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FARM DEMONSTRATION WORK. -- Experiments in Agriculture Will Be Extended to all the Counties in the State but Seven. Columbia. July 7.-Mr. J. P. .Lampbell, of the Washington office of the United States farm demon etration work, arrived in Columbia this morning for a conference with Commissioner Watson and Prof. Ira W. Williams, the State agent for South Carolina of the farm demon stration work. The annual appropriation for farm demonstration work in the United &ates has just been made by the general education board, and Mr. Campbell brought the exceedingly gratifying news that in making the annual appropriations for the fiscal year 1909-10, an increase had been allowed this State of about $4,000 or $5,000. To-day the entire situation in South Carolina was thoroughly gone (.ver with the result that this fall t1is valuable United States farm demonstration work, practical work with the individual farmer by special agents going from farm to farm and giving specific instruction for the betterment of farming methods, will be so extended that every county in the State, with the exception of seven, will be under this work an other crop season. Only the territory where drainage is so badly needed and the agricultural industry amounts to but very little, will be omitted during the next crop year. While the appropriations for some of the other Southern States are per haps larger than South Carolina, it is a note-worthy fact that practically this entire State will be covered during the coming fiscal year, while with the funds available not more than one-half of. the territory in North Carolina, Georgia and Vir ginia. for instance, will be covered. Dr. Knapp has been much pleased with the earnest support given by the State department of South Caro lina, and by the people of the State themselves, so much so, in fact, that he has insisted on the broadest ex pansion of the work in this State, notwithstanding no State aid has been given as in other States. The iresulits obtained have been most gratifying to 'the office in Washing 'ton. Furthermore, everything that hias been accomplished in South car olina has been done since the season of 1907, when .the work was first in troduced here by Dr. Knapp at the earnest request of the State depart ment, and upon its assurance that the people of the State would wel come it and show substantial re sults. During tihe past two years most remarkable headway has been made, as has been shown by the greatly' increased stat-isties, in diversified ag ricultural crops, and much of this has been due to Mr. Campbell, who was here as State agent for some time before being called to Wash ington, and to his predecessor, Dr. Barrow, now at Clemson college, and to the earnest, active State agent, who now directs the operations of the farm demonstration agents in South Carolina.. Among tihe counties, which will receive the atension of the work this year are Oconee, Piekens, Green ville. Spartanburg. Florence, Marion, Bamberg, B.arnwell. Edgefield, Sa luda and Abbeville. The men who will be agents have all p)ractically been determined upon. Commissioner Watson, in speak ing of the gratifying increase of the appropriation and development of this work to-day, said: "I am, of course. deeply gratified at this mani festationi of appreciation of results that has been shown by Dr. Knapp, and the general education board. Our people have taken most kindly to this practical result-giving meth ed of developing tahe .agricultural in austry, and we have made most marked headway under it. It is particularly gratifying when we con sider that up to the present time the State has not been asked for any supplemental appropriation for the conduct of the work, such as is being given by nearly every other State in which it is being prosecuted, nor have our banks and other interested concerns made any subscription to any fund with which to supplement -the appropriation made from Wash ington. I have not asked the Legisla ture for any appropriation of this character heretofore, because we 'wished to show what could be ac complished. The increase of the value of our corn crop from $17,500, 000 in two years' time to $29,500, 000.1 consider a result that warrants this department in asking the Leg islature at its next session for a sup olemental appropriation with whie'i we will be able to increase in every .ounty~7 in the State. save the seven hlat must be omitted for the pres ent, to full time county agents. In a number of counties now in opera tion the agents can only be employ e Id fr so m daVs ut of the week. and this will be true under the ex tension next year, unless the State by direct contribution, and banks and other concerns by subscriptions, supplement the Federal funds, thus enabling the State agent to put all of these counties under men devoting every hour of their time to the prac tical direction of individual farms throughout the State. Every bank in South Carolina could well -afford to give a small subscription to