The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, December 25, 1913, Image 3
MANY HAVE 10 PAY
INCOME TAX AEFICTS AT LEAST
425,000 PERSONS.
?
NETS EIGHTY MILLIONS
Government Exports Are Getting
Ready to Apply Latest Federal
Amendment to the Constitution?
Estimates and Exemptions of the
New IjA\V.
According to estimates completed
by the treasury experts, 4 25,000
American citizens must keep such accurate
account of their incomes this
year tliat they will be able to report
to the income tax collector next
spring exactly how much they owe
the government under the now Income
Tax law.
So far as the taxable American is
concerned, me income Tax law is now
practically in forco against him.
While the tariff bill in which the law
is embodied will not be signed until
next week, the first returns do not
have to he made before March 1,
1914. Hut when the returns are
made they will cover the income of
citizens from March 1, 1913, to December
31, and the first payment of
tax will he for money received during
this period.
Every single person (citizen or foreign
resident) whoso annual Incomo
exceeds $3,000, and every married
person with an income above $ 1,000,
is expected to report his or her receipts
in detail to the government
agents on March 1 of each year. The
estimate completed indicates that the
income tax will produce $S2,29S,000
i mm i no <rj:>,ouo persons taxed. To
this will he added the $35,000,000 or
more produced by the present corporation
tax, which is continued as
part of the law.
President Wilson, tho federal
judges of the supreme and inferior
courts now holding office, and employees
"of a State or any political
sub-division thereof," are tho only
persons specifically exempted from
the tax by the new law. Tho President
and the judges now in office
were made exempt to escape any
questions of the constitutionality of
the law; and their successors in office
will be compelled to pay tho tax.
The general public is expected to
give close study to tho new law in the
next few months, as the first burden
of the tax payment rests with the in'd'vidual
citizen, and his failure to report
his income is punishable by a
fine.
It is admitted that when first returns
are made many taxable persons
probably will escape payment; but
with each year the government's lists
of persons with taxable incomes will
be made more nearly complete.
The income tax estimates are as
follows;
Incomes (in Number
thousands) who pay Net returns
3 to 5 . . . .120,000 $ 030,000
5 to 1 0 . . . .178,000 5,340,000
1 0 to 15 . . . 33,000 4,240,000
1 5 to 20 . . . 24,500 3,1 85,000
20 to 25 . . . 1 0,500 2,100,000
r * r A o 1 AAA r\ n r* r\ f\ r\ r\
tn iiu c i ,i;uu a,uuu,uuu
50 to 75 . . . 0,1 00 0,882,000
75 to 1 00 . . . 2,400 4,770,000
100 to 250 . . 2,500 13,775,000
250 to 500 . . 550 8,805,500
500 to 1,000 . 350 13,653,500
Above 1,000 . 1 00 9,301,000
Two primary methods of collecting
the tax are contained in the law. One
is the individual return made by the
citizen; the other the returns by corporations
and other employers who
pay their employees' taxes "at the
source". Under the law as signed by
President Wilson every largo company
employing labor will bo compelled
to report any regular salaries
it pays in excess of 03,000 figures
and will pay tho taxes for its employees
and deduct the tax from their
pay envelopes.
This "payment at the source" will
apply to salaries, rents, interests, royalties,
partnerships profits and some
other sources of income, and persons
receiving such incomes must be prepared
to show that the money has
paid its tax at its source.
In figuring up his net income for
the tax collector, the American busi
ness man, alter deducting $.5,000 for
himself, or $1,000, if married, will
have the right to claim the following
additional exemptions:
Necessary expenses of carrying on
business not including personal, living
or family expenses.
Interest paid out on indebtedness.
National, State, county, school or
municipal taxes paid within the year.
Trade losses, or storm or fire losses
not covered by insurance.
A reasonable allowance for the depreciation
of property.
Worthless debts charged off during
the year.
Dividends from companies whose
incomes have already been taxed.
Interest from State, municipal or
government bonds.
Tt is a clear provision of tho law,
however, that tho taxable person
must make a retur nto the internal
revenue collector for his entire "net
income", and exemptions claimed under
tho law must bo submitted to the
Federal officers for them to determine
upon their reasonableness or legality.
The amount of the income tax, aa
WILL EFFECT REFORMS
(J. O. 1\ INTERPRETS HANDWKITIXCi
ON WALL.
