Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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KEOWEE COURIER (Established i HW.) Published Every Wednesday Morning Subscription $1 |?or Annum. Advertising Ilutes Itoasouablc, -ll/ HTECK, SHF.LOK \ SCHRODIOK. Communications of a personal character charged for as advertise ments. Obituary notices ana tributes of respect, of not over J00 words, will ho printed free of charge. All over that number must bo paid for at the roto of ono cont a word. Cash to accompany manuscript. 'WALHAhfJA, H. C.: WEDNESDAY, NOV. 15, 11)1(1. .Till: KA KM LOAN PKIMEK." ll is to Your liiteirHwt to Learn All You Can About, Kural Credits Law. ? Progressive Farmer. ) Heretofore not enough attention has been given lo tile Importance of adequate capital as a factor in suc cessful farming. Many a prudent and capable farmer in tho past, has real ized that his farm would be much more profitable if be could tile drain his land; or If he could get extra horses and mules; or if he could buy (be animals needed lo enable bim to ? .nuage more extensively in tho dairy ing, swine, or beef cattle business; oi- ii be could pul up modern barns and silos. Hut be lias lacked capital for till these things, and he could get j capital only by taking ruinous risks. As IO. W. Ha bbs told thu Farm Loan Boa i d lin' ot her day : "I have never been able io farm as "I wished nor as good judgment "showed would b<? prolitablo, because "I could not take the risk of a dlsas-j "ter thal would mean ruin under a "system whore all debts must be paid "out of current profits or bo carried "at a high rate ol' interest." To all such mon tho coming of tho new rural .-redits law. with its long time loans at liol over 15 per cont, is a veritable godsend. As tito Monroe .tournai puls it: "Here is a man who has a farm in good shape, with stock I and moderate equipment, and is out of debt. Suppose that he wishes lo Increase the productivity of his land at once and begin lo ?ei the benefit of it. Let him borrow live hundred, j a thousand or two thousand dollars, as the case may be, and invest it In improvement of his soil. Four crops of legumes loft on tho land, two win ter and two summer crops, or two | years in all, will moro than double the yield of any acre of land in this county. An nero thal can now bc stimulated to produce a half-bale of cotton would, after such treatment, easily produce a bale with less ferti lizer, ami ono that is now producing a bale would produce two Thus tho cutting down of labor expense by doubling the soil fertility, would it self soon pay the loan." Farmers everywhere should cer tainly inform themselves as to Hie provisions of a law that promises such relief, and this information, like salvation, is free. Simply write tho Federal Far.n Loan Hoard, Wash ington, H. C.. and ask for copies ol' its free circulars, especially Circular No, .*?. "Tho'Farm Loan Primer." Head-Off (lint All-Winter Cough. At the Hist s i AU ol' sore throat, tight chest or stu (fed-up head take a dose of Dr. Hell's Pine-Tar-Ilouey. Tho bealing pine-tar, soothing honey and glyc?rine quickly relievo the congestion, loosen lb?> phlegm and break up your cold. Dr. Roll's Pine Tnr-Ilouey has all Ibo benefits ol' tho healing aroma from a pine forest, lt is pleasant lo take and antiseptic. The formula on the hollie tells why it relieves colds and coughs. At your druggist, 2ile. Adv. 2, P. S. (Jots $150,000 Verdict. Now York. Nov, 8. A verdict of $ I ?0,000 in favor of Hie I'nitod States government was returned by a jury in federal Court hore to-day in a suit instituted against Karplus & llorzhorgcr, of Herlin, (formally, ex ploiters. They were i lia rued with undervaluing a shipment of * I sn,?iou worth of glove leather sent to their agents at Cloversville. N. Y. Funds of the linn boro an- under attachment by the government to apply on tho judgment. Cutts (hui.) Wins in Florida. Tampa, Fla., Nov. s. With 61,000 votes counted out ol' a total of about 85,000, for Governor. Sidno> .1 Calla (Prohibition-Independent) has 2s, 34f) to 23,188 for W. V. Knott (Dem ocrat), who was nominated in thc recent primaries over ('alts. George Allon (-Republican) will have about ft.ooo. Catts' plurality apparontlj will he about O.fiO'O. At tue 12(1 annual picnic ol' Hu Cern?an settlors in Chicago Morris F Georgi, aged 91, and Mrs. Math llrackloin, aged Ti. took first prlz< in the waltzing contest. YOUNO MAN FIRES FATAL SHOT Killed Negro Who Was Overpowering Him from the Hear. ('hester, Nov. 8.