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says the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Damage to Mill No. 2.

says the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Yet one must admit that slang has q
certain value, adds the writer, else
our sporting pages would be much
different. Take citation from the ac-
count Of recent game:
Baker walked, Plank sacrificed
Oldring famed, Baker stealing third
Barry popped. No runs.
To the initiated this means a COM
plete account Of the innings, but to
the outsider It Is as comprehensive as
an Egyptian hieroglyphic. The truth
seems to be that we are taking more
short cuts now than ever to express
thoughts or emotions, while we are
lacking that literary language which
the ancients possessed. No one sup
poses that the common people Of Ath-
ems or Rome spoke as Thucidides or
Cicero wrote. Language was fine
art in those days, and the reason the
so called romance languages, descend
ed from the Latin, differ 80 greatly
from the classic forms is that French
Spanish, Italian, etc, are descended
not from the literary language, but
from the ordinary forms Of speech
used by the multitude.
In Shakespeare's day there were
many great writer's, who, most un-
fortunately, are largely forgotten, but
the common people did not talk in
Elizabethan English and many Of them
wouldn't have understood 1t. But In
this day of popular education, news
paper circulation and free libraries
there Is no longer a set standard-not
even in the Dictionaries so that any
one may speak very much as he
pleases.
The language Is undergoing a great
change, and not all of it Is for the bet
ter. Grammar Is no longer taught with
any rigidity, and the subjunctive mood
Is being crowded out entirely. 1t re-
mains only for those who think Of Ian
guage as an art to eschew slang and
to try and preserve the classic forms
And they must do this in the full con-
sciousness that their labors will be un-
appreciated and largely unavailing.
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tenn Is hereby declared to be from
July 1st to June 30th of each year.
XII. The commission shall make
annual reports to the general assem-
bly,.
XIII. The commission shall give
bond to the state Of South Carolina In
the sum of $4,000 each, conditioned
for the faithful performance of their
duties. And shall require good and
sufficient bonds Of all employees In such
amounts as they may deem necessary
to protect the public interests, and
shall keep fully insured all ware
houses and all cotton or other COM
modities on storage In the same.
XIV. To encourage a diversified
agriculture the commission are direct
ed to utilize the said warehouse for
the storage Of corn, hay, oats. peas
and other non-perlshable farm pro-
ducts put up in commercial pack
be room, and on such terms as will
cover cost Of insurance and storage.
XIV. The said commission are here
by authorized and empowered to
make such rules and regulations as
they may deem necessary to carry out
he intent and purpose of this act, not
inconsistent with the provisions here
inbefore specifically set forth.
XVI. The salaries Of the commits
sion are hereby fixed at $4,000 each
per annum, payable monthly, and
transportation when in the discharge
of their duties, with actual hotel bills
when away from their homes on du-
ties connected with their office. And
they shall fix the salaries Of all en-
ployes with a view to economic but
efficient service.
XVII. All money collected under
the provisions of this act shall be
turned into the state treasury month
ly, and shall be held by the state
treasurer as a separate fund for the
purposes Of this act All warrants for
salaries and other expenses provided
for in this act shall be accompanied
by itemized vouchers and approved by
the commission and the comptroller
general before payment by the state
treasurer.
XVIII. To put this act into imme-
diate effect, the sum Of $50.000 be. and
the same is, hereby appropriated out
Of any money in the state treasury
not otherwise appropriated.
XIX. All acts and parts Of acts in
consistent with this act be, and the
same are, hereby repealed.
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THE sPARTANsURe MEETING
Tremendous Crowd and the Best Of
Good Order.

tremendous SroWo ana the pest OF
Good Order.
Following iss the Atlanta Journals
account Of the Spartanburg meeting
last Friday:
Spartanburg, S. c., Aug. 9.-It was a
big Blease day at the campaign speak
ing here, which, in addition to the fact
that the Blease men in the crowd were
clearly in the majority and developed a
number of other highly interesting fea-
lures but practically no disorder.
