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WHERE SOUTH CAROLINA EXCELS (Louis J. Bristow, D. D., in the Wes tern Recorder, Louisville^ It is very pleasing to South Caro lina Baptists to know that the State led all the South in the per centage of churches contributing to the 75-Million Campaign. According to the figures issued by the Home Mission board, it is learn- j ed that more than ninety-five per cent of the churches pledged. The next highest percentage of churches is found in Virginia, where little, more than ninety-one percent! pledged. The figures quoted indicate in) tome degree the splendid co-opera tion of all the churches in the South Carolina Convention. This State has its problems?many of them. There! are so-called "backward" churches in the mountains; there are churches in the coastal country where popu lation is sparse and educational ad vantages few; and there are rural sections all over the State which pre sent their own peculiar problems. But the South Carolina Baptists are a superb, co-operating hand, whose elements of collusiveness are not to be found in present-day "enlist ment" agencies. Long years of pa tient, preserving, wjsely-done teach ing, lies behind the fact of almost one percent, co-operation by the churches in the great campaign. Nor have we any cause to be ashamed of the per-capita pledges and gifts. Holding First Attention Notwithstanding at the unequal led place in the column of States ac corded us by the response of the churches to the 75-million appeal, education holds first place in the ac tivities of the denominaton <in South Carolina. The total amount pledged by the ehurches to the 75-Million Campaign lion, four hundred and fifty thou sand dollars. Of this sum, three mil Ion. four hundred and fifty thou sand dollars was appropriated to J education within the State. ' Plails bf the Education Commis sion bow in operation will have a far-reaching effect upon the State's youth. These plans include the esta blishment of five additional high schools in the Eastern and coastal sections of the State, and a boys' preparatory school of the first rank to be located at Chester, about mid way between the Catawba and Pied-: mo?t sections of the State. The wo men's colleges are each to receive sums sufficient to free them from all debts and give a substantial nu tltus for endowment. Indeed, Coker College has no debts, and its full quota will be added to its endow ment. Furman University will get two new buildings and, in rotfcid figures, add a million dollars to ?ts endowment. These educational plans loom large in the expectation of the de nomination. They come as the fulfill ment of long-deferred hopes and earr\est labors. But they do not rep rsent the full measure of the Bap ist effort in educational matters. Last summer and fall, every Bap-, tist association in the State adopted resolutions petitioning the State J legislature to improve the public schools particularly the. elementary grades. These petitions were sent to every county delegation in the- Gen Why don't k QM you use /\ijJ FERTILIJ They win back to pi of production you to sell y tobacco, true! money crops substantial pn The American Agricu Ashepoo Fertilizer ^ BUILT UP") SOLD BY R. S. Link, Abbeville, S. C.J. Speer & Bond, ] Prompt ttrvict. Rtliablt good* DO YOU THINK PRESENT ; PRICES FOR COTTON FAIR PRICES? To the Farmers of South Carolina: If you go ahead and plant anoth-J er crop of cotton you need not com- ( plain if the prices do not go higher than at the present time. By plant-, ing another large crop you indicate1 your willingness to accept the prices prevailing at the time of planting. You cannot get a hearing on any claim that you might make that the present prices of cotton are below; the cost of production As a matter of fact, however, ifj you plant anything like a normal] crop this year, you are going to be i forced to sell it together with whatj cotton you have on hand from last year's crop at much lower prices than are pervailnig now. There is alB: ready enough unspun cotton in uie world to supply the world for a year j and half. If the government acreage: report in June indicates that over a | half crop is going to be raised this ? year there will be another big1 tumble in the market. Some say that! another large crop will result in the j price going to four cents a pound. Others say you won't be able to sell it at any price. [ South Carolina sent $111,000,000: to the West last year for feedstuffs.. Let's raise less cotton and more food and feedstuffs. South Carolina Cotton Association.! . eral Assembly. The constituency; represented