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____PICKENSCSEICKENS PIEDMONT. POU!EN Entered Apri 23% 1903 at Piciceum. sC- .ix .ie,.nd class nall tuater.aadrcoCfgs sinlrh .1 PICKENS, S. C., NOVEMBER 2, 111. g --- 41st YEA10- - ---- SE 4. TILLMAN IS NEUTRAL But Says If Judge Jones "Makes His Fight on Bleass Record He Will Win." In an interview with the rp prter for the Augusta Chron ide last Wednesday and pub li.hed in the daily papers Sena ier Tillman is quoted as saying: "The statement given by Gov. I lease at Barnwell Tuesday ontains nothing .new to me; r ,ait is only a r;-ite of a letter wrote him rcently, and in %\hich I wrote nothing to lead 4 Im to believe that I had any a'tention of doing otherwise in n the approaching gaberna torial contest, than I stated to von.when you were here a few - eeks ago; that is, that I intend i.) remain strictly neutral in the impaign," said Senator B. R. A- Tilman yesterday, at his home in Trenton, to a represei.tative of the Chronice. "I could. not affo: I ) take sides~ in the contest i both (ov. Blease and J:. ge Jones a r e personal a n d poilticial f riends of mine, and I have told .Lease that. I also told him at. if I saw reason to take ides againisshim at any time, I uld not knife him, u . before I told any one else." Senator Tillman smiled scer nl times. and winked, during 1 he reading of the article to him by the - newspaper man-he somehow had missed getting his paper yesterday. "It is going to be a close fihht," he said, "and Blease is losing no time. He is cam raigning now and has been for months. "He is keeping before the people and he is making friends, while Judge Jones is seemingly doing nothing yet. The news papers, somehow, always hive some kind of a stor3 --!Osi-t .lease, while you see veiy ; [ le about Judge Jones. "There- are two things in * lease's statement that he is isae in. though. "One is with regard to Rich *ards being in a fraie-up -to bi ing' Judge Jones out to oppose \.'anl. Why, I know that Rich erds was seriously considering ceitry into the race 'imself. It hsas been his ambition to be governor, and he thiought Jhat, vA ith my conditio sp~ sed to ise liable to ~pof at- any moment-j. could beat Blease asndl 3e gvernor, he would be in i''for promotion and be able tAo beat any other man; and he was one of the most surprised :men in the State when Judge iiones announced himself. jb"The other error Blease m kes is in saying that I was abc t to publish a letter indors ing h.p in 1910, but was per ::ade from it by a newspaper. "I 'd write a letter, such as s*e s ks of, butlIdid not pub lish it2. I changed my mind, e'-~ and no nor man con nected wi a new per, had any thing to do wit that lett' n)ot being published' - r it was wj-itten. "Howe ., i voted for Blease in 'nd primary. I voted 'rlRichards in the first. Commenting further on the :tuation, or as he called it, muddle," the senator said that because he had proclaimed neu trality, it did not follow that he must maintain an armed neu - trality. "But." he said, "if Tom Felder,.or any one else, goes be fore the legislature and proves actually proves-that Blease is, r-r has been, crooked, I'll take e.des quick and fight him; for Fouth Carolina is a proud State A and will not stand for rottenness if she knows it." "Senator, Gov. Blease says in his statement that there are no differences between you and him. Is that true?" was asked 'by the newspaper man. "There are no friendly, per so'nal difference between us, I suppose that's a at he meant." c The senator saia that he does - not know~ who is responsible for the candidacy of Judge'Jones, but that he had no idea, buh u.iat Judge Jones told the truth .. en Judge Jones said he. had b- m urged by letters and men a.. over the State to run, and to be governor and "in iine of promotion" for the senatorial toga, "if anything should hap pen to me." "Don't you think the attitude of the governor toward him as chief justice. and the clashes with him the go' nor has pre cipitated. had Sbifhing to do with his announcement?" Was asked. "Whv. If a man has any spirit and pugnacity in him at all, I should think he would want to get at the other fellow, under such circumstances-meet him on his own plane-and fight him. He has got to take the stump and fight-and he's got to use Blease tactics. If he does that, and makes his fight on Blease's record, he will win." The Cotton Situation. The present low price of cot ton is the