Basis of Representation is Change*]
in Response to Demand Created
Since 11)12 Convention.
After five hours of debate the Republican
national committee Tuesday
night determined that it was clothed
with ample power to readjust the
composition of the party's national
conventions and had authority to
make reforms in convention rules
and procedure that have been demanded
by many elements since the
convention of 1012 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 30 years and which have been
vital factors in many exciting conventions
in its later days.
Without a dissenting vote the committee
decided to make a change in
the basis of representation in national
conventions, which will greatly affect
Southern states; gave full recognition
to the principle of the primary
in the election of delegates to such
conventions, approved laws regarding
such elections and by several states
which provide that all delegates he
selected at large, and accepted the'
principle that delegates properly accredited
by state authorities shall he
placed on the temporary convention
roll.
Tho nnlv rtifforonro nf nnlntnn thnt
developed was over the question of
the machinery used to effect the reforms.
Of the 4 9 committeemen who
voted on the one roll call taken, 14
favored the calling of a special convention
to bring about these changes,
and P.r> declared themselves opposed.
After this ballot, progress was marked
by a friendly spirit, with an expressed
desire to harmonize and to
face the "common political enemy"
with a reunited and soliditled party.
Tho resolution adopted expressed
the party's faith in primary election
of delegates and in tho right of a
state to choose them at large, but details
of the method of reducing
southern representation were left to
a special subcommittee.
It was predicted that it would
fnvnr n enmnromisn bniwpon thn nlnn
advocated by the Republican congressional
committee and by Chairman
1 lilies and other leaders. This plan
would provide for four delegates at
large from each state, one from each
congressional district and additional
delegates from each congressional
district where the Republican vote
bears a certain ratio to the entire
vote.
With the adoption of the report of
this subcommittee, the national committee
will adjourn probably until
1916. In bringing in a plan for reduced
representation the subcommittee
will suggest bow the plan shall be
ratified by the Republican voters in
all states.
The much talked of referendum,
requiring that the plan must be approved
by Republicans in states
which cast two-thirds of the total
party vote in 190S, was still in favor
at Tuesday night's meeting. Debate
during the day practically was limited
to a discussion of the number of
a special national congention.
PIIKSIDMNT WITHDRAWS.
Wilson !>no\vs ncsentment at Caraboa
Society Jests.
President Wilson Monday night
formally withdrew his recent acceptance
of honorary membership in the
Military Order of the Cartboa, composed
of regular and volunteer officers
of the army and navy who served
in the Philippine islands during
the four years succeeding the Spanish-American
war. Earlier in the
day the president had ordered an investigation
of various satires and
travesties on the administration's
policy toward the Philippines as portrayed
at a banquet of the order last
Thursday night.
It was made plain at the White
House that while general burlesque
of the administration's peace policj
and thrusts at Secretary Bryan am
others were deeply resented because
they came from army and navy ofli
cers, the chief objection was to the
spirit of hostility shown to Philip
pine independence as the problem h
boiee worked out hv the nreaent nrl
ministration.
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Until Duellists Killed.
D. A. Rogers, town marshal, of Ar
cadia, La., and Thomas Cathey, sho
and killed each other in a revolve
duel in a drug store there late Satur
day night.
finally agreed upon, follows: Fron
$3,000 to $20,000, 1 per cent.; fron
$20,000 to $50,000, 2 per cent.; $50,
000 to $75,000, 3 per cent.; $75,00'
to $1 00,000, 4 per cent.; $100,000 t<
$250,000, 5 po.* cent.; $250,000 t
$500,000, 6 per cent.; above $500,
000, 7 per cent.
A single man with an income o
$25,000, for example, would pay
per cent, on $17,000, and 2 per cenl
on $5,000, a total tax of $200. 1
married, the first tax of 1 per cent
would apply to only $16,000 of th
i income. |, .* ?|
HAS ENOUGH VOTES
STRENGTH SHOWN BY CURRENCY
BIlLON tIRST TEST
CENTRAL BANK KILLED
Administration Measure Meets Severe
Test in Senate, Hut Democrats
Table Hitchcock's Amendment to
l'ut One Institution in Control ot
Monetary System.
Victory for the administration
forces in the iirst test of strength on
t lie currency reform bill marked
Monday's session of the Senate. The
vote, 4 0 to 3 5, tabled a substitute
offered by Senator Hitchcock for Section
2 of the administration bill, proposing
a system of four regional
banks, with a possible increase to
eight, the regional banks' stock to be
owned by the public.
