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THK HrMTKH WATCB3IAN. F-Mablhihcd April, 1850. "Be Just and Fear not?Let all the ends Thou Aims'* at be thy Country's, Thy God's and Truth's.** THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Established June, ISM. Consolidated Aug. 3,1881. 8UMTER, S. C., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1913. Vol. XXXVII. No. 8. HIGH PRICED MAI CERTAIN WARNING GIVEN CAROLINA FARMERS ONCE MORE. \?n< iiiturNlM Wrt??*M From 1111 not* About Planting of Standard Wliiirr Cm er Crop*. Columbia, Sept. 17.?"The furm demonstration agents re pressing the growing of winter rover OTPS! and any one not knowing how to plant vetch or clover can obtain informa? tion from them, or from the depart? ment bulletins. As a business propo? sition the acreage of these crops should be increased five-fold this year." Such is* the advice contained In a letter from A. G. Smith, agricul? turalist of the United States depart? ment of agriculture, who Is at pres? ent engaged as farm management agent for the State of Illinois. Mr. Smith has been at work In South Car? olina for nearly nve years and Is now dividing his time between the two States. Three years ago Mr. Smith pre? dicted the present high price of hay and urged upon the farmers of South Carolina to plant hay and vetch crops. "I have traveled over a large part of Illinois," says Mr. Smith in a let? ter reecived in Columbia, "and have received reports on the crop condition from several of the county agricul? tural advisers. In the central portion of the State, which Is the heart of the famous corn belt. It has been probably the driest season known. From April 2 until now the rainfall at Urbana has been a little over seven Inches, where the normal is over 25 inches. This ha made all crop" and pastures .short. The oat crop through central llllnoi? has averaged less than 15 bushels per acre where last year the average was around 50. Pastures have been dried tip for weeks and farmers have been compelled t ? free" the stock. "Corn wllil make Just about one half of last year's yield. Hay Is sell ing high but not quite so high as it did two years ago. Some farmers an contracting new corn for future de J^Lfjejktg per bushel, or -r ago. but la ha Ught. Is a lesson In these condi tlens for South Carolina farmers. It Will be remembered that two yean efcn similar conditions prevailed In Illinois, only a wide territory was af fected. Through the columns of Tin Rtate farmers were apprised of the fact and were urged to plant crop*, that would make hay in the spring high prices being forecasted. Thlup? turned out Just as predicted and rnan> farmers to their sorrow paid ftO pal ton for hay In the spring of 1913 Many, however, heeded the advice and planten oats, vetch und other crops and grew a sufficient supply. "It la hardly expected that hay will be as high next spring as it was 18 months ago, but there Is no posslbll IfcT of It being cheap. The wise farmer will take the point Into consideration and prepare for it. There should be the greatest acreage of oats, vetch ami other hay crops planted this fall the State has ever known." Mr. Smith will probably return to his work in South Carolina during th> fall. Ills special work in this State at this time Is to interest the farmers In alfalfa. FOR STATE-WIDE PROHIBITION, Representative Citizens Invited to Convention In Columbia October t. Hpartanburg. Sept 16.?Ways and means whereby State-wide prohibit? ion may be established in South Car? olina will be considered at a conven? tion which um Rar, J. L Harley, su? perintendent of the Anti-Saloon LSagi c, today announced will be held in Columbia, tutober 9. Two hundred representative citizens have hgt ti asked to attend the meeting and tin hur? hfl BS.V1 been asked to send il ? Vk;.i ? ? Mr. Harley mild the prohibitionist.^ eowld not put out a Candidatt foi governor bui weald sndaaroi te take th* IPpior uuc.'ttioii ,,ut ,,f politics Two plans for prohibition hart been suggested, to- said. in,,- |h to submit a saaatHntlenai amendment to the pennte, Ins other Is to have s refer? endum, whe n, while not binding on 11m aaesrnot oi legislature, would dlOS lOSS the Hill ot |aS people. lb fall the legislature Mould lie o\,r whelmed with memorials asking thai one or the other of these pi,ins Is sanctioned. There is mm b waste in getting oU( the flawless who*' (,aK ne< . . i. i tight barrel staves The tonst set \ ice is tr\lng to get manuf.t< 1 in ? r 1 of parnueti) Mooring |fl use SOSBS B this waste. TARIFF IN CONFERENCE. LEYEit offers substitute for clark amendment. Conferees Push Thnmnh Sundry Schedule, Reaching Agreements on Most of Its Provisions. Washington, Sept. 16.?Modification of the senate's cotton futures tax amendment to the tariff hill to make the provision acceptable to the house Bftn be considered by the tariff confer? ence committee within a day or two. Informal discussion of the subject has developed the fact that the house probably would accept the plan of taxing trades in cotton futures, if the terms of the Clarke amendment adopted by the senate were modified. A substitute for the Clarke amend? ment submitted to the conferees to? day b^ Representaive Lever of .