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WILSON PRAISES "KING CORN." Secretary of Agriculture Shows tho Enormous Value of Crop. Washington, Dec. 6.-Tho great ness of King Corn as a national crop 1B brought out distinctly in the an nual report of James Wilson, secre tary of agriculture, made public to day. In this report Mr. Wilson points out that tho value of tho corn crop for 1911 1B about $1,700,000,000, an amount only B?lghtly loss than thVt of the combined values pf cotton, wheat and oat crops. This enormous amount can better bo understood when it ls known that about threo fourthB of the world's crop of corn is giown in tho United States. Of cotton, tho secretary says that, while tho crops ls larger, it ls worth lesB than lt was tho previous year. In general, lt has boen a bumper year for farm crops, so far as value is concornod. The estimate for the farm value of the 1911 crops is $5, .004,000,000. The report, In addition to sum marizing tho condition of the farm ers of tho country, takes up tho ques-' tion of the economic effect of cold storage, pointing out tho increased price which long storage necessitates. | The secretary describes the investiga tion of tho cold storage business pur-! sued under his direction this year, touching on tho speculative side. Ile closes this feature of his report with J an urgent recommendation for pub licity as a safeguard against men who might seek to forestall the market. Tho report of tho secretary opens with a number of short paragraphs of nation-wide interest. Dricf Comments. "When tho cattle-fever tick is de stroyed in tho Southern States the country will get much moro meat from that section, and the producing of lt will build up the farms there," says tho report. "The hog-cholera serum devoloped in this department ls successful where it ls properly made and ap plied. "Would it he asking too much of our universities to have them edu cate more plant pathologists and road engineers? "Every country in the world that has diseased plantB that cannot be sold at home can ship them to us. This results In great loss. Tho chest nut disease here ls an Illustration. "After years of experimentation we find we can grow Egyptian cotton in Southern California and bulbs tn tho State of Washington. "The finest dates from the Sahara Desert succeed in our Southwest. "No seed ls sent out from this de partment without hoing tested for germination condition. "The schools want more of our publications than we have to give them. "Seven hundred and fifty million dollars ls the best estimate for poul try products this year. "The day is not far distant when Ave will cease to import potash. "J. serious pest in the South ls tho crawfish; carbon bisulphide is a snro remedy. "Wo aro sending explorers to the ends of tho earth for now plants and getting thom. Phosphates Abundant. "Tho phosphates aro abundant In our country for all possible uses. Florida, Kentucky, Tennesssee and Idaho may he mentioned as deposito ries. "If good roads from tho producer to tho consumer wore general, tho beneiits to both would bo considera ble. "When a foreign insect invades, our scientists seek Its enemy where 1t carno from. The natural enemy of the boll weevil was an ant that could not enduro our winters, but the na tive ant ls getting busy. "The experiment stations of tho several States are doing better work each succeeding year, tho scientists aro maturing, and tho people are ap preciating. "The object lesson in agriculture ls tho best teacher; wo had 00,000 of them at work last year. "Six hundred thousand short tons of beet sugar were made last year In 07 factories. There ls an estimated world's shortago of 1,000,000 long tons of sugar Ibis year. "Tho consumer pays $1 for food; tho farmer gets less than 50 cents for it. Who gets tho rest? "All government agencies that con serve public health should he grouped together in ono bureau. "Tho department of agriculture has had success in the Southern States through object lessons In the fields, where tho best Southern farmers in their counties woro tho Instructors. This mothod should be organized In all tho States along lines of greatest necessity. Faulty Systems. "Our systems of renting land are faulty and result, tn soil robbing; where the renter cannot, provide do mestic animals, tho owner should ar range to furnish (hem, so that, rota tion of crops may bo had, and hay and grains may ho fed on the farm. "Irrigation will bring maximum KILLED HY A RUNAWAY OAK. Peculiar Accident Toked Pince On Streets of Charle? ton. Charleston, Dee. 6.