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f * V1SI HE BREAKS CUSTOM PRESI WILSON READ HIS MESSAGE TO CONGRESS SECl URGES TARIFF REFORM _ _ Explains Why 11c llrcakH a TimeIn the , 42 Honored Custom?llall of the Natalie tional House of Heprcsentatives in? . aiul All the Galleries Packed for roii. . Extraordinary 10 vent, as 3 ' President Wilson stood on the 'u * Speaker's rostrum in the hall of the Democ House Tuesday and personally read idont ]jia f\rgt message to Congress, the er ano flr8l President since John Adams, to feet h exercise that privilege. The renewal House 0[ a custom abandoned a century ago congre aiui now surrounded by such wide day h? differences of opinion among memHouse bers of Congress, attracted to the thistn Capitol a large assemblage. C.alferenct leries were packed with national ligthe Se ures, Mrs. Wilson and her three daughters and the women of the stated cabinet circle prominent among he nut them. The diplomatic gallery probagreed ably contained a representative of of liar every nation with an envoy in the platfoi foreign corps there. Senate President Wilson slipped away detail from the White House quietly after gersil Tuesday's cabinet meeting, accomshould panied only by his secretary .and one and 11 Becret service man, and, upon arrivstreng jnK at the Capitol, was escorted to majort rostrum in the House, where ,v,l . lv . vtvi, ui Speaker Clark sat at one side and that h Vice-President Marshall at the othdeiinit' er president, speaking with ^ hi his usual clarity of tone and notable progre diction, read his message while Mio < bershii company, actually packed into the at the chamber, gave the closest attention. 11,0 Secretaries Lane, McAdoo, Daniels soiled u an(| Garrison took seats in the exeouwithoi .jjve gaiiarigg Qf the House for tliemderuo< pelves and their families to hear Die , President read his message. Secrecaucue *ary Bryan said he had another engo thr gaigement for the same hour and 11!? could not go. Mrs. Wilson and her standi) three daughters also took seats lative jn tjle executive gallery. The House He mi gallieries were packed with the wivws dent s families and friends of Senators and where Represenatives two hours before the sign th President was scheduled to appear. Admiral Dewey was escorted to a , for mi goat on tjie floor 0f Hie House, taking within advantage for the tirst time of the torians privilege extended him by Congress *Alt ( when he returned triumphant from Preside Manila Bay in 1 898. He called on ( ity, st Speaker Clark and was cheered as he dor to entered the chamber. Members of the diplomatic corps Senate QUed the private gallery allotted to ' that tl them. Three-fourth of the privilegspokes efj thousands in the galleries were "II ( women. sent at i Senator Clark had among his 1 here fi gUe8ts jn the Speaker's gallery Mrs. *n a .. Wm. P. IMcCombs, Mrs. Victor Mur- 1 ni'n0? dock, wife of the new Progressive ! this n - -- 1 leaner in tue House; Mrs. A. M. Pal8CU8? mer and Mrs. Pitser, sister of Mrs. 1 is uo ciark, and her daughter, s an( ' g0 unuguaj was tjie event that Su- 1 mm perintendent Woods of the Capitol in- | 10 stalled a moving picture camera to ei em t taj{e moving pictures of the extraor- ] NW)U dinary scene. The films will .be preBc 1< , u served as a historic record of the ( Ill; day's proceedings. 1 of the Two motives influenced Mr. Wiling to\ Bon deci(i0 i0 read in person his 1 "P.u first communication to Congress? ( advice, the perfunctory way in which Presi- 1 by the dential message usually were receiv"I l ed, accompanied as they have been the pr< by the drone of a clerk's voice and 1 The empty seats, and Mr. Wilson's de- 1 by the sire that every member should hear ties ah his appeal for a thorough revision of to the the tariff, the sole purpose for which ; Furtlu Congress was called into extraordito deb nary session. 