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KEOWEE COU?tlEK (ESTABLISHED 1840.) Published Every Wednesday Morulnfl Subscription $1 Per Annum. Advertising Rates Reasonable STECK, SHELOR ? SCHRODER. Communications of n personal char acter charged for as advertise ments. Obituary notices and tributes of re spect, of not over one hundred words, will be printed free of charge. All over that number must be paid for at the rato of one cent a word. Cash to accompany manuscript. WALHALLA, 8. C.: WEDNESDAY, NOV. 20, 1012. SOI IN CAROLINA CONFERENCE. Next Session Will llcgill nt Anderson November 27tli. (Anderson Mall.) The eyes of South Carolina Metho dists In particular, and the members of other denominations In general, will be turned toward Anderson the latter part of the present month, lie cause the conference, tho governing body of the church in the State, will begin here its annual sessions on the night of the 27th. Anderson Metho dists and their friends have made ar rangements to throw open their doors of hospitality to the delegates, and each and every one will be made to feel at home. The pleasant social Intercourse among friends in church work is ono of tho attractive fea tures of tho Methodist Conference In South Carolina. The ministers min gle together and discuss informally church affairs that are of common In terest. Distinguished Rishops. Bishop John C. Kllgo will preside. Many distinguished bishops and edu cators attend the conferences, and their able addresses and sermons pro vide instruction and information for the ministers and tho delegates. Under the rules of the Methodist Conference a minister must change his charge, or church, evory four years, and consequently at the annual conferences there is a general move ment among "the pastors. Some aro sent from smaller churches to larger churches, while others are sent from larger churches to others of less prominence. The changes among the pastors are followed with interest by the ministers themselves and their friends and friends of their families. Educational Matters. Educational matters and Improve ments in the various denominational colleges in tho State also lend addi tional interest to conference proceed ings, especially among those who are directly concerned with the manage ment of the Institutions. Columbia College ls the Methodist college maintained by the conference for girls, while Wofford (at S pa rta abu rg) is the male institution. Friends of these two institutions will watch with interest action on matters that are related to improvements in the educational facilities of tho denomi nation. lOpworth Orphanage, another church institution, is located in Co I limbla. Kl Rilled in Rad Wreck. Indianapolis. Ind., Nov. 14.-At least Hf teen persons were killed and II ft cen hurt early to-day when an in bound Cincinnati. Hamilton and Day ton passenger tram ran Into an open switch and. crashed head-on into a freight train at Irvington, a suburb. Thc train was coming from Cincinna ti at the rate of 40 miles au hour. The wreckage caught lire, but was extinguished before any damage was done. Most of the dead were lound in the wreckage of the fl rat car. The engineer of the passenger train is be licved to bo In tho wreck, but tho engliieor of tho freight escaped by jumping. Firemen and police worked at the wreck two hours before the first body was found. Holes wore chopped in thc tops of the ears and the injured supplied with water, for which (hey '.ried pitifully. Brakeman Admits Blame. Carl dross, brakeman on the freight train, admitted this after noon thal ho had loft the switch open. "1 am to blame." he says. Would (Jet V?t?rans' Advice, Washington. Nov. 13. A plan to admit former Presidents, former Vice PreJdonts and former Speakers of the Hons-' of Representatives to the Moors of tho two Houses of Con guess, with tho privilege; of debate, but not of voting upon pending mea sures, was broached here to-day by W. J, Biyan. Mr. Bryan's statement wa? coupled with a declaration that he favored a change In tho time of convening Con gress, so that tho new sessions would begin shortly after new members took offlco March 4, ^i^4.^..H?i..??i??i"y"i"i"iM!"i"H' I ?ICUQSV f ? OF EXPERIMENT STATION A RULLETINS. ?Propared Weekly for THE KEOWEE COURIER Dy J. Linn Ladd. ?f?>|??|??|? ????'* v*?* v .J??J<*|??J??J? fy ?