Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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WAS CAUSED BY STUFFED ANIMALS | (Proper Gander.) In Virginia, high up on the side ofj the mountains, was a cottage. From! the outward appearance of this cot tage, one would think nothing of it; j hut on the inside one's feyes would open wide with surprise and wonder. The walls of the cottage were lined wi^h glass cases, and in them was a manls life workv It was summer. The Dorothy Per kins rose climbed all over the little ' cottage, the birds sang merrily and inside the cottage a girl dusting the numerous glass cases sang just ^as merely. Shirley Floyd was the lone occupant of the cottage, having as her . ' companions a beautiful coftie dog and i a sleek, black horse. Just one yearl previous her father had died leaving! her the possessor of the cottage and ;its contents. As Shirley dusted,.she: thought not of the valuable things she was dusting but of the summer tourists that would soon be coming up the mountain seeking pleasure. These tourists always; greatly, -ftrte? ested Shirley. As far back as tshe could remember the people had'stop-, ped at the cottige to look .vat' the cows. She liked to look at tie genu . ine delight of some -of vti^ Tnen, the pretty indifference of women, the looks of horror on th&ira^ces as they, looked at the stuffed .animals, and the shivers which shook their bodies as they gazed at the mounted butter-; flies and moths, and*the flowers so carefuffy preserved. Not one of the tourists so far had interested her arty farther than this. p ' The dusting was finished and 6hir-: ley, with a sigh of pure joy, fairly' ran from the house into the yard where she flung her arms joyously above her head and drank in the ex quisjtiveness 01. nature, pucn snntu things as dusting, sweeping and wash ing dashes, positively bored .Shirley, wlfen Porcupine waiting impatiently in hs stable for a run down the beat en path of the mountain. With a hap py laugh Shirley ran .around to the stable and in less than two minutes was Off down the mountain on Por eupine with her dog close behind. A young man sat in his rea racer 5 Was ^ Very Weak "After the birth of my . baby I had a back-set," writes Mrs. Mattie Cross white, of Glade Sprin?, Va. "I was very ill; thought I was going to die. I was so weak 1 couldn't raise my headlo get a drink of water. I took . . . medicine, yet i didn't get any better. I was constipated and very weak, getting worse and worse. IsentforCardui." TAKE ? The Woman's Tonic "I found after one bot t! of Cardui I was im proving," adds Mrs. Crosswfaite. "Six bot tles of Cardui and ... I was cured, yes, I can say they were a God-send to me. I believe I would have died, had it not been for Cardui." Cardui has been found*benefidal in raany thousands of other cases of womanly trou bles. li you feel the need of a goOd, strengthen ing tonic, why not try Cardui? It may be Just what you need. g m 5 ^ Druggists ^ iwril ATTACKS ARE MADE ON FARM LOAN ACT Delegates From Associations Warn | ed to Be*On Guard By Sena> j tor Fletcher Washington, April 21.?Delegates from farm loan association through out the United States were warned in an address by Senator Fletcher, j | Florida, tonight to be on their guard against attempts to weaken the fed eral farm loan act. Twenty-five amendments recently offered to the act, he said, ought to be sufficient evidence that it is still under fire. Organization of the National Union of Farm Loan Associations J was completed today with the elec tion of officers as follows: President, M. Elwood Gates of California; vice president, Cyrus H. Good of Manheim, Pa; general agent W. W. Flannagan of that city. Senator Capper of Kansas also addressed the delegates tonight and telegraihs were read from former Secretary McAdoo and former Sen ator Hollis, New Hampshire. BANK CALL WILL BE SIMPLIFIED ~ Washington, April 21.?A new and Amplified form of bank eall is beij\g worked out by the comptroller of -the currency, treasury officials saj^ ioday. The old form on which the national banks were required to make the statutory returns as to conditions, officials explained, was found .;to be involved and lengthy $nd it is expected that the new form [ypil be more stanaaraizea ana out h$lf as long as the present one. Requests for information as to salaries of bank officials and em ployes, ,which was called for by for mer Comptroller John Skelton Wil liams, officials said, would probably ; not be included in the new bank roll. . ' l # gazing at the beauties of nature [ when his gaze fell on this beauty. Could you blame him for almost fall ing in love with her at first sight? Shirley dressed in a short, brown cor duroy skirt and a hat to match, perch ed on her short, curley-hair, a khaki blouse open at the throat, disclosing a slightly tanned, though soft vel vety skin, sat upon her horse at whose side stood the dog. All three Bad their eyes rivited upon some object. Evi dently the object moved, for the girl smiled, tossed her head and patted the horse as it slowly moved up the mountain. The man in the red ragej: suddenly landed on earth again; the vision had vanished. |By jove, that must be the little j girl who owns the stuffed animus." j The man had become suddenly inter-j ested in stuffed animals. So much so j that he went to the cottage and found the animals so interesting that he