The defeat of the amendment?practically
assured the adoption of the
Owen plan, which provides for from
8 to 12 regional hanks, with the
stock owned by the national hanks
that become members of the respective
regional hanks. The Democratic
leaders claimed that the result of the
test vote, Involving one of the most
important features of the fight, indicated
the complete success of the administration
measure.
Efforts to get an agreement for a
time to begin final voto on the bill
wore not successful, but leaders on
both sides of the chamber looked forward
to an early termination of the
debate and for final action before the
I end of the week. When the Hitchcock
substitute had been tabled, Senator
Reed made a speech vigorously
defending the Owen bill and replying
to Senator Root, who on Saturday attacked
the measure and called Secretary
Rryan "the dominating influenco"
behind the proposed new
currency system.
Replying directly to Senator Root's
predictions that undue inflation and
a financial panic might ensue if the
oilrrenev liill worn naceorl in i?u r???no_
out form, Senator Hood declared no
inflation of the currency could occur
unless the "sound money men who
run the hanks" brought It about.
"This Is workable bill," he declared.
"It is not surcharged with destruction
to business. If added checks
ought to ho put in, I, for ono, am
willing to put them in. Hut the senator
from New York spent his time
telling of the dire things that would
happen to business and spent hut little
time explaining his own proposed
amendments.
"No one has the right to undertake
to alarm the business interests where
there is no just cause for it. I doubt
the high patriotism of the man who
will stand here and cry 'Wolf, wolf,'
where there is no wolf."
Senator Reed said a "typewritten
document" proposing Senator Root
for the presidency had been prepared
and given to the press beforo he made
his speech. "It is not difficult then
to understand why the secretary of
stato was brought in," ho added.
"When the volco of ambition is calling
to higher honors, it is not difficult
to understand that men will
sometimes let their interests over
come thoir spirit of fairness and candor.
"If we ever have lunation of the
currency bill, it will ho caused by the
hankers of the country and by no one
else. Tills proposed federal reserve
board can not put out $1 of additional
currency until there has been
a call made upon it by the regionf
1 whoso boards will bo controlled by
'the sound money men' who run the
" national banks."
Senator Hitchcock made a sharp
' attack on the proposed control of the
regional reserve banks by the bank!
ing interests of the country. He do'
clared tbis feature of tbe bill wouh'
' turn the country reserve to the use
1 of these bankers and would legalize
" the methods and the combination ol
" control, against which the country
has long protested.
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5 POST OF PICK KOIM1KKIES.
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, liberation of Yeggineii llelleved tf
Nave Caused the Increase.
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Many post ofllco robberies are be
7. I - A b i J XI * X 1
uii; i iuu 111 iiuis Mjruuii cil tin
- South, and tho opinion expressed ii
Columbia is that the safes as beinj
blown i>y the yeggmen liberated l>:
the governor. It is a strange eoinei
_ donee tliat Immediately following tin
t release of "Portland Ned" and Wil
r liam McKinley the blowing of pos
_ ofllee safes would begin. Then Join
Fisher eseaped from the penitentiary
_ Many post office inspectors are work
n ing around this section of tho coun
i try.
f) Two Children Perish.
o Two small negro children wer
0 burned to death in a fire which dr
stroved their house near Sumte
early Monday morning.
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1 llattlesliips Homo Again.
t. Tho United States battleships Wyf
f ming, Arkansas, Utah and Florid
t. returning from visits of courtesy t
ol various European ports reached Ne'
if York Monday.
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LARGE POTATO YIELD
FARMER MAKES :t:t7 BUSHELS ON
ACRE AND EICillTlI.
Cost Average About 12 4 Cents Per
Bushels and Average Selling Price
Was DO Cents.
"I believe that I can raiso sweet
potatoes to cost not over 10c a bushel,
and will surely beat any cotton
ever grown!" Thus spoke Mr. J. II.
Riley 20 years ago when he was living
in Orangeburg county, and as the
result of this conversation with Capt.
1). II. Salley, a well known citizen of
this section, he rented one-eighth of
an aero of deep sandy land, and
though ho had to hire all work to be
done when the crop was harvested in
the presence of Capt. Salley and all
expenses checked up it was found
that the cost was 1 1 Va c per bushel,
says The Union Progress.
