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- m A v . -i VOL. XXXYIII M Ju»t L!k« m M«mb«r of lh« Family" )ME MPORTANT BILLS ARE BEFORE ASSEMBLY' THINKS THAT WAR IS NO LONGER IMPOSSIBILITY Appropriation Measure Has Right of Way This Weak.—Other Bills. Columbia, February 14.—The results of the hard work which the General Assembly has been doing at its present session are shown in the many import ant measures which have been enacted into law. Two of the paramount issues have been completed, the bill sub mitting the question of State-wide pro hibition to the people at an election to be held on September 14, and the com pulsory education bill. Both of these measures have passed botlfi houses and now only await ratification and the sig nature of Governor Manning to become law. There are several important measures ' (Which can be gotten through during the coming week, and there is every reason to believe that the calendars will be cleared and that final adjournment „ will be reached on Saturday night. The appropriation bill will have right i of way in the Senate, but it .is not an ticipated that any great delay will be occasioned by consideration of that measure. The finance committee sat with the ways and means committee of House in the various hearings on (items that went into the bill, and so nee of the appropriation bill to eommittee when it comes over om the House will be more of a for- ality and it will probably be promptly 'returned back to the Senate. Tax ComnwMion the bill creating the State tax com* ; * mission, limiting freight trains to fifty cars, putting into effect the Webb law limiting the shipment of liquor for per sonal use, and the bill providing for the Torrens system of land registration, all of which have been passed by the House, are pending in the senate and can easily be disposed of in a few days. The fifty-par bill has a special order for Monday uight at 8:30 o'clock. The Senate has pending before it a * bill to enlarge the powerrof the State warehouse commissionerand opponents of that measure, through Senator Lee, of Darlington, sprang a surprise by offering an amendment developing the duties of the warehouse commissioner on the commissioder of agriculture, t This amendment comes up for consid eration when the Senate reconvenes Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock, and the indications are, it being so late in the session, that nothing will be done in this matter and the warehouse com mission will be allowed to stand like it is. To Roorganiao HospiUi A bill reorganizing the Hospital for the Insane has passed the House and is pending in the Senate. Proposed v amendments to the Constitution, chang ing the method of appointing the board of regents and making the superintend ent of the Asylum elective by the board, are pending in both Houses. Tbe House has still to consider a bill putting the rules and regulations of the Democratic primary into the statute law of the State. This bill passed the Sen- where the main fight was on the /^^Hkhsion calling for a re-enrollment of ^^I^Pvoters every two years. This fea- ^idre will probably meet with some op position in the Hopse, but it is thought that the bill will pass as it stands. Bills creating a State board Of chari ties and corrections, which would have charge of all the penal and charitable institutions of the State, are pending on both sides of the Legislature. The Senate and House have been meeting day and night and practically no time has been wasted since the ses sion began. The members have carried through the intention expressed on the opening day, of getting through with the work m hand and adjourning as early as possible. Everything is work ing towards final adjournment on Satur day night of this week and there is no reason why the programme cannot be carried out. CUah Batw^wn United States end Ger- “MJrWajr Result from Note. London, Feb. 14.—The Copehagen Politiken, commenting on the Ameri can note to Germany, is quoted in a dispatch • from the Danish capital to The Exchange Telegraph as saying that “America is acting with all the energy which might be expected and her note contains a grave warning; so grave that war between Germany and the United States can no longer be re garded as an impossibility. “President Wilson and Secretary Bryan,” The Politiken says, “are peace loving men, but public opinion in Amer ica and anti-German sentiment may drive them farther than they desire.” The.newspaper continues: “America stands to win a lot mere ly by confiscating German ships now interned in American harbors. Ger many has everything to lose, and it is earnestly to be hoped that the American warning will not be without "he desired effect in Berlin.” , .Further dispatches say the German warning to neutral shipping has caused anxiety and suspense in Saln- dinavia,as there are 15 steamers coining