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HELP THE FARMERS THE EARTH TO BE FERTILIZED FROM THE AIR. By It Human Necessities, Human Comfort and the Relief of Human Toil Will be Assisted. Ujpon the farmer and his suc cessful cultivation of his lands rests the prosperity of this and all other ?countries. Therefore, the most im portant problem that should engage the interest of man is that having to do with the most efficient culti vation of the soil, making it easier for the farmer to produce the crops that are required to feed the peo ples of all lands. In other words, -as the Greenville News says, to re tain the fertility of the soil at its highest possible ratio there is an all-important proposi Ion with which science muBt wrestle continuously till it shall have achieved his purpose. All the resources of the natural chemistry of the earth and air have been utilized in practice. The chemistry of the factory, too, has done much to add to the farmer's availing. Yet nothing keeps ade quate pace with the fatal march of necessity. Were there no other proof of this fact, the steadily aug menting cost of all articles of food and of the raw material of manufac ture suffices for conviction. "Trusts" and monopolies, however, they may have sinned against the interests of the ultimate consumer, can be legi ?ally charged /with only a minor moiety of the burden. Until the vast storehouse of nature can-be unlocked more efficiently in the per manent enrichment of the sqil, there will be only spasmodic relief. By far the most important of the things which must be added to the soil to keep it at its highest level of production are those known as nitrates, which carry a great bulk of nitrogen as the main constituent. Nitrogen is the essential food of all plants, and especially of the food plants known as cereals. This, as supplied by barnyard and various artificial manures, by rotation of crops and by the new process to which our own agricultural depart ment has so largely contributed, soil-inoculation by nitrogen-pro- j ducing tubercles at present sums up nearly what has been practically j achieved in the all-important aim. But a new hope, almost illimitable in its outlook and importance, has been opened to humanity. It has already more than satisfied labora tory tests; and there is the soundest reason to believe that before many years shall have passed, there will be a boundless supply of nitrogen in its purest form for the use of the farmer. This will not only be in valuable in soil-enrichment, but It ?will also greatly lessen agricultural labor by lessening the need of con stant warfare on weeds. Sir William Crooaes in 1899 de clared that the economical extrac tion of nitrogen from the air was one of the greatest discoveries await ing the labors of the chemist. The exhaustion of the world's Immediate store of nitrates is placed by com petent students as within the com ing half century. With the exhaus tion the effect on the world's needs and industries will be disastrous. At the recent International Congress of Chemists one of the German mem bers fully demonstrated Professor Otto Schonherr's new process of ex tracting nitrogen from the air by experiments before the congress. Without entering In detail Into the scientific process, except that it is effected by the agency of high temperatures made practicable by electricity, it may be said that it was received by the great body of scientific critics as thoroughly prac tical in its working theory; however, further experimentation may cheap en the cost of production. As four fifths of the atmosphere Is nitrogen mixed mechanically with oxygen, its successful elimination on a cheap and, of course, inexhaustible scale, will solve a vast problem to the in finie betterment of the human race. The gist of the matter, as it now stands, is that the Schonherr dis covery offers in itself or in those finer modifications which the stim ulus of the inception will unques tionably furnish to chemical experi ment, a practical certainty that the desideratum is within reach, which will have a boundless value in tne fertilization of the earth, which would otherwise reach a slowly starving condition in Its adjustment to expanding human needs. The cheap production of electricity by water power, which has become a striking fact In current Industry, it may be noted, bears a most impor tant relation to this new form of electrolysis for tho most useful of all purposes. When this nitrogen-producing process, in results convenient for agricultural use, shall have been finally perfected on 1a commercial scale, the effect will be almost in calculable in value, for it will reach to