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TUM FOOD PROBLEM, ??Tile Work IK Not Dono, lt is Just lleguu"-Timely Slogan, E. W. Dubbs, former president of tho South Carolina Farmers' Union, writing in tho Progressive Farmor, says: Much ls being written and said abotit Hie duty of the farmers to feed Die nation. Especial emphasis is be ing laid upon the duty of the farmers of tho Southeast to feed our own popula! ion. This has been a bobby of mine for years, and no one can put it stronger than I have done in the past. Hut when all ls said about it. this ono great fact must not be overlooked: Wo should not be expected to feed -our non-farming population at a loss. And every one should realize that it costs us more this year to grow a pound of foodstuffs than ever before, Our labor costs more, our mules cost more, our Implements .mst more, our fertiliser costs more, our clothing costs more, and it costs more to feed our mules and labor with hay at $30 thc ton, with meat 20 cents a pound, corn $2 a bushel, flour $ 1 fi a barrel. Hut some one says: "The farmer should raise all thees things." Yes, even his mules and labor. And should make all his clothes and Implements, too. So there ls a reductio ad absur dum. Under our modern life men specialize and other men can make our clothes and Implements cheaper 1 ban wo can. Hut Hie fact remains thal even if ?we should grow our own labor, mule power and food these things should he worth to us whatever they are worth in tho world's market for la bor, for mules, for corn, hay, wheat, meat, etc., and like all manufactu rers we should have a profit on the cost of the material and labor that goes into the food that we put on the market. Therefore I do not see how wo are to cheapen the prices of food except at a loss to ourselves. Why should I take my 20-cent moat and $2-com, to grow more meat and corn to sell for less to those who do not farm? These are the fundamental underlying principles. And until this problem is solved we will be no better off than we are now. How can we cheapen food when other occupations are calling the liest labor of the land to other work shops? Farm labor has not been adequately paid in the past, because farm produce did not bring its right ful price, We can only cheapen food in one way-by increased production. We can increase production only by more labor and more skill. And if wo do not gel a prollt. skill is the only increasing factor, tor labor will not stay on the farm, not to say come back to i he farm, unless adequately paid. ls the helpfulness ol' chambers of commerce onlj temporary, as sug gested by Presiden! Harret t. or is the business world and the government big enough lo see that they must em bark on a permanent policy? I give them credit for patriotism as well as self interest, and a great work is be ing done now by such bodies all over the land, my home county town, Sumter, being in the forefront of this great co-operative effort. This arti cle is not written to criticise nor to condemn any one, but to try to make the non-farming world see the prob lems as we farmers see them and to help all our farmers get a business grasp on our field of labor. We must take a business-like view of these things. Sentiment ls good, but must lie backed by business sense for per manent results. The Sumter County Committee of Public Safety adopted the first slo gan,"Grow Food or Go Hungry." Tho South Carolina State Committee on Civic Preparedness adopted the next slogan, "Service for All." Lee Coun ty's preparedness meeting, when Chairman 1). H. Coker Hashed the t-i. O. S. signal before that splendid audience, adopted, "Save or Starve" os its slogan. Hut I think the best of all that lias come to my notice was unconsciously uttered bj Farm Dem onstration Agent Tiller at Chester field Court Douse in telling of the work in that county when be said, My friends, The Work is Not Done, lt is Just Begun." ??'IKLK ! LEMON .H ICK IS SKIN' WHITEN Flt. How to Make a Creamy Beauty Lo Hoil for a F?W Cents. The juice 0f two froan lemons strained into a bottle containing three ounces of orchard white makes a whole quarter pint of the most re markable lemon skin beautifier at about the cost one must pay for a small jar of the ordinary cold creams. Care should lie taken to strain the lemon juice through a fine cloth so no lemon -pulp gels in. then this lotion will keep fresh for months. Every woman knows that lemon juice is used to bleach and re move such blemishes as freckles, sal lowness and tan and is tue ideal skin softener, whitener and beautifier. Just try lt! Get throe ounces of orchard white at any drug store and two lemons from the grocer and make up a quarter pint of this sweet ly fragrant lemon lotion and massage it daily into tho face, neck, arms and hands.