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CORN CLUB PRIZES ^ I NINETY HOYS TO GET FREE COURSE AT CLEMSON. WILL STAY TBIRTY DAYS President Kiggs Announces Retails of 1*1hii by Which a Short Course in Agriculture is to he Given to Mem> lx>rs of Hoys' Corn Club in the Various Counties of the State. Ninety South Carolina boys will be given a course of thirty days in practical agriculture at Cletnson college next winter. The course will be givon thom fron r\P " - : - ?J-1? ?.?? tuuiu II vw VII Viiioigo U.U I. 1!1 11UUItion to this, President W. M. Kiggs lias arranged matters so that the hoys will not even have to pay for their board while at the college. These scholarships, which is what they amount to, are now offered as tho main prizes in the Boys' Corn Club work in each county. The two winning hoy corn growers in each county will get the Clemsou courses and two boys at largo from the State will bo added to the number, making ninety in all. The prizes will be awarded not alone for largest yield. Tho size of yield, amount of fertilizers used and cost of production will be the principal factors in determining the winners. W. W. Long, State agent and su perinstendent of extension of Clerason college, considers thnt too much importance has been placed 011 yield in the corn club work heretofore and in the future economical production as well as heavy yield will bo aimed at. Each boy must bring with him to Clemson college a statement from his school teacher designating the grade he is in at school. The boys will bo divided into groups according to their school grades, as far as will be found practicable. Mr. Long is arranging to havo six of the best men in the demonstration work come to Clemson college in advance and arrange a course in elementary agriculture for the boys. These six men will also be at the college during the stay of the boys and will sleep in the dormitories with them, in order to take the .best care of them and to relieve their parents' minds of all anxiety. Mr. Long plans to give the boys two weeks of instruction in field cropB, with actual work in the field; o ne week in the dairy barns, and one week in the horticultural grounds, in addition to class room work in field crops, animal husbandry, horticulture, insect pests and plant diseases. The aim will bo to make the course olftmnntorv nn/mi crH fn* Kaua v?v/uuva? vua ^ vuvugu 1W1 V1XU \J\J J O tU take it in properly and at the same time thorough enough to give them valuable knowledge. It is believed that this is the first time such an offer has been made in the corn club work anywhere. Since the announcement of the plan in some counties, there has been a great awakening of interest in the corn club work and applications for membership in clubs have been pouring into the college in largo numbers. Interest in the work was beginning to slacken among the boys but present appearances are that this will be the banner year in corn club work to date. The boys have accepted the ?dan with enthusiasm where they have heard of it and the chance of winning a free course at Clemson college, with no expense attached, appears to appeal to them strongly. The only expense the boys' parents will have to bear will be that of railroad fare. i MOB LYNCHES NEGRO. Unidentified Suspect is Taken From Mississippi Jail and Hanged. An unidentified negro, arrested Friday at Inverness, Miss., charged with the killing of Samuel Lusco, who was in charge of a car of fruit en route from New Orleans to Memphis, was taken from the town jail Saturday night by a mob and hanged from a railroad trostle. The negro, employed by L,usco as a helper, shot and killed his employer, it is alleged, while the train to which their cargo was attached was en route from Inverness to Isola, presumably for the purpose of robbery. Watchman and Bandit Killed. In a battle which followed the discovery of an outlaw in a box car near Coronaca, Cal., Saturday a railroad watchman and the bandit was killed. What Snow Cost New York. The street cleaning commission of Now York announced Monday that $2,400,000 had already been spent in removing snow from the streets. ? ? ? Negro Prisoner Shot. Dennis Abram, a negro prisoner in the Augusta police barracks, was killed Monday by an officer who no had beat, into semi-consciousness. Georgia Marshal Killed. Charles Graham, of Douglass, Ga., shot town marshal of Broxton, Ga., Monday while being taken to Jail. SHOULD RAISE CATTLE THE SOUTH RAISES THEM CHEAPER THAN ELSEWHERE. ? Eradication of Cattle Tick, Use of Retter Hulls, and Improvement of Pastures and Closer Study Needed. The geographical location and the clay, or to the black prairie soils. The geographical location and the climatic conditions of the South are such as to make it a good section for cattle raising. The .