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STATE USING MORE COTTON THAN RAISES pr< Nc FACTORIES IN STATE BUYING Da FOR CASH THE INLAND be< COTTON TOWNS. Pf to Producers Are Receiving Fifty Per Cent More as a Result of Short- *rc age, it is Said. , of Charleston, Oct. 16.?The consumption of cotton in South Carolina this on year will far exceed the production. ? While cotton planters are complain- .g ing that the production is painfully .. short cotton dealers are giving them the consolation that the difference in m, prices prevailing for the staple this ( year will more than offset the de- . crease in production so far as the , financial returns are concerned. ^ At this time last year cotton was r..L selling at 12 cents. Today it is . bringing 17 and 17 Vi cents per pound. ^ This means a difference of $25 per ^ t bale, to say nothing of what the plant- . er is receiving for the seed, which is selling at record-breaking prices. Exports from Charleston and other ^.a South Atlantic ports.are. below normal on account of the interior cotton te, being immediately snapped up for cash in the inland cotton towns by ^ buyers for cotton manufacturers. Ev- js^ ery cotton mill in South Carolina is jg, said to be operating at capacity and .)ri making big money with margins of profit greater than have been known j for years. ! j-e, "The crop is reported to me as jjc being shorter in South Carolina than I uf the low estimate made by the gov- j |y eminent," said a cotton man to a re-! SU( porter, "but if the cotton should be | *a available and the crop larger than p|( estimated at the moment the con- J sumption will increase to tlv extent of the production." Small Visible Supply. j? This cotton man gave the reporter interesting figures regarding the present situation, lie said that the consumption of cotton in the Southern States last year was 3,933,000, as ?|?y compared with a consumption by the | Northern States of 3,085,00, which proves that the South now leads the ' ^ New England States and the entire j North in cotton manufacturing. The total consumption in the South and the North last year was 7,018,000 bales and the total exports amounted J to 0.051,000 bales, showing that the ! country disposed of by manufacture i k and export last year a total of 13,-Ll.' 0(50.000 bales. | *"j "Now." this cotton man continued, r. "the visible supply from last year, j i which was brought into the present j crop, is estimated at 2,235,000 bales. pj and the entire crop for this year is estimated by the government at ll,-i,.i,: 100.000 bales, which makes a total i visible supply of 13,(533,000 bales. De- Ln ? . UH ducting last year s consumption, t which amounted to 13,0(59,000, we have remaining for the present vis- ?Ui ible surplus only 30(5.000 bales. njp "To reduce a visible supply under g^, 1.000.000 bales, regardless of price, is neyt to impossible. < "The Southern mills are grabbing rec all the cotton that comes in sight in we the inland towns and there will be se( mighty little left to export even after on) the mills have all they need, and I am inclined to think that their needs |ge'] will never he fully satisfied this season. am HARVEST JUBILEE ?s AND STATE FAIR JJ* . . we Columbia, Oct. 10.?Everything is j OC( in readiness for the big Harvest Jub-I ilee and State Fair, which opens here i one week from today. Concensus of | saj opinion coming from all sections is i that the enormous crowds of one year vjc ago are to be exceeded next week. With cotton selling at and above 17 cents a nound and seed more than $50 a ton little- complaint of shortage j of money is heard among the farmers, j who annually make a journev to the j capital city to view the exhibits from we all sections of the State and to be entertained by the special features of ' r( the occasion. The queen of the Jubilee will be ^j crowned Monday evening, the coronation ceremonies taking place at the State capitol. A ball in her honor will follow immediately thereafter at the ^U| Jefferson hotel, and throughout the a^, week many social entertainments are|a to be given for her and her maids o f fai honor. Beauty Supplements to | many of the county papers have been I j sent out and the voting by coupons is pjc well under way. The balloting is to j be concluded Wednesday night. O.