1 mustei Official Washington prepared for 1 and fr the unusual event with a feeling nesday more of curiosity than criticism. resumi Sentiment as to the political wisdom 1 ioent ^ of the move had scarcely crystalized detern a3 the procedure of the early days iff be t was only a historical record so far tires. as the modern legislator was conPrei cerned. Senators and Representa- i the ca] tives acknowledged the constitutional 1 ator S right of the President to read his arms c own message in the halls of Con- < Sen: gress, and by concurrent resolution i the pr arranged to gather in the House at the chamber at one o'clock. ] would The President's message itself was I with about 1,200 words long when ho first j which prepared it, but in view of the changWliite ed circumstances he added a preface, i surrou However, the entire speech was of s and dc less than fifteen minutes' reading, j Senate The President had several engage- j pie wi ments and a cabinet meeting to oc- 1 of the cupy him before his departure for i portal the Capitol. He planned to be away i tablisl from the White House for only half ] legisla an hour. I Rep President Wilson began his mesiana i sage as follows: "I am very glad, I presei indeed, to have this opportunity to 1 adequ address the two houses directly and resent to verify for myself the impression ' that t that the President of the United < be st States is a person, not a mere de- , 4 U A / tvAvtmant A f tli A cyAtfA??A?v\ R ? ' 1 Mir? pcil VIllVllV u JL f)V/ f CI i 1 I 111 11 11 Jlclll" j turea ing Congress from some isolated istoxtlleland of jealous power, sending mes- i to 10 sages, not speaking naturally and < North with his own voice, that he Is a hu- < oil, at man being trying to co-operate with i cine, other human beings In a common ser- j nols v vice. After this pleasant experience, , resen'i shall feel quite normal in all our f Ml fr< dealings with one another." i L / v " rALKS ABOUT THE BIRDS! V TFLRS WHY THKY AHK VANISHING PltOM FARMS. They Have No Suitable Place to Hide and Nifit Now Like in the Olden Tlmea. Capt. Charles, Petty, tho accomplished editor of the Spartanburg Journal, advances a new idea for the vanishing of the birds from the farms. Capt. Petty in an old gentleman who has been a very close observer of events, and what he says is entitled to weight. Here is an article on tho vanishing of birds from ills pen that will bo read with interest: Our lawmakers and Audubon socleties seem to think that the birds have only one enemy which is thinning them out and that is the hunter. There is another cause for their disappearance which tiie wise friends of birds have not explained. They gradually disappear in neighborhoods where there is neither hunting nor trapping. Somo of the older people of the Piedmont may remember a time back in the forties when wild pigeons came to this section by the thousand and ten thousand. It was a common thing to hear the honk of the wild goose as he was flying southward. It was usual for them to stop on some stream and remain a day or two to pick up food. Some of the smaller migratory birds visited us and remained through the winter until the warm days of spring warned them that it was time to muster their forces and book summer homes farther north. Small birds of every hue and note could bo soen In forest and field. The ploughman in the spring of the year was never out of sight of blue bird, woodpecker, dove or some other feather friend ready to destroy any worm or grub his plough turned up. But all that is changed. No morning concert now cheers him as he turns the furrow. He may not see or hear a bird for days. They have simply disappeared. Two years ago the writer was watching the birds on a farm near (laffney. He allowed no one to shoot dt trap them. There were no bird hunters on adjoining farms. There were two hundred acres or more of woods, tine old fields, swamps and thickets. Small grain was raised on the farm. In February there were about ten covins of partridges 011 the farm that could bo located. There may have been more. It was expected that there would be hundred* of young ones in the fall of the year. But there were fewer than in the spring. They had just wandered away. Hast spring there was only a covey n>r two 011 the farm and not a single one to be seen in the fall. The doves, woodpeckers, and sapsuckers have all ?one. It is seldom that a blue bird Is seen. Even the house martens and bee martens are never seen, and they fire great friends of the farmer. After harvest small grain left on the ground will remain until winter because there are no birds to eat it. Poxes and rabbits have also gone with the birds in many sections. The crow, which was once very abundant, has been greatly thinned. Only i few are seen now. It is easy to understand why birds fire very scarce when all the land is cleared and there are no breeding and hiding places. Those which nest In holes in dead