Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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"V COUNTY ACTION ~ FOR TICK fIGHl HELPS TWO COW MAN Small Landholder With Few Cattle Can Profit as Well as Large Grower. Washington, Sept. 18.?Organized county action is the only way by which the small landholder and thej man with a few cows can obtain the benefits of tick eradication. In many cases the big stock owner can afford to build his own dipping vat and, irrespective Of what his neighbors are doing, can keep, to some extent at1 least, his herd comparatively clean. For the man with a cow or two this is out of the question. He must either keep on feeding the ticks or get rid of them through systematic eradication under State and federal supervision and in accordance with prescribed regulations. The second alternative is much the cheaper. Dipping costs the individual, in his capacity as cattle owner, nothing but the labor of driving his cows to the dipping vats and home again. As a taxpayer, he is of course j| Interested in the money the State apf propriates for filling them with arsenical baths, and for the other expenses incidental to the work. This sum, however, is relatively very small. Reports from four counties recently released from quarantine in Alabama show that in them the tick was eradicated at a total cost to the county of from 19 to 2 4 cents for each head of cattle. No guarantee. 1t should be said, can be given that the work will be done at these figures. for the cost neressnrllv vnrlco with the number of cattle In each county and with other local conditions, but even under the most unfavorable circumstances, the expense Is far less than the benefits. In return for his share of the outlay. the one or two cow man receives, among other things, a new source of Income. In a certain section of South Carolina the elimination of the tick was followed by the establishment of a co-operative creamery in a region where until then dairying had been unthought of, where surplus milk was usually disposed of as butter at the nearest store In return for a few groceries and where no one ever regarded it as a source of cash income. A year later, 227 farmers were sending their milk to the creamery. For the month of August they received in return $2,851.88, or an average of $17 each. The specialists who were instrumental In starting this creamery and others like it elsewhere do not consider that in ticky country such enterprises are likely to pay their patrons enough to make them worth while. The reason is simple. A ticky cow does not produce as much milk as a tick free one and. in consequence, the farmer does not have] as much to sell. The amount of the reduction caused hv the tick has been ascertained in government tests to vary rrom is to 4 2 per cent. depend-! ing upon the severity of tho Infestation. Even a few ticks, therefore, may render the keeping of cows unprofitable. If such a condition is general throughout a community, a co-operative creamery is an impossibility for an abundance of milk Is essential to the economical and successful operation of such an Institution. On the other hand, the man who can make a small profit from each of his cows benefits in another Important respect. A very large percentage?in fact the bulk?of the feed he gives his stoclc is returned to the land in the form of manure. The fertilizing value of this is alone a compelling reason for the keeping of as much live stock as can possibly be done. But with the tick the farmer, may have to pay for the privilege; , without It, the creamery may pay him. Stiff knees, aching limbs, latne back make Ufo a burden. If you suffer from rheumatism, gout, lum bago, neuralgia, get a bottle of Sloan's Liniment, the universal Temedy for pain. Easy to apply; it penetrates without rubbing and oothes the tender flesh. Cleaner and more effective than mussy olnt-' ments or poultices. For strains or sprains, sore muscles or wrenched ligaments resulting from strenuous exercise, Sioan's Liniment gives quick relief. Keep it on hand for emergenclM. At your druggist, 25.?Adv. + IX > fov' +1 ^ j u + Maintain a polluted well and + + the/ + Complain about the undertak- + er's bill? Think screening is too expensive + + and then Illume your malaria on the cli- + mate? + Insist on sanitary cigar factories + i+ and then + Use a public cigar cutter? *| Carry a fine handkerchief and then Forget to cover your mouth * + when you cough? * POSSEMKN KIIjIJED IN TRAP BY BANDITS Robbers Are Now Believed to Have Been Surrounded in Swamp. Miami, Fla., Sept. 17.?Two possemen were killed and two injured in an encounter early today in the Everglades with four bandits. sought for robbery ol $6,000 from the State Bank of Homestead, Fla., last Friday. Reports reaching here said the bandits tired from ambush and then fled. | Members of the posse trailing the