Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I -.-Vil?. eaning of Hamper traps Fertility fs Being Exhausted Rapidly and Must Be Restored By L C Brown, La Grange, UL UMPER crops mean tnat unusual amounts of crop-making elements have been-taken from thVsolL So it must fol low when soil is put In such good condition that crops grow abundantly and produce above the normal yield that greater ? i B,-. J $ pains must be taken to return a much larger amount of fer 4.X tilizing material. This very thing was brought, to my notice a few days ago, while I was traveling through Central HV9.9Q??V099 Illinois. The case in point was a farmer who had a thor : oughly kept farm. He had worked out successfully the problem of keeping his land in good "condition. This he had done by a care fully laid- system of drainage and by knowing when to plough a' field He had worked out successfully ten problem of keeping his land in good con dition,. This he had done by a carefully laid system of drainage and by a carefully laid system ow drainage1 and by knowing when to plough a field and when to leave it alone. Up to twelve years ago mixed farming was prac tised here,,and* a considerable portion *f the farm was constantly kept in meadow and pastures. Twelve y?ars ago steck feeding was stopped and the Whole farm was turned into grain fields. The natural result was that that farm soon became famous for its big yields of corn, oats and wheat. These unusual crops were taken off for nine years, and then the yields fell off alarm ly. What was -'the trouble? No doubt there is still a large amount of nitro gen in "-the" soil, but it hus been thrown out of balance by drawing too heavily on some.other elements. Thousands of fine farms in Central Illinois are in precisely this condition today. Upon these farms cattle and hogs used to be fed, and littje, if any, of the crops were ever hauled away from the farm. But after twelve or fifteen years of 75-bushel&;an-acre corn crops farmers find that they have to go to the bottom of one of their soil bins. If these lands are nandled. right? they,are good almost indefinitely, but allow this one-sided crop ping system to go on and on and the soil conditions here will soon be on the same basis as in the southern section of the state. ? The thing to do is to keep this land in condition to produce bumper crops, but not to lose sight of the fact that a 40-bushel wheat yield an acre has used up a correspondingly large amount of food elements. fyj*+**+**^?^ The **** Typical Boston ian Does He Exist? Bv M. A. De Wolf Howe F the careful student of Boston should undertake to recon? Btruct from the recorded impressions of observant visitors and. critics an imaginary city, it must be said hat nearly all the counterparts of the actual city would be found among' his materials. He would probably discover that some of the materials are provided in excess and others insufficient ly. The nature of most bf them could be summarized by a further condensation of the reports here brought together. Such a summary might be desirable were this a more exten sive compilation? As it is, there is need only to add a single consideration for the reconstructive student who,/for one reason or another, may not pur sue his studies on the spot. The possibility of scrutinizing the "typical Bos tonian"-the man who has created the impression which the word "Boston" brings to mind-is a diminishing possibility. This person, moving daily farther from the East, is fading by degrees into the light of common day. For the sake of fifty righteous men, Abraham persuaded the Lord to spare the city of Sod^om, .and with an admirable process of "jewing down" brought the number through forty-five, forty, thirty, and twenty-finally to ten. The submerging wave of modern condltons has not yet brought the number of typical Bostonians so low as the highest on which the bargain for Sodom was struck. But it will roll onward; fifty will be reached, and possibly by dread ful degrees even ten. Lower than that the imagination refuses to go, and if lt must go so far there will be comfort in the knowledge that ten complete Bostonians will be enough to preserve for their city something of its ancient quality.