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WILSON FIRES WILSON SIGNATION OF 31EXICAN MIN ISTER IS ACCEPTED. ormer Governor of Minneesota Will Go to Mexico as Personal Represen tative of President Wilson. President Wilson Monday took the irst steps in the policy throagh which I te proposes to deal with the Mexican ituation. He formally accepted the esignation of Ambassador Henry ane Wilson, to take effect on Octo >er 14, and sent to Mexico-City as his ersonal representative-but not ac redited to the Huerta go .ernment ormer Governor John Lind of Minne ota, a lifelong friend of Secretary y 3ryan. The understanding is that 11 rhen a stable government is estab- 1; ished in Mexico Mr. Lind will be for- v nally named as ambassador. t President Wilson .and Secretary e Bryan had frequent conferences. Am )assador Wilson had a long talk with t &r. Bryan, and Chairman Bacon of t he senate foreign relations commit ee discussed the situation with the >resident at the Wliite House. But t or the announcement of Mr. Lind's y nission, no explanation of the policy z :o be pursued by the kmerican gov- t mrnment was forthcoming. The state nent from Secretary Bryan read: - "Ex-Gov. John Lind, of Minnesota. ias been sent to Mexico as the per sonal representative of the president t -o act as adviser to the embassy in I .he present sitution. When the pres- I dent is ready to communicate with .he Mexican authorities as to the re- 4 storation of peace, he will make pub- E ic his views. f "Gov. and Mrs. Lind departed for exico tonight by rail, to proceed via iew Orleans or Galveston." It became known that a further announcement would be made by the I President in a few days, possibly on t the arrival of Mr. Lind in Mexico City. It Is said the president is observing with keen interest the efforts of lead ing Mexicans to bring about peace c and will offer no sugestions until these apparently prove futile. That r. Lind will be empowered to ex plain to all inquirers the unalterable Dpposition of the American govern ment to the recognition of the Huerta administration is said to be a factor which may assist the situation. Prom inent Mexicans have' taken it upon themselves to try to persuade Gen I Huerta to retire in favor of another I provisional executive ac'ceptable to all factions. SAYS THE BILL IS GOOD. Currency Bill Particularly Pleases State Delegation. Currency legislation was discussed Monday at a conference at the treas ury department between Secretary McAdoo and Chairman Owen and Glass of the senate and house -bank ing and currency committees, and a delegation of officers of the National Citizens' League for the promotion of a sound Banking System. Later the league officers issued a statement say ing they were "particularly pleased at the attitude" of the men who framed the administration currency bill. "Adverse criticism of the admisis tration efforts," the statement contin ed, "seems to have been based rath er on a misapprehension of intentions and a fear of radical Innovations than on facts warranted by the bill as it now stands. The league is of the opinion that in regard to many re tails snap judgment has been render "Those working to develop the ra . 're should be given encourage re' support and assistance by bank ers as well as by business men." The delegation suggested that there would be less difficulty in starting the proposed new system with a smaller nunber of federal reserve banks than 12 as contemplated. The fear of some bankers that the reserve requirements of the bill would prove burdensome was discussed and it was suggested that the total reserve for country banks he reduced from 15 to 12 per cent. including the 5 per cent. re demption fund against national bank notes and that the total reserve for reserve cities be reduced from 20 to 18 per cent. The league's delegation Included:I John V. Farwell, president, of Chi-i cago;' John H. Rich, president of Min nesota branch. Redwing, Minn.; Chas. A. Moss. New England branch, Bos ton; Irving T. Bush, of New York branch, New York; L. C. Boyd, In-I diana branch, Indianapolis; H. G. C Chatham, Winston-Salem, N. C.; Wil liam A. Scott, Madison. Wis.: A. D. Wolton, general secretary, Chicago. WILL HOLD PICNIC C~olored Farmers of Orangeburg and Calhoun to Meet The colored farmers of Orangeburg nd Calhoun counties will hold their nal pienic at the State Colored ellege. Thursday August 14th. Many ttrietons will be provided for their entertainment, including addresses1 -c .:pable m'en along agricultural lines, especially those pertaining to the life of the colored rural dwellers.1 Free government and college bulle tins will be distributed and a good dinnr under the campus trees will be served to all. The county summer school for teachers is now in session at the col lege, and those present will take part and tell of the work being done in the district schools. In the afternoon a demonstration in cattle-dipping will be given, to be followed by a game of ball between the teams of Orange burg and St. Matthews. This will be a great day for the colored farmers and they should make it possible to -ttend. Sin Finds Them Out. Ater eluding the police of New York waiting to arrest him on the complaint of his wife. Harry Elliott. a lithographer. .25 years old, accom panied by Miss Ellen Sibley. 