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SOURCE CM5MSON*S REVENUE. Has i fa? I No Direct AM from tl io Ht?to in Sixteen Years? (S. E. Honey In NOWB and Courier.) For sixteen years tho State of ! South Carolina has not appropriated | a dollar for tho support of Clemson i College, a fact that is not generally! (known, and the mention of which affords opportunity for the publica tion of a bit of information relative to the finances of the institution founded for tho purpose of teaching scientific methods of farming. Indi rectly, of course, thc State furnishes ; a large fund for tho maintenance of! the colloge through the fertilizer tax, ! which last year yielded something like $265.000, but which this year will fall short of that amount by j about $42,000. The farmers of the State have bought much less ferti lizer this year, and Clemson College feels lt in no small measure. Hut the very general conception that the college ls supported by legislative appropriations ls erroneous; for, as stated, during the past sixteen years there has been no revenue from that source. As a matter of fact, Clemson Col lege P. almost entirely and wholly supported by the fertilizer tax. This year, from that source will come about. $225,000. From all other sources combined there will bo ll rev enue of about $<i0,000, making a total of $205,000. Tho operating expenses of the college will amount lo $240,000, leaving the sum of $25,000 for Improvement ?md en largements. lt ls stated that If tho fertilizer tax should fall to an in come of but $200,000 the college would barely be able to provide for its operation, cutting off all possi bility of extension In any of its blanches. Animal Kxpomlit ores. The expenditures of the college are about $110,000 for actual operating expenses, and $100.000 for what Is known as extension work, or the pub lic service to the farmers of tIii State. The college receives from the United States government what ls known ns the Morrill and Nelson funds, the sum of $30,000 for the South Carolina experiment station. This cannot be expended in any other manner than for experiment work among tho farmers of the State. It ls quite a significant fact that after a lapse of some years, during Which this fund was withdrawn from the agricultural colleges of the South. Clemson was the means of again se curing lt, through the failli held by Dr. Seaman A. Knapp in the work that Clemson was doing. This fund of $?50.000 ls again available, se cured through tho general education board, 'he "a crying on of instruc tion ami experiments muong tho far mers themselves. Possibly ono of thc most .signifi cant achievements of the colloge your just closing is the co-operating of efforts on tho pari of Clemson with the Federal government. Under Olio general head now are. grouped till tho various lines of what have heretofore been related, of course, bul not centralized to best advant age. There was formerly a dissipa tion of efforts and a lack of co-ope ration between the forces; now there is co-operation and combination. J'rof. J. N. Harper is tho hoad of the entire department, covering tho ex tension department, the South Caro lina experiment station and the agri cultural department of the college work. Knapp College Merger. Thus. Clemson ls endeavoring to rover the entire Held of its possibili ties, not only lo instruct the boys who are attending tho college, bul to carry Ibo work of instruction and experiment to tho farmers them selves, The Knap)) college merger or combination, as it lias boon called, is regarded here as one of the most si gu i Ilea nj achievements In tho his tory of the school, for by it the edu cational forces of kl o college and the demonstration work made possi ble by the funds of the Federal gov ernment are carried on in the mos! economical and effective manner. The tact that Clemson College is annually expending something like $ l mi.ono t?