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MUCH STATE LAND WILL LIE FALLOW OPERATIONS ON PENITENTIARY FARMS ARE CURTAILED ON ACCOUNT OF LABOR. LATE STATE CAPITOL NEWS ftoview of The Latest News Gathered Around the State Capitol That Will internet to Our Readers Over South Carolina. Columbia. One day recently there were 186 prisoners in the state penitentiary and 57 prisoners on the state farms. Of the prisoners in the penitentiary 150 were men and 36 women. All the prisoners employed on the state tarm were men. Under normal conditions it requires about 160 convicts to work the 2,400 acres of cultivated land at tlffe state farms in Kershaw and Sumter coun ties. Much of the land will lie fallow this year. Practically no cotton will be planted at the state farm. The small force of convicts will be used to cultivate food crops exclusively. About 600 acres have been sowed in wheat and oats. Some corn has al ready been planted and more will be planted later on. As there is not 9 enough labor available to cultivate the big cotton crop which the state farm has been planting for years, it will not be grown this season. The penitentiary directors have disposed of the mules they do not need on the state farms. rue cnair iaciory ai me pbuhbuu ary is turning about 55 rattan rockers per day which are sold in various parts of the South. Forty male con victs and 12 female convicts are em ployed in the chair factory. The ash and maple for the arms, frames and rockers of the chairs are shipped from the lumber mills in the moun tains. The rattan reed is imported from the West Indies through New York. All the parts of the chairs are made on the premises from raw ma terial. Leads in Production Per Acre. "Very often we hear it stated that If we could only get the value of our agricultural products per acre up to what it is in the States of the Middle" West, South Carolina would be the greatest State in the Union," remark ed Commissioner Wat6on recently: "The truth of the matter is that South Carolina has a greater vaue per acre for the 12 leading crops?corn, wheat, oats, barley, rye, buckwheat, potatoes, hay, flaxseed, cotton, rice, and tobac co, representing more than 90 per cent of the total area of all crops? than any other state in the South and than any other state in the Union, with the exception of Nevada, Ari-1 zona, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Connecticut, the only six states which exceed the distinguish ed little pioneer. In volume of agri culture none of these six states could be called an agricultural state, as agricultural states go today ,and that being true, when we consider the volume of production measured in millions of dollars, the farm of 1913, for value per acre of crops, belongs to South Carolina. Four Companies Divide Business. Meeting a few days ago at the state louse, the sinking fund commission awarded contracts for the reinsui* ance of 60 per cent of the buildings owned by South Carolina. More than a score of bids were received by the commission. Following are the successful com panies: Fireman's of Newark, New Jersey. Southern States FiTe Insurance Company of Greensboro, N. C. Southern Underwriters of Greens boro, N. C. Underwriters' Insurance Company of Greensboro, N. C. According to D. H. Means, chief clerk of the commission, the joint . ' bid of thesa companies, which was submitted by C. E. Mebane of Greens boro, N. C., was 30 per cent off the regular premium. instruct Militia at Charleston. A joint encampment of instruction for field training of the regular army and the state militia of South Caro lina, North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida has been ordered by the war department to be held in the vicinity of Charleston, S. C., from July 1 to August 15 according to orders re A Ki- A A 1 unvc U I'ci'cuujr uj nujuiain vjrrruciai Moore, of South Carolina. Each state lias a federal appropriation of $18,000 for the expense of the campaign. Not more than three regiments will be en camped at one time, it is stated. Steamers Secure Cargoes Each Way. The big problem of finding cargoes for the three steamers of the Colum bia Railway & Navigation Company on their trips from Columbia back to Georgetown has been solved by agree ment upon a tariff for cotton piece goods with the Clyde line. The tariff went into effect March 20. Herefater the boat line will be able to handle, in conjuction with the Clyde line, the output of the cotton mills in Colum bia, at a great saving for the mills over railroad freight rates. May Be Represented at Exposition. South Carolina may have an exhibit at the Panama-Pacific Exposition af ter all. Frank J. Hodge, field com missioner of the exposition, has again taken the matter up with E. J. Wat son, commissioner of agriculture, commerce and industries, and it has been proposed that the amount of money necessary to transport the ex hibit. to California be raised by popu lar subscription throughout the state. The exhibit which v.