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P ces Se 'el S N 'ON, EDITOR. FEl' A 1912. t te Money? Terlr must not infer a ad of this article mney has been -lost. n fme astray, for such a '. But we call at av to a contro th o governor and T r -r Jennings as to tou credit for bor zuse of the State 1! 1 ' n dollars for the - ov. Blease in his -Sete to the legisla S~u~stance said that he n loan at 3 per an1d that this rate - s the lowest at j ever been se e . .nce.--Iuring Gov. ;mi4irnistration: that -n customnary to leave posit, but inl a ne was not the e money was -*was drawing inter - a-L then in his - yie he adds: correspondence ry is a malicious d wa~s -n effort to e reit due me in elear, therefore, i overnor's point of h -roured the loan, e of interest atr admziinistration ey. wrxd'3,and that - :I" money borrowed nI deposit. C . Jennings, who t>reasurer for i the invitation of - '4 r. hias oeen bchi we repro the Gseneral s ahe State of South ' ~ . ratefully' ac - 6 exten'fded to body in borrowed n. 1911. r I re - r~ intrest n:1d treasur e- of the s 6) I addressed - ;I.to Sev hadw expressed the State's '1 hat* they. sub trthan the bid sub - 6 J. P. dat er of the P end!''"N ban ..k of CJo 2* n.,ireaur, u tih Caro 0,000, beg to be my Imeas* r ate of :3 per een h t re amount is n * . ~ per' cent.. the very 1~~~ -ncrI9 I;---nrin' 'o)mzlat th aing ~care 0o r whsn dueC Ltak 1,1 your1' I1 checks o .throuighout1 Smight say I (Iiin that I have h n eh as u1.50Oper P1' '~ some of the - -.Lo Voinr 1 - n~tI . . d .',. -~ * Z.~1'ii . This bid is submitted with the Y inderstanding that the paper is :o be delivered to me promptly 'N [f my bid is accepted. Yours very truly, J. P. Matthews, Cashier. h BIDS WERE OPENED. e On the day fixed, April 17, the gover-or was absent. Conip- r troller Generai Jones and I open ed the bids which had bean filed r with me. 0 On April 19, the governor. s comptroller general and I were in the governor's office, when i the bid of J. P. Matthews was t accepted and the contract award t ed to him to furnish $500,000 at 3 per cent. interest. On April 20 four notes for $100,000 each and two notes for t $50,000 each were prepared in the following form: "Under and by virtue of at, act of the general - assembly of the State of South Carolina en titled 'An act to make appropri ations to meet the ordinary - ex penses of the State government for the fiscal year commencing January 1, 1911. and to provide for a tax sufficient to defray same.' "The State of South Carolina by Cole. L. Blease, governor; R H. Jennings, treasurer, and A W. Jones, comptroller general, on December 31, 1911, promises to pay to the order of J. P. Mat thews, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, value received at the Hanover National bank, in the city of New York, with interest after date at the rate 3 per cent. per annum. "In witness whereof, the State of Sotith Carolina has caused these presents to be executed by Cole. L. Blease, governor; R. H. Jennings, treasurer, and A. W. Jones, comptroller general, and the seal of the State to be at tached the day and year above written. I signed these six notes as treasurer and delivered them to Mr. J. P. Matthews, cashier,j who agreed to procure the si:: natures of the governor and t comptroller general. neither of whom could be seen at that time. Mr. Matthews receipted to me for these notes as follows: Received of R. H. Jennings', treasurer of the State of South Carolina, four notes of $100,000 each and two notes of $50,000. each, all djated April 20, 1911, payable December 31,11911, with interest after date at 3 per cent. We are to credit the State of South Carolina with $500,000,' subject to their check for cur rent expenses, and it is under stood that if the State is unable I we are to have renewals paya ble during the month of Jan ua- 1 ry, 1912. J. P. Matthews, Cashier. CORRESPONDENCE SHOWN In counect ion with the fore- t going records, I submit the fol- i: