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' rhe Dillon Herald. PI i BUSH ED EVERY THURSDAY. b. jOhoan Editor. ? I INSCRIPTION. SI.50 PER YEAR RnlrrvU at the puttottlce at Dillon, ?t. P., aa ?anoud-c.ai>a mail matter Dillon, S. C. September 2 1909. j ___ The cotton season is being ushered in with the usual number of gin casualties. It seems that people will never learn that gin saws are dangerous things to monkey with. York York police are on the hunt for a practical joker who 'phontd the coroner the other night that Alfred Gwynn Vanderbilt was shot in a New York hotel. Probably the joker meant to say that Alfred was half shot. The Heralc. has been taken to faclr Kir o uroU .moininry Kiif mi'c (.uoa ijj u nvii invuuui^ uui. tiJioguided friend who says our frequent references to the big cotton crop in Marion county will have a tendency to depress the market It's i ix>or rule that won't work both ways anu if The Herald had such wonderful powers it would turn round and hxxtm the price of cotton to 20 cents the pound. Why all this furore about the health of Harriman? If one is to judge by the interest the public shows in the state of his health he is a greater man than the president. His return front abroad has been like the triumphal march of a king returning from victorv on the battle field. His steps have been dogged by the minions of the press and his words, vague, meaningless things concerning only himself and his experiences with -.1 J t- * jjiiysu-'iaus auroaci, nave oeen flashed across the continent and weighed and speculated upon like the safety of the nation depended upon their import. Had the president himself returned from a conference of state with King Edward upon which rested the lives of millions of men and the future of the nation his home-coming could not have attracted more attention. Why all this furore about a man in private life? When the state of his health or his homecoming from a brief trip abroad arouses a nation like the American people have been aroused over Harriman's home-coming there is something radically wrong with the system of things. It shows that a power greater than the goverment itself has been concentrated in one man?and that man a mere private citizen. We repeat, there is something wrong. It seems prophetic of an imperialism greater than any the world has ever dreamed of. The article in another column appearing under the caption of "Lending Money at 6 per Cent.," is of passing interest t > every person either directly or indirectly engaged in the cotton industry in the south. -It is freely admitted everywhere that the bonded warehouse is the only hope of the south in its efforts to secure control of the cotton crop. The great trou ble heretofore has been that the south was not able to finance its cotton crop because its banks could not use as collateral cotton that had been carlessly stored iu out houses or dumped upon vacant lots around the farms wnere it was expSsed destruction by fire or to daAiage by the weather. The bonded warehouse, however, where it is protected from loss by fire or daptage by water has made it a safe and valuable asset, just as negotiable as a stock certificate or a United States bond. The cotton crop is the south's only collateral?its basis of credit. For example, the goverment does not iasne currency in excess of the |v amount of gold or stiver bullion stored in Its vaults at Washing \ rV T: WPJP ton Should it exceed that j 1 amount its credit would become impaired and it would have to |>ay t an excessive rate of interest on r the money it borrowed. There i may be billions ot dollars worth 1 o f srold or . silver still a in the mines but this bullion c "in sight" does not serve to s strengthen the nation's credit one c iota. The same way with the p south. As long as its cotton? t in other words its bullion?is t scattered indiscriminately over the i country, absolutely unprotected, c its $600,000,000 worth of cotton t is valueless as an asset. The purl>ose of the bonded warehouse is to reverse this order of things? to give cotton the same value as as an asset the gpverment has given to gold and silver, by storing it in safety deposit vaults and making it immediately available in cases of emergency. If the south's entire cotton crop were stored in bonded ware houses the rate of interest on money in this country would be reduced to less than 6 per cent. c Some counties are preparing to 1 hold elections upon the question is issuing.bonds for road improve- \ ments. At an election held upon 1 this question in Spartanburg a [ few days ago the proposed bond 1 issue was defeated by a small ma- ' jority. Spartanburg is one of the most progressive counties in the ' state and its county seat is one of ' the best paved cities in the south, i hence there is no little surprise ( , that a proposition to pave its high- 1 . ways