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" v"''^r>--^'-"" ' * *"^-*-"-- -^: *.* - '^T''--r-^ rTuV. ? . i .. <... . .-^ -1J^<^_jLruJ.n!L-LJ LI?'J?m. 1 1 1 11 1 1 "' r ' ' '' ' ' "> lSS^S*-?Ssgss?ggg^g=sagBgsgssssg^geBgS5ggBggSgS^5gg*ttggg*?SSBSgS^*M"',M*rf>B^ '" ??< i ' " <"' ' ' ' ' ' > "* *'''fjj The Abbeville Press and Banner, I M = r?=^T =-?? : = ? rr? *M BY W. W. & W. R. BRADLEY. ABBEVILLE, 8. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1907. ESTABLISHED j844 M .-__ J Philson, Hen Speci f$m brc Monday F "We have just embroideries wortl per yard, which "v -tin _ _j_ date ior casn at lOcts p All in pieces of I less than one piece Wine V 1 ,? \ V Sale t>egira? / IF YOU 1 For Your REAL, JS* I CAN No flatter What Your Property is Worth, or i i . t.n - .1 oil OUl you how and why I can quickly convert the property Into casl r~^"T ?nd terrr>? for hand ing it. Tho Information I will give you \ Yon bad better wrttetoday before you forget ItIf yon want to buy any klud of n Farm, House or B iBlness, tee to fill tbem promptly aud batlsfaciorlly. ill p. mi, 11 in n If You want to Sell Fill In, Cut Out and Mail Tod Please send, without cost to me, a plan for find a cash buyer for my property which consists Town County S Following is a brief descrip-ion. f Lowest cash price Name Address v liners Bank of 1 ^ State, County and City President: Vice-President: F. E. HARBISON. P. B. SPEED. j Board of Directors : F. E. Harris I Viaanska, John A. Harris, R. M. Haddon, Lewis W. * J. F. Clinkscales, C. C. Gambrell. We Bolicil your business and are prepi it safely and conservative We are in position to make you loans, atd to when placed in Our Saviiig-s Depai I The largest and most comp O +1 AW nVTT "DAAI k-> tct liUiiVjl J J JJVUJ ; School Suppl fan hfi sppii at Milford's Drug i l ry & Company 4 t n i ai oaje nderies ebruary 18 th, received 3UUU yard! l from 15c to 50ct we will sell on thi er Yard > and 6 yards. N< to each customer. low Display s at Q O'clock m CASH STATE Or Business GET IT n What Town, City, State or Territory it is Located r I did not have tbe ability and facl'ltlea to Fell your property. I cfT blyco Id not afford to pay frr tbla advertlnemeut. This "ad" (like ray other "ada") la practically aure to nlaoe on my Hat a Dumber of -* * 1?* ? ? ??? too onH mntra * properties, aDa i hid jusi u? aure n? rcu lu^rc K,v,Fi....... ? )ugh money in commlssons to pay for cost of these "ad?." and make a )d profit besides. That Is wby I have so large a real estate business loir. yhy not put your property among the Dumber tbat will be sold as a ult of ibese "arts?" will not, only be able to sail it??ome time?but will be able to sell it Ickly. I am a specialist In quick sales I have the most complete and -to-date equipment. I have branch offices throughout the country and leld force of meo to find buyers. do not handle aH Hdps usually carried by the ordinary real estate snts. I MUST PELL real estgse?and lo's of it?or co out ol business. hd assure you I am not going outof business. On the contrary, I exit to And at the close of the year, that I bave so d twice as many prop ies as I did the last y< ar, but It will first he necessary for me to "list" ire properties. I want to list YOURS and Sell it. It doesn't matter ether you have a farm, a home without any lnnd, or a business: It ssn't matter what it is worth, or where it In located. If yon will fill L the blank letter of inquiry below aod mall it to me today, I will *611 b and willglve you my oomplete plan. Charge Till be of great value to you, even If you should decide not to sell, in any part of the conntry, tell me yoor requirements. Iwlllguaran1,415 ML ft, lllft ft lay If You want toBuy fill in, cut outand Mail Today. Ling I desire to buy property corresponding ap1 of proximately with the following specification: tate Town or City County State Price between $ and $ I will pay $ down and balance Remarks Name Address _ _ L. W, White's Loesla. I ] Those embroideries at White's are slm r\ r\ a TI 1 A grand. Have you seei? themf If not, gc lllllll/l II onoe and enjoy a rare treat by looking I I I ILJ 1/ I U some of the most dainty and artlstlo desi lllllll/l I' ever seen In embroideries. T 1I1VI Tb? embroidery sale at White's la going all tbe time, and such prices are put u| bis goods as makes them go every time. ! Advanoe arrivals of prints, ptrcalen, m I jftl^ACn T Al*T/ ras, ginghams