The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, April 14, 1909, Image 1

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VOL. XXIII MANNING, S. C. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 1909 NO.34 NO POTASH TAX Congressman Lever Gets Com mittee to Remove Duty FROM TARIFF BILL The Farmers of South Carolina Will Save Over a Quarter Mil lion Dollars by the Action of the Committee in Removing the Tax From Potash. Washington, April 8.-A special to the Columbia Record says after a week of diplomatic activity, Rep resentative Lever of South Carolina, today won a decided victory for the farmers of his State and the South. Following his representations as to the effect of the potential duty of 20 2 per cent on potash and potash salts, C the ways and means committee to day promised Mr. Lever to remove f by committee amendment the offen sive paragraph from the bill. a The first step In the direction n pledged by the committee was taken this morning when the committee in I executive session of its Republican b members voted an amendment re- V moving the duty on all potash salts t, except basic slag, a variation of the f standard product. Learning of this C execption, Mr. Lever again called on b Chairman Payne and after explain- e ing that basic slag, too, was an es- i1 sential part of the demand submitted n in behalf of the farmers, Mr. Payne b said that he thought the committee e would certainly vote a supplemeata ry- amendment at its meeting tomor row morning. The action of the committee Is a IB personal triumph for Mr. Lever and he is highly gratified at the result. The attention which Mr. Lever's rep- B resentations received at the hands of the committee, Republicans. is the a result of a consistently practiced pol- tl icy of conciliation on the part of tI Mr. Lever as well as of the respect his energetic fights on particular questions begore -this have called forth on both sides of the house. Among both Republicans and Democrats Mr. Lever has many friends, and in that way he can al ways get a hearing. After that he relies on his presentation of his N case. Mr. Lever's activities have been unceasing since telegrams reached Washington from Mr. E. J. Watson, directing his attention to the possibilities hidden away in the la administrative clauses of the bill. There is one New Englander on the ways and means committee, Mr. Hill of ConnectieUt, and as the New Eng- U land soil in many localities requires practically the samle kind of fer tilzation needed in the South, it was not difficult for one knowing th'e ground as well as Mr. Lever to in terest certain Republicans in his ~ fight. The victory of the South Caroli- r nian will mean something over a quarter of a million dollars a year ~ to the farmers of South Carolina a alone, -while to the South as a whole SI it will mean more than $2,000,000, In his speech recently on this subject a Mr. Lever estimated the possible loss 9 to South Carolina farmers from the o: enactment of this clause at over a: $30,000, and a telegram he -re- sI ceived from Wr. Watson this morn- o: ing practically substantiates his es- p timate. The indications now are that the iI Payne bill will go to the Senate with to potash and its salts on the free list, g and it is not thought that there will el be much -chance of the duty being Ii restored in the upper house. ni n WILL SERVE HIS TDIE. y Brought Back and Put in the State0 P'enitentiary. Columbia, April 7.-Sheriff Caus- d ey has brought to the State peniten tiary Henry Haynes, the desperade who was arrested 'in Jacksonvill 1 a few days ago and brought backa to this State to serve out five yearsa for manslaughter and 16 months on the charge of breach of trust with frauduleig intent. T~e arrest of Haynes is ~the culminaltion of 10 years of evasion of the law-for Haynes, although convicted in 1899 ~ of manslaughter, has succeeded in keeping away from the officers of a the law until Sheriff Causey got on his track and located him in Jack- u sonville. - c Haynes escaped from Monck's Cor- I ner before he could be brought to la Columbia to begin his sentence just t: after he was convicted in 1899. The tr guards from the penitentiary had already started for Monck's Corner v to bring Hatynes and a number of 2 orner priso)ners here when It was s learned that Haynes had made his i escape. Since 1899 Haynes has been r able to keep away from the officers t of the .law. t Sheriff -Causey states that just E as soon as he came into office he started to track Haynes and finally was able to make the negro move out of the State which ended in the1 arrest at Jacksonville. Wont Let Him Land. . Port of Spain, Trinidad. April 6. At the urgent request of the State I department at Washington, communi-4 cated to the London foreign office. the British government has decided not to permit Cipriano Castro, former president of Venezuela, to land at frinidad. Fishermen Drowned. Naples, April 7.