University of South Carolina Libraries
1^1 FROM TfiL PLi 13 SYNOPSIS. Jackson Jones, nicknamed "Broadway" because of his continual glorification of New York's great thoroughfare, is anx ious to get away from his home town of Jonesville. Abner Jones, his uncle, is very angry because Broadway refuses to settle down and take a place in the gum factory in which he succeeded to his father's interest. Judge Spotswood in forms Broadway that $250,000 left him by Ills father is at his disposal. Broadway makes record time in heading for his favorite stueet in New York. With his New York friend. Robert Wallace, Broad way creates a sensation by his extrava gance on the White Way. Four years pass and Broadway suddenly discovers that he is not only broke, but heavily in I debt. He quietly seeks work without suc cess. Broadway becomes engaged to Mrs. Gerard, an ancient widow, wealthy and very giddy. Wallace learns that Broad way is broke and offers him a position with his father's advertising firm, but it is declined. Wallace takes charge of Broadway's affairs. Broadway receives a telegram announcing the death of his Uncle Abner in Europe. Broadway is his sole heir. Peter Pembroke of the Con solidated Chewing Gum company offers Broadway $1,200,000 for his gum plant and Broadway agrees to sell. Wallace takes the affair in hand and Insists that Broad way hold off for a bigger price and rushes him to Jonesville to consult Judge Spots wood. Broadway finds his boyhood play mate, Josle Richards, in charge of the I plant and falls in love with her. Wallace is smitten with Judge Spotswood's daugh ter. Clara. Josie points out to Broadway ' that by selling the plant to the trust he will ruin the town built by his ancestors and throw 700 employes out of work. Broadway .decides that he will not sell. Broadway visits the plant and Josie ex plains the business details to hifn. CHAPTER X.?Continued. "Oh, don't be afraid," he assured her. "I meant exactly what I said to Higglns." She sighed with real relief. "I don't mind telling you. Miss Rich ards, that when I came here yesterday my intention was to sell this business and get it off my hands at any price or sacrifice." The mere statement of this evidently past and gone intention was a shock to her. He noted, and not without emotion?mind that: Broadway unmis takably was touched?that her face blanched at the thought of that which he had definitely decided not to do. The young man was beginning to think; he was forming some faint realization of the fact that his own troubles were but somewhat unimpor hnhhlon In n marie lin r?f everybody's troubles. The thought was forming in his mind that, while he had been severely worried about ways and means for getting luxuries, these people, here in Jonesville, who had lived and probably would die with out ever having heard the names of many of the things his sybaritic soul had learned to crave, had felt them selves confronted by the possibility of loss of the necessities. Indefinitely, but for the first time in his life at all, he saw tiow grim the struggle for a bare existence is with the majority; how, although they strain and strivp to their limit of abil ity, they never feel quite safe in their possession of the means for getting it He acknowledged to himself a feeling -of embarrassment as he considered the undeniable selfishness of his previous existence. But he brightened visibly, as he went on. He had learned his lesson and had learned it thoroughly. "Carnegie couldn't buy the plant this morning," he said simply, "if he of fered 'every dollar he has in the world. Mr. Wallace and I sat up talking it over until two o'clock this morning. I told him everything you said, and went over the whole situation with him. I promised to take his advice, and he's convinced me that the right thing to do is to stick right here and put up a fight for these people, the same as my uncle did." Her reserve quite vanished; as is the way of women, she took credit for an intuition which her previous man ner had not indicated. Where she had been suspicious of a reason for sus picion, she became enthusiastic over reason for enthusiasm. "I knew you would!" she cried. "I knew?I knew you would!" She had not known he would; she had feared, had.half believed that he would not; but that now made not the slightest difference with her firm be lief that she had known he would. Nor had the fact that Broadway, a short minute before, had Buspected, with good reason, that