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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-06-09

rs..s. IIrvot uLss tueI rtIndlIuer IS pro-
Iuced in China and Brazil, while
mailer quantities are contributed By
Mexico, Peru, Turkey, Persia and
several other countries.
Not less than 100000 persons are
smployed in producing, handling and
manufacturing American cotton, Of
whom some 6,000,00O are farmers and
farm laborers, 100000 otherwise en-
-aged with the fibre in this country
and about 100000 are concerned
With it in foreign countries. The
value of the goods manufactured
from the average American cotton
crop is estimated at $2,OOO0O0,000.
Of the total quantity Of. the six
leading textile fibres produced in
1908, 1s,O42,425,OOO pounds, cotton
constituted 81 per cent, wool 14.5 per
cent, iute a per cent, fax 10 per
cent, hemp Z per cent and silk less
than one-half of 1 per cent. The
relative Importance Of these fibres
has been reversed during the past
century. Flax fibre, which was used
to larger extent than any other in
1900, now ranks fourth, and the
quantity produced is only about three
times what is was then. During this
period the production of wool has In
creased about four-fold. and of. cot.
ton over thirty-fold.
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Palmetto Pointers.

The Secretary of State granted 8
charter to the Diehl-Moore Shoe Com
pany, of Rock Hill. Capital $15, 900.
At recent meeting of the board OF
trustees of the Palmetto Collegiate
Institute, Lexington, all of the teach
ers were reelected for another year.
The Columbia schools held their
closing exercises Thursday evening ln
the theatre. Two hundred voices fur
nished the music for the occasion.
The board of trustees of Columbia
College has selected the faculty Tor
next year. Several changes have.
been made. Miss Kate Bigby sue
ceeds Miss j. D. Martin, of Columbia,
in the department of mental and
moral science. Miss Bigby Will come
fro,s Potter College, NESllng Green,
KY.
AT Columbia Messrs, A, NJ. Ken
'nedy and Hugar Sinkler sent cheeks
to stockholders in the Seminole Sc
curities Company, which went into
the hands of the receivers, Tie
amount of claims that were declared
valid was about SlSo,Qoe, Hhe
checks signed aggregated $4,000, OF
which 100000 is nov aNaisabsa.
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with proper sanitary facilities, and
of teaching the country doctors how
to treat he disease.
Pellagra, the disease which has
made its appearance in this country
only in recent years, was discussed.
DR.. c. E. Williams, of South Carolina
read a paper, showing its prevalence
in the South. DR.. H. T. Harris, of
Georgia, said that the disease occur
red chiefly in the fall and spring, that
it probably was due to eating corn
bread made from unripe OF mouldy
corn, and that its most prominent
symptom was insanity. Surgeon
General Wyman stated that the SER
vice was contemplating sending an
expert on the subject TO several for
eign countries to study pellagra, with
view of adopting measures in this
country for its elimination.
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DISCUSS MANY DISEASES

I f a
State and Territorial Health Officers
Meet With United States Public
Health and Marine Hospital Ser
vice and Study Methods Of Fight
ing Disease.
Washington, Special-An interest
ing development of discussion Of
rabies at the annual conference Of
Slate and Territorial health affairs
with the United States Public Health
and Marine Hospital Service, was the
fact that the disease frequently is
Contracted from the bites of skunks,
wolves and other wild animals.
Drs. Godfrey, of Arizona, and
Brumby, Of Texas, described the dan
ger from the bites of skunks and
other wild animals in the Territories
and declared that wolf bites frequent
ly conveyed the infection of rabies.
DR.. Kerr declared that public opin-
ion was becoming rapidly educated
to the necessity of muzzling dogs as
the only certain way Of overcoming
the disease. The general conclusion
of the conference was that it was
quite as REASONABLE, to require the
muzzling Of dogs as it was to pro-
Mbit the free roaming of cattle and
horses in the streets.
Of leprosy Surgeon Geraral Wy
man voiced the feeling that this dis
ease was one which concerned all the
States collectively. He pointed to
the fact that the United States was
the first government to make provis-
ion for a thorough investigation Of
leprosy. His remarks had reference
to the leprosy institution in Hawaii.
from reports made by the dele
gates, it appeared that the United
States was remarkably free from lep-
rosy, as compared with many foreign
countries.
That other causes than that of in
fected water supply must be found
to explain the continued prevalence
Of typhoid fever in different COM
muiaities apeared to be the general
sentiment of the conference. DR..
Lulnsden, Of the Hygenic Labratory,
states that approximately 10 per cent
of all cases Of the disease in Wash
ingson during period Of investiga-
tion were believed to have been due
to milk. The necessity of thorough
study Of the disease throughout the
country was emphasized.
The surprising prevalence of the
"hook worm disease" in the South
was shown by DR.. Charles W. Stiles,
who said it was due to unsanitary
conditions and the resultant pollution
Of the soil. He said that 81 per cent
of che children in large section of
the South had the disease in such an
apparent from that it could be detect
ed without microscope. Child la
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Teachers Chosen in conway.

