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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-19

ATHER MARK. pastor of the
Church of st. James at Mount
~ Rainier. will celebrate mass be-
fore new altar Christmas
morning. II was designed and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-19

Gonated to the church by {. r. HoHmdH'
and is regarded as a fire addition TO the
edface. 1t is decorated with three statues.
which were given by Mrs. Anna Orr,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-19

tuREE young people were spend
ing the evening together-one
of the few evenings when they
could all meet, for they weDe
all factory workers. and fire.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-19

GLOWING hard on the heels of
the discouraging announcement
from Albany that the board OF
foreign missions had been obliged
to make a ont of So5 OOO in the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-19

~ EN WILLIAM W. McMAS1 ERS
Of Toronto has accepted call
to become pastor of the FIRST
BAPTIST Church Of this city IN
succession to Rev Dr.. Charles
4. Winbigler. who resigned some months
ago TIE new pastor has announced tnat
hc Will take ~ the work here shortly
after tile first Of the wear
IL was educated a McMasters lni-
Nrrs!tX il Toronto. which was founded
IN His uncle Later he was pastor of a
BAPTIST church in st. Johns. y g.. where
1c resigned some time ago For the past
I'VE sundays Rev. Mr. McMasters has
boon preaching at the First Church, ana
At meeting of the congregation heid
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BY REV. CHARLES sTELzLE

BY REV. CHARLES STEELE
superintendent Of the Department OF Church and
Labor Of the Presbyterian Church.
4 ~ city authorities were to put the
~ unemployed on labor farms and
shut up the cheap lodging houses
and the Mills hotels they would
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-19

- DILL the Rockefeller millions
be used to discredit a CEN
fury Of foreign mission work
IN China by 4 m e + n
churches? That is the ques-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-19

Probably because he intended to be-
come something in the way of a mission
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LABOR WORLD.

New York has the greatest number
of wage earners of any State III the
Union. Pennsylvania is second.
The Durham (England) Coal Con-
Citation Board agreed to a further
reduction in wages of three and a
quarter per cent. at its meeting IN
Newcastle.
Minneapolis Typographical Union
will make an effort to get the annual
convention of the international Typo
graphical Union, to be held IN Au-
gust, 1910.
A considerable improvement Is re-
ported In the manufacturing depart
ment Of the linen trade of Lursan,
ose of the chief centres Of the Irish
linen trade.
The Appeal Court of Great Britain
handed down a decision that trades
union can not levy compulsorily on
its members to maintain the labor
representation in Parliament.
The Iowa Federation Of Women s
Clubs will attempt to have passed at
the coming Legislature Dill hXing
the minimum wage which department
stores and factories shall pay.
The movement to establish ? re-
treat for aged. sick and infirm mem
bers of the painters, decorators and
paper hangers CT America is receiving
the hearty Endorsement of the craft.
Considering all the important
strikes OF record in this country OF
those for increase of wages alone.
1895 per cent. were successful. 1859
per cent. partially successful, and
21.36 per cent failed.
In 1901 the sum Of s2760S,00o
was expended by employers in Ger
many for the direct aid of their en-
ployes. More than two-thirds of this
was given as voluntary contributions
by private firms and individuals.
The municipality of Rio de Janesro
has constructed aud is preparing to
rent sixty-two groups of houses OF
two types for workingmen. some for
families and others for single men.
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RECEIVER FOR SEMINOLE.
Judge Watts Hears Argument and
Sees no Other Way to Protect the
Stockholders.

