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SECRETARY WALLACE ON FARM PROSPECTS Year 1922 Should Be Better One for the Farmer. Money Conditions Are Improving and Reduced Freight Rates Lighten Transportation Burden Prices Hit Bottom. <Prepar*d by the United State? Department of Agriculture.) . When asked for a statement on the prospects of the farmer in 1922 Sec retary of Agriculture Wallace said that no man whose opinion is worth considering would care to make any hard and fast prophecies. He added, however, that there are signs which indicate that the coming year should he a better one for the farmer and for those who deal with him than was 1921. Among these hopeful signs he mentioned the following: Credit conditions are better both through regular channels and throuph the special agencies created to meet the farmer's needs. Interest rates also are softening. Reductions already made in freight rates on farm products lighten by that much the transportation burden which the farmer has been carrying. Cost of producing farm crops will be lower relatively In 1922 than In 1921. Very likely there will be a reduc tion In the acreage of some of the grain cf which we now have such a large surplus, and this should tend toward better prices. The paralyzing effect of the sudden ' drop In prices last year ls wearing off, and farmers will enter the new year more hopefully, believing that the worst ls over. Congress has Indicated a wllllne ness to enact such legislation as prom ises to be helpful. Farmers are coming to see more clearly that the task of putting farm ing: on sound business basis ls really up to them and that through organiza tion they cnn reduce marketing costs. In this they will have Increasing help from the Department of Agriculture and the various state agricultural col leges which now see better than be fore that they must give the farmer the same sort of help In the marketing of his crops that they have been giv ing him In the production, f In the Industrial and financial cen ters there is coming to be a better un derstanding of the important part the farmer plays In our general economic scheme, and consequently a decidedly more intelligent and sympathetic at titude toward him and his problems. . With prices of farm products fall- j lng and the future very* uncertain, even those farmers who had money laid by-and there are a large number of such-have been restricting their buying to what they had to have. Now With the growing belief that prices have hit bottom, buying will be resumed and should increase In vol "ume, and manufacturers and retailers who make or sell things that farmers need or want should have better busi ness this coming year, s Everything considered, therefore, we ftin enter the new year In a spirit of hopefulness and pood cheer. I see nothing which indicates booro, times for the farmer in the near future, but there does seem to be promise of better times both for the farmer and for those whose business Is largely 'dependent upon him. HOLD CQRKCRIB DOORS SHUT Disks From an Old Harrow Placed r Over Corners of Sections Will Prove Efficient. Most corncribs are built with de tachable sections that are removed to provide a low opening, through which the corn is scooped until the crib Is nearly filled. A satisfactory method ' JJISKS Moid Corncrib Dcors in Place. of holding these sections in place lc to put disks from an old harrow over the corners of the sections and se cure them with bolts. This method is simple, as but little time is required to remove or replace the sections, and they are held firmly and without in jury to the lumber.-S. E. Gibbs. Ames, Ia., in Popular Mechanics Magazine. ADVERTISING FARM PRODUCTS Where Automobiles Pass Farms lt ls Good Idea to Post Bulletin Offering Produce. Do the autos pass your door? Why not put up a bulletin at the front gate and let folks know that you have some nice butter, honey, eggs, chickens, fresh pork, pota tees or other things for ::?U ? The auto folks will pay bet ter than retail prices fo;- high class goods. SCORE ONE MORE POR NAVY Damaged Replica of Old Veasel, lt ls Selieved, Can Be* Repaired by Sailors. Percy C. Madeira, Philadelphia coal nia?:i>are, has joined the ranks of those who have taken up the fad of collect ing ship models. Madeira's experience with the first model he bought, a replica of the American dipper ship Son them Cross, was an Interesting one. according to the New York Sun. This miniature ship. 30 inches long, the coal operator obtained recently through an agent at Nantucket, who considered the purchaser lucky In getting a genuine model at a reason able figure. The model, with all masts and other ?pars in place and with rigging, blocks, boats, etc., ns they should be. was a handsome picture when it w?s packed for shipment at Nantucket. But when the fragile model reached Madeira's home il came out of the packing case nearly wrecked. It had been poorly packed and roughly han dled on the trip. Madeira looked at the mass of broken spars and.wreckage and said things about the packer and also the agent