Conway, Special.-At a meeting of
the trustees Of the Burroughs school
Thursday the teachers for the next
term were elected, and resulted in rEe
election of Prof. r. C. Hunter, Of
Newberry as superintendent and Miss
Daisy Pate of Bishopville as prin-
cipal, and the reelection of all of the
other teachers Of the school, Misses
Grace Langston, Of Conway, Margu-
erite Murphy of Walterboro, Francis
Field Of Hickory, N. c.; Toccoa Bur-
ris Of Anderson and Agnes Riggs Of
Sumter Prof. Hunter was this year
principal of the school and Miss
Pate has for two years been in charge
of the two higher grades. There is
yet one vacancy on the board. which
will be filled at later meeting. Prof.
J. M. Mitchell, of Greenville, who mas
been the able superintendent of the
school for the past year, declined to
stand for reelection. His decision to
1o. .------s
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Greenville, Tenn, Special. - The
descendants of his old-time neighbors
and friends took advantage of the
first memorial celebration since the
transformation Of the private ceme-
terry into national institution, to do
honor to the memory of the former
distinguished citizen by organizing
the Andrew Johnson Memorial Asso-
ciation Monday. The people came from
all portions Of the vast picturesque,
east Tennessee country. The orator OF
the occasion, Martin W. Littleton,
spoke in terms Of highest eulosy OF
tie one president who, during his
term of Office, was tried on impeach-
ment charges.
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Biz Balloon Race Ends.

indianapolis, Ind, Spec;al.-Three
Of the nine balloons that started
Saturday in the national distance
race Of the Aero Club of America and
the endurance test of the Aero Club
Of Indiana, entered in the national
race, is reported to have dropped to
earth at Shackle Island, Tenn, at 6
O'Clock Sunday evening, taken on
water and sailing off south.
The Indiana endurance race was
won by DR.. Link and R. j. Ivin,si in
the Indianapolis. They were in. the
air % hours. The Chicago was
second and the Ohio third.
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-----~., o.nauur II. II. weston
and Col. D. Cardwell. The Confeder-
ate Home is,iust outside of Columbia,
in the beautiful suburbs, near Hyatt's
Park. 1t can be seen from the Hyatt
road and is within easy reach of the
car line. The building is one story
and has a neat and comfortable ap-
pearance. The building is substantial,
and contains a basement. The house
faces south and has main corridor
running north and south intersacted
by narrower hall running almost ar
right angle to the larger hall. The
menu is plain and wholesome. and is
changed daily. The commandant is
Capt. W. d. Starting, well known
Confederate veteran. The commits
sion that had charge of the building
of the Home has Col. D. Cardwell for
its chairman.
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Fire at Chapel Hill.

Chapel Hill, N. G., Special. Alpha
Tau Omega Fraternity experienced a
heavy loss Wednesday when their
chapter house was totally consumed
by fire. No members of the frater-
nity were in tie house when the fire
broke out all being at the afternoon
dance at Commons Hall. The house
was valued at $4,000 with insurance
Of $1,000. The house was built about
fifteen years ago. Immediately after
| the fire about twenty Of the members
both alumni and native, met and plan
! ned for rebuilding.
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Sylvania, Ca, Special.-A half
dozen persons, probably more, We're
injured in a terrific cyclone that pass
ed over the, lower part of Seneyen
county at 4 o'clock Thursday after
noon and, while no life has yet been
lost because of its passage, many per
sons escaped By seeming miracles,
houses falling about and upon them
without nficting fatal injuries.
Tie cyclone came from the direc-
hcn Of Dover and disappeared from
there Ii 4 nosheasterl direction II
cpmpl ately wrecked the home OF
Stephen Thomson a white farmer,
and buried IFS is rims the farmer
and his wsss An act Of heroism
followed when the older Of their
sons after working yahantly despite
his Injuries, managed to extricate
himself from the fallen timbers and
debris Of the house and then rescued
the other members of the family liz
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spartanbnrg Climbing.

