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KEEPING SWE Atlanta (By J. \V. Beeson, A. M., LL. D., Presi dent Women's College, Meridian, Miss.) One of i he best crops for the south ern utMius in rniep is tliat nf swept nr> taioes. It can be planted after a crop of oats or early crop of Irish potatoes, or any early crop and will make before frost. It can be made with less labor than most: crops and will produce a large yield per acre. Land that will yield thirty bushels of corn, a half I bale of cotton per acre will produce from 1UU to 250 bushels of sweet po-J tatoes to the acre. They stand a drouth well and can stand a rainy season with good results. If the land is broken deep and smoothed off well, marked off in three-foot rows with a, marker, then "slips" or vines can be j u-itii/Mit hoHHinp- thp land and " cultivated level will make more than set on the beds. The greatest problems has always been to keep sweet potatoes through the winter. This is why thew are not more largely raised for market. The .Meridian Male College and Me ridian Woman's College, of Meridian, Miss., have been making experiments for many years in order to discover a plan by which sweet potatoes can be kept witli a reasonable certainty to be marketed when prices are higher. We believe we have solved this problem. ! After several years of testing the i plan we have been able to keep about' 00 to 95 per cent of our sweet potatoes J including cut and bruised ones, till ; used up or until our new ones coine in ; the next year. Our plan briefly stated is thus: Build a tight house, storm sheath it, j cover with builder's paper and weath erboard it. ceil walls and overhead, i leave door in outh end, windows in I north end. We use two doors and j double windows in same, opening one on inside and one on outside. { This leaves dried air space to keep building warm, make air shaft in cen ter of roof and open it south with transom above the roof. Make slotted shelving on each side beginning about twelve inches from dirt floor. Shelves two feet apart made of one-by-four lumber placed one inch apart so air can circulate freely through the shelves. We have an aisle in center three feet wide, build house ten or twelve feet wide and as long as want ed. It takes one thirty feet long to hold 2,000 bushels. Dig potatoes in as I dry time as possible. Handle tliem carefully so as not to bruise them. Put cut ones to themselves and smallest) potatoes on bottom shelves as it takes them loneer to dry on the bottom. Place a large stove in center of the room. If the building is long put in j ; two stoves. Heat up room to a 100- i degree temperature by shutting doors and windows. Open transom in ven-' tilating shaft. A small vent hole un der the door for intake of air is neces sary while drying if the building is tight. The stove must be heated as | soon as the first potatoes are put in so as to begin drving them at oncc bp- i fore they rot. The idea is to kiln drvthe potatoes. The moisture cultf- j vates the rot germs it can't live in a , drv potato. Get excess of moisture out of pota-. toes asquicklv as possible. It takes j about ten davs of heat with thermom-; 1Afi_riocrrOPC tri H TV fhp eier ic^isirnu^ potatoes after the last have been nut; in the house. When thoroughly dry. ; open tip doors and windows, cool off i stove and room. Keep it as cool as rossible without freezing. Forty de grees will be right, or as near as pos- | sible. No more heat will be needed all the winter. In freezing weather shut j The Folio wit g Appo Funds for the S 1912 U > 4J c 0 4-> "5b s a Tax. u T. o u I O 5 a a3 C-, c 1 94 $53 2(i $5(5 40 * 2 73 43 80' 3 215 352 52 129 00 4 84 9.-i 50 40! 5 86 18 ?3 51 60! r. 50 :i0 oo r? 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We have never failed to keep po {tatoes in a house like this dried out in j this way. Before we learned better we 'thought we would wait till all pota toes were in before we began drying. ! We found we waited too late, as per | haps a hundred bushels were rotten j before we knew it. We took out the i rotten ones, fired up the stove, and no ; more rotted. We bought potatoes that were rotting and dried them out, and they stopped rotting, though we do not advise one to take that risk. A few will be lost of dry rot, but very few. It stops the wet, mushy rot that usually destroys the whole erop when it starts. This house can be made cheaply of lumber. No floor is needed. Select a