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ASSUMES DUTY OF ALLY DANKER United States Makes First Loan of $200,000,00" to Great Britain. Washington, April 25.-The Uni ted States to-day stepped into Great Britain's former role of banker for the allies with a $200,000,000 loan to Great Britain herself and the promise of other speedy financial re lief to Italy, France and Russia. The British loan was notable as the first mdae by the American gov ** ern ment since its entrance into the war and for the celerity with which it was negotiated, less than 24 hours after the $7,000,000,000 war nuance measure had become a law. The loans to follow will be placed where the money is needed most. Whether Great Britain, Italy, Rus sia, Prance of Belgium is to get the next loan had not been decided to night. Secretary McAdoo expects to immediately study the situation In each country, as represented by the visiting ofllcial8 here, with a view to co-ordinating their reqeusts and for mulating a definite programme. As soon as a d?duite Idea is ob tained Mr. 'McAdoo will place the data before President Wilson for his approval. The British loan made to-day was authorized by President Wilson yesterday, it was said. The next loan will hardly wait for the bond issue, but probably will be made upon the proceeds of another subscription to treasury certificates of indebtedness, as in the case of the loan made yesterday. There yet re mains $00,000,000 of the $250,000, 000 subscribed to the first offering of certificates. The $200,000,000 furnished to-day is said authoritatively to be only in the nature of preliminary financing of Great Britain to enable her to i meet payments due or about to fall due for munitions and other supplies purchased in the United States. The money was transferred by Secretary McAdoo to 'Sir Cecil 'Spring-Rice, the British ambassador, by treasury war rant-the largest single warrant ever issued by this nation and probably in the history of the world-and after . endorsement was turned over to John I Burke, treasurer of the United ; States, by the ambassador with the ! request that the money be deposited i in Federal reserve banks to Great Britain's credit. It will be withdrawn as needed. In return for the treasury warrant. 1 Sir Cecil delivered to Secretary Mc Adoo the Br'tish government's note for $200.000,000, bearing interest at 1 per cent, the same rate as tho cer tificates boar and the lowest at which Great (Britain has borrowed for many 1 n day, due June 30 next, the date the certificates will expire. On that date, the certificates probably will be re placed with bonds and the British note replaced by British Ii ".?..per cent bonds. longland [8 buying American goods at the rate of $8,000.000 a day; within four months she will need '1,000,000.000. It is not unlikely that sim. will receive approximately this sum ns a loan. Italy has presented an urgent plea for consideration. Her needs are said to be pressing, and indications are that a loan will be extended her promptly. A visit from one of the French commissioners within the next few days is anticipated at the Treasury Department and soon thereafter the government will have in hand an equally clear Idea as to what the French government will require. The American government will step beyond the pale of major pow ers to lend a helping hand to Bel gium, if 'Belgium wants the aid. BROKEN DOWN IN HEALTH Woman Tells How $5 Worth of Pinkham's Compound Made Her Well. Lima. Ohio.-" I was oil broken down In health from a displacement. One of my lady friends caine to see me and she ad vised me to com mence taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg etable Compound and to use Lydia E. Pinkham's Sanative Wash. I began tak ing your remedies and took $5.00 worth and in two months was a well woman after three doctors said I never would stand up straight again. I was a mid wife for seven years and I recommended the Vegetable Compound to every wo man to take before birth and after wards, and they all got along so nicely that it surely ls a godsend to suffering women. If women wn?h to writo to me I will be delighted to answer thom. " -Mrs. JENNIE MOYEU, 842 E.Nortli Cfc, Urna, Ohio. Women who suffer from displace ments, wonkness, irregularities^ ner vousness, backache, or benriiig-dovn pains, need the tor ie properties ot t "i roots and ho?-bn c^tv'-ied in Lydia Ll. Pinkhum'*J Vegetable Compound. HONEYMOON ON A SEA HAIDER. j Capt. Kohler's Ship Sunk and Ile and Hildo Cnnled Off. New York, April 2(3.