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| Buy a Bale of Cotton. # Atlanta Journal. <~X~X~X~X~X**X~X~X~X~X~X~X When a man's country is lnvad( he wtll give his blood and his life f( Iits defense. The South today fac< a situation as serious in Its econom aspect as t hough an alien arir were swarming toward us to blocl ade our ports, luy waste our fiel* and trample out the very sources < our subsistence. The effect of tt is mil as distinctly, not as heavily, in the cotton growir states as in Belgium or France. Oi staple crop, the backbone of oi business life, the product on wliic millions of our people depend ft their daily bread is virtually withoi a market. Europe's mills are close* the foreign demand for cotton hf suddenly ceased, and. for the tim being, the American demand has a most flickered out. We : re thus b* ?ieged with conditions as oppressiv and dangerous in a business sense i though they were the bayonets of a invading foe. But the South will not surrende It will not suffer its fortune an freedom to be crushed. Its mai hood and womni hood, its heart < patriotism, its very instinct of sel preservation will rise to this emei gency, and show the world win brave and resourceful people can *1* In this spirit, acting together wit promptness and vigor, we can tur the cotton crisis to a splendid a* hievement: we can create a mark* of our own. we can bring safety t the farmer, cheer to the busines man. prosperity to all the peopl* Without own means anld our ow pluck, we can build up a demand fo cotton, a self-made South-wide d< mand that will soon set millions c money free, and make the mellowin autumn a season of unexample bounty. This, in fact. Is already being don* The Buy-a-Bale-of-Cotton camDaig is under way. In Atlanta, Rom? LaGrange and other Georgia town: patriotic citizens are buying cottor Some are buying one bale, other more. They are paying ten cents pound, and are pledging themselve to hold it out of the market for year, or until normal prices are re stored. The campaign, however, ha just begun. It must be presse swiftly forward, far beyond th boundaries of Georgia, until it ha enlisted every Southern state, ever Southern community, every Southeri man and woman who are true t their homeland in the hour of peri and distress. This is not to be the work of < few men for the benefit of a few in terests, but the work of the rank am file for the salvation of our commoi interests. It is not a device of fin anclers but a crusade of patriots. , battle for the people and by the peo pic. Therein lies its power. nn< there, too, lies the public's respon nihility. Nothing can carry this plai to success unless the mass of South ern citizens are behind it. but notli ing can prevent its overwhelminj triumph if they are. It has beei well said that great reforms am great achievements come not fron the top but from the not torn, "com* from the masses of struggling hu man beings, from the instinctive ef forts of millions of human heart trying 10 oeai meir way tip into tin light and into hope of the future!' It is the peculiar virtue and glory o the present campaign that it de pends upon the million, not upon th< few; that it calls to all men through out the South, and bids them stain together in defense of their nativ< land. In such a movement each man liai his particular obligation, each towr and county and state has particulai duties. Each man must do his right ful part without delay. Every bah of cotton that is bought and retiree brings a normal market that mud ^ nearer. Every fifty dollars thus in vested puts that much more monej Into circulation. We are atacking r great problem, with the loyalty ol v the people as a weapon. The peoph must be responsive and true, if theil cause is to be won. As one of the largest cotton grow lng states, Georgia has peculiar con M cern and responsibility in this undertaking. Her citizens, therefore 9 should take the lead in the cotton buying campaign. It should be tlieii aim to care for a million hales bj means of individual and collective purchases, supplemented with the system federal aid that will soor he in operation. That system, bas ed upon warehouse receipts, will enable many farmers to store theii cotton until fair prices return. It If inevitable, however, that much dls tress cotton will be offered for sale and it is at this point that the rank and file of Georgians should step in _ i.d protect the commonwealth against ruinous prices. If they dc so, and the splendid beginning they have mad^ shows that they will, the amount c ctton thus bought, together wl hat the farmers themsalves ruin hold should nnnrn*imat* . a million hales. ft If other states do proportionately well, eight mUllon hales of cotton wl|l be retired from ths market