Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Ulli RUITS FOR FARMERS. utEN ATOM AI, NOMINEE SPEAKS AT SPAIITAMll'HO. emotion Growers t?f ihr County Con? demn Night Hiding, an I Urge That No Cotta* Be Sued for Lees Tluu? 10 OMUw-Mr. ?. C. Moore, of *orU? Carolina, Oettvera Talk. Spartanburg. Sept. 19.?A crowd that taxed the Court Houee was pres? ent this morning In reeponee to the call of President E. L. Archer, of the Cotton Association, resolutions were pen it condemning so-called "night riding." a? practiced In some Ol the Went er n cotton States, recommending that no cotton he sold at this time (or than 19 centii per pound, and fine wore delivered by Mr. E. D. vmtin. the Democratic nominee fo> United 8tatee Senator, and the Hon. C. C. Moore, president of the North Carolina Cotton Association. The meeting was a hearty and enthusiastic one. aad the speakers were liberally cheered Mr. Smith threw his old time energy and enthusiasm Into his talk and srvsral times evoked tremen? dous appli.use. laughter arid cheering. Mr. M?oh Interspersed his talk with many witty storisa and Illustrations, using them to drive home his points effectively. The following resolutions condemn Ing night riding In Mississippi were unanimously passed: "Beeolved further, That we. as Jfarmer? whatsoever with any conduct or effort to Interfere with the natural rights of the Individual doing what? soever he pleases with his cotton or any other product of the land. And we denounce any and all acts by known or unknown parties Intended to Intimidate any person from man? aging or disposing of his cotton or other producta of the farm as he. In tie judgment, shall deem expedient. "Resolved further. That we as farmer* and business men. will lend ?sir aealeus assistance to the police authorities of this or any other State to bring before the Criminal Courts, and aid In the conviction and euch punishlshmeat as the law may pro On motion of Or. 8. T. D. Lances r, a resolution was pasesd recom sncndlag that no cotton be sold at this Urne fer lees than 10 cents. After the business had been co eluded Mr. C. C. Moore was In trod u ed. He epeaed *>y referring In com gdlmentary terms to Mr. E. D. Smith, stag when he said that the people of ?oat* Carolina had done well by ?ending Mm lo the United States Senate, he was applauded. The peo? ple of South Carolina, the speaksr said, had sent Mr. Smith where h? would bo a power. The Southern Getton Association, hs said, was the voice of the South In protest against the low price of cotton. The farmers are now keeping books to show the of raising cotton, and that If ibj not "be raised at a profit with the staple selling at nine cents the pound. He referred to the time when ?otton sold at 4.90c. and said such times would return unless the specu? lators art stopped In their work. Mr. Moore advised the farmers to deposit their cotton checks In the bank and pay their debts by check. Money car? ried in the pocket or hid sway at borne Is withdrawn from circulation. Mr. E. D. Smith was greeted with great applause. He said he was glad that ths people of Spartanburg art etlll Interested In cotton. Referring to his election, he thanked the people for their hsndsome vote. He spoke of the great development of the coun? try, which has Increased the demand for cotton, which !? greater than ever ?effore. The present situation, he said, ought to bring the blush of shim* on ths face of every farmer. He asked the question who was Mr. Hester and who was on the reporting board at Washington. The speaker #sld he wanted to serve notice to the w >rld that he Is going to fight for the farmer*. He ?a Id the farmer* made a mis? take *heii they fixed the price of cot? ton at IS cents; that they should have tiled the price at 20 or 2f> cent*. Hv explained the practice of mill "hedg? ing. ' an I told of the dagger fn the jrradWiK. which pj? future odton all Set )e?* thsn spo. (.'ongr**** should pass law* to stop it. He would, if it could be done, have the department of sg-iculture report on the number of bslts csrrted In the warehouses so that the farmers could know. ?MlMions of bottles of Foley's Horfey ?nd T.ir havs beea sold without any p*?