dry. high, well-drained place. I A "dry" house is what is wanted. It can be made of bricks or stone. The Meridian Male college has one made of cement blocks. They were made and laid by the students. The Woman's college, one made of wood?quite in expensive, but serves the purpose. Each college makes and keeps from 1,500 to 2,000 bushels of potatoes each year. They raise them at little cost. We give to and sometimes three plowings, and no hoeings, unless it be to chop down some scattering weeds or bunches of grass. We never make hills or beds or ridges on which to se: out potatoes. We distribute our ma nure broadcast, place it under deep? the deeper the better. Set them flat bj pushing in ground with stick when eround is moist: cultivate flat. If com mercial fertilizer is needed, put it bj the side of the plants after they have been set out two or three weeks, anc plow it in. It is an easy crop made, anc easy for us to keep in these "dry* houses, or kilns. If any one wants further instructions or suggestions write either college, sending stamp for reply. The United States depart ment of agriculture at Washington has sent a man to study our plan; so has the A. and M. college, of Missis sippi. Many people have come to see the potato house to learn how to build one; others have written for it. Quite a number are being built. We take this method of passing it on to p-^ers, and shall be glad to send fur ther instructions to any one interest ed.?Atlanta Constitution. Blue Ridge Railway Co. Effective Nov. 27, liHO. No. 12 No. 10 No. 8 Eaatbouud. Lmi y D-lly Dull; Ex. fc>ui bltilions? A. M. P. >1. A. M. Lv VS uihHlia .. 7 OU 3 20 10 30 Lv VV'fHt Union 3 '..j io 35 Lv Seueoa . 7 23 3 43 li 00 Lv Jonlaulu .. 7 20 3 46 11 33 Lv Ad^tiis. . 7 41 4 01 11 53 Lv ClierryV . 7 44 4 (H 11 5fi Lv Fcndieloo . 7 56 4 1G 12 12 Lv Aiuun . 8 04 4 24 12 88 uv Haudy ssjn idhh . 8 07 4 *7 12 42 Lv Denver . 6 1* 4 33 1-! 50 Lv West Andersoo . 8 26 4 47 I 08 Lv AoderKon (Pasn. dep), . 6 81 4 52 1 ! '? Lv A' lemon tFi:'. de| . S 34 4 [>o 2 23 uv K'^klne Widing 5 15 \r liellop . 9 00 5 25 2 50 Westbound. No. 11 No. 9 No. 7 sialluiiB? 1'. M. A. M. A. >1. 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Andn>r>n, Mil erlntpndent. rlionmeiit of School cholastic Year, 1913. 24 79 40 64 ott 79 33 44 88 68 32 17 24 28 23 04 241 92 84 20 72 88 28 r.2 $700 0J 400 00 330 00 1230 00 99 00 420 00 168 OOl 5300 00 280 00 $306 12 155 08 1630 87 226 91 249 97 122 29 1018 92 623 06 763 40 1386 05 1285 52 509 17 6977 44 564 33 439 33 207 10 613 87 360 70 119 06 1045 67 571 00 8199 83 808 99 436 70 >'.>4 w; 10 75 00 W3U 219 52I 14 56 409 92 505 68 33 54 1")1 00 885 97 274 40 18 20 562 79 250 88; 16 64 97 98 453 79 iQ\ 881 13 89 804 81 331 24 21 97 120 00 737 36 325 36 21 58 469 41 148 08 9 49 " 46 00 273 83 233 24 i 15 47 71 00 417 25 188 16 12 48 125 00 447 98 344 961 22 88 170 00 753 98 972 16 64 48 712 00 2094 22 258 07 18 59 480 00 792 46 140 65 9 88 75 00 271 13 164 64 10 92 237 89 143 08: 9 49 170 00 642 36 215 601 14 30 302 01 190 12 12 61 90 00 393 56 129 36 8 58 150 00 851 14 103 58 7 93 148 11 162 68 10 79 283 49 229 32, 15 21 47 00 897 54 129 85' S) 88 185 33 170 52j 11 31 255 38 121 52j 8 Of) 178 28 194 04 12 87 271 96 24 71; 1 69 34 20 115 (14 4 67 148 00 471 32 or. 71' (I 50 130 21 231 28 15 81 85 00 488 21 1253 00, 1255 18 .... 78." 3 08 $1111 21 $11789 98 *14133 57 >Ut Hammond, Co. Supt. Ed., A. C. I MARSHALL LAl'DS HOME RELIGION Vice l'resident-EIcct 1'rges Teaching iu (lie Family. Parents Evade Their Duty Chicago, Dec. ('?.?Vice President elect Thomas It. Marshall, who is a delegate to the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America,in ses sion here, devoted his address to the delegates tonight Chiefly to the sub ject of family life and the Sunday school. The governor said Sunday schools take children through the scripture with a "hop, skip and jump!" that religious instructions in the family was no longer given and children were supposed to get their knowledge of the Bible in Sunday school. The evasion of the duty of parents to in struct their children in their religion, the governor said, resulted in irre ligious and wayward children. "When Rnhert Rnikes started the Sunday school, a little over a century ago, lie did not have in mind the re leasing of parents from their obliga tion to give religious instructions to their children," said the governor, "Family ties, so strong in the pi st, are loosened now with