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HOUSE AND SENATE 60T FAIRLY STARTED During Four Days of Work Last Week in Columbia | SOME IMPORTANT BILLS Compulsory Education, Prohi-! bition, and Cotton Bdls Were ' Offered Early in Session. The Ley iture was in session last week only lor four days, but notwithstanding*, some important bills were introduced in both the Senate and the a ?wun * ' i iv? j/ i \;ov 11 wti u ? v i n\ i xr Y> a disposition among the members of both branches to wait until the inau# guration of Governor Manning, which took place last Tuesday, before preparing and introducing the bills they favored. Legislators in sympathy with Mr. Manning are preparing bills which will carry out his ideas on the reform of the tax system, the State banking laws and other subjects closely con-1 nocted with the administration of the State's business affairs. Compulsory Education. Advocates of the adoption of a com-; pulsory education law in South Caro- j lina have reason to be pleased, because, early as it is in the session, there are three compulsory education bills pending in the senate and two in the house. The proponents of forcing children in the State to ootuin an education have increased in the last two or three years until their name is legion. Compulsory school attendance, either Statewide o r of a local option character, was an issue on which the result of nomination to both State and county offices hinged to a great degree in the Democratic primaries last summer. In the senate Senator Carlisle has introduced the Statewide compulsory education bill drawn by Frank Evans, superintendent of the Spartanburg | schools. This measure was the first choice of the conferees on compulsory education who met in Columbia early , in January. Senator Sinkler has of-1 fered in the senate the local option compulsory school attendance bill ! written by J. E. Swearingen, State superintendent of education. This measure was the second choice of the conferees in Columbia. In the house Mr. Harper of Darlington and Mr. Hawkins of Greeenville have both introduced compulsory education bills. Senator Lee has also offered the Harper bill in the senate. ^ Although really the first bill introf duced in the house at this session of the general assembly, the Harper bill appears -on the calendar as house bill No. 2. The reason for this is that a concurrent resolution on some subject was offered on the first day of the session, carried over on the calendar and c consequently identified as "H, No. 1." Mr Harper was the author of the local option compulsory school attendance bill which the house passed last session. His bill this year also carries the local option feature. The subject of taxation as a matter for legislation is one which legis\ lators hibitually approach cautiously. Although the report is current and well substantiated that much will be undertaken later on in the way of reform of the tax system, nothing on this subject has been introduced in either house yet which can be looked upon as a constructive measure, exh cept a bill by Mr. Liles of Orangeburg amending the law in reference to de- j l^jquent taxes, penalties and ex ecu-1 tions. In the house Mr. Sellers of Marion and in the senate Senator Nicholson of Edgefield have offered bills to defer the payment of taxes without penalty until March 1*5, 1915. Mr. Lynch of Florence in his bill in the house would give grace until April 1, 1915. Prohibition. A big ouestion that the trenernl as sembly will be called upon to settle is whether the qualified electors of the State shall vote on September 14, 1915 on the question of abolishing the whis key trafic in the State. The prohibition referendum bill has been introduced in the house by Mr. Boyd of Spartanburg and Mr. Warren of Hampton and in the senate by Senator Carlisle of Spartanburg. The dispensary committees of both houses W will report on the measure. Prohibitionists of the State are behind the bill, having started their campaign some weeks ago. and maintained a bureau in Columbia. The companion bill to the prohibition referendum bill, also pending in the house and senate, j ^ invokes the federal authority given by \x the Webb bill to prevent shipment of liquor into the State should the referendum bill pass and a majority of the qualified electors vote "dry" next SepItember. Mr. War re i of Hampton ond Mr. Shirley of Oconee have introduced in ^ the house their bill to create a State bureau for marketing farm products, a measure which was before the special session of the general assembly in October and treated with scant courtesy then. Mr. Rogers of Dillon has a bill in the house providing for the assurance j "Belgium Anytooa.y 1 ays Cc Need of Relief Still V I to Latest Reports Fron Americans Can \ = T>y tOILL i 11 iiiw inrn?rmwuii mw m n ms?nni ?i hi imsi i if< ^k)V?V;. << ' m"... / |i: *.