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GREAT TENSENESS IN SENA TORIAL RINGS ON ACCOUNT OF THE SHOOTING. DOCTOR DENIES SIGNATURE ; Mcintosh Says it Was Clever Forgery. Governor Offers Reward?At Lau rens, Lexington and Saluda. The overshadowing event in South Carolina politics during the past week has been the shooting of Dr. J. H. Mcintosh, a prominent physician of Columbia. This event created quite a sensation, as it came at a time when there was great tenseness in the at mosphere as regards the senatorial situation. The ral&tionshlp came about by the divergence of statements of the governor and Dr. Mcintosh in regard to a certificate read 'by the governor last week in Abbeville in which Dr. Mcintosh is said to have advised the governor to pardon Rich ey, the Abbeville man who had been eent to the penitentiary tor commit ting a heinous crime against his four teen-year-old daughter. The governor stated that Dr. Mcintosh signed the r MnTntnah the authenticity of his signature, in a statement given out to the press, and ?In which he stated that not only had he told the governor that Richey should not be released but that he w&a feigning paralysis. At the Green ville meeting, Mr. J. W. Norwood was dubbed a "coward" when he asked the governor in regard to the Mcintosh statement, and the governor stated that he would ask the physician to be on the stand in Columbia at the meet ing to be held there, when he would read the statement and ask Dr. Mc intosh if "he did not 3ign it. This, meeting was held Thursday, and early Thursday morning Dr. Mcintosh was waylaid on his way home from the Knowlton hospital and shot, the wound, however, proving not to be ^ serious, but sufficient to prevent his .^ppearnce at the meeting. Dr. Mc Intosh gave out a statement Imme diately after he was shot saying that t - the man who did the shooting said In ?scaping, "Now you wont bother Colie tomorrow." The shooting prov- t ?d a sensation all over the state, and t J. W. Norwood, of Greenville, offered r a reward of five thousand dollars for g the apprehension with proof to con- g vict of the man who instigated the j ehooting. ^ ' Governor Blease read the statement c at the meeting in Columbia Thursday, t expressing regrets that Dr. Mcintosh r had been shot and that he was un- ? able to appear; that were he present E ha would ask him if he signed the j statement after Inspecting the signa- } ture. He offered to give a hundred 1 dollars to anyone who proved that the physician did not sign it. Statement bv Dr. Mcintosh. t Dr. Mcintosh Saturday afternoon 1 gave out a statement in which he < stated that he had not signed the s statement, that it was a clever for- t * g"ery of his signature, and that he had 1 given the governor no statement up- < on stationery of the Knowlton hos- i pital, the statement as read by the i governor being upon stationery of 1 the hospital. 1 The candidates have only two meet- 1 tags this week, one at Edgefield Wed- 1 needay and the other at Aiken Thurs- [ day. l At Laurent. At Laurens, where the first meet- , lag of the past week was held the friends of the governor were in the , majority. He was carried on the ( shoulders of his friends and received , an ovation. This was one of the fea tures of the week, and the reception , accorded the governor were marked by much enthusiasm at all of the meetings. At Lexington he was plac ed in a wagon upon which sat six pretty girls leading a procession of several hundred people. The same reception was accorded him at the Saluda meeting Saturday, while at the Columbia meeting he received eeveral tokens. Six little girls pre him with boauets of flowers. Senator Smith's friends have like wise been active the past week in staging receptions for their candi date, and at all of the meetings he was placed upon a bale of cotton lead by a number of farmers on horseback. The attacks of W. P. Pollock upon the record of the governor has also been a feature of the week, the speaker receiving the attention of his hearers and much applause. L. D. Jennings, elao made vitriolic speeches against the record of the governor, and at Lexington stated that he hoped his wife and children would leave him If he ever grasped the hand of Blease, thl* behig said in answer to the state mentof the governor that he did not BDeak to him and Mr. Pollock on or off the stage. Meeting at Columbia. By far the most interesting meet ing of the week was the one held at Columbia. People from all over the state had come to the capital city in the expectancy of seeing something "break" as the