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WALHALLA, S. C.:
WKDNIOSDAY, DEC. ll, ??>12.
REVISION Ul? TO DEM.0CKAT8.
|<'urthei' Recommendations by Presi
dent Useless, Writes Taft.
Washington. Dec. t>.- President
Taft will make no further effort to
have Congress reduce the tariff, in
a "general*' message to ('engross,
submitted to-day, tho President
dearly Indicated his intention of
leaving further tariff revision to .Mr.
Wilson and the Congress just elected.
Now that a now Congress has
been elected on a platform of tariff
for revenue only rather than a pro
tective tariff, and is to revise the
tariff on that basis," said tho Presi
dent, "it is needless for mo to oc
cupy the time of Congress with ar
guments or recommendations In fa
vor of a protective tariff."
This message, the second submit
ted by tho President since the pres
ent session began, will bo bis last
of a general character, lt deals with
every department of the government
except tho State department, recom
mended much of the legislation
which Mr. Taft previously had urged
upon the attention of Congress and
took up and discussed at length sev
eral subjects comparatively new.
Mr. Taft came out strongly against
independence for the Philippines,
proposed, he said, in a bill now be
fore Congress. Ho deprecated the
new policy of one battleship a year
Instead of two. and endorsed again
the scheme of currency reform pro
posed by the national monetary com
mission.
Conservation was lightly touched,
tin? President recommending the
amendment of bills now before Con
gress so that, water power compa
nies which dam navigablo rivers
will contribute to tho improvement
of these streams.
He declared that no radical change
In the Sherman anti-trust law was
needed and praised the Supreme
('oort for its recently announced
changes in rules of equity procedure.
Should Reward Goethals.
The Panama ('anal was dismissed
In a few words, the President proph
esying its opening in the latter half
of 191.1. no too) occasion, how
ever, to declare Ilia \ g ress should
reward the work of Ci . (Joethals by
au appoint meni as major general
with tho provision thai he become
chief or engineers when the term of
the incumbent expires. Ile made
only a brief reference to tho dispute
with Croat Britain over the Panania
Canal act. and said that when a for
mal protest was lodged against that
ait it wouid he taken up hy the
(Milted States.
two MAURIAC'KS IX COUNTY.
Mis? Prances Orr amt ,J, ll. Clayton,
Nicholson- \ icholson.
.Mountain Rest. Dec. 5.-Special:
.I. li. Clayton, of Jackson county,
North Carolina, and Miss (''rancis
Orr were nulled in marriage at tho
Inide's home. near Bethlehem
caunh, at ll o'clock on the morning
of December ?ld, IO 12. The brido is
ti nativo ol' Oeonec, and ls widely and
favorably known over the county.
The ceremony was performed bj
Notary Public J. 11. Brown in Ibo
presence of a goodly number of
friends and relatives, wno were
unanimous in their heartfelt wishes
for the enduring happiness of the
couple. Mr. Clayton and wife will
make their homo al Addie, N. C.
A t noon on I ?eec in ber Ith, 10 I 2,
Haylus Nicholson and Mi.-s Leona
Nicholson wore married l>> .lohn ll.
Brown, Notary Public, al tho home
of thc bride's parents, near Chat
tooga Uiver. Thc unfavorable wea
ther prevented :l largo attendance ai
thu wedding, bul the young couple
are assured 0f tho general good
wishes of their Irioilds for a happy
and prosperous life.
Hoyne Elected Augusta .Mayor.
Augusta, Dec. 5.-Linwood c.
Hayne will be mayor of Augusta for
three years from January 6-tho Hist
Monday In next year.
For moro than two hours yester
day evening tho entire city was held
in suspense, waiting for announce
ment of tho count of the Fourth
Ward voto, and when that finally
came, after 7 o'clock, it gave Hayne
a majority In tho six wards of 79
over Dr. James lt. Lltt'oton.
CORN SCHOOL FOR BOYS.
Will Be Held lu Connection With
National Corn Exposition.
