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CORN, TIIK Li It K AT CROP.
Products For Year Reach Sum
of $8.7t0,0OO,0O0.
Washington,' Aus;. 17.?Conditions
so favorable as to stand absolutely
alone in the world's history of agri?
culture are pictured in the report of
Jamee 8. Wilson to the
I covering the work of the
Department of Agriculture for the
fiscal year of 190?. ended July, 1910.
made public today.
It la the thirteenth annual report
of the veteran secretary and appears
in the forthcoming year-book of the
department. "Most prosperous of all
f~ the years," says Secretary Wilson, "Is
the place to which 1909 Is entitled In
agriculture. The yield has been
bountiful with most crops, and prices
have been high. Advantageously sit?
uated as he is in most respects, the
sat armer la leas and less generally com?
pelled to dump his crops on the mar?
ket at time of harvest.
"He does not need to work for his
hoard and clothes as he often did in
the former times when prices were
so lew as to be unprofitable.
r "The value of the farm products
ta so Incomprehenslvely large that It
haa become merely a row of figures.
For this year It la $1.710,090.000; the
gain this year over the preceding one
1* 9tl9.000.000.
"Yew years age the value of the
producta of the farm was only fivej
I and one-half tlmee the mere gain of
thla year over 1901: It was little
more than one-half of the total value
of this year. The value of the pro?
ducta haa nearly doubled In 10
years.
"aTtevsn years of agriculture, be
, ginning with a production of 94,417.
?09.940 and ending with $8,760.000.
. a sum of $70.000,090.000 for the
"It haa paid off mortgages, it has
ibUshed banks, it has made bet?
ter boffne?. It haa helped to make the
farmer a ctttsen of the world. It haa
? provided him with m?*ns for Improv?
ing hie soil and m?kln?; It mo e pro?
ductive.
"The moat striking fact In the
werld's agriculture la the value of the
cars crop of 1909 In this country. It
M about 91.720.000.090.
"This corn came up from the soil
and out of the air In 120 days?014.?
?ee.te? a day from one crop, nearly
enough for two dreadnoughts dailv
for peace or war."
Cotton la now by far the second
crop In value aays Wilson, and the
I yaer'e production la worth about
1 9910.099.090 to the farmer.
Third In order of value la wheat,
worth about $729.000.000 at the farm,
and thla exceeds all previous values
by a large amount
Hay ta fourth, eatlmated at $695.
009.990.
Oete la fifth, worth at the farm
about 9400.000.000.
WORK D\V FOR ORIMIANAC.KS.
Will hr Observed In This state on
September 21.
September -1. 1910 has been gat
apart as "work day" fot the Sfphtll
agea In Sooth Carolina. On this
day It Is expected and d?**ired that
every person young and old. will de?
vote the prooeeda of their salary or
eerninga that day to the work of
maintaining the orphan children In
thla State. 1i< h person may
tribute to the Institution of his prefer
ence aa all of the orphanages are <??>
:>?rating In an effort to get the I
generally observed. It la especially
h .p. I t,\ th.m that all of the Sou
day eohools of every faith may unite
In the good work.
Boy KilhMl While Hunting.
Alken August 29.?Frank Ander?
son, the 12-y??ar- old son of Mr. W.
W. Anderson, of Wllliston. was acci?
dentally killed this morning, a few
mil** from White Fond .In this conn
ty, whllo out hunting. He die I
few minutes aft r being shot. Sev?
eral of his boy friend < wefb with him
at the time, and he trag killed by his
own gun. Other particular* w I r k
lag
shed April, ISM
Be Jut ai
881. S
HIGHEST SINCE THE III
COTTON REACHES 20 CENTS A
POUND IN NEW YORK MAR?
KETS.
Hull Corner Affects Old Crop Alone,
New Crop Months Showing Com?
paratively Small Advances.. Most
Spectacular Day.
