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CROP W?RTH TEN BILL IMS. AMEBH'YN FARM PRODUCTION FOR YEAR im J WORTH MORE THAN ? \ I K BE1>X)RE. Hufflt g.VUO0,000,0O0 Will Re Paid Proc mtTH f**r Their F. frort*. Kmt of Crop* Will be Consumed on the ?M?* e of Origin. Washington, Dec. 29.?Ten billion dollars worth of products, five billion dollars of csah income? a bumper crop in spite of droughts and other set backe?Is the 1913 record of 6 ?90.000 American farmers. More than 99,000,000,000 of this sum was In cereal products and 93.6:0.000.1)0' worth of animals sold and slaughter* d and animal products. The value of the 1919 crops Is twice that of 1899. more than 91.000,000 over 1910, and sub ?tantially greater than 1912. Of all the crops it is estimated III 12 per cent will remain on i m and that 20 per cent of tb animal production also will remain. On that basis the cash Income is estimated at 19,947.000,000. Despite a record year of crop value?although the record of production has fallen?and the fact that the number of farms has increased 11 per cent since 1310, until there now are estimaed to be 9.900,000 farms In the country, the department of agriculture, in a dis? cussion of the subject made public today, does not take the view that t. lower cost of living will reault. "However desirable Increased pro? duction on farms may appear to be from the consumers' standpoint. It does not follow that such increased production will result in any Increase in the cash Income per farm or per capita of farm population, or that prices paid by consumers will be any lower." says the report. "Had the total production In 1913 ?quailed or exceeded the 1912 pro? duction it seems probable that the ?ash Income per farmer would nor have bsen greater and might have been less than in 1912, but it is ex? tremely doubtful whether the cost to the consumer would have been less, because retail prices are raised promptly on a prospect of underpro? duction, but are slow to decline If there Is overproduction. The long line of distributers and middlemen between the farmer and the consumer Is in a position to take advantage of the market and to a certain extent control the market. "The high prices paid by consum? ers ranging from 9 to nearly 500 per cent In some cases more than the farmer receives. Indicate that there is plenty <>' room for lowering the cost of farm products to consumers and at the same time largely increasing the cash Income per farm without In? creasing farm production. "This condition undoubtedly is a marketing problem which will be solved by better organisation of farm? ers and improved me'hoda of market? ing Corn, valued at a91.692.000. com? prised 29 per cent of the value of all or?pa although the volume was und ths record. Other principal crops, will values, are given in the order in which they come. Cotton, 9798,009, ?00; hay. 9797.000 000; wheat largest crop ever raised In hia coun try?9910.000,000; oats. 2440,OOO.OuO; potatoes. 9229,000,000; tobacco. 11121 ?00.000; barley. 996.000.000. |WS4 potatoes. 943.000,000; sugar beet 114,000,000; Louisiana cane igar. 129.000,000; rye. 926,000.000; r 132,000,000; flaxseed. 921.000 hops. 919.000,000; buckwheat. 9lv. ?90.099. In Quantity of estimated produc? tion ths record has been broken by wheat, rye. rice, sugar beets, beet sugar and the total of beet and cine sugar. Of ths remaining crops. c**ta barley, cotton and hot* havs been exceeded twice In product on. "The value of the crop* of 191:. Is high. A new high record In estimated value Is mads by ths total of all cereals and separately by corn, cot? ton, cotton seed, tobacco and asjfar beets. Only once has there been a higher estimated value for oats, rye. rice, potatoes, hay. hops and he total of beet and cane sugar. Only twtcs has ths estimated value of wheat and of beet sugar been ex? ceeded "Dairy products of 1913 ars esti? mated at more than 9914.000,0)0. Bggs and fowls have an estimated value of more than 9979,000,000. 