A groat deal has hoon said and
written regarding tho National Corn
Exposition School for I3oys, to ho
held In connection with tho National
Corn Exposition, Columbia, January
28th to February S th, 1913, but
thoro are probably many people who
aro not familiar with tho details.
The first question to consider is
what ls this school to be? lt Is to
be a source of information and In
spiration and at tho same timo an
outing tor the prize winning boys
ol' the Hoys' Corn Club of tho entire
South. An effort is being made to
have every county in each Southern
State send two boys making tho best
records. These will bo properly
cared for and well supervised in Co
lumbia. Fach day they will bo di
vided into squads and given instruc
tion by tile experts in charge of thc
exhibits from the different States. A
pleasure trip to Charleston and a
cruise around tho points of interest
at the city has boen planned, thus
giving tho boys an opportunity to
see tho historic place. At tho close
of the week's school tho boys will bo
given diplomas or certificates show
ing that each boy has taken tho work
proscribed. On tho last night of the
school the city of Columbia will give
a banquet to all the boys attending,
where the toastmaster will bo tho
boy holding the best record In the
entire South. There they will have
an opportunity to meet boys from
all tho Southern States and many of
the Northern as wc".I. They will
study tho exhibits of all tho States
represented, thus getting direct in
formation as to tho products of these
States. The problems being worked
out by different experiment stations
will bo studied and the Importance
of each problem stressed. These are
only a few of tho things tho boys
Will get from this school. The In
spiration given the boys here will bo
worth fully as much as a year's work
in tho ordinary school.
The school will bo conducted along
seml-mllltary Unes, members of the
Senior Class of Clemson College act
ing as officers. The school will be
under tho direct charge of J. H.
Hobdy, an experienced man from Al
abama. A regular schedule will be
made out and every boy ls expected
to follow the same. Details of this
schedule will bo published later.
Many of the counties in South Car
olina have already arranged fi c the
two prize winning boys to attend
this school. Those having notified
thia office aro as follows: Abbeville,
Aiken, Anderson, Harnwell, Chero
kee, Chester, Chesterfield, Claren
don. Darlington. Hdegefleld, Fair
field, Florence, Greenville, Hampton,
Morry, Laurens, Lee, Marlboro, Oco
' nee. Richalnd, Sumter, Union and
Williamsburg. Other counties may
have arranged for the boys, but have
not reported to this office.
.In making tho arrangements all
that is necessary will be to obtain
funds for transportation both ways
from tho county seat to Columbia,
and a fund of one dollar por day
while tlio boys are in Columbia. The
boys will bo required to bring blank
ets, towels, etc. Kates from each
county seat may be obtained by ap
plying to Ceo. H. Stephenson, gene
ral manager, Palmetto Bank Build
ing, Columbia, S. C. As soon as ar
rangements ire made the special
agent in charge ol' Hoys' Corn Clubs,
Clemson Collage. S. C., should be
notified. Any further information
regarding this school may bc had by
writing the above agents.
C. H. Haddon, Special Agent.
Clemson College.
WALHALLA PROOF.
should Convince Every Walhalla
Reader.
The frank statement of a neigh
bor, telling the merits of a remedy,
Bids you pause and believe.
The same endorsement
Hy some stranger far away
Commands no belief nt all.
Hero's a Walhalla case.
A Walhalla citizen testifies.
Bead and bo convinced.
Mrs. Ida llollams. Factory Hill,
Walhalla. S. C., says: "We have
used Donn's Kidney Pills in our fam
ily with excellent results, and I
know that they live up to the claims
made for them. They were obtain
e ? from Dr. Hell's drug store, and
used for pains In the hack and sides
and trouble witii Hie kidney secre
tions. Complete and lasting relief
was received."
Mrs. llollams is only one of many
Walhalla people who have gratefully
endorsed Dean's Kidney Pills. If
your back aches-(f your kidneys
bother you, don't simply ask for a
kidney remedy- ask distinctly for
Doa n's Kidney Pills, tho same that
Mrs. llollams had---tho remedy back
ed by homo testimony. f>0c. all
stores. Foster-Mllburn Co., Props.,
Buffalo, N. Y. "When Your Back ls
Lame-Remember thc Name."
