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OCONEE FARMERS' CONTEST. Average 1013 Yield of Corn in Con. tent Was f*ft Bushels. Editor Keowee Courier: On De cember 23d, 1913, the committee to award prize? In the Oconee wheat, oats and corn contest met and tabu lated the results of the year's work. The average yield of corn, as shown by the records of the five contestants for Oconee, is Sf? bushels to the acre. The Prize Winners. Tho yields and prise winners aro enumerated below, tbe report being officiai. ? Wheat None. Oats- Prize. Hu. Lbs M. Abbott .1st SU J. M Barron . 2d 64 16 Richard Lewis.3d 60 J. s. Strlbling .4th 52 16 L. M. Smith .5th ,"20 Corn Prize.,j ll Lbs. J. I). Cheek .1st . :> L'S Richard Lewis.2d '.?7 ll J. C.. Lee .:?d 91 1 0 Otto Cantrell .?th SH ll John T. Chalmer ;. . . 5th ."?1 ll \\'e, t be committee, do certify thal tho above is a corred statement as reported to the chnlrmaii of county committee. T. Y. ('balmers. Chairman. Now for I ?I I. Brother farmers, the Good Hook tells us thal all run in the race, bul ono receiveth tho prize. We bad ls contestants in this corn race and only j Ave reported officially, and we un derstand thal sono- ni* these contest ants made ns much as 7 0 bushels per aero. When you enter the race stay in it. and it' you make only a few bushels report it. Some say that it is no use to outer the contest, tor you cannot compete with the acres that make a large yield, but you can not tell, for an acre may make over 100 bushels one year and about one third as much the next. We know this to be the case since tins contest has been going on. We have already 1 ."> contestants for corn next year and bear of a good many more who intend to enter. We ought to have anyhow as many as 100. So drop the chairman a card and he will enter you, and do not walt for some one to come and see you. The Intention of this contest is not to see how much you can make on an acre regardless of the cost, but to improve the land. If there is fifty bushels of corn made on an acre and it cost fifty dollars to make it, the corn would have to bring $1 per bushel to come out even. lt we would sow part of our land in grain and after the harvest put the stub ble in ??eas and turn them under there would be vegetation (hun us) in the land, and what fertilizer was med would have something to work on. If a public road was fertilized and planted the fertilizer could not do much, for the soil would be bar Ten instead of being pull of humus. Then sow part in clover and grain, and when the land gets a good clo ver sod i n it then we will not lune to use so much commercial fertilizer, which will not permanently build up the land. lt is just like a horse: If he is worked hard, fed little and given no rest he won't last long. So let us sow our land in grain, peas and clover, keep the stalls well lit tered, broadcast the manure, and we Will have Christmas at our homos all the year round, and not only on the 25th Of December. Another thing we need is a man who is able to go into the field, pick the soil and tell what it needs. That's wba' these agricultural col leges ;ire for, and the good day is coming. Why not have a physician for the soil as well as for the per son? The day is dawning and we can already see the light over the hills. The good Lord is on our side, for He lias said He that tills tho soil shall have bread." The only thing He bates Is that we will not help ourseH es. Lei us all be Up and doing and join the contest. Respectfully, T. Y. Chalmers. Chairman. IOU AGRICULTURAL CONTESTS. Huies Governing Wheat, Oats ami Corn Contests in Oconee, Following aro the rules governing the contest and awarding of prizes for wheat, oats and coin for the year 1914: Any farmer, resident of Oconee county, may enter the contest, in cluding all boys from 12 to lil years of age, in or out of tlie Hoys' Corn Club contest, for any one or more of tho prizes as herein provided for, by paying an entrance fee of one dollar per acre. The acre may bo laid off in any form desired in a single lol, either in bottom or upland. Contestants for wheat and oats must enter and have their acreage laid off before tho first of February, 1914. The contestants for the corn prizes must i V.er and have their acres laid off before the first day of May, 1914. The acre must in every case he laid off by some competent person and accepted by the committee. All contestants will be required to make affidavit, in torin prescribed by tho committee, as to the