'Ths wool production of 1913, es? timated at 804,000,000 pounda was ever 971.000,000. The prices of 14 principal crops average about 20.2 per cent, higher than a year ago, and 4 6 per cent, higher than two years ago. Their total valuen average about 3.9 per cent higher than a year ago. and 7.6 per cent higher than two years ago. fn thes? days g| high prices of food It seemn to be overlooked that Ibis country Is producing enormous farm surpluses for export to foreign countries. Prices are high in other countries, as well an in this om>. "The value of agricultural exp>rts of domestic production In the fiscal roar 1911 wan 1.129.021.499. sn t?tigt wkka trtfort aa# bag* avt equalled. The soculled balance of trade In agricultural producta la in favor of exported domeatlc farm products by $296.000,000. "The quantity of exports of bcsf and ita producta rapidly declined. Trie exports of porit and ita products In 1912 amounted to 961,000,000 pounda. i- nt.iv t? t |g exceeded by the \ ra c tor Ihc preceding 23 years, ? il with IhfM ? siK ptions, by the e:c l | te oj these years. I ri i" its indicate that in lh< it iai amount of farm wages 1? arm labor was $651,611,28 7. This is almoat double the cost in 1899. Considerable increasea are indicated nee 1909. re peCtS concerning the h , ? u' fruits of southern Cal - -i uou Florida indicate, in the in <-f percent ages, the estimated production of these frulta compared wdth a full crop. "In Florida the orange crop of 1913 1??0, or, in other words, it was IgJ to a full crop; in comparison with the crop of 1912 is represented by 125 and the crop of 1911 by If, The lemon crop of California suffered with the oranges. The grape fruit crop of Florida In 1913 was 74 per cent of a full crop, compared with 100 per ? nt in 1912 and 57 per cent in 1911 ft. l.?rida 9 2 per cent of a full crop was the production of limes in 1913, compared with 75 per cent of a full rop in 1912 and aiao in 1911. "The cotton crop now seems to ho ? *tahliahcd in value as next in order after corn. The line of this crop in 1913, ut the price of December 1 had an estimated value of 9798,000,000, and this was not equalled In any for? mer year. It is 14 1-2 per cent above the average of the preceding five years. The estimated number of bales of 500 pounds gross weight in this crop is 13,677,000, consequently this rop has been exceeded in quantity by the crops of 1911 and 1912. If 'he estimated value of the cotton seed |g added to that of lint, the total <rm wih. of this crop amounts to $94S,000,C19, an increase of 16 per ??ent over the average of the previous five years. Teras usually produces from one-fourth to one-third the cot? ton crop of the United .States. The crop of the United States in 1913 cov? ered 96,011,000 acres, it Is estimated, an Increase of 5 per cent over 1913. "Tobacco follows the potato crop In order of value In 1913. The aver? age farm price of this crop, 12.8c per pound, is the highest since 1864. The tobacco crop of 1913 is the most val? uable one ever raised In this country and exceeds in value by over 30 per cent the average of the preceding five years. The quantity of the production, however, is slightly under that aver? age and has been exceeded by three former crops. ! "The final estimate of the produc? tion of tobacco in 1913 in 953,754.000 pounds, compared with 962,855,000 nounds in 1912, a reduction of 9,121. 101 pounda Off less than one per cent. The* overage price per pound on De? in ?>-r 1 was 12 8 agalnut 10.8. stlmited total production of chewlag$ smoking, snuff and export " I ? re II 7^3.124.000 pounds, com red with 733,070,000 pounda last Ph< I >tal value is 997.466,00^ wag $7r,.926,000. The a n the bright dla North Carolina an 1 th Carolina, where a larger cro: I * prher pr ce. i . ih< new t eit of North Car.> ith Caroling the yield an 1 quality ar?? below last year bu* b'gher." GIRL CASHIER SUES. Defftoee Loses Point In Action for DeJnagee. Columbia, Dec. 30.?The supreme court yesterday dismissed the appeal of "Smith's" and H. K. Smith In the case brought by Mary Xjnnamaker. for 910,000 damages for nrong treat? ment The complaint was Hied t y the vounir girl, who was employee by the Smith corporation as a cashed. Hhe was charged with being short 99.89 In her accounts. When the complaint was filed the company de? murred on four grounda. The de? murrer was overruled by Judge Frank H. Gary. An appeal was taken to the aupreme court by the defendant company and Judge Gary's ruling was sustained. In ths complaint it is alleged that the company and one of its agents falsely accused Mary Xunnamaker of taking the money, that she was forcefl to give up 94.75, which she had on her person, that the defendants in? timidated her and restrained her from going home until a late hour and that when she was turned