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+ SOIL. BUILiDING. O * A Job You Cannot Afford to 8i Shirk. + 111111111 m n n 11 > ^ ,.,4.4. Progressive Farmer. For the farmer of the South, we 8< ot kohl that there are few greater res- ^ ponsiblities than that of caring for al the land; not only caring for it, but making it better and better as the w years go by. Indeed, so great is this a responsibility that we affirm that the1 i farmer who in not a soil-builder. ' rather than a soil-robber, is not. how- j. ever splendid his other qualities may , W( be. a Rood citizen. J; will he greater than its common peo- su will be greate rthan its common peo- nt pie?the people whose feet dailv cr press the bosom of Mother Earth; v ^ and no farming people can ever be jj great unless the lands they live upon ta are fat and fruitful. Where the poor, f>arren lands are, theite will you m ever find a poor, barren people? of poor in the common comforts that l?< make life better and more wholesome, barren of all aspiration ana tc hope of better things. Where the rich and fruitful lands are, there are m ever found good homes, good schools, i y, vigorous, hopeful men and women h with "faces turned toward the rislnt,1 ta un." It Is given to but few men to bo great, as greatness is commonly reck-' oned; but If true greatness lies In service, in doing well our share of. the world s work, and, when we go,1 E: leaving behind us a world a little ra better for our having lived in it. In' contributing our bit to the welfare and happiness of the present genera-1 tion and all generations yet to be? jt if this bo the sort of service that makes for greatness, then, no less than poets and painters, no less than' warriors and statesmen, is the soil ! building farmer a great man. worthy' 113 to be ranked with the greatest benefactors of mankind. ' Hitherto, particularly in the South, p; where a heavy rainfall and mild win- ai ters are factors in depleting soil fertility, soil building has not been Bl easy; on the other hand, it has been IE KntU #1 ( on 1 f o rwl ovonnclrk l/UVIt U1IUV/UIW U11U VAVpilOI ? v?. Kvery spring, if you pay cash, 01 w every fall, if you buy on time, hasn't if our commercial fertilizer bill sorely si worried you? Haven't you many, times wondered how you might avoid 18 ? at least a part of this burdensome ?j tax on your year's work, only to de- Q) cide that keeping your yields up to the mark demanded the continued gi use of fertilizers? I But there's a way out, friend; yo.u 11 K don't have to continue to buy huge quantities of fertilizers every spring, nor by not buying them will you run the risk of short crops. On the other e( hand, there's a way, a sure way, by 0 which you can cut your fertilizer vi bills in half and at the same time p make bigger crops than you are now h i.i mi. i_ j _ t_ _ 11 L I . IF uiukiii& 1 ni? houkiuh unuuuevauie,i you say? We answer that thousands ^ o( Progressive Farmer readers are | proving every year that it can be t| done, and that it is up to you to b prove to your own satisfaction the w truth or falsity of our statement. j b In the air all above the earth are 8 literally billions and billions of dol-1 * lars* worth of nitrogen, the element you get in nitrate of soda and cot-' f, tonseed meal, and for which you pay a from eighteen to twenty-live cents a is pound. A crop of crimson clover. ? growing in winter and early spring 1 when your land would otherwise be 11 r idle and barren, has the power of ^ drawing down this nitrogen from the air. $lo to $2f? wortli for every acre 0 in clover; and, when plowed under t in the spring, of storing this valuable v food in the soil for the corn crop that follows. We only ask that you give crimson clover one trial as a corn fertilizer. ( Study carefully ull that is being said 1 in The Progressive Farmer this week 1 i. about how to succeed with it, and j then plant some. When you have a seen the rank growth of corn that it t makes, so rank, as one of our friends I say, that "You can see lightning bugs f in it in the daytime;" when you have a seen how mellow and loose it makes r f vour soil and how it increases yields 2 for years afterward, you will bless( ^ the day you found it, and your only a regret will be that you did not dls- j cover it sooner. 