Governor Blease, In the course Of his
speech, referred to the Massee rcquisi-
tion as heard here this week, to the
bowling down of Mayor John P. Grace,
Of Charleston, here, last week and to
the dictagraph and Samuel ]. Nichols,
the attorney Of this city, who figured
prominently in the Burns testimony
introduced before the investigation
committee, at Augusta, several days
ago, all matters that have been the talk
OF the state.
The governor declared that he had
heard the report, both here and at
Gaffney, yesterday, that $4,000 had veen
paid to him to pass the Massee reGui-
sition case up to Judge Sease for de-
cision. He denounced the author Of the
report as the blackest- hearted liar that
ever disgraced a state. He declared
that Judge Sease was an upright, hon
orable man. He reviewed the history OF
his connection with the Massee requi-
sition and said that he granted the re-
quisition when 1t was first presented
to him and had since declined to have
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that no coil is wound round an arm
and that its whole body is free. Then
when you let go your hold your hands
should be instantly snatched away out
Of reach.
When I was in the very act Of quit
ting my hold some one spoke to me,
and have no doubt that / left my hand
within reach Of the deadly fangs In
stead of snatching 1t away. I must
have turned my head toward the man
who spoke to me, for did not see the
stroke.
But I felt as II a knife had been
sharply drawn across my finger, and.
looking down, saw the blood flowing
freely and her ladyship out Of her box,
trying to make her way across the
table. snatched her back by the tail,
caught her by the neck again and got
her safely into the box.
When was struck there were about
twenty men in the room. Twenty sec
onds afterward there was not one. I
never saw a room cleared in like time.
They simply tumbled over each other.
When the prisoner was again under
lock and key the company came slowly
back, and the doctor appeared.
asked for ammonia. There was
none on the ship, and so had to take
a great deal Of brandy. / lanced my
finger down to the bone, where the
snakes fang had made a wound. Then
I sucked the wound vigorously.
/ gave my keys and home address to
my good friend w. L., who promised to
look after me and to carry out my In
structions while remained insensible.
Soon after that became unconscious.
had told L. that should be report
ed dead, but that / should not be. and
that Il he could get even few drops
Of brandy down my throat when my
heart failed 1t would Jog on again and
that by and by I should come to. It
was 10 o'clock when lay down on the
smoking room sofa and became uncon-
scious. When I came to again the east
was rosy with the morning sun.
Several times during the night the
doctor told L. that was already dead,
and IL my friend had not obstinately
refused to listen to him and insisted on
following out my own instructions
should have been sent, wrapped up In
piece of canvas, to the bottom Of the
sea, some $50 miles north of MADEIRA.
I never felt so Ill or suffered such
pain as when I recovered consciousness
that morning. I ached from the tip OF
my finger to my shoulder, as II the
bone had been redhot iron, and my
swollen arm looked like hard pillow.
They carried me to LIS bunk, and
there i lay for twenty-four hours Then
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STING OF A SNAKE.
Fiery Ordeal That Follows . Kiss
From, a Puff Adder.


Not many men are alive to tell what
1t Is like to be bitten by a pun adder,
one Of the most venomous Of snakes.
In South Africa, where 1t Is found, it's
bite Is believed to be certain death.
Nevertheless b. N. Streatfield, former
ly resident commissioner Of Bechauna-
land. not only survived the bite of a
pun adder, but told his story in the
London Field. He had captured the
snake. which was three feet and half
long in South Africa, and was bringing
1t home confined In an old cartridge
box to present to the Regents park
zoo. He says:
Somehow or other 1t became known
to my fellow passengers that had
pun adder In my portmanteau. and they
begged to be allowed to see II. For a
long time ! refused. but at last was
koverpersuaded and fetched her LADY,
ship.
Taking her out Of her box and grasp
ing her close behind her head, sx-
planned to the company the marvellous
economy Of the poison apparatus. I
opened her mouth and displayed the
fangs, showed the poison glands and
how the muscles that raised the fanGs
at the same time pressed on the glands
and forced the poison through the tiny
duct.
Having concluded my lecture, be-
gan to put her ladyship back into her
temporary home. In getting rid Of
poisonous snake you should be sure
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anything more to do with 1t. He said
that he made this statement to Harry
Stokes, special attorney for the state of
Tennessee, in the governors office at
Columbia.
