Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I Former Governor i On The Buy-a KTo the Editor of The News ancl 1 Courier: I read with a great deal \ ?oS interest your editorial in the issue a n?l) oa . 1 |v? rt|/m uv aii iv^aiu iu nit; uuy-aiHome Movement," which has recent- ( ly been launched by the Retail Mer- 1 chants' Associat'on of Charleston. > I was especially glad to note the 1 fact, as stated In tills editorial that s the plan adoi ed Is twofold, viz. that c it is "addressed to those who sell as r well as to those who buy." By this a I understand that it is the intention h of the retail merchants of Charleston, t I wherever possible to do so, to pur- n chase either from South Carolina p firms or to handle South Carolina products, and having done this to ,\ expect?as they have a right to? tl that the people of Charleston spend s their money in their home city and p not send it out to build up other p places, and it will be only by the sue- p cesstul carrying out throughout the s< entire state of such a movement as has been inaugurated in Charleston j, that the problem which is now con routing the people of South Caro-. lina can be solved. This problem is (( the creating of a demand for South j () Carolina products and the successful w marketing of such products. Our farmers have been urged to t| diversify their agriculture and in ( many instances they have done so. p. Larger crops of corn, oats, wheat and p, hay were planted in this state this j8 year than have ever been planted here before, and witnin a few months t.| these crops will be on the market. One of the reasons which has tp caused the farmers of South Carolina to plant cotton almost exclusive- t) ly is that cotton can always be read- u ily marketed at a price, whereas if a they have grain crops to dispose of s. many difliculties in the marketing of t, such crops have hitherto presented themselves. I regret to say that 'p many of the merchants of Charleston, n and I might add of South Carolina, B have not always viewed this matter a in the light in which it now appears, t] as is eveideneed by this movement a of the retailers in Charleston. 0 Let me give a concrete example, g wntcn 1 mention lor tne purpose 01 s emphasizing the necessity of this jj movement and not to imply that a f condition exists in Charleston which 0 does not exist in other South Caro- ^ lina cities and towns: ^ About two months ago 1 happened to be in the ofiice of one of the most prominent citizens of Charleston, t ^ had with me a small sample of Caro- ^ lina rice, and after commenting on j its qualities, he inquired if it was t possible for him to purchase some of ' this rieet stating that his wife had j repeatedly tried to buy some Carolina rice. I was forced to tell him s< that as Carolina rice was sold by the ^ planters only through brokers, and (] as none of my rice had been sold in ^ Charleston, I did not know where ho could purchase any. 11 He then said to me: "Do you mean to tell me that with this rice raised within a few miles of Charles ton and marketed in a wholesale way 81 in this city, I am unable to purchase n any of it from Charleston retailers?" 11 I had to confess that this was the 8 case for the reason that the retailer p probably thought that he would have " to pay a small fraction of a cent e more for this rice than he could pur- '' chase rice from Louisiana or Texas, 8 and therefore he preferred to purchase where he could buy it for this p fraction of a cent less, and as a re- ? suIt of this practically all of the little p rice now raised in South Carolina is 8 marketed in the Eastern cities. a I refer to this incident, as above stated, not because it happened to be my rice, but because it well illus- p trates the point which I wish to em- h phasize, viz, that here was a demand a for a South Carolina product which t could not be supplied through the * regular channels of trade. h The answer of the merchant may n l.n that U tiffi a liio ~ 1/u Hint 11 nuo II ID Iifsiai aim WliniUCH? t to buy where he could purchase for a a fraction of a cent cheaper. There p is something of course, in this argu- s xnent, but if it were followed out in li all cases, that is, if every consumer 11 or purchaser bought on