*< Most EconOnillcnl Cuts of Reef. Dullctin No. 158 of the Illinois sta llon ls of absorbing Interest to tho millions of people who would rechice the family meat bill without stinting the quantity of nourishment provided for the sustenance of the family. In order to enlighten tho producers of beef cattle oil the one hand as to the period of maturity at which a boef steer ls at Its best and tho beef consuming public on tho other hand as to-an intelligent understanding of tho relativo economy of thc different cuts of beef offered by tho butcher, three steers wore slaughtered, dress ed, cut Ul . and tho various portions -hide, offal, internal fat, head, feet, liver, heart, otc, etc., as wr'i as each kind of merchantable h -.t were carefully weighed. Then each cut of meat was separated Into lean, fat and bone, and these constituent portions were weighed and chemi cally analyzed to determine the pro portion of water, digestible protein, etc., in eaeh. No. 1 was a choice Hereford steer, 18 months old, and weighing 902 pounds. No. 2 was a choice Aber deen-Angus steer, 2 4 months old, and weighing 1,100 pounds. No. 3 was a prime Shorthorn steer, 29 months old, and weighing 1,360 pounds-live weight In each case. No. 1 turned out of chilled dressed beef GO.36 per cent of his live weight; No. 2 60.88 percent, and No. 3 63.97 per cent. The quantity of internal fat was 5.15 per cent of tho live weight for No. 1, 5.97 for No. 2, and 4.71 for No. 3. The hide was 7.48 per cent of tho live weight In No. 1, 6.51 of No. 2 and 6.43 of No. 3. In like manner, No. 1 was charged with tho largest percentage of head, feet and other offal, and No. 3 with the smallest. From this data lt ls evident that the more mature the animal, and the better finished, the larger i>ercentage of merchantable a,oat lt turns out. While steer No. 3 was the fattest of the lot. Its fat was distributed bo tweon the muscles, whero lt Improved the quality of the meat and brought a high price, rather than In the hol low of the carcass, whore lt could only bo converted, into tallow and sold for a low price. It was found that the hind quarters contained the larger per cent of fat and smaller per cont of bone; while the fore quarters contained tho larg est per cent of lean meat. Tho lean meat ls richer than tho fat In mine ral matter and also in protein-the most valuable and nutritious element of moat. In tho matter of economy the flank ranks first, since it contains no bone and sells at a low price. The neck and chuck steak stand next in econo my, since their nutritive value ls very high In proportion to their cost. Round steaks stand third for tho same reason. Loin and porter house steaks aro moro tender and palatable; but their food value is much less In proportion to their cost A skilful cook can render tho cheaper cuts quite as tender and palatable as the more expensive cuts, particularly in tho form of roasts and stows. This bulletin is elaborately illus trated with photographs of the vari ous cuts of moats. Inserts Injurions to Stored Grains This is tho title of another new bulletin (No. 156) of the Illinois sta lion. Of moro than fifty species of In sects sometimes found In stored grain and their ground products, OP'V sev enteen are grain-eaters, and of those only nine are ol* much importance; namely, grain moth, Hour moth, meal moth, meat snout-mouth, yellow meal worm, flour beetle, granary weevil, rice weevil and tito saw-tooth grain weevil. The bulletin gives the description, habits and lifo history of each of these insects,'and recommends the following preventive and destructive measu res: Crain should be threshed and dried out as soon as possible after lt ripens. All sacks and storage bins should be cleaned out and fumigated before placing new-crop grain lo them. Corn ls loss liable to insect attack if dried, shelled and sacked. Flour and meal bins should be cleaned out and fumi gated occasionally. In buying grain, farmers, seedsmen and millers should make sure that lt ls not infested by Insects beforo storing lt. if In sp I to of those precautions a crib, grain bin or storage room be comes infested, make lt as nearly air tight as posslblo and glvo lt a thor ough fumigating with sulfld blcarbon. Hydrocyanic acid gas Is sometimes used; but lt is moro dagnorous and less penetrating than the sulfld bl carbon. riant Food nod Soil Fertility. This ls thc subjoct of an address delivered before the Botanical Society af America by Cyril G. Hopkins, of the Illinois station. It ls issued as Circular No. 165 of that station. Prof. Hopkins states that a recent publication issued by tho F?deral Bu reau of Soils strongly affirms that tho restoration and maintenance of soil fertility do not require tho applica tion of plant food-that those foods exist in abundance in all soils and subsoils and In tho air above them, and they only need to bo unlocked and brought up from below or down from above by proper tillage and crop rotation to render them availa ble. The tillage aerates tho lower soils and rendors their phosphorous ind potash soluble, and the deep rooted legumes take up theso mine rals from tho lower soils and by means of bacteria In tho nodules or their roots also store up nitrogen from the air, and when theso roots ind stubble decay they leavo their gathered stores of plant food in the ;op soil for tho uso of subs?quent :rops. Prof. . Hopkins does not question hat tilts Is beneficial; but he denies .hat it. is sufficient. Ho quotes De iaussure, Senebler, Davy, Loibing