*as prepared for the Jamestown exposition with addi tions can be sent to the coaBt Mountain Road to be Improved. At the dinner to the government engineers recently Andrew Patterson, Jr., supervisor of Richland county, said that he would at an early date place five miles of the highway in the Dutch Fork section of the county in good condition. He said the im provements would be made in time for summer travel to the mountains. That section of the road is considered the worst on the trip to Hendeison vllle and Asheville. Commissioner Watson of the state department of agriculture will confer with the officials of the Unlited States office of public roads and will try to secure the service of an expert eugi neer to patrol the line from Columbia to Newberry, Laurens, Anderson t^nd Greenville during the summer. This highway serves as a connecting ltnk between the Capital-to-CCoast high way and the National highway. The commissioner will also ask that the road from Columbia to Cbariotte aria Gastonia to be placed under the mi pervlslon of the engineers. This is also a connecting link between the two ma*n highways to the South. The commissioner will present the national good roads office with a set of pictures made along the route of the Capital highway through South Carolina, which is to be placed un der the superintendence of the engi neers. The maintenance of the highway to the mountains is considered most im portant especially in the summer months when travel is vheaviest. City Pays for Hydrants. J. A. Summersett appeared before city council at its special session re cently and e jked that the city de fray the expense of placing new fire hydrants within the inclosure of the state hospital for the insane and .of repairing all the old fire plugs. After discussing the matter, council decid ed that it could not pay for such work and the following resolution, of fered by Councilman Stieglitz, was adopted: "Resolved, That the city defray the cost of installing the ten-inch -water main on Barnwell street, connecting witn tne aeaa end leading rrom tne asylum, provided the board of regents pay all expenses Incident to changes and additions made to the fire hy drants within the asylum inclosure." South Carolina Buys Cattle. "During the last 60 days," said W. W. Long, head of the farm demonstra tion work in South Carolina, recently, "about $30,000 worth of cattle has been brought into this state. I have little doubt of the ultimate success of this movement to raise cattle in the South, and, in order to assure this success, we have been working along gradually, advising only such farmers as we know are able to han dle cattle to undertake the raising of stock. Encroachments on the agri cultural interests of the farmers musi not De maue, aiiu our uujevi ia to stimulate interest In stock raising on a conservative basis." Gets Verdict of $7,000. A verdict of $7,000 was given re cently in the court of common pleas in the case of Maggie E. Kelly, as ad ministratrix of the estate of Robert L. Kelly, deceased, against the Col umbia Railway, Gas and Electric Co. The case arose out of the death of Robert L. Kelly on the night of De cember 10, 1912. THe complaint al leged that the street car was moving at a rapid speed, without adequate lights and without giving proper alarm of its approach. The complaint asked for damages amounting to $25,000. Some New South Carolina Enterprises Darlington Brick and Tile Company of Darlington has been commissioned by the secretary of state, with a capi tal of ?20,000f The petitioners are aright Williamson and J. E. Black ma~. Society Hill Power Company has been commissioned with a capital of $4,000. The petitioners are Bright Williamson and J. E. Blackman. Our Drug Company of Georgetown has been commissioned with a capi tal of $5,000. The petitioners are H. L. Oliver, H. C. Smith and H. J. Tiecher. Bamberg County Infirmary has been chartered with a capital of $5, 000. The officers are H. C. Folk, pres ident; J. L. Copeland, vice president, and H. J. Stuckey, secretary and treasurer. Hearing on Freight Rates. Hearing on the petition for a read justment of freight rates in South Carolina will be held before the rail road commission April 15. The peti tion was filed by members of the South Carolina Freight Rate Associ ation. On the same date a hearing will be held before the commission on the question of starch rates from Charleston. The shippers hold that when starch is delivered at Charles ton by the steamship lines and reload ed on freight cars the intrastate freight rate should apply. n a a ~ * a ~ ~ a. tH r ?i.. _ I . r~. iu mcci iri v^uiumuid. Post B of the Travelers' Protective Association will be