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?J THE KEOWEE COURIER V
., By J. Linn Ladd. .?
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Conservation of Soil Moisture.
This is tho subject of Bulletin No.
87 of thc Montana Station. This bul
letin illumin?tes a subject of great
importance to moro than half the
farmers of tho United States.
Tho investigations of which this
bulletin treats have continued for a
period of six years; having com
menced with 1907. Tlio land was a
typical Eastern Montana silty clay
loam having a fair content of humus
with a small percentage of gravel in
tho lower layers, lt was lovel land
which had been broken and cropped
in 1901, but had lain hilo sinco that
year and was covered with a growth
of large weeds. These were turned
under and tho land was thoroughly
worked down in 190(5, ready for the
serios o? tests.
Tho thirty years weather record at
Miles City show3 an averago annual
rainfall of 13 inches. Th reo times in
tlio thirty years it fell below ten
indies, and three times it exceeded
16 Inches.
Previous studies of soil physics by
many investigators have shown that
tho soil particles withhold from the
feeding roots of plants a considera
ble portion of their moisture, and
that tho percentage of tills soil mois
ture which cannot bo used by plants
varies in different soils and different
crops in tho same soil. It was found
that corn ceased to grow while there
was still 8.89 uer coht of moisture
in tho soil, and red clover stopped
growth In the same soil while there
was 10.93 per cent of moisture in
tho soil. However, evaporation of
ten extracts from the soil much of
this moisture which lt refuses to give
up to tho crop roots. In thc case of
tho soil involved In the tests at this
station, it was found that the amount
of moisture unavailable to most crops
was cloes to 8% per cent. When
there was 10 per cent of moisture in
tho soil, 1% per cent of it was avail
able; but when thore was 12 per
cent of moisture there was 3% per
cent available. Therefore 12 per
cent of moisture gave more than
twice as good results as 10 per cent
of moisture.
Tests of adjacent lands of tho same
character that had never been plow
ed and a part of which was a closely
grazed range and a portion having
the stock fence'd off it and therefore
covered with a heavy growth of
grass showed that while tho closely
grazed land had a moisturo content
of 11 per cent ia tho first two feet,
that covered with a heavy coat of
grass held 13% per cent of moisture.
Hence it is evident that the sun and
wind exhausted tlio moisture of the
partially exposed soil more than the
grass growing upon tho oilier did.
This indicates that while a growing
crop takes np moisture by moans of
its roots and evaporates it into thc
open air by means of its leaves; still
a cover crop which protects tho soil
from sun and wind sa vos more mois
turo than it uses.
However, when tho cover crop is
of grain and instead of being grazed
off or turned under lt is permitted to
mature a crop of seed, it then rapidly
exhausts tho soil moisture. For in
stance, in these Montana experiments
the plats continuously cropped In the
spring wheat averaged 20 \\ bushels
per acre the li ra t year, but loss than
?I Vfc bushels per year thereafter;
showing that tho maturing of the
first crop exhausted the soil moisture
to such extent that it was never re
gained under t lie same treatment.
.Monthly examinations of tho soil
moisture of these plats showed that,
the first two foot averaged the year
through but a fraction more than the
percentage of moisture that this soil
withholds from uso by tho crops.
One series of neighboring plats
were Cultivated throughout tho sum
mer, hut not planted, and another
series lay fallow (implanted), but
not cultivated; the comparison being
n test ot the value of summer tillage
for t ho conservation of soil mois
ture. Tho moisture in the first two
foot of soil on all these plats was as
certained oiico a mont h. and lt was
lound thal the average soil moisturo
was 15% percent on tho tilled plats
and only a fraction over 12 per cent
on tho utitHied plats.
Comparing tho percentage of mois
ture found In Hie soil with tho record
of rainfall during tho period covered
by these tests, lt was found that only
17 V2 por cent of the rainfall was
stored In (lie soil; tho othor 8 2'/2
per cent being lost by evaporation
and si page.