-tober 13. The crown is to be bestowed again this year by Gov. Manoi !' ( at. on the siteets of Coluri bi will 1 an attractive feature this . * yeai . l-'o .c troupes of aerial aero- ( (>< bats and pecialties have been engaged and a free performance will be *ivvu ii.v earn in tne afternoon and evening during the week of the fair, j^i These will 0:1 Main street and half,, hour intervals will lapse between the jaj}' different acts, that the audience may ? see all four in one evening. The horse show and races this year promise to he 'he be?t ever held in Columbia. An effort is now being j_n made to bring two large units of show and races horses from Atlanta. | a The grand circuit racing aggregation r?s will finish their season in Atlanta this week. Also a big show of Tennessee *or horses will be given in Atlanta simul- (lai taneously. The management of the wa fair is urging that both units he brought to Columbia. Football earnes will draw many to . * Columbia the latter portion of the inF week. The big game between Caro- *r,i lina and Clemson will be played na( Thursday noon. This alone brings -j/10 hundreds to the fair, who follow the "v< fortunes of their respective alma J!ea mater and cheer the team on toward 'ro its triumph of the season. A big show ^en is planned and the slightest details j ar.d getting much attention in ad- arp vance that there may be no tie up 'PX( when the sbpw opens. (j|0 SERMON TO RED MEN. There will be a sermon preached to j Red Men at New Hope church on Sun- -j day afternoon, Nov. r>th. at 3 o'clock. r by Rev. W. It. Justus of Jonesville. ' . Everybody is invited to come. a 42-2-pd NO ILLITERACY IN 1920. The South Carolina School Imovement association has appointed >vember 15th as "No Illiteracy iy" in the State, and letters havo en sent to county officials, college esidents, etc., throughout the State this effect, but it is impossible for y movement to succeed without help >m the press. In 1910 one-fourth of the population South Carolina could noc write jir names. By 1920 we want r.ot e illiterate in the State. Kentucky taught 40,000 men and men to read and write in two years; other States have started a simr fight against ignorance. Shall t South Carolina keep up with other ates? Of our 166 mills, 98 had night iooIs last year, with over 6,000 enllment. Besides these were a numr of city and rural night schools, lis was a good start, but if we are have no illiterates by 1920, when s next census is taken, we must do tter. The press in other States has been nerous and faithful in its assistee. Wih you do the same for South rolina? Urge teachers, advanced pils, and all educated people to ach at least one illiterate, poliians to vote an additional tax for i maintenance of night schools, miners to preach on the subject Nov. th, jailors to start school for their isoners, and arouse the public in neral. Will you for the next three years ep this subject so before the pubthat we need no longer be ashamed our State? Success depends largeon your cooperation. When we cceed in 1920, will your paper have right to claim its just share of the >ry? E. Julia Selden, uth Carolina School Improvement Association. ARTH TREMBLES IN THREE STATES TO SHOCKS IN GEORGIA, ALABAMA AND TENNESSEE. me Chimneys Wrecked Around Birmingham and Montgomery But Not Much Else Harmed. \tlanta, Oct. 18.?Two distinct thquake shocks that in some ininces shook frame buildings and ocked chimneys down were felt ough Western Georgia and Easti Alabama and Tennessee shortly er 4 o'clock this afternoon. From all points damage was rerted as negligible except around mingham and Montgomery, where annparod tn unnoiut ? ? r r-M. wu WW vui lOlOb VSJL UdMlct^f IU mneys. Many persons, however, i from their homes here and ;n ler Southern cities, rhe tremor was not felt at points the East except a suburb of Austa, Ga., according to reports to:ht, some of which said the first sck was heavier than the second, ile others reversed the description. Z. F. von Herrmann, section ditor of the local United States ather bureau, who described the ond shock as feeling "like some e had dropped a big safe outside r office," said there generally was ieved to be a connection between thquakes similar to the one today 1 low barometric pressure such existed along the Gulf coast durf today's hurricane there. Mr. Von rrmann said that today's tremors re more severe than that which :urred about the same hour Februr 21, last, and which he did not >1 in his office. The shocks, he d, came about 4:04 and 4:06 p. m. ere is po seiemoraph in this inity. Worst in Birmingham, Birmingham, Ala., Oct 18.?Birngham had the severest earthquake her history this afternoon at 2 nutes past four o'clock. There re three sharp and distinct shocks )arated by brief intervals. Dittle ^perty damage was caused other in broken windows and toppled mneys, but the quakes caused sat excitement. Thousands of people poured from ice buildings and downtown struc es. A matinee audience at a the e rusned for the exits. A lady at card party on South Highlands nted. All the county courts adirned in alarm. Many wild rumors regarding exisions of mines and plants were eirated following the quake. Only Slight Quake. Augusta. Ga., Oct. 18.?Residents the Hill, the Augusta suburb, felt dight earthquake tremor at 5 p. m. lay. Shock in Alabama. Talladega, Ala., Oct. 18.?A severe rthquake shock was felt here at .0 p. m. today. Large buildings tl dwellings trembled and hundreds persons ran from their homes. Stops Murder Trial. Anniston, Ala., Oct. 18.? A murder al in session in the county court use here was abruptly halted this ernoon for a few minutes as the ?ult of two distinct earthquake >cks. Judge, jurymen and spectas rushed from the building. No mage was reported. The shock s felt in all towns in this vicinity. n!u?in?