result of one-sided manipulation. The speculators who would bear cotton on the New York exchange have the help of the manufacturers. Those who would bull it get help from no one. The South, by its own foolish legislation, is shut out from that exchange. Prices in New York effect prices in the spot markz-W The manufacturers are in no hurry to buy. Many of the producers are in a hurry to self. This is a time of the year when spots are generally sustained by futures and Southern lawmakers, in the exercise of a boundless stupidity h v7ii9Mle South out of the market for futures. The result is the price of cot ton is being hammered down in New York and the farmers of the South seeing the decline are sacriticing their crop, fearing it will go lower, and this sacrifice makes it go lower. In the late ninetien cotton reached its lowest point, though not lower than now in compari son of the prices of other com modities. The demand then grew more rapidly than produc tion and a succession .of five crops of less than 11,000,000 bales carried the price up. In 1905 a crop was gathered 225,000 bales in excess of the largt previous one. Cotton dropped until the farmers refused to sell,. but prices went up before the end of the year, and it was found that the world wanted nearly 13,000, 000 bales of cotton from the South.. Then camne a crop of a little less than 11,500,000 bales. It was marketed at prices ranging from 9.60 to 12.25 cents and the next crop, though 13,500,000 bales, only a shade less than the estimates of the present crop, brought from 10.70 to 13.55 cents. An alternation of small crops and large ones followed without great disturbance in the price. The present crop has been preceded by two inadequate crops. Last year's crop, though over 12,000,000 bales, was so far below the demand that the aver age prices was the highest in more than a third of a century, and the predictions for this year do not-promise an unprecedent ed yield. JhTsesi nothing in the law of supply and demand to justify the sale of cotton for less than 12 cents per pound, and it is safe to say that when the crop gets out of the hands of the farmers ft will go above 12 cents. They could send the price above that figure before Christmas if they would hold their cotton, but the situation is in their hands and no amount of talk will do any good. James 0. Patterson Dead. Aiken, Oct. 25.-Ex-Congress man James O'Hara Patterson died at his home in Barnwell early this morning. Mr. Pat terson has been in ill health, which *~a broken last year be fore the: campaign in which he was d i eated, and he never re covered . rom it. Mr. P tterson served this dis trict in Congress for three terms being elected to succeed the Hon. C. G. Croft, of this city. Last year he was defeated by James F. Byrnes, of Aiken. Why do you spend your money for inferior tobacco whea you can buy PEN1'S ?1 KflON freomS. Ere1 sam -price the commnon aWOilr s6st yoN ehse where. Comets Without Thns. The astronomers inform us that six comets are now ripping through our particular corner of the universe. Two of them are said to be visible to the maii of ordinary eyesight. Yet the world's work and play moves on undisturbed. This absence of alarm or even curiosity is more interesting than the comets themselves. A few centuries, or a few decades ago, the advent of a single comet was enough to arouse all the prophets of woe and to turn a good portion of the earth's t inhabitants topsy-turvy with apprehension. It may be that the comets have degenerated, or perhaps men view them through different eyes and dif ferent min. - However that may be, a 'emarkable change has evidently come about when t an entire crew of the sky pilots can swoop down upon our solar system without so much as making us blink our eyes or go to extraordinary preparations for the crack of doom. c The truth is, Halley's comet itself was, on the whole, rather disappointing. Its traditions were so splendidly terrifying 4 that the world looked for a mon c strous sight to be followed by all manner of tumult. By an old chronicler who had seen it in the sixteenth century, this comet was described in this wise: V "It appeared to be of excessive length and was of the color of blood. At the summit of it was e seen the figure of a bent arm, c holding in its hand a great sword, as if about to strike. At the end of the point there were three stars. On both sides of the rays of the comet. were seen b a great number of axes and 1 knives and blood-colored swords, b among which were a great num- C ber of wondrous human faces, with bears and bristling hair." Now, such a comet as that would be truly worth while. Everybody would respect it and g would come out to its perform ance. But in these piping times, b alas, six full-fledged comets can appear without bestirring as t2 much wonder or superstition as a rabbit's foot.