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r^ur. rwuix. The Press and Banner. J ABBEVILLE, S. C. * . Published JSvery Wednesday by ( The Press and Banner Co. WM. P. GREENE, Editor. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1916. 1 WAREHOUSES. Some weeks ago we advised the j people of the county to sell their j cotton and keep it out of warehouses. j We undertook to show them that a t man who holds cotton at twelve cents ; stores it in a warehouse, and pays t -> storage, interest and other charges, j and loses in the weight of his* pro- ^ duct, would lose in nine cases out of s ten. Some people toek-eur advice, ^ while others did not; the latter are <] now sadder, but wiser men. < One merchant told us that he be- ^ lieved in selling cotton at twelve ^ cents, but that he also believed the ^ warehouses had enabled the people j to. get twelve cents. .We believe no j. such thing. The people who buy g cotton have more accurate information as to crops and crop conditions' -y than the average, farmer and mer- ^ chant .The monthly, or sevi- c monthly, ginning reports give infor- ^ mation as to the amount of cotton v being ginned. Those who wish to f buy know that a certain- amount ^ must be sold, and whether it is put c in a warehouse or kept'at home prac- * tically every bale of cottop .in .the j' South is counted. The fact of the business is that it is counted pretty a accurately as soon as it is planted. a (It is, therefore, idle to talk about y putting the price of cotton up by storing it in warehouses. If we are ^ not right, why is cotton going down now? Practically all the unsold ; cotton in the country is stored in these institutions; practically none a of it is being offered ,and yet cotton ^ went to the highest mark when it g was being offered freely on the mar- j ket, and has gone down a cent and t a half when practically none is being ^ offered. ^ Considering other conditions twelve <? , cents was a good price for cotton, and it still is. Eleven cents is now ^ a pood price for cotton and those . who hold stand a good chance to take 'a less. And while we wait, interest , at the bank is growing, and the warehouse charges continue to climb. TOO MUCH COTTON. g J The farmers of the county, and of a the entire cotton belt, should be d cautioned by the present price of h cotton not to plant a bumper crop, The price last year was good because h the crop was small and it looked as n if there would be a reasonable de- n mand for all the cotton raised. p But as spring approaches, the far- n teers of the country are getting ready ?< to plant the entire earth in cotton. The buyers and users of cotton, f therefore, conclude rightfully that h we will have cheap cotton next fall. ? They will not buy ahead, tnereiore, g and will live from hand to mouth un- i, til this cheap cotton is assured. When q the acreage report comes out in May t or June, if it shows a large increase a in acreage, the price is certain to go y down, and the balance of the pres- ^ ent crop will sell lower, and the next i< crop will be sacrificed for less than p it takes to make it. i: We appeal to the individual far- p mer, to you, Mr. Farmer, to plant p something else besides cotton. Don't s< follow your neighbor, or be deceived c tnncf falro pnrp 1 %JJ UIO JL/lUUOl A VU AMMWV vw?v vw* V of yourself. Plant corn. Raise hay 0 and other crops which promise a g ready sale, and which will help you c to tide over if cotton fails. Don't s put all the eggs in one basket. t! The merchant who makes advances f should require as a condition to such j] advances that a certain amount of f corn and other feed crops be planted. n Our salvation in a threatened crisis v is in our own hands; the question t is, will we avail ourselves of our own defensive weapons. n \ '? 41 anvirr ronM tcyac * "v*" 4 t In a letter sent out by the Texas Bankers Association to banks and merchants in that state, it is stated as follows:* * c "With cotton now hovering around f eleven and one-half cents up-state, t despite the eleven million bale crop r of 1915, with practically no ships x to move our cotton crop to foreign i shores, with no present indication of I the end of the war and with the * buying power of the world being gradually lessened day by day, IT s SEEMS ALMOST IDLE TO POINT s OUT THAT ANY MARKED IN- ? CREASE IN ACREAGE OVER J LAST YEAR IS GOING TO RESULT c IN GREAT DISASTER TO SOUTH- t T7>X>XT PATTrtM DDnnTTPFPC A MF1 \ SOUTHERN MERCHANTS AND 1 BANKERS." \ The warning given is in line with [i ur advice in this issue. It will be < oo late to lock the stable door when ' he horse has disappeared. Plant ] orn and raise hay and hogs. ? I GOLD, KAO?AND MANGANESE. \ In another column we are copying ' in article from the Greenville Pied- ] nont concerning Abbeville's celebra- 1 ed miners, Messrs Bradley and Lyon, : tnd their big mines in the lower j >art of the county; we should more , >roperly say in McCormick County, j tfow, it may not be generally known, >ut there is gold in that section and >lenty of it. It takes some money j o find it, and somebody to look for j t, but Bradley and Lyon are the men i o spend the money and to look for ' t They spent about one thousand j lollars some three years ago digging ( iround on a three hundred acre ] arm, looking for a "gold pocket." ' C*hey didn't know just where the ! 