the evasijn of parental responsibility." Gov. Marshall said that the Sunday school is intended to round out fam ily devotions, not to take their place. In four years as governor of In diana, he said, many had come to him seeking clemency for wayward sons ind daughters. "If these persons had seen their luty to lay down fixed rules of life ind to teach the higher law of living :n their homes, God would not have -tunished them in the falling away if 'heir children," he said. The day's sessions of the council were given to reports and discussions mi civic work and church cooperation for the improvement of the lives ol Mty dwellers. THE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION Will Meet in Office of Superintendent 0/ Education Saturday, the 14th There will be a meeting of the Ponntv Rural School Inmrovement issociation in the Superintendent's jffice on Saturday, December 14th at ten thirty o'clock. At this meeting there will be an interesting program carried out and a full attendance of i ill the teachers of the county is earn estly requested. . Prof. M. M. Wilkes, principal of the Lowndesville school will make an ad Jress on Co-operation in School Work. J Prof. A. W. Ayers, principal of An :reville school, will make an address in Value of Athletics in the school. Miss Lois Crawford, of the Willington school, will talk on What the Associa tion Has Meant to My School. , At this meeting the committee for awarding the county prizes will make their decision. All schools contesting for year 1911-'12 must have all data ready by this time. Pictures of the school building before and after the improvements, both interior and ex will ha holr.fnl in thf> Hpftision. LCI IU1 , 11 111 Ub UV12/.U. ... v.. v. _ Score cards may be obtained by ad dressing the Superintendent. The Ladies' Working Society of the Methodist church will hold a Hazaar i on the 12th and 13th of December. 1 Come and buy your Xmas presents. ANNAPOLIS MIDSHIP. i MEN' APPOINTMENTS An examination will be held at Greenwood, Tuesday, January 7 th, 1913, for the purpose of selecting two , principals and six alternates as can didates for appointment to two va cancies in the U. S. Naval Academy at Annanoplis. Applicants must be free from bodily defects; must be not less than 5 feet and 2 inches tall be tween uie ages 01 id aim j.o jeaio, and not less than 5 feet and 4 inch es tall between the ages of 18 and 20 years. The minimum age limit is 16, the maximum 20 years. Candidates will be examined mentally in punc tuation, spelling, English grammar, United States history, World's his tory, arithmetic, algebra, through quadratic equations, and plane geo metry. Wyatt Aiken. COMMITTEE CUTS SUPPLY BILL. Reduces Provision for Expenses of Government. >one for Commerce Court Washington, Dec. 4.?The first big supply bill of the present session of congress; the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill, was reported to the house today. The measure carries $34,897,105.50, a de crease of $319,027.88 from the corre sponding bill in the previous session. Estimates of the secretary of the treasury amounting to $36,514,955.50 were cut more than $1,000,000 by the committee. As presented to the full committee by the subcommittee which framed it, the bill included a provision by Rep resentative Burleson of Texas, mak ing former presidents members at large of the house with a salary of $17,500. But a full committee dis approved and it was stricken out. The commerce court is not provided lor in ine measure, me cuun. aoncu for $54,500 for the coming fiscal year, but the committe would not allow the item. The last legislative, execu TO LIST PROPERTY OF RAILWAYS : Horse Passes Rill for Physical Valu ation. Calls for Full Inquiry Washington, Dec. 5.?Amended to authorize a complete investigation . into the question of the interstate 'carrier corporation stock and bond , issues, the bill by Representative ; Adamson empowering the interstate .commerce commission to make a physical valuation of the property of railroads and other common carriers was unanimously passed by the house today. ! The measure would provide foi? a far-reaching Inquiry with a view to having railroad rates fixed on a ba sis of income on actual investment. It would authorize employment of en gineers and otlier experts 10 use me property of every Interstate carrier, i The investigators would be directed to ascertain the original cost of ev ery purpose of each piece of property, the