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HpEfe -.1 I CURREKGVREFORM " BILL 15 PASSED ? i MEASURE FRAMED BY DEMO- I CRATIC SENATE CAUCUS ADOPTED. CARRIED BY VOTE OF 54 TO 34 rBill Will Be Completed by Conference Committee and Will he Ready for Fresidcnt to Sign. Washington.?The administration . currency reform bill, proposing a revision of the Hnancial system of the United States and the creation of regional reserve banks to act as stabilizing elements in the hanking and flnuncinl world, passed the senate by a vote of 54 to 34. Forces that had fought together for improvement and amendment of the measure to the last divided when the final vote came. Senator Hitchcock, who hud led the opposition to the bill, ' returned to the Democratic ranks and , Senator Weeks, one of the leaders on ! the Republican side, with live other Republicans, and Senator l'otndexter (Progressive voted for the passage j of the measure. Wide differences exist between the form of the legislation passed by the ! senate nnd the bill that passed the ; house several months ago. Democrat- ( ic leaders already have partly adjusted these differences however nrnl If wax predicted that the bill would be completed by a conference committee and sent to President Wilson for his signature. The adoption of the administration bill, known as the "Owen bill," followed upon the formal defeat, by 44 to 41, of the "Hitchcock bill" which had been endorsed by Senator Hitchcock and the five Republican members of the evenly divided senate committee that passed on the legislation. The senate had previously rejected, without a roll call, a "central bank" bill offered as a substitute by Senator Burton. SUFFRAGISTS IN WRANGLE Break Threatened by Removal of Officer Who Refused Accounting. Washington.?A nation-wide break in the ranks of Suffragists is threatened as the result of the action of officers of the National American Woman Suffrage Association in ousting Miss Alice Paul from the chairmanship of tho congressional committee of the national association. Tl.lu nntlnn I.. <,..1.1 ? -.1-4. It ? - .inn uvtiun in nmu IU ll?? villllllliy a declaruton of war between the national association and the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage* which is bended by Miss Paul, and which raised SUa.OOO last year to carry on lobby work in Washington for the national association. Officer" of the national association demanded that the money raised by Miss Paul as head of the Congressional Union be accounted for to the treasurer of the national association. Miss Paul's refusal caused the national officers to remove her as chairman of the national association's congressional committee. As a result of the internal strife, Miss Paul collapsed from a nervous breakdown in Washington while delivering a suffrage speech, and is now confined to her home in Morristown, N. J. Her removal from office while too ill to Journey to New York City to defend herself has created indignation in the ranks of the Congressional Union. Officer Imprisoned for Zabern Affair. Strossburg, Germany.?A sentence of forty-three days' imprisonment was i pronounced by a courtmartial on Lieut. Hnron Von Forstner of the Ninety-ninth infantry. The eourtninrtial was opened on Lieutenant Forstner for cutting down with his saber a lame shoemaker in Zabern, Alsace, on December 2. The charge brought against him was: "Willful assault ami causing great bodily harm by the illegal use of a weapon." Lieut. Von Forstner was the ofticer who brought about, the recent trtrubies between the military and civilian population of Famous First Bale Negro Dead. Albany, (la.?Deal L. Johnson, known throughout tlio South as the "first hale man of Georgia," and one of the most prominent negroes In this section of Georgia, died in Albany as he was being hurried to u hospital. Jackson was ono of the. most interesting men in this part of the statc; and though ho refused to take active part in politics was an acknowledged leader of his race. His big plantation in the western part of Dougherty county is one of the best in southwest Georgia. Church Installs Barber Shop. New York.?A special barber is tho latest innovation in church life. St. George's Episcopal church, which tho late Mr. J. Plerpont Morgan endowed with half a million dollars, has installed a barber shop for the choir. The Rev. Karl Reiland, tho rector, in announcing tho new feature, said: "For the sako of uniformity in the appearance of our choir boys and as a slight evidence of parochial appreciation we have assigned a special barjdjtk bar to the boys on Saturday mornings and on Sundays before services." KSw EtlM.' ' ; *TJL Sy THESE WINTI 9 \\V^ ^ f\lfl jj dllP BBfessaBsai^ .I ^BSKfcSlfcb fe& z=_ rzizz^s PUNS FOR THE FUTURE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE DECIDES AGAINST SPECIAL CONVENTION. New Basis of Representation Will Reduce Dixie Oilegates in Future National Conventions. Washington.?After debate, the Republican national committee determined that it was clothed with ample power to readjust the composition of the party's natlonul