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I Consolidated An. 8.1881 I?nag i ii , t b* l?Jdfbman anb Soutbron. Vgamwhad Wednesday sad Saturday ?IT? ?fttM PUaUtNINQ COMPANY SUMTsTR 8. C I ?L88 per annum?In advance. tmt tnnortlon.11.08 beequent Insertion.It Poadiasta for Ihr?? months, or urtn be made at reduced rates, mnntoatione which sub acteate Intoreots will he charted I ndroitleeaaenta. end trthuteo of reopecte ho shorn g for. UNI lECREASIie. rtm 8?NT IX TO OOMMIS gwOMsW WATNOV 1UXENTLY. of On 9 MUI?Large P?r? sowings Attending Schools and Title If mm her at Incrtxtdng tlapidly. Colombia, July 8.?Commlaaioner Walton thinks, according to reports received at his office, the. child labor 7 sjMMIItioas srs better thnn ever be flava. His Inspectors have recently Stan pi ted sums figures that show a remarkable decrease. In 1880 there I were 186 children under 14 In Che 14 "cotton mills of the Stat?. In 1801 trove were 8.888 and In 1807 there 8.121 laboring children lit the e. Mr. Wation thinks that at 1.800 children will be dropped t the rolls this yssr. According to a report received yos k tarday from one of the arrest mills hi ths Piedmont section of the Stata awl of 887 children between the ages of ? and 14 years. 650 of those were attending school. Of fed children under the age of 8. lit of thorn were In the kindergarten k wf the mill dllage. only 188 Of them aoald not rtad or write, this Is tak Ism Into account the verv small'and I raport made from throe mills itent showed Themght Eagle Carried Souls To Mount Olympus. In ancient mythology tie esglewas supposed to carry the souls of the dy log to ths abode on Mt. Olympus, and ?das called the bird of Jove, says the Pittaburg Sun. The eagle was flr*t taken aa a symbol of royal power by the ancient Ktruscans, who bore its Image upon Its standards. In the year 87 B. C. a silver ea-tle, with ex? tended wings, poised on the top of a spear with a thunderbnl held In Its claws, was adopted aa the mlIItang Standard to be borne at the head of their lesions by the Rone ans. In the | reign of Hadrian, a gold* n eagle was atstltuted for the silver one. The two headed eagle was adopted by the Hy tantim* emperors as a symbol of their control of both east an?' west. The double-headed eagle of Russia was adopted at the marriage c f Ivan I, w th a Qreclsn princes* of the esstern em | plrs; that of Austria wan first used when the emperor of Germany took the title of Unman emj ? >r. The na? tional standaid of !?? u>a heirs n tdack eagle, and that of Poland had a whits oagle. Napoleon I took a i golden eagle for his standard, model? nd of pure gold and bear ng a thund? erbolt after the pattern of the eag!*? of the K inan*. This standard wnn not used by the BowrhOM hut was re? stored by Louis Nap In 1S52. The eagle was rtrat used on Ami r Ican coins In 1788. on the cents and half-cents Issued from the Massnt.hu setts mint. It was adopted in the p of national coinage as a design upon all gold pieces and on the silver dol? lar. half-dollars and quarter-dollars. The design of an eagle was at one time suggested for the I nltod states flag, but a as abandoned. An unknown preacher of the "un? known tongue" religion 'va* recent<v drl\sr 'rom the Clinton Cotton Mill village last week. He professed to havs various gifts. With perhap?. a sort of hypnotism, he (.mI ?iiu wonon astray. In the name of religion. It is asserted that soms of the women hsve reported to their husbands that la the name of religion, he com? manded them violate t ie Seventh Commandment. It la gcod for him that he left when he did. for worse things might hsve happened to him. Aa soon as a man dlscovsra that he Isn't a hlgh-browsd genius In any particular line, he bee omen i. lot more valuable to the community?and more comfortable to his family abed ApriL IM* 'Be Just an 1._8U V10LEWT EARTHQUAKE MESSINA AGAIN SHAKEN BY SE VERE SEISMIC TREMORS. Welle Are Thrown Down?People Flee In Terror to the Open Conn* try for Safety?Extent of Dlseitter Not Known Yet-?Rural Section Also Reporte Damage. Messina, Sicily, July 1.?Earth nhccka both- here and at Regglo, at 7-10 o'clock this morning created u great panic among the people. The