at Nantucket. He fig ured the model little better than matchwood and that it never could be repaired. He reckoned, however, without the United States navy. He happened to tell his troubles to a naval officer sta tioned at League island and soon afterward the officer rang the coal magnate np and said he thought he had a man who could repair the wreck. GET LINE ON HIS CHARACTER New Fad Among the Girls ls to Have Man Friend's Handwriting Read by Graphologist. The latest fad of the girls is to have the handwriting of their favorite man friend read by a graphologist. Nsjat little packets of masculine notes, curi ously enough readdressed in a femi nine hand,' have been received by handwriting experts, who will tell your character from a few characteristic lines. The inmost secrets o:? the char acter tendencies of the unsuspecting man upon whom you are wondering whether to center your affections or not are disclosed to you through this novel means. "It's so exciting that I simply can't walt till I get a note from every man I meet," confessed one debutante. "One letter will do in a pinch, but most handwriting fortune tellers prefer to have several, written at long intervals apart, subniittec[ as sampjes. But, goodness me! now-adays friendships don't always last that long, There are only two things dangerous to the game ?^one ls that the, man may get suspi cious and stop writing, or, worst of all, he may get his own letters back from the graphologist by mistake. For this reason always be sure to remove all traces of name and ?ddr?ss from* your original letter."--Chicago Journ?L _________ ________ ,'.iv; j--"'" Oh, So That's Itl We are shortly promised stockings that will button "lip, and this recalls the old query: "Why ls it that a wo man always buttons her clothes up in the reverse fashion from a man?" If lt Vere a" fact that all women were left handed, and consequently found it easier to do things in this way, it would be understandable. But they .are. not. A Mere Male thing offers hie this ex planation : "Probably, it is because all women are imitative. They intend in future to oust men from the earth en tirely. Wherefore they stand in front of the glass, und endeavor to create in lt a reflection RS much like a man as possible. But looking glasses al ways show things reversed,, and wo man, not being able to realize this, always does things backward." So thnt's that:-London Opinion. Meat Flour. The qualities of meat flour, a new food that is being made in New Zea land, were described to a meeting of farmers and others held in a New Zea land town. The speaker said that re cently at a dinner 18 persons sat down to a meal composed entirely of meat flour dishes, and only a little over half a-pound of meat flour was used in its preparation. It was excellent for In valids and bore a high food value. It could he exported easily and compact ly, and would keep, so far as present tests went, for two years without the slightest sign of deterioration. It took three pounds of meat to produce one pound of the flour, which was at pres ent being readily sold at five shillings (S1.25) a pound and was found exceed ingly economical in the household at this price. Negroes Move to the Cities. The negro urban population oi the United States Is now, in round num bers, about 3,500,000. and even more when towns and villages of less, than 2.500 inhabitants are included; that is, one-third of the negroes; of the United States are now living In vil lages, towns and cities. The larger part of the increase in negro urban populatlon has been due to migration In the last five years some 500,000 ne groes have moved from rural districts into the to^ms and cities. A large pro portion, therefore, of the negro popula tion is new to city conditions.-South ern Workrren. One 'lace lt Wouldn't Go. "Dh here talk about cam-el'at ion ol J debt?." said Uncle Kben, "nwy be al! righi fti' the big transactions, but 1 wouldn't like to see anybody try tc _*art lt In a crap game.** EN CHRONIC STATE OF FEAR Observing Author About Right When He Describes Conditions Under Which All Liva. In his book, "The Conquest of Fear," Basil King says: "Lool? at the people you run up against in the course of a few hours. Every one is living or working in fear. "The mother is afraid for her chil dren. The father is afraid for his business. The clerk is afraid for his job. The worker is afraid of his boss or his competitor. "There is hardly a man who is not afraid that some other man will do him a bad turn. There is hardly a woman who is not afraid that things she craves may be denied her, or th?t what she loves may be snatched away. "There Is not a home or an office or a factory or a school or a church In which some hang-dog apprehension is not eating at the hearts of the men, women ahd children who go in and out "I am ready to guess that ail the miseries wrought by sin and sickness put together would not equal those we bring on ourselves by the means which, perhaps, we (ip least to counteract. "We are not sick all the time; we. "are not sinning all the time; but