trees will leave a farm where there are few trees of any sort. The patridge and many smaller birds will not stay where there are no secret nooks and corners for making their nests. Legislation and birds protection societies will not prevent the gradual disappearance of our feathered friends. These facts are given for the information of the people who think that hunters and trappers are the only agents in the destruction of birds. Had It Happened Here. When the news spread that a Herman military airship, with four army oflicers, had suddenly descended 011 the parade ground at Luneville, in Prance, the populace was seized with consternation. The foreign invaders might explain that thoy had lost their way in the fog and that their motor bad gone wrong, but any French patriot could see through the Teutons' game. The French General in command fit Luneville knew his business. He seized the airship, dismantled its engine and kept the Germans under guard, after having searched them for photographs and plans of French fortifications. The Minister of War nt Paris hurried the chief of the Pre nob armv (n I .nnovilln to mnVo nr? Inquiry. Eventually the Kaiser's of- I fleers were allowed to go and take their airship with them, after paying $2,000 in customs duties. In commenting on the incident, riie New York World says if a Canalian airship had drifted over the line ind landed at Sandusky, O., or Sanford, N. Y., a thrifty local morchant would probably have sold tho aviators some gasoline at thirty-five cents i gallon and they would have startid home to the cheers of tho assembled populace. All of which goes to prove what fearful dangers the Unitid States faces through the national 'oily of not being prepared for war at l moment's notice. 1 DINGLE MILL BATT LE MEMORIAL TAHIjKT UNVEILED AT ITS SCENE. ? Ono of tho IiMst Eights Iietween Confederate and United States Troops in Tliis State. A dispatch from Sumter to The State says Tuesday was tlie fortyeight anniversary of the battle of Dingle's Mill, and Wednesday was reiuruuB nay in ssumier. tho events woie played in two scenes, the first being on the court house grounds and set ne two at Dingle's i\iill bridge. First was the annual dinner that Dick Anderson chapter, Daughters of the Confederacy, gives to the veterans of the county. Then oanio the unveiling of the memorial tablet on the bridge recently built by the county over Turkey cret k. where it crosses the Manning road tiiiee and a half miles from Sumter Under the big oaks back of tineon it house, on ilie green sward several tables were laid, linen table clothes, napkins and all, and 011 these the ladies placed viands that would tempt the appetite of a society boll who was reducing, much less that of a veteran who was fighting the battles over. All the regular Southern dishes were there. Then there were coffee and soft drinks and lastly cigars over which the veterans passed reminiscences till they were later driven into automobiles to the bridge. About seventy-five veterans enjoyed the dinner and bask<its of dinner worn scut into the country to several who were prevented from attending. Several hundred people gathered at the bridge for the ceremonies which began at <1:30 o'clock and which were interesting and brief, nearly every one being back in the city by 5:110 o'clock. They found the tablet on the bridge concealed by drapery of Confederate colors, and the p* ;pet on which the tablet is 1 plac< i: v is decorated with Confed- I eratc gs. After a selection by the Su: v band a prayer was offered by th' 5 to v. J. 11. Wilson, himself a veta. After the prayer, while the ] p..ad rendered another selection, the tablet was unveiled by Misses Aline i Harby, niece of A. J. Moses; Cornelia 1 Brower, granddaughter of Col. J. 1). Graham; Marie Covington, granddaughter of Col. Geo. W. Lee, who commanded the Second regiment, 1 South Carolina reserves; Eva Michaux, granddaughter of M. J. Mi- < -.1 ^11 -e it i ' ' cuiiii.