1UuSe WGGtS ac5Ao ~ d otAAeAN'
Sees no Other Way to Protect thc
Stockholders.
Cheraw, Special. = Judge Watts
Tuesday night, after hearing the ar
currents, announced that he would
appoint receivers for the Seminole
Securities company in accordance with
the request of j. G. Klugh. He stated
that on the allegations made he was
satisfied that there should be an in
vestigatioa Of the affairs that could
only be done by a receiver. "lf it
be true" said Judge Watts, "thst
these commissions were paid, il shocks
my conscience. Of course, it is a
bad blow, but I see no other remedy. :"
| The bond was fixed at $4,000 for
the receivers and $150,000 for the
value of the property. Messrs Hucer
Sinkler and Frank G. Tompkins were
suggested by the attorneys for the
plaintiffs and others may be suggested
by the attorneys for the defendants
Wednesday. The case was long one,
but very interesting. The passengers
between the attorneys, the allegations
made an danswers returned, the argu-
ments, were all listened to closely,
The argument of attorneys for Klugh
was that the Seminole company was
mere shell and for the protection of
the stockholders the receivers should
take charge. The argument of attof-
neys for the trustees was that the
trustees were not responsible for the
action of some of the agents and that
no case had been made out; also that
there was protection inside the COM
pany that had never been asked. The
argument Of Mr.. Bellinger for the
Seminole company was that the ale
cations were irrelevant and there was
protection inside the company for the
stockholders.
Judge Watts said in part: 81 am
Of the opinion that justice impera-
lively demands that receiver should
be appointed. I think that under the
showing made that it is an exception
to all cases that have been before our
supreme court and the allegation here
! is that the stock was purchased from
the Southern Life at an extravagant
price, the price doubly more than 1t
was worth, and / think that 9atter
should be looked into and I I8hesi-
tatingly say that the comG#esions
paid shocks my conscience e@@ they
are true it is a shock to 6 nsiness
man in the world. As to "fether or
not it is true I do not know. l am
not saying that it is so or not. 1t is
an allegation made here before me
and realize the fact that whenever
you put corporation in the hands OF
a receiver you strike bad blow but
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be instituted; and that the directors
do give careful attention to pushing
the prosecution. -
The body then elected as new direc-
tors, R. T. CASTOR, Cheraw; Campbell
Courteney, Newry; 7. W. Berry,
Latta; E. j. Etheridge, Leesville; A.
M. Kennedy, Williston; J. B. Wat.
kins, of Florida; Julian S. Carr, of
North Carolina; S. NJ. Smith, of West
Virginia; C. M. Smelling Of Athens,
Ga.
Much blame is attached to the
trustees of the Seminole Company
whose names. gave confidence to the
public. The examination of the
trustees revealed the fact that Mr..
Clark had applied for 1000 shares
of stock but had never paid anything;
that Mr.. Bryan never had any stock
and that General Jones subscribed
for only 200 shares. Already at
torneys are being smployed to bring
individual suits against the three.
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on further advlces from here that q
threatening crowd was waiting to get
sight of the negro, Sheriff Blackwell
drove to Florence at 2 o'clock in the
morning and there took the 4 o'clock
train for Columbia. a crowd met the
train corning in here at 8 o'clock Sat
urday night and it is pretty certain
would have made short work of the
negro at once. Indeed, many Of them
believed that the negro had been TAX
en- off the train on the outskirts OF
town and was somewhere around, and
all night and all day Sunday crowds
of men hnTe been .congregated around
town amaiting developments and anS-
ious to locate the brute. There was
never any intention on the part OF
the town authorities to allow the man
TO be brought here
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-01-06
T. M. 'WILL|ANSON'S
CORN METHODS.
Southern Corn for the South"