the very basis of all the arts and industries. Human necessities, hu man comforts and the relief of hu man toil will be indefinitely assist ed. The prevention of the dreadful catastrophies of famine, which from time to time shock our sympathies, will be gradually assured. Humani ty will rest on the certainty that un der no taxation of her resources will Mother Earth be exhausted of her exuberant power to support her children more ^onerously than she has ever yet done. Such scientific sensations as the discovery of raidum and the solution j of aerial navigation, indeed most1 things which we have been accus-1 tomed to star in the past as land-! marks of man's progress, will yield j ia essential value to the commer-j STORAGE OP EXPLOSIVES. This Is a Matter That Should Be Looked After. The City Council of Orangeburg should pass an ordinance regulat ing the storage of gasoline, dynamite and other explosives in this city be fore we have a terrible catastrophe like the one that recently happened in St. Paul, Minn., where a house was blown to pieces and seven people killed by the careless storage of gasolene. The same thing is liable to happen anywhere where gasolene or other explosives are allowed to be kept in the house, where fire is aandled or men are allowed to smoke. Most cities have stringent ordinances regulating the storage of explosives and Orangeburg Bhould have one also. I Gasoline especially is a dangerous explosive and should be very care fully handled. At an ordinary tem perature gasoline continually gives j off infiamable vapor, and a light some distance from the material will ; ignite it through the medium of this vapor. The vapor from one pint of gasoline will make two hundred cubic feet of air explosive. It de pends upon the portion of air and vapor, whether it becomes a burning gas or destructive explosive. It be ing heavier than air it will lay near the floor should it escape and cause a terrific explosion should fire come in contact with it. In entering a burnling building where gasoline is kept above the ground members of the fire depart ment are subjected to unusual risks, and never know when they will be blown to atoms. In fact all the peo ple and property in the neighborhood of the burning building would be in danger of destruction from an ex plosion of gasoline in a building, whether the building was on fire or not. / In many cities the insurance rates have been materially raised because of the improper storage of gasoline, and the universal use of this com modity today, makes it imperative tba? every one pay some attention to the proper handling of so dangerous an explosive. Hundreds of people are annually killed because of the explosion of gasoline and it Is es timated that ten thousand persons have been blown up or otherwise crippled or killed in this way. Property owners particularly should be interested in the passage of so important a measure as the proper storage of gasoline, and other explosives. By renters frequently keeping any quantity of gasoline above the ground, absolutely invali dates Insurance policies. A recent disaster in Syivanla, Ga., where four persons were killed and two se riously injured by the explosion of five gallons of gasoline in an auto mobile is only one of the thousands of illustrations of the terrible danger of gasoline. Only Friday night two prominent young men of Atlanta were terribly burned, while the tank in their automobile was being filled. We urge the city council to look after this matter before some valu able life is lost or our city suffers a terrible conflagration from the careless storage and handling of of gasoline and other explosives. Let the members read up on this subject and they will find that what we say isA ftrue. We woujld also warn thpse who handle gasoline particularly to be careful with it if they value their lives. It is worse than any other explosive that we know of, because it throws off a gas that is liable to ignite the whole. "A stitch In time saves nine." UNCALLED FOB LETTERS. Those Remaining at the Postoffice In Orangeburg. List of letters remaining unclaim ed in the Orangeburg Postoffice for the week ending Aug. 3, 1909. Per sons calling for same will please say that they are "advertised." A. D. WEBSTER, P. M. Mabel Adams. S. A. Bliss. Miss MInney Ferguson. A. G. Glover. Ben Holman (Spl. Del.) Mrs. Josephine Harper. Ansel James. H. J. Kennerly. Miss Ada Fitchen. L. D. Moore. Jas. A. Mott. ' James Nesbit. J. B. Paulin. Solomon Pearson. Miss Annie Syms. Mrs. Alice Taler. Miss Coriune Tucker. Temperance Tour. Miss Emma Ga?v will speak in Norway on next Sunday, August Sth, and also at one of Rev. L. E. Wiggins' country