(r educational work among the farmers of tho State may be a rather startling statement. There might be some who would claim thal with sieh an outlay there Should be greater and. in fact, more apparent returns. Sui the question has boen raised "who can say just bow much has been and ls being ac complished." lt must bo recalled that this experiment demonstration work is being carried on in all sec tions of the State on over one hun dred and fifty farms, and that lb? results of this actual experience an being received here, Interpreted and tho information is being disseminat ed to every nook and corner of tlx State. Agricultural High Schools. There has been agitation of tin question of establishing agricultura high schools in various sections ol the State, to be conducted by Clem son and the expenses to be paid oui of tho funds now at Clemson's com-| maud. It was stated to-day hy offi cials of tho college that If this were done lt would Immediately cut off all tho experiment and demonstration work that ls being done among the farmers themselves and would limit the efforts of the college to giving instruction to the young men only the students. The fact that these subsidiary schools would fill a need and would open up another field ls admitted; but tho Clemson authori ties seem to regard the work for the farmers of greater Importance, since there arc not funds to carry on both. It ls pointed out that as matters now stand tho college has revenue suffi cient for no more than tho mainten ance of tho college Itself, the success ful operation of Its farm demonstra tion and experiment work, and the necessary Improvements and enlarge ments of ?ho properties now In ser vice. Clemson College is a million and a quarter dollar plant. In the lan guage of the day, that is "mme plant and somo money." lt co.ts some thing to operate it. Tho opinion of observers ls that the present admin istration ls bending every effort to so use the funds at its command to host and most effectively give in struction to the farmers' sons and to the fanners themselves. PIfty-OllO Clemson Scholarships. Clemson College will, from next session on, bestow fifty-one addi tional scholarships, good for the short course in agriculture, lu line with its endeavor to enlarge and em phasize agricultural training, the college offers now. under the Minis hill, passed hy the recent Legisla ture, to 0:10 deserving young man in j each count." and seven in Hie State j at. large, a tree course as provided I in what is known as tho short course! tu agriculture. This is designed to help the hoys who aro not able to take HU? entire college course. The committee of the board ol trustees yesterday decided lo place in the hands of some representative farm ers' organization, in most cases the Farmers' Union of the county, the recommending of such young men as they deem worthy of contesting for thc scholarships. Organizations Itecogtlixed hy Hoard. Abbeville-Farmers' Union. A ikon-Aiken Agricultural Club. Anderson-Farmers' Union. Bamberg--Farmers' Union. Barnwell, Fanners' Union. Beaufort-Director of agricultural department of Clemson. Berkeley-Farmers' Union. Calhoun-Farmers' Union. . Charleston-South Carolina Agri cultural S. defy. Cherokee-Director of agricultu ral department of Clemson. Chester-Farmers' Union. Chesterfield- Furniers' Union. Clarendon Fanners' Union. Collolon -Farmers' Inion. Darlington Farmers' Union. Dillon Farmers' I nion. Dorchester Farmers' Union, i Fdgofleltl Farmers' Union. Fairfield Farmers' Union. Florence- Farmers' Union, George to wu-Farmers' Union. ( ! reen ville -Fa tiners' Union. (?reenwood Farmers' Union, Hampton- Farmer;?' Union. I lorry-Farmers' Union. Jasper-Director of agricultural department of Clemson. Kershaw-Director of agricultural department ol' Clemson. Lancaster -Farmers' Union. Laurens ---Farmers' Union. Lee - Director of agricultural de part nient of Clemson. Lexington - Fanners' Union. Marlboro--Farmers' Union. Marlon-Fa rind's' Union. Newberry-Farmers' Union. (loonee-Farmers' Union. Orangeburg- Farmers' Union. Bickens Farmers' Union. Richland -Farmers' Union. Saluda- Farmers' Union. Spartanburg--Director of agricul tural department of Clemson. Un'on Farmers' Union. Williamsburg Farmers' linton. Yolk -Director of agricultural de partment of Clemson. For Stat?' at Large. The trustees designated ihe State . Farmers' I nion as the