?OME FACTS TO PONDER OVER. Fanner? of United State? I)o Not Properly lialunce Nation'? Rations. (By Peter Radford, of Texas Farm ers' Union.) Fort Worth, Texas, Sept. 29.-Ed itor Keowee Courier: Tho problem that confronts the American farmer, next In Importance to distribution, is diversification, for what is needed ls as necessary information to the far mer as where it is needed. Many States and countries boast of their powers of di versification, but very few of them exercise it. In this arti cle 1 shall use Texas to illustrate con ditions which exist in all other States. I have before me a balance sheet of Texas production and consumption, prepared by the Texas commercial secretaries and the boniness men's association, showing that out of 33 agricultural products which we pro duced, and of which we also con sume, we have a surplus production in only two-cotton and rice. We lead all other States in the Union in production of cattle, yet our livestock statistics show a net loss In consump tion over production of $2,000,000 ??er annum, due lo heavy consump tion of pork and other meal pro ducts which arc shipped in from other States. What is true of Texas applies, with local variation, to all States and lo tho nation as a whole Clothe? tin? World, Buys Bread. Our civilization has charged Texas farmers with tho responsibility of clothing 20 per cent of the population of the globe, but tho burden of pro viding raiment for 300.000,000 peo ple ls not a valid excuse for our beg ining bread from door lo door of our neighboring States. I hold that every farmer should live al home. We can and should, as a rule, produce on tho farm all the things we consume, as well as supply home markets, and when this is done w<> have made rapid progress toward eliminating waste anti inelliciency in living. As tanners we must study the pantrj of our community and nation and soe that its wants are supplied. Empty Shelves in Nation's Larder. The farmers of the United States do not properly balance the nation's rations. Our Farmers cultivate lar ger areas and produce larger quanti ties of products i KM' capita than the people of any oilier nation on the globe. We live in waste and luxury and ?end a surplus of over a billion dollars of agricultural products pei .? exports'lhe world would go hun* r.,\ and ti h mw with cold. We export |i),07??,00d linley of cotton 40,000. ?.un bushel- corn 8fl,uOO,0'Ki bush vi? ol wheat; livestock mid Its pro ducts $180,000,000, and miscellane ous products valued at $297.OOP,OOO ?.'er annsi?i. Bul notwithstanding the enviable record of the American far mer as ? producer, tho nation's lar der has empty shelves, as well as those thal overflow. We call upon foreign countries for approximately a quarter of a billion dollars of agricultural products an nually, which can and should be raised In the United stan's. I will mention a few of them: Vegetables ?1S.000.nob itemized as follows: Potatoes, $7.(MM).uno ; ca a-red vegeta bles, $5,000,000; beans, $1,857,000; peas, $1,516,000; onions, $1,234, 000; other vegetables, $1,"726,000. Jn dairy products we imponed last year $10,030,000, as follows: Cheese, $8,807,000; cream, $92 1.00b; but ler, $237.000; milk, $02,000. In Migar and molasses our imports reached $116,000,000. In miscella neous products our rice Imports are valued nt $.",,000,000; tobacco, $81., (KKi.ooo; liquor, $21,000,000; cur ranis, $1,500,000; grapes. $2,331, 000; lemons. $3.369,000; oliven. $2.303.000; tintes. $537,000; hgv $935,000; miscellaneous. $2,000, 000. 1 will repeal thal 1 have listed only our agricultural imports which should he raised in the United States. 1 now want to discuss a few of these products with which I am personally familiar. While these vegetables ?ere being imported in the United States and sold at fan? -ices, bet ter qualities of tho san.?' products. In many instances, were rotting on the ground for want of a market. To my personal knowledge, carloads of heans and peas were lett unpicked in 'he Holds of the Kio Orando valley, and lons of onions rotted In the Holds of Southwest Texas for want of a market. Knob Individual ?lem in the list is a challenge to our sys em of distribution and proves the wis dom of Congress In appropriating funds for a . kef bureau. i fanner has solved lh iroduction, and he is no Ith the question of i'la Iuds. While he is Belli les on a glutted marl rlshable products foul their stench for want < il consumer is im porting n abroad or liv ing in \ hor Wft'i nes* nd s of Appetite TheOUlStn i ,:? I ?