lowing correspondence: Hion. A. W. Jones, Comptroller e General, Columbia, S. C. Dear Sir: Will you state the facts in reference to the govern- T or, comptroller general and treasurer borrowing $600,000 to nieet the expenses of the State government for the year 1911, as provided in the appropriation act? Was any agreement made by v which the money borrowed was ts to draw interest while on depus- b2 it? t] Was any agreement ever v made during your adnministra- S; tion where~by 20 per cent. of the s: money boriowed remained on nl depositi' Yours truly, e: R. H1. Jennings, n State Treas. t< HIon. RZ. HI. Jennings, State o Treasurer, Columbia, 8. C. ti Dear Sir: Replying to your V letter requesting that I "state e the facts relative to borrowing ft 500,000 to meet the expenses of a the State government, as pro- t. vided in the appropriation act a 1)11, I beg to say that on A pril u 10. 1911. vou submitted t o me it dhe draft of a letter to several banksr~, asking for bids to Dlace nl the loan. On the 17th, the da~y d fxed for openiing the bids. I at- f( tended at your off ice. The bids ti were opened. The governor ft was absent. The bid of Mr. J. P. M1atthews. Columbia, was al the lowest. tOn the 19th, I at tended at the govecrnor's otlice. The bids were then placed b) 0ore Gov. Biease. and on my, :otionl the bid of 31r. 31atthewsX it 3 ier cent. imerest was a eted~C There was no agree nent that the money borrowed( :as to d:av. interest while on~ i.: sit, and I know of no agee ent ever bingi1 made that an rtionsfl of t he moey]Cs b1Orowed si ours truly, A. W. jones. Comptroller G'n'' r. J. P. Matthews, Cashier Palmetto National Bank, Co lumbia, S. C. Dear Sir: The governor in is annual message to the gen ral assembly, Jan. 9 ultirmO, nder "Finances" uses the fol )wing language in reference to ioney borrowed, to wit:. "In some instances it has been ecessary to leave 20 per cent. n deposit, but in this borrow, uch was not the case, and vhile the money is on deposit Lere, it is drawing interest for he State, thus further reducing he net cost of the loan, which ias not been done heretofore." In the same message, undei .economy of my administra ion," the following language i. sed: " . . . the low rate ol terest at which money wa4 )orrowed, the securing of inter st on this money while on de sit . . ." Since the State has adopte he policy of borro n ing all tht noney needed annually from )r through one bank, have yo. iot handled all such loans, anc ias it ever been necessary o as any agreement been mad< ;o leave 20 per cent. on deposit Was any agreement made b) xhich money borrowed wouk raw interest on deposit, and ij o, with whom? I request an immediate reply o this, as I desire to use it in tatement which I shall makt o the general assembly. Yours truly, R. H. Jennings, State Treasurer AS TO INTEREST. apt. R. H. Jennings, Stat Treasurer, Columbia, S. C. Dear Sir: Replying to your, f the 3d, in reference to yom eneral account with this bank. eg to advise that there was nc reement made whereby we ere pay you interest on yom ~eneral checking account. WE ave never paid interest on any f the State's accounts except ose known as interest bearing ecounts. Replying to your second ques on, beg to advise that we en eavored to secure for the StatE e very best rates that could be Lad, and it has been our pleas Lre to have received several ~wards. The State has never indicated hat amount of balance would e kept with us on an average, Lor have we ever bid on a bal ne basis, as your requests for ates did not take up this mat er, a:. d if such a proposition iad been made by us, we felt hat it would debar us from be ig able to secure the business. The proceeds of the first notes iade each year have been paid ut, as a rule, promptly for pen ions, and when the second se ies of notes was made, as a rule e money was used to pay the riterest on the State debt. We have used our very best iforts every year to serve the tate to the