she seriously doubt ed him, any influence whatever on his deep pleasure when he discovered that she did not?did not because she could not, not because she would not. Men do not think clear to the bottom of these things. They take what wom en give them, when they give them anything, and are humbly grateful and surprised because they get a smile when they deserve one, rather than a brick when they do not deserve one. Nothing which the world has ever of fered to the gaze of the philosopher I has been one-half so pitiful as the as-1 MAKES GEMS MORE BRILLIANT Five Carat Diamond in Vacuum Has Been Shown to Give as Much Light as a Candle. The jewelers of ancient Egypt knew more than modern craftsmen about treating gems so that they would shine and sparkle, according to the j Independent. Such gems as the emer- j aid, garnet and jacinth were livelier | and more luminous in the days of the Ptolemies than they can be made to day. It Is known that the diamond,1 ruby, emerald and kunzite become phosphorescent or fluorescent under certain circumstances. Gems exhibit the liveliest phospho rescence in vacuum tubes. Even in rarefied air some diamonds give out a blue light which is not present in a denser atmosphere. In a vacuum a diamond of four or five carats gives as much light as a candle. The color of the light differs not only with the origin of the diamond, but with the facets of the same diamond. Maske lyne made a collection of diamonds which glowed in a vacuum with near i WARD MARS \Y CT GEORGI tonished gratitude of the right-minded male when he finds that the one fe male for whom he has begun, con sciously or without his knowledge, to live his life and do his deeds, does not utterly condemn him when he has done his level best and that best has been worthy. Men are the world's nat ural "come-ons," women the world's natural vendors of psychological, sen timental and often very raw gold bricks. So when Josie soulfully declared that she had known he would, Broad way did not let it pass with an unap preciative, "Of course you did," but looked at her with gratitude alight in His pleased race ana nuuiuij' yuvum, "Did you?" For a moment tbe^fact that she de clared that she had known he would be decent and not villainously selfish so completely overwhelmed him (and please do not forget that she, within a minute, had admitted that she thought him capable of basest selfishness that he could not find words with which to proceed conversationally. All men are that way. But presently he recovered self-pos session and continued: "Now, I don't know anything about business, and I don't know anything about money. I never did a day's work In my life for the simple reason that I never had to." He looked at her with a shamed smile, the first evidence that he had ever shown of anything but pride in his ability to live idly with enormous and successful effort. "The only trial of skill into which I have entered since I went from Jones ville to New York has been a general, endless contest with the world at large to see which could stay up the latest. I have generally won?won in a walk." She was listening intently. All wom en are intent to breathlessness when they are hearing any man tell his un worthiness; if there is a hint of a con fession of real wickedness in his decla ration they will listen with an absorp tion which approaches a hypnotic trance. "I've never done anything good, be cause I've never had anything good to do," Broadway went on, before he reached the next full stop. She sat absolutely spellbound. Did she feel a vivid hope that he would go into detail of tl# things which he had /inno ivhirh wprfi not eood? Such re citals always pain good women ex quisitely, yet they never shun them, never Interrupt them?never, by the way, forget them or fail to have them at their tongues' ends afterwards, when, by recalling them, they can abash the man who in a moment of un "Can You Beat That?" guarded foolishness has made them. But Broadway told no details of his villainies. This was not brilliance on his part; it was sheer luck. If she was definitely disappointed her distress was more or less allevi ated the next moment, for he burst forth somewhat wildly: "What I've needed all along was an incentive?something to spur me on? something to insDire me. What I've needed was?" He could not complete the sentence. It was as if his tongue had found an insurmountable obstruction in the groove of language which it had begun to follow and