- Adv. OHA Xl) LO i H.T: K. OF I*. 92,500 for Liberty Monds-Officers 1 for Grand Body. Union, May 23.-U'ythlnns from all parts ol' South Carolina wore hero 1 Tuesday In attondance upon tho ses?i? sion of the Orand Lodge as guests of Cherokee Lodge, No. '.il, and the citi zens of Union. The attendance was not as large as was expected. There were only about .'IOU delegates here, Inti what was lacking in number was made up in jollity and business. Tho outstanding features of the ses sion were the recommendation by Wilson (!. Harvey, of Charleston, Grand Master of Exchequer, that tho Giraud Lodge invest $2,500 in "Lib erty Monds"; that hereafter biennial sessions be held, this to be voted on at the next (?rand Lodge meeting and the selection of Columbia as the next meeting place. Preceding the annual report of the Grand Chancellor an unusually large (dass of past chancellors was initiated -about 7 5 in number. The officers elected for the ensu ing year are: Grand Chancellor, NV. R5. Derrick, of Orangeburg; Grand Vice Chancellor, Hov. L. J. Bristow, Of Columbia; Prelate, Col. O. J. Bond. Charleston; Grand Master of Exchequer, Wilson G. Harvey. Char leston; C.rand Keeper of Records and Seal, C. D. Brown, Abbeville; Grand ! Outer Guard. W. ll. Ohlandt, Beau fort: Grand Inner Guard, W. A.1 Fowell, of Rock Hill; Grand'Master at-A rms, C. D. Cox. Darlington. (Mil Killed hy Lightning. Greenville, May 23. - While at the home of a neighbor, Avie Lee Smith, 12-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Smith, of Brandon, was struck by lightning and instantly killed yes terday at 12.15. The little girl, together with oth ers of the household, had been in the yard, and were driven in by the ap proach of a heavy cloud. Several of the party were In the front part of the house, but the little girl was in the kitchen and was standing directly underneath an electric socket. The lightning is said to have struck a I tree which stands in tho front yard and entered by the electric wire. The j electricity continued through the 1 j house until it reached the kitchen, j there being no globe In the socket I underneath which the child was , ! standing. The floor was torn by tho force of tho lightning, but otherwise j the furnishings wore not damaged. 1 None of the other occupants was . hurt. Von Need a Spring Laxative. Dr. King's New Life Pills will re- ! move the accumulated wastes of win- ! ter from your intestines, the burden j of the blood. Get that sluggish : spring lever feeling out of your sys tem, brighten your eye, clear your j complexion. Get that vim and snap ' ol' good, purified, healthy blood. Dr. I King's New Life Pills arc a non-grip- 1 lng laxative that aids nature's pro- I cess Try them to-night. At all drug gists, 2 5c. -Adv. 1. Picketts County Homicide, (Sentinel, May 2 1.) As a result of a difficulty between li. .1. (Bub) Rn m pey and Wade H. Revis, near Ruhamah church last Sat urday, Revis is dead and Rampey ls in the Picketts jail charged with the killing. Particulars of the affair are hard to get, but it seems that as Rampey was going home from Liberty, where he had carried a wagon load of wood, he met Revis, who was driving to Liberty in his buggy. According to Rampoy's statement he says he stopped Bevis and told him that he had heard thai he (Revis) had been cursing hint. One word led to ano ther and Ba m pey says that Revis got out his knife and advanced to the side ol' his wagon, when he picked up a wagon standard and hit Revis on tile tiead. The blow fractured the skull and the injured man was taken to the Greenville hospital. An opera tion was performed, but he died Tuesday night. Both men lived in the same com munity below Liberty and aro well Known. They hive many friends, hoar good reputations and this i? said to hove been the first trouble either ever gol into. Both were married and have families. Seven Killed in Collision. Clarksburg, W. Va., May 23. Seven men aro known to have been killed and a number injured in a wreck on the short lino of the Balti more & Ohio railroad connecting Clarksburg and New Martinsville to day. According to reports received hero from Wallace, tho town near est the wi. ck, a work train running backward collided with a frnipht train on a curve. The heavy engine ol' the freight plowed through lite cars, reducing them to splinters and killing five workmen outright. Two others, tho report said, died after be ing taken out of the wreckage. A relief train was made up and Hie in jured aro being brought hero. WINI) AND HAIL STORM HITS Greenwood .Comity Section Hard Many Small Buildings Damaged. Creen wood, May 24.