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TO FINISH CANAL SOON. TAFT PREDICTS PAN \M A TRI tMI'H BY JILY 1, ItlS. President IWm to the Big l>lt? h as Treasendoua con-.ii u? tUe Achjr%emniu?Da> In Far W?at. eBlltagham. Wuh., Oct. 9.? Pres? ident Taft predicted here today that tr?o Panama canal would be ready for use on July 1. 1911. Th-. canal." he said, "ia the great act constructive work alnce the Chrla Uan era." The president als ? de rlarod that Canada was going to be sorry that It had not adopted the re? ciprocity treaty. Speaking of the opening of the Panama canal, the president aald he would let the people of Belllntfham "Into a little official confidence." "If nothing untoward happens." he ?aid. "you can count on the comple? tion of the cansl not later than the ?rat of July 1913. It has only been promised on the first of January, It 15. and If it is not ready until then you must not say that anybody made a promise that It woMld be completed before. I am expressing a hope based on calculations, but of course men proposees and Oed dis? poses. It Ms possible that something will happen down there In the way of slides or delays that may continue until the first of January. 19U. but I do not want you to have any un? pleasant surprise*' I don't want you to have heart disease if you learn that the first steamer goea through on the first of July 1913. "There la one topic that I had in? tended to discuss with you." said the president, "but our neighbors acroas the border a w*ek or more ago seemed to make It past history. Put I think you will agree with me that In dornt so they made a mistake. Had that treaty gone through it would have been greatly beneficial to both countries. "Now I think we know a little snore on thla aids than they do on theirs because we sre an older coun? try. After some yesrs of experience It is possible that they will come to take the right vl^w. but whether that he so or not. if they doa't grow as rapidly as they might have grown as rapidly as we do snd as rapidly aa they might have grown they can not say it is our fault. Mr Taft apent the day traveling south from Belltngham. Washington, a little more thsn 20 miles from the Canadian llns. to Seattle. He stop? ped at B.irllngton. Mt. Vernon and Kverett. making brief speeches in ?ach place. Tonight he spoke in the armory here. Large crowds turned out to meet him. CAPT. BEI L Df CAPITAL. GotTaey Journalist Will Remain In Wsshington Tntil He < nmplctes Work on Congressional Directory. Washington. Oct. 9.?James B. Boll of Oaffney. the neW editor of the congressional directory, has arrived la Washington and assumed hin du? ties. Ret entlv Mr .Bell, who was the ed? itor of the Cherokee News, a*aa ae lected by the Joint committee on printing to assume the work of pre? paring the future directories. H? will remain her? until the next Issue, to be brought out about Deaemher 1. is * completed. llhlt?- Population on the Increase. The comparative statistics of the population for South Carolina, show tag .he distribution by colo* Just pnhWoed by the census bureau, snaV s no.st interesting and 'mpor tant exhll.lt. They show t.mt the White population of this State Is In? creasing at a rate more than three times ss great aa that of the color? ed population I I uTcase and that the negro population Is Nit*] no.re rTtti ly distributed throughout th?? State, the heavily Muck i ountles havinir. U most without sseepttoev \>>*\ oo lored population, while the countiei In which ?h.? aajaahet af tr kites ana been preponderant <?r more nearly espial to th* nctrroe* have n.-arly shown gain* f ..!or?-?l eopulatlon. i ? trlnsr th" ten years frosj I1. la ItlO the white population of South Carolina Increa?. d fr on If7,t#1 to 179.1*2 a gain of 121,355. In the same period the negroes Ire r from 7*2.121 to H3.-..S43. a K?ln of ?J.itt. The whit, populatlpfl In? creased at tb?? rat.. Df .'1 v net -Knf of Itself a mie higher than the a\ ? raffe rate of population Inereaae for the entire l Tailed PtStsa The Increase of whites alOM traf SSJV l] to g gall ?f t per renl of th?< whole nuruh.-i of Inhabitants of | h - ? |g I . The ? on the other hand. In? creased only *.* per cent of th.lr own number In 1900, and but -.9 par cent of the whob* population ni that time. At this rate the white? In ftouth Carolina should equal or outnumber the negroes In the OOttrei of twentv years Charleston Post. IJIIllBlfOH OF VERACITY. lilease Sayn He Believe** Tlllman Was In Combination to Bring Out Ira I). Jonen. Spartanhurg Herald, Oct. 7. Surrounded by a constantly aug? mented throng of admirers at the Argyle hotel last night, Oovernor Cole L. Hlease freely expressed his views on subjects to a reporter for The Herald and disclosed something of his plans. He made It plain that notwith? standing Senator B. R. Tlllman's de? nial, he believed there was truth In the story published by W. T. Crews, editor of the Greenwood Xews-Sclmi tar, to the effect that Senator Tlll? man and MaJ. John O. Richards, Jr.. had plotted to bring out Chief Jus? tice Ira B. Jones, of the supreme court, as a candidate