New York. Aug. 29.?August cotton
sold at 20 cent a pound in the New
Y<?rk cotton market today on urgent
demand from speculative shorts, who
had posponed covering until the last
minute in the hope that the Increas?
ing new crop movement might break
the control of the bull leaders.
This price, the highest reached for
cotton for any delivery since the War
of Secession and exceeding by nearly
2 1-2 cents above the highest fig?
ures reached in the famous bull year
of 1903-'04. which until now had
stood as a standard of comparison,
was regarded by many as the culmi
ting point of the bull movement in
progress here for the last six months
during a season, which, when it ends
next Thursday, will go down as the
most spectacular in the annals of the
cotton trade since the war.
Sales Rather Small.
Not a great many bales, perhaps
15.000, actually changed hands on the
advance from 16.82, the closing price
of last week, to 20 cents for August
this morning. At 20 cents an offer
from W. P. Brown, one of the bull
leaders, to sell 10,000 bales checked
the upward movement, and it was the
general impression around the ring
that this was a level fixed in the open
market as a basis for settlement of
the entire August interest remaining.
Later, however, this view of the sit?
uation was somewhat shaken by the
fact that after reacting from 20 cents
to 18.20 under scattered selling of a
few hundred bales, August aagln ad?
vanced on renewed buying by shorts,
touching 19.90 in the afternoon?
within 10 points of the high record.
At the close, August was quoted at
19.76 bid. while new crop months,
which had been very quiet all day,
wer* only + to 9 points net higher.
Spots Unresponsive.
In the local spot markets the
prices were marked up to 19.75, but
the Southern spot markets showed
no such gain, the greatest advance
reported being 3-8, at Savannah,
showing the local character of the
extensive advance.
No one has attempted any accu?
rate figuring of the profits of the big
bull leaders. W. P. Brown, Eugene
Scales and Frank B. Hayne. all of
whom are under Indictment charged
with conspiring in restraint of trade
in connection with the bull pool.
James A. Patten of Chicago is in?
cluded in the Indictment, but in
view of his repeated announcement
of retirement he was not generally
considered a party to today's trans?
actions.
Handled Much Cotton.
In all the bull leaders have han?
dled spot cotton to the amount of
?00,000 bales, valued approximately
at $65.000.000. But the bulk of this
has been shipped abroad and just
how much of it has been actually
sold and how much of It may now be
held on consignment at foreign
points Is uncertain. Inasmuch, how?
ever, as the bulls have handled con?
tracts for many thousand bales in
. \. ??HS of what they actually receiv
< d. they have undoubtedly taken
large speculative profits, no matter
how their deal may turn out when
their last bale of spot cotton has
!>een sold. In the New York stock
exchange they still own about 100,
000 bales.
Humors circulated in the trade
after the close of business today
were that there was still a considera?
ble August short Interest outstnnding,
'.Oilch must be covered by noon
Wednesday. At that hour trading In
August is over and with it ends all
business In the old crop season of
1909-'10.
More High Prices Likely.
For the last three or four months
the bull campaign in the nM crop, al?
though based chiefly on the fact that
the crop grown during the summer
and autumn of 1910 was 3,000,000
balsa under normal, has had the
SB.rugemcnt of very unfavorabti
reports from the coming crop and
predictions that the world was fac?
ing a future Inad?quate supply. Nat?
urell] mother short supply follow?
ing a year of general curtailment
and procrastination in ourohaoei of
both raw asatartal and Anlahod goods
might noon another SSSSOIl of ex?
tremely high prices and this expec?
tation has undoubtodly sneouroffe i
the hull tinders in their policy of
carrying spot supplies forward Into
the now season.
l.'ttorly reports concerning the
prospect have been confusing. Ow
Hl Fear Bot?Lot ail Um? ?ik Thorn Ala
UMTER, 8. C, WEDNEI
ing to drought in the Southwest de?
terioration has been reported there
but weather conditions over other
parts of the belt since the first of
August have been considered much
more favorable and some reports
have shown considerable improve?
ment. The next report of the gov?
ernment on condition will be issued
at noon next Friday and owing to
the conflicting nature of recent ad?
vices, opinions as to its showing vary
largely.