- -rho south* orn section of the city of Greenwood ?ind a small portion of the southern lind western ends of the county, par ticularly at Phoenix, Gaines and Bradley, suffered considerable dam age from a terrille storm between 9 and ?.30 Tuesday night. Tho wind traveling at a great velocity came from the northwest and wiped out many small buildings, ripped off roofs of houses and other buildings, tore out big trees by the roots and for a time put the telephon and elec tric light wires out of commlssslon. The large building at the fair grounds, In which tho soldiers of Company B aro living, was badly damaged. The whole front end and the north side were blown complete ly away. The wind hit the north side before the soldiers had time to get out of tho building (only two had gone to bed) and planks from thc front end wore sent in all directions just as 20 of the men sought covet In the small ofllce on the sidewalk. Many of the pieces of the timber fell on top of the little office immediately after tho last man had crowded in. None of the soldiers suffered injury. The company began to-day erecting tents which they will occupy until the building is repaired. It ls not known just how much the loss will be to the fair association. According to reports reaching here this afternoon tho Phoenix section was hardest hit. Tho storm swept on the outer edge of the track made by Hie cyclone Infthat section In 1881 when the country was- practically ruined. Although many small houses were blown down no one was killed, and so far as known only one person, a colored woman, was Injured. She lives on the Sam Dominick place and had her arm and hip broken. Some Freaks of Wind. The wind, traveling at a terrific speed, did some freakish perform ances. One cabin on Mr. Stallworth's l>laco was picked up with a lone ne gro occupant and carried a distance of about 20 yards without Injury to the negro. Payne Henderson's ma chinery shed was turned squarely around and a cabin on his place was wrecked with four negroes on the in side. Not one of them was painfully hurt, the only injury to them being shattered nerves as a result of the scare, caused by the howling wind and 'he inky darkness. Negroes on Tom Motts' place had a similar expe I lenee. tm Pei-Cent Buildings Ruined. Dr. Pratt Henderson, who returned from Phoenix this morning, estimates thal at least 00 per cent of tho out buildings in that section were do st toyed, and nearly all of the big trees, many of which have been standing for 7."? years, were laid low. To Cure a Cold In One Day Take LAXATIVS AROMO Quinine. It stops the Cough and Headache and works off the Cold. Druggists refund money if it fails to cure. B. W. GROVli'S signature on each box. 25c. Mrs. Judy Ann Grlssop Death (Karin and Factory, 21th.) Mrs. Judy Ann Grissop died Friday night at the home of her son, J. L. Grissop. The deceased was 84 yea i's old and had been In bad health for some time. She was given the best of medical attention and care by her son, vbut her age prevented relief from \er sufferings. Mrs. Grissop was a member of the 'Seneca Metho dist church and until her health be came Impaired was a regular attend ant upon services-?. Christian work er and helper, ^ne is survived by four children, her husband having preceded her to the grave 15 years. Thc children are J. L. Grissop, of Seneca, with whom she made her home; XV. F. Grissop, of the Seneca cotton mill; T. C. Grissop, of Birm ingham, Ala., and Mrs. K. B. Poore, of Elberton, Ga. Funeral services were conducted at the home by Rev. X. G. Rallonger, and interment was in Mountain View cemetery. The bereaved ones have the sympathy of a large circle of friends. 1,000 Houses Ruined. Amsterdam, May 24.- A Budapest dispatch says the Hungarian town of Oyoenoyoes has been devastated hy lire, 1,000 houses being destroyed and 2 10 still ono fire. Several thou sand persons are homeless and seven deaths have been reported. Oyoe noyoes is 4 4 milos from Budapest and had a poulation in 1000 of IO, 112. Starting Her Boya Right. We received the following highly appreciated letter last Thursday: "Seneca, S. C., May 10. 