number of pounds of wheat or oats, threshed In dry condition, from said acre, to be signed by himself and tho party who threshed it, and tile the same with the chairman of the committee on or be fore the 15th day of July, 1914. Tho Bub-couimlttee that is ap pointed for each contestant to super vise the harvesting and weighing of the corn, and the contestant and the committee, will be required to make affidavit as to how much is gathered in the shuck, and how much shelled corn, by weight, obtained from 100 pounds 111 the shuck of average corn, taken from heap after all is gather ed, and file the same with tho chair man of the committee on or before the 10th of November, 19 14. The committee will award tho prizes No vember 15th, or as soon thereafter as practicable. The sub-committee must he com posed of persons of integrity, ami 2 1 years of age. The corn must he gathered in dry condition and weighed from the Held. The prize fund in each contest will be divided ns follows: First prize .30 per cent. Second prize.>. 25 per cent. Third prize.20 percent. Fourth prize.15 percent. Fifth prize .10 per cent. All contestants are required to send their names to tho chairman of the committee, T. Y. Chalmers, Wal halla. H. F. D. No. 2, Also send en trance fees by May 1st, 1914. Any person not complying with the above rules will be ruled out. T. Y. Chalmers, Chairman, A. H. Billson, H. Ii. Venter, Committee. Wonderful ('??ugh Remedy. Dr. King's New Discovery is known everywhere as the remedy which will surely stop a cough or cold. D. P. Dawson, of Kidson, Ten nessee, writes: "Dr. King's New Dis covery is tile most wonderful cough, cold and throat and lung medicine 1 ever sold in my store. It can't he beat, lt solis without any trouble at all. lt needs no guarantee." This is true, because Dr. King's New Dis covery will relieve tho most obstinate of coughs and colds. Lung troubles quickly helped hy its use. You should keep a bottle in the house at all times for all the members of the family. 50c. and $t. All druggists, or by mail. H. E. Bucklen & Co., Philadelphia or St. Louis. adv. John Mitchell Quits Federation. L msing, Mich., Jan. 1.-.lohn Mit chell, whose tenn as vice president of tho American Federation of Labor expired last midnight, announced to day that his retirement from official life in the .ederation does not mean that he will .'?ase his activities in thc interest of labor. He said he would devote his time largely to writing for "the cause.-' As the clock struck twelve last night. Mitchell was standing on tin platform in Central Labor Hall here pleading in behalf of the striking miners in the Michigan copper conn try. "It is with a tinge of regret." hi said, "that I step out as an officer in the American Federation of Labor but 1 am glad that I have the oppor tunity to be lighting for organized labor during the last hours of in> official connection with the organiza tion." Moy and (liri on Sale. St. Louit;, .Jan. 1.-Stephen (?odo unable to support his children, Mar garet, eight, and Stephen, six, to-day advertised them for sale, ile wantf $2.000 for the girl and $1,000 foi the boy. "A girl is worth more than a boy," he says. He got the idea from a moving picture show. He wants a rich family to buy the children. WHAT'S INDIGESTION ? WHO CAKES ? LISTEN ! 'Dupe's Diapepsin" Makes Sick, Sour, (?ussy stomachs Surely Feel Fine in I ive Minutes. Timi- it! In five minutes all sto mach distress will go. No indiges tion, heartburn, sourness or belch lng of gas, acid, or eructations of uu llgested food, no dizziness, bloating, foul breath or headache. Pape's Diapepsin ls noted for Its speed in regulating upset stomachs It is the surest, quickest and most certain Indigestion remedy In th? whole world, and besides it is harm less. Millions of men and women now eat their favorite foods without feat they know Papa's Diapepsin will sa'c them from any stomach miser. Please, for your sake, get a larg? flfty-ceni casi- of Pape's Dla pepsi i from any drug store and pul youl Stomach right. Don't keep on beiiif. miserable life is too short-you an not here long, so make your sta} agreeable. Kal what you like and di gost it: enjoy it, without dread o rebellion In the stomach. Pape's Dinpepsln belongs in you home anyway. Should one of tin family eat something which don' agree with them, or in case of an at tack of indigestion, dyspepsia, gas Iritis or stoma; h derangement a laytime or during the night, it i handy to give the quickest, surest W lief