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near future. Tax paying Is never a cheerful ocoupation and this year it hau been even mere lugubrious, for many more people than customary, but as wi? are also on toe mourner's bench, the only comfort we can offer the multitude who bring us their trou? bles hi to quit thinking about how much it coats to own property ar. d bo thankful teat they are able to own it, hnw fertunate thoy ore to live In Sam tor and how many comforts and conveniences they enjoy each daj- for the taxes they pay. It these com forcing thoughts do not wholly re snove the atlas} from the tax receipt. [then the only alternative is to resolve to he en cheerful as possible and cul? tivate patience, fortitude and rusig 4-hatton. BOTH LEGS BROKEN, Worth Carolina Man Suffers Accident Serious tMa>lio , Rock Bill/Dec. 6.?BemiceL. Pow eft of vCaraaw, N. C, suffered a eeri oua accident this morning in which the bonce of both legs, just above the ankles were crushed. Mr. Powell is fu*# keeper for the Virginia Bridge fcompany. which is reconstructing the epne*'anjthe Southern brlflso see ^foonsrhe. IftW'Was sitting a tWr. hui4 lego dangling over the ' Vg?uer watt taking a siding to av^freiht to fates. A tlntoor Of Hul car waa protuding urti *ia lege, ^ntnionlng them ear. * the derrick htd to tfcfttSjr eld the timber fttte ronght jk* t^e Fenwen In- ? vjeeen mctacal ?' attention. 11 he - neeerni weens - be-*i ee out it to believed both citib e> gaeew.- air. Powell is a 'p#^>ft*t hV PeereH of Bock HlH: No-?amher -ifyiittt, t4M*0 etc* h*ve> keen ginned in hifeioet V^nil **W^a?i| 'fall?\Qfii thfs amount h..whirl llvmvahe ' *sjmm4ml' given that a sale efcetiaref the festste ct^hahYtlngj h% Inrpieinerjur, hi nein on Thum n o otock ^^ ho> w, < ii, J. PU? TO CBECK WEEVIL. SMITH 12ROPOSES SYSTEM Ol? QUARANTINE ZONK. South Carolina Senator Will Push Bill to Stamp Out Cotton Pest. Washington,' Dec. 6.?Creation of a series of zones in the South in which no cotton could be grown It a period of one year as a mean* of checking and exterminating the boll weevil in this country will be pro? posed In a bill which Senator Smith! of South Carolina announced tonight1 he soon would ofi'er and urge for' passage. The senator proposes that the non-growing area shall be started in the extreme northeastern limit ct the cotton section and graduaM;. work southward and westward in a aeries of zones 100 miles In width each year until the entire cotton I growing section shall have been cov? ered. The federal government, Senator Smith said, would be given the powc. I to police tho zone to see that the law was observed and growers and ?in? nere affected would be compensate! by the government. Experts esii;'| mated that U would cost $25,000,001 a year to maintain the boll weevil ?/one hi Alabama which Senator Smith propc sod a year ago. Tho \ firsi. year the cotton pro khiblt*.ve* sontt would Include the ex? treme "eastern portions of North1' Carolina and South Carolina. The next year this zone would be release! and* the non-productive area extend? ed 100 miles and this rotation woulifi: ^be kept op until the entire teritory had been! covered. "Highest' entomological authorities have approved the zone system as? the only practical means of exterminat? ing the devastating boll weevil In1 (?tMe country," said Senator Smith. ["rffhV'aitfnjua! cost would bo infinite*!* "mal as compared to the benefit that] !woiSM bo derived. Six hundred miK Hon dollars lias been expended ijo [?s^ic&fc the boll weevil in thir 'oc^try,' but he still thrives and id ftnm'fng rapidly toward the fields of WoVttjr^nd South Carolina. ? "*!& ?One syttem not only would proW^e practicability of this methv icfcl of* exterminating the boll weevil, but by glyihs) farmers opportunity to of cdSr crops, would demonstrate whether'the Sooth can successfullyi grow' o/tnef load product*" - iJ ? ... I..1,'.? i Ing has a un front. / SI7MTH.lt COTTON MAKKJOT. Corrected Daily by ERNEST FIELD, Cotton Buyer. Good Middling 19 3-8 to 1-2. Strict Middling 19 1-1 to 3-8. Middling 19 1-8 to 1-4. Strict Low Middling IS 7-S to 19. Low Middling 18 3.8 to 1-2. Staple cotton 23 to 28. Corrected Dally b? HARBY & CO., Cotton Buyers. Good Middling 19 1-2. Strict Middling 19 3-8. Middling 19 1-4. Strict Low Middling 19. Low Middling 18 1-1. NEW YORK COTTON MARKET. 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