>. . igthening tonic, r.ROVK'ST/. chili ' I NIC. drives out Malaria nm) I I up tVi y?u ;. A true louis and surcApp-. i . a nd children. 50c. GAYNOR'S ESTATE *2,00O,OOO. WIR of the l>ate Mayot of New York Ras Reen Filed. New York. Sept. 26.-The will of Wm. J. Gaynor, late mayor of New York, as filed Wednesday, leaves to the widow his Brooklyn residence and 500 shares of Roya! Baking Pow der Co. stock. The remainder, with the exception of minor bequests of the estate, is divided, two-sevenths to each of two sous and one-seventh to each of three unmarried daughters. The value of the estate Is estimated at $2,000,000. The two married daughters, Mrs. Harry Vingut and Mrs. Wm. S. Webb, Jr., received $1,000. The share of Rufus Gaynor, a sou, who was with the late mayor when ho died aboard the steamer Baltic, ls placed in the hands of tue trustees, who are In structed to pay him the income until he is 30 years old. and then to sur render the principal If they judge him capable of handling it wisely. In a codicil Mayor Gaynor de scribes Rufus as "a good boy always, without bad habits, but, it may be, too easy, and liable to let go Of what he bas, not knowing how hard it is to accumulate property Thc will directs the trustees to end their trust for Rufus "provided they are satisfied, from bis past life and business capacity and habits, thal he will not let it slip through his fingers, and I want him judged fairly in this respect. " Rufus is now 24 years old. He is the oldest son. Norman Gaynor is just 21. When the will was made (.May. 1909.) his lather directed that his share of the property be held In trust until he became of age. The only ot IHM- beneficiary men tioned in the will is the late mayor s maiden sister, Mary Gaynor, of Utica. Miss Gaynor receives a house lier brother owned In Utica and the in come of 1 1 '< shares of Baking Powder stock to be held for her in trust dur ing her life-time. The legacies to throe unmarried daughters-Helen, Marion and Ruth also are placed in the h..nds of a trustee to be held until they are 2."> years old. Until they are 21 these daughters are not to receive more (han $l.r>00 a year; after that, and until they come Into possession of their full shaves, they shall receive tho entire income. No explanation is given of the ap parent discrimination against the two mai 'led daughters, both of whom eloped and married without their father's knowledge or eon neut. The Will provides thal any heir -\ bo con testa tn? division ui ie? estate shall automatically forfeit his legacy. Mayor Gaynor pr?par?e, tbe instru ment in his own handwriting. Il cov ers ten pages of foolscav Wilson Purdi ns Ex-Banker, Washington. S ?pt. 27. - President Wilson has pardo led ('has. A. Isaac set-1euee,', at For* Dodge, Iowa. June 20 last, to five years in the peniten tiary Tor making false entries In the booka of the Forest City (Iowa) Na tional Hank, of which he was cash ier. Si.rict compliance with the law by Isaacs, it is declared, would have wrecked the bank by divulging its condition to the public, whereas the false entries covering its excessive loans to a stockholder of the institu tion until he could realize on farm land transactions resulted In no loss. It was represented to the President that Isaacs acted under the domina tion of a superior officer. After a man acquires a reputa tion and achk'ves a reasonable amount of fame in his chosen work, be goes back to his old home town and they ask him wbere he lives and what he ls doing now. ll ?tl EA I.S HIT HACK AN? STOMACH SOURS -Tape's Diupeptdn" Fud* indigestion, (ins, Dyspepsia .nul Stomach Misery in Five Minn tes, ii ?nat you just ate is souring on your stomach or lies like a lump of lead, refusing to digest, or you belch gas and eructate sour, undigested food, or bave a lei-ling of dizziness, heartburn, fullness, nausea, bad taste in mouth and stomach headache, you can get blessed relief in five minutes. Ask your pharmacist to show you the formula, plainly printed on these fifty-cent cases of Pa po's Diapepsin, then you will understand why dys peptic troubles of all kinds must go, and why they relieve sour, out-of-or der stomachs or indigesti?n in five minutes. "Rape's Diapepsin" is harmless; tastes like