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* rl ESTABLISHED IN 18(J I SeISeI FINALLY SOJOURNS V . IOUTH CAROLINA LEGISLATURE QUITS WORK APTER PECULIAR SESSION. V WAITING GAME PLAYED The Upper and Lower Branches Split I _ . >' on Resolution and Then Both Houses " & v ' ' Went Home?Will Convene Again the Last of May. Columbia.?The general assembly has adjourned sine die, after a tempestuous session, which lasted for 52 tias'i. The motion to adjourn was paased by the bouse, and by the senate an hour later. The regular session, which began on January 9, would have ended on February 17 had not the necessity for a recess session arisen. For two days the house played a waiting game, while the senate 'ought for its constitutional right to have > certain appointments made upon its recommendation by Gov. Blease. The issue of right of local self-government waa sharply drawn in the senate, which voted to rescind Us former action.In setting a date for adjournment sin# die when it was seen that Gov. Blease was determined not to make the appointments upon its recommendation as required by the law. But the house refused to agree to prolong the session and help the senate' in its fight for its rights One > thing that influenced the house to take thts step was the fact that the ~r- senate did not act upon its concurrent resolution, passed during the last week of the regular session, which named May 28 as the date for beginning a recess session in order to allow time for perfecting: the code and hearing the report of the dispensary investigating committee, both of which reasons for a recess have been disposed of. Scholarships Open For This State. Of the scholarships offered by the general division. United Daughters of Confederacy, there are five open for September. 1912, for which SouthCarolina is entitled to enter three candidates. These are: Scholarship at tJniveraity of Alabama. University, Ala., value, $60 per annum; scholarship at Lucy Cobb institute, Athens, 6a., value, $190 per annum; scholarship at Washington seminary. Wash- J tngton, D. C., value $100 per annuum; "Alice'; Bristol scholarship," Bristol, school, Washington, D. C., value $1,- j 900 pe.r annum; scholarship at Higbee school, Memphis, Tenn., value $100 per annum. All except the Bristol scholar- J ship are partial ones, good for free , tuition and may be held for four years. Jo Test Constitutionality of Act. Attorney General Lyon announced that he* would bring suit before the I supreme court at the April term to test the constitutionality of the act j creating the cotton warehouse commission which was passed at the session of the general assembly just ended. The measure requires that suit be brought to test its constitutionality. It is said that W. F. Stevenson and John L. McLaurin will defend the act i hi the supreme court. To Reek Cause of Discrimination. The Anderson County Farmers' union committee, which was oppointed to investigate the local cotton market with the view of ascertaining why , the prices paid for cotton here were lower than the prices paid on neighboring markets, will call a meeting to be held immediately, which dill be attended by mill presidents, cotton buyers. farmers, merchants and other persons interested. At this meeting discussions will be had. hoping in this way to learn the cause of alleged discrimination and decide on some plan to correct it. The committee will spend special invitations to Capt. E. A. Smyth and Lewis \V. Parker to be present. The date of the meeting will be announced in the next day or so. Has Asked For Special Term. Solicitor Honham has made a formal request on the governor to order a specif term of general sessions court At Anderson to convene as soon as practicable to try the negro, William Reed, who is held in the county jail here on the charge of attempting to criminally assault the wife of a prom * * I ? V. PloeL lailllfl at lyvnn e\ oio i >un. v iiti rx 01 Court Pearman received a letter from the solicitor telling of his request. and the letter states the clerk of court will probably hear from the governor within the neat day or so. To Put Rock Hill Plan in Effect. Upon the recommendation of Mayor Sam P. Hoof of Lexington, the following committee has been named to direct -the putting into execution the Rock Hill plan for the reduction of cotton acreage in Lexington county: I>r. L). M.. Crosson of Leesville, chairmau; Dr. K. C. Kidgell. Ratesburg; D. Frank Efird,-Lexington; J. S. Wessinger. Chapiu; Walter Hook. New Brookland. and R. L. Lybrand of Swansea. It Is expected that this committee will hold a meeting at an early date and organize for the campaign. To Have a Lively Campaign. The indications are that Laurens will have a pretty lively campaign, particularly for state senator and members of the lower house of the general assembly. Col. J. H. Wharton, who has represented the county in the senate for four years will not stand for re-election, having announced his intention of making the race for railroad commissioner. Therefore, the fifcld is left open for a new man. It lias been understood that John M. Cannon, formerly a member of the house would be a candidate. I THE 1. ' BRADFORD KNAPP TO SPEAK At Uni/ersity of South Carolina.? Will Outline Farm Improvement The Public Invited. Columbia.?Bradford Knapp, head of the United States farm