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Straps and 4farts. ? Heavy increase in the sales of American automobiles and autotrucks in Latin-America is recorded in reports to the state department made public last Wednesday. Five years ago the United States sold 70 automobiles to Argentina, 554 to Brazil and 177 to Uruguay. Last year its sales were 727 to Argenina, 554 to Brazil and 177 to Uruguay. In four years the total sales of automobiles to all South America increased ironi i o. uiatuHir^, ?? ... $194,011 to 611 machines worth $1,911,066 nearly ten times as much. More' than half the cars in Buenos Ayres and Rio de Janeiro are of American make. In Buenos Ayres there are over 3,000 motor trucks in use. where there were less than 100 In 1910. These reports bring out the fact that the United States sells to the little republic of Uruguay products valued at three times the amount of those sold to Turkey and one-half of what Is kold to China, though Uruguay has only 1,200,000 people. ? Government revenues from custom receipts fell off more than $6,000,000 during May, as compared with the same month of last year. Treasury officials attribute the loss to the period of tariff revision. Total receipts from all sources for the month aggregated $55,370,364, or $3,000,000 less than May, 1912, while the expenditures of last month, amounting to $57,967,870, were $5,706,000 greater than the disbursements of May a year ago. Despite these differences the current fiscal vAor nr> to date shows a surplus of re celpts over expenditures of J6.378.975, as against a deficit for the corresponding period oflastyear of $6,462,136. The general fund contains $133,977,282, including $61,320,914 as a working balance. The latter will soon be reduced by $10,000,000 by the deposit of that additional amount in the national banks. The gold coin and bullion in th trust funds of the treasury amounts to $1,079,047,169. and the total cash in the treasury $1,976,659,134. The outstanding circulation of the 7,485 national banks amounts to $733,754,815. ? The demand for beef far exceeds the supply and high prices are theresuit, says a bulletin issued Tuesday by the department of agriculture. The shortage in meat producing animals too, is steadily becoming greater. In the past six years there has been a decline of more than thirty per cent in the ~..mRnr nf cattle in the United States, according to the department and during the first three months of this year there has been an approximate decrease of thirteen per cent In the number of meat animals killed under government supervision when compared with the same period of 1912. The department estimates the number of beef cattle in the United States on Jan. 1, 1907 at 51,566,000, and at the beginning of the present year at 36,030,000. Prices paid for cattle, sheep, lambs and hogs last year were much higher than the preceding year. "The year 1912," says the department, "was a year of high prices for all classes of food animals." With the diminished production in the home market the department declares there is no longer a surplus for export. "The time has come," it says, "when we must conserve our meat supply." ? The newly planted cotton crop of the United States showed a condition on May 25 of 79.1 per cent of a normal, the United States department of agriculture's crop reporting board an* J nounced at noon last weunesuaj ?? the first condition report of the season which always is looked forward to with great interest by cotton growers, textile manufacture and cotton dealers. This condition compiled from the reports of the correspondents and agents of the department bureau of statistics, compares with a condition of 78.9 per cent on May 25 last year, 87.8 per cent on the corresponding date in 1911, 82.0 per cent in 1910 and 79.9 per cent the average condition for the past ten years on May 25. The generally favorable growing conditions throughout the cotton belt since the planting of the crop had caused much speculation as to the condition of the plants and resulted in unofficial estimates ranging from 79.8 per cent to as high as 85 per cent The area planted to cotton thla year also has been the subject of much speculation in cotton circles, but the department of agriculture's officii! estimate will not be issued until July 3. owing to the passage of the Ip.w last ?1 -u the reDort year wmui uumc from June to a month later. Unofficially the area planted this year is estimated by the most conservative at an increase over the 34,283.000 acres unpicked last year. These unofficial estimates range from a 3 per cent increase upward. A 3 per cent increase in the acreage planted would indicate an area of about 35,311,000 acres. ? Washington, June 4: Japan's rejoinder to the United States reply to her protest against the California anti-alien land law, delivered personally by Ambassador Chlnda to Secretary biyan late today, sets out why the Tokyo government continues to regard the Webb law as discriminatory against Japan in derogation of the equality of treatment prescribed by international law and a violation of the treaty of 1910. Nothing in the . ?? ultimatum la contained nature ui an In the note. Its general tone is to invite further discussion of the controverted points, and it contains nothing tending to make up a final issue. Secretary Bryan and Ambassador Chinda agreed that no details should be made public. Ambassador Chinda went to the state department by appointment Just before 4 o'clock. Merely acknowledging receipt of the note and promising to consider, Secretary' bryan requested the ambassador to wait while he read the communication, and when he had finished there was an informal discussion. Secretary Bryan was deeply interested in the points made in the Japanese rejoinder, which are believed to have been directed to the end of demonstrating *' * tVkc* Pq 1 ifnrnln lpc lnu.1 lite OVUUU u> me ?? isiature, taken in connection with the recent action of the Arizona legislature and the projected legislation in other western states tended to impair the equality of treatment to which Japanese were entitled under the general principles of international law, more than to the charge that the Webb act constituted a technical violation of the treaty of 1910 between Japan and the United States. The Japanese ambassador was at the department for an hour and a half. He returned to the embassy to prepare a reply to his government indicating the nature of the reception of its communication by the state department. Secretary Bryan went directly to the White House, where he left the Japanese note for the persual and consideration of President Wilson. It is expected that when Counsellor Moore returns to Washington tomorrow he will be called into conference by the president and Secretary' Bryan to consider the outline of a response. The Japanese note was very long and its nature entirely argumentative. Secretary Bryar and Ambassador Chlnda were in accord that no good purpose could be served at this time by a public discussion of the delicate question, ant therefore both officials gave notice that any attempt to publish whai might purport to be even the sub stance of the three communication! which now have passed between the