Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, November 11, 1910, Image 1

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W XSS^Ss SBMI-WEEKL^ l. m grist s sons, Pnbiishers.} % Jfamilir |Wspaper: j;or (lie promotion of the political, Social, Agricultural anil (Tommercial Interests of the people. { T?R ?"no"e0cO*vv"*vJNCEt0""C? ESTABLISHED 1855. YORKVILLE. 8. C. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 1\, 1910. ISTdTooT *#*A *** *$+A Xv+A *?*A *$*< A ! .FORTUNE i 4 Novelized by Loi From the Play ol i ?m by Wind ? Copyright 1910. by Winchcll Sr **+A X#*A ?t$+A **+ A *?*i In one of Rudyard Kipling's writings he tell of "the ship that found herself," and in "The Fortune Hunter" we have the fascinating narrative of "a youth who found himself." The youth is like the ship?he had to have his course laid straight before his career began to make substantial headway. The story of Nat Duncan is one that in dramatic form, as written by Winchell Smith, has attracted the attention of thousands of playgoers throughout the country. As a novel, written by Louis Joseph Vance, it becomes a narrative of profound appeal to the young and old and especially to those 01 us wnu in our youth dwelt in a rural district far enough removed from the metropolitan centers to be practically a world in itself and to itself. Usually it is the country lad who ventures into the great cities to seek fortune and fame's favor. But here we find a down to date city youth, who, a failure at everything he had undertaken, invades the rural districts to make a millionaire of himself. That which befalls him prompted a great New York newspaper editor to say, "Every American should read this great story," for "The Fortune Hunter," in spite of its enjoyable humor, subtilely pointed by its talented authors, teaches the vital lessons of the need of charity and tolerance for the less fortunate of human beings. CHAPTER I. Receiver at ear, Spaulding of Messrs. Atwater & Spaulding, importers of motoring garments and accessories, listened to the switchboard onnntinopmsnt with grave attention acknowledging it with a toneless "All right; send him in." Then, hooking up the desk telephone, he swung round in his chair to face the door of his private office and in a brief ensuing interval painstakingly ironed out of his face and attitude every indication of the frame of mind in which he awaited his caller. It was, as a matter of fact, anything but a pleasant one. He had a distasteful duty to perform, but that was the last thing he designed to become evident. Like most good business men, he nursed a pet superstition or two, and of the number of these the first was that he must in all his dealings present an inscrutable front, like a poker player's. Captains of industry were uniformly like that. Spaulding understood. If they entertained emotions it was strictly in private. Occasionally this attitude deceived others. Notably now it bewildered Duncan as he entered on the echo of Spaulding's "Come!" He had apprehended the visage of a thunderstorm with a rattle of brusque complaints. He encountered Spaulding as he had always seemed?a little, urbane figure with a blank face, the blanker for glasses whose lenses seemed always to catch the light and, glaring, mask the eyes behind them; a prosperous man of affairs, well groomed both as to body and as to mind, a machine for the transaction of business with all a machine's vivacity and temperamental responsiveness. It was just that quality in him that Duncan envied, who was vaguely impressed that if he himself could imitate, however minutely, the phlegm of a machine he might learn to ape something of its efficiency and so ultimately prove himself of some worth to the world and incidentally to Nathaniel Duncan. "Good afternoon, Mr. Spaulding," he said, replying to a nod as he dropped into the chair that nod had indicated. A faint smile lightened his expression and made it quite engaging. "O'd afternoon." Spaulding surveyed him swiftly, then laced his fat little fingers and contemplated them with detached intentness. "Just get in, Duncan ?" "On the 3.30 from Chicago. I got your wire," he resumed. "I mean it got me?overtook me at Minneapolis." "You haven't wasted time." "I fancied the matter might be urgent. sir. I gathered from the fact that you wired me to come home that you wanted my advice." A second time spauiamg gesiureu with his eyebrows, for once fairly surprised out of his pose. "Your advice?" "Yes," said Duncan evenly, "as to whether you ought to give up your customers on my route or send them a man who could sell goods." "Well?" Spaulding admitted. "Oh, don't think I'm boasting of my acuteness. Anybody could have guessed as much from the great number of heavy orders I have not been sending you." "You've had bad luck." "You mean you have, Mr. Spaulding. It was good luck for me to be drawing down my weekly checks, bad luck to you not to have a man who could earn them." His desperate honesty touched Spaulding a tritle. At the risk of not seeming a business man to himself he inclined dubiously to relent, to give Duncan another chance. "Duncan," he said, "what's the trouble?" "I thought you knew that: I thought that was why you called me in with my route half covered." "You mean"? "I mean 1 can't sell your line." "Why ?" "Clod only knows. I want to hadlv enough. It's just general incompetence. I presume." 'What makes you think that?" Duncan smiled bitterly. "Experience." he said. "You've tried?what else?" "A little of everything, all the jobs open to a man with a knowledge of Initio and Greek and the higher mathematics?shipping clerk, timekeeper, cashier, all of 'em." "And yet Kellogg believes in you." Duncan nodded dolefully. "Harry's a good friend. We roomed together at college. That's why he stands for me." k ?*+A ?*+A ?K?+A ***A X.*+A ! HUNTER. I M iris Joseph Vance f the Same Name M lei Smith nitli and Louis Joseph Vance. ^ k ?#*A *?+A ??*A ??*A *?