all the time all of us-or practically all of us-ure afraid of some one or some thing." MOVES ALTOGETHER TOO FAST Writer Makes Complaint About Life That Will Be Echoed by Many No Longer Young. Here Is another new one already started and even on the second day we can seem to feel the finish just ahead of us, P. H. Young writes in Provi dence Journal. We shall v have just time to save up for the summer vaca tion and then for another period of scrimping preparation for Christmas and first thing we know they VU be handing around the 1923 calendars.' That is really the most alarming as pect of life, after one gets to be about so old. It is this infernal and relent less speed of the passing years which steadily becomes speedier. It is only youth that is able to worry about love meusuring machines, the erratic con duct of the equator and the north pole, the speed of the moon and the speed of turtles and all these contemporaneous scientific matters. And yet, science is Just wonderful, isn't it? In Toronto the American As sociation for the Advancement of Sci ence has just received a report from a professor at the University ot Wis consin which reveals a new speed rec ord. The champion'racing turtle in an event which included 163 entrants fin ished the mile in three years steven months aud nineteen days. All we can get out of this is the thought that we would like to have life move as slowly as lt does for "5 Turtle. *r Among immortal Writers. The year 1921 was so taken up_by interest in the Dante sexcentenary That most persons fulled entirely to note the fact that the year was the four hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the death of another of the world's Im mortals, Thomas a Kempis, the au thor of the '.Imljatten o| Christi ? quarter of a century or so ago a discussion with regard to the world's greatest books was precipitated by an ingenious London editor who asked the question : "If yuu were to be marooned on" it desert island for life and could take only a dozen books with you, what books would you select?" In the lists of answers Dante and a Kempis invariably occurred, in fact a Kem pis was omitted from almost none of the lists of university men, and was included by many scientists, even Hux ley himself selecting it. Gifts of the Ocean. As soon as the season ends, the beach combers get busy on all the beaches of the famous summer re sort, says a New York correspondent. One beach comber observed was carry ing a silk umbrella filled with jewelry and another half filled with coins. He explained that the rain had aided him in detecting the presence of the jew elry and coins in the sand. For years beach combing nt Rockaway has been a fall industry. Hundreds of persons frequently take part in the search and discover many valuable articles lost by summer visitors. Last year so numerous were the combers that the supports under some sections of the pavilions and hotels were weakened as the result of their activities and the police had to patrol the beach In an effort to check the undermining of buildings. Of Interest to Bee Keepers. Keep large, long-tongued bees, ad vises J. H. Merrill, of the Kansas State Agricultural college. He has found that the bees with the longest tongues and the greatest body weight bring home the most honey. To the Ameri can Association of Economic Ento mologists' meeting In Toronto he de clared lt is possible to tell which col ony of bees in a beeyard will collect the most honey during a summer by measuring the tongues, the amount of nectar, and obtaining the we'nrM of forty bees from each colony in the spring. Tiie Engineer Is a Lassie. The first woman in Britain to com plete a full apprenticeship in an en ?ineerhig shop is a Scotch lassie, Miss V. A. Drummond of Dunoee. Further dist;: c^.<n lu.s cone to Miss Drum mond In the form of election to the British institute of marine engineers. DATA ON MARRIAGES Proportion of Married Men Has Gone Up, Says Census. Probably More Indicative of Chango In Age Composition of Population Than Growing Propensity to Matrimony. Washington.-The proportion of mar ried ineu to the total male population of the country fifteen years of age and over increased from 55.?> per cent to | f>9.2 per cent in the ten years preceding the 1020 ceusus, according to a com pilation of marital statistics made pub lic by the ceusus bureau. The bureau believed, however, that th* was probably more indicative of a change in the age composition of the population-tm increase in the percent age of males between lit"teen and twenty-five years of age due to in creased immigration-than a growing propensity to matrimony. Of the total male population of 53, 900.431 above the fifteen-year classifi cation the census figures showed 21, S49.2GG married, 1,758,308 widowed and 235.2S4 divorced, the latter figure, how ever, including none divorced and re married. The divorce total showed an increase of 20 per cent in its ratio to the total population during the ten year period, constituting six-tenths of 1 per cent of the latter against five tenths In 1910. Altbough