out of the store she was without money and a long distance from home. The defendant company demurred on the grounds that the complaint al? leged a loint liability aRuinst two per? sons, that the language is not ac? tionable per ae, that there in no alle? gation of special damaget that liters Ii no allegation that the charge is false and that the defendants did not mean by words to impute criminal oftenae* *4rlig#< PlalDlist 10 REQUIRE COTTON REPORTS. DATA TO COME FROM GROWERS AND BUYERS. Each Southern Commissioner of Agri? culture Will Introduce Ulli in 111? State?Measure Drafted by E. J. Wutson. Columbia, Dec. 30.?A bill will be introduced at the next session of the general assembly to require cotton growers and cotton buyers to report to the State department of agricul? ture the number of bales of cotton handled from time to time. Commissioner Watson said yester | day that the bill, which he prepared, had been indorsed at the annual meet? ing of the commissioners of agricul? ture of the States of the South, and that it would be introduced in the general assemblies of all cotton belt States. The bill, he said, was modeled after I the measure requiring tobacco ware? housemen to make reports. He said the measure would enable the com? missioners to arrive at more definite estimates of the cotton crop and that the statistics would be more ac? curate. The following is the measure to be ntroduced at the next session of the -reneral assembly: "Section 1. Every gin, firm, indi? vidual, company or corporation doing a ginning business within this State, whether square or round bales, shall, through the general manager of said gin, at the beginning of each ginning season number the first bale ginned So, I, and so on consecutively to the end of the ginning season. Sec. 2. That the manager of each company, firm, corporation or indi? vidual doing a ginning business with? in this State, shall on the 1st and 16th of each month make a correct report in writing on blanks furnished to the commissioner of agriculture, com? merce and industries, of the number of bales of cotton ginned during such Period: Provided, That if the 1st or 16th shall come on Sunday, then said report shall be made on the day pre? vious. "Sec. 3. That the foregoing provi? sions shall apply to all cotton buyers as to making and filing reports, and i hat in those reports each and t ery person or corporation engaged In the business of buying cotton in the State of South Carolina shall accurately state, under oath, the number of bales ?f cotton bought, the weight per bale, the actual price paid, and the grade, living also divisions of total amounts hj grades. The commissioner shall collate this data by markets for pub ' lication, but shall give no Information as to any one's business to any per? son. ' "Sec. 4 The owner, owners, op I erator or operators, or manager or managers of all warehouses la the ?tat?-, and all spinners, shall at the periods set forth in the foregoing sec? tions file with the commissioner full ' reports under oath of all stocks of cotton on hand In such warehouses, stating number and weight of bales. "Sec. 6. The provisions of the fore? going sections, subject to regulations prepared and promulgated by the ommiHsioner of agriculture, shall also ipply to buyers and consumers of otton seed. "Sec. 6. Any person, firm, company or corporation operating a gin within this State who shall fail to comply with the provisions of this act shall e guilty of a misdemeanor and upon ? nviction shall be fined not less than ~0 nor more than $200. "Sec. 7. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. "Sec. 8. This act shall take effect mmediately upon its approval by the novernor.'* WILL USE AEROPLANE. Sbackelton llang Novel Engine for Antarctic. London. Dec. 19,?Sir Ernest IT Mhackelton, on his proposed expedi? tion next year across the Antarctic continent, will use sledges driven by aeroplane engines and an aeroplane wl h clipped wings to aid in propelling the sh-dges over the ice. The party will consist of six men and 120 dogs. Sir Ernest plans to land at latitude 78 degrees south on Wendell sea at the beginning of November. 1014, and expects to arrive in Ross sea on the other side of the south pole in March, 1915. The expedition will have two oil driven ships. G&HOC8 AT Y. M. C. A. Indoor Exhibition of Athletic Exercis? es ou January 7th. A rare opportunity to see the ath? letic work of the Y. M. C. A. will be given to the public on Wednesday, Junuuiy 7. 