'pocket" was, in fact they only knew j here was a "pocket" by intuition, rhey did not find the pocket because hey didn't know just where it was, >iit they would have found it if it lad b$en where they did their digring. , But they located a vein down on j Vide's lower place, and they got i riend Banks to sink a shaft to dis- \ over just how the vein looked and 1 iow long, how deep and how thick it , ras. At seventy-five feet they < ound it alright, and commenced to < :et the gold out, but some fellow J amc along and mentioned to Charley 1 hat they might be losing something i the "tailings," so they sent a ample of the latter up to Clemson, nd found that they were losing bout three hundred and seventy-five ollars worth of "sulphides," which rere being washed down into tne ranch, and they had to stops until hey could remedy this. In the meantime different "suckrs" around town got the gold fever, nd about seven different companies rere formed to get after the "free old, sulphides and the tailings." ivery time one fellow commenced o organize a new company a lot of ellows from the old companies piled .1 saying they had an interest in the hereditaments" of the mine, and n account of the confusion thus rought about the gold is still" lying )ose in the ground, while children 11 ever the country are crying for read, and the people are needing loney with which to pay their suficriptions to the Press and Banner. But things have not been altoether idle in the meantime. Col. oe F. Edmunds lives up near Wide, nd passes by his house almost every > ay, and one day as he was passing ( e was suddenly seized with the minig fever. Wide administered to im, and sent him down near McCor- 1 lick to look for a mine. The Cololel wasn't much on gold, and his ex- < >erience with "Kao" did not give auch of promise, so he discovered J Manganese." ( This latter mine is seven miles rom Greenwood, and the question < as been how to get the goods to the deppo." Joe worried with this a ood deal, but it didn't take Wide ang to solve it. He has hired ( Jeorge Harrison's big truck at about welve dollars per day, with Tommy s "Shuffler" and he is going to send ] oung Charley Lyon, and his butler, . ibram Brown, down next week to i >ad a coal car full to ship west. The r notri fnr the "Manganese" I1UC IV MVS ? ^ ^ > to be AT LEAST seventy-fifty ^ er ton, and Wide will give the super Jim McMillan won from him at 1 et back as soon as the' first returns ^ ome in. Bradley and Edmunds will soon pen an office to transact the "Mananese" business. They have had Jol. Kerr order them two chairs to it in and a table two feet higher j ' ^ i han anything, in town to pui, uieu . eet on while smoking and transacting mining business. As soon as the orca finishes working the "Kao" lines, Mr. Henig will'likely let them /ork the "Manganese" for these genlemen. Since Wide has hit prosperity his leighbor Kerr calls him "Cousin Vide." He also calls Will Lesly 'Cousin Will." Will has a new auomobile. ] PATRIOTISM. i . ] A nation is made great, not by its i tuitful acres, but by the men who 1 ultivate them; not by its great orests, but by the men who use ] hem; not by its mines, but by the i nen who work in them; not by its 1 ailways, but the men who build i ind run them. America was a great 1 and when Columbus discovered it; j Americans have made of it a great ] Nation. 1 In 1776 our fathers had a vision of i i new Nation "conceived in liberty 1 ind dedicated to the proposition that 1 ill men are created equal." Without.]in army they fought the greatest of" ixistmg world empires that they I night realize this vision. A third < >f a century later, without a navy hey fought the greatest navy in the 1 vorld that they might win for their < Nation the freedom of the seas. Half < i century later they fought through i in unparalleled Civil War that they < night establish for all time on this < :ontinent the inalienable right of ife, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. A third of a century later 3 they fought to emancipate an op- U; pressed neighbor, and, victory won, n ?ave back Cuba to the Cubans, sent ? in army of schoolmasters to educate US for liberty the Filipinos, asked no |? war indemnity from their vanquished 58 enemy, but paid him liberally for his Jw property. Meanwhile they offered QJ land freely to any farmer who would g live upon and cultivate it, opened to foreign immigrants on equal terms | the door of industrial opportunity, ? 