and other eprlng fabrics r 0 UWlwJi ?? V now oe seen at tbe store of L.. W. White. I,. W. White Is now oflerlng for $125 a gi bargain In a white counterpane. It is Cashier : alee. heavy material, pretty design and wo J. H. DuPRE. ^ cheap at ?1 60. t. -r> o a \ W. White has a very large collection OD, Jr. 15, bpeea, vx. A. gve Mnt laces of all styles and all wld 'arker, W. P. Greene, Hj^aUjinen laoesatflve cenu is a speci. Don't forget the embroideries at White's. ired to handle lv. Barkadale's Locals. intfiPf.1 CD dtrireitP, Ifyou wanta stove yon certBlnly wai iDieieH i > white llDed Buck because Its put out an ery best on 80 days free trial. Everycu not Just what you desire no coat to you. . + We are or the customers are raising thl [ "till ?II l-i? with Roysters "Farmers Bone Guaoo A( etc. Let un talk to you about 10-2 nod ould and 865 2-2 guano 8-U-3 guano 104 4 gu 10 8 2-10-3-8 and 10-4 4 guano. |a+a linp Lot* of good inlngH for the Farmers In P IdC/ ixtic; "A Plow stocks gearing eto. Extra feet ham or beams for all sizes. |_ __ The best lot of plows we have ever e C L4 T| (Jl here. Come In see loo. Rlre meal Corn hearts for hoga. Come and see uh for the New Year and us h*-lp you to he sa'lxflt-iJ. No matter w I PQ you want let us try to show you what lvO have and price you. N. 0. Syiup in bbls., \ ?- - W1_ 1 r\ a tz ouia., av ttuu u gdi. Ii.cga OLOrtJ. Glenn's. COTTON SEED OIL. THE INTELLECTUAL MULE AND THE UNLETTERED NEGRO AS SCIENTISTS. They Teach Valuable Facts Which Learned Men Failed to Discover. AND THEY WIN AGAINST THE I0NOBANCE, THE SUPERSTITION AND THE OPPOSITION OF THE PEOPLE OP DIXIE. "Since the days of the old regime And, Lempriere's dazzling page, ~ I'd give?though it might seem bold? A hundred years of the Golden Age, ? t> rii.. a r n_u M g xur a .year ui mo .ago ui uuiu. "Tbe stone which the builder* refused is become the head stone of Q the corner." ^ Let the reader be not alarmed. We' are not writing a sermon. We quote the words of Scripture merely because of their aptness in the ^ story which we are writing. At the time of which we are writing, the intrinsic value of the cotton seed was a profound secret from all the world. Neither scienoe nor agricultural experience bad discovered even a bint aa to the true value of tbe cotton seed. As a fertilizer it was little regarded, and few men thought the beneficial effects sufficient to repay for the labor of throwing it broadcast on the land. And it was thought that twenty bushels to tbe acre was tbe extent to which it could be used with good result. As a cow food, cotton seed had almost no appreciable value. If not fed very sparingly cattle sickened on it and would refuse to eat ** it again. But there were persons who bad only one or two cows, and wbofl ere careful in allowancing this food to each. Where cattle were fed sparingly, very satisfactory results came to a few. But If cattle were fed together unsatisfactory results followed. Tbe rich cotton planter, while not a profligate, generally gave to "poor folks" as much cotton seed as they cared to feed to their milk cows. Fatal Besult of Ignorance. - Now, for the story which we are writing. It is related not as an ?- exceptional instance, but to show more clearly the situation or estl" mate in which cotton seed was held within tbe lifetime of this writer "~1 Williamson Norwood was a large planter in that part of Abbeville County which was tben and is still known as the Flatwoods. He owned thousands of acres of land and possessed slaves in sufficient numbers to cultivate tbe same. In the Fall of 1848, his overseer threw the cotton seed out of the second story of the gin house. The pile spread and heaped up until the seed were even with the sill of the door from which they bad been thrown. Tbe winter rains completely wet the seed. The hot sun in the spring of 1849 did the rest. An epidemic of typhoid fever swept the cabins. Scores of slaves sickened and many of tbem died. A rich neighbor, and kinsman, Edmuud Belcher, who lived on an adjoining plantation, and owned a hundred slaves, was stricken down With the fever. When he was convalescent, be ineisted against tbe advice of his physician, on going to tbe mountains. It was finally agreed that he might enter on tbe journey, if he would travel only ten miles a day. Starting out he made thirty miles The first day of his journey. He relapsed and tbe end soon came to him. All