*A^ "He says you only need the right opening"? And nobody knows where that is, except my fortunate employers. It's the back door going out for mine every time. Oh, Harry's been a prince to me. He's found me four or five jobs with friends of his, like yourself. But I don't seem to last. You see, I was brought up to be ornamental and irregular rather than useful, to blow about in motorcars and keep a valet busy sixteen hours a day, and all that sort of thing. My father's failure? you know about that?" Spaulding nodded. Duncan went on gloomily, talking a great deal more freely than he would have talked at any other time?suffering, in fact, from that species of auto-hypnosis induced by the sound of his own voice recounting his misfortunes which seems especially to affect a man down on his luck. "That smash came when I was five years out of college?I'd never thought of turning my hand to anything in all that time. I'd always had more coin u' "tv"^ IglHl BETTY GBAHAM. than I could spend?never had to consider the worth of money or how hard it is to earn. My father saw to all that. He seemed not to want me to work; not that 1 hold that against him. He'd an idea I'd turn out a genius of some sort or other, I believe. Well, he failed and died all in a week, and I found myself left with an extensive wardrobe, expensive tastes, an impractical education?and not so much of that that you'd notice it?and not a cent. I was too proud to look to my friends for help in those days?and perhaps that was as well; I sought jobs on my own. Did you ever keep books in a fish market?" "Vo" Stiaublintr's eves twinkled be hind his large, shiny glasses. "But what's the use of my boring you?" Duncan made as if to rise, suddenly remembering himself. "You're not. Go on." "I didn't mean to. Mostly, I presume. I've been blundering round an explanation of Kellogg's kindness to me. in my usual ineffectual way, but I felt an explanation was due you, as the latest to suffer through his misplaced interest in me." "Perhaps," said Spaulding, "I'm beginning to understand. Go on, I'm interested. About the fish market?" "Oh, I just happened to think of it as a sample experience, and the last of that particular brand. I got $9 a week and earned every cent of it inhaling the atmosphere. My board cost me $6 and the other $3 afforded me a chance to demonstrate myself a captain of finance, paying laundry bills and clothing myself, besides buying lunches and such like small matters. I did the whole thing, you know, one schooner of beer a day and made my own cigarettes. Never could make up my mind which was the worst. The hours were easy, too; didn't have to get to work until f? in the morning. I lasted five weeks at that job before 1 was taken sick. Shows what a great constitution I've got." "And then"? "<ili"? Duncan roused. "Why then I fell in with Kellogg again; he found me trying the open air cure on a bench in Washington square. . nice then he's been finding me one berth after another. He's a sure enough op timist." Span Mi UK shifted uneasily in his chair. stirred l>y an impulse whose unwisdom he could not doubt. Duncan had assuredly done his ease 110 {food hy painting his shortcomings in colors so vivid; yet somehow, strangely. Spaulding liked him the better for his open hearted confession. "Weir*? Spaulding stumbled awkwardly. "Yes: of course," said Duncan promptly, rising. "Sorry if I tired you." "What do you mean by Yes. of course?"" "That you called me in to fire me? and so that's oyer with. Duly I'd he sorry to have you sore 011 Kellogg for saddling me on you. You see. he believed I'd make good, and so I did in a way; at least I hoped to." "< >h, that's all right." said Spaulding uncomfortably. "The trouble is. you see. we've nothing else open just now. but if you'd really like another chance on the road 1?I'll be glad to speak to Mr. Atwater about it." "Don't you do it!" Duncan counseled him sharply, aghast. "He might say yes. And I simply couldn't accept; it wouldn't be fair to you, Kellogg or myself. It'd be charity, for I've proved I can't earn my wages, and I haven't come to that yet. No!" he concluded with determination and picked up his hat. "Just a minute." Spaulding held him with a gesture. "You're forgetting something?at least I am. There's a month's pay coming to you. The cashier will hand you the check as you go out." "A month's pay?" Duncan said blankly. "How's that? I've drawn up to the end of this week already, if you didn't know it" "Of course I knew it. But we never let our men go without a month's notice or its equivalent, and"? "No," Duncan interrupted firmly? "no; but thank you just the same. I couldn't?1 really couldn't. It's good of you, but? Now," he broke off aorupiiy, 1 ve itrit iiij ai_n.?uiuo, n?uc there is of them, with the bookkeeping: department, and the checks for my sample trunks. There'll he a few dollars coming to me on my expense account, and I'll send you my address as soon as I get one." "But, look here"? Spaulding got to his feet, frowning. "No," reiterated Duncan positively, "there's no use. I'm grateful to you for your toleration of me and all that, hut we can't do anything better now than call it all off. Goodby, Mr. Spaulding." Spaulding nodded, accepting defeat with the better grace because of an innate conviction that it was just as well after all. And, furthermore, he admired Duncan's stand, so he offered his hand?an unusual condescension. "You'll make good somewhere yet," he asserted. "I wish I could believe it." Duncan's grasp was firm since he felt more assured of some humanity latent in his late employer. "However, goodby." "Good luck to you," rang in his ears as the door put a period to the interview. He stopped and took up the battered suit case and rusty overcoat which he had left outside the junior partner's office, then went on, shaking his head. "Much obliged," he said huskily to himself, "but what's the good of that. There's no room anywhere for a professional failure, and that's what I am?just a ne'er-do-well. I never realized what that meant really before, and