known. adv The Governor of j Defends tl (From Heart's Si The State of Delaware is the whips its criminals at public whip lt has done this ever since it bec riodical waves of agitation throug of these forms of punishment, culminated recently In a demand tion compelling Delaware to disco Here Governor Charles H. his State believes in whipping cri any proposed Federal or private and why he believes whipping ls crime than the penal systems In Delaware has whipped criminals of certain types since lt'">G and will continue to whip them until the stat ! utes under which corporal punish ? ment is inflicted shall he repealed, j Congress cannot, and certainly will , not. interfere in the exercise of pro ; per authority under the law, and as the whipping post is an integral part : of the criminal law of Delaware every law oflicer must consent to it.; use regardless of any personal views lie may have in the matter. Hysteri cal women, weak men, bullies, cranks and blackguards in all par's of the country have written to me demand-1 ing that I set aside tlie law and pro hibit whippings for crime in Delrv ' ware. These good souls give no heed ; to the fact that the whippings are (tuite as legal in Delaware as impris onment. Their demands amount to anarchy, so far as law en forcement mies. They cry, "Down with the law!" without knowing whereof they speak. I want every criminal. every sharper and every moral leper to .know that if he conies to Delaware and violates the law lie will not only . serve a long term in our none too comfortable jails, hut that he will he whipped in public on his hare hack before he enters bia cell. 1 wish this fact could be spread to the uttermost I corners of the country. j Delaware wants no undesirable citizen. This State offers nothing but the whip and workhouse for the gunmen, white slavers, panders, highwaymen and common thieves ! which people the underworld of some of our larger cities and who seem to get a certain amount of applause for i their more daring performances from the same type of people who demand that I shall ?set aside a fundamental law of my State and defy the decrees of our High Court. Delaware houses one-half of her population in the city of Wilming ton. All the rest of the State is strictly rural. Our people are of the soil. They are typical farmers plain, wholesome, God-fearing people who obey the law and who punish crime with severity. We lia ve nei ther tlie means nor the machinery witli which to patrol our rural dis ' tricts with armed officers, lt follows, then, that we must have laws carry ing severe penalties and rigidly en lorac them. Half the people in Delaware south of W il in ing ton never lock their doors at night, window fasteners are iin I common, and thought of burglars is . totally absent from tlie minds of our people. Once in a long while some half-drunken loon will enter a house lat night. When he is not kicked out as a mere intruder he is locked up,* ?tried, convicted and whipped accord , ing to law, and then locked up long . enough to think it over himself and to deter all others rom a like ! offense. Those who criticise the whipping post adversely overlook the fact that Delaware is the broad highway be tween four chief American cities. Our unthinking critics include those who do not know that time or the loss of time means nothing at all to a very large proportion of our population. A day, or a week, or a month, more or less, costs a low grade negro nothing at all in propor , tun itv or In money. The native nc Kioes of Delaware know the.'- places and make no trouble. They are far above the average in habits and in Intelligence, but we have a floating negro population which is definitely ; had, and we must safeguard our peo ' pie. white and black, against those ? who come from all parts of the . Shore country to the canneries, work a few weeks or months and then pass on, only to give place to nno I ther lot just as had, or even worse. Tile negro with city habits is ? a * worse proposition than the farm 1 trained hand, who is usually law , abiding and useful. Delaware can i handle her own negroes with little ' orno force, but the passing throng of j bad men needs attention, and they file by with eyes front on the w lp? r ping posts. Cells mean nothing at all to such men, white or black. Delaware is absolutely free from .. all forms of white slavery. This par t tlculnr form Of crime is punished s here without recourse to the Mann ic or aili i vom the Pode ral nuthofl* he \v bippj ig Post. inday Am ^ffiffife only one < 1 States that ping post;- 1 $j ?; lories them, ame a Sui nye been pe hout the ie abolition The most of the kind before ('- .