best of our ability. Tr isting that this statement ill cover the matter, we are Yours very truly, J. F. Matthews. Cashier STANDS ON RECORD Inasmuch as I am the one ho gave out a statement of e facts in regard to the money orrowed in 1911, and to which ie language of the governor as doubtless directed when he id that "Any report or corre ondence to the contrary is a alicious falsehood and was an (fort to rob .ne of the credit due :e in securing this loan," I beg )state that the foregoing rec ds and correspondence sustain e truth of my statements hich were made not to claim redit-because at least once be re during my administration d Gov. Ansel's second term, 'ie same amount was borrowed the same rate of interest and pon better terms in which cred was unthought of. Again, the governcr's state tent th it the money was on ?posit here drawing interest )r the State is at variance with c records submitted. I there Ie deny the statements in the vernors message. They are sol utely without foundation. Ynry respectfully, R. H. Jennings, State Treas. Who got the money? CASTOR IA bor Infants and Childrn. he Kind You Hiys Aiways Isugb Mammott Stoves It will pay you yo call on us for anytl We carry at all tim Squares, Rugs, Ma WE BUY EVERY 81 FROM THE FACTORI Odd Beds - Dressers Washstands Suites - Sideboards, Wardi Tables, Kitchen So be matched. We - All we ask is a lool get it. We appreciate you] Quality counts in b Clothing, Shoe Sole agents for Walk Sewing Machines, Chase Ci As a fitting climax of the great Laymen's Missionary Convention of the Presbyterians which closed at Chatanooga on on the 8th after a three days session, the financial secretary reported $39,380 as volentary contributions to the cause of missions. The churches of Dur ham and Wilmington, N. C. each pledged $10,000, and Mr. George Watts of Durham, N. C. personally pledged $5,000 and and J. T. Lupton, of Cha'ta nooga, $1,000 for five years. Is it true as reported in'ithe press, that there has arisen an estrangement between the Gov ernor and the Mayor of Charles ton? Is is of such a nature and will it continue for such a length of time as that the old saying of the meeting of the governors of North Carolina and South Caro lina will b~e applicable-" it's a long time between- -. Say, friend, if you can do nothing better for your town than leave it, then leavt it. Pull out. Notice of Final Settlement and Discharge. NOTICE is hereby given. that I wil make application to J1. B3. Newberry Esq., Judge of Probate for Pickens counI ty, in the State of South Carohina, on the 7th day of March 1912. at 11 o'clock in :he forenoon, or as soon there after as satid application can be heard, for leave to make final rettlement of the estato of W. L. Ellis, decoased and obtain di~'charge as .Admmistratrix of said estate. Feb 8:,1 Mr'. Della Ellis, Admiinis',ratrix. Notice to Debtors and Creditors AI.L Persons holding claims against the estate of the late W. R. Anders must present the same duly proven on or before th-a 1~> day of Yarch 1912, or be debarred piarment: and all persons in]Abted to said estate', muet make pry meut oni or before the abovme date, to te undersigned IFeb 8t3 J. P. Anders, Administa r Citation. tate cf south Carolina, County of Picken~s. By J. it. hwbery. Probate Jioe. to grant them Istternio Adoom-itrr~1onI f the statt an~d e~ects of Abo lne Brrle~t Smith. There ars therefore. so cite ar'd adl m:oi-'a all and singiir the~ kindred and c~redtors of the said Abeline. B. Smith deceased, that they be and appear before me. in the Court of Probase to be held at Fickens on the 22nd day of Feb. 1911 next. a fter publicati:mn hereof, at 11 o'clock in the foren~iin, to' show cause, if any they have. wh-' the said adminis tration should not be granted. Given under my handi this 6 day of Feb. Anno Donmini 1911. Feb. 8t2 J 13. New bery, J. P. P. C. Notice to Debtors and Creditors ALL Persons holdiing elaims3 against the estate of the late W. 1L. Illis must