had to leap out to a side groove. An expression of disgust grew on his face. He hesitated, flushed, ly all the colors of the spectrum. An uncut stone which was roughly cube shape, with truncated corners and edges, emitted orange yellow light from the corners and lemon yellow from the flat edges. Next to the diamond stands the ruby as highly phosphorescent in a vacuum. The ruby emits a beautiful red light, as though it were incandes cent. Kunzlte shines with a golden yellow or yellow tinged with rose. ! The emerald shines with a crimson [ light. The same gems become phos | phorescent under the influence of radi i um. The ultra-violet rays also pro duce luminosity in gems. It is well known that rubies from the mines of Burma are more valuable than those from neighboring Siam. Externally they look much alike,- but under the ultra-violet rays Burmese stones, which are called oriental rubies, glow like red embers, while the Siamese rubies look almost black. How to Keep Eggs Eleven Months One of the oldest methods of pre serving eggs is to dip them in a bath of silicate of soda, or "liquid glass JQ wn :n.coMs. then reached hia hand inco his pocket and drew forth the paper on which he had labored with such assiduity and such a tensely working, cheek manipu lating tnnpne in the small hours that flALL o ? morning. "What I've needed was"?he once more said, in desperate endeavor to remember what came next, and, find ing " impossible to continue with his recit .on, looked at her wild eyed, dis appointed, self-disgust writ plain upon [ his face, and dropped his hands in helpless and disorganized fashion to his sides. "Can you beat that?" he demanded of the fascinated girl. "I knew that thing by heart when I left the hotel." Almost angrily he thrust the paper In to her receptiv.e hands. "It took me hours to write that!" he earnestly declared. "Hours full of mos quito-bites! I got up early, too, and learned the thing by heart. But I might have known that I'd forget it! I never could remember anything." She took the paper, glanced at it with highly kindled interest and was on the point of reading it when there came an interruption. It was Sammy. There ever is a Sammy ready to step in and spoil big moments in our lives. "Are?you?too? busy ?for? com pany?" he asked deliberately and ir reverently. The imp, though fat, wan quite cognizant of the fact that he had come at the wrong moment, and his heart was filled with Joy because he felt so certain of it. "Who is it, Sammy?" "Ma?and?Clara." Josie sighed, then looked at Broad way with an inquiry upon her face. He nodded. She thrust the paper he had given her into the top drawer of her desk. ? "All right, Sammy; tell' them to come in." With a gravity like that of the sphinx, but with a glint of malice sat isfied in his small eyes, the fat boy ambled heavily to the door. With a voice as disproportionate to his years as were his calves, he cried invitation to his mother and his sister. It was as if they waited on the other side of a wide stream and he was battling a howling tempest with his tones. His "All right, mom, come on in," rasped Broadway's nerves; the fact that he had failed In the delivery of the brief eloquence which had been fruit of mid night and past-midnight oil at the un speakable Grand, a certain reeling (such as all of us have bad) that he was doing worthily while getting less than proper credit for it. made him hate Sammy at that moment. He wondered If he might not throttle him In some deserted spot before the day was over, looked him over careful ly, observed the size of his columnar neck, and hopelessly abandoned thought of It. His hands would never reach around It! The visitors ap peared. While attention was distracted from her, in answer to an irresistible im pulse, Josie took from the desk draw er the paper Broadway had intrusted to her, and thrust it into a sacred, se cret place within her shirtwaist. Mrs. Spotswood, filled with the fine excitement of the matron who is cer tain that romance is working in her neighborhood, was devoured by that modification of the spirit of the chase which sends the ladles, rich.or poor, good or bad, upon the scent of such elusive news with all the zest of sports men after sauirrels or elephants. She was inclined toward worry in regard to Jonesville's fate and alBO inclined to confidence in it because she had known Broadway since he was a little boy (ah, what errors have good women made because they have known some