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' - . t sem, weekly lm~ cRisra aoNS. Pubii.h.r* Jf 4amiig $eu:spaper: afor the promotion of the political, Social, JgrioUoipl and O'ommrrrial interests of the people ^^?2mm**to1?5SF^ ESTABLISHED1865 YORK, 9. oTyBIDAY, JULY 21, 1923. NO. ^S^ VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS Brief Local Paragraphs of Hore or Less loleresi. PICKED DP BT ENpKER REPORTERS Stories Concerning Folks and Things, Some of Which You Know and Some You Don't Know?Condensed for Quick Reading. "I'll tell you," said Mr. W. E. Gettyb of Tirzah, yesterday morning' to Views | and Interviews, "I wish you would start a discussion in The Yorkville En- . quirer, as to the probable effect the ( killing of polemizing insects by means of sweet poison might have on plant ( life. ( "Scientists have always been telling ] " 1 * ~ *** ^ inenntc hlVP US or me OIUCC nmv. uiuoi w.a?.v-?w _ j performed in the fruitfulness of our j Plants. Indeed scirntists have told us j that without polen7ing insects wo can- , not have cotton or other kinds of fruit . and I have been wondering what will happen to the lint without adequate polentelng of the bloom. Of course I , do not pre?tend to he an authority, but , I am not willing to givo up what they j have been teaching me in the past until after I have been shown." The Treasurer's Race. < "A little pep is being put into the 1 race for county treasurer now," ob-< { served a well known politician yesterj r\t tVa ranHidntpR are I ' tU&y. A*lUOt V4 working from sun-up to sun-down and there's no mistake about that. The Blease and anti-Bloase Issue has been injected into the thing and the story,, is being told that some of the candidatep are "Bleasltes "when talking to folks they think are Bleasites and *anti-Bleasites' when talking to folks they believe are against Coley. The Boll Weevil was running ahead of the ' candidates for treasurer of York county for a while; but the candidates are now having their Inning. The mails j are heavy with campaign literature ( and numbers of circulars are being < broadcast. Looks row like it is going j to be a hot old race after all." , Frogs Eat Geese. 1 "I read with interest that story in ( The Yorkville Enquirer the other day 1 taken from the Bamberg 'Herald, rcia- { tivc to a bull frog swallowing a spar- row; but I have just hcara a story 1 that beats that," st-id County Game Warden Dan T. Woods of Yorkville the ' other day. "A York county mun who s has been oil a visit to Gray's Mill up 1 in North Carolina tells me that they * aro unable to raise wild geese on the mill pond because of the fact that bull frogs in the pond eat the young gos- 1 lings. According to his story they * have been trying for years and years to raise wild geeso there; but the frogs 1 devour them when they are young. It 1 was thought for a while that couters 1 in the pond were devouring the youn^ geese but flnally.the crime was fasten- ' ed on the frogs." Want Market in Yorkville. _ _ ^ i Miss Margaret B. feweii, 01 iwch j Hill, home demonstration agent for f York county writes: "At a joint meet- ( ing of the Cotton Belt and. Dixie Homo Demonstration Clubs on Tuesday afornoon, a commivtee was appointed to meet with the housewives of Yorkville, Tuesday morring at 9:30 o'clock j at the courthouse. "This meeting has been planned in , the interest of the market and we are anxious to get in touch with as many , of the dates of the town as possible. The home demonsti*ation clubs who will support the market are BcthKhiloh, Cotton Belt, Dixie, McConnellsvillo and Sharon. All of these will be ' represented at the meeting on Tuesday." Partridges Still Stick Around. , Ten partridges hatched by a bantam hen belonging to Dr. M. W. White of Yorkvillc, still cling to their foster i mother, acqording to Dr. White, xnc 1 partridges are now about six weeks old. Eleven were hatched by the hen but one died. "The others are growing rapidly," said Dr. White the other day "and they arc not inclined to leave the mother hen yet arid go off into the wilds. Whether their wild instinct will predominate I don't know, of course I wouldn't be surprised if it does. They continue fond of a grasshopircr diet and it is quite a task to catch enough grasshoppers to feed them, although they are large enough now to help In the catching themselves." Dr. White said that he had received letters from numbers of people offering to buy a few or all of the partridges but that they were not for sale. Learn a Little. 1. Who was Madame Colet? A French poet, novelist and general t writer. Horn at Alx, in France, September 15, 1810; died at Paris, March S, 1S7G. 2. What are mint marks en United States coins? The small initial letters designating the branch mints at which they were struck. Coinage of the parent mint at Philadelphia bears no mint ( marks. 