from over the seas. The Scandinavian shipping confer ence, it is said, discussed the question of cooperation between the United States and Scandinavia but the posi tions were so different that a combina tion was impossible. r. EXCELLENT PROGRAMME FOR TEACHERS MEETING Prof. Lueco Gunter to DoRvor Principal Addret*. —Other Speaker*. The Barnwell County Teachers' Asso ciation will meet in the Barnwell grad ed school auditorium Saturday the 20th inst., at 11:30 o’clock. Prof. Lueco Gunter, of Columbia, who is visiting a number of the schools in this county this week, will be the principal speak er. His address will b« of especial in terest to school trustees, who are given a special invitation be be present. The program is as follows: Music. Secripturey Reading and Prayer by Rev. W. L. Hayes. Reading minutes of last meeting. "TheOne-Teacher School,” by Mias Warner Hair. "The Rural Graded School,” by Supt. L. Madden. Remarks by Dr. W. M. Jones, of the County Board of Education. Address by Mrs. Dora Dee Walker. Ten Minutes Talk, Supt. Horace J. Crouch. "Barnwell County Schools,” by Prof. Lueco Gunter, State Supervisor of Rural Schools. Intermission, ten minutes,' social; luncheon, 2 o’clock P. M. INTERESTING PERSONAL ITEMS FROM FAIRFAX The Leader in Oat* and Wheat. South Carolina has cause for pride this winter in the fact that not only was her precentage of increase in wheat acreage—200 per cent—the largest in the United States, but that she also had the largest actual acre age increase in fall-sown oats of all the Southern States. The increase in acres in fall-sown oats in South Carolina amounts to 336,000, and Georgia is second with an increase of 328,000. These facts have given gratification to the extension and de- « '.ration forces of Clemson College, i conducted an energetic campaign ain-sowing from the outbreak of iiropean war. Local Talent Pretent* Play at Ehrhardt. Mail Route Needed. Fairfax, Feb. 13.—Mr. J. B. McMillan of Ulmer, was in town the latte- part of last week. Misses Agnes and Viola Cope have been visiting Mr. and Mrs. W. F. All. - Miss Simpson spoke^at the Lutheran Church Sunday night. “The Winning of Latine” was pre sented recently at Ehrhardt. The at tendance was very poor, expenses not having been made. The many friends of Mr. Walden and Mrs. Tom Deer regret to learn of their sickness. Mr. Birdie Jarrell and family are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. John Smith. , An interesting talk on missions was made here Sunday by a stranger. His speech was eloquent and descriptive. One of the great needs of this section is a rural mail route from Fairfax. This would tend to bring about a closer union between the people of the town and country. All who are interested in its establishment should write to Con gressman Jas. F. Byrnes at Washing ton. ‘ MRHWEU, S. C. FEBRUARY H. 1913 CAN YOU RESIST THESE TEMPUNCr FEATURES? The Beauties of the San Francisco Exposition Read Like a Fairy Tale. The People Will Send Someone Free and This Is the Last Week ■ You Can Enter. Send Your Name to The Panama- Pacific Contest Co., Box 215 The Contest Has Just Started and It Is Not Joo Ute to Enter. Thousands of South Carolinians anj looking forward with interest to the opening of the Panama-Paclflf International Exposition Saturday. February 20. San Francisco and tuo exposition is ready for visitors—100 per cent, complete before opening day, establishing a record that never before has been equaled. According to railroad authont es, South Carolina will be represented at this exposition by more people, prob ably, than have ever before attended » world’s fair. The exposition itself is the world’s "biggest show," representing an out lay of $50,000,000—about $10,000,- 000 of which Is represented In the foreign and state sections, and $10,- 000,000 represented by display of in dividual exhibitors. The European war has failed to put a damper on the enthusiasm of the foreign countries over the expo sition. Forty-two foreign nations are participating, twenty-two of them having erected national pavilions. Forty-two of the states of the United States are participating, twenty-eight with buildings. Thirteen of the na tions and their dependencies now at war fcre participating, several of them having asked for additional space since the war began. How extensive the displays are can be grasped when It is realized that there are 8,000 individual exhibitors represented. In advance of the opening day this world’s greatest spectacle already has drawn thousands of visitors. Lying on the southern shores of San Fran cisco Bay. Juat within the sweep of the Golden Gate, the exposition stretches in a demi-lune two and a half miles along the bay line. On this area there are in all 250 build ings. In size these range from the Palace of Machinery, the largest frame structure under one roof in the world