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W) * / ? ' . ESTABLISHED IN 1891 arsr | IRK FOR PRIZES TRIP TO NATIONAL CORN EXP08I- , TION COLUMBIA FOR THE 1 GREATE8T YIELD. MllCH INTEREST IS SHOWN ! Complete List of Prizes Published? ' Farm Demonstration Agent and Su- i n?rint?ndent of Education Have ' " Been Working on List Some Weeks. < 4 GafTney.?Interest throughout the ( county has been greatly aroused for , the last few weeks in the Boys' Corn < Club movement and a decided impetus will now be added when the prises ] for the different grades of form are j announced. Frank McCluney, farm demonstration agent and E. S. Mc- < Keown, superintendent of education for Cherokee county, have been working on the prize list for some days ( and the complete list will be announc- j ed as follows: First: The Merchants and Planters < bank of Gaffney offers as a first prize ] a trip to Columbia to the Nationaul Corn exposition in 1913, expenses of i the trip not to exceed >15. The first c prize is to be given for the greatest production of corn on one acre during j the year. 2 Second: Carroll A Byers offer the same trip at the same expense to the c boy making the second greatest yield j on one acre in the year 1912. Third: Wlikins-Watson Hardware c Company offers a prize of >10 in cash ] for the boy making the best general average per acre as to yield and cost r of production. Fourth: W. J. Wilkins & Co. ofTer f >5 in cash to the boy making the sec ond best general average per acre as j to the cost of production and the { yield. i w*k. n, t v Xpsbitt offers >5 in c r mu. ?'?. ?. ... cash to the boy producing corn at the c lowest cost per acre on his prize t acre. I Sixth: Shuford & LeMaster offer a i $5 suit-case to the boy showing the c best ten ears of seed corn, grown by t himself, from his prize acre. v 1 Found Dead In The Public Road. c George Walter Ziegler, a farmer of t the Lower Fork section of Orange- o burg county, his home being about s two or three miles from Orangeburg t 1 beyond the Edisto river, was found dead in a public road beyond the town fl of Cordova with a gun shot wound in t * his side. It appeared that Mr. Zeigler was returning from the house of D. D. c 8ta:k whom he had visited on that day. Mr. Zeigler was riding along in 8 his buggy alone. He had a double- n barrelled shot gun in his buggy and d also a dog. The roadway was very p i rough and it was supposed that the a gun fell out and came in contact with *] the wheels, discharging it. ^ - t Fair Association Officers Elected. n At a meeting of the Laurens county y Fair association officers of the soci- s ety were elected for another year and t reports of the president and treasu c ' rer submitted for. the first year of the ( association. W. D. Byrd was re-elect a ed president; Dr. H. K. Aiken, presi- h dent pro tern; vice presidents. E. W Martin, R. G. Harris, W. R. Cheek, J 5 M. Wood. W. C. Wharton. J. H. Miller. A. E. Spencer, W. D. Watson, W D. a Glenn. C. A. Power was re-elected i as secretary and treasurer. John D. $ TV. Watts, general superintendent; j. George L. Pitts, manager corn club, i wMle all the officers chosen consti- / tute the executive committee. i Coal Situation Hat Improved. j That the coal tup ply situation ha- v Improved somewhat in the past few r days was the opinion expressed by a t prominent dealer, who has just re- t turned to Charleston from a trip to ii the coal centres with a view of ascer- r taining the true conditions of the trade. It is also his opinion that there $ is no danger of a coal famine in Char- I leston and the local Btock of probably j c 5.00ft tons will prove sufficient to meet c the demands until coal is again mov- I r ing in adequate* quantities. j $ Demonstration Agent Selected. J 1 W. R. Klliott. district agent under I the farm demonstration work at Wal- F terboro for the purpose of selecting p a county demonstration agent. After a considering a number of well known c farmers of the county, he decided to s appoint B. G. Price, whose appoint- c ment will be confirmed by President t Ri**s of Clemson College and Brad- d shaw Kr.app of Washington, since the j t t United States and state departments tl are now working in common. The se- g lection of Mr. Price to be county dem- h onstration agent, is a happy choice. ii Found Gutlty of Manslaughter. C John W. PendarvU, charged with the killing of Charles G. Wimberly v at an egg hunt picnic at the Knight t school house several miles from St. a George March 25. 1010, was found 1 guilty of manslaughter and sen- c tenced by Judge Shipp to serve nine J years on the chaingang of Dorchester t county or in the state penitentiary. ( The case is an interesting one. It was r first tried at the October term of court t in 1910. when Pendarvis was found c guilty of manslaughter and sentenced c to Berve 12 years in the penitentiary, c General Jones Issues Statement. C Comptroller General A. W .Jones Issued the following statement rela- 1 Tl tir?: to the failure of the registration , certificates to reach the Anderson f board on time: "No applications re- ti reived at this office for registration g blanks from registration board, Ander- . * ^ son county. 