this basis, it c woud negative, in many instances, n the appeal of local merchants that u their customers "deal at home" and thus build up their home towns. H In other words, for us to build up ^ our state we must have the mutual n co-operation of the producer, the j, middleman and the consumer. For c where the producer cannot convert t readily into money his products, 0 business stagnation immediately fnl Iowa, not only on the farm^ but In the city as well, as was evidenced last fall with the cotton crop In this state, the elTeot Of this depression in the price of cotton still being felt. Under the advice of the commis- c, sioner of agriculture of South Caro- b Una and of Prof. W. W. Long, of the di United States department of agricul- Ri ture, the farmers of South Carolina dt THi Hey ward Talks * \ Sol t-Home Movement jDa' iave this year, as I have stated, gone, .0 a considerable extent, into the *rt jroduction of staple crops other than P'rt otton> and it is generally conceded j hat the hope of this state lies in di- leai ersified agriculture; that diversi- did led agriculture is the only safe and I ure method by which our farmers tha an be made prosperous and our ble ural districts built up. Diversified ing griculture is impossible without a pla< uarket for diversified products, and tim he best market is always the home thr< larket. A home market means a was rosperous community. inei The spirit of the "Buy-at-Home owr Iovement" is the spirit of co-opera- ?ear ion, and this is what we need in i outh Carolina today to solve the I V roblem of producing and marketing ise roducts which hav been hitherto Ii urchased in quantities from other is tl sctions. ly t There is a firm in the city of Co- est nubia that is making every effort I mot ) carry out the "Buy-at-Home" j l',e lan. This firm not only preaches, '8 ? its customers that they should saM uy at home, but tries to "practice tinfi hat it preaches." Since last fall am* ley have purchased no corn expect w'l(1 uit raised in the state of South Pre5 arolina, and in every instance thev [flea ay lor South Carolina ?-orn the saiuj i ^otl rice at which Western corn can be ' >,a11 iid down in Columbia. They apply j trut le same rule in regard to the pur- mca liase of oats and hay. , led; It is a poor rule, however, which inK oes not work both ways. The re- ,'1'n lil merchant canot expect to merit i UK0 le patronage of his home people nless he renders satisfactory service, ar>' ml he has a right to demand, at the not ime time, that he be given satisfacjry service by those from whom he or('' i expected, in turn, to purchase. to ' he farmers of South Carolina can- t'ie ot expect that the merchants of this 'n* tate handle their products, or give of ' preference to their products, unless ?v liese products come up to the stand- l'or rd iixed by iheir competitors in sat' tlier states. It may possibly require aoc ome time for the farmers of this 'nK tate to meet these new conditions, 1!r>' iiit t lm croiiluMt In/iontiva ?l,n< mn. ! WO! armers can have is the knowledge !< orr f the fact that should they meet i :t n hem a ready market will be found I 1 or their products. i Speaking generally, our farmers saI< uust substitute for their decreased j ar> otton acreage, the growing of staple ,'li! rops, such as corn, oats, wheat aud ^ ay. Before they can expect to sell wo1 heir corn in competition with Westrn corn, although the South Carona product may be superior in that L contains more protein, they must teai ee to it that it is carefully prepared ur market^ in even-weight bugs, aud en<* liat it maaes uu attractive package. l'cl1 he same applies to oats uud to hay. uplie oats especially should be care- noti ully graded, aud the hay should be *'n< roperly cured and baled. can til? With full co-operation between ellers and buyers there should be o difficulty in establishing a market m? t each community, which would reult in the producer receiving full rices for his products. In my opin- Kro >n there should be an exchange in s*aI ach county in South Carolina, to pro liis extent at least, that the farmers wor liould have some one romnetnnt f \ a] vj bo fix for them the prices of their roducts, following the fluctuations t ho i the market and where it is imA ossible for the farmer to personally ell his products, the sales could be or ' ? vp rranged through the local brokers afor hroughout the state. dist On his part the farmer cannot ex- >ry ect that the merchant should pay cycj im for his products the same price ^ t which he sells these products to ()f he consumer, for in each business uere is a legitimate profit, nor can t^a) e expect to creute an established f mrket for what he raises unless he wm onforms to the regular laws of trade nd does not .