convention and had authority to make reforms in convention rules und procedure that have been demanded by many elements since the convention of 1912 and the Democratic victory at the polls last November. With little bitterness and no tangible evidence that differences which arose over methods could not be reconciled, the committee took steps which have been agitated in the party for thirty years and which have been vital factors in many exciting conventions in its latter day history. Without a dissenting vote the committee decided to make a change in the basis of representation in national conventions which will greatly affect j Southern states, gave full recognition to the principle of the primary in the election of delegates to such conventions. approved laws regarding states which provide that all delegates be selected at large, and accepted the principle that delegates properly accredited by state authorities shall be placed on the temporary convention roll Informally it hud been nirrnod that the new bnsis of representation should he referred to the Republicans In the various states for ratification. The only difference of opinion that developed on the surface was over the question of the machinery to be used to effect the reforms. Of the fortynine committeemen who voted on the one roll call taken, fourteen favored the calling of a special convention to bring about these changes, and thlrtyI flvo declared themselves opposed. Pays Fortune to State for Boxing. New York.?In filling the annunl report with the new legislature at Al; bany, the state uthletic commission will show that since the boxing law wont into effect in August, 1911, about $110,000 has been paid into the state comptroller's offlve, as the 5 per cent, tax on gross receipts of all licensed clubs operating under tlio statute. There has been a falling off in receipts during the last year. "Drys" Carry Staunton, Va. Roanoke, Va.?At a local option election in Staunton, Va., the fclrys" won oiit by 9S majority. The vote polled was the heaviest in the history of the city, being near the 1,500 mark. i nirxy-tignt Miners Killed. New Castle, Colo.?Thirty-eight men were killed In the Vulcan mine of the Rocky Moutnain Fuel company by an explosion of coal dust. Two miners were rescued after the underground workings had caught fire. All the victims were married, and nil'but six or eight were Americans. Men In charge of the rescue work asserted that it probably would be a dny or two before the bodies could be recovered. llefore sundown the mlno had cleared of gas and an exploration of the wrecking workings was mado. Two Lynched by Louisiana Mob. Shreveport, I,a.?Two negroes, Kmest and Frank Williams, were lynched by a mob at Hlancliard, La., after they had confessed to killing Calvin Ballard. a white man. Ballard'3 body was found hacked to pieces in his store. Ballard gained his release from the Louisiana penitentiary some months ago after he had killed three negro prisoners who were trying to eseape. It is believed the Williams brothers were friends of the negores Ballard killed. THE FORT MILL TIMES, FO ER MORNINGS ~ _ ? 'O \:,d Z^ ~ ~~ ' ' j f^r ; WANT POWER OVER ROADS INTERSTATE COMMERCE COM MISSION RECOMMENDS FURTHER ACTION. muKCb vigorous Mecommenaatton tor Additional Powers Over the Railroads. Washington.?Emphasizing the necessity for further action by the Federal government to provide greater safety for travelers and employees upon American railroads, the interstate commerce commission, in its annual report, submitted to congress, mukes vigorous recommendations for additional powers over the physical construction and operation of the roads. The commission also recommends that it be given authority to supervise the issuo of railroad securilties and some measuro of control over the capitalization. Conditions disclosed by the commission's investigation of railroad accidents during tire year present a situation, which, the commission believes, ought to be the subject of immediate legislation. Seventy-six accidents investigated comprised fifty-one collisions and twenty-live derailments, and caused the death of 2S3 and the injury of 1.8S0 persons. Commenting upon theso facts, the report says: "The commission again is compelled to note the exceedingly large proportion of train accidents due to dereliction of duty on the part of employees. Fifty-six of the accidents investigated during the year, or nearly 74 per cent, of the whole number, were directly caused by mistakes of employees. These mistakes were of the same na I imu 1*0 kuusc nuicu u) nit? commission I in its Inst annual report, namely, disregard of fixed signals; improper llagging; failure to obey train orders; improper checking of train register; misunderstanding of orders; occupying main track on timo of superior train; block operator allowed train to enter occupied block: disaptcher gave lap order or used improper form of order; operator made Ynistake in copying order; switch left open in face of approaching train; excessive speed; failure to identify train that was met. "These errors