1 This office has nothing c to do with registration and we have u sent no blanks of any kind to board, t /Under the law it is the duty of the g /secretary of state to issue these v blanks. - c THE COTTON ACREAGE REDUCTloV fhe Committee of Orangeburg County In Charge of Thia Matter Hat Made Its Report. Orangeburfc?The committee in :harge of cotton acreage reduction in Orangeburg county under the Rock Hill plan has made its report In the inater. The committee consists of Tapt. J. H .Claffy, the state senator, tobert Lide, the clerk of court. G. Lawrence Salley, tnd B. B. Williams, >ne of the largest farmers in Orangejurg county. The report shows: Bowman township, D. B. Berry, canrasser: Reduction. 460 acres, or 29 ?er cent. piiiabeth township, E. B. Friday, canvasser: Reduction, 472 acres, or <o pri Goodland township and Rocky < 3rove township, J. H. Planning, can- i rasser: Reduction, 1,529 acres, or ( 10 per cent. i Holly Hill township, J. Francis j Polk, canvasser: Reduction, 1U>42 ; icres, or 34 per cent. ( Limestone township. W. W. Culler, canvasser: Reduction, 245 acres, or < !1 per cent. I Middle township, W. M. Funches. ] ;anvasser: Reduction, 610 acres, or < 56 per cent. < New Hope township, V. P. Shuler, ] anvasser: Reduction, 310 acres, or | 15 per cent. i Orange township, J. Francis j Polk, canvasser: Reduction, 914 acres i >r 23 per cent. I Vances township, canvasser, Dr. W. j <. Carter: Reduction, 396 acres, or ] !0 per cent. Willow township, Paul E. Gibson, i anvasser: Reduction, 365 acres, or i 14 per cent 1 Zion township, H. Henry Gibson, j 'anvasser: Reduction, 631 acres, or 9 per cent. 4 The above townships report a totaj t eduction in acreage of 10,214. i 4as Issued A Note of Warning. ] Solicitor J. K. Henry, who accord j ng to Judge Ernest Gary, has no su- j >erior in this state as a solicitor, has j ssued a note of warning that wil! be if immense interest to a great many j lounties in South Carolina where pe j Itions are being circulated among the < >eople calling for an election to be j teld at the general election this fall in the dispensary question. He said hat he desired to sound a note of rarning against mixing liquor with t he general election. There is being j irculated, so he has heard, a pet i- ( ion to vote at the general election t >n the reestablishment of a dispen- i ary in Chester county. "This will t ie a terrible mistake," says Mr. Henry t because everybody votes Democratic i ,nd Republican at the general elec- r ion." - r Jotton Acreage Definitely Reduced. t Commissioners of Agriculture of ^ even of the principal cotton states ? aaking report to E. J. Watson, presi- ] lent of the Southern Cotton Congress ( ilaced the estimate of reduction of creage of from 15 to 25 per cent, 'his reduction ,ln the opinion of Mr. Vatson, has been brought about by t he working of the Rock Hill plan c nd the wet season. The information t ias furnished asa result of a letter I ent out a week ago by Mr. Watson i 0 all cotton sates. Replies were re- i eived from Georgia, Alabama. North i Carolina .Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tex t s and Tennessee. A similar condition c ie says exists in South Carolina. ( iouth Carolina New Enterprises. The secretary of state has issued 1 commission to the Sumter Retail t ~ nf 1 -umDer company, wuu ? v.oj?n??? 10,000. The petitioners are H. N. i forester and Edward Geer. A charter i tas been Issued to the Home Builders' \ Association of Charleston with a cap 1 tal of $5,000 to do a general real es- 1 ate business. '*ie officers are F. G. i tavenel. president; F. Q. McNeill, i ice president, and H. J. O'Neill, sec ] etary and treasurer. The board of rade of Pageland in Chesterfield coun y has been chartered. H. N. Askins s president and B. Frank Pegues. sec f etary and treasurer. < landers Gets $12,500 From Southern. 1 A verdict was rendered in the court t >f common pleas at Charleston in the \ ase of Sanders against the Southern j j ailway in favor of the plaintiff for ? 12,5000. t I Tolbert May Not be Postmaster, I It Is learned to be reliable that John i t. Tolbert, Jr., who was nominated for i postmaster at Abbeville a few days 1 go to succeed Fred A. Minshall, de- , \ eased may not be confirmed by the 1 en.ite when the mat^r comes up for < onsideration before that body. Sena- J i or Smith was at the White House a < lay or two ago and it is understood i hat he talked to the president about i i ' ~ ?*? Cmltll ie now in I lie uittitri. no otuaiui ouihh ? I . louih Carolina no statement could be | lad from him regarding the situation I n question. )r. Wardlaw Will Lecture. I I Dr. Patterson W'ardlaw of the Unl- | ersity of South Carolina has aroep- t ed an invitation to deliver the liter- | ry address before the students of the i 'almetto Collegiate institute at the i ommencement exercises on Monday. ] .lay 20. Rev. A. G. Voight, D. P.. of < he Lutheran Theological seminary. | "olumbla, will preach the Baccalau- 1 eate sermon on May 10. The exercises i his year will he held in the magnifi- ] ent new school bailing, which the i ontractors are now completing at a ( ost of $10,000. ' ! iaffney Interested in Interurban. A rumor was circulated in Gaffney o the effect that the Iuterurbau had ' urchased from the Southern Railway i he Southern's branch road, running i rom Blacksburg to Gaffney and would i itilize it for its purposes. The rumor ] ;ained ground quickly, as such a move < .ould definitely settle the much dis- ] ussed question of whether the inter- i irban will come via Gaffney to Spar- i anburg or via Shelby, N. C. It Js i enerally believed that such a deal i >as really made as it would be a logi- 1 *1 thing 1o do. I ; FO . I TEACHERS TO MEET TATE ASSOCIATION TO GATHER * IN CHARLESTON FOR 40TH ANNUAL MEETING. SOME NOTABLE ADDRESSES; - . The Four Subsidiary Organizations Will Convene With Main Body Dur- , inn TKr?? Dsua nf Convention.