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LIVING MORE AT HOME. Watoon Plwwl at Fruitful Itemilt* of ('oiiipaiicii. Columbia. Aug. 20. ? Special: Commissioner E. J. Watson has issued this interesting statement: It begins to look very much as il our people are at last going to reaMze the vital necessity of raising something to eat at home. 1 have presented the facts in cold figures as to the waste annually indulged in for things to eat bought beyond the borders of the State at every meeting I have attended in South Carolina for the past four years. We have been rocking along for instance, sending outside the State every year for flour at the appalling sum of $20,000,000. and most of it I am satisfied is about the same class of product as we have found corn meal to be. In 1908, under the supervision of this department, a movement was launched for the increase of the wheat acreage of the State, and several meetings were held that rail for the specific purpose of getting our people to undertake the raising of wheat with a view to home consumption. In one section alone that year 5,000 acres, which ha ' never been planted in wheat before, were put into cultivation. No result in agricultural advance has been so gratifying as that following this campaign, and 1 am happy to say that this result has already contributed to our 1911 crop ^record, an increase over 1910 or nearly three-quarters of a million dollars. "The total wheat crop in 1880 in this State was 926,358 bushels; in 1900, on an acreage of 174,245, it was only 1,017,319 bushels, worth $958,158, and the average yield per acre was only 9 bushels. On a yield per acre of 8.05 bushels in 1907 the yield was 2,66n,000 bushels, worth $3,203,100; in 1908 the averake per acre again went to 9 bushels and the yield was 2,835,000 bushels, worth $3,686,000. At this time the campaign for more wheat to eat was launch ed and in the season of 19 09 the production was increased to 3,810,000 bushels, worth $5,563,000 and the average yield per acre was driven up to 10 bushels. Last year the acreage was 452,94 2 and the production was 4,983,000 bushels / upon an average per acre of 10 bushels, and the crop went on the market at $6,279,000, very nearly a million greater than the crop the preceding year and twice as much as the crop of 1903. This year the yield per acre has been driven up -to 11.4 bushels. The yield has been 5,632,000 bushels and at the same average price that prevailed last year the crop will bring tc the farmers $6,983,680 more than the 1910 crop. The increase in yield this year is 649,000 bushels The crop was raised on 494,030 acres, against 4 52,94 2 acres planted last year. In other words, the > yield of wheat in South Carolina Carolina has been exactly doubled since 1908 and the value is almost doubled in dollars. The wheat crop this year is naerly seven times in money value as much af the crop of 1900, with a yield very aearly 6ix times as much as thai ol 1900. "So much for wheat, but that it not all. We have to-day received the figures also for the rye croj of 1911. Fo^ty-one thousand bushels were harvested, against 34, 128 last year. These figures, ol course, do not take^nto consider. ntion the rapid extension of rye for turning under and not for harvest. ? "Another significent piece of information received also bearing directly on the feed and food situation, is that a larger percentage of the oat crop of 1911 than usual is still on the farm at this time, 152,000 bushels, against 111.00C last year, and against a ten-yeai average of 166,000. The amount still on the farm and in the possession of the farmer is 3.3 of the entire oat crop. It is noteworthy that South Carolina leads all the Southern states in this regard, the others ranging along about 2 pel cent." TO PIPE BEER INTO HOMES. Public Beer Fountains Proposed for Saloonless Montclair. New York, August 13. ? Mayor Hinck, of Montclair, N. J., has received a letter which has requested that he and the common coun cil give careful consideration to a request for a franchise from the Montclair Beer Piping company, which proposed to do the following: 1 To construct a huge tank on Montclair Mountain and fill it with the brand of beer which the majority of the consumers preferred, vith pipes connected with every home of Upper Montclair, which has now no saloons; subscribers to have meters and to pay only for what they use; all pipes to be the best nickel lining and full head of pressure to be maintained; also public beer fountains with nickel-in-the-slot attachments to be erected in the narks, the com pany to pay either a royalty of 33 1-3 per cent. 011 its profits to the city, or to pay for a blanket license at the rate of $800 a year for each 2,000 persons served. 