candy, though each dose will digest and prepare for assimilation into the blood all the food you oat; besides, it makes you go to the table with a healthy appe tite; but. what will please you most, is that you will feel that your sto mach and intestines are clean and fresh, and you will not need lo resort to laxatives or liver pills for bilious ness or constipation. This city will have many "Papes Diapepsin" cranks, as some people will call them, but you will be enthu siastic about this splendid stomach preparation, too, if you ever take it for Indigestion, gases, heartburn, sourness, dyspepsia, Or any stomach misery. Gel some now, this minute, and rid yourself of stomach trouble und Indi gestion In five minutes. ad\. v. HOY DROWNED IN REt . ?XMtt His Balance While I> ?1 5ng Inc Ute Water. Union, Sept. 26.-Litt!? S li g let?n, the 7-year-old ao.i ol Pearl Singleton, met at'. death late Tuesday afternoon b > rtilng in the reservoir of the Santuc. It appears that the h waa turning from school with panions when he left the lld v? alone by tho ginnery res? i, wb'?'< he apparently looked ov? into i! water, and losing his bal - ice. foll i and drowned in water, .shiel) four or five feet deep. For several hours Mr Singh thought that her little i >.? playing with his schoo". tes, b when night approached and he ri . not return she became so .1 that a search was Inst i when the boy's cap was the reservoir it was not >e . his body was seen and r< Mrs. Singleton's sorrow much sympathy, as this al adds another to the list mn her life, ber father bein more, who was shot an killed al lonesville aboi ago, and 1 er husband. Ko having been killed by 1? hy a derrick engine win working on the dam al about three years ago. OTHER PARR SHOALS Two Young Men of ( Taken by < Ifllcei Chester, Sept. 25.--As prise as if a bomb had d of the sky was caused li when John Frazier, Jr.. Bighnm, well known yoi. ru were arrested by two Bu lives. Adams and Baum, to to Winnsboro on the charg implicated in the recent r Parr Shoals, when em plov J. G. White Construction were held up and robbed c ' . < at the point of pistols. Friends and relatives of you men. it is said, are conti there is not the slightest T for any such charges again cased and say that alibis c t tablished. The young nu w quietly placed under ar morning, and it was not nut . \ hours later that the story le The detectives have Won riere, tov two weeks, and it is staten <':?vt at one lime there wv.? af. a ni ,a? I twelve sleuths i'i the cll> o rici og I the case, il is also stated th il one of ! the men who was robbed Shoals was here yesterday pany with the detectives an fled Hie two young men street as having figured in bery. Friends of the young , . rested attach no Importance incident, it is reported. Chester Men Out on B< Chester. Sept. 2tj.-John Jr., and Bissel! Bigham, who rested here yesterday for complicity in the Parr Sho bery, were released from cusl night In Winnsboro. Ead bond for the sum of $2,500 ho preliminary hearing will bo h< i i xl week. Tipton Will Sue Detect! Columbia, Sept. 26.-J. P, the Southern railway c< charged with complicity In t Shoals robbery, was discharf ?m ; custody at a hearing befon trato Douglas in Fairfield cc is said he is planning to br against the detectives who liim. g. A: C. TRAIN ROBBED Bobbers Secure $50,000-/ Sheriff Killed by Misti Birmingham, Ala.. Sept A 1 posse of deputies from this joining counties are search ii for robbers who last night 1 Queen <"? Crescent passen) near Bibbville, Alabama, si ter midnight. Jas. Bonner, a deputy she Birmingham, was shot an .( near Cottondale this morn ii Montgomery deputy who mis for a robber. Two robbers forced the r to cut off two express cars, shots were fired In the mai press cars, and tho cler frightened out. After the section was taken ;i short o two charges of dynamite w ploded in cracking the expi ,.r safe. The cars were al mot pletely demolished. The engine, after the robl sol running wild, at full spi was found to-day near En Ma. Tho robbers evidently ihorl distance in it after the ind then turned It loose. 'I > motive stopped when the st? i exhausted. The robbers appeared to boys. The amount of mon l'A lu ables secured by the ro ?aid to be $50,oon. i BO FRANK HEAPS B'NAL R'RTH. tn Jail, He Heads Charitable Order ?nd Pencil Factory. Atlanta, Sept. 27.-At the recent elections of tho Jewish Order of . 