-As a result of one of the most peculiar aiccdents that nave over taken place In Char leston, Capt. Thomas Symmes, for nearly thirty years a conductor ou tho old South Carolina and Georgia railroad, aud a well known man lu ( this section of the State, died Monday afternoon at tho Roper Hospital, only ' three hours af ter ho-had been taken' there In the automobile patrol. Capt. j Syimmes was struck while getting off of car No. 36, at tho corner of Reid and Meeting streets, by Consolidated 1 Car No. 35, which was stolon from ' the Consolidated car barns by gomt, very small colored boys. Ho did not, lt ls supposod, notice tho runaway car, No. 35, and this car struck him fairly, nearly severing both of his legs from his body. Officer Redell hastened to the spot, tho police automobile having been summoned. The wounded man was taken to tho hospital, losing much blood meanwhile. Tho police arrest- ? ed three little colored boys, Gus Washington, Alonzo John and Rob ert Plnckney, the oldest of whom cannot be moro than ten or twelve years of age. One of the boys went out with Special Officer Fultz and helped to, locate John Dutson, ano ther ono implicated, making four ar rests in all. These four boys are charged with malicious mischief in I taking a car from the Consolidated ; barns and causing lt to run wild down Meeting street and collide with another car. It ls not known how Eie boys man aged to start the car, since lt is re ported to be a Btrict rule for motor men always to take off their control lers when leaving thc cars. Criti cism of the Consolidated Company authorities at the barn was heard for having allowed the little negroes to play in the barn. Capt. Symmes Buffered horribly when taken to the hospital. Ono-of his legs was crushed to the knee, while the other was fractured just be low the waist. Capt. Symmes was very popular in Charleston and in tho country round about. He was for nearly thirty years a conductor on tho old South Carolina and Georgia railroad. After leaving this position he worked aB store-house keeper for tho Charleston Mining and Manufacturing Company. Recently ho had been employed by tho Simons-Bryant Company, contrac tors. Two Go to Jail-One Binded. Hartford, Conn., Dec. 7.-Three to five years In prison for Robert R. Taft, ten months in jail for Raymond Manson and a gravo in a lonely country cemetery, seven miles from Buchanan, Va., for Richard Clark,Is Hie termination of the escapade of three Springfield (Mass.) youths, which began September 20, with tho theft of a $4,000 automobile belong ing to G. Li Bidwell, of this city. The boys drove the machine to Virginia, and when near Buchanan met with an accident in which the car was overturned and Clark killed. Ho was buried In a small cemetery near tho scone. Tho other two were subsequently arrested and tried. Wednesday the sentences were Imposed. Taft ls 19 years old; Manson 17. -^? ?> ?. Itch relieved In 30 minutes by Woolford's Sanitary Lotion. Never falls. Sold by J. W. Bell, druggist. crops while the land ls new and full of plant food; but where tho crops aro sold year by year Irrigation will not of Itself assure good results. "Alaska will some day provide farmers In lower latitudes with grain' seeds superior to what they can grow at home. "The corn crop ls moving north ward by seed selection. "The Southern farm boy is show ing the way to grow more of all crops on an acre. "Educate tho farmer's boy toward a more valuable life on tho farm. "Uplift tho farm home through the education of the farmer's daughter toward greater usefulness and at tractiveness in the farm house. "Save all tho liquid fertilizers on the farm, in cisterns, to be applied where, crops are to grow; this will recover tho greatest, farm waste of our times. "There Is groat promise in the fact that whole classes of graduates of agricultural colleges go back to the farms, having learned how to make them profitable. "Our foresters are loaming by ex perience how to reforest 30,000 acres In a year; ten times as much must bo planted annually to cover all the baro acres in a generation. It will bo done. "There should be publicity regard ing the cold storage of foods, through monthly reports to some Federal au thority Hint would glvo them to the press, to tho end that tho people might know to what extent food9 were being withdrawn from consump tion." . THINK GOMPEKH DU) NOT KNOW Harry Orchard Ll I.-cn s McNamara Ouse to Hts Own. Boise. Idaho, Dec. 7.-Harry Or-? chard, aervlni a lifo torin for the an-' sasslnai ion of former Governor j Steuuonburg, ol Maho, a crlmo willoh he claimed ho was paid to commit J by the officers of the Western Fode- j ration of Miners, who wero tried and ? acquitted, said ho was glad the Mc-j ?amaras had pleaded guilty. If they ! had stood trial and been convicted, he said, there would be ground for the creation of public sentiment lu their favor by ujo of stories of brib ery by the prosecution. Orchard Bald that McManigal waa In much the same position that ho? waa in when he mudo his confession of tho Steunenburg murder. lu Mc Manlgal'8 case the prosecution was able to procuro 'corroborative evi dence. Samuel Gompers, Orchard said, was not, in hie opinion, advised of the dynamite schemes employed. These, ho thought, were formulated and carried out by an organized In ner circle, as he had said was thc case with the Western Federation of Miners. A High-Gloss Mun. (Charlotte Observer.) Earle Sloan, of Charleston, who often goes to Baltimore about busi ness matters-and who ls accurately described as "one of tho high-class men of the old Palmetto State, a line combination of the ante-bellum