30 years old. Sunday night went to a point in Macombs Dam Park. known as "Lover's Leap," and early Monday Elliott killed his companion and end-i ed his own life .by shooting according to a compact they had entered into. ] Comptroller Genei'a? Jones is the< JONES BOLUS FRM SAYS E CAN ORT ALLOW c TUL EXENSES. 3 BITES TO PEEPLES Comptoller-General Jones Stands by f His Position That He Cannot Hon or Attorney General Peeple's Bill I Against the State Treasury for a 1 Smoker He Gave Visitors. 'Comptroller General Jones, reply nug Tuesday afternoon to Attorney General Peeple's reiterated that his I reason for rejecting the claim of about $200 for expenses incurred by I the Attorney General during the re- i cent Charleston Convention was that the law only provides for the pay ment of the actual expenses. His let ".ter follows: -"Hon. Thomas H. Peeples, Attor ney General, Columbia, S. C.-Dear Sir: Absence from the office on effi cil business has prevented an earlier reply to your letter of July 26, with reference to your claim for expenses 1 of entertaining the Convention of At torneys General in Charleston. I "I cannot return this original claim 4a It is now a record of this office. If 1 ou wish a copy of the same I will i lave one mailed for you. "My reason for declining to draw a warrant for the claim as presented is that the appropriation does not pro vide for the payment of the expenses for entertaining this convention, but only for the payment of your 'actual expenses in attending the convention.' "You quote'my statement that the expenditures of the approprision is within your discretion, and I so rec ognize, but you did not quote me in ulL It. Is a legal discretion which does not authorize the diversion of the appropriation to other purposes than those for which it Is made. "I also an a constitutional and bonded officer of the State and re sponsible to the people for any di version of public funds which I may nowingly permit. Before issuing my warrant I must be able to -put my hand upon an Act of the Legislature spenNlTafy directing the payment of - 'thfund in question. TXf such an Act does exist and has been Ignored by me, the claimant has hisremedy in the Courts, and may obtain a writ of mandamus to compel m compliance of the law. "You: say you do not 'know that I have the right to -question any war rants that you may draw and present 4om.e for payment. If you desire en ightenment on that subiect, you can ~bably cbtain It from the Courts, rom your own examination into he statutes. I have nothing whatever to do with the quesion whether or not it was proper for the Legislature to provide-for the entertainment of this ~ornenton, or whether It was desira ble'that they should do so; nor am I to be'affected in the performance of myduty'by the advice and wishes of the hospitable people of Charleston. fore I can pay for the entertain ment of the convention, the Legisla aslenrasysodirect. . "I note tbat you state you will have Sthe claim discounted at one of the baaikr-and present It to the next Leg islature for payment. This is a matter with which I have no concern what ever, but I desire to call your atten tion to the Act creating the board of climsn-ZS Statutes, page 199, and If yon will'illow me, I would suggest Sthat you submit the claim to that board, of which you, the Secretary of State and myself are me~bers. The In tention of the Legislature in creating.: this board was to have these claims examined into and reported upon be for their mneeting, and the report of the board. Is to be~ submitted to the 1[ays- and means committee or the House of Representatives ten days Sbefore the convening of that body. " ERespectfully, A. W. Jones, Comptroller General.". . WOMAN'S RIGHTS. A right to tread so softly .Beside the couch of pain; To smooth with gentle fingers The tangled locks again; To watch beside the dying In wee, small hours of night, -And breathe a consecrating prayer When the spirit takes its flight. *A right to cheer the weary On the battlefields of life; *To give the word of sympathy Amid the toil and strife; _To lift the burden gently From sore and tired hearts, And never weary of! the task Till gloomy care departs. A right to be a woman In truest woman's .work If life should ,be a hard one. No duties ever shirk; A right to show to others How strong a woman grows, When skies are dark and lowering, And life bears not a rose. A right to love one truly And be loved .back again; A right to share his fortunes Through sunlight and through rain: A right to be protected From lifes most cruel blights By manly love and courage Sure these are woman's rights! -Boston Globe. .ytST KEEP ON KEEPIN' ON. If the day looks kind of gloomy And your chances kinder slim, If the situation's puzzlin' An' the prospects awful grim, And perplexities keep pressin' Till all hope is nearly gone. Just bristle 'up and grit your teeth. And keep on keepin' on. There anl't no use in growlin' And grumblin' all the time, When music's ringing everywhere And everything's in rhyme: Just keep on smiling cherfully If hope is nearly gone. Just bristle up and grit your teeth. And keep on keepiau' on. Many Hurt o Save Gir1. At Hammondsport, Ind., twenty nine persons were injured when Mar tin Roy, chauffer of the autobus in whiih they were riding, drove into a *cilvert to a'void running down a four ys.