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ALONE AT POLE L H Peaf Acmaied by On Es Fial Dash Over the Ime E APPEARED AS FROZEN SEA Peary Endeavored to Get %oundng% 'But at l.30 Fathoms Got no Bot- t] to.-Cornsondents May Take Explorr Aboard Steamer to HUrry Home. A dispatch from Battle Harbor. Labrador. says the following details t of Commander Peary's journey to i the North Pole have been gleaned a from members -f the expedition on board the steamer Roosevelt: The only men to reach the Pole were Commander Peary and one Eskimo. Eging Wah. by name. The other white members of the various parties that left Capt Columbia were sent back one by one as Mr. Peary drew nearer daily to his ob ject. Mathew Henson.' Mr. Peary's negro attendant, and three Eskimos. the only other members of the reduc ed party that made the final dash. were left on the march south of the Pole. At S5.38 the party consisted of Mr. Peary. Capt. Bartlett. Matthew Henson. a negro man, who has been Mr. Peary's personal assistant on so many of his expeditions. the Eski mos. seven sledges and sixty dogs and the journey north was resumed. The ice was perfectly level as far as the eye could see. Capt. Bartlett took the observa tion on the Sth parallel on April 3. and then reluctantly returned. leaving Mr. Peary. Henson and the Eskimos with provisions *for forty days to make the final dash to the Pole. This reduced party started on April 3. The men walked that day for ten hours and made twenty mIles. Then they slept near the 89th parallel. The Pole was reach ed on April 6. and a series or obser vations were taken at 9 0. -. Mr. Peary deposited his records and hoisted the American fag. The temperature was 32 degrees below The Pole appeared as a frozen sea. Mr. Peary tried to take sound Ings, but got no bottom at 1.500 fathoms. Mr. Peary stayed at the Pole for thirty-fonr hours and then started on his return journey on April 7. -.Ha't Dr. Cook's Records. A dispatch from New York says the following wireless and cable message has been received in that city: Battle Harbor, Labrador. via Cape Ray. N. F.. September 12. "I have no knowledge of Dr. Cook's having given Mr. Whitney any records. There ''are no Cook records on the Roosevelt. (Signed) ''Pary." In Copenhagen. Dr. Frederick A. 'Cook declared that he had given to Harry Whitney, the wealthy young 2 big game hunter, part of the records ofo his observations on his return from the North,Pole to Etah. Green - land. Dr. Cook asserted that sdr. Whitney would bring the :records to this country. -. Commander Robert E. Pears on his return from the Pole, a year * subsequent to that of Dr. Cook. picked up Mr. Whitney at Etah, and we bringing him south on the ,Roosevelt when they met the relief * ship Jeannie.- to which Mr. Whitney was transferred to continue his hunting for a few weeks in Balmn s bay.. It was confidentally expected by Dr. Cook's supporters here that Mr. hitney had turned these records over to Commander Peary, and that the latter would bring them to this country with him. While It Is certain that Comxmand er Peary will receive a notable re - eption on his arrival In New York City, all planas are merely tentative, as noth~g definite is yet known as to when he will reach that city. One report states that the Roosevelt will be able to leave Battle Harbor be fore the end of this week, while eanother states that It can hardly de part from there before the end of 'the month. In any event. New York antici - pates the livlest few weeks In many years, when the rival explorers do come. Dr. Cook is due on September -21. and four days later the Hudson Fulton celebration begins, and in this, It is expected, that Polar argu ment, will be forced to a conspicuous position. The filfeeling between the more ardent supporters of Command er Peary and Dr. Cook Is character mzed by much bitterness and harsh language. Many of them are urg ing the publication of accusations and recriminations and the fight promises to create much enduring unpleasantness. Killed by ightning. c The Sumter Watchman and South ron says: "Slimon Mickens and another negro man were killed by lightning Friday afternnoon while riding on a wagon load of cotton, which wJ being carried from the 4eld to the gin house on the farmt of Mr. T. H. Clarke. near Mecans a ville. Another negro who was lying .between the two, who were killed. was shocked and burned but escaped serious injury. Two white boys. tao sons of Mr. Bradley. who were id ing on the wagon escaped unhurt."