-* ' Date of Meeting April 25 to 27. m Columbia.?The 40th annual meeting of the State Teachers' association will be held in Charleston on April 25 to 27 The programme will be given to meetinga of the State Teachers' Aslociation, the School Improvement association, the association of school superintendents and the association of Elementary schools, four departments Df the state association. The officers of State Teachers association are: President, A. J. Thackston, Orangeburg; vice presidents, A. B. Rhett of Charleston, H. J. Crouch 3f Barnwell, W. W. Nickels of Greenwood, R. C. Burts of Greenville. Miss Leila Russell of Rock Hill, T. C. Easterling of Marion, D. S. Murph of Renaettsville; recording secretary, E. C. McCants, Anderson; corresponding ecretary, W. H. Jones, Columbia; xeasurer, C. V. Neuffer, Bennettsville; nember of executive committee, W. L. Brooker, Florence. The membership fee Is one dollar 'or men and 50 cents for women, for which a membership receipt and a ?dge entitling to all privileges will >e issued. The headquarters of the association ind bureau of information will be at he German Artillery hall. Went worth itreet, between King and Meeting streets. All members are expected to eport there immediately upon their irrival in the city. Information retarding board and lodging can be had it the bureau of information. The association of tailroads of Virginia and the Carolinas haB granted i special rate for the occasion, which mtltles all who attend this meeting tc educed fares. Drainage in Orangeburg County. Orangeburg.?Orangebeurg county is aklng interest in the matter of drainige. There are some parts of this :ounty that would be largely benefited >y complete drainage. A meeting in nterest of the drainage movement is o be held on Saturday, April 20, in he Providence section of this county. The meeting will be held in the afterloon at Prov'dence church. Prof. Garison of the Judbufg experiment staion. Senator Robert Lide of Orange>urg, Senator S. J. Summers of Cam?ron, Hon. Samuel Dibble of Bowman md others will address the meeting, dusic will be furnished by the Provllence brass baud. Florence Dispensary Sales. Florence.?In spite of the bad busiiess season the dispensary in Florence ,'ounty has been doing a record busitens. This usually the dull season n the liquor trade, but probably on iccount of the long cold and the preralence of grippe, the sales have been inusually large. The net profits just iomputed show 134,300 for the county :ity and school fund. Of this the city ;ets $10,254. Two Get Executive Clemency. Columbia.?Chas. Zimmerman, sen ip for life from Edgefield county by fudge Dantzler after conviction of nurder with recommendation to nercy, was paroled by Gov. Blease. Zimmerman was convicted in 1906. Press Kilgore, colored, convicted in uaurens in 1910 of manslaughter and isntenced to two years on the chainfang, or in the penitentiary, has been jaroled by the governor. Politics In Dorchester. St. George.?Indications bid fair for i very warm campaign in I)orch?ster '(Aintv this summer. There are many candidates offering for the various ofIces in the county and judging from he record of some of the men in politics there will be some close races. 411 of the county officers are to be dected this summer scve that of maser and superintendent of education Hat Appointed State urgamzer. Aiken.?Miss Mary Eve Hitc, rural ichooi inspector of Aiken county, ias been appointed by MiBB Marie Samtelia Cromer, who this month is to jecome the bride of Cecil H. Seigler, ;ounty superintendent of education, State Organizer for he Girls' Tobato :lub work under the supervision of he United States department of agreculture, which position Miss Cromer has held since she er^ered the departmental service after having organized, in Aiken county, the first Girls' Tomato Club. Engineer Injured in Wreck. Chester.?J. M. Sellers, engineer of the Southern freight No. 63, was painfully injured at Blackstock, about 12 mites from here, when his engine, which was temporariliy in charge of lis fireman, split a switch and turn?d over on its side, pinning the engineer beneath the massive frame work of the cab. The engine turned ilmost completely over on its back, leaving the drivers up in the air and still running. But for the fact that the engine fell across a shallow ditch Sellers might have been killed. To Reorganize Local Camp. Greenville.?The members of Camp K'illiam Beattie, the local camp of the United Sons of the Coufederacy, met in the board of trade rooms and ifter hearing speeches by Nathan B. Forrest, adjutant general of the United Sons of the Confederacy, and A. L Gaston, division commandant for South Carolina, decided to reorganize :he local camp and adopted a plan for tugmenting" the membership. Mr. For est, who is. grandson of Gen. X. B. Forrest, is now on a tpur , cf thi.i State. (inu unu vii a v.iiui v. ? check in Greenville, back to the plact where the offence is alleged to have been committed. Chester.?S. E. Wylie, who is ronnd fng out his second term as the tress urer of Chester county announced hit candidacy for re-election to that of flee. He is the initial entree into th# treasurership ring. However, he wil likely encounter