o-nirei-nmpnts must bp based en tlrely upon speculation. It is known however, that the whole tone of th< rejoinder today is that of a dignifiec and orderly presentation of Japan'! view on the case concluding with at invitation to further negotiations. ? Chicago, June 4: Jack Johnson negro heavyweight champion todaj was sentenced to one year and one da: In the state penitentiary at Joliet an< fined $1,000 for violation of the Mam "white slave" act. Sentence was pro nouneed on Johnson after Federa Judge Carpenter had denied a motioi for a new trial. Johnson obtained tw weeks' time in which to prepare a wri of error and the bond for $30,000 oi which he has been at liberty since hii conviction was allowed to stand. Hal a dozen deputy United States mar shals. who had grouped themselve about Johnson in anticipation of re sistance when the prison sentence wa given, left the room when Judge Car penter announced that the flghte would continue temporarily at liberty The sentence to the state penitentiar; is the result of a recent order fron Washington that persons convicted ii the Federal court in this distric should be sent to the state prison, ow ing to the crowded condition of the Federal prison at Leavenworth. Johnson left the court room declaring he would not give up hi* flglft for-liberty. "It has been hard to determine what punishment should be meted out in this case." said Judge Carpenter in passing sentence. "We have had many cases where violations of the Mann act have been punished with a fine only. We have had other cases where defendants have been sentenced to one or two years in the penitentiary. The circumstances in this case have been aggravating. The life of the defendant. by his own admissions, has not } been a moral one. The defendant is ,one of the best known of his race and | his example has been far-reaching. ! the sentence shall be tha t the defendant aha 11 he confined a year and a day in the Jollet penitentiary and that he shall be fined $1,000. The court denied a request of counsel for Johnson that the negro be allowed to serve the term in the city bridewell instead of state prison. Johnson was convicted May 10, of having paid for the transportation of Belle Scliribner from Pittsburgh to Chicago. <5hr ItorkmUr (Inquirer. Entered at the Postofllce In YorkvlUe as Mail Matter of the Second Class. YORKVIULE, fi. O.i KKIIM Y, JINK 6,1913 "Insidious lobby." Very well described. Of course, it will be difficult to locate. Joseph A. McCullough of Qreenville, has openly declared for woman suffrage. He says that South Carolina women should be entitled to the ballot. If the senate committer engaged on the job, succeeds in frightening the lobbyists a little, It will be possible to get a currency reform biU at this session. Otherwise there is likely to be trouble. As we see it, reform of the currency laws is going to be more difficult than reform of the tariff. The Columbia Recor 1 announces that arrangements are making for a racing meet in ColumLla this fall under the authority of the New York Jockey club. As to how much row is going to be made over the matter remains to be seen; but we are not looking for a great deal, for Columbia dearly loves the money. Of course if ex-Postmaster General Hitchcock is guilty of the things charged by Postmaster General Burleson, it is not to be expected that the ex-postmaster general would admit the facts. When people deliberately do things that are intended to deceive, it is not with the expectation of making a confession afterward. To those who are wise, the reports of the department of agriculture regarding the decreasing meat supply, indicate that It will not be a great while before cattle, sheep and goats can be in this oojintrv at a very good protlt. Of course, however, the good profit can go only to th >se who have cattle, sheep and goats for sale. It has been discovered that there Is a serious technical error In the Income tax law as it passed the house, that will vitiate the whole law If the error remains uncorrected. In the law as passed, It is provided that incomes be computed from January 1, 1913, when as a matter of fact the constitutional amendment under which the law finds sanction was not proclaimed until February 26. The matter has been called to the attention of the finance commit- j tee of the senate and correction can easily be made by amendment. The tremendous earnestness of our, good friends in Bethel on the road! question as evidenced by their subscription of $4,200?nearly $500 a mile ?to help the work along is admirable. Not only that, it is a fact that Bethel had not received anything like her proportionate share of assistance from the chaingang previous to the springing of that cheap political Idea embraced in the north and south, east and west road proposition. It is our deliberate belief that simple justice demands that Bethel have better roads, and we would like to see her get all the assistance that can be thrown her way under the law. If the law as it now stands, will not permit Justice In the matter, the law should oe amended. Of course we don't mind printing that farm loan idea as elaborated by the editor of the Fountain Inn Tribune, because really there is something to it; but then we do not exactly see why it should be set forth as a ! new scheme. As a matter of fact all the principles involved are now being practiced In New Zealand, Germany and France, and the whole thing is working beautifully. Of course tho adoption of such a scheme would in' volve a complete revolution of conditions as established In this country, and it would take a Ion.? hard fight to j bring such a thing about. We agree with the Fountain Inn Tribune in the . idea that a thing like this would eveni tuaily do away with the need for com. pulsory education by creating an overwhelming voluntary sentiment; but ? there is a rub along here somewhere. \ Not until after there had been years ! and years of compulsory education i could the country probably be brought . to a state of mind where it would be ? willing to go into anything like this. ' Speaking of the so called road law j of York county, there is really very lit tie to It except as to the 3 mill prop' erty tax and the $3 poll tax. The loi cation matter is a piece of buncome. As originally fired off, the law providi ed for north and south and east and | west roads, without attempting to lo * cate either except In a very general way. The proposition v. as left In such Indefinite shape as would allow the / framers to talk to kickers In any way >' that might seem necessary to satisfy | them. I^ater it was deemed good pol. Icy to bring two more townships in by 1 making a hazy specification for a third 1 road from Fort Mill to McConnellsville J by way of Rock Hill, i nd to provide t that other townships not included in s the general disposition should be en' titled to their proportionate part of the B services of the chaingang. All of the . townships except Bethel and Bullock's s Creek are included in the general - scheme, and they came in under the r proportionate-part joker. There is . nothing in the law to specify the basis y of arriving at proportionate parts, n whether by assessed valuation, popun lotion or number of townships, and I there we are working along under a - great big bluff, with almost nothing ?