Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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BIRDS PROTECTION IN PARKS Subject ls Engaging the Attention of Town Authorities in all Sections of the Country. In many eastern cities, where the winters are most severe, the park officials maintain feeding stations for wild birds. Even as far up in "the frozen north" as Minneapolis a num ber of such winter feeding places are found in every park of their extensive system. Theodore Wirth, the super intendent of parks, says: "We have 'a long severe winter and find it neces sary to feed birds regularly every day for months if we are to hold them in our paries for the summer. We have also built and placed a large number of nesting boxes or bird houses which are well populated. We protect birds in every possible way and the local Audubon society is doing excellent work. A good many ki inls of birds which were rarely seen here a few years ago are now found in large num bers, and many which formerly left In the fall now stay with us over winter." We have, in many parks, sufficient shrubbery for cover, wc are not trou bled much with cats, yet park men should be required to kill all found within the several larder parks and to keep none except a single cat in each storehouse. Encouragement should be given in every way to the increase of native birds and those of bright plum age and sweet song from other lands should be introduced. The country, not tho city, should perform the office of introduction of new kinds. In a climate so mild as ours there should be a thousand-fold as many birds as we now have and the parks should be filled with them.-Los Angeles Times. PREPARE FOR HOME GARDEN National Health, as Well as Conserva tion and Patriotism, Demand Planting of Many This Season. The home garden this coming season will mean moro than it did last year or ever before. It is not only a means of national conservation and patrio tism; a measure of national health lies within it. The man who can and who fails to put in a home garden next spring will be a slacker. The government stands ready to help in the garden, and government bulletins on garden subjects may be obtained by wrltb io the Division of Publications, Department of Agriculture. Washing ton, D. C., for a list of publications available for distribution. Many of the state agricultural colleges, too, have garden bulletins for free distri bution. Sometimes, in many states of the Union, there is a chance to plow the garden early. When that chance .comes the garden should be manured and plowed. Barnyard manure Is a source of weed seeding, but it ls the most satisfactory fertilizer usually ob tainable. A spot four or five feet square should be selected at the low est, wettest spot in tho garden for a compost pile or pit. if not too much trouble to dig a shallow pit. Into this pit throw all grafts cuttings, leaves, vegetable tops and pea vines and to mato plants. They rot in a year ur two and form a valuable source of humus for the garden soil.-Country Gentleman. Public Building Architecture. It is an unfortunate circumstance that the concept of "architecture," to most persons, is limited to libraries, art galleries and other public build ings. These they feel, are "architec ture;" and "architecture," to fulfill the most popular conception of it. must have Greek columns, and be executed in stone, on a scale more or less grand, and at an expenditure of equally con spicuous scale. So far as this general popular esti mate goes, it is an excellent and high ly desirable thing. The people of every town and city, the people even ?of every village, should be keenly in terested in the architectural merit of every public building which is being erected with city funds. They should demand the highest order of archi tectural merit and should come to learn some intelligent discrimination between architectural merit and fi nancial expenditure. The library, for example, in a neighboring town may have cost several thousand dollars more to build than the library in one's own town, but it may not be neces sarily better architecturally.-Ex change. Trees Must Have Room. In order to insure symmetry of growth, trees must be allowed unn? stricted area for development. At least 40 feet should be allowed be tween trees intended to occupy the ground permanently. Quick-growing temporary trees may be planted be tween the long-lived ones to produce immediate results, but these should be removed as soon as they interfere with the development of the penna?? ?ent plantations . Illimitable. "Tommy, bound Siberia." "Can't be done." . "Why sot?'