1 f. 11 A Wonderful Antiseptic. Uerms and infection aggravate! _ ailments and retard healing. Stop _ that infection at once. Kill the ' germs and got rid of the poisons. F*or this purpose a single application of Hloan's Liniment not only hills the J pain hut destroys the germs. Th's ? neutralizes infection and gives na->1 ture assistance by overcoming con-1 ' geation and gives a chance for the j free and normal flow of tho blood ' < Sloan's Liniment is an emergency doctor and shojild be kept constantly < on hand. 25c, 50c. The $1.00 size 1 contains six times rsa much as the' 3Bc. 1 1 'T TRICTLY MAN CF HIS WORCi worth Squeezer Might Be "Near/ but No One Could Accuse Him 11 of Untruth. It may have been true that Slswortfc lueezer was so mean that ho robbed Mi her people's babies' banks because coi > had no baby of his own, but It wat ?,v so true that he was strictly a man |M) his word. I1C Never had he told an untruth, and i for lying, that would huvo been " physical Impossibility. As our story opens, Squeezer ip Kr alking along Hay rum boulevard with e fair Ksmerlina, who has just made th m the happiest tightwad in the gii orld by promising to become hls'n sj, Then Tour raindrops fell in rapid ftn iccesBion on SfBworth Squeezer's )8?' "There's only one explanation,"' ? led Esmerlina. "It must be raining arling, I have on my new crepe de th Ixmuih?it will be ruined! Call a an *1'' i ii< "I will!" he promised before he re timbered that, being strictly a man ! his word, he would have to make ('a >od, cost what it may. "Wait under the protection of this' 00 legraph pole," he told her, and se ished off. Three blocks away IT .xicabs were waiting to be sum oll oned. Slsworth Squeezer rushed by iem, for he had thought of a way. m air a mile farther on there wasn't a p, .xl In sight or sound. | Hi "Taxi!" bellowed Sisworth Squeez Ei . "Taxi!" j Q< "Well," he reflected, "I've called one. lyway. It's not my fault if it doesn't iswer." I Ti And he returned to walk the fair smerllna home through the damp $2 ^ ! ch an 'IVES IN ANCIENT ATHENS "> |fr >ys and Sorrows Differed Little From Those With Which Modern Woman le Familiar. Fi Sophocles, the ancient Greek dra- J J atlst, described the young girl of his ^ ly rejoicing In the flowery meads of ir youth, till the maiden became wife id mother and learned to know the lu linful watches of the night, speut in ?! ixiety for husband and children. It would have been well for her if gt ich anxletv. the rnmmnn lot of oil , ^ , id been the sole cause of trouble to ie Athenian wife. It seems that ill-assorted unionB ere rather frequent at Athens, and her home was unhappy, what had m ie to fall back on? ot A man, as Medea says, whose home 01 > unpleastng to him, cap go abroad od enjoy the company of his rriends, y but we must look for happiness to js ne alone." Mischief was the result. The brideroom was not extremely young; thlr- 1 r was thought to be a suitable age for 1> tan to marry at; but the bride was amettmes a mere child. Industrious Turkish Women. , ^ The Turkish women are to be counti among the most industrious women f the earth. They certainly do a ast amount of work. They make carets, screens for doors, workbags. i n orse clothinc and blankets A Turk- h ih girl makes all the klbltka or tent q omestlc carpets and other household A equlsites before Bhe Is married. If p( be gets married without completing , bis task it is expected that she will y her own labor refund the money I 11 'hich