it's certainly taken me a damn long time to find out. But I know now, all right." Despondently he went down to the sidewalk and merged himself with the crowd, moving with it, though a thousand miles apart from it, and presently diverging, struck across town toward the Worth street subway station. "And the worst of it is he's too sharp not to find it out?if he hasn't by this time?and too decent by far to let me know if he has. It can't go on this way with us. I can't let him. Got to break with him somehow?now ?today. I won't let him think me what I've been all along to him. Bless his foolish heart!" There was no deprecation of Kellogg's goodness in his mood, simply determination no longer to he a charge upon it. To contemplate the sum total of the benefits he had received at Kellogg's hands since the day when the latter had found him ill and half starved, friendless as a stray pup, on the bench in Washington square staggered his imagination. He could never repay it, he told himself, save inadequately, little by little?mostly by gratitude and such consideration as he purposed now to exhibit by removing himself and his distress from the other's ken. Here was an end to comfort for him, an end to living in Kellogg's rooms, eating his food, busying his servants, spending his money, not so much borrowed as pressed upon him. There crawled in his mind a clammy memory of the sort of housing ho had known in past days, and he shuddered inwardly, smelling again the effluvia of dank oilcloth and musty carpets, of fishballs and fried ham, of old style plumbing and of $9 a week humanity in the unwashen raw, the odor of misery that permeated the lodgings to which his lack of means had introduced him. He could see again, and with a painful vividness of mental vision, the degenerate "brownstone fronts" that mask those haunts of wretchedness, with their flights of crumbling brownstone steps leading up to oaken portals haggard with flaking paint, flanked by squares of soiled " ????" > ii-KioV* inaviu.rt lion/lc Ill'ltr UJMJII \\ 1 I IV II IIIV Aj" i I 1IUIIUU had traced the warning, not "Abandon hope all ye who enter here," hut ' Furnished rooms to let with hoard." And t<> this he must return, to that treadmill round of blighted days and joyless lights must set his face. Alighting at the Grand Central station, he packed the double weight of "BEO PAllDON, 81K, BUT IT CAN'T BP YOU!' his luggage and his cares a few blocks northward on Madison avenue ere turning west toward the bachelor rooms which Kellogg had established in the marine: Forties, just the other side of the avenue?Fifth avenue. The elevator boy, knowing hint of old, neglected to announce his arrival and Duncan had his own key to the door of Kellogg's apartment. He let himself in with futile stealth. As was unite right and proper, Kellogg's man Kohhins was in attendance, a stupelied Hoi.bins, thunderstruck by the unexpected return of his master's friend and guest. "Good Lord!" he cried at sight of Duncan. "t?eg your pardon sir, but?but it can't be you!" "Your mistake, Robbins. Unfortunately it is." Duncan surrendered hi! luggage. "Mr. Kellogg in?" "No, sir. But I'm expecting him anj minute. He'll be surprised to see yot back." "Think so?" said Duncan dully. "H< doesn't know me if he is." "You see, sir, we thought you was out west." "So you did." Duncan moved toward the door of his own bedroom Robbins following. "It was only yesterday I posted ? o " 9 **I'VB liOST MY JOB AGAIN." letter to you for Mr. Kellogg, sir, anc the address was Omaha." "I didn't get that far. Fetch alonf that suit case, will you please? I wan n"f qnmo n?Aan things In it." "Then you're not staying in towr overnight, Mr. Duncan?" "I don't know. I'm not staying here anyway." Duncan switched on the lights in his room. "Put it on the bed Robhins. I'll pack as quickly ^ i can I'm in a hurry." "Yes, sir; but I hope there's nothing wrong." "Then you lose," returned Duncar grimly. "Everything's wrong." He jerked viciously at an obstinate bureau drawer and, when it yielded unexpectedly with the well known impishness of the inanimate, dumped upon the floor a tangled miscellany of shirts socks, gloves, collars and ties. "Didn't you like the business, sir?" "No, I didn't like the business, and it didn't like me. It's the same old story, Robbins. I've lost my job again that's all." "I'm very sorry, sir." "Thank you, but that's all right I'm used to it." "And you're going to leave, sir?" "I am, Robbins." "1?may I take the liberty of hoping it's to take another position?" "You may, but you lose a second time. I've just made up my mind I'm not going to hang around here any longer, that's all." "Hut," Robbins ventured, hovering about with exasperating solicitude; "but Mr. Kellogg 'd never permit you to leave in this way, sir." "Wrong again, Robbins," said Duncan shortly, annoyed. "Yes, sir. Very good, sir." With the instinct of the well trained servant Robbins started to leave, but hesitated, He was really very much disturbed by Duncan's manner, which showed a phase of his character new in Robbins' experience of him. Ordinarily reverses such as this had seemed merely to serve to put Duncan on his mettle, to infuse him with a determination to try again and win out, whatever the odds, and at such times he was accustomed to exhibit a mad irresponsibility of wit and a gaiety of spirit (whether it were a mask or no) that only outrivaled his high good humor, when things ostensibly were going well with him. Intermittently, between his spasms of employment he had been Kellogg's guest for several years, not infrequently for months at a time, and so Robbins had come to feel a sort of proprietary interest in the young man, second only to the regard which he had for his employer. "Beg pardon, sir," he advanced, hesitant, "but perhaps you're just feeling a bit blue. Won't you let me bring you a drop of something?" "Of course I will," said Duncan emphatically over his shoulder. "And get it now, will you, while I'm