by the associations in-; eludes more than one-half of the voters of this State; and while State ' i legislatures commonly are not re sponsive to petitions from religious | bodies, the action of the Baptist As-J sociations will not be without influ-j ence upon the legislature now in ses-j sion. Conservation Conference* ! The General Board has arranged' for holding conservation confer-! en^es in every association during | March and April. At these meetings! pastors, executive committeemen,! W. M. U. and other workers are ex-! pected to be present and make plan";! for the Spring "round-up" in the' churches. It is the custom in South \ Carolina to have two pay-up periods ?one in the Spring and the other in Fall. These reasons usually yield the cause considerable sums, es pecially from members who have been negligent in meeting their pay ments. In the face of conditions, un precedented in some respects, it is expected that the churches will meet their pledges this year as usual. Nearly nine thousand baptisms were reported by the churchcs in this State last year, and a net in crease in membership of around five thousand. This increase is more that the 75-Million Campaign led many of the churches to. "clean up" their rolls. The churches reported about ^seventeen hundred names erased from the membershipv rolls.] Within the personal knowledge of the writer, churches dropped names of persons from whom no communi cation had been had by the churches j for several years, and whose where-! abouts were unkomvn. This cleaning up of the church | membership rolls was not \ the least j benefit attributable to the great j campaign. Abbeville, S. C. HEPOO jLjIYJ crops ? help you get -e-war costs and enable our cotton, i and other at a more fit. ltural Chemical Co. iVorks, Charleston a standard Mot Down to a price R. Winn, Due West, S. C. Lowndesville, S. C. Btit mechanical condition. ft TO CLIIVIB MOUNT EVERES1 British Royal Geographical Society {aid ts? Be Contemplating Am bitious Expedition. Enormous Interest has been aroused by the announcement that the Royal Geographical society contemplates fit i ting out an expedition fo attempt the ascent of Mount Everest, in the Himalayas. For not only is this the highest mountain on the globe; but it ' Is also the world's mystery mountain. Although it was discovered 70 years ago, no European has yet succeeded in getting anywhere nearer than about fifty miles to it, much !es? setting foot on its slopes. 4 This is because it so happens that It is situaterl partly in Nepal and partly In Tibet, and the governments of both these countries object to the presence of European explorers. Besides this the Nepal base of the giant mountain is in any case prac tically una-pproachable, owing to the dense jungle growth, extending tfft a width of 00 or 70 miles all round, and into whose depths no white man may venture and live. The proposal now is to attempt the ascent from the Tibetan side. This Is doubtless possible, but whether the summit can be reached or not is an other matter. Most experts say -not, a*id point to the fact that the duke of Abruzzl's attempt to scale Mount <?odwin-Aus tin, Everest's mighty neighbor, and the second highest peak in the world, resulted in failure. He ascended as far 24.600 feet, but was then obliged to turn back, owing to the difficulty of breathing, due tc the extreme rarefaction of the air. Mount Everest is more than 29,000 feet high. I ANCIENT HARPS OF IRELAND Two Instruments, Each Having a Oi? tinct Purpose, Were in Uee in Olden Times. The ancient Irish harp was of two kinds?a small Instrument used chiefly for religious purposes, first by the old Druids in their rites, and later by the Christian bishops and abbots. The other Iiarp was large, and was used in public assemblies and in battles. The bagpipes were introduced Into Ireland from Caledonia. They had the same use in (he Irish armies they now have in the Highland regiments. But the Irish made, In the course of I time, an Improvement, using bellows j to fill the chanter, instead of the I mouth, and continued improving the j Instrument nnff! (jje union-pipe* of to- j day are tfie result. As to early^Jrish harpers and their . music there Is little known, but at 6ueen Elisabeth's court, Irish tunej 1 were popular. Of late huge books of j ancient Irish melodies have been col- ' lected and arranged. Petrie has at tracted attention to thjs field by his | thorough investigation of Irish folk music. s Jndia Ink Really Chinese Ink. The intensely black inks have vari ous sorts of finely divided carbon as their pigment, and the vehicle in most