-rei- >.< Federal ac ntine its < i. Miller, ol Delawaie, explains why minais; why it is prepared to resist interference with its whippings, more efficacious as a preventive of other States. ties. Did the whipping post do naught else but keep cadets out of Delaware it proves its eternal value here. In every other State in the Union in whl '.. there is a large city the white slave problem comes up with a degree of regularity. The same people who condemn the whip ping post wring their hands and won der what to do about the cadets and their wretched victims. Delaware answers, "Whip the cadet!" Years ago a gang of deperadocs undertook to rob a Wilmington bank. They tunneled linster the building, and would have carried off $500,000 in negotiable securities but for the suspicions of au alert watchman. They were arrested, and on trial paid one attorney a very large fee solely to the end that they might be saved from the public whipping. The late great Chief Justice Lore sentenced them to long terms in prison and to the utmost limit of the law as to pillory and lashes. There has never been a bank robbery attempted in Delaware from thal day to this by professional bur glars. These men were bank rob bers of the first grade; the same men who managed one of the sensa tional robberies in New York-the Metropolitan Hank, I thirik. That type of criminal never considers Del aware now for a second. A prison term means nothing at all to him, but he would never dare show bis face in his usual haunts af ter the lash fell on his bare back in a Delaware jail. All prison reformers and all hu manitarians agree that the object of all punishment is to prevent crime remotely lo cure the criminal. We are not discussing the cure of crimi nals. We are discussing tlie whip ping post per se, and I submit that the whipping post has prevented two of the most terrible of all crimes short of murder-white slavery and burglary. There is a grave doubt in my mind if there has been a single burglary in Delaware within twenty years committed by a mi .. who was entirely sane and wholly sober, and I do not recall any second offenders. lt will not be seriously questioned that society has a right to protect itself. If the whipping post proves to be a perpetual and potential pro tector against the burglar, the high wayman and the cadet, why cry down its effectiveness? New York had an epidemic of gunmen; Chicago had an epidemic of high way men ; Hoston and Philadelphia made war on ca dets. Delaware simply painted her whipping posts and multiplied school houses. Within recent weeks in Philadel phia. Judge Norris S. Harratt de clared from the bench that nothing except a thoroughly good whipping at a public post would serve to ade quately punish a wife beater before him. This learned jurist is intimate ly familiar with social and political conditions in Delaware and, before the Sons of Delaware, most ably de fended the whipping post as an aid to crimo prevention. Solitary confinement has been proved a failure. It rots out the prisoner, destroys all ambition, and when his hour of freedom comes he is without initiative, v, about occu pation and without hope. Trades are now taught these men, but day after day they are "lined up" as pro fessionals, and their lives become a misery to them. Now I repent that the basic idea of punishment has to do with tho protection f society against tlx criminal. >. would be a little beyond me to explain the psychological effect of a public whipping post upon the mind of a professional criminal, but of course I had Ideas. The fact remains, however, that the mere prospect of such a whipping keeps men out ol' Delaware who would not hesitate a second to "shoot up" a dance hall in New York or Chicago. lt is a fact of common knowledge that ship masters of undoubted courage, of tested and proved valor, are as timid as little children when ashore; that firemen who never give a thought to personal peril at a con flagration bawl and make an awful to-do abtut having a tooth Ulled. Frank Qotch, the wrestler, who could tear an ordinary man apart with his bands, bows with absolute submis Bion. I aui told, to tho will of Mrs. Ootch. Doubtless the men of science the psychologists, have a definite name for this phenomenon of the mind. I do not know this word, but I do know that burglars