-Atlanta Journal. C Coming In AlU Its Entirety. f Downie & Wheeler's World's Best Shows Combined will ex-- C hibit in Easley, S. C., Saturday, l November 3, one day only. A t] gigantic amusement enterprise. ( A whole city of people employed. 1 The strange colony of people, A handsome horses, rare wild ani- 1 mals and golden caravans are scheduled to arrive in the early hours of Saturday morning, ~ transported upon Downie & v Wheeler's own new special train '7 of cars. Circus day will begin ~ with a grand, glittering free. street parade at 10.30 a.' m.-a vision of beauty and splendor, ~ defying all competition or corn parson. The show has $50,000 ~ in chariots, tableau floats, mu sical vehicles, fanciful and his- I toric costumes and expensive odd things of distinctive parade use. It is now well understood that Downie & Wheeler's Cir cus Combined carry as many people, horses, wild animals and show properties as any other show traveling. There- is no question but that an immenseI crowd of people will be in Eas ley, as everybody wvill want to see the new big Combined Dou ble Circus. Its hundreds of spe cial and extraordinary features afford a day of rare enjoyment and valuable instruction to everybody. To the Corn Chih Boys. Gather your corn atccording to the rules sent yo.-. aind bring your exhibit to this office Nov. 11th, at 11 a. m. P of. C. B. Hadden, of Clemson College, is sending out report bla' ks to be filled out to every boy in the( club. If you do not receive one right away write him and one will be sent you. R. T. HALLWM~, Co. Supt. Secret Order Meetings. Masonic-A. F. & A. M. meets Saturday nights on or before the full moon Chapter-R. A. M. meets Fri. day nights on or~ after the full moon. K. of P.-Meets every Mon day, night after the fi'-st and tr Sundays. W. 0. W.-Meets every first and tJdTuesday nights. City .Council Jaeew4besday nightsnaftar'fiG Mndinvt 1'HE GINNERS' COTTON REPORT shows Largest Yield in History of the industry. Press dispatches f rom Wash ngton to -the (t-viville Daily ews says: Washington. Oct. 2.5.-Co ton rinning throughoid the South ince the pickinw of the crop of .911 began has been carried on vith greater activity this season han in any year in the history f the industry and has resulted n the unprecedented quantity f 7.740,634 running bales of otton ginned to October 18. 'he census bureau report issued t 10 o'clock to-day showed that reater quantities were ginned uring the season in every cot Dn state except Oklahoma. There were 31600) bales more han were ginned last year to he same date: 1,322,740 bales iore than during the record rop year of 1904, when 47.7 per ent. of the year's total crop of 3,697,310 running. bales were inned to October 18, and 1,444, 68 bales more than the big rop year of 1908, when 48.1 per ent of the year's crop of 13,432, 31 running bales were ginned ) that date. Throughout the growing sea >n various conditions caused ie crop -to,.n ture much earlier an in most previous years and arvest conditions have'beea xcellent in most districts of the tton belt. In Texas the ginning sur assed previous records by more ian 600,000 bales; in Georgia y 428,000 bales, in Alabama by 38,000 bales, in North Carolina y 129,000 bales, and in South !arolina by 132,000 bales. The census bureau's third cot )n ginning report showing th umber of bales of cotton of the rowth of 1911 ginned prior to Ictober 18 was issued at 10 a. m. )-day. The number of running ales, counting round as half ales, with comparative statis tcs to the corresponding date for de last three years and the per entage of the total crop ginned > that date in those years, is as allows: United States-7,740,634 bales, ompared with 5,423,628 bales Lt year, when 46.9 per cent. of de entire crop was ginned to actober 18; 5,530,967 bales in 909, when 54.9 per cent. was inned, and 6,296,166 bales in 908, when 48.1 per cent. was inned. The number of round bales acluded were 53,605, compared ith 66,183 bales last year, 88, 16 bales in 1909,- and 118,720 ales in 1908. The