KEOWBB COURIER (Established 1810.) Published Every Wednesday Morning Subscription 91 Per Annum. Advertising Hates Reasonable. -Hy STECK, RIIEIiOII ? SCHRODER. Communications of a personal character charged for as advertise ments. Obituary notices ann tributes of respect, of not over 100 words, will bo printed free of charge. All over that number must bo paid for at the rate of ono cent a word. Cash to accompany manuscript, j WALHALLA, H. C.: WEDNESDAY, APRIL ll, l?17. DIRKCTOR LOM.' WHITES LETTER To All Men and Women Demonstra* lion Agents In tho State. Tlio conditions, as being reported, ni thu foot! crops of the world If not alarming aro serious, 'rbis is espe cially true when we realize that the reserves will bo exhausted at the end of this crop year, li is reported that the English wiieal crop is exceedingly backward. Thc Dutch crop ls small. The Kron cit crop is very much less than usual, and what is most alarming, Argen tina will have no wheal or corn to ex port. The Australian wheat crop is reported 50,000,000 bushels le.-s Dian last year's. The statement is linnie thal the Kngllsli government ha.-, contracted for the entire surplus of this -.ear's wheat crop of Canada. Wheat in Hie winter growing States in our country has suffered much for want ol' moisture. Karly vegetables in the Southern Stales have been destroyed by re cent freo/.es. Coming nearer home, tho prospects for wheal and oat crops in South Carolina are Hie most dis couraging in years Thc season is very backward and. therefore, little gardening was done in March. The country i> virtually in a state of war and wo have every reason to expect that in a short time thousands ol' young men tuny be called from the Heids lo arms. Therefore, it is necessary to impress upon all classes of our people, tho urgent need of growing all vegetables for table use and for canning purposes. You should lake this matter up not only with the farmers, but willi the officials of cities and villages and bring about organizations for the cultivation ol' vacant lots in food crops. Chambers of commerce, wo men's clubs and every agency should be appealed lo to assist in this most Important work. The production of forage crops on large areas, particu larly tho velvet boan, sorghum, Su dan grass, cow pea 8 and soy beans, ls urgent. The acreage in corn should be greatly Increased. The greatest care should bo taken with spring pig?. Hogs are now sell ing in the Northern markets at 15 % cents II pound on foot; beef cattle from IO to 12 cents a pound Oil foot, with every prospect of increasing. The acreage of sweet potatoes should be increased many fold. Kvery lar mer should plant a crop of fall pota toes tho Lookout .Mountain variety If obtainable. Willi tho food supply ol' the world in Its present condition we limy bc assured of a profitable demand for all food crops. We owe it to our selves and our country In produce the necessary supplies for the family, and in tho even I thai war is declar ed, for the men who are performing their patriotic duty. The indications are thal for the first time since the Cl\i| War wo will he nuable lo pur chase supplies from oilier countries. Therefore it is i m pe ra ll ve that we produce them at home. This possi bility of shortage may bring some of our people lo urinal suffering. If >.>;; 'hink wise, have this article published in your local paper. Call your bankers, m..rehaut s and fann ers in conference so (hat tho most, powerful I ti ll II cit ros may lie pul in motion for the growing of necessarj food ( tops for man and beast Respe, ifulh, \v. W. Lon-. Director, ciei-.-on College, I i V. Hulls Ijt?iO ?i Ton. i A ndcrson Tribune. ? Collo., seed are bringing .yt'7..">n poi' lon and hulls $-<>. Cotton seed oil Is DOc. nor gallon, four years ago hulls sold as low as $1 per ton. while oil brought 20c. per gallon. '.Mils ts (tuite a contras! lo what these products brought many yeats <'i??o. Wo remember thal 111 our boyhood days farmers dumped seed in gul lies and washed places in their lands. About twonty years ago Mr. Town send fired lils oil nilli bollern with hulls and gave them away to any one who cared fo haul them off. .I* .!* *%* *?" *h *?* *?* 4* *l* *%* *l* *l* 4* ??? SlMtlXGTIMlO, ^ .J. XA Tl'KU'S SYMItOL (>r .J. .J. TH IO KKSLKRKCTIOX. ?J? ?|? ?J? ?J? ?J? ?J? ?J? ?J? ?J* ?|? ?J? ?J? ?J? ?J? ( Hy J. Bussell Wright. ) The cold, Icy hand of winter is passed; lin.? rain is over and gone; tho bluebirds aro building their nests, the swallow a house for herself. Hie dovo is cooing to its mate, the mock ing birds aro pilling their sweet car 1 obs to the air and the clouds from the grapovine by day and by night; : the whippoorwill is sending its keen, j shrill notes from tho pine log In the forest; tho little frogs arc praising their pond; tho quadrupeds are j coining forth from their winter beds. i The south wind is blowing softly; the warm sunshine is beginning to 'strike the earth vertically, causing thc little nuts, acorns and seeds to j burst their bard shells, from which you may see tho little buds peeping 1 out from tin- dead leaves--their 'winter blanket - seeking more light; j and the Howers are blooming in Held and forest, and all tho soft, whisper [ lng winds aro chanting a requiem. j Any one can read in the great Hook of N'a tu re this morning that all I thins are praising their Creator. So i springtime is the resurrection Ben son. And If "Tho Hook" was silent ion tins point (which it is not not) j .