demonstration work, will deliver an address at the University of South Carolina. He is the son and successor of the late Dr. Seaman A. Knapp, founder of the farm demonstration work, and one of the most structural characters in the history of the country. The*address of Dr. Knapp is expected to be a most important one, as he will talk on broad lines of the development of the agricultural extension work as related to the farmers' cooperative demonstration movement, which has done so much for the farmers of the South. He will doubtless set forth the scope of the new plans which have been forming both 111 tnis i state and the South. Every citizen | and especially every fanner in the ; state is interestd in these plans, and ] his address will doubtless be a mile- 1 stone in the progress of farming and the enrichment of rural life in South Carolina. The public is cordially invited to attend the lecture. Bradford Knapp assumed control of the demonstration work about one year ago. He has always taken a keen interest in the development of the work in South Carolina, Last summer he made a tour of several sections of the state to get acquainted with the individual farmers. South Carolina New Enterprises. The secretary of state has issued a commission to the Bank of Plum Branch with a capital etock of $10,000. The petitioners are J. L. Bracknell, J. W. Miller, W. B. Sturaey, W. H. Park, all of Plum Branch and W. B. Mace of Augusta. A charter has been issued to the Main Street Land Company of Greenville with a capital of $20,000. Tbe officers are Davis Furman, president, and W. L. Gassaway, secretary and treasurer. A commission has been 1 issued to the Kershaw Lumber com- j pany with a capital of $5,000. The pe? I titioners are J. K. Williams and R. M. ! Perry. A charter has been issued to i the Page land Brick company with a capital of $3,000. The officers are C. ! L. Goodson, president; P. H. Arant, I vice president, and J. C. Blackwell, I ecretary and treasurer. A charter has &een issued to the Chaflin-Hiller coin{ pany of Chapin with a capital of $10,000. The officers are J. H. Hiller, president; J. D. Hiller, vice president, and T. A. Chaffln, secretary and treasurer. Dispensers and Clerks Elected. At a metting of the county dispensary board at Columbia dispensers and clerks were elected for the ensuing year. Those named were as follows: L. L. Bull man, chief clerk; W. J. C'athcart, clerk; J. E. Karhardt, superintendent; J. H. Means, shipping ; clerk; W. McB. SloaD, gauger; Luther Garren, bottle buyer: C. B. Pope, j clerk to bottle buyer; W. P. Swygert, ( dispenser. No. 1; Westley Frost, clerk: S. P. Cooper, dispenser, No. j 2; T. C. Pope, Jr., clerk; R. T. Cor- j bett, diBpenter No. 3; W. H. Ward, J clerk; J. Cartledge, dispenser, No. 4; I D. G. Rogers, clerk; H. H. Frost, : dispenser No. 5: John Walters, clerk; , F. W. Seegers, dispenser No. ti; T. ' W. Collins, clerk, H. E. Watts dis- j penser No. 7: J. T. CrappB, clerk; H. A. Linfors, dispenser B; C. B. Dreher, clerk; R. L. Steele, dispenser. C; Edw. Kmlyn. clerk; 1). 11. , Goble, dispenser, L>: Sam Warren, clerk; ('apt. Angus P Brown, night watchman at central district. Many People Hear CandidatesSpeak. | Between 400 and 500 men heard I the municipal candidates make j speeches and outline their platform at the court house at Camden. | This is the first time in many years that they have addressed the voters. All of the candidates favored municipal ownership of public utilities, which is to be installed by the newly eelcted council. For Superintendent of Education. Hon. H C. Little, for a number of years a member of the house of rep; resentatives from Union county, has j announced his candidacy for the po, sition of superintendent of education for Union county. He will oppose the incumbent, Thomas II Gore. Has Completed Work at Gaffney. Oscar It. Garden of the United States coast survey and geologic ' service, who has been spending I some days in Gaffney ascertaining the , latitude and longitude, has completed his work and leaves for Greenville, where he will make similar observations. A stone tablet will be erected on the campus of Limestone College, marking the post of observations and giving the date. This will be done by the county. Mr. Garden is on his first trip in this service. i Many Have Signed Rock Hill Plan. I Reports so far received from the ' South Carolina Rock Hill plan indij eates in the judgment of Mr. Ander! son 20.000 South Carolina farmers i have signed the Rock Hill plan and ! that 200,000 acres are withdrawn from cotton, with the work of pledge-getting less than half finished. In a dozen counties which have made no reports canvass,ng lias been under way several weeks. Mr. Anderson reaches the above estimate by comparing the figures which have been rendered in final reports. Eloree Elects Municipal Officers. The municipal election for intendant and wardens wehe held at Kloree. J. K. Ulmer was elected intendant. J. ' S. Ulnter. J Y. Ant ley, J. L) Strock, and P. Hungerpiller were elected wardens. The newly elected intendant succeeds Cel. A. B. Shuler. who declined to stand for renomination . Mr. Ulmere has been in the employ of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad ' company here for a number of years. Messrs. Clmer. Strock and Antlev were on the old council, and Mr. Hungerpiller