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Dairy Cows Should Freshen in the Fall. Clemson College, Jan. 31.-Dairy cows should be bred to freshen in the fall, says the dairy division of Clemson College. Each year more and more farmers are realizing just how important this practice is. There are several good sound reasons support ing it. 1. Fall freshening fits naturally into all practical systems of farm ro tations because there is more time for the dairy work in winter than in summer. Labor is cheaper in winter and more easily obtained. It is there fore a good idea to give the cows their dry period when the summer farm work is pressing. 2. It has been found that the fall fresh cow will yield about fifteen to twenty per cent more milk in the year than the spring fresh cow; and there is greater demand for dairy products during the season in which the fall fresh cow produces the bulk of the milk. 3. The fall calf has a distinct ad vantage over the spring calf. During " the early part of the calf's life it lives almost entirely upon milk. As it matures, it consumes more feed, especially grain. By spring it is time for the fall calf to be weaned and it can be put on grass, which is then ready for it. On the other hand, the spring calf is ready to be put on pas ture during the winter months, when there is no pasture. So, the fall calf if practically as well grown one year old as the spring calf at a year and a half. 4. The amount and value of ma nure produced depends largely upon the kind and amount of feed con sumed. Winter dairying serves to pro duce more manure at a time of the year when it can be saved. The best time to have cows fresh en is between September 15, and De cember 15. Perhaps the best way to put your breeding operations on the fall basis is to "back up;" that is, have cows bred as soon after fresh ening as possible and continue this practice until the calving is at the desired time. Cows bred in February and March will calve in- November -and December, and this will be the first big step towards putting the herd on the fall basis. WHERE UNCLE SAM'S MONEY GOES, We receievd a few days ago the following communication from the "American Union Against Militar ism," Washington, D. C., which we think reveals a very undesirable con dition. The article is headed, "Where Uncle- Sam's Money Goes," and is in part as follows: "According to the United States Bureau of Standards, 93 cents out of every dollar of Uncle Sam's mon ey this year goes for war, past, pres ent or to come. "Only one cent out ot every dol lar goes for education and the im provement of the public health. "Copies of this remarkable analy sis of our national budget may be secured on application to Dr. E. B. Rosa, United St?tes Bureau of Stan dards, Washington, D. C.. "Whreeas the cities spend an av erage of $6 per capita for education per year, and the states and private agencies about $3 per year per cap ita for education, Uncle Sam with his huge billions only spends 6 cents per capita for education-and some of that goes to the "land grant" col leges for military drill. "Without anybody in the country realizing it, your Uncle seems to have become obsessed with militarism to the exclusion of the normal, balanc ed interest of government. Of course the truth is that the army and navy have developed a "technique" for ex tracting from Congress huge appor priations whereas the other depart ments have not. According to the analysis quoted above, the national government is levying a tax of $50 this year upon every man, woman and child in the United States, and of this amount $46.50 goes for war and militarism." Frost Proof Cabbage Plants. One hundred acres, thirty million good stocky plants, ready now. Early Jersey, Charleston Wakefields, Suc cession, Flat Dutch. Parcel Post paid. 300, $1.00; 500, $1.50; 1,000, $2.50; Express 2,000, $3.50; 5,000, $7.50; 10,000, $12.50. Count and delivery guaranteed. PARKER FARMS, Moultrie, Ga. ?ow To Give Quinine To Children. FEBRIUNE ls the trade-mark name given te an improved Quinine. It is a Tasteless Syrup plea?-, ant to take and does not disturb the stomach Children take Jt ind never know it is Quinine Also especially adapted to adults -who cannot take ordinary Quinine. Does not nauseate nor ciuse nervousness nor ringrine in the head. Try ft the .