1H14 at which time an in? door circus will he the attraction to which the visitors are invited. The ? lasses have been practising some time lor this event and a classy "stunt" will be pulled off. Admission will 'it "?'v t?m vtiit?. HINT MAN WHO GAVE ALARM. Some Witnesses Mention Citizens' Al? liance Button and Others' Testimony Conflict*. Calumet, Mich., Dec. 29.?TWs out of a score or more witnesses testi? fied before the coroner's jury today that the man who caused the Christ? mas Eve disaster in Italian hall here wore a white button like the badge of the Citizens' Alliance. Immediately after adjournment of the hearing, Q. N. Hilton, the Western Federation of Miners' attorney, statec that further development of this phase of the in? quiry would be attempted tomorrow. The union lawyer did not comment on the fact that the president and half a dozen members of the wom? en's auxiliary of the federation swore that they saw no insignia on the man and that union members who stood in the vestibule of the Italian hall for an hour before the panic started said the alarm came from within the hall and no person wear i ing such a button had passed them. I In the opinion of Anthony Lucas, prosecuting attorney of Houghton county, who conducted the examina? tion of witnesses, facts fairly well es? tablished today were that an e xcitable member of the audience raised the cry, that there was no actual fire In the hall and that the doors were open and the stairway clear when the vanle 3tarted. "All v n want is a finding based up? on facts developed at the inquest," Baid Mr. Hilton. "The identity of the miscreantf who started the mad rush for the stairs is of paramount import? ance and we intend to do what we can to clear up this." Testimony concerning the button was given at the beginning and end of the afternoon session of the in? quest. John Burcar, aged 16, who said he lost a sister in the disaster, ex? citedly told of seeing a man muffled to his eyes in a fur collared over? coat enter the hall. "He hollered, 'Fire,' and then ran out,' said the boy. "I ran out, too. He had an Alliance button on his coat." ACCIDENTALLY SHOT SELF. Young Man of Dillon Seriously Wounded. Dillon, Dec. 29.?Thad Saleebee, a jroung man about 20 years of age, was accidentally shot and seriously wounded about 11 o'clock today. He was handling carelessly an automatic pistol and an explosion followed, and to his dismay he found that he was struck. A hurried examination show? ed that the steel-jacket bullet had penetrated his left breast. Consider? able shock followed from which he has not yet rallied. The physicians have not yet located the bullet. Young Salesbee has been a resident of Dil? lon for several years. He was a pu? pil in the Florence Graded School and was at home for the Christmas holi? days when the accident happened. BORROWED WATER FROM RIVER City Already Facing Water Famine Must Put Out Fire. Montreal, Dec. 29.?Montreal al? ready facing a water famine, was obliged today to conquer a fire to save a section of the city from destruction. To this end water was borrowed from the St* Lawrence river, a mile away from the Mb aes. Length by length hose was stretched through the streets to the river's edge. The city hydrants were all but idle, owing to a break in the main water conduit Christmas night. Two threo-story buildings and six automobiles were destroyed. One fire? man was Injured. The estimate in the property loss was nearly $600,000. PRESIDENT FEELS BETTER. C\niunc9oe* Work on Anti-trust Mos* cage to Congress. Pass Christian. Miss., Dec. 30.? The president's health was greatly improved today. Tiring of the un? accustomed activity tho president to? day dictated a number of letters and prepared to commenco the drafting of an important anti-trust message to be sent to congress shortly after It re? convenes. SECOND BIG FIRE. Water Main Bursts and Fire Causes Great Bumage. ( Montreal, Dec. .10.?Waterless be? cause of the breakage of a huge main Monterey suffered its second disas? trous Are In the last twenty-four hours early this morning. Flames starting in the National Stove Company plant on the St. Lawrence boulevard spread to adjacent buildings. Tho loss is es? timated at $300,000. Battle nt Laredo?