-??n ever having experienced any Other than beneficial PSStiHl from Its ?as for soughs, colds and lung trou? ble. This l? because the genuine Fo? ley's H oi. y ami Tar In the yellow package contain* no opiates or other harmful drugs, (inn I \>>ur hralth by refusing sny but the genuine. W. W Slbert He bears misery best who hides It ?Oreek. I or s Sprained Ankle. ?A eprained ankle mny be oured In about one-third the time usually re ?aired, by applying f'hambe.lain's Pain Balm freely, end giving It sbso tfite rest. For sale by a'l druggists. PLYING MACHINE WRECK. Orvllle Wrtirht and Lieut. Selfrldge Hurled to the Ground?The Latter Die* and Wright Sustains Severe Injuries. Hut Will Recover. Washington, Sept. 17.?After hav? ing drawn tho attention of the world to his aeroplane flights at Foit Meyer and having established new world records for heavler-than-air flying machines, Orvllle Wright today met with a tragical mishap while making was accompanied by Lieut. Thos E. Selfrldge of the signal corps of tho army. Lieut. Selfrldge wos fatally injured and died at 8.10 o'clock tonight. Mr. Wright was seriously Injured, but is expected to recover. While the machine was encircling the drill grounds a propeller blade snapped oft and hitting some other part of the Intricate mechanism caus? ed It to overturn In the air and fall to the ground, enveloping the two occu? pants In the debris. Soldiers and spectators ran across the Seid to where the aeroplane had fallen and assisted in lifting Mr. Wright and Llet Selfrldge from under the tangled mass of machinery, rods, wires and shreds of mutdln. Mr. Wright was conscious and said: "Oh. hurry and lift the motor." Lieut. Selfrldge was unconscious and had ap? parently struck tho ground ulth great force. His head was covered with blood and he was choking when the soldiers extricated him from un? der the machine. Dr. Watters, a New York physlc an, was one of the first to reach the t pot and rendered first aid to the injured men. When tholr wounds had been bandaged Mr. Wright and Lieut. Self? rldge were taken to the Fort M*yer hospital at the other end of the field. It was feared that Mr. Wright was suffering from Internal Injuries. He had lapsed into a state of semi-con? sciousness by the time he reached the hospital, while Lieut. Selfrldge did not regain consciousness at all. He was suffering from a fracture at the base of the skull and was In a critical con? dition. After a hurried surgical ex? amination it was announced that Mr. Wright was not dangerously Injured. He Is suffering from a fracture of his left thigh and several ribs on the right side are fractured. Both men received deep cuts about the head. Mr. Wright regained con? scious at the hospital and dictated a cablegram to his brother at Lernens. France, and requested that the same meaeage be sent to his sister and father st Dayton. Ohio, assuring them that he was all right , SPINNING MILL FOR OLANTA. John MoSween, D. W. Alderman and Others Interested In Plant to Coat Sxoo.ooo. I Olanta. Sept. 17.?The citlsens of the town and surrounding community met recently at the Bank of Olanta for the purpose of discussing and or? ganising a spinning mill, to be locat? ed at this point. The promoters, Messrs. John McSwaln, president of the John McSween company, Tim monsvllle, and D. W. Alderman, pres? ident of the largo lumber plant of D. W. Alderman & Sons, at Alcolu. and also of the Alcolu Railroad company, were present, accompanied by an ex? perienced mill man from the upper part of the State, who furnished the Ttectlng Information as to the cost of pe.sting, etc., of the proposed plant. The proposition was enthusiastically Sgg#*v?d and It was decided to start subscriptions for the erection of a $200.000 plant. Several of those present subscribed liberally and com? mittees were appointed to secure fur? ther subscriptions before the next meeting on the 26th Instant, at which time It Is expected to effect a perma? nent organisation to put the enter? prise through. PHARMACY BOARD ENJOINED. State Hoard of Pfiarmm'eutlcal Ex? aminers Ordered to Show Cause. Greenville, Sept. 17.?Chief Justice Pope of the State supreme court has Issued an order against the State board of pharmaceutical examiners. r?*|ulrlng them to show cause why n Ii ? ris?. should not be Issued to John H ?! au Idln of Greenville to practice pharmacy in this State. Justice I'ope's order is deemed of ??onsiderable gen -rat Interest in that, ;?fter Mr. Mauldln hud ppoeoadd With alf examination to a certain point, hv N 11 told that be could not get a II SOaOl unless he served four yeiS> ur. If.' a competent druggist in thll State. Upog this point Mr. Maul.lln, who is a graduate of the phurmacfutleal department of th ? 