type, old school gentleman and a modern man of affairs"-was in the Mary land town about a week Ugo and made this statement touching the po litical fortunes of tho distinguished Governor of the State of New Jersey: "The trend of thc people ls unmis takably in favor of the advanced views of government so ably ex pounded by Governor Woodrow Wil son. Governor WHBOU'S popularity ls no accidental condition, but the logi cal result of the evolution of a very extraordinary man. When I knew bim at the University of Virginia he was regarded by common consent as the moat brilliant student there. It ia my opinion that he ls in the lead of all the other presidential candi dates, ao far as the South ia con cerned, and even at this distance from tho convention, his nomination seems assured." Dr. Wilson must bo very much gratified by this warm tribute from one of his old college associates, but he must not put too much confidence in high-class men, because from gen eral observation it would appear that the old ante-bellum, old-school gentlemen do not have very much to do nowadays with tho political af fairs of South Carolina, from which State Mr. Sloan balls. Greenwood lad heraus Grow. Greenwood, Dec. 7.-Dr. S. T. Hallinan, tho highly esteemed pasto; in charge of Immanuel Lutheran church here, has been informed that tho State, T "itheran Synod has decid ed to gran?, his request and locate a pastor here. Rev. P. E. Mooro has been named as the pastor. Dr. Hall man has had.?barge et the work hero since It was Qrs? established as a mission. Ho has taken deep Inlet est in the work and has seen lt grow until lt ls now a real church, owning a neat building and with fino pros pects ahead of lt. Advice to the Aged. Age brings Infirmities, suenas slug? Slah bowels, wenk kidneys and bind er and TORPID LIVER. Tim's Pill have a specific effect on these org stimulating the bowels, causing them to perform their natural functions us In youth and IMPARTING VIGOR_ to the kidneys, bladder and LIVER. They are adapted to old and young. For Si at Bargain! J 70 acres ; 40 acres in fine River Bottom, on Tugaloo River, one and a half miles below Jenkins' Ferry. ?? Reason for selling-change of work, JAMES T. PORTER, ROUTE No. 1, WESTMINSTER, - - - S. C. i AND AM THROAT AM l\\M TROuSw mnmMiv^uuwtt ?j.r. iv.-v.>..?> ?...*?'.--? .- J QVAf)?N?6?:& SA7/.7.0 .CTO/il* OR A'c>/v.<: v fttfMJto.O&O* .J* (Springfield Republican. A Great IB the glory o? William J.j Burns. Ho has Buffered much unde served detraction, he has been charg ed with faking and Belf-advertising, he has been accused of corruption. Tho McNamara confession not only just liles to the last word his early statements lu tho present case, but throws an added brilliance upon his past achievements, lt is not extrava gant to call him the greatest detect ive that America has produced. Val uable work has been done boforo this, In unearthing conspiracies as well as in pursuing singlo criminals, but none of our distinguished detectives In the pust havo mado so notable a record, by measn that command such respect. His place, of course, is not with tho hypercerebral detectives of fiction Uko Dupin, Leeocq, and Sher lock Holmes. He belongs rather with tho noted Scotland Yard men or with the great Canadian detective Murray, who ran down the dynamiters of the Welland Canal. The detective of fiction is a morbid recluse who has only to read the newspapers In order to solve the mys tery of a crime. All the hard, vulgar work ho loaves to the police, poor dullards, doomed to perpetual humil iation at his superior acumen. The detective in real Ufo, on thc contrary, has been depicted as a mere scaven ger, corrupt, incompetent, helpless except when aided by secret relations with the criminal class. Many sleuths like Vldocq have boen affiliated with criminals. Hums, like Inspector Murray, shows how the profession may be dignified by hard, honest work. When put on a case ho nei ther retired to his study to think lt over in a dressing gown nor waited for stool pigeons to come bringing him word, but has promptly packed his bag and set out like a good news paper correspondent or commercial traveler to mix with people and get "next" to whatever thero was to know. Tho ordinary obvious clues have been good enough for him, and his success has usually come from his following them out to tho bitter end lu spite of dlfllculty. He has shown much sagacity, but of a com mon-sense sort, and his deductions never savor of the uncanny. His qualifications, in short, aro the quali fications of a good, energetic business man, with unusual insight into psy chology, and a thorough professional j training to reinforce natural talent. I i In Burns we seo tho detective of ? real life at his best, and lt Is no dis-j paragement of his prowess to hope j that his brilliant feats will not In- \ crease the now vogue of the realistic, detective tn fiction. The detective j story is not the highest typo of fie-' lion, but it. has its points and its pedigree. Perfected by Poe, modern ized by Conan Doyle, lt comes to us. through Voltaire, from tho Orient, where