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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."