should be rejected. Un- ^ . daunted, however, other counties . have lined up with the good roads' [ movement and will submit the ! j bond-issue proposition to their vo. ters in a very short while. Now 1 . is the time for Marion to fall in 1 . line with these progressive upcountry counties. The Herald be- 1 . lieves that better results can be 1 l obtained by issuing bonds and ! l building roads by contract than : [ by taxing the people for this specific purpose and doing the wo:k',' by piece-meal. One mile of permanent and substantial highway is worth more than ten miles of patch-work. The more just and equ table way to build good roads is to issue townshiD bonds. This places the tax upon those who get the most benefit from the improvements We believe the tax- 1 payers of Manning township ^ would be willing to vote a bond ' issue of $50,000 for good roods and 1 all that is needed to start the ball [ a-rolling is to get half a dozen ^ good citizens behind the move- . ment. The time for talking good i roads is a thing of the past. The < time has come to give some of the good roads theories the test of practical application. Mr. Watson the #an. Darlington is disputing the honor claimed by Richland of originating the sand-clay country road. If our recollection is correct we think that. Marion can beat them all, and that the man who started that sort of road making is now a citizen cf Florence, I. E. Watson, who was supervisor of Marion years ago. Speak up, Mr. Watson, and do not let these yonng fellows rob you of the honors you are due. What do you say, Marion??Florence Times. j The Times is correct. Mr. Watson was the originator of the sand-clay road and his ideas were put into practical use by the construction of a beautiful piece of road near Temperance Hill on the Buck Swamp road between Marion and Dillon, some ?0 years ago. The road is there still and is said to be one of the best pieces of road in Marion countv. th*?rA ja o kj* of interesting history connected with the construction of this mad that redounds greatly to the credit of Mr. Watson. Not long after the road was built the country was visited by torrential rains that made the road almost impassable. Citizens in that section got indignant and presented Mr. Watson to the grand jury because, the petition alleged, "he had ruined their roadway." After deliberating over the evidence the grand ury ignored the petition of the c 'indignant" citizens and the case c lever went before the court, but 1 nuch to the regret of the more r ntelligent citizens of the county t Kr. Watson moved to Florence c md that was the end of our sand- j' :lay roads. However. Wr. Wat- r on left a monument in that piece t >f sand-clay road that most hap- f >ily has out-lived the ignorance of s he age in which he lived. But t hen this is not so bad when it is 1 ecalled that witches were burned 1 it the stake in New England lit- i le more than a hundred years ago. a SAVING THE WHOLE CORN CROP, * a There are but? two methods of int VPCtinor tVio n/\r? nrnn in /w\m_ bWV V\/t U VI V|7 111 WII I non use by which ihc whole plant s saved and used for feed. 'Hie >etter one of these to put the crop ( nature, but while it still contains !| nuch of its natural moisture, into i silo. Of this method we shall | ?ay nothing further in this article ;imply because we have discussed 1 t in previous articles, and few of ; Dur readers are prepared to save my part of their corn crop in that < ,vay. When the corn is cut near t^e ' rround, and the entire plant cured ' n the shock, the state of inaturi:v of the corn crop at that time his is done is an important con- < iideration. 1 At the time the fodder or leaves tre usually pulled, throughout the , South, there is probably more feed /alue in the stover than at any 1 xher time On the other hand the ears probably do not have their j highest feeding value until the j leaves have all become dry and the ! shucks and a large part of the stalk are also brown. It there- ' fore, follows that, if the stover j alone were to be considered, the corn should be cut at the earlier s stage of development, and if the ears alone are to be saved, the j corn should be cut at the later stage; but if both are to be saved, ] and the entire plant utilized fcr . feed a period about midway between the two stages, or condi tions stated should be selected for cutting and shocking the crop. < By careful tests and analysis this has been found to be the time when there is greatest feeding value in the corn plant taken as a whole. Many of those who have had . their corn fail to cure satisfactori- \ ly in the shock should unquestion- 1 ably attribute their failure to the 1 mistake of cutting the corn when ( :oo green. i The method of cutting the corn ! vhich will be found most profit- 1 tble and practicable will depend on he supply of labor, the freedom 1 >f the fields