1017. Editor Keowee Courier: I am enclos ing my check for two dollars. Please ?end your paper one year to J. S. Pickett, Clearwater, Fla. The other dollar ls for renewal of the subscrip tion to F L. Pickett, Hamlet. N. C. "You see I want my boys to keep in touch with Oconee. "Respectfully, "Mrs. J R. Pickett." Figures and Fertilizers. J ,000 pounds Cotton Seed represents in food value 208 pounds Hog Lard. J,OOO pounds Cotton Seed represents in food value 16 bushels Corn. J ,000 pounds Cotton Seed represents in food value 900 pounds Wheat Flour. 1,500 pounds Seed Cotton oan bc grown on land in good state of cultiva tion, which will make 1,000 pounds Cotton Seed to the acre. Side dress all cotton when the land will justify it. Do not side dress on bad, washing land. We make a fertilizer for Side Dressing, but we are limited on the amount that we have. Save and cultivate well thc cotton that you now have planted. It pays to make two applications to all crops. We are dealing in new figures these days-big figures, unrecorded history. You must make your "noggin" work fast or you will get left. Be in dependent when it comes to food crops. Have plenty of Seed for another season. We must use Fertilizer, because our lands are too poor as they now stand. Let us be patriotic and make all we can this crop. Westminster Oil & Fertilizer Company, Westminster, S. C. AN ANDERSON OPTIMIST. Hail Damaged Crop, Hut Saved Far mer's Paris Green, (Daily Mall, 24th.) As the result ol' the hail storm which visited the county Tuesday af ternoon, at least nine farmers living west of the city will have to replant their crops, or the larger portion of thom, according to adivces received to-day. R. B. C. Snipes, Jim Holt, John Mc Clure, J. D. Camphell, L. T. Camp hell, Curran Glenn, Lon Bolt, Sam Campbell and Ollie Hardin, it was stated, will have to replant the major portion of their crops. In speaking this morning of the damage done his crops by the hail, E, H. C. Snipes stated that he was an optimist and always tried to get some good out of everything, and that just prior to the hail storm he had come .to town for the purpose of purchas ing some Paris green with which to spray his Irish potatoes. "But when I returned home," continued Mr. 'Snipes, "the hail had beaten the hound out of the potato bugs, and I saved my Paris green." Noports have been received from practically all sections of the county, and it seems that there was no very great area anywhere in the. county which was not visited by more or less hail. The damage was, of course, greater in some sections than others. Presbyterians Do Not Want Union. Birmingham, May 23.-The com mittee on bills and overtures of the General Assembly of the Southern Presbyterians reported unfavorably on a proposal recently made by the Northern Presbyterians at Dallas to take up the question of union of the Northern and Southern brandies. LIFT YOU lt COI I XS OFF WITH FINGERS. Tells How to Loosen a Tender Corn or Callus So it Lifts Out Without Pain. Vmt reckless men and women who are pestered with corns and who have at least once a week invited an awful death from lockjaw or blood poison are now told by a Cincinnati author ity to use a drug called free/one, which thc moment a few drops are applied to any corn or callus the soreness is relieved and soon tho en tire eorn or callus, root and all, lifts off with tho fingers. Free/one dries tho moment it is applied, and simply shrivels the corn or callus without inflaming or oven irritating; the surrounding tissue or skin. A small bottle of free/.ono will .cost very little at any of thc drug stores, but will positively rid one's feet of every hard or soft corn or hardened callus. If your druggist hasn't nny freestone ho can got lt at any wholesale drug house for you. ad RENDER VESSELS U-BOAT PROOF Contrlvanco Resembles Neither Net. Nor Screen. , New York, May 23.