1 The letter was signed by the "Secretary of the company," who Baid that his associates were all prominent citizens who desired to remain in the background until they heard from the council thru the press.?Baltimore Sun. mob cheers as victim cries Woman's Assailant Burned at Stake In Oklahoma. Purcell, Okla., Aug. 24.?While 3,000 men, women and children stood by shouting their approval, Peter Carte-, a negro, who had > previously been captured by three members of his own race and identified as the man who last night attacked Mrs. Minnie Spraggins, wife of a farmer was burned to death on a brush pile on the main street of Purcell, at 6 o'clock this afternoon. Deputy ?heriff Hayee and Under Sheriff Farris, who attempted to rescue the negro from the crowd, were overpowered and locked In the J court house. Assaulted and House Fired. Mrs. Spraggins was assaulted; while alone in her home, one mile j south of Purcell. After the deed the negro set fire to the Sprag i gins home. Mrs. Spraggins' hus-, band saw the flames while work-1 ing in the fields and rushed intoji [the house in time to rescue his j wife. She declared Carter, who | formerly worked, on the Spraggins' farm, had attacked her. Officers; i went to Carter's home and arrested | him. He was turned over to a constable, but on the way to jail j escaped. When it became known ; that the negro was free, farmers of [ the neighborhood organized a posse and an all-night search was made.1 The negro was not found. Found Under liox. This afternoon Higley Henry, a negro janitor, noticed a strange negro riding under a box car near the Oklahoma Central Railway sta tion. With the aid of two other! negroes, who had armed them-1 selves, the negro janitor pulled! Carter from beneath the car. He was taken to the main street of Purcell, where a great crowd had i gathered. "Turn the negro over to me," said a tall farmer who suddenly seemed to assume command of the crov/d. Officers lMcaxl in Vain. The janitor and his two aides j obeyed. Carter was takeu across ! the street and in an instant many | men and boys were gathered. At this juncture Deputy Sheriff Hayes , and Under Sheriff Karris arrived and pleaded with the mob to turn | , {the prisoner over to them. The: s (Sheriff and his assistant were lock-j ed up and the negro was led out land placed on an oil-soaked brush I heap, built around a telephone pole, j He was tied to the pole and the torch applied. Cheers came ft* the crowd as the flames licked the' victim's face, and men and women j in motor cars watched him die. As: he was lashed to the pole the negro shrieked for mercy. After the j flames died away the crowd slowi ly dispersed. The negro's body I [ was burned to a crisp. Victim Describes Attack. ! Mrs. Spraggins, who is not ex-J i pected to live, said Carter enter- , er her home last night and struck i ! her on the head with a gas pipe, beating her until she was uncon-! ! scious. An old mattress was torn j up and scattered over her body, j i After the negro had set the mat- j i mt-? on ure ne lieu. as Airs. ! Spraggins was crawling from under i the lire the negro then reappeared 1 an again struck her with the pipe, i breaking hei jaw and beating her i badly. Her husband, rushing to the i house, rescued his wife, lu a few . minutes mere she would have been 1 dead. Crowd Creers Again. > The pile of wood and brush on i which the negro's body was burned I was still smoldering at 10 o'clock : to-night. The town was quiet. I The cheeis of the crowd, when the t first flames shot up, mingled with s the piercing cries of the negro, and j ' after the fire had burned for an , t hour and the body was nothing but j a crisp, the crowd again cheered, i > Then it dispersed. I While the majority of those who > gathered about to witness the black - man's death were men, there were - many wemen in the crowd. Not a Shot Fined. A remarkable feature about the affair was that while the crowd was determined upon the death of the negro, it was far more quiet than usual under similar condi tlons. Not a shot was fired. The escape of the negro, following the ! s arrest, seemed to add to the fury of j I the searchers for the black man. Talk about town to-night follow' ing the lynching, bears the nies' sage of the negro that he was "the ^ right man." As whispered from lip ' to lip, comes a brief confession, ! made as he was led to the funeral ' p.vre. M TWO WIVKS IN SAMK HOl'SK Female Kuoch Allien Unable to Stay Away?Sin* Has No Redress. Pittsburg, Kan., Aug. 19.?"I love | him and I cannot stay away from I him, even if l^ouisa is also his j I wife." declared Mrs. Anna father- ; j ine Sharp, of this city, who returned her yesterday from New Orleans, ! where she went following