takes Mr. Zeiglers place. i t ; : 4 1 '? L FOI F CORN EXPOSITION WILL BE A SUCCESS?ALL PLANS I HAVE BEEN COMPLETED FOR THE SHOW. ? __ IS ATTRACTING ATTENTION Many States Are To Send Exhibits From The Agricultural Stations? There is Much Interest Being Shown For This Event. Columbia.?With the appropriation j of 51,000 by the general assembly of the state, the passage of the resolution in the senate authorizing the national department of arriculture to send an exhibit, and the assurance from all of the larger State agricultural experiment stations of large exhibits, the success of the fifth National Corn show to be held in Columbia in January and February of 1913 is assured. George II Stevenson, the secretary and general manager, who has an office in the Palmetto Dank building, feels encourged over the bright prospects for the exposition, and he is confident that it will be one of the most successful ever held. The fact that the exposition Is to be held In Columbia is being carried in news and magazine stories in many or the publications in tne country, : which will give tho widest kind of publicity to Columbia and South Carolina, and, in fact, the South. Mr. Stevenson-is receiving many letters from various sections of the country, ! stating that large exhibits of corn will be sent. The exposition will be held at the state fair grounds in the steel building. which was purchased by the city of Columbia and the state fair society. The building, the largest of ; its kind in the country, is 400 | feet long and J*>8 feet wide, and has a seating capacity of 35,000 persons, j Arrested For Throwing Switch. Folrence.?Sheriff T. S. Burch arrested Jessie Byrd, a small negro boy, for throwing a switch on the Coast Line at a new siding that is being put in for watermelon shipments, near ; the city limits. The construction gang j had just finished tho work and gone to dinner, having tested the switch and locked it. The boy was interested in the working ami when the gang left he undertook to work it himself, breaking the lock with a spike and opening the switch. It happened that the foreman of the wohk wanted to look at it again after dinner before moving elsewhere, and he saw that it had been opened. Investigating Committee to Meet. Columbia.?The legislative investigating committee will hold its first meeting in the near future when an other probe into the affairs of the old state dispensary and committeemen will begin. The committee was named by the general assembly upon request of the governor. The governor, the attorney general, the members 1 of the old state dispensary commission and others will he called to appear as witnesses before the commission and tell what they know of the ; affairs of the old state dispensary. Governor Spoke At Blacksburg. Spartanburg.?Greeted by a multi- ; tude of men, women and children who I filled the town hall to its capacity and | stood in the windows end craned their necks from the street outside. Gov. Cole L. Blease spoke at a public school entertainment in Blacksburg on his pardon recoV*i4 immigration and education. He told Vouching stories of appeals for clemen&j^ which bad been made to him by tht> wives and children of convicts, declared that criminals with influential friends escaped j with light sentences as compared with those who lacked such friends, and suggested that if in granting petitions of the most prominent people of a \ community he pardoned a convict and | a mistake was made in the pardon ; the blame should be borne by the ! men who signed the petition and not by the governor Not To Be Attempted on Large Scale. Charleston.?Secretary McKnead, ' discussing the possibilities of the chamber of commerce taking up the function of the freight bureau which will be abolished on April 1, according to action taken by city council, declared that it would cost at least $7,, 050 for the first year, and some $5,000 or $6,000 every year following, for the . chamber to assume the work, on a scale which he considered commensurae. This means that the task will ; not be attempted, at least on any ex- | tensive scale. i The South Carolina Politics. Columbia.?The initial gun in the South Carolina state campaign will i be fired March 6 at Hampton. The occasion will be the dedication of a new school house there, at which Ira ; j R. Jones, former chief justice and now j candidate for governor, and Gov. Cole ; L. B'ease. a candidate for reelection : will speak. This is only the unofficial opening, the real campaign beginning 1 early in June, but this first meeting, j it is expected, will bring out the J first sparks of what may he a flashing 1 1 political contest. Serious Fire At Rock Hill. Rock Hill.?A serious fire broke out ' In .Mr. John T. Iloddey's warehouse, j known as the Farmers' Union Ware! house, and as a result about 123 bales ' of cotton were destroyed or more or j less damaged, as were four Ford au1 tomobiles. the latter having been unloaded the day befoie in the warehouse. They belonged to the Jc.nes Motor Company and were insured, as were all the other contents of the warehouse. Mr Rod (lev carrying something like $150,Out! iusurauce. \ % v \ RT 'ORT MILL, S. C., THUI FROM ALL OVER THE STATE| A Column of Short Paragraphs That Were Collected W>tM Very Much Care by the Editor. Columbia. ? The officials of the Southern railway, recognizing