mail and the emergency brake also po to prove thai be was no amateur. Itohber Described. Ho is described by those who saw him as a man of medium height, rath er frail, with dark hair and probably dark eyes. Conductor M In Ills is positive that not more than live minutes elapsed after he signaled his train ahead at Itoystor before Mr. Meredith came to him in the third coach ami told him that he had been hold up. Conductor Mlnnls and Mr. Meredith both stopped in Columbia. For sore throat thoro Is positively. no remedy thai will r. Ill \ ->o quickly and cure permanently Hie I most nggrevalcd case, as Blood hie Kb. umntlc Liniment. 1.aureus Drug Co , l.auren -, S. C | TWO HOYS BURNED. Returned from Abbeville and Weal to Room After Carelessly Throwing a Match on Floor. Abbeville, Nov. 22.?Two IG-yenr oid hoys were burned to death In a lire Which last night destroyed the home of Walter B. Wilson, a young tanner of Lebanon, about six miles from here Mr. Wilson and his three youngest children wen" nsleop Ing down stairs, when one of the youngest hoys discovered thai the house was on lire and woke his father. Th ?? fO'.ll gol OUt all right, and then Mr. W?sni attempted to go upstairs to wake his son. Brooks, and a neighbor, Joseph Sherard, who was! spending the night with tho Wilson hoys. I3ul the steps were on lire, und he could not go up. Mr. Wilson tried: to wake them hy tin-owing rocks in to their room through the windows, hut tiny must have been suffocated by the smoko, for it seems they novi r got out of bed, as" their charred bodies were found side by si.le under the bed spring when the lire had spent tesclf. The origin of the lire, of course, cannot he known, hut it is supposed that the hoys dropped a match in the hall or on the stairs as they wi lit to their room about midnight, efter re turning home from a show here, and this set the house on lire, as the hall was aboul to rail in when the occu pants downstair were awakened. THANKSGIVING An na sd lady recently contrihuted to the Brooklyn Citizen this description of a New England Thanksgiving three quarters of a century ugo, when lifo was simpler and saner than today: Tho house was cleaned from tho roof to tho cellar the week before, as Thanksgiving in New England was n greater holiday than Christmas or New Year's nnd It must be observed by everybody. Tho bouse wns full of nice odors. One day It was mlnco pie nnd fried cakes, then it would be sweet pickles nnd election cake, then pump kin pies?my sister Fersls counted ten In n row?then plum pudding and Wednesday night a chicken pie that would almost crowd the top of tho oven nnd would come on to the table? a piece of it, I mean, warmed ui>? every Sunday till the next year. It held the plumpest chickens and sweet npplo quarter:! that had been half dried, and the meat and gravy were sweet as the apples, ami spices* and other goodies, nnd all In a large milk pan. with a Oaky ?Tust at. top and bot tom a quarter of an Inch thick. To make that crust I'ersis ami I had to burn clean corncobs In an iron ket tle and gather up tho ashes, ami moth er poured Imt water on them, then strained the liquid and stirred It into Some buttermilk, and that made It bub ble and lizzie Just as soda nowadays. Thursday morning we were up bright and early, nnd mother read u chapter in the Bible. Then we all stood up while father prayed for us, und I felt almost like crying, it was so solemn, but I forgot all over the nice breakfast und the walk of a mile to the church and the music nnd the return at noon to a dinner smoking hot on the table. Mother had arranged a party for us that evening, but wo could not wait for that, so our sleds were brought out. and we climbed the long hills with a group of girls and boys ami seated ourselves, letting one