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4 'mJ i * * W IJ '# n the Grace are fj ftV transmitted /'I *>y o ROYAL Baking - Powder If Absolutely // Pure til rj to the food. i\ w The food is 1} | thereby || u maae more flj! w tasty and J \\ digestible /; china awake 9 Liilg uu Y ii x*?> he Vw Order is B? i g E i^h ?>h- d hd.sf. GREAT MANY CHANGES Japanese Words 1 hat Have C rept in the Chinese Lnnguaje litis Not Improved?Nor litis Other Japanese IiiJlueneis Helped the Country. j 11 i s Excellency Liang Tun Yen, * ? - - L i ? L ^ 11: *? I . I J ? It s% 11 ii i i i i t i i iii.V :-i 11 J t, u u 11. ci ?i i in 111 u Chinese government, who brought | his lani.ly over here a month ago to show them the land where he was | educated and to see some of his old frienus, s?.ys '1 ho New York Sun, I came to New York from Washington w" to attend the annuui dinner last v alght of tlie class of '82 of Yale, of which lie is a member. He has revisited Hartford, where he left his youn er son at the same preparatory school where Mr. Liang was fitted for Yale, paid a visit to New Haven and spent some time in Washington. ( He Is now considering whether lie will leave his elder son here to complete his education. I While lie was waiting in his sitting room at tlve Manhattan for the deputation of his classmates to escort him to the University Club where the J dinner took place. Mr. Liang chatted about things In China and here. | "I have been asked several times whether 1 am on an oflicia! mission," j he said. ^The fact in, I < a;ne over t here principally to enjoy a holiday. ; It has been a long time since i saw. this (onntry. Just before I loft home : the government told me that if I saw any chance to talk to anybody who could possibly help to bring about j the adoption of the eighth article of i i* the Mackay treaty, to do so. The arV tide relates to the abolition of the ) Ilk In tax an 1 its adoption would mean a great deal to China. The United States and Japan are the only two nations that approved of it. We are in need of money and our tariff Is only u per cent ad valorem, which does 11 o(. produce very much revenue. I "In China the feeling toward 1 Americans is most frienrly. It has 1 always been so. You Americans in ( a great many ways have treated us differently from the other powers. Your navy did not join in the attack upon the Taku forts at the. time of the Boxer rebellion, and while at the | treaty port? most of the other pow- < ers, even including Belgium, got con- j cessions of land, this government de- t tnanded none. And, of course, you retnrnel your share of the Boxer indemnity. i "The new movement in China \ <fated from the Japanese war. After that war moat of our people recognized that China must change. Alter 1894 we began to aend a lot of students to Japan. At the time wo had about 30.000 of them 111 that country. The Rusao-Japanese war opened tho eyes of our people still inoTe. Our students went to Japan and came back with new ideas. They went there because It was so much cheaper than to go to any other for elgn country. But I am very sorry they did. l wish they had come to America and Europe instead. "The number of Chinese students In America is. now about 400. There are not many graduates of American schools In China. I wish the number were larger. "The new movement in China now la more for a constitution than anything else, 1 don't know whether we are ?olng too fast or not. The trouble with a movement of the kind la that It is difficult to regulate. It is 'Ike a great flywheel when It is in : motion. Still the movement must be productive of good in some sort of way, because it is progressive." "Have you any great poets or prose writers in China today?" Mr. Lang was asked. No, I regret to say?at least few that count. One trouble Is that the , Chinese language has been corrupted I by the Introduction of Japanese words. The language is undergoing a change. All the older Chinese and even the foreigners who have lived in China for any length of time notice a great difference. There are a lot of new terms, many of which are not necessary, for we had the good old Chinese way of expressing t hem." "You have had a tremendous growth in newspapers in the past few years," was suggested. "Ah, yes, hut the newspapers of China are not very good. They are sensational. "in Peking life is changing