governor had promis ed at the two meetings held last week to answer the statement of Dr. Mc intosh. in regard to the Richey state ment. There was a tenseness In the New South Wales Prosperous. I Some striking figures showing the increase in value of New Soutli Wales' pastoral production were recently made public by the state minister for agriculture, the Hon. J. L. Trefle. The minister said that the value of the state's present pastoral production * was 397,200,000 as against $06,865,000 In 190G. The value of the state's pro duction from all agrarian industries Is at present $195,520,000, an increase of nearly $85,000,000 since 1906. Dur ing the eight years under notice the < , .. . fi'3 H M | '?* ^ - .'V ' J _ : , ,-s ii,".;.' air all over the state and when the news was spread abroad that Mc intosh had been shot the night before many more people came to Columbia to hear the candidates. Dr. Mcintosh had stated that he would certainly be on the stage at the proper time to prove that he "did not sign the state ment. L. D. Jennings Speaks. The first speaker of the Columbia meeting was L. D. Jennings, who had great difficulty in making his speech, there being a great amount of heck ling by the friends of the governor when he denounced him. He told his auditors that he intended having his speech regardless, and excoriated the chief executive mercilessly upon iiis record When he referred to the reign of lawlessness and the shooting lown in the dead of night of men ho was lustily cheered. He finished his speech under great difficulties. The aext speaker was senator smitn, wno aunched into his record at Washing ton. He told of his labors in behalf of :he working man, and while hj re ceived some heckling at the hands of ;he supporiers of the governor he re ceived marked attention from th-3 ludience. When he at first aro?Q to speak ha was accorded an oration asting a full minute. He did no1 refer to any of the other candidates running and when he sat iown ne was presented wnn a ;?uucn )" flowers. Blease Cheered snd Hiss?d. The next speaker was Governor 31ea.se, who came forward amidst :heers and hisses. A part of the tudience hissed him for some time', naking it difficult for him to make lis speech, but he bitterly donounced hem, and stated that it was a crosvd >f Metropolitan and Columbia Club nembers. The hissing kept up, aud le ordered the state constables to go ip to the Columbia Club and tho Metropolitan Club and close them up intil he heard from him He said he vas doing this in retaliation and ask (d his enemies to continue hissing as t was making votes for him all over he state. He was presented with a arge number of flowers as he be?an o speak, an umbrella and a loving :up. He launched into his enemies, >aid his respects to the newspaper?, ind said he had beat them all two 'ears ago and predicted that he would >eat the "hound" out of them on the I wenty-flfth of August. He then be ;an upon the Mcintosh statement, eadlng the list of records he had read it the Abbeville meeting where he ex >lained his release of Rlchey. He hen read the statement he says was riven him by one of the most promin >nt lawyers of the state as paving >een signed by Dr. Mcintosh, wherein he latter stated that RIohey had "a! leurosis simulating paralysis." He laid that if that signature to the itatement was not Dr. Mcintosh's that t had been forged, and that he would. lo all he could to catch the man who :ommitted the forgery. He stated hat he was sorry Dr. Mcintosh was tot present and that he had been ihot, saying that no Bleaseite had ihot him, that Bleaseites do not shoot jeople down at midnight. He closed lis speech by predicting that he arould be elected on the first ballot. Pollock Denounces Blease. The speech of W. P. Pollock At :racted a great deal of attention, and le answered his hecklers with blist ering replies. He found difficulty in jpeaking on account of the friends of ;he governor, but met with more at :ention than did L. D. Jennings. He ienounced the record of the governor a scathing terms, and when asked ibout the record of the governor at :he University he stated that that svas a private matter and that he did aot propose to talk about the private record of any man. He told of his 3wn record as a member of the state legislature find that it was he who had introduced the jim crow passen ger coach law. He promised if elect a/1 fA earva \r\ faroat c nf all tho people and said that the people of this state were more interested in the enforcement of law and order. He told of the pardon r.ecord of the gov ernor and