All these years Mr. Riley has kept
those facts and figures in his mind,
and in 1012 having some land of |
similar character on a farm ho has
near Buffalo, S. O., ho experimented
with a quarter of an acre, and by
actual measurement found that his
yield was 126 bushels, with the cost
so near 10c that he decided to go into
the sweet potato raising on a larger
scalo in 10 13.
I That his faith and pood judgment
have been well founded is proved by
his crop niado this year, when on
1 1-S acres he made a yield of 337 V&
bushels actually dug up and marketed,
with probably 30 to <10 bushels
still in the ground which will be gotten
when he breaks his land for his
winter cover crop, the whole crop
averaging him 00c a bushel, or a
clear profit of $22 1.92, while the cost
covering every detail was only 24,/:jC
a bushel.
This phenomenally largo yield for
this section was made up of potatoes
unusually fine and symmetrical in
shape, one of the largest weighting
7 Mj pounds, while the average weight
would run from two to three pounds.
The potato is of the "Nancy Ilall"
variety, which, when cooked in deep
orange in color and delicious in flavor
and texture. As to the story of this
now money making crop for our
farms, and how Mr. Riley worked out
such splendid success, It is well worth
while to listen to his stor>.
"It was 20 years ago that T first
had my attention drawn especially to
raising potatoes. At that time I made)
the assertion that I believed they
could ho grown for 10c. a bushel. An
old farmer and well nnainfi innn cniil
it oo\il<1 not bo done. To show Hint I
believed thoro were grounds for my
assertion I offered to rent one-eighth
of nn acre of land from him which
lie agreed to, and I paid him fl! for
the land, put it In good condition and
sot out the sweet potato slips.
"When fall came, and the potatoes
wero dug lip, 1 bad my friend, Capt.
Salley, with whom I had the conversation,
to be present and measure the
potatoes, and then go over every detail
of cost. When we had completed
the job we had 30 */2 bushels costing
1 1 % cents per bushel, every item of
expense having been taken into consideration.
"Some years ago after T moved
near Union, S. C., I acquired a farm
and two years ago when I noticed
that I had some of the same kind of
land on it, which was in cotton, and
by the way, did not make a fourth of
a bale to the acre, I decided to try
, my hand again with potatoes.
, "bast, year I experimented with
, one-fourth of an acre and at the end
, of the season harvested 12f> bushels
, of as fine potatoes as one would like
to see and eat!
, j "That decided me to go into it a
. little heavier this year, so in the fall
, I sowed one bushel of rye on one and
one-eighth acres, putting under it
, 200 pounds of 10 per cent. acid.
, About the latter part of March 1
. turned this under with a two-horse
. turn plow, but did not have time to
[ get the land in as good shape as I
, wanted to, for the potato slips, which
? I had ordered beforehand came to mc
p on April 20th, before 1 was ready, so
r T had to hurriedly set two plows to
work, make up the low beds, in row?
about three feet apart, setting out thr
12,000 slips by hand, having eaeli
slip watered as it was nut in tin
ground.
"That this was perhaps a little
early in the season to sot, them out
was proven, but quite a number ol
" the plants being killed, seemingly bj
3 frost. The next step in the making
1 of my crop was having them plowe<
* with a sweep about the middle o
May, then on the J Oth of June, an<
finally the last of June. Later the]
R were hoed twice, and that was all the
work there was to it until I had som<
t of them dug the early part of August
1 T overlooked stating that the fertili
' zer T used was a special formula anal
" yzing 7-5-5, of which I applied ahou
" one ton to the acre and one-eighth, i
costing me $32.
"When I began to have the nota
toes dug in August they were rathe
0 small, hut living near a large cottoi
mill 1 found a ready market for then
r at $1.20 per bushel. Tn September
because more potatoes wore then hr
ing placed on the market the pric
went down to $1 a bushel, and ahou
)- the middle of October to SOc pe
a bushel. Taking into conslderatio
o the difference in prices, and avorap
w ing them up, T find that the total cro
of 337 V2 bushols, by actual measure
USED IN BATTLE
SPANISH AEROPLANES DEFEAT
MOORISH TRIbESMEN
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DROP BOBMS UPON THEM
Moors Floo Heforo Spaniards at
Mtiley Ahselain WLon Air Craft
Prepares Way?United States Signal
Corps Experts Are Interested
in Experiment.