cost and value to the present owner and what increase in value is due to improvements. All questions relating to existing stock and bond issues of such carriers also would bo inquired into. Representative Mann of Illinois,the Republican leader, offered the amend ment directing the examination into the stock and bond issues question, after a point of order had been sus Tlie Ladies' Working Society of the Methodist church will hold u flazaar on the 12th and 13th of December. Come and buy your Xmas presents. I FLORENCE HOYS MAKE GOOD YIELDS OF CORN Corn Clubs of County Show Success I f?l Year's Work in Agriculture. The Records Florence, Dec. 6.?The following is the record of the yield of corn by the boys of the corn clubs of this county with their expenses and net profit per acre. It is interesting to note that the expenses of the yield are not greater on the acres that made great fruit than on those making less, but the average farmer still makes corn by the old method, and the brain work is put on the one acre in com petition. Hallie Meeks, Effingham, 187.05; cost per bushel, 38 1-2 cents. Net profit $115.60. Eugene Smith, 111 1-9 bushelB; cost, per bushel, 39 cents. Net profit $75.41. Dnul Unmnhrova 1H3 9.' Pfiflt. Tier bushel, 27 1-2 cents. Net profit $75.30. Ernest Matthews, 102 1-2 bushels; cost, per bushel, 65 1-2 cents. Net profit $38.50. Sammie Tedder, 99 3-4 bushels; cost, per bushel, 40 cents. Net profit, $71.71. The Ladies' Working Society of the Methodist church will hold a Bazaar on the 12th and 13th of December. Come and buy your Xmas presents. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars ward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable In all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by his firm. NATIONAL BANK OF COMMERCE, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken Internally, acting directly upon the blood and mu pou3 surfaces of tho system. Testimonials sent free. Price 75 cents per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Rids You of Indigestion or Your Money Back C. A. Milford & Co., is authorized to refund your money if you take MI O-XA Stomach Tablets for indigestion or any stomach distress or misery and are dissatisfied with the results. And that same guarantee also ap plies to any condition- caused by out of order stomach such as Sallow Skin Pimples, Headache, Nervousness, Diz ziness, Sleeplessness, Despondency, etc. So why should you suffer longer from an unclean Stomach when you can try MI-O-NA Stomach Tablets,the prescription of a specialist on this lib eral no benefit no pay plan. A large box for 50c at C. A. Milford & Co., and pharmacists America over. 3421. Report of the Condition of Tta national Bank of AttaillG. at Abbeville, in the State of South Caro ina, at the close of business, Nov. 26,1912. RESOURCES Loans and discounts $249,407 41 Overdrafts, secured and unse cured 10,769 47 U. S. Bonds to secure circulation 18,750 00 Bonds, securities, etc 500 00 Banking house, furniture and fixtures 5,000 00 Other real estate owned 2,900 00 Due from National Banks (not reserve agents) 7,388 07 Due from State and private banks and bankers, Trust Compa nies, and Savings Banks 10,721 52 Due from approved Reserve Agents 11,404 84 Checks and other cash Items... 75 00 Notes of other National Banks.. 3,740 00 Fractional paper currency, nick els and cents 117 931 Lawful money reserve in Bank, viz: Specie 15,153 00 Legal-tender notes 8,860 00? 14,013 00 Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer (5 per cent, of cir culation 937 50 Total $335,784 74 LIABILITIES Capital stock paid In $ 75,000 00 Surplus fund 30,000 00 Undivided profits, less expenses and taxes paid 11,214 78 National Bank notes outstand ing 18,750 00 Dividends unpaid 24 00 Individual deposits subject to check 140,590 38 Demand certiiicates of deposit.. 20,205 58 Bills payable, including certifi cates of deposit for money borrowed 40,000 00 Total $335,784 74 State of South Carolina, I _ County of Abbeville, f I, H. G. Smith, cashier of the above named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. H. G. Smith, Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 7th day of Dec., 1912. W. H. White, Notary Public. Correct?Attest: A. M. Smith ) J. F. Barnwell, Directors. J. R. Glenn, | STATEMENT of the condition of The Peoples Savings Bank located at Abbeville, S. C., at the close of business Nov. 26th, 1912. RESOURCES Loans and discounts #179,597 15 Overdrafts 11,009 63 Furniture and Fixtures 1,200 00 Banking House 3,000 00 Other Real Estate owned 700 00 Due from Banks and Bankers... 