from stumps and other ! I SCHC I We Ha B A full line of wai I Cheviots, Grecian Reps, 1 H in all Full Line Tkesc liaes are very W. H / bstructions, and the pize of th< :rop. When the crop is small 01 abbr plentiful, it may be fount nost economical to cut the corn b^ land. Wheta the crop is large >r labor less abundant, some of th< 'sled" corn harvesters or cutter nay be employed, and when stil nore work is to be done, and th< ields are in suitable condition iome one of the larger and mon xpensive corn harvesters ma; xj economically used. A cori larvester could easily do the worl equired on several small farm: ind joint ownership and co-opera ion "in harvesting" the coin crop vould, in such case, prove valu ible.?Raleigh (X. C.) Pro ressive Farmer. Dillon A^ent Honored. Max Fass, member of the 5100 >00 club, was a guest of his com lany at a big dinner given ii Richmond recently. The following is taken *ro:n th' Richmond Evening Journal: "The Smth Atlantic Life Insur ince Company i s entertaininj :oday its "star" agents at th Jefferson Hotel, the occasion be itigr the cccond annual conventio i>f the $100,000 club. "A. O. Swink, of Virginia having written the largest amour Df business, is the president c 1909*1910 and VV. J. Barbour, c Mississippi, is vice president. "The club prizes were preseni ed by the vice president of th company. S P. Wiley, and an ii stractive address was delivered b Edmund Strudwick, the presi leu Df the eompany. "The club members and th gfuests were: "Club Members on $100,Of) Basis?W. J. Barbour, Missis, ippi, A. L. Bradley, Mississipp R. L. Dobbie, Virginia: A. C Swink, Virginia; J. H. Basset! Mississippi; Max Pass. Sout Carolina; G. A. Riviere, C. 1; Harrison, W. H. Yarbrougli, Ala bama. "Club Members on $45,000 Ba >is (last four months)?A. < iVvnn, T. H. Davis Virginia: ( R. Webb, North Carolina; C 11 Cuthbert, Virginia. "E. E. Goodwyn, Emporia M. D. Hart Richmond; E. H r i \t_ v ^ joruan, rsev'Dern, in. L., A Bachlinger, Little Rock, Ark, C. II. Harrison, Jacksonville, Fla. W. H. Cuthbert, Petersburg. The party will leave at 7 P. M :>n the Berkely lor Norfolk. WOMAN'S GHOST IN JAIL. A ghost in the county ia.il is tei rorizing the inmates of the w< men's department. Sophie Hess who has served several sentence within five years, was receive there again some weeks ago. A1 though imprisonment was by n means a new experience wit Sophie, she dreaded the though af dying in jail, and when take sick begged piteously to be set free She said to Matron Falconer, w'n was working for her release: "I I have to die in this jail, I'mgoin to come back and haunt it.'' The she died. )OL QPE1 .et us help you get the Gir ready for the fall opening we What You (liable fabrics, in all colo ktcber Linens, colors anc Percals. White Wa attractive and are tbe prop I. DUN VLLON, S. C - - - ? Matron Falconer was reading r them, there was heard a knock , the corner of the room where t Hess woman used to sit. Ihe \ ' men rose, shirekii^g and rusl r out in the hall. ? "It's Sophie", they cried, wl s Mrs. Falconer tried to quiet tht . The next night a woman prisoi said that she had seen a cloud-1 2 figure on a flight of ateps by wh , she reached the woman's quart< e Mrs. Falconer said that thed , woman was a student of the occi ?Cincinnati letter. i ' Dissolution Notice. " ! Xotii'fi hprchu (riwn fViat s the 28fh, day of July, 1909, 1 s . my entire interest in the Salti Novelty Works to Mr. S J. i inon, who assumes all responsil ty for all outstanding oblijjati and has full authority to collect i receive all money due said f ' prior to the disolution of this ".partnership. J. A. McKay, 1 Di'lon, S. C.. Aug. 11. 2909 m e Notice of High School Election - State of South Cnroliua, I* ! Comity of Marion. I A petition signed by one-third of | resident qualified electors and third of the resident free-holder: n | the HRe of twenty-one years in Sc District No. 14, known as Pages 1 School District, having been subi ' ted tt? the Connty Board of Edoca 't of Marion Connty asking that an < >f tiou be held in said School District )f on the question of establishing a I School ont of the territory embrace said School District, such an electu t- ordered to be hel.l at Oak Grove Sc e H? n-e on Saturdav, September j. i.'hteenth, niiot-eu hundred and r . between the honrs of seven o'cloo in '<nd fonr o'clock p. m. The trns d , E. L. Rogers, H. Rogers, und A shall act as managers at said i (. tioi . Those favoring the formatic sum High School District will vote ' 11 iuIi School." and those opposing " formation will vote agaiuat "I i- rc'.ool." Only such electors as re j. rea I or personal property for taxe (' and exhibit their tax receipts and rt tration certificates as required by t. in general elections will be allower h vote. Joe P Lane, W W Nickels. l" W F Staekhouf Co Board o - Aug 30. hfOy ^ Ipl o - ? The Dillon Herald $1.50 a y | The Man of the Hou Is the man with f. money, for he is ready fo; emergencies, and his inteT have always been identi | with a bank from the tim< ?