one since he was a little boy!) and knew that while he might be "wild" h6 was not wicked, for his baby curls had been so sweet; pleased beyond ex pression by the deep Impression which her own delicious Clara had made up on Broadway's affluent, well-mannered, plainly competent friend?animated by these various emotions and not less than twenty others which I have not mentioned. Mrs. Spotswood wore a fluttering smile as she accepted her baby-mastodonic son's infant fog-whis tle invitation. "Good morning, Josie." Josie smiled at her, although she had regretted her arrival almost as much as Broadway had. She had so wished to read the words upon the ho tel letter paper which her new em ployer had spent half the night in writing. Mrs. Spotswood's smile expanded till it fairly beamed at Josie before she turned her eyes to Broadway, and then she started with surprise. It was be cause she had been certain he was there that she had come; a visit from but recently the wisdom of this meth od has been questioned, it being said that the eggs absorb soluble silica in sufficient amount to make them unfit to be eaten. Dr. Bartlett, an English chemist, has been testing eggs so preserved, and has proved that if the bath con tains free soda the eggs absorb it and their whites become like Jelly. But when a ten per cent, solution of sili cate of soda ffe used there is none of this absorption. After being im mersed for eleven months the eggs contain no more silica than when fresh. They are in very much better condition than when preserved for the same length of time by freezing, as the pores of their shells are her metically closed. Condolence. Mrs. Hen was in teaFs. One of her little ones had been sacrificed to make a repast for a visiting clergyman. "Cheer up, madam," said the rooster, comfortingly. "You should rejoice that your son is entering the ministry. He was poorly qualified for a lay mem ber. anyhow."?Philadelphia Ledger. \ FH PHOTOGRAPHS 1SCENE IN THE PLAY aa*>r/*/gm7; by ghz oulum^aat cc her to the factory was an unheard-of thing; she had distinctly heard his voice as she had passed outside the open door, but now her deep astonish ment because he was within the room < seemed almost overwhelming. i "Oh, hello, Broadway!" i He smiled nervously and hurried for- i ward. Things had not gone as he had wished, but he was not resentful. Nev- i er had he been so humble. Had he i not, the night before, defaced that pa per with the tale of his humility and j I - VI. 1 1 O D. me aeiuxib ui liits guuu icauivco: j_>c- - sides, had not Mrs. Spotswood guard-11 ed him in childhood against wrath at home on more than one occasion,'and 1 had she not, the previous evening, with 1 the understanding and good humor of 1 an angel, prepared for him that lemon- ] ade which held the magic touch for 1 which his system yearned? 1 "I'm awfully glad to see you here in the plant," she earnestly aspured him, 1 and meant every word of it. Then: "Did you have a good night's Bleep?" ] Even the question was a nervous 1 shock, but he smiled bravely, although 1 he shuddered slightly as he asked in 1 answer, "How do I look?" "Grand!" she exclaimed. Now his shudder was not slight < "Don't mention the name, please." 1 "You must come to our house to sup per." 1 "Believe me, I shall be glad to get : it," he said fervently. Nqw her soul paid tribute to that subtle hiat of romance which was in < the air. "You, too, Josie." i "Oh, thanks, Mrs. Spotswood." "Is the Judge here?" She knew perfectly well that he was 1 not; she had seen him through the ! OTiim J A AnA rtOO i WUIUUYV Ui Uia llkkio U11C-1 uuucu, yvun roofed office building just across the | street as she had turned Into the graveled, flower-lined path which led to the works' entrance. 1 "I thought he might be here. We've i been?er?shopping, and were going i by, so I thought I would run In and have a word with him." Even Mrs. Spotswood did not shop thus early in the morning, save for groceries; moreover, she did not wear her best black silk dress when she ! went shopping for her groceries, and the shopping district occupied the re gion farthest from the works upon ' the other side of her own home?but these things did not matter. Then, as she saw Broadway's atten tion wavering, and that Cfara was en- 1 deavoring to noia it long enougn 10 ask for Wallace, she turned beamingly to him, although behind the beam there was a genuine anxiety. "Any thing new, Broadway?" Clara's courage had augmented by that