the host of the stale convention which meets May 7 and S in Columbia. The members of Post B have been busy for the past week making the preliminary ar rangements for the convention. As a result of the activity of the committee on finances, the post has enoug money in hand to carry out successfully the elaborate programme for entertainment of the delegates to the convention. The merchants of Co lumbia are making arrangements. Boy Scout Chief in Columbia. Franklin K. Matthews, of New York, chief scout librarian, Boy Scouts of America, is visiting Colum bia in the interests of the book de partment of that movement. His pur pose is to see all the leaders of the city who are In any way responsible for the direction of boy life, callinc their attention to the importance ol the boys' reading. The Boy Scout movement has beer very badly misrepresented, he says because of the many Boy Scout storj books that have been published SENATE HOLDS# CANAL TOLLS BILL ? REPEAL MEASURE IS REFERRED ' TO SENATOR O'GORMAN'S ' COMMITTEE. NO UNNECESSARY * DELAY Spectacular and Heated Debate Is Expected When Measure Is Introduced. Washington. ? The administration bill to repeal tolls exemption for all American coastwise ships in the Pan ama canal, which passed the house amid spectacular scenes reached the senate and was referred promptly to the committee on inter-oceanic canals without debate. Senator O'Gorman, chairman of the canals committee, who is marshaling the anti-administration forces, an nounced definitely that he would call a meeting of the committee fdr next Tuesday. Until that time, no formal consideration of the repael measure or proposed amendments can develop. Al though friends of the president had nopea to nave uie caumo WXJiaiiv- | tee meet earlier, they decided to make no effort to induce Senator O'Gorman to change his plans. They will insist, however, upon action within reason able time after the committee gets | down to work. Senator Owen of Oalahoma, major ity member of the committee, who will lead the fight in the comihittee for the administration, visited the white house and conferred with the president. Later he made the emphatic declaration that friends of the repeal bill would not submit to unnecessar delay in pre liminary consideration of the bill, and flatly declared that the gauntlet of committee discharge would be hurled should an attempt be made to impede the progress of the measure. i That some members of the commit tee who oppose exemption repeal de sire to have public hearings on the bill has become apparent, but adminis tration senators insisted that such ( hearings wene entirely unnecessary , and that there could be no other rea son for them except deliberately to cause delay. ( "Public hearings on this issue are unnecessary," said Senator Owen, "and would unnecesasrily prolong this con troversy, which is a clean-cut Issue ana inorcrugniy uuubibiuuu vj senator. We are entitled to get away from congress early this time, and intend to do it if possible. NEW CHIEF OF U. S. ARMY Wotherspoon Appointed Chief of Staff Succeeding General Wood. Washington.?Maj. Gen. William W. Wotherspoon, now assistant chief of staff of the army, has been selected to succeed Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood as chief of staff at the end of Gen eral Wood's term, April 22. Bri^. Gen. Hugh L. Scott, commanding the troops at Fort Bliss, Texas, will be assistant chief of staff. General Wood will assume command of the Eastern department, with head quarters at Governor's Island, New York. The appointment of General Wother % * * - -O rtV spoon to D? cmei 01 sum nau uccu ex pected, as it was in accordance with the practice of promoting the assist ant chief of staff to the' first place. So the interest of the army Centered in the selection of an assistant chief of staff who might in turn succeed Gen eral Wotherspoon when the latter re tires on account of age next Novem ber. A short time ago it had been about settled that the position of assistant chief should be tendered to Brigadier General Tasker H. Bliss, in command of the Southern department with head quarters at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Later a report was current that this tender was declined by General Bliss, and within the past week it began to appear that the choice would fall on General Scott. The latter made a fa vorable impression on the administra tion by the dispatch and thoroughness with which he personaly settled the recent Navajo uprising. $100,000,000 Capital for Reserve Banks Washington.?The new federal re serve banking system will start busi ness with a total authorized capital of about $100,000,000 for all reserve banks, no matter how many institu tions the organization committee de ciues 10 set up. in is iaut uecauw ay parent when figures were made public from all