1'niverslty of Mary? land, makes his complaint V? court. Mr. Mauldin's petition declares this legulatlon is repugnant to law an 1 upon this contention Justice Pops *? sued the order. The order is returnable on October 1 at Columbia. For fancy mantels, tile and grates, also wall paper. See H. W. Vogel, 11? S. Main street. 9 17-3t THE FARMERS' UNION. President Harris Issues An Address in Reference to Mark< ting the Cotton Crop. To Cotton Producers: The great money producing crop of the South?cotton?is now being har? vested. The farmers should investi? gate conditions and use good judg? ment in selling this great money crop of the South. By so doing many million dollars will be added to her wealth. First, we will look into conditions. *1ie supply of cotton Is less today than It has been In twenty-five years. The merchants* shelves are scant of goods The supply of cotton Is less today than creasing every day, and they have to be clothed. Again, the output of man? ufactured goods have greatly decreas? ed this year from the fact that the 1907 crop was 4.000.000 bales short. This shortage will have to be made good, as the world needs the goods. As to the condition of the 1908 crop We have heard nothing for the last eight weeks but a bumper crop. Wh" Is it that circulates these reports? ] see In Europe, 3,000 miles away, crop of American cotton this year of 18.000.000 bales, while many of the knowing ones on this side are sending out literature forecasting the crop at 14.000,000 bales. The South Is now being flooded with circulars of bear dope by speculator? and manipulutors who are trs.ng to sell the market dowi: under the intlu ence of these bearish arguments. The wholesale Jobber in the cotton trade are demanding concessions from the manufacturer in the price of goods while the spinner Is holding back as long as possible in order to be able to lay in the^r supply as low as possible. Never before have so many inter? ests combined to hammer down the prloe of, spot cotton. There never was a time that the growers will be call? ed upon to exercise the full limit of their strength In resisting prices as at the present time. There was never a time that co? operation was needed as badly as it Is today. Our annual meeting of "The Farm? ers' Eduoatlonrl and Co-operative Union of America" met at Fort Worth, Tex., on the first and was In session four days. The attendance was large, all the cotton-growing States were well represented by delegates. The unanimous consent of the del? egates was to keep the minimum price a secret within the membership A national cotton committee wa? formed, with a delegate from each State, for the purpose of handling cot? ton. President Barrett will call a meet? ing the first of January, as by that time we will know the true condition of the crop. As to the condition of the growing crop. Every cotton-producing 8tat* was represented and there we had the opportunity of getting a true report a? to the condition of the growing crop. Not a single State reported any? thing like an average crop. Some repoted 40 per cent, off, some 30 pei :ent. some 20 per cent., some IB per cent. It will be Impossible for us to make an accurate report at this time. To begin with, we had floods and wet weather up to the 1st of July, then hot. dry weather. Rust and blight and a dozen other pests we had never heard of before. East of the Mlsslssipppl river you hear thnt Texas and Louisiana ar.. going to make a bumper crop. When you get west of the Mississippi they tell you: Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia are going to make bumper crops. When you investigate it you find it Is false. In the last three weeks I have been In seven of the leading cotton belt States, and in no place did I find anything like an av? erage crop. From the time I lefi home until I reoched the "Lone Star" State I did not see a single field of cotton that did not have blight, either rust or black rot, and was poorly fruited. Farmers, all you have to do now Is to Just sit steady In the boat and not put r\ bahgftof cotton on the market until the price gets right. Remember. It all dt j ends on w?u as to what It brings. You cannot blame the other fellow for getting it as low as ho can. There are plenty of k?