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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
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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
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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
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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
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