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v fas The Press and Banne ABBEVILLE, S.C. Published Every Wednesday by THE PRESS AND BANNER C( TI M. P. GREENE. Rilllor WEDNESDAY, NOV. 17, 1915. FIGHTING PELLAGRA IN INDUSTRIAL VILLAGE The United States Public Heall Service has reached the conclusio that pellagra is caused from an in perfect, or a one-sided diet, and th< it can in most cases be cured by pr< per diet. The experience of medic; men who have studied and watche the disease and sought for its cauj and cure, we believe, will be in a< cord, at least to a great extent, wit the conclusion reached. The fact that the disease has bee more often found in industrial con munities, were there are no cows, r butter, no gardens, and where tt diet is one-sided and practically tJi same for every day in the year, tha in other localities, goes a long wa to prove that the Public Health Se: vice is on the right track. Wheth< they have discovered the sole cause c the disease or not, they have give us ground for beginning a fight 1 stamp out the scourge in this sectio of the country. We have believed for a long tim that the corporations in this stal which own and rent out the homes i which their operatives reside, an which expect these people to resid in these homes, near their places c work, should be required by statu! to give to these people real homes and this they do not do when the pet pie are huddled together in a sma village, with 110 dividing line betwee the houses, with no garden fenced o for the families, and no back yar in which the children can play an feel that they are at home. We ha\ believed and now believe, that these corporations are to expect c require their operatives to reside o the corporations grounds, then the should be required to lay off to eac household at least an acre of land, o [which to operate a garden, keep aji maintain a cow, and other animal and to raise poultry, and that the di: ferent lots should be securely fencei We have had this idea for the re! son that a great many poor peop] have been driven by poverty an otherwise from the farms to these ii dustrial communities, and they ha\ ^ u ~ x i i: : xL nut ueen ttccustuiueu tu living as tut are required to do in these village! and because every girl in the land entitled to have a place to play, an every boy a place to fight, which their very own. But now that tl cause of pellagra is at least in soir degree attributable to the fact thi people are thus huddled togeth< where they cannot have the commo necessities of good health, it becom< the duty of the law-abiding powe more than ever to make such requiri ments of the corporations as sha enable every head of a family to kee a cow with which to supply the famil with milk and butter, a place to gro peas and beans, raise chickens an have plenty of eggs and other thing . necessary in fighting the disease c pellagra. Having made these pr< visions for the people. the cornorj tions should require the people wh work for them to comply with th reasonable requirements for promo ing good health as above indicate< and should refuse employment t those people who refuse to ava themselves of the opportunities thu given them just as they should nc allow a man to live in their village who refuses to send their children t school, or to properly take care of h: dependent family. The fact is that the corporation c the class indicated which shall bu up lands in the neighborhood of il plant, divide the same up into on< two and three or five acre lots, an sell them at actual cost to its open tives, and help them to build and ow their own homes, will have gone long ways towards securing a bette and more dependable class of worl ingmen, and in addition will be at judged by the public to have graspe in some degree the great opportunit given it to lighten the labors of th laboring and to help carry the loa in life for the helpless. A bette understanding will come about b< tween capital and labor when capit. shows more thought for the physica moral and financial well-being of k bor because then labor will sympj thize and appreciate the worries an trials of those who administer th funds of the capitalists. uun AruLuui iu Mixu When we wrote up "Cotton Patcl; for uncle Jim last week it was n< our purpose to discriminate again: our good friends, George Mann ar, T. C. Beaudrot. We only mentioi ed "Cotton Patch" first because unci / f Jim was anxious that his connection H with the races be fully explained. Well, brothers Mann and Beaudrot had the same idea as uncle Jim, and = that was to slip into the races with b something up their sleeves, beat all n . the other horses before they knew t ' who was in the races and swipe up li some easy money. Tom Cosby gave s _ George a tip as to