this, because nothing was known of tbe seed when properly used, and when we were ignorant of the great dangers incident to tbe mistreatment of tbat seed which Providence in his munificence sent to us as one of bis best gifts. A Mule's Wisdom. Seme twenty or thirty years ago some one, we do not know who, discovered tbat there was oil in the seed. Mills were put up for extracting the oil. At tbat time the hulls, were regarded as worthless. At Abbeville, as well as elf-ewhere, the hulls were thrown on tbe ground, or fed into tbe furnace of the boiler. Somebody bad live stock of some kind lookingaround an oil mill In Atlanta. And an employee of the Abbeville oil mill rode a stack of mule bones to the mill. That poor mule and tbat live stock in Atlanta knew more of the value of a u?n_ t Vim v. .11 .!,? TT,lo? man nt A mtrlra TTa vi n tr t.ha frM CUllUU BtVU lililiD ILiau OJi IUC mow uivu va nuiw.?vw. . 0 ? doom of the yard, they picked up the hulls and pot them where they would do the roost good. Id a little time our stack of mule bones had developed into as fat and as *leeb a mule as the most exacting farmer could wish to see. And great reports came from the Atlanta livestock. Our people began to "set u$p and notice little things. $1.60 a ton was offered for the bulls which was readily accepted by the mills. Hulls that the mills didn't sell at that price were then sent out to stock owners with which to experiment. The price soon ran up to $2.60 a ton, and the demand was greater than the supply. The price kept going up, step by step, until we believe $10 has been paid for hulls. Fanners n Cussing" the Value of their owu Product, To keep up the persecution of tbis great benefaction farm* em and others did some tall kicking while "cussing out" corporations for asking so much for the hulls. The sellers of seed were bound tolhsve hulls. But tbey seem to have forgotten that the same corporations that were demanding increased price for the farmer's product-the _ best cow feed known to this country, and at $10 a ton the cheapesthad raited the price of beed from $6.60 a ton to $18, and to even $28 a p]y ton. As another evidence of our ignorance as well as the best proof of kdb our lack of appreciation of the value of one of tbe best of our crops, the prejudice against tbe use of cotton oil lard is widespread today, and pon some men, who are generally regarded as men of intelligence, and ought to know better, refuse to use cotton oil in cooking. The kernel, or heart, of no seed on earth is better protected from impurities, and. it must be acknowledged by all, tbat no food product is freer from con ?jt tamination or adulteration than cotton oil. We need not speak of the imnnrit.v or the contamination of hoe lard. u,? r- ? ? From tbia statement of what we believe to be faots we may contb?! clude: *i'y First?That farmers for nearly a hundred years threw away one of the best, one of the cleanest, and one of the healthiest of the foods for the human family. Second?That farmers and all others, until a few years ago, refused 3t a to recognize the value of hulls ae a food for stock. tbe Third?That farmers h ave set their faces, as flint against the use of 8 cotton oil as a food. This, too, in the light of reason and with the 1{jH knowledge of well known facta. 10-4 Fourth?That no similar, or systemmatic effort has ever been made ano by any people to discount the value of their own product, low Fifth.?That despite, prejudice, ignorance, and persistant warfare lles on it, no product of the soil has ever proved so valuable as the seed of ben the cotton. Sixth.?Beating down all barriers and overcoming all obstruc^ ? - ? 1 1 X _ 1 - 1 I ^ let tions, it lias at iani proved hb commercial vaiue iu us equai 10, or tu b^e excess of, the cost of workiDg the crop. Seventh.?Despite the ignorance, and foolish opposition to the cotton seed, it is every day proving its still greater worth. In money [ 2 it is more valuable than gold mines. Aa a panacea for th? ilia of life, it has no superior. As a food it is the best. But who found out, or discovered the great value of hulls aa a stock food? Was it the man who plants and gathera it? No. Waa it oor o?VerDmen' *Kr*cultural or experimental stations that dis- . yljj ere t? No. Was it men of learning ami scientific research? No. UMi 8P??ulator?, or gamblers in the farmer's product? No. covens I?' W^? ^ discover It? Answer: Mrs. Dom's old muledisi. f e a' Abbeville Oil Mill, and starving cattle in AtWhUDj! ?Ut i,S ValU6 iD eali*f^? ^nger. M 1 ?covere(l fcbst the cleanest and be6t lard could be made of x}Vas it; a Southern planter? No. Was it a Southern then "t 11 Was it a Southern man of any kind? No. Well, iStran 6 "if ^?W Ta'ue M a ^ooc* wa8 discovered? Answer: I difflciflT8' never 8aw a cotton plant, discovered it. Their greatest - v .. ? . *. ^ was discovered was to get Southern men louse it. .Bui aian't they use it? Oh, yes; after it was sent across uie and converted into all sorts of oil, and put into nice bott ee,, oni were pasted pretty labels. The people everywhere bought i was transformed into olive oil. Did it cost our people a g P after the cotton oil was fixed up in nice little bottles? O , t.o, didn't charge very high for tbe oil, but the bottles an e p labels with pictures of olives thereon, run tbe cost up to abou we times as much as it could have been bought or home, or at tbe .oil mills, if carried off" in a jug ' ? a tiu backet, befo$ ' it went over the ocean. But di(in P? ; packers uakitlu making hog lard? Oh, yes; but they di n 6 j farmers know It. If they had done so, they couldn't have so vA'.vl lard. Lard made in whole or in part of cotton oil had to abroad. Lately however, some intelligent Southern people are us ng cottonseed lard. .. But, who discovered nrtedicinal qualities of cotton oil? as Southern nh?l?l>n9 "tefv W.a If BWhoim "NO. Was IS ? ? ? jfujciwmui 4^V# TT A V vaawa ** ?V?V W ?. ?educated men in any part of the world? No. Who discovered, it then? I have stated that the mule discovered the value of the hulls as food; is It not natural that'his friend and co-laborer, the negro, should discover the value of the oil as a food? You know that the negro and the mule are associated in the production of the cotton seed. Then is it not reasonable to suppose, if the mule was the first to discover the value of the hulls as u food, that the negro should discover the value of the oil as a food. It is eyen so. Just as the mule discovered the value of the discarded hulls in the mill * yard, so the negro at the oil press waii the first to realize the value of the oil as a food. In making bis daily meals around the press he dipped bis bread into the fat. His lean, lanky form and bis ashy face were soon transformed into a rotund body and a shapely face. A Medical Man Finds Medicinal Qualities. Who saw and took notice of the improved condition of the negro? Was it the mill owners? No. Was It the scientific or educated men in the neighborhood? No. Was it the Southern physician? Yee. Well, then, who did take notice of the improved condition of the operatives of the cotton oil presses in every part of the country? Answer: Southern men were oblivious to all this. It remained for a citizen of Lousiaba to discover its value as a food, and he thinks that he has discovered that it has medicinal qualities. Interesting Statements by Mr. Harden. Office of the Abbeville Oil Mill. Abbeville, S. C., Feb. 4th, 1907. Mr. Hugh Wilson, Editor Press and Banner, Dear Sir: Complying with your request, I hand you herewith, a copy of the article by Dr. C. W Hilton, Monroe, La., on the use of cotton-seed oil in the treatment of consumption. You will note, the "Medical Council" is the Journal from which the article is taken; though it appears that, "The Medical Recorder" first published the paper and, both publications are, apparently, but ~ an abstract of the original read before the Tri-State Medical Society. Dr. Li. T. Hill kiDdly gave me the opportunity to read the article - / in bis copy of Medical Council. I was so much impressed with the importance of the facts as developed in Dr. Hilton's experiment in the cases reported by him, that, I made a copy of the article. In this fact, lies my ability to accede to your request for a copy. * As you know, Dr. Hill is absent from the city and was and has : been absent;, when, and ever since, you made tne request, i ao not know that he would have objections to your publishing the article. The facts are, so much publicity has been give to the subject, by reason of the great number of persons who are now taking cotton-seed oil in this city for various complaint?, the public mind bus been engaged in thinking about the matter and it has now grown into "town talk." For these reasons, coupled with your personal knowledge of