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SOOTH HAS GROWN LARGEFOODCROPS BIG CORN CROP OF EXCELLENT GRADE AND PLENTY OF LIVE STOCK FEED. Washington, December 81:?A review of business conditions throughout the country made public today by the committee of statistical experts of the United States Chamber * ? """o Trnnsfnrma-1 OI ^oiinutrnjc- oajij v. tion within a twelve-month of cer- 1 tain sections of the South in agricultural and business conditions seems almost unbelievable," and announces that, with the exception of . Texas and Oklahoma, Southern 1 States have raised more than enough corn for their needs and are in a!; position to ship it. 1 Throughout the country, the review says, "the extraordinary and 1 abnormal demands made upon everyone, from farm bov to corpora- ' tion head, have left the nation 1 steady with heavy resources coming 1 up for the new year." The buying power of the nation ' Jo nrr^ntpr and more widespread than ever before and apparently the gen- , eral volume of business seems as- i sured at something like its present during the coming winter months, the review adds. ( Taking up the changed conditions , in the South, the review points to < conditions caused in certain sections a year ago "by boll weevil, exces- [ sive rains and the fact that negroes, . the staple agricultural laborers,were < leaving by thousands for the East." < Today, it says, the reports from 1 those sections are "optomistic be- j ond expression." I The enlarged acreage of corn, ] which has been of excellent grade ?' except in Texas and Oklahoma, the ' report says, has proved sufficient to j ship, and there is an "abundance of j other feed for live stock, so that 1 stock raising is becoming more and ( more an important adjunct of farm- , ing in the territory south of the . Mason and Dixon line." , Regarding diversification of crops < in the South, the review says "the J production of peanuts from Virginia J along the Atlantic coast into Southern Georgia and across into Okla- t homa and Texas, is becoming a mat- i * -* '? ??? fV?Q nrnHnpf ter 01 Krtm uu^ui v, running into many millions of dol- J lars." Cotton, it points out, is now j being raised in a moderate way as 1 far South as Tampa Bay. Rice and sugar cane crops were j not as large as in some past years, , the review says. An unprecedent- , drought in Texas hurt cattle raising i and has not been entirely relieved but it has served to give impetus to raise goats and sheep." Boy Tells Story of Killing. ( Locked in a cell of the Atlanta t jail for safekeeping, seventeen-year- ] old Albert Nix has told the story of , how he and his uncle. Barton Nix. , killed C L Alexander and Jesse Ev- , eridge in Muscogee county. (Ga) re- j cently. He claims that his uncle en- , ticed the men to the place with $40 \ to buy moonshine liquor and then killed them and robbed them before the boy knew what was happening. { He claims that his uncle threatened ^ to shoot him if he did not help to ^ dispose of the bodies, which were , buried and later discovered. The i uncle was taken to Macon for safe- ( keeping. ' Fine Showing by Banks. A statement of the condition of the 329 State banks and branches in * South Carolina at the close of busi- i ness November 20 shows total re- 1 sources of more than $112,000,000, 5 the largest ever known in the histo- j ry of the State, according to figures ( given !out llast week by the State ] bank examiner, O K LaRoque. Re- 1 sources have increased approximately $30,000,000 during the year; ( $18,000,000 of this increase came ] between September 11 and Novem- < ber 20. A striking feature of the < statement is that though the total < resources increased $18,000,000, the loans decreased $1,000,000 from September 11 to November 20. i Did the ingenious Luxburg engi- J neer that earthquake in Guatemala? I VETERAN FOREMAN | SAW FLEET CHANGES; BENNETT FOR YEARS HAD BIG PART IN BUILDING BATTLESHIPS STILL IS CONSERVATIVE. Tells of the Great Good Wonderful Tanlac Did Him and Says "I | Only Took Two Bottles." For twelve years William F Bennett was foreman at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, I'ncle Sam's hive of industry for the country's defense, where thousands of skilled workmen toil at the nation's vital work. It was from the ways of this great vard that some of our greatest ' l 1 If dreadnaughts were iauncneu. air Bennett had a part in this work :md there he saw the evolution of the American navy worked out. Today Mr Bennett, aged <>s, is retired, living at (108 Gates