-By the bursting of a dyke today at Catanzaro. 22 fishermen were swept to sea. Eleven of ihe were drowned. GUILTY OF MURDER IULLED ONE MAN AND TWO HELPLESS WOMEN. Ivery Blount, Prosperous Louisiana Business Man, Sent to the Gallows by the Jury. Amite City, La., April 7.-Late his afternoon the jury in the case f Avery Blount, charged with the nurder of J. 0. Breland, Mrs. Bre and and Mrs. Joe Everette, brought n a verdiot of guilty in the first de Tee. The verdict carries the death pen Ity. The accused man received the ver ict with muh coolness. Judge Ellis fixed Friday of this ,eek for the hearing on motion for new trial. Bount, a prosperous merchant, of ckfaw, was indicted on the charge f murdering "Buz" Breeland, Mrs. reeland and the latter's daughter, Ers. Joe. Everette, and was tried rst on the separate indictment of Buz" Breeland's killing. Garfield ad Ben Kinchen, two brothers, in icted for complicity in the assassi ation, are yet to be tried. The killing of the Breelands, and [rs. Everette was one of the most orrible crimes ever committed in ie State. The tragedy occurred on ie night of January 22, near Tick tw several miles south of Amite ity. Breeland and his wife were ringing their daughter, Mrs. Ever :te, from her former home in Liv gston Parish to live with them ear Tickfaw. Mrs. Everette's hus and had been killed by Ben Kinch i a few days before. Breeland was shot from ambush. e was on foot, and the two women ere riding in a buggy. According > Breeland's dying statement Avery lount, accompanied by some other rson, then levelled guns on Mrs. reeland and her daughter. The .tter held her young baby in her ms. The elder woman was first ot and killed. Mrs. Everette in e meantime was beseeching the sassins to spare her baby's life. Her supplications inally resulted the child being taken from her ms and laid by the roadside. The other was then shot to death. RYING TO KILL OPIUM TRADE. ew Law Prohibits Importation and Use of Drug. Washington, April 7.-One of the ost important bills passed at the st session of Congress, and which came effective on April 1, was Lat prohibiting both the importa on and use of opium in the United tates for any purpose whatever, tcept for strictly medicinal purpos In recent years the smuggling of: )ium into this country has ben one the serious curses of the time, and I of the larger etties have expe enced untold trouble from such 'affic, especially among the Chinese. Sthe records of the police tsations ad Criminal Courts abundantly Under the new law, if any person all fraudulently or knowingy im rt or bring into the United States, assist in so -doing, any opium or y preparation or derivatives or call receive, conceal, buy or sel'. Sin any manner facilitate the trans rtation or concealment of sale o~f ly such opi'cm products after the'r aportation, knowing them to have een imported contray to law, suche yods shall be forfeited and destro; , and the offender shall be vued iany sum lot e seeding $5,000. r less than $51), or by imprison ent for any time not exceding two ears, or both. The treasury department had gone rer the new law carefully, and in a :atement just issued by Secretary acVeagh, is -is made plain hereafter ere shall be no trafic in this pro uct if it is posible to stop it.. In issuing full directions to col retors at the different ports, these Scers are cautioned to guard close!v gainst fraudulent importations here Iter. In addition to this, the StaT. ad municipal officers have been sent >pies of the new law by the treasury epartment with ful directions foz' arrying it out, and with instructions io for making arrests and push eg prosecutions when such arrests re deemed necessary. Although more smuggling of opi m is done perhaps in San Francis o than in any other city in the 'nited States, because o the very age number of Orientals there, the raffic in the drug has grown to enor cus proportions in New York, Chi ago, Philadelphia, Boston and else rhere in the East during the last ye years. Not only this, but in ome instances negroes, too. have een known to become steady and egular users of the drug, so that ow the Chinese immigrant is not hee only person to feel its harmful Many murders among the Chinese a different parts of the country have eeen directly traceable to the illegal tse of this drug, and it is believed >y those who have made a caerful tudy of the mater that the new law vill be most beneficial in its effects vhen its provisions become generally Enwn and its mandates are carried Killed by Robbers. Birmingham, Ala., April 6. eoorge Housley, a negro brakeman, ras instantly killed early this morn ng in Bessemer by robbers. The obbbers had entered a freight car whhich had just stopped at the depot mdd the conductor, hearing a noise, sent Hosley bach to in'vestigate. rhe mem scaped. LIVES ARE LOS1 And Property Damaged in Vario Section of Country BY A HEAVY STORM Several Cities Are Damaged by High Wind That Swept the Mi die Western States, Which Crij pled the Telegraph Service ar Wrecked 'Houses and Schools. Detroit, Mich., April 7.