opposition. Spartanburg.?Sylvester L. Lestei was awarded $1,500 by a jury in com mon pleas court in a suit against tlx Carolina. Clinchfielu <v Ohio railwaj of South Carolina. He lost two tin gers at Padgett a year ago when th< hand railing of a box car came loos# and caused him to fall under th< train. He was a flagman. Easley.?'The Piedmont presbytery which comprises the counties of An derson, Oconee and Pickens will con vene in the Presbyterian church o Easley in the near future. About 5( delegates are expected. Greenville.?While the awarding o a verdict for $300 in (favor of th# plaintiff in the case of Harry McChl vs the Greenville Traction Companj there closed in the court of common pleas a suit that is somewhat out ol the ordinary. The case was a suit foi actual and punitive damages, for hu rrrllifition and damage to character, the total sum sued for being $1,000. i RT TORT MILL, S. C., THI I FROM ALL OYER THE STATE Latest General News That Has Beer Collected From Many Towns and Counties of the State. Union.?W. W. Muggins, a deaf car penter, aged 60 years, was instantlj killed in this town by a Southern Rail way train. The engineer says he die not see the man until the body wai rolling down an embankment. Washington.?The body of Mrs. N Roberts Greever, wife of a Lutherar clergyman, the Rev. W. H. Greever, o! Columbia, who disappeared from thii city February 17, while suffering froiT a nervous breakdown, was discoverec in the Potomac River, near Mount Ver non. The finding of the body ends t country-wide search for Mrs. Greever Hartsville.?W. B. Crawley, a plum ber of this town, was shot in the fore head several days ago by Will Mc Kenrie. Crawley, with two or thre? men left Hartsville to attend to some business in the Ashland section, neai the Lee county line. The cause of the shooting has not developed. It ap pears that the shot struck Crawle> squarely in the forehead and inflicted a serious wound to the scalp. Charleston.?The grand jury is agair investigating alleged irregularities by the magistrates in the city of Char leston in the conduct of their offices It was said at the last term of the court that records were not kept and the offices were not run as thov oueht to be. The grand Jury looked into It and now it is proposed to delve fur ther into the matter. Plans are mak Ing for a full investigation to definitely settle and rectify the matter. Columbia.?The fees collected by the secretary of Btate for January, February and March amount to $6.056.53 as compared with $17,333.52 on the same date last year. The total amount last year was $35,905.92, which was considered unusually large. The charter fees for this year are $5,000 behind for the same date of last year. To the same date last year about $6,000 had been received as fees from notaries public. Camden.?It is said that the well known Camden-Columbia road is in or\r\A iinnHHlnn nnpn mnrp affpr havinc ftVV'l WUU?t?VM W-VV ben almost impassable for some time, due to wet weather. A trip in an automobile from Columbia to Camden, a distance of 33 miles was made a few days ago in one liour flat. The man who made the trip said that the road is in as good condition as he had ever known it and that he had oftqn traveled over it. Charleston.?The unique way in which the Charleston Ad Club is selecting its delegates to the eighth annual convention of the Associated Advertising Clubs of America, to be held in Dallas, Texas, May 19 to 23 is one of the interesting features of the sub scription campaign recently conducted for the securing of funds with which to advertise the port of Charleston In preparation for the opening of the Manama Canal. Lancaster?Will Scott, a well-known young painter of this place, narrowly escaped death when a high scaffold upon which he was standing engaged in painting the A. R. P. church broke and precipitated him to the ground. The concussion knocked him into insensibility and it was thought for a while tjat the young man was seriously if not fatally hurt, but examination by a physician showed that no bones had been broken and he will recover, Lexington.?Farmers are hustling as never before this season. The weather of the last few days has been ideal, and much land has been turned. In some sections much corn has been planted, although the land has not been prepared so well. The season is here for corn planting in the sand belt, and all effortB are being made to plant as /apidy as possible. There has been a heavy movement of fertilizers, many wagons having been in town from various sections of the county. Camden.?The committee in charge of carrying out the Rock Hill plan for Kershaw county has not been idle for one moment since it was appointed about & month ago. The members have visited farmers In almost every sect ion of Kershaw county, and secured pledges of reduction from them. The farmers that they have visited planted 11,389 acres of cotton last year and they have promised to plant only 7. 897 acres this year, a reduction of 3,492 acres. Columbia.?Revenue officers return ed from the Dark Corner after a sur cessful raid of several days. Several "stills" were cut, but only one arresi was made, the officers bringing back with them Lloyd Williams, who wat captured at a plant while it was ir full operation. Charleston.?Deputy Sheriff R. V Johnson, of Greenville, came to Char leston for the purpose of taking Tilloi; Van Ninnes, who was arrested her* 1 i.