\atur<' would convince any sane per son that when a man dies he shall ; liv?? again. j Tbis is t!it> ll rsl day of April, and j very little bas been done towards I fa rpi lng; hut Just look at tho trees jin the forest-they are backward, and thal will tell you that there is time enough to make a crop. Have patience, and wben the land gets right be ready to lay off your coat, pitch your shoes in the fence corner, spit on your bands and draw thc line over the mule's back-and "just keep going, not caring which way the river runs, just so it don t run over you.'' In the ">tb cha pier of Genesis wo have a very brie! biography of tl wonderful man. "Knoch," win walked with Cod three hundred years. Ile must have been one ol :tho best and noblest men that evei lived, or Iiis biography would hov? been longer. Hut there is nothing ti say. because his life is unique; it i: perfectly smooth; there are no mis takes in lt, no sharp corners, lu dllllculties; it moves right on witl j the meat (.'rea ti vc Spirit of God ! So smoothly, so calmly does it glid ! that it makes no disturbance; it dis pels nothing that i. true, disturb nothing that is right; it goes on ti its eternal goal without hesitation or stop because "he walked witl Hod." Knoch walked with (?od in anothe sense -be was a lover of nature and any ono who walks with Ho< cannot fall to be interested in na turc. Stand by the sea; do liv waves si.y nothing to you? Do the; not tell you of the time when tin voice of Hod was heard-so sweet and yet so piercing . soundinj through the darkness of the earl fog. saying, "Hot there be light!1 Hook at the great mountain range its peaks that lift their heads Int? thc cloudland. Does it not tell yoi of tile time when this world was al j a molten mass, mu! when the Al I tn i gil Hy Clod moulded the mass o I matter ns tho potter tosses the clay Knoch saw glory in the sunshim at tho vory first glance; he l:av beauty In tho waters thnl WP nove see: in Held, in plain, in mountain and in woods he recognized lovel; ? forms which we never see. So. I the leaf-so beautifully colored, si ! wonderfully shaded thal tho ards I is dismayed al the thought of copy I ing it If the smallest autumn leal jas it lies upon the ?round, tells yoi I no story of the tailing of human life and repeats not to you tho old, ob story of lil" and death, growth an decay, ami our dependence on (?od If. as it falls lo the ground to dh I il docs not teach you ol' the rosurrof Hon, when all tho nutriments ol'tba leaf will re-ascend into other leave lal tho summer's return- if oven th i little falling leaf has nothing to sa ; to you, it is because you live m willi the (?<>d of Knoch. Knoch understood tin* teachings ( I Nature. For bim Hod was in ever; j thing the mountains, the cloud tho waves, the trees. valleys an hills; all bad their voices for bin and the winds played a magnified organ, bulli hy the Supreme Mus clan. Vor bini Hie sounds of N? lure had voices like those thc aug? heard when the morning stars sar ?together. Our Saviour loved tl great Hook of Nature. In nearly a lof His teachings lie would draw lo son..; from overy-day Ufo from N tm e. ' li fl tuan die, shall he live again' Seneca. S. C., April 1. 1 ii 1 7. A motorman in Worcester, Mas: who had been OU one ran so\< years, took a car out on alioth route one day recently and we several blocks on his old run befo the passengers woke him up to I1 fact that he was going In Hie wrot " . 1 HHOUIil) INTEREST TRUSTEES. Superintendent Swenrlngen l'oints Out Pitfalls fur Trustee*. (The Stute, 5th.) \t tin- request ot John E. Swear ingen, Stat? Sui?erintendent of Edu cation. Thoa. ll. 1'eeplcB, Attorney General, has ron deed a ruling, which the supertax tdei.t regards as important and hoi pf ul. concerning school district overdrafts'and school district indebtedness. "Ai this season of the year, when many of the short-term schools are closing, it is necessary for school trustees and County Superintendents to give careful attention to school accounts." Mr. Swearingen said yes terday. "The taxes collected during the winter of 1916-17 should bo used to pay current oxponsos during the scholastic year of 1910-17. A small balance could he carried for- i ward If possible, in order to meet in- . cidental expenses during the sum- j nun- as well a.s to pay running ex penses during next September and ; October. What Deficit Means. "A school district deficit simply means that the trustees anticipate tax collections by illegally expending in advance the probable revenues of the ensuing year. This abuso has been gradually