association to \ make recommendations as to thc 'State al large scholarships with thc request that the officers of tho State Agricultural and Mechanical Society of South Carolina bc consulted in making up the recommendations. When Buying, Buy Only the Rest. ! li costs no more, hut gives tho ? best results. i ll. L. Blonqulst. Esdaile. Wis., says Iiis wife Considers Foley's Hon ey and Tar Compound the best cough cure on tho market. "She has tried various kinds, but Foley's gives thc best results of all." J. W. Bell,Wal ? halla, S. C. Child Killed in a Mill. j Lumboilon, x. c., Juno 13. i Charles Loughton, a IO year-old sot of an operative, was instantly killoe I when his head was torn from hit I body by n revolving shaft. The boj ; threw a rope, which was fnstonei .around his neck, over the shaft it j tho Dresden cotton mill and was de ' capitated liefere assistance coule reach him. TO SUBPOENA MAYOR GRACE ? ? Dispensary Probers Wish to Hear His ? dirait Charges. (News and Courier Special.) Spartanburg, June 12. - That .Mayor John P. Grace, of Charleston, will be subpoenaed before the dis pensary Investigating committee to testify as to the charges he is al leged to bave made with referenco to tracing graft from the Charleston j blind tiger situation up to Governor Blease is what ls learned in Spartan- j burg. It is also the plan to sum mons H. H. Stothart, chief of the constabulary at Charleston, to testify as to thc same alleged charges. The long and short of the matter is that it has been published in a newspaper in Charleston that "graft" j has been going to Columbia, and the same paper published a statement ? from Mayor Grace to tho effect that he had traced the "graft" direct to the Governor. This publication and charge excited the whole State, and that Mayor Grace ls to be summoned j before tho dispensary committee to air his charges ls certain. Senator Carlisle, the chairman of the com mittee, stated this morning that the I committee would bo called together ! early next week, probably on Tues- j day, In Columbia, to resume their In-, vestigatlon8. The next sessions of the commit tee may be productive of sensations. ; lt is certain thal Thos. B. Felder, of Atlanta, Will bc heard by the com mittee shortly and he ls expected to give some sensational testimony. His enmity to Governor Blease and his, charges against him made a sensa- j Hon throughout the State, and if ho j coiner before thc committee some In teresting testimony is promised. No : announcement along this lino has ? been obtained officially, but this cor- j respondent after a careful Investiga- | Hon in several sections and from j several quarters believes lt a safe j prediction to make that T. B. Fol- j dor will como before the committee | and testify. "Huh" IDvnilS, of Newberry, and Senator W. J. Johnston, of Fairfield, will also be summoned again, li is | more than likely, and It seems that the "bottom" of the matter ls about j to be reached. Some definite an nouncement as to the. committee's plans will be made at the meeting early next week, Tuesday being the day when ocotod te fis-j semble In t Grace 1 Chariest to-day abo... Ll - ; vice of a subpoena upon him to tes tify about graft conditions in Char leston county in the enforcement of the dispensary law, Mayor Crace slated that lie had not yet received the subpoena to appear before the dispensary investigating committee, hut that he would willingly accept service and is ready to toll what, be knows, when h 's called upon. "I wrote the editorial in Common Sense regarding the graft conditions in Charleston." said Mayor Crace, and 1 h.ave no desire to avoid the re sponsibility for anything I have said. I ant ready to sustain everything that 1 wrote. "if 1 am subpoenaed l will tell the grounds on which the article was based, and 1 am sure that those who hoar the statement will agree with me In the conclusions which I have roached. 1 can provo that graft ex ists in Charleston and I will say, as I have stated on several previous oc casions that 1 can trace the graft to tho Governor's ellice at Columbia." "Coward and a filar." Columbi.., June 14.