number of sea island bales icluded 40,034, compared with 5,691 bales last year, 36.482 ales in 1909, and :32,013 bales a 1908. Ginning by states, with comn arisons and the previous years, olows: tates. Years. Ginned labama.... .1911 834,637 1910 525,223 1909 512,323 1908 694,I04 trkansas. ...1911 277,978 1910 161.363 1909 330,884 1908 347,468 'lorida..... ..1911 42,875 1910 27.238 1909 35,006 1908 34,027 korgia.......1911 1,547,257 1910 912,612 1909 1,113,341 1908 1,119,228 ouisiana....1911 175,446 1910 113,770 1909 143,977 1908 207,992 bIissisip)pi....1911 :384,976 1910 358,851 1909 :390,096 1908 621,399 . Carolina..1911 438.466 1910 250,141 1909 255,040 1908 276,222 .klahoma....1911 394,012 1910 421,625 1909 329,429 1908 1:32,556 . Carolina...1911 703,931 1910 516,232 1909 624,301 1908 660,678 [enessee....1911 125,791 1910 57,769 1909 101,250 1908 131,073 [exas..........1911 2,694,067 . 1910 2,070,261 1909 1,675.428 1908 2.047,796 Jther states. 1911 32,198 . 1910 8,540 - 1009 19,892 1908 23,623 The'Pickens Sen tinel-$1 per rar int adv e. Anderson Power Company Sold. Anderson, Oct. 25.-The sale of the Savannah R ver Power Company, of Anderson, a million dollar concern that owns the Gregg Shoals power plant on the Savannnh river, and Cherokee falls, undeveloped. on the same river. to the Georgia Electric and Power Company of Atlanta, marks the biggest business dt-i consummalzlted in Sout h Carolina in many years. The Georgia company was chartered several days ago with a capital of $27,000,000. It has acquired the street railway and lighting plant in Atlanta, and some eight or ten developed and and undeveloped water falls in Georgia. The deal for the Anderson company was put through to day. The management and organization will remain the same for the present. This company furnishes electric power to Greenwood and Abbe ville and the Anderson Traction Company, Townsend's mill and the Cox mills, of this city. The purchase price is not stated. A Big Guano Concern. A dispatch from Richmond gives corroborative evidence of the organization of the Inter State Commerce Chemical Com pany, of Virginia, which will have headquarters in Charles ton, and which,has been talked about in fertilizing circles here for some tirie. Onlyjast week the daliy;.erpiss of the records of the .office oi' the register of mesne conveyaice showed the convevance of tb r Germofert companies to ,tiie Int46rae company of Virginia of the real estate and other property on Mechanic and Division streets and elsewhere in the county. All the property and rigths of the Inter-State ;Chemical Com pany, of New Jersey, were trans ferred to the Virginia corpora tion, and with these prelimina ries arranged, the way was paved for formal organizaiton of the big fertilizer company, which was effected yesterday. The holdings of the company wil be quite large in Charles ton and the new corporation, with its many plants in Green ville, Charlotte, Macon and ther ploces, will add to the yol ume of trade here. The im portation of the raw material alone at this port w~ill add to the imports as the outgoing tonnage will be increased. The corporation is capitalized at $7,250,000, taking rank among the big concerns of Charleston. The new corporation has ac quired the interests of W. B. Chisolm, of Charleston, who is president of the company, the Tilghman Phosphote Company, of Florida, as well as the (Ger nmofert Company. A number of factories are planned to-be ouilt and operated and the new fertilizing company will become an active compet itor in the market.-Charleston Post. Is Hard On Clemson. It is expected that the Clem son college income, derived from the sale of the fertilizer tax tags, will be cut down considerably by the low price of cotton. It is not probable that much fertil izer wIll be purchased because of the lack of money caused by the steady fall in the price of cotton, the South's great money crop. The report on the sales of fertilizers show that so far Clemson college has r.eceived $247,017.73- from the tax, as compared with $221,175.44 on the same date last year. The total amount received from the sale in 1910 amounted to $240, 098.95. It is estimated that the college will this year r'ce'ive about $265.000. There is a tax1 of 25 cents on every ton of ie~.rtil-' izer sold, and this means that the farmers of the State will use about 1,10"7,000 tons of fertilizers this year. Announcement has been made that an agricultural