-At lea! eight persons lost their lives in ti storm that visited Detroit and Mich gan last night and today. Anthon Kaup, a saloonk-eeper, Joe Kadich, barber, and Adam Felin, all of W3 andotte, attempted to cross the D( troit river In a row boat from Wyat dotte to Canada this afternoon in fifty-miles gale to settle a wager an all three were drowned when the boat capsized. Kadich bet Kaup fiv dollars that he Would not dare t cross In the small boat and Felin wa the stakeholder. At Jennings, In Missaukee county three young men, Bernard Carisor Charles Jackson and John Torre: were killed by being caught unde a wall that was blown down by th wind at the Mitchell Brothers mill Eight year old Benjamin Hellme was killed by lightning near Iron last night and Ray Miller was kille< at Brightwood today when he wa struck by a roof that had been blow off. Many Killed. Chicago, April 7.-Reports of las night's storm damage received her today are that ten persons are knowi to have been killed in Mississipp and at least 15 were injured. At the Terrell plantation, east o: West Point, Miss., a number of ne groes were killed. Reports from western Tennesse4 state that the storm wrecked man small buildings. At Wabash, Ind., Mrs. Jas. A Hayes and four children were pin ned down beneath the wreckage o: their home, which caught on fire The mother was badly burned, be ing rescued, and wIll die. Th( children were seriously hurt. Th( high wind was followed by a cloud burst. Many bridiges are washed away. A dozen houses were demol ished in Wabash. The damage wil reach several thousand dollars. At Perua, Ind., four factorie: and several school buildings, man: small structures, were wrecked b the wind. Several Men Missing. Cleveland, Ohio., April 7.-Thi ishing tug George Floyd, with se'ver nen aboard, and the sand suckel ary H., with nine men are missing nd the barge Norman Kelley, witi crew of four persons, was rescuec onight after a desperate fight, at result of a fierce windstorm whici aged on Lake Erie today. The winc lew a sixty-mile gale throughoul the day. Life savers have been un. ble to do effective work. The steel barge Kelley's crew hree men and a woman, were pickec p after floating fifteen miles fron Kelley's Island, when the boa1 1roke away and idrifted to sea here was neither an engine nor ar oar on the barge, so the crew wa: t the mercy of the waves. geveral small- buildinags were wrecked and buggies overturned II leveland. Two men were blow2 from the shore of the Lake into thi water. Both were rescued. Injured in New York. New York. April 7.-The higi ae that prevailed to the west and north of N~w York city today ausing havoc with telegraph ani telephone lines, attained its ful force here at 7:45 o'clock tonight when the wind reached a velocit: f 60 miles an hour. Several per sons were hurt and much damage and discomfort resulted. Two persons, an elderly womai and a child. were badly hurt b: being blown off their feet and dash ed against objects in the street. At Rochester John \kith wat killed this afternoon during a 5: mile an hour wind storm, and 12-year-old child sustained a frac tured skull from a wind blow: chimney. At Buffalo from three o'clock unti five this afternoon the wind tor through the streets of Buffalo a the rate of 72 miles an hour. On man was killed and many peopl were injured hy parts of building detached by the force of the wini and hurled through the air. Great Damage at Toledo. Toledo, April 7.-Hundreds ? men out of work, thousands of dol ars damage done and many per sons slightly injured as the ri slts of. a hurricane that visited Tc ledo and vicinity today. The wind attained a velocity C 69 miles an hour in this city. Th roof of the plant of the Massilo Bridge Compai.y. 18fl by 40 feet wa ripped off. ar d hurled into a fiel and 300 men were thrown outc employment until the damage ca be repaired. Pedestrains were injured by fal Ing signs, parts of roof, chimney and limbs of trees and many wome were blowed over by the wind. In small towns near Toledo eoT siderable damage was done. Man houses were struck by lightning an th occupants stunned, but the: were no reports of fatalities. Six Injured. London, Ont., April 7.