boy ridu with us on each side lo steer It, The parlor was all in order. The tloor was covered with white sand swept into curves. The woodwork was n bright blue, white sash curtains m the windows and a plain stand with a green haircloth on it am. n largo Biblo resting on that. Six wooden Chairs and a stiff backed rocking chaii composed the furniture of the room. Stiff and formal as It looked, that was not the plate for parly or party games. The next room was for our pleasure ground. It was large and roomy. A Eat tier's Venue a nee. WOUld have fallen on any one who at-; tacked the son of Peter Bondy, of South Rockwood, Mich., bur ho was powerless before attacks of Kidney trouble. "Doctors Could not help him." he wrote, "so at last we gave him Elec tric Hitters and he improved wonder fully from taking six bottles. Its H? best Kidney medicine I over saw." Backache, Tired feeling. Nervousness, Loss of Appetite, warn of Kidney trou ble that may cud in dropsy, diabetes* or Brlght's disease. Beware: Take Electric Bitters and be safe. Every bottle guornnteod. fJOc at Lauretls Drug Co., PultlietlO Drug Co. ?heap, st Mite ol S: '? ii Laurcns. <r shown Ml Ion. CHARLESTON A WESTERN ( AHOI,INA RAILWAY. Change In Schedules) effective 12:01 a, in. Sunday, Nov. 20, 1911. Main Line?Spartanburg Division spartanburg Angsta. X. 15.?Tho following schedule llgures arc published only iik infdrnuitloii mil not guaranteed. Westbound Trains. ICasthound Trains. p in 1:20 ?I: is ?1:57 .',: i)s 5: 2."> 5: III .".:n I G:05 (5:21 (J: 112 is:'12 T:(i| V: I'd 7: l>7 7: 17 7: ?>?"> 8: to 8: 28 s: 8: i0 S: 50 :(is ": I I II: in p in 1 7:1.'. a in 7:11 s: 05 ,s 28 8: ">\ s: 11 8:52 9:03 !?: 19 9: ::u ;i; |2 10:01 10:20 iu:::7 in: 17 10:55 in 28 in 50 12: us 12:11 I 2 : 2 I IL': 11 p in i p in (?rcctmllc Hruucll Siat inns Lv Augusta Ar Mart ine/. E\ aus Wood I aw u ClnrUs imi Modoe I'lirksvillo plum Draneh Met !orinh l< Troy 11 rod' Von. / (I i ecu \V.I t 'oronucu Waterloo Cold Point Maddens . .aureus Ol a La lifo rd Enoroo Wood ruff Swltv.er Moores Itoebuek Ar Sparlanbtirg Lv 12:10 p in 11 : tn 11:32 II: 19 11:01 Iti:.".:; In: I.I 10:31 10:22 10:01 :i:53 Ii: 12 It: 2.". !?:(is s: rrj 8:42 8:35 .s: 2(i 8:05 7 : :.?; 7: .*. I : 1(5 :<i7 Lain eus-(.'reein llle. 8:10 p in s;2S 8:34 S:38 t>:50 '.i: a I !i: 12 9:30 p in * .".I and P in :::<u 3:05 : 17 : 30 3:42 4:00 Station Lv Laurens Ai Uarksdale (tray Courl ()\\ in;;:; Fountain inn Simpson vllle Mauldln A i t iroom ilb Lv ?i 8:20 :< in 8:03 7:.".7 7:40 7:29 7: 17 7:00 a in are daily except Sunday. 4 10:25 l> tu 9:17 9:3| 9: in 9:08 8: ?">!? is 30 is 07 7:;'.!' 7 :2<? 7:01 (5:.". I t.: 17 (5: It", t!: I;. f.: us : 03 5:47 5:31 : 2S 5: I !i 15 p in 1:05 12:50 12:38 IL': 20 p nt ERNEST WILLIAMS. (I. I'. A., Augusta, Oa. W. ANDERSON, SORT., Augusta, Oa. COLUMBIA, NEWHERRY X LAUREN'S RA'LWAY, N. H. The following schedule figures are published only and not guaranteed. 8:20 8:44 1*: 32 !i: 50 53 Station 2:12 p m Lv Laurens Ar 2:35 Clinton :t: 2o Nowborry 3:34 Prosperity 5:05 Lv Columbia Ar 5:05 Lv Columbia Ar 6:20 Ar Sumte:- Lv 10:00 P in Ar Charleston Lv > \ and 55 run solid between Greenville * Trains eept Sunday. These trains stop r.-3 go to Union Station. Soini through train.; between Grcenvill < 'olumbln. T. C. WHITE 2:12 p in 1 : 12: :.t; 12:42 11:05 11 :05 9:41 0:15 a in and t'olnin Iniormat ion 0:11 : 2(5 bill daily (rain .',2 ex and at Garvlas St. Station, while and Charleston via Laurent and t iencral Passen! A gout. t I I BANK j ' TObAY MONBY once spent is gone from | ::you, and can only be acquired: :: again by labor oreffort, but money: :in the bank will work for you day: ::and night till it reaches the point :: where it even doubles itself. Time passes rapidly and money in the ibank grows all the time.