held up the red republican ticket he has been exhibiting upon which is the name of one of the gov ernor's colonels and said that he had appointed upon his staff a dago from Charleston who had not at the time of appointment citizenship papers. He mentioned the asylum investigation and accused the governor at attempt ing to ruin the name of a pure and innocent woman, referring to Dr. Saunders. Lexington and Saluda. At the meeting in Lexington there were a large number of farmers and a good many visitors from Columbia an Newberry. The meeting was with out any particular feature, as was also the case at the meeting the next day at Saluda. At the Lexington meeting the governor stated that he had a complete organization through out the state, and that he could tell at the shortest notice the number of votes and the number of people en rolled. He stated that State Senator Sharp? was the president of his or ganization and that his j "Wate secre tary Jno. K. Aull, was tl secretary. He referred In admiring words to Geo. Bell Timmerman, the county chair man, who he said was a strong Blease itn Dr. Mcintosh's Statement. The following is the statement which has been issued by Dr. J. H. Mcintosh last Saturday: The Knowlton Hospital, Columbia, S. C., July 25, 1914. On Thursday, July 23, 1914, I was still so much under the Influence of the anaseth<>tic and of anodynes from the operation of the night previous crop production advanced from $27, 070,000 to $">9,085,000. Speaking at the same function at which these fig ures were made public, the governor of the state. Sir Gerald Strickland, said New South Wales compared fa vorably with the greatest of the Do minions in agricultural prosperity. What Causes the Trouble. Half the trouble in life is caused by the fact that a man will marry a living picture and then kick abcut the cost Df the frame.?Cincinnati Enquirer. - >? i' MhWrritffo that I did not see the afternoon pa per and consequently did not know until Friday morning what had been said at the campaign meeting on Thursday. As soon as I saw on Fri day morning the certificate set out in The State purporting to have been read from the platform by Governor Blease I imediately sent my father, Dr. James Mcintosh, and a friend to me governors omce 10 requesx mm he send the certificate to the Knowl ton Hospital by his private secretary, Mr. Aull that I might have an oppor tunity of seeing and inspecting it. Mr. Aull told these bentlemen thact the certificate was not in the office, but that Governor Blease had it in his pocket at the Lexington campaign meeting, but that he would obtain it and that It would be in the governor's office on Saturday morning. On Saturday morning, on applica tion at the governor's office, Mr. Aull told my father, Dr. James Mcintosh, that Governor Blease had come to the i city Friday night but had not come i to the capitol and consequently he i had not secured the original certifl- i cate. The only certificate I signed In this case bears date of January 9, 1912, that being the date of our visit to the South Carolina penitentiary and of our examination of R. A. Richey. It was prepared and signed in the office of the South Carolina penitentiary im mediately after our examination. It is written with pan and ink and is on one of the letterheads of the South Carolina penitentiary. It is in my handwriting, and it contains no rec ommendation of pardon or parole. It was signed by both Dr. Knowlton and myself, and I understand that it was turned over by Dr. Knowlton to Mr. W. R. Richey. ; When this true certificate is pro- i duced I will identify it and will stand s by its statement. And this is the < only certificate that I have ever sign- : ed in the Richey case. Unfortunately, i tl'ore is no copy of this certificate in t existence to my knowledge?we made no copy of it that afternon, and I have ( not seen the original since. f This certificate as written by us ? was not satisfactory to Mr. W. R. ( Richey, and on several days subse- < quent to our examination various y typewritten modifications of our cer- t tificate were submitted to Dr. Knowl- i on and myself for our approval and signature. Each of these, after read ing carefully, I returned unsigned, as in my opinion they did not cover the case properly. The certificate published in the newspaper as having been read by Governor Blease, purports to be writ ten on the letter paper of the Knowl ton Hospital and bears the date of January 19, 1912, whereas the only certificate I signed was written on letter paper of the penitentiary and bears date of January 