to defeat him for governor. He said he believed the program had been to elect Ma? jor Richards lieutenant governor. Then, if Senator Tlllman was com? pelled for any reason to give up his seat In the senate, Justice Jones would take his place and Maj. Rich? ards would step Into the governor's chair. "I am going to be reeleeted," said Governor Blease, when askod If he would say anything concerning poli tlca I will beat Jonea by a bigger majority than the one by which I defeated Featherstone, and if Tin? man's man Richards is a candidate I will beat them both." Another Interesting statement of the governor was'that he intended to remedy conditions at the hosiery mill of the State penitentiary through leg? islation to be enacted by the general assembly at its epproachlng session. Bristling up at the suggestion that the legislature might not be amen uble to his wishes, he said: "They better had. That's all I have to say." Continuing. Governor Blease said 'that little grand Jury" in Rlchland county, which found the hosiery mill to be sanitary, had set itself against some of the best physicians in the State. He mentioned physicians who, he said, declared the hosiery mill was a disease breeder, and said he was marshalling his facta for submission to the legislature. It was foolish, the governor said, for laymen to set themselves against experts. For Instance, he said, the floors and walls and ce'llng of the Argyle hotel seemed to be clean and sanitary. But suppose, he suggested, that expert physicians should say that the walls and celling were in? fested with disease germs; would a reasonable laymsn attempt to con? tradict them? This he said, was the case with the hosiery mill. Speaking of legislation which he would commend to the general as? sembly, Governor Blease said he would try to obtain the passage of a law establishing two centa a mile as a flat rate for passenger transpor? tation on the steam railroads of the, State. This, he said, would obviate the mileage nuisance and make it possible for poor people to travel1 short distances as cheaply as wealthy people. Under the law he proposes, he said, a passenger who was travel? ing ten miles could buy a ticket for 20 cents, or give the conductor 20 cents or give the conductor ten miles of mileage, as was most convenient. If the railroad did not trust their conductors, he asserted, they ought to dNeharge them and get men whom they could trust; and If he were a conductor and his employers did not trust him be would quit his position. The governor said he would also recommend to the legislature all the measures he recommended before, which were not passed. RAMTEL HYDE BAPTIZED. Anderson Man. Condemned to Die, R?H*eUed Into Church. Anderson. Oct. 10.?I^ate Friday aftOfBOOfl Rajntie] K, Hyde, the white man under sentence to hang on Oetohaf 20 for the murder of his wife and who aJgQ slew her father, was taken by Sheriff King and Deputy, sheriff Mart In to the Piral Baptist churrh. where he was bap lined by the Rev, John B. vines. 1?. i?. This was according to an order is? sued by Judge Qeorgs B, Prince, who p isssd soutane ? on the n an. Only a few witnessed the baptism, tho* present being deaooni ?>f the church. Hvd ? confessed conversion s. v. t il gjajn ago, and l>r. Vine sent a petition lo Judge Prince asking for permission to hate the prisoner eon* ? -I t-? the Church for baptism. In the meantime several petitions aak> Ing Oovernor Blenae to commute Ihe sentence t<? life Imprisonment are be Ing i it. slated, and are being freely signed. It Im stated. ThSSe petitions nton forwarded to the Oovernor Frl? ?1 I v. \ drain pipe is being put In at the corner of Liberty and Marvin streets and *ni i.steaded from there on up Liberty street to connect with th? pipe whl< h w;ih recently put In on I be eoi St t of Main and Libert \ streets. TURKEY ASKS AID OF POWERS. SOIXDS (iERMAXY ON QlESllOX OF IXTKRVEXTION, Ottoman fiilllUHUllll Con templates Yielding Paii to Save Ragt of its Dominions. Berlin, Oct. 9.?A circular note from the Turkish government asking the powers whether they consider that the time has arrived to seek a basis for negotiations looking to peace be? tween Turkey and Italy, and under what conditions, was presented to the German foreign office here today. The note contemplates the cession of Tripoli to Italy under certain con? ditions. It Is probable that the communica? tion from Constantinople will be discussed by other powers before the Italian government is approached. It la thought at the foreign office that Italy may not be ready to negotiate. The decision to expel Italians from Turkey, against which representa? tions of the German ambassador at Constantinople have not been ef? fective yet, was designed chiefly, it is thought here, for effect upon the coming negotiations. Turkey hoping that the threat might induce the Ital? ians to make moderate terms. NEGRO SHOT BY HIS SON. JLeonard Wood, Colored, Is Shot In a Tussle With ills Son, Marion. Tuesday night Leonard Wood, an old negro living out on Manning Avenue, was shot while tussling with his son for the possession of