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?8UNTY CORRESPONDENCE. LETTERS FROM OUR SPE? CIAL CORRESPONDENTS. of Intern* From nil Parts of and Adjoining Counties. WOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. Mail your letters so that they will tench this office not latsr than Tues 4af morning. When the letters are uved Wednesday It la almost an tpoMlblllty to have them appear In ll paper Issued that day. - Axnocu. Antloch. Fob. 25.?Parm work Is ? oat off. Rain has been falling ly all morning and land Is too A to plough for the next few days. Mr. W. T. McLeod spent Saturday Susnter. Masels. Arthur McLeod and James nkine of Rembert. spent Frid*i at Is place. Mr. Olla Munnerly spent Sunday at from the Charleston Medical J. K. Rlchbourg and J. W spent Friday In Blshopvtlle. 1"he oat crop la very good. The Het li ?y has not visited this communi? ty yet. The health of the commulnty Is fM4r teod. No one sick that we have of. Mev. J. B. Strickland preached to and attentive audience yester qr afternoon, at St. John's. Mr. J. R. McLeod spent Saturday i Camdea. Quite a number from this plsoe at led the sociable given at Mr. T. Bradley"* In honor of Miss Anna ilngs and Miss Tlllte Morris. Mr. J. R. Klrkley was In Sumtor erday. STATEHURG. Maleburg, Feb. 17.?A very pleas ssat party was given at the residence af Mr. snd Mrs. Screven Moore.on Vautiday. February SSrd. Among these present were Misses Ployd. Man nie Moore and Annie Holmes. ULr. Jeter Green, a student St. the Charleston Medical College, spent tfcssUlay In our midst/ The Stateburg Literary Society aast at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Xeyle on Friday night, nTebru Itth. At 9 o'clock a very del tful musical programme was ren which was greatly enjoyed by present. Virginia Saunders Is vtsHtaf gees In Hagood this week. Mrs. R. C. Rchardson, Jr. enter at cards on Friday afternoon. Mab.. 19th at Farm HID. much to enjoyment of her young gueits. . Frank P. Burgess spent Sunday Ml home. Mr. Henry Moore, a student at the Charleston Medical College, visited parent*. Mr. and Mrs. Screven . on Sunday. Rev. W. H. Barnwell spent Sunday Clarendon. Mr. J. Singleton Moore was the of Mrs. James Plnckney on Mfadlteedsy. MAX. s. Feb. 17.?Irr. C. J. Tomllson, has been In 111 health and very ndent for some time, ended his life yesterday p. m.. by cutting <hroat with s razor. His many Is are shocked and grieved.. In? ert will take place at Bethel h this p. m. nt 4 o'clock. DALZELL aVlssll. March 1.?Your correspon has been awity on a visit for vl days, so I have not written aome time, but glad to say I am at home. Wille swsy I visited Worth Carolina snd different seo of Marlon cc unty South Caro I visited my old home of my tood. I had mt seen for more II years, but nothing looked 1 only two large walnut trees to play and ?reck walnuts un l>?a the same, only two of the ^aadsr*"heads i used to know are now 'ahrin* The chlldr? n have all grown say asd now moet of them have large aaaalllee of their own* t also attended Cheenorrh I used to go to and heard Sev. bavt Tiller preach one of his wrrhons He was pastor on the charge IS years ago, when I I years old. I met Rev. Simon Campbell. He Is a local preacher, hut one of the beet men I know of. my heart was carried back to J sappy days of my childhood, saaet und talking of bygone days, but as ws talked each v as reminded that we are arowlng od as the ?dlvery h)cks sre beginning to show very plain en our hesds. I noticed sUn* of im? provement on ail sides. Tobasoo aad Strawberries sre (he chief SSOasy aaaps r?ver there. ThS| MAI me they te on an averageof one to one bun red and fifty dollars per acre on to snd SSSne times two to thr?? i dollars per acre <>n straw? berries. Lots of the p*?opU. F used to know who lived In pole houses and worked oxen sre now living In new comfortable houses and have from 2 as t snd 4 nice horses snd mute? and they say tobscco and it raw brrrlna did It but they sre consumers as well as producers for 1 think about all the ladles use snuff and some of the men, and all the men. 1 think use tobacco. They tell me they haw to use It to keep the price up, but really I think some of the ladleH would look better If the snuff was let alone ?u:* community was saddened on j Saturday morning by the death of Mr. Kd Boykln, though he has been sick for a long time and was not ex? pected to live. The funeral services was conducted at Providence Sunday afternoon, by Hev. F. G. Whltloak Quite a large crowd attending. Mrs. W. S. Boykln Is still confined to her bed with rheumatism or some stmtllar