\, uii 01 me auove genuemen < liaving taken part in the Dingle's i mill fight. When the drapery was drawn back the granite tablet was re- i vealed, having this inscription in 1 raised letters: i "This tablet marks the sight of the Battle of Dingle's (Mill, fought 1 April 0, 1865, between Potter's bri- 1 gade and the Reserve S. C. Militia, C. 9. A. Erected by Dick Anderson < chapter, U. D. C. Commandant Perry Moses of i Camp Dick Anderson, C. S. A., then ( introduced Prof. S. II. Edmunds, su- 1 perintendent of the Sumter schools, i for the address of the day. Mr. Ed- I munds introduced his speech by read- 1 ing order No. 2, issued by Col. Lee. i commanding the South Carolina reserves and instructed the men to 1 take three days' cooked rations and 1 to come mounted, if possible. Mr. i Edmunds road two extracts from the 1 report of Col. Lee ?i few days after < the battle. He then said that It i was a high sense of duty that called < upon these home defenders to gather < in the face of overwhelming odds and try to prevent the enemy from i entering their home. He read, by re- I quest, a poem that had been written and published by Lieut. McQueen, who was killed in the fight, the poem ' having been inspired by the killing of Lieut. Pringle in battle In Virginia, a short while before. 1 CAUSE DEATH OF THliEE. < Heligious Di (Terences Cause of a 1 Triple Tragedy. ? Angered because his only daugh- ] ter, Katherine, is to marry a man of different religion, George Brown, Secretary of the Western Louisiana Planters Association at Bachelor, La., 1 I shot and killed her in bed recently. He ordered tho servants from the house and blew out his own brains. Her fianceo was Frank Ford. A dispatch from Motil, Miss., says when Frank Ford, a wealthy young j planter, received a telegram announc- ] ing tho murder of his fiancee, Katherine Brown, ho went to his room and fired a fatal bullet through his brain. He left a note "Can't live without her. Goodbye." He recently inherited two hundred thousand dollars. Puts Bullet in Heart. Walter H. Goodwin, United States ( commissioner for the southern dis- ( trir?t nf flnnrirln Ofld until n four ilnva "* ........ .. .V,.. | ago deputy clerk of the United State? ( court at Savannah, committed sui- { cide early Wednesday night in bin of- { lice by shooting himself through the j hoart with an automatic pistol. Colonel Anil is Honored. ] Colonel E. H. Aul), of Newberry, i was chosen Great Sachem, an.'i A. E. i Hill, of Spartanburg, senior Sag- < more by the Red Men at the Ander- ] son convention, which closed Tues- < day. WHAT FARMERS LOSE WHO GETS PROFITS THAT OUGHT TO GO TO THEM STRESSED AT MEETING Of Kxperts ul Chicago, Who Met to Consider the Need of Better Marketing of the Products of the I.'.i %i-*i * ' ......I, nun wilier .iiuiuTS 01 uonorul Interest. Cnicago housewives Wednesday paid two cents a pound, or eight to twelve cents a head, for fresh cabbage. One South Water street commission merchant paid $1.50 to $2 a crau ; down in the Rio Grande couni. y coast or Texas cabbages were rotting on the farms. The search for an answer to that problem prompted farmers, truck growers and agricultural experts from thirty states and Canada to start three days' inquiry tit Chicago on Monday. Cabbage is only one of the products that is causing shaking of heads. As Edward U. Kone, commissioner of agriculturo of Texas said, somebody else is getting the money for nearly everything that farmers grow. The meeting was called to find out who gets the farmers' profits. OMiclally the assembly is known as the National Conference on .Marketing and Farm Credits. It is the first of its kind. It is independent of organizations and came into being because heads of farm granges, farm experts and growers who had invested millions in land in the aggregate, saw their products going to waste while the cost of living went up and the consumers paid the bill. "The railroads are not getting the money," said Kone, "at least we think not. The farmer isn't. The pnnminior ten'f oo?fi,n, i l..-. WW IMII v I I1U 1(11 111 goods cheaply. He's hollering about the high cost of living. Where does the money go? If to the middle man, we're after him." Peter Radford, president of the Texas Farmers' union, said that farmers have long been restive under present marketing conditions. "We are going after the trouble in an organized way," said Radford. "We want to know why we get only thirty cents on a bushel for potatoes which sell for seventy-five cents to ane dollar a bushel here. That seems too big a profit." Other states besides Texas are in revolt. Warren Dunham Foster, member of the Massachusetts homestead commission, told why New England is supporting the conference. "Potatoes we raise 011 truck farms in Cunningham, Mass., are rotting in the fields," said Mr. Foster. "In Worthington, a