time, and she gave him insuffi cient time to frame an answer, so Mrs. Spotswood went to Josie, and, as Broadway answered questions about Wallace, assuring Clara that he'd be there before long, out of the corner of his eye he could make certain that Josie was explaining things to MrB. Spotswood. He rather thought and hoped that she was explaining them with real enthusiasm. Clara was shyly excited over Wal lace, and took full advantage of this chance to talk of him with his best friend. The long standing of her friendship for Broadway made her feel at liberty to gossip freely. "I think Mr. Wallace is an awfully nice fellow," she said gravely. "Do you really?" Broadway smiled at her although he bitterly resented her intrusion on his talk with Josie. , "I'll tell him you said that," he gaily threatened. "He is," she stated positively. "He . ordered ice cream twicc 'ast night." A ! reminiscent hunger came into her ' eyes. "Bought me a box uf chocolates, too." . < "Oh, he doesn't care what he does with his money." Broadway's manner . indicated that asking twice for ice cream and the purchase of a box of chocolates represented to his mind the i extreme insanity of spendo-manla. 1 "Doesn't he?" she asked, her tone in dicating that delightful horror which i unmarried ladies feel at hearing of the i exploits of equally unmarried, possibly < eligible young men. "No," said Broadway, with the air 1 of one revealing something at once i horrible and fascinating, "he spent i I tmontv.fivo /Inllars nno nlcht " 1 His audience was as vividly ira- < pressed as any speaker could have 1 wished. "He must have just thrown it < away!" i "Why?" 1 But the mad tale of Wallace's ex- < penditures was never told. The con- ] [ versation was at this point interrupt- i ed by the sound of cheerB in the great 1 i workrooms at the back. I FISHERMAN TELLS THIS ONE Giant Sturgeon Tews Austrian to Camp and 18 Later Served to Crew of Htingry Men. n a ( JLasmng a luu-yuuuu oimscuu <-" - raft, when he found the fish too heavy < to carry, forcing the big member of i the finny tribe to haul him into camp where later the sturgeon was served up to a crew of hungry men, is the latest fish story that has reached i Boise. It was brought to Boise, Ida- 1 ho, by Frank Maxwell, an engineer i of the forest service with headquar- < ters in Boise. ( A large crew of men is stationed at j the Ox Bow tunnel, on the Snake riv- ? er, between Idaho and Oregon. A ( rancher named McPherson notified the ( foreman in charge of the camp that ? if he would send some of his men up t he would give them a fish. Thinking < that one man could manage a single i fish without trouble, the foreman sent [ one of his Austrian laborers after it. < When he arrived at the McPherson i ranch, however, the Austrian found i the sturgeon. 1 CHAPTER XI. Higgins, erratic, demagogia often rieteu* ipxapcr^d, was, when once hia shampionship nki'tageu en!-kft?d, an en thusiastic advocate. As he himself had 3aid, his heart was "in .the right place," and that morning, as he went through the plant explaining that the young new owner had decided not to sell out to the trust, but would stand by Jones ville, Jones' Pepsin gum and those res ident in one and employed in manufac ture of the other, Broadway lost *oHe of.merit through his declamation. In that heart in the right place Fig gins had admired the way th$ smallish city man had stood up to his five feet ten of brawn and threatened to thrtfw him out of the building, discharge him from the plant, and drive him from the town if he did not cease threatening a woman. He was sorry he had lost his temper while with Josie. He had rushed through the great, rambling buildings of the old-fashioned manufactory at high speed and high enthusiasm. His manner had been 9uch that his mere appearance had been signal for the stoppage of the wheels of industry and the gathering of eager groups about him to listen to the news which one could not doubt h? bore, and when the nature of tha* news became known generally, the much-relieved workmen, the working women, and even the basket girls and bundle-boys throughout the plant, be came instantly demonstrative of great Joy. The > first cheer, that which had mercifully interrupted Clara's Inqui Bition of Broadway on the subject of li ' ? 