To Bull New Crop.
It is understood in the trade, how?
ever, that the operators who have
gained such prestige on the bull side
of the market will now turn their at?
tention to bulling new crop months.
They have issued a circular, outlining
their reasons for expecting higher
prices but that this1 action on their
part was not unbiased was naturally
suggested as any statement tending
to enhance the value of the new crop
would make a better market for
winding up the odds and ends of the
old and for disposing of the large
supply of spot cotton still supposed
to remain in their hands.
As a preliminary to the deal which
culminated in such a sensational ad?
vance today, the bull leaders began
taking up cotton on contracts In
March. By the end of March the
price had advanced to the 15 cent
level. There was a period of Ir?
regularity during April and many
traders believed that so much cotton
would be delivered to the bulls on
May contracts that It would break
their hold on the situation.
Government Helped Bears.
At thiB time proceedings instituted
by the department of Justice en?
couraged speculators on the short
sfcde but notwithstanding the fact
that more than 300,000 bales were
brought here for delivery In May,
the bulls took everything offered
and by the end of May contracts were
still holding around the 15-cent level,
after having bold at nearly 16 cents
for May in the middle of the month.
During June not much cotton was
delivered but in July the bulls re?
ceived over 200,000 bales. Thus for
this month It is estimated they have
received between 75.000 and 80,000
bales. This cotton has been shipped
out of New York almost as fast as it
has been brought here and accord?
ing to official figures today there re?
mains available in the New York1
stock only 111,990 bales.
Opinion as to whether the bulls
will extend their operations into the
a
new crop months are conflicting.
Some think that the old crop cam?
paign will be carried through Sep?
tember at any rate, but as the new
crop season opens on next Thursday
and the new crop cotton is now
moving rapidly from the Southwest,
the weight of the new maturing crop
must be figured upon.
WAYLAID AND ROBBED.
T. B. Higgins of Fasley Will Prob?
ably Die as Results of His Injuries.
Greenville, Aug. 26.?Word reach?
ed here tonight from Easley of the
holding up of T. B. Higgins, day
operator for the Southern railway
at that point and organizer for the
Order of Railway Telegraphers. It
is understood that Mr. Higfc.nj had a
considerable sum of money on his
person, and from meagre accounts
received he was roughly treated by
his assailant whom he identified as
a negro. Several of the operator's
teeth were knocked out and he lost
one of his eyes, It is said.
Mr. Higgins was in Cornelius, a
small town across the Georgia line,
and had Just organized the Order of
Railway Telegraphers at that place.
He was on his way to the station
when he was held up by the highway?
man and robbed.
A posse is now hunting the negro
and several of Mr. Higgins' brothers
from Easley have gone to assist in
the search. He is a native^ of Easley
and is a married man with*four chil?
dren.
It was reported at 11 o'clock that
Higgins is In a dying condition. His
wife has been summoned.
FIRES SHOTS IN CHAPEL,
Former lYnnelM an Friar Indulged
In KoNolver Practice During Ves?
pers in naatlllra
Rome, Aug. l'S.?a former Fran?
ciscan friar named Beltramini cre?
ated a panic in the basilica of the
Vatican during vespers this evening
i y firing three shots from a revolver
Into the ?lr. The worshipper^ fled
from the church and the scrrlces
were suspen led,
Keltramlnl, who was arrested, said
thai ha desired to attract attention
With B \lew of securing reinstate
men! to the pri< sthood.
u'l at b* thy Country's, Thy God's u
3DAY, AUGUST 31, 19K
LEPROSY MAY BE CURED.
Three Surgeons of United States Ser?
vice Grow Germs in Pure Culture
Outside Human Body.
Washington, Aug. 29.?Leprosy,
the unconquered scourge of ages, is
making what is believed to be its
last stand against science. From
Molokal, the Coral Island prison for
the plague stricken In the Hawaiian
group, a few words have been flashed
half way around the world to Wash?
ington telling of an achievement ac?
corded second place only to the dis
sovery of lepra bacillus in 1899.