~ y Yachtsman Drowned.f By the capsizing of a small yacht. in which lie and R. H. Ripley were J salling. Frank Richardson. of Ports- jA mouth. Va.. was drowned in the N Elizabeth Siv.er Sunday. The trag. ri edy was caused, it is said, by swells A caused by a passing steamer. Another Terrible Flood. Another terrible flood has visited El the Jamillepec district In the State gi of Qaxaca. Mexico. Sugar planta- A tions and mills have been destroyed, ce hundreds of head of cattle have been pr killed and scores of farm laborers et UAP TO ESCAPEFAMS L7NDR'ED HAVE CLOSE CALL WHEN HOTEL BV'RNED. atire Ground Floor is Ablaze When Flames Are Dirovered - None Hur Seriously in Jumping. A dispatch from Edgemere. Long land, says in a tire which destroyed ie Holmeshurst Inn there before iylight Monday morning seventy re guests and twenty employees ex erienced exciting and narrow es Lpes. The fire. which the proprietor Lid. was of incendiary origin, start I in the basement and worked up irough the frame structure so rap Ily that the entIre first door was blaze before the guests were given ie alarm. While most of the guests were ble to leave by -tairways. half a ozen. among them two women. leap d from a second-story balcony. but -ere not seriously hurt. The guests were cared for in eighboring cottages. The hotel uilding was valued at 375.000. William Holmes. son of the owner. an to his mother's room on the econd door and found his escape ut off by a wall of dames. They rere forced to Jump, but were not urt. An elevator boy ran his car ntl the fames stopped the car. METHOD TO MARKET CROP. ;ew Oreisas Cotton Dealer Has New Plan. A dispatch from New Orleans says V. B. Thompson. president of the Cew Orleans cotton exchange and tead of the cotton firm of W. B. 'hompton & Co.. of that city. has ssued a circular letter to farmers. rherein he offers a new p-an for he marketing of the cotton crop. fe urges farmer. to market their rops at the rate of 10 per cent a nonth. According to Mr. Thompson his would create a stable market or botb buyer and selier. Mr. Thompson says in part: *'Let the producer of cotton mar Let 10 per cent of his crop each nonth for 10 months. An instant >t reflection will convince any :houghtful man that whether the -rop on the market be large or small Ltd whether a hundred planters or L hundred thousand employ the nethod. the result will be better Ihan if the crop were sold at onct >r the attempt made to hold it all. [f the plan is good for one planter It is good for all. and if all or any treat number of planters adopt it, .he problem of marketing the crol s solved." WANTS HIS NECK BROKEN. &. White Fiend Attacks a Young Negro Girl Twice. A special to The Nerws and Courtet from Spartanburg says an unknarti wrhite man attempted to makea eriminal assault on a young colored girl at East Spartanburg Saturday afternoon. He was caught by th4 father of the girl and given a severe whipping and then reieased and told to leave the country. Il Is said that this is the second at. tempt of the kind by the man. and the white people of the commaunit: regret that the girl's father let hirr get away. claiming that he should bave been turned over to the au thorities, The assault caused the report to he circulated In the clty that a race riot was on. and thE leputy sheriff and a large crowd of :ltizens hurried out to East Spartan burg to prevent trouble. CITY MARSHALL KILLEn By a Blow Fronm Young Man Hi Had Put t'nder Arrest. At Jesup. Ga.. Marshal G. B. Pope wras killed Saturqay afternoon .by a blow over his heart in a 4.aper ite struggle with Edward Tyre, Brantly Tyre and James Tyre. promi tent young white men, whom he was nttempting to arrest. It is not known which one of the Fyres Inflicted the fatal blow. All wrere arrested as ~by attempted tc .'scape. and logein Wayne coun :y Jail. Intense feeling exists against.the roung men. The officer was attempt. ag to arrest them on charges of lisorderly conduct. Brantly Tyre and James Tyre are ions of County Commissioner Geo. C'yre. Edward Tyre Is their cousin. TWO RLACK FIENDS SLAIN. fihey Entered a Lady's Room andl Shot and Killed Her. News of the killing of two negroes, alowing the slaying of a white roman. was receIved from Bellamy, lumber camp 20 miles west of )emopolis. Ala . Two negroes, tobert Gully and John Holly. Sun ay night ente:-ed the home of a nan named Gray. Mrs. Gray was wakened, and when she failed to .eed the order to stop screaming was hot and killed by' Gully. Gray rained the negro 'ith an axe, but ot before Gully had shot him In be leg. Holly was captured later nd was made quick work of by a osse of Gray's neighbors. Negro Proves a Hro. At Atlanta. Ga.. the home of S. -Bailey.. with Its contents, was estroyed by fire Saturday. the roof tIling when the fire was first dis >vered. The- family of Mr. Bailey arely escaped in their night robes. fter the roof began crumbling, ary. the six-year-old daughter. was scuzed by the daring bravery of 'eldon Wray. colored. Puta Ban on Cigarettes. By the will of W. Hf. G. Grevel, ed for probate a fey' days ago. his andson. Grevel W. E. Acker of lantic Highlands. N. J.. is to re jve an estate valued at 325.000 ovided he does not smoke a cigar to from now until he Is 25 years SHOW LARGE GAINS POSTAL STATISTICS SHOW PRO GRESS IN MANY TOWNS. P South Carolina Compare-s Well With All Sectioes of the United States in Thrift. Figures that are now being pre pared in the office of the auditor of the postoffice department in Wash ington reveal an interesting story of the commercial growth and de velopment of the various towns in South Carolina durlug the last twelve months. These figures, bas ed upon reports from the postmasters ,n different parts of the State. are due to reach the jau4tor's office soon after the close of each fiscal vear on June 30. but as may be ex ;ected there are many delays in such uatters, consequently this year it rill be several weeks before com plete returns are available. Enough information. however. has been received to indicate in the :learest possible manner