walls of houses not completely dem ollshed In the earthquake last Decem? ber were shaken down and their In? habitants rushed to the open country. A woman and her child sustained ?rlous injury, the woman subse? quently dying. The first shock was followed by an explosion like the roar of a cannon. Ft Is said that this quake was of greater severity than the fatal one of the night of December 28. Cries filled the air as people fled in terror. The first shock was followed by a circular movement of the ground. Five minutes later another 'quake came, accompanied by furth? er roaring sounda. This completed the destruction and the remains of the wrecked houses collapsed and the entire district was covered by a dense cloud of dust. Instruments at the observatory have registered a total of ten shocks since twenty minutes past 7 o'clock thla morning. >*e*s from the provinces shows that damage has been wrought there, but it is as yet Impossible correcetly to estimate the extent 64 the disaster. Sailors, soldiers and policemen have been sent out to prevent looting. People Penk* Stricken; Tremors Being He v ere. Regglo, July 1.?A strong earth I shock wss experienced here at 7:80 o'clock thla morning. Many walls were thrown down, but no casulltles have been reported. The people are In a condition of panic. King end Queen Grieved et News of flg^uagfce The btoockH. F^Mb*? Lasting Vjesor Emen uel and Queen Helena were deeply grieved to learn of the earthquake at Messina, and inquired anxiously of the details. Advices from Messina state the wounded number ten. Including a lieutenant, two soldiers and two car? bineers. . I'SES ICE-CREAM TO REFORM BOYS. One Go*pel Worker Has Found a Way of Winning Youthful Fellow era. The taming of the New York tough boy Is one St the specific accomplish? ments of the gospel workers of the Evangelical Committee of Greater New York. They have him so he eats out of their hand?Ice-cream and cake. Afterward he doesn't throw so n my stones as he did nor disturb the services with unfriendly epithets. I hi Itters It was In Mulberry Bend at the Italian tent that they discovered the real, right way to regenerate a l?oy. It had happened they had pitch? ed the tent on a vacant lot the boys had always had for baseball. The boys weren't willing to give It up for the gospel, so one dark night they tore the tent to shreds and burned the Makes beneath lt. B. Franklin Butts, the sospel singer, was one of the .. ?Ik. :- -lo re tb.it summer. Seem* i ? know boys. Says he was one once himself. Well, when he found the \ i ? ekags, he Just quietly put up an ? tber tent. Then he passed round \\"i<l that there would be g Big Hoys' i formed to piny bees bell and there would be lee-cream and oak* leg UM organization meeting. Now they have a "B. B. C." at every tent, und elong with the other proceeding tin res a gospel talk sandwiched In You ought to see H. Franklin H?tt? (?mduet a boys' meeting. Then you'd I i -w why. when last summer he Was going t<> be removed from one tent [?> another they thought needed him more, this wail went up that reached headquarters: "WhOneYOI us feilen down bete Kits anything we like, it's always pinched on us." So Mr. H?tts wasn't "pinched" on the Canal street ten; after all, but allowed to remain w ith them.?Mabel Potter Duggett in The Delineator for July. The men who make a success In life never spend much time figuring out how others did It before them. A peck of Initiative is worth a carload of imitation. Hope springs eternal in the wo? man's mind?that ahe doesn't look as old aa other women of her age. d FW noe-**Let all the ende Tkoa Aln MTER. 8. a. WEDN POSSE CAPTURES mil PRISONER TELLS OF BOLD STORE ROBBERY. Nairn* Several Ac<x>nipuee??