-John Williams. il?;is (?iles Williams, a negro, aged ?IO years, weighing about 2 15 pounds, was shot to death last even ing by A. Dallon Hollis, son of Arthur Hollis, a prominent farmer of ibo Mil lord see Hon of Fairfield county, near Croat Falls, on the steep McAl iley Hill. Mr Hollis, who is about L'I years ol' age, claims that the kill ing was dono in self-defense. Ile was released Ibis afternoon Oil $1,000 bond. Hollis stated to-day thal he was going to (?real Falls and prior lo reaching the Kooky Creek bridge be mel the negro, who asked to let him ride, ills request was granted. They rode along for some distance with the negro seated In tho rear of the car. As they were going up the steep MoAliley Hill on low Rear, tho negro reached forward and grabbed Mr. Hollis around the neck with his arms, and a Struggle ensued. The car 7,ig y.agged from one side of tho road to the other, finally bei UR brou ghi to a stop by Mr. Hollis. In the meantime tho negro mashed .Mr. Hollis down In between the windshield and steering wheel, breaking the windshield. For tunately for Mr. Hollis, he had a re volver lying on Hie seat of his car and while tho negro had him down be managed to get his hand on :i and bred at Williams. Four shots were (ired, liefere lie could bo finally subdued ii was necessary to push him out of the car. .I* * * * * * * * * * 'I* * * * .J- TUM TKHTII. .J? .j. ?J? ?J? ?J? ?J? ?J? ?J? ?J? ?J? ?J? ?J? ?J- ?I? ?J? A rei eui investigation made by the United States Public Health Service in connection with studies of rural school children showed that I!"-! per tent had defective teeth, 'J I. I per rent bad two or more missing teeth, and only 10.1? percent had had den tal attention. Over ll percent never used a tooth brush. 58.2 per cent used one occasionally, and only 27.1 uer cent used one daily. Defective teeth reduce physical ef ficiency, Dirty, suppurating, snaggle toothed mouths are responsible for many cases ol' heart disease, rheuma- | tlsm and other chronic affections. The children .are not responsible for tho neglected state of their teeth. ! The careless parent ls to blame for . this condition-a condition which hampers mental and physical growth j and puts a permanent handicap on our future citizens. School teachers can do and are do ? ing much in inculcating habits of i personal cleanliness on the rural child. but this will tail of the high est accomplishment! unless parents co-operate heartily and continuously. This is a duty which we owe our chil dren. ; Lax-Kos, A Mild, Effective Laxativs & Liver Tonio I Does Not Gripe nor Disturb the stomach. ! In addition to other properties, Lax- Fog I contains Cascara in acceptable form, n j stimulating Laxative and Tonic. Lax-Pos : acts effectively and does not gripe nor j disturb stomach. At the same time, it aids ! digestion, arouses the liver and secretions 1 and restores the healthy functions. 50c. Whole Story in a Word. The following note, says the Brit- I I Ish Farm and Homo, containing only I one word was rocer.tly handed lo a . village school mister: "CcpatOllltO i goataturing." it was brought by ? one of the boys on behalf of a neigh bor's child who was absent. The ' schoolmaster eventually arrived al a solution- "Kept at homo to go a-la I luring! " j Luna county. New Mexico, Includ ing Columbus, Ibo scene ol' Villa's I raid, gave Wilson 60-1 votes and j 111! nhes 2S!), -".."*? j .1. lt. Mercer, ol'-Dawson, Ga., is j preparing to test the guinea fowl as a boll weevil destroyer. He has al j ready on his Flladate estate, near I Dawson, ">iin guineas and proposes to j increase the number to 1,000. - 1 'J.". (KN I'S DKSTKOYS VOl lt DA.NIMH l l AMI Sit) I'S FA LL IN (J HAUL ! Have Your Hair! Make lt Thick, Wavy and llcuiltiiill-Try This! Thin, brittle, colorless and scraggy hair is mute evidence of a neglected scalp; of dandruff-thal awful sen rf. There is nothing so destructive to the hair as dandruff, lt robs the hair of its lustre, its strength and its very life; eventually producing a feverish ness and itching of tho scalp, which If not remedied causes tho hair roots lo shrink, loosen and die-then thc hair falls out fast. A lillie Dander Ino to-night- now any time - will surely save your bair. (Iel a 25-cont bottle of Knowlton*.s i Danderino from any drug store or t toilet counter, and after the first ap-< f plication your bair will take on that life, lustre and luxuriance which is so beautiful, lt will becomo wavy and Huffy and have the appearance Of 3 abundance, an incomparable gloss . and softness; but what will please j you most will bo after just a few , week's use, when you will actually see a lot of fine, downy hair-now hair-growing all over thc 3calp. ad. HOME FACTS FOB THE FABMEK. What We .May Expect from Work of tho I loll Weevil. ( Progressive Fanner.) In inni the boll weevil invaded a half dozen parishes, or counties, In Western Louisiana: by 1910 every part of the State was Infested. I? I yo i Louisiana produced 1,08t.