-'Spending one's honeymoon as a prisoner on a German raider may not be the popu lar conception of an ideal wedding trip, yet Mrs. Carl J. Kohler, who re cently passed through the experience, actually enjoyed it. During the 52 days in which she and ber husband, captain of the three-masted schooner Perce, which the German raider Sea Eagle sent to the bottom, were held as prisoners they were treated roy ally, given a separate stateroom, and showered with attentions by Cern?an fficers. In that time the raider sank ten ships after taking the crews on noa i d, and mon and oillcors vied with each other in bringing back gifts {rom tho captured ships to the bride. "They made a special point of col li ctlng English books, newspapers and magazines," she told a World re porter, "and sometimes there would be candy and perfumes." "I was married last New Year's day lo Capt. Kohler," she said, "and we started on his ship for South America Immediately afterward. My husband was born in Germany, but I am a British subject, having lived all my life in Canada, although I was educated in Boston. "On January 28 we sighted a full rigged schooner, which my husband soon recognized as the Pas* Balmn hon, owned 'by the "Boston Export Company, so he made no effort to avoid her. "Suddenly this ship raised the Ger man Hag and demanded our surren der. We were helpless, of course. The Germans removed us and the crew of five men to their own ship and then sank ours. "The commander, Count von Luck ner, told us that the Pass Balmahon had boen captured by the Germans and taken to Germany, where she was re-christened, equipped with a pair of Deisel engines, giving her a speed of 19 knots an hour and fitted up generally for raiding purposes. He said he had chosen her because her schooner rigging formed an ex cellent disguise, making her look harmless to any craft that might spy her. "We were frightfully indignant, of course, at having our sihp sunk, but von Luckner was so courteous and so apologetic on finding one of his pris oners was a woman that we became somewhat mollified. Then we told him we were on our honeymoon. "After that, nothing was good enough for us, and everything possi ble which could add to our comfort was brought Into it. " 'I greatly regret,* ho said, 'that lt will bo necessary to detain you on board for some time, as I cannot, of course, put into port, and it may bc months before I can transfer you to another ship, but while you are with us I hope you will consider yourself as a guest and not a prisoner.' "And >s an honored guest I was treated during the f>2 days we were held there. I was wearing on my breast a large Canadian button. " 'You not only may keep this,' h? said, 'but you can continue to wear it. I have fought, on the western front and have bumped into the Canadian fighters In action. They aro magnifi cent soldiers, with reckless courage and splendid initiative. I respect them more than any others I have fought.' "While we were on the Sea Eagle we saw ten ships sunk and 285 pris ontrs taken on board. Before sink ing a prize the oillcors would ransack lt and invariably would return bring ing me some gift. 'It's a wedding present,' they would say. Some times it would be an English book or paper or magazine, often a bottle of perfume, or some toilet article, and once it was a box of candy. "My father had been a ship cap tain and I already knew something about navigation. When the officers learned of this they took a great doal of Interest in instructing me further, and when I left the captain said I knew enough about the subject to obtain a master's license, "Photographs of all the ships sunk wore taken and carefully preserved. Always they were wishing for a mov ing picture camera and each . pri/.o was carefully searched in the hope of finding one. "After remaining on tho Sea Eagle for 52 days, we met tho Cambronne, a French ship, and with 283 other prisoners we were transferred to her and sho landed us at Bio Janeiro ten days later. "As we bade good-bye Count von Luckner wished us a happy and pros perous life and said he hoped wo would meet again in happier times. " 'I am sorry,1 ho added, 'to have so disarranged your honeymoon, but you can console yourself with tho re flection that it has boon a most unique one." -Wanted-White girls, 16 years of ago and up, as knitters and loop ers. Nico work and good pay. Ap ply fletriek Hosiery Mills, Walhalla, S. C.