Three surgeons of the United States
public health and marine hospital
service, after months of toil, have
grown lepra bacilli in pure culture
outside the human body and in tiny
glass tubes in the laboratory the loath?
some germs are now growing In their
third generation.
Four times the scientists have tak?
en the infection from the body of a
leper and artifically propagated the
bacillus on beef broth, egg or the
ameoba of the intestines of a guinea
pig. The work of Dr. Moses R.
Clegg, who declared less than a year
ago at Manilla that he had found
that the bacillus could be cultivated
outside the human body, is verified
and extended. Clegg has been rush?
ed from the Manilla scientific sta?
tion to Molokal to assist in the ex?
periment.
This achievement of the scientists
of the government's leprosy investi?
gation station is the first step in the
production of vaccine or a serum for
the cure or prevention of leprosy.
Precisely the same ground was cov?
ered by the men who evolved the
diphtheria antitoxin and the serum
for tetanus.
Dr. Donald H. Currie, director of
the station, Dr. Walter R. Brinker
hoff and Dr. H. T. Hollmann are the
men who have grown the cultures.
After four months' careful work, in
which they had labored to grow the
lepra bacillus in the ameoba of pond
water, guinea pig intestines and other
low forms of animal life, they were
about to give up" defeated.
Some of the tubes containing the
specimens were about to be destroyed
when one of the men determined to
make a last Inspection of the cultures
in a forlorn hope. The discovery
spurred the investigators to new ef?
forts and back over the blazed trail
they had covered so often they work?
ed again.
Currie obtained a pure culture
which means he has eliminated the
amoeba and the cholera bacillus and
now has the lepra bacillus propagat?
ing itself. The others have been grown
through to ten generations.
Aside from the hopes of evolving a
serum or a vaccine for a prevention
or a cure of the scourge, scientists
hope the Investigators may find a
leproslne which, like tubercullne,
would detect the disease in its first
stages.
TO HOLD RALLY FOR McLEOD.
Friends of Lee County Man Plan Big
Mass Meeting Today?Prominent
Speakers .
Charleston, Aug. 28.?Efforts are
being made to have a large and rep?
resentative meeting tomorrow night
in the interest of Thos G McLeod,
candidates for governon. Two prelim?
inary meetings have been held at
the Hibernian hall, first of the com?
mittee, then of friends generally, and
now a mass meeting is proposed, to
be held at the German Artillery hall,
Prominent speakers will attend and
address the voters and It is expected
that Mr. McLeod will himself make
a speech.
NEGRO FUGITIVE FATALLY SHOT
Charles Davis, Hunted for Uxori
cide, shot Near Denmark.
Denmark, Aug. 27.?Charles Davis,
the negro who shot to death one
Lucy Dwight, near the town of Bow?
man in Orangeburg county on Aug?
ust the 15th was located near Den?
mark on the plantation of Col. S.
O, Mayfield by Mgasltrate S. G. Ray,
several days ago, and plans were
perfected to make the capture to?
day.
When the negro came up to the
plantation residence for a settlement,
at tile appointed time. the magis?
trate was on hand, but when the ne?
uro caught sight of the officer he
made a dash for the woods receiv?
ing a gunshot wound in the back,
which did not stop him. He was
closely followed and captuerd. He
was found to be wounded In the left
shoulder, the hall g"in^ through the
lungs; he was rushed to Dr. Mat?
thew's drug store, where he was cx
amlned by the doctor, who pronounc?
ed the wound fatal,
id Truth s.
THE TRljj
0.
ESTRADA IX POWER.
?
New Dictator of Nicaragua Inaugu?
rates Itcign by Incarcerating Nu?
merous Prominent People.
Managua, Aug. 29.?Juan J. Es?
trada, provisional president, arrived j
in the capital tonight. Arm in arm
with Gen. Chamorro and accompanied
by 15,000 persons, all cheering madly,
the new president marched to the
palace. His reception was unprece
dentedly cordial.