her parents have given her as er dowry. This dowry usually con- j u Ists of 100 sheep and a certain ,j mount of money, which a bridegroom ^ ither pays down in a lump sum to j be parents of the bride to collect his rlends for a succession of horse races . r \ nd other sports. + An important part I ' * to decorate a camel with tho hand- I * omest trappings, which are sent to c he bride's tent. On this she goes orth to receive congratulations of her u elatives and friends. It is on this ho is carried away by the female rela- j Ives of tlie bridegroom. She and her .ttendants feign to resist the act by browing raw oats at the other vomen. Filipino Myths and Legends. The cld< 3t. a.i well r.s the most fan ifisl tales of the early people of tho >hill?>nino iwIk urn tlioen rtf fh/* primitive raconteurs of tho mountains f northern Luzon. The Igorots. tho fugnos, the Kaliugas, and tlio others I 11 have curious myths and legends of he origin of tho world and of man* tind on tho earth, some that in a way ivcn follow the Bible story of Noah ind the ark. Whether these stories eally originated In the islands or have ome across the waters from China ind Japan or other lands in older lays, one cannot know, but they have I l/oru iim>Ai>i-int i n f 111 . . *1 /? /? ? ? n/\?> ikafiA ? *? / iui|'\/i iuiiv i ii i? i* cucc u jy\/u nicor >eopleB today, not only in their rell;lous beliefs, but in their everyday uatonis and habits.?PennBylvania Jrlt . I Jeware of Ointments for Catarrh That Contain Mercury la mercury will ?urely destroy the sen;*- of '.melt | inil rvOiilrtcljr derange tlie whole system when ' iiierlnu It tbrouuh the mucous surface,. Soib irtlcles should nee -r be used except oil proacrlplon* from reputable phyalt dans. u? the damage her will do I* ten fold to the good you run posdbly drrlre from them. Hull's Catarrh t'ure. mi*rinfactured by F. J. Cheney ft ? ?>.. Toledo. O.. oiitnlna ho mercury, mil H taken Internally, irtlng directly upon the blood uiel nmcou* anrraces of the system. Iri buylnr Italia CH'arrb 'tire he atire /bit get the genuine It Is taken Internally and made lit T le.lo Ohio, by F. J. I'heoey ft Co^ Testimonium free. Bold by Druggist*. 7.v?. per hottle. Take Halt's Pumily PUln for couittpat-fon. CHE LANCASTER NEWS, HE ENORMOUS 1 COST OF THE WAR KUi'?*s Show That Direct Cost is <; Nearly Score Billions and Indirect Flfty-TWO Billions. London. Sept. 2 5.?Chancellor ? ;Kenna's remarkable figures on the ^ st of the war to Kngland, totalling sj er $7,900,000,000 and $10,000- f( 0,000 in dead weight by March (1; xt, ure eclipsed by the estimate of | <j) 0 cost of the world put forth toy by Edgar Cranimond, one of inland's most noted statisticians. w His figures are based on such au- w, rities as Henri Masson of Relim; Yves Guyot of Prance, Mon- . >ur Rarriol of Russia, Von Renaut f( d Riesser of Germany, and the istrian minister of national deMe. n He gives for the first year of war ai o direct cost as $17,000,000,000 (1 $50,000,000,000 the direct and tf direct cost to the belligerents. S On the same estimate the cost to G to is approximately $10,500,000,- ei 0, and tlie indirect cost $52,500,- f< 10,000. Taking the countries h riatim, the cost is as follows: tl In the following figures 000 are P litted in each column: fi Countries. Direct Indirect (1 ilgium . .$ 185,000 $ 2,450,000 si ance ... 2,770,000 5,165,000 assia . . . 3,000,000 4,000,000 .. igland .. 3,540,000 6,400,000 Y H-many . 4.690.000 13.875.000 r' ist ria ... 