* "The geography particularly speak* of the boundless pialas of Siberia." "WAKE" IS OLD INSTITUTION Custom Most Prevalent Today in Ire land Well Known to the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans. "The custom of 'waking' the dead, with the drinking, smoking and con? versntion of the large company of neighbors who assemble in the house if. mourning, appears incongruous and repulsive to those who are unacquaint ed with its remote origin or the kindly and humane motives which underlie it," says Michael Mncdonagh, in the English Review. "The wake is a very old institution. It existed among the Egyptians, the Greeks and the Romans, Shakespeare and Scott give instances of medieval revels in honor of the dead. The custom survives in a dif ferent form, but with somewhat identi cal motives, among the Irish, almost alone of the ancient peoples. " 'Waking' means, for one thing, 'watching.' The English way of leav ing the* body shut up in a room, all idone, would be most repellant to the Irish nature. It would be regarded as desertion. The Irish keep close com pany with their dead until the very last moment of the burial. * "The body is clothed in a shroud made in imitation of the habits worn by certain orders of friars and in the hands, crossed reverently on the breast, is placed a crucifix. The walls near the bed are hung with clean white sheets on which are pinned bunches of Howers, laurel leaves and holy pictures. Lighted candles, seven in number, arc on the table. They are symbolical of hopes and aspirations relating to the dead. Ttu'.t he or she has been cleansed of the seven deadly sins, possessed the seven gifts of wis dom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety and fear of the Lord, and the seven principal virtues. "First entering the room where the body lies the visitors kneel and say a prayer for the eternal salvation of the departed soul. Afterward in the kitch en, snuff, .pipes and tobacco, whisky and stout are served to the company. The dead person is.in his house for tho last time, and, as host for th? lust time, dispenses hospitality. "Memories of his kindliness and good nature are revived by the neigh bors. "Tis he that had the bright j smile and cheery word whenever you met him, and no matter what you might want of him, sure you had only to say the word to get it with a heart and a half.'" He Got a Seat Speaking of street cars reminds one of the latest-the very latest-thing in wording heard on a local traction line. This was sprung on an unsuspecting world the other night-morning, rather -about three o'clock. The springer told about it to his of fice mates the next morning as fol lows : "I'm so used to standing up in the street car that I don't know how to sit down any more, actually," he said. "I feel more rested standing up than sit ting down. We always like what we grow accustomed to, of course-?ort of force of habit ; strong thing, you know, as all our well-known psychologists agree. "The other afternoon I stood up for two miles, and finally a lady got out, and a motherly looking woman said to me, 'Here's a seat,' and I said, 'It's a pretty seat, all right.' "But that night I started to tell you about-believe me, boys, if you want to get a seat on a Washington street car go home at three o'clock in the morning. It is pretty late, I'll admit, but the lateness of the hou" has its compensation. "I got on, and there wasn't anybody else on the car, but I got a seat, boys; I got a scat !"-Washington Star. Meat ls Scarce. Patrick J. Kennedy and Thomas Carr, farmers of Templeton, Ind., came to Indianapolis with three carloads of hogs and cattle, and after waiting all day at the stuck yards were told that there was no demand for them, says the Indianapolis News. The price on hogs fell off fruin $17.09 to $17.10 while they were at the yards and finally they had to sell 12 of the choicest hogs from one car at $17. They were told that these hogs were too fat. The razor backs, comparatively speaking, brought $17.10. The cattle could not be sold. After this experience the two went to a stock yards restaurant nearby and ordered steak. It was Tuesday and, therefore, a meatless day. "We can't buy beef or pork," said the waitress. 'AU we have for you is fish and oysters. Meat is very scarce, you know." "Yes, we know," said Kennedy, as he gave in aud bought a substitute. Businesslike and Efficient. It is considered worthy of notice In the papers that a woman has "held down" a job as agent at a railroad sta tion somewhere In the West and that a woman was agent at a Maine station for a few weeks. People must have short memories not to recall that the agent of the Important Grand Trunk station at Lewiston a dozen years ago was a woman, who held the job for some time. And the writer can testify that she was businesslike and efficient, for she once kept him waiting at the ticket window for ten minutes by the clock while she finished the job she was doing on the books.-Oxford (Me.) Democrat. Adding to lt. "I fear you are too pretty a nurse for this case." "Why so?" "The patient already has palpitation of the heart."-Louisville Courier' Journal Gl FIGHT KAISER BRYAN WILLINGHAM, STATE PRIZE WINNER IN BOYS' CORN CLUB CONTESTS FOR 1917, SETS THE PACE. Columbia.-What one boy can do, another can do. There should be an American boy to match every German boy in producing food to feed the ar mies fighting at the front and the fam ilies of the soldiers left at home. In Germany the boys are working. On the farms in America, from which sa m?ny men have gone to take their places in the fighting line, there is a great opportunity for patriotic service for the farm boys not yet old enough to fight with a gun. Their weapons are the plow and the hoe. Bryani Willingham, of Winnsboro, Fairfield cunty, first State prize win ner in the Boys' Corn Club contest for 1917. has set the pace for the farmer boys of South Carolina. What Bryan Willingham has done, other boys in South Carolina can do. Bryan is seventeen years of age. He has been a member of the Corn Club for several years. He has on more than one occasion won in his county contest. In 1915 he won a