national banks responding to the last call of the comptroller of. the currency, made March 4. The state ment giving these figures will bA the last of the kind issued. Mississippi Bank Officials indicted. Natchez.?Investigation into tin af fairs of the First Natchez bank, which closed its doors on October 30, 1913, resulted in the indictment here by the Adams county grand jury of A. G. Campbell, president; S. H. Lowenberg, first vice president, and R. Lee Wood, second vice president of the defunct institution on the charge of accepting deposits after the bank was insolvent. The grand jury is investigating the savings department of the banlt and other indictments are expected. Lansing Succeeds Moore. Washington.?Robert Lansing, the new counselor of the state depart ment, successor to John Bassett Moore, was sworn in and assumed the duties of his office. He will rank next to Secretary Bryan and be acting secre tary of the department Bennett May Recover. Cairo, Egypt.?The doctors in at tendance on James Gordon Bennet^, proprietor of the New Yorjt Herald, expressed hope of his recovery from his illness. \ :^-V . \ i , . I <...T .r-A* YOU NEVER CASHIER ACCUSED OFTHEFT MAYOR BROWN OF GALLATIN, TENN., IS ARRESTED BY U. S. MARSHALL. Employee of Tennessee Mining De partment Arrested as an Accom plice in Bank Robbery. Nashville, Tenn.?The arrest of Will B. Brown, mayor of Gallatin, and as sistant cashier of the First National Bank of Gallatin, on a charge of em bezzlement, and the arrest of Herbert B. Jackson, of Gallatin, an employe of the state mining department, on a charge of conspiracy and aiding and abetting Brown in embezzlement, came as a sensational climax in the re ported robbery of the Gallatin finan cial institution on the morning of Fri day, March 20. The warrant on which the arrests were made was sworn out before Unit ed States Commissioner Harry Luck at Nashville by Edward J. Brennan. special agent of the department of justice. The warrant charges Brown yith embezzling more than thirty thousand dollars of the funds of the bank. Jackson was arrested in Nashville by a federal officer. He was taken before United States Commissioner Luck, and his bond was fixed at $5,000. Brown was arrested at his residence at Gallatin by United States Marshal Will Jones and Detectives Kiger and Jacobs of Nashville. He was brought to Nashville in his own automobile. In January he was elected for a sec ond term as mayor or uaiiaun. mis is said to be the only public office that he has ever held. Brown is mar ried and has two children. CRITICIZE DIVORCE LAWS Chicago Judge Says Juvenile Courts Are Related to Divorce Courts; Chicago.?No divorce should be granted any person who has a minor child, unless the child shall have been provided for to the satisfaction of the court, is the conclusion of Adelor J. Petit, chief justice of the circuit court, in an analysis made public of the first annual report of the new municipal bureau of divorce and marriage sta tistics. The close relations between divorce courts and the juvenile courts as in dicated in the number of petitions for the care of dependent or delinquent children, Js the outstanding feature of Judge Petlt's analysis. Juvenile court records since July. 1899, showed 50, 358 petitions for the care of children. Of these, the report indicates that ap proximately 33,750 cases were the di rect result of divorces or the neglect of parents through drunkenness or desertion, which would have constitut ed sufficient grounds for divorce. Bigamist Records His Crimes. Oakland, Cal.?"Sir" Harry West ward Cooper, bigamist, and forger, has been beguiling his prison sentence in South Africa by making a list of as many of his crimes as he can remem ber. A copy of this received was re ceived by Chief Petersen of the Oak land police department, who has be gun proceedings to have Cooper brought here to answer a charge of bigamy. An outline of Cooper's auto biography fololws: Three bigamous marriages; five elopements which did not end in marriage. Hines Wins $15,000,000 Suit. Jackson, Miss.?Contentions of the Edward Hines Lumber company in a suit involving $15,000,000 worth of timber lands in this state, were upheld in a decision of the Mississippi su preme court here. The state attorney general brought suit against the com pany to enforce a law providing that Corporations could, not hold more than $2,000,000 worth of land in Mis sissippi. The supreme court held the law constitutional but decided it affect ed only domestic corporations. Beheaded His Wife and Baby. Shirley, Ark.?Elijah Huggins, farm er, was arrested at his home near Shirley, charged with having murder ed and beheaded his wife and baby. Huggins, it is said, was recently re leased from the state insane asylum. According to officers who brought the man to jail, Huggins, 9-year-old son charged