avenue, Brooklyn. He is still the conservative, carefully speaking man of the navy yard days, and so the story he recently told will have added force. "For a long time," Mr Bennett explained, "I kept having a pain in my chest, and a full, heavy, bloated feeling in my stomach and abdomen. It felt as if I had eaten something that disagreed with me, but I couldn't tell what. My food did not digest,but seemed to sourand lie like a lump. I got so I couldn't eat vegetables at all. I lived on eggs and milk, and lots of time I didn't have an appetite even for that diet. Besides, I had night sweats and I could not really rest more than an hour or two at night, ind then only when 1 was all tired eut. I had to lie so tired I just dropped off to sleep. I took lots of medicine and was treated many times, but I just kept on feeling bad. But now," Mr Bennett continued. "I feel better in every way. I can sleep all night long. J havel i good appetite and can eat any-) thing with pleasure l?ecause my stomach is easy and does not distress me, but digests my food. I feel so good I make it a rule to walk twenty to thirty blocks each lay. "What did this for me? Why, Tanlae. So many people told me about Tanlac that, though I really lid not l>elieve all of it, because 1 lidn't think any medicine could be is good as they said it was, I decided to try it. And I only took two bottles," he added. Tanlae, the reconstructive, system purifier and tonic, is designed to go to the root of such trouble as Mr Bennett had. It is designed to create real digestion and assimila"f *?/ ??! fViof ic t?r\rwl and nnnr llUll in tuvu mub iw avvx* ?w ? ishing and so build strength through blood and tissues. Tanlac, the master medicine, is sold by Kingstree Drug Co, Kingstree; Mallard Lumber Co, Greelytrille; Farmers' Drug Co, Hemingway; S S Aronson, Lane; R P Hinnant, Suttons; W D Bryan, Bryan. Warden Killed by Federal Prisoner. Dr Jas R Brock of Trenton, Ga, ieputy warden of the federal penitentiary, was killed in the prison at Atlanta last Thursday when Dimitre Popoff/a prisoner, struck him down with an iron bar as the prisoners were leaving the dining room. The murderer's only statement was that t was "a personal matter." Popoff was serving a sentence for counter feiting from Ohio. The week of February 4 was set iside by the Department of Justice "or the registration of the 500,000 unnaturalized Germans in continen:al United States by police and postmasters. in pursuance of President iVilson'3 alien enemy proclamation lirecting this action as a means of minimizing the danger from enemy lympathizers in the United States. Leather shortages are being mitigated by the use of fish skins. A 10ft pliable leather suitable for shoejppers or heavy gloves was made from the intestines of a whale. The JKin UI tt puipuisc pn/uutcu Ck uuc ?rain, thick leather, shark skin was tanned into a coarse leather for mechanical purposes, and the pray fish produced acceptable leather for4book pinding. One of the Mullins banks has paid Dut $7,200 in Christmas checks. Bank deposits in that prosperous town are double those of a year ago. Whenever You Need a Genera! Tonic Take Grove's. The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic is equally valuable as a General Tonic because it contains the well known tonic properties of QUININE and IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and Builds up the Whole System. 60 cents. \ ' COURT TRIALS IN ITALY. | The Criminal Code There Is Utterly Different From Ours. Criminal court triads in Italy are, conducted under a very simple system, though utterly different i'roin tlie system which governs procedure in American or Kuglisli courts, says ' an exchange. The trial takes place before three j judges and a jury, to which are added a certain number of extra jurors, who arc sworn and are present in court to hear the testimony and are held ready to take the place in the jury box of any juror who may in the course of the trial be incapacitated from further service. The depositions of all the witnesses have been taken in writing and signed before the trial begins. Each of the judges has a copy of these before , him. The prosecutor and the conn- j sel for the accused furnish to the1 court a list of the witnesses they j desire called, and these are all sum-1 moned by the court, which has pow-1 er to punish nonattendance. The first thing that happens when the trial begins is the questioning of the accused by the presiding justice. In Italy, as in most of contiental Europe, a