a pistol, which he was holding. The ball en? tered his right breast and he was dangerously, if not seriously wound? ed. The trouble is alleged to have commenced because of some ex postulatlons which Wood. senior, made to his son about going to cer? tain places and doing some things which he did not aprove of. At first the argument was quiet and the tus? sle was a friendly one, but when the son became angry and tried to take the pistol away from hi! father by violence, it was then that Leonard Wood, /unior, tried to push the weapon up so that if it went off it would do no damage. He was shot in his wrist for his pains and his father in his breast. How the pistol came to be there was not learned. It was stated by the older Wood that the shooting was accidental. The three Woods were the only witnesses of tha shoot? ing. Marion Wood, who was tus? sling with his father when the shoot? ing took place, had not been arrest? ed up to two o'clock today. He had gone to his employer this morning and told him that he was not going to work today, but had not been seen after that. Goo. II. Hurst. U ndertaker and Em balmer. Mr. Geo. II. Hurst, for twenty four years associated in the under? taking and furniture business with the late J. P. Craig and the J. D. Craig Furniture Co., has opened bus inoss oti his own account, and is located temporarely in the Jennings building on North Main street, where he will be until January 1st, when he obtains possession of his own building, the old J. D. Craig stand, corner Of North Main and Canal streets. He has not received his complete stock, win h he purchased when he visited Cincinnati recently, but Is expecting the remain der of the stock, two handsome funeral ^ars and service oar, which are now in transit from the factory. Mr. Ilursr is a licensed embalmer and his long experience in the undertaking busi? ness qualifies him to make a success of his new enterprise. He will give his personal attention to every detail of the business and will answer all alls day or night. Marriage License Record. I Mi Tuesday a marriage license was granted to Davll B, Porter, of Andrews, and Miss Martha K. llogan. of Rldgeway. Mr. B, A. Wharton, deputy insur? ance commissioner) w ho w as in the cit> Tuesday, aayi thai he finde con* slderable Improvemenl In condition! ?In< e he made his las! inspection, but there Ii still much room for further Improvemenl In the way of keeping stores, offices and back lots clean of trash. Waste paper and other de? bris that Increase the Are risk. The Baltimore Utilities Company basing deposited |1,000 with the City lr< isurer as a guarantee to carry out lh< k.h fiate his.' contract, there is ground for belief thai Bumter will have a gas plant In the not distant fut urc. Hon? W. Jasper Talhert says that he asks only fair play in his race for the senate. H is likely that Mr. Talbert will get mote fair play than vote : Sp it tanburg Journal. GROWS MORE WARLIKE. severe: fighting at tri pom tuesday. Turks Apparently I>?? Not Intend to Abandon City Without Still Furth. c*r Resistance. London, Oct. 10.?A dispatch to London news agency from Pera says that the Turkish torpedo boats To kat, Hamid Abed, Alpagut and An talia, while returning from the Ion? ian sea, were surprised by an Italian squadron near Mytilene, October 9. A smart engagement followed and three of the torpedo boats were se? verely damaged and sank. The fourth escaped by hoisting a foreign flag. BATTLE FOUGHT AT TRIPOLI. Turks Advance on City, But Are Re? pulsed After Brisk Fight?Losses May bo Heavy. Tripoli, Oct. 10.?The Turks ap? parently do not intend to abandon Tripoli to the Italians without a fur? ther determined resistance. For sev? eral days bands of horsemen have been reconnoterlng in the vicinity of the Italian posts. At 1 o'clock this morning a force of about 3,000 Turks with field guns was discovered advancing in two columns with the evident intention of recapturing this town. A large body of natives marched with the troops and presented a formidable array. The Italian commander, how? ever, had an intimation that such an attempt would probably be made and the Turks were met with a heavy artillery, and rifle fire, to which they replied with equal energy. It was moonlight, and the fleet turned the search lights on the contending forces. When the engagement was at its height the battleships and cruisers joined in with their smaller batteries, directing the shells to cover the Italian front and flank. For more than an hour the flrng on shore was continued but about 2 o'clock it slackened and finally ceas? ed. The Turks retired in good order although it is reported they suffered heavy loss. The Italian casualties were slight. , The fleet pursued the retreating I Turks with a heavy shell fire until 6 "'clock. Tripoli's Comedy. Nothing in naval annals smells less of the heroic than the gunpowder that was expended by the Italian ships-of-war in their fight in the I cause of civilization?as it was (grandiloquently set forth in a state? ment from Rome?as they bombard? ed the town of Tripoli. The shots I might as well