-Governor Blease stated, when asked what be thought of the chrageg made by Mayor Grace, of Charleston, that graft had come to tho Governor's of fne, and draco's willingness to "provo" this to the investigating committee, replied that any man who said that ho (Please) had received graft from Charleston blind tigers was a "coward and a liar." Helped to Keep Down Ivvpensos Mrs. J. R. Henry, Akron, M*1" tells how : he did so: "I was erod with my kidneys and har*0 K? neatly double. 1 tried a so,.>,? of Foley Kidney Pills, and the ma j so much good that l boil gi?! ,ho,t,<?- | I feel that they saved rn/4 b,? (,oe tor's bill." Hani on Hrotber liarles, Cincinnati, chlo. ,,u> ?3.-Presi den! Taft's camp-*" ,n tho ?hlo primaries cost h?bother, Charles ,?. Tftft( botweor*60'000 an<1 *fi0-- , uno. That is v" Charles Taft put up for his biv'er'8 0n,? campaign, according to Bt"*c'?0?l Hied by L, C. Lnylln, "t<s ol,io mi,n:w [n 'nlj *. .17:!.its was spent on ' Taft in Ch l^y"0'8 report shows1 Chas. P' alt VV!,S lar?oa' con-j tributo ?nf r a ronorl was 8onl ol|f ' of y York that Charles P. Taft ; wo?' "i)f ,):,(k llis orothor, Unan-1 ci' . 'oust i pa Hon causes beac' gestion, dizziness, drowsi 1 mild, opening medicine, m liegiilets. 25c. a box at all NOT GUII/rY IN HAWKINS CASK. Decision Head in Court tVedtoesOay. Defendants Embrace Jury. Henderson vi I le, Juno 12.-The verdict of not gullly as to the seven defendants tried for the killing of Myrtle Hawkins, whose body was found in Lake Osceola on September 10, 1910, was greeted this morn lng at 11.26 o'clock with a wild demon stration by a crowded court room when the prisoners and some of their friends shouted with joy and leaped to the twelve farmer jurors, whom they kissed and embraced in the moment of extreme tenseness. The defendants, Dan W. McCall and daughter, Mrs. Beatrice McCall, and her husband, Abner McCall, Geo. Bradley and Boney Bradley, and Mesdames Lizzie Shaft and Nora Britt, were found not guilty under the four counts in thc bill of Indict ment, thus leaving the oft-repeated ouest ion. "Who killed Myrtle Haw kins?" unanswered, and the whole mystery intensified. The jury took tho case yesterday afternoon at 7.20 o'clock. They immediately retired from the court room for supper and retired early at night. Shortly after ?) o'clock this morning lt was announced that the jury had reached a verdict, but in the absence of Judge Foushee and the solicitor the verdict was not taken until after 11 o'clock. The court hell was rung to announce that the jury was ready to return the anxiously awaited verdict of one of the most interesting trials of the time. The court room was packed and jammed with women and men (Inti they might hear the decision, which was reached with but little de liberation. Tile decision was in ac cordance with the majority of pre dictions In this case. Slays Wife, Wounds Son, Kills Self. Waycross, Ga., June 12.-Tiring of the continued ill health of his wife, and after repeated threats of death for her and the 22-year old son. Bert Mercer, a well-known far mer living southeast of Hoboken. In Pierce county, 15 miles from Way cross, this morning shot ano instant ly killed his wife, mor lally wounded the son and then committed suicide. Mercer used a 32-calibre pistol, which he emptied, shooting the last bullet to blow out his brains. j he mar*1, u and . . to took u1a< e hi 'i!r' front y ti rd ol Mercer's honied wh?td M?' ..<.!. had chitin d n?a wi.fe f\ivd . ot i?wor- lu u. * ih& va-al shots? Tho I. rt g ed y was uri Oiov ti nfl i passing farmer saw tho bodies stretched out In the yard, each lying In a pool of blood. The boy was shot in the hade, between the shoul ders, and from tho position of bis body when found, was evidently try ing to escape the maddened father. His recovery is not expected, and the j last report from the scene of the ! tragedy to-night indicated thal hr ? would hardly survive the night. Mercer was 50 years of age, md I bad been subject to periods of ln I sanity, during which he made t"'eats that to-day ho carried into extention. They Put an Fud to-L Charles Sable, 30 Cook?'