3. What were the contests in the ! ancient Olympic games? For the first j fifty years, from 776 to 725 H. C., it was merely a 300-yard loot race. Then , came the Pentathlon?running, jumping, wrestling, discus throwing and javelin throwing. Next was added the - Pancratium, a combination of boxing and wrestling. Later chariot races. Athletes were required to train ten months, and spend ono month before the contests at Olympia. 4. Who was "Mrs. Grundy?" The name of a lady in Thomas Morton's "Speed the Plow," a play written in 179S. Liko Dickens's Mrs. Harris, she was not a real character in the play, but everybody in the play who tried to do anything that wns not proper was told that "Mrs. Grundy" wouldn't liko it. The expression is generally used to moan the power of other people's ideas of what is right and proper to control our own actions. 5. What is the area of British Columbia? 355,855 square miles. 6. Give five synonyms for sacred. Hallowed, holy, consecrated, divine, ledicated. 7. What is the difference between 3uinea and Guiana? Guinea is the :oast country of Western Africa, roughly between Cape Verde and the mouth of the Niger, where the coast tine runs mostly east and west; Guiana is the extremo northeastern part of South America, including Venezuela, British, Dutch and French Guiana. 8. Who was Francis Bret Harte? \n American poet, critic, novelist, and abort story writer (1839-1902). In his youth he followed the gold crr.zo to California, but found journalism more profitable. He was United States con?ul at Crefeld, Germany, and later to Glasgow, Scotland. His beat stories "T nnni.|n? n., rr> r, " "\TMiao " lie jjut i\ ui ivuau vuiujy, *?*. ?Uw, ind "The Outcasts of Poker Flat." "What mythical giant wns thought to support the world upon his shoulders? Atlas. 10. Who is the author of "The Scarlet Letter" and what does the title *efer to? Nathaniel Hawthorne. It yas published in 1850 and reveals the jpiritual effect on two characters of sin concealed and sin revealed. The title refers to a scarlet letter "A" worn jy Hester on her dress,as a badge of ler sin. How Your Hootch is Made. "I suppose all 'hootch' or moonshine iquor is made the same way," remark;d a gentleman this morning. "Here is i, clipping from the Jackson, Miss., r?i,u?r Mows sent to me bv a relative .vho lives in Mississippi. He wants to (now if York county 'shiners are as areless about the manufacture of jtuff as are the 'shiners in Mississippi ind I have written him that I reckon 10." Here is what the Mississippi wiper says about it: This editorial is primarily for the icnefit of the man who drinks moonihine liquor. Others who are not thus engaged in poisoning their bodies will Ind it of interest. The most inveterate hootch hound in Mississippi, if he could but see how :hc stuff he drinks is made, would swear off forever. Hardly a drop of the moonshine whisky being sold in Jackson came from a place that bore any rescmbance to sanitary surroundings. On the contrary, the average moonshine still is a place of indescribable tlirt, tilth and squalor. The Daily News has, with the permission of Prohibition Director M. PI. Daily, examined some of the written reports submitted to the federal gov. rnment by prohibition enforcement jfttccrs describing the stills they have raided during the past few weeks. At ono place not far distant from Jackson the officers found a dead blacksnakc, about six feet long, badly ileeomposcd, in a barrel of mash from which the liquor had been drawn. At another still where the barrel of sour mash was buried in the ground, a decayed bullfrog was found floating on top. At a still of large capacity the cap of the still was so filthy that it had been fly-blown and infested with magots. The plant was in operation, and the "w>ite lightning" was being filter ed through the magots. Up in Director Dairy's office you will sec scores of liquor samples taken from stills which showed, on chemical analysis, that concentrated lye was used in the clarifying- process. These liquors aro manufactured by men who are ignorant of the first element of the laws of fomentation or the rules of sanitation. They concoct the deadly stuff by main strength and Awkwardnfss, so to speak, the sole and only aim being to evolve something with a powerful kick in it, and they give never a thought to how dangerous or poisonous it may be. ? A plan for starving out the army of boll weevils that yearly attack the Southern cotton crop was suggested recently by Senator Smith, South Carolina. He urged that cotton planters cast of the Mississippi unite to plant no cotton at all for a year. "Entomologists tell us that cotton is the only food of the boll weevil," said Smith. "If we plant no cotton next year, thp weevil will simply perish from lack of food. The following year we can plant all available acreage and get a better crop than we would have had if we went on with the tight against the weevil in the usual way. In the off year, we could plant legumes and other products and raise cattle. The result. in my opinion would be that we would raise more cotton and in addition would produce