diminishing, al though it is still too common. The Attorney General's opinion will bc most valuable to trustees and Coun ty Superintendents by helping them to avoid the shipwreck that has over taken many communities in the con I sequence of careless and reckless ex penditures." j The ruling of the Attorney Gene I ral's office follows: "Answering your inquiry of March 30th. I beg to advise that by Section ISOG of the Civil Codo of 1912, the County Treasurer and County Super visor are allowed, on application of tho County Hoard of Education, to borrow moneys during any fiscal year to pay school claims of such year not exceeding 75 per cent of the assessed tax which has been lev ied, as shown hy the report of the Auditor, but 1 know of no authority authorizing the trustees of a school district, organized under the general law. to borrow money In anticipation of the collection of taxes, and they certainly could not bind the district by contracts which would divert the taxes of subsequent years to payment of claims arising out. of contracts by the trustees in prior years. ! In Special Districts. "In a number of special districts the Legislature has from time to time passed a special act authorizing the trustees to borrow money and is sue bonds for the purpose of raising funds for a particular purpose, but lu such cases the act authorizing the issuance of the bonds makes provis ion for their retiremnet from the fu- , turo taxes to be collected In the ' years named. "Section 584 of I .ie Criminal Code prohibits any county officer from Is suing any certificate of Indebtedness other than tickets to jurors and -vit- . nessos for their attendance upon the Circuit Courts. "lt is the duty of the County Su perintendent of Education to see that the funds to pay the claims pre sented to him are in the county trea sury and available for the payment ? of such claims before ho approves the same. The approval of the war rant by the County Superintendent of Education ls equivalent to the drawing of a draft upon the funds In tho treasury, and such draft can only be drawn when the funds are there i to meet it." 10 CENT "CASCA RETS" REST LAXATIVE FOR LIVER AND ROWELS. Don't Stay Constipated, Headachy, Bilious, With Rion th Rad or Stomach Sour. No odds how bad your liver, sto mach or bowels; how much your head aches, how miserable and un comfortable you are from a cold, constii)ation, indigestion, biliousness and sluggish bowels-you always get re?e? with Cascareis. Don't let your stomach, liver and bowels make you miserable. Take I Cascareis to-night; put an end to the headache, biliousness, dizziness, nervousness, sick, sour, gassy sto mach, bad cold, offensive breath and all other < Istross; cleanse your in side organs of all the bile, gases and constipated matter which ls produc ing the mi.cry. A 10-cent^iox moans health, hap piness and a (dear head for months. All druggists sell Cascareis. Don't forget Ibo children -their little in sides need a gentle cleansing t,oo. ad. James Was Immune. ! .lames was not an apt scholar. Ali 'the teacher's efforts to drive into his .brain oven tho simplest forms of al gebra failed miserably, and tho in : t. actor was absolutely disgusted'. At a school reception James's father, on hoing Introduced, remarked: "Oh, you're the teacher .lames lakes algebra from, aren't you?" "I wouldn't say just, that," the teacher responded politely, ".lames has been exposed to algebra, but ho has not taken lt." .Jo fy fy fy fy fy fy fy fy fy fy fy fy fy fy APRIL ON THU PARU fy fy fy fy fy fy fy fy *l* *I* *P *?* 4* *l* ^* ( Progressive Farmer.) April is planting month-a season when seeds o? our most Important Held crops arc being put in the ground. And Just as "well begun is half done." so it is that getting the seed planted in the best possible way. is a good long step toward tho goal ol' over) business fanner-a pay ing crop at harvest time. While < irly planting may be im portant, lot us not forget that there aro other factors still more import ant. One of these is a well-prepared seed bcd. We must not let the war nj April sunshine rush us to planting before our land ls ready. This means that all clods must, be pulverized, the soil settled by ono or two good rains, and then gone over with a harrow just ahead of the planter. This lat ter is important and quite necessary to remove any trash in the way, crush any remaining clods, and flue t he surface soil. On the sandy or loam soils that are well drained wo prefer as a rule to niant corn somewhat below a level. Water-furrow planting makes cultivation easier, enables Us better to hold grass and weeds in check, liol ps in time of drouth, and makes it possible to lay-by the corn practi cally on a lovel. The experienced, observing farmer knows that when any crop is planted on a ridge, tho tendency ol each cultivation is to malu? this ridge a little higher, so that in the end we have tho crop on a bcd that is entirely too high. In the lower half of the South April-?dat:;ed corn, particularly on stiff, heavy