the increase in passenger husinesR at this point and the importance of Columbia as a railway ceryrf, have created the position of city pissenger agent. Clinton.?The tri-staie convention of Orphanage superintendents (from the states of North and South Caro lina and Georgia and Florida I will convene this year on April 2, :t and 4 in Clinton. The conference will hold its sessions on the grounds of, Thornwell orphanage. Columbia.?Willie Owens, a negro was shot by Ben Jcncs, a negro. The shooting occurred at Gadsden, about 20 miles 'rom Columbia. Owens received a wound in the abdomen. Jones was brought to Columbia and lodged In the Kichland county jail to await developments. Rock Hill?The chamber of commerce of Rock Hill, at a meeting of its executive committee, has made an appropriation for a beautiful silver cup to be awarded to the winning team in the intercollegiate debate at Winhtrop college between teams from the University of South Carolina and Davidson college. Marion.?Stevens Turner, a white farmer of the I'inderbcro section of Marion county, shot and killed his nephew. Wes Turner. It is reported also that a brother { f Wes Turner remonstrated with Steven and was badly beaten up with the gun. This all happened at Steven Turner's home on the plantation of .V I'. Smith. Columbia.?There was a brief session of council several days ago at which the members decided to adopt the recommendation of W. F. Steigliz councilman in charge of the street department. that an extension of the water and sewerage lines be made. The city will do this work and the cost is estimated at $15,227. Cheriw.?Mr. H. W. liarrall heard a crash in his house and upon investigation found thnt his sleeping son. Carter, had been completely buried under the plaster that had fallpn from the ceiling. Blood covered his head and face, and it was feared that he ! had sustained serious injuries. But ; beyond a few gashes in his scalp, he came off without dangerous hurt. Florence.?What is believed to be the largest melon patch in the South ' will be located just south of this city and contains 424 acres devoted to watermelons and 75 acres to cantaloupes. This melon producing effort will be conducted by Young & Matthews. who have arranged to dispose of the output with a leading N'ew York commission house. Darlington.?The jury trying the case of the State vs Albert Windham, Jr., of Lamar, charged with murder filed into the court room when the court opened and announced that they had been unable to agree though they had been out on the case all night. Windham killed a negro by the name of Joe Slater at Lamar on the night of October 28, last. Orangeburg.?In the near future Orangeburg is to have her initial fare I refunding week, or eight-day carnival \ of bargains. During this week, the 1 date of which will be announced later fully 5,000 people are c xpected to visit i Orangeburg and make their spring i purchases. The merchants will have especially attractive lines and during I that week will give special prices'. Florence.?Florence has two organizations of the Boy Scouts. One of j the graded school under Prof. Stevens and the other under .Mr. Kugeue S. Oliver, with Drs. John (I. McMat* ter and Simons Lucas as tne respective lieutenant commanders. Regular meetings are being held and the organization hopes to do a good and ! lasting work with the boys of Florence. Columbia.?Plans for an active campaign to secure the Lutheran Female College for Columbia have been completed and a committee, consisting of citizens who are members of the chamber of commerce and several who are not connected with that organization started work. It is esitmated that about $50,000 must be raised, and the committee expects to report in a few days the result of the canvass. Columbia.?There was considerable discussion on the appcintment of the I members of the city election board by Gov. Blease. The governor named | Chas. C. Stanley, L. A. Griffith and Geo. \\\ Collins a* members to sue- ! ceed llobt. .Moonnan, J. F. Land and , J. W. H. Duncan. Rook Hill.?The result of a joi?ir meeting of city council, tlie public works commission ami tlm sewerage commission was the adoption of a re port made by Thomas \V. Cothran, ! engineer in charge, to go to the Catawba river for a permanent water supply for the city of Hock Hill. Manning. Another negro homicide at Silver, 10 miles west of Manning took place several days ago. According to rpports, Sylvester Lawyer shot Robert I'arsons in a personal altercation. the particulars of which are not known. Columbia.?J. 13 Kinister immigration agent of the land and industrial department of the Southern railway, is among the visitors in the city. Mr. Finister is conducting a campaign to advertise South Carolina in the North and West. The moving picture scenes from this state arc being used to advantage. Lexington.?Pomp Mickens, the negro who was arrested by Sheriff Miller upon the charge of criminal assault was given a preliminary hearing before Magistrate Buff at Brookland. and was hound over to the general sessions court. Charleston.?Solicitor I'eurifoy recently launched into '. fervid plea for putting a stop to the carrying of pistols in this county and as a result of his elociuence, he got a conviction of William Hume, a ripgro. who v. as charged with murder, killing Phoenix Carter here and who received selltenccof 3d da> s for c-arryi.