churches the same day. On Monday night, August 9th, she will speak at Neeses. On Tues day night, August 10th, at Living ston. On Wednesday and Thursday, August 11 and 12, she will be at North. On Friday, August 13th, in the evening at Woodford. On Sat urday, picnic and prohibition rally. On Sunday at Trinity church in the country. Missionary Mass Meeting. Miss Gary will make a missionary j address on next Friday afternoon, August 6th, in the Methodist Sun day school room at five o'clock. All missionary societies in the city are invited. She will exhibit curioes and dress in Chinese costume. cial production of nitrates from the air. The property extracted from the gasious envelope so indispensa ble to life in all other respects will be automatically restored by the in evitable process of nature herself, and thus the supply will be end less. DISPENSARY OR BLIND TIGER. Some Taxpayers Think That is the True Issue. Editor Times and Democrat: Will you kindly tell us why we should vote for prohibition, when every thinking man must have seen by now that prohibition cannot be established? As long as the Fed eral Government issues liquor li censes and blind tigers are capable of offering detectives, as hush money, double the amount of their salares, there can be no such thing as pro hibition. The United States Commissioner of Internal Revnue, in a recent news paper Interview, stated that there had been no decrease in the number of Federal liquor licenses taken out, since the prohibition movement was started. In a 'estern State that was under absolute prohibition for ten years, there was during that time actual increase in the number of licenses. Why then deprive town and county of all the profits from the sale of liquor, and, thereby, en tail a heavy increase in taxation to supply the deficiency? Such certain ly would be the result If a majority of the votes is for prohibition. Vot ing out the dispensaries would not give us prohibition. It would only transfer the money now supporting the schools, etc., to the pockets of the Illicit liquor dealers, and that is why the blind tigers, to a man, are going to vote for "prohibition." It is the opportunity of their lives. Here is the situation in a "nut shell:" "The issue Is: The taxpayer or the blind tiger. If a majority of the votes polled at the approaching elec tion shall be for the sale of liquor, its sale will be conducted under the present dispensary system, under which the county and city of Orange burg obtain a revenue of something like $69,011.00 a year. If the voters shall vote against the sale of liquor they will vote practically for fre'j whiskey, and the taxpayers will be required to make up by additional taxation $69,011.00 of lost revenue. Don't forget that the issue is no", the Is- ue of temperance or prohibition, but the issue of liquor sold under wise regulations aiid restrictions, or liquor sold by bllm! tigers To.- iheir own individual pr.dii." SOME TAXPAYERS. FARMERS SHOULD SUPPORT Those Newspapers That Fight Their Battles. In an audience composed monstly of the members of the Farmers' Union one of the speakers recently expressed the mutual friendship be tween the farm and newspaper in the following: "As a rule the farmer has no firmer friend than the country press. The home paper Is distinctly the farmer's own paper, supported di rectly and Indirectly by farmers, who compose the backbone of the sub scription list of the printer and largely for what the enterprising merchant advertises. Now, broth er, let us not forget our friends. Let us see that our subscription Is paid a year In advance We can do it. "The man or the paper that fights my battle shall have my support. Another thing, the merchant adver tising are the ones that make it possible for us to getva good local paper. The man or local firm that is too penurious to advertise and help support the local press has no right to the farmer's patronage. "I promise hereafter to go to the live advertiser and the man who does his Bhare In supporting the lo cal press, thus contributing to my support, rather than buy of a man who proposes to take all and give nothing back. If farmers as a class would support their friends, the other fellow would soon go out of business." Work for the English Sparrow. The Greenville News says "the English sparrow, originally imported to destroy the white moth, progeni tor of the measuring worm, has now an opportunity to prove its useful ness, it is said. The return of the white moth heralds the reappear ance of the worm, whose presence was universally pronounced a dis gusting nuisance. The purpose In life of the sparrow thus Is again presented and