a vast quantity of foodstuffs, add to the fertility of the soil and cut down the fertilizer bill." J Senator Smith lias suggested the plan [ formally to a number of cotton prnj ducers and is eager to hear what the South thinks of his idea. CLOVER NEWS BUDGET McConnell Down to Confer Relative to Construction of Hampshire Mill. ENROLLMENT MAY REACH TOTAL OF 500 Hawthorn Baseball Team is Re-organized?Bachelors Defeat Benedicts ?Mills to Have Sewerage System and Town Wants it too?Other News Notes of the Metropolis cf Northern York County. (By a Start Correspondent.) Clover, July 20.?Thomas McConnell of East Hampton, Mass., president of the Hawthorn Spinning' Mill of Clover and the Hampshire Spinning Mill of Clover, soon to be erected, was a visitor in Clover this week. Mr. McConnell was here in consultation with M. L. Smith of Clover, general manager and treasurer of the two mills relative to construction work on the Hampshire Mill. Mr. McConnell is one of the best known textile men in the country and has large textile interests in the east in addition to those here in Clover. Preliminary work relative to the building of the Hampshire Mill here is well under way and Mr. McConnell expressed himself as being well pleased with> the work that has been accomplished. Ninety Women Enrolled. Up to Wednesday at noon 90 women of Clover had enrolled to participate in the Democratic primary election to be held on August 29. The total en? ?/-? 11 *v>r\n * ri CI?ifM. r\t?Aninnf A rla to ic 1 UillUVIiC etc VIUYX.I \Jl WIUV I. iu UMhv 420. According to Mayor I. J. Campbell, the largest enrollment here In any former year has been 418. It will not be surprising if the total reaches 500 by July 25. Enrollment should be nearer 1,000, however and would be were it not for the apathetic attitude of numerous citizens entitled to enroll. Baseball Team Re-organized. With the election of George Hagins as manager and Andy Jackson as field captain, the Hawthorn Mill baseball team of Clover lias recently been reorganized and is now anxious to arrange games with amateur teams in this section of tho Carolinas. George Hagins, the new manager, is an "old head." in baseball and- knows the ins and outs of the pame as well as how to pet the best out of baseball players. The rejuvenated Hawthorn team poos to Rock Hill au. Saturday for a pa me with the Arcade Mill team of that city; and proposes to play the Mutual Mill club of Gastonia in Clover, on the followinp Saturday. While he lias much pood material to pick from and the piekinp of his lAinch of huskies has not been an easy matter, Manaper Hapins has about decided on the followinp as his repular line-up: Porch and Parrish, lb; Weaver, 2 b; Lawinp, ss; Will Grayson, 3b; Andy Jackson, If; Dawson Curry, cf; and Bate Harvey, if; Hopue, c. The pitehinp staff includes Walker, Painter and Klllian. Embarrassment for Page. Jas. A. Pape, popular cashier of the Bank of Clover thoupht that practically every body all over the world knew where Clover was until some time ago when he was attendinp a meeting of bankers in another town. Mr. Page had occasion to send a telegram to Mrs. Page and addrosesd it to her at Clover, S. C. The telegraph operator looked at the address on the telegram and said: "Clover?Clover?say, Mister, where is Clover? I've been telegraphing a long time but I never heard of such a place. How will I send a telegram to Clover?" Mr. Page told him Clover was twelve miles south of Gastonia, N. C., after he had recovered from his astonishment. r-? J--til !-? I: Af(?r nuuibni uckiiiiLs wn?. W. B. (Bill) Rudisill, well known athlete of Clover, has declined an of| for recently tendered him to take over the management of the fast semiprofessional King's Mountain, N. C. team, it was stated here today. Itudisill was unahle to accept the offer it was stated because it would interfere with his business interests. Farmers Stop Poisoning. Because of excessive rains which have fallen throughout this section for several days past, farmers have about abandoned the use of calcium arsenate in poisoning boll weevils, it is stated here. A Clover dealer in calcium arsenate said Wednesday that he had sold only fifteen pounds of the poison this week. Farmers arc taking the position that there is no use to spread the poison since the rains wash it off the cotton stalks as fast as it is applied. Inquiry among the farmers develops the information that they are continuing their policy ot picking rn punctured squares and of picking off boll weevils where they can find them. That the weevils are increasing is the informa lion ODiainca uum a iiuiium ui !