For number of years after be-
gan to farm, I followed the old-time
method of putting the fertilizer all
under the corn, planting on level
higher, six by three feet, pushing the
plant from the start and making a
big stalk, but the ears were few. and
frequently small. I planted much
corn in the spring and bought much
more corn the next spring, until f.
nally I was driven to the conclusion
that corn could not be made on up
lands in this section, certainly not by
the old method, except at loss.
did not give up, however, for !
knew that the farmer who did not
make his own corn never had sue
ceeded, and never would, so I began
to experiment. First I planted low
er, and the yield was better, but the
stalk was still too large; so I discon-
tinued altogether the application Of
fertilizer before planting, and, know
ing that all crops should be fertilized
as side application, and applied
the more soluble nitrate of soda later,
being guided in this by the excellent
results obtained from its use as a top
dressing for oats. Still, the yield,
though regular, was not large, and
the smallness Of the stalk itself now
suggested that they should be planted
thicker in the, drill. This was done
the next year, with results so salts
factory that I continued from year to
year to increase the number of stalks
and the fertilizer with which to sus-
tain them; also to apply nitrate of
soda at last plowing, and to lay by
early, sowing peas broadcast. This
method steadily increased the yield,
until year before last (19O4), with
corn eleven inches apart in six-foot
rows. and GIL worth of fertilizer to
the acre, / made eighty-four bushels
average to the acre, several of my
best acres making as much as 125
bushels.
Last year (l9U5) L followed tne
same method, planting the first week
in April, seventy acres which had
produced the year before 1000 pounds
seed cotton per acre. This land is
sandy upland, somewhat rolling.
Seasons were unfavorable, owing to
the tremendous rains in May and the
dry and extremely hot weather later.
From June 18th to July 18th, the
time when it most needed moisture,
there was only fve-eights Of an inch
Of rainfall here; yet with $7.01, cost
of fertilizer, my yield was ffty-two
bushels per acre. Rows were six
feet and corn sixteen inches in drill.
With this method. on land that will
ordinarily produce 1000 pounds Of
Ared cotton with 500 pounds of fer
tilizer, fifty bushels Of corn per acre
should be made by usins 200 pounds
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suocxnuiuels. e.tte5. .sgg-.,
aI will hear nominations for the
receiver, ;.
Judge Watts Wednesday announc-
ed the appointment of three lrnstees
FOR the Seminole CompaEer F. &.
Tomplins, E. J. Etheridgeit@d Huser
Linker.
The stockholders ONT Wednesday
met in Columbia and accepted the
resignation of the old directors. The
meeting adopted the following:
Resolved, That the board of direc-
tors to be elected today proceed at
once. to collect all evidence OF criminal
action on the part of any agent. Of
fcers or employees of the Seminole
Securities Company, and lay the same
before the States Attorney General
and request that wherever the evl-
dence justifes, criminal proceedings
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-01-06
NEGRO CAUGHT SATURDAY.
Man Named Johnson Arrested on the
Charge of Committing Criminal
Assault at Hartsville.

Man Named Johnson AIIeSted Oh tue
Charge of Committing Criminal
Assault at Hartsville.
Hartsville, special.-It semes that
the negro brute who committed the
outrage at this place on Monday
night last has been apprehended and
is now within the penitentiary walls.
1t has been terrible week Of waiting
and disappointment to every good
citizen of Hartsville as the days pass
ed and the many clues gave no re-
suits and the many suspects failed
to be Unidentified by the lady. Enrag-
ed and determined that the crime
should not go unavenged if any hu-
man agency could accomplish the de-
lection and arrest of the criminal,
every man has felt more and more
hopeless and bafied as each succeed
ing day was fruitless. Every instru-
ment Of the law and every means that
could be employed with any hope of
success have been used to get to the
bottom of the outrage end quietly, but
constantly, the town Ind county au-
thorities have worked day and night
every hour. And added to the efforts
of the authorities has bean the volun-
tary work of many persons in their
private capacity. Through this latter
source came the first clue, which has
finally led to the arrest of the BRUTE
against whom the evidence is very
positive. A negro named Johnson was
arrested at Efingham Saturday mora
ing by Sheriff Burch, of Florence,
acting with Policeman Seegars of this
place and Mr.. Ed Perry, brother Of
I
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Shot His Sister to Death.

