Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Flames Imperil Capital of Japan. Tokyo, March 27 (By the Associa ted Press).-The whole city of Tokyo was imperiled last night by the great est fire with which it has been visited in a decade. The conflagration destroy ed a thousand houses in the Yotsuya district, in the northwestern part of the city, involving a loss estimated at 25,000,000, yen, (normally about $12,5000,000). Thousands of persons weremade homeless and 233 persons were injured. The burned buildings included three hospitals, a bank and several large business houses. For four hours during the night a violent, biting wind drove the flames in the direction of the heart of the city causing a panic among the population over a wide area. Four thousand troops aided the firemen in combating the blaze but it was only when the force of the wind let down notably that their efforts to control the fire were rewarded with success. Scenes of terror were witnessed in many sections as the course of the flames threatened widespread destruc tion. The streets were choked with' ; masses of despairing refugees from 1 the districts already stricken, accom- '< panied by carts loaded with furni- i ture, the confusion being added to by the flocking in of sightseers from oth er sections. Many of the half frozen ? fugitives fleeing from the flames bore ' infants strapped to their backs. 1 Mounted police had great difficulty in < restraining incipient panics. i As a meausre of relief the imperial gardens were opened to the sufferers. The fire burned so fiercely and with t such intense brightness that the skies i were illuminated by a fiery halo j which was visible for hundreds of ( miles as it hung over the city. The \ ,diet, which was in session when the blaze (started, adjourned l.whe^i its threatening nature was reported. r Keep the Plant Running. 1 Every well regulated farm is oper- I ated twelve months of the year. Some ? departments may be closed for the c season, but others are opened and the r machinery keeps going. On the other hand there are many farms that oper ate but part of the year. These are i generally one-crop farms on which r there is little or no livestock. The s owner, or tenant, gambles on the turn a of a single card. If he wins, he is in e "clover," but he more often loses s and when he does, he talks longest c and loudest about working sixteen i hours a day for twelve months and t getting nothing for it. n As a matter of fact do all farmers, a particularly the one crop farmer, t work twelve months in a year or even a sixteen hours any day except for a t limited period of time? According to c Agricultural Department statisticians the one crop grain farmer works four months out of the twelve and the one- t crop cotton farmer not more than five b or six, counting the innumerable \ days inwhich he does not enter the \ fields during the season. It is only s the diversifier who does livestock s farming who puts in full time, and j because he has something to do every c month of the year, he is generally in c better shape financially than his s neighbor who depends upon a single i source of income. j While there is considerable talk ' about difference in living conditions s as between the farm and the city, it ? is well to understand that the major- f ity of men in the city who earn their 1 living working for others, are occu- 1 pied every day of the year except * Sunday without regard to weather conditions. If the average wage earn er or salaried man in the city laid off 1 even one month in the year, the most J of them would find it a difficult mat- 1 ter to meet their obligations. The i same may be said of the man in bus- < iness. He either keeps his factory in I operation or his business a going con- i cern the entire year, or else he goes < into bankruptcy. No business, even that of farming, i can expect to prosper unless it is op- i erated continuously. Intelligent di- ] versification along with livestock 1 farming is a safe and sure way to < keep the farm plant running full < time all the year. Farm and Ranch. 1 Little Liquor to be Returned. Washington, March 27.-Little li quor will have to be returned to own ers as a result of a recent ruling of the United States circuit court in South Carolina that the Volstead act supersedes the internal revenue laws in so far as they apply to intoxicat ing liquors, Prohibition Commissioner Kramer said today. The assertion was made in New York yesterday of federal officials in halting ? raid on the ground that the ruling made seiz ures under the revenue laws illegal. The great bulk of the liquor seized by the government Commissioner Kramer declared, was taken under the Volstead act while being trans ported illegally, and this liquor would be unaffected by the new interpreta tion of the law. He added that he aid not know how much liquor may have been seized in various parts of the country under the revenue laws, but expressed the belief that it was not a considerable quantity in comparison with the total amount