-.g a pii tol. i I *SDAY, MARCH 7, 1912. CHILDREN IELL PITIFUL TALES THEY TELL HOUSE COMMITTEE THEY WORK LONG HOURS FOR LITTLE PAY. + PAY FOR DRINKING WATER | > Other Witnesses Charge Soldiers with Brutal Treatment to Children? Hearing Denied By Resolution to Investiaate Condition. " I Washington.?Girls .and hoys, 14 and 15 years old. striking mill workirs from Lawrence. Mass., testified before the House committee on rules which is considering a resolution to nvestigate conditions which followed attempts to send childreu from the strike-ridden city. Children told of working long hours .'or low wages, how they had to pay the American Woolen Company 5 :ents a week for drinking water, which they described as "canal wa- j ter." Some told of reelng women heaten by the police and children knocked down and hurled into wagons "like ^undies of rags" at Lawrence. Representative Berger and Samuel Gompers were again before the committee. Both made statements about the rival union conditions at Lawrence, and botli were cautioned against use of personalities. After testimony of seven or eight children had been taken Max Ilogaiin, a salesman of Philadelphia, one of the Socialist committee which went to lAwrence to accompany strikers' children to homes in Philadelphia, was questioned regarding the charges of disorder and brutality at the Lawrence depot. He declared a soldier tried to keep him in the station b> guarding the door with a bayonet. ~.Utl "! saw the soldiers pick me vmr dren up by the legs, like they were rags," he said, "and I saw one woman choked by a soldier. "1 was beaten by one of the policemen and still have wounds on my back where they beat me." Miss Jane Bock, also of the Philadelphia committee, verified much of Bogatin's testimony, ' Elevator Crashes to Basement. Chicago.?An elevator containing seven persons fell from the top floor of a State street department store to the basement. Those in authority at the department store refused to divulge how many were hurt in the failing elevator or to admit the police. A young woman who came from the store doctor's office said she saw five persons ' 'to were Injured. A nearby undertaker reported thut he had been informed that one body of a victim of the accident was on the way to him. Grain Dealers Have Conference. Washington.?Grain dealers from Ituluth to New Orleans and from Kansas City to New York are here to confer with officials of the department of agriculture on the r?cent rulings relating to sulphuring of oats and shipment of hot corn. F. M Wayne, of Delevan, 111., president of the Grain Dealers' Association, heads the delegates, which were selected at a mass meeting in St. Louis on February 23. Two Persons Killed in Fire. New York?Two persons were kill ed, three fatally and a dozen oiners less seriously hurt in a fire which swept its way through a four story apartment house at COT East Fifty Third street. The Maze spread so qulokiy that there were only a few moments for the hastily awakened tenants to attempt escape. Kimmel Jury Make a Report. St. Louis.?The jury in rjie Kimmel insurance case repotted chat if had agreed that the claimant is not Ceorge A Kimmel but that it had not agreed that Kimmel was dead in 1004. when the present suit was filed. I Morgan Art Treasures Guarded. New York.?Unusual precautions have heen taken by the custom house authorities to guard in transit the art treasures, valued at many millions, imported by J. Pierpont Morgan from Europe museums and galleries. Cable disptches from London stale that Mr. j Morgan has placed a value of SCO.000,000 on the (leaser*# while Michael Nathan, the official assessor sent abroad by the treasairy department to inspect ilie art. objects, believes that $50,000,000 is i. closer estimate i of the value of the ccllection. Cl?? Vmm Me*ien. Laredo. Tex.-About 75 Americans, ] mostly women and children. passed Iiirough here from Mexico en route north. Some of them expressed alarm ! over the Mexican situation but others | said their only reason for leaving was 1 that their husbands forced them to go. There is an unconfirmed report here | that iwentv American families will leave Montery bound for the Pnited ; States. The refugee said that in the ; cities pood order t.wails hut that in j the countrv ranches and small villages ! are being attai lied Island Inhabited Only By Crabs. London?Keports that the I'nited | States has annexed Pnlmvra Island, southwest of the Hawaiian islands, uhetc the Putted States armored j cruiser West Virginia recently planted the Stars and Stripes, has creafed some interest In the hon.se of comi mons. Francis Dyke Acland. parlia, montarlan under t secretary of forj eign affairs, vottcl ifcd the inforntai Hon that Great Britain Itatl long sim i abandoned the island and that the British government had no inlcrcs' whatever In It ._TI FROM THE PALMETTO STATE The latest General News That Has Been Gotten Together For the People of the State. Lexington.?The Lexington County quarterly meeting of the year with the Chapin local union on the second Saturday in March. This is expected to be one of the most important sessions of the county union in a long while. Lexington.?Pomp Mickeus, a negro, is in jail here with the serious charge of assault resting against him having been arrested near