present the ainre duly proven on or be fore the 7 day of March 191), or be de bar ed paymueni: andl all per sons indebt ed to said estate, must make payment on or before the above date, to the n. dersgnd Feb ' 3 Mr s. Della Ellis. Admnrtrx. Notice to Debtors and Creditors ALL Penii'a holding claims,:ainst tieestate .1f th' 's C('umbusq (Gt~ri -ut preor; ea-.me duiiy proven On or ofr he 15~ day of Mi.weh :S'., or be helur-dl p..ymen ; anid .!l pe~o::s in ut on or before the abov~e date, to- ;lhe L Stock Furniture S and House Furnishings LMng Imlalried COple, an1d, in fact, everybody, to ing in the Fi ritir (or House Furishing line. es the laergest stock of riture, Stoves, Art ttings and Sewing Machines in the county. ICK OF FURNITURE IN CAR LOTS, DIRECT V, THEREBY SAVfNC YOU AT LEAST 10 Pet. -_ --- -.from $2.00 to $10.00 foom 5.00 to 25.00 - from 3.00 to 10.00 from 15.00 to 75.00 -obes, Hall RLeks, Chairs. Springs, Mattresses fes and Tables, all styles and prices, that can't re preparei to prove every statement we make. Call on us for anything; if we haven't it, we'll trade, and will treat you right. Remember that uying. Yours trily, , Thornley4Co f, Hats and Gents' Furnishing Goods a Specialty. -Over Shoes, Hawes Hats, Iron King StoTes, New Home ty Buggies, Mitchell Wagons and Mitchell Automobiles. Mfake Woney! WANTED AT ONCE My EXCELSIOR KNITTING MILL Union, S. 0. One Hundred Experienced or Inexperienced Perseas to Top, Knit Loop, Mend and to do Press Room, Finishing Room and General Hosiery Miii Work. Good Wages. See er Write to : : J. H. GA UL T, Treas. & Manager We want you to visit owr Bagi Table, where we have on dislay many Bargains in Odds and Ends, such as : . : . SShoes, Overalls, Blankets, Pants 9 ~Lap robes, and Many Other Articles E IF YOU APPRECIATE GOOD VALUES IN GENERAL MERCHANDIE COME TO I Cabbage Plants We4 hav\e the Sal.e of the Famous Carolina grown , "Frost-Proof" Cabbage Plants TIhiese planits ar e grown in open air, near salt watder. 'y >. L. Sands Co., of Ran towles, S. C., undler the special supervision of -a skilled plant grower, and it is solely on ac count of the elimnatic location of their farm and continuous wind blowing in from the ocean, 2 preventing heavy white frost from formingr in the wxinter, i hat they are ab- to p)roduce a FROST-PROOF plant. We have contracted with the Sandt' peo ple for a large quianitity of these plants, and(l t wvill be in position to suipply your demand. W\e solicit the patroniage of ma~rket gard~e niers and others desi ring large quantitities. G;et our1 prices before ordering from elsewhere. J We ma~ke a specialty of supplying the geni oral public with plants for home~ gardening. D~rop inl and( seei 11s when in nee1ld of plant.. YUERS TO PLEASE, PCKENS DRIUGCOMMPANY. About F Dr. Brackett told the writer Com1i dg up on the train from Co iliimia last spring that fish aJ an aniuioniate lastedlonger than any amnioniate used in fertili zer. We have always been heav, users of .fish, but since Dr. Arackett told us that, we have more than doubled the amount. Fish is the most ex pensive aninioniate put in fer tilizer. Some manufacturers don't use it at all, and we prob ably use more per ton than any copi!any in business. In the fertilizer you mix at home, you get only the, ammonia from cot ten seed meal. In the mixed fer tilizer you get from us the am monia is derived from nitrate of soda, sulphate of ammonia, high grade blood, cotton seed meal, tankage and fish scrap. You then have three different kinds of ammoniates-animal, vev etable and mineral. These different ammoniates last differ ent lengths of time in the soil. Nitrate of soda acts quickest and exhausts quickest, sulphate of ammonia comes next, blood and cotton seed meal next, tank ake a little later because it is a coarser grain, and fish,. crap last and lasts longer than any. As one of these exhausts, the other comes in. So that by this combination os ammoniates we are making fertilizer