to-day, to the ten-foot fronts of the shooting galleries on the amuse ment zone. Before It is the bay shim mering In Its opalesque hues, where the merchant marine of the world passes In constant and stately pro cession to and from the ports of the seven seas. Behind it are, t^ie heights of San Francisco, gray or brown or mellowed in russet by the setting sun. Above It are the blue skies of Call- fornla, cupping down to the distant mountain summits. Into this wonderful setting has been planted this exposition as though some master transplanter of nature had engrafted something of art, man’s handiwork, so skillfully as even to deceive nature. By d»y. gazing down upon this ex position from the heights of San Francisco, or viewing It from the op posite shores, It recalls some ancient city of the Bosporus, slumbering in softened colors, wjth minaret, dome and spire By night, when the sub dued eculgence of myriads of con cealed lights throws into glowing re lief turret and court and colonada, majestic facade and mighty arch, when the colors of the rainbow are sprayed by projecting arcs into the heavens, there is nothing to which It may be comparable. It Is a dream city in very truth, a vision of fable, a rich and glorious visualization of the fairyland conjurings of our child hood. The four dominant phases in any great outdoor creation by man are here co-origlnated; architecture, color, sculpture and landscape detail. Color Is the unifying tnedlum. There are no sharp contrasts. It is an es thetic result. With these outward embellishments another theme has been constant: that of the exposition purpose, to symbolize the meeting of the nations through the waterway of tbe Panama canal, the last great ob- stable between the Occident and the Orient. The fountain of energy, in the south gardens facing the main en trance gate, symbolizes the character and the force that built the canal; the heroic groups of sculpture over the two great archee of the rising and the setting sun symbolize the meet ing of the nations by the Panama waterway, and the column of pro gress. on the bay shore, symbolizes the further spiritual and material ad vancements of the people of the earth. The same purpose is express ed i n varying ways In the architec ture, which, while taking of many periods and of -many peoples for Its details, works out a gen ral school that is distinctly western and distinc tively new. Can you afford to miss seeing this magnificent exposition, the culmina tion of years of thoughtful planning, the expenditure of millions of dol lars, enthusiastic and inspired work manship of the world's best artists and artisans, when you can do sc without the expenditure of one cent of your own money? ——The Barnwell People will mnka.il possible for some one to do Just this Write for information to-day. Just send your name to-day to ttu Panama-Pacific Contest Co., P. O Box 2IS, Orangeburg. S. C., and al - information will be forthcoming to you immediately. The Ladies’ Guild o/f the Epiaocpal Church met at the home of Mrs. J. B. Armstrong on Tuesday afternoon of last week. A Fifth of Cotton Land*. According to figures received at Clemson College from the Bqrequ of Crop Estimates, U. S. Department of Agriculture, the increase in acreage in land sown to o&ts and wheat this fall amounts to eighteen per cent, of the land sown to cotton in South Carolina last spring. That it to say, the increase imfall-sown wheat was 164,000 acres and the increis6 in fallsown oats 336,- 000 acres, or 500,000 acres as the total increase. The cotton acreage in 1914 was"2,800,000. The increase in acreage of winter grain* amount, therefore, to almost one-fifth of the cotton acreage, or eighteen per cent Seiglingville New*. Seiglingville, Feb. .15.—Mrs. R. R. Barber and three children. Misses Gladys and Oliv^ and Master Rollins, of Allendale, were visitors at the home of Mr O. W. Barker yesterday. Mr. W. T. Thomas motored up to Augusta last Tuesday. His wife and little daughter accompanied him as far as Barnwell, where they stopped over with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Hayes, until his return on Wednesday. Miss Maude Youngblood visited her sister, Mrs. J. S. Ferguson, of Apple- ton, Saturday. Mrs. Birdie Bessinger and two chil dren,of Florida,are spending some time at the home of her uncle, Mr. I. T. Harden. Mr. H. J. Moody went to Fairfax on a short visit yesterday. Mr. George Hogg, of Kline, visited Mr. Allen Myrick-yesterday. Mrs. W. T. Bates and children, of Allendale, visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Boyles last week. Honor Roll of Friendship School for month ending Feb. 12: 1st Grade: Earl Sanders, Pearl San ders, SalHe Tucker, Bennie Zorn, Hat tie Mae Still, Alma Ray, Theodore Ray, Daisy Ray. 2nd Grade; Lila Ray, Mounie Tucker, Lizzie Zorn, Gertrude Morris, Cevern Ray. 3rd Grade: Hollis Ray, Leon Sanders, Genat Sanders, Charlie Sanders, Nat Zorn, Earnest Ray, Charlie Still. 