Deducting tho 8V4 percentage un
available moisture from tho 12 per
cent found In tlio untitled plat?,
leaves 3 Vi per cont that could bo
used by crops; while deducting this
8% pei cent from tho 15% per cont
found In tho tilled placo leaves 7
per cent that could bo used by crops,
arid this 7 por cent is equal to more
than six inches of rainfall, in other,
words, tho summer tillage did as
much good as 6 InchcB of additional
rain would havo done.
To soo If actual crop growth hoars
out those calculations, a series of
plats uncultivated and a serlos of
plats tilled while lying fallow wero
all sown to wheat, and monthly ex
aminations were made of tho mois
ture in the soil, and lt was found
that tho tilled plats averaged only 1
per cont moro moisture than tho un
tilled plats, showing that tho crop
had made uso of the other G per cent
differ*nco found in tho implanted
plats. The yield from tho plats that
had hoon tilled while lying fallow
averaged 1!)V4 bushels per acre, and
on thc plats that were unfilled while
lying fallow the average was a frac
tion less than l t bushels por acre
a difference of more than 5 Vi bush
els In favor of summer tillage of
land intended for wheat tho follow
ing season.
It was found that tho same advant
ages held good in caso of cultivated
crops, such as corn and potatoes, as
with wheat; but that the cultivation
during tho growing season conserved
soil moisture as well as the cultiva
tion during tho fallow season preced
ing the planting. The corn crop of
?10 bushels per acre, took from the
soil about 1 per cent more of Its
moisture than tho potato crop of
184 bushels per acre.
Half of the plats to lie fallow dur
ing the summer wore broken up the
previous fall and the other half th?
previous spring; but neither tho
amounts of moisture found in tho
soil by the monthly examinations, nor
th? yields of crops planted after tho
fallow season ended showed any ap
preciable difference between fall
breaking and spring breaking. Prob
ably this is du? to the fact that th?
winter precipitation Is very light in
Montana.
Examinations mad? at thc end of
th? six years of these tests showed
that the soil moisture of th? culti
vated plats had Increased while that
of tb? adjacent pasture lands had re
mained stationary. Possibly this
fact-namely, that the soil moisture
Increases from year to year in culti
vated lands-accounts for tho opin
ion generally prevalent that as a
country is settled up and put in cul
tivation its rainfall increases; the !
truth being that the Increased mois- j
tur? and more reliable crop yields
are due to tillage Instead of lacreas- J
ed rainfall.
Cliick Feeding.
Bulletin 23 of tho Tuskegee, Ala
bama, Station treats of poultry rais
ing; but the larger portion of the
bulletin ls devoted to tho subject of
rations for the young fowls, and sine?
tho other portions of this bulletin
but repeat well-known principles laid
down in standard works on poultry,
I will omit consideration of them.
The first 36 hours after emerging
from tho shell th? little poult is
nourished by tho unabsorbed rem
nant of the yolk of the egg still
within its body. After it begins to
respond to the appeal of hunger, its
first need is for grit with which to
grind tho food it may swallow;
hence fine, sharp sand or other grit
should bo placed within reach. Fine
charcoal is also beneficial, but not
necessary.
As to the food Itself, it is well to
remember that very little fat or en
ergy ls to be produced, but a large
proportion of muscle, bono and feath
ers; hence the food should consist
of generous allowances of pinhead
oat meal, cracked wheat, meat scraps,
bone meal, peas, beans, ?tc, ground
small. To supply heat and energy,
coarse corn grits, broken rice, kafllr,
milo maize, sorghum seed, millet or
rape seed, etc., should be added to
I thc mixture In smaller measure.
! Milk curds aro good. If a mash bo
given it can bo mixed with milk, or
milk may be given instead of water
for drinking. Tho mash should j
either bo squeezed dry enough to
"crumble" or should be baked as a
"johnycako."
