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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\
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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