-Chaso In Automobile Exciting?Others Of Gang likely to be Apprehended ?Guilty of Other Crimes? Bamberg, July 2.?The right trail In the robbery case, which occurred here Wednesday night, has been struck and a regular thieveng band has been discovered. There are five members, one of them is now in Jail in Bamberg, and the others are be? ing pursued by posses in two direc? tions. A chase today of several hours resulted in a futile effort to capture Dan Jeter, Jr., one of the band, xvho, when last seen, was making toward Savannah. The others are being look? ed for and dogs are being tried on the trail, apparently at this time, without much success. Frank Bennett, the negro who was I captured, gave the officers a good I chase and afforded plenty of oppor I tunity for the display of the ingenuity I of the man-hunters from Bamberg, I Denmark and the surrounding coun I try. Late yesterday afternoon some I parties in Sato telephoned to Den I mark that five negroes, each with a I 8J*ck on his back, had been seen pass I ing through that place. Word was communicated to Mr. H. I J. Brabham, Jr., whose store was I robbed, and he, with others, left for I Denmark at once. There were prob I ably ten automobiles, all well filled I with men, which took up the search. The negroes were spotted by Mr. I E. C. Bruce, a' salesman for Mr. I Brabham, and when he, with Mr. I Hutto of Denmark, started to make I the arrests, the negroes ran. The I j i!rsuers fired at the fuglvlties, but I without any known result. It Is re I ported by seme that the fleeing ne I sices returned the fire at one time, I when the posse was hot on their trail. I .'Yank Bennett was captured after a I chase which lasted, perhaps, three or I four hours. He did not make any re I h stance when caught, seeing the odds I were greatly against.. It is eald that I Mr." W. S. ?o?p?.r, mayor of Denmark^ I feared that some violence might be I attempted and seemed to think that I an effort would be made to lynch the I negro. Members of the posse state I that there never was any threat I made, and that no one seemed to be I inclined to offer violence. The prls I oner was brought to Bamberg In a I touring car and lodged In Jail. 'He I told fcwho his partners were and how I they operated. Since hearing hi a I version of the affair, the boldness of I the thieves seems still more surprls I Ing than It seemed at first. I According to Bennett they entered I Mr. Brabham's store, which is on th<? I lower end of Main street, about ? I o'clock, he being the one set to watch I for any passerby. They used about a I box of matches during the time they I were inside, and were about an hour I and a half in completing their Job. I They spent yesterday at a house in lihe country and were making for I Denmark to catch a through freight jtj Savannah when discovered. This crowd Is - doubtless the sam ^ I v?hlch has been doing so much of I this kind of work in this section for I so long. It is even possible that thl* I same crowd had something to do with I the wrecking of the passenger train I near Denmark a short while ago. It I is suspected that this pang had some I hand in the robbery of the automo I bile and bicycle repair shop of Mr. I J. B. Brickie a few weeks ago, for J the pistol found on Bennnett hni I been identified by Mr. Brickie as the lone stolen from him. It is said that Jeter, the negTO who J wa* chased so long today, is a son I of Daneel Jeter, Sr., the Republican j chairman In this section. The names of the party said to ? tmpoee the gang are as follows: I Frank Bennett, Jim Williams. Dan Jeter, Jr.. Henry and Levi Heynes. I All of them except Williams have been living In this territory for years I nnd are well known. It Shocked Them. Two small children hearing older I . tsons"refer to the cat s tall as his ebenezer, came home from church one day very much chagrined, say? ing, "The choir sang a dreadftil song, but we did not take any part." On lelng questioned it was found they had sung that good old hymn, "Here 4 II raise mine Ebenezer." How la your carpet-sweeper ? Somo t :ueB all that is needed to make a sweeper (that you think Is worn out) do good work la to have the springs put In proper shape, or some new ones In place of tho old ones. uVt at bo thy Country's, Thy God's an ESDAY. JULY 7. 