that feeds and nourishes the crop from the time it sprouts, all through the workinz season, all through the laying-by season and until the plant is matured and the crop ready to be gathered. This is a complete fertilizer. Now, a fertilizer with an am moniate that is derived from cotton seed meal only, makes a pretty fertilizer and does first rate while it lasts. The only trouble is that cotton seed meal exhausts and is done with its work by the time the cotton begins to fruit, just the time when the plant needs more plant food, more ammonia, the ammoniate is exhausted and the plant sheds il fruit. And that cuts your crop. There was less home mixed fertilizer used in 1911 than any year within1 our knowledge, and it is a well known fact that cotton shed less in the year 1911 than any year1 within our knowledge, and the cotton crop of 1911 was the big gest this country has ever seen. Cotton tertilized with home mixed guano always sheds like rips in the fruiting season. And cotton fertilized with a fertilizer ontaining much fish sheds less than any other, and then home mixed fertilizer is not mixed as :horoughly and completely as h1e fertilizer we make. You :ould mix it as well as we do if you wore equipped as we are mnd had the exrerienced help toi mlx it, but you are not equippedi mnd it won't pay you to equip to mix fertilizer for one farm. t pays us because we mix fer ilizer for from 4,000 to 6,000i armns. Now, to show you that home nixed fertilizer is not mixed horoughly, completely and reg- t ilarly, take a sample of your1 ~iome mixed from different parts< >f it, and have them analyzed, mnd you will find no two analy- 3 ~es alike. Your fertilizer does I aot run regular, and it can't un- e ess it is thoroughly mixed, your rops will not be fertilized regu- 1 arly and so they wiil not be reg ilar. You all know that it is t ~he regular crop of cotton that I urns off the best crops. In a I ield fertilized with your home t nixed you will have some good ~nd some inferior cotton, show- ~ ng that you have some good 8 ~nd some inferior fertilizer. Two men were dining. One ~ ~omplained to the other that the ~ ther that the egg he was eating a ras certainly not sound. The P ther insisted that parts of it b ere splendid, and that is ?ust a he way with home mixed fer ilizer. In the last few years a ~rop contests of all sorts have een frequent and popular. We have never heard of a U nan taking the prize in a crop* ~ontest who used home mixed ~ertilizer. And we never have eiard of a mian going into a con est relying on home mixed fer- b ilizer. In such contests he al ays gets the regularly mized ~oods from the factory, because e knoi's it is better. Does it ot stand to reason that a ferti zer manufacturer who is thor- e ~ughly equipped with machin- n ry to do mixing and has thor- u ~ughly experienced men, whose y eputations, business standings r nd salaries Pepend upon their " fixing the goods properly, does a : not stand to reason that the ~oods mixed and manipulated of y them will be better than the nu oods mixed and manipulated y the negro tenant who is per- a aps not over zealous with his ai ork nor over conscientious in e performance of his duties. a .great deal depends upon the , ixer. If you give the same h. NDERSON PHOSPH) R. Vandiver, Pres. Anderson, PI ertilizers mate, ial to two cooks one will iake better bred than the other and don't you think the one who makes bread every day in the year, year after year, and whose reputation, business standing and salary depend on his doing it properly, than the one who makes it a few day in the spring of the year? Now, if the home mixer ules the same material that we do, it will cost him more than % e ask for the same analysis and it will not be mixed as regu oughly and compo goods. Last spring high, and the farmer he could use the best gral'are fertilizer, so he dio -no home mixiug. Now, if it pays to use the best fertilizer when cotton is high, it Days still better