Shortly afterward a new cabinet,
of which the members are prominent
conservatives who enjoy public confi?
dence, was appointed.
It follows: Secretary of State,
\Thomas Martinez; minister of war,
Gen. Thomas Macis; minister of
finance, Martin Bernard; minister of
public works, Fernandina Soloraza;
minister of interior, Aldof Diaz.
Numerous arrests of prominent
j persons charged with conspiracy have
j been made.
The police endeavored to serve a
warrant on Manuel Coronel Marius,
a prominent Liberal congressman and
journalist, but as they approached to
hand him the document he placed
the barrel of his revolver in his
mouth and killed himself.
MONTENEGRO NOW A KINGDOM.
Country Formally Elevated to That
Status With King Nicholas I as
Its Ruler.
Cettinge, Aug. 28.?Montenegro to?
day was formally elevated to the
status of a kingdom, with King Nich?
olas I as its ruler.
The members of parliament assem?
bled In parliament house, where the
Te Deum was sung and proclamations
were sent through the country an?
nouncing the event.
King Nicholas received various
deputations and told them that
Montenegro would devote herself
solely to the advancement of culture.-*
IN PROHIBITION TERRITORY.
Liquor and Gambling Cauees Killing
at Negro Church.
Newberry, Aug. 29.?Rowdyism
and rioting characterized several of
the negro church gatherings in New
berry County on Sunday and at
Mount Olive Church at Klnards, one
negro lost his life and two others
were seriously and possibly fatally
wounded. At Enoree Church, near
the Union county line, there were also
considerable disturbances. Liquor
and gambling seem to have been the
moving cause of the trouble.
CAMPAIGN EXPENSE BILLS.
What It Cost Candidates to Make
Respective Races.
Columbia, Aug. 29.?Up to tonight
it cost the State candidates 915,000
to run for office, that amount repre?
senting the aggregate of the expense
account filed for the first campaign.
Late today the following were fil
ed: John E. Swearingen $77.27; John
T. Duncan $278.97; J. M. Richardson
$947.50; F. H. Hyatt $1.603.65; J. O
Patterson $1.076.50; C. L. Blease
$686.50.
Up to this afternoon the following
were filed.
R. M. McCown $55.90; George S.
Legare $538.40; A. W. Jones $91.50;
R. H. Jennings $54.43; J. F. Byrnes
$806; J. E. Ellerbe $405.75; G. W.
Brown $364.17; P. A. Hodges $476.
05; C. C. Featherstone $420.58; O. C.
Scarborough $604.25; G. McD Hamp?
ton $545.84 ; A. F. Lever $270.95; D.
E. Finley $518.87; W. W. Moore
$639.50; Chas Xewnham $485.15;
James Cansler $225.75; T. B. Butler
$595.58; Chas A. Smith $313.86; E.
Walker Duvall $286.20; J. H. Lesesne
$357.05; J. T. Johnson $130.39; John
G. Richards, Jr.. $355.81; J. F. Lyon
$147.56; T. G. McLeod $646.65; B. B.
Evans $209.25; W. W. Hay $206.64.
It was somewhat of a campaign
joke when James Cansler was alleged
to have charged up one bath in his
expense account in the memorable
campaign in which he secured so
many votes. This year Mr. Cansler
makes the following entry on his ex?
pense account, filed today: "Baths
2\, seven included in board bill, seven
free and seven paid, $1.75." There
is also the following Item in Mr.
Ca osier's expense account: "Lemon?
ade 10 cents."
Killed by A. C. L. Train.
Florence, August. 29.?Miss Pho
ente Bailey, an aged maiden lady of
tie- Mars Bluff section, was struck
and instantly killed yesterday morn?
ing by the engine of Train No. SO,
tlie North bound through express on
the Atl intic Coast Line, as the train
appro,i< bed the station at Mars Bluff.