3hared with them political equality, ? and provided by universal taxation I for universal education. ? The cynic who can see in this his tory only a theme for his egotistical I satire is no true American, whatever [ tiis parentage, whatever his birth place. He who looks with pride upon this history which ?his fathers | have written by their heroic deeds, | who accepts with gratitude the inheritance which they have be- | gueathed to him, and who highly f resolves to preserve this inheritance ( an impaired and to jars? it on to his * descendants enlarged and enriched, is a true American, be his birthplace [ 3r his parentage what it may. g - Lyman Abbott, * THE PLEDGE TO THE FLAG. I Flag of our "Great Republic!" hal- J lowed by noblest deeds and loving I sacrifice?Guardian of our honor; an J inspiration in every battle for the right?whose stars and stripes stand I for Beauty, Purity, Truth, Patriot- ? .sm and the Union. p WE SALUTE THEE J ind for thy defense, the protection | >f our Country, and the conservation j >f the liberty off the American peo- J >le, we pledge our hearts, our lives I md our sacred hon6r.! : f AMERICA i < I My country 'tis of thee, f Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing; ( Land where my. fathers died, f Land of the pilgrim's pride, ? From every mountain-side ' I ' Let freedom ring. J My native country, thee, I Land of the noble free,? [ Thy name I love; * I love tliy rocks and rills, Thy woods and templed hills; f . My heart with rapture thrills Like that above. I Let music swell, the breeze, ' * And ring from all the trees, Sweet freedom's song; Let mortal tongues awake, ! Let all that breathe partake, I Let rocks their silence break,? | The sound prolong. * Our fathers' God, to Thee, [ Author of liberty, p To Thee I sing; Long may our land be bright | With freedom's holy light; 0 Protect us by thy might, Great God our King. THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER. 3, say, can you see by the dawn's g early light What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?? Whose broad stapes and bright stars, through the^louds of the fight O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming! A.nd the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, nrnnf rnn rrVi +V? a nmkf +V?af UlHTV |/A Wi UU& VUgtt WttV ?4&??ftV MIUV our flag was still there; 3! say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave 3'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave? 3! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand, Between their loved homes and the war's desolation! 31est with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. rhen conquer we must, when our cause it is just, \.nd this' be our motto, "IN GOD IS OUR TRUST:" \.nd the Star Spangled Banner in triumph shall wave 3'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave. -c. . THIEVES ON THE FARM. Clemson College, March 6.?How nany thieves have you on your 'arm? The farmer who is asked ;his question is likely to answer that le has none. Yet it is safe to say ;hat there are few farms in South Carolina that are not harboring and supporting a humber of thieves that ob the farm owner just as surely as my nignwayman or secona-story nan could do it. These thieves are of many sorts. Soma are hard to detect, whlie to jet rid of others is a fairly simple natter. Take the dairy cows for example. One writer has estimated ;hat in some sections of this county at least one-half of the cows ire "boarders," that is, they do not produce enough milk to pay for their Feed and upkeep. The use of the Babcock test and the record sheet ivill enable any one to get rid of ;he boarder cows in his herd. On many farms the hens are expected to stop laying in winter and j lothing is done to make them lay j through the cold, months. Proper feeding would make these unprofitaale hens lay well the entire year, provided, of course, they have the aying capacity. It is not hard to ;est the laying capacity of a hen ougniy ana tnose mat nave not ;he capacity can easily be eliminated. Poor work stock is another source >r loss on many farms. This difficulty may be remedied also by the jxercise of care and judgment. Another of these farm thieves is Jhe old, neglectad orchard. This is occupying land which should be proiucing something of value. Pruning ihd spraying will put such an orchard into good condition in most (J. :ases. [EiEnnmuiuai^ \ ffZ \ SPfwuTTT IwO^H IP <*m^h|l\1 I B mi] ^I^HBfil 1 | Parker k.iir n k^lAIl We are showing in Silk Dresses this v them. This will be a s( and Skirts. We hat fore the advance in p House Dresses i m A-, -i nemy ui ivnuuy We have the 6< Dresses to he found our store will convinc I Mrs. Jas. Abbevi uziziiijajiLnLJiiJzmrarajHM^ | SAFFTV FIRST!' I I k/1 kJI MmA MM M -MM M R| On all sides you are urged to j j ^ "Stop, look and listen." But you | j don't have to be on guard when j | * you buy 11 ^ M 1 STYLEPLUS f|7 1 CLOTHES J)l/ J i "The same price the nation over." fl| The makers have placed this suit JE in the "wide open." The price is. j [ known to be the same from coast j | to coast -The quality is known J ! ,r and guaranteed. One "deal" to j I all. :2p Let us show the superior fab-1! \ rics, the superior tailoring and 11 , j I m the superior style made possible 11 by the STYLEPLUS plan of]' specializing on a suit of one price | J J ?$17?never more, never less. j I t & Reese jj TCddCd ' some splendid values oeek. You should see I J f ; tason for Shirt Waists { <e a full line bought hence. ? rom 85c up. ' ? - - . . . _ _ I f Blouses, 25c to $1.25. j ist line of Children's I anywhere. A visit to i e you. I S. Cochran lie, S. C. * r J