^outh Carolina, chairman of the house com? mittee on agriculture, would provide that the tax of 50 cents per bale shall not Oe assessed where the cotton con? tracts call for the regular government grades, and such grudes actually are delivered; or where the diffeienee in price is paid if another grade is de? livered. This and other changes will be considered, in the belief that the cotton futures amendment Anally will be retained as a regulatory provision as well as a revenue raising feature. The tariff conferees pushed through the sundry schedule of the tariff to? day, reaching agreements on most of its provisions. The differences be? tween house and senate over hats, photographic Ulms, works of art, furs and several other important items were left for later action. The house members accepted the senate amendments putting gunpow? der and fulminates on the free list, making changes in the method of as? sessing duties on laces, and putting harness and saddlery on the free list. The senate receded from its amend? ment putting chamois, calf skins and similar leathers on the free list, and a? eepted the house rutes of 15 per cent. The senate also consented to a reduction in the rates it had lixed on gloves. Chairman Underwood of the houst conferees expressed the belief tonight that theire would la; no great differ? ences between the members of the two houses over the income tax eec lion, in which the senate materially Increased the rates of taxation on large incomes. Owing to the large number of amendments to the text of the in? come tax notion, however, it Is ex? pected that some time will be spent by conferees in perfecting the measure to prevent confusion in the adminis? tration of the law. Representative Lever said today that his substitute for the Clark cot? ton futures amendment had the ap? proval of many Southern senators with whom he had tulked. The proposal is in the nature of ti compromise and was drawn by Mr. Lever after conferences with experts of the department of agriculture and Postmaster General Burleson. It is intended to regulate cotton exchange eontracts rather than abolish the ex? changes. Under the substitute, If actual de? livery of cotton sold on exchange were not made a settlement would be re? quired on the basis of aetual commer OtoJ differenees as established in the spot cotton market, for six days pre? viously, between the grade tendered and the basic grade named on the >?ntruct which is usually middling cotton. a nominal tax of 5 cents per bale would be ;mposed for nonde? livery. Representatives of the cotton ex? changes have presented objection! to such a Compromise and have explain? ed that a small tax be levied?ap? proximately the same jus that Imposed as ?1 revenue raiser during the Span? ish war?and a government commis? sion be Derated to study the taxation of cotton futures as an economic measure . The < ottOn inen who object to the compromise declare that the taxing of cotton, for whloh the government has created standard types, will cover only certain grades of white cotton, ami will SXelude not only c ertain low er grad 'S of white COtton but also So euHcd I inged and stained cotton which lormallj ronstltutea about 20 p? i <ent oi the crop, and which lhe> * lalin in years of storm is a much ii sate proportion. The effect of the compromise, they i 11. would be lo lift n I?'? x described i?> ihem as "deetruetlve" and "pro? hibit ive" from only ? poi I ion ol I he crop, Whi i talk oi lajunctlon proceedings against SO< lal ? b BS is started a feel Ing oi uneasj 'esentmenl becomes evident, _ m _ _ ^. o i ii. ill *a9ft EMERY DENOUNCES MULHALL defense OF M A N c FACTCRElts' ASSOCI AT ION COXChV DEI). Chief Agent of the Association at the Capital Speaks for Three Hours. Washington, Sept. 15.?The defense of the National Association of Man? ufacturers to the charges of a check? ered and improper political career in Washington and elsewhere made by its former "lobbyist," Martin M. Mul hall, was concluded tonight by James A. Emory, chief agent of the associa? tion in the capital. For nearly three hours Emery addressed the house lobby committee. He made a detailed denial of Mulhull's charges that the association packed congressional com? mittees; that it rode roughshod over those members who opposed us leg | islativc will; that it campaigned with I frequency and at great exp*ense its favored congressional friends, and that it fcpent several hundred thous? and dollars in "lobby work" through Mulhall himself. With impassioned oratory Emery declared that the association never tried improperly to influence legisla? tion. He pointed to the testimony of Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, be? fore the committee to show that the j manufacturers merely opposed the ideas of labor favoring legislation which Mr. Gompers and the unions campaigned so vigorously to get from congress. Referring to Mulhall himself, Emery surpassed in condemnation any of the public men who have taken the stand during the investigation to at? tack the lobbyist's remarkable story. "The evidence before this commit? tee conclusively demonstrates that the character of Mulhall destroys ev? ery right to believe him, nor is his written word worth more than his or? al statement," said he. "By his own testimony against that of his letters, by the falsity of their contents, prov? ed by independent witnesses, by the deception, treachery and falsehoc * that underlies ?'