A dispatch from Washington, says:
On July l the Spartanburg postoffice
will go into the first class, and will
rank with her big sisters, Charleston
and Columbia. This was the an
nouncement made at the postoffice de-
partment, and is the best possible evil
dence of the general growth and pros
perity of Spartanburg for the fiscal
year that will end June 80. In ad-
dition to this it is understood that
Postmaster Floyd, will do all in his
power to make still better showing
when the first year of his admins
tration ends.
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Declare For Better Roads.

Cheraw, Special.-The following
resolutions were unanimously adopt
ed at the meeting Of the Rural Let
ter Carriers association for the coun-
ties Of Chesterfield and Marlboro,
held In Cheraw Monday: Z
!. "Resolved, 1st, That we, the mem-
bers Of the Rural Letter Carriers
association of Chesterfield and Marl-
boro counties, do respectfully ask our
legislators Of above named counties
to do all that they can to enact a
compulsory education law to compel
the white children of the State of
South Carolina to go to school four
or five months in every year.
Resolved, End, That We heartily
indorse the building of an official pub
lie road from Maine to Florida, and
we earnestly and respectfully re-
quest our patrons and the public
generally to exert their every effort
and influence toward encouraging
promoters OF above named road 20
build it through our beloved counties.
Resolved; 3rd, That we, the Rural
Letter Carriers association of Ches-
terfeld and Marlboro counties. earn
estly request our senators and repre-
sentatives to investigate the FEAST
bility of aboGshing the State farms
and put the State convicts to work
on the public roads Of the State, al
lowing each county their pro rata
proportion.
"Resolvad 4th, That we earnestly
request that all the rural letter car
riers' associations Of South Carolina
endorse the above, resolutions and
use their influence to have them en-
acted into law"
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Greenyille Firm a Bankrupt.

The Following special has been "
ceived from Graenyille:
&C, D, Stadley & Co, one OF the
largest dry goods merchants in Greep-
vile, has gone into bankruptcy, The
papers woa fled this afternoon be-
fore Major L. NJ, BlytGa, Unite,t
States Commissioner. Mr.. Stradley,
proprietor of the firm. is one of the
best known merchants in upper Car
olina, and has been intimately as
sociated with all eaterpr.ses OF
Greenville for the past Twenty-Five
years.
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WASHINGTON NOTES

= I
Agreements were reached in tile
Senate Monday upon many sections
of the, tariff bill, l,sso that, as the hour
for adjournment approached, the.
paragraphs relating TO agriculture
were nearly all disposed of. During
the afternoon, Mr. Bacon entered up
on an extended discussion of the pro-
posed increase over the rates of the
House bill In duties on bacon and
hams, lard, fresh beef, etc. and Mr..
Aldrich surprised the Senate by with
drawing the committe niendments,
saying he believed the House rates all
though below those of the Dingley
law rates, were protective to those in
dustries. This action provoked fur
ther discussion on the part Of Sena-
tors, who favored the higher rates.
Senator Raynets created consider.
able amusement by "a humorous de-
scription of what Senator Aldrich.
had referred to as the citadel Of pro.
lection, and Senator Smith, Of
South Carolina, advocated free tariff
or tariff for revenue only. \.
The most important happenings in
the nations s capital Saturday were as
follows:
President Taft sent. special mes
sage to Congress transmitting the
final report Of Charles Es Magoon,
former Provisional Governor of Cuba,
and praising the LITTER and Major
General Thomas III Barry, who was
in command of tie army Of pacifca-
tion, for their services In the land.
Owing to the state of Mrs. Taft's
health, the President announced that
he had abandoned his proposed trip
to Alaska during the coming summer
but had not yet given up hope of be-
ing able to attend the Seattle Expo
sition.
That danger turks in the transpor-
,tation of those who have died from
infectious diseases was made evident
at Saturday IS. session Of the twenty
fourth annual meeting Of the confer
ence of State and provincial boards
of North America. The committee
appointed to report on the subject
found fault with the present system
Of shipping bodiessfrom one State in-
to another and recommended that
greater. care shonld in the future, be
exercises in this regard through the
apication Of measures, which would
secure better preparation and the
casing of bodies preparatory to- ship
ment.
Leprosy again was one of the prin-
cipal topics discussed at the days
session Of the conference of State and
provincial boards Of health of North
America, which adopted a resolution
urging the establishments by Congress,
within the United States. of q hos
pital for: the ftrea trnent Of the disease.
After devoting the larger portion
of the day to listening to5a discus
sion of the cotton cloth schedule. the
Senate entered upon q period of vot-
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-06-09