that wher 'ulI returns are made South -aro Ina will make as good a showing as any State in the Union. with the ex :eption of Texas. Oklahoma and wome parts of the far West. where :owns of 5.000 or 10.000 inhabitants ometimes spring up over night. rhe latter, however, are not count ed by the postotfice department as good evidence of the real growth ->f the country. for the reason that they are just as liable to disappear -,uddenly with the discovery of gold or some other precious metal some where else as they are to be put in full blast between suns. Inquiry of the postoffice depart nent offictals shows that during the last year the towns and cities in ';uth Carolina that have probably nade the most noted progress are. In the upper part of the State: Spartanburg. Greenville. Anderson ad Greenwood. Of these four it Is probable that Spartanburg is in the lead. and that when the returns ire in it will be seen that she has Daade a slight advancement over the three other places. In the Pied mont fection there are several small er mill towns, like Gaffney. Pied mont and Pelzer. that have also made excellent returns and have made substantial headway. Laurens and Union have tabout held their former positions. Further down the State Newberry has made a small gain, as is the case with Columbia, though in the latter case the Increase will not be so marked as in the smaller towns. Postal receipts in Orangeburg and Sumter have probably been consider ably increased during the last twelve months. and Florence has also made substantial headway. In the Pee Dee section. Darlington and Marion have made good records, and the race between the other towns in that of the State for the lead In increased postal business is a close one. An interesting feature mn connec tion with these figures is that the iaaller towns in the State have probably made larger increas ds with respect to their relative pop talation than the larger places, in dticating that many persons are com ing to the former from the country. lecause of the new cotton mills be ing constantly erected. :These flgures. however, do not Itake into account the large increases at the various mill towns in the State, where there are only one or two factories, because figures for these offices are not obtainable. If they could be secured they would make a most interesting story of the commercial growth and prosperity of the small towns. FATAL 'SQE-ITO BITE. Causqes Blood Poison Which Cannes Death of a Lad. Six-year-old Freddie Limburger of 141 Terrace place, Westchester. N. J.. died Friday of blood poisoning brought on from scratching mosquito bites on his legs. Going out into the woods to gather flowers the first of the month. Freddie was terribly bitten by mosquitoes. He kept scratching himself with ' finger naile, and on September 3 it be came necessary to call Dr. W. C. Deming of St. Raymonds -avenue, Westchester. One leg began to swell and it was soon apparent that blood poisoning bad set in.* Religious Sentiment Growing. The pessimists who have loudly1 proclaimed that this is a godless atfd churchless nation get no comfort from the United States religious census for 1906. just issued. Nearly 33.000.000 church members, being 39.1 per cent of the population, as< against a little over 22.000.000 mem bers representing 32.7 per cent c the population in 1890 does not look t as if the American people have lostt faith in God or are living unright eous lives. Of course some of this membership is "not working much< at it." as the boy said of the man c whose practice did not square with his profession, but that has alwaysr been the case. It is also true that much or this membership is not reg- a ularly attendant at church services. i Yet allowing for all this the fact re -I1 mains that the religious sentiment of z the people is strong and steadily a '~creasing. The Preacher and Editor. g A preache~r came at a newspaper mao in this way: You editors do 0 not tell the truth. If you did yout could not live: your newspapers C would be a failure. The editor re plied: You are right and the min- ~ ister who will at all times and under 0 all circumistances tell the whole S truth about his members, alive or dead, will not occupy his pulpit long. t Tbe press and the pulpit go band in a hand with whitewash brushes and pleasant words, magnifying little vir- ? tues into big ones. The pulpit. the it pen, and the grave stonei are the great saint-making triumvirate. di And the great minister went away h. looking very thoughtful while the +: editor turned to his work, and told te of the unsurpassing beauty of the s bride. while hi fact she was as home- Im &WFUL DISEASE ! Aagra is Spreading Rapidly Throughr the Sutih and West. EW MENACE TO AMERICA ledical Science 1% Working to Dis cover the Secret of the Terrible Plague That Has Invaded the United States and Which is CauL. ed by Eating Corn. Appearance in the United States of bat mysterious _disease. pellagra. ractically a new and hitherto un amiliar kind of leprosy. and which. hough introduced but recently. is preading with great rapidity. may ell excite alarm. says Rene Bache n the New York American. It is disease.among the most frightful nown to mankind-whichi already laims about one million victims. ow surviving. in the Old World. Over there it pursues. in nearly 11 inrtances. a slow course. killing he sufferers very gradually. But a this country it becomes unique Lnd is often a swift destroyer, the ymptoms being "telescoped. as one night tay. so that the whole course f the m-dady may be run within a ew weeks, terminating in death. To cal! it a "nev- brand of lepro .y. is by no means inappropriate. 