- " 1 ?" "r?that |s specific except as stated, the taxe8Liquor Drinking. While it is not to be denied that there are still those throughout this section who would restore the public sale of Intoxicating liquors if they could, nevertheless it is a fact that there Is less general drinking of intoxicating liquors in this county than there has ever been. People who are old enough to be familiar with the record, are aware that " era Inat tho nilhllo W)1n of LUC V? UOUUC ?BWII|0V V?>V f ? ?... j liquor was commenced In this county before the Civil war, and although there was a long period of Inaction during and following the war, the fight was resumed In the early seventies and continued until the saloonR were driven out about 1881, and kept out until a dispensary was established nearly twenty years later. The closing of the saloons was followed by a long hard and bitter struggle against the continued sale of liquor, through drug stores with the assistance of unscrupulous physicians, but In the course of time this evil was driven out also, the consumption of liquor all the while growing less and less until the establishment of the dispensary when there began to de velop a new era of debauchery. During the years there were dispensaries at Blacksburg, Tirzah and Yorkville, liquor consumption was largely increased; but looking back over those periods now, It is easy to see that this evil was never re-established on its former basis. Following a long experience with the superior condition of sobriety with which the people had become familiar under the changed order of things, they were never able to reconcile themselves to the idea of drifting backward, and they were not slow to again stop the public sale of liquor at the first opportunity. While it would not be correct to say that everybody drank liquor thirty or forty years ago, it would be correct to say that a majority of the men used intoxicants, as did many of the women. It is a fact that the use of intoxicating liquors is still quite common; but it is also true that this use is growing less and less, and the sentiment against the legalized sale of 11 quor is stronger than it has ever been. FARM LOAN PLAN Editor Thinks Its Adoption Would Abolish Ignorance and Poverty. Fountain Inn Tribune. South Carolina has fallen upon evil days. We are all of one mind concerning the urgent need of a physician and most of us are agreed concerning the most efficacious course of treatment. South Carolina's need is a broader intelligence, a broader conception of the duties of citizenship. The logical relief would be compulsory education, but compulsory education is bitter to the palate of the people who have greatest need of it. I want to propose a substitute for compulsory education?a plan that will lnevidentably bring about the redemption of the state; a plan that will increase the wealth of every citizen of South Carolina; a plan that will decrease crime and grow a finer moral fibre; a plan that will double the yield of crops; a plan that will make two good country homes blossom where one ramshackle hut stands now; apian that will send our children to school, make our fathers and mothers enthusiastic partisans of the god of pro[ gress and develop our young men into earnest, responsible citizens. I appeal to the editors of South Carolina and to those public men who are patriotic and constructive, to consider the plan on its merits, weighing its possibilities carefully, and not to m Kaaohoa If noma damn 11 ui iirm di^iu ucvauov ? v?..?v from a little country newspaper. The plan, in brief is this: Let the state of South Carolina levy a tax of one mill on all property, to create a fund from which qualified electors whose assessed property valuation does not exceed $1,000 may borrow for the purchase of agricultural lands. Let the maximum sum that can be borrowed by one elector be fixed by statute at $2,000. Let the state, through an official elected for the purpose, conclude the purchase of land for all borrowers and take a mortgage on the tract purchased as security. Let the borrower pay to the state annually 3 per cent interest on the loan or deferred payments thereof and 5 per cent of the principal. Let there be provision made for the transfer of contracts. Let each borrower be compelled to live upon his purchase during the life of his contract with the state, and in case this requirement is not complied with, let the land revert to the state to be again allotted to some elector willing to take up his residence thereon and finish the contract. Let this one mill tax be applied to the loan fund for a period of ten years. At the end of that time the Interest payments, and installment payments on principal, will keep the fund at a substantial amount without further assistance from the tax-payers. A one-mill tax on all property would bring a revenue of about $300,000 a year. Ten years would produce a permanent fund of $3,000,000, not counting interest, and thereafter 200 or more borrowers could be provided for each year until such time as the system became unnecessary, and then the fund could be diverted to other channels. After ten years, let the one-mill tax revenue be expended by the state annually for the building of permanenl roads. The plan, at the first superficial glance, appears too simple to work the miraculous Improvements I have claimed for it. But, study the matter. Too great wealth often weakent moral fibre, but mere solid prosperity fosters progress, education, worthy ambition, responsibility and clean morals. A land of small farms, cultivated by the owners, is all and Intensively and intelligently cumvaieu. Intensive and Intelligent cultlvatlor vastly Increases the crop production ol a state and Increased crop productlor Increases the wealth of every citizen o) the state?farmer, merchant, banker artisan. Decreasing the size of farms increases the acreage values. A closelj settled community of home owners Is a community cf high land values. The ownership of a home brings with it a sense of solid responsibility? and with this comes respectability anc respect for institutions of progress. With it also comes a desire for education, a thirst for culture an ambition for broader horizons. Permanent good roads are an easj highway for the wheels of progress, ar inducment for the advance of civilization. And lo! After a few decades we hav< a people little acquainted with pov erty; a people with high ideals; a people striving to educate the children; J vital, conservative, proud, wholesoms people, and?without fail?a govern ment of the highest order of intelligence. Gentlemen, the plan can't fail. I is based on human nature, and the in evitable sequence of acts?and thes< things are bed rock. Perhaps, In my over enthusiasm. ! have failed to see little imperfections little impediments. But the one big engrossing fact is that the thing can bi done, and that it would redeem tb< state. Will you help to place the plan be> fore the people? Will you explain am , amplify it? Will you Indorse am champion it? I ask nothing for myself. I an i pleading for South Carolina. i ? A dispatch from St. Matthews re' , ports the appearance of the army