-r>21! bales ol* cotton: in 1910 the State produced 245,048 bales. In 1904, Mississippi's biggest cotton year, the State produced 1.789,000 bales. In 1915, with the weevil in every coun ty in the State, the total produit ion was only 953,9(55 bales. From 1904, Louisiana's best year, to 1909. nor worst year after tho arrival o? the weevil, we have a loss of 81',000 bales, or 77.5 per cent. The 33d parallel of latitude is the northern boundary of Louisiana and, as the writer has previously pointed out, it ls* south of this lino In Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi that boll weevil damage has been heaviest. In thc counties of Mississippi lying south of the 33d parallel of latitude, cotton production in 1901 was 7 19, 8 19 bales; by 1915 this had fallen to 17 0,572 bales, or a loss of 77.3 per cent-almost exactly the percent age of decrease shown In Louisiana. Alabama and Georgia south of the 33d parallel possess climatic condi tions practically the same as those of Louisiana and Misissstppi. Alabama's big cotton year was 1914, when the State produced 1,751,375 bales. The santo year the Alabama counties lying south of par allel :{'" grew 1,0 17,1550 bales. Now If these counties their worst year with the weevil lose in production as did similar territory in Louisiana and Mississippi, production will he only 22.1*. per cent of 1914, or 2:!i*?,709 bales--a loss of 810.S81 bales. The writer believes it fair to as sume that in South Carolina south or parallel 3-1 the weevil will encounter conditions- favorable and unfavora ble-that will average about the same as those lound between paral lels 33 and it I In tho Gulf States. If this be the case, then South Carolina south of parallel 34 may expect a loss ol' something like 75 per cent when the weevil is at its worst, this loss of course ranging higher in the southern and lower in northern part of the area. In South Carolina in 1911 tho counties south of parallel 34 made 624,500 hales of cotton, and if this when the weevil is worst ls cut 7") per cent, which we believe, in view of the climatic conditions al ready referred to, may be expected, we will have a loss of 463,375 bales. Anthracnose or Pink Holl Hot. Anthracnose or pink boll rot of cotton is found nearly everywhere in the cotton belt, though it ls most prevalent and destructive in the more humid sections from East Texas eastward and during wet seasons. This year east of the Mississippi river, probably because of the wet summer, it has been unusually wide spread. This, too, is a fungous, infectious disease. lt first appears as a tiny pink spot on the boll, this gradually enlarging until the whole boll is de stroyed. Sometimes as many as half the bolls on a stalk are entirely ruined, and the injury in an entire Held may run as high as 30 and 40 per cent Control measures are preventive rather than curative. Most Import ant ol' all these is seed solection. since it has been definitely shown that the disease is carried in the seed. Tho South Carolina experiment station has, by selecting seed only front healthy stalks and bolls, entirely eliminated the disease in ono year, il the farmer who is troubled with anthracnose or boll rot will carefully select his seed from stalks free from the disease and plant them on land m . in cotton the previous year he will have entirely solved his boll rot problem. Kleb I ?und and Weevils. In set lions where the boll weevil has this year been very destructive, o'.servant farmers arc noting that the besi lands are almost invariably nu.king the best crops. In speaking of the best lands or the richest lauds, we ol" course mean the lands that are ..'ell drained, but not wnslied away, that are lilied with humus, and that are well supplied with nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash in the light proportions. When we come to consider thc matter, however, the ability of rich land to make colton in spits of thc weevil is no more than should ho ex pected. With a full Infestation cf weevils, milking colton ai a profit resolves itself into a race between the fanner and the weevil. Usually the first of August the pest bas be come numerous and destructive enough to puncture and destroy every square that ls set. What cot ton we make before this dato ls ours; all that comes afterward lt claimed by the weevil. This being true, evory off ort should be made tc set fruit in a hurry, and If this is tc bo done a warm, strong, quick soil is an absolute necessity. Thus is the weevil emphasizing anew the overwhelming importance ol' rich land In making profitable crops. Now that this pest is cover ing nearly all tho cotton belt, soil building is going to be asolutely es sential to successful farming. Tho man who plants legumes winter and summer and saves his soil and en riches it will beat the boll weevil; the man who does not will fail. l'a rm Loan Associations. 