9, 1912. The certificate set out in the newspaper is not the true certificate: I did not sign it and any signature thereto pur porting to be mine,is not genuine. (Siged) James H. Mcintosh The governor, after this statement was issued, sent the original state-' ment to the hospital for Inspection by Dr. Mcintosh. The physician stated that he did not sign it, and said that it was a clever forgery. GOOD ROADS AS CROP PRO DUCERS. Government Studies Show How the Aaricultural Output of a County Depends Upon its Hiohroads. Washington, D. C. ? That an im proved road will increase vastly the productiveness of the area through which it runs has now been satisfac torily demonstrated by studies'con ducted by tve United States depart ment of agriculture in Virginia. Con rUH/vna in Snntsvlvahia county were 1 investigated with particular car? and the results have proved surprising. In 1909 the county voted $100 000 to Ira- j prove 40 miles of roads.. Two years i after the completion of this work the ] railroad took away in 12 months from i Fredericksburg, t^o county seat, 71. 000 tons of agricultural and forest j Products hauled over the highways to t^at town. Before t>~e improvement ! of the roads this total was only 49,000 tons annually; in other words the i onantity of the county's produce had risen more than 45 per cent. Still more interesting, however. Is the In crease shown in the nuantity of the dairy nrodurts. In 1909 tbese amount ed to 114.815 pounds, in 1911 to 273. 025? pounds, an increase of practically 140 per cent in two years. In the same time shipments of wvent had increased 59 per cent, tobacco 31 per cent, and lumber and other forest products 48 per cent. In addition to this increase in quan tity the cost of hauling ennh ton of produce was materially reduced. In oth^r words the farmers rot o^ly pro duce more but Produce more cheaply, j for tne cost or iransporwuvu lu mai- , ket is of course an important factor | in the cost of production. From thi? j noint of view it is estimated that th( j $100,000 sDent in improving the road: I in Spotsylvania count.v s?ved ^he f*r mers of that county $41,000 a year. In the past two years the traffic studies of the Federal experts show that approximately an average of 65. 000 tons of outgoing products wert hauled over the imnroved roads in th? county an avprngp distance of 8 miles or a total of 520.000 "ton-miles." Be fore the roads were improved it was estimated that the average cost ol hauling was 20 cents a "Jon-mile"; after the improvement this fell to 12 a "i-fYn-mile." or a saving of 8 | cents. A saving of 8 cents per mile on 520,000 "ten-miles" is $41,000 n year. The county's investment of $100,000 in other words returns a div idend of 40 per cent annually. A Daily Bath fcr the Eye. A daily "eye bath" is an excellent means of preserving the sight and beauty of the eyes, and is particularly valuable for persons who motor a good deal, for nothing is more injurious to eyes than frequent contact with dust. Dissolve one teaspoonful of bo racic acid powder in one pint of rose water. Every night pour some of the lotion into a glass eyebath, add enough hot water to render it tepid, and bathe each eye in turn by open j ing and shutting it in the lotion. ..-y? -- SCHEME FOR CONCENTRATION OF ANTI-ADMINISTRATION VOTES IS DENOUNCED. ANOTHER MEETING CALLED No Schemes Will Be Considered Which Does Not Give All CandU dates an Equal Chance, Anti-administration candiates in the race for governor showed a ten Jency to split last week on account ot the "spirit of unfairnesss" that was issumed to be in the anti-administra tion conference held in Columbia Sat urday for the purpose of considering the concentration of votes on one or two of the anti-administration can lidates. The scheme was denounced from the stump by' some of the six jandidates who are supposed to be inti-administration because of their platforms or direct statements to :hat effect, as a caucus prejudged in 'avor of one of the candidates. They stated that they would not consider themselves bound by the decision or idvice of such a conference, in which they were not equally represented, md some of them felt that to surren ler their claims to the governorship vould be a certain sign of political leath. Yet another conference, which seems more Just on the face, will be jailed this week, but the opinions of air AonHMafflfl Ti o vo naf hpflTl nade public as to how they would ;ake to its decisions. In the ranks of administration can lidates there has developed a new 'eature; that was, the unexpected ittack on John