worn 1 In Calhoun county. I ?Eleven hundred qualified voters o , Abbeville county have signed a petl i tion asking for an election on th< i question of establishing a dispensary , ?Leslie M. Ridgil', who lives nea Manning, has produced an onion o I th white silver skin variety that is 1' , inches in circumference and whiet ; weighs 26 ounces. LOCAL AFFAIRS, NEW ADVERTI8EMENT8 Thomson Co.?Announces special sale of bed spreads, damask and dollies. Big shipment trunks, cases, etc. A few specials In oxfords. Kirkpatrick-Belk Co.?Tomorrow begins a three day's reduction sale of oxfords for men, women and children. Trimmed hats and one-piece dresses. Southern Railway?On fourth page Invites you to spend the summer In the North Carolina mountains. J. M. Stroup?Suggests that you have your clothes made by the Royal tailors and get satisfactory clothes. |Sheider Drug Store?Invites attention IU lis line Ul tui Uiiu OU6BCOIO | that you use cut glass for gifts to the June brides. ' Carroll Furniture Co.?Offers to sell < Ice cream freezers at reduced prices. , It will be glad to repair bicycles. Yorkville B. & M. Co.?Has received several large shipments of flour and wants to supply you. All kinds of fancy groceries. H. E. Neil. Co. Treas.?Gives information in regard to the payment of the commutation road tax. Idle Hour Theatre?Gives Its programme for tonight, Including "A will and a way," and also the pro> gramme for tomorrow. McConnell Dry Goods Co.?Has 300 ladles' and children's sample hats, 15c to S3, to sell at half price; 22 inch embroideries at 12 cts. yard. J. C. Wilborn?Has sold $10,000 worth of property In past ten days. Town and country property. Th? Federal government which now handles the crime of breaking Into cars engaged In lnter-state traffic, has In charge that negro who pulled off his fainting stunt in the York court house during the recent term of the general sessions. This fellow has done the same thing on previous occasions and Uncle Sam Is on to him. i ne YorKvnie ooara 01 iraae, we think, would do the town a service by ' inquiring: Into the question of whether ' or not the town council of Torkvllle Is 1 complying: with the law In reference to 1 the publication of itemized reports of receipts and expenditures and If not why not. In the opinion of The En- 1 qulrer tHls matter Is of vital Impor- ' tance to the welfare of the town. ,i BETTER ROAD FOR BETHEL The people of Bethel township have long: suffered more than the people of any other township in the county for lack of fairly good roads to market, and they have about reached the point where they are unwilling to put ' up with this handicap any longer. There was a delegation of influential Bethelltes before the county board of commissioners last Wednesday, with a petition asking for the construction of about ten miles of sand and clay highway, to commence at J. B. Ford's about two miles from Bethel church, and to continue on to Bethel chapel near Catawba river by way of Dr. T. N. Dulin's, Riddle's Mill and Davis's mill, and from Beaver Dam to the North Carolina line by way of Dr. T. N. Dulin's and T. H. Riddle's. The delegation which appeared before the board Included the following well known gentlemen: Dr. T. N. Dulln, H. G. Stanton, J. J. Nichols, J. W. Jackson, R. O. Clinton, R. J. Davis, J. Ed Harper. S. S. Glenn, J. L. Currence, John N. Craig. W. P. Boyd, A. L. Thompson. Although it can hardly be stated the better road Idea Is a new one In Bethel, that township under the lead of Dr. T. N. Dulln, having been the pioneer In levying the two-mile n>ad tax now being paid by the whole equity, the present definite undertaking was commenced only about two weeks ago. It started with very little talk and a good many liberal subscriptions. Several gentlemen put their names on a subscription paper for $500 each, and on Wednesday the total subscrlp tions amounted to $4,200, payable In cash. There were still quite a number of people to be seen, and those having the direction of the matter thought they could easily raise the aggregate to $5,000 or $6,000. The county board of commissioners gave patient hearing to what the Bethel delegation had to say; but was not prepared to give an Immediate decision. Commissioners Jackson and ! Smith were taken over the proposed new road In automobiles Tuesday afternoon, but Supervisor Boyd was unable to make the trip at that time. He, however, will no doubt give the mati ter careful consideration. FOR ENTICING LABOR A man named Charley Haas, from Gastonla got caught trying to entice labor at Clover. Wednesday, and when ! Frank L. Wilson, superintendent 0-' the Holland mill, came down to help I Haas out, he also fell into the clutches of the authorities with the result that the little Incident cost the enterpris; ing mill people a total of (145. Secretary and Treasurer Smith ac| cidentally overheard someone using , the telephone to tell somebody in Gastonla to send twenty-five dollars to move one family and $10 to move , another, and suspecting what It meant, r advised Policeman Rankin. The po llceman promptly arrested the stranger r who gave his name as Charley Haas, [ and asked for permission to communicate again with Gastonia for the J purpose of arranging a $100 bond for j his appearance. I Tho hnnH wan oprnnppd throufirh nne . of the banks at Gastonla. The employer of Haas deposited the money In f the Gastonla bank to the credit of the ? bank of Gastonla, and when the bank at Gastonla notified the bank of Clo| ver that the money was there, Haas I was released. The trial was fixed for the same evening when Supt. Wilson turned up and the parties at interest went into r a hearing before Mayor Ritch, While Policeman Rankin was testifying Supt. Wilson sought to Interrupt him with questions; but when the policeman turned on him with "You keep your mouth shut until I get through and then you may ask me any question you like," he subsided somewhat until the policeman had told his story. t After Policeman Rankin had given in . his evidence, Mayor Rltch asked Wili son if he had any questions. Wilson j said yes; but after a pause changed his mind and Rankin came down. , There wa3 laughter in the audience i and Wilson stated he had one question i lie desired to ask. Rankin went back . on the stand; but Wilson changed his 1 mind again. * After considering the testimony , which made out a clear case of guilt, Mayor Rltch imposed a fine of $75 which was paid by Supt. Wilson, and - Haas was discharged; but shortly af1 tenvard Rankin, who had been keeping his eye on the pair in the belief that they would bear watching, caught e them trying to negotiate with one of . the families that had heen thinking of r leaving, and arrested them again. [ Rankin fixed the bond the second j time at $70. Wilson did not have but | twenty dollars In cash left and propos id to give a check for the balance. Nankin agreed to the arrangement; )Ut required that the check be drawn >y another party and endorsed by WllM>n, after which settlement the two nen were glad to get out of town. The check was deposited to the :redlt of the town of Clover with Inductions that It be sent to Qastonia lirect and collected at once. The Gasonla bank telephoned that payment of :he check had been