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KING COTTON
IS DISCUSSED
At Great Meeting of Growers and
Spinners in Atlanta*
INTEREST WORLD-WIDE
Delegates from All Sections of the Globe,
Representing Every Feature of
Mighty Industry, Confer.
The fifth International congress of
the Master Cotton Spinners and Manu
facturers’ Association, and the second
international conference of cotton
growers and manufacturers, opened au
spiciously in Atlanta, Ga,, Monday
morning.
The first business session was called
to order in the hall of the house of
representatives by Chairman James R.
McColl of Boston. The grim and aus
tere statfs capitol had a strange appear
ance. The Georgia state flag floated
from the mast over the pediment of
the Washington street entrance. The
hafl of the house was hung with the
flags of all the countries represented
in the congress. The speaker's stand
was decked out in flags and bunting
and shaded electric lights. The visitors'
gallery held a brass band, which in
terspersed the welcoming addresses
with the naiional airs of the various
* countries, which brought the whole
gathering repeatedly to its feet. When
the American and English national
anthems —“Am-rlca” and “God Save
the King”—were reached all the Eng
lish-speaking delegates sang the same
tune, but used the words of their own
hymn.
In the corridors of the capitol were
many bales of cotton, representing the
different types of baling and covering
the staple.
After the appointment of a commit
tee, consisting of two members from
•each of the organizations calling the
congress, to nominate permanent offi
cers and the chairmen and vice chair
men of the various sectional commit
tee meetings, the chairman of the con
gress introduced Governor Hoke Smith
to welcome the visitors to Georgia.
Governor Smith assured the visitors
that "we are glad to have you with us
and will like you better the longer
you stay.’’
Charles Wright Macara, president of
the international association, in the
course oi his response, told the dele
gates that he believed the foreign spin
ners, by joining with the spinners and
manufacturers of cotton in America
and holding out the right hand of fel
lowship to the cotton grower, would be
able to render a vast service to the
cotton industry. He declared there
was need in the cotton business for
legitimate middle men, but showed the
necessity of eliminating the gambling '
ele’nent on the cotton exchanges. He
said only by international organiza
tion could the interests of this world
wide Industry be safeguarded and the
producer and manufacturer protected
from the manipulations of outside par
ties. Ik* said:
"Since the raising or lowering of the
annual price by only one cent repre
sents a difference of 18,000,000 pounds,
or $90,000,000, it is impossible to im
agine any more important work in
which grower and spinner could join.
Gambling in cotton futures is inimical
to the interests of both."
Mr. Macara said Phut cotton was
largely sold in the poorer countries
and that seven or eight million people
In India' and China were not able to
buy goods when the price was unrea
sonably high. He believes that the
saving to be accomplished by getting
rid of outside monopolies would make
possible great economy in the manu
facture and handling of cotton and
yield larger returns to both producer
and consumer.
SEA ISLAND GROWERS ON HAND.
Florida Contingent Interested Attendants
at Atlanta Convention.
Among the most interested of those
attending the conference of cotton
growers and spinners in Atlanta were
a group of Florida planters, who now
grow sea island cotton exclusively.
These growers have felt themselves
hampered in that the thread mills have
been practically their only buyers,
thus leaving them with only three cus
tomers, as this business is in the hands
of three large companies.
HOST OF DELEGATES
Attend Big Convention of Inland Water
ways Commission in Tennessee
Metropolis.
W. F. Kavanaugh of St. Louis, pres
ident of the Lakes to the Gulf Water
ways Association, called the second an
nual meeting of that body to order in
Memphis, Tenn., Friday.
Delegates from all sections of the
south, north and west were in attend
ance, and several notable addresses
were made. The slogan, "fourteen feet
through the valley," has become pop
ular, and every speaker went on rec
ord for a deep water channel up the
big Mississippi river.
Among the delegates are governors
of fourteen states, United States sena
tors and representatives.
Friday's session were taken up with
organization and speeches. Besides the
address of President Roosevelt, W. K.
Kavanuagh of St, Louis, Lyman E. Coo
ley of Chicago and Congressman Jo
seph E. Ransdell of Louisiana deliver
ed speeches. Mr. Ransdell, who is
president of the National Rivers and
Harbors Congress, said that the deep
channel was a necessity, but the only
way to get it is to build up a wise,
generous national policy of public im
provementa, which will rapidly develop
to their utmost capacity all our water
ways on the seaboard, on the lakes
and in the interior. President Kava
naugh said, in part:
"Water transportation has always
been a most valuable auxiliary to rail,
and it is now indeed proper that th<
administrative branch of the govern
ment should give attention to the im
proveraents of our national resources,
for if the railroads can barely handle
the traffic of today, what may be ex
peoted in ten years wnen this traffic,
if not stopped in its development, will
easily be double the traffic of today?