3ut. in truth. it is worse-much orse. Not only does it transform he skin of the body in to a yellow tnd parchment-like covering, crack -d and beset with foul and ulcerous ores. but it directly assails the tem >le of the mind, reducing the patient .o a condition of insanity or idiocy. Until recently the disease, its iame compounded from two Italian words. "pelle." skin, and 'agra." rough-has been regarded as pe cu.liar to the Old Worl$ though L few sporadic cases of it have ap peared from time to time in Mexico nd South America. Suddenly and nexpectedly it invaded the UnIted tates-the first sickness of the tind being reported only a few years ago in Georgia. Now quite as sud enlX it has spread throughout most f the Southern States and, worse still. because of the difference in limate, it has attacked the Middle West. - Fifty cases have been fount! at the Peoria. Illinois. State Hospital alone. and Captain Joseph F. Siler, f the Army Medical Corps., sent there to investigate. has reported to the government that he be-leves the malady has long prevailed, n.t only around Peoria. but throughout Illinois and the great corn growing States of the West. For it is in corn that the cause of the disease, whatever it may be, lurks. The malady Is neither contagious nor infectious. That is to say. one person cannot ''catch it" or "take It" from another. Eac.h individua: case originates from the moldy corn direct. In all likelihood, the mis chief-making fungus starts its work in the cornfield, where Its spones fall, upon the ripening ears and grow.' But even this is not a certainty. It mry be asked, why does not. cooking kill the "ingus germns? So in all likelihood it does. But the poison manufactured by the fungus is what makes the trouble, and ap parently this is not deprived of its toxic efficiency by high temperatures. That boiling does not render it harm less Is shown by the fact, already mentIoned, that alcohol distilled from spoiled maize will -cause the isease. The spores of the fungus start olones in the ir-testine, and the poison they produce Is taken up by blood and thus carried to all parts of the body. It is in effect a drug. particularly injurious to the brain and nervous system generally 'hence the profound effect of the isease upon the mentality. This ef ect, like the purely physical symp toms. Is progressive, and frequently terminates in Idiocy or insanity. When it is said that the disease s due to something in moldy or musty corn nearly. all has been said that Is really knowni of the cause. t Is true that at the M1eridian Rospital. in afississippi. a new and unknown bagillus has -been isola ted after investigation into a num ber of cases of the disease, but whether this is the real microbe of pellagra. whether there is a mic obe or whether the malady is due o some vegetable growth that en .era the blood through the corn, Is lot actually known, Nor is it likely that an effective 'emedy will be found until the cause s definitely ascertained. The Italian hery. and the one commonly ac epted, Is that it is caused by "a ungus parasitic on maize or by a ~tomane developed by its putrifac ion" Fungus and ptomaine remain o be discovered, Nobody that has ever handled orn can have failed to notice that <casional ears are moldy. Perhaps nly a few of the grains are affected, .nd. as a matter of fact, these are emove'd in process of preparation or the table'; or, if the grain be heled by hand, only the good part taken for the bin. This. in the itter case, is a precaution obviously ecessary. inasmuch as a small mount of moldy corn may do a reat deal of damage in the bin, brough the spreading of the fun us.I It is in the Southern States and the Mliddle West that the bulk of omparatirly little of it is eatena other parts of this country. For-a erly. in both sections. the supply i corn meal came entirely fromt nal local mills, the grain for I hich was "shucked" by hand. For t is reason none of it was moldy: d consequently the flour made em it was wholesome, containing disease germs. Those who are were safe from "pellagra." Today. however, there is a very ii fferet state of affairs. Tbe South s given up growing corn on any I :tensive scale, and is pianting cot- e n instead. But the people of that tion are still eating as much corn a! as ev.'r. obtaini:g the produt' I: reat mills in Chicago. St. Louis. incinnati and other cities. by ma hinery. The ears are "shucked' y machinery, which pays no atten ion to bad ones, and throws the aoldy grain in with the rest, to be .fterwards ground. Formerly the corn used for mak ng meal in the South was never :ept in big bulks. Today. on the >ther hand. it is customarily handled n enormous bulks-600 buyels to L car, and thousands of bushels in one bin. Under such conditions. es >ecially if any moisture be present. he mass is liable to "heat." and he fungus from the moldy grain ;preads with great rapidity. Thus s may