and highwaymen who would brave the police force of Philadelphia, or any other large city will not even consider a "job" In Delaware, and that these men when asked why, invariably reply that they will take no chance of the whipping post, lt may be a display of vanity more than fear. I do not quite know. 1 have no quarrel with those who want to reform prisons, but 1 am a most earnest advocate of any and every method that prevents crime, and this the whipping post does to a marked degree. The sense of shame that follows a public whipping is quite a differ ent matter from the innermost feel ings of the same man flogged in privacy. In the underworld, where there exist strata of preferment just as there are t. ?eial equations in or ganized society, a man who has done "a bit" of long duration lives in a degree of reflected glory. A yegg man who has served ten or twelve years in Cherry Hill. Sing Sing, Jo iiet or any one of the other notori ous prisons bas a certain standing among his fellows in crime. Hut it is a curious yet certain fact that the man who is whipped itt public loses taste at once and forever. lt seems to be thal in having been sentenced to be whipped, the scone in the court room, the display In the jal'yard and the final (logging-all produce a pro found and a lasting mental shock. This is not true when a mere warder calls a man out of his cell, beats him and then throws him in a dark bolo. This performance is followed by mere resentment. The victim of this system, and the prisoner is very often a victim merely promises himself to kill the warder if he ever has a chance, or some like foolish threat. Not so when a High Court, a Chief Justice amid scenes of dignity and decorum orders the whipping. It is the effect upon the mind of the man whipped and the result of the whipping upon the minds of other criminals that count, lt is purely psychic, but it is none the less effective. None of the men whipped in Dela ware is punished to the point that very great physical torture follows. Such a lashing would create a martyr of a criminal, and this must be avoided. Criminals of the type that hold up trains, raid banks and rob govern ment buildings are jealous of their reputations in the underworld. Once whipped they become objects of de rision and contempt in their own cir cles. Some of these men are inor dinately vain, lt is quite likely that this vanity, affection or love of even doubtful glory deters them from invading Delaware and daring the post. Notice how the arrest of a notori ous yeggman is always followed by accurate reports oT his record. Study these records and you will seldom see that the prisoner was whipped in Delaware. It is idle to assume that these men are afraid .0 come to DoJ aware because we have police, a mi litia and all the other agencies for the enforcement of law. These are common to all communities. They are not in any degree afraid of the .physical punishment Involved in a Delaware whipping. Many of them in friendly boxing bouts are more thoroughly beaten up every few days while exercising. It ls the prelimina ries, the mental picture of the trial, the solemnity of the sentence, the ignominy of the performance, and, last of all, the contempt, ridicule and humiliation at the hands of their consorts, male and female, that pro duce the result first on the individual whipped, and ultimately upon all of his kind. If there was nothing to it but a mere Hogging by a prison warder of doubtful authority; simply one man in brief authority beating up ano ther man but temporarily In his keeping, t?tere would be, could be. no such result, and the whipping of criminals would probably degenerate into revolting performances with at tending scandals. The Delaware sys tem precludes any such possibility. The women of the nation lead In ali humanitarian work as they should. In every largo city in the United States, except Wilmington, Del., some brute is sent to jail every day or so Tor wire beating. Chicago has had to establish a Court, of Do mestic Relations for the almost ex clusive benefit of women who have been whipped by beasts who swore to love and honor them. Delaware will never reed any such court so long as thu whipping post is so near the cour* house and In such great favor with our judiciary. There is no judge sitting In Delaware who does not strongly favor the last for wife heaters. . Some of our good friends who call themselves penologists, phllathrop ists, humanitarians and prison re I UCK KN''-.' MAIR