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Bringini Spirit i 7 I|T IS a question whether the I families helped or the work I ers helping them get most joy out of the Christmas dis tribution. A real settlement worker, one Imbued with the right spirit, will tell you that \ only one who has yisited the homes of the poor and the suffering on Christmas eve can realize the pleasure of bringing happiness and sunshine into these homes. Many settlement visitors, who have given up the work for some reason or another, but who return to assist with the Christmas distributions, give generously from their own purses that the baskets may be larger and more families aided. Wealthy women, who have never done settlement. work, enter into the Santa Claus spirit and visit ihe alley and tenement dis tricts of the large cities on the night before Christmas, their automobiles heavily laden with toys, turkeys and good things to eat. They employ inves tigators to canvass the section in which they are Interested a week before the holidays, and the distribution is made according to their reports. Oftentimes ? small trees are sent to the homes. Vith glasr balls, trimmings and candy toys, and the donors, with the aid of their chauffeurs and the parents of the children, fix the tree while the lit tle tots aro asleep. Though Jittle known, Santa Claus* work in the slums of the bigf cities Is carried on along systematic lines to overconre any overlapping of the multitude off good intentions. In days gone by, charitably inclined women would leave a large basket of pro visions in a h6use in ignorance of another basket hidden in the closet. And it was not unusual for two or three workers to meet in the same kitchen at the one time, each bur dened with good things for the one family. This is an error of the past; for now the Christmas giving has been systematized. Settlement workers of the various societies and representa tives of the wealthy private givers compile a list of those they will as sist, and all go over their lists care ful! .7 together. Although the Christmas giving is all cut and dried a few days before the time, Santa Claus* secret is not * given r.way. Half of the pleasure would be gone if the families knew that the visitors were coming with food and toys in Abundance. It is true that those who are visited and quizzed by the private workers have a shrewd suspicion, after they have Hioii- tola nf vena and rwplvflri the sympathy of the visitor, that something substantial is to follow. The regular settlement workers know their ground pretty well; they know which families have had a hard roa-1 to travel and are putting up a good battle against the tide of misfortune The settlement workers have little investigating to do before the holi days; their entrance into a home or tenement is always greeted witL sur prise, for they generally make it a point to go where they are least ex pected. "The poor are always with us" is doybly true at Christmas time. Fam ilies who can barely exist, who do not know where the next day's bread Is coming from, can certainly not af ford any extras for the holiday sea son. Thev consider themselves for tunate tf they have a loaf or two of bread and a small piece of meat for tho fhri^mas dinner and coal for the I kitchen fire. No one appreciates this seamy side of the bright Christmas story more than the charity worker. She knows that tribulations exist at Christmas time as during any other part of the year. Years of experience have shown her how to use tact and good judg ment on her travels and where sh\ oarinnf Itwvo rhder r]ia can at least make the sorrows and troubles easier to bear. The "An gel of the Settlement" knows, more than any one else, that there i are many cases when the word 1 "Merry Christmas" would sound like a mockrry; where the hand of death, for instance, has been heavily felt when It takes away the chief provid er of a large family. Sh3 Knows, also, that tne Christmas spirit ;s cherished by the poor as well a3 the wealthy. While they cannot spend the day in feasting and merry making. they can at least forget ola 'TELEGRAPHESE' BEST TO USE Correspondent Finds English Lan guage to Be the Tersest in Europe. Which language makes the best telegraphese? At so much a word one might hasten to say German, because of its purely typographical device of sticking a number of words together to look like one compound word. We really do exactly the same thing