1 Ten or more farmers wanting loans must organize the association. 2 No man can ret a loan for more than $10,000 or 1 isa than $100, or for loss than five or more than forty voa rs. 'S. Borrower must be, or about to become, the owner of the land offer ed as security, and engaged, or about to become engaged, in its cultivation. 4. Borrower to use money for tho following purposes and none other: (a) To purchase land for agricultu ral uses; (b) ,To purchase equip ment, fertilizers and livestock neces sary for the proper and reasonable operation of the mortgaged farm; (c) To provide buildings and im prove the mortgaged land; (d) To liquidate indebtedness of the owner. 5. A board of five directors must be elected by the members of the as sociation, and these directors must, elect a president, vice president, sec retary-treasurer, ami a loan commit tee of three members. 6. The loan committee must ap praise the lands of all members, and the reports ol* these appraisers, to gether with other necessary informa tion, must be forwarded by the sec retary to thc district Federal Land Bank. 7. If the district land bank and the Ked oral Farm Loan Board, upon examination, lind that all require ments have been complied with a charter will be issued and the loans granted. lt. Helps tho Tenant. lt has been frequently said that the new rural credits law does noth ing to help thc renter become a home-owner, but a little reflection will show that it does a groat deal. If a renter has one-half the money he needs to buy any piece ol' land, any national farm loan association will lend him the other half at a low rate of interest and give him from i five to forty years' time to pay it back. I This will certainly be a help to . those renters who have heretofore been offered land only on condition j thal they pay the whole amount In three, five or ten years ; Renters who wish to become land owners will do well to keen this op portunity in mind, as it will be In real operation in a few months now. Have Useful Shade Tree*. In connection with what we were saying recently about the pecan, I crepe myrtle, and other Southern j trees, we wonder if we are not com ing to the time when no tree will be thought good enough for shade un less it does something else besides ! give shade? In other words, should j we not require every shade tree not only to furntrh shade, but also to furnish either Howers, fruit or nuts? j There are so many trees that not ! only furnish shade, but also glorify I the home with a wealth of flowers or j enrich the family diet (and possibly the family pocketbook) with abund ant fruits or nuts, that there seems good reason for Insisting that as a : rule every shade tree should furnish something else besides shade. Ol' course, we might make an occasional exception in favor of some lordly oak or tulip I ree (erroneously called pop lar,) but we believe that the rule should be as we have just, indicated. "An Apple a Day." "An apple a day keeps Ibo doctor away" is a health truth with which we aro too littlo acquainted. The originators of the saying well knew the value ol' apples in the diet, though they probably knew littlo con cerning the rearons why. To-day we not only know that the apple is good in the human dietary, bul we know why-we know thal as an aid to di gestion, as a tonic and appetiser, and as an aid in eliminating thc poison ous wastes of the body, fruits are bet ter than all the medicine.-: in the apothecary's shop. From the first strawberries In March and April on (brough the list of peaches, plums, blackberries, dew berries, grapes, watermelons, fies, . on to the apples of autumn, there need not be a single day when the family is without delicious and health-giving fruits. Nor need tho ? coming ol' winter curtail the supply, for out of the summer's supcruhund ! ance it is easily possible to can and ' preserve a supply to lido us over the . winter. i A "Sure lOnough" Orchard. ; We hope you'ro laying plans now > to havo a "sure enough" orchard ? hereafter. Why not select your or Balie? ger Hardware < ri Senrca, chard silo, get In touch with your i State experiment station in regard to ? the- host varieties, determine how many of each you will need, order at the proper tune, and then by the right kind of attention insure plenty I of healthful, wholesome fruit here- I after? ' < And while we're talking of tree I planting, one of the finest invest- I meats you can possibly make will bc ! to buy some paper-shell pecan trees. < In nuts yielded, as a shade tree and 1 as an ornament, the pecan is one of 1 the very finest of trees. You. your children and your grandchildren will i bless thc day you plant them. I ; "Safety birst" In Buying. In buying fruit trees, let