-. Roch ester, N. Y., says he ^commends Foley Kidney Pills at every oppor tunity because they g?e him prompt relief from a bad ^'ilKe of kidney trouble that had Ir'K bothered him. Such recommend?1011 . coming from Mr. Sable, ls di-'ot a?d convincing evidence of the/reat curative quali ties of Poley pd ney Pills. .T.W. Bell, Walhalla, S. c Trio" to KIH Daughter. Wasb*Ston, Pa., June ii. -with but a 'w hon rs to 'ive. Jan Bibarik, condf'n0(l to die on the gallows this ,norng. tried to strangle his dnugh (0,..vhon she appeared at his cell to IP him good-bye, Antonin Bibarik as a witness against her father and lor testimony was damaging to bis case. Bibarik had threatened to kill her before he was hanged, bul a week ago apparently became reconciled to her. This morning she called to see her fat lier, and as she stepped forward to kiss him he grasped her by the !h roa' with both hands and was strangling her when guards bool him Into unconsciousness with an iron bar. Later he was led to the gallows and hanged, without expres sion of regret for his crimes or his assault upon his daughter. Bibarik was executed for thc mur der of Mr. and Mrs. Norvak and Stephen Stnnxojia, a hoarder, during a quarrel caused by the Novaks shel tering Antonia Bibarik when her fa ther turned her out of b?H home. Mrs. Lida Love, wife of Wiley Love, a farmer living near Covena. Ga., nays: "I have taken Folov Kid ney Pills ami lind them lo be all von claim for them. They gave mo al were sluggish and inactive. I can most instant relief when my kidneys cheerfully recommend them to all sufferers from kidney troubles." J W. Bell. Walhalla, S. C. For tho first time in history por* raits of the Czars of Busala are to IC placed on the postage stamps of hat country. This is tho time to side-dress your cotton. Gimiera will tell you that thirteen hundred pounds of seed cot ton that has been side-dressed will turn off as heavy a balo of cotton as fifteen hundred pounds of seed cot ton that has not been side-dressed. Two hundred pounds of 4-10-2 ap plied to an acre of cotton as a side dresser will Increase the yield at least three hundred pounds, of. seed cotton' to the acre. als three' hundred pounds of seed cotton, the way you farmers have improved your cotton, will turn off about one hundred and twenty-live pounds of lint. This ono . hundred and twenty-live pounds of lint at twelve cents a pound will bring you $15-at ten cents a pound lt will bring you ,$ 1 2.50, and the two hundred pounds of 4-10-2 will cost you $4.20, and two hundred pounds of 4-7-2 will cost you $3.40. The difference in these figures represents the extra profits which yon will make on an acre of cotton by side-dressing. Besides the satisfaction of having a fine cotton crop, lt helps a man's feelings, and helps his standing in the community, and helps his credit to have a fine cotton crop. The time bas passed in this country when a man can maintain his respectability and rnlse "bumble bee cotton." The fertilizer you u^e in side dressing pays you better than any fertilizer you use. It prevents tho cotton's shedding. The reason cotton sheds is because it has not sufficient plant, food. There is only a small fraction of an ounce of plant food gets to each cotton plant when you fertilize in the spring, and of this ? he rains wash away some, the grass gets some, and there is a very little Fl'Mi SUPPLY OF THESE GOODS I NEE C MOSS .v ANSEL, AGEN'J Anderson and Oil ( D. S. VANDIVEH, Secretary. WINTHROP KOON GET $00,000. Peabody Fund of $1,280,000 i's Now Doing Distributed. ( (? reen ville Piedmont.) Ex-Governor Martin F. Ansel, a trustee of the Peabody Education Hoard, bas received a warrant for $40,000, made payable to the Unl cersity of North Carolina. Governor Ansel affixed his name to the war rant and sent it to Ex-Governor Hoke Smith, of Georgia, a trustee of the board, for his signature. Gover nor Smith will t ad the warrant to J. Pierpont Morgan, who is treasu rer of tho Peabody Fund, and the money will he paid to the University of North Carolina. Several days ago Ex-Governor Ansel affixed his name to a warrant for $50.000, made pay able to the University ot Alabama. Winthrop (jets $00,000. Governor Ansel is expecting a warrant of $00,000, drawn in favor Of Winthrop College, to arrive any day for his signature. Tho Peabody trustees have always been groat friends to Winthrop and she has come in for several gifts from them. Twelve thousand dollars was given them several years ago to help build ibo Johnson building, and $5,000 at another time. Tho Peabody Hoard has given $5,000 to tho University of South Carolina to found the Peabody schol arship. This amount will In avail able in a short time. . - Democratic Economy. Washington, June 8.