<xt time you need Quinine for any pur pose. Ask for 2-ounce original package. Thi .ame FESKU.LNE U Wowa ii bottle- sa cou? Big Augusta Hotel Destrc by Fire. Augusta, Ga., February 4. Bon Air, one of the leading w resort hotels in the South, was stroyed by fire early this mor The flames originated in the di room and are attributed to : fault with the electric lighting e< m^nt. There were 260 guests in hotel. No one was injured th many lost much of their persona longings. Two men, Frank A ] rance of _New York, and M. T. \ of St. Johnsbury, Vt., who wer in the hotel, were removed to University Hospital, and statem from there are that they are 1 the worse physically for their perience. The fire started in the dining r and is attributed to damaged ins tion of electric wires. The guests 1 found accommodations at a nes hotel, at homes of residents on hill, the suburb in which the h was located, while others left this ternoon for their homes or for o winter resorts. The loss is $1,000,000. The in ance is $550,000. There is a tacit derstanding that reconstruction be begun at once, though there is formal decision by the stockhoh as yet. The. hotel was a frame sti ture and while it burned rapidly, guests left it in orderly manner there was a remarkeble absence hysteria. The owning company is c italized at $300,000 and all the st is held in Augusta. . While the fire was in progress, : idents in surrounding homes m most hospitable overtures to the f ing guests to become guests in tl homes. Those citizens who had rooms to offer were, using automob to get the half clad visitors to pla bf refuge. Mr. and Mrs. Natl Straus, who have a cottage on 1 Hill took in as their guests Sir Ash Sparks of the Cunard Line and Li Sparke. Judge R. C. Lovett, presid? of the Southern Pacific and Un Pacific, who lost most of his perso effects, proceeded to a down town tel and left during the afternoon his private car for New York. Jc C. White, formed lord mayor of B fast, saved his personal belongil and is at a down town hotel. Th< of the visitors who did not secure ; comodations are leaving the city pr cipally for foreign points. Senai Frelinghuysen of New Jersey, whose house boat Mr. Harding .is n< ! a guest, has fdr years been a" wini guest at the Bon Air, and there w the belief, if not the definite undi standing that, when the Flordia \ cation is over the New Jersey senat and his distinguished guest were top off Mr. Harding's recreation ti with a week's stay at the Bon A with golf on the country club linl which resort the hotel practical owns. While Nathan Straus does n offer to finance a new hotel, he offe to become a' stockholder. He declar that he is not the rich man he is su posed by so many to be in that-he h exhausted much of his means in tl charities in which he had been enga ed, especially during the last tv years. Special to The State. Aiken, Feb., 4-After the burnir of the Bon Air hotel on the hill Augusta this morning at 2:30 o'cloc a number of the guests sought refuf in Aiken at the Highland Park hote About 4 o'clock several automobile arrived filled with people half clothe and with a few belongings tied up i sheets. Others have come in since. , J. Sweeney, manager of the hotel, making an effort to take care of th people. He has gone to Augusta t< day, as has. Albert Willcox of* th Willcox hotel. It is believed that th Bon Air management will advise A ken for many of their guests. NO LIQUOR ON AMERICAN VES SELS. No liquor can be sold on ships fly ing the American flag, whether th vessels are at sea or in foreign wa ters, according to an opinion handel down last week by Solicitor Genera William L. Frierson. William M Williams, commissioner of interna revenue, immediately issued a state ment for the information and guid ance of the staff, in which the opin ion was included. This will prohibii American ships from carrying liquo] for sale at a bar on a voyage. Mas ters of vessels will be held responsi ble for enforcement of the ruling, and consuls will be asked to report violations. The decision is based on the ground that a vessel registered in the United States is in many re spects considered a part of Ameri san territory and that persons on board a vessel are protected and gov erned by the la.ws of the country to which the vessel belongs. Where Monev Was By H. LOUIS RAYBOLD (? 1921. by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) "There goes Professor Latham again with the Prescott girl I" and Ruth Cole drew her com panion's attention to the occupants of a low-hung, maroon roadster, one of whom raised his hat as they sped by. The woman with Miss Cole nodded pleasantly. She was a slim, graceful person, not at all showing her thirty four years, nor exhibiting in her at tractive face any of the ravages which might possibly be expected after twelve years spent instructing gig gling, irresponsive girls in the Intrica cies of Greek accents and declen sions. "He's rushing her for fair," ram bled on Miss Cole, "and who can blame him if he believes in that old adage, 'Don't marry for money, but go where money is !' Her money must look pretty good to anybody strug gling along nowadays on the salary of a professor in a woman's college. But