3 11 J V? is inena, was iuiio w?u uj <uivw? and another as the news spread. A gradual cessation of the grinding roar which was apparent, even in the offlc# building, when the plant was operat ing, showed that here and thero and everywhere machines were being Btopped by those who wished to leave them so that they might hear the news. The office-building group stood spell bound, listening. None knew what had occurred. They might have beerl alarmed had the uproar been less un mistakably enthusiastic. * "What is It?" Mrs. Spotswood asked excitedly. "I don't know," was Josle's answer. Clara certainly knew nothing of th? nature of what might be happening, and none was further than Broadway from a guess that what he had told Higgine, in a sentence wherein anger very freely mingled wun tne news 01 "He Spent Over $25 One Night bis determination to retain and oj erate the gum plant, could have bee? accepted as good reason for such p really notable demonstration of thtf Joy of gum makers*. It was the judge, at this Instant bustling in, who made the situatic^ clear to them. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Apples Now a Luxury. Everywhere among the dealers on? can read "three apples for a dime," ant1 In many places the rony fruit is marked with a "nickel apiece." How changed this is from those old days when one could buy a peck of apples for ten cents or a barrel for $1.25. Not many years ago an orange was worth four or five apples, but now it is cheaper and It is not worth one. There was once a time when an ordinary family would have several barrels of apples in the cellar, or a bin in the garret, for win ter use. But those days are gone, ano sven a good apple pie has reached the iltitude of a luxury. And then the way they are sold?In boxes in rows or *ach apple wrapped in paper to attest ts value. We don't know that these ire really days of progress when a iarrel of apples belongs to the aris tocracy. As the fish was still alive the Aus trian built a raft from logs, leaving in opening in the middle for the fish .0 BWim, ana xnen lasuea tue siur ?eon securely to the raft. Pushing ;he craft from the shore he allowed ;he fish to propel him into camp, sev 5ral miles below. A flsh menu waf served at the camp that night. In the Nursery. It does not mean that a woman can lot take charge of her own children'! jringing-up simply because she puts :hem in a nursery. She can take jharge cf them as well In a nursery as )ut of one. If they are in charge ol i governess, however, she should bfr i woman who can be thoroughly trust ed. In these days of mothers' help ers the young woman who fills that po sition would have the supervision of he nursery In a house where she was employed, and she should be chosen vith the greatest care. For the whole ralue of the nursery idea is that th" ihildren who are brought up In lursery lead a quieter, more untram neled life than they do when thej lve out of the nursery.?Exchansc > ENGLISH TEXTILE EXPERT IN STATE BRITISH SYNDICATE TO BUY J COTTON PLANTATION IN THE SOUTH. LATE STATE CAPITOL NEWS I Review of The Latest News Gathered Around the State Capitol That Will Be of Interest to Our Readers Over 8outh Carolina. Columbia. Production of a uniform standard grade of cotton, the direct sale of the cotton in the ^uth to European spin ners and the possible establishing of a lace factory in Columbia were , among the matters discussed at a conference of several hours recently between Thom Heyworth, personal representa tive of a syndicate of British spinners, and Commissioner Watson of the state department of agriculture. Mr. Heyworth is making a trip through the cotton belt and will make a lengthy report on the situation to several of the large spinning com panies of the Manchester milling dis trict in England. Mr. Heyworth was highly pleased with Columbia. Commissioner Wat3on is the presi dent of the Southern Cotton congress. Mr. Heyworth brought a letter of in troduction to Mr. Watson from sev eral well known manufacturers of Manchester. Commissioner Watson went over the entire cotton situation with Mr. Heyworth. Several samples of Columbia ldng staple cotton will be carried back to England. Mr. Heyworth wap much pleased with the samples', saying that they wero exactly what the English spinnerB wanted. He said that for many years the English manufactur ers have been complaining beoause of the lack of uniformity of Ameri can cotton. He said that the spin ners propose to purchase a tract of about 10,000 acres at some point in the South for the purpose of growing one variety of cotton to get a uniform length of staple. This farm will not be inaugurated