Brookland by Sheriff Sim J. Miller. The victim is a 14-year-old negro girl, a noar rplatIv*? of the accused. Washington.?Pellagra seems still to have evaded the closest researches of the medical world. One of the lat est investigations on the subject has been carried on extensively by K. H. Grimm, assistant surgeon of the pub lie health and marine hospital service. Charleston.?At a meeting of the board of health the recommendations for further improvements of the dni vies and milk establishments were considered and finally determined upon for presentation to city council. It is understood that the recommendations provide finally for the removal of all dairies out of the city. Greenville.?Greenville county will this summer elect six representatives to the legislature and vne senator, the new apportionment giving this county an additional representative Senator Mauldin will not stand for reelection and none of the present rep resentatitves have yet declared for re-election. Aiken.?Gen. B. Hammet Teague. commander of the South Carolina di vision, U. C. V., has appointed as sponsor' for the veterans of the state to attend the Macon reunion- Miss Elberta Bland of Aiken, whose maids of honor will be Misses Ella ,Croft and Mary Allan Laird, and the matron of honor, Mrs. A. P. Easterling ' all of Aiken. Orangeburg.?Col. W. G. Smith, chairman of the special street pav, ing committee of the Orangeburg city j council, Fingal C. Black, city engl; neer, and C. Berghaus and J. C. Fairey, the successful bidders for the pav ! ing contract, went to Augusta, Ga. for the purpose of conferlng with the manufacturer of vitrified brick that is to be used in the paving here. Anderson.?According to President Clint Summers of the county farmers' union, there is now only about 15,00ft bales of cotton unsold in Anderson county. It is estimated that the cotton crop in this county this year was between 75,000 and 73.000 bales. I'res ident Summers said that his informs tion is that all except 20 to 22 per cent of the crop has been marketed Lancaster.?A northbound heavily loaded Southern freight train was wrecked just outside the city limits. ! The cause of the wreck is not known, j but it is thought that spreading railt ' ?lid Ihe damage. Three cars, a coal ! car. a regular freight car and he cab i suddenly jumped the track. Though i no casualties, there were several nar : row escapes. Columbia.?Another one of the old j Confederates has passed over the river. J. \V. Biggs died at the Old Soldiers' Home, after a long illness. ; He entered the servicp of the Confederate state in 18*51, and served faitii 1 fully during the entire War Between the Sections. He was bugler for ? !? ...xtJl li it U ;iW lien. J. l?. li. *31 u<11 i uuiii * killed, and after that lie acted as busier for den. Wade Hampton. I?iurens. Tliaddeus Cooper, aged j 25, a guard with one of the county chain sans sections, was accidentally shot near Friendship church in Youngs township, death ensuing three ; hours later. At the time of the aecij dent he was trying to run a rabbit : out of a brush heap in a gully, when his pistol fell to the ground, causing the discharge of one chamber, the ball entering his head. Columbia.?A branch of the Boy I Scouts of America has been estab lished in Columbia. Four patrols have been organized and leaders elec ted. Robert Waring will be assistant , scont leader and the crptains of thr * various patrols will be as follows: i Patrol one. J. (J. Marshall; patrol two. Robert Walker; patrol three ' Clark Waring; patrol four, Harry Walker. Activity has already begun Columbia.?The county demonstration agents of the United Stales farm i demonstration work will soon he call 1 ed to meet at Clentson College to discuss the work In South Carolina ! It Is expected that the state agent for the work will soon he appointed , by Bradford Knapp of Washington Orangeburg.?The negro farmers of I Orangeburg and Calhoun counties met In their first annual conference * l!- ~ )*** tfQln UOi'rn Pol HI I lie I'M.IJjei v>i in*- ... lege. Tliev had been invited by the president of the collpge. who is also president of the negro farmers' Institute. Laurens.?John Iludgens was lods ed in jail charged with the murder of another negro. Oorge Martin, in the Chestnut Hidge section The kill ing occurred at the home of Hudgens and tlie accused claims that he shot Martin thinking he was a burglar. Aiken. ?The postoftice at Cowd?n this county, will be discontinued on March 13, and the patrons of that postofTice will thereafter he served either by rural delivery or will receive their mail at the Aiken postotfice. as they elect. This postoflHe i.hetwcen Aikeu and Merritf's Ridge. Estill. ? Frank Peoples, a negro man about 23 years o' age. working , at tiie sawmiil of I'. II Allen, about eight miles from lu-rc. had his left foot cut entirely off about one half j way between the ';nee and ankle, lie was at work at the mill and in some way stepped on tlip butt saw. Charleston Mayor Grace heartily endoresed the milk report and recommendations received from the board of health lie said that the recommendations appealed to him as along the rigin line and he did not doubt but that they would he carried out No official action has yet l?c< u taken MES ...... In TARIFF" WAR IS AHEAD "HE FREE SUGAR AND THE IN- , COME TAX BILLS WILL PASS THE