the talk of extermi nating the sparrow has suddenly ceased. The bird may now show that it can do something more than chatter at dawu and squabble during the day. The reappearance of the moth is a parallel of the proverb that when the cat's away the mouse will play." Wagener Loses to North. In a very stubbornly contested game of ball Wagner was defeated Friday on Its own ground by the strong North team by a score of 4 to 3. The features of the game were j the heavy hatting and swift slants Of Reed for North. Edwards, 01 Ridge Springs, for Wagener was knocked off the rubber in the fourth inning. Fallaw, a local for Wagener. took nil the delivery from the fifth and pitched a nice game to the end. North has many games in the won j column for the season, but not as much as one in the lost. Batteries: j North, Reed and Dales; Wagener, Edwards, Fallaw and Rich. A Coming Marriage. The following invitation has been issued: "Mrs. D. W. Easterling re quests the honor of your presence al the marriage of her sister, Miss Sophia Ellen Meyers to Mr. Andrew Benjamin Lock Her, Wednesday af ternoon, August eighteenth, nineteen hundred and nine, at two-thirty o'clock, Methodist Episcopal church, Bowman, S. C. COTTON MARKET GOVERNMENT REPORT SENDS PRICES UP IN A HURRY. It Indicates a Crop Not Much Over Eleven Million Bales for This Year. As stated in our last issue the Government issued its report of crop conditions on Monday afternoon. It gives the condition of the cotton crop up to July 25 last at 71.9 per cent normal, against 74.6 a month rago, 83" a year ago, and 80.6 as an avfeacge ? ..for the past ten years on July "25.' It will be noticed that the aver age for this year is quite low, which Indicates a crop, according to com parative figures, of not much over eleven million bales this season. The average condition of cotton on July 25, 1907, was 75 and 82.9 on July 5, 1908. The average condition by States on July 25, 1909, and 10 year average on July 25, respec tively, follow: July 25. Ten Year. Virginia ...71 82 North Carolina.71 81 South Carolina.77 8o Georgia.78 81 Florida.84 84 Alabama.68 80 Mississippi. 64 80 Louisiana.58 81 Arkansas. 76 81 Missouri.85 84 Tennessee.80 83 Oklahoma.79 S2 Texas. 70 81 Goes Up in New Y'ork. The report caused a very excited advance in New York in the price of cotton on Monday. The report says: January delivery sold up from 12:35 to 12:70 inside of ten minutes, or about $12 per bale above the clos ing price of Saturday, and within fourteen points of the high record for the season made last month. The government report of 71.9 per cent represented a detrioration of 2.7 per cent for the month and was the low record for this season of the year. Advance at New Orleans. Cotton scored an advance of 82.50 a bale at New Orleans as a result of the government bureau report of 71.9 per cent of the normal con dition on July 25. This is the lowest July condition on record. The October option ad vanced from 12.24 to 12.75 and there were corresponding advances on the other active months. While a bullish report was an ticipated it was not believed that it would be less than 73 per cent. When 71.9 per cent was announced jthe October option jumped twenty six points and the March option went to 12.90. According to trade con ditions the figures indicate a crop of slightly less than 11,500,000 bales. COTTON QUOTATIONS. The was no cotton sold here yes terday, but 12 cents was offered for good middling. New York Futures. Open Close. January.12.30 12.18-19 jAugust.12.33 12.19-20 [October.12.30 12.12-13 December.12.32 12.19-20 IN COURT HOUSE Mrs. Mary Harris Armor to Speak on Prohibition. Mrs. Armor will come from Geor gia to Orangeburg next Thursday, August 5th, and speak In the court bouse;. She Is president of The Georgia W. C. T. U. and has a national reputation as a lecturer. While in Newberry last year she simply captured the town. Minis ters, editors, lawyers, bankers, mill president, all flocking to hear her. She spoke in different churches and none who heard her once failed to hear her again. Business houses were closed one day to give all a chance to go out. many came from the country. One gentleman on leaving the church was heard to say, "That was the finest speech I ever heard." A minister remarked "If you miss hearing her you will miss the time of your life." While some call her the "Georgia Cyclone." and she is a very vigor ous speaker, yet there is not a trace of coarseness or vulgar wit in any thing she says. Let the court house be filled with an appreciative au dience. An Rnjoyable Occasion. Miss Willie Copes entertained a number of her friends on Tuesday evening at her home on