G. Richards by Charles Carroll Simms, who flayed the politi >al record of his opponent for his vacillating. This was the first time ;hat Mr. Simms had turned from his jath to attack a fellow candidate and f continued, It is thought, will tend ;o split the administration vote. W. C. xby, Jr., a friend of the present gov ernor has for some time been speak ng against Mr. Richards, charging ;hat his opponent Is but a recent con vert to IjHeaseism. For the most part, lowever, the charges have not been mswered by Mr. Richards, who sel lom fails to speak of his friendship 'or Blease. In the meantime, the Issues in the campaign remain with no hope of jhange or debate. The candidate's lay irm hold on their convictions as to education. John G. Clinkscales is the sole advocate of an immediate law tor state-wide coiripulsory education ma against mm me trna/cu iuc cw6la ments of Richar I. Manning and Ifcfen lel L. Smith, who favor a local option compulsory school attendance law. Robert A. Coper is in favor of any measure that looks to the general education of the people of the State but he maintains that provision for J the education of the children in the 3tate should be made before a law compelling education is enacted by the legislature. Charles A. Smith, who is the advocate of submitting to the peo Dle the Question of state-wii 2 prohi bition, is also in favor of the educa tion of the people. Strongly in oppo sition to these stands on the question of education is the opinion of John G. Richards, who oppose compulsory education in any form, stating that such compulsion is contrary to the fundamental sentiments of the Anglo Saxon race. The question of enforcement of law Is gaining more prominence in the speeches of the candidates. In Char leston, Richard I. Manning and Men-' del L. Smith, who continually de nounce the present conditon of disre gard for law, condemned the race track gambling which is carried out in that city in utter disregard for the special law that prohobits it in this state. Here also, John G. Clinkscales brought down < . his head the hisses and shouts of denunciation of many in the audience for his statement that those who operate blind tigers should wear stripes. As in many places in the state all promises by candidates that they would enforce the laws as they appear on the statute books . i. ~ -3 ??UV> nnnlonca were grwieu wiw ap^uuov. The Blease pardon record of hav ing turned loose more than 900 ne groes and 300 white men in the past three and a half years, has been scathingly denounced and invariably those, who speak of it, win applause. On this point, too, there is agreement of intent in the statements of Richard I. Manning and Mendel L. Smith. Mr. Clinkscales and Mr. Cooper are also strongly opposed to the indiscriminate franting of pardons, but V~ey do not make it an issue. Lowndes J. Brown ing, who "has never been accused yet of being for Blease." has been a steady advocate of law enforcement for many years. He, too, is against the injudicious use of the pardoning power. With his plank of an econom ic administration in all state depart ments, Charles A. Smith is also rank ed among those who will issue par dons only in cases where It is thought justice demands an extension of clemency. There are three ardent supporters of the plan of rural credits. Lowndes ,T. Browning, Robert A. Cooper and W. C. Irby, Jr., are working to have the state loan "cheap money" to pros pective farm owners and home own i Cot His Discount. A New York man who sell3 jewelry to the country t/ade tells of an inci dent he witnessed in a Pennsylvania town. Just as the traveling man entered the general store of the town in ques tion a farmer was saying to the pro prietor: "Give me a half pound of tobacco, three bars of soap, five yards of blue ?iugham and a pair of good suspend-1 era." The articles enumerated were pro ; " ?-*,..1 era. They speak of the large percent age of. tenants on the farms and In the houses of the state. They argue that the negro, who by reason of hia competition on low grade standards, has compelled the tenant white peo ple to move from the country"' into the cities. This reduces the produc tion, increases the consumption and thereby maintains the high cost of living. Another issue in close connection with this plan of rural credits is the general agricultural development of the resources of the state. Robert A. Cooper is in favor of establishing in each county a farm demonstration school, which shall be run under the direction of Clemson Agricultural College. Mr. Cooper is working for the