scholarship to a short course in agriculture offer ed by Clemson College. In 1916 he attended the short course, when he received valuable scientific knowledge of soils, plants and cultural methods, which, coupled with his practical knowledge, he has applied to his farm ing operations with marked success. He has learned well the importance of deep and thorough preparation of the seed-bed, the value of humus in ; the soil, and of good and well-selected j seed. He has learned the value of ! commercial fertilizers and how to ap ply them for best results; the value of frequent and shallow cultivation, and the injurious effect of pulling the blades or fodder from the corn. With these important principles j well fixed in his mind, he started out ! with the determination of succeeding, i and he did so, producing 157.8 bushels of corn on one acre at a cost of 17.6 cents per bushel. His net profit was $237.75. I This being the best record made by any member of the Boys' Corn i Club in South Carolina in 1917. Bryan ! Willingham was declared State cham ! pion for that year, and won as prizes a gold medal offered by Hon A. F. Lever and an International No. 4, 6 shovel pivot axle Riding Cultivator, value $70, offered by the International Harvester Company., of Columbia. The past achievements of this young farmer have fired him with a j determination to do even greater ! things. He will continue in the club I work in 1918, after which it is his i purpose to attend Clemson College end take tha complete agricultural course to fit himself for successful farming, which he proposes to make his life work. Bryan Willingham's achievement . should prove an inspiration to the j farmer boys of South Carolina. j FARMERS URGED TO PLANT LATE CORN Columbia.-After grain is harvested, every available acre of good land should be planted in late corn, says the Food Administration. The Con servation and Production Division of i the Food Administration has secured, for the benefit of those who will plant late corn, expert advice. Corn can be successfully grown, ac j cording to Clemson College experts, from Columbia to the coast when planted by tlrs middle of June. There is yet time, therefore, if corn is plant ed after the grain crop is harvested, to add largely to the corn acreage in South Carolina, which is greatly desir able. Only good land should be planted In late corn, however. The poorer land can be made to produce food by planting cow peas and peanuts. It is stated that it will probably not be wise to plant corn after grain in the Piedmont section, because of the shorter season. For grain lands in this section, cow peas, soy beans and peanuts are recommended. NO REASON FOR HIGH PRICES ON WHEAT SUBSTITUTES Columbiai-The Food Administra? tlon has sent out a warning to corn millers and to wholesale and retail dealers in corn, barley and oats prod ucts that at the present prices of these grains cornmeal and oatmeal should be selling at least twenty per cent below the price of wheat flour arl that corn flour and barley flour should be selling at least ten per cent below wheat flour. The high level? ruling in grains as a result of car shortages and storm weather last winter have now fallen materially with much greater freedom of transportation and the stocks ac cumulated by manufacturers and trad ers at the prices ruling then should have been liquidated by this time, in the view of the Food Administra tion. The maintenance of higher prloe levels by millers and wholesal ers will require justification to the State and local administrators, and al though retailors are not under con trol, wholesalers will be instructed to cease dealing with retailers who can not justify thoir prices on tha basia et the cost of their gooda. Meatless Days V/ill Not Ee Inaugurated at Present il Economy in Eating Meat is Practiced, Says Food Admin instration. Columbia.-The Food Administra tion is extremely desirous of securing economy in the consumption of all kinds of meats without the reinstal lation of meatless days at the present. The seasonal decline in the volume of animals coming to market is now in progress and its volume will un doubtedly further decrease during the next few months, as is usual, but the probable amount of such decrease is yet obscure, says the Food Adminis tration. A statement given out here today, by William Elliott, Food Administra tor for South Carolua, and signed by Herbert Hoover, says: "The necessities for shipment abroad to our army and allies are very large and amount to roughly 75.000, OOO pounds of meat and meat prod ucts of all kinds per week against a pre-war normal of less than 15,000,000 pounds. E;en with these large ship ments the allies have found it neces sary to reduce consumption of all kinds of meats and put it to an average of about one and one-quarter pounds per week per person in order that no further draft may be made upon ship ping that is now required for the transport of our soldiers. "Our consumption of moats ls about three and one-quarter pounds per week per person, and if we are to make both ends balance during the short marketing season, we must have further economy. "If the public will continue rigor ous elimination of waste and will fur ther economize by reducing the quan tity prepared for each meal of all kinds of meats and poultry, more par ticularly beef, and will restrict their purchases accordingly, the Food Ad ministration hopes that the necessary balance can be maintained. A general adherence to these recommendations will avoid the inconvenience which arises in many directions from meat less days and will cause less interfer ence in the daily preparation of food." WHEAT SITUATION SERIOUS PROBLEM People Asked to Give Up Eating Wheat Bread Until After Next Harvest Columbia.