and he long-continued experiments of Jaws and Gilbert at Rothanstead, england, In contravention of Prof. Whitney's doctrine. He shows that tiniest a century of the .practice of .estoring to the soil. In the form of ertlll/.ers, tho plant food removed by he crops grown, has resulted In pro lucing an average of 2 9 bushels of vheat per acre In Germany, 33 bush ds In Great Britain and 4 0 bushols n Denmark, while tho average In the Jnited States, whore no plant food ls estored to the depleted soil, is only .4 bushels per acre. Prof. Hopkins says this fat^l policy ?f steadily drawing from .the soil's tore of plant food and depositing lone In its stead has led to the aban lonment of millions of acres of one? ertilo farming laads In the North astern States of our country; ant hat one of these impoverished farms vlthln a few miles of such great mar ;ots as Baltimore, Philadelphia anc Washington recently sold for $10 ar tere; whereas. If this farm had no lad Its virgin fertility mined out o ho land lt would have sold for $301 m acre. In this connection, Prof. Hopkin uakes the lollowlng most Impressive internent as to the certain and stead; 'Uture increase In land values: "Dur ng the last ten years our populado: ncreased 21 per cent, the same a luring the preceding ten years; whll .he acreage of farm land -'increase inly 5 per cent, and Circular No. 3 if the United States Department c Agriculture shows that only 9 pc :ent further increase In farm land s possible," since that will exhaut be entire tillable acreage In tb lountry. 'rop Rotation-Humus-Plain: Foo? Bulletin 128 of the Minnesota st! ion, by Prof. Geo. W. Walker,'treal if tho relation of different systems < irop rotation to humus and associa id plant food. Tho bulletin is high echnical, giving much space to tl nethods of determining the amoui >f humus (decayed vegetable mattel ii a soil, and also to the ascertai neut of thc amount of plant food be humus. While humus ls chiefly valued f< he physical virtues it imparts to so 'enderlng lt loose, friable, warm, ea ly tilled and retentive of moistui t ls shown by this bulletin to be al 'Ich in plant food. Constant ele? mittlre of such crops as beets, cotto .oin, etc., rapidly depletes the soil ts humus ; while the growing of 1 junctions (pod-bearing) crops lin ng a heavy root system, such as c( >eas. clover, etc., augments the sn dy of hu mus. dence the ad vanta if crop rotation, the growing of cat ?rops, winier cover crops and t ?lowing under of green crops, wee< ?tubble, etc. Tho tests treated ot' in this bul in showed that of thc three cardil dant foods, humus is richer in nit: ;en than either phosphoric acid ?otash. Wheat was the only ci grown In crop rotation that appro tbly exhausted the phosphoric ai ind potash of thc soil humus, a .ontlnuous cropping of one kind . musted all tho elements much mt rapidly than whon crops were gro n rotatlon, Peaty Swamp Lands. Mullet in 1 r>7 of the Illinois stat reats of experiments made wltli dew to improving the peaty soils edeemed swamp lands wh ibound In Northern Illinois. Po ;oils are usually so rich In hun hat the application of stable man o them ls wasteful. They do iced nitrogen as a rule. lt. I ou nd that most of thom are ti ibundautly supplied with phospol icld; hut the application of pot vas noticeably beneficial. In ono dance, In Tazowell county, lt. ' ilso found that applications of nil jon Increased tho value of the cr or six successive years from $r>P> i.ere to $129 an acre, all told. Limo may he applied to peaty s vlth decided profit. ty? OUR CIVIC TRIALS. ^f. 'I?*!"!?*!**!* (Edith Dickson, In Tho Ainorican Magazine.) Wo havo a country town which within a fow years has hoon taking on tho airs of a. city. That ls, we have industriously torn up our streets and put in sower pipes and I water pipes, and torn thom up again and laid pavements, and then torn up tho pavements to lay pipes for a central heating plant, and are now constantly making upheavals of pavements and six feot of earth be low to stop leaks, clean pipes, and examine into the condition of our subterranean affairs. Naturally extensive work of this sort must have supervision and direc tion, and (tuite as a matter of course there has been a clash between us who are served and our dictators, misnamed our servants. Our town officials have been men of integrity and ability, having the welfare of tho community at heart. Hut when man has the charge of a public Im provement, bis own particular work becomes of moro importance In his eyes than any other popular Interest. Hence, the laying of pavements and Improving of streets have been ac comnpnied by an amount of devasta tion and interference which property owners which has called forth rage, lamentation and bad language. Beginning on one of our oldest streets whose chief beauty was In the fino old shade trees with which lt was bordered, the arbiter of our ways decided that before