-Hudson Maxim announced to-day that he had invented and perfected a device which will make ships immune from the dangers of the submarine, He said that torpedoes, even when fired at close range and striking their tar gets wou'd explode harmless against the hulls of the'r intended victims. Tue inventor made Hie announce iiie?,t at a luncheon given in Brook lyn. He asserted that the invention .soon will be demonstrated by the government, which already had been advised of the details. "The invention is practical for every type of vessel," he said. "It can be applied within a few moments at a comparatively cheap price to the hulls of shijis already constructed. The only change necessary in vessels already built will be a slight en largement in their beans. My device I is of solid material and encircles the entire ship from the bow to the stern. It in no sense or manner resembles either a screen or net." Whenever You Need a General Tonic Take Grove's The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless .hill Tonic is equally valuable as a General Tonic because it contains the well known tonic properties of QUININE and IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and Builds up the Whole System. SO cents. Locals from Now Hope. New Hope, May 21.-Special: We 'were glad to see such a largo num ber of visitors attending our church service Sunday, and they will beX most heartily welcomed again, as' will any others who may come. Rev. Mr. Hiott will preach a memo rial sermon on Iiis regular preaching day (the 3d Sunday morning in June I, and immediately after the ser mon the graves will be decorated with (lowers. Mrs. J. C. Perrott and little son Jack, of Washington, are spending a mon'li at the home of tho former"? parents, Mr. and Mrs. John A. Kelley. .Misses Allie Mason and Nina Byar and Farley Dyar, of the Return sec tion, were visitors at tho home of thc Misses Hammond Saturday and Sun day. Miss Finnin Hammond returned home last Friday from near lOaslcy, where she had been teaching. Mr. and Mrs. Evans Brown and two daughters, Misses Lena and Dirothy, of Anderson county, visited relatives in ibis section Saturday and Sunday. Mr, and Mrs. \V. H. Glazener and small childieu vero recent 'isitnrs among relatives ht Piedmont and An derson. Mr. and Mrs. Newt'Grogan and two children, of tho Return section, spent the week-end at the home of Mr. ami ; Mrs. R. B. Beck nell. j . -. . - - - Iba Quinine That Does Not Affect The noaa Ilecnusc of it? tonic and taxntivo cflect, I.AXA T1VK UROMO QUININE ls bcUcrthnn ordinary Quinine and does not, cause nervousness nor rliigiuK In head. Remember the (?ill linnie and look for the signature o? 1'.. W. OROVft, 26c. FOREWARNED AND FOREARMED. Diutk Kobhcis Lit Oklahoma., Seeking Cold, Get Lead, Tuskahoma, Okla., May 24.-One robber ls dead and (wo others are dy ing as the result of an unsuccessful attempt to rob tho First State Dank of Tuskahoma to-day. Early in the day A. H. Palmer, cashier of the bank, was notified by telephone that three bandits were headed toward Tuskahoma with the intention of looting the bank. Tto.e message was sent from Hugo. Palmer immediately began prepa rations to receive the robbers by dis tributing arms and ammunition among the merchants and when th? three men reached here about 10 o'clock everything was in readiness. Tying their horses on a little knoll behind the bank, they entered the 'building, and covering the employees with guns, took all tho cash in sight and started out. As they reached th? door Palmer started firing. One of .tho bandits, apparently the leader of the gang, dropped to the floor dead. Another stumbled through the door and fell to the sidewalk in front of the building. The third robber start ed to run, but fell before he reached his horse. The robbers have not been identified. ?. About $300 taken by the robbers was recovered, all of the bank's money with that exception having been secreted. All windows in thc bank were shot out and several stores in the city were damaged by random shots. FREE OP (MIAHOE. ' Why suffer with indigestion, dys pepsia, torpid liver, constipation, SOUT stomach, com i ng-u p-of-f ood-a f t er-eat Ing, etc., when you can get a sample bottle of Green's August Flower at Dell's Drug Store? This medicine has remarkable curativo properties, and has demonstrated its efficiency by fifty years of success. Headache*; are often caused by a disordered sto mach. August Plower is put up in 25 and 75-cenl bottles. For salo in all civilized count ries.-Adv.2 To Spend Ten Billion Dollars. Washington, May 23-Plans for an allied purchasing board are being drawn to include purchases for an amount the army and navy estimat ed at approximately $3,500,000,000 for the first year of tho war. Th? plan as tentatively outlined would place the purchasing power of ap proximately $10,000,000,000 yearly in the hands of a single commission. Senator I>njio, of Oregon, bend. San Krancisco, May 24.- United States Senator Harry Lane, of Ore gon. Democrat, died ai a hospital hero last night as tho result of a blood clot on the brain. .