that his father first lifted the baby from its cradle and dashed it against the wall of the room and then attacked his wife with a butcher knife, piercing her body eleven times. Sit-! CAN TELL LONE BANDIT ROBS TRAIN WHITE MAN HOLDS UP EXPRESS ,MESSENGER AND MAKES ESCAPE. Florida-Cuba Special of the Seaboard Held Up for the Third Time in Two Years. I Columbia, S. C.?An unknown white man, pistol in hand, entered the ex press^ car of the northbound Florida Cuba Special of the Seaboard Air Line from Tampa to New York, as the train was leaving Columbia, compell ed the express messenger to open the safe, and after taking from it a pack age, said to be of slight value, jumped off as the train slowed up for a cross ing in the northern limits of the city. After the crew had instructed the crossing watchman to communicate with the Columbia police, the train proceeded on its way. Neither pas sengers nor mail clerks were molested. Officials of the express company were unable to estimate the value of the packages secured by the robber. They say they are unable to state where the stolen package was put 011, and will not know until later how much money it contained. The robbery is the third .of its na ture in Columbia within the past two years. In each case the hold-ups have been made by one man. No ar rests have been made in the other cases STUDENTS ENGAGE IN RIOT Newspaper Corerspondent Asasulted at Chapdl Hill, N. C. Raleigh, N. C.?Threatened by a crowd of students of the University of North Carolina, in the lobby of the postofflce at Chapel Hill, S. R. Win ters, corerspondent of the News and Observer, at that place, was struck by one of them because of the publica tion of an account of gambling by students at the state universit3 A party of eleven, including stu dents and citizens of Chapel Hill, were bound over to the court on the charge of playing "craps," and the report gave their names. This caused the attack on him, the evidence being that only the intervention of students and a hurried call for the police kept the crowd from beating up winters. Champion Father ot German. Berlin.?Ferdinand Eglinski, aged 53, a tailor of Ahlbeck, iB Germany's champion father. The Tageblatt, which publishes his story, says that of his successive marriages with two sister,s thirty-five children were born, 26 of whom are living?19 boys and 7 girls. The tailor married at the age of 20. His first wife, who died In 1907, bore him twenty-four children. Railroad Men Threaten Strike. r-me, Italy.?Italy faces another general strike. Eighty thousand rail way employees are claming for an amelioration of their conditions of em ployment, which" would represent an increase of $10,000,000 in the state budget. The employees held several meetings. The most important one was at Ancona, a great railway cen ter, where it was decided that if the government refused to give a satis factory answer to the demands of the men a general railway strike would be proclaimed April 15. Prosperity Returns to Philippines. Washington.?Apparently complete recovery from drouth and storms that paralyzed trade and farming activi ties of the Philippines last year was announced by the bureau of insular affairs. Customs returns from the isl ands show the total imports for the calendar year just ended amounted to only $53,312,7S6, or $8,355,165 less on for 1Q12 whila fht* pvnnrtc show a reduction of $7.011,7S2 from the 1912 total of $47,772,956. The 1914 su gar crop, is expected to surpass all re cent records. Fire Department Quells Riot. Sedalia, Mo.?A race riot was quell ed only after the fire department was ordered out to aid the police and sher iff's deputy drive tho combatants to their homes. The trouble arose be tween whites and negroes at a merry go-round. Armed with brickbats and clubs, several hundred persons battled in the down town district for two hours. After several arrests were made the crowd dispersed. No one was seriously injured. FREE CANAL TOLLS LOSEJi HOUSE MAJORITY FOR REPEAL LARGER THAN WILSON SUPPORTERS EXPECTED. WILSON GREATLY GRATIFIED 220 Democrats Stood by the President and Only 52 Voted Against Measure. Washington.?The national house ol representatives, after one of the most spectacular legislative struggles in the history of the nation, voted to repeal the provision of the Panama canal act exempting American vessels from the payment of tolls. The vote on the repeal bill was 247 to 161?a majority of 86 votes in support of the personal plea of Woodrow Wilson, president of the United States. This verdict on the issue which has absorbed congress for many weeks came at the close of a stirring day, moHa momnrnhlo In the annals of the house by a party division which found Speaker Champ Clark, Majority Lead er Underwood and other Democratic chieftains lined up in open opposition to the president on an