DECISION STIRS STRIKERS.
JUSTICE GOFF'S RUUXNG PROVES
FIREBRAND IN NEW YORK.
Demand for "Closed Shop" is De?
clared a Conspiracy In Restraint of
Trade ? Sixty Thousand Cloak
makers Parade Streets, Carrying
Banners and Shouting.
New York, Aug. 27.?Parades of
protest broke out all over the East
Side this morning on receipt of the
news that Justice Goff had ruled In
the State Supreme Court today that
a strike which demands the "closed
shop" is a conspiracy in restraint of
trade. Bands of the 60,000 cloak
makers now on strike marched
though the streets, one of them to
the City Hall, carrying banners and
American flags and shouting "closed
shops" at every step. There was no
violence, but apparently the decision
had greatly stirred the strikers.
Justice Goffs decision granted an
injunction to a member of the Man
ufacterers' Protective Association in
restraint of acts of violence, threats,
picketing and partrolling by strikers.
"The primary purpose of this strike/'
reads his finding, "is not to better
the condition of the workingmen, but
to deprive other men of the oppor?
tunity of their rights to work." He
supports his ruling with a recent de?
cision of the State Court of Appeals
against the Thompson-Starrett Com?
pany, the large building corporation,
which he cites as follows:
"The Court of Appeals has held that
it is against the policy of the State
for employers who control practical?
ly the whole trade of a community to
combine for the purpose of compel?
ling workmen} to join a particular
j union as a condition of employment.
If the rule thus laid down be law,
and it must be accepted as such? be?
ing the latest expression of the Court
of Appeals, it must be applicable to
.workmen as well as employers. It
would be repugnant to reason to
hold that it applies to one and not
the other. If a combination of one
[to refuse employment except on con?
dition of joining a union be against
public policy, a combination of the
other to cause refusal of employ?
ment except on condition of joining
a union is alike against public
policy."
Justice Goff then cites one of the
articles of the compromise presented
by representatives of the union to
the ma no fact u *s as follows:
"The associ on (of manufactur?
ers) shall obligate each of its mem?
bers to employ union men as long as
the union shall be able to furnish
union men who can do the work
properly. Within two weeks the
non-union men shall join the union."
I This clause, he continues, which
shows the purpose animating the
strike as interpreted by the Court, is
clearly unlawful and he passes to the
conduct of the strike. "If the unions"
he stated, "have not formally direct?
ed a systematic course of aggression
by criminal acts, the members of the
unions, acting in concert, conrdved at
and morally supported such acts on
the part of many of their members in
pursuance of a common object."
A final vote on the tentative agree?
ment reached yesterday between the
strikers and the manufacturers will
not be reached until late tonight.
General opinion inclines to the be?
lief that the terms will be accepted,
although there is much complaint
that they are not more favorable to
the strikers.
Gompers Criticises Decision.
Washington, Aug. 27.?Samuel
Gompers, president of the American
Federation of Labor, was greatly stir?
red by the decision of Justice Goff.
Mr. Gompers said: "Justice Goff
quotes an unjust decision in support
of his own. and that is supposed to
he good law. The unions of labor
will live despite injunctions and decis?
ions which evade constitutionally
guaranteed rights and human liberty.
Without the unions there is no pos?
sibility for protection to the workers
against the tyranny of the absolute
autocratic way of organized capital."
CAMPAIGN EXPENSES.
Candidates Filing Statements Show?
ing What it Cost Them to Run.
Columbia, Aug. 29.?Of campaign
expenses filed this afternoon, L*. F.
Burns, candidate for congressman
leads with *n06. Total amount so
far is $y,757. Messrs. Hyatt, Blease
and Duncan have not yet filed their
expense accounts, Of the guberna?
torial candidates Mr. Richards swears
to I35B.81, llcLeed to M4I.S8 and
Mr. Featherstone $4i!0.r?s.
Opinion is, as it were, the queen of
the world, but fear is tyrant.?Pas?
cal.