'nal B'rth, Leo M. Frank, president, ?.>'as unanimously chosen as head of ; he order again, and a number of prominent Atlantlans were elected to ill the moro Important offices. Leo Frank, the young superintend ent of the National Pencil Factory, md gradaute of Columbia University, *vho, after a few years' residence in Atlanta, was chosen to head the eadlng charitable organization imong those of his religion, and who occupied that position at the time ast April when he was arrested on he charge of the murder of Mary 'hagan, a young girl in his factory, ?eld the ellice all du ring the summer vhlle he remained in the Tower. At the recuit election Superintend ent Frank, then In the Tower under onvictlon of the murder and sen enced . to hang October 10th. was hosen as lead for the second time and without opposition. Conducting Pencil Factory. His continuance In the high office >f the B'nal B'rith came with the ews that he was continuing, as far s possible, to direct, from his cell. ie affairs of the pencil factory, over hieb he had charge when arrested. He was convicted after what has ' ?en termed the hardest fought le ?1 battle in the history ol' Georgia, nd his attorneys have already made ipllcation for a new trial, charging that ho was convicted contrary to he principles of law. The hearing is set to take place on ?i tober 4, just six days before the te upon which Judge L. S. Roan ltenced him to hang, lt is gene ly believed, however, that the . aring will not actually take place that day, as the defense will file amended petition for a new hear ;, and it is believed that Solicitor neral Dorsey will ask a postpone nt in which he may have time to pare an answer. (?oes to Supremo Court. Ihould Frank be denied a new J by the Superior Court Judge ho hears this argument, it is al of a postpone t wo?i!d then bo on the Conn of A i eals bench, and tho duty would olve upon either Judge Pendleton, ge Ellis, Judge Hell, or tho newly )lnted Judge. Benjamin Hill. ?,000,000 Animals on Hanges. 'ashington, I). C., Sept. 2!?.-The ont ol" livestock grazed on na tu- il forest ranges is more than I cent greater this year than last, ly lu.(!()().not) domestic animals ag been occupied during the uer in converting one of the h. - ucts of the forest into meat, i and wool, according to forest co reports. iring the year past the govern received more than $1,000,000 grazing fees, of which $?150, went to schools and roads in the !S where the forests are located, lout l?O.OOO.OOO pounds of beef nu, more than twice this amount of on conies annually, it is estim?t rom stock grazed on the forests. Snowing in Texas. lainview, Texas, Sept. 25.-Snow 1 here to-day, accompanying a cold .her. which is sweeping over the ' i handle section of Texas. The ' w accompanied a A ne, cold driz The temperature dropped to 45. -AL DRUGGIST MA KES STATEMENT. - vs Dodson's Liver Tone ls tl??' Best Remedy for Constipation and Shirking Liver He Has Ever Sold. _-. t.verj person who has tried Dod s Liver Tone and knowj how dy and gently it starts the liver i working and relieves biliousness bear out the statement made by l's Drug Company about Dodson's ; v or Tone. It is a purely vegetable liquid, ll entirely takes the place of calo e| harmless and pleasant to the e, that has proven itself the most * ^factory remedy for a slow-work liver that most of our customers i . ? ever tried. A large bottle sells j ( fifty cents and we do not hesitan ive tho money back to any person i tries a bottle on the strength of statement and ia not satisfied i the result." ,i these days of doubtful medi ? 3 and dangerous drugs, a state t like the above ls a pleasant as IIrance that Dodson's Liver Tone is ? liable remedy for both children nd grown-ups. In buying a bottle mmedlate or future use lt is well nake sxire you are getting the lino Dodson's Liver Tone and not ; spurious Imitation that has ? ed our claims, but do not stand of their guarantee. You may ertain of getting the genuine if . go to Bell's drug store for lt. ad. ONE MORTGAGE TO COVER ALI*. Rumored So. Ry. to Include AH Debts in fiJOO.OOO.OOO Mortgage. (Atlanta Constitution. ) The Southern Railway, through President W. W. Finley, is planning to rearrange the finances of the com pany in such a manner that one sin gle large mortgage will cover all the present mortgages and care for all new financial needs, lt ls said. This