^eek to become the com- kjn etitor of the man who is better ser, ltuated to market goods than he is WQ. limself. In other words, the farmer ^ liust recognize that there must be . IIU. V o-operation between himself and the ()j(| nan to whom he sells, to serve the p^r iltimute consumer. <<lf I endorse^ Mr. Editor, most heart- ?ry ly the spirit of the "iluy-at-Home one iovement," and congratulate the nerchants of Charleston on their auching a movement, which, if logi- 1 ally carried to a successful comple- nan Ion, will mean so much to the state sanr f South Carolina. to 1 D. C. HEYWARD. 1 wh( Columbia, S .C., May 1, 1915. YfM 17.; Aqo Ninety, Trains for 8prlnt m?' Yonkers, N. Y.?David Anderson 1 elebrated his ninetieth birthday by era eglnning training for the 100-yard v'*t' ash for old men at the summer ,n ' ames of the Caledonian club. An- teni arson won the race in 1910 and 1912. V : LANCASTER NEWS M UK DICTIONARY IX SCHOOL. Jthern School News, rhut truly great teacher, Noah K. I vis, told this story: A visitor' nd a scholarly friend using a Mich lexicon, and remarked: aven't you learned to read Mich without a dictrionary?" ) was the rply, "I have not even j rnvu iu ii'au riii^iiMi willioui U tiouary." t is not an exaggeration to say t the dictionary is an indispensatool of education, and that trainin its use should hold a firm ce iu our course of study. The olde practice of setting out to spell jugh the dictionary was a clumsy, iteful business, but it Lad one "it: It required every pupil to i a dictionary and incidentally to n something about working with I'hat then is to be gained by the of the uictionary in school? a the first place, the dictionary he best means of getting definitehe meaning of words. The finskill In education is skill in the her tongue: in the mastery of mother tongue, the biggest thing he study of words. "When all 's and done," say a group of d'suishcd writers, "it is the choice ufee of words that determines ther or not we succeed in ex- j ising our thoughts and feelings rlv and adequately." This is true 1 of expression and of underuling, but it is less than half the h. Words are not merely the | ns by which thought is express - i they are the very tools of think- 1 itself. The first lesson in clear iking is training in the accurate of words. i must be conceded to our literfriends that the dictionary cando everything. There are two s to the learning of words. In er to feel the warmth of a word, get the richness of its meaning, fulness of its suggcstiveness, the ms'ty of its realnesst the delicacy its flavor, its emotional qualities ,hat the textbooks call connotai?we must go to clever conver011 and good literature. But, for uracy, clearness, precision, nothcan take the place of the dictionhabit. Context breathes into the d the breath of life, so that it beles a living soul; definition gives vertebrated and serviceable body. one helps us to feel deeply; the er to think straight. We may ?ly repeat, then that the dictionis a most useful aid to clear iking . Vhilo we need to understand ds, we need also to speak them, venly habits of speech are growing s weeds in a neglected patch. The >f remedy must be the cultured :>her. and bis main helper will be dictionary. Its service will not with information about the parilar words that the children look Tlio vorv hohlt nf ?v, ? ??v * v?