-Senator Overman, who represents the minor ity members of (bo Senate commit tee on appropriations on the floor of tho S?mate on the l?gislative hill now being considered, In a speech to-day showed that tho bill ls $1,14 0.272 loss than tho estimate of the depart ment and $1,610,315..15 loss than tho bill of last year. This money ls saved to the people by the Demo crats, Mr. Overman stated. left for the cotton plant. Now, when your cotton plant be gins to fruit, there ls an added strain on the plant, and just at the time the strain is greatest on the cot ton plant the supply of the plant food has diminished and ls growing less. The result ls tho cotton sheds Its fruit. People who do not side-dress their cotton lose from one-fourth to one-third-, of their crop every year by shedding. The farmers of Anderson county side-dressed more last year than they ever did. You do not put enough corn and fodder in your stalls for your mules on Monday morning to last until Saturday night, and you would not think of putting enough corn and fodder in your stalls for your mules lu April to last until No vember, but yet that ls what you are doing with cotton. You are trying to give it enough plant food in April to last until November. This plan will work in making cotton, after a fashion, but you will not. get the crops and you will not get the clear money that you will get if you side dress. If you put your stock under a heavy strain you Increase their feed. Now, when your cotton is un der an Increased strahl hy reason of Its fruiting it will pay you handsome ly to give it additional plant food. Do not confuse this side-dresser of ours with other side-dressing fertili wr where tho ammonia ls derived solely from nitrate of soda. This side-di-esser of ours has soda to act quickly and blood, tankage, cotton seed meal and fish to carry on the work which tho soda commences, and is infinitely bettor for the crop. Apply as ?'arly as you |K>SSibly can. ?EPT BY OUR AGENTS IN OCO ?OUNTY, \S, WALHALLA, S. C. Phosphate Company. J. R. VANDIVEH, President. AllllEYILLE CONVICTS ESCAPE. Five of Them Were Chained To get her and to a Stake. (Abbeville Press and Banner.) Five convicts, Dem Savage, Hor ton Puller, John Madden, Charlie Wright, and John Teague, escaped from their camp Friday night, near Due West. The convicts wero In charge of John Wardlaw. Lem Sav age and Horton Fuller have since surrendered and the sheriff and rural policemen are hunting for the oth ers. All the convicts were chained to gether and the chain fastened to a stake, which was driven Into the ground. The stake was pulled np, and the convicts carried off two axes with them with which they cut tho chains loose. There is no night guard on duty and Mr. Wardlaw. In charge of the gang, was sleeping near by and knew nothing of the es cape until daylight. The convicts had been gone too long for the dogs to track them, and they could not. bo used to any advantage. Turkey Trot Fatal, Atlantic City, N. J., June 12. Mrs. Agnes E. Day, 2 1 years old, is (brad at her home boro as Ibo result of ber desire to master the turkey trot. Friends who heard el* her sud den death early this morning learn ed to-day that she had been practic ing the dance with her husband last night, prior to going to one of the piers to witness experts do the trot. She was seized with a sudden pain in her side and Stopped the strenu ous hop. Ten minutes later, when she, with her husband, started from tho house, the young woman ??ll to the floor unconscious. Before phy sicians had arrived she was dead. Examination showed that she had burst u blood vessel in her side.