packing? And, Robbins!" "Sir." "Only put a little in it." "A little what, sir?" "Seltzer, of course." Liu ut uouunueu. j THE KING WAS HUNGRY. Pays Signal Woman Five Dollars For a Meal. King Alfonso returned to his capital recently some time in advance of the queen and the rest of the royal family, having traveled by automobile from San Sabastiai , accompanied only by his equerry. Soon after leaving Miranda, near the village of Olon, the royal automol lie crossed the railway leading to Madrid. The king felt hungry, and stopping at the barrier, where an old signal woman lived, he asked her what she could give him to eat. She answered that she had nothing but eggs, bread and some wine. King Alfonso begged that sho prepare a meal, which she did and which his majesty ate by the roadside. Having satisfied his hunger, the king showed his appreciation of the luncheon by giving the woman the Spanish equivalent for $r?. She supposed she had been waiting upon two ordinary travelers, and great was her surprise, even consternation, on learning from her son, who had recognized him. that it was the king she had bad the honor to entertain. t Seaside visitor (admiring a seagull)?"How nice and clean he looks.' Hoatman?Ah, ma'am, if you spent as much time in the water its he does, you'd look clean, too."?Punch. ART IN THE HOME. Practical Suggestions About Aesthetic , Subject. PRIMARY PRINCIPLES MADE CLEAR. s - Some Points About the Arrangement , of Furniture?The Selection and Hanging of Pictures?Wiipt Can Be ' Done to Make the Walls Look Better ?Discrimination In the Selection of carpets. In The Enquirer's report of the exercises at Win '.irop college in connection with the recent meeting of the Boys' (Jorn oiub there, brief mention was made of the interesting and instructive papers that were included in the programme. In compliance with a special request, The Enquirer has been promised copies of several of these papers for publication, and below we are reproducing the carefully prepared remarks of Miss Maude M. Isles, A. B., Winthrop's accomplished instructor in free hand and Industrial drawing, and art, on the subject of "Art in the Home:" Is it not true that the majority of people today still look upon art as something foreign?something to be Indulged in only by the leisure class? Have they not a vague idea that only pictures and statuary come under the heading of art? What a mistake this is! Art is a most practical subject and is related to every day life. Hardly a day passes that we are not called upon to exercise our judgment to the best of our ability. It may be in judging whether or not we like a certain house or whether the front garden is pleasing?that is, are the paths and flower beds arranged to the best advantage. Has the color harmony of the flower bed been considered. How a little thought here will give character to a house. Possibly we are called upon to select a carpet or to arrange the bric-a-brac on a mantel or to hang a picture or to buy a dress. Is the dress a becoming style and suitable color? All these questions call for taste and critical judgment and are therefore art problems. I Where taste and judgment have been exercised there must be an atmosphere of art?of harmony and r order. "Compare two parlors. One t is a medley of furniture and bric-abrac, of all sorts of sizes and shapes and colors, picked up at shops, each ' because it happened to be a bargain or to strike a moment's fancy, and i then set in the parlor wherever there ' happened to be room for it. The oth' er parlor, on the contrary, shows > signs of order and arrangement. There , are fewer objects in it, and they have been carefully chosen and arranged for the double purpose of making the ' room comfortable and agreeable 10 the eye. This second room is an iilusi tratlon of good taste in selection and , arrangement. It is an art problem ' that has been solved." 1 Let us consider in detail the art problems that will arise in the fur, nishing of a room. It is not at all t necessary that everything must be ex! pensive in order to be artistic, or in . other words to show that good taste and judgment have been used. Suprose we start with the four blank walls and bare floor. Let us hope 1 that the room is of good proportion I and that the windows break the wall space into pleasing areas. Now, while a whitewashed or white painted wall is most unpleasant and will make the finest picture look out of place, a highly naturalistic flowered wall paper is just as bad; so is a large conventional patterned paper with spots that stand out boldly and are probably tinted with gold. "The walls, ceiling I and floor should be large, quiet places, against which the furniture, pictures ana oDjects 01 ornament are uamnueu. It is of first importance then that the 1 ceiling, walls and floor spaces be brought into harmonious relationships. A wall should be fiat and quiet in effect; flat, because of the ' nature of its construction, and quiet because it must serve as a background i for the furnishing of a room." A most excellent wall covering and a splendid background for pictures are the soft tints of Muresco and Alabaster paints. These paints are really i nothing more than tinted kalsomine and may be bought in a large variety of colors. They average ten cents to the pound. A package of five pounds will cover from three hundred (300) . to four hundred and fifty (450) square i feet, a rough surface requiring more material than a smooth, non-porus 1 wall. After the walls have been i tinted the carpet or rug should be , selected with care. The tone of the walls, woodwork and furniture should 1 be considered. The pattern of the ' carpet must be quiet and inoffensive. Let us not \ialk on naturalistic flowers and animals and flattened landscapes. The place for pictures is upon the wall. Next, the arrangement of the furniture. Let us hope that it is not ornate but simple and beautiful and that its claim to beauty, like the mission furniture, rests upon carefully i considered proportions and the