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C||t Sfiftaajjnuiu an) Southron. a^lanatood Wednesday and Saturday. ?BY? MT??N PUBLISHING C8MPANY 8UMTBR. i C. Terms. fl.lt par annum?In advance. One Square first Insertion.$1.00 Bisa j subsequent Insertion.SO Cdstract3 for tbrse months, or lossjsr will be made at reduced rates. ?II communications which sub sea is prtvmts Interests will be charred far as advertisements. Obit?arles and tributes of respect wfj be charged for. Th? Uumter Watchman was found? ed la 1100 and the True Southron In lift Ts* V steh man and Ssuthroa Sow has the combined circulation and Saabs?new cf both of the old papers, is manifestly be best advertising luro in tiumtsr. It may be easier u? be elected Unit? ed States Senator than (lovernor. und to follow the path of least reals tones Is good generalship. ? ? ? Associate Justice Gary's statement respecting ths Chief Justiceship would have been dignified and in the best of taste, had he been big enough and broad enough to eliminate the reference to the failure of the Legis? lators to sleet him to succeed Chief Jsattce Pope. As it is. It has too much the sound of the plaint of a man with a grievance. ? ? ? Wojld it not be a good plan for all the Judges, of both the Supreme and Circuit Court, who are candi? dates for the Chief Justiceship, to follow the example of Chief Justice Jones and resign the positions they hold before becoming another candi? dates for another office? e e e The Surstsr cotton market Is far and away the lead ng interior market In tv> s'tKt.v Tb* receipts of new errtp cotton to date have been greater than some towns that claims to be rotten markets, handte In an entire season. There Is s reason?Sumter is lbs centre of the best cotton produc? ing region in the Stute and the prices p. Id for cotton he e are always as high or a better pr ce than on other : irk eta. There is .of course, room for Improvement In this market and ? !>ustneee men are not satisfied w'th watt the market Is now doing. Sot fire Crjrlng to improve conditions so as to bring more and more cotton k.-ne each season. That Is why Sum t-r grows and Is a better and bigger town sach year. We are not satisfied, slwsys trying to do better. j s e ? A number of newspaper have been featuring articles respecting the rumored Impeachment proceedings sgalnst Oov. Blesse to be brought at ths approaching session of the Legislature. These stories have orig? inated In both Columbia end At- 1 lanta, but it la noticeable thst not one of them has been fathered by a responsible person. It Is sll rumor snd unverified reports. It has been Intimated that these stories have manufactured for the purpose of mag sympathy for Oov. Please sad to enable him to go up snd down the* state ringing the <?? >nges on the try of persecution Perhaps this is tree, perhaps not. but It la a fact that the publtcstlon of these unsubstan- . rfattd rumors have the tendency to STsnte sympathy for Oov. Please and are doing him no harm. We take ac stock In the rumors snd do not entertain the remotest Idea that an effort to Impeach Oov. Phase will be msde. The only way we can ac? count for th? impeachment stories is thst this Is the silly season for news? paper correspondents, or that the spsee writers were hard up for a sensational st<?n to t,> the new*, gapers st so mu< h per column. ? s ? I The? farmers who h? <ot*f?n to sell are sslllng it. and little or no hoed Is being paid to the advice to hold for a fair i>n ? ? Hutory Is re? peating Itself and cotton is being thrown ??n s fall.?n-r nnrl . ' SJ r?;> idiv as it csn ag pithed and ginned. ff the prl- were to advsn. e | <,u*<r ter to a half cent hi 1 mark* ? mke on a Strong SSJSJ tin- holding mo\ement would beende popular. Just >?t preiM*nt the hears have |h| n growers on the run and they sre fixing prices to suit themselves. Ksst spring when the OOtlSSJ 1 praetkally all out gg the hands of the produr r and price* stiffen, the doctrine of holding f<.r I fplr price will have ro.mv mofS VOCtfsfOSSJ ad? herents than st present. s s ? If all the candidate* f r Chief Justlr* and Associate Justice should resign the office* thev now hold the tsajflaeso of ths courts of lenrtti Oar? elina would be at a standstill f> r a time. And even thouKb thev da not rentgn Its business of the conptl will doiihtiree suffer materially as a re of their candidacy. Not even s Judse or Solicitor ran pgggsjsjsjft i campaign for SisettsSI Nif <* better of flee without neglecting, to some ex? tent, the duties of the office he holds. Men who scramble for office should not do so at the public expense, and that is what they do when they hold fast to one office while campaigning for another. bie Markets Literpool Merket. Liverpool, Sept, 21. Open Closed Jan?Feb BU ?814 Feu-Mob 5844 Mcb?April 5SH4 5854 April?May 589 5864 May-Jane 589 5874 June? July We ?V8 Julv-Aug 5S8 588 Aug?Sept 610 <Wtf4 Sc pi?Oct 590 5874 Oct?Nov 584 581 Not?Dec 5S3 581 Dec-Jen 58* 581 Receipts 31,000. American all. Sales 7.000. American 5,900. Spots 685?15 off. Opened quiet and steady. Closed Irregular. \ew York Cotton Market. I New York. Sept. 21. Opened High Low Close 1 Jen 10 74 10 83 10 05 1? 81-32 1 Feb 10 84-84 , Mcb 10 89 10 95 10 ?8 10 92-93 1 April I May 10 99 11 0* 10 97 11 (3-05 Jnne July 11 01-03 Aug Bsp 10 89 10 90 10 81 10 S8 89 Oct 10 73 10 &0 10 07 10 77-79 Nov 10 74-7? Dec 10 76 10 87 i0 67 10 84-86 Warehouse etock 52.031. Certificated 51.000. Spots 11.15?5 off. Sales none. Opened steady. dosed steady. Can the Powers Divide Africa With? out Going to War? The partition of North Africa is .almost in sight. England controls Egypt with the Iron Kitchener as I resident. Italy's army and navy are ( ready to occupy Tripoli. Tunis and Algeria are held by the French, and the acquisition of Morocco would give her a colonial empire. In the Lanadowne-Delcasee treaty France yielded to England complete control over Egypt and was assured in re? turn a free hand In Morocco. Ger? many, coveting colonies to provide ( for her surplus population, is un? willing to see such rich territory di I vided between her most powerful ri? vals. ? I Revolution after revolution one Sultan fighting against another, threatened the destruction of Moroc? co. The property of foreign resi? dents were destroyed .their lives In constant danger. The powers found it necessary to Intervene to restore order and France, with Its army near at hand, was given the task of pollc Ing the country. The Algeciras Conference agreed to maintain the "open door" in Mor? occo, giving all nations the same op? portunity for trade and commerce, i But Germany sees a French army operating In the territory. French garrisons In the towns, French in? fluence spreading from Algeria to the coast. When th* Ka'.ser sent a German gfttjggf M Agadlr it was his notice to world that German;- must be' given her share. He demanded a I'-ng strip of the West Coast a sec- j Hog <>f the French Congo and an j equal voice with England and , Tram ? in African affairs. He could j hardly have expected France to grant his demands. His claims rest? ed on no firm foundation. Bttt he ? ?>> (?,Jv doe** expect to Secure SU< h concessions as will giv ? Germany a foothold In Northwestern Africa and go the results well worth his bold stroke. Buropeaa merchants manufacture >t< and Hnannten fear nothing tol muck as uar. It Is the element that Is now seriously disturbing busln isi in Europe, l'.ut the po.ssibdit\ of - onJHet win not t?e removed until Germany recedes from hot demands or the powers agree upon a settle ment France according to late dis toui Paris ha? determined 0 refuse the demands of the Kais i England has given nottva that .'rate.* has her support and Italy Is In accord with them. The Kaiser IS unwilling to yield With*at- Pom? concession, but he . annul afford to plunge Burope Into a war in n dkl? pUl? OVef territorial rights In Af? rica The dispute t* rapidly approach Ing a point where a e<,nferen<e of Iho powers to take op tho Afrl< in question will be n.'ownrv to- a\ .Id irmed conflict,?Baltimore Inn. Thoee Truly Greet. The world never forgets those who forget themselves The morld's truly great are men enamored und |g love with sn Idea, and got men enamored i and in low with themselves TAFT S CAMPAIGN TOUR. DENOUNCES COTTON, WOOL AM) FARMERS1 FREE LIST UlLLs. Bases Opposition ou Their Alleged Loom* Construction and on Pro? tective Plstfomi? Grand Rapids, Mich., Sept. 21,? President 'I aft made his tirat speech id* Iiis Western trip on the tariff and his vetoes of the wool, cotton and farmers' free list bills here today. The president attacked the Demo? crats and insurgent Republicans in the Senate and house, who put these ! bills through congress at the special i Oats ion defended his own course in i voting them and declared that ho was unalterably opposed to revision of the tariff except upon information secured