supple ment this Federal appropriation, and increase the efficiency of work that makes increased production, and consequently increased wealth in the farming districts, by whicih each one of them would materially benefit. The State Legislature could easily afford to spend a few thousand dol lars when it means so much to the increase of the taxable values in the State, and I hope at the next session some such action will be taken. In nearly all of the other States both appropriations of this kind and sub scriptions of the eiharacter I have indicated have been made, and I have yet to hear of a single express ion of regret from any Legislature or individual subscriber." EXPLOITS THE SOUTH. Director Dawe Tells of 'This Sec tion's Commercial Advantages. -Extensive Coast Line. Atlanta, Ga., July 7.-Nearly 100 Southern cities were represented here to-day at the first annual con vention of the Southern Commercial Secretaries' association. Statistics showing the South's re sources were given by G. Grosvenor Dawe, of Montgomery, managing di rector of the Southern Commercial congress. Mr. Dawe took as his theme the potential greatness of the Southern States. "Viewed from the point of coast line, it is well to understand that the Southern States possess an enormous advantage over the other two-thirds of the United States; for the coast line of the Southern States is 3,007 miles. while the coast line of the North Atlantic States is 888 miles; of the Pacific coast 1,557 miles. "The natural advantages of coast line are already asserting their in fluence, for we are able to say that a Southern port still holds the sec ond position for exports among all the ports of the United States-New Orlehs in 1900-and now a Sout-h ern p5rt that nine years ago was wrecked and rent by storm, the port of Galveston. "We are able to show you that the exports along the gulf now ex eed the exports of Pihiladelphia and Boston by 81 per cent., and they equal more than 50 per cent. pf the total which belongs to the overshad owing port of New York. The tables of exports for 1900 and 1908 show that 27 per cent. growth in exports has taken place in New York, Phil adelphia and Boston regarded to gether. During 'this same time tihe gulf exports increased 31 per cent. Water Power Potential. "The vast Appalachian range, the greatest mountain range in the United States, lying wit.hin the -re gion of plentiful rainfall, is pro duing at present unharnessed, ev erv moment of every day 5,000,000 horsepower. The day is coming when, through conversation impul ses this water will be used to drive the wheels of industry and of trans portation tihroughout the South, thus indefinitely extending the life of power buried now in the coal fields of the South. "If you look at the estimates re garding the iron ore life of the United States. vou will see that the Soutern Appalachian region is ex peted to endure 100 years after the Lake Superior region is stripped and exhausted. Yet, with all the advan tags belonging to the southern ex tremity of the Appalachians, advan tages so great that Birmingham sets the price for pig iron, yet at present only about 10 per cent. of the pig iron of the United States is made in the South. Then look at the size and energy of Birmingham, the Birming ham distriet, Chattanoogga and oth er cities in Tennessee and in Ala baa dependent upon iron ore, then realize that their marvelous growth to present dimensions has come through the creation of merely ten per cent. of the pig iron of the Unit ed States. Then let your imagination run riot and picture to yourself what hkill be the development of those portions of the country when instead of ten per cent. they are producing ninety per cent. of the pig iron of tihe United States and largely giv ing that iron its final form. Favorable Situation. "The Southern States as a 'shole' po Irasmre general aeeesibilityv to o5t line, and therefore to the comn mere of thr wvorld, than either of Ithe other thirds of the United tes. A strin and a pin wheel men who think on commercial sub jects do not. need t.hat I should de tail to you the advantages that rest with a portion of the country that can by statistical and governmental proof declare that it had more coast line, more navigable stream, more water power, more minerals con veniently arranged, more agricultural range. more forests, more cheap land, more accessibility to ports than any third of the Uniea. "The meaning of this summing up of Southern opportunities is this: and none but the blind will fail to see it. That tibere is to come a time in the history of the United States, as a whole, must have the support and development of the Southern States. It means that our nation will never reach its full greatness. It means this. also, that as sure as the sun shall rise tomorrow there is to come a period of commercial devel opment in the South compared with which the past growth has been but the tottering footsteps of an infant. These are not words of boasting or of bombast, but they are serious words, based upon the incontrovert ible evidence of the South's re sources and what those resources must lead to.'" The afternoon session was spent listening to a discussion of the good roads movements by Gen. Clifford Anderson, of Atlanta, and Charles H. Hoyt, superintendent of road con struction of the United States gov ernment. After the papers had been concluded, Mayor Maddox invited the members to stop at his country home while on the automobile ride. The members did so and discovered that Atlanta is not so dry as the prohibitionists would have the pub lic believe. There were cigars, punch and what the mayor called "other things. $1,000,000 FOR COLLEGBS. Pearsons, Famous for Benefactions, Intends to Die a Poor Man. Chicago, July 7.