\ery relation of bis life, he is utterly unworthy of belief. "Dismissed from his employment two years ago, he undertook to be? tray his employers while still in their pay to representatives of organized labor, and while pleading for rein? statement he was manufacturing evi? dence to villi!y former benefactors. By the evidence which he had him j self produced, he portrays himself as assailing with incredible impartiality those for whom he professes grati? tude, equally with those who are the evident objects of his malicious and long plotted revenge." Bit VAX'S PLAN FAVORABLY RE? CEIVED. Received with Acclaim at Recent Meeting at the Hague ? Burton Brings Xcws. Washington, Sept. 13.?Secretary Bryan's pence plan for the settlement of international difficulties through the force of sober second thought and the good offices of an impartial com? mission was received with acclaim at the recent meeting of the Interparlia? mentary union at The Hague, accord? ing to Senator Burton, one of the American delegates, who returned here today. "The Bryan plan," said the senator, 'was received Jieltcr than almost any? thing that Wim'talked over. The only objection to the proposal seemed to be that during the period provided for an investigdton of grievance by a commission the countries involved should make no additions to their war equipment. Several nations did not seem to like that provision, but it is not a vital part of the plan. JUMPS IN NIAGARA WHIRLPOOL Niagara Palls, x. Y., Sept. 16.? A man believed hy the police to be John Hawkins, tiS years old, of Erie, Pa,, committed suicide this afternoon by jumping into the Niagara River from the lower steel arch bridge Which spans the river just above ttlfi start of the Whirlpool rapids. It is two hundred feet above the water. Two women standing on the Canadian Cliff saw the man climb on the rail ? ing, He sat astride the rail several minutes In in^ down at the turbu? lent Witters, then lurched forwat i. His body shot downward and struck the water headforemost, He came to tin- surface once before the white fount of tin- big drift closed over him. The suicide was the lirsl from the lower arch bridge In three years Hawkins was pulled from the bridge railing Haturda) night, but convinced his captors then that he was not bent on suicide, ARREST IN GIRL BUTCHERY. PROMINENT PHYSICIAN SAU) TO BE HELD BY POLICE. Officers Say that Later Developments Will Prove Fully as Sensational as Arrest of the Mad Priest ? Hans Schmidt Repeat! Story of Killing Anna Auinullcr ? Said to Have Heen Pronounced Insane Several YCJ' j Ago. New York, Sept. 15.?Announce? ment was made late tonight by po? lice Inspector Faurot that another man was under arrest here in connec? tion with the murder of Anna Aum uller, the crime which Hans Sch? midt, the priest, is charged. Faurot shortly after midnight left police headquarters for a sub-station, where he said the man was held. He declared the new developments would prove fully as sensational as Schmidt's arrest. Inspector Faurot, as he left headquarters with Detec? tives O'Neill and O'Connor, said they were going to upper Manhattan, where they had under arrest in his own home a prominent physician. Inspector Faurot late tonight ar? rested Dr. B. Muret, a dentist, of ; 301 St. Nicholas avenue. The doc ' tor was taken at his home, which was left in charge of detectives. No. 301 { St. Nicholas avenue is in the vicinity I of the 125th street and near St. Jo i seph's Church, where Father Schmidt, was arrested. Dr. Muret is about 30 years old. Schmidt, who confessed that he killed Anna Auinullcr with a butch? er knife as a "sacrifice to be con? summated in blood," is at the obser? vation ward of the Tombs tonight un? der the watchful eye of Dr. McGuire, the prison physician. Warden Felt m, i of the Tombs, declares the man is in I sane, one of the most dangerous men ever confined in the prison, and in this view he was upheld by Deputy i Commissioner of Corrections Wrigot. From far oil Mainz, Germany there tame today to Monsigner Jo soph F. Money, Vicar General of the arch diocese of New Y'ork, a cable? gram from the secretary of the Hisjx op which said that Schmidt had been declared insane there and suspended by the Bishop. The message read: * "Schmidt born at Aschaffenburg. Priest of Diocese of Mainz. Han away from Mainz because of attempted frauds; arrested by police; declared insane by court and discharged.'1 U. S. DISTRICT ATTORNEYS1 IIP. Weaton Says Report of Feeling Be? tween .Senators is Exaggerated. Columbia, Sept. 15.?People gen j er ally and political leaders especial j ly, were much interested in the let ! tor of Senator Tillman, to the effect I that Senator Tillman