dec( orative use of the structural features. All the heavy furniture should not be placed at one side of the room, nor should pieces of the same height or bulk be placed together. The covering of the furniture should harmonize with the wood and, like the wall paper, should be simple in design and preferably plain. The ornaments on the mantel should be there because they are beautiful to look at and not just because some one presented them as gifts. They should be grouped according to size and color in twos and threes, rather than placed separately at equal spaces?in straight lines. Now we will consider the pictures. I am sure we would all like to have the very best in our homes. Since we cannot buy the masterpieces, the next best thing to do is to procure copies of them. In this wonderful age of printing and of reproduction processes. there is no excuse for even the humblest home to be without a few good pictures. Who would not enjoy having such pictures as these upon the walls? They were bought at the ridiculously low sum of ten cents, in Columbia. They have a lovely soft , sepia finish and are 22x18 inches. I suppose you all know of the Perry Picture Co., in Mauldin, Mass.? They sell copies of almost all the famous , pictures?finished in beautiful tones of brown like these?sizes 5x7 are sold for one cent; those 10x12 inches at five cents; specially fine photographs for homes and schools, 22x28 inches, for seventy-five cents. How much , better a few of these would be upon the walls instead of the awful nightmare in black and white supposed to be our relatives and the gaudy chromes which are so common, and much , more expensive. It is much better to have a loving mental picture of . some deceased relative than to have staring at us from the walls some stiff black and white copy, made by an obscure person who never saw our loved one and only cared for the money obtained. ] After selecting the pictures we still have the mounting and framing to consider. In selecting a mount or . mat for any picture get a color that will harmonize with the general tone of the picture (like samples). It is best to have the space smaller at the top?a little greater at the side, and greatest at the bottom. In a tall narrow picture have the smallest margin at the side, next greatest at the top, and always the greatest at the bottom. A fine picture may be ruined by poor mounting. (See samples.) N'ever use white mounts for colored pictures. The frames for pictures such as these should match the darkest tone. For oil paintings a simple frame of dull gold Is preferable. The gold can be tinted to match the general tone of the painting, as green gold, orange gold, gray gold, etc. Pictures should be hung just a little above the eye level. Small ones had better be at the eye level. If the pictures are not too different In size, subject and color, they may be grouped together. I might go on Indefinitely as the problems to be solved are endless. I hope this talk has helped you to realize that art is a way of living and concerns all of us every day of our lives, and, therefore, that a nation may have intelligent buyers and consumers we must begin at the beginning and teach the children little by little the value of appreciating fine pro' portions of line and of mass and a feeling for color harmonies. CHAMPION BOY CORN GROWER. Jerry Moore of Florence, Beats the World. Jerry Moore of Florence county, the champion boy corn grower of the world, has written a story of how he produced over 228 bushels of corn on one acre of land. The yield is substantiated by affidavits. He made a profit of $130.70 on the acre. It cost him $128.05 to secure the yield. The story gives a complete description and full account of the care of the corn, He is a member of the Boys' Corn club and was under the direction of the United States farm demonstration work and A. H. Gasque, county superintendent of education of Florence county. In a clear manner Jerry Moore tells the following story: Light gray, sandy upland; top soil about three or four inches deep, with yellow subsoil. Old land nearly level, with just enough drain for the water to run off. Cotton was grown on the land in 1909, producing about 1,200 pounds of seed cotton. Preparation. During the 1st of March, 1910, spread 30 one-house wagonloads of rich dirt on this acre. Followed this with 50 one-horse wagonloads of stable manure scattered broadcast. On March 25 land was broken.with Dixie plows. One Dixie following the furrow of the other, and with the two breaking about 10 or 12 inches deep. The soil was so well pulverized did not harrow, rebroke like it was first time. March 29, harrowed and laid off in rows three and one-half feet wide, with Dixie plow. Distributed 500 pounds of guano containing 8 per cent of phosphoric acid, 3 per cent of ammonia and 3 per cent potash in Dixie furrow and covered with furrows making a small ridge. March 30, open ridge with shovel plow and dropped three gallons of Bates's Four-Ear prolific corn, dropping by hand and almost sowing. Covered corn with small shovel plow 2J inches deep. Fertilizer. On the same day sowed 800 pounds of acid phosphate on rows and harrowed surface all over, leaving it level. No rain since land was broken and ground so dry and dusty corn did not come up readily. Replanted for fear I would not get a stand. Stand good by April 20. April 20, weather continues dry. April 24, good rain. A <1 Or "AO lrr. 1?U AJMII ?9, OOWCU IVU (iUUiiuo rvauiii along rows and harrowed with Little Joe harrow and going twice to the row. Barred off with Dixie plow. May 5, I made a mixture of 600 pounds cotton seed meal, 200 pounds of acid phosphate, 200 pounds of kainit and with cold distributer sowed on each side of rows, and harrowed with Little Joe harrow and going twice to the row leveling surface as near as possible. May 10, made a mixture of 600 pounds of cotton seed meal, 200 pounds of acid phosphate and 200 pounds of kainit, and with a cold distributer sowed on each side of the