-Harper's Weekly. ? Socialism and Human * Jfature f By Vida Scudder ORAL preparation for the New Order! It might well be the watchwoid of the hour: It is the last thing of which one ME hears. The militant socialists -are too busily engaged in 1 aggressive propaganda, so preoccupied with their vision of I " healing and liberation for the body that they lay them selves, open to the charge of feeling slight interest in the soul. Yet In the confusion one fact is clear: Should social ism come otherwise than as the result of an inward trans formation, affecting the deep springs of will and love, it wouia prove the worst disaster of any experiment in collective living that the world has seen. Matthew Arnold, wisest of Victorian critics, pointed out years ago the perils with which th? advance of democracy is fraught, unless it be achieved through a common enlightenment and a pervading social'pas sion. Socialism is democracy pushed to an extreme. It would involve im mensely elaborated machinery. Unless the spirit of the living creature ba In the wheels, one foresees them grinding destruction. Should socialism be other than the expression of a general will very different from that of today, it would be an unbearable tyranny. The only comfort is that it could not endure. The truth Is that we are forced to agree with our tedious friends who insist th<t we "must alter human nature" if socialism is to be a suo cess.-From the Hibbert Journal. ??MW SS How Women May Be Graceful By Florence Augustine ITH strengthened muscles and nerves normally in hand any self-respecting womah ought to be able to maintain a grace ful carriage^and well-bred appearance at any social func tion. It is well to remember that the secret of graceful movement is comfort, that the graceful thing is the easy thing. A graceful pose, sitting or standing, is a comfortable pose, and once you have gained control over your muscles, ' they will.fall naturally into comfortable, graceful postures.0 Yet grace to be attractive must be unstudied, uncon scious. This, if anything, is the most conspicuous ear-mark of the well-bred woman-her total lack of self-consciousness. Sure bf herself, sure of her clothes, but forgetting them, her attitude of mind is that of the kings of old: "I can do no wrong." She moves with easy superiority, because she has np desire to impress with her superiority; she feels that it speaks for itself. She is neither haughty nor aloof, because she doesn't have to fight for "a place." She is not cold or stiff, but merely reserved, mild, unruffled, slightly disinterested, and grave, but always alert, kind and courteous. One's innate feeling is bound thus to show in one's bearing, and true breeding ls not a thing of birth or brains or property, but something of the spirit.-From Smith's Magazine. The Uses of a Fat Man. "I don't know whether I'll like Jack or not when I see him again," said she. "He wrote me he wa? getting iat I hate a fat man.'" "A lat man's all right," said the boy who was playing cards on the floor, "when a burglar gets. in. A fat man will scare a burglar." "But," she demurred, "I'm not mar rying a man just because he's good to scare burglars with,* am ll"-New York Times. The Morning After. The severe parent glared angrily at the prodigal son. "Noon," he observed.^ icily, "is an absurd hour for breakfast." "It ls rather early," chirped tho prodigal son, putting down his fifth glass of ice water.-New York Times. A few buckets of water placed in a room where carbon gas is escaping from a stove is noticeable will greatly .educe the danger of poisoning. -Cartoon by I STANDARD OIL CASH IS I Individual Stockholders Reinvest In RB in Soap and Also In Candles-Bus: Seeks Opportunities Far and W -No Increase of Capital I nany Has Ali I New York City.-Standard Oil men, with Standard Oil dividends, are reaching out for. the larger retail trad?. They are applying to the field of Investment the Standard Oil?methods which have proven so potent in every line of competitive business to which they have previously been applied. The retail lines which have recent ly attracted the attention of the men who have been trained by the master hand of John D. Rockefeller embrace: Drugs, Soap, Candies, Peanuts, Milk, Starch, Glucose products, Restaurants. For more than a year the work of absorbing or, at any rate, gaining a controlling interest In enterprises, which In many instances seem to have no connection with the produc tion of oil, has been going on quietly but actively, and the complete roster probably would make interesting reading. Acquiring Ma../ Businesses. Some of these concerns in which Individual stockholders of the Stand ard Oil Company are heavily Inter ested are the Hegeman Drug Com pany, Childs' chain of restaurants, the Corn Products Refining Company, the Neva? York Glucose Company and the National Starch Company. But there are more to' come. Reports, which bear every evidence of verity are current