A large force of Moorish tribesmen
was routed with heavy loss Thursday
by the Spanish troops at Muley Abselam,
Spanish Morocco. Spanish military
aviators threw the Moors into
disorder with showers of bombs. The
Spaniards attacked the Moors with a
brigade of sharpshooters, a battalion
of infantry, four batteries of artillery
and a largo body of native auxiliaries.
When the order for the general advance
of the Spanish column was
given the advance guard discovered
several thousand Moorish mountaineers
concealed in the irregularities of
tho ground. A flotilla of military
avintf?r? W.H ROIlt im t 11 rnnnti
Fly moans of flag signals tho aviators
guided tho column of Spanish troops.
A heavy artillery lire was opened by
the Spaniards without effect.
The aviators then ascended to an
altitude out of range of ritle lire and
(lew directly over tho place where
tho Moors were in tho greatest numbers.
Then caino what the dispatch
to tho Spanish war olllce describes as
a "veritable rain of bombs, tossed by
hand by tho airmen, into the midst of
the Moors". After this bombardment
tho Spanish infa.ntry charged with
the bayonet and dislodged the Moors
from their positions, causing them to
lleo in great disorder, leaving large
numbers of dead and wounded on the
field. The Spanish troops also lost a
considerable number of men, as the
title fire of the tribesmen was very
accurate.
A dispatch from Washington says
experts in the signal corps at tho war
department heard with keen interest
the report of the successful bomb
dropping by the Spanish aviators in
tho battle with tho Moors at Muley
Abselam, Spanish Morocco, Thursday.
"That is but another instance,"
said Col. Samuel lteber, in charge of
aviation in the army, "of tho value of
tho aeroplane in actual reconnaissance,
and its uro as a weapon of of
fence during nn attack. It confirms'
the experience of other nations in using
the aeroplane In actual warfare
and is a practical demonstration of
the uso of the aeroplane in a campaign."
Other officers recalled that the
usefulness of the aeroplane in bomb
dropping first was demonstrated In
the Italian-Turkish war, when Italian
aviators claimed on several occasions
to have dropped explosives on
Turkish warships. It is presumed
that the Spaniards flew lengthwise
ovf>r the enemy's lines, and by continuous
dropping of bombs while so
flying had innumerable chances of
hitting them. It was pointed out
that the chances of dropping an aeroplano
bomb on a battleship would be
slight compared with the opportunity
an airman would havo while flying
lineally over a column of troops on
land.
merit, was disposed of at an average
oi yuc per ousnei.
'As to tlio cost in detail, not allowing
anything for rent of land, my
books show it was as follows:
Preaklng land for rye .. . 1.25
1 bushel of rye, broadcast .. 1,25
200 pounds of 16 per cent, acid 1.32
Turning under rye in March. 1.25
i Plowing and bedding 2.5 0
i One ton of 7-5-5 32.00
1 2,000 potato slips 24.00
Expressago 1.25
! Setting out potato slips . . . . 2.50
i Cultivating three times .. .. i.r?o
i Hoeing twice 3.00
i Gathering and marketing. .. 10.00
i Total $81.82
"Figured out roughly, this show?
that my crop, not counting the 30 or
; i j?i ousneis mat r net love aro in the
tl ground yet and may bo gathered,
f| amounting to 337 1-3 bushels, have
n brought me in $303.75 cash, and at
C the total expense was $8 1.82, the not
1 cost averages about 21 1-3 cents pei
f bushel, leaving me a net profit or
1 the one and one-eighth acres ol
/ $221.02! This is not bad when It ii
3 considered it was about the poorest
3 land I have on my place from the cot
. ton planter's view, and would no1
- produce over one-fourth of a bale t(
- tho aere, which even with the pres
t ent. high price of 14c per pounc
t would not be worth over $17.2.'
gross, and if the expenses of makinj
. it was figured out in as close dotal
r as above on the potatoes it wouh
n probably amount, to ever $20, or i
,-j net loss of several dollars!"
Mr. Riley expects to go even mor
s- heavily into potato raising next yeat
o' and will be satisfied with nothing les
t than 1,000 bushels on three acres
r. and with the cost of production rang
n ing near 10 cents per bushel,
j- Resides being tho champion potat
p raiser in his section, if not In th
| entlro State, Mr. Riley Is also a pre
ERROR GAVE HIM CHANCE
CLKRK 8 KltltOIt FOUND WHICH
KFI'T MAN FHKE.