disease. She is drawn very badly and Is perfectly helpless, and suffers dreadfully with pain. Our heart goes out to all such shut-ins. Farm work is progressing nicely as the weather Is fine. One of the slickest rogues was cap? tured at Dalsell last week, we think In the county. He has been stealing cotton seed and other things there for some time. He had his wagon padded all around so it would not make any noise at all. Wheels, bol? sters and every part that would make any noise at all was padded good. So we hope Bob Council will be kept out of the way for a while now. PRIVATEER, Privateer, March 1.?Farmers are getting on nicely with their work. Oats are looking fine. Miss Daisy Lide and Miss Thomas a.e visiting in Orangeburg.. Mrs. E. W. Rivers is visiting her daughter, Mrs. T. E. Mlms. in Elloree. Mr. J. D. Jenkins Is attending United states Court in Florence as a juryman. Mr. Jim Davis has moved his fam? ily /from Rocky Bluff to Mr. John Osteen'a place ner Privateer station. Messrs. Percy Harvin and J. D. Jenkins are making preparations to put a telephone line from their places to Sumter. Tairs. e Is to be a hot supper at the Bethel parsonage on Friday night, March 5th, to help raise money to build a dinning room on to the par? sonage. We are glad that there is no sick? ness at this writing te report. OH SCHOOL FOR ' PRIVATFEIL hool House to be Erected at Bethel Church?Other News Note?. Privateer, Feb. 29.?The prophecy of one of your correspondents in re? ference to "Old Privateer" seems to be coming true. In a short while ground will be broken In the beauti* ful grove near Bethel church for the erection of a high school for our township. The lot was denoted by the Bethel church. You can natural? ly Imagine our delight in anticipation at the added facility for education, and higher education ut that, at our very doors. Our schools are greatly improved^ this season all along the line. Better teachers, better houses and furniture, more Interest and a general awakening to the interest of the children's training and welfare. When our high school opens next fall we will be able to have our children educated t home well enough to fit them for ordinary business, and those who wish to enter higher institution of learning can prepare themselves at home. Our trustees are exerting themselves to give us the best that can be had, and Privateer will soon be a desirable place to live with a large family of children. I hear rumors of a feast in store for all who love good things to out The ladies of Bethel church will give a hot supper at the pars mage on next Friday evening, March 5th. All who have ever attended a supper ur festival given by the ladles of Priva? tiver know what it means, and on this occasion the invitation Is to the world at large. i *? The object of the supper is to rais'i funds to build a dining room on to the rtrsonage, for Rev. Haynsworth loves to entertain his friends, and when his accomplished and entertain? ing wife, thought small In statue, gets started his present dining room Is too small to hold her and the good things [she piovldcs. If the weather he good they hope to see many from the city of Huinter and the county at large. The farmers are pushing their work In a remarkable manner. "No loaf? ing this year" seems to be the motto of our country. I notice more repairs to houses and general move alon^ the line of better drainage than for years. The soil survey maps are receiving close study and Norfolk sand and Portsmouth sand arc talked of fre? quently. Long ll\?- A. F. Lev< r. Till: sot TI IS CORN CROP. Th?> South It able to gTOW corn. TestlmofiN |h iti from t\.ry Southern Slate Bft vmg corn to be Ohl Of the most useful ami profitable crops. It shows, tco that corn is the basis of successfu Southern farming. With more demands all around, higher prices for food, clothing and other necesslttles, and all social requHre ments greater, it is now out of . the question to farm profitably on pur? chased corn. When labor was abundant, cotton high and corn cheap, a different or? der of things could rule. But this or ftl r has changed. Corn now comes first in the list and calls for attention from every Southern land tiller. Cot? ton is rot to be replaced, but corn is to have more general employment. More corn means better fed animals, more animals and a more profitable system of farming. The Southern pork barrel must be kept filled. But every one knows that cotton will not fill it. The pork bar? rel is associated with corn, pasture and forage crops. Because of this I want to urge a stronger interest in corn this year, not