Mr. Stokes, who was present, corrob-
Grated the governors statement.
Not a Case of Brains and Eggs.
Speaking Of the bowling down Of
Mayor Grace and of throwing of rotten
eggs at him, the governor said: Some
body asked me why they did not serve
brains with the eggs and l said that
the Jones men did not have the brains. y
With reference to Mayor Olin L.
Johnson, of Spartanburg, who has been
asked to resign by the citizens for not
keeping down disorder at the Grace
speaking, he said: you'll never have
more honorable man or a greater
friend of the poor man than Spartan
burg has in the mayors chair right
now and you are going to send him up
higher"
"InfernaI Lying Dietagraph."
Referring to Mr.. Nichols and the die
tagraph, he said: You had a great
machine here not long ago. Jones and
his crowd tried to drag down one OF
your best men by an Internal lying
dictagraph, to hurt Cole L. Blease
What did they get? They'll get the
worst beating they ever had on Au-
gust o."
Spartanburg county Is the most pop
ulous county in the state and the crowd
that gathered here today numbered be-
| tween 5000 and 5000, the largest as
, semblage that has yet greeted the cam
paign party.
BIease Men in Majority.
| Before beginning his speech, the gov
| ernor took a hand vote OF the crowd
calling for the Blease men to hold uI
their hands and then of the Jones men
The result showed that the Blease sup
porters constituted two-thlrds OF the
crowd, If not more.
| At the close of his speech he was
presented with a silver loving cup, gift
of his Spartanburg friends. The cur
and the flowers accompanying 1t were
brought up to the platform by little
Miss Iris Landrum. daughter Of B. G
Landrum, Of this city, who is colone
on the governors staff.
| The governor was also presented with
gold-headed umbrella by c. s. Tur-
ner, on behalf of the governors friends
of the Pacolet cotton mill village. II
addition he received four or five bou-
quets He then passed out through the
crowd. followed by hundreds of his
cheering supporters. 1t was distinctly
a Blease day and the ovation accorded
| him was unusual.
Judge Jones received a warm wei
come from his supporters who were
present, and varied his usual speech by
making a vigorous attack on Governor
Blease for allowing 172 bills Of genera
Importance passed by the last legisla-
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Where a Miracle Happened.

much under 100000 bales, cotton has
been selling at interior towns around
13 cents. difference of about $500
per bale. Twenty-Five dollars a bale on
500. 900 bales so sacrificed of the crop
in South Carolina last year would
amount to twenty million dollars We
call your attention to the undeniable
fact that this enormous loss has fallen
directly upon the planters. The bank
er, merchant and fertilizer factory have
been paid in full or are getting inter-
est on balances carried over. The rail-
roads received the same freight per
bale on carrying the largest crop ever
produced.
Where Loss on Last Crop Fell.
We further call your attention to an
other fact in connection with this loss:
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transaction connected with making
the crop Is by check, draft or prom
ise to pay" When 1t comes time to
market the crop abroad where the
price Is fixed, payment Is demanded In
gold, and the actual shipment OF the
metal itself begins. This gold does
not enter into circulation, bTt is lock-
ed in the vaults Of New York to main
tain a commercial supremacy In which
the south Is not permitted to share.
Vision Of the Future.
We have a vision of the time in the
near future when, through this sys-
tenn, southern ports will become the
cotton distributing points of the world
and southern banks. the channel
through which shall flow this steady
stream of gold, which fructifies the
commerce of the nation.
At present we permit each year the
purchasing power Of our customers
abroad to be depleted for an advan-
tage to New York, which Is positive
injury to us, because Of the steady
fall in cotton prices resulting. A mere
statement of the proposition reveals
the economic blunder which holds the
south in bondage.
1t Is as unjust to European spinner3
as it is cruel to southern planters. 1t
is generous only to the gamblers who
exploit both spinner and producer.
The remedy we propose Is to bring
the producer and the spinner togeth-
er through a system Of government
warehouses, which will, as sure as
fate, become the basis Of foreign and
domestic system Of banking, which
will reduce interest rates and relegate
money to its only legitimate function
"a medium Of exchange.