Railroads are not antagonistic to the
development of the country’s re
sources.
"The conditions of great delay in
the movement of commerce of the
country has affected all sections, north
east, south and west. therefore,
do not have to point to our motto that
river regulation is rate regulation, and
the many economic arguments that
could be set forth, for the reason t*
it appears that we have almost reach
ed the limit of the railroads’ capacity
of today, and it is fairly evident that
the growth of the country cannot be
taken care of by them. A great awak
ening, therefore, has come to the peo
ple of this country, and while we for
merly requested assistance of the
powers of Washington in the develop
ment of our natural resources and of
our iuland waterways, the people now
have come to demanding in no uncer
tain terms that the improvement be
made at once."
SHIPPING TIED UP BY STRIKE.
Contest in Crescent City Promises to Be
Most Strenuous Affair.
The immense cotton shipping busi
ness of the New Orleans port was
tied up at 6 o’clock Friday night by
the strike of 8,000 members of the
dock and v cotton handlers' unions. The
cotton loaders have arrayed against
them all the business exchanges of
the city, which have declared that
the commercial life of the port de-
Levee strikes In New Orleans have
always been serious. From 10,000 to
12,000 men will probably be involved
in this one, because the railroad
freight handlers have served notice
that they will not work with non-union
men at the docks. Probably over half
of the strikers are negroes.
The immediate cause of the strike
was the refusal of 1,200 screwmen,
whose work is to pack cotton into the i
holds of the vessels, to load more than ;
160 bales per day, working in gangs
of five. Steamship agents demanded
that 200 bales be stored and partly as
a test of what can be done in loading
cotton, they had the crews of the
steamers load as many as 250 bales
per day.
YOUNG BOY- KILLS FATHER.
Brought Gun Into Play in Defending
Mother During Quarrel.
The 12-year-old son of Weaver Bar
nett, shot and killed his father at his
home near Caldwell, Ga., Friday after
noon.
His father is said to have been beat
ing his wife and young Barnett at
tempted to defend her. In addition to
shooting his father, the boy inflicted
several serious knife wounds.
Sentiment is with the boy and his
mother
BLOODY STORY
OF DESPERADO
Told in Chattanooga Court Rivals
That of Harry Orchard.
KILLED FOURTEEN MEN
Was Startling Assertion of D. D. Edwa rd
on Trial for Murder of Brooks.
Jury Astounded.
"I have shot and probably killed four
teen men In my time and the list may
run up to twenty-five."
That remarkable statement was
made by D. D. Edwards, on trial at
Chattanooga, Tenn., for killing Tom
Brooks last December.
Edwards made his confession while
under cross-examination.
He was asked by the attorney gen
eral if he killed any one previous to
the killing of Brooks. Edwards ad
mitted that he had killed a man in
Kentucky. “Is that all?’’ asked the
attorney general.
“Well," said Edwards, “I have shot
and probably killed fourteen men in
my time."
He stated that most of this occurred
in Breathitt county, Kentucky, in
feuds and in a strike in Chicago sev
eral years ago. He is a native ol
Breathitt county and recently aided
in running down and capturing in the
mountains of Breathitt the Lookout
mountain wife murderer, Ed Turner.
Edwards did not change expression
or give any indication of feeling when
he confessed, under cross-examination
to his bloody record, but after getting
off the witness stand, added that the
list might run up to twenty-five, “if
everything was included.’’
This is his second trial, he having
been released without bail after his
first trial. Since then lie has been in
another state, but, when notified of the
date of his 'case, came back to Chat
tanooga immediately. He is considered
the most remarkable prisoner ever
tried in Hamilton county.
PRESIDENT SPEAKS AT CAIRO.
Citizens of Illinois Town Warmly Receive
Chief Executive.
President Roosevelt and party ar
rived at Cairo, 111., Thursday morning
at 9 o’clock and were saluted by the
Danvilio battery and hundreds of
steamboats and other whistles. The
party was met by the reception com
mittee headed by Mayor Parson and
fifty carriages, all drawn by white
horses, conveyed them along the line
of march to St. Mary’s park, where
the president spoke.
When the “fleet" again started for
Memphis, it was amid the booming
of cannon and other popular demon
strations.
CANNOT HOLD TWO POSITIONS.
Inspector General ot Georgia Troops Quits
Race for Brigadier General.