course of one year is to be established at Clemson college. This, as the opinion of W. W. Riggs, will enable many young men.:of the rural districts to attend who are not in a position to give -up four years to a regular co~e course. - The State. / WTanted - Sever of wood on subscript A Tramp's Eloquent Lecture. A tramp isked for a fret drink in a s doon. The r,-qu. was rinted, and wheii in 1i. act of drinkin:, th - proff-no beverage one of the -youan mei present said: "Stop. n tke us a speech. It is a poo:- li1wr 0h doesn't loosen a m m's tin on-u-.' The tramp hastily swillo xvd the drink. and as the rich iliquo coursedI through his blood h. straightened himielf atoid n. before them with a Lrr we iian., dignity that ail his ra.:s and dirt could not obscure. "Gentlemen," he said, "I look to-night at you and myself, and it seems to me that I look upon the picture of my lost manhood. "This bloated face was once as young and handsome as yours. "This shambling figure once walked as proudly as yours. A man in the world of men. I, too, once had a home and friends and a position. "I had a wife as beautiful as an artist's dream, and I dropped the priceless pearl of her love and honor in the wine cup. Cleopatra-like, I saw it dis solved, and quaffed It dowin in the brimming draught. "I had children as sweet and as lovely as the flowers of spring, and I saw them fade and die under the blighting curse of a drunkard-father. "I had a home where love lit the flame upon the altar and ministered before it, and I put out the holy fire. and darkness and desolation reigned in its stead. "I had ambitions and aspira tio '* ,red as high as the morning star, a ~ ke and bruised their beautiful win , and at last strangled them that I might be tortured by their cries no longer. "To-day I am a husband without a wife, a father without a child, a tratnp without a place to call my home, a man in whom every good impulse is dead- and all swallowed up in the maelstrom of drink.". The trampDteased speaking. The glass fell from hisjnerve less fingers and shatteredinio a thousand fragments upon the floor. The swinging doors gushed open and shut again, and when the little group about the bar looked up the tramp was gone. .Signs of The limes We find this, displayed on the first page of the current issue of The Commoner. J. B. Wyatt, Huntsville, Ala., writes to The Commoner this letter: "I enclose you a stock market letter which I clipped from the Memphis Commercial Appeal today. I was impress ed with what the writer has to say in reference to the presiden tial tickets, it bears out vour contention -that Wall street wants either Taft or Harmon. I am for Woodrow WVilson and believe he will be the next presi-' dent." The stock letter from the Mem phis Commercial Appeal is by Thomas C. Shotwell and is dated New York. September 18. The closing paragraph of that letter follows: "Money was firmer and this was hailed as a sign of coming improvement in business. If Taft could get the country to adopt his federal incorporation plan there would be no doubt of a speedy resumption of trade. For this reason his series of speeches will be watched with great interest by WVall street. In Wall street, by the way, the next presidential tickets have already been made up. Taft heads the republican ticket and Harmon of Ohio leads the demo crats. Governor Wilson does not even get a vice-presidential nominatio2." It did not need a straw ballot to convince us that Mr. Wilson is no favorite in Wall street. The conspicious publication of this letter in Mr. Bryan's paper is just another big straw indi cating the Nebraskan's prefer ences for the Democratic nomi nee-The State. One plug of RElNN'S CHAMPION tobaccebought froma S.. ;Kelly. Central, S. C -will tearince you it isthie jast le jlad *n Prompt IIts benefical fects are usual - felt very quick Makes rich, red, pt system-clears the brain-st A positive specific for ON Drives out Rheansi and is a wonderful tonic and body F. Vi LIPPMAI The Cotton Picker in the Hills. Demonstrations of the Camp bell-Price cotton harvester in the vicinity of Charlotte cause the Observer of that city to ex press itself with enthusiasm about the ability of the machine to make good the claims for it and these same claims are no more than were set up a year ago. In an address at the com mencement of the South Caro lina University last June, Lewis W. Parker spoke of the success of the invention as practically