/ V71 0VUU/IIJ5 IUU atlon of sounds impresses the distions among them as nothing else Anything that will improve correctness, and above all, the nctness of utterance is a value it earnestly to be desired. Yhen we approach the subject of tlish spelling, the rational heart ws sick. Yet there must be some idard, either the old or the imved. An interest in the forms of ds, the habit of observing words, he chief factor in developing the Her. This habit goes hand in ve with the habit of playing with dictionary. is every pupil should own a smalldictionary (not too small), so ry school should have an unidgde. The modern unabridged ionary is not merely a diction, it is in many respects an eniopedia. To train in the use of irence books is one of the duties the school. If the dictionary is only book of this class available, t is all the more reason why the k with it should be thorough. It iid pay most teachers to Investl-1 e and see for how many different I ds of facts the big dictionary will ve as a book of reference. They ihl be astonished, ifter relating the incident which I e quoted in the beginning, the professor turned to his calss, and, aphrasing on older storyt added: any man has not a good diction, let him sell his coat and buy Luke Mcl.uke Says: 'he lad who couldn't tell you the (te of the vice president is the le fellow who can tell you how run the government, 'he old-fashioned 17-year-old girl > used to rend books on "What a ing Olrl Ought to Know," has a year-old daughter who puts her :her wise. 'he willowy girl cops out the covof the magazines. Hut the girl h the wide curves and the dimples tier anatomy attracts all the atLion on tne street, yha thas become of the old-fash AY 7, 1915. THE WAY TO MAKE THE CORN CROP PAY. The Progressive Farmer. As a result of a number of years' work, the Mississippi evperiment station has found the average cost per acre of growing corn to be 112.50. This includes no charge for fertilizers, and, as the average Southern aimer uses fertilizer on his corn crop, it may be assumed that the average per acre cost of production over the entire South will be in the neiglihood of $15. Then since the South during the last ten years has averaged little more than fifteen bushels per acre, it follows that on an average thf corn we lrave raised i has cost us araund a dollar per bushel. If this has been the average cost, how abuot the thousand and thousands of acres that have made less than the average? We have all seen * them?ruty, neglected, weed-infected patches of the "little yaller kind of corn that actually fail to make ' enough to pay for the seed and fertili -zer used. Of course the fellow who farms in this way can better afford to buy his corn than raise it; but we j are inclined to think that such a far- j ? raer has missed his calling, and that 1 lie would be better employed work- : J| ing for wages at a dollar a day, j where his employer can do the heavy ? iunking for him. But these facts are not arguments against our raising corn; rather they 0 indicate that until we double our present average yields we are going ' to find corn raising a mighty poor, 1 business. This brings us around to 8 the undeniable truth that the farmer ( who makes average yields, whether >.? .~f ? ? ?4.? I~ " lucj uc kji vui 11 ui vuiiuu, 1a uwver going to do anything more than break even, if he be fortunate enough to keep out of debt. The ten- b bushels-of-cOrn-per-acre man Is gen- 0 erally the man who averages a third c of a bale of cotton, and a lifetime of poverty is all that such yields can n ever mean. a What's the remedy? If we had ten loads of stable manure to go on * ever acre that goes in corn this year " we believe we'd have an almoBt cer- * tain means of doubling our corn crop. The trouble here is that we ' haven't the manure, and the simple v truth is that we can't afford to con- * tinue to buy corn until wo have *enough live stock to produce sul:l 11 cient manure to double our cori. * yields. Nor can commercial fertili- 1 zers, while valuable in their place. ? ever alone safely be depended upon 11 as the most economical means of 1 ... . . . O uouuung our yields or corn. As supplementary sources of plant food. 8 particularly as sources of phosphorous and potassium, we never expect to be able to do without com- ? mercial fertilizers; but to use them 1 as a source of nitrogen for corn is * poor economy. Our choice then would be a rank growth of bur or crimson clover to r turn under for every acre that goea in corn. Here the embarrassing i fact bobs up that we haven't these i . I * clovers for every acre; but we do be- i Hove that they are within easier ! , reach of the average farmer than the I ^ required amount of stable manure, j Here, as we see it, Is the key to | t profitable corn crops in the South j and the solution of the problem of j moving our corn cribs from Iowa to c Dixie; see that hereafter every aero i of your corn follows a crop of clover v plowed under. Qood seed Is important, thorough preparation and cultivation are necessary; but the great- 1 est problem of all is getting and keeping rich land. Bur and crimson r clovers, crops that are at home on l pvnrv f1f>alna/l nnll I ?