have been directed at a graveyard, as, when the valorous descendants of the Caesars got close enough to jump to the ground with their faces shaded with their hands to protect them from any slant shot of the Turks, they found the place barren of Inhabitants, save the blind the lame and the halt. I The protiettlng of the Italian fleet before Tripoli. i>* elaborate observ? ance of the det**' f v k n - onslaught upon a practically defer less town, seems very amusing deed. Yet here is another naval b" tie that will be handed down to pi terity as a real tight and a glorious victory. The Turks had no fight In them, and no appliances for fighting, as their short-range guns made only noise. The pyrotechnic display of the Italian gunners may be estimated in so many additional dollars of debt to the already taxation-crushed popu? lace. This petty byplay of warfare should cease. It If now being ad? mitted, as the American indicated at the offatart, that the so-called war was hatched up by the Triple Al? liance, and that the issue la fore? gone, Unless the Turks should run amuck, the capture, of Tripoli after a sham battle will mark the beginning Of the end of hostilities.?Baltimore American. Sick headache is caused by a dis? ordered stomach. Take Chamber? lain's Tablet! and correct that and the headachei will disappear, For sale by all dealers. No one knows whether Tripoli fa? vors war or not, Tripoli has never been consulted.- Omaha Bee, if you have young children you have perhaps noticed that disorders of the stomach are their most com? mon ailment. To correct this you will find Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets excellent They are easy and pleasant to take, and mild and gentle in effect. For salo by all dealers. Sugar Interests ;ire now as busy with the pri-.c mark as they used to be with the scsles,?Washington star. Here Is a woman who speaks from personal knowledge and long ex psrlence, vis., Mrs. P. H. Brogan, of Wilson. Pa., who Says, Ml Know from experience that Chamberlain's Cough Remedy Is far superior to any oth? er. Tor croup there Is nothing that excels It." Tor Falo by all dealers. HARD ON CLEMSON. ! Probability la That Fertiliser Tug Tax Receipts win bo Decreased This Year. Columbia, Aug. 10.?It is expect? ed that the Clemson college income, derived from the sale of the fertiliz? er tax tags, will be cut down con? siderably by^ the low price of < jtton. It is not probable that much fertili? zer will be purchased because of the lack of money caused by the steady fall in the price of cotton, the South's great money crop. The report on the sale of fertilizers show that so far Clemson college has received $247,017,73 from the tax, as comoared with $221,175.44 on the Fame date last year. The total amount received from the sale in lslO amounted to 240,098.95. It is I estimated that the college will this year receive about $265,000. There if a tax of 25 cents ?.n every ton of fertilizer sold, and this means that the farmers of the State will use about 1,100,000 tons of fertilizers this year. I Announcement has been made that I an agricultural course of one year is j to be established at Clemson college. This, in the opinion of W. W. Riggs, will enable many young men of the rural districts to attend who are not in a position to give up four years in a regular college course. SELECTION OF SEED CORN. ! Clemson Extension "Work?Article L. _ If one desires to improve his seed corn for another year the time to do it is before the present crop is gathered. When a person follows the common practice of securing his seed from the barn, large ears are in? variably selected and it cannot be tcld at that time whether the ears are large due to breeding, or wheth? er they have been produced on stalks which have been favored with an un? due amount of fertilizer or distance. If seed are selected which h^*e been grown under the latter conditions, they are not apt to produce large ears another year unless given a rather heavy application of fertili? zer or more distance than necessary. Therefore, the seed ears should be selected from stalks which have grown under average conditions. To make this selection properly, it must first be decided which portion of the field represents as near as possible the average soil conditions of the farm. Then from blocky and healthy stalks which have not been favored with an undue amount of distance or richness in the soil, the seed ears should be gathered. Be? fore breaking the ears from the stalks, one should ascertain their sl*e ns near as possible. This can I ,i.->r>.- I?y carefully examining them " : h the hand, and if they seem to ? f good size and well filled out at t'r, 'hoy should be pulled. If M r>m.1 uld be a prolific variety. I ur whether the top boil ?m t n selected so long as a ! one Is secured, v fti r } ?\ *i>er selected twice as rtrs as will be necessary for d, '11 of them should be stored e five from mice and wee ' few days prior to planting . all of the cars should be shuck? ed and only the best ones should be retained for planting. It is well to bear in mind that all seed ears should be free from mixture, heavy, of good si/?