only for larger acreage, but for better preparation of soil and closer attention to the detallb of cultivation, that not only a larger total yield may be produced, but that a far greater production an acre may also be secured. I shall, therefore, continue to talk corn and write about corn for the South with more urgency than ever. I have grown corn too many years not to appreciate or un? derstand its wonderful possibilities, and nowhere have I been so well pleased with the crop as in the South. A corn crop rightly and wisely raised Is not only profitable, but most satis? fying. Kot a single South farm can afford to ignore corn this year. Be? sides, it Is not fashionable to farm these days without giving corn a con? spicuous place on the farm plans. And right now I want you to think about corn for the coming year. It Is not one bit too early to begin active planning; in fact, now is the right time to begin the preparation on many lands if that work has not al? ready heen done by good thorough fall and winter plowing. The old method of ridging up a few furrows will no longer suffice in the modern I corn field. Corn land should have tillage of the best and most effective sort. To be at Its best corn requires deep til? lage, and eight to ten inches is not too, much. If, however, this land of yours that is to go in corn is accus? tomed to shallow plowing, it will not do to plow it deeply all at once. Sev? eral plowings must be resorted to that the seedbed may be gradually deepened. An inch or two deeper at each plowing will do the stunt. But the entire field should be turned just as deep as its condition will permit this year. If your soil has been fall or winter plowed, an occasional disking will be just the kind of treatment this land will need, and this work you can keep up until planting time. This con? tinual condition it will keen the sur? face soil loosened up, enabling water to get down deep Into the subsoil, and, preventing evaporation, It will hold the water in storage in the soil r jt the growing season h.ter on. Y >u know corn requires a good deal 01 water and even though the amount of tuiniall is large in the South, much of the water is lost and tri? crop surfe's durhig mid-summer. A big forage fruppiy secured during the winter and spring season, comes In handily when hl t July and August are on You should give close attention to seed at this season also. If your sup? ply has not been selected carefully, If. i*. !?? mongrel and of inferior stock, ?.hen It will be money in your pocket to get teed from nome corn breeder or good farmer who ha? ?een gn?* or good farmer who has been grow? ing seed with some skill, and who has taken care of It during the winter season. But te*t your seed even if you buy it. A big crop of corn means a right start. Corn of low vitality and of different germinating power is not fit for seed purposes. You will at this time also give some thought to fertilizers, but just remem? ber that fertilizers pay little when the land is lily prepared. To dribble a little fertilizer dope in the hill or row Is not a promising performance if you are after a big yield of corn. On the other hand, if the soil has been well plowed and the seedbed thoroughly prepared, fertilizers will usually be responsive, even if but a small quan? tity is used. The best land for corn Is an old pea stubble or a crimzon Clover field. The pea stubble can be plowed early, thus admitting of one field of corn to be planted early In the season. The crimson clover can either be pastured off, thus supplying hogs, cattle or other live stock with early spring pasture, or It can be made Into hay. In the latter case. It moans late plow? ing, hut It Is still in time for ensilage if it i.s your good fortune to po.-sess a Silo. r.et cut of the habit also of plant? ing corn so fur apart. Hows six ft et apart, with ?Ingle stalks in them from three to live feet. Ii ? wazte of effort and a eure start for a small yield. A little calculation "ill show that you won't have ears enough) even It large, to make a satisfactory yield. Put the rows closer together?four feet apart is ample. And have ;? stalk of corn on an average for every twenty-four Inches, This will mean business. It win mean more oorn, Ian work, more profit. All hands now for n greater Southern corn crop.?American Agri? culturist. LAST HO?BS OF LEGISLATURE. A not 11 KU PAflT-MJDNIGfHT ses? sion is HELD, Appropriation Hill Keeps General As? sembly in Session Until Long Past The Midnight Hour?Adjournment Readied Karly Sunday Morning. Columbia, Feb. 28.?At 10 o'clock | last night