instances Is some type of oil or var nish. India Ink is the name oft?n ap plied to what is In reality Chkiese Ink. The best of this variety comes from the Anhul province and Is mtWe from the lamp black produced when wood oil is slowly burned in one earth enware vessel and the soot or lamp black produced is collected on the sides of a second jar placed above the first. A paste Is made with varnish snd Dork fat and this is then mixed with glue. Some ink is made .from the soot of sesame or rapeseed oil, hut in any case the paste is pressed into molds. There are, of course, i:iany grades of this ink, the lower being made from the coarser soot and slue. In 1918 the Chinese exported 127,000 pounds of this ink.?Scientific American Monthly. Literature of the Czechs. Czechic literature has voluminous and impressive accomplishments to show. Take, for example, Bohemia's three great writers of the nineteenth century, Dobrovsky, Jungmann and Palacky. Jungmann compiled a dic tionary of the Czech language in five' volumes, Palacky wrote a work of 20, 000 pages on Czechic history, and Dob rovsky wrote a grammar of Czechic. The most Indefatigable writer, how ever, was Jaroslav Vrchllcky. He translated Dante's "Divine Comedy," Ariosto's "Orlando Furioso," Calderon, "Faust," Walt Whitman, as well as works from French, Hebrew, Yiddish and Chinese. No one knows how he found the time to do it. Among the leading Czech writers of the present, Frana Sramek, Toman Kodicek, the Capek brothers and Theer rank ktgh. ?New York Evening Post. Before and After. "Before and after pictures," said au opera singer ut a Philadelphia mu sical, "afford some very striking con trasts. This is especially true of be fore and after pictures of marriage. "A man sat with pipe and book and an $18 bottle of hooch before the radi ator one night while his wife turned a hree-year-old dress. "The man laid down his book and tossed off his fifth drink of hooch. His wife looked up at him calmly, and said: "'George, when you proposed to me vou said you were not worthy to undo lafoliotc r\f tnv ' "Georpe stared at her In amazement, jl " 'Well, what oi.' it?' lie snarled. i " 'NothV.ig,' she answered: 'only I * wilt say for you tnai whatever else E you were, you weren't a liar.'" BACK US UP! (Proper Gander) It has been said that athletics j make the school. That is nothing elsej stimulates the interest and enthusi asm for the school as do athletics.; Athletics is a term used to cover all; outdoor and indoor sports. Therefore,' it takes football, basket ball, base-| ball, tennis, swimming, races, track ^ meet to get the proper interest in the schools. ! But what advantage is there in; having these sports if thL-re no team! or if there are no games? First comes the team and then the games. But it takes more thun the pupi'i j to make the team arid the game. It I takes the yells of the school children and interest of the people of the town, i It is an entirely different matter to play amid the yells and cheers of thej on lookers than to play with an en tirely silent crowd of spectators. lor is it very encouraging to the players to,have only school goers as specta tors. Spectators from town show that ihe people of the business world and the home makers realize that the school belongs tp them. They see in it the future. They are willing to give the school a little of their time. But more than the time it takes the interest of the outsider. For several weeks basket-ball has been the sport. Only a few people, except school children attended any of the games. It isn't the admittance fee (for that j very small) that causes the small crowds. It must be .your lapk of in terest, business ma J, housekeeper. In order that the teams may go on, ask your help to them by coming to the games. It won't take but a httle of your time and money. It does not mean much to you. But it means so much to the pupils and to the school. Be a sport and back us up in our endeavors to m^ke the Ab beville schools the ideal school. ?M. W., XI. if if i firinr .rnuouui THE VICTROLA AND VICTOR RECORDS I1N "Unusually Attrac the best way to de?c Ladies' Spring Dres styles are "snappy" colors beautiful. Th we..are offering i dresses are "unmati ?You will find tl values at...... $10.9841' ! We give you the v we give you, now, We stretch it to th st< POT PL Ferns, Begonias bina. Etc. A Dances "Honeydew"?Medley Waltz Medley One-Step Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra Two eagerly-awaited selections from Zimbalist's acw play; not only wonderful dances but splendid musiq too. 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