town practically contiguous to Cunningham, they sell for ?l.f?0 a bushel. There seems to be fi need for co-oporation between East ind West." Harry A. Wheeler, president of the chamber of commerce of the United States, welcomed the conference 011 behalf of Chicago. Col. Frank P. Holland, permanent chairman, opened the session. P. P. Yoakum, chairman of the board of directors of the 'Frisco lines, though not able to attend, sent i paper which was read; President Harry Pratt Judson, of the University af Chicago; C. W. Thompson, of Minneapolis, director of the bureau of economic research of the University 3f Minnesota, and Congressman Hatton W. Summers, of Texas, were among the more prominent men on the pro cram. On "Relations of the Government, Agriculture, and the Railroads and Their Bearing on Better (Marketing," Mr. Yoakum said in part: "Agriculture and transportation have laiu tho foundation which has made this the greatest and most powerful nation of the world. "There are now not more than 1 ,f)00 miles of new railroad under construction. If would require the construction of 105,000 miles of additional railroad to furnish the same transportation facilities west of the Mississippi river that there are east of it, on the basis of area. That Croat area of rich country can not a;row as it should on 1,000 miles per annum of newly built railroads. "Our public men as a rule have not realized what confronts us in the way of agriculture development. The production of farm foods supply and Its movement to the market and its relations to consumer require the same intelligent consideration as do raw material to tho manufacturer and its relations to the consumer, in readjusting our present tariff schedules." Mr. Yoakum declared that if Concress should wipe out the entire tariff on every article that is brought into this country, on last year's colloc Lions it would amount only to $220,000,000, while the waste of products an farms of the nations, means an annual loss of over live times that amount. He Rave figures showing that $25,000,000 worth of fruit and vegetable rot in the fields every year; $250,000,000 loss from cornstalks, rice, flax and other grain, straw burned in the field and $1,500,000,000 additional which the farmers jould receive if ,by co-operation, they knew and where to sell their proiucts to the best advantage. President Judson presided over the ; V CHARGED WITH MURDER WOMAN CONFESSES TO KILLING HEIt 11 LIN 1) SON. Claims That She Committed the Aw fill Deed at the Command of Her Husband. John and Mary handy, negroes, of Seivern, Aiken county, have just been pluced in jail at Aiken, charged with murdering their eight-year-old blind son, who was the stepson of the man. The woman has confessed to the correspondent of The News and Courier and Sheriff 11. II. Howard, her part in the affair, which, according to ' her story, as seriously involves her husband as it does herself. Hut the man persistently denies any knowledge of the affair. The woman stated that she married Landy about a month ago; that he conceived a mortal antipathy for the afflicted child, and several times demanded that she do it to death, else he would kill her; that he did shoot at her. The man admits suggesting that she kill her child, but that he did so only as a jest and to cast aspersions upon the hoy. He admits shooting at her, "hut only in fun," he claims. The woman continued that he prepared match heads last Thursday, steeped them in water and ordered her to give the child the dose, warning her that her life would he the forfeit if she failed to obey him. Continuing her confession, she says she did give the child the fatal dose that afternoon, while her husband was away, and that it died about eight o'clock that night. Her husband returned about nine o'clock, she says, and sho informed him of her deed and the results. The body was enclosed in a cracker box I and buried in the back yard, one of meir iimo uaugniers assisting, slio also declared. Having no idea of the enormity of the thing, it is said, their little daughter Saturday told a neighbor of the proceeding. Suspicions were aroused and an investigation followed, resulting in the exhumation of the body. The arrests followed and the man and woman were brought en to Aiken and incarcerated. Hll) GOIiD IN JAK. ?. Directions for Finding Treasure Told by Man Who Died. A milk jar full of gold, amounting