%< * > :>, w v.- ^ 1 BELGIAN REFUGEES IN T According to the commission f< pie will probnbly have ro feed l have taken pains to Investiga week, "and the best Informed change In the military situation this w the work until spring breaks or longer. It has been a rare with hunger, tl with supplies gathered a half a world can food. Half of Relgium Is never ! Often it has come closer than that. < and hilly, was starving. In son e con two days, when one of our I'nited Stat Germans enough bread to keep the pt arrived to repay the loan. Once Captai had to borrow K).O(K) tons of wheat ft Ilnmmc and historic Ghent were cry days before the next American ship wi thing for Holland to do since the Dutc is a race with hunger, and America. n< win! This is America's great and glori That every American may have a the Commission For Relief In Belgium one who wants to send a package cont of nonperlshahle food need only put a the nearest collection depot of the co and drop it in the mail chute. If the and address. TOGETHER WITH T spent for stamps will he refunded. Packages mailed from SOUTH SOUTHEASTERN WAREHOUSE CC TURK US* WAREHOUSE COM PAN 1 agents for this district. LA GRIPPE AN O BAD COLDS so< and registration of land titles somewhat after the system worked out by Torrens. Besides the State marketing bureau, the State highway board is proposed in a bill offered by Senator Sink ler of Charleston, and the State board of charities and corrections in a bill by Senator Christensen of Beaufort, the latter measure having also been offered in the house by Mr. Gray don of Abbeville "by request." Bills on Cotton. The cotton acreage reduction act, which Gov. Smith in his inaugural ad dress called the "first step toward emancipation from cotton slavery," is objectionable to at least two members of the house and one senator. Mr. Dixon of Fairfield and Mr. Moore of Abbeville, in the house, and Senator Verner of Oconee, in the senate, have all offered bills to repeal this measure passed at the special October session and designed to reduce the production of cotton by one-third in this State. The repeal of the State warehouse system is proposed in a bill introduced in the house by Mr. Warren of Hampton. Should the Carlisle-Boyd anti-tip ping bill, pending in the house and senate, be passed, it will become unlawful to cross the palm of a waiter or other servitor in public places with coin of the realm. Mr. Hubbard of Jasper has introduced a bill "to prohibit any convict serving as chaingang guard." Children's Coughs?Children's Colds, Both Are Serious. When one of your little ones shows symptoms of an approaching Cold, give it Dr. Bell's Pine-Tar-Honey at once. Tt acts quickly, and prevents the Cold growing worse. Very healing?soothes the Lungs, loosens the mucous, strengthens the system. It's guaranteed. Only 25c, at your druggist. Buy a bottle today. Bucklen's Arnica Salve for Sores.? adv. Wilson Has Grand-child. A son was born at the White House last Sunday to Mrs. Francis Rowes Sayre, President Wilson's daughter. At 6 .o'clock Sunday night Secretary Tumulty gave out this statement: "Dr Grayson, the White House physician, states that at 4 o'clock Mrs. Sayre gave birth to a fine boy. Everything went perfectly, and both are doing well." . 1 Helpless j r7// ^Spring* >mmisstc*~i _ . ! cry Ur#tn% According n Stricken Land?How Send Their Mite , iKtaijv = E^nv.'WW'Mi i?II?? ||?|IW I u II? I I tmm tzrva _______ - .. p , . ^ " .-?$> All',. . .? U C Dill ki o r\ C Tcn?i/Miir*r _ nunxo w i c n ivi in u c.. >r KelieT In Belgium, the American penthe Belgian people all this winter. "We re." said one of the commissioners last Europeans tell us that there will be no inter It means that we must keep up Ids business of feeding (?.5(X>,i)(H) people away. All Belgium depends on Amerlnore than a week ahead of starvation. Once the province of Llmbourg. remote inutilities the people had not eaten for es consuls managed to borrow from the I ?ople alive until an Aiperican shipment 11 Lucey. the shipping agent in Holland. 