a quarrel with Sharp's second and younger wife, Louisa. The first Mrs. Sharp last night: was a guest again at the Sharp ! home. "She can stay as long as she wants too," said Mrs. Louisa Sharp last night, "but I am to be the boss." Sharp and his first wife, Anna Catherine, were parted in the great Chicago fire. Nine years ago he came to Pittsburg and married his second wife, Louisa. Anrfa Cather-; ine located Sharp through the L'n- | ited States pension bureau. She came her but found him married, i As she had been legally dead many , >ears, she had no standing in court. . i Sharp, however, took her into his j home and for several weeks the two wives lived in the same house j the first one as a guest. Quarrels ^ caused Anna Catherine to go to i Ne*.V (Jrlpnns tn livo with a on" i>"- ' er a month ago. WHO KILLED HIM. j Myotcry Surrounds tin* Death <rf an Employee of n (1iarlcst?0 Dairy. The verdict of the coroner's jury. I at the inquest held Monday morn-1 ; tng at the Roper Hospital, in Char[leston, over the body of John j i Beckett, the white man who died ! there Sunday as the result of a fractured skull, was simply to the effect that his death had been , caused by a wound on the head, received in some way unknown to the i jury. While the wound looked as if it had been inflicted by some weapon in the hands of an assailant, t there was no proof to uphold this theory, and the jury were unable to , stale in what way the blow had been received. j The Charleston Evening Post ' says the wife of the dead man was > j questioned at the Inquest, but could give no testimony which bore d on the way in which her husband li came to his death. The mystery S which surrounds the finding of the d mortally wounded man Saturday t night, was not cleared up at the inquest. o The man was found on Saturday Inight by Dr. Eugene L. Jager, who c was walking along the Meeting A Btreet road near Grant Park," when i, his attention was attracted by a a form lying alongside the highway, w He investigated and found it to be f the unconscious body of John b Beckett, suffering from the effect of a severe blow on the head. Dr. 1: Jager notified the police, and the w mail was conveved immpiiialplv t<> ? the hospital where he was careful- n ly examined and found to have a fractured skull, as the result of ii the blow. r Next, the wound was examined, a In an effort to ascertain with what kind of a weapon it had been c inflicted. as it was evident from a its position near the base of the j, skull, that it could not have been s the result of a fall, nor of any w k! d of usual accident. The wound c looked as if the victim had been struck with some sort of a blunt a iron instrument, the assailant com- v iug up from behind. w From the time that Beckett whs s brought to the hospital, his condi- j, tion grew steadily worse and he died Sunday in spite of the atten- . tion he had received from the physicians tie re. Little is known e about the man, and it is believed s that he only recently moved to " Charleston. His wife, who was at the hospital, could throw no light upon the mysterious matter, and * said l&at she knew of no one who was her husband's enemy to the extent of attacking him. Beckett was ' employed at the Mehrten's dairy, " and lived up the Meeting Street J road near the Three Mile House. s The rural policemen of that sec- j tion are at work on the case, having been notified shortly after the discovery of the body. The ground in the vicinity of the spot where the man was found, was examined, s but na traces of a struggle or at tack could be fouml. The whole case is surrounded with a veil of' mystery which as yet the police | have its jet been unable to pierce,:( and the c.eatli of Che victim gives t it a gravity which leads all citizens ! j to hope that the true fsicts of the j ( case may be brought to light, and | , the malefactor to justice. i.t SWAMI'KD WITH INVITATIONS ! ? Dougi-cNsnum Fdlriix- in ]>eman<i at Various I'luccs. A Washington dispatch to the | , News and Courier says: I ( "Representative J. Edwin KUer- , l?e, of the Gth South Carolina dis-! j trict has received through Terri-1 } torial Delegate Jonah K. Kulaniau- ( aole, of Hawaii, an invitation t'o; i be one of a party which is to: t spend 2(t days Hawaii next month/ as the guests ot the Territory, i . includes Mrs. KUerbe. .Mr. Ellerhe! has also been invited to he the | guest at the Chamber of Commerce of Kansas Oity, Mo., at the trans-' Mississippi Commercial -Congress., from Novenilrer 14 to 17, and to he i the guest of the Cleveland, Ohio, Chamber of Commerce, to view the waterways of that section, .November 1G and 17. "The United National Association i of Postal Clerks has asked him to! attend its convention, at Jackson-J ville Fla., September 4 to 7. Mr. ; Ellerhe does not know how many j of these invitations he can accept, if anj'. He cannot tell when Con- j U ress will nfHniirii unrl lio nlc. host ? ? - ?. V business mutters engaging his at-l^ t?ntion." 