-Six pe sons were -injured, one fatally, at a financial loss of full fifty thousar dollars was entailed by a northwel ,urraem which pased ov'er this cil CASTRO LANDS HE LEAVES THE STEAMER AT FORT DE FRANCE. Very Much Annoyed by American Government's Interference With His Plan of Visiting Venezuela. Fort de France, Martinique, April a 7.-Cipriano Castro, in a rage against the British government and the State department at Washington, .. left the steamer Guadeloupe at this port today and has taken up quarters on shore. Finding all ports in the West Indes, excepting Fort de France, barred against him, the pres it ent course was the only one left open e to the former Venezuelan dictator. Senor Castro's wife will continue on board the Guadeloupe to La Y Guaira. a The American monitor Montana came into port this morning. The Guadeloupe, on board which Castro and his party sailed from a France, March 28, after four months d spent in Europe, came into Fort de r France late last evning. While at e Pointe-a-Pitre of the Island of Guade 0 loupe, where the steamer touched s yesterday, Castro was notified by the British consul that the British government had decided not to per 1 mit him to disembark at Port of Snain Trinidad, consequently Castro r decided to leave the Guadeloupe 8 here. The decision of the British, acting r on a request from the State depart ment at Washington not to let him i land at Trinidad, was unofficially 3 communicated to Castro a second 1 time this morning. He expressed himself as annoyed and angry at this decision, which he characterized as a violation of the rights of man. t He is furiously angry with the Amer ican government and the French Steamship Company. The latter re fused to let him continue on board the Guadeloupe to Colon. After expressing his annoyance at this unexpected turn in his affairs, Castro disclaimed the bellicose in tention with regard to the existing political situation in Venezuela with which he has been credited and he declared that his only purpose in returning to Venezuela was to give his attention rto his private busi ness. Castro appears still to be in ill health. The steamer Gaudeloupe left here at noon today for Port of Spain and Venezuelan points. She was follow ed out of the harbor by the cruiser Montana. WANTED TO SAVE HER. "Aunt Easter" Sacrificed Her Life For Her Mistress. Eatonton, Ga., April 8.-News has just ben received of the burning at Ludowici, of the home of Dr. John Weaver. Aunt Easter, an old family servant, who had been with them for years, thinking that her mis tress was in the burning residence, rushed in to save her if possible. The mnyor of the town seeing her go in the burning building, and knowing her danger, rushed In to save her. He succeeded in getting her out, after she was assured that Mrs. Weaver was safe and unharm ed. She was so badly burned though that she Jdie4i later from the ef fects of the burns. Sush instances as these are becoming more and more rare as the faithful servants of the fast dying out. The old negro was cared for as one of the members of the family and given a good burial and all the members of Dr. Weaver's family were among the most sincere mourners at Aunt Easter's funeral. -Augusta Chronicle.* STABBS HIS WIFE. Drunken Negro Tries to Kill All His Family. Rock Hill. April 7.-This evening at 8 o'clock Lawrence Boyd. a well known negro cook, while drunk, run amuck on Ratterree hill and succeed ed in almost murdering his wife, Louisa, stabbing her deeply in the shoulder. He started for their child of three years old and cut at Sit. His wife's sister grabbed at him and prevented him from cutting the baby, but received a nasty cut on -- the arm herself. Boyd then fled 1 and has not been caught. CHARGED WITH MURDER. t Two Police Officers Shot Another Man to Death. SFitzgerald, Ga., April 7.-Indict I ments charging murder were return ed by the Irwin county grand jury today against Chief of Police Brue baker and Patrolman Johnson, who f on Saturday night sh~t .to death - Robert Gresham, manager of a local --mill, the officers stating that they -were after him for an alleged theft -and shot him down only after he had fired shots at them in a dark f alleyway. The officers are in jail: e without bond. s Guest of Honor. d New York. April 7.-United States f~ Senator Benjamin R. Tillmnan will he Sthe guest of honor and one of the speakers at the annual dinner of the -South Carolinians in this city April s 22. Members of other Southern D States societies and of the Southern society have been invited to attend ~the dinner. d~ today. At the Aberdeen public e school. a tail chimney crashed through the roof. im->risoning 300 pupils, and creating a panic. Mary Laburitis, aged 9 years, was fatally r- injured, and four other pupils were d severerly hurt. The fire department .d worked rapidly and succeeded in st quieting the children, who were re -y moved by means of ladders. NEEDY SCHOOLS APPLY TO THE STATE FOE HELP. Fourteen Counties Report School Term Averaging Less Than Eigh. teen Weeks. Columbia, S. C., April 8.