<h1 warehouses, and advise warehousing it and bor? rowing money on your receipt to sat? isfy your Indebtedness. I As cotton is the great money crop of the South, I want to urge our bank? ers, merchants and other moneyed men of the South to help the WOaTl fanners to hold their cotton until RlS price gets above the cost of produc? tion, so the grower may have a yr-'fit left to him to have money to spend with other business enterprises if the farmer Is properoui nil other business Is prosperous, and J? he Ii not, all other business Is dull it Is the <iuty of every business man of the South, no matter w/iat profes? sion he is in, to stand Uhind cotton and make It bring a prallt above the cost of production to tlV- grower. How Is the grower *f cotton to be? come able to malnttln a profitable price? First, he must diversify his crops, and now is the time to begin for another year. So oats, wheat, crimson clover, vetch, rye and barley. You will need it next spring to fee 1 your stock. Instead of buying, raise your horses, mules, cows, hogs and corn. Quit buying hay to kill grass, to raise cotton to buy more hay with. Make home sef-supporting and self sustaining, and prosperity is yours. B. Harris. NEW YORK DEMOCRACY. ( hauler Nominated for Governor by the New York Democrats. Rochester, N. Y., Sept. 16.?Nomi? nating all but one of its candidates by acclamation and adopting a plat? form which arraigns the administra? tion of Gov. Hughes and pledges earn? est support to the Denver platform and candidates, the Democratic State convention today nominated as the head of Its ticket for governor the present lieutenant governor of the State, Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler of Duchess county. John A. Dix of Washington county was nominated lieutenant governor. All opposition to Mr. Chanler disappeared after a con? ference of the State leaders which oc? cupied a greater part of last night. The ticket decided upon by the lead? ers, with one exception, 'seemed to meet the approval of all the dele? gates, and the nominations were made with great enthusiasm until the office of State engineer and surveyor was reached. The conference candi? date for this office was Philip P. Farley of Brooklyn, an antl-McCarren man. Senator McCarren amid the cheers of his supporters, took the platform "to resent an Insult." He declared the nomination of Far? ley was agreed to without any re? gard to the Kings county delegation and was intended to embarrass them. He declared he would always supoprt Democratic nominees but would not hold himself responsible for the ac? tion of the people who felt themselves Insulted. Farley won on a roll call, but a motion to make the nomination unan? imous was lost by two or three scat? tering negatives. # Judge Alton B. Parker, who was permanent chairman of the conven? tion, afddressed the gathering. The convention adjourned without day after United States Senator Gore of Oklahoma had made a brief ad drees. "The promises of reform upon which the present governor was elect? ed," the platform alleges, "have not been kept. We point as proof of this fact to the expeditures of 1907, which are larger than the extravagant sums expended under the predecessors of Gov. Hughes. We charge him with the responsibility for this waste and with giving his time and attention to the pursuit of spectacular methods and self-advertising issues rather than to the work of reform and re? trenchment upon the promise of which he was elected governor two vears ago. We tnjist that in this most important feature of his administra? tion he has been derelict and remiss. Instead of cutting off the tax eaters from the list of officeholders he has caused new ones to be added to it and In the two public service commis? sions which have been brought into existence at his sugegstion and llctation, he has created officeholder.0 who have woefully failed to better the condition of affairs confided to their charge." A Traveling Man's Experience. *"I must tell you my experience on an eastbound\0. R. & N. R. R. train from Pendleton to Le Grand, Ore.," writes Sam A. Garber, a well known traveling man. "I was in the smoking department with some other traveling men when one of them went out into the coach and came back and said. 