~iJ n /ih.jreo of naoain? a had MILL JRSDAY, APRIL 11, 1912. ; CRISIS IN FLOOD . SEEMS BENT . SCENES OF SUFFERING AND DIS| ThESS MAY BE RE-ENACTED IN DELTA. I MORE BREAKS ARE FEARED i I I Stirring Stories of Rescue of Refugees in the Flood-Swept Territory Reach Memphis?Conditions Worse Than They Were Reported. Memphis, Tenn.?Rescue boat* ?re still busy bringing from Wyanoke, Ark., refugees who had been marooned on knolls, housetops and in a L *L? 1 U 1. - to M 1 IIUll II BlllUf lilt? ItM ue UlUHt? III I Itf? I south of Memphis several days ago. Many were thinly clad. All were sufi fering from hunger and thirst. Sever al hundred had arrived here and it was expected that there would be not less than a thousand. > The inundation rf a portion of the I northern section of Memphis, populated largely by negroes, has ceased, , conditions now are becoming normal here. Scores of boats went to Wyanoke After Mayor E. II. Crump had issued an appeal addressed to the Memphis Boat Club. The first to be rescued was an assembly of about a hundred persons. They were in a church, where they had taken refuge when the levee broke. Attempts to secure t'ood were made by the stronger of the men, who coni structed rafts and explored the immediate part of the town. Scarcely anything was obtained. The plight of these people and of others nearby on roofs of houses, on rafts and on small hills now becoming islands ,was reported to the Memphis authorities. The mayor and a number of officials secured a motorboat and went to the scene. They found conditions even worse than had been reported. Many were ill from exposure and the lack of nutriment. Some had half waded and in many instances had been forced to swim to a place of safety. Will Answer in Near Future. Washington. ? The State Department's report on the Magdalena Bay incident was sent to the White House. President Taft and Huntington Wilson, act'ng Secretary of state, held a long conference to consider the answer the President is expected to make to Senator Lodge's resolution calling for all Information about the intention of Japan to establish a colony in Mexico. Neither Senator Lodge nor any other members of the Senate foreign rela-1 tions committee were invited to the conference and it was said the President and Mr. Wilson discussed the value of the papers comprising the report and the tenor of Mr. Taft's answer to the Senate. Successor to Taylor Appointed. Nashville, Tenn.?Governor Hooper announced the appointment of Newell Sanders of Chattanooga as United States Senator to succeed the late Senator Robert L. Taylor. Mr. Sani der6 Is state chairman of the Republican party and a prominent manufacturer of Chattanooga. Newell Sanders, aged 62, who was named to fill the unexpired term of the late Senator Robert L. Taylor, will be the third Rei publican who has served the state of Tennessee in the United Stater Senate. ' The first was Joseph S. Tyler, union' Republican, who was in the Senate from 1865 to 1871. The other was Wili liam G. Brownlow, who was Senator ' from 1869 to 1875. Railroad Case is Advanced. Washington. ? The Louisville A Nashville case, concerning an order I of the Interstate Commerce Commis sion for a reduction of rates from New Orleans to Pensacola, Fla., Mobile. I Montgomery and Selma, Ala., was ad vanced by the Supreme Court of the I United States for h?aring on October I 15. The case questioned the right of the commerce court to set aside mi ' j order of the commission for "want of : substantial evidence to support it." . | , Hobo "For Fun" Killed By Train. I ] Savannah. Ga.?A special from MilJen says Recklev Price .aged 17 years, I who has been traveling over the i United States with Howard Vendei voener, another boy about his age j was killed by a train there. The dead boy lived at 113 18th street, Buffalo, , N. Y. He and his ocmpanion had i been "hoboing" for the fun of it. They | have recently visited several southern I 1 cities and have been as far west as ! San Francisco. Price called himself 1 1 ; ' Buffalo Bill" and intended writing a ' book on his adventures. I No Rehearing of Patent Case. i Washington.?Re-hearing of the so called "patent monopoly" mimeograph ; case was refused by the supreme court I of the United States. On March 11 the court decided that in selling a patr , ented machine the patentee may re ' quire the purchaser to use only such i supplies for the machine as are pur> \ chased from the owner of the patent - | notwithstanding that the supplies ar< i ? not patentable. The decision wai ? supported by only four members o! ? the court, Justices Lurton, McKenna Holmes and Vandevanter. - Steamer Runs Ashore. Crew is Saved Ditch Plain Life Saving Station. L. f I.?The steamer Ontario. 2,000 tons ) burden .from Baltimore to Boston, with fifteen passengers and a crew of f 40, was run on the rocks off Monauk i Point by her captain, with a fire in ! her hold. The passengers were transferred in life boats to the tug Tasco. i from New London. Conn., which rushf ed to the scene in response to the On brio's S. O. S. wireless signals, and after six hours work the fire in the , Ontario's hold was brought under coy trol. / I $ , Til RETENTION OF TEACHERS A Letter Sent the School Board# By W. H. Hand the State High School Inspector. Columbia.?W. H. Hand, state high school inspector, has addressed a let ter to the school boards of the state ' in which he urges the retention of teachers. The letter is as follows: "I have a personal interest in the j welfare of your school, and it would Ka #a ma a rrrsrt liinn nloOQIiro f Ci rofl fl PT UC iv; IUC a. gci 1UIIIV j'ivuwu. *_ IW > v?