M(>?n\vhiIo Convlcte<I Mmi lias "Mad?
CJood" and the Question of Punishment
Worries Chicago.
The orror of a filing clork in the
ofTice of Judge Brontano In Chicago
seven years ago, kept Josinia Tedford.
a former policeman, from the
penitentiary and gave him a chance
to begin lifo anew. To-day he is superintendent
and manager of one of
the largest men's furnishing stores in
Chicago. But now the error which
kept him from prison has been discovered
and the prison doors are
yawning for the man who had apparently
lived down his crime. The case
is ono of the most unusual on record,
involving the old problem of "social
vs. legal justice."
The error which kept. Tod ford from
prison was very simple. When the
mandate from the Supreme court was
returned to Chicago, a new clerk slipped
the papers into a pigeonhole instead
of handing them to the trial
judge. In this pigeonhole of fate the
papers rested until a few days ago
when a vindictive lawyer accusod
Judge Bretano of partiality towards
Tedford. An investigation revealed
the paper and the case will now bo
handled according to legal precedent.
Joshua Tedford was a policeman.
hi 11)0<1 ho was convictod on a charge
of conspiracy to defeat justico by
sending away Mabel howls, a witness
for the Rtato in a case against William
Illckey, charged with burglary,
lie was sentenced by Judge Hretano
to serve from one to live years in the
penitentiary.
Counsel for Todford appealed the
verdict and the convicted man was
allowed to remain at liberty under
bonds while the case dragged its way
through the Appellate and Supremo
courts. In February, 1006, the Supreme
Court affirmed the verdict and,
but for the error in filing Tedford
would havo been sent to prison.
After his trial and admission to
hail Tedford went to the clothing
store and sought a position as floor
detective. lie told of his conviction
and appeal, and was hired. The managers
of the store felt that he had
been "railroaded by the police gang."
Ho applied himself to business and
advanced faster than his employers
could advance his wages until ho finally
became manager and superintendent
and was entrusted with all
the affairs of the business.
His employers declare no had check
ever gets by Tedford as he knows the
crooks and cannot he duped. Ills
friends declare he has accomplished
for himself a more complete reform
than comes from the usual long term
of imprisonment and they are circulating
a notition for his unrrtnn
NECKO DITFICITI TY.
Whiskey aiul Concealed Pistols Causa
Tragedy in Chesterfield.
Three Lancaster county negroes,
Hob Robinson, Ellison Throatt and
Ernest White, while returning Sunday
night from a cliurch in Chesterfield
county, became engaged in a
difllculty on the Chesterfield sido of
the river, near the Lancaster lino,
with the result that Ernest White
was shot to death by Ellison Threatt.
Sheriff Hunter of Lancaster, who
happened to bo in tho neighborhood,
captured Threatt and turned him
over to a magistrate's constable in,
Chesterfield county. Sheriff Hunter
states than the trouble was over whiskey
and pistols, tho dead negro having
two on l\is person and the other
two, one cacti.
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Sign Peace Treaties.
Secretary Bryan and Chevalier Von
Rappard, the minister from the Neterlands,
Thursday signed a peace
treaty for tHoir two nations. Netheris
tlic first European country to agree
to Secretary Bryan's peace plan.
Robbery in Chester.
The store of J. V/. Bankhead &
. Son, at Stover, Chester county, was
broken into and robbed Sunday even,
ing. It is generally understood that
. the thief got off with considerable
, booty.
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Saved by Safety Device.
? A serious wreck was prevented at
.Toilet, 111., Thursday by an automat
* it derailment switch, which sent a
i runaway freight train into the ditch
f barely in time to allow a passenger
* flyer to shoot by.
t
grosslvo farmer in many other ways,
1 planting long staple cotton exclu*
sively, which is something out of the
ordinary for farmers in this part of
; the South, and last year made ever a
* halo to the acre, which he sold at
' 1 1 VI'c per pound when other cotton
was bringing about 10M?c.
Born in Orangeburg county 55
^ years ago, and having been unite successful
in farming, and in the more
cantilo business, but never having a
', good opportunity to specialize on
s sweet potato culture, Mr. Riley now
3. Intends to fulfil the dream of many
years as to what he can do along that
line, and he expects within the noxt
o few years to establish records for
e even larger and moro profitable
>- yields.