7,464 82 Currency 9,227 00 Gold 415 00 Silver and other Minor Coin 1,676 25 Checks and Cash Items 2,954 02 $217,243 87 LIABILITIES Capital Stock Paid in t 21,800 00 Surplus Fund 20,000 00 Undivided Profits, less Current ' Expenses and Taxes Paid... 2,200 35 Due to Banks and Bankers 655 88 Individual Deposits subject to Check 101,414 8S Savings Deposits 35,000 0 Time Certificates of Deposit 1,172 7E Bills Payable, including Certifi cates for Money Borrowed.. 35,000 0C $217,243 87 State of South Carolina, ( County of Abbeville. ) Ileforo me came It. E. Cox, Cashier oi the above named bank, who, being: dulj sworn says, that the above ai d foregoing statement is a true condition of said bank as shown bv the books of sai<! bank. R. E. Cox. Sworn to and subscribed before me thii 9th day of Dec., 1912. R. C. Wilson, Notary Public S. C. Correct?Attest: S. G. Thomson, i G, A. Visanska, - Directors. W. E. Owen, ) I VI/ # W v?/ I w In 5K When you buy your g are not only right in are right in the sma .J !f We buy only fron we know, whose re| We sell you your 5K that if they are unsa ID. PC w ^ >C"?5 Land for Sale! One of the most desirable tracts of land in the Up-coun try ; lies about six miles from Troy} S. C., and contains 350 acres; has five good settle ments with all necessary out houses. One hundred acres of nlaro ia in virfrin fnffiRt. DOSS!" ftuvw ? "O , K bly the best body of timber in the State. lies well, is "well watered and has a fine pasture wire fence. This place would be cheap at $25 per acre. I offer it for $7,500. Can give terms. ROBT. S. LINK. is the one unfailing scientific dressing which instantly re lieves and permanently cures all hurts, cuts, burns, bruises, l sprains and wounds of every kind. Pain leaves at once be cause the air is excluded, aud the oil covering acts as artili i cial skin. The quickest, fast I eat healing oil known?Hunt's Lightning Oil. 25c and 50c Bottles 1 | A. B. Richards Med'cine Co., Sherman, Texas. SOLD BY The McMurray Drug Co. 1 Abbeville, 8. C. hJtf BIDDYS ipCACKLING SOUNDS LIKE MONEYJINGLING EGGS MEAN MONEY Do not force, but energize to the highest point of protit. CONIfEY'S LAYING TONIC promote*actWlty and asalmilatlon of pkk mikina material?thx whole secret or OO-LATIKO. Money back If U don't please. Prloea 26o, fiOo and $1. Aak for Oonkcgr't Book on Poultry. Fbxk For Sale bj McMURRAY DRUG CO. i Wa) at C01 wearables here you g 10 G S the big ways, but yo II ways?the little det ^ much when jf"-"the real tost 5? P of hard wear bri "sgs out th< weak spots. So much can be omi'- m i ted from a ^ suit without show that it is almost average man to < 1 Here is where OIIC n the best manufacture ?_j.: .?: puiauon is unquesuuiit Clothes with the dist itisfactory you will brin >LlAh A. M. HILL & Our Motto: Fresh shipment of G day. Ring 126 a our Groceries are Headquarters for Whi ton's Teas, Ferris I Everything Sold Under A. M. HILL I SCHUUli Tablets In General Schc Speed's D] Seaboard Extend Atlanta Acc Train to Announcement has just been made I that effective Nov. 7th, the Seaboard Air Line Railway will extend the ac commodation trains 57 and 58, which aie now operated between Atlanta and?Athens, Ga., to Abbeville, S. C. This announcement is of unusual in 4. - ~ rt11 +1-,^ untrnno r?t* thn loresi iu an inu vi v..v board who live along and adjacent to the line between Athens and Abbe ville. This accommodation train will continue to leave Atlanta in the af I rs mil * et Clothes. They u get Clothes that ails that mean so I w t * UNION MADE zing on the surface impossible for the detect these faults. I CLOTHES EXCELL. srs, whose methods id. :inct understanding g them back to us. 3 OFF COMPANY THE BEST m'nrr qqpVi iuucxico aiiiYiug nd be convinced that 7hat we claim for them. ite House Coffee, Lip lams. an Absolute Guarantee COMPANY. Pencils k >ol Supplies. rug Store. Is the Athens ommodation Abbeville, S. C. j ternoon at 4:00 p. m. and will arrive Abbeville at 9:45 p. m. thus giving an East bound evening schedule at a very convenient hour. Returning, this ! train will leave Abbeville 5:00 a. m. |and arrive Atlanta 8:50 a. m., ihus i giving an early morning daynght schedule West bound. The exact ! schedule at intermediate stops will be announced later. Any information may be had by application to Seaboard Agents. _