-I.10 Killed. l4iredo, Dec. 30.?Constitutionalists, alter being driven back lust night are again utac ing Monterey today. Six? ty-four Rebels and ninety-two Fed ?* WIJSM Ala!* WAR 111 BALKANS. SERVIA PREPARING FOR MORE | BLOODSHED. Has Placed Heavy Orders for Arms und Ammunition in Germany and Defies Austria by Invading Albania. Belgrade, Dec. 30.?Servia is '?ro paring for a renewal of the war in the Balkans. Heavy orders for war munitions have been placed in Ger? many. The Servians have already in? vaded Northern Albania, despite Aus? tria's warnings. COLLEGIANS OFF FOR KANSAS. Sixty Start From Columbia In Pull? mans to Attend Conference of Vol. unteers* Columbia, Dec. 30.?Sixty college students from various institutions in South Carolina left Columbia on the Carolina Special yesterday afternoon for Kansas City to attend the quadren? nial meeting of the International Stu? dents' Volunteer conference. The party traveled in a special tourist Pullman. L. D. Robinson, city ticket and pas? senger agent, Southern railway, left Columbia with the party to attend to the transportation as far as Asheville. At Asheville another car, this one of North Carolina, students, was to be taken on and a man from Asheville will accompany the party the next leg of the trip. EXCITEMENT IN MOB RANKS. Reported Confession of Negro En? rages 3 faryland Crowd. Chestertown, Md., Dec. 28.?When it became known late this afternoon that James Faraway, one of the ne? groes held on the charge of com? plicity in the murder oi James Cole man, a farmer, had confessed that he assisted Norman Mabel, another ne? gro, in the crime, excitement, which had subsided somewhat after the un? successful attacks by a mob upon the jail last night, again flamed up. The news spread rapidly deeplte efforts to keep the confession secret nd the number of silent watchers, who had not left the Jail during the day, soon was augmented. Thorough? ly frightened by his terrible exper? ience last night, when the mob throng? ed about his cell, Faraway, who had maintained hUi innocence, broke down today under :he questioning of de? tectives. According to his confession the deed was planned by Mabel and himself when they saw Coleman count his money in a store. They followed him and Faraway uald he hit the farmer with an iron tar. Then, after taking hJs money, they spearated. Policemen from Baltimore sent up? on order of Governor Goldsborough, arrived tonight to assist in guarding the prisoners. With the added force Sheriff Brown feels that he will be able to repel another attack if one is made. ACTION UND1SR SHERMAN LAW. Quaker Oate Company Sued for $10, 000,000. Chicago, Dec. 29.?The Quaker Oats company, its directors and the direct? ors of the Great Western Cereal com? pany were made defendants in a suit for $10,000,000 damages filed In the United States district court here today by William A. Tilden and Chas. D. Thompson, receivers of the Cereal company. The suit was brought un? der section 7 of the Sherman anti? trust law and was the result of the sale of the trade names and prinicpal properties of the Cereal company to the Quaker Oats company June 22, 1911. The $1,000,000 realized by the sale, it was charged, was taken by the hold? ers of $1,000,000 of the Cereal com? pany's bonds, leaving the holders of $3,000,000 worth of stock only the name of the company and minor property as assets. The law, it was held, provides that complaining stock? holders can claim punitive damages In three times the amount of the capital stock. The declaration charges that the two companies controlled 90 per cent of the interstate trade in oatmeal products. It charges that the trans? fer of brands ar d the plants at Fort Dodge, Iowa, end Joilet, 111., was made by Joy Morton without the knowledge and consent of the stock? holders. Arkansas Goes Dry?Saloons Move, Litle Rock, Pec. 30.?Wholesale sa? loons are moving to St. Louis, New Orleans and nearby cities preparing to supply tho Arkansas trade. The State goes practically dry on January | first. DeWitt Bank Dynamited and Robbed. Pine Bluff. Ark.. Dec. 30.?Robbers dynamited tho DeWitt Bank this morning and escaped with tour thou *a0 ..