19( BIG GAIN IN COTTON. -1 ALL T1IE COTTON CONNDITION8 CONTINUE BULLISH. Short Crop Seems Certain?Conten? tion is That Supply is Not Likely to Meet the Demand of the Spinners. New York, July 2.?That cotton should have continued to advance Is not at all surprising. The develop? ments of the week have been almost j uniformly bullish and to cap the eli max the bureau report today proved to be sensational. Its figures were followed by a violent rise of about $3 a bale. The condition of 74.6 as stated by the government is 6 per cent, below the condition at this time last year and 6.2 per cent, under the average at this time for the past 10 years. I The advocates of still higher prices I contend that this report makes it as clear as anything possibly can that all Ideas of a crop in excess of 12,000, I 000 bales must be abandoned and they take the ?round that unless ideal I conditions prevail during July and I August the outcome is likely to be I under rather than over those figures. I However that may be, today's re I perl, apparently puts the quietus up I on ill estimates in the neighborhood of 12,500,000 bales, to say nothing of I higher guesses. I Meantime improvement in general I trade Is reported from various sec I tlons of the country, while in the I textile Industry itself there is a I dearth of indications that trade is I likely to keep on expanding through I out the season and that a heavy yield I of cotton will be needed. The con I tentlon of the bulls Is that the yield I Is certain to fall below the consump I tlon and acting on this belief they I have bought heavily and perslstent I ly. There has been a steady demand I for prent cloths and it is expected I that the price of cloths will be ad I vanced after the holedays. Spot markets at the South have ad I vanced. The stock of raw cotton here I has decreased materially and it is re I ported that freight room has been I engaged f; r some 40,000 bales for I shipment out of the local supply. 1 Further rain has fallen In the east I ern belt and the reports from "Texas I do not show that boll weevil damage I Is increasing. As the crop In that I State is admittedly two weeks late, if I is expected that the damage from I veewil will he more extensive than was I the case last season. Bears have been I routed and. bulls, flushed with recent I successes, are predicting much high I er prices ultimately. GIVES CP FARM INSPECTION. J. M. Jenkins Resigns and Will Prob? ably be Succeeded by Prof. Wil? liams for the Present. Spartanburg, July 2.?J. M. Jen? kins, district agent for the farm dem? onstration work In this section, with headquarters here, will resign this position. It is understood that Prof. Ira W. Wllleami who has charge of the farm demonstration work in Ira W. Williams, who has charge of in the State House at Columbia, will take up the work In this district and carry It on until a man can he ap? pointed. It is reported that Mr. Jenkins has accepted a position at rice inspector at New Orleans. He will leave for New York Monday before going 10 New Orleans. As rice Inspector he will ho associated with Prof. Chamb liss, formerly of Clemson College. The farm demonstration work as carried on by Dr. Knapp and his as? sistants is gaining a strong foothold In the South. Farmers are daily tak? ing to the ideas si t forth by the dem onstratorg and as a result scientific tanning is becoming general. STATE BORROWS MONEY. Loan of $200,000 Made Yesterday, Making a Total of $400,000 This Year. Columbia, July ?Arrangements have been completed by the State of South Carolina to borrow $200,000 through the Palmetto National bank Of this city. The rate of enterest ac ccrdlng to the agreement between the bank and the State will he I per cent. This maks a total Of $400,000 bor? rowed this year, the iirst $200,000 loan being necessary on account of the distribution of the pension money The present loan Is to meet current ex p< nses and Is certain that a ad? ditional $100.000 will have to be bor? rowed before the end of the year, bringing the total up to the statutory limit. The new-born colt must have milk during the first half hour of Its life, or the chances are that it will die. d Truth'*" THE TRU )9 Sew 8ei COTTON HIT. MORE DANGEROUS AND DE? STRUCTIVE THAN THE BOLL WEEVIL. The Cotton Growing Industry of South Carolina Threatened With Great Injury and Few Farmers Fully Realize Gravity of Situation? The Growing of Wilt Resistant Va? rieties the Only Remedy Suggested By Scientific Agriculturists. For the past few years there seems to have been a noticeable