for a year, American mills will consume the remainder of the crop, sacrificial prices will be forestalled, the present crisis will be averted and ths South's welfare will be secure. Texas, with Its great population and magnificent resources, should be able to care for two million bales. Oklahoma and ArlMinsas can press the good work forward; and so with Mississippi and I^uslana, Tennessee, Alabama, Florida and the Carolina^ ?nil nhmilrf aivintr nrom nf 1 v ami vigorously Into this ermpatgn of patriotism and self-preservation. Patriotism and self-preservation! They are the master motives of the hour. No one alert to his own interest and true to his country's-interest will do less than Ills utmost to make tffe Buy-a-Bale"-of-C'otton campaign a success. The merchant, the banker, the manufacturer, the la| I ' L , '"V3SSA* ! _i ; > borer and the capitalist, the prof< "J* sional man and the business man a all as vitally concerned as the fs A mer himself. For, if the cotton cr y is sacrificed, the very heart of o *?* prosperity will be stilled. No coi j. munity or household or citizen In tl y | South would escape the ill effect f ruinous prices for this staple. In buying a bale of cotton, ther ;(j fore, the Individual is helping build a bulwark for his own as w< ir as his negihbor's security. Furthc ss more, he is making a good invos ie ment. The intrinsic value of cott< lv is much more than ten cents " pound; no one doubts that it will 1 rk" worth more when the war is over. Is when our industrial and comraerci affairs are adjusted to the extraorc ie nary conditions brought about I if the war. Next year's crop will ce ig tainly be far smaller than this yeai jr and next year's demand conside ir ably greater. If eight million bal h are withdrawn from the market tl >r price will improve immediately, ar it will continue to advance. Ten cen 3,1a pound, or fifty dollars a half, is the lowest figure at all cmparfens le rate with the needs of _tlw?*|miwer i 1- the welfare of the South. As a ma 8- ter of good business and self-interes e everyone who possibly can afford tl is modest investment should buy n least one bale of cotton at ten cen a pound and hold it for a year, r At the end of the Franco-Prusslf d war, Germany demanded of F>an< i- an Indemnity of a billion dollars. >f be paid within three years. 5 f- enormous a tax was expected r- crush the defeated nation. Rut tl it government issued notes of small d i, nominations, some of them as In h as a few dollars, and appealed to tl n mass of the French nonnlo ?> them. Rich and poor, humble ai ;t great, the peop leresponded, so th 0 in an incredibly short time the st is pendous sum was raised, the de i. was paid, the German army wit 11 drawn, and the honor of France r r deemed. t- What the French peasantry d ?f in 1H71 for their country's sake, oi g people are now asked to do for tl d sake of the South Let us prove oi patriotism by standing together J. this crucial hour. Let us, man I n man, lift the crushing burden whi< s, ; a foreign war has laid upon tl J, heart of our economic freedot 1 We can do it. and we WILL, s a A SOUTH CAROLINA NEED. 8 a The Example of North Carolina is f Object l/csson. ,1 Gastonta, (N. C.) Gazette, e South Carolina needs to folio s her sister state, North Carolina. I y passing a compulsory education la\ a The recent primaries held in Soul o Carolina indicate tne woeful d< II ficlency of education in that stat Take three counties for exampl a York. Marlboro and Snartnnhnrp t - these counties practically 25 per cei tl of the voters "mad" their mark*" bi ti cause of their inability to write the - names. To be exact, 21 out of evei a hundred in York county were decla - ed illiterates: 27 out of every hui tl dred in Marlboro "made the - marks." It should lie said herp 1 n defense of this county that there - no finer county in the state of Sont - Carolina when the fertility of t.li 5 | soil or climate conditins are coisic l ered This county produces as p-er :1 a yield of products an an averag l as any county in the state. In on e voting precinct of Spartanburg (our - ty. Pelham, out of 119 voters 6 - were educationally deficient so nine s so that this number could net writ ? their names. ' We do not purpose to throw off o f South Carolina. If the truth wer - known there are perhaps certain dii a trlcts in North Carolina that are Jut - as illiterate as those mentioned i 1 . South Carolina. North Carolln; a however, has passed a compulsor school law, and the rftatlstics sho' 3 that 4 0,000 more children were er i Adled this past year than ever b< rjfore. In one county the enrellmeri - incrt-ased 17 per cent and in anothe j 30 per cent. Good results are thert 1 fore being seen already in Nort l/Carolina. -ft Now the word "compulsory" I ( obnoxious to freemen because the illiate to be compelled to do anything f W'ompare the young child with th ? young colt that Is being broken. I ?wu unvuik u rtm tot mo ii time and he stopped, would you un - hitch htm and lead him home with bundle of fodder or sheaf of oats If so you have a balky horse. If th child, who needs to oe trained to d his duty, is allowed to remain a home at will, then his fitness an< ' usefulness as a citizen are curtailed > Follow the example, South Carolina of youh sister state by providinj i ways and means of eradicating you - illiteracy. Two years from now we hope ther i will be no Bleaseites or antl-Blease ltes.?Spartanburg Journal. j SOUTHERN RAILWAY. "Premier Carrier of the South." ,'PASSRNOER TRAIN WJiWLBI Trains arrive Lancaster from: , No. 118?Yorkvllle, Rock Hill ant intermediate stations 8:81 a. m . No. 113-1?Charleston. Columbia am intermediate statiojis lu:0l a. m. 1* , No. 114?Marion, Blacksburg, Cb-1 lotto and intermediate station* 1:35 p. m. i No. 117?Columbia, Kingsvllle au< intermediate stations, 7:48 p. m Trains leave Lancaster for: | No. lift?Kingsvllle, Columbia an< intermediate stations, 8:31 a. m No. lift?Rock Hill, Blacksburg , Marion, Charlotte aad inter mediate stations, 10:05 a. m. No 114?Kingsvllle, Columbia Charleston and intermedial stations 1:35 p. m. ! Wn 117 Rnnb Iflll V 1. ... ?vv> .mii>, toirvv.iic aill intermediate stations, 7:4i p. m N. B.?Schedule figures are pub fished as informal.on only and nr< not guaranteed. For Information ai to passenger fares, etc., call on w. B. CAUTHEN, Age.it W. E. McQEE, A. G. P. A., Columbia, S. C. W. H. CAFFEY, D. P. A.. Charleston, S. C. TTTK liANCASTKT? NKW! ^FARMERS CAN DO \ WITHOUT POTASH op ur Manufacturer of Fertilizers Asserts n* That Siillicient I'otnsli is in the Soil. I (By George Braden, President Fed e_ jeral Chemical Company, Louisville.) to The brokers engaged in the sale jll of fertilizer material are getting un,r. necessarily hysterical over the pos,t_isible consequence of a materially }n |diminished supply of German potash. a which will probably t>e entirely cut be off from America until the end of the orIwar in which nearly the whole of al Europe is now engaged. The situaII tion is this: by Germany is the sole source of our >r- agricultural supply of potash. The '8 American manufacturers of cotnmer,r cial fertilisers Imvo es the German Kali Syndj-kat for their. [ie potash wants. rtrtfning over five ul years .from 1911. It Is provided ts i that-Trieh succeeding year's requireis ments shall be shipped in equal u- monthly parts over eight months, hear ginning in May of each year. It will it-1 he seen, therefore, that when the it.' war began in which Germany is at ip present engaged, only three-eighths at of the American requirements for ts the coming year lind been shipped. All chartering of vessels is praotlcalin ly at a stand, and the Kaili Syndlkat re has advised American buyers that no to more shipments can be made until So present war conditions are materially to changed. ie It will be difficult for our perturbe ed brokers to impart ther excitement w over potash either to the dealer in ie fertilizers or to the farmer who uses iy them for the very obvious reason id that a large number of the most inat telligent farmers in the Kast and U- the Middle West have long used ferbt tilizers and are continuing to use h- them, in which the element potash e- is entirely absent. They claim that !soil tilled by greater depth of plowid ing contains a sufficient supply of ir this decent for many years hence, ie,and that at the present money is ir needlessly spent in America therein I for. In this they are substantially jy supported by leading An rican >h aernnomists who tiavs i?lvon - = le study an deficient field service to n. the subject. It Is further substantiated by the fact that the most profitable yields iof wheat, followed by clover, that were ever produced In America ben fore the general introduction of soluble phosphates were grown with ground bone carrying about 4 per cent of phosphoric acid and no potwjash. which formerly sold as low as in $24 per ton. and this product, were v. | It to be had at this price now. could 'h be still sold for fall seeding in prace tically unlimited quantities. The e. ground bone was not used for grain e. planted In the spring, because it was n assumed that it was not readilv it enough soluble for spring crops; so p- that the grain crops of spring plantlr ing were not fertilized until the gen y eral introduction of the soluble prosr phates. It was some time after the i- advantages of the sluble phosphates Ir were demonstrated for spring crops i n before they were used for wheat; but is as the demand for bone increased for h