issue which the latter had declared vital to his con duct of the nation's foreign policy. - The result was the first struggle within the party since democracy took control of the government a year ago. The bill now goes to the senate, where the fight will be renewed with all the vigor and determination that attended it in the lower houfae. On the final vote 220 Democrats in the house stood by the president, giv ing him in "ungrudging measure" what he had asked "for the honor of the nation" in its foreign relations. Twenty-five Republicans and two Pro gressives also voted to sustain the president. Fifty-two Democrats fol lowed 'Speaker Clark and Leader Un derwood to defeat Nothing, it seemed, could stem the tide of administration success. Speak er Clark, for nearly twenty-two years a member of the house, made the speech of his life to forestall what he termed "dnquestionable degradation" of the nation. In this he failed, but he did smooth over the party breach with kindly words for his adversaries, praise for President Wilson, and an unqualified denial of any vaulting am bition on his own behalf. When he had closed the debate for the oppo sition to the repeal, the speech was triumphant in defeat, for the entire leg islative assemblage, in which' were many senators, rose en masse to cheer him. In the senate the bill will be re ferred to the committee\ on inter oceanic canals, of which Senator O'Gorman of New York, a vigorous op ponent of the measure, Is chairman. Senator O'Gorman has said he would call a meeting of the committee imme diately to consider the bill. That there will be a fight in that commit tee is certain. Senator Owen is lead ing the fight for the president there. NEGRO WOMAN IS LYNCHED Mob at Muskogee, Okla., Hanged Ne gress to Telephone Pole. Muskogee, Okla.?Marie Scott, a ne gro woman who killed Lemuel Peace, a young white man, by driving a knife Into his heart, was taken out of the Wagoner county jail and hanged to a telephone pole. Tne moo, waicn was masked, overpowered the jailer, a one armed man, threw a rope over the woman's head and dragged her out of the jail. The county attorney of Wagoner county has started an investigation to determine, if possible, the identity of the members of the mob. A knock at the jail door aroused the sleeping jailer, alone in the office. A voice outside said an officer was there with prisoners. The jailer opened the door and faced twelve revolvers. He was bound quickly and his keys taken from him. He then was thrown in the corner. The mob pulled the screaming wom an from her cell, tied a rope about her neck and dragged her to a tele phone pole a block from the jail. An hour later the sheriff cut down the dead body. $100 a Month Willed to a Dog. Boston.?"Pete Crafts" will continue to enjoy luxuries uncommon among dogs. The probate court approved the will of his late master, John Chan cellor Crafts, which provides a fund of $1,200 a year for tne upkeep of Pete. Relatives who had been cut off without a cent contested the will, al io<TiTitr "nnriiip influence." At the hear '^bult) ing witnesses told how Pete had pre sided at the head of the table at "birthday parties" given in his honor and that his master considered the dog a greater friend than any man. Clarke New Senator From Arkansas. Little Rock, Ark.?Figures received from the primary election of last week show that Senator James P. Clarke has won in the senatorial race over Judge William F. Kirby. The official vote of Poinsett county, as given by | the chairman of the Poinsett county committee, gives Clarke a majority of 1,181 and in the state of 720. The total vote of the state, official except ' from Poinsett, which comes from the I r>iinirman of that county's central com raittoe, is: Clarke, 68,445; Kirby 67,* 745. To Study Animal Diseases. New York.?The Rockefeller Insti tute for Medical Research announced that John D. Rockefeller had added $1,000,000 to the general endowment fund of the institution to be devoted to the study of animal diseases, and that James J. Hill had pledged $50, 000 for the investigation of hog chol era. "The Rockefeller Institute," the announcement reads, "heretofore con fined its investigations to the field of human diseases. Animal diseases are as important because of their close relationship to human diseases. FIRST IN TKE STATE GREENVILLE COUNTY EMPLOYS HEALTH OFFICER FOR HIS FULL TIME. / i 0 ' U, . Dr. JAMES A. HAYNES AIDS I ' / -M Seats Health Officer Expresses Hops That Richland and Many Othsr Counties Will Soon FoHow This Exarhple In Greenville., X ' Columbia.?James A. Hayne, M. D., state health officer, went to Greenville recently where he will aid In organiz ing a county board of health for the ' purpose of establishing a full time county health officer. This step of organization follows on the act pass- . ed by the