in? crease in the distribution and prev? alence of the disease known as welt of cotton. It seems to be gaining a foothold in every locality through the central and eastern part of the State and* is doing inestimable damage. It seems, therefore, that it might be well to call the attention of the people to what wilt is and to say something concerning the methods of eliminat? ing it. Every farmer should become acquainted with this disease so that he can be on the lookout for it and know how to combat it in the future. We have had more inquiries concern? ing it this summer than ever before, and it seems to be spreading rapidly in some sections of the State. We have had no less than a dozen inquiries within the last few days concerning it. I WTilt is a fungus disease. It Is caused by a minute vegetable organ? ism?a fungus which gains entrance into the roots and stems of the plant and grows there parasitlcally. The vegetateve portion of the fungus which is made up of numerous long, tiny thread-like filaments, grows through the tissue and interferes with the functions of the plant. These fllements get into the circulatory sys? tem of the plant and grow together in such masses in the water ducts as to cut off the circulation of water and of sap. When this stage is reached the cotton plant necessarily wilts and dies, It is very easy to recognize a plant that is affected with or is dying from wilt. For aside from the ordinary symptoms which you vfould suspect where a plant wilts, very marked evi? dence of the presence of ?.he disease is 4 found In the stems of the affected I plants. If such plants' are 6pllt open. I dark streaks will always be found I extending through the woody tissue I of the stem and root. These streak I are always very pronounced in the wood just beneath the bark. Othei I smaller discolored areas are found all I through the roots and stems. These I darkened areas are water vessels ot I the plant which are filled with and I plugged up by the growth of the fun? gus. The fungus which causes this dls I ease Is more hardy than the cotton I plant on which It lives and continues I to live and grow after the host plant I is dead. It even lives over for sever I al years on dead stalks and in the I soil and remains ready to attack any I plants as they come up. A field once I infected, then, would remain so for I several years. The fact, too, that tne I fungus which causes the disease lives in the soil and enters through the I roots of the cotton makes it hard to fight. None of the given methods of fighting fUngUS pestS, such as spray? ing, seed treatment, etc.. will have any effect on it. So we have to resort j to other methods. Now. plants like people and like lower animals have different tendencies. Some people are healthier or more resistant to disease than others. The same is true Of low < :? animals and true it st ems to even a greater extent with plants, some va? rieties Of cotton are more resistant t< disease than others, and in the same I variety some Individual stalks se< m nw re resistant than other Individuals. The United states Department of Agriculture has mads vis?- of this fact and has set about breeding disease re I ststant varietlei of cotton. Thli has been carried on now for a number i I years and they have had remarkable I success. They are not able to give us a variety of cotton which is prac I tu ally immun? from wilt. In Order to help eliminate will from the cotton Iii Ids Of the South and thus save to I the farmers the two millions now lost annually from its effect, the Depart Hunt of Agriculture has made ar? rangements for distributing seed of these disease resisitant varieties among the farmers in the sections which ares offering from wilt. Sam? ples of these seed can be had by writ? ing to the congressman of the various districts or by writing direct to the United States Department of Agricul? ture at Washington, D. C. As pointed out above this Is the only method of eliminating the dis eaae and those who are suffering from it should not hesitate to secure and I plant the seed of the resistant varie I ties in the future. The Dixie and the B SOUTHRON, Established June, MM les?ToL XXIX. No 39 KILLED BY ELECTRICITY. THOMAS HUGGINS, COLORED, MEETS INSTANT DEATH. Close Calls for Two Others?