soils, ls liable to damage from budworms, or "spikers." March and .May plantings are much less sub ject to the depredations of this pest, and on lands where damage may or dinarily be expected April planting should be avoided. In the northern half of the cotton belt, plantings dur ing the early part of April are ordi narily safe, while plantings from about thc middle of April through the first week In May should be avoided . In so far as possible, corn should not be planted on lands known to be infested with worms. Generally, we would aim to plant the cotton on a slight ridge or bed. Mods warm up quicker in the spring and thus germination is quickened and eraly growth hastened-both highly important in boll weevil ter ritory. But don't make the beds too high; a good plan will be to run over them with a harrow ahead of the planter, so as to drag them down, at the samo time pulling Into the mid dles any trash and clods. In making profitable cotton crops, a good stand ls highly important, and to get this plenty of seed must be used. Nothing less than a bushel per acre can be depended upon. Let us not forget that according to most experiment stat..ni evidence the average farmer leaves too little cot ton on the ground. On ordinary up land capable of making a stalk two to three feet high and one-half to two-thirds of a bale per acre, the best evidence we have indicates that rows three and one-half feet apart and cotton eight to ten inches apart in the drill will give tho biggest yields. This looks close, but we are only stating tho facts as proved by our experiment stations, from Geor gia to Texas, lt seems, too, that this spacing is best in or out of boll wee vil territory. On rich lands, callable of making a stalk four or five feet high and a halo per acre, somewhat wider spac ing, say rows four feet wide and the plants fifteen to eighteen inches in the drill, will probably he best. Es pecially will this he true with the ranker growing varieties, such as Triumph. 'Pruitt and Russell Rig Boll. In getting stands of cotton and corn, the harrow must be used af Im planting as well tis before, particu larly if heavy rains fall immediately after planting. Not to uso tho har low freely under such circumstances is to risk getting bad stands, if not having lo replant altogether. Fur thermore, a liberal harrowing serves as n first-class cultivation. In fertilizing tho corn crop, we would withhold at least part of the nitrogenous fertilizers until later In ! the season, particularly if the nllro j gen is in a quickly available form like nitrate of soda. Where an or dinary factory-mixed 10-2 fertilizer is used at planting time. i:> to 100 pounds per acre of nitrate of soda when Hui corn ls waist-high will generally pay. The samo fertlliza ? Hon for cotton, using the nitrate about tho time thc first squares ap I pear, will also be well. Of course these recommcndatlonns aro intesd Says Deep Plowing Now Means Another Thing to Farmers Old Ideas Must Give Way Just Like They Did In Fulton's Time-"John B." Says Something About Plowing Up Stubble For Seeond Crops. THAT a good many of the old ideas about plowing are sim ply bound to give down before the common sense way, is a principle that John B. Jobson, the inventor of the Jobson plow, stoutly maintains, and that, too, with a great deal of force. "When the steamboat was invented by Robert Fulton," said Mr. Jobson, "it swept away hundreds of old ideas and old methods of traveling on the water, of fighting at sea and the like, and it's the same way about plowing. People's ideas are changing and the sooner a good many folks forget about how it used to be done and get down to common sense methods, the better it is going to be for all concerned." "As it used to be," bo continued, when you said subsoil you meant four mules, two men and an outfit of machinery of one kind or another that cost never less than fifteen or twenty dollars-sometimes twice or three limes that amount. You could do this only in thc tall or early spring, and it look a long time for tho land to get over it, even if it did pay in the u ng run. * Hut all that has been changed now, I'm mighty glad lo say, and 1 certainly tim proud of the fact that I had some thing to do, with the change. Deep plowing is not the costly thing it used t: be and it can bo done any time of the year ground must be golton ready for seed. People want to gol il out of their heads that the plowing siason is in this or that month, lt ? has now become a year round propo ? sit ton and I'll tell you the reas nw hy. I li's just this: our new double wing 1 plows don't turn thc wet clay out on : top. When plows did that you couldn't ; th uk of going deep in tho late sining or summer because the suiv would bnko ibo land as hard as a brick. 'Our common sense plow acts so I that tho bottom layer is turned and left on tho bottom and the top layer l urned and left on top. This makes ! deep plowing as safe and as beneficial ! in midsummer na in the fall." .ile. '.