-Daniel K. Pear sons, the "sage of Hinsdale.' al ready famous for its munificent bene faction to the male college of this country has announced that he would devote the remainder of this, 'his ninetieth year, to distributing among the various educational and philan thropic institutions of this city his lest million dollars. This will round out the sum he had always intended Chicago to have and leave him a relatively poor man when he celebrates 'his ninetieth- birthday on the 11th of next Apr-il. Mr. Pear sons declined to indicate what 'insti tutions will benefit by the remainder of his large fortune. For virtually a quarter of a cen tury Mr. Pearsons has devoted the major part of his attent-ion to be stowing his money upon public in stitutions which he deemed worthy and he has already given away con siderably over $4,000,000. His gift to Chicago will mark 'his retirement~ from .the role of philantropist, for he will save only enough to insure him a comfortable old age. Jackson's Bridge Builder. "Stonewall Jackson,'' said a Vir ginia veteran, "used to tell a story about a bridge builder. This bridge builder was called Old Miles. He was very necessary to Jackson, because the flimsy bridges on the line ~of march were continually being swept away by the floods, or destroyed by. the enemy, and in these continge.n ies Miles was a regular jewel. He could run you up a bridge in the' time it would take -another man .to make the measurements. One day the Union troops burned a bridge across the Shenandoah. Stonewall Jackson called Old Miles to him and said: 'You must put all your men to work, Miles, and you must keep them at it all night, for I 'ye got to have a bridge across this stream by morn ing. My engineer- will draw up the plans for you.' Well, early the next morning, Jackson, very much wor ried. met Old Miles. 'See, here,' he said. dubiously. 'how, about that bridge?9 Did the engineer give you the plan?' Old Miles took the eigar from his mouth and flicked the ash off with a sneer. 'General' he said. t>e bridge is done. I dunno whether the pie-ter is or not. ' " -Kansas City Star. Schedules Effective June 20th, 1909. Northbound Departures from New berry, S. C.I 8:37 a. in., No. 15, daily, for Ander son, Greenville and intermediate points connecting 'at Greenville for Atlanta and points Nort!h. Arrive at Anderson 12:24 noon, Greenville 1:15 P. M. 2:48 p. in.. No. 11. daily. to Ander son. Greenville and intermediate points, coinctng at Greenville for Atlanta and points north. Arrivie An derson 6:14 p. mn.. Greenville 6 :55 p mn. Southbound. 1: j. n. N o. 18 aily. for Co-4 Special I Gold Band Cups and S 60c. Decorated Plates White China Cups and 5 Plates to match, set of 8-inch White Plates, se 16 x 20 Pictures, und Moulding, each . Religious Pictures in ti These prices are for: Mayes'B Stop an You will find at Carlson & Pc the most up-to-date, newest, ai from which we respectfully solic proaching fall and winter. We are better prepared th promptly. Come in now and rr the foremost woolen houses in 2 our styles direct from New Yorl We are prepared to do busin< and feel that we would like to h try, as it is this that builds a city Fit add workmanship gu: Respectfully, CARLSON I PROTEOTION: the I INSURE the lives of your h< yery low. Reliable company OUR FIRE INSURANCE I world, cost no more than the Windstorms damage property you against loss. You will may buy this protection. Our DISABILITY policies p account of sickness and accid< jured while tiaveling. No mt We have a proposition for ins ond to none. Why ask ycur friends to sign when you may buy this aceor Our office is open every week us for any information. SECURITY, LOAN & Insu.raniceE J. N. McCaughrin, Treasurer. lumbia, Charleston, Augusta and in termediate points. Arrive Columbia, 3:25 p. m. Charleston 8:45 p. m. Au gusta, S :35 p. m. 8:47 p. in., N.o. 16 daily, for Co lumbia, Charleston and intermediate points. Pullman sleeper from Colum bia. arrive Columbia 10:35 p. m. Charleston 8:15 a. mn. Summer Excursion tickets now on sale. For further information, apply to ticket agents, or, 'C. H. Ackert, V. P. & G. M., Washington, D. C. W. H. Tayloe, G. P. A., Washington, D. C. J. L. Meek,. A. G. P. A., Atlanta, Ga. - W. E. McGee, T. P. A., Augusta, Ga. ELUE RIDGE SCHEDULES. Eastbound. No. 1.8, leaves Anderson at 6.30 a. i., for connection at Belton with Southern for Greenville. No. 12, from Walhalla. leaves An derson at 10.15 a. mn., for connection at Belton with Southern Railway for No. 20, 'leaves Anderson at 2.20 p. mn., for connections at Belton with n China ucers, set of six 50c. . . . . 