-Unfor? tunate Man Places Hand on live Wire With Fatal Result*?An Ig? norant Negro's Incredulity. Spartanburg, July 2 ?Thomas Hug gins, colored, was electrocuted this afternoon about 1:30 o'clock by seiz? ing a telephone guy wire which was crossed with a primary electric wire. The accident happened near the overhead bridge on North Church street. Elliott Williams, coloied, also put his hand on the wire and was : shocked so badly that at first it was thought he was dead. ; Alex Walker, colored, who tried to pull Elliott Williams off t?.e wire, J was shocked so badly that for a few/ I minutes he was unconscious. Had it I not been for the timely arrival of Dr. I Allen, Williaams would probably have died. i A negro by the name of Askew was I digging up some sod near the cross j aim at the pin factory, and Thomas I Huggins came along and started to J talk with him. By way of resting I himself, Huggins caught hold of the? I guy wire running from the top of ar I telephone pole on North Church* I street and attached to a post about flv* I feet above the ground, near the spot I where Askew was at work. The in I stant Huggins grabbed the wire he* j was electrocuted. For a second he j stood as if petrified with one hand j clasped round the wire as if im I possible to turn it loose, then he fell I over dead. Elliott Williams came up, and seg I Ing Huggins lying on the grounds I asked, "Wat's de matter wid dat nig I ger?" "He's dead," some one re? plied. "Wat killed him?" asked Wil? liams. "See that wire, well, he j caught hold of it." j "O, dat wire never killed dat nig I ger; dey ain't nothin' de matter wid I dat wire," and he caught hold of it. I Apparently it had the same effect I on Williams, as it had had on Hug I gins. Williams stood like one who> had looked on the shield of Perseus I and to all appearances seemed dead. I Alex Walker, a negro standing; by^ I caught Wifllams under the armpits I and tried to drag him away from the I wire. Instantly Walker was knockecP I down, and Williams then fell to tho I ground more dead than alive - CONDITION OF COTTON. Department of Agriculture Reports The Average 74.6 of Normal Crop ?Figures of the States. Washington, July 2.?The condi? tion of the cotton crcp in the United States averages 74.5 per cent, of u* ncrmal crop on June 25 last, accord? ing to today's report of the depart? ment of agriculture. This is against 81.1 on May II last. On June 25 tt year ago it was 81.2 and two years; ago 72. The average condition on. June 25 for 10 years was SO.8. The condition of the cotton crop by States for June If, 1909, June 2?. 1508, and the 10 year aroruga re? spectively follows: Virginia. 76 ami 02 and S4: North. Carolina, 75 and S9 and 14; souths Carolina, 77, 84, 81; Ccorgia. 79. 83? 81; Florida, 8S, 84. 85: Alabama, <>4f, it, 80; Mississippi, 61. 14, So; LOH? (ana, 62, SO. SI; Texas 79. SO. 80i Arkansas 76, 85. SI; Tennessee, 80*.. 89. S4; MtSSOnrl, 83. ST. S4: Oklaho? ma, S4, 64. S2. Dillon are probably the best of these? varieties. Care should he taken to prevent the sprnad of the gins at, Where it oory occurs In one or in a few places on sj plantation, every precaution should be taken to keep the unaffeelee RStdSS fiee from the disease. Water shooful not be allowed to drain from ftSSSSSSdl Heids on to land where t he di.-euse ha*? npvar occurred, ah pious and othi t implements should he cleansed botorej taking them out or ? neid wheoa-tfan distress occurs* Any*pns who is in doubt as U> whether his cotton i: affected witfv the disease or not should dining x\u growtni season send specimens of the lUSpeeted cases to the Division? gf Botany Of the South Carolina Experi? ment Station for examination arrdl Identification. We are always glad Xn receive such specimens and to get trss touch with the people who are sot fring losses from this and other rtts eaves. We k?cp on hand franked, tags for use in sending in diseas**? specimens and will gladly setnd sonic* of these to anyone whod esSiee* 0> send any kind of plant disease for **? amlnation and investigation. H. W. BARREL, Botanist, S. C, Kafet S\&.