are exactly the ones which figure in the causes of train accidents year after year." Will Settle Question of Boundary. Florence, Italy.?The international commission for the deliberation of the Albanian frontier has decided unanimously to abide any decision which may be reached in London. The commission appointed to delimit the northern boundary of Albania has, it is understood, adjourned until April 2 next. The southern boundary has been decided on provisionally from Cape Styles to Koritza, but its precise course has not yet been ?aid down. To Exempt Assistant Postmasters. . Washington.?All assistant postmasters will be exempted from the civil ervlce under the postofttee appropriation bill, completed by the house committee on postoffices and to be reported immediately after the holiday recess. The Democrats of the committee voted to put Into the measure a provision substantially similar to the one in the sundry civil bill under which deputy collectors and deputy marshals were exempted from civil service. The bill carries approximately $303,000,000. Wants Government to Protect Radium Baltimore, Md.- -Dr. Howard Kelly, a Baltimore surgeon, is convinced that it is the imperative duty of the Federal government for the public good to take possession at once of all radium-bearing ore i nthls coutnry. He declared that an institution should be established where radium will be reduced from the ore and distributed tc physicians for the treatment of cancer. Doctor Kelly and Alfred I. Du pont of Delaware are willing to surrender their leases of Pitch Blonde mines in Colorado for the purpose. W. "V I ? RT MILL, SOUTH CAROLINA FOR OWNERSHIP OF WIRE LINES POSTMASTER GENERAL BURLE SON FAVORS ACQUISITION BY GOVERNMENT. SERVICE SELF SUPPORTING Declares Postal Service \AII1 Be Con ducted for Efficiency Rather Than Profit. Washington.?A sweeDinK declara* tion in favor of the principle of gov-, eminent ownership of telephono and telegraph lines and an assertion that the postal service now is self-supporting for the first time since 1SS3, arc features of the annual report of Postmaster Gcnerul Burleson, transmitted to congress. Concerning the acquisition of te1 phone and telegmi^i T>~ .^ster General Burleson says mat the government has demonstrated its capacity to conduct public utilities, and, rrom his present information, he is inclined clearly to the taking over by the postoffice department of the telegraph lines and, possibly, also, of the telephone lines. Discussing that the postmaster general says: "A study of the constitutional purposes of the postal establishment leads to the conviction that the postoffice department should have control over all means of the communication of intelligence. The first telegraph line in this country was maintained and operated as a part of the postal service, and it is to be regretted that congress saw fit to relinquish this facility to private enterprise. "The monopolistic nature of the telegraph business makes it of vital importance to the people that it be conducted by unselfish interests, and this can be accomplished only through government ownership. "The act of July 24, 1S66, providing for the government acquisition of the telegraph lines upon payment of an appraised valuation and the act ot 1902 directing the postmaster general 'to report to congress the probable cost of connecting a telegraph and telephone system with the postal service by some feasible plan,' are evidences of the policy of this government ultimately to acquire and operate these electrical means of communication as postal facilities, as is done by all the principal nations, the United States alone excepted. "The successful operation of the parcel post has demonstrated the capacity of the government to conduct the public utilities which fall properly within the postal provision of the Constitution." DANIELS FOR "HYSTERICS" He Says So-Called Hysteria Ic the I Real Democracy. New York.?"Reactionaries who think to weaken the advocacy of Progressive measures by declaring that they are the products of 'hysteria,'" were roundly denounced here by Secretary Daniels of the navy in an address at the dinner of the North Caro Una Society of New York. "A few days ago," Mr. Daniels said, "a distinguished educator from a Southern state in a speech in New York, declared that such new and progressive measures as the initiative and referendum were 'revolutionary.' Another distinguished authority, * statesman and an educator, referred to certain modern American political doctrines as 'wild theories' which common sense and wise experience demand be rejected 'as the result of hysteria.' "The real trouble is that this nocalled 'hysteria' hurts. It keeps party pledges, it does not take from labor the bread it earns, it makes protection-built wealth pay Income tax. it elects senators direct from the people." Parcel Boast Record Broken. Chicago.?Since the Christmas rush ' of business began here a new record lias been established in the Chicago postofflce by theh andling of an aver age of 215 tons of parcel post mot' ter a day. Another local