hank robbers near that section of the Everglades, 4 3 miles south of here, much of which Is undrained, ap- ! parently were caught in a trap. Five shots were heard. Two members of the posse fell dead, while a third received five buckshot wounds in his left side and arm, and another was shot through the thigh. Reorganizing his force'. Sheriff Hardie immediately started after the bandits aided by a score of mon from the section of the country where the attack took place. The bank robbery Friday afternoon was effected by two heavily armed men who held up the vice president and cashier and escaped in an automobile. It was thought at the time, however, that the bandits had two accomplices. Reports received tonight were surrounded in a swamp nine miles to the effect that the bandits were south of Florida City. vfr r imwi I"H 1VM> BY ODD FELLOWS More Than Two Million Men Vnderj Order's Banner, According to Beport. Chattanooga, Sept. 19.?Frank C. Coudy of Denver was elected grand sire of the Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows at the annual meeting of the lodge here today. Other officers chosen were: Henry C. Rorst, Amsterdam, N. Y., deputy grand sire; J. R. Goodwin, Atlanta, grand secretary, and William H. Cox, Louisville, grand treasurer. Tlve place for holding the next an-| nual convention will be selected at .? future date. The convention wiU end | Saturday. The Grand Lodge and its affiliated bodies held secret sessions today.^ getting down to the real work of the: convention. In the afternoon, there were soclul features, and at tonight's> session there was exemplification of 'degree work followed by a banquet to the officers and members of the, Grand Lodge. Reports submitted today show thati the membership of the order now is 2,188.458 and that the receipts for) last year were $17,822,992.79 and, the total expenses of the grand and; subordinate lodges were $9,860, 670.96. The total payments for relief funds were $5,975,208.09. NEW I/OAN FOR RUSSIA. London, Sept. 19.?A new war loan by the Russian government is pro-j posed, according to a Reuter dispatch| from Petrograd today. The plan, says the dispatch. Is to issue at the end of October a new internal 5 1-2 per cent 10 year loan for war purposes to the amount of 3,000.000,000 rubles, the price of issue to be 95. CANADA FKAItS 1'I.OT. Sarnia. Ont., Sept. 19.?Government agents and private detectives are investigating an alleged plot to curtail Canada's winter food supply. It was learned here today, and more than 50 canning factories are operating under heavy guard, while inorej stringent methods of protection are being considered. The investigation centers about the destruction of two canning factories by fire last week, in which the total loss was about $250,000. Malaria or Chills & Fever Prescription No. 96t iarprepared'erpecially (or MALARIA pr CHILLS A FEVER. Five or *iz doeei will break any care, and If taken than ar aWoctc tha Fever will not return. It ecta/ap tha livar batter than Calomel end d6c?pot gripe or sicken. 2Se THE LANCASTER NEWS! STILL PURSUING BLACKMAIL GANG SEEK FOR WOODWARD Dragnet Spread for Man Alleged to Be Head of Widespread Scandal Scheme. Chicago, Sept. 18.?Fortified with information obtained through con fession of two of the seven member* of an alleged blackmail gang whr were arrested here Saturday and whc used the Mann act as their chiel weapon, department of justice agent* today made arrests In other cities and.spread a dragnet for H. C. Wood ward, alleged to be director in chiel of the syndicate. Hinton G. Clabaugh of the depart ment of Justice declared tonight h? had sufficient evidence to convict th( gang without exposing the names o( some of their wealthy victims. Thest victims, principally wealthy mer whose flirtations with pretty womer led them into traps, from which the) escaped only on payment of larg< sums, will be shielded from publicity except as a last resort, it was said. The evidence obtained in two cases already generally known, authorities said, together with incriminating evidence found in the apartmen where the seven were arrested, wil he presented to the commissioner Clabaugh expects the seven will hi ordered removed to Philadelphia foi trial without a stubborn resistanci at a hearing before a federal com missioner tomorrow. Developments in the case reportet to Clabaugh today included the ar rest at New York of Frank Crocker alleged former member of the gang who is said to have confessed to j part in the swindling of Mrs. Re gina Klipper of Philadelphia, and tin arrest at Philadelphia of Willian Butler, held there in connection witl an alleged blackmail plot against th< late Mrs. Susan G. S. Winpenny. Clabaugh also revealed today thi source of the information that led ti the raid, and added that "Dick' Barrett and Edward J. Thompson two members of the syndicate, hai confessed. They . probably will b given immunity. Their revelation? said Clabaugh. were replete witl stories Of shrewd hlaelrmall now ar,, clever race track swindles and othe ruses in which the menVbers of th< gang. beautiful women and debon naire and handsome men. held thel victims. The men refused to talk today, hu the women scouted the charges. Mrs Helen Evers, said by the federal au thorities to have been used as th/ "lure" in the bogus Mann act cases said there is not a word of truth ii the charges. "Why. I never smoked opium ii my life." she said, indignantly de nying that an opium outfit was foum in her room. Mrs. Francis Chapman said noth inc. Mrs. Evers said Mrs. Chapman" arrest was an outrage; that she wai "just visiting in the apartment." IifcSPKRADO MI ST CO TO PRISON FOR 43 YEAR* Taken ituck After a Year's Freedom Is a Murderer. Asheville, Sept. 1f>.?Robert Bel cher, alias Williams, who was cap tured here this week while working on a road gang, was taken back t( wainaua. ?. t'., yesterday by Sherif J. W. Davis, who came here for thi prisoner. Belcher has server! sever years of a fifty-year sentence foi murder, which was reduced by For mer Governor Blease to thirty years and is said by the sheriff of Oconer county to he a desperate man. A1 though young in years. Belcher was sentenced for the murder of twr United States officers, who sought tc arrest him for destroying a mail box Other relatives of Relcher were In volved In the quarrel, were given various terms In the penitentiary, par doned by Blease. and arrested and tried by the United States courts which sent them to Atlanta. Bel cher must now finish his term in thf South Carolina penitentiary, aftei nearly a year of freedom. STOP THF KIlUiT COfiD. A cold does not get well of Itself The process of wearing out a cold wears yon out, and your cough becomes serious If neglected. Hacking coughs drain the energy and saz the vitality. For 47 years the happy combination of soothing antiseptic balsams In Dr. King's New Discovery has healed coughs and relieved congestion. Young and old can testify to the effectiveness of Dr King's New Discovery for cough* and colds. Buy a bottle today a< your druggist, ROc.?Adv. FRIDAY, SEPT. 22, 1916. AGED VETERAN GAINS , 11 POUNDS ON TANLAC I Mr. Dixon Says He Was So Weak and Nervous He Couldn't Write. SUFFERED FOR YEARS Says He Thinks Tanlac is "Finest Remedy in World" to Purity and Strengthen , Any One. Because of tho hardships he was .1 forced to endure during the four [years he was a soldier for the United 'States army during the Civil War, JMr. B. F. Dixon, of Converse, S. C.,| t| it. F. D. No. 1. a suourb of Spartan-! ? . ... 1. OIUICUIOUI given August 7, that his health was undermin, ed and that he never really enjoyed J good health after the war was ended. 'Mr. Dixon was wounded six times ; I by his then Southern enemies, several: times seriously. Hut his health now is better than it has been in a long time, he says, and he gives Tanlac, "the master medicine," credit for, \ 1 i bringing about the great change in | his condition. ' j Mr. Dixon took just two bottles, he j says, and he gained eleven pounds. Ilis statement follows: "I suffered paticularly from stoin5 ach trouble. J had almost completely lost my appetite and I was just| : worn down. I am 8o vears of age, f I anil 1 had lost so much strength that ' I staggered when I walked. Also I had lost considerable weight and 1 j was very nervous. My condition finjally became so bad and my nerves were so disturbed that I could not sleep well and I would lie for hours in bed before I could get to sleep. ' "Rheumatism also caused me considerable pain, and, besides these pains, I suffered considerably with crampy pains. My nerves were so 1 bad and my strength so little that " I could hardly write my name. ? "I had suffered with these troubles 1 for years?I don't know just how 1 long. Finally, I heard about Tanlac e and began to read the advertisements and later I decided to take it. R "I bought the first bottle and it did R not seem\to help me much. .'The reason of thpt, I know, was because I i. was In su\h bad shape, Hut I had faith in it \and bought the second p bottle, and ^hat was /he bottle which >. gave me wr\nderfyf results. 