held up by Wilson ' ,d Haas; but when Cashier Page of he Bank of Clover gave the Bank of 3astonla to understand that the town it Clover was an Innocent third party to the transaction and the check would :ertainly be protested, wnson cnang?d his mind and Instructed that the ;heck be paid. ALFALFA AND CLOVER While It Is quite common to declare In these days that the young folks, especially among th farmers, are teaching the old folks how to do things, It Is lot safe to take this statement too lerlously. Of course the world Is pron*888lng, people generally know more than formerly and the young people ire coming more directly under the Influence of the higher educational Initltutlons that make a specialty of Unpenning practical scientific knowledge; but still there ard among the elders many who are still learning, ind who without making a great deal >f fuss can show the younger generaJon the way. The correctness of these observations were strongly Impressed upon the writer last Tuesday afternoon as the result of a conversation with Mr. Silas Palls, from up Bethany way, who came in to enjoy the generous tiospltality of the ladles of the Winnie Davis Chapter, U. D. C., and who In the afternoon paid The Enquirer office ei pleasant visit. Mr. Falls brought with him half a dozen sprigs of alfalfa, th longest of which was just forty-eight inches in length, and he explained that his purpose was merely to give us the opportunity to examine t reasonably creditable specimen of the famous legume about which so much has been printed in The Enquirer during so many years past. Answering questions Mr. Falls said that he has only about half an acre of alfalfa. He sowed it first some three years ago and has made frequent cuttings. He finds that all kinds of stock are fond of It, and that the chickens would rather have it than small grain. His patch has been doing nicely; and it is his purpose to enlarge it; but the conversation developed that he is rather more interested in crimson clover, than in alfalfa, not because he thinks the crimson c:over superior; but because he got started on it first, found it so easy to handle and withal so generally valuable. "I had crimson clover under consideration for a long time," Mr. Falls said, "before I could quite make up my mind to go into it. Most of my experience had been with the old red clover which, on good, strong red land, would stand for several years, and I found it hard to make up my mind to go Into experimenting with a clover crop that had to be sowed every year. But at last, about eight years ago, I tried it sowing eight pounds between the corn rows in July and August. Every year after that I have been sowing more, and last fall I sowed four bushels of seed on about sixteen acres. I tell you it makes hay right, and I do not know of a crop that is worth more to the land. My plan Is to sow In the corn rows, cut down the r>nrn nnd UUl II mtxiiVD anct D?uuB leave the clover to cover the land during the winter and be ready for an early hay crop in the spring. Then I turn the clover under, plant corn again and the result is something worth while." "Do you know," Mr. Falls added, "that when I was a boy, there were but few patches of red clover in this county. It is a fact. Red clover was scarcer than is alfalfa now?only a few patches here and there." Asked as to how he happened to become a grower of red clover, he replied that although he had seen a little clover previous to then, he got his Ideas of the real value of the crop up in Virginia during th war. "Wheu I saw great fields of fifty and a hundred acres covered with knee-deep clover," he Bald, "and barns filld with countless head of horses, mules, cattle, pigs and sheep, all fed from the clover fields, I began to wonder whether there was any reason why we could not do the same thing: down here, and when 1 went to farming I began to try it." ABOUT PEOPLE Master William Marshall of Yorkville, is visiting relatives in Winnsboro. Miss Fannie Stroup of Yorkville, is spending two weeks at Black Mountain, N. C. Mrs. R. D. Dorsett and children of Yorkville, are visiting relatives and friends in Clover. Misses Marie, rruncea auu auuk Pegram of Yorkvllle, are visiting relatives In Lowryvllle. Mr. Robert Green Lee, of Fort Mill, Is among this year's graduates from Furman University. Mrs. N, C. Weatherly of Greensboro, N. C., Is the guest of Mrs. E. E. Gillespie In Yorkvllle. Mrs. J. C. Wllborn and daughter, Miss Elizabeth of Yorkvllle, are visiting relatives In Chester. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Stroup and Mrs. E. W. Long of Yorkvllle, spent several days this week in Due West. Miss Frances Faulconer of Washington, D. C., Is visiting the family ol G. W. S. Hart, Esq., In Yorkvllle. Mr. J. B. Comer of El Paso, Texas, is visiting the family of his father, Magistrate J. C. Comer, In Yorkvllle. Misses Mary and Eunice Craig o' Point, attended the Winthrop commencement exercises last Tuesday. Rev. Henry Stokes of Yorkvllle, is attending the commencement exercises at Wofford college, Spartanburg, Mr. Foy Dickson of Ersklne college, has returned to his home on Yorkvllle R. F. D. 1, for the summer. Miss Nancy Witherspoon of the College for Women, Columbia, arrived In I Yorkvllle last night to spend the sum mer. Mr. Blnkely Plaxco of Yorkville, attended the commencement exercises at the Presbyterian college In Clinton, this week. Miss Annie Marilla Ewart of Yorkville, took her degree as Bachelor ol Arts at Due West Female college, Wednesday. Dr. James B. Kennedy of Schenectady. N. Y., has arrived In Yorkville to spend the summer with Mr. W. M, Kennedy's family. Miss Lillian Wylle Klrkpatrlck, ol Sharon, R. F. D. No. 2, received the A. B. degree of the Due West Female College, last Wednesday. Dr. W. O. White of Yorkville. Is attending the annual meeting of the Southern Railway surgeons, which convened at Norfolk, Va., this week. Misses Lula Moore Logan, Mabel Ashe, Anna Lewis and Loula Allein ol Wlnthrop college, have returned tc their homes in Yorkville for the summer. Howard D. Smith, of Yorkville, No, 1. carries oft the orator's medal at Clinton college this year, and Harry E. Hlcklln of Rock Hill, has won the declaimer's medal. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Truluck and Miss Annie L. Cockfleld of Lake City, Miss Rhea Truluck of Olanta and Miss Gwendolyn Able of Springfield, are the guests of Mr. 8. I* Courtney's family In Yorkville. Mr. John M. Craig, of the Point section, who was In Yorkville Wednesday, reported that his neighborhood has been having plenty of rain, and although he had no complaint to make. remarKea ine pruuaumiy ui u. iuuu crop of grass that might add to the expense of cultivation. Clinton, June 2: News has Just been received In Clinton of a very interesting party given in Chester by Mrs. A. M. Aiken to her niece, Miss Mattie May Neville, of Clinton, who has been teaching school in Chester, the past two years, at which her engagement to Mr. W. H. James, of Atlanta, Ga., was announced. The exact date of the wedding has not been fixed, though it will occur in the summer or early fall. Miss Neville is very popular in her home town, where she has many friends who will be glad to know of this approaching event. Mr. James is originally from Chester, but for the past few years has made his home in Atlanta, where he is a member of the firm of James & Ridley, accountants. WITHIN THE TOWN ? There was a large crowd out to the Alrdome theatre Tuesday night to see the Winthrop Pageant pictures. The audience Included many who had gone over to the college to see the original production, and everybody was well pleased with the entertainment ? Rev. Henry Stokes, pastor of Trinity M. E. church, writes of the protracted meeting that has been in progress there as follows: "The protracted services that have been in progress at the Methodist church for the past ten days, closed Wednesday evening. It is the consensus of opinion of the pastors and ChrLstl&ns that the preaching was of an unusually high order. It was plain, practical, strong, Scriptural. While we cannot now tabulate all the results, yet it is safe to say that some who were backslidden in heart and life, returned unto Ood. Many Christians were edlfled and dedicated themselves more fully to the work of God. Twenty-one persons applied for church membership, and one lady transferred her letter from the Baptist church of Camden to the Baptist church of Yorkvllle. The hearty co-operation of my fellow pastors and their people was much appreciated. This is the second series of revival services held here by Rev. D. H. Coman. Brother Coman made some new friends and drew the old ones closer to him. I feel assured he left with the good will and 'God-speed' of every one who heard him." ? There are stories and stories being told in the Alms of the movies, some of them tragic, some comic, all of them intended to be Interesting and some really so, while others are quite commonplace and tiresome. Although most pictures Intended to be funny include some, pretty good humor, It Is only occasionally that one of them Is so Irresistably funny, as to compel an audience to laugh whether it wants to or not; but such was the case of a picture shown at the Idle Hour Wednesday night under the title of "It Made Him Mad." J. L. Smith, a real estate agent, so timid that he submitted to the bossing of a bullying wife, had been advised by his employer to take the noon train for "Mountain Lake," and remain there until he could buy up all the surrounding waterpowers. At the same time John L. Sullivan had telegraphed that he would arrive on that same train to make "Mountain Lake" his training headquarters The town was tremendously stirred ui by the news of the coming of Sullivan and the entire population turned out behind a brass band to meet him at the depot. Sullivan had failed to get to the depot in time to catch the train and' when Smith got out at "Mountain Lake," carrying a grip marked "J, L S.," the "prominent citizens" forced him into a triumphal litter they hac prepared for the purpose and bore hira away at the head of a long processlor of admiring enthusiasts, waving flags etc. After the timid bewildered real estate agent had been In his room but a few minutes, it having been arranged in the meantime that there should be a preliminary bout between tb< champion of the world and the local champion, a committee of Important citizens got him again and bore him protestlngly away to the local training quarters. The local champion, a fat gawky looking giant, appeared in regulation costume, and although pool Smith was still at an utter loss to understand it all, "the self-constltutec seconds" forcibly tied the mlts on hli hands and shoved him into the ring against the local champion who soor succeeded in knocking him down. Witt towels and sponges the two men wer< conditioned for the second round, anc still not trying to defend himself, Smltl was knocked down again. Then "Smitl Got Mad." He pulled off his collar anc cravat, shucked his coat and went after the local champion In earnest spinning him round and round like s top and Anally laid him out for th< i count He knocked out one second with a right and the other with a lert and then cleaned up the spectator one after the other. The belated Johr L. Sullivan appeared about this tlm< and when Smith started for him, h< ran. As Smith started to leave, th< ' local champion and the seconds mad< as if about to rise; but Smith turnet again and all sank to the floor as li > dead until they were sure that th< i terrible fellow was really gone. S< ludicrous was the whole affair tha ladles as well as gentlemen laughet themselves almost Into hysteria. ALFALFA CLUB ORGANIZED The Yorkvllle Alfalfa Assoclatloi was launched last Wednesday after I noon with some thirty or more members who are Imbued with a determl nation to make a success of alfalfc growing In this locality or know th? reason why. The club Is the outgrowtt ' of a movement instituted in the Yorkvllle Board of Trade soj ,e weeks ago and carried to success with the activ< assistance OI rroi. A. u. oiiiiui an ai falfa expert of the department of ag1 rlculture. who has been taking very great interest in the undertaking. The organization meeting, prevloui i notice of which had been given by the Yorkvllle Board of Trade to all the prospective alfalfa growers known tc be Interested, was attended by about twenty-five or more farmers and others. Prof. Smith was on hand according to promise, and as a preliminary to the organization, gave those present an interesting practical talk In whict he set forth clearly and comprehen, slvely Just what would be necessary t( make a success of ulfalfa growing and what such success would probably ' mean for this section. During the course of his remarks ' Prof. Smith said that alfalfa would > grow on any soil, but in the Piedmonl ! section of South Carolina the red claj soil is the most suitable. To be sue| cessful with the plant it Is necessary t( i select a field of well drained land, ol good fertility and which is as free as I possible from noxious weeds. Any kind ; of grass in the field is harmful tc , the growth of the plant, especially Bermuda and nut grass. He would nol , | advise planting alfalfa in a field whlcli was infested with Johnson or Means gTass as the alfalfa would not flourish when In contact with this kind of grass. In the sowing of alfalfa, continued Prof. Smith, It Is absolutely necessary that you have a good porous subsoil, and it is best to sow on land on which an oat crop has been grown. This crop should be followed with cowpeas which should be removed by September 1st, and the land should then be thoroughly prepared to receive the alfalfa, seed. A great deal of barnyard manure should be used, at least ten twohorse loads If It can be obtained. In case or scarcity or manure me cow pen crop should be turned. At least thirty pounds of seed should be sown to the acre and he thought the best means of seeding was to sow fifteen pounds one way across the field and fifteen pounds the other way, the advantage In this method being the avoidance of skips. Prof. Smith laid especial stress on the neoessity of Inoculating the land. Unless the land was thoroughly Inoculated It was no use to try to raise alfalfa. There are two ways of inoculation, he said, one with soil taken from an old field of alfalfa, the other with cultures. In order to prevent the killing of the Inoculating