East Rus sell street. Many jolly games were played, Including "pinning the queque on the Chinaman's head." Miss Lsabelle Wannamaker won first prize and Mr. Kenneth Lowman won the booby. After this delightful re freshments were served. Stole From Residence. On a warrat sworn out by Dr. Thos. C. Doyle on Tuesday the house of his nurse, Hattie Neai, was search ed by tin- police. In it was found properly belonging t'i Dr. Doyle's family to the value of about SSO, which she had stolen from them in the last few months. She has be*u placed in jail to await trial. Much Booze Sold. At sundown on Monday every flis paneary in South Carolina closed its doors?some of them probably per manently, others for a period of about three weeks or a month. A dispatch from Columbia says the sales of liquor on the eve of the drought are reported to have beeu large. . SETS HIMSELF RIGHT. Letter From Mr. Henry Van Ohsen, of Savannah. The following letter to The Times and Democrat from Mr. Henry Von Ohsen, who now lives in Savannah, will be read with interest by his friends in this city: I am sorry that my Christian friends in Orangeburg think that I would go pleasure riding in Savan nah on Sunday. I have been in our little city, also others, for fifteen or twenty years . doing Christian work on Sunday, and nothing else. But, perhaps, it was not their fault. They might have been wrongly in structed. We have one of our best Lutheran ministers, Rev. J. H. Wilson, who knows all about my mission work and the accident. My two friends, Messrs. J. W. Judson and Rabbey, who were in front of the automobile, are like myself trying to do our Mas ter's will. We had just closed a meeting about six miles from the city at the convicts' camp, and was trying to get home to carry on a meeting Sunday night. I am sure the automobile was not going thirty five miles an hour. We all make mistakes, but I am sure this was no mistake. The Sunday before I wtu* hurt we had three automobiles, with all Christian workers in them going to two county farms to hold meetings. While I, myself, may not do all I ought to do, and perhaps leave un done many things that I ought to do, few things I try to do. I try to keep the Sabbath holy by not going pleasure riding on that day. I do not believe in going to the theatre. Don't believe in churches having worldly amusements, such as ba zarrs, Sunday excursions, social sup pers, tackey parties and all kind of things like that to make money for churches. The biggest th'ng of all is to get the cursed liquor out of the coun try. I am still in the land of the lin ing, but If it is God's will to take me home, His will be done. I have nothing against any man. I on)y wish every man would live a sober and Christian life. This is a tmn statement of my Savannah career. H. VON OHSEN. NOTES FROM VANCES. Happening in and About That Lit tle City. Vaaces, August 3.?Special: Mrs. Kate Avinger is at Hendersonville recreating for a few days. Mr. Gus Avinger is planning for a trip to Mount Pleasant In the near future. Mr. D. C. Dantzler, of Parier, will open a general merchandise business at this place soon. Miss Dot Hamel, a most popular young lady, of Kershaw, and a re cent graduate r,i Colum'bia College, is spending some time with her friend, Miss Nina Dantzler. Mrs. G. W. Avinger, of Cardes ville, and Miss Dazzie Avinger, of this place, recently spent quite an enjoyable time with their kinsman, Mr. George Avinger, at Larenburg, N. C. Misses Essie and Maine Avinger are away from home for a few weeks with relatives. Mr. I. H. Dantzler is having quite a tasl* stripping his big four-stalk in-the-hill corn, as the same was completely leveled to the ground by the recent high wind that visited this section. The crops generally are practical ly all laid by and fodder pulling is the order of the day. Owing to a very severe rain ana wind storm which swept this community last Wednesday evening maies the same a very tedious and difficult job. Up to this time the season in this section for all crops has been very fine, and the crops wherever hav ing had proper cultivation, are ex ceedingly promising, and point to the largest yield for years. With the present outlook for a big cotton crop and the prospects or high pric es for same, naturally make the farmers jubilant. A. Passed to the Great Beyond. Bowman, Aug. 4.?Special: Mrs. Mary Ann Riley, of the Middlcpen section of this county, died yester day afternoon after an illness of some days. Mrs. Riley was in had health for some time and her death at any time was not unexpected. She was a daughter of .Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Collier, a prominent farmer of the Providence section of this county in ante-bellum days. Mrs. Rilev was about 70 years old and leaves two sons. Mr. Thos. R. Mc Cants and Mr. Philip C. Riley. Four daughters also survive her?Mrs. O. L. Cam of Bowman, Mrs. Thomas Dukes of Vance, Mrs. James I. San ier of Providence and Miss Daisy Ri ley of Middlepen. The interment will be at the old family ground on the State road near Good by Hole Swamp. Dundee. do nnd Sec It. The ladles of the Woman's Mis sionary Society of the Klloree Meth odist church have arranged a play, ?'Our Folks," to be given at the El loree High School Auditorium on ?next Friday evening, Otb instant, at S o'clock. Those who will take part in the play are of the best home talent, ami it promises to In- one of the !"'-t amateur plays ever seen in Elloreo. Co and see the play ana help along a good cause. Will Sell Ice Cream. Tim ladies of Jamison will sell ice cream Friday. August fith. at 3::;0 o'clock in the afternoon at tlm Baptisl church, for the purpose of securing sufficient Dmds for the re pairing of the church. The public is invited to come and have a jolly good time. XXX. NEWS FROM BOWMAN. Crop Conditions and Other Items of Interest. Bowman, Aug. 4.?Special: This section, which has been suffering some weeks from the effects of a drouth, was visited yesterday and the night before with copious showers and the hearts of everybody in the entire community were made to re joice in anticipation of the good re sulting therefrom. Crops were be ginning to der.erioate badly. May plantings of corn has been injured no little. March and April plant ings sustained very little loss ami will make fine yields. Fodder pulling commenced last week and a good share of "blades'' were nicely cured up to Monday afternoon, at which tme the rain oommenced. Some, however, con cluded to wait and commence pull ing and curing this week, knowing too that August weather is treach erous and cannot be depended too much upon, for good weather for such work. The rain came and farmers are glad and if some fair days would now come in turn, many would be "gladder" still. The weather never ddd (suit everybody like they wanted and it never will and It is best therefore to take it as it comes and not grumble. The cotton crop is somewhat "rag ged" in this section. As some one has said, "It is good, bad and in different." There are strips of real good cotton here and there, then again some not so good, with a sprinkling of rathr poor looking prospects in some places. The secret of the whole matter lies mainly in good tillage, and where that has been practiced success is the ulti mate result. An occasional boll is to be seen open in early planted fields and a few weeks now with favorable weather will usher tne staple upon the market for year 1909, with the prospects of fairly good prices for the staple. Some of Bowman's citizens have fled to higher latitudes in quest of cool, refreshing breezes, recreation and a general recuperation of wasted energy. Among those are Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Mittle and their two children, Mrs. M. A. Jackson, with daughter and son Goldie and Romeo. Mrs. Thos. H. Knight, for points in North Carolina. Rev. G. W. Davis, with Mrs. Davis, daughter Glady3 and son Lever, also left here Mon day, the former will go to Ridgeway and will spend some days helping the Rev. J. K. Inabinet in a protract ed meeting. Mrs. Davis and children will spend some time with her moth er at Blythwood. County Treasurer A. D. Fair, with Mrs. Fair, is re cuperating at Glen Springs. Capt. Abb says he intends to fill up on wa ter from the spring every day and will test his drinking powers to the utmost capacity. Mr. John M. Berry and daughter, Laudys and Miss Minnie Denison, of Charleston, nave been \isitlng rela tives In this section for several days. Mrs. Alma Browning, of Branchville, spend some days here last week. Mrs. B. O. Evans left this morning for a trip of some days at HendPr sonville, N. C. She will be joined at Branchville by her sister, Mtb. George Lewis, and her sister-in-law, Mrs. A. B. Street, of St. George, the three going together. Little Etta Lewis will also go with her mother, Mrs. Lewris, and Mrs. Street will take her two children with her on this mountain trip. DUNDEE. MEETING AND PICNIC. At St. Matthews Graded School Grounds on Aug. 10th. To every white citizen, man, wo man and child: Farmers, mer chants, preachers, doctors and law yers, union and non-union members, and everybody that Is in sympathy with agricultural interest (educa tional), and a better citizenship of Calhoun county, are invited to at tend mass meeting and picnic of the Farmers' Educational and