-w it any service in my power. In doing i so I would avoid everything resembling meddling or officiousness. In my work with the high schools of the state, it is more and more impressed upon me that many of the schools are suffering untold harm from a constant changing of teachers. No school can develop without a fixed policy, and no school can have a fixed policy so long t as it changes any considerable per [ ( centage of its teachers every year or so. It is doubtful if any teacher can i ' begin to render his best service to a l( school under four or five years. It re- \ quires at least half of the first year to f get acquainted with even his own f pupils. < "I would unhesitatingly advise any school board to change teachers only j when compelled to do so. Keep as f long as possible the teacher who has f proved himself capable. I)o not drop t a teacher until yau are fully satisfied 1 that you are getting a better one in- t stead. To exchange one you know for | an entire stranger is always a risk r Men usually use better judgment in f swapping horses than they often use ; j in exchanging teachers. t "If your teacher is not capable, and | you pay enough to get a ^competent ] one, make a change without delay. Ir ] employing your new teacher do not depend upon general testimonials; they are not usually worth the paper on which they are written. Depend only on personal letters from persons of known judgment and Integrity." State Farmers' Union Has Meeting. The executive committee of the state farmers' union met and received th< reports of the deputy organizers and discussed the question of marketing as being the live issue of the day. The committee was gratified to hear of sc much interest in the subject and especially at the interest shown by the colleges. before whom the state president has presented this matter. Another conference will be held shortly, in Charleston, to perfect plans upon which they have been working for sev eral months. At the next meeting on t July 2 the executive committee will f prepare the programme for the state 1 union meeting, to be held in Charles- 1 ton on the fourth Wednesday in July i Every effort will be made to have a 1 full meeting and the committee hopep 1 to have every bounty represented. t Town Election At Mayesville. I The town election passed off very < quietly only a light vote being polled 1 the regular nominees of the conven i tion being elected. One or two scat ( tering votes were cast. The new i council will be sworn into office as soon as the bookB of the old council are checked up and turned over by the committee. The following compose 1 the new council: Mayor, N. D. Worn- i ble; wardens. M. C. Mayes, B. C. Chandler, H. C. Bland and E. C,. Spen i cer. The new board of health Is as I follows: Dr. C. K. King, chairman: J. 1 R. Mayes, R. J. Hayes. Jr., C. X Sprotf < and F J. Bass. Mayor Womble is now < * ' - D f t Election of Federal Judges. Washington. ? A constitutional t intendment providing for the election 1 >f Federal judges was proposed in the I (louse by Representative Neeley of ! \ansas. The resolution, which would j equire the approval of two-thirds of ' ho members of the House and Senate i md ratification by three-fourths of the j t date Legislatures would amend Sec- j ' ion ."I of Article .'3. This section of ! I he constitution authorizes the I'resi- < lent to appoint Federal judges for life. ! I I'he bill would not change the existing i i :onstitutional method. I t St. Francis Levee Collapsed. . i Memphis, Tenn.?The Mississippi iver flood smashed levees at two ] joints, water is pouring over thou- I lands of acres of fertile farming lands ind through prosperous towns and be- < 'ore another day, unless all predictions < .'ail, the greedy maw of the flood will I lave exacted an even heavier toll 1 Kaster day in the Mississippi valley i was gloomy. St. Claire and Wyanoke, ' n Crittenden county, Ark., the one line miles north and the other 7 miles 1 south of Memphis, will be the nexf i jne. 1 commencing ma nun icrm mm i>. ? , Chandler hie second. M. C. Mayes haf ( served several times before on thr < council. 1 Eighty Petitions For Pardon Board. 1 For the first time during the admin- i istration of Gov. Blease the pardon board met here with some petitions to ponsider. The Governor sent 80 peti tions for pardon to the board. The ( petition of John Y. Garlington and J I Stobo Young, former officers of the t Seminole Securities Company now < senlng sentences of three, years and f one year in the pentitentiary, is among < these forwarded to the hoard as is a ' petition for commutation of sentence 1 iu the case of Samuel N. Hyde, con- i victed of the wife murder at Anderson, t who is to be electrocuted. The mem s hers of the board are H. Mays Cleve 1 t land, Greenville; J. \. Sunimersett, 1 Columbia; and E. F. Warren, Hamp c ton. .' Committee Has Resumed Work. The legislative committee has re sumed work of investigating the af r fairs of the old state dispensary af the j I state house where a number of wit f nesses will appear and give testimony I as 'o the charges preferred by the c governor in his general message to r the general assembly on the Ansel t commision and Attorney General Ly 1 on. It is very probable that the mem I bers of the Blease