'There Is a woman sick unto death in the car.' I at once got up and went out. found her very 111 with cramp colic, her hands and ewms were drawn up so you could not straighten them, and with a death-like look en her face. Two or three ladies were working with her and giving her whis? key. I went to my suit case and got my bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy (1 never travel without it), ran to the water tank, put a double dose of the medicine In the glass, poured some water Into it and stirred it with a pon Otl; then I had quite a time to get the ladles to let me give It to her, but 1 succeeded. I could at once see the effect and I worked with her, rubbing her hands, and in JO minutes I gave her another dose. By this time we were almost Into Le Grand, where 1 was to leave the train. I gave the bot t'e to the husband to be used in case another dose . hotlld bo needed, but by the time the train ran into Le Grand She was all right, and I received the thanks of every passenger In the car." For sah? by all druggists. With the beginning of the football season we look again for that de? lightful word, "beefy." We believe we like even "brainy" better.??New York Mall. ?Woods Liver Medicine In liquid form for malaria, chills and fever, reg u'atee the liver, kidneys and bladder, brings quick relief to biliousness, sh*k heftdaehe, constipation. Pleasant to take. The 91 bottles contain 2 1-2 times quantity Of the |0c, size. First dose brings relief. Sold by Sibert's Drug Store. 9-l-3m Kodol Stops Indigestion Sour Stomach, Heartburn, Belching, Gas on Stomach Go to your druggist, get a dollar bottle of Kodol. And if you can honestly say that you did not receive any benefit from it after using the entire bot? tle, the druggist will refund your money to you without question or delay. We will then pay the druggist the price of the first bottle pur? chased by you. If you knew as well as we do how good a preparation Kodol is, it would be unnecessary foriusto guarantee a single bottle. But to let you know how good It is, as well as we know, we will practically purchase the first bottle for you. We know there are thousands of persons who suffer from indiges? tion and dyspepsia who would be grateful to us for putting them in touch with Kodol. That is why. Furthermore, we know that after you have used Kodol your faith in the preparation will be equal to ours. This proposition we make is not altogether unselfish, but is actuated by the knowledge, that the use of Kodol by you will benefit you as well as ourselves. How could we afford to make such an offer to the public. And how could we afford to spend thousands of dollars to tell you about it unless we positively knew and were sure of the merits of Kodol. . We couldn't?it would bank? rupt us. Please try it today at our risk. Kodol digests all the food you eat Eat what you want and let Kodol digest it. Kodol is made at the laborator? ies of E. C. De Witt & Co., Chicago The $1.00 bottle contains 20 times as much as the 60c bottle. 4 FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS. i Remember Us When You Start to Sgdagj YOUR GIN. It is now time to overhaul your gin outfit and be? gin the busy season. Remember if you buy cheap material you will have trouble and lose money. gl We can giife you the best of everything in this line. Leather Belting from 1 to 6 inches; Canvas Belting from 3 to 12, four and 6 ply; Stitched Rubber Belting from 3 to 12, 4 and 6 ply. Full stock of Pipe. Fittings of all kinds. Lace Leather, Gin Bristles, &c. Give us the first chance before yon buy. Carolina Hardware Co i The Volume of Business Developed by 15he Farmers Bank a^nd : Trust Co. : During the past three years speaks well for that Institution, it's large capital, steadily increasing surplus and absolutely conservative management is a guarantee to its patrons. It is now prepared to assist its farmer friends in hand? ling their cotion crop, and has ample means to take care of desirable business at all times. Give them your account, either Savings or General, and you will be pleased with the result. e We Want Your Business We cor fess it, ?n the other hand, we know we are justified in asking your patronage. We not only offer our depositors every facility to be found in a modern institution, together with courteous consideration and the best of service, but we also assure you of Security for your money, Strength and Stability in management and methods. -:- -:- -: The Bank qf Sumter. OFFICES FOR RENT. Two cornecting offices over the Sumter Book Store. Will be rented singly or to? gether at $5.00 each. FARMS. Am offering a nice lot of farms near town. Have several especially attractive proposi? tions in this line. Call and see. City and Country v-fe W^ f\ f-Vf ST* V"\ If you have money to Property Handled. \3 |"C KM I ^ Wi %J ln?o?t In or loan on Real Estate Lo.n?. IV De DJEsf eW%9C# IVf ???? ??* Real Estate Broker. BUMTER, :-: S. C.