5th Grade: Victor Creech, Mary Ray, Eddie Zorn. ' 6th Grade: Vera Grubbs, Hilda Ray, Annie Ray. -* a Q. E. D. AGAIN ADVOCATES CORN AS AGAWST COTTON Say* Thorn’* No ReoooaobW FTportodoo for Making Profit o« Cotton. Editor of The People: The greatest writer of romance of all time, Sir Walter Scott, used to work on twd'at one time, giving a day or week one, then putting that azide and taking up the other. With your consent I shall follow his example in treating the subject* of corn and cot ton. I need not enlarge on the vaat import ance of both texts to you and every man, woman and child in the commu nity—aye, in the South. It will not need the employment of higher mathe matics to demonstrate the immense benefit to Barnwell County which would eventuate from the inauguration of a system of marketing corn whereby a farmer can realize a profit of fifty, seventy-five or a hundred per cent on the cost of production. I have said enough to convince any man of open mind that the corn can be produced at a good profit if marketed intelligently, and later 1 shall show how to market it. it will soon be time to plant corn. Most farmers have their lands prepared intending to put such s percentage in corn and such another in cotton. I have shown how it will pay to plant corn. Has any reader of The People the temerity to try to show in these columns s reasonable expectation that any man can have for mailing a profit out of cotton? If so, I trust that you will give him space to make good. I know of an instance where a far mer has made a contract to deliver ten thousand bushela of corn, to be grown this year, the terms being to deliver same at nearest station at the average price that corn may be selling at in Augusta, Columbia, Savannah and Charleston. The best informed dealers in cotton would not contract to take cot ton at that date at six cents s pound for middling cotton. Not one. The situa tion being so which will be the wiser course, when planting time comes, for a farmer to take, put his ground in corn or cotton? Which fanner would a banker sooner lend money to in March or April to be paid in November, the corn fanner or the cotton farmer? I have said that with tbe average cottontot the luat for planting cotton is like the inebriate’s lust for drink—un controllable—and if in view of the above exposition a farmer will plant cotton 1 instead of corn and other cereals or truck, ke will establish my prognosis in his case. Lest farmers may conclude that to cut out cotton may prove to be a new and ruinous departure, I will state that not a hundred years ago there was no more cotton planted in South Carolina than could be picked out by hand. The first cotton gin operated in South Carolina south of Columbia was built in Barnwell County on s tributary of Saltkehatchie, and at that time all the cotton produced was planted and tend ed with the hoe. The plowa were all devoted to the production of com, peas, etc., and yet farmers lived well and some of them grew rich and raised large families. The late Col. B. H. Brown used used to discourse of those days to point the moral that commercial fertilizers were not essential to successful farming Th writer has in his scrap book a letter published in the Charleston Mercury, written by that great planter, Gov. James H. Hammond to demonstrate that it was better to plant corn to the exclusion of cotton when cotton could not be sold for more than four cents per pound, and at that time nearly all the cotton was made by slave labor. In those days, as now, corn seldom sold for less than a dollar a bushel. Plan ters claimed that it was better to feed it to hogs than to sell it for less than that price. Men grew rich in Tennessee raising hogs and driving them in droves to South Carolina for sale. Q. E. D. Miss Helen Calhoun entertained a few friends last week. Mrs. F. M, Mobley and children were the guests of Olar relatives this week. Dr. O. B. Hartzog, of Greenville, was the guest of Barnwell relatives this week. ■ *v ■ ' | • Misses Catherine Pattersoifand Lou ise Duncan attended a dance in Colum bia Monday eveaing. Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Deaton were the guests of their son, Dr. R. A Deason, several day* last week. Miss May Simms has returned home after a visit to Columbia. Miss Carrie Cave is the guest of rela tives and friends in Atlanta. Messrs. L. A. Cave and Carter Price were visitors to Augusta last week. Miss Kate Boyleston, of Allendale, has been the guest of Miss Virginia MoSeley this we*ek. The new Spring coat suits and dress es are now on display at Porter’s. Call and inspect the line.