Fairvlew, Ky, Special Among
The trees which have grown up about
the birthplace of Jefferson Davis
since the year, early in the nineteenth
century, when the Davis family re-
moved to Mississippi, the jefferson
Davis memorial park was simply ded-
icated Thursday, Northeast across
the State is Hodsenville, near which
Abraham Lincoln vas born eight
months after lis great opponent.
Fairriew is still tiny town rimmed
with forests and sloping gently to-
ward the grass grown battlefslds Of
Tennessee.
In September, 1907, when the gray
grown and enflaeed ranks Of Ken
tucky's famous "orphant brigade"
met in Glasgow, KY, at the grave
Of Joseph II. Lewis. their commander,
former Governor Bolivar Buckner, of
Kentncky broached the plan of the
Jefferson Davis Monument Assoeia-
tion. Subscrip ptions were started, the
women Of the South aiding nobly, and
when all bnt $4,000 had been raised
to purchase seventeen acres at Far
view, General Bennett II. Young,
commanding the Kentucky division,
United Confederate Veterans, a.l-
yaneed that sum and made the mon
ument possible.
0ratory, music and flowers made
today notable A basket dinner and
a barbecne we're provided by the peo-
pie Of Todd and Christian counties,
which share equally the Town of
Fairwew and when Gel w. A. Mil
ton, of Louisville, as chairman in the
absence of General Young, who was
detained in Chicago, opened the
meeting, the homestead of the Davis
was crowded. General Young, a
prominent Louisville lawyer, wrote
the chief address of the day, and it
was read by Colonel Milton. He as
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Pires Three Shots at Wife.

Charlotte, Special.-For the past
few days the town has been agog
with the stories afloat concerning the
sudden departure from the city of
Mrs. Dennis Hurley, who left CharA
lotte Saturday night for the home Of
her mother, Mrs. W. 7. Jordan. in
New York. Prior to her departure
she told her friends that her Life was
in danger should she spend ii. with
her husband. She also stated that
Mr.. Hurley had fired at her three
times Saturday morning, and that,
under the influence of whiskey, his
aim was bad, otherwise he would have
killed her.
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i l3,5S7,3O6 BALESIN 1908.
Increase Over Previous Year Of 1914
Per CenACrop Remarkable For
It's Excellent Spinning Qualities
and Clsarliness.Most Valuable
Ever Grown.

and Cleanliness Most Valuable
Ever Grown.
Washington, cial-Bulletin 100
which has just been issued by the Bu-
reau of. the Census. consists Of re-
port on the production of cotton in
1908, prepared under the supervision
of Mr.. Willim NJ. Stuart. chief sta
tistician for manufactures, by Daniel
C. Roper, expert chief of division.
The present report gives the az
gregate figures for the whole cotton
crop.
The finally revised figures for the
crop of 1905, expressed in equivalent
5OO-pound bales and including lint
ers, show u total production of 13,-
5S7, ,3O6 bales. This represents an IN
crease over 1907 Of 2,211,S45 bales, OF
l9.4 per cent. 1t is the third largest
crop ever produced, being exceeded
only by the crops of 1904 and 1906,
and is 97S,751 bales larger than the
average crop of the last five years.
The production reported for Texas
3,913,OSA bales, is the second largest
recorded, being exceeded only by that
of 1906, which was 36S,740 bales
larger. This State showed a falling
off in 1907 of 44.9 per cent as COM
pared with 1906, but increased It's
crop in 1908 by 65.S per cent over
1907. Texas produced 2S.S per cent
of the total for the country in 1905;
2O.S per cent in 1907; ands 3l.5 PEI
cent in 1906.
The corp in 1908 is remarkable for
| its excellent spinning qualities and
cleanliness. The grade of this crop
is estimated to have averaged strict
middling, compared with middlins
for 1907 and strict low middling for
1905. Measured by its yarn produc-
ing qualities, the crop of 1908 is be-
ieved to be the most valuable ever
grown. The value of the crop to the
growers is estimated at $6S1, ,230,956
of which $5SS, S,Sl4,S20 represents the
value of the lint and $92.416,12S the
value of the seed. Notwithstanding
Che fact that the crop was, 2,21l SID
bales larger than the crop of 1907
and that the spinning qualities of this
crop were superior, it has been dis,
posed of by the growers at approx.
rnately $2O,0O0,OOO less than that Of
1907.
i The estimated quantity of cotton
seed produced in 1908 is 5,903,S3s
IONS, of which 3,669.747 tons were
treated by the oil mills, affordins pro.
ducts valued at $S6,O92,5S3, and dis.
tributcd as to kind and quantity a:
follows: Oil, 146,7S9,SSO gallons
cake and meal, 1,49l,752 tons; hulls
l,33O,2S3 tons, and linters, 165,13S,
62S pounds.
TIE worlds production Of cottor
/ for mill consumption in 1o0S is esti.
mated at l),574,OOO bales of 5Ot
l.,,>>.,--I..- -.ot l-nn,n,,area with 1R512
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Frances Token of Love.