0111 the Dutch government. Liege and ing for bread, and it was still several us due at Rotterdam. This was a noble h themselves are short on food. Yes; it ow that she has faced the starter, must Ions part in the world war of 11)14-15. personal chance to help some Belgian has arranged its "parcel post plan." Any aining between twenty and ttfty pounds tag on the package, address the tag to mmission, stamp it in the regular way giver puts on the package tag his name LIE LETTER "It." the money he has CAROLINA should be addressed to MPANY, CHARLESTON; MANUFAC(, GREENVILLE; who are collecting JOHNSON'S , nnfl Tnhlot* SRfl TONIC QUAKE yiCTIMSSWELL AS REPORTS GO IN Total Victims of Quake in Italy Excetiis Forty Thousand MAY BE EXAGGERATED Some Towns Had Every House Demolished.? Nearly Whole Towns Wiped Out. The toll of death from Italy's earth quake disaster was swelled by thousands with the recipt by Premier Sa, lander of reports from towns\ which had not been heard from before. Startling evidence of the magniljcie of the disaster wrought in Soia was revealed when the rescuers uncovered 700 bodies in only a small section of the town. The deaths here will number 4,000. Recurrent tremors razed the few remaining walls as the workers burrowed in the debri\ Many soldiers were reported injured and 1?11_ i j i . ^ some Kiiico outrignt. Since Wednesday 104 shocks have been recorded. In Antrosano every house was damaged or demolished. Severity of the inhabitants were killed. MassadaJbe was wholly razed. But ono-eightii of the population survived. Cerchio's fate is confirmed. Out of 2,500 inhabitants but 150 are still living. The local church is now the grave of several hundred victims who were crushed as they listened to a sermon by a| famous passionist father. More than 0,000 deaths were added to the list by reports from the following towns: Collormele, where 1 700 are reported dead; Ortuechio with *2000; Balsorano, 1,000; Merino, 1.000; Coilelongo, 500; Caliworno, 100, and Lisegna, 70. The total number of deaths reported from official and private sources to date exceeds 40,000, but Premier Salandra states that many of 'hose reports obviously are aggregated and ?hty arc given only ''or their face val- ! ue. It will be weeks, he states, before -orrected casualty lists car be prepared. Invigorating to the Pale and Sickly The Old Standard general strengthening tonic, GROVE'S TASTELESS chiil TONIC, drives out Malaria,enriches the blood, and builds up the system. A true tonic. For adults and children. 50c VALUABLE INFORMAHON FOR FARMERSj How They Can be Benefitted by National Department 0 F F ICE OF~MANAGEMENT Tlxcerpt from the Weekly News Letter Issued by the Depart i The principal ,cct of the Oflic of Farm Management is to show tlfarmer how he ran increase his farm income by good management. The nice not only deals with general proh die ways for any farmer with a sp- ci ifis ways for any farmer with a specific problem to handle. The office has bG trained investigators of agriculture istributer throughout the Northern end Western States whose first business is to gather the experience of successful local farmers. The results of their investigations are summarized and the conclusions made generally known. The Oflice of Farm Management endeavors to enable the farmer to organize his work so as to dispense with unnesessary work animals and implements, and permit the farmer and his family to do a maximum share of the work so that a large part of their profits will not have to go for hired labor and to feed an overlarge number of work animals over an unproductive period. The oflice is gathering data concern ing the crops and types of live stock which are more profitable in all sections of the country and is attempting to formulavc systems of farmingbased on the most profitable enterprises for farms of different sizes and for different soil, climate, and economic conditions. It has shown that good farm organization greatly reduces the cost of production as compared with ordinary methods. The oflice is giving special attention to the problem of farm equipment in the hope of being able to standardize this equipment to a certain extent, or at least to give out information that will enable the farmer to know what he needs and what it should cost; also how much he is justified in putting into equipment of different kinds. The office is cooperating with a considerable number of farmers, usually 4-1* a ? ? ^ ? J-1- ? ^ ? ill\ i Livnii^ in m*; cuupcriiuon me