rows, but four inches farther from the corn than the other application, and harrowed with Little Joe harrow going twice in the row. Also sowed 200 pounds of nitrate of soda along the rows. May 17, harrowed, going twice to the row; thinned corn to six inches in row. May 24, harrowed, going twice to the row. May 25, good rain. May 27, using a cold distributer sowing in the centre of middle 1,000 pounds 8:3:3 guano and harrowed with Little Joe harrow, going twice to the row. Same day, sowed 200 pounds of nitrate of soda along the row. June 4, harrowed, going twice to the row. June 5 and 6, good rains. June 8, sowed 300 pounds of nitrate of soda and harrowed twice to the row. Frequent showers and corn growing rapidly. June 10, storm and corn blown down. June 11, set corn up; corn about six feet high and beginning to silk. June 15, harrowed very lightly with Little Joe harrow, going twice to the row. June 22, harrowed lightly; com now in full silk; ground perfectly clean. Since June 5 rains have been frequent. Corn doing its best. No sign of firing or failure of any kind. July 4. no lack of rain so far, and corn aimosi maiurea. .auuusi cinj stalk has an ear and many of them two or three. There is on the acre about 24,000 stalks and more than 30,000 ears. Gathered fodder middle of August. Corn at this time very ride. Gathered Fodder. Gathered off the acre 1,200 bundles of fodder, weighing 3,000 pounds, worth $30. Corn Gathered. Five men?J. M. Leach, H. P. Haselden, W. E. Bailey, J. T. Bailey and Roger Williams?measured the land and weighed the corn, whose certificates are in the custody of the county superintendent of education. The corn was weighed in the shucks and weighed 16,388 pounds. They took 200 pounds of corn from the acre, at sundown, shucked and shelled, and got 155 pounds of shelled corn and 45 pounds of cobs and shucks. This shows 77J per cent of corn and 22i per cent of cobs and shucks. This percentage makes a yield of 2283 bushels. Value of Crop. At the market value, $1 per bushel, the corn from the acre is worth $228.7" * 3,000 pounds fodder, $30. Total value croy, $258.75. Expenses. Cost of rent $ 5 00 Cost of preparation seed bed... 4 00 Cost of planting 2 00 Cost of manure 25 00 Cost of commercial fertilizer... 66 55 Cost of cultivation 11 50 Cost of gathering corn 8 00 Cost of gathering fodder 6 00 Total cost $128 05 Balance Sheet. Total value $258 75 Less all expenses 128 05 Net profit $130 70 Remarks. "The stable manure used was very trashy (much straw in it) and not iiii'i v iiiciii .11/ veins el k'iui. na the dirt has no commercial value I did not count it in the list of expenses and the land has been improved at least $f>0.00 by the dirt and stable manure. What I have done has been of an experiment than doing \vi. * I knew to be wise. "About October 1st Mr. Williams, agent for the state, Mr. Willis, county agent and Mr. flas(|ue, county superintendent of education visited me. To them I am under obligations for helpful instruction and I greatly appreciate the interest they have shown in my little enterprise. Hoping to do better in the future, I am, yours truly, "Jerry H. Moore." iUisccllancous grading. MILITARY MATTERS. Gen. Boyd Tells Some Things About Expenditure of National Guard Money. All summer long everything was as I quiet as a mouse about the war department of the state at the state house. The old negro Janitor between naps, with his chair propped against one of the granite columns, politely Informed occasional visitors that "none | of the officers were in." Sometimes 1 there was a strict military piece of * business to be attended to and the vis- J itor was shown by the Janitor to the J i office of Governor Ansel, for Governor * Ansel is the commander-in-chief of . the militia of the state. Out on the field of battle the adju- J , tant general and assistant adjutant * general were faithfully Instructing the . 1 men of the National Guard of the J i state in the arts of war?at least they , were supposed to be at work. There is some interesting history . about the office of adjutant general, and J. C. Boyd was most willing to i talk yesterday for the first time since t I the Inquiry. Col. John R. Lindsay, disbursing officer for this state for the United . 1 States government?coach. ! William T. Brock, assistant adju- g tant general of the state of South Carolina?spotter. ( J. C. Boyd, adjutant general of the State of South Carolina?visitor at ' 1 large. , These are the representatives of South Carolina that went to Camp Perry with the South Carolina rifle j. team last summer. These are the representatives of the state who went to Camp Perry to assist in spending the sum of $8,500 appropriated by the _ United States government for the rifle r team. The showing of the team was poor. That William T. Brock, the assistant adjutant general, and Col. John R. g Lindsay, disbursing officer, went to Camp Perry a. officials of the rifle team, without an order from the ad- t Jutant general authorizing them to t attend, was the statement made yes- J terday by J. C. Boyd, the adjutant c general. Gen. Boyd said that Col. _ Lindsay and Col. Brock went to Camp r Perry and that he did not know that g they were going, and that the order j* ordering them to attend the rifle practice was not issued until the return. ^ He also said that the order was pre- ^ pared by William T. Brock, his as- d sistant, and that he knew nothing of s it. The order is on file in the office j of the adjutant general and was apparently made up before the team left. Adjutant General Boyd was asked why he went to Camp Perry. He said the proof was "over there somewhere on my desk." This proof was not S shown, but the following order was found in the order book of the office: "The adjutant general of the State of South Carolina will accompany the g South Carolina rifle team to Camp li Perry, Ohio, for the purpose of ob- p serving the matches to be held at that t place for the year 1910." s It would thus seem that General a Boyd has ordered