laying a new pavement tho street must be straight ened. It was not crooked to the eye, but a survey revealed the fact thal the sidewalks laid In careless old days had been allowed to meandei comfortably down tho street instead of following a mathematical line throughout its length. This repre henslble habit had rendered the space between the sidewalk and the curb o aligthly varying width In difforen places. Such shiftless courses mo with no tolerance and the street wa: rigorously straightened; in whicl process the trees were cut down leaving the old fashioned houses pa thetic in their exposure. The stree now flaunts In the glory of a re< brick pavement, flanked with euri stones set with rigid exactness hm with a line of young trees like beai poles planted with precision on eac side. In the course of fifty years Ut shade may bo restored, but this J small consolation to the present gen oration. Similar trials have been in stor for all of us. On the street by whlc I commonly go to town the attemi to set sidewalks back five or six foe cutting off the front yards of th residents and making the usual have with trees and shrubbery met wit resistance A suit, at length droppe for lack of funds with which to cart it on, was brought against the tow hy property owners, most of whoi wero women. While It was In pr< gross operations In that quarter wei suspended, and for a year or two tl sidewalks furnished conspicuous ev dence of the attitudes >f the differei families concerned, the walks of tl supporters of the administration b lng set In several feet, while win you passed from these to the prom ses of a non-conformist, you foin his walk six feet nearer the midd of the street. So your progress that part of town was made hy a sn cession ol' zigzags, which when vie ed from a distance would place yo sobriety under strong suspicion, My own particular grievance gre out of the theory that all sidewal must be brought down to a level. ? landlord some years ago laid a fl new stone sidewalk in front of t premises he rents to me, from whl the water ran off quickly, leaving clean and dry soon after a storm. / ter a year or two tho Btreet comm sioner decided that our walk was t high and must he brought down grade. Consequently, lt was tak up and laid several inches lowi bringing it well below the surface tho surrounding soil. Ever since, long as any moisture remains In t ground, our walk is always wot a covered with mud washed down fn the surface above. This COndltl prevails generally in our best re dence streets. Strangers visiting say, "How bad your walks are!" I we really have good walks. The 01 trouble is that they are laid lint g rou ntl. The trees of course Buffered In t lowering of tho grade of sido wal Tlie roots wore lopped off, and oft' as in the case of a maple before door, thc trunks of trees were cltl cut Into or shaved off on one side make room for laying tho adjaci sidewalk snugly below ground, ll not particularly surprising, therofo that tho maple and many of Its cc panions have dead branches t show every Indication of being ab< to succumb. A new municipal administr?t cannot restore the treos rulnod its predecessors, but there is h< that somo of our grievances may remedied in time. My friend, the councilman, recently stopped before my door on a rainy day nnd said, "Why, your walk ls too low. It must be raised." So In respect to our sidewalks wo may soon come to the surface again. Tho experience of this community is, of course, by no means unique. All towns complain of lils of some sort at tho hands of their municipal government, and lt ls a question whe ther it is worse to endure the evils of a corrupt administration or to suffer from the mistaken zeal of honest men. Thanksgiving and tho Orphans. In view of the fact that Thanksgiv I lng Day, or the Sunday following, is tho only church collection recom mended by the Synods of South Caro lina, Georgia and Florida to be taken j up for their orphans, the following I Items In regard to Thorn well Orphan ? ago, which lu owned by the three synods aforesaid, may be of Interest to the readers of The Courier: Tho Tho rn well Homo and School for Orphans was founded in 1875, opening its doors to eight fatherless children. It had one small cottage. This one building has Increased to j sixteen (two shortly to be completed) I and each cottage will give a homo to twenty pupils, more or less. In 1885 the school was so graded as to cover furteen years, and In 1802 a techni cal department was added, so that tho boys might be taught some use ful trade. Up to that date farming was the only business taught. This education Is given entirely free to de serving orphans of any denomination and from any part of our country. Near a thousand youths have been under its influence and enjoyed Its training. The provision/for tho sup port, education and other expenses of those children (205 now with us) is derived from personal donations