I Tho Tuskegee station uses a ra
tion composed of equal parts, by
measure, of wheat, corn, cow peas,
rye, rico and sorghum seed, ground
as fine as coarse grits and fed dry.
Tho Maine station feeds a mixture,
by weight, of 15 parts cracked wheat,
lo parts pinhead oatmeal, ?5 parts
cracked peas, 16 parts flue cracked
corn. 2 parts broken rice, 2 parti) fine
charcoal and 5 parts chick grit, fed
in litter to make them scratch for lt.
Circular 18 of the Montana sta
tion recommends a dry mash of bran
IO parts (by weight), corn meal or
barley meal 15 parts, middling 5
parts, beef scraps 5 parts, gluten 2 V?
parts. Oats and barley aro among
tho loading crops produced In Mon
tana, and an equal mixture of those
would make a basis for a good ra
tion, variety being secured by addi
tions of small quantities of oil meal,
gluton, or beof soraps, at different
times.
Growing mid Marketing Wool.
Circular No. 161 of tho Illinois
station treats of this subject, and ls
If You Value '
You will equip your
reading table with a
Authorities agree that a good kc
reading. The Rayo is the best oil
of scientific study. It gives a ste
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STANDARD O
(Incori ?rnto J in
N-Wark. N. J.
ia the nature of advice rather than
a recital of facts ascertain id by
means of experimentation. 1h ? ad
vice may bo summari/.ed as follows:
Secure uniformity of grade of your
fleeces by breeding a uniform Hock;
keep them healthy and thrifty, clean
ly and free from burs, dirt and Ut
ter; do not brand them with oil
paint nor tar; exercise watchful care
against parasites; oxerciso care and
cleanliness In shearing and in hand
ling the fleece, removing all tags and
locks and rolling and tying each
fleece with the flesh side out; use
twine that ls hard and smooth so
that no looso twine fibers will got
into the wool to annoy tho weavers
by appearing in tho clo(h, and pack
tho fleeces in closely woven bags that
will not shed their fibre, and Anally,
pack the fleeces of lambs, owes,
wethers and rams in separate bags
and label the bags.
This circular is written by W. C.
Coffey and ls Illustrated.
HOW CHRONIC COUGHS
Are Being Cured by Vinol. I
Did you over cough tor a monUxf
Then just think how distressing it
muBt be to have a cough hang on foe .
throe months.
Mrs. Marla. Primrose, of 87 Newell
Streot, Drooklyn, N. Y., says: "I had
a very heavy cold which, settled Into 1
a chronic cough, which kept ma
awake nights for fully throe months,
and felt tired all tho time because my
rest was broken so much. Tho effect
of taking your cod liver and Iron rem
edy, Vinol, ls that my cough ls gone.
I can now got a good night's rest, and !
I feel much stronger in every way." j
It ls the combined action of the
medicinal elements, cods' llvors, aided 1
by the blood-making and strength- |
! creating properties of tonic iron which ,
makes Vinol so officient in curing
chronic cougliB, colds and bronchitis
-at the samo time building up the
weakened, run-down system.
Try a bottle of Vinol, with the un
derstanding that your money will
bo returned If it does not help you.
J. W. Dell, Druggist, Walhalla, S. C.
DeLeon Hack in Atlanta.
(Atlanta Georgian, Dec. 1.)
Nerves shattered, a shadow of his
former self, Moise DeLeon, promi
nent Atlanta contractor, who disap
peared in Chicago August 0, stag
gered Into his homo, 744 Piedmont
avenue, Thursday night, and told his
wife the dramatic story of bow, craz
ed by brain fever, he had wandered
to the Pacific coast, where be was
shanghaied and compelled to work
as a coal beaver across tho broad
Pacific from Vancouver, B. C., to
Sydney, New South Wales.
Mr. DeLeon to-day began the work
of straightening out his business af
fairs, which were imperrilied hy his
disappearance. Friends assert con
fidently that in a few weeks he will
he able to resume his place as ono of
the South's most prominent building
men.