—adv. Mr. R. C. Mixson, a civil engineer, of Fairfax died here last week after a short illness. He is survived by his wife and two children. Latigue, the little.son of Mr. and Mr*. L L. Jgbin, of Barpwelljjwaa taken to a Columbia hospital Tuesday afternoon by his father asd Dr. E. L. Patterson. A speedy recovery is the wish of his many friends. HO. 23 SUNHART OF THE GIEAT WAK FOR MUCK READING CrattbteMCMn.bifemuv'.IU. plr to Aaasrieu Not*. The latest official statements disclose few details of the progress of battles In the east, presumably for the repson tha the Russians, who have been re- tiring-from East Prussia, have net made ready to meet the advance of the rein forced German army. Jn Poland the opposing forces are in alignment South of Warsaw, while the Austro-German troops are advancing in Bukowina and have captured impor tant positions not only there but in the Carpathian* in the neighborhood of Kukla Past. In the west activity has been in creased along the entire front, particu larly on the part of the artillery. More than a million Germans are being asembled and formidable entrench ment* are being prepared along the Rhine, according to persona who have been expelled by the Germans from Alsace-Lorraine. In addition all vil lages in that territory are being mad'' ready for a siege. Great interest centres in the reply which Germany will make to the American note respecting the declara tion by Germany of a sea war zone around the British Isles, and a press dispatch from The Hague announces that the American to Ger many, James W. Gerard, has been In vited to the German east headquarters for a conference with Emperor Wil liam. Italy has made virtually the same representations to Germany as those embodied in the American note. Through the Italin ambassador at Berlin Italy Las asked that her position aa. *. neutral Power be maintained according to the rules of international law that tbe right of her ships to prooaed be recognized without molestation farther than a search. The Servian fortress of Semendria is ■aid to have been blown up by a deto nation of Its powder magazine, after a bombardment by Austro-Huagartaa artillery. A news agency dispatch from Nlsfc quote* th* Servian Government an an nouncing the inrnskm of the depart- it of Priarend by Albanians, who In superior lore* compelled th* Servian* to retreat and are continuing toadvane* into Servia. All domestic oats and other grain necessary for forage for horses will be expropriated by order of the German Bundearath or Federal council. Socialists of th* allied Powers at a meeting in London, held to disenas the international situation, adoptad reso lutions declaring that while th* Socialists had resolved to tight until victory was achieved they also had re solved to resist "any attempt to trans fer this defensive war into a war of conquest.” i Barnwell Fan ~ Laurens; February 13.^-J. t?. Barks dale, of this county, has been appointed farm demonstrator for Barnwell Coun ty, and will leave for his new work about February 20. He is a 1914 grad uate of Clemson College and is regard ed as a very capable young man. Honor Roll of Galileo School 1st Grade: Laura Hutto, Winnie Davis, Boyce Creech, Ida Black, Rus sell Black, Henrietta Kennedy, Zadie Creech. —— 4th Grade: Maggie Black, Janie Black, Laurie BlacK, Jeff Black, Earl Still, Carroll Davis, Pearline Black, Sarah Creech. 5th Grade: Johnson Creech^briander Black, Winnie Black. 6th Grade: Lizzie Black, C. C. Black. 7th Grade: David Black. 8th Grade: Nick Black, Shelly Black, Furman Davis, Agatha. Faust, Bessie Black. The Galilee School will celebrate Wsshingtoa’s birthday Monday even ing, February 22, commencing at 8 o’clock. The public is invited to be present Mr. Barksdale was a room mate at Clemson College of Mr. George Arms trong, son of Treasurer J. B. Armstrong, of Barnwell. He was on,e of the most popular members of the student body and in addition to being a high-toned Christian gentleman, is an excellent business man. The 1914 number of "Taps,” Clemson’■ annual, ha/the fol lowing to say of Mr. Barksdale: "Ability, openness and fearlessness well characterize this budding entre- preneus. John holds many honors among up; and the financial success of this book is due in a great part to his untiring efforts. When we leave col lege we shall have many pleasant re membrances of hours spent in John’s company. His ambition is to become a dairy farmer of Laurens County, and probably be one of the' political bosses of tbe State.” Mrs. T. H. Crenshaw spent the week end in Savannah. Advertised Letters. Letters remaining in the Post Office and advertised Feb. 15th, 1915. *APL .. C. J. Autrey W. R. Elliot, E. C. Glenn J. W. Good son, A. McLaurin, W. E. Robinson, Paul Roberts, Joe Smith, E. W. Woder. rSMALB. Annie Braxton, Mrs. Jane Bing, Mrs. D. L. Cave, Annie Emiog, Mrs. C. - Lamonie, Mrs. Ranchel Sanders, Mrs. M. S. Wooley. * . v non DBAD LSTTBS OVVICS. - Alexander Anderaon. Persons calling for tnene letters witt please say advertised. Ckm. E. Filkinrtsin, P. U.