^ils are so varied that what may he said in a general way will not hold true for all places or sections of tins large area. They vary from light sand to heavy clay, or to the hlack prairies soils, or the stiff post-oak. As a rule the stift'er the soil and the greater the content of lime in the soils, the more nutritious the grasses are, and the greater is tlie variety of clovers which will grow. The Piedmont section of Virginia, West Virginia, Western North Carolina, Tennessee and northern Alabama is a lino grazing country, and thousands of good beef cattle are I found there. The shorthorn is more popular than any other breed in this region, and they do exceedingly well. The grazing plants are chietly blue grass, white clover, red clover, red top and orchard grass. The cattle fatten very rapidly during the grazing season and raise excellent calves. Most of this resion is free of ticks and the losses from death are relatively small. The black prairie section of Alabama, Mississippi and Texas and the Delta lands of Mississippi and Louisiana are extremely favorable sections for raising and finishing beef cattle. Experiments conducted by the bureau of animal industry and the Alabama experiment station show that cattle when kept freo of the cattle tick, can be raised at a cost of 3 or 4 cents a pound. This cost includes the keep of the cows for one year, charges for pasture and all feeds consumed at market prices, depreciation in the value of the herd, and 6 per cent, interest on the money invested. The principal native grasses which are indigeneous to these soils are Bermuda, Johnson grass, lespedeza and melilotus; but red clover, alsike clover, bur clover and white clover grow readily when planted in the pastures, and the grazing season can be extended greatly by their use. Alfalfa, soy beans, cow peas, corn, sorg hum and other forage crops do well on these lands and produce an abundance of roughage and hays for wintering and fattening the cattle. The red clay soils produce crops very similar to those mentioned for the prairie soils. Can Use Old Lands. There are great areas of "cutover" lands in the South that range in price from $2 to $10 per acre, which could be used for beef production. The soil of such lands is usually sandy or postoak, neither of which are as good for grazing as the prairie or delta lands, but which would furnish good grazing if a little care was taken in getting pasture plants started. On the soils carpet grass, Bermuda, lespedeza, white clover, red top, paspalum dilatatum and bur clover do exceedingly well. The carpet grass furnishes abundant grazing on the sandy lands while the Bermuda does better on the soils which are a little stiff. The paspalum, white clover, and red top do yell on the damp lands, and if some lime is present alsiko clover will furnish fine grazing. The foundation of all pastures on sandy or sandy loam lands should bo carpet grass, Ber muda and lespedeza. The variety of forage crops which may bo raised on this type of soils is large, and it is an easy matter to grow all the hays, silage crops and forage necessary for feeding the stock which may be kept on the farm. One of the greatest drawbacks to the cattle industry of the South has been the presence of the cattle tick which transmits Texas fever, which kills many of the cattle and stunts others in growth. The tick is rapidly being eradicated, and it is only a question of time until the South is freed of this pest. The native cattle of the South are cold-blooded scrubs carrying a variable percentage of Jersey blood. They are small in size and inferior in quality, but they have stamina and the cows produce good calves when bred to a beef bull. Some of these cows weighing not over 60 0 pounds, have given birth to half breed calves which havo developed into 6 00 to COO pound animals at 12 to 13 months of age. They usually weigh about 800 to 8r>0 pounds at two years of age when raised under average Southern farm conditions. The half-breed calves do not fatten out as well as calves of a higher grade but if permitted to grow until two or three years of age they finish out as very good animals. The half breed heifers when bred to beef bulls usually produco excellent calves. Cheap Too. No section of the country can raise cattlo as cheaply as the South, and the variety and prices of feeds are such that the animals can bo