commission will b# 3 summoned to appear and give testi I ntony. Other witnesse are expected 1 to be called. f Rifle Practice at Sullivan's Island. Incidental to the encampment of thr 1 four companies of' coast artillery on f Sullivan's Island, target practice with < full service charges will be engaged 1 in from April 6 to April 12, according 1 to in official communication from i Capf. Thomas H. K. Mclntyre, in t which he urges the property owners '< and residents of the island to exprc-isf * the usual precautions of opening the doors and windows of their houses t and the removal of frgile object from t places of elevation that damages b> commission may be reduced. c Many Attend Agricultural Rally. One of the largest crowds of farm ers and boy planters in Greenville ir J many days gathered here to attend thf ! 1 agricultural rally in the board of trad? : s rooms. Another meeting was alsc ! < held in the assembly hall at the cen | I tral Y. M. C. A. Much enthtisiasm wat I manifest at both meetings, though far I mers are appearently greatly discour 1 aged over the fact that they are sc 1 late in beginning farm work tht? 1 spring. It is probable that it will tak< i a week of dry weather to get the i ground in condition for breaking up. < MES MEMBERS RUSH WORK THROUGH -EADERS ANXIOUS TO ADJOURN BEFORE THE NATIONAL CONVENTIONS. MANY BILLS ARE PENDING fhe House Has Finished Its Tariff Re- i I vision Program and All of the Measures Will Get Quick Action? National Conventions in June. ( . ] Washington.?Senators and Repres- 1 tntatives are becoming Impatient over ' he Senate s delay on the tariff, approbation and other important leglslaion. but the leaders, figuring that the 1 vay can be cleared quickly on emer- 1 jency, express confidence that Contress can adjourn before the national ( :onventions in June. ( Republican Leader Penrose has igreed with the Democrats and progressive Republican leaders that the * louse steel bill shall be called up week I ifter next, be made the unfinished bus- < ness and that prompt action shall be ( aken on all pending bills in order to , 'acllltate adjournment. The finance ommittee's adverse report on the iteel bill already is before the Senate | md the minority report, standing for , he Democratic House measure, will be ^ 'ramed at a meeting of Democratic eaders In a day or two. The House 1 ias finished its tariff revision program 1 inless it should decide to pass a cotton ! bill based on expectations of favorable j iction in the Senate on the various 1 tariff bills already sent over from the ; House. The progressive Republican iron and steel revision bill, which Senator Cumnins is drafting, will make what he j alls "quite a reduction" from the | present tariff, but not enough to com- I, nand the first vote of the Democratic I Senators, who later, however, may join ( , ho nmprosiilvp nennhlieanR on the , Cummins proposition. I While thp House hss passed nine [ ippropriatlon bills with six yet to | :ome in from Committees, the Senate las acted on but one. Charged Exploitation of Indian. Washington. ? Systematic exploltaion of the Indian by politicians virtuilly was charged on the floor of the louse by Representative Ferris of Okahoma. Democrat, in defending a provision in the Indian appropriation bill imitlng drafts on the treasury of the Five Civilized Tribes to the neceslity expenditures for schools. The proviso was attacked by Representative Miller of Minnesota, Republican, who declared that it would prevent the [ndlans from employing'attorneys to ittend to their tribal affairs and renler impossible the remuneration of tribal officials. Three Very Destructive Fires. London.?Three destructive fires in historic country mansions occurred in one nijht. The first was in Lake House, in Wiltshire, a fine Elizabeth-; on edifice full of priceless Jacobian rurniturp. Lakp House was occupied j toy Percy Holden Illingworth, member of ''nrliament .who with his wife and children was only saved from death ; from the flames by the barking of a j tog. As It was the family escaped i Mad only in night clothes. The other J Ires were in Rossdu House on laoch ; Lomond, belonging to Sir Ian Colqu- j ion, and Glbbstown Castle, near Na- j j ran, County Meath, Ireland. I Rebels Are in New York, New York.?Three representatives ! )f General Orozco, the Mexican rebel j eader. have arrived in New York with , he object, they state, of starting a campaign to correct the false impres- 1 dons which they claim have been cir- ) nilated in regard to the rebel cause, j 1 They are Manuel L. Lujan, a leading awyer of the state of Chihuahua, who ' s designated as "Minister Plenipothenlary," Maj. Itafaei Matniia, military 1 ittache, and Juan Prje'o Quemper, sec- ' etarv. They say they will make their 1 teadquarters in New York until they an "disprove the statements of the ' dadero government. I ' Disputes Are to Be Settled. ' Washington.?A Pan-American com- ' nisaion for the delimitation of national r joundaties on the western hemisphere 1 is recommended by the American | J ''pace Congress, and a commission and 1 invention by which the integrity of he boundaries so delimitated may be i : naintained, are suggested in a reso- ' ution introduced by Representative : tartholdt. "I believe the settlement if baundary disputes would do much to tromote the peace of the world," said j < dr. Bartholdt. "Most of the differences i ire over title to terrltoty." j' $1.25 PER