by the tariff board. In his address the president based his \eto^s on two grounds?his duty to his party as set forth in the plat? form upon which he was elected, and the construction 01 the bills, Which, he said, was loose and un? scientific. The president began his speech with a plea for a permanent tariff board, which, he said, had been in? dorsed by the Republican conven? tions of many States and by both parties In Congress. He recited the history of his at I tempt to secure such a commission. I This he did, he declared, in order j that he might show how tirmly com? j mltted he was to the "proposition I that we ought not to have any change of a schedule without ac? curate Information as to the effect of the proposed changes." Secondly, he said, he wished to point out that the Republicans were definitely committed to a policy of protection. The president then assailed the Democrats and insurgent Republi? cans for taking up tariff revisions before the tariff board made Its re? port. This ,he said, would have de? layed matters only 90 days, as the commission is to report December 1st. I Taking up the wool bill, "avowedly I a tariff for revenue." Mr .Taft as I serted that It was prepared without consideration. This bill, he declared, was merely a compromise and show? ed no definite principle in tariff making. j The president admitted that the duties In "schedule K" are too high, but said that it is one thing to know . that such duties are onerous and "It Is a very different thing, in such a complicated schedule, to know upon what Items reductions should be made and how great the reductions ought to be." I The "farmers' free l'st" bill, the president claimed, was misleading in its title and so clumsily drawn as to interfere with the symmerty of the metal schedule. Mr. Taft declared he found much the same fault with the cotton re? vision bill, of which he said: "So badly was the bill thrown together, so little attention was paid to the consideration of It in the senate, especially In the chemical schedule, that the most ludicrous results were reached." 1 Mr. Taft, after concluding his de? tailed defense of his vetoes, sum? med up bis position thus: i "I am in favor <of the reduction of , the tariff wherever it can be done ind still give a living measure of protection to those Industrie.* of the country that need it. But I Insist that we have reached now a point in the history of tariff making when everyone ought to realize that the tariff should not be changed and business disturbed, except upon In? formation which shall enable us to pass bills that will disturb it least." Anderson.McColl urn. Miss Ethel Anderson and Mr. Rowland htcCollum of this city gave their many friends and relation! a ? dg surprise when they w -nt over to Columbia Wednesday and were quietly married at that place. Miss Anderson's mother ami a cousin be? ing tho only persons present at the ceremony. The ceremony was performed in tin- parsonage ot the First Methodist Church at Columbia, Rev. B, O. Wil? son officiating. Wednesda) morning Misj Ander? ?on left here presumably p? join her mother, who has been staying at II ndervonvllle, but she got no farth? er than Columbia! for while there she was joined by Mr. McCollum und her mother, and the party went around to \\\<- parsonage where the ceremony was performed, Nothing definite e is known here of the mar? riage loday until Mr. and Mrs, M< - Collum returned from Columbia, Tin- young couple, who are now staving with Mr. Bugene McCollum on Calhoun street have the beat wlahei of their man) friends. 8moklng and A French savant be Is sdtiftfled tha* rhtui effect on tbe the Hearing. has declared that rrn?"?vitif has a en* to finance Cotton. Mr. Kichani Manning Explain tho I'lan of the Committee. The plan for financing the cotton corp as adopted by the financial committee of the cotton congress neld in Montgomery, was announced by Richard I. Manning of Sumter, chairman of the committee. The following is the resolutions as a d opted: '"Whereas a aerioUl condition con? fronts the South by reason of the ef? fort to depress the priej of cotton to a point where there is little or no profit to the producer; "Whereas, every business interest it: the South is affected by these eru? ditions, therefore be it "Resolved, First, That every own? er of spot cotton having obligations confvr with Ml creditors and ar? range: to have such part of his obll Rations carried as is consistent wi*h g >od business and agreeable to tile Cl editor. "S.