-1,1 drL. IAKES BOLD STEALI ANDITS HANDCUFF MAIL CLERKS AND ROB CAR. BANDITS WERE WHITE oaring and Successful Train Hold-up on Outskirts of Birmingham, Rob bers Escaping After Arrival in City -One Bandit Holds Pistol on the Clerks and Other Rifles Mail. The mail on the fast Louisville and ashville Train No. 4 from New Or -ans to Birmingham was robbed ear V Tuesday night by two unidentified -hite men. All registered mail was aken, but no estimate of the amount ould be obtained. When the train reached Birming tam on time, at 8:37 o'clock P. M., wo of the mail clerks, George Hoov r and E. G. York, were found hand uffed. Chief Clerk Harry Everett's humbs were tied together with heav twine. The robbers boarded the car Lt Calera, on the dark side after the rain had begun to move. The clerks said they immediately vere covered with pistols and oreder d to turn their faces to the wall. Ev rett looked around and was fired at, he shot striking near his head. The obbers jumped from the train at 'ourtenth street, Birmingham. Everett said both robbers were hort, slender men. He did not get good look at their faces. The clerks rst saw the robbers jump to the mail ar on their hands and knees. One nan kept his pistols on the clerks hile the other ransacked the mail. rhe distance from Calera to Birming iam is 33 miles. Ther was plenty of ime to make a thorough job. No one n the train other than the clerks ap >arently knew the robbers were tboard. . When the engineer stopped for the southern crossing at Fourtenth street irmingham, he glanced back and ;aw the men jump from the mail car loor. This aroused his suspicion and ie investigated. A qucik run was made to the Louis ille and Nashville station where the iarm was given. Every police sta ion was notified and automobiles with detectives started a search. The iandcuffs were filed from the clerk's wrists. E. G. York, one of the clerks in the !ar, was in the Louisville and Nash rille mail car which was robbed near royles about a year ago. WILL DO MUCH GOOD. Southern Railway Will Exhibit Prod ucts of Southern States Splendid exhibits of Southern farm products, showing the alluring agri ultural opportunities awaiting in lustrious settlers in the territory on heir lines, -will be made by the southern railway and affilated com Janies at three great expositions and 15 district and county fairs in the orth and middle west during the ate summer and fall. This is the nost extensive campaign of this kind ~ver undertaken for attracting set lers to the Southern States and will pace their advantages in the -most triking way before thousands of sturdy farmers of just the type that is lesired in the South. Special exhibits will be made at ;he Canadian national exposition at Foronto, August 23 to September 8, :he attendance of which touches the nillion mark, the famous dairy show Lt Waterloo, Iowa, in November, and :he International Live Stock exposi ion in Chicago during Nevember and Decembert Exhibits at district and ~ounty fairs in New York, Connecti ,ut, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, [ndiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa and innesota have .been arranged in four ~ircuits running from August 5 to ate in October. The work of preparing these ex aibits have been underway sin'ce the ~lose of the fair season in 1912. SInce ;he beginning of the new crop season, gents have been at work with the esult that from every state on the ines of the Southern system, there ave come most representative collec ions of the agricultural products, in ~luding grains, grasses, vegetables Ind fruit. Large photographs show ng farm and other views in the South vill also be used. The exhibits will e in charge of agents who are thor iughly familiar with conditions in the south and who will be on hand con tantly to give information desired about any locality. Special leaflets and booklets have been prepared and several hundred thousand will be placed in the hands of prospective ettlers. PROTETING THE CONSUMER. The Different Grades of Gasoline Is Prescribed by Department. Prescribing the standards to which he several grades of gasoline allow d to be sold in South Carolina must onform, and the brands containers hereof must carry, there was issued ionday by the State department of agriculture, commerce and industries, an order effective August 15. Grades isted are "extra high," "high," med u" and "low". The sale of low gasoline will be permitted only for :ertain purposes and not for the gen Iral trade. Gasoline will be judged by their flash point under the Elliott ~losed cup method, their specific gray ty (ordinary and Beaume) and their iuality upon distilation. The Wages of Sin. On Fifth Avenue in New York City Abraham Fink, sixty years old, shot and killed a young woman and then killed himself. 'Both the man and woman were well dressed. One thou sand dollars was found on Fink's per ;on. The couple had been living to ether and the woman had tired of Many Die in Coal Mine. Near Glasglow, Scotland, twenty wo coal miners perished in a fire which broke out Monday night in the Wavis valley pit of the collirey. The odies were recovered. One man es :aped oft the shift of miners in the FOR NEEDED REFORM FUK 1%U KEUM EDUCATION AND ITS NECESSITY WITH DEMOCRACY John J. McMahan Stresses Need of Compulsory Attendance, Expert and Industrial Supervision. Editor The Times and Democrat: 'Beginning May 19 I have published 11 articles in my serial discussion of "Needed Reforms in South Carolina." One was introductory and ten rere on the "primary;' need-the funda mental need-the reform of the Dem ocratic primary election. Much more could be said on that