the yeneral assembly began to get ready for adjournment. All bills save the general appropriation were through the legislative grind. The free conference committee was at work, and had been working since 4 o'clock. It is a great pity that this most Important bill should be the very last to be acted upon. Messrs. Mauldin, Hardin and Sullivan, on the part of the senate, and Messrs. Ruck? er, Dick and Doar, on the part of the house used the utmost care to get the general appropriation bill In per? fect condition before it was rat'ied. The engrossing department is waiting for the appropriation. The free conference committee had not reported on the appropriation bill at 1 o'clock, eastern time, and 11:59 o'clock, legislative time. The report is that the committee has agreed on all items of the bill except one as to the pay for the clerks and attaches on the matter of overtime. When the appropriation bill came from the committee it showed a decrease of $122,000 from last year's appropria? tion. When Anally agreed upon it will show a total appropriation of $1,631,000, or a reduction of $12,000 from the Act of 1903. The free con? ference has inserted in the bill, in ad? dition to what was there when the bill left the house, $20,000 for school extension, $10,000 for Winthrope ex? tensions, $12,000 for a new kitchen. $2,600 for factory inspectors, $2,000 for South Carolina University, $10, 000 Increase for high schools, $5,000 additional for printing, $10,000 lor claims, $1,200 additional for engross? ing department, $5,000 for sliver ser? vice for battle ship, $5,000 for the Hospital for the Insane, $1,500 addi? tional for department of agriculture. $7,500 for a monument for Confeder? ate women, $1,500 for refund for Greenville monument, $2,000 for con? tingent fund of senate and $500 for house, $700 for solicitors and $500 for clerks. The item for $5,000 for free school books was abandoned. In the matter of the Confederate Home the free conference committee accepted the senate's position in agreeing to continue tne Home. Twelve thousand dollars was appro? priated for maintenance of the Home, instead of abandoning this institution and converting the $12,000 into the general pension appropriation. The general assembly which has Just closed In some respect presented some remarkable features. There was little general legislation, although an ,unusually large number of local acts were passed. The senate and house weree in session 47 days, which was a ? week longer than usual and there was a filibuster that broke all previous records over the prohibition bill in the house and another on the same measure In the senate. The general assembly parsed a compromise prohibition measure which Wit] hardly change existing conditions, although a few of the counties may vote out the dispen >aries. There is no doubt but that at the next session another effort will be made to pass the State-wide bill. The general assembly passed Mr. K. P. Smith's bill requiring corpora? tions to make public to the stockhold? ers the exact financial condition. It also passed Senator Mauldin's bill forbidding any corporation from de? claring dividends not actually earned. It repealed the lien law after a very hard fight in the senate. It killed the railroad rate law, which would have made the legal paMPnger rate in the State 2 1-2 cents per mile. It increased considerably the ap? propriations for the common schools and passed some Important amend? ments to the present high school law. It passed the Brlce act, making 10 hours the legal day in textile estab? lishments. This act does not apply in cases of lost time. It changed and enlarged Commis? sioner Watson's department, elimi? nating the Immigration feature and creating a department of factory in? spection with the right to appoint two Inspectors. It passed a law making the passage of a worthless check a misdemeanor. It provided for a new class room at the University of South Carolina and additional facilities at Winthrop. it pasted an antt-dlacrlmlnation bill which would forbid underselling of certain products for the purpose of stilling comptltlon, These are some of the most Impor? tant matten acted on. a large num? ber ->f blllfl were killed and a very large number carried over until next session, it refuaed to take any action on tax reform or on compulsory edu? cation, although both will probably be aoU il on next year. No business Is run the way those who know least about it think It ought to be run. THE G08PER TRIAL TWO SURPRISES SPRUNG DUR? ING SATURDAY'S HEARING. Chief Executive of Tennessee Tells What Happened oh Day Carmack Was Killedi luit Portions of His Testimony the Jury is Xot Allow od To Hear?The state Declines to Cross Examine. Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 2 7.?Two facts stool out strongly in the Coop? er-Sharp trial today for the murder of formet United States Senator E. W. Carmack. One was the calling by the defense of Governor M. R. Patterson, The other was the failure of the State to cross-examine him. It has generally been conceded that? however innocently?Governor Pat? terson was one of the remote causes of the killing. Carmack ran against Patterson for 'he Democratic nomi? nation and lost. Col. Cooper, former patron and friend of Carmack, sup? ported Patterson. The newspaper fight which began then did not end until the morning of the tragedy. Throughout the testimony in the case the name of Governor Patterson ap? peared continually and insistently. Finally Col. Cooper testified that the governor sought and found him a few hours before the tragedy. So the defense called the governor today; did it reluctantly, some say; gladly, according to others. The gov? ernor testified twice, once before the court and again before the jury. *To the court he told how he was called over the telephone by Col. Cooper's daughter, Mrs. Lucius ' Burch. What Mrs. Burch told him he did not say, but it is known that the girl was in deadly terror and appealed to the chief executive to use his influence to avert a tragedy. Whatever Mrs. Burch said so im? pressed the governor that he took his private secretary and began a fren? zied hunt 'or the colonel, commenc? ing at 9 a. m.. and ending, at the Max? well Hotel at noon, where he found Cooper. He described the colonel's anger and his declarations and told how he, Robin and Attorney Brad? ford soothed the old soldier and made him' promise to let friends arrange a peaceable settlement. Every interest? ing detail was revealed. Somehow the news got out that the governor was to testify and half an hour before he was called the empty seats began to fill. Soon one of the biggest crowds of the trial jammed the court room. The throng listened breathlessly to his every word. The governor is a trained public speaker and he used his voice to splendid ef? fect, Illustrating his words with ges? tures. After he had told his story to the court, while the jury was out, Judge Hart decided that the governor could not repeat the conversation at this conference, but might state the result of the conference and describe the colonel's demeanor. The State declined to cross-examine today, but reserved the right to recall the governor later. This decision fol? lowed a long conference of the State's attorneys, and none of them would explain it. The day's testimony was begun by T. Leigh Thompson, who resumed the stand for a lew minutes. He testified that a green hat was handed him af? ter the shooting with the remark that it was Carmack's, but that he had never seen the senator wear a green hat. He sale it wes a most unusually smoky day, on th< day of the shoot? ing. Forest fires had been raging and that he would have been unable to distinguish a blue steel pistol half a block away. "Would it be possible for any mm to recognize a man standing near the scene of the killing from the corn? er?" (John Sharpe swore that he did.) "I do not think so." The State aimed to prove that it was impossible for the Coopers to recgnize Senator Carmack nearly a block away. roscos Mathews, a tailor, next told of meeting John Sharpe the afternoon of the tragedy, corroborating part of Sharpe'8 testimony. He was cross examined very briefly. Dr. Richard Drake, whose office was across the street from the scene of the killing next told how he heard five shots with an Interval between the first and second shots, which were louder than the latter. He went to Carmack's body, and as he stood there the fingers relaxed and the cigar they held Slipped to the pave? ment. Carmack was dead. Dr. Drake saw Mrs. Eastman and thought she was highly excited. Roherl B, Dlllard, a lumberman from Lebanon, Tenn.. who was in Nashville the day of the killing) said he beard the shots. "First cams two shots then three shots very much quicker. The two first shots were mm h louder than the last three/' he said. Dlllard was sure that the shots were from different revolvers. Prof. W. C. Kllvington, superinten? dent of the State Industrial School, testified that he was In Dr. Fort's In firmary, near the shooting. He said: "There were two shots first, loud, but muffled. Then came three more metallic, but not so loud." Tili: STOKY OF LIFE. \s