YEAR FROM THE PALMETTO STATF L Short Paragraphs of State News That Has Been Gotten Together With Care by the Editor. Washington.?President Taft named Joha R. Tolbert, Jr.. as postmaster at Abbeville. Greenville.?One hundred building permits, representing $89,112 were issued from the city engineer's office during the first quarter of the present year, while 105 permits were issued during the same period last year, representing $110,810, a difference of Are permits and $21,689 in favor of 1911. Orangeburg.?The annual meeting of the Edisto Savings bank, of Orangeburg, was held at the banking rooms of the bank, and the election of officers were entered into. The report of President. B. H. Moss was very gratifying and showed that the bank had experienced the most prosperous year In its history. Columbia.?The governor has grant?d a narnli? to Morgan Smith, who was convicted in Hampton county in 1906 in the charge of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment in the state penitentiary upon a recommendation if mercy. Since assuming office the governor has extended clemency in M5 cases. Chester.?A none-suit was entered in the case of Chester county for 18,180 against the S. A. L. railway for fhe obstruction of Pinckney street by the defendant's overhead bridge. The court held that the obstruction complained of was not such as was contemplated by section 1375 of the civil code, under which the action was brought. . i Columbia.?Invitations to the reception to be given the state officers, U. IX C., and the degelates from the various chapters to the uneviling will be issued at the capitol. Mrs. Reed Stonpy and Mrs. Cornelia Klmore Davidson will compose a committee of two to register the names of all delegates ind officers of the U. D. C., aud to give :hem the invitations. /"V _ 1 . .?? 1.:- TW A aiinvnniA OAI1 ft {n a lUIIHUUIH.. iUC nupi riur vouii. <u u lecision by Associate Justice Hydrick eversed the Abbeville county court tnd ordered a new trial in the case >f J. H. Ferguson, who was convicted >n the charge of manslaughter for killng his father, John Ferguson. The toung man claimed self-defense and >aid that he accidentally shot his father, who was abusing his mother. Barnwell. ? "Long Henry" Moody. $ own marshal of Olar, shot and killed foh.i McDanlel, 25 years old, of Fair'ax in a pistol duel at Olar. Marshal Moody received serious wounds, one Dullet taking effect in his abdomen, while another passed through one of [lis lungs and broke an arm. McDanel, who is a native of Georgia, has been living in this Btate several years. Orangeburg.?The dairy special that s being operated through this state by :he Southern Railway company, visit3d this city and many persons visited ;he demonstrations at the car and a oig audience greeted R. H. Mason at :he court house when he lectured on 'The Sanitary Production of Milk." Mr. Mason is one of the special repres ntatives from the United States govjrnment. Anderson.?Henry Pressley. a neg o, who shot and killed Tom Rice, anither negro, about two weeks ago on he public road in the Holland's store lection, was sentenced hy Judge 'rice to serve ten years. The jury reurned a verdict of manslaughter, fudge Prince has dismissed all Jurors lrawn to serve at the special term of :riminal court, and is now engaged in learing appeal cases from the maglsrates' and police courts. Lexington.?By a vote of 11 to 0, the esidents of school district No. 7. :oted to repeal the special tax levy of wo mills, which has been In effect or two years. Only about one half >f the qualified electors went to the lolls. It is said. This was the second >elction held on the same question, it leing alleged that the ballot box was stuffed" at ihe first election, and it vas declared that the election was llegal. Anderson.?For attempting criminal isaault on the wife of a prominent farTier of Dean Station, this county. Feh iiary 26. Inst. William Reed, a negro, nust die in the electric chair at the itate penitentiary in Columbia, July 12, next. Barnwell.?Georgians F'henix, a col>red woman about 62 years old, was cilled at Ashleigh, a station on the Southern railway, a fe^ miles north of iere. by a north-bound passenger train The coroner's jury found that the deeased had come to her death by be UK struck and knocked from the track >y a Southern railway train. Chester.?In the town election held it Blackstock, Chester county, these iffloials were elected: Iatendant, L. E. Siamon: wardens, J. I). Mobley, J 5. Craig, E. M. Kennedy and S. I) Stephenson. Winnsboro.?Jim Hall, in held her* . >n a charge of shooting John Johnson ind William Moore on the plantation >f Col. John G. Mobley. Moore, who was shot in the stomach and serious ly injured, was taken to Columbia where he is at the Rhodes hispital Re is in a critical condition. John son's wound is in the leg and is not considered serious. Bethune.?L. W. West, postmastet it this place, received notice from Washington, D. C., that there will be placed here a postal savings bank la :he very near future. Florence.?At a meeting of the Florence County Medical association tha delegates to the state association were instructed to invite the state association to Florence for its next annual meeting. Two meetings of the state * medical association have been held in A Florence and the visiting doctors were kind enough to say that they spent a most delightful week here ana would be glad to return. . I ur*fl *v Hi