NO ANTIQUITY. Owners lt? turn I-iock to England Ra ttle r titan Pay $70 Duty. (Washington Post.) The recent decision of the Treas ury Department that a lock of hair clipped from the head of Charles Dickens did not constitute in Itself an antiquity resulted in the shipment hack to England of the famous relic. The treasury held that although Dickens if living would he more than 100 years old, it was clearly evident that the lock of hair could not lay claim to any such age. An antiquity as viewed by the treasury officials must be at least a century old. Had it not been for the decision by the owners that the lock was worth while only as a curiosity and that they did not feel justified in paying $70 into the New York cus tom house, a record would have been established for tariff charges upon artic?is of no Intrinsic value. The Dickens relic had been sold publiclj In London for $2 00. To Cure a Cold In One Day Take LAX ATIVK BROMO Quinine. It stops thc Cough and Headache aud works off the Cold. Druggists refund money if it fails to cure. H. W. GROVES siiiiiature on each box. 23c. Restaurants Raided by Unemployed. Chicago, .Ian. 1.-Entering restau rants and demanding food, breaking windows and pncturiltg automobile tires, a crowd of nearly r>00 unem ployed men early .his morning marched through Chicago's business district. They furnish ul a strange contrast to New Year levelers, who were leaving the cafes and restau rants. The men marched in State street four abreast, carrying a banner which read: "We demand work, not char ity." The army halted cars and cried to passengers that they wanted work. At Van Duren street the po lice halted the marchers, but they soon reformed their line farther down the street. "Hey, you bums, what's up?" shouted a pedestrian from the curb. "You are drunk and we are hun gry," replied one of the leaders. The band finally broke up into small groups. CROSS, FEVERISH, SICK CHILDREN NEED "CALI FORNIA SYRUP OP FIOS." A Coated Tongue Means Sluggish Liver and Rowels-Lis ten, Motlier ! Your child isn't naturally cross and peevish. See if tongue is coat ed; this is a sure sign its little sto mach, liver and bowels need a cleans ing at once. When listless, pale, feverish, full ot" cold, breath bad, throat sore, doesn't eat, sleep or act naturally, has sour stomach, diarrhoea, remem ber a gentle liver and bowel cleans ing should always be the first treat ment given. Nothing equals "California Syrup of Figs" for children's ills. (Jive a teaspoonful and in just a few hours all the foul waste, sour bile and fer menting food, clogged in the bowels, passes out of the system and you have a well and playful child again. All children love this harmless fruit laxative and it never fails ti off? good "inside" cleansing. I for babies, children of all grown-ups are plainly on ea? i hoi Mother, keep it handy n home. A little given to-daj s ue?; a sick child to-morrow, but genuine. Ask your dniggl 50-cent bottle of "Californ ip of Figs." Then look and st is made by the "California b Company." We make no size. Don't be fooled. formers overlook one all-Important matter in their crusades. This es sential is the prevention of crime. Without discussion I will agree to everything that any of them promise for the health and education and re formation of a criminal, but I still insist that he is best off when he is kept from'crime. The people of Delaware are not barbarians. In education, in culture, in true charity and In man's love for man the people of Delaware rank with the best in the land and in pa triotism second to none. It is absurd to attempt the indictment of a peo ple of a sovereign State. Delaware has^ proud place in the history of the country and ls prepared to meet every proper issue as it arises and Congressmen from the wilds of Mon tana will do well to study the practi cal results 'following legislation in Delaware before asking for Federal interference in a purely State matter. Let every professional criminal in all the world know that Delaware is no field for his operation?, that crime here means public whippings on the hare back, the ultimate of public dis grace, absolute enforcement of the law and Delaware will bo well served. Other States may toy with tho criminal; experiment with crime and multiply tho police, hut Dela wareVwlll continue to pi event crime and thus save the criminal from himself and protect the public from tho criminal. There ls no considerable sentiment against the whipping post in Dcla wa re.