man accused of a crime is considered by the law to be the very best witness to his own guilt or innocence. In England and America the accused need not testify unless he chooses. In Italy he is the first and most important witness. The accused is allowed the widest scope in defending himself. He has a right to tell his own story in his own way, to offer anything he can in wfOTT r\t -inc+ifi/%ofin-n /vr nftllinfinn UiC T?ay vi juouuvuwvu v* w.v~. Even hearsay evidence is admissible. The judge has absolute discretion as to what testimony may be received and what excluded, and anv judge who exercised this discretion unfairly would be an object of execration. Bias on the part of one judge is possible, but there are always the other two judges on the bench with him, and they are a perfect check against unfairness. When the accused has given his testimony he is confronted personally with his accuser. The accuser is necessarily the principal witness against him. Strictly speaking, the prisoner has no right to interrupt his accuser while the latter is telling his story, but in practice the judges permit it, and the confrontation sometimes becomes a three cornered debate between accuser, accused and judge, the latter giving the accused the widest leeway to demonstrate hie innnr-prifo ?Case and Comment. Source of Ivory. Ivory is a hard substance, not unlike bone, of which the teeth of most animals chiefly consist, the dentine or tooth substance which in transverse sections show lines of different color running in circular arcs. It is used extensively for industrial purposes and is derived from the elephant, walrus, hippopotamus, narwhal and some other animals. The ivory of the tusks of the African elephant is held in the highest estimation by manufacturers. Tho tusks vary in size, ranging from a few ounces in weight to 170 pounds. Holtzapffel states that he saw fossil *?* - - i 1? tusks on rne uauKb ui xivcio m northern Siberia which weighed 186 pounds each. Ivory is simply tooth substance of exceptional hardness, toughness and elasticity.?Book of Wonders. Ration of the Soldier. The daily ration of the soldier in the United States army, says the American Medical Journal, consists of bread, 18 ounces; butter, one-half ounce, or jam, 1.28 ounces; potatoes, 20 ounces; bacon, 12 ounces; beans, 24 ounces; lard, 0.64 ounce; salt, 0.64; pepper, 0.04, and vinegar, 0.16 gill; coffee, 1.12 ounce; sugar, 3.2 ounces; evaporated milk, 5 ounces. This ration contains 4,199 calories and is greatest of any of the armies of the world except Russia, in which the ration is said to contain 4,929 calories. The calorics in the French ration arc given as 3,340, the British 3,292 and the German 3,147. Ancient Tunneling. Although tunneling is among the most ancient of enterprises, more progress has been made in it the last century than in the twenty centuries which preceded it. It is now known that back in the semi-mythical days of the Theban kin<rs the long tunnel into the mountain rock, expanding at a distance of 400 feet or so into some loftv chamber, was a common work. The rock temples of Nubia, too, and of India show that in certain matters at any rate moderns may still learn from the ancients. Dark Ages. The dark ages was the period of European history beginning with the irruotion of barbarian hordes before the fall of the western Roman empire (A. D. 47G), extending to the Italian Renaissance (thirteenth century) and characterized by the decay of civilization. / f Save several < per ton on NO matter how much or lit old style hulls you always per ton by buying TMAOC MAM RUCK W m COTTONSE KHULI LINTLCSi You pay more for the old styli paying for about a pound of lin of hulls. You pay less for Buckeye Hull for hulls. The lint is sold separj Other Advat Buckeye Hulls are 100 per cent Ev roughage. Th They do not contain lint which ( has no food value. Nc You get 2000 lbs. of real rough- Sa< age to the ton?not 1500. Th R. S. Parkham, Greenville, Ca., says "I feed about fifty cows and calves veru successfully. I consider Buc and cheapen feed than the old sty Ta secure the best resdts and to develop tl thoroughly twelve hours before feed mHmf Ikam down nieht and moraine for th this cannst be dom, wet dewn at least If feed tbe bulls dry, nee only half as much b Book of Mixed F Gives the right formula for every coml South. Tells how much to feed for m. tening, for work. Describes Buckeye I using them properly. Send for your co Dept. 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