very much," continued VI r. Liang. "Peking lt?r?ir j? changing, too Wp a r*? building better roads and the streets are being macadamized. I "I am not able to give you the exact strength of the Chinese army, but' the plan is eventually to increase it 3 00,000 meil. The oillcers who are training it are mostly Japanese, though there are a few Germans. What we need in China is more foreign capital. Under present conditions capital does not care to come, but I hope conditions will change. We ne-ed manufacturing industries of all sorts. We Import from the United States or from Rurope vast quantities of machinery every year. With the cheap labor we have there could be a great field for this branch of . industry at home. 1 "I suppose motor cars will be one of the next things we shall he wanting," said Mr. Liang with a whimsical smile. "Wo have had them in | Poking already, but so far as I know j there are only two or three there, j and they are not much used. The no/\r\lo / ! A n ' jonm f a 1 t lr f L f/k?? I J/UUJ/1C UUll C OO^LU LV/ lirvc tUCUJf LUi our horses and mules do not get used to them. "Cotton manufacturing? Well, our, cotton is too short in fiber to make j the best kind of cloth, and we have | to import what, we need. Ten years ago we tried replanting American cotton, which has a long fiber, but J it soon deteriorated and It lias not been tried since." THOUGHT 111! KILLK1) JACKSOW John Thompson Believed That He Fired Fatal Shot. The South Carolina newspapers several days ago published accounts of the sudden death of .John Thomp-j son, which occurred at Oheraw as he i was boarding a train. The accounts did not mention the fact that Mr. Thompson believed until his dying day that it was a shot from his gun that killed Gen. Stonewall Jackson. Mr. Thompson was a gallant old j Confederate soldier, and there was1 no braver one in the ranks.. He said some time ago that the fact that It j was prooaoiy mis nana mat nan Killed Stonewall Jackson caused him to pass many restless nights. Mr. Thompson's eyes would fill with tears when he would talk of the possibility and probability. He fired his gun many times that night, ho has often said, 1 and ho was firmly of tho opinion i' that one of his shots cut down the 1 great Confederate leader. Mr. Thompson was wounded many 1 times. In fact, he received several wounds the day following Jackson s ; death. One of these was a bul'e: j( wound in his forehead, and to his j1 dying day a largo hole in liis bare ( forehead existed plainly in view lo | * tell of the terrible wound. Soon a?- j ter he was shot down and when he , 3 regained consciousness he discovered * the wools around him on fire. He * 1 managed to drag himself, bit by bit, to safety, but several times the fire r was too quick for him. M?r. Thonip- 1 son was also severely wounded in * some of the Virginia battles. This 1 bravo old warrior now sleeps in a 1 cemetery In Chesterfield county. ^ d A Long Tunnel. t A tunnel of sufficient dimensions to carrv telenhone and telearranh i a (vires for the transmission of pack- a ISO freight is to be constructed be- a :ween Chicago and New York. n t David Gilliam, a prominent far- c iter of Abbeville county lost hit en-. h :ire crop of corn yesterday by firs, b RECORD BEATEN The Value of Farm Products Skew Great Str.dts Dorirg Ibe Vtar OVER ALL OTHIR YEARS State Department of Agriculture in Annual Report Place* Value of Farm Products in South Carolina a.* Rlin iMO n/lit or Mora TIihii Kight Million Above 10O9. A (statement fasued Wednesda> night by E. J. Watson, commissioner of agriculture, commerce and Industriea, shows that the year 1910 haa been one of progress in agriculture in South Carolina. The value of the products grown upon the lands of this State has reached the enormous auni of $1 15,4 89,503, which is three times the 1 900 figures and more than $8,000,000 above the 1 909 value of products of the Held. In Col. Watson's summary of conditions wero given out tabulations showing increased acreage of corn, wheat and other products of the field. Tobacco and rice ?hcw decreases, the rice acreage tor 1910 is 17,3uu against 18.000 for last year. The production figures place cotton at' 1,176,081 bales and corn at 44,733.0 0 0. Col. Watson's corn figures stirred up the Government statisticians recently. Summary. Col. Watson's statement is as follower "Agriculture In South Carolina in the year 1910, though as yet the re?? development has but just begun, has brought this State again to the fore n m An /r 1* nnr?