Colonel W. G. Obear, inspector gen
eral of Georgia troops, who is to be
quartermaster of the national guard
of the state, has announced his re
tirement from the race for brigadier
general under the new military law.
The retirement was caused 'by the
announcement of Governor Smith that
he would not permit him to hold two
positions, one a salaried office and the
other a position purely of honor!
NEW STEAMER IS ADDED.
Savannah Line Now Has Vessel of Greater
Carrying Capacity.
The new steamship City of Savan
nah, the latest addition to the New
York and Savannah line, reached port
at New York Thursday to await the
start of her maiden voyage to Savan
nah. The City of Savannah exceeds
all other ships of the line in carrying
capacity.
THREAT OF JUDGE EFFECTIVE.
Chattanooga Business Man Forced to Tea
tify Before Grand Jury.
W. M. Easley, president ©f the
Southern Clay company, and one of the
leading business men of Chattanooga,
was earned before Judge Mcßeynolds,
in the criminal court Thursday, and
given the option of going to jail for
contempt or of going before the grand
jury and testifying in the investiga
tion of uumerous eharges of bribery
and graft made against prominent
business men and city officials. Las
iey took the latter course.
DEEPER WATERWAYS
la Request Made of Congress By Commie
sion in Resolutions Passed at
Memphis Meeting.
After selecting Chicago for the meet
ing place next year and calling upon
congress to authorize work for a 14-
channel from the gulf of Mexico to the
great lakes, the second annual con
vention of the Lakes to the Gulf Wa
terways Association adjourned sine
die in Memphis late Saturday. The
delegates were tendered a banquet and
smoker Saturday night.
This meeting in the interest of the
waterways was probably the most im
portant ever held in the south. Speech
es were delivered by men who have
made a life study of the nation’s riv
ers and harbors, and in every instance,
a deep water channel from the gulf to
the northern lakes wtas adopted.
The report of the resolutions com
mittee was received and adopted with
out a dissenting vote. The resolu
tions are as follows:
“1. Resolved, That it is the sense of
this convention that the deepening of
the waterways from the lakes to the
gulf is a public necessity, and that it
is a national duty to take definite and
immediate action to deepen said water
ways to a depth of 14 feet from the
lakes to the gulf of Mexico, through
the route already selected by the army
engineers, with all practical speed.
“2. Be it further resolved, ’fhat we
respectfully ask that said work be con
structed according to the continuing
contract system.
“3. Be it further resolved, That the
Lakes to the Gulf Deep Waterways As
sociation hereby extends thanks to our
co-laborers in the great work of in
land waterways improvement, the Mis
souri Valley Improvement Association,
the Interstate Mississippi River Im
provement and Levee Association, the
Ohio Valley Improvement Association,
and all other kindred associations in
this great valley, for their valuable
assistance in the past, and assure
them of our sympathetic interests in
the object of their efforts in the j
important work in which they are re
spectively engaged, and of our most
cordial and energetic co-operation
therein.
“Be it further resolved, That we
I
hereby tender the unanimous and pro
found thanks of this association to tha
president for his masterly and forceful
address and for the great honor he has
conferred upon us by his presence here
as our most distinguished guest.
“5. Be it urther resolved, That we j
hereby tendei our cordial thanks to the i
governors of seventeen sovereign !
states, and to the other distinguished ;
statesmen and gentlemen who have 1
honored us by their presence, and
we also thank the patriotic and public- j
spirited people of the great and grow- j
ing city of Memphis for their unvary
ing courtesy and royal hospitality.
“6. Be it further resolved, That the
Hon. William K. Kavanaugh, president
of the Lakes to the Gulf Deep Water
ways Association, be and he is hereby
requested and empowered to appoint a
committee composed of fifty members
Lo present these resolutions to the
next congress of the United States and
also to use all honorable and proper
means as the representatives of and in
connection with this association to
induce congress to act favorably there
on at its next session, and that the
said president of this association be
chairman of said committee.’’
AS HOME FOR STRIKE-BREAKERS
Vessel is Being Fitted Up at New Orleans
to Be Anchored in River.
A sailing vessel is being fitted up
at New Orleans to house strikebreak
ers, about 1,000 of whom are expect
ed from northern cities within, a few
days. It is planned to anchor this
vessel near midstream for the safety
of those on board. The Southern Pa
cific company already has nearly 100
strikebreakers at work.
GANG OF HOBOES KILL SHERIFF.
Officer, However, Wounded Two and All
Were Caught Later.