to compete with the Southern farmer, but will be for de monstration purposes. Before leaving Columbia Mr. Hey worth discussed the advisability of establishing a Nottingham lace fac tory in Columbia. He will^nake a spe cial report on the situation in Colum bia to English capitalists, who, it is nponoraH tft TMnlrfl InVPfit raents here. No particular property was recommended by the commlsslon e rfor the factory. Sites as offered will-be later submitted to Mr. Watson. Dr. Moore Tells of Convention. Andrew C. Moore, acting president University of South Carolina, gave the faculty and students of the uni versity an account of the educational conference! in Louisvitte, Ky.t which he attended recently. The Southern Educatlqnal association and the Con ference for Education in she Soutn determined last year to meet at the same time and place and to carry out a joint program. The plan worked so satisiactorlly that steps were tak en to merge the two associations into one. The same man was chosen as pre-'dent of the two organizations for the next year and it is expected that Mr. Joyner of North Carolina will prove equal to his name, and bring about the merger. Committees were appointed with full power to arrange the details of the union. Weather Observers Study. For the purpose of studying the river conditions in South Carolina and meeting the local observers, Richard H. Sullivan, section director of the United States weather bureau, will make a trip throughout the state soon. He will visit 33 stations and ?'n 1 Wa nnmv pAlilmhio fr\r* AO Will UC arrxxj uu*u ?v. ?w days. Announcement was made a few days ago by Mr. Sullivan that a new assistant director had lieen ordered to Columbia. William Johnstone, now connected with the Asbeville weath er bureau, will come here. Arrange For Boy*' and Girls' Club*. W. W. Long, in chargu of the farm demonstration work in this state, was hero recently with reference to letting the contract for the erection of 70 booths in the big steel building at the fair grounds for th?> use of ex hibits at the next state fair. Forty four of the booths will bfl used by the demonstration work in ?ach county, 24 by the girls tomato clubs and three for the mill village work and two will be used for Mr. Long's of fices. Mr. Long has been paying spe cial attention to the cotton acreage. Inforce Weight and Measure Law. Inspectors of the stato department of agriculture are vigorously inform Ing the weights and measures law. Recently a shipment cf 100 barrels of flour was held up by inspectors in the Piedmont section of the state be cause of short weight. The shortage of 1,200 pounds in the Shipment was made up by the milling :ompany. "We are gradually breaking up the practice and the inspectors have been ordered to weigh stuff all over the State." said Commissioner Watson, recently. Horse Show For State Fair. Probably a nip;ht horse show will be held In Columbia this fall in con nection with the state fair. The idea originated with J. N. Kirven of Dar lington. president of tho South Caro lina Agricultural and Mechanical so ciety. Interested horsemen will hold a conference in Columbia during the horse show this month to decide whether the project is practicable. Informally the plan was discussed several days ago by Mr. Kirven with George T. Little of Camden, D. F. Efird, Lexington, and Henry T. Mill*. ItxporimttiU Aid Flor?no? Folk. , The Poe I>?e experiment station, a branch of the work of Clemson Col lege, located on the outskirts of Flor ence, will show Its practical value to the farmers of this county In Its work of this, Its second year. Last year, the director of the station, R. E. Cur rln, cultivated the farm with the gen* eral idea of obtaining records of com* parative fertility and productiveness of he whole farm of 200 acres. This year the experiments will show the relative values of different methods of cultivation and fertilization. Mr. Currin found that the greater part of the farm was practically uniform for the different experimental sections of three, nine and twelve acres each r V'2 so that there is no necessity for allow- H ance for varying soils in the respect ive tests he is udertaking, a very de cided gain to the station in conveni ence and effectiveness of work. One large section Is devoted to crop rotation lessons and different fertilization. Corresponding sections through four acres show the use of the different ingredients of fertilizer commonly used by the fanners?acid - alone, kainit alone, nitrogen alone, < floats, lime, cottonseed meal and ? check rows with no fertilization?then \ y ' combinations of twos and threes and /< fours of the ingredients, each subsec tion checked with unfertilized rows. Three acres rotate from oats to cotton 1 or corn, then to the one not planted '*&! the year before, and one acre to cot ton continuously. It will,require six years to work out this problem, but when worked out will give an accu rate and reliable guide to rotation and fertilization values. K V Another section gives tests on ex cess use of each ingredient for both 7 < cotton and corn. Printers Meet at Chick Springs. South Carolina Master Printers* as sociation <will hold its annual conven tion at the new Chick Springs hotel July 8. The convention this year will be t devoted mainly to business, few addresses or set papers being contem plated, foremost in importance will be the question of affiliation with the t, United Typotbetae and Fran&ln A Clubs of America. This is a national organization, composed df printers from all parts of the country. It Is argued that to arrange a basis' of membership so that each South Car* lina printer is directly related U> tb? national body is of tremendous Im portance. Clemson Issues Bulletin. \ The tpraying of fruit for insecta and diseases in the late spring and summer month should not meneglect ed by any farmer who hopes for a full cAp from his trees. Prof. A- IV Conradi, entomoligist, and Prof. H. W. Barre, plant pathologist, of Clem^ son college, have issued a, bulletin en> titled "Spraying Program tor Orchard and Vineyard in .South Carolina.* This gives, in six pages, all <the infon mation the average farmer requires on this subject It is circular NO. 25 of the South Carolina experiment station' and n^ay be had by applying tp the college. j ?? Chairman Richards Dissented. Chairman John G. Richards, Jr., of the Railroad Commission called atten-, tion to the fact that he had dissented from the majority opinion of the com mission when it had ordered the grade crossings in Columbia eliminated, which the Supreme Court In dimissing the petition or tne commission ?uu they wore without authority to do. Renew State Building Fund. The renewal of the state building fund will help nearly four score com munities to erect school houses in 1914, according to a letter addressed to the county superintendents of edu? cation by J. E. Swearingen, state su perintendent of education. The ap propriation is $20,0^0 as heretofore and the money will be spent in. a? cordance with the terms of the school building act of 1910. ' Treasurer Pays Out Money. A large per cent of the state taxes has been received at the office of the state treasurr. S. T. Carter, treasu rer, said recently that his office had paid out over $800,000 during March and April for the expenses of the state government. Of this amount about $240,000 has been sent out for pensions. Three Companies of Militia Lost. From information given to The State's correspondent recently, three companies of South Carolina militia have forfeited their right to receive further federal aid from the govern ment and the date of their being mustered out is now up to the gover nor of South Carolina. The com panies are Company B. First infantry; Company K, Third infantry, and the Second company of coast artillery. The action is the result of a recent inspection made by Col. Shanks at the governor'^ request Prepare to Fight Tick. Dr. W. K. Lewis, recently appoint ed by the government to direct the work of eradicating the cattle tick from South Carolina, came to Colum bia recently to make arrangements for beginning this work. He called at the offices of the chamber of com merce. His present headquarters are at Clemson College. Dr. Lewis placed an order here for j.OOO pounds of arsenic, 5,000 pounds of sal soda, 2, 000 pounds of cuastlc soda and 500 gallons of pine tar, for the purposa of preparing arsenic solution. Ransdell Accepts Invitation., Jos. E. Ransdell, member of the United States senate from Louisiana, has accepted an invitation to attend the National Drainage congress at Savannah this month. Senator Rans dell will discuss the subject, "Control \ of Mississippi Floods Essential to Pro tection of Our Largest Drainage Unit" The letter of acceptance was received recently by Commissioner Watson, I who Js vice president of the drainage congress ,and who is at present in charge of the publicity department i ?< , ,**