wen again and again. Every time he went they got more interesting? (the stuffed animals) oi course. One afternoon .just after Shirley and Bob (the young man) had fought and put out a small mountain fire and were sitting under a tree cooling off, Bob suddenly asked, |Shirley how do you spell your name, with or without an |e?" "With an 'e\ she answered. The man jumped to his feet. "By jove, I thought so. Shirley the only man named Floyde that spelled his name with an V was one of the greatest scientist and botanist ever known. About fifteen years ago, he [disappeared. It was your father. Do !you know that the contents of those [cases are worth piles and piles of money?" x"Daddy told me they were very! valuable just before he ?The deep! blue eyes were filled with tears. "Yes, and they should not be left up here exposed to fire and other things from which they never could be saved." The man looked down at her as he spoke. Her eyes were in toxicating. "Well, what shall I do with them?" she smiled. "Couldn't you send them to some museum?'" Shirley shook her head. "I couldn't nart witVi fhom fnr worlds. flnulHri't. you take them to your big house in i New York and keep them for me?" "Could I? Well, I should say so." His voice betrayed the joy he felt. Quieting down a bit he said, "I'll keep them on one condition, and that?" she looked dazed. # "That I can keep you too." And to this she agreed. Debbie Oown, IX. j BATTLESHIP WBLL WEAR GAS MASKS . Prof. Lewis Chemist, Says Battles Will Not Be To The Strong, But To Superior In telligence' West Point, N. Y., April 21.?A plan for the protection of battle ships at sea against an enemy's poi sonous fumes by the installation of a "gas mask" for the whole, ship was outlined in an address to officers and students of the military acade my here today by Professor W. Lee Lewis, head of the Chemistry de partment of Northwestern Univer sity and inventor of the deadly gas "Lewisite," perfected just as the world war closed. , . ; - "We face the possibility in the naval warfare of the future of ar mor-piercing toxic and tear shells, smoke screens, toxic smoke clouds and invisible toxic fumes," said Professor Lewis. "We also may consider in this connection parallel defensive meas ures such as a gas mask for a whole battleship. * . "Gas weapons ^are capable of a much finer adaption to purpose than explosive weapons and the future; will see worked out a great deal of, scientific refinement in the develop ment of .gas weapons for all type? of military oprations. , ' Future Battle* to Intelligence '^Future battles will not be to .the strong but to the superior intelli gence./ Warfare will become less a matter of brute strength and rela tive man-power, and more an/1 more matter of scientific acumen. Battles will be shorter a'nd more decisive and hence innocent populations will suffer Jess." Professor Lewis declared that the prevailing impression -of the uncivil ized and inhuman character of ttxic gasses as a military weapon is not well substantiated. "The purpose of warfare is to break -down the enemy man-power as quickly as possible," he said. "The three criteria by which the humane ness of any particular method might be judged are: First, the efficiency of the method to produce wide spread casualties; second, the per cent of deaths among the woun<fed and finally the completeness of re coyery of the wounded. "The efficiency of^oxic gas to pro duce widespread casualties was am ply demonstrated in the last war. As to the test of humaneness "the death rate from bullets and sharpnel wounds in the last war among Am erican soldiers was in round num bers 24 per cent, the British rate running about two and one half per cent Thus a soldier wounded jfrom gas has twelve times the .chances of recovery over a soldier wounded from shrapnel, without the chance of permanent disfigurement." THE REWARD (Proper Gander.) The two officers stopped. Slowly they turned their eyes over the sur rounding hills. It seemed as though the country were desolate. For a week they had been hunting moon shiners, but there was no - trace of them to be found. As* their eyes followed the hori zon one of the officers said: "Hand me the field glasses!" After peering thru them a few moments, he exclaimed, "We've found them!! Look- on the hill that is on the other side of that ravine. No, not there! By the grove above the rocks " ' "Darn, if that isn't one." The officers drove their spurs in to the sides of their horses. They leap ed forward. Slowly they descended the precipitous side of the hill into the rocky bottom of the ravine. Then up the steep bank, in and out among the rocks, thru the narrow crevices, they went until they reached the edge of the woods. Here they held a few minutes consultation and then rode on. They had but a short distance to go until they came into a large clear ed space. In the midst of this s:ood a cabin with flames "leaping from the windows, door and roof,> while (Jouds of black smoke were rising high into the sky. The roof fell. They rode unt;l they came to the buring building. They saw no one. They rode across the distance of one side. What was it they saw turn the corner? One of the officers motioned to his comrade to go around the house in one direction. He went ir. < the other. At the opposite corneil EFFICIENT DISTRIBUTION QF FARM PRODUCTS Clemson College.?No national problem is of greater