/>?/ / ..V.I uinuiQU ovu liuui VilglUlil , to Texas, furnish the means. i f 1: toned man who used to wear a new paper collar every Sunday? fl Before you get her she can say f things with her eyes that make you 1 feel funny all over. And after you v get her she can say things with her v mouth that make you feel funny all v over. 1 Since the vacuum cleaner dlsplac- 11 d the broom u man can't find a 1 blame thing but his wife's hairpins to clean his pipe with. In the game of love you can al- a ways take a heart If you will lead a H diamond. ' One half of (he world may not 8 know how the other half lives; but 8 it isn't the female half. If you imagine that women haven't H a sense of humor, just take a look at a the hats they are wearing. {| Any woman who has a 40-lnch f waist can tell you that the waist of n a perfectly formed woman should * measurse forty inches. 8 A lake of Are and brimstone isn't \ the only hell ever invented. There t is the case of the man who has a |50 r wife and a $15 Balary. Only One "BROMO QUININE" !, To get the genuine, call lor lull name, LAXA- n TlVtt BKOMO QUININE. Look (or signature of tj B. W. GROVE- Cures s Cold in One Day. Stop* | cough and headache, and works oft cold. 25c c ^msm Rinc IT WOULD TAKE A LOT OF SPAC THE MANY VARIETIES 03 k YOU MUST SEE THEM AMD ] SELVES. ALL SORTS OF RH AT?WEDDING RINGS, ENGAGEMEN DAY RINGS, CHILDREN'S RINGS, B SOME VERY CHEAP AND SOME COI YOU WANT. 10BINS0N-LATH LIKE WITHOUT BITTERNESS. ? I an active life like mine me in La rought face to face with stiff, dog- gt r oenso.'"* ible pcole. It is cas.' to rc ugh and Lv, harp things about them and to l,v hem; and one is tempted to resist Lv, Lv, hem, to demolish their certainties, ^r_ a show their lack of reason. Lv, But one wins no victories that way lv ecause the only victories are when Lv. Lv. me persuades and attracts and enourages. Then you can, perhaps, < lake people see what is beautiful nd good, and And more things to 1 ove. But when you argue and con- ^ J rovert, the only thing you win is a ttle admiration for your skill, a lit Ig terror of vonr tnnvno ? - ? '? -??? si So I thought that I would lienceorth only try to praise and bless . hat I thought worthy of love, and if PA were met by controversy I would ar ;ue, if I argued at all, with good ^?umor and amusement, not with blterness, not to wound. Because bit- No erness really betrays a little touch f fear. It only means that you canot trust the beautiful things to win No. iy their own beauty and sweetness, nd you try to maul foe because you re afraid he may damage you if you No i not anticipate lxlm. Life la so short, and yet there is so luch to admire and love and to be No iterested in, that these ugly tempers re Just a waste of time and strength No By yielding to them you only increase our power of being wounded. It is ot as if you decreased stupidity or Nd oughness by striking at it; you only ut yourself on a baser level. I do not mean to practice mild- No less and meekness; that is another ort of feebleness; but I would wish O- be sr?n?rr?iin nnrf nhi.ro?i~?