General Boyd or himself to attend the rifle practice. n General Boyd did not remember d how much money he received for the d trip, but he said: ii "I went up there to get my money." c He said that he needed the money v and that he wished that it had been ti $500 In place of another sum which o he did not state definitely. o The adjutant general then became t heated, and he said some very un- v pleasant things about Col. John R. Lindsay, the disbursing officer. He t was very bitter in his remarks. This a led him to say that he did not know s Col. Lindsay was to attend the rifle t shoot. h "That order," said General Boyd, n pointing to an order book, "was issued \ by William T. Brock after he returned h from Camp Perry." This brought out o the information that Col. Lindsay was v not officially ordered to Camp Perry p before the practice. Gen. Boyd said f that he had been sick during the s summer and that he "had implicitly trusted" William T. Brock, his assist- li ant, and that the late order was due f to the work of his assistant. This in- f formation is brought out after the in- a quiry and Gen. Boyd did not say why n he had said nothing months before. c It was explained by the adjutant b general that other adjutant generals I went to the shoot. He declared for v publicity in the matter, although this n is the first time he has made public e some items. He stressed the fact that ji all he wanted was the money. He did t! not give an official reason as to why h he should have gone on the junket, other than it had been his custom. o Spotter, William T. Brock, accord- c ing to a schedule in the office of the b adjutant general as prepared by the tl war department, and according to his a rank should have received $177.76 for it the trip of sixteen days. As to Col. s Lindsay's pay as coach, it was $9.72 a per day, according to the schedule of his rank. This did not include ex- t penses. ? The Camp Perry rifle shoot was not ti the only event that required the ab- A sence of the state officials from the P office during the summer. Adjutant v General Boyd said that his assistant, r Col. Brock, was absent from the early c nnpt of .Tniv until the first of Sep- 8 tember. Gen. Boyd was also absent. t! There was an encampment of two h of the regiments at Chlckamauga Park during the summer, which con- h sumed about one month. The Third 1< and Second regiments were there. b Gen. Boyd said that Col. Brock and tl Col.'Lindsay went to these encamp- 8 ments and the order was not Issued a until after they returned. There was E also a trip down to Aiken for the a First regiment.?Columbia State w Wednesday. jj "UNANSWERED QUESTIONS." n 1 g Columbia Record Is Inquiring Into the K Matter of Military Expenditures. b Following up an article, published si Monday in the Dally Record, in which ?j were given some of the inside facts t] bearing upon the questions that mill- a tiamen and the press had been asking, in regard to the National Guard of 0 South Carolina, and, concerning spe- v ( ideally the disposition of funds avail- f< able to militiamen of this state for . rille practice this year, it may not be thought untimely to summarize here? . without passing final judgment on them?some of these queries, which . persons, conceiving themselves to have j at heart only the welfare of the ser- J vice and the good name of the state, are making; queries which, so far, , have as yet gone unanswered by those presumed to be in position to reply: t Why was it that fifteen out of the nineteen persons, who represented Sauth Carolina at the Camp Perry natiotial rille competition in August, were commissioned officers? Have the enlisted men of the service so little c< interest in marksmanship as this might Ci l>e taken to indicate. Where and when did Lieut. Col. tl John R. Lindsay of the First regiment bi obtain such training as to qualify him w fur the presumably highly specialized w work of "coach" for the state ritle ir team? When and where also did Lieut. Col. Wm. T. Brock, assistant adjutant h general, qualify fur service as "spot- m ter?" The militiamen concede to Major K A. H. Silcox, of the Third regiment, a special qualifications fur the position it of range officer, which relation he oc- fi cupied to the team this year. tl When Governor Ansel detailed Ad- tc jutant General Boyd to attend the fi Camp Perry shoot as "observer," Gen- bi eral Boyd drawing from state funds, pi while so engaged, the full service pay if of a brigadier general, In addition to w his regular salary as adjutant general, what benefit to the state, proportion- t He to the expense to be Incurred, was expected to result? If the order detailing Adjutant General Boyd for service as observer" ivith the Camp Perry team was based m the provision which authorizes the :ommander- in-chief (the governor) :o detail for special service, at state ?xpense, the "heads of departments" on lis staff, why should not some one or ill of the other five heads of departnents on the governor's staff have ieen given similar details? Would lot their "observations" have been luite as illuminating, quite as likely .0 be of practical value to the national guardsmen of the state, as those of 3eneral Boyd? Supposing that the number of comnissioned officers in the party, drawng the full pay of their rank, had not >een abnormally large, in the Camp Perry team, would not the funds ivanaole nave sufficed to give tne earn enough actual rifle practice to nake It a real contender In the nalonal competition, rather than a joke? JVould not the team have done much letter work if they had been allowed o spend on practice, at the Charleson range the only real range in the itate?some of the money spent on he suddenly-planned "firings for ree>rd" held at Yorkville, Columbia and Charleston? "Why was the disbursing officer, -leut. Col. J. R. Lindsay, ordered to ittend in person at the "firings for ecord?" Could he not have paid off he men and officers serving there by lending their pay checks to them by nail or express, from