economically finished for tho market. The forage plants, especially sorg hum and corn, make a luxuriant growth in the Southern latitudes that large yields of silage can be produced per ucre. The silage is an excelcent feed for wintering the brooking herd or for finishing the animals for the market. The use of Bilage in a fattening ration almost invariably increases the size of the dally gains, cheapens the grains, lengthens the period during which cattle can bo fed cottonseed meal economically and without danger, and results in better finish, fatter cattle, and greater profits per head. The leguminous hays as alfalfa, cow peas, lospede/a, red clover and vetch and the corn stover and oat straw are good rough feeds to use in conjunction with silage. The Shorthorn, Aberdeen-Angus, Hereford, Red Polled and Devon breeds of cattle all do well in the South. The Shorthorn does well on all lands where the pastures are good and feed is plentiful. The cows usually prove to he very good milkers, giving milk enough for the calf and to supply the home as well. The result of the good milking qualities of the cows is usually a good growthv calf. The ITerefords and Aangus are pood grazers and will do well under range conditions, as well as on the small farm. The Hereford otands ahead of all breeds as a range animal, but the Angus has the advantage over all breeds in the feed lot, as they finish out very smoothly, are high in quality and kill out a high percentage of marketable meat. The Devon is slower of growth than the otiior broods, but aro great rustlers and fatten on pastures which are so thin that somo of the beef broods could hardly subsist. The lied Pollod is a dual purpose brood which ranks noxt to Hie milking strain of Shorthorns in the production milk and although they aro not as well known nor as popular as the Shorthorn, but have dono well wherever tried in the South. Any of the breeds cross well with the native cattle and can be used advantageously in breeding up the scrub herds. By the eradication of the cattle tick, the use of good, pure bred beef bulls, the improvement of the pasture lands, and a closer study of the cattle business, the South will develop into a great cattle raising section, and should contribute largely to the supply of meat in the next two decades. In no case should high priced, high bred stock be brought from tick-free territory until the farm upon which they are to bo kept has been rid of ticks. ? ? FOUR ARK BURNEl). No Effort Made to Save Negro Children Locked in House. A pitiable story of the death of four small negro children of Cheraw came to light. It seems that John Marshal and his wife, two hard working negroes, went to work Thursday morning and left their children locked up in the house. Later fire was discovered in the building when flames were seen issuing from the roof and a passerby turned in an alarm. When the firemen arrived, they found the house tightly locked and no Bign of life anywhere. Having no reason to suppose that these was any.body in the house, the firemen turned their attention to fighting the blaze, which proved stubborn and was not subdued until the house had been almost entirely destroyed. Finally, when the house was in ruins, the parents of the children appeared ana began to inquire of persons still in the neighborhood for their children. When told that no one had been taken from the house and they realized that their children had been burned to death, the grief of the negro couple was pitiful to behold. SHOT IX HIS HOME. ? Georgia Man Said to Have Been Mistaken for Burglar. Jesse Zorn, 2 8 years old, was shot and fatally wounded in his own home at Sycamore, Ga., on Tuesday night by persons who suspected that he was a burglar. A negTo informed G. W. and A. J. Clark, nearby residents, that a man was acting strangely at the Zorn home. The Clarks learned that Mrs. tirnn I ftV* tiw/vV. ft J /mm ?