seized since prohibition became a law. Returns cf some liquor probably would be necessary where it had been seized under the revenue laws, Mr. Kramer asserted, adding that while some of it "may have been destroyed, large quantities are still awaiting de termination of the status by the courts. Mr. Kramer said he believed the South Carolina ruling would not greatly interfere with prohibition en forcement. At present, he said, very little real liquor is being taken by federal agents in raids. Most of the illegal liquors, he explained, were im itation concoctions transported by bootleggers for sale as the established brands of liquors. The Best Garden Ever in 1921 : Things to Do Now. . . I. ' Cultivation or tillage is manure to a greater extent in the garden than in the field. Keep the push plow, rake and hoe on their jobs. Let no crust form and no weeds grow. II. Keep hotbed and cold frame plants rrowing regularly, but not too fast. Thin, or better still, shift all plants ;hat become crowded or too slender, jive plenty of air and sunshine when ;he temperature permits. III. For succession, set cabbage, let ;uce and cauliflower, and plant, kale, nustard, turnip, spinach, carrot, En glish pea, corn and beets. In the low ;r South risk a row or two of bush >eans, cucumber, and cantaloupe. IV. Don't forget to try out some va ieties of standard sorts that you have lot grown before. Plant some new cinds, such as Brussels sprouts, cress, cale, kohl-rabi, spinach, chard, cel ?ry, celeriac, garlic, salsify, parsnip, :arrot and parsley, sweet, pot, and nedicinal herbs. V. Verbena, aster, phlox, petunia, j tansy, candytuft/ canna, chrysanthe num, daisy, dahlia, dianthus, poppy, I weet pea and violet must be looked i ifter now and given the attention j lach needs. Keep pansies, violets and weetpea blossoms picked as they .pen. This will prolong their bloom ng season and give larger and pret ier blossoms in greater abundance. A , nulch of coarse manure about rose j nd other bushes and vines will help ! hem to greater vigor of both stem I nd blossoms. Try a handful of fer- ! ilizer around your shrubs and vines,; hopping it into the ground. I VI. Get ready for the striped cucumber : .eetle and get him before he does lis deadly work. This insiduous pest viii crawl into the first crack made j vhen cucumber, melon or squash! eeds germinate and often will de- j troy the stand before the young dants come out of the ground. Mix j ?ne peck sifted air-slaked lime, four j ?unces Paris green, two ounces ar ienate of lead, and dust this mixture nto the cracked soil and over the .oung plants as they come up. This nay be applied from a small flour ! ;ack or similar sack made from some j >pen mesh cloth. Boil and dry the lour sack, put about the pint of the | joison in it, shake it over the hills. Repeat every four to six days and ifter rains. VII Supports for pole beans that give ;he vines encouragement to "run" is it is their nature to do, may be provided by several means. Where t is convenient to get poles of the iesired shape, length and lightness, ;hey should be cut before the sap rises and allowed to season. Do not :ut young timber that may be of ser vice later on. Dogwood is good, as is alder, but the latter lasts only one ar two seasons. For setting these poles firmly in the ground, use a post hole punch. If this is not available, cut a straight 30-inch section of a dogwood tree three inches in diam eter and hew it to the shape of a long wedge. Drive this in the ground to the depth desired, remove and set the pole firmly so that it will not blow over when it becomes top heavy with the bean vines.-Progres sive Farmer. Why Colds Are Dangerous. . It is the serious diseases that colds lead to that makes them dangerous. They prepare the system for the re ception and development of the germs of influenza, pneumonia, tuberculosis, dyphtheria, scarlet fever, whooping cough and measles. You are much more likely to contract these diseases when you have a cold. For that rea son you should get rid of every cold as quickly as possible. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy will help you. It is widely known as a cure for bad colds. suns Old Sores, Other Rome?les Won't Cure. The worst cases, no matter of how long standing, ire cured by the wonderful, old' reliable Dr. Porter's Antiseptic Healing Oil. It relieve* Pain and Heals at the same time. 21', 50c, ti ? Prison Figures Show Decrease. Chicago, March 23.