1 m * t FOl'flHT HORXKTS IX WATER, c C Iti'sidciit of Saiwly Grove Has ' Strenuous Time During Swim Kieliard Harris, who lives at San-[l j|?l ' i JBTmbmI LLcjJBdUJ * They never need repairs, never ne occasional coat of paint. They're Fir for all kinds of buildings. For furtl LOCAL DEALER OR ROOFING < NO. 5O N.23RD ST Letter from Mrs. I Anderson Acetylene Co., Anders ' ientlemen:? Keplying; to your inquiry of the'J much with my Ideal Kpwo I purchased front you some time vestment in my home. I shall 1m* system whereverlcan. It is worth the troublesome oil lamp. Wishing you success, I am, Very Kes|i > COHItKSI'ONDEXt * Anderson Acetylen Anderso ly Grove, a hamlet of 175 persons, telween Rossville and Princes Bay, Itaten Island, was almost stung to lenth a>nd drowned at the same line, says the New York World. A cherry tree stands 011 the brink ' f Boyes I^ake, near Rossville. ] iarris, who is a man grown, limbed the tree to pick cherries. j after he had filled his pail he J tarted to descend, and stepped on limb whick broke beneath his ' . eight, precipitating him and the \ ruit into the lake, which near the < rink, is from six to ten feet deep. On the tip of the limb was a ! irge and active colony of hornets, .hose nest also went with the limb, rhich floated while part of the est was wet. The hornets resented the wreckng of their home and attacked Harts, who was struggling to swim shore. So fierce was the attack that he ould not swim and fight the enemy ' t the same time. He had to keep . imself afloat and repel the insects imultaneously. Occasionally he .ould duck his head under but he , (Hllil lint Inmr rnmnin The unequal battle continued for quarter of an hour, the Strangst kind of aquatic fight. Harris < "as stung repeatedly upon the face, ' calp, hands, arms and even upon is legs. . While the battle was still on iarry O'Neill, of Rossville, happend to pass, lie went to Harris* asistanee, with stones as his weapns. He stoned the hornets' nest loating on the branch, which disracted the attention of the stingrs, allowing the cherry picker to wiin ashore. Harris said the diersion of the eneiuv probably savd his life, as he was nearly t*xinusted from his efforts to fight lornets and keep afloat at the a me time. Harris' cherries were a complete ess. THK VVOlfhl) \\'1I>K HKOt'tiHT ionic Facts as to How Agricultural I'muiin H..W tr.........i i... ? >.. H.-?t Wave of 11)11. New York, August 22. ? "'The 'oiitinuance of unusually not weather," so writes the London. Econonist's Berlin correspondent, "accompanied by a prolonged drought, auses growing concern about the rops not yet matured. The last weekly report of the agricultural ouncil speaks of serious damage iO the potato, hay, and beet crops. V second harvest of clover, says the eport. is not to be expected in nost parts of the country, and the neadows are in some sections so Wied up that animals must be put ipon dry feed. From other sources t is learned that the Bavarian government have taken steps to j irevent farmers from selling their ive stock for lack of feeding maerials. "The agricultural council also ipprehends damage to wheat and >ats from the excessive heat by causing premature ripening. Simi-; ar fears had been expressed about | l.si month, but the new crop is1 low coning upon the market, and loth rye and wheat are found to be >f unusually excellent quality. "The movement in the grain markets has to some extent been affected by the unusually low water in lie navigiPble rivers of the counry. The situation appears to be nost serious on the Elbe, which las a normal freight movement of ibout 17,1)00,000 tons a year; it s now lower than since 1904.J navigation on its has almost ceased vith the regular lines; only a re-1 luced traffic continues with liglity laden barges. Berlin's water ommunication with the sea is now ; hiefly through a small canal to itettin. On the Upper Order traffic! ins been practically suspended." !** > Dillon Herald, 91.ISO a Vear. any aucnuon in lact except an eproof?Stormproof and suitable icr detailed information apply to , CoRTWRIGHT METAL COMPANY PHILADELPHIA PA. **?: * : ** Chas. M. Rogers (lenlkcfiit. S. July ill. Kill . on, S. t*. IKtli inst., | wisli to say flint I am rtfi jM-etylont Iiy^litin^. plant whioli ago, ami I think it a splondid iuud to sjiyak a flood word for your iiMirh to know that ont? is rid of art Inlly, Irs. < has. X. Kofccrs. 'K SOMCITKI) HY >e Light Company n, 5. C. 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