<>> liters who say that they are now finding young weevils on their cotton. Want Double Service. Clover business men and dthers this week signed a petition to the postoffice department asking the department to make the star mail route service operative between Gastonia and I Clover also .effective between Clover and Gastonia of a "two way route" instead of a one way service. The latest petition requests that the carrier leave Clover about 3:1." p. m. with mail for the north. The understanding is that a similar petition has been Circu lated in Yorkvillc and it is hoped that tho result will bo a two way service between Gustonia and the county seat. Congressmen Stevenson has been asked . to givo his aid in securing this much ' needed additional mail service. Talk of Sewerage System. Talk of a sewerage system for Clover continues. Advocates of a mu- | nicipal bond issuo for a sewerage system continue to increase. It was stated here Wednesday that petitions asking for an election or. the question of bonds may soon be circulated among the freeholders. President McConnell of the Hawthorn and Hampshire mills, while here the other day, said that his company proposed to equip both mill villages with a sewer system and people in the town are encouraged to l>eliovc that the mill management will . not oppose a bond issue for the pur- , nose, although the mills would likely , be the principal taxpayers were such ( a boncl issue voted. The question is one of considerable interest to Clover j people just now. . ] This Man Agin' It. Not all the citizens of Clover be- , lieve that publicity is a good thing for . the town. There are some who be- , lieve a town's light should be left to shine under a bushel and not before the eyes of men. Discussing the mat- . ter the other day one Clover citizen j was heard to remark to another"Clo- ( ver citizen: "Clover is getting too | much newspaper publicity. It is going , to do harm. First thing you know , folks from other places will be look' *? OM/Mtw/I V? /-?ra nrltVi o vlnnr t r\ Annn_ Jllfe Cll UU11U IK I O UUII U> ? K. H iw W|/V?Iing stores and things." The other man who is engaged in business here; but who is broad as a man should be, remarked that it was a free country, and the more publicity the town received the better it was for his business and for Clover. Bachelors Defeated Benedicts. In a fast and snappy game of baseball on Hawthorn Field, Wednesday afternoon, Clover bachelors defeated Clover benedicts 1 to 0. Neither side scored until the ninth Inning, when the bachelors managed to get a runner on first who stole second. Pitcher Johnny Walker of the bachelors, then slammed out a two-bagger, winning his own game, the runner coming home. Few hits were garnered off Walker, or off Painter and Killian, who pitched for the benedicts and there were few errors. The game was , last una snappy anu was wuncsseu uy ( a large crowd of loyal fans. Receipts went Into the treasury of the Haw- ; thorn Mill team. 'Batteries: Benedicr.i ?H. Barrett and Painter and Killian; , Bachelors?Hogue and Walker. Umpires?Smith, Webber and Farrish. GERMAN PLOTS Gerard Says it Will be Long Time Before Germany" is Quiet. James W. Gerard, former ambassador to Germany, sees the liberalization of the beaten empire on the way to realization. Disclosing for the first time in an interview with NKA Service the pro phecy by Walter Rathenau nearly two years before the armistice that It would tako 50 years to liberalize Germany, Gerard goes a step farther and says ho is convinced the prophecy will come true. 1 Just returned from another visit to Europe, Gerard declares neither the assassination of Rathenau nor the ; menace of monarchist plots will prevent the success of the task Rathenau foresaw and was engaged in when murdered. "As I was leaving Berlin in Febru- 1 ary 1917," said Gerard, "Rathenau told me his country would be defeated within two years and that it would take 50 years to liberalize Germany, lie was right in both instances. "Propaganda favoring the monarchy is persistent uirougn tne newspapers backed by the old armament trust. There is even a reaction of royalist revenge noticeable among schoolboys who did not suffer in the war and who in their uniformed minds see the picturesqueness of the monarchy. "The government in its present representative form?forced out whenever the lower house wishes?will become, I think, an excutivo bureaucratic government like that of the United States. "The assassination of Rathenau and the discovery of the monarchial murder bund has drawn the line sharply in Germany. On one side arc the junkers who favor the monarchy and the reestablishment of compulsory military service, for revenge and war ?against the plain people. "On the other side arc the Social Democrats, liberal thinkers. They will I be joined by the middle classes, who j for the first time under the republic have a chance to get on in the world. J This side will prevail." Gerard says Crown Prince Rupprechet of Bavaria is a menacing monarch ial factor. "He openly boasts he can Ret back I his kingdom any time he pleases," says j the former ambassador. Hut Gerard I scouts the possibility of Rupprecht's succeeding and proclaiming himself German emperor. "Germans in America can do a great deal toward liberalization of their fatherland," Gerard says, "by throwing their influence