2,810,000 7,510,000 He takes no account of Japan, ti irkey and Serbia. h The cost to the central empires is l 18,000,000,000. The remainder is jy argeable to the allies. Property, tl id other Iosbcs are estimated as | i< llows, the final 000 being omitted | r. anon couiu ue .ouiiu wno woumi eny a generally credited rumor that he commission had submitted to the fritish and French governments the ough draft of terms satisfactory to iinericsan bankers. The general he- ( ief was that a replv would he re- | eived on Monday. One report that was definitely de-j lied was that the commission intend-j (1 to depart for 10urope next Satur-j lay. j ! j An Old Kent ; Since i Began i Taking Peruna j j Jl. \ V mS L ^ 1 i i ^w\/ C r * \ : ounGS ior tne First Time in My JLife. My former weight was 102 lbs. My I Mother who is 76 Years Old J Had Grown so Weak She could She also took Per ier and looking w Tf?? Aliovt- Hplmdlil wonmn In Mr?. Hnttlf Mia reooKiTnomlg T'rnjtia 1<rnll housewives. Olilo, for a free copy of the 'ilia of Lite." on) eacu column: Capital Property loss. loss, ilgium ...$ 200,000 $1,250,000 ance .... 1.750,000 800,000 USSia .... 1,500,000 2.500,000 Brmany .. 4,400,000 4,415,000 ustria 1,200,000 500,000 Germany's loss includes, tnanufacres $2,375,000,000 and agriculture L. 090,000,000. The daily cost to the various bellisrents is as follows: England 25.000,000. France $12,500,000, ermany $22,500,000, Russia $12,10,000, Austria $6,250,000. Engnd's enormous wealth in investents abroad is expected to greatly ltlast any effort at home or abroad i the part of Germany. "But," says Guyet, 'in five years le vast drain on the world's finances calculated to put three-quarters of wuriu in pawn am: touve uie ( nited States as the only solvent na- v on." j v Hit! I A) an hits snacl V a o Kvidoncc That Negotiations Have Made Any Materia! Progress. New York, Sept. 25.?Little, if 11 y, progress was made today In the egotiations toward establishing a ( alf billion dollar credit loan to t reat Britain and France. Many i merican bankers who have been in ' onsultation with the Anglo-French 1 nancial commission did not visit the I nancial section. . No one in close touch with the sit-, i SEPTEMBER 28, 1915. 'O PERFECT COTTON WAREHOUSE LAW overiior Manning and <'oniinissloner Mtljiurin Working Together to Sti-engtlien Measure. "Co I u m bia. Sept. 2 7. - Governor [aiming and Warehouse Cominlsoner McLaurin held a lengthey eminence in the governor's office a few nys ago, discussing the advantages [ tlie state warehouse system and le legislation nereBKnrv l.? norf?..t le law governing it. No statement as giver, out after the conference, ut it \Nas learned that both Goveror Manning and Commissioner Mcaurin are agreed that certain depots in the law should he remedied lul that there was a practically conilote agreement between the goveror and the warehouse commissioner s to what is host to be done in per>cting this law that means so niuen 1 the cotton producing interests of outli Carolina. It is likely that overnor Manning and Commissionr McLaurin will held frequent eminences on this matter before the igislature meeting in January and lie results of these conferences will robably be embraced in a message rom the governor to the legislature uring the early part of the next sesion. The f Allow or t - - . ~ .. . .. r, vunui mi 11 mil lite orkville Enquirer of September 21, sfers to this subject: "As a result of a conference beveen Governor Manning and Wareouse Commissioner John L. Mc.aurin, it develops that Governor fanning is not secretly hostile to lie state warehouse system, as was igltimately deduced from published [ marks recently attributed to him. t is quite clear that If there should e a regulation providing that manges of state warehouses should be bsolutely disinterested parties, either owners of the warehouses or of the cotton stored therein, liere could easily develop a situation ery different from that under which II present progress has been made, tut from the reports of the conferI1PP rofnrro/1 ?