<ia ai/ cnuiui nun wuun limy Investigated Zorn had reached the Interior of his home. They commanded him to givo an explanation. Zorn made no reply. lie attempted to escape from a rear door and was shot threo times. His doctor stater that ho was frightened speechless. ? Accidentally Kills Self. While repairing a revolver Sunday at Colorado Springs, Col., P. S. MacJohnston, 50, a grandson of the famous Confederato general, Albert Sidney Johnston, accidentally killed himself. Prof. Hand llclca.sed. Prof. W. H. Hand, Stato High school inspector, has been released from his contract to servo as president of Anderson college and will continue in his present capacity. ? Drops Dead at Funeral. At a funeral of a Confederato veteran at Pulaski, Tenn., Wednesday, another veteran dropped dead. A third veteran was carried away with a patalytic stroke. DELAY OF THE LAW l,n\<; PIKKKSSRS WASTK TIM 10 \NI) IMIOIIIIUT .11'STICK. TWO STRIKING EXAMPLES | llow the lOastmaii Dodak Company FoiiKht Kev. (ioodwln for Fourteen Years, Letting llim Die in Poverty, Although Millions Were Due to Him. The hardships of the law's delay? the injustice sometimes made possible by the power of money has been brought to the attention of the public very forcibly by two instances during the last week. Justice finally trininnii ( <1 on 0110 case, but years after the man who would have profited had been laid in his grave; might appears to have prevailed over the right in the other, and the price of a human life has been fixed at $?.'?, notwithstanding the fact that this life, together with scores of others, was sacrificed in a disaster savoring strongly of criminal negligence, according to the coroner's jury. The first case is that of the Rev. Hannibal Goodwin, the inventor of the photograph film, and the Goodwin family has finally won the case after a battle of 25 years in the courts. Mr. Goodwin died in 1900, practically bankrupt as the result of his battle against tho "kodak trust", but his family carried on the battle, and the victory, won 1 I years after the death of the inventor, promises to yield them between five and twenty-five million dollars. The Rev. Mr. Goodwin was pastor of a church in Newark, N. J., for many years. He was fond of dabbling in photography and was also an amateur chemist of note. In 1 887 he discovered a process of making acceptable photographic films and applied for a patent. Tlw? TV*? o* ... _ .1 _ i i nt: iMiinimini i\o(ihk company con-j tested his claims, and it was not until 1808 that the patent oflice finally issued the patent. A suit against the Eastman company was instituted, and Mr. Goodwin, feeling that ho was financially unable to carry on the suit alone, sold part of his rights to another kodak company, and soon the costly battle in the courts was under way. Mr. Goodwin died in 1000, two years of the suit had been instituted, and every cent that he could get together had gone to the lawyers who were engaged in fighting his case. After his death Mrs. Goodwin, backed by the company to which her husband had disposed of a part of his right, kept up the battle. Decisions and appeals, with all the years of waiting between them, have occupied the last 25 years. A week ago the United States Court of Appeals handed down a decision sustaining the verdict of the United States Court of the Western District of Now York, which had decided in favor of Mrs. Goodwin, and the Eastman company, while threatening to carry the case to tho United States Supreme court, is apparently at the end I of rope, and a settlement of some kind is expected. Mrs. Goodwin still lives In her hum,ble home at Newark. She is now H 1 years old and in poor health. Her son, working in a trunk store in Newark at a meager salary, and her grandson will be the chief beneficiaries of the inventor's discovery. While poverty has been dogging their footsteps for over a score of years, the Eastman company has grown until it is now capitalized at $35,000,000, and is said to have mado millions of dollars off the patent which the courts have decided belonged to the Goodwin family. The second illustration of the power of the law's delay to thwart justice is an aftermath of the Triangle Shirtwaist company fire, in New York city in March, 1911, when 148 persons, mostly women and girls, were burned to death or killed by jumping from the tenth floor of a burning loft building. Testiminy showing locked doors, inadequate fire escapes and smoking around highly inflammable material led to a coroner's verdict of criminal negligence, and it was believed that Harris and Blanck, the proprietors, were In line to defend heavy damage suits. Such suits were instituted by relatives of many of the deceased, claiming sums ranging from five to twenty-five thousand dollars. Tint they were dragged along in the courts, piling up an enormous array of costs, until tho poor families, unable to get backing as the floodwins did, were forced to settle. Last week 23 of the cases were settled on a basis of $75 each, almost 1,100 days after the catastrophe occurred. Even this pitiful amount will not bo paid by Harris and Blanck, but by an employers' liability insurance company. Both Harris and Blanck were indicted by a grand jury soon after the tragedy occurred, while