Sheriff Charles Oglesby was shot and
killed Saturday at the Pennsylvania
railroad depot in Winamac, Ind., by
three tramps whom he was endeavor*
ing to arrest. Two bullets entered the
officer's body. After dropping to the
ground he raised himself on his el
bow and emptied his revolver at the
men, fatally wounding one of them and
putting a bullet into the body of a
second one. All three men were
caught.
FITS,St. Vitn9’Dance:Nervoas Diseases nei
manently cured by Dr. Kline’s Great Nerv
Restorer. *3 trial bottle and treatise fr M
Dr. H. R. Kline, Ld.,931 Arch St., Phila Pa
THEY ARE.
She —“I see that women jockey:
have made their appearance in Jap
an.”
He —“That’s strange. Women ar<
always behind time, you know!”
6tate of Ohio, Citt of Toledo i
Lucas County, ’ ss.
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he i
senior partner of the firm of F. J.Chexey *
Cos., doing business m the City of Toledo
County and State aforesaid, and that said
firm wall pay thesum of one hundred dol
lars for each and every case of catarrh
that cannot be cured by the use of Hall’s
Catarrh Cure. F rank j . Ciieney
Sworn to before me and subscribed in mv
presence, this 6th day of December 4 IV ‘
ISBO. A. W. Gleason *
iSEAL.) Notary Public.^
fall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and
acts directly on the blood and raucous’sur
faces of the system. Send for testimonial*,
free. F. J. Cheney & Cos., Toledo (j
Sold by all Druggists, 75c.
Take Hall’s Family Pills for constipation.
THE CLIMBERS.
“He had his wife arrested for non*
support.”
“Prominent socially?”
“Not hitherto. This affair may help
them some.” —Washington Herald.
A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE.
How a Veteran Was Saved the Am.
putation of a Limb.
B. Frank Doremus, veteran, of
Roosevelt Ave., Indianapolis, Ind.,
tsays: “I had been
showing symptoms of
kidney trouble from
the time I was mus
my, but in all my life
I never suffered as
in 1897. Headaches,
dizziness and sleep
lessness, first, and
weak and helpless,
having run down from 180 to 125
pounds. I was having terrible pain
in the kidneys, and the secretions
passed almost involuntarily. My left
leg swelled until it was 34 inches
around, and the doctor tapped it
night and morning until I could no
longer stand it, and then he advised
amputation. 1 refused, and began
using Doan’s Kidney Pills. Ths
swelling subsided gradually, the
urine became natural and all my
pains and aches disappeared. 1 have
been well now for nine years since
using Doan’s Kidney Pills.”
Sold by all dealers. 5<J cents a box.
Foster-Milburn Cos., Buffalo, N. Y.
Instruction for Drivers.
Technical education in the Austrian
capital sometimes breaks out in un
expected places. The latest develop
ment in this field is the establishment
of a school for teamsters, under the
auspices of the Wagon Drivers’ Asso
ciation. In future all young men de
sirous of piloting light or heavy wag
ons through the city streets must
first pursue a practical and theoreti
cal course of study in the art of driv
ing in this school.
For the theoretical branch a spe
cial lesson book has been compiled.
Students will have to pass an exami
nation, after which they will receive
diplomas entitling them to a driver’3
license. Teamsters who can produce
a two months’ testimonial from their
present employers will be given li
censes without examination. The nevr
school is the outcome of a similar in
stitution for cab drivers, which was
started some months ago with very
satisfactory results.—Vienna corre
spondence Pall Mall Gazette.
Superstition and the Wedding Ring-
When a wedding ring has worn so
thin as to break, the superstitious be
lieve that either the husband or the
wife will soon die. This may be re
garded as an obvious superstition and
perhaps accounts for the fact that wed
ding rings are now made so much
thicker and heavier than formerly
TRANSFORMATIONS
Curious Results When Coffee Drink*
ing is Abandoned.
It is almost as hard for an old
coffee toper to quit the use of coffee
as it is for a whiskey or tobacco fiend
to break off, except that the coffee
user can quit coffee and take up
Postum without any feeling of a loss
of the morning beverage, for when
Postum is well boiled and served with
cream, it is really better in point of
flavour than most of the coffee serve
nowadays, and to the taste of the con
noisseur it is like the flavour of flu*
mild Java.
A great transformation takes plac®
in the body within ten days or two
weeks after coffee is left off aa
Postum used, for the reason that t *
poison to the nerves —caffeine ja
been discontinued and in its pl ace
taken a liquid food that contains t
most powerful elements of nouris j
ment. ,
It is easy to make this test a
prove these statements by change j
from coffee to Postum. Read ;
Road to Wellville,” in pkgs. “There
a Reason."