It was a real Thanksgiving night
for Hie DeLeon family. Prom thc
day, almost three months ago, that
Mrs. DeLeon received the cablegram
announcing her husband was in ail
Australian hospital suffering from
brain fever, she has expected his re
turn every moment.
A Woman Is
Const
The delioato structure of a woman's bod
So complicated are its parts that only th
lng lt. Women do not know thoms?
means when any of these delioato parts
the suffering, tho misery, tho prosit at
becomes irregular. Tho disturbance r
enjoyment of health, but they havo worl
body that is weak and suffering and a
Invalid's fate. Happily, most of theso al
the most dependable medicines for tho i
Squaw Vine Wino. It ls prepared ?
a successful medicine. One that builds
and regulates tho generativo organs. I
tones up tho nerves, makes tho body al
feeling of wellness, of power to porfoi
Ailing women should try this remedy. I
and vigor of girlhood days.
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DEMOCRATS CUT ESTIMATES.
Appropriations Slushed-No Provis
ion Made for Commerce Court,
Washington, Dec. 4.-Tho first big
supply bill of tho present session of
Congress, tho legislative, executive
and judicial appropriation bill, was
reported to the House to-day. Tho
measure carries (34,837,105.50, a
decre?.so of $319,027.88 from the
corresponding bill in tho previous
session. Estimates of the Secretary
of tho Treasury ($36,514,955.50),
wer? cut moro than $1,000,000 by
tho committee.
As presented to tho full commit
tee, by tho sub-committee which
framed it, tho bill included a pro
vision by Representativo Durlesou. of
Toxas, making former Presidents
mombers-at-lnrgo of thc House with
a salary of $17,500. But a full
committee disapproved, and it was
struck out.
The commerce court ls not pro
vided for In tho measure. The court
asked for $54,500 for the coming fis
cal year, but tho committee would
not allow tho item. Tho last legisla
tive, executive and judicial bill gave
the court just, enough money to con
tinue lt to March 4 next year.
President-elect Wilson probably
will get thc regular annual allowance
of $25,000 for traveling expenses.
Tho committee included in the
bill a provision putting the clerks of
tho members of the House on tho
House pay rolls and paying thom
direct. At present members draw
$l,f>00 a year for clerk hire and pay
their own clerks. There has been
much complaint that tho full amount
does not go to tho clerk. Tho bill
omits all appropriations for tho mint
at Carson, Nevada, and assay offices
at Charlotte, N. C.; Boise. Idaho;
Helena, Mont., and Salt Lako City.
Utah.
The bill will bo considered on the
floor at once and will be tho first
supply measure sent to tho Senate.
Tired of Life, Kills Himself.
Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 5.-Leaving a
note saying he was tired ot life, Sea
born W. Higgins, a book-keeper,
committed suicide by shooting to
day. Tho note also asked that Iiis
employer, John E. Murphy, a local
capitalist, and a sister In Savannah
be notified of his death. Despond
ency is believed to havo caused tho
act.
Bull lulls Armed Man.
Los Angeles, Dec. 5,-Joseph Ru
dolph, employee of a dairy, died yes
terday from wounds indicted by a
hull, which he had deliberately en
gaged in battle. Some time ago the
bull killed a follow employee, and
Rudolph determined to avenge his
comrade's death. He entered the
enclosure where tho animal was
confined, armed with a revolver,
knife and club. Before ho could
use any ol' his weapons tho hull
charged and gored him so badly that
lie died.
Wonderfully
ructed
y is a source of wonder lo medical men.
e most learned are capable of understand
dves. They do know, however, what it
get weak or disordered. They alone know
lng effect when the generative systom
IOI only robs them of strength and the
t to do and lt mast bc done in spite of a
mind that is iiarasscd by the dread of an
lments of women are curable and one of
'ellet of such troubles is Dr. Simmons
xpressly for the diseases of women. It ls
up the Nervous System and strengthens
lt slops the painful symptoms promptly,
rong, the digestion good, and restores a
m the household work without fatigue,
t will give them back the health, strength
YB. Price $1.00 Per Bottte.
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