subject. But I have said enough to prove my 'conclusions as to the de tailed requirements proposed in my last communication. I propose to write, from time to time, other arti cles on aspects of the subject to show the fallacy of certain objections, and to show the progress made in the fight begun some years ago to exciude the "voter" from the primary unless he is qualified to vote in thn general election. I shall also have it in view to keep the matter in the public mind: "The .primary must oe reform ed." The papers and the people ough' to take it up and agitate it. Citizenu generally should think about it, and write about it. We should get to gether to put through the necessary reforms. For the present I turn to the next most important need-which is sup plementary to safeguarding the elec tion, if not prerequisite. The reader at once understands what it is-uni versal education, but which I mean not merely offering education to all, but reaching all with education. There are many needs, and each is, so interesting-to me-that I find it hard to wait to discuss them in the order of their importance and to dis cuss one thoroughly before going to another. Yet-even though it be come tiresome to some readers-the discussion should be so full and so elementary as to meet all objections and reach the understanding of the most uninformed. Democracy is the highest developed and ultimate form of government and apparently the ~highest form of human society-unless complete In dividualism can follow (now hardly thinkable!) every hum.n being his own judge of right and duty and each emulating the others in perfect liv ing. Until recently it seemed that in large communities Democracy could be only approximated by purely rep resentative government. But-incon ceivably previously-the evolution of democracy has taken a new turn and direct government without the meet ing en masse is found to be possible through new methods now being adopted and developed-the initia tive, the referendum, and the recall. In early times and in backward countries still, government Involved suppresion of the masses of Its peo ple, who were too vicious or ignorant, or were so treated. The most ad vanced country still has with it some of that class-some are disfranchised for crime, some for illiteracy. With the modern recognition that we are our brother's keeper, it is hard to fix a sure standard for just exclusion of any from participation in govern ment, and we incline to liberality and to measures and improvement of those whose chief defects make their temporary exclusion necessary. The ideal of liberality in the suf frage invokes the duty to educate and perfect the.people. Especially is this true of a democracy, which of all forms of government must edu cate. Intelligence is the condition of its life. All countries now educate. Marvelous progress of liberal ideas! But by its existence a democracy is pledged and (if it would continue to exist) is obliged to educate, and to educate genrally. But there is education and educa tion. How far shall we go in quality and in quantity, and -in persons reached? We have never done what we ought to have done. This means there was not a sufficiently enlight ened force of public opinion to de mand and compel it. Thenon-attend ance upon the schools provided Is a sight to sieken. Yet the education offered, in the fitness of the teacher, in the unnaturalness of the socalled "training" afforded, we see defects to repel and sieken. Miserable results! Thildren merely kept indoors, wast ing their days! Sad evidences of the folly of inefficiency! We must have sympathy for some people who pre fer to keep their children at home. But it is not only the poor school that is poorly attended. Equally do children that most need education tend to stay away from the good school. True as may be the arguments against the school, true nevertheless are the arguments against keeping the child from school. The improve ment of the school and the fuller pat ronage of it by the comunity should react on each other, but should not be allowed to wait on each other. Vig orous attention to each result should help the other. Which should we give first attention to? "Both"-as 'the child answers. We have tried im provements and in places have made great progress in improvements. We have not tried to require fuller at tendance-to compel it. Let us try both, all along the line--better schools and compulsory attendance. The two great needs in elementary schools are compulsory attendance and expert supervision. These will bring better community interest and appreciation, better school houses, better location, consolidation, organi ation, better salaries, better teachers better methods, beter resula. Then we need, above the primary grades, industrial education. These are the three great needs in public education-though only the chief needs. John J. McMahan. Columbia, August 2. We take no stock in the rumor that omes from Washington that Gover nor Blease will seek a third term as Governor. He will run for the Sen ate and meet his Waterloo. We are satisfied that a great many farmers who supported Blease for Governor will support Smith for Senator. The squealing of the tariff barons about the tariff bill was to be expect ed. They don't like being made to take their hands out of the pockets of the masses. But they will have to doA it______ VERY DOLEFUL TALE PROSPECTS IN BOLL WEFXIL DIS TRICT IS BAD. A