against militarism, [ royalty and military service. "There is a pendency of some to be for kaiserism and militarism, because it is the picturesque side?and perhaps j because they escaped the evils of it." Gerard does not think there will be 'a financial crash in Germany, NEWS ABOUT SHARON Bullock's Creek Township Citizens Pushing Proposed Bond Election. MUCH OPPOSITION IS APPARENT A. R. P. Congregation Will Be Can vassed for Subscriptions to trie Building Fund?Effort Will Be Made to Get Enrollment of 200?Other News and Notes of the Metropolis of Western York. (By a Stall Correspondent.) Sharon, July 20.?Progressive citizens of Bullock's Creek township who tire soliciting signatures of freeholders to a petition asking for an election on the question of issuing $40,000 road bonds in the township, are meeting with much success, it is learned here. In fact the numocr of signatures of freeholders necessary to order the election is about in hand, it is said. Among those circulating the petition are J. E. Latham, John McAliley, J. W?. Smarr and H. C. Gourley. Whether or not the Issue will carry when brought to an election is doubt rull. It is said, although the promoters of the movement are hopeful. A number of prominent men in the township who had been expected to endorse such a movement are* fighting it and fighting it hard, it is said. Their argument is that taxes are already too high and that a township bond issue would still further increase the taxes of the citizens of the township. They xre willing to admit that Bullock's Creek township needs better roads and that the township has no roads worthy of the name. They argue further that the boll weevil is threatening the cotton crop in Bullock's Creek township Lo a greater degree than any other township, and that if the weevil does destroy the crop and the bond( issue is passed, people may be in the position of being unable to pay. 1'ioponents of the bond issue ccme back with the argument that the only way Bullock's Creek township is go* -1 ? 1~ ing to have goou ruau? m 10 uunu them herself. They argue further, that improved roads will mean increased property values, and that a $10,000 bond issue is not going to hurt anybody. The campaign for and against the bonds is now going on merrily. Advocates of the bonds claim that those opposed have been fighting such a progressive step evcrytlme it was mentioned 011 one pretext or another, ond that there is nothing new in the line of objections offered. They say that if Broad iiiver and King's Mountain townships are able to stand a bond issue for improved roads that there is no reason why Bullock's Creek township isn't able to do so and they aie determined to push the proposition to where a majority of the voters shall have a say relative to the matter. New A. R. P. Church. Leading members of the congregation of Sharon A. R. P. church arc making plans for a canvass of the congregation for the purpose of soliciting subscriptions to the building fund necessary to remodel the church. At a meeting of the congregation several weeks ago it was decided to remodel the present church building at an estimated cost of about $7,500. Some of the members of the congregation favored building a new church out and out. Others thought a new roof on the present structure would do and others wanted to do nothing. The majority, however, decided that the thing to do was to remodel the present building and this was agreed upon. Now it is lip to the -ongregation to get the money for the work. It is not thought that there will tie a great deal of diftlculty in getting the necessary pledges. To Enroll 'Em All. Members of the enrollment committee for Sharon precinct propose to make a thorough canvass of the precinct this week with a view to enrolling every man and woman qualified to enroll for the Democratic primary election. It is proposed to make a house to house canvass in order to get them all. Up to Tuesday afternoon only about 'JO voters were enrolled here. The largest enrollment that Sharon has ever had was about 125, according to Dr. J. H. Saye, secretary and treasurer of the county Democratic executive committee. However, since the women are entitled to enroll it is believed that Sharon's number of voters should easily be 200 and it is stated that every effort iv ill be made to bring the total to that figure between how and July 25, when the enrollment books close. May Run for House. Sharon may have a candidate In the race for the house of representatives. It is stated hero that friends of Mr. W. O. Sherer have been after him to make the race and that Mr. Sherer is giving the subject consideration. However, he has made no announcement relative to the matter. Working Main Street. Broad River township road forces have been engaged in working the main street of Sharon for several days past and the street is about ready for top soiling, it is stated. The street has been draged thoroughly and has been widened. As soon as the top soil is put on the street will be in the best condition that it "has known in a long time. Hill to Build. It is reported here that W. L. Hill, well known merchant of Sharon, Is making plans to build a handsome brick residence in Sharon. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Ferguson, whose hnndsome brick residence .has just been completed, are now moving into the new home. Personal Mention. Prof. J. W. Shealy of Saluda county, superintendent of t he Sharon high school, was a visitor in Sharon this week. Mr. James Ross of Missouri, is visiting his sister, Mrs. R. H. G. Caldwell and other relatives in this section. Miss Geraldino Anderson of FrederI olffiUt T 7 e\ 4 a vlolffno* hon nnr>?n Dr. C. O. Burruss here. Mrs. Charlie Gourley has returned to her home in Sharon after a visit to relatives in Tennessee. Mrs. Sims Pratt of Sharon, was a visitor in Yorkville this week. Mr. Smith Dyers and children of EIloree, S. C., and Mrs. Brown Crosby of Raleigh, N. C., are visiting the family 1 of Mr. John A. Byers in Sharon. CALCIUM ARSENATE. Some Facts About the Boll Weevil Poison. N. L. Wlllet in Augusta Chronicle. There is a whole lot of rambling, ruminating and indefinite talk just now about calcium arsenate, SherwinWilliams company and the Entomo1ncri/>ol i-lonnrtmont In Atlanta. These ramblers ought to know better. In the beginning of the season I made a clear statement on calcium arsenate as related. to the above parties and stated that Sherwin-Williams Co., had left from practlally two seasons, sixty carloads of calcium arsenate. They did not propose to carry it another year. They concluded to dispose of it and they thought the easy way to do it and get spot cash was to work through the Georgia Entomological department. The amount of this was 60 cars and no more. There wrs no contract. A contract means a quid pro quo of or value receivd. SherwinWilliams company was not getting any value received. There was simply an agreement. Sherwin-Williams company agreed to sell at about four cents a pound loss to themselves. This meant $800.00 a car. The Entomological board well knew the amount that I SJlierwin-Williams company was UUCIinfc to them. All the business men and well posted farmers knew that the agreement was limited to what Sherwin-Williams company had on hand. The Entomological bonrd in making this agreement with Sherwin-Williams company did a great service for the Georgia farmers. Well advised farmers knew that calcium arsenate purchases in the state, because of the low pi ice, were going to the Entomological board and the quite wise ones got in their orders early in the year. Calcium arsenate sales last year by the Entomological board were only ten cars. This year, because of decreased price to them they have already sold sixty cars. They have unfilled orders for fifteen cars at nine cents which thoy cannot and will not fill. Sher | Win- W 111 lit HIS UL V.UUIOC not such fools as to agree to deliver something that they did not have and at four cents a pound loss to themselves. There has been no bad faith on anybody's part. There has been contract, only on agreement. Agriculture well knew that when these sixty cars were sold calcium arsenate would be off the market or would go high. It seemingly' has done both. Calcium arsenate is a dangerous thing to manufacture, in that the demand for it is so indefinite. In spite of all its advertising only a few people arc using it this year. This is my information from the country. Its manufacture therefore becomes a mere gamble. People think that more of it is being used simply because of nine cents advertising from the Entomological department at Atlanta. Its manufacture and sale has always been a losing matter. Agriculture seemingly is too poor or has not made up its mind as to its efficiency as regards the use of calcium arsenate. There are more test plats and research work in calcium arsenate this year than ever before. Perhaps these test plats this year may standardize in a way this poison (and this only poison) for boll weevil. Nobody knows at the present moment as to whether farmers are going to use up this season's present stock or not o! whether there will be more demand than supply. If there is a demand for what available supply exists, the manufacturer is entitled to get cost or moro for his goods. It is probable that what calcium arsenate is on hand can easily be sold at manufacturers' cost. "The above explains why there is no more nine cents calcium arsenate and why there will be no more of it. It explains why there has been no bad faith on the part of anybody. This sale of sixty cars of calcium arsenate at nine cents to Georgia farmers was simply a streak of agricultural good luck. Therefore let us stop in our newspapers all this rumbling and ram- \ bling and indeiinite talk about nine i cent calcium arsenate, and why its 1 sale stopped." CK" Gradually, we're finding out that j greediness doesn't pay. A SERMON TO MOTHERS The Whole Bible Is the Text