public opinion was at white heat. But they were not brought to trial until over a year and a half later, and after a bitter struggle, they were acquitted. Even then tho survivors and the administrators of those that perished in the holocaust did not lose heart. EXPLAINS MAIN POINT ? WILSON RAYS HIS OPPONENTS IX)SK RIGHT OF IT. Canal Tolls Koprnl is Not a Personal Matter?Highest Interests of Country Are Involved. President Wilson In talks with callers Thursday argued that members of congress wore not being asked to cbango their personal opinions on the tolls exemption, but to vote patriotically for its repeal in order to correct a serious international situation which threatened to embarrass the United States at every turn in future negotiation of treaties and trade agreements. The president told congressmen who visited the Whlto House that those who based their opposition to the repeal on economic grounds or even on their individual interpretation of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty were losing sight of the main point ?the united and unanimous opposition of the civilized world to the tolls exemption. The president has been informed that the ? press of South America, speaking, ho thinks, also for their governments, has joined the press and governments of tho rest of tho world in tho view that tho United States is interpreting treaties to suit itself, regardless of obligations. Mr. Wilson emphasized that it was no personal question with him? thoueh be hinisolf liolinvrwl tlm tnllo exemption was a form of ship subsidy and a mistaken economic policy as well as a breach of the treaty. Tie reiterated that he did not go to conpress with his messapo to express his personal views, ,but to state a situation which had arisen internationally, involvinp circumstances which were not before members of conpress when they last considered the Panama canal act. He did not. believe members of conpress would be compromising themsolves by changing their votes now because ho knew they could not have foreseen the worldwide protest at that time. Asked just what the international situation was, the president explained that so long as the judgment of the whole world was unanimously against the United States on a situation of national honor and a treaty obligation, foreign governments generally would not bo enthusiastic about entering into further treaties or trade agreements. For this reason he held it as vital to repeal the tolIs exernntion Maura There was deep feeling in the president's voice as he explained the situation to one group, of callers. He referred to the American nation as too big and powerful to be ungenerous or captious in its construction of treaties. The United States, he believes, is too big to say "we will do just as little as possible and as we please in interpreting our obligations." He insisted that the thing for the United States to do was voluntarily and ungrudgingly to make its own ships pay tolls on an equality with other nations; as to the pointR involved were too small as compared with the international inconvenience and loss of prectige which he thinks would be otherwise occasioned. NEttllO IiYNCHEI). ? Alabama Troops Arrive Too Late to Save lllnck Fiend. Charles Young, a negro, was lynched two miles from Clantonx, Ala., Saturday night by a mob of citizens, for assaulting a white woman living a short distance from Clanton. Troops were rushine from Mnntwimorv tn w -ov "v * j v v protect the negro, but arrived too late. The assault was a most brutal one. The victim was badly beaten and bruised about the head and face and after the negro had committed the outrage and robbed her home, lie looked about for some weapon with which to kill her, but her pleadings and screams frightened him away before he could accomplish this. Following news of the crime*, dogs were put on the negro's trail, but they could not follow the scent. Posses, however, began a search and Young was captured. Grocer Iluns Amuck. Herman Kabansky of Washington, a grocer, ran amuck Saturday and shot three persons. Ho then wounded himself and had a pistol duel with a policeman. Loses Leg in Accident. Whilo attempting to cross a railroad track in his auto Monday at Edgefield, Mr. O. W. Waites was hit by a train. His right leg had to be cut off. They formed tho Association of the Survivors, pooled their Interests and, what was moro important, their small supply of cash, and fought on. But It proved a hopeless fight. The other side had moro money, and the association's scanty supply was soon exhausted. Then began the "settling") ?on