of interested persons, or from church and Sunday school collections. Thc Thornwell Orphanage is locat ed in Clinton, South Carolina, at the crossing of the Seaboard Air Lino and Atlantic Coast Line railways. lt. is under Presbyterian influence and control, but does not refuse aid to any on account of religious differ ences. No surrender of children to its guardianship ls required of rela tives. Pupils may leave at their own chotee if they do not. wish to re main. Children are not given out to service. Tho only business of thc institution is to teach and train them. The orphans' interest is the first con sideration. The presiding head of the orphanage ls Rev. Wm. P. Jacobs, who receives gifts for the support and applications for the admission of pupils. Georgia Concern llnnkmpt. (Atlanta Georgian, Nov. 14.) Ono of the biggest morcan tile en terprises in Georgia, conducting a chain of stores over many of tho North Georgia counties, was placed in involuntary bankruptcy In tho Uni ted States Court this morning when petition for a receiver was filed for Carr, lloyd & Co. The company's liabilities, as stated In the politl?n, amount, to $200,000, whllo tho assets aro but half that amount. It. T. Koni mer and tho First National Rank of Gainesville were thc petitioners. Carr, Royd & Co. aro lmmonso dealers in supplies of all kinds for tho farmers of North Georgia, and thousands of small planters each year buy all their goods from the chain of stores spreading over fifteen North Georgia counties. Tho company is said to Include among its stockhold ers many of tho most prominent men of that section of tho State. 'riends has a friend There are now *cd and sixty thou ice-and thousands ? friends have creat ecedentcd Ford de J-mid every Ford user New prices-run-about o-delivery car $625 all equipment, f. o. b. irs from r R. C. Carter. FINDS WIFE AT STATION. Heartbroken H us!mud Didn't Know Site Was Away from Home. New York, Nov. 14.-An automo bile containing four men and a wo man tumbled backv,. . iver a 150 foot precipice at tbe edge of High land Boulevard In Brooklyn just be fore midnight last night, killing the woman, Mrs. Andrew Reid, and seri ously injuring two of tho men. The men, who declined to give their names, explained that the chauffeur had lost control of his car while at tempting to turu lt around In the narrow roadway. Mrs. Reid was the wife of a Brook lyn manufacturer. Her husband found her body lying in a suburban police station shortly after midnight. He declared that he knew nothing about the ride and was unacquainted with the uninjured men who are held on the charge of homicide. After making Misstatement to the police, Reid collapsed. Tho two uninjured malo passen gers In the wrecked machine took to their heels after the accident and es caped. Mrs. Reid's jewelry, valued U $G,000, was found In tho pockets of one of the Injured mon. Plnkham Remedies recommended ami sold by Norman's drug store, nd. Socialists Gained 100 Per Cent. According to tabulations made by Socialist leaders in New York the Socialist vote in last Tuesday's elec tion showed an increase of more than 100 per cent over the vote in tho last Presidential election. The In crease ls not confined to any particu lar State or section, biu ls general throughout the country. Thc party leaders maintain that, their total would have been much larger but for the Progressive movement which, they declare, attracted many votes from the Socialist ranks. WIFE'S HEALTH RESTORED Husband Declared Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Would Re store Her Health? And It Did. Ashland, Ky.- "Four years ago I seemed to have everything the matter with me. I had fe male and kidneytrou ble and was so bad off I could hardly rest day or night. I doc tored with all the best, doctors in town and took many kinds of medicine but noth ing did any good un til I tried your won derful remedy, Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege table Compound. My husband said it would restoro my health and it has." Mrs. MAY WYATT, Ashland, Ky. Thoro are probably hundreds of thou sands of women in tho United States who have been bonefittcd hy this famous old remedy, which was produced from roots and herbs over thirty years ago by a woman to relievo woman's suffering. Head What Another Woman says: Camden, N. J. -"I had female trou ble and a serious displacement and wua tired and discouraged and unable to do my work. My doctors told mo I never could be cured without an operation, but thanks to Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound I am cured of that affliction and have recommended it to moro than one of my friends with the best results. " -Mrs. ELLA JOHNSTON, 824 Vino St If you want special advice write to Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. (confi dential) Lynn, Mass. Your letter will bc oponed, read and answered by t* woman and bold lu strict confidence.