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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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