in English, only we p?'5nt the elements of BELGIAN CITY OF THE FAST Ypres Ranked In Greatness One Time ! With Chicago and Other Cen ters of Trade. Doubtless there are millions and ; millions of Americans to whom tho I name of the little Belgian town of Ypres comes as an absolute stranger and without" significance, remar'is the Philadelphia Record. Still, in the heyday of its greatness and pros perity Ypre* ranked as large in the . . . m..' S THE Hoi 0 THE PO a chmr/ias nri/won grudges and let bygones be bygones, shake hands with their enemies and wish one another good luck. How many reunions and reconcilia tions take place then is known only to these good women. The hearts of many men who have been separated from their wives and families be come softened' as the holidays draw near, and it Isn't uncommon for the settlement worker to find them to gether when she comes with the Christmas basket. Many prodigal sons return on Christmas eve. A striking case of this kind that .occurred two years ago was run across by a settlement work er in Philadelphia. ' She said that she had never witnessed a scene on any stage that could equal it. It was a real case of where the Christ mas prayer of a broken-hearted moth er was answered by the return of her boy. The son ran away from home seven years earlier, when a youth of sixteen years. He had a good home and the family consisted of his parents, an older brother and a sister. His father was a hard-working man and used all his earnings for his home. The young er boy, being the baby of the family, was the pet of all; but he had a wild disposition, and he ; wanted to see something of life. He decided to run away from home and go West. When he reached the ranches of Arizona he found that the cowboy life wasn't as bright as it was painted. ! TJ/v 1 r<n rrnrl Prt * Vl/NTVtn TYlOrtT O Kilt ?1X3 1UU5CU 1U1 UU1UO AJ-ia.ilj a lihic, uuv vowed that he would not return a failure. He persevered until he had made good, though it took seven years for him to do it. His fearlessness and daring attracted the attention of the owner of the ranch, and he placed him in charge of another place. When the young man had a goodly wad of i bills accumulated he decided to re turn in time for Christmas. He reached the old house to find that another family was living there, and he learned from neighbors that his father was dead; that his sister had grieved so over his disappearance that she died shoitly after he had left, onH hot Vife hrntlinr hoH KaDn IrillnH in an accident. The mother, doubly aged with grief, had been left alone and was subsisting as best she could ;1 in a third-story room. The son .lost I no time and arrived in the room just j after the settlement worker had ,' reached there with her basket of pro-! visions. tThe mother had just finished telling her story to the sympathetic j listener when this latest prodigal re-. turned. ! , "No one can really appreciate," said a settlement worker In another city, "how happy one feels .tfter visiting the homes of the poor on Christmas eve. The gratitude of one woman alone last year was enough to recom pense me for the work I did. This woman's husband was in the peniten- 1 tiary serving an 18-year term for mur- 1 der. It appears that he and a com- 1 panion were working in the cranberry 1 bogs. They quarreled, and In a scuf- 1 fle this man stabbed his opponent. He made his wjfe promise she would < novftr ollmu tfiA familv nf R1Y to ilP I separated. She not only kept them ! together by taking in washing and I working until all hours of the night, but she refused to accept outside aid | in any shape or form. There would j have been no Christmas celebration j the compound at? separate words. But in international telegraphing there is a word length limit (or, as the Ger mans would print a wordlengthiimit). Ten letters is th? maximum allowed for a single word. Any word longer than that counts ns two; or as three ?if !f gets beyond the second ten, as some German words do. When it comes to counting letters or making up intelligible telegraphese, English, it seems, is the tersest lan guage in Europe. An Italian news paper correspondent has lately discov ered world % Philadelphia, Chi cago, Berlin and other cities of to day. Indeed it v^s a splendid city when Berlin was a mere hamlet of half-civilized Slavs. It was in the dayfc of the commercial greatness of Venice that Ypres attained the summit of it^rosperity. It was an