philosophic calm has develop ed to a remarkable degree the talent for sitting still and speculating about .nings instead of going to find them out. lt ls often the moro artistic way. Innovators havo tried to use In fiction the laboratory method of de tecting falsehood bv delicate instru ments, but only succeeded In spoiling the story. Tho detective of fiction has no use for tho dictagraph-ho might as well bo an eavesdropper. The third degree has no place in the tale o' "ratiocination," as Poe gran diloquently called lt. The whole thing ls an ingenious game, a play of the fancy, an exer cise of the wits. Though lt deals with crime, tho detective story pro per is as Innocuous as a problem in algebra or chess. Its vogue may have passed; mediocre writers employing tho tricks of Poo, Gaboriau, Wilklo Collins, and Conan Doyle, havo cheap ened it. In tho latter days, in "Tho Man Who Was 'Thursday,' " and "Ar s?ne Dupin," it has roached tho final stage of burlesque. Perhaps lt will be revived, perhaps not. But In any case, the advocates of realism need not flatter themselves that the meth ods which succeed in real lifo must succeed equally well In fiction. It was precisely because ho was unreal that the omniscient analyst was BO deservedly popular in fiction; he was purely an artistic creation. Mr, Burns and his kind have quite enough ce lebrity in real lifo without encroach ing on romance. Their place In lit erature ls the memoir, and an Inter esting and instructive kind of litera ture lt ls. A specific for pain-Dr. Thomas' Eclectic Oil, strongest, cheapest lini ment ever devised. A household remedy In America for 25 years. English automobile builders are turning out a light car with a body of wicker work. The next session of tho Baptist State Convention will be held with tho church nt Abbeville. fX^mi?DNEYCintB Makes Khlnoys and Bladder Right DATE OF UNVEILING CHANGED. Delayed Shipment Causes ?ostpone nient-No Exercises Dec. 14. (Tho State, Dec. 3.) The unveiling of tho monument to the South Carolina women of the Confederacy, set for December 14, will have to be postponed for a few days, on account ol' a delay in ship ping the bronze group, which will cap tho pedestal, from europe. The commission in charge of erecting the monument will hold a meeting as soon as possible and set a later date for tho unveiling exercises. F. W. Ruekstuhl, of Now York, the sculptor who designed and executed the monument to tho women of the Confederacy, wired Capt. W. E. Gon zales, secretary and treasurer of the monument commission, that the bronzes had been delayed. His mes i age, received yesterday, follows: "Capt. W. E. Gonzales, Columbia S. C.: Received cablegram Btating bronze group shipped on steamer Lapland, arriving December ll, too late for unveiling on December 14th. Darring accident, can set up group by December 18. No explanation of delay. P. W. Ruekstuhl." The -railroads "will bo asked to grant special round trip rateB to Co lumbia for the unveiling exercises. There is more catarrh in this sec tion of the country than all other diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be Incurable. Por a great many years doctors pronounced it a local disease ann prescribed local remedios, and by constantly Failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced lt incur able. Science bas proven catarrh to be a constitutional didease, and there fore requires constitutional treat ment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manu factured by F. J. Cheney & Co., To ledo, Ohio, is tho only constitutional cure on the market, lt ls taken In ternally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the Bystem. They offer ono hundred dol lars for any case lt falls to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. Address P. J. Cheney & Co,, Toledo, Ohio. Kohl hy druggists. 7 5c. Take Hall's Family Pills for con stipation. JERRY MOORE IS UNSELFISH. Gives Up Washington Trip--Hoy With Next Rest Record Takes daunt. Florence, Dec. 2.-Florence again leads the State In the matter of the production of corn on an acre by tho members of tho Boys' Corn Clubs of tho State. Again Jerry Moore ls the banner bearer of the county and the State, and Florence has tho addition al honor of having the second best as well a? the best yield. Miller Hudson, of Sardls, a Ano ag ricultural community near Tlmmons ville, ls 'the second in the list. The ilgures for their yield are not given out yet, as all reports are not made up, but are admitted by Prof. Had don, who has the matter of the corn clubs in hand. The prize for this greatest yield In the State ls a trip to Washington as a guest of the farm demonstrators. Jerry would bo glad to go again, but h? ls at School hero in Florence, and having been one year, ho ls willing to let tho next boy tako tho trip this year, and he will continue to dig Latin roots under the direction of Prof, Briggs, of tho Presbyterian High School of this city, while Miller Hudson joins the happy bunch of corn producers, tho new revolution ists In Washington. 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