policy is in line with that of the Great .Northern, Burlington, New York Central, St. Paul and other lines. This advanced policy, it is paid, is an outcome of the need of a large amount of money to carry out certain progressive policies of the road, such as double-tracking, etc. A great deal of this work has been done under President Finley's regime, and the result is shown by the fact that the earnings of the common stock in 1912 was 3 Vs per cent, as against one-half of ono per cent in 1909. If this new plan is adopted, it is thought that it will be some time bo fore any definite action is taken, but it is understood that the Anal result will be one mortgage covering the entire bonded Indebtedness. which, including certain leasehold obliga tions, is approximately $300 000.000. NO RILL AGAINST SOLICITOR. Hurry Grand Jury Investigates Seri ous Charges Made. Conway. Sept. 2.">.-The grand jury .Monday afternoon returned "no bill" to the Court of General Sessions now bein? held here on the indictment for attempted criminal assault brought against Solicitor L. H. Singleton by a married woman of Conway. Court convened at 10 o'clock Mon day morning with Judge T. H. Spate, of Darlington, presiding. After or ganization the case against the solici tor was handed to the grand jury. No j witnesses appeared for tho prosecu ! Hon, and the sheriff was instructed to fetch both the prosecutrix and her I husband, she addressed a letter to I the court stating that her husband . was quite ill and that she thought it best to remain with him. A bench warrant was issued and she appeared before the grand jury. After taking testimony and delib erating for some time that body re Iturned no bill. Robt. B. Scarborough and E. J. Sherwood, of the local bar, and ^ C^^^on P^vor, of Florence (bar, represented the defense. Attor j ne> General Peeplf ; and Assistant , Rttornej Genera] Dominick and H. j ri. Woodward, ol the lo? . re; I resented the prosecution, though At j torney General Peeples refused to have Mr. Woodward associated in the case. Owing to the prominence of the principals in the case, the court room was crowded. Robbed and Burned Out. Waycross, Ga., Sept. 2t>.-Desper ately wounded, James Bennett, known as "The Hermit," was found in a clump of bushes near his burned home in an isolated part of this coun ty Wednesday. He had lain there since Saturday night, when lie drag ged himself from his burning home. Officers are searching for a negro, who Bennett says shot him, and then enraged because he did not find a large sum of money the recluse was believed to have hidden in the house, fired the building. Bennett was shot when the negro was ransacking his house. He will probably die. K.igbo Cremated in ? Tenement. Quebec. Sept. 26.-Fight children of the family of Ulrich Trudel are be lieved to have been cremated as the result of fire which broke ont In a three-story wooden building here at an early hour to-day. Five other families also lived in the house, but they escaped. The mother and father, as we?' is Hie eldest boy, although in jured, wore saved. The eldest boy was dropped from a third-story win dow and struck his head on the curb stone. CALLS FOR TRUSTEES TO MEET. State Superintendent, Swearingen Will Be Present at Meeting. Tho school trustees of Oconeo county are urgently requested to meet at the Court House on Monday, Octo ber 6th, (salesday) at 10 o'clock in the forenoon. State Suprinnt'Midcr.i of Education J. E. Swearingen will be present and desires to meet with every trustee in the county and talk over matters pertaining to the better ment of conditions in the public schools of this county. Mr. Swearin gen Is one of the ablest men in our Stato to-day, and this opportunity to meei and hear him should no I be neglected by the trustees. I urge each one of Oconee's trus tees to attend this meeting, and to be on hand promptly. The meeting with the State Superintendent will be tho means of gotting inspiration for the school work in our county. Let no trivial matter prevent your at tendance on the 6th of October, and remember the hour set for the meet ing-10 o'clock in tho morning. T. A. Smith, Superintendent of Education. AGED CAROLINIAN MKS. Wax First ?Ian from this Section to Croas Atlantic. Greenville, Sept. 25.