Manning, special.-A white man
named Frank DriGgers Saturday shot
his sister, Mrs. Mamie Boseman, With
a gun. inlicting g wound from which
she died in about an bour. Mrs;
Boseman lived at Alcolu. but had
been on visit to her brother. on
Major W. T. Lessesnc's place. Full
particulars are not obtainable, but 1t
is said there had been some mas
understanding between the parties
on account Of horse that Drggers
had, which belonged to his sister:
Mrs. Boseman had said goodbye and
started for home when Driggcrs shot
her in the back of The head.
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be left all the same distance apart
if the right number remain to each
yard or row.
Corn should not be worked again
until the growth has been SD retarded
and the stalk so hardened TINT it will
never grow too large. This is the
most difficult point in the whole pro-
cess. Experience not judgment are
required to know just how much the
stalk should BE- stunted. and plenty
of nerve is required to hold back your
corn when your neighbors, who fer
tilted at planting time and cultivat-
ed rapidly, have corn twice the size
of yours. (They are having their
fun now. Yours will come at harvest
time.) The richer the land the more
necessary it is that the stunning pro-
cess should be thoroughly done.
When you are convinced that your
corn has been sufficiently humiliated.
you may begin to make the ear. 1t
should now be- form tv'"lvr 10 o;~',t
cen inches high. and look worse than
You have ever had any corn to look
before.
Put half of your mixed fertilizer
(this being the first used at all) in
the old sweep furrow on both sides
Of every other middle. and cover by
breaking out this middle with turn
plow. About one week later treat
the other middle the same way.
Within few days side corn in first
middle with sixteen-inch sweep. Put
all your nitrate of soda in this fur
row, if less than $50 pounds. If more
use one-half of it now. Cover with
one furrow of turn plow, then sow
oease in the middle broadcast at the
rate of at least one bushel to the
acre, and finish breaking out.
In a few days side corn in other
middle with same sweep. put balance
IF nitrate of soda in this furrow if
it has been divided cover with turn
plow, sow peas and break out. This
lays by your crop, with a good bed
and plenty of dirt around your stalk.
This should be from June 10th to goth
unless season is very late, and corn
should be hardly punching for tassel.
Lay by early. More corn is ruined
by late blowing than by lack of plow-
ing. This is when the ear is hurt.
Two good rains after laying by should
make you good crop of corn, and
it will certainly make with much less
rain than was required in the old
way.
The stalks thus raised are very
small and do not require anything
like the moisture even in proportion
to size, that is necessary for large
sappy stalks. They NAV, therefore,
be left much thicker in the row. This
is no new process. 1t has long been
custom to cut back vines and trees
in order to increase the yield and
quality of fruit; and so long as you
do not hold back your corn, it will
go, like mine so long went, all to
stalk.
Do not be discouraged by the looks
of your corn during the process of
cultivation. 1t will yield out of all
proportion to its appearance. Large
stalks cannot make large yileds, ex-
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make the pea vines. so necessary to-
the Improvement Of land. Corn rails
ed by this method should never ow
over seven and ore-itaiff feet high.
and the eay should be near to the
ground.
consider the final application &C
nitrate of soda an essential point in
this ear-maling process. 1t should
always be applied at last plowing
and unmixed with other fertilizers.
am satisfied with one ear to the
stalk unless a prolific variety is
planted, and leave hundred stalks
for every bushel that I expect to
make. I frd che six-fcot row easiest
to cultivate without iniuring the com.
For fifty bushels to the acre I leave
it sixteen inches apart; for seventy
five bushels to the acre, twelve in
ches apart, and for one hundred bush
els, eight inches apart. Corn should
be planted from four to six inches
below the level and hid by from four
to six inches above. No hoeing should
be necessary, and middles may be
kept clean until time break out, by
using harrow or by running one
shovel furrow in centre of middle and
bedding on that with one or more
rounds of turn plow.
I would advise only few acres
tried by this method the first year, or
until you are familiar with its appli-
cation. Especially is it hard at first,
to fully carry out the stunting process
where whole crop is involved, and
this is the absolutely essential part
of the process.
This method I have applied, or
seen applied successfully to all
kinds of land in this section. except
wet lands and moist bottoms, and ]
am confident it can he made of great
benefit throughout the entire South.
In the middel West. where corn is
so prolific and profitable, and where.
unfortunately for us, so much of ours
has been produced. the stalk does not
naturally grow large. As we come
South its size increases, at the ex-
nensc Of the car. until in Cuba. and
Mexico. it is nearly all stalk (witness
Mexican varieties.)
The purpose of this method is to
eliminate this tendency of corn TO
ovnrgrowth at the expense of yield in
this Southern climate.
BY this method ] have made my
corn crop more profitable than my
cotton crop, and my neighbors and
friends who have adopted it have.
without exception, derived great ben
eft thcrefrom.
Plant your own seed. I would not
advise change Of seed and method
the same year, as you will not then
know from which you have derived
the benefit. 1 have used. three va
rites and all have done we'll. have
never used this method for late plant
ing. In fact, I do not advise the
late planting Of corn. unless it be
necessary for cold lowlands.
increased cost of labor and
II price of material and land
,idly making farming unprof
kept to those who arc getting
me acre what they formerly
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Should be prodNeed by doubling The
amount Of fertilizer above, except
that 300 pounds Of nitrate of soda
should be used.
In each case there should be left
on the land in corn stalks, peas, vines
and roots from $12 to SIG worth
of fertilizing material per acre. be-
side the great benefit to the land
from so large an amount of vege-
table matter The place of this in
the permanent improvement of land
can never be taken by commercial
fertilizer, for it is absolutely impos-
sible to make lands rich as loug as
they are lacking in vegetable mat
ter.
Land should be thoroughly and
deeply broken for corn, and this is
the time in system of rotation to
deepen the SOIL Cotton requires a
more compact soil rnan corn, and
while q deep soil is essential to its
best development, it will not produce
as well as loose, open land where
corn does best on land thoroughly
broken. A deep soil will not only
produce more heavily than a shallow
soil with good seasons. but it will
stand more wet as we'll as more dry
weather.
In preparing for the corn crop,
land should be broken broadcast dur
ing the winter one-fourth deeper than
it has been plowed before. or if
much vegetable matter is being turn
ed under. it may be broken one-third
deeper. This is as much deepening
as land will usually stand in one
year and produces we'll, though it
may he continued each wear, so long
as much dead vegetable matter is
being turned under. 1t may. however,
be subsoiled to any depth by follow
ing in bottom of TIM plow furrow.
provided no more of the subsoil than
has been directed is turned up. Break
with two heavv plows, if possible. or
better, with disc plow. With the lat
ter. cotton stalks or corn stalks as
large as we ever make can be turned
under without having been chopped,
and in pea vines it will not choke OF
drag.
Never p1ov land when it is wet. if
YOU expect ever to have any use for
It again.
Bed with turn plows in six-foot
rows, leaving fvc-inch balk. When
ready to plant. break this out with
scottcr. following in bottom of this
furrow deep with Dixie plow. wing
taken off. Ridge then on this fur
row with same plow, still going deep.
Run corn planter on this ridge, drop
ping one grain every five or six
inches. Plant early, as soon as frost
danger is past, say first seasonablc
spell after March 18th, in this section.
Especially is early planting necessary
on very rich lands where stalks can
not otherwise be prevented from
rowing too large. Give first WORKING
With barrow OF any plow that viii
not cover the plant. For secon
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Fatal Christmas Frolic.