how the trick could s be turned. He told him about the black horse he had been driving to p = his hack at night for about ten years, s and in order to keep everything se- v g cret George came down at night to i; see Tom trot the horse. Well, there s . was no doubt about it, that horse c could trot faster than anything v 'n George had ever seen in the Nation, \ or that Beaudrot had heard tell of in \ it Greenwood. So by giving Tom a good, '| d- sound, gentle, well-broke, young colt, v al three years old, flax tail and mane, j id he at last consented to let George t ;e have "King Kosby." Well, the next thing to do was to ]: ;h get the proper harness. George got n in communication with a man who j, n had a line of racers' harness to sell, v i- ?nd after being properly convinced f - +V.a Viovnocc line n (rnnH HPal to iU I Ilia 1/ uaiuwo UMU V* ? ? ? ie | do with how a horse runs, George ie parted with the biggest end of a bale ^ ,11 of cotton for Maud S. set, wiht silver ,y trimmings, proper trappings, acces- ^ r- sories, frills and furbelows. Beau- ^ ?r drot had read in a race horse journal >f that the gentleman loaned to George n that there was a certain kind of ,o shoes, costing a dollar each, which a g n horse should wear in a race if he t wanted to be a winner; so George ie ordered off for these and Beaudrot, ;e in order to keep everything perfectly n secret put the shoes on himself, and :d strictly according to directions. Ie Well, the races began. George >f knew that Will Ferguson was a little ;e suspicious that he had been holding * s; "King Kosby" back in the practice * >- races, and he was afraid that Will J 11 had been doing the same thing with n "Cotton Patch", as for the rest of * a tVio Vinrcoc fjpnrcrp was nprfertlv ^ d easy. "King Kosby" took his place d in the race and when the pistol fired * e he lit out, but it didn't take George a if and Beaudrot long to see that while r >r a country horse can run like a scared ^ ,n cat barefooted on a country road with r ,y no clothes on, when you put him in j3 h a race with Sunday shoes on him and 1 n a full set of town harness, there is ^ ^nothing doing. So "King Kosby" s> went around, or partly around, once, c f_ untii he came to the gate, where he * slanted through the opening just be- 4 j_ hind "Cotton Patch", and hiked it to * [e Beaudrot's shop to get those shoes a d taken off as they were pinching his 1 feet, and to get rid of the harness rg which had already galled him so bad- f ,y ly. "King Kosby" is still boarding F 3. at the Beaudrot horse-hospital, in I is charge of Dr. 0'Bryant, where he is o l(j looked upon daily by George and g jg Beaudrot with profanity in their i ie looks and disgust in their language. _ a ie The night after the races George b ^ was down town with the other horse- s ;r men and he heard Jim Raysor tell a c n crowd of fellows from Donalds how a ;s lot of "Rubes" always turn up at a e }r county fair with a bunch, of plugs t which they think can run, and what 1; U a good living he had made during the 1 ,p last seeral years beating them with a r y few old race horses he picks up here w and there for a small price. d Which caused George to remark to j rs Beaudrot in one of their private con- a jj ferences in the back room of the shop v j_ when they were figuring up the ex- e penses, that "A cobbler should stick 0 to his last" ? t! GOOD WORK. j Supervisor Stevenson is doing some 0 good and much needed work on the y jj Due West road just above Bethlehem n ls church. The road at this point has e )t been very narrow for a long time and ? !S it has been impossible to do the right s 0 kind of work on it, or to keep it in t [s proper shape even with plenty of \{ work. Recently the Supervisor has ^ commenced to widen the road and is n y making it about thirty feet in width. 0 ^ When the work is completed it will ^ ? be found that the road will be kept n j in good shape at one-half the cost. t_ We believe that some of the hills n near the creek could be avoided by ^ a grading the road up the branch in,r tead of having it go over the hill as c_ at present. If this could be done j. it would have the effect of getting rid l(j of the worst piece of road between y Abbeville and Due West. ie When the Supervisor finishes wi- v (j dening the road, it will be a good n ;r time for the neighborhood to get to- e a. gether and thoroughly sand the road, * and make permanent arrangements ^ j for keeping the road dragged after i. every rain. Nothing makes a com- s I .... - j_ ! munity desirable or respectable more c 1(j | than good roads and nothing helps * te ! more to improve the looks and price of the adjoining lands. s 1 MONEY TO LEND. F I am now in a position to make p t?? loans of from one to ten thousand f ^ collars, on