-. h.ivt- deep grains, well filled butts and tips. uniform ker nais and narr >w spaces between the rows of grains, as the above points are conducive to larger yields and have s tendency to be produced When planted. J. IT. NAPIER. Assistant Prof, of Agronomy. J. W. Cop, land, of Dajton, Ohio, purchased a bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for his boy who had a cold, and before the bottle was all used the boy's cold was gone. Is that not better than to pay a five dollar doctor's bill? For sale by all dealers. Long Staple Exported. New Orleans. Oct. 10.?For the tiist time In many years shipments of b'tig staple cott?>n from Eastern Alabama. Southern Georgia and Western Florida are being sent to this city for export to Europe. This was the statement made yesterday by tH. Purvis, vice president of the Atlanta and Bt Andrew's Hay rail? road with headquarters at Dothan, Ala. Mr. Purvis paid the shipments were usually sent to Savannah and Brunswick, Oa., but this year were being diverted to New Orleans owing to the higher prices offered by buy era having headquarters her*'. When you have a bad cold you want the best medicine obtainable so as to cure it with as littb> delaj a-> possible. Here Is a druggist's opin? ion: *'i have sold Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for fifteen y< irs," says Bnos Lollar of Saratoga, Ind., "ami consider it the b.tal on the mar? ket." For sale by all dealt rs. URGED TO HOLD COTTON. HEAD OF NEW ORLEANS EX CHANGE TALKS OF PRICES, Thompson, Indorsing C'olquitt's Plan, Bays Present Policy of Planters is Suicidal. New Orleans, Oct. 10.?In indors? ing the plan proposed by Guv. Col <iuitt of Texas to call a meeting of Southern governors and representa? tive men of the cotton belt to devise a method of checking the decline in the price of raw cotton. W. B. Thompson, president of the New Orleans cotton exchange, said today that the South should rally to the call. The way the cotton producers of the South are now throwing the staple upon the market is commer? cial suicide," said Mr. Thompson. "It is by no means certain that the cot? ton crop will be as large as many have predicted it will be. A great deal can happen between now and the time the crop is harvested. I "It is a pity that cotton should be selling in the country for 9 cents a t pound. Because of the increased cost of living, the planter is not re 1 ceiving a penny more than he did years ago, when cotton was 6 cents per pound. "I hope they will awaken to the situation that confronts them. If they will only hold back their cotton I and let it go gradually, prices will I immediately begin to soar." A Rebuke to An Indiscreet Friend. The Mormons a^nd Mr. Taft got along famously Thursday a: Salt Lake City. They are standpatters, too, in some respects, and do not be? lieve in too much revision and re? duction in certain lines. The enthu? siasm and frankness of one of these Utah Republicans, however, made XI r. Taft wince when he introduced him as the pro-active Republican candidate for the Presidency in 1&12, j This frankness disregarded the polite fiction which has been made as an excuse for his tour, and Mr. Taft re? buked the indiscret champion by say? ing with emphasis: "I am here as President of the United States." Surely; and no less certainly as Pres? ident of the United States in search of another nominati n?Baltimore Sun. Good Polities. But Poor Stateaman ship. The campaign for United States senator is beginning rather early, but it looks as if it would get pretty warm. It is hinted by a Blease pa? per that Senator Tillman was favor? ing Judge Jonea for the senate in? stead of Governor Blease. The sen? ator denies the charge and says that Jones and Blease, both being "Till manite3." he will be "hands off" and will not pull for either man. Now if one was not a Tillmanite and superior in ability, character and respectability and the other be? smirched and degraded and unjust, but a good Tillmanite, it is evident that the senator would support the rascal. That may be good politics and the Senator, no doubt, carries that principle out in practice as he did when he voted for Lorimer to the surprise of sumo people who believed that he would vote otherwise. There is another thing suggested by this incident Here is a senator who has been a leader for twenty years. Two men are proposed for governor. There may be otht rs, but if only these two run the senator says they are equal in one respect. Both are Tillmanites. He would riot say a word to elect one or defeat the oth? er. That Is also good politfps. but it falls far below the high standard of the independent statesman. who would not be ashamed or afraid to advocate publicly the election of the best man?Spartanburg Journal. Night work often causes i strain on the eyei If your eyes are not perfect and able to stand this strain, sec us and we will prescribe for y 0u. The proper glasses guaranteed. Gradu? ate optician in charge of our optical parlor. W. A. Thompson .Tcwclr and Optlean. 8 S. MMN STREET PHONE IS!