ol the Discourse. WHAT TO TEACH AND HOW TO TEACH IT / . i r* The Revealed Word of God Contains Wisdom Without Limit; But It Is of Value Only to Those Who Give It Close Study. You have asked me to give you some suggestions which may help you in teaching your child the Bible. This letter is written in reply to that request. The Bible is not a book, it is a library. It is composed of Blxty-slx different books, written by at least forty or fifty different writers. Over a thousand years elapsed between the writing of the first and the last of those books. They were gathered together by a process of natural selection out of a considerably larger number. The Church did not gather them, though It put its approval on the gathering which usage had made. This library contains a great variety of literature: legend, myth, folk-lore, fiction, drama, epic poetry, lyric poetry, practical ethics, oratory?written and spoken, essays, biography, letters, dream literature. Let me put this composite character of the Bible before you a little more clearly, in tho main following an admirable statement given seven years ago to an audience in the Bedford Branch of tho Brooklyn Y. M. C. A., by Dr. S. Parkes Cadman. Genesis is a book Of prehistoric beginnings, stories of the old world rewritten by an unknown prophet; Ex ouus narrates tne uirtn or a nation; Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy give its laws, ecclesiastical and civil; Joshua and Judges, its colonial history, Samuel, Kings, Chronicles, Ezra, nnd Nehemiah, its later history down to the time of the return of Israel from the exile; Ruth is an exquisite love story of primitive life; Esther, a historical romance of the Exile; Job, an ' Epic of the Inner Life"; the Psalms, a book of religious lyrics analogous 'to our church hymn-books; Proverbs and Ecclesiastes are prudential and ethical counsels gathered from experience and observation; the Song of Songs is a love drama in which the supremacy of love over ambition reaches its splendidly simple conclusion. "Love Is strong as death"; U)e Prophets are writings preserved to us from counsels given to kings and to people by teachers who were both statesmen and preachers; the Gospels are four biographical reminiscences of the life and teachings of Jeeus; Acts is a record of the early life of the Church; the Epistles are letters of counsel to the various churches adapted to their several needs; and, finally. Revelation is a piece of dream literature in its gorgeous imagery unsurpassed by that of either Milton or Dante. There are two peculiarities about this collection which the reader Is likely to overlook, but which are striking if he realizes that it is a national library and that the authors were men of different temperaments And training, wrote in at least two different languages, and in different epotrtrs an? without any conscious unity of purpose. It contains no science or art and very little that can properly bo called philosophy: and it is all of it religious literature?that is, it is all written by authors who were Interested in men's moral relations to each . i i. ?. l-u 1 4 Iam oinor ana in incir spiruuai rcianuu iu Clod. It is this extraordinary spiritual unity which makes the library appear like a book. All its various books were written by men who believed in God, or at least in the divine life, and wrote tq tell their readers their religious experience. It is not an Infallible book about religion; it is a library of religion?that is, of religious experience. Indeed, a really infallible book is inconceivable, for the simple reason that language is not an infallible method of communicating ideas. In introducing your child to the study of this library recognize frankly that it contains different types of literature. Recognize the difference between fact and truth, and do not forget that liction is sometimes a better means than fact of communicating truth. If you should read In Greek literature a story of a garden with a talking serpent, a tree of life the fruit of which if eaten would give to the eater the knowledge of good and evil, and a god walking In the garden In the cool of the day, you would not think it history, but fable or parable. Why should you think it to be history horoiKio vmi Unit it in Hebrew litera ture? If you road Jotham's parable la the ninth chapter of Judges beginning1 with the statement that "the trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them," you do not Imagine that anv such general town-meeting took place In the Torest. Why the theological scholars have interpreted the third chapter of Genesis as history and the ninth chapter of Judges as parable, it is not easy for me, at least, to understand. On the face of it the story of Jonah is a satire on Jewish narrowness and the meaning of it is made clear by the conclusion to which it leads: "Then said the Lord Should I not spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more (Continued on Page Seven.) * - - .v