States Rights"
The recent decision Of the supreme
court Is of far-reaching effect, greater,
perhaps, than any of us now realize,
for it gives a broad Interpretation Of
the powers OF the state In protecting
her citizens from combinations which
would confiscate property by destroy
ing the profits arising therefrom. The
South Carolina decision marks a new
era and will be the authority most
quoted In the social and Industrial
questions now pressing for solution.
The objections to the bill were on
technical questions, and the broad door
to the police powers of the state was
opened wide by the court. 1t would be
historically fit, should the trust ques-
ton threatening the security Of the ma
tion be settled by South Carolina lead
ing the way back to states rights"
and the reserve powers of the people
vested in their state legislatures.
No better illustration of the effec-
tiveness of the scheme which we pro-
pose could be found than in the crop
just marketed.
In October under the impact of a
crop estimated at 14,500,00O bales, cot
ton. declined to eight cents. This sum-
mer, when the crop Is known to be not
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and baling, so that the stamp OF South
Carolina will be accepted the world
over at its face value as a guarantee
Of merit.
It is recognized as a vital business
principle today, that consolidation,
not competition, is the foundation OF
wealth, because 1t reduces the cost or
production and makes for efficiency
and economy in placing commodities
on the market.
Fellow farmers, 1t is only in our
business where the old-time brutal
law of "the survival of the fittest" re-
mains of force. We alone are COM
petitors, one with the other, in the
markets of the world. With the SOW
ereign power of the state government
behind them, let the cotton planters,
with due regard to the laws Of supply
and demand, market their cotton only
when demand ensures a fair profit,
taking care Of the surplus as do the
producers Of iron, copper, coal and
other standard necessities of life.
Cotton Corner stone of international
Finance.
The marketing of cotton is Of
world wide import, because, since the
adoption Of the gold standard, cotton
has become the very cornerstone Of
international finance. 1t Is through
cotton that the United States controls
the balance Of the worlds trade, and
the south, having natural monopoly
Of it's production, has 1t in her power,
through wisely directed effort, to
largely dominate the finances Of the
United States, instead Of occupying
the subservient position she does to-
day.
What Fixes the Price?
Political economists are agreed that
the price Of commodities always ad-
Vances or declines automatically as the
measure of value increases or de-
creases. If the quantitative money
theory then be correct it means that
If the supply Of gold increases in pro-
portion to the increase in business
transactions, that prices hold steady
and prosperity reigns; per contra, with
a diminishing gold supply, and an in
creasing volume of business, prices
decline and hard times come
Applying these basic principles to
cotton, what do we find?
1st. Cotton is an export crop, the
surplus sold abroad fixing the price of
that which enters into domestic con-
sumption.
2n This being true, the price of
cotton is fixed not in relation to the
supply of gold i'm the United States,
but in the cotton manufacturing CEN
ters abroad.
There is no other great world crop
bearing just the relations to the finan-
cial system that cotton does. Wheat
grain, wool and meat are worldwide
products. a failure in one region is
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said other mills shut down at noon. The
mills closed to allow the operatives to
hear the candidates and large part
of the campaign crowd was of the mill
boys" There are five cotton mills In
Gaffney. Twenty-Five extra policemen
were employed for the day and good
order maintained throughout the
meeting.
Opening his speech with defense of
his pardon record, especially in the
pardon of George Hasty, the Gaffney
man who killed two actors in this city
in 1907, Governor Blease said he was
not sorry he pardoned Hasty, who, he
said, was a poor man, without friends
and influence, and he called on those
who did not blame him for pardoning
Hasty to hold up their hands. A large
number of hands went up and many
cheered. Governor Blease said that
William Thurmond, Jones's campaign
manager, had killed a man In Edge
field, and Leroy Springs had killed a
man in Lancaster county, both being
acquitted because, the governor said,
they had money and influence.