education of the farmer, with especial reference to preparing him gaainst the ravages of the boll weevil, which, according to experts, will reach the Savannah river in five years. The shooting of James H. Mcintosh, M. D? of Columbia early Thursday morning by an unknown hand was brought out in the Walterboro meet ing. It was attacked as an example of the lawlessness and unpunished crime, which "has given the state of South Carolina a degraded position among its sister commonweaitns. The minor races ran along in com paratively smooth channels last week, with the exception of the clash be tween A. W. Jones and James A. Sum mersett, candidates for comptroller general at the Walterboro meeting. There was a tendency for a few meet ings for candidates in the race for lieutenant governor nad railroad com missioner to lock horns, but t^e inter race debates, while undoubtedly pres ent in opinions, rose only above the surface at tbe Ridpeland meeting. M. C. Willis and W. W. Moore, in cumbent, candidates for adjutant gen eral, continue to attack and defend, respectively. The bitter personal^ ties, which at Bamberg week before last, threatened a personal encoun ter, have been omitted-recently and the canddlates seem content to dwell on the public record of the Incumb ent and the production of Indorse ments. The meetings this week at St. George, Orangeburg and st- Matthews, on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thurs day, respectively, will complete the lower section, of the state in the. coun ty to county campaign. IMPORTANCE OF ROAD MAINTE NANCE AND REPAIR. Washington, D. C. ? There is no phase of the road problem'more im portant than that of maintenance. The general impression that there are cer tain types of roads that are perma nent is erroneous, i No permanent road has ever been constructed or ever will be, according to the road -# IV- TT O specjauatb ul uie u. o. uci?iuucui. ui. agriculture. The only thing about a road that may he considered perma ment are the grading, culverts, and bridges. Roads constructed by the most skilful highway engineers will soon be destroyed by the traffic, frost, rain, and wind, unless they are prop erly maintained. But the life of these roads may be prolonged by systematic maintenance. A poor road will not only be improved by proper mainte nance, but may become better in time than a good road without it. The first and last commandment in earth road maintenance is to keep the surface well drained. To insure good drainage the ditches should be kept open, all obstructions removed and a smooth crown maintained. Ex cept for very stony soil the road ma chine or scraper may be used very effectively for this work. The ma chine should be used once or twice a year and the work should be done when the soil is damp so that it will pack and bake into a hard crust. Wide and( shallow side ditches should be maintained with sufficient fall and capacity to dispose of surface water. These ditches can in most places be constructed ^nd repaired with a road machine. All vegetable matter such as sods and weeds should be kept out of the road as they make a spongy surface which retains moisture. Clods are also objectionable for they soon turn to dust or mud and for that reason roads should never be worked when dry or hard. Boulders or loose stones are equally objectionable if a smooth surface is to be secured. A split-log drag or some similar de vice is very useful in maintaining the surface after suitable ditches and cross section have been once secured. This drag can also be used to advan tage on a gravel road as well as on an - * 1 I eartn roaa. ine principle mvuncu m dragging is that clays and most heavy soils will puddle when wet and set very hard when dry. The little atten tion that the earth road needs must be given promptly and at the proper time if the best results are to be ob tained. In dragging roads only a small amount of earth is moved, just enough to fill the ruts and depressions with a thin layer of plastic clay or earth which packs very hard so that the next rain instead of finding ruts, de pressions and clods in which to col lect runs off leaving the surface Kl*A. little affeoted. The drag should be light and should be drawn/'over the road at an angle of about 45 degrees. The driver should ride on the drag and should not drive faster than a walk. One round trip, each trip straddling a wheel track, is usually sufficient to fill the ruts and smooth the surface. If necessary the road should be > gged after every bad spell of weat. er, when the soil is in proper condition