when cotton is at its present Drice, be cause when cotton is cheap it must be made cheap to afford a profit. You can make more cotton to the acre with ready mixed goods than with home mixed goods and the more you make to the acre the cheaper you makd it. Now, you may get up a home mixed 8.3.3.. or what you think is 8.3.3., for $2 a ton less than our pric. Of this ton of guano you use 400 pounds to the acre as most of you do-you ought to use 800. Using 400 pounds to the acre, a ton will cover five acres. Now that is reducing the cost of your guano 40cts. an acre. You can tell. riding along the road, the difference in crops fertilized with mixed goods, and those with ready mixed goods. G0ood-farmers say there must be at least 300 pounds of seed cot ton difference in the crop before it can be noticed riding by. A ifference of 300 pounds of seed :otton will make a difference of [00 pounds of lint cotton. This extra 100 pounds of lint cotton will bring you at present prices between $8 and $10, anp this $9 )r $10 is made at an expense of 10 cents. By withholding this 10c to the acre you decrease Four income $9 or $10. Now, we leave it to you, is ~hat good business and good ~arming? The money paid out by the faimer for fertilizer is :he best investment he can pos sibly make. It is the cheapest mnd only labor you can depend mn putting in 24 hours a day. It gets in its work Sundays, iolidays, rainy days and Satur lays of 7 days in a week, from plating to gathering time. If you use the same material .n making home mixed fertiliz ar, it will cost you more than we ask for ours. The reason rou make it cheaper is because we use cotton seed meal only as a source of ammonia, and' that s one of the cheapest .ammon ates used in a manufactured fertilizer, and it gives ,out just when it is most needed. Now, confidentially, you let he other fellow use the home nixed, and you buy your ferti izer from the Anderson Fertili ;er Co., and make crops. Let he crowd use any fertilizer they vish, and you use the best you ~an get, for the best is the cheap st. If you follow the crowd rou will be as pocr as the crowd f there is one thing the mixer hould know, as an aged wash rwomon observed in mixing ter bluing, it is mixing guano. L man who gives his time. and hought to it ought certainly to :now more about it than the egro tenant who mixes a few ons in the spring of the year. Now if you wart to make crops, get be best fcrsilizer. When they are all bout the sante price get the best-tha inderson fertilizer. Potaeh is a very ecessary ingredient in making fert liztr 2 a s001b sack of home mixed you have bout a peck of kainit and nutriate of otash together, and it will be "gmposi le to mix this thoroughly. When you et our goods ou ges 2001lbs and more >every sack, s,CO0lb. to every ton. Sul hate of ammonia will cost you $06.50 ton, spot essb on delivery. Nene 'of uis is used in-home mixed goods. We se quite a lot of it in making goods we .ll for lees than $30 a ton, to maintain ur record of making the best goods put i sacks. Fertilizer ammoniated with riitrate of >da, sulphate of ammonia, high grade ood. high grade tanksge, cotton eeed ieal and fish scrap is much better good ad will make much better crepe than a rrtlizer ammoniated a ith cotton seed ieal only. You have been charging yoar fertiliz Sbill to your cetton crop, when as a iatter of fact you have been using it rider your corn, pesa, turnips andlevei. thing else you have planted. You have sane good crop. of these where you -ould have made very little without it. rid oharged all the expense to cotton. Mr. T. WV. MeCarley tells us that 1-6 his cetton will pay for the zuano used uder his cotoa. Mr, J. 5. Fewler says a farmer makes mistake in trying t: mix his own Liier.J Mixing fertiliser at home is p~jretty eory but it wt-n't work. Perspetual otlon is a pretsy theory, but it ~ever a worked. TE AND OIL CO. S. C. D. S.Vhadver PICKENS, S, I PETAL e U .LIS~ EREST PAID ON DEPOS ~ *~' ~'-,