be taken for granted that the Lornmeal which comes to market nowadays is more or less liable to e infected with fungus. No wonder hen, that In the States where corn meal is a large item of the daily liet a disease positively known to arise from the eating of moldy corn should have made its appearance. It is by no means to be supposed th'at the fugi which attack corn are Mll of them. or even most of them. -angerous. Presumably, they are. is a rule, quite harmless. But among them there must be some species of a "pathogenic" character. which produces the disease known as peliagra. When sufferers from the malady in its early stages are deprived of corn. and fed on other grain, the symptons disappear. Summed up. the symptoms com trise progressive emaciation. brittle ness of the bones. fatty degeneration of the internal organs (especially the heart, liver, kidneys, spleen and lungs), inflammation of the brain and spinal cord. nervous troubles and the frightful affection of the skin already mentioned. These conditions become progres sively worse. There are evidences of mental weakness, with great depres sion of spirit. Children are sad of face and :ook like old men or wo men. Young women rapidly take on the aspect of ancients. Emaciation sets in. with increased physical weakness. The Akin becomes red. with sensations of burning and itch Ing. and usually some puffiness. Blisters appear, scattered over the surface: the spidermis dries and falls in grayish scales. Later on th skin becomes thickened and of a dir ty yellow or yellowish-green color. hard and rough, with painful cracki and crusts. or even ulcerations. Finally. it becomes parchment-like, with entire loss of elastictly. The condition, in a word. so fa? as this feature of the complaint ib concerned. is what a layman would describe as leprous. It is not lepro sy. however. A suggestion has Ne made to the effect that the leprosy described in the Bible was actuall pellagra. but there is no reason ft such a theory. Undoubtedly pella gra is a modern disease, corn having been unknown in ancient times Maize. of course, is of Americ.r origin, and it is safe to say that the Indians, who were large users of corn meal long before the days of Columbus did not use moldy graiz In its manufacture. In the later stages of the malady, sufferers become either partly Im beeile or deranged. Sometimes they entertain delusions of persecution or of religion. Melancholia leads te dementia, and they try to commit suicide, or in some instances exhibit a homicidal tendency. Not infre quently they refuse food. Their heads tremble and their gait is para lytic. Last scene of all is a combi nation of starvation, helplessness, heart weakness. dropsy and delirium, ending in death. Occasionally blood poisoning, or even galloping con sumption of the lungs, sets in at the cloree. Pictures have been sent to Dr. Elle Metchnikoff. the famous Rus sian scientist who Is now studying it. It is also under investigation at John Hopkins University in Bal timore. Such is pellagra-certainly one of the most frightfu~l physlcal afflictions known to mankind. LITTLE GIRL IS MURDERED. Two Other Chidren Badly Wound. ed-No Clue to the Crime. A dispatch from Utica. N. Y., says a crime for which there, at present, appears to be no explana tion. was committed against three Jtalian children there a few nights ago. They are Theresa Procipo, seven years old, who is dead, shot through the heart: Fannie Infusino. six years old. badly wounded in the arm, and Freddy Infusino, two and a halt years old, shot through the bowels and will die. There appears to be absolutely no explanation as to why the children were shot. The children had been missing since 7 o'clock Sunday evening, when they were seen talking with an unknown man. An Uncertain Life. Because of rome little success gained in amateur plays many young people, misled by the plaudits of their friends, have gone upon the stage only to be bitterly disappoint ed at their histrionic failure and meagre empensation. Instead of the popularity they expected to win they have had to be content with insgnificant parts and small salary. How small most salaries are in the theatrical profension is indicat ed by the German government report >f salaries paid actors and actresses n that country. Only ten in every nundr- get more th~an $750) a year. anhile forty-five per cent actually re elve less than $S50. Doubtless salaries are somewhat higher in this 'ountry, but ro are expenses. The lesse~n to be drawn from this s that unless one has pronounced end rare ability they should never tLllow the glamnor of the footlighrs! o wean them from other occupa ions, in which the compensation is air, to the uncertain and generally inremunerative life of the stage. White Men Convicted. At Columobia In the circuit court. .onnie Hall and John White on trial or the nu.rder of Eber Ashford. rera convicted of manslaughter. W'hite was given twelve years and fall ten years. Hall broke down and* ried.. The me'!ium who does not work a spirited way doesn't seem to, GOODS S06: Perys Bgaka Cafimu COWkS Stat mntofthe Looting o His Sr. PEARY BADLY EQln Dr. Cook's and Franke's Collection of Relics Were Taken by Peary Admiral Schley Endorses Dr. Cook as Does Capt. Osborn. Secretary of the Artic Club. A