had endorsed J. William Thurmond for the United States District Attorney, and Senator Smith had endorsed Senator F. H. VVeston for the position, and they had agreed to confirm whichever name President Wilson sent to the senate and no other, thus barring any "dark horse." When shown a copy of the article j Senator Weston said the letter was in accordance with the situation, as he understands it at Washington, hav i ing stopped In the Capitol on his re ! turn from a meeting of the American Bar Association at Montreal. He is of the opinion that there has been a great deal of exaggeration in regard to the tense feeling said to exist be? tween Senators Smith and Tillman over the matter and each Senator is merely trying to do a service for a friend. Mr. Weston said he called on Senator Tillman while in Washington and was received most cordially, while Mr. Thurmond called on Senator Smith and likewise received a cordial recep? tion. Mr. Weston Is sure that neither Senator has any personal feeding against the candidates themselves and are pushing their respective candi? dates purely through ties of friend? ship. Senaten- Tillman Is supporting his friend and neighbor and Senator Smith is trying to land tIiis job for one of bis personal friends. I_ GOOD ROADS BILL INTRODUCED. _ Carries Appropriation of M&?000,000 for t onst ruction. Washington, Sept. 15. ? A bill to appropriate $25,000,000 for the eon structlon of roads in conjunction with the Slate-s and under the- direction e?l a national bureau of public high? ways, was Introduced in the* senate' to duy by Senators Thornton and Bank head, The- loll proposes that I he States provide an equal amount. Two million trees will he planted in ihe national forests in Utah, Ne? vada, ami southern Idaho during PRIEST ALSO COUNTERFEITER. slayer of anna At MI LLER says in?; fitted dp debt. l>r. Kniest Muret, Iba Dentist, Ar? rested Monday Night, Believed to Have lieen Confederate of Hans Schmidt In Making Bad Money. New York, Sept. 16.?The discovery of a counterfeiter's den, which Hans Schmidt, priest and confessed slayer of Anna Aumuller, tod iy admitted was fitted up by him to make spur? ious money, led the detectives, Cor? oner Feinberg and other visitors to his cell in the Tombs, to express the opinion that Schmidt is sane and that further investigation will develop that counterfeiting was only one of his! "side lines." They declared it is their belief he is feigning insanity aft , carefully thought out pi ins of a r . ter criminal mind. , To the Rev. Father Evers, r ^ ,n of the Tombs prison, to hi- <3? Key j and other callers Schmi fitted his connection with the Jft West 134th street, where dett. >es found bundles of imitation $10 gold certifi? cates. Dr. Ernest Arthur Muret, the den? tist arrested last night after the raid on the counterfeiter's Hat, today was held in $5,000 bail for acaring on the charge of having in h s opssession a revolver in violation of a State law. Through his knowledge of the law Muret forestalled the plans of the Federal secret service agents waiting to arrest him on a warrant charging counterfeiting. By waiving prelim? inary examination, Muret for the time being at least, escaped the more se? rious charge. GOES TO GUATEMALA. William Hayne Leaveil, Formerly of Newberry County, is Named as Minister. j Washington, Sept. 15.?President I Wilson today sent to the senate the nomination of William Hayne Leaveil I of Carrollton, Mass., as minister to Guatemala. William Hayne Leaveil is a native I of South Carolina. He is a member of a Newberry county family. He is : a minister by profession, and has been living In the West for many years. At one time he was pastor of a church in Houston, Texas. He married a daughter of United States Senator J. Z. George of Mississippi. TO BUILD UP STOCK. I Farmers in Southeast Must Stop Selling Cows to Butchers. Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 14.?if the 1 Soutbesat is to become the great cat? tle growing section that it should in ; view of its natural advantages and the present and growing demand for cattle with commensurate prices, farmers must quit selling their female and immature stock, declares Dr. C. M. Morgan, dairy agent of the South? ern Hallway, who sounds a warning against a continuation of the whole? sale deportation of cattle from the South. "Farmers should keep their heifers and build up the quality of their stock by the use of pun bred bulls of dairy or beef type as desired," says Dr. j Morgan. "This is the only way to in ? crease the number or the quality of; cattle in the Southeast. The Scarcity I of cattio is world-wide and it Will I never bti possible to secure enough J pure bred cattle to develop the indus? try In the Southeast. 