1 "The relief tht/'two bottles of Tanrt lae gave me wa^ as follows: I gainr cd 11 pounds, weight, and that cerp tainly is a ^ot tor a man of 80 years - to gain. /Tanlf*? relieved my aleepr lessne^/'aud I got to where I could sleen/almost lik<\ a dead person. It t giv/s me a great \appetlte and I was s^on eating three\ square meals a . /ay. It broke up r^y stomach trouble / and I gained a great deal of strength. That shortness of birath left me, and i my nerves were quieted and strengthened. I do not sufTeV with rheumatism now either. "I think Tanlac is the finest rem, edy in the world to renovate anyone's system and to build it up. Tanj lae is good?there can't be any betIter, I think. I am certainly glad to | recommend Tanlac, for it Is an extraordinary good medicine, and I siknow from my experience that it is good for all it is claimed to be. I 'have tried it and I know what it will do. If I ever need medicine again. * I certainly will take more Tanlac." I Tanlac, the master medicine. Is sold exclusively by J, F. Maekey. Lancaster; Peoples Drug & Grocery Co., Heath Springs; C. O. Floyd. Kershaw.?Adv. SPARTAN ill'KG HOTEL MAN DIES IN MlfHICAN [\ Spartanburg, Sept. 19.?C. F. .Long, Jr., leasee of the Gresham and I New Cleveland hotels of this city, died at the home of hia father at ! Grand Rapids, Mich., yesterday. He ''had been sick for only a short while and it was thought he was improving when the end came. | His family left today for Grand Rapids, where the funeral services 'I will be held and the body placed. "Mr. Long wan a member of the Rotary Club here, and was prominent in " many clubs and secret organizations of the town. He was a native of ' Indiana, but had lived In Grand Rapids several years before coming to "'Spartanburg to take charge of the New Cleveland hotel. Expressions of sympathy were sent to his wife today by many of Spartanburg's most, prominent people. When you yawn a good deal In I the daytime, feel dull, achey and want to stretch frequently. It is an - unmistakable symptom of malaria, >;and unless you do something at i once you are booked for a spell of chills. HERBINE Is a chill medl cine that will prevent or cure the disease. It drives out the impuri1 ties on which the malaria germ . thrives, strengthens the liver and i cleanses the bowels. Price 60c. t Sold by all dealers In medicine.? Adv. ~ 1 | FliORLDA POSSK.MKN 1^. . . || 81?nkw ,,k k Old Age and Death Miami, Flu., Sept. ID.?The sher-j^^ m ^ iff's posse, which lost three man kill- |f| I ed in a light Saturday with four ban-j 1 >| V I XI I U* dits accused of robbing the State! uiui lineliVUI Hank of Homestead, Flu., came upon the outlaws today, and in a long dis- ^our liver ** Sanitary Depart... . meat o! year body. When it done tame fight that tollowed the boat 7 . . < . wrong your whole system become* containing the possemen was sunk by poUoned and your vitality* weakeaeo. rifle bullets. None of the pursuers The best remedy is were hurt, however, according to in- TL/L L ' I I " formation reaching here, which IlldClKir S LlYGT said the fight took piace near Kock - IX/ _ _ Harbor and that the bandits were /Hill Rlflnfl Xl/fllll driven ashore on Largo Key. dllU JJltHJU OjflU|J The bandits, who have been chas- A purely VeKetabl^ponapound. laxativa ed through the everglades bv a de- and tonic 4n effect, it clcam out your , , i j i ot i> body, and puts energy into your mind and tenoned force led by Sheriff Dan Hat - muBcIc8. We recommends remedy b?die, since Friday last, when they ob- esuae we know from many years' experitained $6,000 from the Homestead ance that it ia effective. \ bank and escaped in an automobile, Keep a bottle in your home. ?c and ft apparently had got a new boat since at your dealer s. the one In which it was thought they 1 THACHER MEDICINE CO., I first took to the water that surround- CHATTANOOGA, TENN. p ed numberless keys, or small islands nBMHA! along the coast, was found abumloued I today. For the stomach/ and bowel dlsorReinforcements were rushed to the dera of babies , McGEK'S BABY posse on a railway motor car over ELIXIR ifl a remedy of genuine the Overseas railway to Key West, nierit. It acts' Quickly, is pure, and the chase was continued tonight, wholesome and pleasant to take. Heavy rains today made difficult the prjCG 25c and 50c per bottle. Sold work of the pursuers. by all dealers In medicine.?Adv. ; '? : WE WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT WE SELL l! | TANLAC\ 1 Also A Complete line of Drugs, Toilet Articles, g Stationery and Rubber Goods. g A s ; ? ? Agents for Nunnally's Candies # 5 We Carry the. Complete Line J Phone Us Your Orders. ? i A MIDWA Y DRUG CO. f ] ? The Quality I)ru? Store. Telephone 196 O I I POPULAR EXCURSION FROM Camden, Lencaster, Rock Hill AND WAY STATIONS T0 CHARLOTTE, N. C. AND RETURN MONDAY, OCT. 2nd, 1916 MA Southern Railway Schedule and Round Trip Fares as Follows: Schedule Kate Lv. Kershaw 8.10 A. M. $1.25 Lv. Heath Springs 8:30 A. M. $1.25 Lv. Lancaster 0:10 A. M. $1.00 Ar. CHARLOTTE 11:35 A. M. Returning, leave Charlotte 10:00 1*. M., same day. i Children, 5 years and under 12 years, half fare. | No tickets sold on train, purchase tickets from Agents A Splendid Opportunity to Spend n Day in the Beautiful City of Cearlotte with its Many and Varied Attractions for Visitors. Separate Coaches for White and Colored People. Courteous Attention. Call on Agents for Tickets and Further Information W. E. McGEE, A. (i. P. A., S. H. MCLEAN, D. P. A. Columbia, S. C. Columbia, S. C.