dispatch from St. John's, N. F., says Alan Whitten. who was bo'at swain of the Peary auxialiary steam er Frik in 1905 sud again In 1908. adds his quota to the polar contro versy. On his expeditions he saw much of Peary and knew of Peary's plans. He was also on the Erik in the summer of 1907 when she lay for a week in Sydnev alongside the schooned Jno. R. Bradley. In which Dr. Cook was starting for the pole. Whitten says that the Bradley was abundantly equipped for Cook's ex pedition. having supplies for at least three years. He confirms the charges made by Dr. Cook at Copenhagen that Peary's people took Dr. Cook's provisions, adding that not only did the crew of the ship take Cook'a stores at Etah. but that boats were sent to Annatok. thirty miles distant. to remove Cook's provisions which were stored there. Whitten admitted however that he did not know if this removal was by arrangement between Franke, who was left in charge of the provisions and Peary or Peary's representatives. The boatswain also made the statement that both Franke's and Cook's collections of ivory and skins. some of them very valuable. likewise were taken. He said that the trou ble with Peary's previous expeditions had been the lack of supplies. In stead of remaining away for three years. Commander Peary was com pelled to return after about fifteem months. the real reason, Whitten de clared. that he did not have enough supplies to remain longer. Naval Offeers Endorse Cook. A dispatch from New York says previous assumption that Comman der Peary would have the United States Navy solidly b-hind him watt not borne out in a letter from Rear Admiral Schley. made public by Capt. B. S. Osborn. secretary of the Artic Club of America. of which: Dr. Cook is a member. The letter under date of September 11 from Pocono Manor, Pa.. runs In part as follows: "I like Cook's attitude immensely in this unfortunate, unnecessary and unwise controversy. He certainly has been dignified and manly in the stand he has taken in this'matter. Capt. Osborn followed up his let ter from the admiral with a lecture on "Who Discovered the North Pole?"' "Dr. Frederick A. Cook." he said. "was for two years my wife's phy .sician. I saw him two or three times a week and we chatted many hours. If I hare ever kubwn a man of integrity, probity, sincerity and modesty. It is Cook. "have known also the other r'an konhim to depart from truth by large margins." It is now admitted by Peary him self, that only one Esquine was at the pole with him. Cook had three with him. SOME TIMELY HINTS. How Merchants Can Make Advegh tising Win Business. One principal of successful ad vertising, as practised by depart ment stores ad writers and other specialIsts on publicity, is to give definite descriptions of :goods of fered. When a merchant uses such ]phases as "The best Is the cheap est" and "Biggest assortment and lowest prices." he convinces no one. The reader argues that anyone can use these catch words and that they prove nothing. Try instead to help your readers get a mental picture of your goods. For this purpose try definite and de tailed. though very brief description. Get manufacturers of yodr lines to cive you some definite thets abe't how the goods are put together. so that you can give some real reasons why goods are superior. Pick out some special bargains. describe themn as above indicated. and put in the price and the real value you believe them ~to have. Don't bother about flowery language. What the buyer wants is cold facts. 'Reason why" advertising is what brings the buyer around. Prices are the best argument of all. Oftentimes all thar- is desir able is a word or two of description, with price and real value in cold type. Orangeburg merchants can double their values by -judicious, persistent advertising in the local newspapers. They should try it. Child Killed by Train. Annie Bell Ramsay, aged 13, while on her way to the Laurens cotton mills at 6 o'clock Saturday morning, was run over and fatally injured by a detached string of fiat cars on the Columbia. Newberry & Laurens railroad, death ensuing one hour later. She was walking on the track and being partially deaf did not hear the approaching train behind her in time to escape. Building Collapsed. By the collapse of a three-story building at North Sawyer and Mil aukee avenue. Chicago. Friday. two men were killed and twenty were se riously injiured. A numbe'r of work men at first reported missing were later acco'rted for. " - Got the Cash. At Neosho Falls. Kansas. three 1 rbbers Friday dynamited the safe< of the Neosho F?'is State bank and and escaped .j $3.000 in c'ash. 1' Te' rolbers e,.chasnged shots with the c'ity marsha!. The steeple climber says he seems 1 BAGGING ON C01TON IX POUNDS PER HUNDRED SHOULD BE PUT ON TO )oTer the Tare T4ken Of all Cot. ton by the Spinners and Other Barer. Again we would urge our cotton ,rowers to put on bagging and o the full 6 per cent limit is eason, says the Progressive Farmer. [f you put on less, than 6 per cent -that Is to say 30'pounds on a 500 ound bale, 27 on i 45-Opound bale, !4 on a 400-pound bale. and so on -it is simply a matter of giving the cdtton 'buyer good Jcotton worth 12 1-2 cents a pound when he is paying you only for bagging and ties averaging about 3 1-2 