^mmiMtmMnmm TRADITIONS OF THE MLSTLETOE. Druids Believed it Sacred to the Gods and People Use as Health Giver. We decorate our homes with sprays ! of mistletoe at Christmas time, hut few of us know the history of it aa a Tuletlde symbol. Pretty girls are kissed under it and a great deal of fun and nonsense is carried on apropos of it, but no one stops to think of how ! ancient a decoration it is or how sacred it was once thought to be. Almost everybody has a vague knowledge that the Druids of old had something to do with the gathering of misletoe, but just what that some? thing was is not clear to'toe average mind. j the fact is that the ancient Celts In their druidiral religion had two great festivals, one in June and the other in December, the latter being equivalent to our Christmas. In both of these great f estiva is the gathering of the mistletoe was g> sacred rite. Pliny in his Xatiu-al Histor/ de? scribes the ceremony. Speaking ct the Druid's worship of the oak, h* says: "They believe that whatever grows on these trees is sent from heaven and is a sign that the tree has been chosen by the //od himself. The mistletoe is very rarely to be met with, but when it is found they gather it with solemn ceremony. This they do, especially on the sixth day of the moon, because ths s.xth day the moon has plenty of \ Igor and has not run half its course* "After the preparations have been made for a sacrifice and a feajt under the tree they hail it aa the universal healer and bring to the spot two white bulls whose horns have never been bound before. A priest clad in a white robe climbs the tree and with a golden sickle cuts the mistletoe, which is caught in a white cloth. They then sacriflcs the victims, praying that God may make his own gift to prosper with those upon whom He has be* stowed it. "They believe that a potion prepared from mistletoe will increase their docks and that the plant ie a remedy a gainst all poison." It was believed to be a remedy for many ills, and this belie! is still to be found, in many remote plaeee In Be* rope. In Holstein, for example, the mistletoe is regarded as a healing remedy for wounds, and in Lacaune, France, it is always administered by the native people as an antidote for poison. They apply the plant to the stomach of the patient and give him a solution of it to drink as well. The Gaelic word for mistletoe Is "an t'nil loc," which means all healer, and this is probably what the Druids called it in ancient timee. In the northeast of Scotland people used to cut withes of mistletoe at the March full moon; these they bent in circles and kept for a year to curs hectic fevers and other troubles. In some parts of Germany the mistletoe is especially esteemed as a remedy for the ailments of children, who some? times wear it hung around the neck as an amulet. In Sweden on midsummer eve mis? tletoe is diligently sought after, the people believing it to be possessed of many mystic qualities, and that if a sprig of it is attached to the celling of the dwelling house, the horse's stall or the cow'b crib, the trolls will then be powerless to Injure either man or beast. Branches of the plant are oam monly Been in farmhouses hanging from the celling to protect the dwell? ings from all harm, but especially from Ore, and persons afflicted with the tailing sickness think they can ward off all attacks of tho malady by car? rying about with them a knife which has a handle of mistletoe. A Swedish remedy for other com? plaints is to hang a sprig of mistletoe round the sufferer's neck or to make him wear on his finger a ring made from the plant Moreover they fashion divining rods of mistletoe or of four different kinds of wood, one of which must be mistletoe. The treasure-seek? er places the rod on tii* ground after sundown and when it rests directly over the treasure the rod begins to move as if it were alive. Like their Swedish neighbors, many German peasants consider the mistle? toe a powerful charm against evtl spirits. A similar belief seems to have lingered among the Romane, whose religion at a very early date was somewhat similar to that of the Druids. When Aeneas descended Into Hades he gathered to protect him? self from the infernal powere ?> branch of mistletoe, which Virgil calls the golden bough. DOWAGER OF S WEED EN DEAD. Queen Sophie Passed Away at a Ripe Old Age. Stockholm, Dec. 30.?Dowager Queen Sophie of Sweeden, aged IS, the widow of King Oscar, died today of inflammation of tho lunge. Burglars Rob Bank. Lexington, Kv? Dec. 30.?Robbers dynamited the safe of the Bank of Fredonia this morning and secured seven to ten thousand dollars They tffct the telephone wrr** ?aQ e*t-*t?*o\