a basis of $75 as tho value of each life lost in the Trianglo Shirtwaist company fire. One weary litigant summed up the situation most expressively: "Yes, wo settled for $75 a piece. But what could we do? Tho law was against us." AMERICANS RETURN FIRE MEXICAN FKDBItALS (A HE LESS NEAIl IIOKDKR LINE. * ? Five Minutes Shooting Fray Hcsiilts in Retreat of Mexicans From River Hank. Mexican Federal soldiers, who flred at a defeated Constitutionalist form . escaping to the United States atul safety, met sharp resistance Sunday from United States cavalry ot' border patrol at McKees Crossing, above Lei Rio, Tex. When three horses hold by the American troopers had been shot down tho Americans returned the tire across tlie Rio (Irande, and after the exchange of shots tho Mexicans withdrew, bearing with them dead and wounded. Official reports of the occurrence to Colonel Sibley, commanding Fort Clarke at Eagle Pass, Tex., caused rders for all available cavalry of the border patrol to proceed to Del Klo. One troop and a machine gun platoon left Eagle Pass Monday. The clash across the International lino was precipitated, according to official reports to headquarters at Eagle Pass Monday, by persistent firing of the Federals at the fleeing Constitutionalists, who had gained American territory and surrendered to United States troops. Three horses, held by American cavalrymen, wero killed. For ten minutes Captain Wlnterburn of Troop E, Fourteenth cavalry, signaled to tho Federals to cease firing, but reported that his signals were disregarded and his own men wero In danger. He then ordered the Americans, a detachment. of eight troopers, to fire, and a sharp fusillade followed, lasting for about five minutes. Constitutionalists defeated Sunday x\vere a scouting party led into a trap by tho Federals, who, earlier In tho day, had captured Las Vacas, opposite Del Rio. They abandoned tho town, but returned suddenly to attack the rebel scouts. About fortyfive Constitutionalists were cut off by 300 Federals at McKees Crossing on the Rio flrando whom tho mholu nut up a stubborn resistance! until overpowered by numbers. They then began retreating across tbo river to the American side, where Captain Winterburn's detachment of cavalrymen was on duty to preserve neutrality. Of the forty-five Constitutionalists only twenty-seven reached the Texas I bank. Several wero killed in the f 1 water, their bodies floating downstream. There was no further trouble, and it was said that the additional troops were ordered to Del ltlo becauso of the battle expected Tuesday. A force of about 700 Constitutionalists was reported advancing from the southwest to Das Vacas, where the Federal command is now stationed. A rebel company that has been encamped opposite I>angtry, Tex., is also moving down the river toward Das Vacas. ADOPTS NEW POIjICY. ? Xew York Habitual Criminals Will Oct Dife Imprisonment. Douglas I. McKay, police commissioner, has reserved notice on thq "underworld" that habitual criminals must either leavo that city or expect the worst if caught in the police net. Fourth offenders under the law can ho sentenced to imprison- * ment for life on conviction of a felony. According to old timers at police headquarters no equally effective plan for ridding New York of crooks 117 n a over 1 <??/v T* -? ? ? ? 1 - * 4 it cio c i ci cvuiYXiUi ll> WilS pOllllRd OUl that criminals generally expect to spend some time behind tlhe bars, but that there is not a crook living who does not fear life imprisonment. The ultimatum to the crooks, it was said, was caused by the large number of safe robberies perpetrated on the lower east side during the last six months. FOUR MEN DIE. ? Lancaster Men Purchase Blind Tiger Booze and Get Fixed., George F. Kennington and John Adams White, Henry Bell and Iko Barnes, colored, of Lancaster, are dead as the result, it is said, of drinking blind tiger whiskey. They llvod in different parts of the county and came to town Monday and bought a pint, which they all drank beforo starting for their homes. It is cla m n<l when they reached home tiiey were taken violently ill and died in a few minutes. ? Tried to Wreck Train. An attempt to wreck a train near Edgefield Monday was made by piling crosstios 011 the track. Quick action by the engineer prevented a wreck. ? ? Gasoline Explosion Fatal. One man was killed and 2 4 autos destroyed when lire reached some gasoline tanks in a Toledo, Ohio, garage, Saturday. Robbers Loot Hank. Robbers wrecked the vault of the First National Bank of Gallatin. Tenn., Friday and escaped with $18.I 000.