recoro was established the first ten days of December when $1,000,000 worth ol stamps were sold. Lived in One Spot 100 Years. Statosboro, Ga.?Prlgen Beasley, onr of the oldest men in Georgia, was buried near his homo in this county Mr. Beasley was born in Bulloch coun 1 ty and lived in th^ same spot for ovei a hundred years. He was born in r ' leap year, on February 29, and though he has seen 100 summers, he has had but twenty-five actual birthdays, this date falling every four years. On his one hundred anniversary he was giv en a celebration which was attended by 1,500 people. He was at that tlm? in tho best of health. Tnirty sailors Saved. San Francisco.?Given up for /lost the crow of the dismasted and aban ' doned steel ship Dalgonar, owned ir London, are on their way to Dovei aboard the French shit) Loire, whicl 1 picked them up October 9. a thousand 1 miles off the coast of Chile. Capt J. Ibester and three of his men art 1 dead. First word of the loss of th? Dalgonar. which carried a crew oi ' about thirty, reached here on Decern ber 10, when the French b'ark Marit anchored. Captain Moricet of the Ma lie sighted the Dalgonax. ' " DIVERSIFICATION ON SOUTH FARMS More Money Spent for Pork Than for Religion and Education. FACTORIES OF GREAT NEED Hogs Are Essential to Manufacture Cheap Leguminous Crops That We Must Grow to Increase Productiveness of Our Soils. (Ry C. H. AL.FOUD.) We spend mora money for pork I than we do for education and religion. ' We send millions of dollars to the north t? .d west for pork and pork produr <ons. We are paying ll> cents ,a pc .nd for pork, and the records of [th experiment stations and the actual .experience of hundreds of farmers show that pork can easily be produced ,in this territory for three cents a pound. We urge capitalists to build factories and encourage the building of ' ^factories by exempting them from taxation for a period of years. We exempt factories from taxation, and at the same time send money out to pay for pork manufactured elsewhere. We certainly need factories of all kinds ;in all towns and cities, and especially | do wo need hogs to manufacture the cheap leguminous crops that we must grow to increase., the productiveness of our soils, the grasses, peanuts, peas, potatoes and the like into pork and pork products. The hogs to manufacture grnsses and grains into pork will declare by far the larger dividends. It is not necessary for the farmer to take stock in cotton factories in order to bo a manufacturer. L?et him keep plenty of good hogs on his farm and ho will be one of the most prosperous manufacturers of useful products. On a farm where good pastures can bo had and corn produced In abun : uuucu, invi ih>b win ue louna io ue a i sure profit producer one year with another. Good pastures, peanuts, peas in corn, potatoes, chufas, rape, sor| ghurn and peas and corn means plenty of cheap pork. | The first investment is small and lie is the quickest money maker of all. . He will live and grow fat on the waste products of the farm that other stock i will not eat. He is ready for market ! almost any timo and will bring the top prico if fat. He multiplies rapidly, | and if we only give him good pastures, pure water and a little corn. He will do the rest. IJermuda grass alone will keep a i hog in good growing condition all the | summer. Excellent winter and early spring pastures can be obtained by sowing hairy vetch, white, red, or burr clover seed broadcast on the Bermuda or carpet grass sod early in the fail. Oats, ryo, rape or orchard grass planted early in October furnish good winter pasture for bogs. Peanuts and sweet potatoes, chufas and artichokes planted in April make excellent feed for hogs in the fall'and winter. Two plantings of peas can bo made, one of an early variety and one of a late va\ riety, in April. Two varieties can be planted at the same time again in ' June or July. Very little corn is-necj essary. We can no longer raise cotton to ; buy pork. We must raise cheap crops of peanuts, cow peas, sorghum, artichokes, red clover, rape and so on for i hogs to graze. No man has ever been able to give a sensible reason for growing cotton to pay for bacon and lard instead of growing cheap leguminous crops to raise hogs. No man has ever been able to give a sensible reason for feeding corn from weaning time to killing time instead of raising hogs on pasture grasses and cheap I Amounts of Manure from j Different Stock 1000 Lbs. Live Weight of Animals ??? Tor.iPer .. Value $47.89 Ye" 1 ' IMBEMBW 15.3 rar ?? 