-Benjamin Franklin Stalrley, aged 93, died at his home In Greenville this afternoon. He was probably the oldest resident of tho city, and In his younger days was a citizen of State-wide note. A native of Old Pendleton District, he was the first scientific agriculturist in the up-country, and an old farmers' Journal in possesion of a Greenville lawyer contains several of his ad dresses along scientific lines, deliv ered over GO years ago. He was the first citizen of upper South Carolina to cross the Atlantic ocean in a steam ship. He was probably one of the first Americans to study agricultural conditions and methods lu Europe. For many years he was an active offi cial in the Pendleton Agricultural So ciety, organized by John C. Calhoun. He became a resident of this city soon after the War Between the Sec tions. Among the surviving children of Mr. Stalrley is a son in California who is said to be president of a large banking institution. Forty or more yeal s ago Mr. Stalrley was one of the largest property owneig thia coun ty, lie ?ohl to (?overnor H. F. Pei ry the estate now known as Sans Souci. COL KM AN GIVEN MFR SENTENCE ll?> Was Found Guilty ot* Having Mur dered Aged Kat her-Till i'd Trial. Union, S. C., Sept. 24.- For the third time Many Coleman, a young man 27 years old. laces trial on the charge ol' murdering his aged lather. j Robert Coleman, a substantial far mer, who was shot down by an un . known assassin while reading a news paper on?, evening last February. Mystery has surrounded the crime from the time Robert Colmean fell dying in his own blood after being shot from behind a bush outside the window of th*1 room where he was sitting, and the two preceding!trials have been sensational, whim link by link the State formed a chain of circumstantial evidence in au effort to prove that Harry Coleman was the perpetrator of the deed. When for the third time Coleman was placed on trial yesterday afternoon, he evidenced the same composure and almost stolid indiffer ence to the proceedings as he had nmnifpot^d throughout tho two pre vious rials. He Bee ni? in goo., baal tb i f hough uot iiuiib HO robus.. a.< at '.ha i.isi trial In May, though he hast beert . ?i tl in the jail since tho day ni ter tho murder in February, when he was arrested after bloodhounds, which had been placed on the trail, followed his traci's and caused strong i suspicion to be directed against him. Union, Sept. 26.-Guilty of mur der, with recommendation to mercy, was the verdict rendered by the jury Of tho Harry Coleman case after it had been out about four boura. Extend "Votes for Women" South. Washington, Sept. 28-The annual convention of tho National American Woman Suffrage Association here during the week beginning December 1st will lay plans for the most deter mined effort yet made to compel Con gress to act favorably on suffrage con stitutional amendements. Methods for extending the aulfrage in the South and Fast are also to be im portant subjects of consideration. Woman Guilty of Murder. Pulton, Mo., Sejit. 27.-Mrs. Susan Ross, who has been on trial here for the murder of her husband. J. 11. Ross, yesterday was found guilty of murder in the second degree. The jury fixed the penalty at ten years' imprisonment. Ross was murdered while he slept. The revolver with which he ?-rt? shot was found hidden under a rug In the room. .M AMMA, DADDY AM) < ll ll,IMtEN Aldi LOVE "CALIFORNIA SYRUP OF PIGS. Harmless "Fruit Laxative" Cleanses Stomach, Diver and '.towels. A delicious (Mire for constipation, biliousness, sick headache, sour sto mach, indigestion, coated tongue, sal lowness -take "California Syrup of ''""igs." For thc cause of all this dis tress lies in a torpid liver and slug gish Dowels. A tablespoonful to-night means all constipation, poison, waste matter, fermenting food and sour bile gently moved out of your system by morn ing without griping. Please don't think of "California Syrup of Figs" as a physic. Don't think you are drugging yourself or your children, because this delicious fruit laxative cannot cause Injury, Even a dellacte child can take it as safely as a robust man. It ls the most harmless, effect ive stomach, liver and bowel regula tor and tonic ever devised. Your only difficulty may be in get ting the genuine; so ask your drug gist for a 50-oent bottle of "Califor nia Syrup of Figs." Say to your druggist, "I want only that made by the California Fig Syrup Company." This city hns many counterfeit "fig syrups," so watch out. adv.