important dis^L uting center for " *ne up through the >vas carried over the traffic which a Adriatic by boat. land and then scattered from Belgium to England, France, and other countries. Holland, Germany It also has great in this home, and it was a delicate un dertaklng to bring a woman like this any provisions. But I explained to her that it was a present and her joy was only equaled by that of her chil- 1 dren, who were more than delighted with their new toys. J "I have been in homes where the ' children never had toys, and I have ' brought them their first playthings. In one case there were two children, a ; boy and a girl, Pepino and Mechalmo. Their father died when they were ' babies, and the mother supported J them. She had come to this country j ~ ~ wtna Tirtill vprcPfl with tx UWUC HUU V> CLO XXV/W ?T f ? ? the American way of doing thing3. She did not even know how to make a rag doll for the children. We brought those children a small tree, decorated it; and gave them plenty of ; toys. Words couldn't tell the happi- < ness of those little ones. i "There is more pleasure in the work i than you would imagine. We see many ] sad scenes, sorrow and joy mingled I together, hut we also find much to ! amustt us. Last year we took a 1 basket to *n old colored woman. Her ! husband wp.s a paralytic and she had < two orphaned grandchildren to keep. < Christmas to her was to be the same s as any other day until we arrived 1 with the provisions and toys. She < glanced at us as we entered the roofti. 1 and when we put the basket on the 1 table, she stared at it and pointed to I herself,- as much as to say, 'For me?' ' I said, 'Yes, Liza, that's for you.' 1 You could see nothing but the whites < of her eyes, and she raised both of I her hands above her head, clasped ? them together and said, 'De Lord be : praised.' That was Wll she saidj; but 1 she repeated it time and again. ' One time her eyes would be as large as 3 dollars and she would Joyously sing the 'De Lord be wraised' and again < she would be sad and mournful and ' moan 'De Lord be praised.' "Finally her husband, who was un- >' able to leave his chair, lost his par i tience and he shouted, 'Liza, good Lord, woman, has you done lost your head altogether? Why don't you thank the ladies?' Then, as a sort of apology to us, he said: 'You'll have , to excuse her, -ladies, for Bhe has sure- ! ly done lost her head altogether.' As we left the room and glanced back, , poor Liza was still standing there, looking at us with her hands clasped before her and slowly nodding her , head sayingr 'De Lord be praised.' We concluded Liza knew better than J her husband. She was thanking the right one. "I have witnessed many reconsilia tlons of families of foreigners on ( Christmas eve. The afternoon that I , spent at the Immigration station last - year was one of the pleasantest of my . life. It was interesting to note the ex pression of gladness on the faces of tbe children in the costumes of their , various fatherlands. They couldn't speak a word of English, but they . could show you that they were grate ful for the playthings. "I will never forget my first Christ- ( mas visitation, it was ray initial ex- , perience with social service work. One of the' first places we visited was In a court, a poor German family. When we arrived at the house the mother was telling the three children Christmas legends. She had gilded apples, and that was their only other reminder that the morrow was a great festival. She had no meat nor vege tables in the house for the next day's meals, and there was no coal in the bin. But the place was as clean and neat as a new pin. "The mother was an educated wom an, and you could tell at a glance that she had seen better days. She had married against the wishes of her family and she was too proud to let them know of her poverty. Her hus band had gone West to try to better tils condition, but was unable to get work there and became stranded, rhe wife kept the wolf away from the door as best she could by sewing. We brought her a turkey, vegetables, fruits and cranberries, then went out md got a tree and a doll for the chil dren and left an order to liave coal 3ent ttw-re immediately. It is impoe sible to tell how grateful 'ast poor woman was." ered this in telegraphing news from London to his paper In Italy. At the beginning of the war he used Italian. Then when all languages except Eng lish and French were forbidden he , took French. Later, finding that French, though accepted by the post office, seemed to cause delay, hi changed to English, and to his sur prise he finds that he is saving quite a lot of money in telegraph fees owing to the superior brevity of the Eng lish language as oompared with French or Italian manufactures, and in the fourteenth century Its population exceeded two hundred thousand, making it one of Lhe largest cities in Europe. Ghent and Bruges, its nearest neighbors, were no less prosperous. With the changing of the trade routes cf Eu rope the wealth and population of Ypres disappeared, until it haS now less than twenty thousand people. But the young fool is not excusable 5n the ground that there is no fool like an old fooL . . ; / -. ..v Vv-Um&i POSTMASTERS ARE NAMED Appointments Both New and Old Are Made For Office In South Carolina. Washington. ? The following new appointments of fourth class post masters in South Carolina, were an nounced a few days ago: At Baldoc, Barnwell county, W. James M. Smith; at Brunson, Hampton county, Harriett i-i. uooaing; at anrnarax, Bamberg county, James B. Eherhardt; at Go van, Bamberg county, John F. Lancaster; at Kline, Barnwell county, James A. Jenkins, Jr.; at Parksville, Edgefield county, Claud A. Parks; at Salley, Aiken county, Herbert 0. Jones; at Tillman, Jasper county, John F. Coniffe; at Warrenville, Aiken county, Mrs. Algernon E. Beard. The following reappointments have also been announced: At Bluffton, Beaufort county, Mrs. Cora Jane Graves; at Coosawhatchie, JaspeT county, R. T. W. Roberts, Jr.; at Elko, Barnwell county, Mrs. Rosa G. Stansell; at Ellenton, Aiken county, Ralph Dunbar; at Estill, Hampton county, John W. Peeples, Jr.; at Frog more, Beaufort county, Fred R. Ford; at Kitchings Mills, Aiken county, Wal lace D. McNair; at Lena, Hampton county, Eliza C. Martin; at Modoc, Edgefield county, Americus V. Bussey; at Monetta, Saluda county, Alexander H. Stevens; at Montmorenci, Aiken county, James S. Keel; at Seabrook, Beaufort county, Michael Keyserling; at Varnville, Hampton county, Mrs. Hattle J. Peeples; at Ward, Saluda county. 90,000,000 Tons of Coal. Spartanburg.?That the Jenkins-Mc Roberts-Burdine-Durham coal inter ests operated as the Consolidated Coal Company of Kentucky, with mines lo cated on a line tapping the Elkhorn Extension of the C., C. & O. Railroad, tiave contracted for the delivery of 90,000,000 tons of coal to foreign in terests and that it will move tnrough + h nm rnrta fc tJlA rpnnrt hfcrG. JUUliiblU |/V1 bW| iw v**w - W, . Confirmation is.lacking but. there is lecided interest in the possibilities of such a movement for the railroads of this territory. At would mean that the Elkhorn extension of the Clinch field road would be rushed to comple tion and put in operation without de lay, as this is the line over which the bulk of the coal would move as far as Spartanburg. From here to Charleston or Savannah it would be handled by the Southern and the C. Sc. W. C. The freight alone on B\ich a movement would be more than a mil lion dollars. For some time there have been ru mors that the Italian Government was in the market for a large amount Df coal that would move through Southern ports, while South American countries have also been mentioned, as buying for delivery to Charleston [>r Savannah. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS ITEMS. Weekly subscriptions from the sal aried men are being taken for the unemployed of Columbia. Mr. W. W. Long says it is impos sible to make regular market reports before the first of the year. ^Oliver Tilford Dargan, the well known Boston poet, wife of Pegram Dargan of Darlington, this state, con tributes to the January number of Scribner's Magazine a long poem of i. J.' 14... "TV* Jd XA7o-r " UAglill/ Vu iuio fiai. W. J. Reid of Lewisvllle township, Chester county, has been made post master at Richburg. Miss Florrie Betts, who has been postmistress, has resigned. No train is going out of George town these days without carrying any where from 50 to 200 packages of wild lucks, venison and other game to tickle the palates of Northern epi cures. J. Hillard Hook, aged 74, a Confed erate Veteran, died at his home in Orangeburg county recently. The Gaffney Ledger conducted a movement to provide a Christmas fund for the poor people of Gaffney. The movement met with a generous response. One of fthe leading banks of Orangeburg, declared a dividend of 8 per cent. The 2,600 members of the Christ mas club of a prominent bank of Co lumbia saved more than $50,000 dur ing the year, according to an an nouncement by officers of the institu tion. This money is all paidtomem bers before the holidays. W. W. Long addressed the indus trial school at Antioch a few days ago. The governor has named Carson Rogers magistrate for Richland coun :y at Qlympia to succeed J. T. Eas ;erling deceased. J. K. Breedin, just back to Colum bia from the flourishing Pee Dee, re ports that Florence, Darlington and Marlboro counties are "strong for pro tilbition.'