< !?..* ?3 ! ...ou..vt out. inn nrrmiiH. Montgomery, Ala., Oct. 18.?Build's were shaken and residents were ghtened here at 4 o'clock this after>n when a distinct earthquake >ck was registered, lasting about i seconds. The local weather buiu announced that the shock came m the Northwest, and was of "insity 5." No damage was reported. ^eople who enjoy light literature apt to draw the line at gas bills, scuted 72,000 cats because it was light they might be spreading the antile paralysis germ.?El Paso ?x.) Times. f he lives to a ripe old age, he is ng beyond his time. ( 'hat Pennsylvania girl who kissed egiment of departing soldiers made ' r?old defi to the microbites.?Pine i iff (Ark.) Commercial. GERMANS DYING LIKE FLIES IN CAMPS OF THE RUSSIANS New York, Oct. 16 ? Cruelties which stagger belief, which it is charged were inflicted upon prisoners of war in Russian prison camps are described in a report made public today by the prsioners of war relief committee. It was gathered through official channels in Berlin and Vienna and also by investigators employed by t)ie North German Gazette. In the single prisoner camp at Orenburg eastern Russia, where Austro-Hungarian captives are confined, 17,000 men out of 80,000 confined there, have died from privation, according to a Vienna repo/t. Information alleged to have been gathered by the United States embassy in Petrograd and forwarded to Vienna gave such a tragic impression that a high official of the Austrian government declared that his country could not expect the return of any prisoners taken by the Russians. Prisoners, the report states, art. compelled to sleep on wooden benches without even straw. Their bodies are covered with vermin. The camps are swept by epidemics of every kind of sickness. German prisoners, it is declared, are compelled to work upon railroad construction from 4:30 o'clock in the morning until 8 o'clock at night, seven days a week. They receive neither clothing nor shoes and very little food of the poorest equality. Of the 15,000 prisoners sent to the camp at Kisha, many thousands have perished from hunger, disease or punishment inflicted with the gnout, it is declareed. In Kanisely prisoners thinly clad were kept at work in the bitter Siberian weather until they froze to death in their tracks. The report made by the North German Gazette on prison atrocities in Russia says that in one camp 240 insane prisoners were confined in one room big enough to accommodate only 50 men comfortably. Cruelties inflicted upon the 5,000 prisoners in the camp at Yshow are said by the report to rival the tortures of the Dark Ages. In many instances, according to the North German Gazette, the death rate in Russian hospitals approaches 00 per cent. _ A SONG OF PRAISE AT SUNSET. As the sun was sinking low in the west, And the woodland aisles grew dim, A little bird sat on a slender bough And sang his vesper hymn. ) 'Twas a song of thanks for the gentle breeze, And the shade of a friendly tree, For all the joys of the day just past, And those of the day to be. He flew away?and the slender bough For a moment lightly swayed, Anrl thpri in tHn cilonf I ...... ... vtiv utiviiV) mob-gauiCillllg night A fervent prayer I prayed. I prayed for a thankful and trusting heart, That will sing, like this minstrel brown, Of the bright day past, and the brighter to dawn, When life's sun, at eve, goes down. ?A. M. G., in The Christian Herald. RASTUS MOVED ON. "What's your name?" asked the manager of the new powder plant at Mount Union, Pa., upon receiving an applicant for a job. "Rastus Johnsing" replied the man. "Where is your home?" "Ain't go tno home." "Have you any relatives, and, if so, where do they live?" "What fo' you want to know dat?" "We must know, so that in the event of anything happening to you, we will know what disposition to make of your remains." "Dat being the case, I guess the remains will keep on steppin.' I don't want my ole head b' nved off." And Rastus departed. HIS PRODUCTION. Judge?"And you still claim to be innocent, although six witnesses say they saw you commit the