Mississippi Farmer Writes of the Gloomy Conditions in This State Caused the Weevil. W. G. Cooper, of Florence, Miss. writes a very gloomy and doleful let ter to the Southern Cultivator. Here is what he says about the conditions: As it is a long time since I bothered you with my squibs 1 will endeavor to express myself as I see things from a farmer's point of view. First, we are being taxed out of reason for others to steal and have a good time on: still there seems no way to mend the way of doing things. Graft is all the go with them from the highest to the lowest official. Some few are caught up with, but it takes more to convict them than it is worth; so we are the losers at last. Times are very gloomy with us on account of a weevil known as the Mexican weevil. We spent thousands of dollars as salaries for experts to go into the infected territory and learn the history of the weevil and its habits or all about him, and they came back and told us that he came from Mexico and would destrby our cotton for three years and then would leave or nearly so. and if we could live without so much more cotton we could do better. So we believed them and did as they told. Now the weevil has been here five years, and is a great deal worse than he has ever been. They al so told us if we could have a dry spring and summer we would make a fairly good crop. We have oeen very dry, and still the weevil is far worse than it has ever been in the five years that we have had them. They failed to tell us what the wee vil lived off, for he does not live on cotton; it is only toe place for hir. to increase in or breed. You may .pick your patch of cotton clein today and tomorrow it will be full. Again the people have lost confidence in the ex perts. Tell your people that when he comes they just might as well to quit cotton and all business that depends on it and try to live at home, for no body can tell how long they will stay. Business is dead in this part of the country and if experts had told us all of the facts we have since learned we would have been in a far better fix financially, for a great many tried to keep their business going in hope of the weevil leaving, but this year will be the last. So they would have been better off if they had quit at first. Your people had just as well quit at first as to try the hard toil of three years and then lose everything they have at last. We are plowing up our cot on and planting peas and corn. There will not be enough cotton made in this county to pay the taxes. What are we going to do with the shiftless ne gro? I can not say, for he will work at nothing but cotton and a little patch of corn and potatoes-and corn not enough to last two months to feed him and his family. Don't think that I am a pessimist, for I am not, but am stating facts as they are, and hope to help some one else from being led astray by faulty reports. We had just as well at once for the weevil is here to stay. W. G. Cooper.I The Southern Cultivator, in dis cussing the boll weevil situation says: "Senator Ed Smith of South Caro lina is drafting a bill to introduce In the United States Senate, proposing to have the government to have a fif ty-mile belt through the state of Ala bama made where no cotton would be planted, and such a belt to be kept as a quarantine against the eastward spread of the boll weevil. This belt woud only have to be 150 miles long. "This is a feasible proposition and one the government should take in hand. The Cultivator suggested such a step in an editorial several years ago. We 'also sent several copies to Georgia congressmen. but they did nothing. "We think the farmers on this side of the belt should be taxed .$1.00 per bale to help .pay the expense and to reimburse those in the belt. This tax jhould be collected by the ginners and at no expense to the government. We trust Senator Smith will push this measure." It will be noticed that the Cultiva tor endorses Senator Smith's plan, which is about the only feasible one yet offered to stop the march of the boll weevil on this section. We fear, however, that Congress is too conser vative to pass such a progressive measure at this time. CUTTING DOWNN CRED)IT arker and Hudson Make Serious Charge Against Banks. Senator Tillman had inserted in the Congressional Record of Monday to substantiate his assertion that afi nancial stringency exists in the South and that the farmers could not ob a money on the best of collateral to move the cotton crop letters from Lewis W. Parker, president of the Parker Coton mills and A. D. Hudson of Newberry. Mr. Parker in his let ter stated that he did not k; w whether the .banks in reserve cities were attempting to ambarass the ad ministration, but that they had de termined to bring about a general' liquidation and reduction of credit, the effect being a condition of finan - cal disress which is unjustifiable. Senator smith has also received simi lr letters.ear ive men are essential for a live town. Men who are aggressiveean est, public -spirited and loyal to their town. Rusiness men who are widea wale who let people know they arel in business and the quality aned ki: of goods they have for salc. Thea are the men who m-ike a town wor:LI living in. Again we say. live men1 make it a live town, dead men can nver do it. If the published reports of Glover nor Blease's speech at Filbor. last week are erreet ho put the people on notice that if they did not elect agn