.' Marlboro and Darlington committeemen of the prohibition movement have called fo rextra peti ;ion forms. Mr. Breedin is secretary 3f the Statewide prohibition propa ganda. Clemson college alumni are mak ing every effort to meet the condition 3f the gift by John D. Rockefeller of 550,000 for a Y. M. C. A. building at :he college. F. H. McMaster, insurance commis sioner, has completed the first sec Jon of his annual report, which will be sent to the governor to be trans mitted to the general assembly. Charles A. Douglas, an attorney of Washington and formerly of Colum bia, will be the orator for the annual meeting of the South Carolina Bar association in Columbia January 21 md 22. J. K. Breedin, editor of the Man .ling Herald and secretary in Sharge Df the campaign for statewide prohibi tion, said recently that he had re ceived encouraging reports from all jver the state. Narly 100 patients have been re ceived during the past several months it the Waverley sanitarium, which las recently occupied Its new build ngs near Columbia. The property is jeing developed by J. W. Babcock, M. D., former superintendent of the State Hospital for the Insane. Three build ngs have been erected. The plant rill cost $125,000. fi/\ ... m WHOOPING COUGH ALSO TOO LIGHTLY REGARDED BY DOC TORS AND CITIZENS. PALMETTO CAPITOL NEWS General News of South Carolina Col lected and Condensed From The State Capital That Will Prove of Interest to All Our Readers. Columbia. / With 4,230 cases of measles and 836 cases of whooping cough report ed in South Carolina for the months of January-November, inclusive, of this year, James A. Hayne, M. D., state health officer, writes in his re port that "as usual little care was taken to prevent their spread." "It is hard," he continues, "to im press upon the laity as well as the physicians the seriousness of th^se diseases, yet mortality statistics show that the proper safeguarding against these diseases does more toward low ering the general death rate than any other sanitary measure. Whoop ing cough, especially, has a death rate of over 35 per cent in children un der one year of age, and measles through its sequal, broncho-pneu monia, kills its thousands annually." The following shows the number of cases of measules reported to the state board of health from the several counties,: Abbeville 217, Aiken 88, Anderson 6, Barnwell 47, Beaufort 1, Berkeley 14, Calhoun 12, Charleston 25, Cherokee 70, Chester 110, Ches terfield 48, Clarendon 14, Colleton 21, Darlington 5, Dillon 62, Dorchester 11, Edgefield 38, Fairfield 44, Florence 15, Georgetown 6, Greenville 385, Green wood 119, Hampton 29, Kershaw 27, Lancaster 2, Laurels 24, Lee 19, Lex ington 31, Marrion 19, Marlboro 32, Newberry 316, Orangeburg 339, Pick ens 19; Richland 775, Saluda 23, Spar tanburg 248, Sumter 5, Union 147, Wil liamsburg 10, York 807. Whooping cough was reported from 56 of the 44 counties in the state, totaling 836 cases. Of this number 317 cases were reported from Char leston county alone. Orangeburg county came second with 57 cases and Greenville third with 47 cases. Road Work in South Carolina. A project that should result in a continuous series of model highways between Washington and Atlanta has been undertaken during the past year, according to the annual report issued by the director of the office of public roads. The maintenance of these sec tions is under the direction of engi neers from the office of public roads. The engineers are: Geo C. Scales, W. L. Spon and D. H. Winslow. All South Carolina counties, through which the road passes, have joined in the movement The plan as finally adopted by the national office of the highways in volves the payment of .sums for the unkeeD of these roads by the counties through which they pass, on condi tion that the federal government will provide engineers, who shall supervise the