bacteria, care must be taken to keep the inoculating material out of the sun-light It was best he thought, to inoculate the alfalfa field on a cloudy day. The amount of inoculation material required depends upon the land on which the seed is to be sown. Sometimes 200 pounds of inoculating soil was sufficient, but a two-horse wagon-load was much more desirable. In fertilizing an alfalfa field, continued Prof. Smith, one should proceed as if bent on raising a banner crop of cotton or corn. Basic slag is much better to use than acid phosphate and cotton seed meal is preferable to nl trate of soda. He thought 2,000 pounds of lime, 1,000 pounds of kalnlt and 400 pounds of cotton seed meal should be used on an acre of alfalfa. Enough fertilizer should be used the flrst year to last four or Ave years, and while an acre of alfalfa will cost ISO, it does not cost any more than an acre of cotton or corn for the reason that it requires no work after it has been sown properly and on red land an acre of alfalfa will last from Ave'to seven years. In concluding his talk to the prospective alfalfa growers, Prof. Smith said that alfalfa was not a "negro proposition." It requires more than average care to grow alfalfa successfully. It must be watched and worked with much intelligence. All depends upon J l-An..1A?|An a.il me selection ui muu, uiwuuuvu ?iu fertilization and neither of these three i Important points can be secured without careful work. He favored the organization of an alfalfa club because he Is sure that better results can be obtained on a co> operative basis. The government Is anxious to promote alfalfa growing In South Carolina and he, as a representative of the department of agriculture is anxious to promote the growth of alfalfa in this and other communities. Following Prof. Smith's address, the > meeting went regularly Into a preliminary organization with Mr. O. H. O'Leary, president of the Board of Trade as chairman, and the permanent officers of the club were elected ' as follows: N. S. Black, president; J. M. Brice, vice-president; S. M. Grist, secretary and treasurer. Each mmber is to pay > an entrance fee of )1 and to sign the following pledge: "I hereby agree to plant one acre of alfalfa this fall, following the directions ' furnished by the Yorkvllle Alfalfa 1 Growers' Association. i (Signed) I The following are members of the Yorkvllle Alfalfa Growers' Assocta tion: John R. Hart, Robert Witherspoon, . J. Mc Brice, Claude M. Inman, Sam M. Grist, T. Cleve Dunlap, P. W. Love, J. ? o?** d ciswi** TXT D Vnllar D. OL'Ull, ll. XV. UVUlll ?? I , John E. Jackson, W. R. Carroll, M. C. Willis, A. T. Cartwrlght, N. B. Black, A. L. Black, Q. H. O'Leary, W. J. Engle, Starr Stacy, R R. McCorkle, J. W, McFarland, M. A. McFarland, Hugh O, Brown, J. C. Wllborn, P. C. Riddle, J. A. Harshaw, Martin L. Smith, C. E. Spencer, Lee Campbell, W. H. Herndon, John J. Nichols. Before adjournment the president appointed a committee consisting of C. M. Inman, J. B. Scott and W. B. Keller to look after the purchasing of seed and other necessary supplies. LOCAL LACONICS. Big Onions. They are bragging In the lower part of the state about the raising of an onion that weighed 26 ounces. Mr. Louis Roth of Torkville, Is exhibiting an onion of his own raising that weighs 34 ounces. County Home Practice. The Torkville physicians combined In a lump bid of $260 for the county home practice, with the Idea of divld 1 ing the work up among themselves. | The proposition contemplates that surj gical operations shall be paid for ex* tra. The county board has the matter of acceptance under consideration, and if it does accept will probably specify that there will be no surgical operations except with the previous consent ' of the boaxd and at a price to be agreed , upon. However, the whole thing Is l' still In the air. , Mrs. E. A. A. Thompson. ' Mrs. E. A. A. Thompson died at her j home In the Point section on May 19, ) of heart trouble. Mrs. Thompson, was * a daughter of the late Thomas Boyd, j who died In the Confederate army durf ing the Civil war, and was born de? cember 28, 1854. She was married to j the late A. M. Thompson on December t 14, 1871. Mr. Thompson died June 6, j 1892. She is survived by the following children: A. L., E. D? J. L., B. F., S. B. Thompson, and two daughters, Mrs. 8. B. Currence and Mrs. W. Q. Campbell. She also leaves three i brothers and one sister. Her mother, . Mrs. Jane A. Boyd Is living, and Is 79 years of age. Death of Mrs. J. F. Falls. xvewDerry uDserver, june a: axr?. Mattie Epting Falls, wife of Mr. J. 3 Frank Falls, of Yorkvllle, and daughi ter of Mr. and Mrs. B. O. Epting, of . Newberry, died at her home in this city on Friday at about 12 o'clock noon ' two weeks after the death of her baby. - Mrs. Falls had been ill for some time, . the last nine months of which she had been confined to her bed. She was 24 years old. The burial took place in r Rosemont cemetery on Saturday morning, funeral procession leaving , the house at ten o'clock, service conducted by the Rev. Edw. F*ullenwlder. Besides her parents and her husband ' and a number of other relatives and > family connections, Mrs. Falls is surt vived by two sisters, Mrs. L. c. Pitts, of Did Town, and Mrs. E. S. Mathews, ' of Thomasson, Ga. This is a peculiar ly sad death. Mr. Falls, who devoted r himself during the illness of his wife to the task of trying to save her life, had planned to take her to Yorkvllle 1 for their future home. ' ? Following are the members of the graduating class of Due West Female r college this year: Bachelor of Arts? Misses Alma Sullivan Agnew, Lillian Agnew, Sarah Logan Brooks, Clara ? Bonner, Elizabeth Jane Blackwell, Anl nie Elizabeth Carwlle, Myrtle Crowt ther, Mary E Donnald, Annie Marilla r Ewart, Stella Glasscock, Lois B. Hunter, Alice Lee Humphreys, Lillian Wy' lie Klrkpatrick, Winnie Lou Laird, Re) bekah Miller, Alice T. McCllntock, Lilf lie Marion Pratt, Lola Belle Scoggins, Mary Josephine Simpson, Mary M. ' Whlsonant, Sarah Paden Young, TenI nessee. Certificates?Eva Vaughan i Agnew, Mary Bradley Klugh, Permella Mcllwalne, Louie Pressly Smith, Eula G. Simpson, Ruth Stewart, Anna^ belle Wiseman. Diploma In Voice? i Miss Hattie Boyd Grant. SOUTH CAROLINA NEW8 ? Hugh Long, the newspaper man who killed Pickens Ounter at Wagener last fall, was tried at Aiken this week, and after all the evidence was In yesterday, the foreman of the jury asked the presiding judge for permission to retire for a minute or two. The permission was granted and when the jury returned the foseman advised the judge that all had made up their minds from the evidence and beyond any possibility of change by argument of the lawyers, and asked that argument be dispensed with, Judge Gary cited the provision of the constitution upholding the right of counsel to be heard; but when it was made clear that speeches would do no good, counsel consented to the arrangement, and after a charge by the judge, the jury retired again, remaining out about half a minute and returning with a verdict of not guilty. The testimony which was not clearly disputed, showed that Ounter had QOt only threatened to kill Long In the event of his return to Wagener after his election to the