that, a grsat candy estab lishment with many branches in New York and other cities has recently passed into the control of Standard Oil interests. Pear 'ts and milk probably will be next on the Hst, for the same reports, based on excellent authority, are that these oil interests have already ob tained control of what is known as the peanut trust, and will soon, if they have not already, acquire one of the most extensive milk producing businesses In the country. All these transactions are the out come of what 1B known as the "in vestment department" of the Stand ard Oil Company. This is entirely for the benefit of the large stockhold ers and the work is conducted in an unobtrusive manner. Money Must Not Be Idle. So thoroughly does the Standard Oil Company now cover the ground and the earth that it has all the capi tal that it needs and is practically im possible to put more money back into the industry, which yields annually millions in profit. Standard Oil divi dends,, therefore, are constantly seek ing reinvestment, for it Is one of the axioms of John D. Rockefeller him self that money must not be idle. The head of the investment department or bureau was until recently a man who is now a banker and broker in Wall street. There has. been a reor ganization lately, but the search for good opportunities is under the gen eral direction of an accomplished financial scout who has a corps of trained assistants. There are numerous firms or com panies which have an established rep utation and feel that if they had ad ditional capital they might greatly extend their business. While they are making inquiries they may re ceive a visit from an agent, who says that he has heard something of their endeavors and intimates that if the enterprise meets the approval of his principals it would be possible to come to an agreement. Millionaire E. J. Barney, 73, Makes Widow of 30 His Bride. Dayton, Ohio.-In the face of tne bitter opposition of his daughters, E. J. Barney, who is seventy-three years jld and the wealthiest man in Dayton, was married to Mrs, Elinor Chapman, widow of State Ssnator W. W. Chap man, who is in her thirtieth year. Mrs. Chapman was governess in the Barney family for several months af ter the dea.th of the Senator, and it \s Delieved that the wedding will cause i complete rupture between Barney ind hit; two daughters. Among the Workers. The Gas Workers' Union at Sacra mento, Cal., has made an application to become affiliated with the State Federation of Labor. A union of hard solderers of New iTork has been organized. The name adopted is the Independent Interna tional Union of Hard Solderers. Labor leaders in Toronto, Canada, ' will ask the Ontario Government to stablish ar? eight-hour day for girls working in factories. The latter now work twelve hours, , or seventy-two a veek. )avenport, in the "New York Evening Mail. PUT HU FOOD AND DRUGS sfauranfs and Pliarmacies-Thousands r' Department at No. 26 Broadway iear-Has Enough in Petroleum 'ossible Because the Com t Needs in Oil. "Can you make a statement," is his usual question, "which' will show that increased capital will develop the business and return a good profit?" These statements are analyzed by experts and a report is made showing the nature of the territory in which it is proposed to locate new branches of a business and the probabilities of the various regions developing. The agent takes an active interest in the industry or the business if. the con tract is made, and the capital ls like ly to come from a bank which is in touch with the Standard Oil group. From Restaurants to Oil. Operations such as these have been conducted for the last three years, and as a result the country has seen chains of drug stores, and an ever in creasing procession' of popular priced restaurants. It was admitted at the office of the Hegeman Company that several of the Standard Oil men had as individ uals invested in the corporation. Its president Is John H. Flagler. . According tb Samuel Childs, vice president of the Childs Restaurant Company, dividends from his enter prise find their way to No. ?26 Broad way. A. Tydeman, of the ?ureau of Purchases and^Supplies of the Stand ard Oil, ls among the investors in the Childs emporia. E. T. Bedford, a large stockholder in the Standard Oil and until recently a director of thal connor at. ion, is the president of the Conf Products Re fining Company, of the New York Glucose Company, which has the tall chimney at Shadyside, N. J. Four of the corn products compa nies have offices at No. 26 Broadway, and there also is the headquaters