San Francisco, Cal, special.-An-
other manifestation Of historic good
feeling between France and the Unit
ed States was expressed Saturday
when Ambassador Jusserand,, on be-
half of the French government, pre-
sented to the City of San Francisco
a handsome gold medal comnemora-
tive of the restoration of the city
from the destruction wrought by the
earthquake and fire of 1906.
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stead Of 25 they had demanded orig
inally. The old "swing system" has
been abolished; ten hours will con-
stitute a days work; all employees
will be permitted to purchase their
uniforms in the open market; all fu-
ture differences are: to be adjusted
between the company and grievance
committee chosen by the employees.
If, after an investigation by the city
controller of the books Of the COM
pany it can be shown that more than
% cents an hour can be paid without
crippling the finances of the rapid
transit company, then the men will
insist upon a further advance.
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Insane Man Kills Five.

Someryille, Mass, Special.-With
maniacal shrek, John Murphy
turned from pig-sticking to man
killing in the North Packing and
Provision Gompany's slaughter-house
Saturday, and driving his fellow
workmen before him, slew five OF
them and wounded four others. Two
of the wounded we're reported later
as dying. According to some of the
workmen, Murphy had been acting
peculiarly for some days but he re-
turned from his dinner Saturday moor
sparently in normal condition.
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PATRICK'S APPEAL FOR LIBERTY OR DEATH DENIEE

liam Marsh Rice. In support of the
writ, Patrick several weeks ago made
a sensational personal appeal to the
appellate division in which he declar-
ed that the commutation of death SEN
tenee to that of life Imprisonment
made by Governor Higgins constitut-
ed the imposition of sentence worse
than death. Patrick also attacked
the legality of his conviction on The
ground of conspiracy. All the jus
tices of the division concu1red.
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Memorial Park Is dedicated at The Birthplace oi
The Souths chieftain-- Memorial Temple
Proposed.

serted that every Southern State
should rear shaft to Jefferson Davis
whose character and sufferinss he
dwelt upon sympathetically. He paid
high tribute to Lincoln, saying that
the time had come when men might
speak kindly and truly of the past.
He said the message which the united
South gave to the world today was
one Of everlasting peace.
The plan is to raise $4,000 more
with which to build a memorial tenn
pie to contain all the records of the
Confederacy. and to remodel two
story residence upon the Davis farm
to house. the widows Of, Confederate
soldiers.
The seventeen acres which are to
enclose the memorial buildings to be
erected adjoin the original nine
acres which we're the remnants Of
the plantation upon which Samuel
Davis, father of the President, set
| tiled when he cane from Virginia in
1903. These nine were given by Mr..
Davis to Bethel church on the occa-
sion, June 81, 1886, Of his last visit
to his first home. To the people of
the neighborhood this church stands
as q memorial to their neighbor, and
to his pride in his old Kentucky home
they ascribe the fancy which led him
to call his land along te Mississippi
shore of the Gulf, .sBeauvoir."
The site of the memorial slopes
softly from splendid grove which
crowns its highest point. 1t is in the
heart of Fairviey, and the present
plan is to place all the records Of the
Confederacy in the temple to be built
within the. shadow of the trees. A two
story residence is also on the land,
and the in. ent is to make Of this a
home for tie widows of the Confeder-
ates whom age has rendered decrept
and from whom the years and the
wars have taken husbands and sons.