to puddle well and still not adhere to the drag. ? duced, inspected, approved and wrapped up. They came to $5 cents. "Ninety-five's all right,"' said the farmer, "but there's th? discount. You advertise a fivo per cent discount don't you?" "Yes," said the proprietor, "but onlj on purchases of one dollar or over." On the counter lay a basket of pocket combs marked at five cents ! apiece. i "Well, then," said the farmer, "I'll' ) | just take one of these. That'll mak* J | us square." ' YORK Files BUSY ! MUCH TRUCK PLANTED WHERE \ SEVERE HAIL STORM DEALT *! BLOW. IS EASY TO FIND MARKET Railway Offers to Give Assistance to Farmers in District in Marketing Their Late Truck Raised. Rock Hfll.?H. A. Tripp, market agent of the Southern Railway, with headquarters in Atlanta, spent one day recently in this' place with a view to ascertaining if his department could be of assistance to the farmers of York county who lost their crops in the recent hail storm. The majority of the farmers in this district have plowed their fields and planted corn, cane, millet, peas, soy beans and va rious kinds of vegetables. With a good season from now on they will ue HJLn? iu uittite a. greui ueei vi icou stuff and should the frost be. late In coming, much of the corn will ma ture. However, it is probable that there will be a large amount of green corn, peas, Irish potatoes and other vegetables atailaMe. for shfpment - from this place during the autumn, J and it was with the view of planning * to aid the farmers with their market- - ing that Mr. Tripp made this visit to ? Rock Hill. He stated that there 5 would be no trouble about finding p markets foT all the products of this V section and pledged the support of his - department of the Southern to assist 1 the farmers in marketing their truck. The outlook in the hall district Is ' that the crops referred to will mate* nany neip tne iarmers w rwu?ei from the great losses sustained by the destruction of their cotton and corn. The actual results, hoWever, depend largely upon the seasons form this time forward until frost. The farm ers are now able to see that the de struction of their crops was complete. At first It was thought that some of the cotton would recover, but experi ence, so far, does not confirm this opinion. In all the fields where the cotton was seriousiy damaged ft Is dying and gives no promise of making anything. Some of the fields which were at first believed to be damaged but little now show that they were greatly injured. The fact seems to be that wherever the fall of hall was' heavy enough to make a notfceabU, impression on the cotton the damage generally amounted to a total loss. The only crops which escaped fn the hafl district were the fields of late tnn omoTi' fn hfl pwatlv iniirred: and there were few of these. The hopes of the farmers are confined to the crops which have been planted since the storm, and if these fail there will be a complete failure of all crops for this year in the whole area cover ed by the hail storm. I ~ ^Increase In Export# and Import#. Charleston.?Statistics given in the innual% report for the fiscal year end ing June 30, 1914, of Maj. George P. Howell, corps of engineers, U. S. A., in charge of the Charleston dis trict, show a healthy increase in the tonnage and value of exports and im ports at Charleston for the year just ended over the previous year. The total tonnage of imports and exports for the fiscal year just enaeu amuum ed to 1,043,068 as against 986,206 tons for the previous year, an Increase in favor of the year just passed of 56. 852 tons. The value of exports and imports for the fiscal year Just passed was $79,225,772, against $73,440,486 for the" previous year, an Increase of $5,782,286 for the fiscal year just passed. , Open Model Community. Columbia.?A model good health community will be opened in Spartan burg county under the direction of Dr. F. M. Routh. A community with from 700 to ? 1,000 inhabitants wil be selected and 1 a complete survey of every house and its surroundings will be made and jthe health history of the inhabitants will be investigated. For the next ? year a health officer will live in the 1 community, and everything will be * done to make the place a mode1 health village. 