-Adv. Better Farmin, WILLIAMSON PLAN Ha? Proven Successful In Coastal E. Mciver Wil liamson, of Dar lington, S. C., has originated a plan of corn culture w,hich has been adopted by a great number of farmers residing In the Coastal Plains of South Carolina and Georgia with ex cellent results. J. N. HARPER, Smce a number Agronomist of inquirios have come to the Farm Service Bureau about methods of corn culture lt is considered advisable to recommend the Williamson method to farmers in the coastal region or those who have sandy loam noils. The following is an out line of the method In Mr. Williamson's own words: ? "Break the land broadcast during the winter, using a two horse plow or, better, a disc plow.. Bed with turn plow six-foot rows, leaving a five-inch balk. When ready to plant, break this out with a scooter. Plow deeply in the bottom of this furrow, using a Dixie with wing taken off. Ridge then on this furrow with same plow still going deep. Run the corn planter on this ridge, dropping one grain every five or six Inches. "Plant early as soon as frost dan ger is past. Early plantiug ls espe cially needful on very rich lands where stalks can not otherwise be kept from growing too large. "Give the first working with a har row or any plow that will not cover the plant. For second working .se ten or twelve inch sweep. Corn should not be worked again until the growth ; bas been so retarded, and the stalk ?o hardened that it will never grow too large. This ls the most difficult point in the whole process. Experi ence and judgment are required to know just how much the stalk should be stunted, and plenty of nerve is re quired to hold back your corn when your neighbors, who fertlllted at plant ing time and cultivated rapidly, have corn twice the sic? of yours. "When you fire convinced that your eora has been sufficiently humiliated, you may begin to make the ear. The ?j? ?j. ?j? .j? .j. .?j? ?j? ?j? .j. ?j. ?j. ?j? .J. lb1 THEY LOSE- 4 .J. TH KV WIN. *?* "?* *?* .!* .!* *?* *?* *i* *?* (Atlanta Constitution.) The great mass of the German people are in the anomalous position of being losers if their country wins in the great war-and of being win ners if it loses! If they lose, they win! They win freedom; they win the right to assert themselves and their liberty before the world; they win a place under the sun of free citizen ship; they win the right to pursue happiness under a government vest ed with rights only in accordance with consent' of the governed. If they win-they lose! They will lose what little right of self-assertiveness they now possess. And If Germany should win in this war--which now appears to TDO an utter Impossibility-its peoplo will suffer the greatest loss that it is pos sible for a people to suffer. In every action taken, in their blindfold spirit of loyalty, by Ger man Citizens and soldiers to bring about victory for German arms, the misguided German masses are sim ply helping to rivet forever and for ever the 8liackleB which chain them to the most hidebound autocrtacy the world has ever known. If they win, tho "one-man power" will be ever lastingly und intensely absolute. The Hohenzollern genius which has prepared for and planned this war; which has in days past fairly astounded the world in its develop ment and fostering of efficiency In rho industries. In commerce, In sci ence-all focusing upon ?the center of military fitness-will, in victory, prove just ns cunning in rendering its despotic power secure against any subsequent movement in the direc tion of self-government by the peo ple. If, on the other hand, Germany loses before the nilled entente, its people will have won the greatest victory they havo ever won-because they will have won their freedom. The Russian peoplo, confronted by similar conditions of government-. in the thralldom, as they were, of tho Romanoffs-realized that their hour to strike had come, and they threw off the yoke completely and splendid ly. Now thoy ar? a free people for the first time In the Empire's history. ?Once the people of Germany be come fully awakened to their true condition, and imbued fully with tho spirit of liberty, lt Will he just as easy for them as it was for the Rus sians to gain it-and put an end to this terrible, wanton, loathsome slaughter. In Germany, though, there 1s too much smoke of battle-masaos aro In too close propinquity with the fire, hemmed In as they aro by war-fronts. It ls moro difficult for the German I gr in the South OF CORN CULTURE Plains And Sandy Loam Solla plants should now be from twelve to : eighteen inches high. I "Put half your fertilizer (this being ; the first used at all) in the old sweep i furrow on both sideB of every other middle aud cover by breaking out this ' middle with turn plow. About one j week later treat the other middle the same way. Within a few days side j corn in first middle with sixteenth-inch sweep. Put all your nitrate of soda 1 in this furrow, if less than 160 pounds. If