ernor n Hst-n he wnul open th~e doors of the mritentary A threat of this kind ought to defeat anr' man ho runs for public office in this BANKERS INVITED I'ADOO ASKS TRHM TO HELP AR RANGE PLAN FOR FINANCIAL NEEDS lepresentative Bankers of Fifty-Nine Large Cities in the Agricultural Re gions of the South and West Call ed to Washington to Consult With the Secretary of the Treasury. Representative bankers of fifty iine large cities in the agricultural -egions of the -South, Middle West and Pacific Coast Monday were invited by Becretary McAdoo to come to Wash ington to confer with the treasury de partment regarding the distribution :f the $50,000,000 of government Eunds about to be deposited )n nation i1 banks of those districts to facilitate the marketing and movement of the rops. This unprecedented step, which will call to Washington bankers from the centres that will finance the han dling of the great crops soon to be harvested, is designed to give the sec retary first hand information and ad vice as to the specific and relative aceds of each of the farming districts. It has been decided to place the de posits in the 59 cities to be repre sented at the conferences. Invitations were sent by telegraph to the r rtsi dents of the clearing house associa tions in each of the cities asking them to send representatives or committees to Washington to discuss arrange ments for depositing the big sum The conference with the represen tatives from the Southern cities will be held at the treasury department Thursday, August 7, with those from the West Friday, Augus.3, and with those from the Pacific Coagc Thursday August 14. These cities have been invited to be represented: Birmingham, Mobile, Montgomery, Ala.; Little Rock, Ark.; Los Angeles, Sin Francisco, Cal; Den ver, CoL; Tampa, Jacksonville, Fla.; Atlanta, Savannah, Ga.; Chicago, Evansville, Fort Wayne, Indianapolis, Ind.; Des Moines, Sioux City, Iovwa; Kansas City, Wichita, Kan.; Loula ville, Ky.; New Orleans, La.; Balti more, Md.; Vicksburg, Meridian, Miss.; St. Louis, Kansas City, Mo.; Minneapolis, St. Paul, Minn.; Detroit, Mich.; Charlotte, Wilmington, Ral eigh, N. C.; Omaha, Neb.; Oklahoma City, Muskogee, Okla.; Portland, Ore. Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Ohio; Charleston, Columbia, Spartan burg, Greenville, S. C.; Chattanooga, -Knoxville, Memphis, Nashville, Tenn Dallas, Galveston, Houston, San An tonio, Texas; Richmond, Norfolk, Roanoke, Lynchburg, Va.; Wheeling, W. Va.; Seattle, Spokane, Wash.; Mil wauke, Wis. Secretary McAdoo announced that it was not practicable to increase the number of cities and that he believed those selected were thoroughly rep resentative of the agricultural sec tions. Treasury officials declared the en tire $30,000,000 will be deposit'ed if the situation demands it. It was ex plained that care will be taken to prevent any undue Inflation of the circulating volume of money and that the government would deposit only what was needed to assist in moving the crops, with the sti-pulation that it must be returned to the treasury as soon as that need shall have passed. At the conference with the bankers Secretary McAdoo will discuss the amount needed and the dates to be named for the gradual return of the money to the government. The treasury department expects to begin making the deposits before the close of August and gradually to feed the money into the selected centres as the demand grows through the crop moving period. KILLS HIS FATHER. Little Boy Says He Shot in Defence of His Mother. Sheriff Howard, of Aiken County, arrested Ed. Vincent, eleven years old, who is charged with killing his father Monday afternoon, at Milledge vlle in Aiken County. According to the boys story Joe Vincent, with his wife and five children, the oldest be ing Ed, lives at Milledgeville, but the father worked at Jackson Station, al so in Aiken County. It seems that he returned to his home last Friday in a half drunken condition, drinking more or less ever since. On Monday afternoon he sent little Ed to Aiken for a quart of whiskey, and when the boy reached home, it is sai. the father became beastly drunk He killed one of the cats, and his wife begged him not to kill the oth er one, and this so enraged him, it seems, that he swore he was going to kill everything in the house. He kicked his wife down and attacked her with a knife, the boy says, and little Ed then took up a pistol and shot Vincent through the head, kill ing him almost instantly. The sight of the little boy is a pit iful one. He is a bright little fel low, but without any education. When asked about the killing he stated that he loved his daddy, and was sorry that he shot him, but thought he wvas going to kill his mother. That is what whiskey does. Loses His Legs and Dies. Homer, the twelve year-old-son of D. C. Dorn, of McCormick, rieIr. -is the result of a distressing accident. in which both of his legs were c'I. off. It is not known how the accident oc curred, but the young vicnn's father o~erates a saw mill at Mciormi~ck and it is surmised tha'. the lad came in contact with a saw. Express Rates Reduced. Reductions in express rates which will cost the companies fully $26. A000.000 a year .approximately 16 per cent of their gross revenue, were or dered by the interstate commerce commission to become effective on or efore October 15. 