-The wheat situation ie the most serious in the food supply of the Allied world. This word comes from Washington to llxb Food Administration at Colum bia. The statement continues: "Our harvest was less than esti mated; needs of the Allies are greater than were calculated; losses by sea and by battle have been heavier than were anticipated; less comes from the Argentine than had been hoped; tens er demands on shipping space restrict ships more than ever to the shortest haul and the tightest bulk." Until the next harvest the crisis will not have been passed. The call is therefore issued that all who can and all who will go without wheat-give up wheat bread entirely-until the next harvest, as the club women of South Carolina have pledged them selves to do; that those who do not go on an entirely wheatless ration cut down the consumption of wheat by at least one-half, and that households keep within a weekly allowance for each person of one and one-half pounds of flour and all other wheat products. SUGAR CERTIFICATES IN GROCERS' HANDS Columbia.-Grocers throughout the State are now being supplied with blank certificates, upon the signing of which persons desiring sugar for can ning and preserving may obtain the same. The grocers are being supplied with these certificates by the county food administrators, who are in turn supplied by the State administrator. The certificate system is used to make sure that home canners may ob tain sufficient sugar to preserve per ishable fruits and at the same time to place a check upon those who would endeavor to obtain unreasonable quan tities for household consumption. THE IRISH POTATO BECOMES WAR RATION Columbia.-"Did you eat a potato tfith your breakfast?" This ls the question that the Food Administration is asking of every per son In South Carolina. Hapsburg Liebs says that the home ly Irish potato has cut, is cutting and will continue t'o cut almost as great a figure In this world war as the sub marine. In Germany, it ls said, potatoes have been pleated even between the ; ties of railroad tracks. Potatoes have i kept the people of Germany alive. Probably Germany would have caved 'in except for the potato The argument is put forth by the .Food Administration that if the po I tato will work for Germany, it will ?likewise work against Germany; and considering that food will win the war, there ia n oarticle of food that may be prepared In so many ways as tho potato. WHERE TO GO THIS SUMMER The "Land of the Sky" is Delightful at All Seasons The vast platean, with a minimum altitude of 2,000 feet above the sea level, amid a setting of beautiful mountains and giant peaks. Summer in this region is one of constant enjoyment and health ful diversion. LIVE OUTDOORS HIGHEST MOUNTAINS in Eastern North America Camp in Mount Michell Forest Reserve or Pisgah Forest Reserve GOLF TENNIS MOTORING MOUNTAIN CLIMBING HORSE BACK RIDING CANOEING FISHING HUNTING NOMEROUS FAMOUS RESORTS EXCELLENT HOTELS CHARMING SOCIAL LIFE SUMMER CAMPS FOR BOYS AND GIRLS MANY NOTED RESORTS IN NORTH CAROLINA KENTUCKY INDIANA TENNESSEE GEORGIA VIRGINIA SOUTH CAROLINA FLORIDA ALABAMA MISSISSIPPI and LOUISIANA SEASHORE RESORTS CUMBERLAND ISLAND, GA. VIRGINIA BEACH, VA. OCEAN VIEW, VA. OLD POINT COMFORT, VA. MOREHEAD CITY, N. C. ISLE OF PALMS, S. C. SULLIVAN'S ISLAND, S. C. , TYBEE, GA. ST. SIMON'S ISLAND, GA. ATLANTIC BEACH, FLA. Reached by Convenient Service of Southern Railway System SUMMER EXCURSION RATES F. E. GIBSON, Presidents LANSING B. LEE, Sec. and Treas. The Best Time to Build is Now Free booklets on Silos, Barns, Implement Houses, Residences, etc., with suggestions of great value. Also "Ye Planary" service through the Lumber Exchange of Augusta. Ask for further information it interested. The servicejs with out cost. Woodard Lumber Co. 'Phone - - 158 AUGUSTA - - - - GEORGIA Quaiity M0TT0 Service m ii V BUY War Savin? Stamps until you can't see. Then see me. Geo. F. Minis, Optometrist. Edgefield, S. C. Now is the time to protect your crop from hail. I can place you in a good company. I can also pro tect your home with tornado insur ance. E. J. Norris. ?Whenever Yon Need a General Tonic Take Grove's The Old Standard Grave's Tasteless chill Tonic is equally "aluable as a General Tonic because it contains the well known tonic properties of QUININE and IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and Builds up the Whole System. 50 cents. ?j?iECTRIC Ths Best Tonic, BITTERS F?ifcXSSI6. HARRIS' PRESSING CLUB I take this~means of letting the people know that I have re-opened my pressing club, and will appre ciate their patronage. I am better prepared than ever to clean and press all kinds of garments, both for ladies and gentlemen. All tvork guaranteed. Let me know when you have work and I will send for it and make prompt delivery. Wallace Harris Sheppard Building Down Stairs A. H. Corley, Surgeon Dentist Appointments at Trenton On Wednesdays. DR J.S. BYRD, Dental Surgeon OFFICE OVER POSTOFFICE Residence 'Phone 17-R. Office 3.