8.9 leguminous crops. If we wish tc " make the greatest success raising hogs, we must grow cheap crops t'oi the hogs to Kraze.' The following is taken from bulletir No. 107, by Prof. J. \V. Fox, from th< Mississippi delta station: "We wist j to call particular attention to the im I portance of a pea Held, planted in corr at the last working, as a factor it cheap pork production. Wo made at experiment last fall to determine th< value of such a pasture, tho resul of which should be very gratifying t< the southern farmers, who have a mo nopoly on such a pasture, the resul ern farmer cannot grow peas plantec in corn, but must give them the us< of the land during the entire growing season." After the corn was gathered, 51 ^ spring pigs were turned into the pet I field of 17 acres. They had no addi tlor.al feed. The gain made from th< peas was 2,893 pounds, or 170 pound: per acre. At six cents per pound, thii gives a value for the peas of $10.2e p?r 1 acre. And this Is net, aa the bogy | did their own harvesting. Also the ft manure and humus from the staling \) vines and seeds were left on the land. \ Dy tests made at the station for two J years to determine the value of tha I peas grown In the corn as a fertiliser. t it has been found that they increase l the succeeding cotton crop by lid j pounds of lint per acre." | The following succession of crops ? is recommended by the Ixmisiana ex- ]j periment station: "Sow oats the latter I part of September for fall and winter } grazing, counting about 15 or 20 bead "S. of hogs per acre. Sow red cloecr or ) crimson clover in October to be pastured after tho oats, Lste iu January. ? and through February and March and April. Sow sorghum early in March to which transfer hogs from clover. After harvesting oats, plant Mexican I June corn and cow peas in a portion of the land, and peanuts and sweet potatoes on the remainder. Use com and a portion in peanuts for Qnishifcg off the hogs for the market, or slaughter at home." Professor Lloyd, one of tho best posted agriculturists in tho south, suggests the following plan for a hog Forage Crops Make Cheap Pork _ . Value of Rttmn / ?ne Acrc Pork Lb?. I Roitwl } 1 Porte Cm I Alfalfa I <36 600 $.95 Corn Hogged 24 Rape, Oats, ^ lov tr tecapasc 409 89 Sorghum I ^ raassrai 375 m Blue Grass 1 'HBB&I 600 66 C.?pc. 21S 7t . ? Soybeans I7J ?5 j| Pork at 6 cents pasture: "Oats and vetch planted iu ' September will furnish gruziprg December, January, February, arch and ! part of April. Cow peaks'and peanuts ,] planted in April and May will furnish Vj grazing for July, Aughst and Scptejnber, October and November. Arti- J chokes planted in April and May will I furnish grazing December and January. Dwarf essex rape planted in February and March will furnish grazing In | May and June. Dwarf essex rape plant- \ ed in August and September will furnish grazing in December and January. Llermuda grass, with white or burr clover, will servo as a permanent pasture and furnish grazing a greater part of the spring, winter and summer." , , uow peas witnout grain have so far given better results at our experiment stations than any other crop tested. One season the peas were grown on very poor hill land and produced pounds of pork per acre. The next season the crop was grown on bottom land and produced 483 pounds of pork per acre. The hogs were turned in when the first pods began to ripen. Professor Duggar, ut the Alabama station, found an acre of Spanish peanuts 011 poor, gravelly land produced GOO pounds of live weight of hogs, and an acre of cow peas about 400 pounds. No country on earth has such advantages for raising cheap pork, and yet no country ruises so little of it. We are told by a bulletin issued by the Louisiana station that one acre of Spanish peanuts grown on poor land at Calhoun contained 192 pounds of nitrogen, worth at commercial fertilizers' value at least $23. An acre of velvet beans contained 191 pounds, and an acre of cow peas 108 ponnds. These crops made from two to thre? ( i tons of feed stuffs richer in food elemeats than wheat bran. When xucb feed stuffs can be harvested by bogs without serious Iosb of fertilizing j value, is there any excuso for poor land and the shipping of pork and lard into the south? CARING FOR MOLTING FOWLS Process is No More Critical Than ino Stunt. Provirl#?H H??b Given Sufficient Feed. Some people make a dreadful foam about the poor molting hen. while this molting process is just as na%ural as it is for a hen tor live and breathe, and no more critical than the laying stunt, provided the hens ara fed enough to keep up the waste of the body and at the Bame time manufacture the new feathers, says thn > Field and Farm. The sooner the feathf ore nrfi it.r. .nAn?. i wiw MAW 5iuni l uic OUU11CI IIMJ **BC* r will come and to hurry them along as fast as possible the fowls should ix? i fed liberally. Give them ali the masto ; they will eat, and a good feeding at 1 grain at night. } To many folks it looks like throvri Ing away money to practice heavy l feeding while no eggs are coming in, l but this is one of the secrets of get) ting winter eggs. The molting eeat son is the most critical period in the ) life of a hen. Growth of new feaih ers Is a heavy -strain on vitality. Aa t the hen is fed on the average ranch 1 it requires from two to four months j to recover from the effects of it_ 5 Hy giving the necessary materials with which to make the feathers so L that a hen will not have to maho tben_i from the tissues of her body, she wUJ be ready to work as soon as she has > her new plumage and often befaiw i Pullets should be handled La the seise s | way.