HOUSE. MEET WATERLOO IN SENATE There Is Much Opposition to Sugar Bill, While Income Matter Meets With More Favor?Arbitration Trea ties Come up in Near Future. Washington.?The liveliest of the j tariff revision fights in the present ses- . slon of Congress will break when the j 1 Democratic free sugar hill ami the Income or excise tax bill which goes with it to make up the $t;0.000,000 a \ year that would he lost In sugar du- ! ties, probably will go through the House and to defeat in the Senate. The passage of the bills in the j , House seems to be assured by the : ! I Democratic majority which ratified 1 the min caucus. In the Senate the progressive Republicans will oppose put- j ting sygar on the free list and many I Democrats view with alarm the loss of so much revenue, with only a mensI tire, beset with the possibility of a trial of i18 constitutionality as the : only offset. Senator Martin, the Democratic leader in the Senate, and a few others j have endorsed the House bills with ! out qualification. Many other Demoj crats, however, decline to discus? I them. There have been no formal j conference in the Senate over the measure. Senator Bristow, speaking as one progressive, declared that none of hh colleagues favored free sugar but all did favor an income tax. He declared it would be unfair to American sugar producers, who had grown under stimulus of duty, to remove all their pro tection by a single legislative act. The progressive Republicans who hold the balance of power on party questions in the Senate, have evinced no disposition to seek (ouunon ground with the Democrats to oust tariff reI vision legislation, although there have been some personal consultations. The entry of the fiee sugar bill tc the senate will make three tariff re i vision measures pending there. The steel and chemical bills are the others All these will be adversely reported by the Senate finance committee. i Capture Former Congressman. Washington.?Former Congressman John C. Chaney of Indiana, a membe; ; of the Fifty-nine and Sixtieth Congresses, was captured and heid prisi oner for some time in Mexico by the i insurrectos but later was released. .Mrs. Chaney visited the State Department in an effort to have the government ascertain what, had become of Mr. Chaney since his release, lie had gone to Mexico with five other men from New York to investigate some mine properties. Whether the other men also are held by the rebels has not been learned. The National Board of Trade. Washington. President Tat'f has taken the initiative in a movement to bring business men of the eoimtrv in touch with the government for advice and counsel in the administration of laws, the enactment of new statutes and the development of commerce Virtually, the President proposes a national board of trade broadly representative of the commercial and industrial organizations and of such character as the government may properly recognize by a charter from Congress. Will Return to Work. Lawrence. Mass.?Striking operatives who are affiliated with the Central Labor Union, will return to work and accept the per cent minimum wage increase offered. This was decided upon at a lengthy meeting of the general committee of the union at which reports of the subcommittees of the workers in these plans were re ' ceived. Dr. McArthur To Sub For Broughton. Atlanta, Ga.? Dr. Itobert S. .MacArthur of New York, president of the World's Baptist Alliance and former pastor of Calvary Baptist church of New York, announced his acceptance of tlm duties of "acting pastor" of the Baptist Tabernacle in this city. Me suceeds Dr. Len (!. Broughton. who rei cently resigned to become pastor Oi" Christ church in London. Dr. .MacArthur explained that his duties as president of the alliance alone prevented his acceptance of fhe full pastorate. Would Abolish Commerce Court. Washington An attempt is to be made by the Democrats of the Mouse to abolish tlie commerce court, the * * *' - ?/.AtMmiccinn tariR lioarii, me i-<;uu'>ui> vuUi,u. and the President's $L'."?,000-a-year traveling expense fund, when the executive. legislative and judicial approprialion hill comes up lor passage. The appropriations committee, it is said, has decided to eliminate from the bill which will be reported to the House all appropriations for these. At least $1,000,000 would be saved, they say, if the attempt is successful. The Britons Scatter the Rioters. Tien Tsin.?Kioing of a serious nature took place here. The outbreak ltad been forecasted end p-ecautions were taken as tar as possible to protect residents from harm. The soldiers mutinied, s^i fire lo a number of buildings and then began looting lions es. They were joined by the rabble. Shops and hanks in all the important streets were looted and someof thpm wero wrecked. In order to intimidate the populace the soldiers kept up a :ontinual gun fire. $1.25 PER YEAR EXPLAINS COTTON CULTURE Co-operate With Farmers In Growing Cotton in Boll Weevil Infected Territory Along Road. Washington.?President Finiey, of the Southern Railway Company, speaking of the first year's work of the Cotton Culture Department maintained by the Southern Railway, the Mobile & Ohio Railroad, the Alabama Great Southern Railroad, and the Georgia Southern ? Florida Railway, said: "The primary purpose of the organization of the Cotton Culture Department by the railway companies which contribute to its support was to cooperate with farmers along the lines of those companies in the territory along the advance of the Mexican cotton boll weevil for the adoption of those cultural methods recommended by the late Dr. S. A. Knapp, of the United States Agricultural Departs ment, for growing cotton under boll weevil conditions. Dr. Knapp also advised that it would be advantageous to adopt those methods independently of the presence of the weevil. The results of the first >ear's work of our Cotton Culture Department have demonstrated the soundness of his advice in all respects. "u a circular, under date of February 12. 