-cond, In case where a creditor find-.; it la not satisfactory to carry the debt longer, that he. where pos sible, deposit bjs cotton in a respon? sible warehouse and use the receipt as collateral with his neighbor or with his banker to borrow funds with which to liquidate his obligations. "Third. That all farmers not in? volved decline to offer any cotton until such time as prices have reach? ed figures in line with the recom? mendation of this convention, or a figure in accord with the real law of suppl. and d.-mand. "Fourth, That all Southern men who have means be urged to Invest a portion of the same in the distress? ed cotton at the present low figure now prevailing and withhold same off the market, thus adding of their patriotism and substance to win this cortest for commercial inde? pendence of the South. "r ifth. That every benk In the South be urged to co operate With the plan now being envolved by the national officials of the Farmers' Union to bring outside capital to 'fie South to assist in financing the crop." COTTON 18 CENTS. Xcwbcrrtans Sold 25 Bales of Long Staple at That Price. Newberry Observer. Mr. G. B. Summer sold six bales of long staple cotton yesterday to a Laurens man for 18 cents a pound and Mr. S. P. Crotwell sold 19 bales to the same party at the same price. PROFESSIONAL NOTICE. Dr. Walter Cheyne has returned to the city and will resume his practice. 9.19-2t The receipt of cotton on the Cam den market Saturday were eight hundred bales, According to the Cam den correspondent of the News and Courier, who claims thai aa the rec? ord for any South Carolina town this aeaaon. The receipts he-re Saturday exceed eleven hundred bales and on Friday were more than eight hundred bales, and Friday was not the only day this season that the re ceipta exceeded eight hundrd bales. If tiie weather holds good the re I ceipta the coming Saturday w ill prob? ably exceed fifteen hundred bales. Sumur s best record for one day in past seasons was 1,534. Camden handles quite a lot of cotton but Sum ter is the leading cottor market in the Stale. emagar.'-_?_ M ., ??? FOR SALE?Several good milk cows i with young calves. Goats, sheep, i and Berkshire pigs always on hand, j F.. W, Dabbs. Mnyesvlle, S. C. fe-6-tf. O'DONNELL ? CO. Window Shades, 25, 50, 75 cts. Lace Curtains, 50 cts. to $5.00 Portiers, - - $2.00 up Couch Covers, - $1.25 up Table Covers, - - 50c. up Center Pieces, 15, 25, 50, 75 cts. Bureau Scarfs, 25, 50, 75 cts. We have the above in a variety of Pat? terns and Prices.\Y Inspect our Stock, Get our Prices We are satisfied O'DONNELL 6 CO. The Dead Letter Office COULD BE ABOLISHED If everybody used stationery?both Paper and Envelopes?on which the name and address of the writer was printed. When the person to whom a letter is addressed cannot be found the letter is returned promptly to the writer, if his name and address is printed on the envelope?if not, the letter goes to the dead letter office and is opened to ascertain the writer's address. The Postoffice Department Recommends the use of PRINTED STATIONERY and all merchants, manufacturers and professional men make it a point to do so. Why should not every man, especially the farmer, who has business correspondence, have his stationery printed ? It costs no more than blank paper and envelopes and it is more convenient and looks more business-like. If you think well of the suggestion, which is recommended by the postoffice officials, let us print for you a supply that will last a year, We will furnish first-class paper and envelopes and print them for you at the following prices: 250 Envelopes, and 250 sheets Paper put up in neat pads, $1.50 500 Envelopes, and 500 sheets Paper put up in neat pads, $2.25 1000 Envelopes, and lono sheets Paper put up in neat pads, $3,75 This is standard quality commercial note paper and envel? opes. If you want something cheaper or something better, at a little higher price, we have it in stock and can furnish what you want. We have the best equipped printing plant and employ the largest force of competent workmen in this section of the State, and are ready at all times to print anything you want, from a visiting card or cotton picking check to a thousand-page book. We have the facilities and the experience to do the best quality of printing at the lowest prices, Osteen Publishing Company, 18 West Liberty St., Sumter, S. C.