his home staion? Is not that the custom of army laymasters? Was it strictly neceslary that he should remain on duty at ach of these encampments through>ut the encampment period and then >ay himself, therefore, at the full rate illowed to a lieutenant colonel, beildes drawing mileage? Why should not the accounts of the lisbursing officer, Col. Lindsay, a >onded official, be submitted to audit in behalf of the state, as a matter of omlty, even if the law does not reluire that he make to the state any eport of his transactions? Is it not easonable that the state should have lome oversight over the disposition of he funds given to it by the Federal fovernment for the use of its cltizenloldiers? To what extent has the adjutant reneral known, since March, 1909, the rue inwardness of the official acts lerformed in his name and upon orlers over his signature? As a matter if fact, has not the assistant adjutant reneral. Col. W. T. Brock, been the eal though not the nominal adjutant reneral, during the period of his tituar chiefs invalidism? In how many instances, of special letails, rifle shoots, etc., were the orlers issued after the event and backlated, to indicate that they were isued at the proper time??Columbia tecord, Wednesday. FALLS FROM GREAT HEIGHTS. lome Instances In Which They Have Not Proved Fatal. Falls from great heights, not necesarily fatal in their results, are becomng so frequent in these days of aeroilaning that it may prove of Interest o refer back to the classics of the ubjects, which however, are not as .mple as might be expected. Writing in 1841 of a fall from an imnense altitude which did not result in leath, a French observer, Mr. Manzini, Iec lares that he had searched in vain n the annals of science for a similar ase. We can well believe it. The 'ictim or patient was a tapissler who mjt been enoraired in nuttlns: UD dec rations on the occasion of the belated ibsequies of Napoleon the Great In he lofty done of the Church of the Inalides in Paris. When busy moving a ladder on the op of a high scaffolding he overbal.nced himself and in obedience to ome obscure instinct jumped clear of he ladder and the platform, crying to lis fellow workmen, as only a Frenchnan would, 'Tiens, me voila parti!" Vith these cheerful words on his lips ie fell eighty-two feet, bounding in ne place off the roof of a little dome, . hich caused him to describe a second arabola in the air, and landing finally eet first on the slate roof of a small acristy. Crashing through the slates, he inded astride a rafter, where he was ound sitting, surprised but coherent, or he was able to give his name and ddress when asked for them. He had o recollection of this and became unonscious when put to bed shortly aferward under the care of the great 'asquler. His insensibility lasted a ery short time, however, and he nade an extraordinarily rapid recovry, having sustained no apparent inLiries either external or internal. At he end of a month Pasquier found im quite well. Manzini also records the case of his wn fall from a great height when a hild and describes the feelings of lindness that came upon him due to he rapidity of his descent, also the nguish of recovering his breath after L Others, however, describe their ensations during a tremendous fall s being far from disagreeable. Thus some nine years ago Prof, leirn, the geologist of Zurich, decribed "the flood of thought" that raversed his mind during a typical ilpine fall, which began on an inciineu lane. He saw beautiful scenes and isions of his. past life as he fell and effected rationally on his death or the hance of escape. He felt no pain on triking the ground, but he heard a hud, which was the impact of his own ead on a rock. Another Alpine faller thought about is insurance and his family. "Of the jsing of my breath, of which people ilk, there was no suggestion, and only he heavy fall on the snow covered round caused me to lose suddenly nd painlessly all consciousness." toth these Alpinists insisted on the bsence of anxiety from their minds rhen falling, while one certainly decribes sensations similar to those ?lt by the drowning. Amnntr classic Enelish falls may be mentioned that of a steeplejack who In 800 fell from the top of the church of t. George In Bolton-le-Moors to the round, the whole distance traversed eing some 120 fet\* The man's skull truck some sheet lead upon the earth nd left its impact upon it, but though (lis fall was quite unbroken as In le previous case by scaffolding, rocks nd so forth, the man was only slightr injured and resumed work in a few ays. Recently a man with his boots n fell from the top of a cliff at Doer, the height of which was afterward ound to be 400 feet. He was picked up floating insensible i some five feet of water, but his boots ere off, which proves that he must ave retained sufficient consciousness n reaching the water to enable him > draw his boots from his feet. Both oese cases are well attested. We wish re could be as sure of the truth of tie story told of an ourrier who fell rom a fourth floor window and who, s he passed a lower one, wa-. heard o remark with great rapidity and learness, "Ca va bien Jusqu'a present ourru que Ca dure."?Lancet. The Wise Grasshopper.?When the old weather began the grasshopper ailed at the home of the ant. "Go right away from here," said le ani. "iou neeuu i cumc aiuunu egging for food. All summer while e were laying up our supplies you ere dancing as if you hadn't a care t the world." "My dear Mrs. Ant." said the grassopper, making a profound bow, "you ilstake the pur.pose of my call, mowing that your family has amassed comfortable fortune, I realized that is time you should take your rightll place in society. As a master of le terpslchorean art, I am prepared ? give you instructions in that graceit accomplishment In exchange for r>ard and lodging. How can you exect to mingle with our best people your daughters are unfamiliar ith the newest steps?" And he sent for his trunk that af rnoon.?Chicago Post.