*i/illltif??ril i * i?r\_ 1 1 Will) (llIIUIl^ L II C llhl ituillll (U jJ I \Jducing States of the Union, and as a business proposition agriculture is again assuming the lead 'he value of the principal agricultural products this year being greater than twice the value of the manufactured output of all the textiles and the cotton seed oil mills combined. It is not improbable that the total value of the leading agricultural products will practically equal the value of all manufactured products in the State, including fertilizers and lumber. "That a revolution has been wrought in the past decade may be gathered from the fact that In 1900 South Carolina ranked tw^.ty-second in agricultural products among the States of the Union, with a total value of agricultural products in that year of $51,324,000. For 1908 the State had risen In rank to eighteenth and this year will rise still higher. The total value of the principal agricultural products this year, including the cotton crop with the seed, corn, hay, wheat, oats, tobacco, potatoes, rye and rice, without taking into consideration at all the truck industry, which has probably netted four million dollars, if not more, is $145,4 89,563, almost three times the tig tiro <111 ote?I above for 1 000, ana against $137,182,087 for the year 1 000 for the snnte crops, an increase for the agricultural industry, regardless of truck and live stock during this year, of $8,307,4 70. "The increase In the cotton crop, using figures which are probably several thousand bales less than the actual crop, is $3,270,000, and this has been accomplished notwithstanding the immense impetus ?iven to corn-growing, which resulted in the one year in crop being increased b> $6,002,000 in value. "Had it not been for the decrease of nearly one-fourth million dollars In the rice crop and nearly threefourths million dollars In the tobacco crop, or if these crops had even kept up to lart year's figures, the grand total increase for this year would ' have reached out for ten million dollars. It is to he doubted if hardly a State in the Union will show a handsomer increase In this wonderful year in agricultural development. 1 State's Increase. "It fs noteworthy that South Oaro- , Una's percentage of Increase in the , nine years, from 1 900 to 1 909, was ^ larger than any of the States of the ( Union, with the exception of sixteen, with but one exception, were the new States, where the percentage , would naturally he larger and with t which it would he hnrdlv fair f n i . compare. In 1 000 the State of Illi- t lois was the leading State in a?ri- ^ Milture, having products valued at % &?>P>7,0S5,000. With this magnificent f Ipuro South Carolina's record this rear compares favorably, being at a mm which would place her on the >asis of last year's result immediate- | y following the twelfth State in ank. It is particularly noteworthy, lotwithstanding all that is said in he above of corn, a magnificent crop aised without detriment to the re?- R liar cotton crop, to note the increase * >f nearly a million bushels in wheat, v iringing in nearly one-half million 0 lollars more to the producers than he year before." * All of these figures indicate that : * t last the people of this State have j 1 wakened to the fact that they have ^ monopoly money crop, which is al-1 aost never failing in its average and b hat they can, while raising that rop, produce something to eat at u ome and enjoy a surplus, which, P eretofiore, they have absolutely neg I ' I lected to consider. In other words, Instead of spending profits irom the cotton crop away from home for something to eat, we are now beginning more and more to practice a practical diversification that is keeping these millions of dollars at home and making the music of prosperity that is abroad in the land. Hog and Hominy. "The most gratifying thing about it all is. that the people are now thoroughly aroused and awakened tt the absolute necessity of proceeding with tho fiiHanl dovolniimoni of fh*? live stock industry, which will mean more hog lo go with the hominy, and In the end complete living at home. "It Is particularly gratifying to us men who have been pushing the agricultural