1913. Notable re forms in practices also were ordered. Stricken by Lightning. Henry Blackwell. a who0 work man at a saw mill Pve mnilns eqst of nacksburg, was killed instantly in his doo Weueay aftearnon.n WILL SEEK THIRD TERM BLEASE TO STAND FOR GOVER NOR ONCE MORE. ;uch Is the Unlikely Story That Comes From Washington About South Carolina Politics. The Washington correspondent of rhe News and Courier says South ,arolinians who have recently been in Washington have mentioned a rumor which they say has been discussed in various parts of their State, to the ef fect that it has been suggested to Governor Blease by some of his friends hat instead of running for the Senate next year he seek a third term as Governor. In support of this advice, according to the story, it is urged that there are a great many more people in the State who are agressively interested ni keeping Blease In the Gubernato rial chair than are interested in send ng him to the Senate. By the time Senator Smith's pres ent term is over most of the small amount of patronage that comes to the junior South Carolina Senator .by reason of the change in the Adminis tration at Washington will have been distributed; and it is hardly neces sary to remark that a Senator cannot grant pardons or cut off the heads of State officers. Precedent in South Carolina is against more than two successive terms in the Governorship, but it Is noted that precedents have never had much weight with Governor Blease, and that they do not affect his follow ing. On the other hand it is said, that a considerable proportion of South Car olina voters who are supporters of Blease for the Gevernorship have said that they will vote for bmith for re election to the Senate, on the ground that he has been active and energetic particularly in behalf of the farmers and that he deserves to be encourag ed. A good deal of Interest Is felt as to what Governor Blease will have to say about the rumor that he Is think ing about running again for Governor and undertaking to get a Legislature In complete sympathy with is policies. RED SPIDER IS ABROAD Insect Pest, An Enemy of Cotton, is in This State. Farmers are always having their troubles and local agriculturists are no exceptions to the rule. Not only have their been rumors of the army worm getting busy, although no se rious ravages have been reported, but the red spider, an.enemy of cotton, has made its appearance, and has caused considerable concern. We are in receipt of a bulletin on the red spider and how to destroy it from Entomologist A. F. Conradi, of Clemson College, which will be of much interest to local farmers suffer ing from the red spider. The bulletin as to the "Red Spider on Cotton", is as follows: "This in sect is at present being reported from a number of localities in the State and according to the present outlook, trouble may be expected from this port as soon as dry weather sets in. The red spider, which is a mite, has been an important cotton pest in this State for the last four years. The damage varies in different 1o calities from year to year, and the loss to the cotton may vary from 10 to 20 per cent. This Insect occurs on the under side of the cotton leaves, and when looked at with the naked eye, it appears like a dot of reddish ink from the point of a fine pen. The under surface of the leaf is covered with a fine web under which the in sect lives and feeds. The female lays about fifty eggs, and the life history during warm weather requires about 1 0 days. Infested leaves turn red dish and fall off one by one and final ly the plant dies. There are a number of important recommendations against this pest in the fall and spring, but these are at the present time out of the question. The question Is, what can be done at the present time? Burn, grub out, or otherwise destroy violets and poke weeds. Underbrush in a red spider infect ed cotton field is very undesirable. With the ap>pearance of dry weather carefully watch your cotton fields for the first appearance of red spider in fested stalks. They can be detected by the change of color in the leaves. and these plants should be destroyed immediately. Avoid careless drag ging of these Infested plants over the plantation from r'lwe to p1ee, be causeit mechanically spreads the Local infestations on plantation" can be successfully and economically controlled by the application of sprays. It Is all important that the fields be watched and the spray, an plied when the first infestation Is no ticed. Not only should infested be sprayed, but also the plants immedi ately surounding the Infested or dis colored area. Whichever spray is us ed, there should -be two applications. one week apart. The second spray is to kill the red spiders that have hatched from eggs since the first sray was given. The potessium sul phide spray recommended by Mir. Mc0 G~regor, of the red spider labratory of the bureau of entomology, is cheap cause it mechanically spreads the Potassium sulphide, three pounds: water 1 00 gallons. Potassium suilphide costs about 25 cents a pound and thus 100 gallons would cost about 75 cents: and is suf ficient for spraving one acre. Potas sium can be obtained at practically every drug store and is therefore, available in most local mirkets. Lime sulphur wash is another spray that is very effective against this inseC,? This can be made at home like the regular lime sulphur wash used for he spraying of fruit troes nandt Sin Jose scale. It is prepared as fol iuklme, 20 pounds; water 100 gal The