'Farmers who sell calves are simp? ly giving the dealer a good part of the profit they should have themselves. If calves were fattened on the farm, ! using cotton seed meal as a con? centrate, a higher price per pound would be received and the farmer I would not only profit by this and the additional weight but would have in the manure b6 per cent of the fcrtiliz l ing value of the cotton seed meal. "With the good graslng furnished by Bermuda grass and Burr clover and the abundance of forage crops that yield bountifully In the South? east, this section should be the great source of the country's beef and dairy products supply. The dairy do ision of the Southern Railway will send a man to help build a dipping vat or silo and to co-operate with persons in the dairy business or desiring to enter it. The United stales depart? ment of agriculture has offered to co? operate with farmers who hswe erad? icated ticks and will send an expert to aid farmers in choosing desirable hulls of either dairy or beef type." Makers of small hickory handles for hammers, chisels, and the like, are now trying to use the waste from mills which make hickory spokes and pick axe handles. VETCH GROWN SUCCESSFULLY EIGHTEEN OF TWEXTY-OXE FARMER? MAKE A si CCESS AT GROWING VETCH AM) OATS IX BANK CONTEST. County Demonstrator J. 1 rank Wil? liams Tells off Xccossary Stoiw Which Farmers Must Take In Suc? cessfully Growing Winter Crop Soil Must be lnocolated or Success is DoubtI'ul?Farmers Advised Xot to Sell Cotton Ahead off Season. Last fall there were twenty-one farmers who entered a contest for a prize of $50.00 offered by the City Math ?tat Hank to the farmer who wo ?pw the most oats and vetch V /an aer- . Eighteen of these successful, growing from two ?jr 4 upward per acre. The average as from seven to eight thousand pcainds of cured hay. Inoculation was used on all of ihe successful acres. Xone of the three acres that made a failure were inoculated So you see it is absolutely necessary in nine cases out of ten to inoculate your land, unless you have grown vetch on the land. There have been ap? proximately ten thousand pounds of vetch seed sold in Sumter County. This is a great thing for the county, if all of the requirements are car? ried out- That is, if the seed are I planted in a neutral or slightly al I kaline soil. Most of the soil in Sum j ter county needs liming for getting I the best results in growing any of I the legumes. If this is the first time you have sown any vetch, 1 , would advise using from eight hun ! dred to a thousand pounds of burnt lime or a ton of agricultural or ground limestone per acre. Then broadcast the land with stable manure, taking care not to let the manure come in contact with the lime until it has been on the land for ten days or two , weeks, or until the lime has been j thoroughly incorporated with the soil. I A rain might bring this about in a ' few days. You can inoculate the j ? : ground by using six or sev-?n hundred ! pounds of soil from a field where vetch has boon successfully grown, or with the same amount of soil from a garden where English peas have been grown for two or more yeara In transferring the soil care should be exercised to keep the sunlight from shining on it and killing the bacteria. The operation of transferring the soil should be made on a cloudy day or j soon in the morning or late in the afternoon and the ground harrowed as soon as the inoculating soil is ap? plied. Artificial cultures or inocula? tion may be had by purchasing Farm ogerm, Xitragin or by applying to the department of agriculture through your representative or your senators. Directions for using these cultres are given with each bottle. The time is ripe for the farmers of Sumter county to begin to seek some other source of getting nitrogen and plant food into the soil than pur? chasing it in a sack. Hy growing cover crops of winter legumes, we not only supply nitrogen, but we sup? ply humus, a much needed element in either dry or wet weather. Lit? tle did we dream two months ago that we would get around thirteen cents for our cotton. At that time it was estimated that Texas would make five or six million bales. Cut an All Wise Providence intervented, and is giving us not quite as large a crop as we expected, but a better price. Let us take some of our profits, and invest them in rye, oats and vetch, and sow them this fall to be turned Into the soil next spring, and thereby fortify ourselves against both wet and dry weather. Also let us build fences around our farms to keep our Own hogs and cattle inside and those Of our neighbors outside. Then by rotating our crops to keep down dis? ease, in a few years we would be farming on euch a basis that we would not become frightened at the prospects* of a large crop and low prices; and sell out before the CfOS is made, and let some other fellow who is better Informed, reap the re? ward of our hard earned prohts. J. Frank Williams. HON. SAMUEL DIHHLE DEAD. Orangeburg, Bent is.?Samuel nib? ble, i.l. i>., one ot Orangeburg coun? ty's foremost citizens, died todaj a about 1 L'..',0 o'clock p. m. at a bos pita! in Baltimore. Dr. Dibble had been in failing healtl for tin- past two years and during ihe past three months bad been at hospitals in Do* lumbla and Baltimore. The death of Dr. I ?lind? takes away a tine man. Hi \\a^ a good citlaen, statesman and schoolmaster, an eminent lawyer, sol? dier, legislator and scholar. He was the tirst graduate from Wofford col? lege. ? - - ? - k