-Prison popu lation of the middle and southwestern United States has decreased 12.4 per cent, in the past six years, accord ing to reports collected by the As sociated Press from state peniten tiaries in 16 states. The decrease amounted to 2,729 prisoners. The total penitentiary pop v _"ion of the 16 states in 1914 was 21,947, in 1920 19,216. Date of the comparative figures was for the most part December 1 of each year. Falling off in the priaon population ?of the section is equivalent to more i than the combined prisoners of Iowa, Kansas, Wisconsin and North and South Dakota in 1914. Decrease, however was shown to be not uniform throughout the territory. Six states have the reverse to show, reporting an increase, while one pre sented exactly the same figures. The decrease, came from nine states. The advance in six states amount ed to 834 prisoners while the decrease in the nine states aggregated 3,563 prisoners. This gave the total net de crease of 2,729. fi States whose penitentiaries report ed less convicts than six years ago were Arkansas, Indiana, Iowa, Ken tucky, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, Texas and Wisconsin. States that had the contrary story to tell were Illinois, Kansas, Michigan, Ne braska, Ohio and Oklahoma. South Dakota was the state whose prison population on December 1 of the two years was identical. The largest decrease in any state was shown by Kentucky, its peniten tiary inmates falling off 818 or 37 per cent. In this state 1914 figures, were not obtainable, and thej nearest date was December 1, 1916, when the j state penitentiary held 2,182 con victs, as against 1,364 on December 1 of last year. The largest increase was noted in Ohio, where convicts at the state pen itentiary increased 291 or 17 per cent' in the six year period, specifically from 1,702 to 1,993. In the past year alone, from De cember 1, 1919, to December 1, 1920, the total prison population of the 16 states fell off 702 prisoners or 3Vs per cent. Put the Money in th ? Banks. Mr.Hugh H. Saxon, assistant cash ier of the Georgia Railroad hank, who has just returned from Macon, where he attended the convention of the Georgia Bankers, tells interestingly of action had there having for its pur-1 pose the effort to induce people to put their money in banks, and not to keep it in private safes or between the matresses at home. For the promotion of public confi dence, the bankers at Macon voted to expend $50,000 this year in advertis ing banking in the abstract in a coo operative way in the daily newspa pers of Georgia and in one weekly paper in each county and in one or more farm papers. Wilson M. Hardy of Rome was made chairman of the committee to handle the advertising campaign. In a summary of the principal fea tures of the report to congress by the comptroller of the currency that of ficer discusses at some length the mat ter of the alleged currency inflation, and presents figures showing that the proportion of the money in cir culation to the total resources of the banks is now considerably smaller than before the European War. While the amount of money actually "in circulation" increased from $3, 419,168,000 in July, 1914 to $5, 380,852,000 in July, 1920, the Comp troller shows that this is largely ac counted for by thc increase in our holdings of gold deposited with Fed eral Reserve Banks, against which Federal Reserve Notes have been is sued. The Comptroller says that the increase in circulation of 1,962 mil lion thus mainly represented by Fed eral Reserve Notes, to secure which the Federal Reserve Banks now hold approximately 50 per cent in gold. A usmraary is presented of the $5, 380,852,000 of money in circulation, which shows that of this sum the na tional banks held in their vaults 450 million, banks under state supervi sion 626 million, and Federal Reserve Banks (exclusive of more than a bil lion dollars of golc nledged as reserve against Federal Reserve notes out standing) 960 million, leaving a bal ance of money in the pockets of the people, in tills and cash drawers of merchants, and money hoarded in safe-jdeposit boxes? Stockings, etc., and currency circulating in Cuba and other foreign countries, 3,344 million dollars. While in a general way, it is known that many people pocket, safe-vault or home-hide their money, no one supposed that this immense amount was handled in such manner., For your own protection, for the protec tion of your money-to guard it against loss and destruction-put it in bank.-Augusta Chronicle. Purebred Livestock Industry. For the first time in history the Census Bureau has made an attempt to collect and compile statistics on the purebred livestock industry. Re ports from ten States have been made public and these show that the'indus try is farther advanced than many persons thought. Notwithstanding the splendid showing made, the per centage of farms reporting purebred livestock* is not ? large. There is yet much room for missionary effort on the part of farm publications and pure bred livestock associations. The ten states for which purebred livestock figures have been reported and the percentage of farms having purebred stock are: South Carolina, 3.21 per cent; Virginia, 4.77 per cent; Delaware, 6.29 per cent; West Vir ginia, 8.18 per cent; Oklahoma, 11.07 per cent; Massachusetts, 1109 per cent; Michigan, 11.12 per cent; Ohio, 02 per cent; and Indiana, 15.17 per cent. The states are mentioned ac cording to the percentage of farms reporting purebreds. Of the ten states mentioned in the report, Indiana leads with 15,17 per cent of all farms having purebred livestock. This does not mean that all livestock on these farms are purebred and therefore the percentage of pure- I breds as compared with th.? * tal num ber of animals is much less. It is only comparatively of recent years that purebred animals were con Isidered as essential to profitable framing. They were bred largely as a hobby by wealthy men. At the pres ent time there are thousands of far mers who have been convinced that scrubs are undesirable. Their num bers are increasing. During the next decade one may expect to see the scrub replaced by animals of the bet ter kind on the majority of farms in the country.