of the "National Starch OomDany. Re ports mat tue standard group had In any way become Interested In the manufacture of candy are denied by leading confectionery companies, *and one of them has within the last week sent oyt a circular to the trade ex plicitly stating that there has been no change whatever in the management. C. T. White, assistant treasurer, who has an office on the fourteenth floor, was asked if there were any. truth in the report that the Standard OH Company was becoming extensive ly Interested in outside ventures. "That is not the fact," was his em phatic reply. Mr. White referred to the various glucose companies as being under the control of men also affiliated with Standard OH and to the National Starch Company ra a subsidiary cor poratlon of the Corn Products Com pany. As to the "Investment Department' which the officials and stockholders of the Standard find so useful, he said that if there was such a thing lt was news to him. Among the larger, op erations of financiers of the Standard Ql\ group as Individuals may also be mentioned the Amalgamated Cooper and the United Metals Selling Com pany, in which H. H. Rogers is in terested, and the railroad and hotel Interests of Henry M. Plagler in'Flor ida. Paragraphed Pickings. ""** The Pittsburg Club has sold short stop Charlie Starr to the Boston Club, \ Work is being done in the matter of unionizing the brewers in El Paso, Texas. Reports of the various New York City railway lines for the last quarter showed assets of 5354,000.000. Sixteen hundred men employed In the collieries at Aberaman, Wales, were locked out. Find Six Out of Every Ten Children Have Tuberculosis. Des Moines, Iowa.-An investiga tion conducted by the Des Moines Tubercular Association resulted in tho amazing discovery that six out of. every ten children examined in tho city are infected with the dreaded tu berculosis. Most of the cases are incipient, but In many the disease has progressed to a dangerous degree. The association Is considering the psfabllshing of a children's tubercular- camp for scien tific treatment. . . The World of Sport. President Taft has become an hon orary member of the Eastern Yacht Club, of Boston. Stanford has In W. M. Wyman, a sophomore, a quarter miler who is good for fifty seconds. Robert H. Bryson, of Indianapolis, was elected president ,of the Ameri can Bowling- Congress'Mn session at I [' Pittsburg. "Jack" Johnson and Stanley Ketchel signed articles to fight twen ty rounds at the Colma A. C., in San Francisco. - Young Turks Win Victory In Stiff Contest YILDIZ GARRISON SURRENDERS Constitutionalists Have Situation in Hand-Martial Law Proclaimed Foreigners Safe.-Will Test Sul ' tan'3 Responsibility For Mutiny. Constantinople, By Cable-The constitutionalist forces were in com plete control of the capital Saturday. The Sultan'was pr?ctically a prisoner in the Xjldiz palace. His formal sub mission was not given, but he and the troops with him were at the mercy of the army of occupation. Mahamoud Schefket Pasha, the commander-in-chief of the invading forces, desired to finish the work without further bloodshed. The,sending forward of the ad vanc? posts of the Saloniki army Fri day afternoon to within two and one-half miles of the palace fore shadowed the attack upon the city, which began at ?5 o'clock Sunday morning. The bridges had been pick eted and small parties of cavalry had reconnoitered the grund. After desul tory firing, just before dawn, a strong advance was made in the southwest part of Pera. The attacking forces spread out in a long line ana made an assauLjt upon the Matchka and Taschkischia barracks, south of the palace. Here' they met with a stub born resistance. The invaders continued to advance in three columns with the utmost pre-! cisi?n, and occupied all the points of vantage. The voluneers from Gnev geli received their baptism of fire from Matchka, but they stood their ground well and replied with steady volleys. The strength of the volun teers was overwhelming, and the Matchka garrison soon surrendered. Almost imemdiately the loyal sol diers on the Taschkischia barracks, on the opposite hill, opened with a deadly fire, but notwithstanding that many of them fell, the Saloniki troops did not hesitate in their ad vance, but moved slowly and cau tiously, bringing up thejr' machine guns, which eventually resulted in silencing the garrison. Jhere were heavy losses on both sides. While this attack was proceeding, another corps of Saloniki infantry encounter ed a sudden attack from the artillery in the Taxim barracks but these were' only