project, so that it may be an ob ject lesson in the maintenance of ^ood roads on a sufficient scale to at tract general attention. Assist Vital Statistics Bureau. F. L. Watkins, M. D., of the nation al bureau of vital statistics, will come to South Carolina about Janu ary 1 in order to assist the state bu reau in putting the law into effect. I Dr. Watkins is deputy state registrar of vital statistics of Mississippi, and his services were assured in a letter received recently from William J. Harris, director of the bureau of the census. Previously he assisted the states of Arkansas and Tennessee In putting their vital statistics laws into effect. New Enterprise Authorized. The secretary of state has issued a commission to the Mclver Bros, of Columbia. with a canital stock of $2. 000, to do a general lumber business. The petitioners are M. C. Mclver and P. J. Mclver, Must Report All Births. . After January 1, 1915, the attending doctor and midwife and the father and mother of a child may be prose cuted In the state courts of South I Carolina for failure to have registered the birth of that child within ten days after its occurrence. So stren uous is the effort being made by the United States government to obtain dependable vital statistics that such prosecutions will actually occur should the undesired need arfte, in ac cordance with act of congress of Sep tember 1, 1914. Will Have Hearing on Congaree Claim Washington.?Plans have been per fected for a hearing here on January 7 before the secretary of war to de termine whether or not the waters erf the Congaree are still being im pounded as recently alleged and who is responsiDie ior sucn a suuauon 11 this 1s still being done. A short time ago officers of the Parr Shoals company were directed to come to Washington and make a saitsfactory explanation as to why they were then impounding these waters, but was asked to extend time. Low Prices Sound Warning. ' Well, we haye waited and we have toiled and 30 days arter the wonder ful regional bank system is put in op eration we see cotton going down, down, down," says E. W. Dabbs, pres ident of the South Carorlina StateJ Farmers' union, in a communication i addressed a few days ago to the mem bers of the union in South Carolina, i He says that the best interests of the South will be served if the price re-1 mains low until after it is too late to plant a big crop next year. / More and Better Home Live Stock. The annual meeting of the South Carolina Live Stock Association will be held in Columbia January 13, 14 and 15, according to an announcement by the officers. In preparing the programme those in charge have attempted to have the papers and discussions devoted principally to the way in which live stock and allied industries can aid the farmers of the state In getting eady for the coming of the boll weevil. The annual butter scoring contest of the asociation w?*L be held at the otvuit? uine. liiuse iu cucci the contest should n^^J. M. Bur gess at Clemson College. James L. Hclntosh, of Doversville, Is president of the association and J. M. Burgess is secretary and treasurer. The increased cost of live stock has caused many farmers to turn to the industry and this year's meeting of the association will be one of the most notable ever held. The newest of the live stock organ rations in the state is the Greenwood county association, which was organ ized recently under the direction of J. O. Williams, live suxik demonstration agent for Clemson College. Sixty three farmers attended the organiza tion meeting. Announcement from Clemson Col lege is that "similar associations have been or will be formed under the di rectioh of Clemson College in all those counties of the state that are free from the cattle tick." South Carolina ia Sa'fe." Clemson College. ? While urging farmers not to relax their igilance and to be prompt in communicating with Clemson college whenever their sus picions are aroused, Dr. R. O. Feeley, state veterinarian, Issued a statement repeating his recent reassurance that "therA was verv slight daneer of foot and mouth disease reaching Soulh: Carolina. Inquiries which have been received at Clemson .recently led to the veterinarian's statement. Two alarms have been received since the outbreak of the epidemic in the North and West. One came from Jordan, in Clarendon county, and the other from Bishopville, Lee county. Veterinaians were immediately dis patched from the college