general assembly permit ting the organization of such a body j in that county, and Greenville is the first county to respond to the cam 1 AV-x 1 V K? ytu&U 'LiitiL uao u?eu wagcu ujr uuu state board of health (or the creation / of full time county health officers. Dr. Hayne before leaving expressed the hope that other counties would Immediately take up the question of the advisability of having county health officers, as the step would mean much toward improvement of general health conditions throughout the state. He pointed out that North Carolina has 12 whole time county health officers, none of whom is ire ceiving a salary of less than $2,000, and that already they had rendered ^ invaluable service to the state board of health. Dr. Hayne will direct his efTorts to ward the creation of a county board '* of health in, Richland county, which i he hopes in the near future will follow , the example of Greenville county. '-v High Schools Teach Farming. Florence.?L. L. Baker, of Bishop* ville, district agent of the farm dem* onatration work in eastern South Car olina was here recently looking after * the work of the newly organized de partment of agriculture in the high schools through hie district. This work is a most interesting de velopment of the aid that the general goverment is giving to the people of ?1 T 4 I* A nA LliU iUitti U10liii;io. It 19 * TTUJia psr cullar to thie state at present, where the department of agriculture of the government Is making en experiment and Is being watched very closely. Under a recent provision of the bu reau In charge of this work, five schools In each county in the state have been designated as agricultural demonstration schools, they being re quired to provide land suitable for the teaching of agriculture under the direction of the agents of the govern ment. Farm Club In Elfenton. Ellenton.?If one section of South Carolina has distiguisbed itself over any or all others it is Ellenton, through the effective work of the Ellenton Ag ricultural club, which has never miss ed a fourth Saturday meeting. since its organization more than 20 years ago. Some member of the club gives a dinner and important subjects re lating to the farm are discussed in ? most intelligent and scientific man ner by the mepabers and as a result of this club's work the agricultural inter est of this section is greatly advanced and the intellectual development will make its impression on the whole State, for these men now take rank ? frtKATVinof lofl^AWfl J1 arnuiig tile 1U1 CiiiUOU iuaucio auwa?v%/ tually, socially and agriculturally' o' South Carolina. Want Chance at Highway. v Spartanburg.?The commercial 01* ganizations of Greenville, Anderson, Spartanburg and Gaffney have enter ed an appeal to Director Page, secre tary of the American Highway asso ciation, to have the surveyors make a trip through these cities before mak ing a final decision in locating the Capital-to-Capital highway. The or ganizations believe that if the sur veyors could come here and make an . investigation they could be convinced that the proper route for the highway is through the Piedmont section Commissioner Watson has been criti cised some up in this section for his stand in having the highway routed through the lower part of the state. Petition For Dispensary Election. Anderson. ? rwenty-nve petitions asking the county superivlsor to or der an election on the question of dis pensary or no dispensary for Ander son county are in circulation in sev eral sections, and are being freely signed. The law provides that these petitions be in the hands of the super visor before May 1 during the year of the general election. Two years ago the advocates of the dispensary sys tem had the petitions circulated and had secured the necessary number of lualifled voters' signatures. Arranging For Horse Show. Darlington,?All arrangements for th? coming horse show have been completed and everything Is in readi ness for the reception of the horses and their owners. The show will come off on April 15-16 and on both of these days there will be two shows of nine classes held. The first show each day will start at 2:30 o'clock and last for about three hours and then the second show will begin at S:30 o'clock. The managemnet of the show have arranged for the most through lighting of the arena. Pay Employees Bi-Weekly. Florence.?The Atlantic Coast Line railway has just put on its twice a month pay train in accordance with the recent act of the general assembly requiring shop employes to be paid" off every two weeks. This innova tion was opposed by the railroads, but it is thought that the company will not be as seriously Inconvenienced as it expected. The employes do not seem to be as enthusiastic as they might be over the change. Many of thom do not like it. The merchants hope fo ra charge to the cash plan.