- ' ? vutvanuuo, ttUU o be amused rather than angry. Life b full of pleasant absurdities, and "o1 he certainties of perverse and stupid ? >eople are among them. But lmpatence and rudeness and contempt are inly the signs of timidity. ?A. C. Jenson in the North American Relew. God's Country. ' The Banker Farmer. exi When all the roads are good get oads; when country schools are ex? ;ood schools; when farms produce tin arger yields at great profits; when ] armors unite to upbuild rural Ma ife? Car Then the children of the farm will per corn to desert this fairest of places to or crowded cities; population will be >e more evenly divided, for many no1 vho struggle for a crust in the city las vill find plenty in the country; t-ealth will be more evenly divided; ? here will be less of the doctrine of inte and more of the gospel of love; here will be more happiness. un Tliia la tha futnro r\f ? v vi uvu o tuuniry ggj f you and I lend our aid. It means on , wonderful future?not in dollars hie done-?but in a contented, success- &P1 ul people, constituting an industrial v6r ,nd agricultural republic, peaceful x nd prosperous beyond compare. lome Forms of Rheumatism Curable Rheumatism is a disease char- 1 cterlzed by pains in the Joints and ' n the muscles. The most common un orms are: Acute and chronic rheu- . natism and lumbago. All of theee ' , ypes can be helped absolutely by ' 1 .pplying some good liniment that co< enetrates. An application of Sloan's C(?' .Iniment two or three times a day o the affected part will give instant , ellef. Sloan's Liniment is good for ain, and especially rheumatic pain, iocaiisc It penetrates to the seat of he trouble, soothes the afflicted part nd draws the pain. "Sloan's Lini- ln* aent is all medicine." Oet a 25 Tfc< ottle now. Keep it handy in case f emergency. un I J9 ^ ? i > JE TO 00 INTO DETAILS OVER ? BINDS THAT WE CARET. LET THEM SPEAK FOR THEMJOS HERE FOR YOU TO LOOK T RINGS, GIFT RINGS, BIRTH[EN'S RINGS, BABY RINGS? 5TLY, DEPENDING ON WHAT AN COMPANY mcaster & Chester Ry. Co. :hedule in Effect Dec. ?7, 1914. j Eastern Time. WESTBOUND. . Lancaster ...6:00am?3:30pm . Fort Lawn ..6:30am?4:08pm Rascomvllle .6:47am?4:28pm , Richburg ....6:68am?4:43pm , Chester 7:40am?6:26pm EASTBOUND. , Chester .... 9:00am?6:46pm Richburg ... 9:45am?7:27pm Bascomvllle .10:00am?7:38pm Fort Lawn ..10:30am?7:66pm Lancaster ...11:00am?8:26pm Connections?Chester with Southi, Seaboard and Carolina & Northstern Railways. Fort Lawn, with Seaboard Air enRailway. Lancaster ,wth Southern Railway. A. P. McLURE, Supt. OUTHERN RAILWAY. 'Premier Carrier of the South." SSENGER TRAIN SCHEDULES. Lvnins arrive Lancaster from: 118?Yorkvllle, Rock 11111 and intermediate stations 8:31 a. m. . 113?Charleston, Columbia and Intermediate stations lu:06 ? a. m. 114?Marlon, Blacksburg, Charlotte and intermediate stations, 1:36 p. m. . 117?Col mbia, Kingsvllle e?d Intermediate stations, 7:48 p. m. Trains leave Lancaster for: . 118?Kingivllle, Columbia and Intermediate stations, 8:81 a. m. > . 113?Rock Hill, Blacksburg, Marlon, Charlotte and Intermediate stations, 10:06 a. m. 114?Kingsvllle, Columbia, Charleston and Intermediate stations 1:36 p. ra. . 117?Rock Hill, Yorkv^lle and intermediate stations, 7:88 5 p. m. N. B.?Schedule figures are pab- 1 led as lntorma n only and are t guaranteed. For Information ae passenger fares, etc., call on W. B. O.UTH^N, Agent. W. L. McOEE, A. O. P. A., Columbia, 8. C. W. H. CAFFEY, D. P. A., Charleston, S. C. NOTICE. The time for the payment of taxee >lres March 31. The comptroller leral has directed me to issue the icutlons immediately after this te. if any taxes are received after rch 31 and before the executions i be turned over to the sheriff, a rnlty of 6 per cent, will be added nit; name, ftiucn taxes are yet to paid, so I want to ask the people t to put the matter off until the t day. T. L. HILTON, County Treasurer. Notice of Discharge. Notice is hereby given that the derstgned will, as executor of the ate of J. Thomas Falle, deceased, the 21st day of May, 1916, make i final return as such executor and i. ply to the probate court of Lancascounty for letters tiismlssory. JOHN R. FAILE. ecutor Estate of J. Thomas Faile, ' t Deceased, April 20, 1916. Notice of Diacharge. Notice is hereby given that the aerslgned will, as committee of > estate of Mary Ida Robertson, leased. on the 20th day of May, 16, make his final return as such nmlttee and apply to the probate irt of Lancaster county for letters missorj. JAMES MILTON ROBERTSON, mmltte Estate of Mary Ida Robertson, Deceased. { April 20th, 1916. dgoratlng to the Pale and Sickly (OM Standard areneral atrrn rthenlng tonic, OVE'8 T ASTEI.HSS chill TON1C. driven out laria.enrlchea the blood, and bullda up thesvs* i. A true tonic. For adults and children. 90s