industry in South Carolina with all tho energy we possess to know the increaBe In yield per acre, which has been over 1 909, ae follows: Cotton, 2 pounds; corn, 1 -8 10 bushels; wheat, 1-2 bushel ;oats, 2 bushels, (over 1 909 ); potatoes, o bushels; rye, 2-19 bushels; bay, .02 of ton. These figures are particularly gratifying when we take cotton, for Instance, where in South Carolina the yield of lint cotton hits been brought up to 2 1 2 pounds, while the average for the United States is only 169.1 pounds. This is a higher yieid per acre than all the States in the cotton belt, save Virginia, North Carolina, Missouri and California, and only one of these, North C irolina, is worth considering at all, as the others are now considered among tho large producing States. Sources of Loss. "This has been done not withstand I ti or o nf o 1 Inoe a f 'in ti voi'tl fro nf TO pounds of lint cotton to the acre divided as follows from the causes named: "Deficient moisture, 1(1.0 pounds; excessive moisture, 23.7 pounds; floods, 2.1 pounds; hot winds, 1.1 pounds; storms, 2 pounds; other climatic, 4.7 pounds. Total climatic, 47.1 pounds; boll worm, 5 pounds; total insect, 1.7 pounds, plant disease, 11.4 pounds; other causes unknown, 9.S pounds. "The plant disease item Is iarge.v duo to anthracnose and to cotton wilt. For the former a rigid inspection has been instituted to insure seed free from it and for th? 1 \tter a wilt-resistent variety of cotton to being suppli Vi to the growers "In wheat we lack only five huRhels of being up to the average in the United States and potatoes onlv three bushels, and we are reaching out for the average of the nation In "Another significant feature of the situation as it is changing witn this development in agriculture Is .h tc while South C' ollna had 214 y>er cent of all her land in crops in 1900, a considerably larger percentage is now devoted ,o agriculture. Land Now Under Cultivation. "For instance, between 1880 and 1 900, only 7.4 per cent of our land area was devoted to corn, while now corn has grown on 9.8 per cent. Wheat has Increased from 1 per cent to 1.5 per cent, and at the oresent time 12.3 per cent of the total land area of the State is devoted to cotton. "The maintenance of the full average crop of cotton in the face ot the corn agitation of 1910 Is remarkable and is shown by the fact that up to December 13, 1,10 8,907 running bales, including linters and sea island cotton, have been ginned. "This would indicate in the light of all past experience, both as to climatic and general conditions, a running bale crop this year of 1,1 84.793 oiiies, uiougn in me ngures we nave compiled the running hale crop has been placed purposely at l,17ti,081 balos. "The figures apply this year to square bales of 4 02 pounds each. As early as October the State department of agriculture Issued an estimate of this year's total crop at 1 ,100,000 500-pound bales, and the ginners' figures for this State Indicate that this estimate may be oniy a few hundred bales out of the way. Cieneral Congratulations. "It has been particularly gratifying to the State department of agriculture to realize that all forces and agencies making for agricultural devn1r>j?mnnt *n thio hap lw>on working In perfect harmony for the magnificent result that has been obtained, and that all of these forces feel now that they have hut barely entered upon the best of their work, rho State department wishes in making this announcement to congratulate all of those men representng these various forces on their ichievements, and to congratulate ho people of the State that they lave each forces helping the peopio o help flmw?AlvoB " will soo\ m<: hi?:uk ^nrtners Should Start Roll Weevil Campaign Now. That the farmers of South OJeorgla horhi prepare a campaign of resistance against the approach of the boll veevil, which is certain to attack the otton interests of the state at any ime within the next five years, was he note of warning sounded by State hitomologist E. Lee Worsham at he agricultural conference in Macon laturday morning. Ho stated, incidentally, that the est plan of fight was to plant earl?r varieties of cotton and to make i so of certain chemicals after the est had arrived and whilo It was a ihernating state. WANTS A CHANGE ! Prof. Ckamberlaio Proposes to Rtfurm aid Saplifjr Calendar. HIS PLAN GIVEN