5 Prepare Premium Llsta. Lexington.?The premium lists of che Lexington county fair are now in the hands of the printers and will shortly be off the press. The man agement has already begun an active and energetic campaign to make the coming fair the best county fair ever held in tnis section 01 me uuuhu;, Col. M. D. Harman, secretary of the association, has requested all sub scribers to stock to pay up their sub scriptions at once in order that their names might be printed In the pre mium lists. Architects in Session. Charleston.?With members repre senting practically every section of the state present, the regular semi annual session of the South Carolina Association of Architects was conven ed at 12 o'clock at the Isle of Palms, President A. W. Todd presiding. The mpeting of the association was pre ceded by the annual session of the South Carolina chapter of the Ameri can Institute of Architects, conven ed at 10 o'clock for the purpose of electing officers and choosing dele gates to the national institute. Cheraw's First Tobacco Sale. Cneraw. ? "Charming Cheraw" is happy. The first tobacco sale for this section was pulled off in the new warehouse recently and not only the farmers but the merchants are smiling at the pn?spect of more "spending money" for the people of this section, jit is rather early for this section, and only a few of the tobacco growers had 'tobacco on the floor, but this brought a fair price, and gave an object lesson of the good times coming. The best tooacco sold was grown by Knight & Boykln. 4*Granulated Eyellc py ei Eyes sore to Son, Dost and W? quickly relieved by Murine j Eye Remedy. No Smarting, just Eye .Comfort - At 'oar Druggist's 50c per Bottla. Marine Ey* alvcinTnbes2Sc.ForBookollheEyeFreeaak )ruggists or Marine Eye Remedy Co., CMcage For Sprains', strains or Lameness / ' V -Always Keep\ a Bottle la jroorStabll HANPORD'8 ilsamc * For Galls, Wipe Cuts, Lameness, Strains, Bunches, Thrash, Old Sores, Nail Wounds, Foot Rot, fistula, ek* Made Since 184?vitaSl*3#,!| Price 2Sc, 50c ?b* $100 All Dealers 178 to 906 pan Board. Uterary Tuition, Be! [eat ui Llghtat piedmont HIGH school 1 wslon of nine months. "It la '.he beet and the cheapest school In thai -& M. Koonce, Member K. <X Legislators. "Moet heartily do I oommeod the school to aB i ?Afia anil ilatioK?a?? tn m ill? mlia ** TV ft, are *ons and daughters to _ 'a Tier, of Wake Jtoreat c?Beg*_ "In ist opinion there is no High School I an of the country doing more thorough etfucs or*."-a t. Webb, mto. or catalog wxu?,w. u. mum, jrm. j /VHAT MAKES GOOD H0S1 Ability to Entertain Lavish!^ Is Very Small Part of Her- ( Qualifications. A talent for originality Is not ?i (dent to make a good hostess?tha^ joes -without saying. It is not;* notmtehank who wins the gcnv jralse of the initiated, but the <rho has the gift of magnetlsi s, of sympathy with what Is tnd lasting?and can touch thelh? if an ancfience. Is it not the hat can move to tears that rei in the boards the longest? An t not the woman who loves her vho keeps their affec&on/who dra-v >eopIe to her .whether she is rich his world's goods or fortune ts back and leaves her little ret >eyond her delightful personality?; Mme. Recamler received her fric rtth the same grace in her shahf >rfck-floored little room?all that ?YlA.f/w1 \y. tthorn oho* ' oioco oiiuncu [ueened It in her almost royal ion In the Faubourg Salnt-Gez for did they gather less eagerly ther han in her beautiful home, becau1 he retained in her poverty ttfe sai harm, the same qualities that Bade her the most sought woman >aris. The essential thing to successl intertainlnK is that instinctive knc dge of and sympathy with hi laturg which enables one to put >le at their ease and make ?_ lappy.?From "Novel Ways of Ent alning," by Florence Hall Wlhfc >urn. Hero of War of 1812. One hundred years ago Capt Dai Porter, one of the naval heroes of .1 tfar of 1812, was given a great liar ovation by the people of Phllad^ >hia. Ten days previously Capta Porter had reached New York i long and hazardous voyage folparaiso, where on March 28, lad commanded the frigate. Essex ler gallant, but unsuccessful igalnst the British ships Phoebe 3herub. Upon their arrival In fork, the surviving officers and jers of the crew of the Essex w? riven an enthusiastic welcome. tfew York Captain Porter .0 Philadelphia, where ilar ovation awaited him. ival in the suburbs of the lorses were taken from his ind it was drawn to the jopulace. Breaking It Said the little boy loor of the spinster, "would y let me get my arrow, las fallen In your garden." "Certainly, my .little man. 'ou know exactly where It "Yea?in?tbe . Delays Sometimes Business or social gagement ?just a minutes for wait for service, can be had quickly? Order rosi Toastie with fresh berries or and cream. They will 1 served immediately, th< are nourishing and mighty good, too. Sold by Grocers ?everywhere