Governor Blease caused laughter
when he told of a secret order" meet
ing i'm Gaffney. at which he said the
Jones people had assembled to talk
politics. and they asked all in the hall
who did not favor Jones to retire
What sort of secret order was that?'
asked the governor. There was APP
plause. but one man In the crowd rr-
marked that the story was all a lie
Governor Blease referred to the let
ter published in the morning papers
from Senator Tillman. in which tn
| senator referred to the political situ-
| alton in this state, and he said Sena
| tor Tillman was giving Jones some
good advice"
| I'm glad somebody has given hin
| advice, for he needs It," said the gov
ernor, and he continued:
| Uncle Ben says the slush they are
pouring out is going to re- elect Bleas':
| That's poor consolation for Ira. Bu
it's the best he could do on this occa-
sion"
| A fence with score Of men on Il
crashed to the ground and five minute
later another bunch of men went dowr
with a falling fence. When the con.
sternation had subsided, the governor
said: Il must be having a terrible ef.
feet on these Jones fences around here
| The governor said the reason tht
newspapers gave accounts Of the cam
paign meeting in Lancaster which
were favorable to Jones was that Mr.
Charlie Jones had sent the reporters {
bottle of happy water" and they hat
to make the reports complimentary tt
'Happy's Pa"
| When Governor Blease ended hal
dozen young ladies came to the stant
and presented him with flowers, ONT
placing large floral horse shoe
around his neck. During this presen
tation ceremony the band played
Dixie" and the crowd cheered Justify.
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Fellow Citizens:
At the annual meeting Of the State
Union, held in Columbia on the 23rd
and oath of July, the undersigned
were instructed to issue an address to
the people on cotton marketing and
to draft bill for introduction at the
next session Of the general assembly,
which will be in conformity with the
recent decision of the supreme court
on the state warehouse act.
A Vital Principle.
We herewith submit a measure en-
bracing not only a state owned and
operated warehouse system, but also
intended to standardize cotton grading
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LET COTTON PRO-
DUCERS BE FREE.
Farmers Union Issues Stirring Address tC
People of South Carolina.
AN APPEAL TO THOSE WHO LABOR.
By Means of State ad Those Who Create the Wealth OF the
Country May Secure to Themselves the Proceeds OF the
Sweat of Their Own Brows.-New Warehouse Bill in Con-
formity With Decision of Supreme Court

world from the banks Of the Hague to
the banks Of the Hudson and maze
Morgan, not Rothschild. its king,
Each year the foreign balance Of trade
Is Just about equal to the value of
southern cotton sold abroad.
Has the time come when southern
genius and southern craftsmanship is
equal to the task offered us Of God?
Can we turn to our own advantage an
opportunity greater than any people
have had since Canaan was offered
free gift to the children Of Israel?
At present we make brick without
straw" and the hand Of the task
master" is heavy. Our crop is pro-
duced and the expenses are paid, not
in money, but credit paper, whose re-
demption in gold is unheard OF; at
least 80 per cent Of all the business
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II Was safe.-The captain of a mer-

II Was Safe-The captain Of a mer-
chant vessel gave an Irish seaman his
spyglass, Of which he was very proud
and told him to clean 1t carefully
Pat met with an accident during the
cleaning, and went to the captain
asking:
Captain, will yez tell me IL a thing
can be said to be lost whin one knows
where 1t is?"
Lost when one knows where 1t is .
said the captain. 'why, Of course not
How foolish you are, Pat"
well, sor," said Pat then vel
spyglass is safe. for 1t is at the bottom
Of the sea-"
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with the help of friends arm could
crawl a few yards. BY degrees the
pain grew less, and by the time
reached home / had begun to take
little interest in life, but for months /
had to be very gentle with myself. I
have never since been so strong as I
was before and have come to know
the meaning Of the word tired" some.
thing I did not know before her lady
ship took hold Of me.
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08The late Archbishop Ryan, of
Philadelphia, was accosted one day
by a drunken panhandler. who asked
for a dime. The archbishop gave him
the dime and said: MY friend, don't
you think 1t would be possible for
you to walk in the straight and mar
row path?"
The panhandler Strengthened up.
who? Me?" he asked. "Show 1t to
me. l used to be a tight-rope walk
err"
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WHAT IS SLANG7

Examples Of the Rapid Change Ian.
suase is Undergoing.
Dictionaries give so many definitions
Of slang that 1t isn't easy to under
stand just what 1t is Slang seems to
be the intelligent expression Of today,
which Is certain to become the classic
of tomorrow. 1t is far from pleasing,