use in the general arts, the price ad- j io vanced so materially that soluble I TAKING CALOMEL ? IS A RAT) TTARTTI 1J| So Powerful It Shocks Liver and Leaves It Weaker Than Before. Dodson's LiveV Tone i^ Het i ter o? \a^|rA/ e Nearly evoryhwAwKo* has ever i. tried calomel hasVpiind that it gives it only a tempornry r\i<?. For calomel n is such la yfjowerfwi \drug that It shocks iiryl /vijarlrtms Vhe liver and y makes ft/esX Able AfterYard to do Its duty tl?in wr the flVst place. [. This is one of tWe reasons why the v. Standard /Drug Company guarantee t Dodson's Liver Tb/ie to take the place ,r of calomel. Dpdson's Liver Tone Is >. a pure vegetable^ livei * nlc that will h cure constipation quit. / and gently, without any danger of bad after9 effects. It Is guaranteed to do this y with a guarantee that Is simple and i. fair. If you buy a bottle of Dodson's 0 Liver Tone for yourself or your chllf dren, and do not And that it perfectit ly takes the place of calomel, then . return to the store where you bought it and get your money back with a t smile. e _ t> t 1 Medical College of the S Charleston, ' SCHOOLS OF MEPICIIN r /)wned and Control 86th Session (mens October 1st Pino tl..lUll? J? - - - . ??.w uunuii* rcauvyir--?<TU ageoucly located opposite Roper Ho* he South. Hospital containing 218 F Pract'cal work for Senior Students Feature. Large and well-equipped 1 partment of Physiology and Embryolo > Museum. Nine full-time teachers in Ated appointments each year in medicl OSCAR W. SCHLRK' 1 _ 1 " 1 i . : INSURANCE AF ^* ^ Too many us are inc , | uie conies, nnoNEnen "holl ! a sense of apparent se waminfrs, while otheta se j loss, which can he avb%4< So co-operate with your the Farmers' Mutual \n tual and co-operative thr insure is NOW before tli >1 R. THOS. BEATY I). E. HONEY, Ma.ia < SKPTKMKKU II, WU. ' phosphates were substituted for it In wheat fertilization, and their use has steadily increased. For many years after the introduction and successful use of the soluble phosphates they were compounded with nitrogen alone in the , form of animal tankage from the packing industries, nitrate of soda and sulphate of ammonia, while potash was of no consideration. When the German potash producers put their product upon the American market they established a rich propaganda to exploit its advantages, and in time it came to be uuite exten slvely used. Whether our agronomists sire correct in their theory- that we are at present uselessly spending millions of dollars annually for German potash 1 am not ready to say. hut what is well attested is that in 'instances without lUnit our farmers are using for gjykitf'Tertilizers foriuu| law high in the soluble phosphates' and well balanced in nitrogen, in which the percentage of the element , potash is so insignificant as to count for absolutely nothing in crop pro-' duction, and that these formulas are I |producing 30 to 4 0 bushels of wheat per acre proportionately as the soil requirements are met by the quantity supplied. From the experience 1 think we may he assured that American agriculture will get on comfortably and ! profitably without potash until the i Huropean war Is over, however long it may last, and that in the moanjtime our American farmers may he table to determine hv practice for themselves bother the theory of our agronomists that we are spending money uselessly for ootasii is grounded in fact. A simple fact which our agricultural experiment stations have formulated is that, given favorable seasons and cultivation, crop production is limited within narrowed range by the greatest lack in the soil of that element of fertility which the crop demands in the greatest quan- , tity. That lacking element of fertility in most all American soils Is found to be phosphorous, derived from phosphate or lime. With all the efforts which agronomists have made to Induce our farmers to use in'.s element In increr.sed quantities,] they have not been able to persuade i them to return to the soil artificially an eqiuvalent of what is annually removed through crop production. It must, therefore, be accepted, conceding to the function of potash In agriculture all that is scientifically claimed for it, that the money an-' nually Invested in it by American i farmers can at the present he more | profitably used in the purchase of Increased quantities of soluble phosphates, and that potash should he considered only after soluble phosphates have been returned to the soil in quantity equivalent to what has been removed. What far more vitally concerns American agricul-! ture at the moment than potash is ' that we should have shipping for our wants of pyrites, that ' e soluble phosphates may be produ. >i to meet the increased demand which the ahSow Crimson Clover