-A large number of communities over the State are applying to the State board of education for State aid to length en. their school terms under the Gar rii Act. "And in many localities the inter est manifested is most suggestive," said State Superintendent Swear ingen today. "Many schools have already closed for lack of funds to p.y the teacher's salaries, but these will be in postion to take advantage of the new law during the coming school yc ar. The showing made oi some of the applications would furn ish a clear insight into economic con ditions in r:any localities." Fourteen ccunties in the State are having school terms averaging less than 12 weeks for the cities as well as the country. Colleton county's average was only eieven weeks and Horry only 12. One district tin Williamsburg could raise only $50 with an extra levy of three mills, and another Williamsburg, district with a 12-mill levy raised only $200. One district in Saluda county gave its negro school only $13, its white school had just a little over $100. Here is an eloquent specimen from about the best conditioned county in the State, Spartanburg: In High Point district the total resourc-s were $189. There are two white schools and no provision of any kind for negroes. One of the schools Is "caring for" 50 chidren, whose teacher gets $35 a month. On this school $125 was spent. Presumably the remainder, $60, went to the other school, in which there are 29 children. The State board of education will hold a meeting on the 23rd to for mulate high school regulations and to name the various county boards of education over the State. The board is made lp of Governor Ansel, ex-officio chairman; State Superin tendent Swearingen, ex-ofiicio sec retary; W. K. Tate, Charleston, as sistant secretary; H. F. Rice, Aiken; Prof. D. W. Daniel, Clemson Col lege; Prof. A. G. Reinbert, Wofford College: .A. R. Banks, Columbia; A. J. Thackston, Orange-aurg. In a statement issued today to the press Superintendent Swearingen says: "The date of the next teachers' examination has been set for Fri day. May 14. As there will be no county summer school work this year, teachers might find it conve ient to take this examination rath >r than wait for a renewal of certi ficate already granted. The new >cards of school trustees will prob ably be hunting for t.eachers In July, and applicants for schools should not run the risk of being caught ithout a certificate. "The Reading Circle questions wi" be sent out on April 14, and teenb. ers taking this course should see that their name and address is furnished the State superintendent by that date." * STARTS VERY YOUNG. Boy of Six Kills Girl of Three and Hides the Body. Union, S. C., April 8.--Though only six years of age, Fred Bell Is a prisoner in the Union countp jail with the grim charge pf murder rest ng against him.' It is charged that the child yes terday afternoon shot and killed Ethel Thomas. who was only three years of age and because of this the murder charge was brought to ay. It was alleged when the ac usation was made that the boy tried to hide the body of the little vic tim. in an apparent effort to cover up the tragedy. It was said that his efforts bad faled and discovery of .t.he dead baby girl caused the boy's arrest. EHe is the youngest prisoner ever com mitted to the jail in this county and probably holds the record for the State. * Commits Snicidi. Richmond, Va., April 7.--F.rank T. Glasgow, Jr., 38 years old, a well known resident of the city, and connected with the Tredegar iron works, shot himself through the head at the office of the plant today and died instantly. Ill health re sulting in despondency was the cause. Robbed Gambling House. Ogden. Utah, April 8.-Last night five robbers walked into the White Elephant gambling house, held up the place and made their escape. Four of the men held guns on the dealers and crowd of twenty-five players, while the fifth robbed the game of between $1,500 and $2. 000. * Woman IPies of Wound. Bogalusa. La., April 7.--Mrs. Elizabeth King, aged 34 years, died here today from the effects of a bul let wound inifieted last night by Deputy Sheriff R. S. Carson, who was a boarder in Mrs. King's house. The shot which struck Mrs. King was aimed at a supposed burglar. Carson was exonerated by the coro ner's .iury. Barkantine Abandoned. New York, April 6.