-Farm and Ranch. Farmstead Improvements. Clemson College, March 18.-Some interesting figures as to farm and farmstead improvements made in South Carolina in 1919 through the advice and assistance of county agents are shown in the figures be low from annual reports. The num ber of farm buildings erected as re forted from ll counties was 13.1. [The number of farm buildings im proved as reported from 14 counties was 131. The number of farm build ings painted or whitewashed as re ported from ll counties was 189. In the matter of tome conven-! iences the report from' 26 counties show -173 home water systems install ..ed, .m~'-:'ng a total of 4,522 such sys tems now in use. Home lighting sys tems installed in 30 counties number ed 869, making a total of such sys tems 4,378. Reports from 23 counties showed 846 home grounds improved, and reports from 19 counties showed far mand sanitary conditions improv ed on 1107 farms. In the way of farm improvements the reports show 409 new pastures established in 24 counties, 229 old pastures renovated in 25 counties, 29 drainage systems established in ll counties, 56 farmers in 20 coun ties induced to remove stumps, 494 farmers in 16 counties induced to terrace lands, 1,922 farmers in 17 counties induced to plant home gar^ dens, and 8,093 farmers in 36 coun ties induced to plant cover crops to , be turned under for soil improve ment. The total number of acres ditch ed, terraced and stumped was 26, 126. Estimating the resultant im provement at $5.00 per acre, this gives a total of $130,630 as improv ed value of these lands. Million Packets Of Flower Seeds Free We believe In flowers around the homes of the South. Flowers brighten up the home surroundings and give pleasure and satisfaction to those who .have them. We have filled more than a million packets of seeds, of beautiful yet easily grown flowers to be given to our customers this spring for the beautifying of their homes. Wouldn't you like to have five packets of beautiful flowers free? YOU CAN GET THEM! Hastings' catalog is a 116-page handsomely illustrated seed book with twenty beautiful pages showing the finest va rieties in their true natural colors. It is full of helpful garden, flower and farm information that ls needed in every home, and, too, the catalog tells you how to get these flower seeds ab solutely free. Write for our 1921 catalog now. It is the finest, most valuable and beau tiful seed book ever published, and you will be mighty glad you've got it There is no obligation to buy any thing. Just ask for the catalog. H. G. HASTINGS CO., SEEDSMEN, ATLANTA, GA. Whenever You Need a General Tonic Take Grove's The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic is equally valuable 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. We Can Give You Prompt Service on Mill Work and Interior Finish Large stock of Rough and Dressed Lumber on hand for Immediate Delivery. Woodward Lumber Co. QUALITY-SERVICE Comer Roberts and Dugas Ste., Augusta, Ga, Consult Your Own Interest by Consulting Us When Buying Metal or Composition Roofing Mantels, Tile, Grates Trim Hardware Wall Board Etc. Youngblood Roofing and Mantel Company 635 Broad St. Telphone 1697 AUGUSTA, GEORGIA j THE FARMERS BANK OF EDGEFIELD, S. C. Capital and Surplus Profits Total Resources Over - - $190,000.00 $800,000.00 SAFETY AND SERVICE IS WHAT WE OFFER TO THE PUBLIC Open vour account with us for the year 1920. Invest your savings in one of oar Interest Bearing Certificates of Deposit. Lock boxes for rent in which to keep your valuable pa pers, etc. AIL business matters referred to as pleasantly and carefully handled. We Solicit Your Business. IT S NOT WJ OU MAKE UT WHAT OU SAVE THAT COUNTS Copyright 1909, br C. E. Zimmerman Co. -No. 66 EVERY DOLLAR that you spend foolishly, every proportion ate amount of money that you earn that it would be possible to save and do not, is only money that you have to work for again. On the other hand every dollar you put in the bank is money that is going to constantly work for you. Which is the best; money always working for you, or you always working for your money. Come in and start that bank account Don't put it off another day. BANK OF EDGEFIELD OFFICERS: J. C. Sheppard, President; A. S. Tompkins, Vice-President; E. J. Mims, Cashier; J. H. Allen, Assistant Cashier. DIRECTORS: J. C. Sheppard, Thos. H. Rainsford, John Rainsford, M. C. Parker, A. S. Tompkins, J. G. Holland, E. J. Mims, J. H. Allen.