1912, prepared by Dr. W. D. Hunter, the boll weevil expert of the Bureau of Kntomology, and issued fey I)r. L. O. Howard, Chief of that Bureau, with the approval of the Secre iml/inltiira ! in nointed out 1(31/ \Jk ngiivuivuivi r - that the weevils were less numerous in 1911, owing to adverse weather conditions, and that the insect was exterminated in an area covering about 1 23,000 square miles in the northwest| ern portion of Texas and the western portion of Oklahoma, where conditions were particularly unfavorable. Dr. | Hunter shows that, notwithstanding 1 these conditions, the insect continued to spread to the northward and eastward in Arkansas, Mississippi and Alabama. He says that the reduction in numbers in 1911 was due to a combination of climatic influences which can only be expected to recur at infre1 rjuent intervals, and that, with the return of favorable seasons, the weevil will again multiply. He urges, therefore, that it is necessary for planters to continue their fight against the weevil according to the methods that I have been recommended by the Agrl| cultural Department. These are the methods advised by the Southern Railway Cotton Culture Department, "It should be borne in mind that i the cultural methods recommended by the lat? Dr. Knapp and advised by our Cotton Culture Department Involve intensive farming. This is important not only as to cotton, but also as to other crops, and we are urging farmers to produce all of the grains, fruits, vegetables, meats, dairy pro i doucts, ana poultry uneu uu uiv imm so that they may not. have to sell cotI ton regardless of market conditions : in order to buy these things, but may be able to market their crop when there is an economic demand for It. It will thus be seen that the agents of ; the Cotton Culture Department ar? giving advice as to iarm operations generally. Their success in this is j shown by the records made in 30 fields of corn grown in accordance with their advice. The average yield obtained tinder improved cultural met# ods was 47 1-2 bushels per acre, as compared with an estimated average of 14 bushels per acre on similar hands in tlie same general localities. The best corn yield reported by otir Cotton Culture Department was #2 bushels per acre on a field of 65 acres. "I desire again to cull attention to the fact that the services of the field agents of this Department are given free of charge to all farmers along the lines of the participating compaj nies. Farmers residing along the lines of these companies in localities where a field agent has not yet been stationed may obtain literature descriptive of the methods recommended by addressing Mr. T. O. Plunkett, General Agent, Chattanooga, Tenn." Favors Postponement of Convention. Washington. ? Senator Bacon of Georgia, one cf the Democratic leaders of the Senate, declared himself in favor of postponing the Democratic convention in Baltimore, which has been called for June 25, until a later date because as now arranged it would be held only a week after the n<.niihlicsn convention in Chicago. Fifteenth Conference of Education. Nashville, Tenn.?The Southerner's methods of agriculture, his wifes methods of home making, the health and aenitary conditions under which they live, the rural church they go to in its relations to civil and economic life, the schools and colleges their children attend; in short, all the *' * ? ?k1e?,u a9 f ho Qnnth euucanouai (irwicum u> ..... and alt its problems of dally living, especially of daily living in the country. are to be taken up at the Fifteenth Conference for Education in he South, which meets in Nashvili'e. Woodrow Wilaon la Only Chance. Washington.?That Roosevelt I. pitted against either Clark or Underwood, would have an easy chance to sweep the country, and that Go. Woodrow Wilson is the only Democratic candidate who would have a fighting chance if nominated to carry Maine are two sharp expressions taken from an interview with United States Senator Obadiah Gardner of Maine. In which he gives his reasons for believing the New Jersey executive the most available man in the party, and pledges his support to him. Will Fight In Louisiana. New Orleans, I^a.?Pearl Wight, Na tlonal Republican committeeman for Louisiana, stated that he is heart and soul for Col. Koosevelt. 'if Mr. Roosevelt is nominated," said Mr. Wight, "he will sweep the country overwhelmingly, having a greater major! ity than he had in 1904. The present industrial situation -in the nation requires his nomination and election as president, and I believe the American people will put him in the presidenI tiai chair to complete the work which he commenced some 10 years ago," ,' . 4