-Abandoned by her crew. badly battered by the sea and with several spars carried away, the waterlogged barkantine Luarea was encountered about 200 miles east of Cape Hatteras Sunday by the seanmar Norse Prince. CUT IT OUT The Farmers Urged To Reduci The Cotton Acreage VERY GOOD ADVICE Which Would Help Out Wonder fully, If the Cotton Producers Would Only Follow it Out Gen. erally Throughout the Cotton Pro. ducing Region. Columbia, April 8.-President B Harris, of the South Carolina State Farmers' Union, has issued the fol lowing address, which he desires that the county papers of the State should copy: "Again I want to call your atten tion, farmers, that now is the time to fix price on the 1909 cotton crop. Will you make it 8 or 15 cents? It is in your power to make it either. "I want to, if I can impress upon you, that d'lversificaltion of your crops is the keynote of the situation. I want to urge every Southern farmer to plant at least 25 per cent of his cotton land In food crops, so as to let's see if it will pay us as farmers to diversify our crops. To my knowl edge, the farmer who has not been making home self-supporting has been swapping $1 for 50 cents. Now let's see if this assertion Is true. "The farmer who bought corn last year paid $1.10 cash for it. If he borrowed the money to buy with, it cost him $1.25, as he paid interest on the money. If he hauled it home ten miles it cost him 10 cents. It is worth 10 cents per bushel to haul corn ten miles, so his corn cost him $1.35. Now, any good, progressive farmer can make all the corn he will need on his farm for 35 cents per bushel. You see he gave a dollar for what he could have raised for 35 cents per bushel. Are any of the Southern farmers guilty of the above? If so, go and sin no more. "Did you buy any bacon? It is selling now for 12 1-2 cents cash. Still swapping $1 for 50 cents. Any good farmer can, raise enough for his family use or 3 cents per pound. Did you buy any hay? I you did you are still at the same old way of exchanging. If you bought a horse or a mule you paid from $200 to $250. You can raise one just as good for less than $100. Now, brother farmers, do not say that you can not raise corn for 35 cents. Try to do it. I have met more than 50 farmers this year that raised it for 'ss than 35 cents per bushel, and as many as 15 who raised it for less than 20 cents. "The farmer who is raising corn for 30 cents, bacon for 3 cents, rais ing his own horses and making home self-supporting has quit swapping $1 for 50 cents. The farmer who is buying is still at his old job. While he farmer who is buying on a lien and mortgage on his crop is just swapping $1 for 25 cents, for the ash buyer is swapping $1 for 50 ents. He can raise it for half what e pays for it when he buys it. Brother farmer, if you are .guilty of he above sin I say to you, sin no more. "Now, what price will you have for he 1909 crop? Will you have 8 or 15 cents? Remember, it is all in your hands, and you will get what ver price you make it. To get 15 ents you will have to diversify youP rops and stop exchanging $1 for 50 cents, or you will never be able o get a remunerative price. Now, what is the use of the farmers of the South to raise 12,000,000 bales of cotton and not get for it any more than they can for a 7,000,000 r 8,000,000-bale crop? Think of the enormous expense of raising the extra 5,000,000 bales to bear the market down. And who does this? t is the farmer. Think and consid er for a moment what you are doing and you will quit it. "Do you think for a momient that the manufacturer would do any such ruinous business as this? No, he would stop one-half of his machinery at once and curtail his output one half and make the same profit. Now, brother farmers, use a little good business judgment and common good horse sense. I hear some farm er say Mr. Jones Is going to cut his cotton acreage and I will just in crease mine. Sad, but this is too true to make a joke of. This is just what the speculative world says you will do. The most essential thing for the farmers to do this year is to plant 35 per cent of cotton land in food crops and live at home. "I took dinner the other day with a man who lives in the country. I can not say that he was a farmer, for his dinner did not satisfy me in calling him a farmer, for everything he had on his table was bought. Out of curiosity I asked him how he cured his bacon. He said Mr. Ar mour cured it for him. I asked him what tomato he found was best for canning. He told me his were canned in Baltimore. I asked him what kind of turnips he sowed for making salad. He told me he bought that also. Then I wanted to know what kind of cotton seed b'e planted, nd he quickly answered: 'I plant Toole's and Cook's.' "So you can readily see that he was a planter and not a real, real farmer. This is the kind of farming that causes 8-cent cotton. I was in a grocery store the other