oT.uie agricultural college, in keeping complete records of farm labor, income and expenses. This enables the specialists to determine the cost of production as well as the cost of each type of operation carried on on the farm. Some of the most interesting projects of the office are its "farm management surveys." These surveys cover a group usually of about 700 farms in one locality. The data collected from each farm includes the total investment and its distribution between land, buildings, live stock, machinery, etc.. toerether with the to tal income and the enterprises from which it is derived, the total expense and the character of these expenses. This data permits the circulation of the farmer's profits. These surveys have given much information concerning the factors of efficiency in farming. They have shown that the size of the farm is a very important factor. In general, the larger the farm the better the net profits. They have shown that the number of days' productive labor which the farm provides is one of the best measure*, of the profitableness of the farm. Many other facts of interest have been brought out, too numerous to mention in this brief summary of the work. Another investigation has shown just how the yield of crops depends not. only on the fertility of the soil but upon the character of the seed, the kind and number of operations performed, and the dates on which these operations occur. Marked differences in the method of managing the same crop are found in different localities, and the office attempts to acquaint each locality with the best methods of other communities. The cost of producing the various farm crops and of all kinds of animal products is also studied by the survey method. The cost of producing potatoes has been studied in every important producing center in the counttry. The cost of producing apples is now under investigation, the work bong nearly completed. Studcs are in progress on the cost of producing cotton, beans, cabbage, corn, and other crops; also on the cost of growing beef cattle on the farm. A bulletin has been issued on the cost of rearing a dairy cow, the results being applicable to the region north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River. Much attention has been given to the subject of farm bookkeeping, and iwo bulletins on the subject have been issued. One of them deals with general principles, the other presents a definite system of bookkeeping now in use on many farms. Methods of removing stumps from lands from which the timber has been :ut have been studied in all the more important lumbering regions. Several publications on the subject have been issued. These deal with such subjects as the proper use of explosives, machinery for removing stumps and debris from the land, cost of labor and materials used in clearing land ef stumps, etc. ATTENTION I Mr. Stock Owner! \ We carry in stock all the 1 following 1 ? S Boyd's Remedies | which are guaranteed to do the woik claimed for them or purchase price will be refunded. Boyd's Sure Pop Colic Cure, larpe . $1.00 Boyd's Sure Pep Colic Curo, small , .?0 i' Boyd's Sure Pop Fever & Cou *h Cure ..">0 J Boyd's Sure Pop Purgative. 50 1 Boyd's Suro Pep Kyc Remedy . . . .50 Boyd's Sure Pop Hoof Liquid . . . .25 Boyd's Sure Pop Magnetic Ointment . .25 Boyd's Liniment, small 25 Boy''s Liniment, medium ..... .50 | Boyd's Liniment, large 1.00 3oyd's Worm und Condition I'o. sml. . .25 Boyd's Worm and Condition l'o. tned . .50 Boyd's Worm and Condition I'o. lge. 1.00 For. Sale by Conway Drug Co., Conway, S. 0. CARUANZA PROMISES EXPORT British Threat of Action Brings Him to Terms, Says Unofficial Report. Washington, Jan. 1(>.?The British embassy tonight received word from the British legation at Mexico City that Carranza had lifted the embargo on oil, thereby yielding to the British threat of action. This threat was provoked by the action of Carranza in issuing a decree which cut off the supply of oil for the British navy Foi the prcscsnt at least, Carranza will permit export of oil from Tampici district. Officials of the state department heard today unofficially that Carranza decided to yield the question. It is true it has relieved the strain which has been very tense. The Mexican National convention is t'omnir in nnntrnl nf (Vm i no in Mexico for the present, pending which an election will be held, according to a proposition of the Zapata delegates, which was conveyed to day to the state