crime?" Prisoner?"Your Honor, I can produce 6,000 who didn't see me." A "PAT" REPLY. An Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman went forth together to burtrie a farmhouse. The Sassenach appropriated a horse, the Gael a cow, while the representative from Erin commandeered a cart. As they were making their way into a town a policeman approached and asked the Englishman where he got the horse. "Ah!" was the reply. "I've had it since it was a foal!" "And where did you get that cow?" he asked Scotty, who responded: "Ah, I've had her since she was a calf!" Turning to Pat, the constable next asked, "Where did you get that cart?" "Ah, begorra," quickly retorted Pat, "I've had it since it was a wheelbarrow!" _ It is the rankest kind of folly for a man to expect the world to grow better until he begins to notice improvement in himself. An examining optician is an eyewitness. A great many men make their mark, in this world because of their inability to write. There is less wear and tear on ? woman's mind than on a man's?probably because she changes it oftener. Gold is said to be so malleable that it can be beaten as thin as the ham in a railway sandwich. All man's best deeds and all of his worst may be attributed to a woman's influence. Don't think for a minute that actors and actresses kiss every time they make up. After a girl marries she loses interest in curl papers and fairy stories. Now Germany is talking about a Zeppelin 700 feet long. It won't be a Zeppelin then. It will be a bridge. ?Memphis Commercial Appeal. Far SIMP. 100 Acres NEAR ? THURS A1 TO BE SOLD REGJ IVERY SALE R VALUABLE PRIZES G SAI PENNY BR0T1 HKttNSBUH 11 ^W</| HERE'S Box .1^ Buster Brown for the kids, and gSSsSjjfeg&r' for grown-ups, too. PmV Takes a picture anH^jlaffl 2ix3l inches and Other Anscos up to $55. We'd like to i \ show you the entire line. \ j Our photographic de- 1 partment has established 1 quite a reputation for ! / developing, printing and | IT a enlarging. Come in, I J.f i won't you ? J ?"? PALMETTO | DRUG CO. jM jfl SPECIAL TRAIN ?Via? SOUTHERN RAILWAY ?To? COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA Wednesday, Thursday, Oct. 25-26, 1916 ?Account? STATE AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL FAIR October 23rd to 27th, Inc. From Schedule Return Fares Lv. Spartanburg _ 7:00am $3.70 White Stone _ 7:20am 3.45 Pacolet 7:27am 3.35 Jonesville _ . 7:43am 3.15 Lockhart Jet. 7:48am 3.10 Union - - _ _ 8:08am 2.90 3antuc 8:27am 2.60 Carlisle - _ _ 8:40am 2.50 Ar. Columbia _ _10:30am Special train will leave Columbia, S. C? 9:00 p. m., October 25th and 20th. ' In addition to the above special train on October 25th and 26th the above rates will apply on all regular trains October 21st to 26th, inc., and for trains scheduled to arrive Columbia before noon of 27th, with a final limit returning prior to midnight October 80th, 1916. For detail information apply to Ticket Agents Southern Ry., or address R. C. Cotner, T. P. A., Spartanburg, S. C. m Si PORTER I ; Subdivided Into Sma SANTUCK DAY, OC - 10:30 A. 1V1. TO THE HIGHES1 VRDLESS OF PRIC EASY XI IAIN OR IVEN AWAY ? MUSIC BY LI ^E CONDUCTED BY HERS AND THOMAS B FOR 0 REALTY & AUC iEENSBORO, N. C. \ |A Good ( For the housekeepers of Unic one of the most economical, lab articles that can be used in the Ideal A Fireless | Cookers ( We ordered over fifty of the I mat tne ladies would buy them they learned that a whole meal out even looking at it from tl until you are ready to serve. Y ner on while breakfast is beir supper while dinner is being have to do is to take it up and s it suits. Saves fuel and cooks 1 have reduced them as follows: Style No. 16-A sold for $22.5( Style No. 17-A sold for $30.0( Style No. 18-A sold for $20.0( Style No. 11-A sold for $ 9.0J Style No. 12-A sold for $16.5( Style No. 15-A sold for $19.0( These prices are less than wh will be the last chance to get th at Less Than Cost. We are jus of time in trying to introduce the time is not far off when ti and as necessarv as a stnvp rw price will be nearly double. Try one and be convinced. We will send them out on a 1 Bailey Furniture & PHONE 1< lie LACE ill Tracts I ? - 26 r BIDDER rE CRMS SHINE VE WIRE BAND ROTHERS TION CO. Ihance >n County to secure or-saving and useful j home. se Cookers, thinking on sight, as soon as can be cooked withhe time it is put on ou can put your dinig prepared or your cooked and all you erve it any hour that food deliciously. We ) reduced to $16.25 ) reduced to $22.00 ) reduced to $15.25 ) reduced to $ 6.60 ) reduced to $11.25 ) reduced to $14.00 lolesale cost and this le Best Cooker Mode it a few years ahead i these Cookers, but ley will be as stable range, and then the week's trial?FREE. Lumber Co. 06 ' ' i m