cost of 10 on110ons is ahout .1.4fl This lime snlpbhor wash can also be purchased in th'e market as concentrated lime sulphur wach and wo allons of the wash to 100 7ql. ls of water. Of the sprave cen" above, the first. namely. potassiumr~ iphide Is recommended." FELLS ABOUf LME ;ONLEY ON STAND TELLS SENSI TIONAL STORY. DESCIBES THE SCENE Negro Accomplice of Frank in the Murder of the Young Pencil Fac tory Girl at Atlanta Tells AU About the Awful Crime Enacted in the Factory Walls. Counsel for Leo M. Frank, superin tendent of the Atlanta pencil factory, on trial for the murder of Mary Pha gan, spent the entire afternoon Mon day in a grilling cross-examination of James Conley, negro sweeper at the pencil factory where the girl's body was found. The negro earlier in the day accused the defendant of being a degenerate and charged that Frank the little factory girl because she re pulsed his attentions. In his testimony Conley declared that on several occasions he stood on guard for Frank, when the latter was loseted with women. Frank, accord ing to the negro's testimony, was ac customed to stamp on the floor when he desired Conley to keep watch. Con ley sometime ago made a confession, and while on the stand Monday he stuck to the story he told then. The lawyers for the defence tried to break down his testimony, but Conley held his own. In his direct evidence Conley gave a circumstantial account of what he alleged happened at the factory the day the Phagan girl met her death. The negro testified that about noon on the day of the girl's disappearance she went into the room with Frank, who thereupon gave him the prear ranged signal to keep watch. Only a short time had elapsed, ac cording to the negro, when he heard a muffled scream. A few minutes later he was summored by Frank, ac cording to the latter's testimony, ap Parently being greatly excited. Con ly testified that the factory superin tendent's -face was crimson; his body an!d legs were trembling, and that he clutched a cord with both hands. "I wanted her and she resisted me," Frank exclaimed, according to Conley. He then told of going. at Frank's direction to the machine room, where he found the body of Mary Phagan. There, he declared, he bundled the girl's body In a sack and attempted to take It to the elevator. He 'was forced to call to Frank to help him, he said, and together they carried the body to the elevator. Frank, he de clared, turned on the electric current by which the elevator was operated, and they carried the body to the basement. There, the negro said, the body was left on a pile of rubbish near the furnace. He told of their going to Frank's office where, he claimed, the facto'ry superintendent offered him $200, and where the negro claimed he wrote the notes at Frank's dictation, which lat er were found near the body of the girl. Conley testified that Frank con tinued to become more nervous while In the office. Walking back and forth nd wrinaing his hands. Conley stat ed that Frank exclaimed: "Why should I hang, I have weal thy relatives In Brooklyn?" "But what's going to happen to me?" Conley said he asked Frank. "I'll take care of you alright," he said Frank replied, and handed him a roll of bills containing $200. According to the negro's testimony, Frank told him to go down into the basement. gather up some chips, put them In the furnace, and put the girl's body on top of them. The ne gro stated that he told the factory superintendent he was afraid to go into the basement alone, but would go if Frank would accomp'any him. Frank, according to the witness, refused to go to the basement, and took back the $200 which he had giv en Conley, saying that he would keep it for him. Frank, the negro said, told him to leave the building, but to come back in about forty minutes. As Conley was leaving the building Frank accompained hi-m to the stair way, according to the witness, with his arm thrown over Conley's shoul MOTHER AND SON KILLED. Father Badly Hurt When Automobile and Train Crash. Mrs. Emma Heard, aged 31 years, o Vienna, Ga., and her son, Linden Heard, were instantly killed Tuesday one mile south of McDonatigh, Ga., when the automobile in which they were riding came to a stop on the Southern ~railway tracks and was struck by a train travelling thirty miles an hour. Mrs. Heard's husband wo was driving the car, saved him self by jumping from the automobile after shouting to his wife and son to jump. Mr. Heard said his car's emergency brakes failed to wcrk in ti'e. Although the train's engineer, .. L. Mable, attempted to stop the brain when he saw the automobile, the car was splintered. The bodies of Mrs. Heard and her son were dragged a number of yards by the en SAVES CHILDREN'S LIV:S But the Faithful Dog is lKilled by an Escaped Leopard. A leopard, which has been at large since escaping from a circus at Cook stoon, attacked two children of Wil liam Wagenman, at his farm house, near Red Lake Falls. .linn.. Tuesday. The lives of the children we~re saved by the family dog. a Scotch colie, which charged the animal. distract ing his attention while the children ocared into the house. After It had killed the dog the icoopard ese':ed in to a cornfield. Tur sday rafternoon mnoro than one hundred citizens in eln~ing business men and farmers. O'fI7&e to hunt 11h0 P'ima!- A hnt-I ;,g arty went from ra o,.s(ton Sun day but returnVoi unuceessfuil. I . * The farmers have at last got a rinda t i ourt.