supplied with rifles. Muksstar Bey, commander of the Saloniki forces, felt dead and many were killed or wounded on the first assault. Perhaps the most remarkable fea ture of the attack upon the city was the great number of people of all nationalities, including many Euro-" pean women, who thronged the streets immediately outside the zone of fire. Everybody showed that con ?dence had been inspired by the dis cipline, valor and friendly courtesy of the invading troops, particularly the gendarmes of Saloniki. The number of casualties probably tvill never be knowi|, but_ it is esti mated far into the thousands. Around thc Taxim barracks alone it is be lieved that a thousand or more men fell. The private houses within the line of fire suffered greatly. , In one quarter some 6,000 or 7,000 troops were engaged in the conflict, but with the terrific exchange of shots, few non-combatants were kill ed. At noon the batte ceased, and pre? lautionary measures were immediate ly taken by those upon whom victory had rested, to insure the safety of the residents. No disorders of any kind occurred during the afternoon, md no looting was permitted. Gen eral satisfaction seemed to be felt it the swift change from uncertainty to constitutional order. A cablegram of Sunday says: The Fildiz garrison surrendered to the Constitutionalist forces. The com manders of these battalions began sending in their submissoion to Mah amoud Schefket Pasha Saturday night md the whole of the troops protect ng the palace gave their formal and inconditional surrender shortly after lawn. Niazi Bey, called the hero of ;he July revolution, is now in com nand of the trarrison. Sultan Abdiil Hamid has been per mited to remain within the walls of he Yildiz Kiosk, where in company vith his ministers, he waited for the outcome of the struggle between ais loyal troops and the army of in vestment, each hour bringing to him vord of a fresh disaster. Enver Bey, one of the leaders of he young Turks, when asked how nilitary men regarded the Sultan, re lied: "We do not have an opinion in that subject. The Sultan is in he hands of Parliament. The admin stration is tb uphold the civil gov .rnmcnt.''' Turkish, French and English war ;hips are at other ports, and marines lave been landed to quell disorders. A'Washington City dispatch says, he Turkish embassy has received Dispatches from Constantinople hat the houses and foreign missions (embassies, legations, etc.), and the lanks, as well as hotels, are guarded >y the military so that there is safety n the town. These measures were m ly taken for precaution. Miss Mary Curtis Lee, daughter of ?en. R. E. Lee, is in Turkish Capital. Situation Grave in Armenia. Beirut, By Cable.-The situation in Lsiatic Turkey is , one of extreme ravity. How many thousands have een massacred cannot be estimated, ie disturbances having been so wide preatl. Latest estimates place the umber of killed in Adana at approx nately 25,000, and thousands have een done to death in the towns of ther districts. The state of siege hich several of the places are unde oing, has brought the inhabitants to ie verge of starvation. j: \ "Moje Tequop." . iCoL Hugh Lr. Scott,- superintendent of West Point, is credited with being more familiar with the life and per sonality of the American Indian than any other living man. Col. Scott has had the confidence of the Indians with whom he came into contact ev er since the day of his first service In the army^at ?Fort Abraham Lincoln, Dakota. , He was appointed a Lieutenant at that post in June, 1876. Tn the round of garrison dut.', guarding a cattle trail through the Comanche reserva tion and regulating "sooners" on pub lic lands he made so thorough a study of Indian customs ?nd languages that he became the (best versed white man In the intertribal sign language, by which the Indian tribes speaking dif ferent languages communicate with one another. To the red man Col. Scott 'became "Mole Tequop"-"the man who talks with his hands." HHHH M I-I-H-H-VH-X-M'M THE NATIONAL BANK OF AUGUSTA, AUGUSTA. GA. L. C. KAYNE, CHAS, K. CLARK, President. , Cashier CAPITAL $250,000.09. Surplus & Profits $190,000.00. The business of oar out-of-town friends receives the same careful attention os tbat .of our local depositor*. The accounts of careful coDsev/atlve p?opie solicited. H"1-M"M"M : I I I 'H-M-M^H _ J ??^H"H"H"I"H"I M-M-M-I-H The Planter's Loan and Savings Bank Augusta, Ca. Pays Interest on Deposits, J* Accounts Solicited. LC. KAYKf, OHAS. C. HOWARD, PR Ea i DE.., 1'. CASHIEtl. 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