what she sees in him ls what gets mel" Hilda French turned her head away to hide an annoying but uncon trollable flush. "He's-very interest ing to talk to," she returned quite steadily. "Well, you ought to know, consider ing he's the head of your department," and Ruth dismissed the subject for something more vital to her own inter ests. Bu/ Hilda's thoughts did not change their channel, even though she man aged very creditable replies to the other's inconsequent remarks. And she wasn't wondering what Celia Prescott saw in John Latham. What did John Latham see in Celia? It must be something visible to no other man, for after six seasons as a bud, Celia still bloomed unplucked from the family tree, although three younger sisters had blossomed and gone their way to adorn homes of their own. The truth of the matter was that John Latham's head was temporarily turned. When a mun gets to be forty unmarried, almost any young thing not too homely, possessing clothes which In themselves are a lure, and every kind of device for making the time pass pleasantly, such as automobiles, speed boats, wonderful summer and winter homes, can get In her work without any help from Cupid. Hilda, watching the affair not disin terestedly, was convinced Celia would succeed. And when one memorable afternoon she handed in her resignation ras Instructor in Greek and it was re ceived with just the amount of polite regret that might be expected, she felt sure Celia had succeeded. ' So Hilda quietly arranged her* things In exquisite order for her successor, locked her door for the last time, gave the key to the janitor and went to live Well, John Latham did find time in between his pursuit of the heiress to wonder where and on what Hilda went to live. She had said she wasn't accepting another position, and her salary had hardly been enough to enable her jo save sufllcient to retire on. With her departure the mau, for some reason, felt a strange sense of loss. And as time went on, he real ized slowly but surely that Hilda French had been his compensation for his work-yes, just that. Always, beneath the fret of examinations to be corrected, of marks to be com puted, of students who blundered cal lously through the beauties of his be loved Greek, had been the restfulness of her serene, dependable personality. What a fool he had been ! Blind to her wonderfulness when he saw her every day, and only awakened to it when he no longer knew where to find her. For he had let her go without ascertaining her nddress. Finally he approached Ruth Cole ?tween whom and himself waged a perpetual war of the modem languages versus the classics. Miss Cole gave the InformatloD. About that time Celia, Inheriting with her sister a portion of a legacy from some eccentric uncle out West who had made a sudden fortune from an abandoned mine, had devoted a part of it to the purchase of first edi tions In which the dear professor must help her. *.*^~Z%?r.'r&?' The following evening a middle aged man, a blt stoop-shouldered yet with undaunted dignity, stood per plexed at the entrance of the Belle terre apartments, those ultra-fashion able, albeit conservative, dwellings on the wiudy turn of the Lakeview drive. John Latham, turning his back on wealth, was seeking love, expecting to find it Inhabiting a humble, out-of-the way abode. Ushered presently by a soft-step ping, uniformed maid Into a room whose very atmosphere breathed tasteful luxury, Latham brightly solv ed the problem. Jtfilda French was taking care of some apartment In the owner's absence. Ah-that was lt, un doubtedly ! As Hilda entered In a clinging, trailing gown which set off her slen der figure so that she remlnled him of some precious Greek vase, Latham forgot completely his surmises . as to why she was there-forgot almost why he was there himself-forgot every thing but the loveliness of her. "Hilda!" he cried, Impulsively, as they shook hands, for never before, except to himself, had he addressed her thus. "You don't know how I've missed you!" "It's pleasunt to be missed," said Hilda, and the music of her voice in his ears robbed the little bromidium of its commonplaceness. "In fact, I came to-er-well, that is, after you went, I found that-" for a skillful coiner of translated Greek phrases*, the man was bungling dread fully. But, "Yes?" encouraged Hilda, smil ing ever so gently into his eyes. "Oh, my dear!" cried the man, sud denly casting to the winds the Sapphic love lore he had rehearsed and was try ing In vain to recall. Longingly he held out his arms, the woman came, and the desperate moment was over. Then, a little later : "I haven't much to offer you, dear. This summer be gins my sabbatical year, for which I had been saving. I want to place its disposal in your hands. Shall we