to $1,1105, was dug up in a barn on * the live-acre fruit farm of Thomas McCue, near Independence, Kan. " The spading in the gold hunt was j done by Judge George L. Walls, while Mrs. Emma C. McCue, the man's widow, stood by. Directions , for finding the jar were found in a safety deposit box rented McCue at an Independence bank. The little fortune, so diligently s Hiutrguunieu, represented mainiy savings since the McCues moved to the fruit farm eight years ago. Dank failures twenty years ago made McOue distrustful. A young man then, * lie lost $2,SU0 in two failures. He f began to save anew and eight years 1 ago had money enough to buy the ( fruit farm. x ( round table discussion while the sub- t ject, "why is the farmer not effectively organized?" was discussed by 1 Arthur Capper, editor of a farm pa- ( per of Topeka, Kan., and J. H. Page, of Arkansas, discussed the subject i from various standpoints. s "What may be expected from the v Federal government?" was discussed by W. P. Spillman, special represen- f tative of Secretary of Agriculture f Houston. Mr. Spillman said it is be- ? coming more and more evident that c increased production will not of it- t self meet the needs either of the a farmer or the city consumer. The c present movement for cheapening i distribution is timely, I believe it will have vastly more effect on the cost of t living than any other movement re- s lating to agriculture." l ? ? 1 Wants Light House Depot. li Senator Tillman has reintroduced a bill appropriating $125,000 for the purchase of a site and the construction of a wharf and buildings / and purchase of necessary equip- I ment for a depot for the sixth light a house district at Charleston. .S I BANK OF (Joriwaj HAS LARGEST CAPITA!., AND SURPI COUNTY. MORE THAN THE COMBIN ALL OTHER BANKS IN THE COUN1 CAPITAL STOCK SURPLUS/ LIA'lllLITIES OF STOOKI SECURITY OF DEPOSITO DIREC n ADT^nnn T* n/i A t^I? va ivv^nirjrvi i>. DUAKJIVUKUUlilli >MV L. ZUCK, GEORGE J. HOLIDAY. WE OFFER OUR CUSTOMERS ACCO* COUNTS WILL JUSTIFY, AND WE S ' Robert 11 Scarborough, D.V. President. WiE CONTINUE TO PAY 5 PER CEN1 ? THE HORtY HERALD CONWAY, S. C. THUISDAY* tPRlL 17, 1913. PKOFKH8HNAL CAKDt ?. H. H. W)OUWARD 1 Ittoraaj ?nd C>unc?lor 4t Law. I OONWKY; 8. C. lb. ft*. fe?OxKi*KOti*tt CONVEX, b. C At torse, at Law. II. H. H/IIKOUOHB Physician and Burgoo*. CON VAX, 8. C. //'. ?. VIcCORD, Dental Surgeon CONWAY, S. C. i It ION 10 I AVION EL Land Sirveying find l)i linage Spivey Building Conway, 8. C. ?E WORLDS GREATEST SEWING MACHINE * J.IGHT RUNNING ^0 MtWunuLi VyoQwnntoltheraVtbmtlngShuttle,llotM BbutUoor atSlngloThread [CAo<nS(tioA| / Bowing Machine write to ' m KW HOME 8EWINQ MACHINE COMfJU*. Orange, Mass* iMif i wTiii nun Mm i >11 mi>iTi In in Tin ushIUssm *n*tUy? but the Mew llome is mads to tress. Our guaranty sever runs out. * (Ni tfcf authorised dealers ; soa sjuji m BRYAN TAIlvS TO MEN. Secretary Lays Aside Affairs of State to Speak of Religion. Secretary Bryan, laying aside afairs of the state department Sundayr telivered before a religious mass neeting the first of a series of Sunlay afternoon addresses which he vill make under the auspices of the christian Endeavor union of the Disrict of Columbia. He spoke in one of the downtown heatres, every seat being taken. It >riginally was planned to have the neetings for men alone, but it was lecided that the remainder of the cries should bo open to men and '. omen alike. Mr. Bryan said lie always was ;lad to address religious meetings or men in an effort to conteract growing tendencies towards skept.iism. Resenting the implication ofen heard that a man who lives a piritual life is narrower than he who onflnes himself to purely material hings, Mr. Bryan said: "If a man felt his spiritual starvaion as keenly as ho does physical tarvation, or if Iiis spiritual lean less snowed as plainly as physical eanncss it would be easier to give* lira spiritual food." ? ? ? T Russell Lost Himself. J. Knox Russell, said to be from Vnderson, is held at Ch>attanooga. Te wandered into the police station nd could give no account of himelf. HORKY, \ S, C. .US OF ANY IBANK IN HORRY ED CAPITAL AND SURPLUS OF 7Y. 950,000 12,500 IOLDKK8. . .. 50,000 HS 112,500 roRS W. A. JOHNSON, WILL A. FREEMAN, D. V. RICHARDSON. IMODATION WHICH THEIR ACOLICIT YOUR BUSINESS. Richardson, Will A. Freeman, Vice-Prenldent Cashier. \ ON YEARLY DEPOSITS. ( l\ !