cents a pound. This is a natter our farm ers have been entirely too slow to understand. The gist of the whole matter Is -:Yaply this: Thu price of co' R is fxed by manucturers who buy on a basis of 6 per cent deductio. for bagging and ties. That is to say, they figure Qi 30 pounds tare for each 500-potijd balet and on each 500-pound bile, therefore, they allow a price for the gross bals.suf. fcient to pay for 470 pounds net of lint cottoL - In' other words, the price paid per pound for the whole 500 pounds is lofered so as to al low for 30 pounds. tare. Now, the average farmer instead of putting 470 pognds of lint cottaa and 30 pounds of bagging Into a 500-pound bale. puts in 473 pounds of cotton and 22 pounds of bagging thereby putting in S. et pounds of 12 1-2 cent cdtton worth $1, In stead of 8 pounds of bagcgi and ties worth 28 cents. Moraver, al ghe evidence goes to show that If the farmer does not ,put on full 30 punds tare to eaci 500-pound ba, 'the exporter adds the extra 8 or 10 pounds inaecond hand bagging anQ makes he estra dollar that really belongst to the farmer. At a meeting of foreign manufac turers with representattves of the Farmers' Union i Washington Cit a year or two ao.. the manufactur ers inquired: "Why is it thait when cotton leaves the farmers' gin It has only 20 to 2pounds-e tate, but has 31 pounds by the time .t reach es us?" This Is the espanati. Put on bagging to the fult 6 per cent limit. Mr...Ransom HAton.: a well known North Carolina cotton grower. Illustrates the matter very clearly' when hes y "Suppose you were carrying 4 box of meat to market and you' knew they would knock off thirty pounds from the gross weight for the keight of the box: wouldn't you be foolish to us only a 20-pound box Instead-give them- 10 pounds-of meat Instead of 10 pounds of bo?" Even so it Is with the farmer who gets pay for~ cotton, on a basis of 20 pounds deduction for bagging and ties, while be :pots on only 20 pounda. Put on all the bagging and ties that you can buy for 3 1-2 cents a pound and sell for 12 1-2 cents. Be sure, though, that you don ot put on more than 6 pounds of bag ging and flies for every hundred pounds of cotton-in a bale.* Neglect of the Fields. Mr. James J. Hill. addressing the American Bankers' .Association at Chicago Tuesday. uttered a warning against the complacent belief that is widely held that the Upited States feeds the world and is dependent up on no other country for the support of life among Its people, as so many other countries-Englanld as a not able example-are. "Unless," said Mr. Hill, "we can increas the agd cultural population and their pro duction. the question of a source of food supply at home will soon super sede the question of a market abroad. Mr. Hill cited the Increased tendency of the rural population to leave the fields and abandon agricul turaj pursuits and to seek city life. "This;' says the Charleston Eve ning Post," Is a favorite topic with this great railrciad builder of the Northwest, and he speaks - with authority and with convincing force upon it. Undoubtedly the energies of the nation and. the agencies of the government. as far -as they may be employed, are directed -toward the development of foreign markets pre eminently, to the negleet of and the growing disinclination of the people to agricultural pursuits. It Is well that someone Ifke Mr. Hill shorald make this mattee of agitation." The Post is right. but we are too busy chasing the elusive dollar to give heed to wise utterances like those of Mr. Hill. The Post very- truly says that "at Washington the whole scheme of the government, under the dispensation of the Republican party-which has had such an inordinarily long lease of power and bas iused it to such close advantage-Is directed toward ex poitation. rather than production. An artinicial condition has been cre ated by the high tariff system, which stmulates enery in channels created by law, rather than In those made by natural conditions of living. The opportunity for abnormally large irots In manufacturing and commer :ial activities m-ade by the tariff ends to subordinate the more staid yursuit of production from the soil, ad much of the best energy and the est talent that should find adequate 'mployment and - satis~factory comn ensation in skilled farming is at racted by the get-ricb glitter of tariff >rotected schemes. Mr. Hill is doing rel to give warning of the condition bat is coming upon us unless we nend our ways, * and the way in rhich we should 'mend ought to be mpressed by other powerful voices s w-ell.' Atack. Fwesch-Post in China. A dispatch from Saigon. French 'ochin. China. says a band of pirates der the command of Carinth, son f Dethan. recently attacked the 'rench post at Baron. Three mem er of the French force were killed od seven. including Captain Fon mine, were wounded. The pirates ere repulsed with the loss of ten ten killed. Even the color blind gir1 thinks e can tel! when her love' is tru PELLAGRA DUOAS LAID TO BE CAUSED BY THE USE OF WESTERN GROWN CORN it is Claimed That This Corn Has Not Time to Mature Well Before it is Ground. The dread new disease which first made its appearance in the South several years ago. has Invaded sev eral parts of the North. Fifty cas es are now under treatment in Pe