Lexington, special.-Garfeld Hot
to lies beneath the sod and Thomas
Craft is languishing behind the bars
in the Lexington jail as a result OF
the Chritmas frolic and the Christ
mas dram. A gloom has been cast
over two households, which genera
tions cannet wipe out, and the life OF
a young man once so full of promise,
has been blighted forever.
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Christmas at Walterboro.

Walterboro, special-Christmas
passed off quietly in Walterboro, with
no casualties reported so far. The
closing of the dispensary by Mayor
Fishburne forced the majority of the
people who are accustomed to imbib-
ing on this occasion to do without,
and consequently pass sober Christ
mas. On all sides one hears words
Of conmendation for the stand taken
by Mayor Fishburne, and it has been
an excellent prohibition argument.
The merchants did record-breaking
business and NJ y Of them ascribe
this to the closing of the dispensary,
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E. 7. NOR T2- is.
Agent. EdgefieHd, S. G.

got from two. We must make our
lands richer by blowing deep, plant
ing peas and other legumes, manuring
them with acid phosphate and potash,
which are relatively cheap, and re-
turning to the soil the resultant vege-
table matter rich in hunus and e3'
pensive nitrogen. The needs of our
soil are such that the South can new
er reap the full measure Of prosperity
that should be hers until this is
done.
] give this method as farmer to
the farmers of the South, trusting
that thereby they may be benefited
as I have h-nn.
E. N lvER WILLIAMSON.
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Mr Smith Reappointed.

Columbia. special.-Governor An
sci has reappointed for the term of
ten years, beginning January 1, 1909,
Mr.. Henry A. Smith, of Charleston,
as a member of the historical corn-
mission of South Carolina. Mr..
Smith has been a member Of the COM
mission since its inception, and has
devoted much time to its work. He
is now the vice chairman.