day and one of these planters came in to buy some corn, flour, bacon and hay. He asked the price of corn, $1.10; flour, $7 per barrel; bacon, 12 1-2 cents per pound, and hay, $23 per ton. He said to the merchant, 'Are you going to rob me?' The merchant told him he had robbed himself. You did it by planting all the cot ton you could last year. "Now, brother farmers, let's looks at thin sqare in the face and see PROVED A FAILURE THE WILLIAMSON PLAN DID NO' WORK WELL. Practical Tests Prove Same Amount of Fertilizer Will Produce More Corn Without Stunting. For the benefit of all the doubting Thomases in corn culture, I ask you to publish some tests made in Fair field county by good, conservative farmers. The men had such implicit faith in the Williamson method that when approached on the subject of growmng more corn per acre, or as much with less expense, they would reply: "Give me the Williamson plan and I will make more corn than Dr. Knapp." But many are the converts since harvesting the crop of 1908, and the year 1909 will bid a long farewell.on many farms to Mr. Williamson. While his plan of preparation (that is, a deep seedbed well prepared) is what we want, we do not want any more stunted corn that takes a ferti lizer bill a yard long to pay for half the yield. Due credit has been given Mr. Williamson for having proved that the yields can be increased, and I hope the day Is not far off when every farmer in the South will have al ways a seedbed ten to fifteen inches deep, well filled with humus made by growing cover crops before the corn, and when every farmer's fertilizer bill In the fall will read so many tons of high grade phosphoric acid (and if need be, some potash), but not so much 8-4-4 or 8-3-3 that he buys every year in the face of the fact that nitrogen floats in abundance around him, and can be secured by planting peas, soja beans, crimson clover and other legumes. The following ar9 the tests re ferred to: Mr. W. J. Burley planted one acre of corn on Dr. Knapp's plan, using the same amount of fertilizer that he did on the Williamson plan, and secured ten bushels more per acre than he made on the William son plan. F. R. McMeekin & Bro. staked off two acres side by sile, using - the' same amount of fertilizer, and stat ed at the time that the Williamson acre would "skin" the Knapp acre a mile. They harvested thirty-five. bushels on the Knapp acre and thirty on the Williamson acre. Their en tire crop for wages this year will be planted by the Knapp method. Mr. D. L. Stevenson tried the two methods, planting the poorer acre by the Knapp method, using the same amount of fertilizer per acre. The Knapp acre yielded thirty bushels and the Williamson acre twenty seven. Mr. M. W. 'Doty, one of the larg est planters in the county, will work almost his entire corn crop on Dr. Knapp's plan this year. W. R. ELIOTT, Local Agent of Farm Demonstration Work, Winnsboro, S. C. '' BLACK HAND) SCHEME. Just a Fool Notion Caused by Dime Novel Reading. Atlanta, Ga., April 7.-"It was just a fool notion I got from reading dime novels," said Daniel W. John son, Jr., the 18-year-old boy who was jailed here last night for having attempted to extort $35,000 from Asa G. Candler, prominent banker and Georgia's wealthiest citizen, through Black Hand methods. The young man at first told the police that he had, been forced by three strangers to write letters to Mr. Candler, demanding the money. He now admits that the scheme was of his own concoction. Johnson wrote the second letter Sunday, repeating his threats of death to Mr. Candlef~ in case of his non-compliance, -and then went to church and took his regular place in Mr. Candler's Sunday school class. GATE GOOD SUTM. A Thousand Dollar Bill Put in Col lection Plate. Washington, Pa., April 9.--The In sertion of an advertisement in a.10 cal paper today that there aad been found in the collection plate of the Roscoe Methodist Episcopal church near here after the services last Sun day night a $1,000 bill, developed the fact that the church officers think the donor made a mistake. The yearly ecfections of the church do not average much more than this amount and the officials, in the ad vertisement state that they wil re turn the money to the owner if he wants it back and can prove he In advertently dropped It into the plate. Preacher in Trouble. Griffin. Ga., April 8.