assured, when operated- un favorable conditions, and ' condition has, we believe, been generally accepted in Southern manufacturing circles. That the machine will harvest cotton economically on the level lands is scarcely to be doubted, 'but Mr. Parker was- net by any means so confident of its effi ciency where the country is hilly. The demonstrations at Charlotte give promis4 of a more extended use. Meantime, the question to be answered is not whether or not the machine will "pick cotton 'I whether it will pick it well enou ndat low eno -.cost to cause its in In South Ca lin the fa ers have had greater difficulty in obtaining hand-pickers this year -than ever they have had before. Consequently the lo prices are not. accompanied by low prices for picking. If a-big crop should follow the crop of 1911, with low prices continu ing, the farpiers would be tempt-1 ed~ofiT4larg-e - ' ee' sary, in buying the mechami pickers. In short, the new in vention has' arrived in the nick of time. Thle pe*rfectinug of Ithe picker would not expand cotton pro duction so greatly as might be expected unon casual considera tion of the problem. Cotton "chooping" by hand requires almost as many laborers as does cotton picking,. atnd the fields must be cultivated, too. Pick ing by .machinery would tend to accelerate the movement from the plantations to ,the towns, the cotton season picking being the one time, sof the year when there is always an abundance of light work a1s a good wage offering to women and children as well as to men. If hand-picking should go out of fashion, the inducement to work on the farms would be considerably weakened and the withdrawal of farmers and their families from the farms would, of course, be felt in the spring and summer. -The State. 20,000,000 Cigars a Year Ship ped from Greenville. One of the most interesting of local industries, one that has been written of in the Greenville newspapers on several occasions in the past and yet one of which the methods and workings little are kinox ni in: com tparison to the texti:e .iii1 ot her planis and in dustries of the city, is the Green ville cigar factory, the plant owned and operated by Seiden berg & Co. The making of a cigar is a most interesting pro cess, and while there is one of the largest plants in the South right in the heart of this city, there are comparative few citizens who know what the making of a cigar means or in what quantities these articles are manufactured in Greenville. The Seidenberg factory here turins out 20,000,000 cigars an nually, these being 5 and 10 cent stock. The output is between seventy-five and eighty thou sand cig~ars a day, about 400. 000 a week.-Daily Piedmont. rEN'S CAMPION isiA rich mnan's tobacco, bat you can get it at a-po maan's price frm S. P. I elly, -Central, S. C. Powerfu &Stubbemam ty yiedtoP.Pp y whenothe - ngtens HsO an r Stopstl.Pa; enda_ 6builder Thi.snd SAVANMI - A GoodS, Every G A suggestion Supervisor of the countfyt parents, and.' The country State are now session of 1U11 visits among these*. find only one-thifrd t of the chidren in The.fibds aMrbie to be picked- andi 'a difficulty, and many impossibility, of puttin i ia schoolat the nie to make a grow s oat of ---- as a boy on the enter school at the - the term, but unabe: because of the work. Let every children are at h least -ne' day week for s ambitious bdycan bookan m do en w enable hin. without seridus f aii :I. sdn ~~ are man dayshe can~~ assita eu fd eve& c uky the State make a list" pupils of school age in h& trict and endeavor tog te one to 'attend schoortlis --- A little personal wo& a rich harvest, an~d e roe acqnaintimbe .with gour vwill make the-workirih itself 1,ess difficult: Le io in 0jur..pwer to hep the who -is atifW6an study at home. Let every schol --= State lend theweht fluence to secure thla --- best country s hoo 6 in the YSob In thiswmy mae- - mei - - -~ for. year. -~~ for Every Chid School. Just a word t h works. The termination do your workw you td surrmount -. you find in your.b6s cannot .:enter sci ooL your books and byi study each day try~ with your--Ali. N men who have have surmounted acquiring an educationi MY LADV'S JEWEL COLLECTION -- will be superb if is de up~ lyof ornemeiitrtaks et4~ same highcharactet as~a~ seen here. NOTHIG COULD BE hANDSOMER With Li 0re enduring beaety jewelry coine4W YOU ARE CORDLI.C to visit it .nd enjo. 0annaniu-he many6 it inerudis. Thelok. speak for theindem~ E asquaty