to investi gate and in both cases the report was that no symptoms of foot and mouth disease were present Dr. Feeley stated that so energeti cally was the department of agricul ture handling the problem and so strictly had the quarantine lines been drawn that he felt safe in telling South Carolina farmers, that they need have practically no anxiety on the subject^ The state veterinanrian feels satisfied with the precautions that have been taken and although he will continue to be vigilant he has no fears that the area of infection will spread to outh Carolina. Griffith Wins Roddey Medal. J. D. Griffith, of Saluda, a member r<lar(niinnh1(> T .Homrv Societv. U1 IfLIC Viaxivwvyu?v vw?,? 0 _ ?. , , won the annual Roddey medal debate at the University of South Carolina. The query was "Resolved, That it would be for the best intere*t of the South to eliminate totally the'cotton crop daring the coming year." The judges also decided the winning team,: and this decision went to Raymon Swartz and the winner of the medal, who upheld the affirmative. The de baters on the negative were H. O. I Hanna and L. B. Harrison. Charleston's Exports Increase. Charleston's exports increased near ly $21,000,000 between 1906 ^nd 1914, according to a statement issued from the state department of agriculture. The exports in 1906 were $661,285, as compared with $20,829,591 in 1914. The imports in 1913 were $4,774,155 and $5,343,866 in 1914. The exports in 1913 were $13,511, 857, which shows that the increase for 1914 was over $7,000,000. leaiiA/l INew ^nancrs iiusi iaouwu. Tile Trust Company .of Cberaw has been chartered by the secretary of state, with a capital stock of $55,000. The officers are: R. T. Caston, pres ident; G. W. Duvall, vice president; J. L. Craig, secretary; C. K. Waddill, treasurer. The. Southern Audit and Adjust ment Company of Greenville has been chartered with a capital of $5,000. Albert S. Johnstone is president, sec retary and treasurer. The Ureka Development company of Spartanburg was given the right to increase its oapital to $50,000. Industrial Work to be Suspended. The mill welfare work, which baa been conducted successfully in South Carolina during the past three years by the United States farm demonstra tion forces, in conjunction with the general education board is to be tem porarily abandoned, according to an announcement by W. W. Long, state* agent of the demonstration work and director of the Clem^on College exten sion work. The headquarters for the mill welfare work have been located at Winthrop College James L. Carbery, for three years state agent for the mill welfare de partment, located at Rock Hill, has been transferred to Beaufort, where he will act as county farm agent. Dur ing the past three years the mill wel fare work has been established in more than 20 mill villages or me state and the improvement has been great. The federal government has decided not to co-operate with the general edu cation board in such matters and it is fpr this reason that the work had to be abandoned. The work has been highly commended by miJl officers and operatives. Bills For Next Legislature. Child labor and compulsory educa tion measures to be submitted to the 1915 session of the general assembly will be discussed at a conference to be held in Columbia during the holiday season. Leaders in the legislature who favor the passage of a compul sory school attendance law will be asked to attend the meeting. Plans for the meeting are being arranged by Jos. A. McCullough, member-elect of the house, from Greenville. It is praotically certain that a compulsory sducation measure will be introduced. CROP FINANCING PUN ENDORSED HARVIE JORDAN, OF ATLANTA, PRESENTS COOPERATIVE SCHEME TO CONGRESS. V V ? ; ' - . - j *j,t " r - ' / .? a# ?. TUC IIWnCDTAI/lldP IC CDPAT in. unifmiinnina iw vjhun n.. ' .j?$& ,'mv fi'Aj: Hundred Million Dollar Prrojcct la Discussed By Representatives of 19 Counties at* Columbia. U. .. < Columbia.