department. The convention will retain Gutierr, in control, but he will be subject to removal. Try This for Neuralgia. Thousands 01 people keep on suffering with Neuralgia because they do not know what to do for it. Neuralgia is a pain in the nerves. What you want to do is to soothe the nerve itself. Apply Sloan's Liniment to the surface over the painful part?do not rub it in. Sloan's Liniment penetrates very quickly to the sore, irritated nerve and allays the inflammation. Get a bottle of Sloan's Liniment for 25c of any druggist and have it in the house?against Colds, Sore and Swollen Joints, Lumbago, Sciatica and like ailments. Your money back if not sat isfied, but it does give almost instant relief.?adv. APPROPRIATION AGREED UPON. Nearly Fifty-Four Million Dollars is Total. Provisions for construction of two great dread-noughts, six torpedo boat destroyers, 1(1 coast defense submarines, a seagoing submarine, a hospital ship, a transport and a fuel ship at an aggregate cost of $53,1 (58,828 is made in the naval appropriation bill agreed on last week by the Mouse naval committee. All told the bill carries $145,500,00, of which $22,903,988 is for new construction. The construction programme falls far below plans urged by Representative Hobson and other big navy advocates, but it includes the two battleships asked for by Secretary Deniels and provides for more auxiliaries than the Secretary has contemplated. Chairman Padgett protested that the committee was "running wild" with appropriations. The programme proposes the building of two battleships at not more than $7,800,000 each, exclusive of armor and armament. Six torpedo boat destroyers at not more than $925,000 each, exclusive of armament. One sea-going submarine at not more than $1,400,00 exclusive of ai mament. Sivlfwn si)l\m nrinno !>?? * ? .. into ill i * v ' l 111V' I 1' IIKIII $550,000 each. One hospital ship at not more than $2,250,000. One transport at not more tlftm $2, 120,700. Representative Hobson gave notice that he would carry to the floor of the House his fight for three battleships two battle cruisers and additional destroyers and submarines. The bill's total appropriations ex ceed Navy Department estimates by $5,000,000, but it was pointed out that this was occasioned by appropriations for a battleship being built from procreeds of the sale to Greece of the bat tleships Mississippi and Idaho. 1 . ., i mT^rn I ((RAT CORN^l * Tlrst rat nml minn oxtormlnntormade. I Killsqukkly n:ulabsolutely withoutodor. I Mummifies?thus preventing decomposl\ lion. Hotter t! <u? all the traps In the I world. 1 ti v i st o i Con ii I no It AT COKN. II 2 V.oOc, si at dealers or by mail, posfe* \l P id. \ BOTANICAL MFG. CO. x^s'' 4th & Race St*.. Philadelphia, Pa. \V. E. McCORD, I) nfal Surgeon, CONWAY, S. C. " H. II. WOODWARD, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, 1 CON WAY, ? ~ . m ii HAL L. HI CK. * * Fire Insurance * * Office Conway National Bank Conway, - - - S. C. , 11. B. SCARBOROUGH Attorney at Law. CONWAY. S. C. GfcU. LUM laundry, CONWAY. S. C. Beginning July 1st. 1913 All persons must take tickets'for cork left here Possitively no vork delivered until ticket is presented. Laundry not called for in HO days will oe sold for charges. GEORGE LUM MuinucoTrs o IOM i e 1 s tn o riuug JaV Till: DIAMOND IIRAND. A 1 (^ / i' > I nil'cut Avl? your Druvirlnt for A\ iT G^U t'li' -lu-s-lcr'H Diamond Ttruu<j/#?N 1*111 ? in lied ftml ..old nietalllc^w^^ w I >*?., sealed with lilue Kit>bon. w <9^U'| Tolio no oth"r. Ituy of your V 17 ~ ftf I'rurfutUn . Uor( |||.t'irKS.TF.Bi K Jf DIAAIOND liltAND FIU.H,foi?4| V V M years mown as Hcst. Safest, Always Reliable ?r sni D ?Y DRUGGISTS FVERYWHfBS, J. M. JOHNSON, CIVIL ENGINEER Marion, S C. Railroad, City and Land Surveying* and Drainage. Road-building Mfc * ewers Draughting and Blue Printing H. C. CAMINON General Land Surveying. Office?Buck Building CONWAY, S C. W C SINGLETON ATTORNEY AT LAW Conway, S. C. Office up Stairs Buck Building ENOCH S. C. BAKER Attorney at Law Spivey Building. CONWAY. S. C. 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It la n Tasteless Syrup, pieiv i *o take au<l does not disturb the stomach. . ^ Iren take it and never know it la Quinir^ c .necialiy aoapted to adults who eg ordinary Quinine. Does not nauaear o nervousness nor ringing la the beg '0 next time vou need OuTnine lor d [ A- 3c for 2-ounce original package . .ue Fl%URll?lNK la blown in bottle* n T'iiMS