* n11?1 11 ..v- . W.vi I vtt IU It 1IKIL ino overnor is most sincerely solicitous f developing: the warehouse system long lines that will work to the inerest of the producer of the cotton rst, and the public generally, secnd. The conference referred to, we inderstaml, developed th.it (hero was iractically complete agreement beween Mr. McLaurin and Mr Mauling as to what shall be done and the mtlook is that such recommendaions as the governor shall see propt to make to the general assembly vlth regard to improving and trengthening the warehouse system rill he made only after complete igreement between the governor and he warehouse commissioner," Tradition Without Foundation. A short time ago the curio colleo;lon of a Philadelphian went to the luctlon room. Two whisky bottles nto which was blown the name of E. C. Hooe, a distiller in Philadelphia ibout 1840, brought $28 and $20. They .vere empty, but there is a tradition, ivholly unfounded, that Mr. Hooz's nrand of whisky was so popular that it brought the word "booze" into the vernacular. Etymologists may point to the old Kngliah "house." to an old Dutch word, or even to the Arabic, fhe Philadelphian has neither eyes nor ears for etymologists; he forgets Lhat Sheridan UBed "boozed;" he knew only E. C. Itooz and remembers thai the distiller, an admirer of William Henry Harrison, Lad his bottles madt in the form of a log cabin. He should have gone further and tilled his hot ties with hard older, for Harrison't campaign was known as the hard-cidei one. tucky Home llliiiiasfiaBiM n uiw,! pi i i M ' S I d ! ' H; I ?f ' >" " H I I/ ' :-f?' v > 5 9 >; < *' i scarcely walk, una and is fleshell. Hamilton, o! MS t.Jcn Ave., Latonii, Ky. Addresa Tho Pfruaa Co., of ColaiDt.ui, ? 3 | EVERYTHING'S | I GOOD I & IN THIS MARKET. Y Good Beet' Cattle grazed oil good pastures or ^ stall-fed with good grain and forage; butchered by V experts; prepared for sale by men who know. Oivlaiw niUwl DTCinr XT^xtt i.:. ? ^ + V/IU- r? mini XVJ.VJ11 1 XV KJ W l)V I'XJ )l'ri('ll('CCl CUT" "J" * tors; and when it li'oos on vour table vou V y y KNOW IT'S GOOD. ^ I CATAWBA MEAT MARKET | X Phone 210. V v % * * * ?? *? jj ASK FOR, J H (JET AND DRINK + I PEPSI-COLA I ii _ i 'h . y It is bottled right in your own town, is owned by i; I ? Home people, and they are the ones who will help \ | J; and aid you if the occasion requires it, and we are ? all, more or less dependent on one another, so don't \ \ il forget to always keep well stocked on Pepsi-Cola, \\ and if some of your friends will have some of the !' i f other Colas keep a little for them, but don't fail to ?\ impress on them that Pepsi is the best one in the lot. \ I Pepsi-Cola is not only delicious, but it is healthful ; and palatable. It will pick up the chap who is all ^ ?? fagged out, who has that all-gone feeling and in five ' I 3^ minutes' time will make him feel like a new man. t Ask at your fountain always for Pepsi-Cola, and if at your grocers for Pepsi-Cola in bottles, it is bottled 5 ^ at our plant, is absolutely clean, and we know you t J jj- will enjoy it these hot days. 4 Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. LANCASTER, S. C. \\ k ^ V. MR. PAPMCP- I I All 1V1 kj II We aif now ready and are better prepared to gin your Cotton this season than ever. Our Eight Stand (Jinnerv lav been thoroughly overhauled. We have installed a new Idd Horse Power Corliss Engine, which means quick work, and good results. When you bring your cotton to a gin, you, of course, want it ginned quick, and you also want | ) ^ A A I 1 A -II J. - - . d \ S p in uci t n?' i)?'si possimo ini'ii-our. *?ui- linnuM'v is , , I tin* }>l;?rc to get this. I PERFECT I -Satisfaction Guaranteed I M ? I w & '? ij?mmvarwyk vggiT wfcc>i.tcrMB 4vxiHi^ Mn. .ore.- y^TYJD ax*, wrno.rjmiL:gr4Ui ; fl We appreciate your patronage. and will do our host to please you in every way. We gin vour cotton for ^>1.0(1 tier bale, and we I* . . ' . , . , |v* will ui 11 it and furnish you with Baling' and Tie> I 'i j v for $1.50 pel' bale. <'an you beat that? All we :I ask is a trial. krastcr CcUcn Cil Co. | |