oria. Ill. It has probably existed undetected In the North many years. Dr. Lavindar of the United States marine hospital service, has proved that pellagra caused the -death of two patients whe were supposed to have been scalded to death in the Bartonville. Illinois. Insan'e asylum In 1904 and 1907. They died in bath tubs and their bcolies looked like they had been boiled and the nurse who was in charge of the last case was dismissed for supposed criminal cardlessness. Dr. Lavindar says the appearance of being boiled alive is typical of the disease of pellagra and that death in the bath tubs was a mire conci dence. The result is that the nurse has been reinstated. Dr. Lavindar found forty cases In this asylum on his arrival there. The Knoxville Sentinel. ~referring to the theory that musty corn causes pellagra, expressed the belief some time ago that the spread of the dis ease was due to the use ':of care lessly selected corn ground by steam -olling mills instead of the coarse ground corn meal of water mills of the South. The view has bdn grow Ing in strength. Dr. William T. Woodley. of Charlotte, N. C.. has written The Observer on this sub ject. He blames the use of shock cured corn which. he says, is not given time enough to dry thorough ly before it is husked and market ed. He says that sixty days longer should be allowed to corn in the shock than to corn standing in the field. The season in the West is much shorp -ehan -in the South and the farmers push their work 11o as to get through With cleaning their fields before winter. Dr.. Woodley proposes, therefore, that mills be required to use only corn that has been cured under supervisian. Corn for the table should be cured with out stripping the fodder In order to give the ears all the nutriment pos sible. The amount of corn ground for human food is small compared with the total grown and it would be no great hardship to reguire the mills to be careful in selecting It. In commenting on the rapid spread of the disease, the Farmers' Union Sun- says here In the South. whose people have always been ad dicted to the use of corn-bread In some form or other. pellagrz was unknown until comparatively recent years. Before the war and long afterwards, we never knew or beard of a case that inidted any of the symptoms-of pellps'It 1k as now known and deserned a' very modern disease so far as ,it-qelates to the South, and 1ts present prevalence, If due to the use of corn. may be at tributed wholly to the South's aban donment of the ~cultivation of corn, turning Its attention to the single crop of cotton, and dependngr ex clusively for Its corn supply on the West. where the methodsk of har vesting and caring for corn crops are such as t' make corn an unfit article of food for man. - We read the other day that it is not an unusual thing for some Western farmers to turn their hor' into fields of corn which was regard ed as of Inferior quality. -We are confident that much of this kind of corn or the meal from it- is ship ped to the South and made into bread and eaten by the poorer class of our people among whome, espec lally those In mill aistricts, pellagra has appeared. We don't believe that Southern raised corn, harvested only when fully ripe, as was done In ante bellum times, and properly ground Into meal, will produce pellagra. If the disease is caused from corn. It is this Western corn and its pro ducts on which our people have been feeding ever since they got. the cot ton craze. Pellagra, then.- which is said to be spreading rapidly'through out the South. Is going to compel our people to go back to first prinei pies, in other words, force them to cut out Western corn and raise their corn supply at home. It seems that something just like this was requir ed to bring Southern farmers to their senses. Some people can be con vinced only by knock-down argu ments, And pellagra Is one that seems to be of that kind. The Sun is right. Corn has been the staple food of the South too long to allow any room for con demning it wholesale as h'as been done by hasty thinkers. But It was home-grown corn that was eaten and home-ground, too, until a few years ago when the markets ef the South were invaded by the product; of the steam rolling mill. The house keepers who Insist on geting the coarse meal of the local mill will probably make no mistake and may rest assured that they are eating one of the finest food-stuffs given by God. In the meantime there is no subject more urgent for the at tention Vf the pure foo4 experts than the corn meal on the market. Criticises Peary. . The Paris Temps severely criti is's Commander Peary's "broadcast accuatos" against Dr. Cook, as1 rel as his "general grandiloquent1 attitude." saying of it: "Pkary's, patrioic declaration about taking possession of pbe pole in the name of !be President of the United States :ontrasts strongly with the com~mer 'al spirit he displayed fn copyright ng the story."( Dead in His BUW. C Mr. 3. Warren Blakely. one of the F ost substantial citizens of Laurens b oonty. was found dead Ip _his buggy a ate Tuesday afternoon, the news of It; rhich spread rapidly over the city I nd county and caused many expres- D ons of regret. Death ~was in all robability due to heart failure, as hej -as well hben ho left howe. He was s