^?The plan of the Co operative Cotton company to raise $400,000,000 for financing the cotton crop of the South wis approved re cently at a special meeting of the South Carolina Cotton congress at the Jefferson hotel. Chairmen from 19 counties were present at the meeting;. which had been called by Wadfe Stackhouse, M. D., of Dillon, presi dent. Harvie Jordan of Atlanta, pr?s?:: ident of the Southern Cotton associa tion, attended the meeting and ex plained the plan. A committee was appointed by the - Southern Cotton association, consist ing of Harvie Jordan,, president; Wade StackhouBe, M. D., of South - -x . " Carolina and Waiter Clark of Missis-..' :' / slppi, to present the co-operative plan tn tha farrtiom nf thfi South. President Stackhouse named a com mittee, consisting/of W. A. Stuckey, J. A. Banks and John L. McLaurln, to draft an address to the people of South Carolina explaining the move ment. This -committee- will call meet ings for every county in the. state? Among those who were present at v the meeting were: State Warehouse Commissioner Jno. L. McLaurln; H. C. Forbes of the Hahefver National bank, New York; Wade StackhOusey Dillon; Senator J. A. Banks, St. Mat thews; W. A. Stuckey, Bishopvllle; Neill O'Donnell, Sumter; J. A. Drakei state warehouse inspector; Douglas Mclntyre, Marion;^ B, -H. Bolkin, Camden; D. S. Mathesoa, Cheraw;. W. P. Beard, Abbeville; R. C. Sarrqttj Gaffney; Senator J. licCowh, .' Florence; Senator 0. P. Goodwin, Laurens; W. C. Brown, Newberry; D. M. Crosson, Lexington; F. <11. Crum, Orangeburg; T. JB. Thacksfion, Spkr tanburg; L. R. Rollings, Lancaster; R. Lever, Columbia; S. G. MayfleUK-'' Bamberg; the governor of South'fcar olina; T. Ft Brantley of Orahgebifarg; . ' E. H. Aull of Newberry . Watson of Columbia. \ Prospectus at the Co-operative Cot ton company contains the following: "Self-help is imperative. Co-Opera-. tion gives strength and permanent re sults to self-help. A plan to relieve present depressing financial conditio^* In the cotton growing areas of "lie I South by retiring from the markets the surplus of the present1 ooitoa^trop, and enhancing the value of what , cot ton is needed for consumption, there by relieving the cotton growers, local bankers and merchants ' from the heavy burdens with -which they tore now afflicted. . , , "Oragnize at once the Co-operative Cotton company," said Mr. Jordan, "with an authorized capital of $100, 000,000, payable In spot cotton out of the present surplus, basis middling, at 10 cents per pound. The ownership ' of the stock and control of the com pany to be retained by the cotton growing interests of the South, with only one vote for each shareholder regardless of the amount of stock he may own." Mails Out Savings Checks. ciatrnav?a nrominent bank of this place mailed out a few days ago checks amounting to several thou sand dollars to the members of the Christmas Savings Club, which was to cover deposits made therein dur- - > ing the year 1914. This money going Into circulation now will relieve the situation to no small extent, and those who have been members of the club not only helped themselves but have been of benefit to the community. ' ? Better Than Cotton. Gaffney.?E. V. Phillips, a success- . ful farmer, a few days ago killed a pig 12 months old which weighed 570 pounds . Sold on the market it would have brought more money than a bale of cotton. Let Contract For House Numbering. Woodruff.?The town council has - given a contract for the numbering of the houses and erecting street name posts throughout the town. The work is to begin shortly. Action was taken by the request of the postofHce department fo rthe benefit of the city carriers. Woodruff has had free de> livery for over a year, but was install ed here as an experiment, the same as at Branchville and Lancaster. The houses were not numbered at first, inn/iiTi (* tho mitfviHifl of the exDeri ^ cauuig v**v vw.vv?- ? uient. .Will Command Olympia. Charleston.?It is understood that Commander Frank Brooks Upham, U. S. N., has been assigned the captancy of the United States cruiser Olympia, ' which goes into full commission from the Charleston navy yard on January 2 after a long period In ordinary at the local naval station. Commander Upham will arrive here very shortly. The last assignment of Commander Upham was on board the United States battleship Nebraska of the At lantic fleet, third division. Will Build Mills. Columbia.?Papers for the incor poration of the Wittekind Farms mills will be filed with the secretary of state, according to J. Whitner Reid, secretary of the State Farmers' union. The flour, grits and meal milling plant win ho located near Dentsville. in Richland county and will represent an investment of more than $5,000. A contract has already been awarded to a Kentucky firm for a 50-barrel a day flour mill. The company is to b? financed by one of the best known farmers in Richland county.