more, use one-half of lt. Cover with ono furrow of turn plow, then sow peas in this middle broad cast at the rate of at least one bushel to acre, and finish breaking out. I "In a few dayB sido corn in other middle with same Bweep, put balance of nitrate of soda in this furrow, If it ' has beeu d'v?ied, covor with turn plow, sow peas, and break out. This , lays by your crop with a good bed and ! plenty of dirt around your stalk. This should be from June 10th to 20th, un less the season is very late, and corn should be hardly bunching for tassel. ? "Lay by early. More corn ls ruined by late ptiwlng than by lack of plow- ; lng. This is when the enr is hurt, i "The stalks thus raised are very small, and do not require anything like the moisture even In proportion to aise than is necessary for large, ? sappy stalks. They may, therefore, be lett thicker in the row. Large stalks ' can not make large yields except with extremely favorable seasons, for they cannot stand a lack of moisture. Corn | raised by this method should not be over seven feet high, and tho ear should be near the ground." For Piedmont Section. For the Piedmont section the WU- \ llamson Plan can not be cloeely fol- ' lowed but must be modified. Half of the fertilizer should be applied before planting. The other half should be applied not lator than when corn is knee high. The nitrate of soda should then be applied when the cora is waist high. j Raise Corn As War Measure In response to the call for food sup plies In view of war conditions, the Southern farmer should plant as large a crop of corn as possible. He should fertilice liberally and cultivate thor oughly so that maximum crops may be produced. It ls recommended that frota 600 to 600 pounds of fertiliser be . applied on Piedmont soils and from 800 to 1,000 to coastal plain soils. people to see what the world sees and is doing; more di dieu lt for them to collect their wits, 'to alienate their minds from the matter immediately J in hand and to divert their thoughts I to malters of personal liberty, j But the day will, In all probability, j come when they will do this. And ; j that day will mark the end of the war, Unless the last stand of autoc racy shall In the meantime have ' fallen. Nows of 'what the Russians have done will eventually filter through the lines and get to the poo- [ plo of Germany. Already German ! sentiment is asking, "Shall we be the only nation on earth that is not free?" : When it comes, the call, will thrill ' them; lt will illumine them with the . light of liberty-love. Eventually, it will roach the ! trenches. It will reach the bedrag- | gled. blood-bespattered German heroes who had been dragged from ; homes and loved ones to participate in a carnage, about the cause of which they knew and know nothing; it will open their eyes and fill their hearts with a spirit of revolt. And, once that happens-a new German nation, founded upon the spirit of liberty, justice, equal rights and the principles of humanity and human tolerance, will be born. And it will take its place among the great est of the nations of tho earth! Explosion Causes Death. Port Myers, Pla., Apiri 26.-Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Tucker, of Hacken sack, N. J., died in a hospital here to-day from burns received at their winter home near here. 'Mrs. Tucker was handling a water-proofing mix turo composed of gasoline and paraf Ano when the explosion threw the li tt ti id over both. I A bridge projected between San ! Francisco and Oakland will be the ! largest of its kind in the world. It ' will cost moro than $2,000,000, and will carry three roadways and four railroad tracks. Tho supports will consist of 16 spans, two of which will bo largo enough to allow the passage beneath them of any ship entering San Francisco harbor. The Beauty Secret Ladies desire that irre sistible charm-a good complexion. Of course they do not wish others to know a beautifier' has been used so they buy a bottle of Magnolia Balm LIQUID FACE POWDER .nd ut? according to simple direction*. Improve* ment it noticed at once. Soothing, cooling and refreshing. Heal? Sunburn, atop? Tan. Pink, While, Rott-Rt?. 75c, al TjruggUU or ?v moll Jlrtcl. Sample (either color) for 2c. Stomp. Lyon Mfg. Co., 40 South Fifth St.. Brooklyn. N.Y. SOUTH'S (?ItlOAT STOCK FOOD. Cotton Seed Moni Helps Solve tho Stock Food l*robloiii. Editor Koo wee Courier: If thore was ever a time In tho history of tho feeding of work horses on the farm when the farmer should be willing to give cotton seed meal a trial it ls now. We eau produce figures for proof beyond any doubt that cotton seed meal should he selling for more than $100 per ton, based on tho av erage cost of fat und protein of other foods. The South ls the homo of cotton seed meal, and the average Southern er lu?s never realized the true value of lils own product. Tho feeding of cotton seed meal to work horses ls of three-fold value 1. lt cuts down the expense and feeding cost of making a crop. 2. lt preserves tho corn for human consumption. (Tho food that our country is so much In need of just now. This is a serious question.) 