benefit derived by parties who have been and are now taking the oil, I fee) that, it will not beany violation of the ethi? of propriety, to furnish the article for publication, without consultation with Dr. Hill. I . i I will state generally, there are possibly as many as twenty persons who aire taking the oil now. We have had four new calls for ) oil today. It is my desire, should you comment on the article or on tbe facts as tbey have been called to your attention regarding benefit thrniiarh tho mma nf nriirin nil. either for conmimDlivea of for "run down^' patienta, that no reference be made to any conditions or statement! made by me or anyone connected with our Company, It is evident, you have heard from the persons directly; and their ipse dixit should be your warrant for any facta without regard to what 1 might have to say on the subject. Yours truly, J. M. Harden. Manager. The Mule Found Good in Hulls?The Negro Found Food in Oil?And Now the Physioian Thinks He Has Found in Oil a Cure for Consumption, (Medical Council, issue of December 1906.) Abstract of paper read before the Tri-State Medical 8ociety, by Dr. C. W. Hilton, Monroe, La. (The Medical Recorder.) For ordinary clinical purposes only two forms of consumption npfld he recognized, acute and chronic. The cardinal principles or sue cessful treatment of any oaae are found in (a) diagnosis and treatment, (b) buoying up the patient and friends, and (e) insistence that consumption is not necessarily a fatal or even an incurable disease in the light of modern treatment. ?, To lend authority the doctor recites the fact that he himself was a victim of consumption about thirteen years ago, aud'emaciated "to the incredible weight of 102 pounds, and that in winter clothes." (His present weight is 180 pounds.) In the height of the attack, covering a period of six months, he had elevation of temperature, night sweats and, on slight exertion, pulmonary hemorrhage. In the effort to rehabilitate himself be visited Colorado, but to no avail. The treatment eventually narrowed down to increasing doses of creosote, in increasing quantities of cotton-seed oil, strict regimen of diet and other hygienic measures; this was carried out at his home. The creosote was carried up to thirty drops three times a day. In the aggregate he consumed a gallon of the oil. Impressed with the apparent value of cotton-seed oil as a food in such cases, Dr. Hilton instituted this treatment in both negro and white patients, and obtained uniformly favorable results. He prefers, when possible, to have the treatment taken in a cotton-seed oil pressroom, where several advantages are gained not found elsewhere. maioo Vintira nop fho Munil riav (if i?ress-room em ployees, for a period varying from two to ten weeks seems to be the average of time required. The most sharply acute cases, as well as the ubacute and chronic, are benefitted by this treatment. Creosote is also given. The superiority of press-room treatment, as the doctor points out, lies in the larger quantity of the oil the patient can take into his system in a given period. The vapor of oil inhaled from the atmosphere of the room and repeatedly also from vessels of steaming meal appears to act directly in controlling the cough, reducing expectoration and lessening the tendency to hemorrhage. Patients soon develop a fondness for the oil and grow to digest with ease from four to six ounces per day. One man, a book-keeper, with "galloping consumption," gained an average of one pound per day during the treatment, covering one month, and was cured. Dr. Hilton does not presume to give to the profession a 6peciflc for consumption, but rather reports the results of treatment in a few well choeen cases in order to encourage trial by others leading to a collective investigation of this interesting subject. All Praise Cotton Oil. Since the above letter was publiabed, many persons in the city of Abbeville are taking the crude cotton oil, as it comes from tbe press. In Bpeaking of it, so far aa we have heard, there is not one discordant voice. People are looking upon it as a cure for nearly all tbe ilia. Most beneficial results have come to aome. And ao it is, among the rest, the grandson of the aufferer in the Golden Age is reaping beneflta in the Age of Gold, from the curative qualities of the seed which, when improperly used, was ao destructive in the GoldenAge. / ? ifcaii