and Save Fertilizer Bills Th? in.li/otw.no I... 4 ? fertilizer iJfio coming' season will be much higler than usual, on ing to the fact that t\iu-JMj>|>ly of fertilizer materials will Ire largely cut off on account of the European war. This should cause fawners everywhere to ? put land in cropl that will save fertilizer bills. Nolllng will do this beto r than Crimson /'lover. It is unquestionably one o| the best soil-improvers that can brlput in, and wherever it is grown, it rives largely increased crops of corn, Litton and tobacco. We have sect\ed more liberal supplies of Crimson Clover than was expected and will be able to 'sell at much more reasonable prices than was anticipated. WOOD'S CROP SPECIAL gives full and interesting information about the fertilizing value of Crimson Clover; also about other seeds for Fall sow ing. Write for Crop Special and prices of any seeds required. T. W. WOOD Ct SONS, Seedsmen, - Richmond, Va. # itate of South Carolina s. c. IP A vrv mi i ? 'i" iu nn u rnnni?i At I. led by the State. , 1914, Closes June 3rd, 1915. pancy October Int. 1914. AdvantItal, one of the largest Hospitals in ^eda. PW Medicine and Pharmacy a special L.aBar&tories In both Schools. Decry in affiliation witti the Charleston Laboratory Branches. Six gradune. For catalog address PER, Registrar. Charleston, 8. C. ,1, ! _L_)_ ! 1 -1 ?L 1 ? ! 1.1 _ TER THE FIRE :lined to wait until trouer for help/' Some feel icurity and ignore the e the danger of financial id only by co-operation, taighbor by insuring in sVrancc Company?muoJfchout. The TIME to , Assent, Lancaster t?'r, Yorkviljc, S. C. sence of potash supply will naturally entail, and it is hoped that the see- N< retary of agriculture will use the in- muel fluence of his great office to see that secti America is supplied with the ship- cottc ping for this commodity with neu- feed tral Spain. fall.COULD SCAR WAL f And For Three Summers Mrs. VinV behe I taker cent^Was Unable to Attend to \ V Afl Any of Her Housework. great I it ve Pleasant Hill, N. C.?"I suffered for stron three summers," writes Airs. Walter other Vincent, of this town, "and the third and ^>a last time, was my worst. I ac(jn 1 had dr^jdful nervous headaches and cffcc prostration, and was scarcely able to ^ walk about. Could not do any of my 1 impri housework. vous 1 also had dreadful pains in my back and sides and when one of those weak, " ^ sinking spells would come on me, 1 weak would have to give up and lie down, v 11 wi until it wore off. done I was certainly in a dreadful state of health, when 1 finally decided to try "j.'/y Cardui. the woman's tonic, and 1 firmly u'eiun We Still In the quality of go cellence of service e\|>< trons of up-to-date groc you are not already a ci one and he convinced./ Our 'phone uiiHihe livery follows iinmcdi;il Fresh shipment/of EDWARDS^: I The Qnnlitv Store I Have You Seen If not, waste no time. Sh Take her into your home, sh< fort, keep you cool, and the el lirid, sou cannot afford to he matic, valveless and wiekless Stove is one of the wonders t anteed to cost you less hioikm and to give you less trouble t My guarantee behind every to tnink, you don't have to kitchen when you have a Floi have to wait on the fire to atai you want at once, saving tha to stand while you are waitin to g?t hot. Come and inves you anything to see for yoursJ. B. Ma< 8 -1 7 l>o ll Now. sver before has there been so li need for the farmers of this on turning to something besides in. Plenty of oats and other crops should be planted this ?Pee Dee Daily. CELY X ABOUT ve I would have died if I hadn't i it. Icr 1 began taking Cardui, I was ly helped, and all three bottles red me entirely. fattened up, and grew so much fter in three months, I felt like an person altogether." rduris purely vegetable and gentleg. Itaingredients have a mild, tonic 1, on tine womanly constitution, rdui mashs for increased strength, oves the akpctite, tones up the nersystem, arVd helps to make pale, >v cheeks, fresh and rosy, rdui has helpeil more than a million : women, during\the past 50 years. 11 surely do for you. what it has for them. Try Cardui today. to: Chattanooga Medicine Co.. I.adiea' Ad l>ept.. Chattanooga. lenn., for Special Inions on vour case and 04-page book. Horn* tent for Woman." sent la plain wrapper. J-65 Lead ods and the exacted by the paerv stores. If ? ustoiuer heeoinp / r is 38, and deely. cakes today. -IORTON I'lione ',\S Florence? I e is very beautiful. 3 will give you comleapest cook you can without her. Auto The Florence Oil >f the world. Guar7y give out less heat, han any stove made one sold. And just go in that old hot ence, neither do you 't as you get the heat t fuel and that heat ig on the other stove tigate, it won't coat elf. I ulYUI Cll | ? ^