legislature; but it was Ounter who started the fatal affray. After the trial both Long and his wife thanked each of the jurors separately, and there was a big reception that lasted for some minutes before the Longs left the court house, ? Columbia, June 4: An Informal conference between the South Carolina railroad commission and O. F. Fernaid, of Chicago, general counsel for the Pullman company, this afternoon regarding the complaint of Railroad Commissioner Richards to negroes riding in Pullman on interstate trains, resulted In an agreement to postpone further negotiations for thirty days. In the meantime it Is thought that propositions will be drawn up by both sides for discussion when the conference Is resumed. Nothing as to what was discussed at the conference was given out. It took place at 3 o'clock this afternoon In the railroad commissioner's office with all the members present. The protest of Mf, Richards against the Pullman company selling negroes berths on the same cars with white people has aroused much interest all over the state and the commission Is backed up by the great majority of the white people of South Carolina in their efforts to get the separate coach law recognised on Interstate trains. Word comes from Washington that the bill introduced by Senator Smith, providing separate coaches for the races on Interstate trains will be pushed to passage. The South Carolina railroad commission sent copies of the letter of protest they wrote the Pullman company against negroes having berths on sleepers with white people, to all the railroad commissions of the southern states and It is said here that all of them are heartily co-operating with South Carolina In trying to remedy this trouble. MERE MENTION .1 .. .. S. L. Heeter, superintendent 01 tne public achoola of Pittsburgh, Pa., has been adjudged guilty of "making improper advances and taking unwarranted liberties with three women," by a committee of cltlsens appointed to investigate charges against Heeter. A few weeks ago he was acquitted by a Jury of a more serious charge... .The state of Rhode Island is so hard up that all officers from governor downward, failed to get their pay checks on June 2. They will have to wait until some of the state's revenues come in... Information was received *t London, Monday, to the effect that forty members of the "Leopard Society," a secret organization, have been hanged at Sierra Leone, a British colony on the west coast of Africa recently, because of the practice of cannibalism. Some of the stockholders of the Fore River Shipbuilding company of Quincy, Mass., have applied to the courts to prevent the sale of the business to the Bethlehem Steel company of Pennsylvania which was recently announced The American Federation of Labor has declared war on the Industrial Workers of the World, a labor organisation which is creating considerable trouble in New Jersey and Pennsylvania textile mills just at this time... .Edward Payson Weston, 76 years old, and famous as a long distance pedestrian, left New York, Monday, to walk to Minneapolis, Minn. 1,446 miles. He expects to reach his destination on August 2......Four persons were killed near Elk River, Minn., Monday evening, when attempting to cross a railroad track in front of a passenger train, with which they had been racing Alfred Austin, a. ~ 1% pot)l juureuitj ui ungiauu, a^ou IU years, died in England, Monday Congressman Barton of Nebraska, has introduced a bill providing for the erection of a government armor plate plant.....A bronze statue of Kit Carson, the famous scout and Indian flfti er, was unveiled at Trinidad, Col., Monday In 1883 there were I". the United States 10,818,110 horses and mules, valued at about $750,000,000. In 1910 there were $1,040,000 horses and mules and their value was estimated ? Silver City, N. M., June 3: On arriving at Sliver City today from the Mogollon mountains, where he has been spending some weeks, former Postmaster General Hitchcock was shown the statement issued a few days ago by Postmaster General Burleson at tacking his administration or tne postoffice department. Mr. Hitchcock Issued the following statement: "A committee, composed In the main, of newly-appointed assistants having less than three months' experience in postoffice business, attempts In a report to the present head of the department to discredit the financial showing made by the postal service under President Taft's administration. After reporting alleged discrepancies that are Insignificant when compared with the great sums known to have been saved by their predecessors, this committee of novitiates proceeds in Its published statements to enlighten the American people as to the character of the -postal service they have been receiving. Their statement Is as Inaccurate as It , Is gratutitous, for the public well knows that never was the postal service conducted more efficiently, or mall handled with greater precision and dispatch than in the closing years of , the Taft administration. During that administration nearly 5,000 new postAituhiinhMl. delivery by letter carrier was provided In about 300 additional cities, and over 3,000 new rural routes, aggregating about 75,000 miles, were authorized. Noti withstanding the great extensions of service, and the heavy Increase In ex* pendlture, they required, the postofflce department was placed on a self-sustaining basis, and that was Its condition when, on the fourth of March It passed into the hands of newly-appointed officers, who seem thus far to have been exhausting their time and ' their energy in a vain attempt to dei tract from the record made by the devoted public servants they succeeded. The postal committee of a Democratic house of congress endeavored last year in a similar manner to attack the audited accounts of the postal service, but after investigation that committee was fair enough to admit that the department had become sub* stantlally self-sustaining. The returns as to surplus or deficit are made up, not by the postoffice department, where all postal income is received and all Dostal accounts Anally audited. The secretary of the treasury reported tne wiping out of the postal deficit and the record thus certified to in his fiscal report, is likely to stand in history. The United States postal service comprises altogether more than 300,000 officers and men. It is the largest business organization in the world. It expends annually about 3260,000,000 and now takes in approximately that amount in postal receipts. It requires a high order of business ability and the closest kind of application on the part of the various officers In charge to conduct successfully a public service so extensive and so intricate. The question may very naturally present itself In the public mind, as to why the present officers of the department, instead of consuming all this time in an endeavor to discredit the good work of the men they succeeded, are not devoting themselves more attentively to the Important branches oi the service entrusted to their care, even if they are thus far unable In their Inexperience to map out and execute a constructive postal programme, so as to broaden still further the usefulness of the pottofflce." at 32,276,363,000.