us re peat that the only yale plan is ilrst to got In. toudi with your Stale ex- 1 p?riment station in regard to the best varieties, and then buy these direct i from reliable linns, never from trav- . Cling agents of unknown houses. And if a few neighbors can go in together : in buying their trees, very material I savings ran certainly be effected. Corn Weevil Control. The most effective way of stopping : weevil work in infested corn is to 1 treat it with carbon bisulphide or "high life" in tight rooms or bins. ' using the liquid at the rate of 1 o to * 20 pounds per 1.000 cubic feet of, space depending upon the nature of , the room or bin ii? which the work is done. The liquid con bo poured directly on to the corri without In juring it in any way, and the only | i precaution required is that it should ? ?" be bandied exactly as one would han- ? 1 die gasoline; that is, it should not < bo applied while tho corn is evident ly heating, and no one should he per mitted to smoke ur carry a lantern I or fire of any kind into or close to the treated room so long as the odor i is strong. Alter a day or two all For Forty Years L; Vegetable Com Woman's Most -Here is More To women who are su woman's special ills, and hav< down, the three following lette North Crawl old I got mavriet tw ins and it left ' not walk across down lo vost and and do my work, mo I had a disr have to have an nnich thal I did heard of Lydia E I thought I worth well as evor. I i Pinkkam remedies."-.Mrs. MAYNE Testimony fro Lawton, Okla. -"When ? he Vegetable Compound I seemed to 1 and had headaches much of the time before my little child was horn and good at that time. I never fail to Vegetable Compound lo ailing woi for me."-Mrs. A. L. MUCASLAND, I From a Grateful Massachu; lloxhury, Mass.-"I was suffer mation and was examined hy a nhyi that my trouble was caused by My symptoms wore bearing down and sluggish liver. I tried several cine; then I was asked lo try Lyd Vegetable Compound. It has cur pleased to be in my usual good he and highly recommend it."-Mn 1 Haynes Park, Uoxbury, Mass. If yon want special advice E. IM nh liam Medicine Co. (coi letter will bo oponed, read and ? in strict con?ldcuco. ce on your house, for they ley are permanent, wcather nexpensive. le by id Furniture Comp, ny, . S. C. I humor from fire will have passed nen in I he tightest rooms. IAMJU After the Teeth. Take the children to the host den tist, for it has been astonishing to learn how many ills of after life are dependent upon the care of the first teeth. The care of the first teeth means a fairly good stiff tooth brush, sonic simple dentifrice, such as pre cipitated chalk with a few drops of inna!.ion oil. or one ol' the prepared len tal p:istes which you see adver tised often on this page. He sure the ; hildren clean their teeth just before Hoing to bed and that they rinse the month out with Hine water, which is th" dear liquid part ol' water in which lime has been slaked, a piece the <5p,e of a walnut to a pint ol' wa ter. This destroys the acid of the mouth which attacks the teeth. lt is better to clean the teeth also in the morning and after each meal. "Moss rown" teeth and had breath are twfnl, and there is no excuse for hem in this day ol' civilization. For infants and Children Stn Use for Over 30 Years Always bears the Signature of Deepest Known I Mace hi Ocean. The greatest ocean depth known is ?,269 fathoms, or 31,61 1 feet, lt is ibout 7"i miles southeast of the Is land of Quam, says the Popular Sei :nce .Monthly. This Uguie was ob tained in 1899 hy the U. S. S. Noi. when running a line of soundings tb lo ate the Honolulu-Manilla cable. The mean depth of the entire ocean is anon! 2,100 fathoms? or I2,t?>0 feet. i fer Oemen ydm E. Pinkham's mound Has Been Reliable Medicine ? Proof. ffcring from some form of 2 a constant fear of breaking irs ought to bring hope: - mi, Wis. - " When I was 10 years I and at 18 years I gave birth to nui with very poer health. I could the floor without having to sit it was hard foi- nie to keep about I went, to a doctor and he told ilatvment and ulcers, and would operation. This frightened me HO not know what lo do. Having . Pinkham's Vegetable Compound 1 give it a trial and il made mo as winnot say enough in favor of tho ASBACH, North C randon, Wis. m Oklahoma. gan to take Lydia E. Pinkham's it; good for nothing. I tired easily ! and was irregular. I took il again it did nie a wonderful amount of recommend Lydia E. Pinkham's nen 1 localise il has done so much io? Have St., Lawton, Okla. jetts Woman. ing from inflam deian who found a displacement, pains, hackache, kinds of medi ia E. Pinkham's ed mo and I am *lth by using it 3. B. M. OSGOOD, writ? to Lydia I ifldentinl) Lynn, Mass. Your tnswercd by a woman und bold