importance at present, than the efficient distribu tion .of the products of the farm. The plan which promises n>ost in this direction is co-operative marketing along line which have been tried out successfully by farmers in other parts of the country, especially in California, says Mt. W. W. Long, Director of the Extension Service in speaking of the regional meetings now being held preliminary to "the campaign spon to be put on in this state to establish eo-operative mar keting -of farm products. The prin ciples of co-operative marketing have been proVed to be sound just, and practicable. It remains for us i to annlv these - nrincinle* to our staple crops such as cotton, tobacco sweet potatoes .and peanuts. That here is need to improve the market ing practice With these crops is readily apparent. The losses sustain ed, duetto the inefficient assembling, grading, warehousing shipping and general handling of th^ crops could be reduced greatly through wisely managed cooperative effort.. Such saving would benefit not only, farmers but the public generally and would give to agriculture a. stability Of prestige not enjoyed heretofore. H?i Proved It* Worth That co-operative marketing is KrttK fttflcrihlp iiriH rlpflirrahlo in thp opinion of most thinking farmers and agricultural economists of the, country. In European agriculture co-operative marketing is the rule rather than the exception. In this country the U. S. Department of Agriculture reports 14,000 farmers, buying and selling associations most of -which are co-operatives. In Cali fornia, where, the co-operative prin ciples have probably been most thor oughly perfected, between 250 and 300 million dollars worth of farm products go to the market annually through co-oj>erative marketing as sociations of growers. North Caro lina and Virginia have already laun ched a campaign to -organize the^ growers of cotton, tobacco and pea nuts into three marketing associa tions for handling, the sale of these crop co-operatively. In Oklahoma fourteen thousand cotton growers with over 175,000 bales had signed up on March 1 to market through their own association and they are continuing the campaign until a minimum of 300,000 bales shall be ftgned up. In Mississippi the long staple growerB have practically com pleted arrangement!! for co-opera tive marketing of long staple cotton. The plan is receiving attention by all cotton farmei-s of the North and West and fruit and truck growers the country ever. See the Spinsters Conven tion at the Opera House, Mon day night, Way 9th. Laugh and grow fat. Under auspices of Abbeville Chapter U. D. C. they met. Each stared at the other. "Well I'll bo !" ' "What became of him?" They dis mounted and walked to the side of the burning structure. This persoYi was not in there. They walked back tc> their horses. The elder officer stopped. He got down on his knees and began to scratch aomng the leaves. His hand struck wood. He got a stick and scraped the ground. Before his eyes was a piece of wood a yard square. In^the corner was a padlock with the key in it. The officer pulled at this and notic ed the wood gave way. He raised this. Below was a dugout. He peered into the opening. "At last!" he yelled to his com rade. "Here's the still and the moon shiners." ' C; They got into the dug-out. It seemed to be empty save for the dis tillery. But 113! In the comer was the crouching figure of a man. "Gome hera.T demanded the of ficer. j Slowly the quaking- creature left his corner and came before them. The younger man whistled. "Gee! this is some find! A still with no moonshiners and an escaped con vict with a five hundred dollar re ward! I feel* rich alread. But what about the moonshiners?" I "We have enougn on us now witn this creature. He's got to go to jail. The still can wait." ?M. W., XI. NO ACTRESSES BEFORE 1656 Rote Coleman Wat Firtt Woman To Appear on Stage. There are so many acreages today that it is hard to believe there was a time when there was none. Yet, before 1656 A. D., no civilized country could boast a woman "star." There was no law against it, but it was considered a disgrace for a wo man to appear on the stage, and wo man'epartB as in the Chinese theater. V * fi TheVictrola is alwaj whether it be sad or gi your home, you can, at the world's greatest aft you with music and son; and players will perforn Stop in and let us s the Victrola aiwTVic^or work. RED f ATTRA< ~.INCLU "Nothing Bui Sparkling Ame Artists Four i r i Dtolotsky v^onc Grobecker's ? Beulah Buck, EVELYN I Popular C IN "JOY NIGH" Notable Lectures o 5-BIG I Redpath CI Due West :: Season Tickets !j of today were taken by boys or Mk Rose Coleman broke the ice ht 166G. She appeared n "The Siegf of Rhodes,'' and her sv.cccss was great that scores of English followed her example and France Germany and other nations ftllowei suit in haste.?New York Sun. V ^ r. . ' The women of Java are hzvimg Occidental theories of equaHty wiA men. The progr?M of the iattajl movement is n?e?0Mirily slow, Ml many believe in its ultimate soeeoA. a moment's notice, have ists soothe you or cheer g. Your favorite singers i for you at your wilL how you how perfectly records reproduce their >ATH AUO U A CTIONS 1 1 T5INCZ 11 lite Hussars \LE CHORUS : The Truth" rican Comedy Singer-Players ;ert Company iwiss Yodlers , Entertainer BARGELT Cartoonist T" PROGRAM n Timely Themes ) A YS - 5 hautauqua April 23=28