BELOW Want* the Year Divided Into Twelve MonthH of Twenty-Right Duyn Kueh and the Kxtra Four Weeks and I Odd Day Attached to Koch Three Months (aroup. Dr. Thomas Shrowder Chamberlin, professor of geology in the University of Chicago, would reform and simplify the current calendar. Being one of the most famous geologists, Dr. Chamberlin is familiar with time through countless ages. Ho writes to Science: "I venture to suggest a calendar that embodies many of the e.ieellent suggestions already made, but instead of Introducing a thirteenth month, ' make use of only twelve months of four weeks (twenty-ei;ht days) each, bunchin? these into four groups and placing the remaining four weeks between these groups, so as to set out I the four seasonable quarters of the year distinctly." Tiie integers of his proposed cal- ! J ent!ar are: i^uaiiers: <joiresponuing measurably to the four seasons. Months: Twelve of twenty-eight lays (four weeks) each, assembled J in groups of three terminate d b> a single closing week with a special designation. All months to begin on Monday, as suggested by Patterson. I Weeks: Fifty-two of seven days each, all beginning with Monday. For- I ty-eight of the weeks, in groups of' four each, constitute the twelve months. The remaining four weeks ; of the fifty-two, viz., the thirteenth,! the twenty-sixth, the thiry-ninth and the fifty-second, to be attached severally at the end of the four threemonth groups to make up four symmetrical quarters of thirteen weeks I each. These terminal weeks niigtit be designated as closing or quarter- I end weeks; but each is to have its I own special name, the thirteenth to be Easter week, the twenty-sixth Julian week, the thirty-ninth Gregorian week and the fifty-second Christmas veek. In large measure these might concentrate into themselves the holidays, short vacations, book-closing periods, etc.; und so come to have other special designations stilted to the various vocations. Odd Days?the odd day of the usual year, the 3 65th day, to be New Year's Day, and to be dies non so far as the week and the month are concerned, as proposed by Patterson, but to be grouped with the preeed-' ing quarter as the end-day of the old ! year and as the start-day of the new | year. The adjustment for the odd J one-quarter day to follow the Julian method and to be made by a Leap i Day following New Year's Day every ^ fourth year, and to be a dies non j also so far as week and month are concerned, but to be grouped with the preceding quarter. Further details of the scheme, particularly the places and names of the transition or quarter-end or closing week, appear in this table: First Quarter. (Winter Season?Northern Hemisphere. ) (Summer Season?Southern Heinlphero.) January?4 weeks, 2 8 days. February ? 4 weeks, 2 8 days. March?4 weeks, 2 8 days. Close week?Easter week. Second Quarter. (Spring Season?Northern Hemisphere. > (Fall Season?-Southern Hemisphere. ) April?4 weeks, 28 days. May?4 weeks, 28 days. June ? 4 weeks, 2 8 days. Close week?Julian week. Third Quarter. (Summer Season?Northern Hem- 1 isphero.) j (Winter Season?Southern Ilemi- i sphere.) < July?4 weeks, 28 days. August?4 weeks, 2 8 days. September?4 weeks, 28 days. i Close Week?Gregorian week. Fourth Quarter. ] (Fall Season?Northern Heml- i sphere.) |< (Spring Season?Southern Ilemi-1 < sphere.) i< October?4 weeks, 2 8 days. November?1 weeks, 2 8 days. December?4 weeks, 2S days. Close week?Christmas week and odd days. Prof. Chamberlin's scheme should be popular, for by it the Christmas holidays ar? mnd? lnniu>p ii? writes: "In the matter of holidays, tliojt scheme seems to lend itself fairly c well to current practice and is per- j ' haps well suited to mould future i practice as well. The i!8th day of I N December would always fall on Sun- J t day and be the immediate forerun- S nor of Christmas. Christmas itself 1 would always fall on the Monday of i c Christmas week. Our groatest holi- d day would thus have a distinctive h place of its own at the head of its 1 special week, instead of falling in the f midst of a month and on a constant- f ly shifting day of the week. The c winter holiday season would be s closed usually by New Year'? Day, but on every fourth year by Leap Day, following New Year's Day. Tb# Christmas holidays would thus b# lengthened to nine days or to tea days. "Easter week