stay home and take a little house some where, or spend our honeymoon-not very lavishly, I'm afraid-in Greece?" "Greece!" Hilda half closed her eyes. She was seeing it all-the sky blue waters, the yellow-gold sand, broken columns on grassy hillsides, white sails winding in and out the net work of islands-Greece ! "Wonderful!" she whispered. "And how soon could you leave here?" he asked eagerly. "My lease runs out next month," she said: Aghast, the man looked at her. "Your lease?" "Why, yes," she said simply. Then, with true woman's intuition about the man she loved, she divined his thoughts. "You kuow Celia Prescott and I are cousins, and recently we both inherited some money from an uncle out West. I gave up teaching and came here. At the time lt meant a great, great deal to me. Now-well, it sinks into Insignificance beside the gift of your love!" The straightforwardness and sim plicity of her words carried convic tion. Tenderly John Latham kissed his wife-to-be, thanking his guardian angel he had sought her out before he knew. REWARDS NOT ALL EQUAL Evidently Some People Place a Higher Valuation on Their Lives Than Do Others. A week or two ago a tourist scram bling on the cliffs at Lulworth on the Dorsetshire (England) coast, slipped and fell, and though not injured, was landed in such a posltiou thar he could neither get up nor down, says a correspondent. There he clung in 'great danger until the coast guards arrived. In order to rescue him a man had to be let down^at the end of strong ropes, which were fixed to bars driven into ibo ground. It was a diffi cult and c. jurous job, but at last. tLv.i -.-ot lix? man up In safety. He than... d them, and handed them $1. As^ne of the rescuers said dryly: "l-wL?hlv he knew best the value of hls^Sfe!^ tfne case Tirings-tb mind another mentioned in a lecture giveu by Dr. Atkin Swan. In a recent Alpine expedition his guide was able to res cue three climbers who were in dan ger of their lives. They rewarded him with two francs (nominally 40 cents!) To conclude, here ls a very different incident. A farmer's labor er in Yorkshire pulled his employer's little boy out of a pond into which he had fallen. The farmer found that the lad was unxious to emigrate, so paid his fare to Australia and gave him $500 capital. Now for the se quel. Twenty-two years later the farmer, now a very old man, received word that his former protege had died unmarried, and left him a sum of over $40,000. _;.ir-.>..-..a? -..1 r Maxim Was Busy in War. From Hudson Maxim the naval con sulting board received in the war a series of inventions and improvements which proved valuable, says the'New York Evening Post. One of these had to -do with a new method of making gun tubes by utilizing great hydraulic pressure and thus permitting the man ufacture of a gun in one piece. Another was an Invention for mount ing large guns on railroad cars and securing the cars in concrete emplace ments. In the last two years the army has been devoting, considerable attention to mounting big guns in this manner. Mr: Maxim also evolved an Illumi nating flare which was adopted by the navy, a sea sled tojerve as a floating platform for a depth bomb gun and ? machine gun mount which could be raised, lowered and operated with safe ty by a gunner Tn a trench. -Satisfaction in Accomplishment. There's a satisfaction In doing what others find hard to do. The secret lies in the mind. Some folks get rich by doing what ls their recognized rights. Others get rich by bringing something new to the attention of men and showing them how the new thing will bless the race'. This creates de mand and causes riches to flow to him who controls lt. But this new thing must come from your mind. T'.irk and do and the world will take :. .u of you. Cea.se thinking and you put up the sigu of"limitation and failure. Lesson From John Bunyan. The shepherds led the pilgrims to Mount Charity, where they showed them a man that hr.il a buudle of cloth lying before him, out of which he cut garments for the poor, yet his bundle or roll of cloth was never the less. "This," said the shepherds, "Is to show you that ?ie who has a heart to give to the poor shall never want wherewith? Jahn Bunyan. Can You Smile? Thia old world has troubles enough of its own. That's why it always has a hearty greeting for the man with a smile. It's pretty hard to emile when you are down and ont. The man with money in the bank can easily look pleasant and grin. Success comes to the cheer ful man. It turns a cold shoulder to the "grouch." Begin now by opening an account at our bank no mat ter how small. Add to ir.. Form the saviug habk. As the account grows, the smile is sure to expand. The Bank of Trenton, S. C. 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