40c. )aucers, set of six 50c. six . . . 50c. t of six . . 25c. er glass 4 inch . . . . 59c. ie sheet, each . 10c. 10 days only. )Ok Store d Read! kdersen's up-to-date tailor shop a.d latest line of fall samples, it your patronage for the ap an ever to fulfill your ordeV take your selection from two of kmerica. Just stop and notice %ss on a larger scale than ever, ave you patronize home indus aranteed. PEDERSEN. irsi Law of Nature >ses, mules and cattle, rates 'OLICIES are the best in the others. every day. We can protect be surprised how low you ay you for the time lost on mt. Double benefits if in edical examination. uring your lifg that is sec .your bond for any purpose nmodation at very small cost. day, call, write or 'phone ,INVESTMENT GO., )epa.rtrnient. W. A. McSwain, Manager. Southern Railway for Greenville. No. 8, daily except Sunday, from Wahalla arrives Anderson 6.24 p. i., with connections at Seneca with Southern Railway from points south. No. 10, from Walhalla, leaves An derson at 4.57 p. in., for connections at Belton with Southern Railway for Greenville and Columbia. ' Westbound. No. 17. arrives at Anderson at 7.50 a. mn., from Belton with connections from Greenville. No. 9, arrives at Anderson at 12.24 p. in., from Belton with connections from Greenville and. Columbia. Goes to Walhalla. No. 19, arrives at Anderson at 3.40 p. in., from Belton with connections from Greenville.. No. 11, arrives at Anderson at 6.29 p. mn., from Belton with con netions from Greenville and Colum bia. Goes to Walhalla. No. 7, daily except Sunday, leaves Anderson at 9.20 a. in., for Walhalla, with connections at Seneca for local points south. Nos. 17, 18, 19, and 20 are mixed trans between Anderson and Belton. Nos. 7 and 8 are local freight trains, carrying passengers, between Anderson and Walhalla and between Walhalla an? Anderson The NEW SUN No.2 PRICE $40.00 This Writing Machine is Good Enough for Anybody. INVESTIGATE I,T 6. L. ROBINSON, Agent. NOTICE. * The patrons and trustees of the Vaughnsville school will meet at the Vaughnsville schoolhouse on thc 21st day of July to elect a teacher for the coming term. Salary $45.00 per month. School term 7 months. Appli' cations to be sent to either of the below trustees. A teacher that can teach music preferred. C. A. Brooks, L. H. Green, Trustees. A GRAND OPPORTUNITY To See The Pad*c Coast And The Alaska-Yukon Exposition. The best and most inexpensive way to see the Pacific coast and the great Western country this summer, and take in the Alaska-Yukon Exposition opened June 1st, is to "Go as you please, pay as you go, stay as long as October 31st, if you desire." Why not spend your own money? Why not plan your own trip and go in.comfort,.' and when it suits you? This may be done by planning your trip over the SOUTXERN RAILWAY in connection withi an individual par ty leaving the Carolinas July 3rd, on the individual expenpe plan~, whieh will cost you about half as much as a fixed expensive excursion tour. July 3rd, Route. Southern Railway, Goldsboro to Harriman Junction. Queen and Crescent, Harrimna Junction to Danville, Ky. Southern Railway, Danville, Ky., to St. Louis, Mo.I Wabash R. R., St. Louis to Kan 3as City, Mo. Union Pacific, Kansas City to Den ver. Denver & Rio Grande, Denver to Salt Lake City. S. P. L A. & S. L., Salt Lake City to Los Angeles. Round Trip Railroad Rates. Going via any ticketing route se lected and returning via any ticketing route as desired. Via Portland, Seattle and Sam turning one way via Portland and 4 Seat-tle. From: Goldsboro .. ......$99.75 Greensboro ........ 99.75 Durham .. .... ...99.75 Spartar4bum:g .. ... 974 Columbia ..~ .... .98.20 Orangeburg .. ... ...98.20. Greenivood .. ......96.65 Rock Hill .. .... ...98.35 Anderson ......... 96.10 Raleigh .. ........ 99.75 Salisbury ......... 99.75 Charlotte ........ 99.75 - Greenville .........-.96.65 Charleston .. ....... 99.75 Newberry .... .....97.45 Chester.. .. .......98.35 Sumter .... .. ......09.75 Rates quoted f->m other pont s on. application. Tickets limited to October 31st, 1909, and permit stop-overs at all points west of Chicago or St. Louis. Tickets on sale daily to September 29th, 1909. Lower Round Trip Rates to and fromCalifor2ia quoted on appli cation. Before completing arrange ments for your trip gi 7e us an oppor tunity to talk with you about the de tails of it, quote you best rates and tell you of the most interesting points, and the best and cheapest way to see them. Write to representatives as follows: W. E. McGee, T. P. A.? Augusta. Ga. S. H. McLean, P. & T. A., Columbia, S. C. J. C. Lusk, D. P. A., Charleston, S. C. H. M. Pratt, T. A., Spartanburg, S. C. R. H. DeButts. T. P. A. Raleigh. N. C. R. L. V\ernon, D. P. A. Charlotte, N. C.