-The congre gations composed of the churches served by Rev. J. A. Drewery have passed a resolution endorsing their pastor. He Is being sued by Mrs. Louise Castino for breach of prom ise. that October cotton is being sold for about 9 cents on the New York exchange. Now, are you going to plant another big crop when you know that 9 cents is about the cost of production? Surely not. There is just one thing that will keep you from delivering your cotton crop of 1909 for 9 cents, and that is organ ize Into the Farmers' Educational and Co-operative Union of America. Plant 35 per cent of your cotton crop into food crops and you will get as much money for an 8.500,000-bale crop as you will for a 13,000,000 bale crop. "B. HARRIS, WANT IT BACK The State May Be sked To Pay Back a LARGE SUM OF Mk Y Loaned It By the United States Government Many Years Ago. Names of the States That Re ceived the Money and What Each One Received. Washington, April 8.-If the bill Representative Murdock of Kansas has introduced in the federal house of representatives, requiring twenty six States, which in 1836 were loan ed $28,000,000 for internal improve ments, to return this money, be comes a law, the federal government will have a hard time collecting*/ from South Carolina, which is said to have received the same amount as Georgia, $1,051,422.09. In 1836 there was a surplus of $33,000,000 in the national treasury from the tariff taxes, and a bill was passed lending this amount to the various States then in the Union, with the understanding that it was to be returned whenever they were called upon to do 'so. The apportion ment of the money was made accord ing to representation in congress. - When three installments had been paid in 1839, congress repealed the act. When the repealing act was passed ( it provided that the money apportioned "remain with the States until otherwise. directed by con gress." While some of the States have kept the fund segregated and loaned it out at interest, other States have lost track of it completely. All 'the Southern States lost their part of the fund during the reconstruction period, and in many cases all the records relating to. it were destroyed. New York, however, received $4,014,520.71, and has kept the amount intact. It has been loaned out at interest, and the amount re ceived from the investment put into the State treasury. New Jersey and Delaware are also said to have kept their part of the money, segre gated. The various accounts are still'car ried on the books at the national treasury department, and each secre tary of the treasury has had to give a receipt for the money. It is car ried as "available funds." Mr. Murdock said recently that he simply wished congress to "other wise direct" as the bill provided in 1839, and he is confident the amount can be collected. It is said tbe president 'and the secretary of the treasury have ap proved the plan of Mr. Murdock, and have agreed that If the bill is passed by congress the attorney .general will have no trouble in settling up the. old account. The largest amounts received- by the States are as follows: New York ..'.......$4,01.4,520.71l -Pennsylvania. .. .. .-.2,867,514.78 Ohio .... ..........2,007,269.34 Virginia .. .. .....2184 8 illinois ........ .....47991 Georgia .. ..........101420 South Carolina .... .10,429 Massachusetts .. ....138135 Maine .. .. K... ....95882 New Hampshire .. .. 69067 Vermont .. ..........69067 Rhode Island .. .. ...3,35 porionthereminig ,00,209 CoectnteSttscut ..lt.. bills7.6 Fntodue the dst in5hea saomet ofThe nlew States, attweret chae sinee mae moe ae thepntion are inporof heeaing he,000,000re tredbu the States bthal reeile. trodueedt haeei the Soutr TewStates that lotitetre willatedh any attempt to force a payment. The bill has caused a good deal of discussion among the membership of the house, and while it Is said the States should be held responsible. it is not believed the bill can pass. LYNCHED FOR MIURDER: Strung Up and Body Then Riddled With Bullets. Pensacola, Fla., April T.-Dave Alexander, a negro, was lynched here this morning for the murder of Po jicemai Canton, whom the negro liceman Canton, whom the negro sisting arrest. While the police sta tion was comparatively deserted, a crowd of 25 men, at the point of revolvers, took the black man from his cell and hanged him from an electric light pole, a half block from the .iail. As the body swayed in th: air, 40 bullets were fired into it b3v the mob. SHELL EXPLODES. Boy Killed by Relic of the Battle of Atlanta. Atlanta. Ga., April 8.--While shaking the powder out of a war time parrot shell, found near the General McPherspon monument in East Atlanta, Wayne Hightower, ten years old, only son of Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Hightower, who reside on a farm a mile and a half from Ellen wood, a small station on the South ern railroad, 13 miles from Atlanta, was blown up by an explosion of the shell. The accident happened at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon. At 7:30 the boy was put on the train and brought to Atlanta and to the Grady Hospital, where he died at 9:30 o'clock.