I. Is Written In Kadi of our Lives. There is no more suggestive or beautiful sight to our eyes, than that of an elderly married couple, who, trustingly and lovingly together, have walked the rugged ways of life from youth to old age, and now hand in hand, and heart to heart, are patient j ly and hopeful y waiting upon the hither shore of time, for the sound of the boatman's oar, to be borne across the mystic, pale river. We look back along the dim vista of years to the halycon time of life's I sunny morning, we witness their ? plighted vows at the altar, and see them go forth. In the pride of life and the glory of their young wedded lives to the struggles of existance. Many a Godspeed and kind word of cheer fall upon their ears as they go out from beneath the parental roof tree that is to shelter them no more forever. I Before them stretches out a new I world of experiences, of Joys and sor I rows, of grand successes, and per I haps of said failures. But strong of J purpose and resolute of will, and with I life's sky rose-tinted with the flush of ; dawn, they move on, and enter upon, , this to them all unexplored world of experience. We see them settled in i their new home and begin the never ; ending battle of life, j Perhaps their home is a log cabin J in the wilderness, with neighbors few and far, or may be a cozy little cot I tage in some distant town. The hue ' band is bravely bending every energy j to the task of mastering the hard i conditions of life, and a home and a ? name in the world, and securing if possible that independence that shall relieve them from the possibility ! of want. To the wife's rosy cheek 1 has come the pallor of the dreadful ; agonies of maternity, but now her ! eyes are bright with a new hope, as she caresses the tiny form that nestles in her bosom. And then comes added care and heart-aches as the years glide away. We see them, with streaming eyes and pleading |?pi ? over the couch of their darling, as its little life flutters away in the short gasp of dissolution, and its eyes grow dim under the touch of death's icy figers. But anon, time pours its gentle balm into their wounded hearts, and the bitter trial and loss which they thought they never could endure, fades away into a tender memory. Again we behold them, and as in the long ago they went forth into the world, now their own noble sons and daughters burdened with the un? solved problems and untried respon? sibilities of life, follow in their foot? steps; and soon their home is left un | to them desolate, save in the com? panionship of their own souls. Well for them if they have within themselves treasures of culture and character that shall supply their I dearest need; well for them if school? ed in that beautiful philosophy that enabled St. Paul to say: "I have fought the good fight, I have finish? ed my course, I kept the faith." they too can feel in their souls that they have done the best they knew, and that now they will trust the good Father for all that is to come. The shadows stretch away in length? ening lines toward the east, and now they are calmly watching the glories of the coming sunset of a well-spent life. How grand they seem in the fruition of their years, with their silvered hair glowing in the sunset's golden gleam. Their faces are ra? diant with a divine hope that beyond the bars of the shining west the beck? oning arms of their loved ones are outstretching towards them to wel? come them to their home of eternal rest and love; and that in a few more? days, or years, at the most, they will pass on as one weary with the bur? den of the day' gathers "the drapery of his couch about him. and lies down to pleasant dreams." TflIK PUOHIBTTIOX BILL. Continued from page 1. dispensers In offlce on August 2, 1909r shall continue to discharge their sev? eral duties as if such dispensary or dispensaries had not been closed: Provided, that in the counties which have heretofore voted upon the ques? tion of dispensary or no dispensary ander existing or previous laws and have no dlsp? nsary at this time, shall have the right at any time after the expiration of four years from the last election upon the question of dispen? sary or no dispensary, as provided in an Act entiteled "An Act to declare the law in reference to and to re? gulate the manufacture, sale, usc consumption, possession. transporta? tion and disposition of alcoholic li? quors and beverages within the State* and to police the same.'' approved February 16, 1907. Section 17. That all Acts and parts of Acts Inconsistent herewith be, and same are, hereby repealed.