3. It will open np even a bettor market for tho sale of cotton seed. Cotton seea meal ls our own Cod given product, nt our own door, made by tho sweat of our own brows, ?nd is ours to take advantage of if we will. Lot us urge that you claim cotton seed meal as your own and place it on its truo value with other feeds. Henry C. Hammond, of Augusta, Ca., (Juno 20th, 1P07.) has this to say about cotton seed meal: "Let mo glvo In a word my expe rience rather than my views and con clusions on the horse feed problem. Several years ago, when I was a cot ton seed crusher, op a small farm, (I am not now even remotely con nected with that worthy calling), it was at certain times bettor to do any thing with meal than to sell lt. There came Into my family, unexpectedly, two colts. At that timo oats were about $36 per ton and corn about $26. I be jan feeding my mares on these expensive grains ground with a little cotton seed meal dusted In. They took to lt all right, and before the colts were six weeks old they were nibbling a' their mother's food. Since then more colts have come the oldest now five years old-and nono of them has ever passed a day without eating some cotton seed meal. Thoy have never been out of tlx. The old ono weighs 1,100 pounds and is 16 hands high-de cidedly larger than dam or sire. They have carried me 50 miles a day without breathing deep. Here is a clean-cut, decisive example of cotton seed meal as a component part of a horse's ration." The Westminster Oil and Fertili zer Company has fed cotton seed meal to work stock off and on for several years with no ill-offect what ever. Some stock do not take to lt as quick as others, and sometimos will have to be made go hungry un til they have cultivated an appetite for it. We have never seen a hun gry one refuse to eat lt yot. We have many testimonials and feed formulas that we would he elad to hand out to any one who will call nt our ofllce to get them. Dr, Tait Butler says that if you are feeding your mule 14 pounds of corn per day, take out 1 pounds ol' corn and put in 2 pounds of cotton seed meal and you will get better re sults. Based on the present market price of corn, $35 per year can he save' for each head. Dr. Butler is considered tho highest authority on feeds and feeding, lt is ns necessary to produce as it is to save, and "sav ing" and "producing" are tho watch words of the day. Quoting from the Progressive Farmer, dated March 4, 1917, Dr. Butler recommends tho following ration for work stock: "Ration No. 1-One part cotton seed meal, by weight, to five parts corn. "Ration No. 2-Ono part cotton seed meal to four parts of corn, four parts ants. "Ration No. 3--Ono part cotton seed meal to ten parts of oats. "To be fed with usual quantities of grass, hay, fodder, etc." This article 1? prepared not from any selfish motive, but that we may servo our country and our people In these trying times of threatened fam ine, and that we may wake up to what we have tn cotton seed meal. Let us be patriotic on our farms hy economizing and saving tho corn for human consumption. These are war times. Why fool away and waste our nice, bright, highly concentrated horse and cow feed? Tho fact that cotton seed meal is very rich, is the only reason that we haven't found our mistake before now. We ask you, what, happons If you seat your self to the table to eat a hearty meal on fruit cake? Balance your ration and the problem ls solved. There is one side of this subject that we have not touched. We can see the old mule now, with his ribs sticking out and hi? hip bones out of place about ono foot. Yes, he feels the shock from the roaring cannon, and why not let him oat cotton seed meal. Ile made tho golden yellow cotton seed meal when the days wero longest and hottest. Let him enjoy tho fruits of his labor. We have our first poor mule to see that would not eat cotton seed meal and hulls Uko a cow. I hear him nickering now. Westminster Oil nnd Fertilizer Co., K. W. Marett, Manager. Marriage nt Salem. Married, at Salem, on Sunday, April 22, Miss Carrie Crow and Lewis E. Chapman. Tho groom is a son of Mr. and Mrs. B. P. Chapman and a promising young farmer. The bride is a daughter of Mr. ar.d Mm. S. L. Crow, and is a charming young lady of many lovablo traits. Tho Courier joins with many frionds and rolatlvos of the young couplo In wish ing for thom a happy and prosperous Journey through life. Tho coromony was porformed by P. L. Oreen, Mag istrate. GIVING WAR PliANS TO H. S. European Commissioners Giving Val uable information in Washington. Washington, April 26.