- whore that big advantage : cottles in: suppose you want to turn i under oat or wheat stubble along in ' .May . r June and put in a second crop i of soy beans or pea?, or corn, or tur j nips, or even clover. It being hot sun shiny w eal her,'you couldn't plow deep ; and lix ibo land like it ought to bo , fixed to bring a bumper crop; hut with our common sense plow you can go just as deep as you ll Ito and make a seed bed that will be soft and mel low and deep and just ready lo pay you back tenfold what you put in ll. Now, any practical farmer known this famous Georgian was right, that's why so many of .them soe the need of "one of these Jobson Plows every month tn the year. The fact is you can't afford not to have one laying around, for there's hardly a week in tho sum mer that some little plot of land--if it is nothing more than an early poa o? an onion patch-doesn't need to be plowed deep and planted in something else so that it can be paying its way. After the harvest the Jobson is the (liing every farmer needs, be that ear ly or late, hot or cold. This remarka ble plow has simply sol the farmer free to do his deep plowing any time of the year he wants to. Send for booklet giving full and complete in formation about tho Jobson System. Get it at your local dealers or from the Jobson Plow Company, Atlanta, Ga. For further information about the Jobson Syteni apply to Jobson j Agents in this county. These finns are glad to clo everything in their power to advance the agricultural interests of this section, and they are Jin position to supply iron foot stocks (to go with the Jobson Plow) as i well as a* great many other farm implements. Agents for Oconee County are: C. W. Pitchford, Walhalla, and j Matheson Hardware Co., Westminster, S. C. Agents for other points are being appointed rapidly.-Adv. ?ed for the ordinary thin uplands of tile South. Don't forget a big melon patch, planting it -?n a mellow, rich, sandy I loam, with a liberal application of ? stable manure and acid phosphate at planting time, followed by a tea spoonful of nitrate of soda to each hill about the time the vines begin to run. There is more catarrh In this sec tion of the. country than all other dis eases put together, and for years it was supposed to be incurable. Doc tors prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it in curable. Catarrh is a local disease, greatly Influenced by constitutional conditions, and therefore requires Constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Medicine, manufactured by I V. .1. Cheney & Co.. Toledo, Ohio, is in constitutional remedy, is taken In ! tornnlly and acts through the blood on the mucous surfaces of the sys tem. Ono Hundred Dollars reward is offered for any case that Hall's Catarrh Medicine fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. K. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio. Sold by druggists, 7."?c. Hall's Family Pills for constipa tion-Adv. A, II. Coker Dead. (Tilgaloo Tribuno, 3d.) i Asa ll. Coker. Con fedora te vete ran, died at his home two miles from Westminster, on the Rogue's Ford rond. Inst Saturday afternoon, about :> o'clock. Mr. Coker was in his s 2d year, and had been in declining health about a year. He was a na tive ol' Goorgla, but bad been living in Oconee 2 2 years. Mr. Coker laves his widow, I ?5 children and up wards of l in grand and great-grand children, Last September Mr. Coker joined Km..tunnel Baptist church and was baptized by Hov. .1. A. Martin. There are many who will be sorry io loam of the death of Mr. Coker and who extend sympa Hiv lo thc bo ' rea veil. He was a brave soldier, and ja kind-hearted friend. Interment , was made in the First Baptist eomc I tory Sunday afternoon, funeral ser I vices being conducted by bis pastor, Kev. J. A. Martin. A large con course of sympathizing friends fol lowed the body to its last resting place. To Cure a Cold In One Day Taite I,AX ATIVIt IJROMO Quinine. It stops the Cough and Headache and works off the Cohl. 1 DruKKiat" refund money ii it falls to cure. U> W. OROVK a signature ou eacu box, 25c, .Vow Preacher for \V rat minster. A recent dispatch from Bamberg says: "Rev. W. R. McMillan preached his farewell sermon at the Baptist church here last night and spoke feelingly of the pleasant relations that have existed between the people of Bamberg and his family. Mr. Mc Millan has been thc Baptist pastor here for live years, and his leaving causes regret not only among the members of his congregation, but among the entire citizenship of tho community. During this week ho will move to Westminster to begin service in his new field." (?iiis Burned in the lillee. Jersey City, N. J., April ?..Twen ty girls engaged In filling caps for ?{-inch shells were burned, four of them probably fatally, by a "Hare up" of smokeless powder in the plant, of Detwiller Ai Street late to-day. There was no explosion and how tho powder became ignited has not been determined. Spring Colds Are the Worst They lead to catarrh and pneumonia. They weaken the entire system an