due to the absence of the wives of many foreign-born residents, the number of married women was shown to be about 500,000 less tbun the male total, the number of divorced women exceeded men by approximately 40,000, representing closely the differ ence between the number of men and women remarried after divorce. By states, Massachusetts led the field in the proportion of single women with a percentage of 34.4, although the Dis trict of Columbia exceeded this with 37.3 per cent. The census bureau point ed out, however, that the ratio of men to women in the population "naturally has a very Important bearing on the proportions of single men and women." Wyoming led with 70.5 per cent in the proportion of married women, while 62.8 per cent was shown for Mississippi and Arkansas, and the smallest, 45.9 per cent, for Nevada. FIRST WOMAN ASSESSOR Since.Mrs. Rosa S. Kirby, the first woman to be elected an assessor, as sumed oilice as county assessor of Campbell county, Wyo. (which is ex actly the size of the state of Connect icut) tlie "hard-boiled" property own er who was wont to drop in and "cuss out" the assessor for "overval uing" his property has become as rare there as the dodo. In fact, he "ain't." Mrs. Kirby, who served as deputy assessor before she was elected to the head of the office (having an over whelming majority over the mun who ran against her) knows the assess ment business "from the ground up to the money In the bank," and argu ment with her over the valuation of property is highly unprofitable. S?ie was born in Union county. Ia., was graduated from the Iowa Slate Teachers' college; taught Latin and English In Town high schools; married J. H. Kirby, a jeweler and watchmak er, in 1910, and in 1919 migrated with him io Wyoming, where lie took up the homestead claim on which they still reside. "I still like to cook and to do fancy work," says Mrs. Assessor Kirby. JUDGE OPPOSES FAT ALIMONY New York Jurist Says Divorcee Can't Get All the Luxury She Had in Marriage. New York.-Justice Guy, In the Manhattan Supreme court, told pros pective alimony seekers that after a separation or divorce they cannot ex pect to be supported In the luxurious style to which they became accus tomed during the marriage. "It ls not the policy of the law," Justice Guy declared, "that a woman who is asking to end the marriage contract shall have all the luxury of marriage. She Is not entitled to one third ?I her husband's Income. She cannot PTf.ect ail tho extras that :i lori? ; V.jsbnnd would naturally be aton- upon her if the two were ll ring contentedly together." 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 Corner Roberts and Dugas Sts., Augusta, Ga, Consult Your Own Interest by Consulting Us ? When Buying Metal or Composition Roofing Mantels, Tiling, Grates Trim Hardware Wall Board Doors, Sash, etc. FROM Youngblood Roofing and Mantel Company 635 Broad St. Telephone 1697 AUGUSTA, GEORGIA 980 Broad St. J. RENKL Augusta, Ga. Large Stock of Jewelry to Select From We invite our Edgefield friends to visit our store when in Augusta. We have the largest stock of ? DIAMONDS WATCHES CLOCKS JEWELRY CUT GLASS AND SILVERWARE of all kinds that we have ever shown. It will be a pleasure to show you through our stock. Every department is corstantly replenished with the newest designs. We call especial attention to our repairing department, which has every improvement. Your watch or clock made as good as new. Work ready for delivery in a short time. 8 EAGLE "MIKADO" Pencil No. 174 For Sale at your Dealer Made in five grades ASK FOU THU YELLOW PENCIL WITH THE RED BAND EAGLE MIKADO EAGLE PENCIL COMPANY, NEW YORK NOTICE TO CREDITORS of Application For Discharge In the District Court of the United States, For the Western Dis trict of South Carolina. IN THE MATTER OF Rubenstein & Wynn, a partnership, and of thc individual partners Isa dore Rubenstein and Jake Wynn. (No. B-299 in Bankruptcy.) To the Creditors of the above named Bankrupt: , Take notice that on February ll, 1922, the above named, bankrupt filed his petition in said Court praying that he may be decreed by the Court to have full discharge from all debts provable against his estate, except such debts as are excepted by law from such discharge, and a hearing was thereupon ordered and will be had upon said petition on March 15, 1922 before said Court, at Green ville, in said District, at ll o'clock in the forenoon, at which time and place all known creditors and other persons in interest may appear and show cause, if any they have, why the prayer of said petition should not be granted. D. C. DURHAM, Clerk. - Dated at Greenville, S. C., February 14, 1922. I take this means of notifying the public that I have reopened my black smith and repair shop at my old stand to the rear of The Advertiser building, facing the street leading east from the residence of Mr. W. A. Strom. I respectfully solicit the pa tronage of the people and will do my utmost to give entire satisfaction, al ways guaranteeing my work. I make a specialty of horse shoeing. Call to ?see me. GILES BUTLER.