-The Presi dent und his cabinet have obtained & clearview of the task confronting tho United States in its war against Ger many, Information given to the Executive by the Uritlsh Secretary of Foreign* Affairs, Mr. Balfour, and to Secreta ries baker and Daniels by tho mili tary und naval officials of tho samo government, enabled the heads ot tho American government to estimate* with minute accuracy the Problemen that still stand In the way of tho ulti mate triumphs over tho Prussian military machine. A map illustrating the exact status of every movement pending and pro jected against Germany had been prepared by the British commission ers with elaborate caro. lt shows the extent and purposo of every do tail In the plan to suppress tho Kai ser's government from tho hunting ground of submarines around the British Isles to tho Joint military op eration^ of British and Russian troops In Mesopotamia ns far as Bag dad. Plans Outlined in Detail. What the allies already have ac complished, whore they have failed, what they purposo to carry to a suc cessful conclusion with the aid of the United States, was shown hy tho data furnished by the British officials. The strong and weak features of the plans of the allied governments; were set forth with exactness; a? also tho strong and the weak spots in the German offensive on tho north, east and south, and tho weak spots developed by tho combined British and French operations against the Hindenburg line on the west. What Is required to strengthen the weak links of the narrowing allied ring around the Teutonic forces wa? brought out for the information of the President and his cabinet in tho memoranda presented hy 'Mr. Balfour and his aBsoelatos. These necessities were grouped under three genorat heads. Tho first, of course, wa? money; the second, ships to carry to the allies what money will buy, and dually-and more remotely-men if occasion requires. *Thc exact situation in Russia and Italy was revealed by no other Infor mation previously received. Suggestions for relieving these con ditions, which admittedly have boeu the cause of much concern to tho al lied governments, wore presented with such unmistakable clarity as to confirm the belief that the first coun try to re?oive attention should bo Russia and the second Italy. The reasons thal actuated Groat Britain in suggesting that tho first loan to 'be made by tho United Stales should be to Groat Britain wore clearly established. It wnB learned upon the highest authority that those reasons are that Great. Britain, already having organized Its system for financing tho needs of its weaker allies, lg in better position to handle the problem than tho United States, so that this arrangement will. I be satisfactory to both Russia and ? Italy as well as Prance, which will ba I considered as soon as the moro vital I and pressing emergencies of thc two other countries have been relieved. Prance is understood already to have agreed through Its ambassador. Mr. Jusserand, to the plan announced by Secretary McAdoo last night, and lt Is expected to receive the npproval of Minister of Justice Vivlanl, of tho French republic. It ls believed the President and hin cabinet will elect to treat separately with the representativos of Franco regarding any provision to help her people. JCee THE FIRST STEP Usually thc first indication of a lowering of health is found in the bowels and liver. Something goes wrong-we cat too much, or work too hard-and thc bowel action weakens or the liver is sluggish. That heavy feeling on arising tn the morning, dryness of the throat, with bad taste, a slight headache, dull eyes-all show that food has fermented in the intes tines, and that the body is man ufacturing poisons instead of good blood. Clear it all ?ut. Give the stomach and bowels a fresh start. Encourage thc liver to go to ? work. Manalln decs ail o? this, I without griping or weakening. It's the ideal laxative and liver tonic, because lt follows Nature's plan, without discomfort, inflam mation or forming a habit. Con stipation may be overcome with its use. Liquid OP tablet form. The Tab t aa t e cundy, ron Uko them, and they are safe, 10 and SS cents. The Peron* Co Columba*. O? |