- j first opened a Savings Aec< '' up to the present, d Would YOU like to follow in his st 0 h Come in and we will show t the way [ The Bank; 1 of Dilloi Dillon, S. C. NINGi Is and r > i Need. rs, Dress Linens, English 1 white, Taffeta, Foulards ish Goods. ?er things for hard wear BAR > rv*m > ifiii.ni ^ ^^5 to Special C?h.dmx,} ]| h? GO? FLY keeps flies off Horses J "O" and Cattle. 25c and 50c. At all reel drug: stores. ' ten W. A. Reckling:, the well-known 1 stn. photographer of (Columbia, will be to ncr at Dillon next week. All who J ike want pictures taken will please ich takenotffe. Babies and children's JU ;rs. pictures a specialty. Beginning: ead Monday the 30th. instant he will utt. be at McLean's studio until Sat- J urday evening. Special attention I k ivcu iu uuisiae or view photo- J j graph y. > School Desks.?We represent on the largest manufact"- J (Old school desk? %um| rili- w g^K| ons ai T and in .. you inn ne? n uie school desk co- lint lei OS quote you prices before you buy. We can give you the Sjj liest desk made and save you soma money. Sample desk can he seen at our store. We arc agents also for maps, charts, blackboards, and in fact anything needed for the ' t)IO' school room. jaaSM one | HERALD BOOK STORE. ."1 STusj Notice. tion I All persons holding claims against . j dec j the estate of Mrs. Marfan r C. Cnrinich-^jjgf I l\pl dM>o?oaS i>?? 1 1 ' " u|,_ ^ . ...c udicuj required to me ligh t1"' same, duly verified with the under* _-Jl| d in ' signed within the time required bv law4^^^ mi is I unil upon their failure so to do this no- *^(j hool w*'l Be plead in bar erf their recovery the j and all persons indebted to the said en- "SJ line,1 tatl' aru hereby required to make im- /? "" ]? u' ! mediate payment to the undersigned. .H i^es j Dillon. s. c. Robert. McEm lo rn. >i<1 q' August 2oth 1909 Qnalilied Executor1" """ dec- 8-26-3t J* >n of ,,, ^3 CITATION. -ligh ^ turn THE'STATD OF SOUTH CAROLINA lt,.on County of Marion. S?1S By P- B. Hamer, Probate Judge: 4"-^ law | Whereas R. 8. Davis has made ^ ' to j suit to me, to grant him Letters of Ad. ministration of the Estate and effects of W. H. Davis: These Are therefore, to cite ie> and admonish all and siugular the kin* jSfi I Ed dred and Creditors of tha said W. H. Davis, deceased that they be and appear ju before me, in the Conrt of Probate, to be held at Mariou, S. C., Sept. 3rd. next, after publication hereof, at 11 ^0% e o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, y* if any they have, why the said Administration should not be granted. Er"w Given under my hand this, 18th, *Jj| f- - day of August. Anno Dnmini men P. B. Haiuer, ^^"*2 Judge of Probate. 1 ^1C R. K, BEATY. E. N. BKATY.^^JSS r a11 BEATY & BEATY ^ ests CIVIL ENGINEERS. ifietl Office over L. C. Braddv Co's^Sa Bhe DILLON. >um HACKER MFG. CC\51 Successors to -(A ^ GEO. S. HACKPR& SON. ^ 1WE MANUFACTURE Doors, Sash and Blinds; Col-^BM limns and Balusters; Grilles*. gH and Gables Ornaments; Screen ^9 Doors and Windows. WE DEAL IN . Glass, Sash Coid and Weights ^ | A Speedy Cure lor I ] ? I Con?tip?tk>n, HUiousneu, Dysr-[>al:\ In?li.;e*tlor I Liver Complaint*. Tired Fealu " ' * ' I the Mouth, lUd Complexion, Nerv.u an-i a. itkwm ol the 6tocnsch, Liver end L? ?a.i. j " Bloodlne Liver P!::.< " act gently, yet thoroughly ipm il. !.wl<, live I Tl stomach end dl(?ti?l organs i ,,, Ol BflM end chroaic ca es of anstipa ion a ' n.dijeetiot. I jK act at once, without griping, \i--r do |l'?* l?."iv ua j unpleannt lltrr-i fin u, ? > t mb| ol purging, prodtned Ly oihei c. . iviw'ies Bloodlne Liver Pi .j" ^ re tor* the deranged ^nd torp.a liver to i.urm) I AMI condition and healthful action Remove end pre- j vrnt constipation by securing a natural and n^a-9 tnM Ur operation of the bowels, and relieve those uo * jmeMl pleasant symptoms whlih attend a dinswd or j morbid condition o( the Hw? v ' ">< ' { dSI To assist (n attamiag *-.ng suj; ; gest.ons are offered. REMARKS. Kv lib tn'l 1 their action on the 1. 4MB dosee rarely prove a . ..1 on > (V Large doses simply p. -hi- ?ys- " ,]| trm, ususlly leaving 4RRM seldom removing the gfB prove the general h- t' n,. hand j small doses develop . . medicine, do not irritate or coaetipate the bowels, ' vj but gently_stimul iie the Eve* and 'prevent the accumulation ol bile by directing he flow Into the proper channels. Therefore it is odvinhle to rum nl wooeo bv taking not over oee or twn piiie at bed- flfie nam and len ann doee as treasury. Porrtsim, Ma. WS OewTS : ?I find ycmr " Bloodine Liver PtUe" the moot effective pill 1 ever need. They eaaee -Wmi mo griping or oonstipotivo after effect aa moot liver jnR pilk da. Yours truly, 1 7 EVANS PNARMCAyM D