would always begJa. on Monday, the 85th day of the year, and the days of the week might have the special designations, Easter Tuesday, Easter Wednesday, and so on, ending with Easter Sunday, which would appropriately be followed by the spring season. "Th#? Inifan w??ok would omhrar# onr national holiday, which would always be Julian Thursday. The Julian week might well come to embrace the observances that mark the end of the educational year. "The Gregorian week would fall at a time well suited to the harvest festivals, the fairs, etc. "The authors of the rectifications that gave us our present calendar are recognized In the naming of the .lulinn ?nd Ornfi'?>HHn wopks " THE WAGES OF SHAME. White Slave Victim Has Kept He* Master Eight Years* An investigation being concti.'ted by Government agents and the Pittsburg polico into conditions existing in the underworld of Pittsburg resulted in two more arrests this week, arrests which promise to be very Unimportant. This latest development In the crusade to break up the system in this city promises to be of exceptional interest when the facts of the case are made known. At the subsequent hearing before Magistrate Kirby, Annie Wells, a ne? cress, testified that within the past eight year? she had given $ 1 T>.000 to Arthur Hemp, aged M5, a whito man, with whom she was arrested. Hemp was held in $2,r>00 hail for court on a charge of violating the Ed lis act. In her story told before Magistrate) Kirby, Annie Wells declared she had been practically supporting Hemp for the past eight years. Sometimes she gave him $30 and at others 5, of whatever amount she had in her possession. When she refused him money he beat her, she declared. Hemp admitted the woman had given him money, but denied that she supported him. He said be did not work as be bad a sister, the wife of a millionaire in Germany, who sent him large sums of money at regular internals. FLOOD AX I) FAMINE. Causes Great Distress in a PisWttte? of China. News was brought by the steame* America of floods that have caused tr i Iacd r\ f li f /\ o r*/I of* o oai/am* chii iwo kj i iii*7 ami ui a oxj w famine in the Anhul province of China, affecting two and a half million per?ons. Rev. E. C. LoLensteine, a returning missionary from North Anhul, sail: "iro desperate were the people that thousands banded together, robbing any who had food supplies, and for weeks scarcoly a night passed without many murders. "The flood3 caused great loss o*. life. The rapid rise of water swept'*, away scores of villages, thousands 1 of persons being drowned. A railroad engineer reported that one of the bridges near there had been chokcn up with bodies and he hadt been imprisoned two days in tlie up per part of a temple before being rescued by a boatman. "The situation during the winter will be terrible.-?far worse thau th-o-' famine three years a?o. The .starving can be reckoned by hundreds of thousands and relief should be forthcoming at mice." K()hl> Til 101It VOTR Fifty Ohio Voters I Mead Guilty to Doing So. There seems to have been some vote buying tn the last election in Ohio. A dispatch from Manchester says fifty Republicans and Democrats of Adams county pleaded guilty to indictments charging the sale of their votes at the November election and were disfranchised fot from tivo to seven years and ttued $25 and costs. These pleas came simultaneously with the return of 7 0 indictments by the grand jury for vote selling. The 7!) makes a total of 211 persons indicted on this jhar?o. Predictions wore made re?ently that before the grand jury completes its investigations nearly I O tWl noroAno t?-i 1 1 1 w\ J , U n * ^ d M VV V j ? V lOVHO I I I UU IllUiV. tCUl WHOLE KAHTH IKHE/JLNG. ? Hio Process Takes Million Years, Ho Don't Worry. Men will freeze to death on the equator millions of years hence, ao:ordin? to Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, who orsook the subject of germs in food n ad.lressiug the secular league at Washington Sunday and discussed he question, "Is Man to Ultimately >tarve or Freeze?" Dr. Wiley said io believed the earth was slowly ooling and that the people of the listant future must freeze, though le declared for "a million years at east," humanity would not suffer rom lack of food or fuel. In the ri?id days that are yet to come, aeording to Dr. Wiley, the winds will erve as fuel.