terms of from five to C } twenty years on farm lands in Abs I teville County. ld C. E. WILLIAMSON, Special Agent Union-Central Life le Ins. Co., Abbeville, S. C. tIGH PRICES FOR GUANO NEXT YEAR Savannah, Ga.,?There is a good ig wear in prospect for the fertilizer lanufacturers and mixers, according d prediction made here, and the beef now seems to be that they will ell everything they can make in pite of high prices. Indications are that fertilizer irices will be higher the coming seaon than in many a year, a fact to t'hich several causes are contributng. The absence of potash supplies ince German shipments have been ut off on account of the European var, has created the necessitly for deising some other forms of fertilizers vith as much potash as possible, ['here will be no fertilizer, however, vith any large amount of potash in t; in fact, the percentage will be exraordinarily small. Inquiries as to what effect this may iave on crops has brought forth little lore information than that one shall iave to wait and see. They may do rell on other fertilizers, and, under avorable conditions, gather such potsh as they need from the soil itself. Another thing: that has contributed o the high price of fertilizers is the hort cotton crop and consequently he scarcity of cotton seed meal. Coton seed are now selling around $40 . ton, and the meal, after the removal if the oil and hulls, is bringing $83 ler ton or more right along. This i3 ,n increase of nearly $10 a ton in the >ast six or eight weeks. There is coniderable meal held in the hands of peculators, but it is stated that the ertilizer manufacturers have secured bout all they reed. Then acid phosphate has jumped up rom $8 a ton at interior points to il2. This attributed partly at least o the extraordinary demand for sulfuric acid on'the part of the manuacturers of explosives, so thitt comlaratively little of it was obtainable or fertilizer purposes. Other materials, such as dried blood ankage and the like, have advanced .ccordingly, and these have been learly all sold out. While the adance in these latter products has lot been so great as in others it has ?een material, and will have weight determining a higher price for the inished product. Nitrate of soda is generally used mly as a top dressing, but it is exremely valuable for many classes of lops. A few months ago it was sellng at a fraction above $2 a hundred ,t Savannah and other Atlantic ports ?oday it is quoted at $2.77, and prom ses to go still higher. One of the actors in increasing the price of this iroduct has been the closing of the 'anama canal to traffic on account if the land slides in Culebra cut. Car'oes of nitrat.p from P.hile worn owoif ng to come through the canal just is it was closed. These must either ie sent across the isthmus by rail or ent around the cape at a greatly inreased expense. So it would appear that almost [very item of expense that enters ino the finished fertilizer has been larg y increased this year anywhere from .0 to 50 per cent, and the farmer nust pay accordingly. The general belief here is that conlitions will result in fertilizers costng the farmers the coming season ;bout 33 per cent more than for 1914 yhicb was the biggest year they have ver had in Georgia. - ( ECLIPSE CAPTURED BY BRITISH SHIP New York, Oct. 28.? The six warrant officers of the interned Gerlan raider Kronprinz Wilhelm, who scaped form Norfolk, October 10 on he yacht Eclipse., were captured at ea by a British warship, according o a leter received here today. The stter was sent to William Wolff, a lew York manufacturer, by his lother-in-law, who was a passenger n the steamer Bermudian which left lew York for Hamilton last Wedesday. According to the letter, the Berludian was stopped a short distance rom its destination by a British ruiser which engaged the passenger essel in wireless conversation. The ubstance of the talk as told by the /ireless operator of the Bermudian ras that the cruiser, the identity of /hich is not given, had overtaken the lissing Eclipse at sea, made prisonrs of the German officers and sunk he yacht. The letter gave no other letails. Reports in shinDinsr circles here for everal days said the yacht had been aptured by a British cruiser believed o have been H. M. S. Melbourne. All persons having claims against he Estate of G. A. Visanska will preent the same, duly attested, and all >ersons indebted thereto will make laymnt to the undersigned at the ofice of the Rosenberg Mercantile Company, Abbeville, S. C. Julius M. Visanska, Samuel A. Visanska, Walter W. Visanska, Ernest L. Visanska, Qualified Executors. I I BE IN I | It pays to be in istyle. It jjfi look better, work better. Good clot ! 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