Co-opera tive Union of America at St. Mat thews Graded School grounds on August 10th. Our new president, Senator E. D. Smith, will be with us and Prof. D. W. Daniel, of Clemson College, will address the meeting. Remember the date, Tuesday, Au gust 10th. Come everybody and bring well filled baskets. We ex pect the largest crowd and some of | the liest speeches ever delivered in St. Matthews. Your time will be well spent to spend the day listening to such able men address you on this occasion. Prof. J. G. Clinkscales, of Wofford College, will address the meeting on the prohibition question that is so vital to everybody. Prof. Clinkscales is one oT the best plat, form speakers in the State and to hear him may be tbe means of you deciding this, the greatest of all questions right. B. E. BRUCE. Pres. St. Matthews Ixical Union. A. K. SMOAK, j Pres. Prohibition Association. K. of P. Donation. At their regular meeting last Monday evening the Orangeburg Lodge Knights of Pythias voted a donation to the Woman's Monument Fund. The amount contributed is $2.", and goes to show that this thriving lodge is composed of some of Orangeburg's big-hearted and most charitable inclined citizen. Hats off to the Knights. Ilowesville News. W. B. Stevens, of this place, has left for North Carolina, where he will take charge of a planing mill plant. Fie has boen running a farm and sawmill with his brother, H. C. Stevens, from We Virginia. He lias left his business in charge of his brother. We wish him much success. JACK. LOCAL NEWS ITEMS. PICKED UP ALL ABOUT BY OUB REPORTERS. What is Happening in the Country as Well as in the Cities and Towns. Capt. Claffy went on a visit to Springfield Tuesday. Locker clubs will become very fashionable now. The recent rains have covered every part of the county. Don't fall out with your friends, about the whiskey election. Mr Fred Kortjohn is at home on ois vacation for several weeks. ,Mrs. W. G. Smith has gone ta Hendersonville, N. C, for some weeks. The ealee oa the closing day at the dispensary was not much more than usual. Mr. John A. Zelgler, Jr., is spend ing a few days with his mother on Amelia street. Blind tigers will be plentiful now, and all efforts should be made to suppress them. Mrs. Armor speaks on prohibition tonight. She is said to be a fine speaker and will entertain you. Mr. D. H. Marchant has gone on a. visit to friends in Athens, Ga. We know he will have a pleasant time. Mr. Jas. Zeigler has returned from New York and is ready to write you a policy in, one of the best in surance companies on the planet. Mr. and Mrs.] T. H. Wannamaker are spending the summer at Chick Springs. Miss Florrie Wannamaker is one of the belles and beauties of this popular resort. Mr. T. O. S. Dibble, Jr., of Spring field, is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. 0. S. Dibble on Amelia, Street. Mr. Dibble is one of the solid business men of his town. There is talk of a railroad being . -.in horn Rowesvii'*- to Ellorefe by tie Blake Lumber Company, wh'.h aas bought some ra'uable lands near irj fom-.r placs Let her roll. Messrs. Herbert Glaze and Law rence Antley have just returned from Ashepoo, where they have been on a hunt with Mr. Fred Rickenbaker. They killed two deer and report them plentiful. According to an article we pub lish on the first page Spartanburg spends about $900 per day for whis key. Won't some one investigate this statement and ascertain if it Is correct. There will be an ice cream festi val and a game of ball at Central school house near Shllo church on Saturday, August 14, 1909, begin ning at three o'clock. Everybody are invited. All the dispensaries In this coun ty were closed at sundown on Mon day and will stay closed until the election to be held on the 17th in stant is determined and the result Is announced "Our Folk,.," a delightful little three act comedy, wif be given at the Auditorium of the Elloree school house at eight o'clock on next Fri day night for the benefit of the Wo man's Missionary Society of the El loree Methodist church. Constable Byrd recently arrested one Warren Felder, colored, at Branchville for selling booze. The constable found considerable liquor in Felder's house. He will be made an example of when the conrt gets a whack at him. >? The card published in another celumn from Mr. Henry Von Ohsen is uneccessary to many of us in this community, who know the sterling Christlal character of that gentle man and the grand work he carried on here for many years among the poor. Dr. A. Calhoun Doyle has returned from Los Angeles, Cal., where he went several weeks ago as a dele pate to the National B. P. O. E. Convention. While out there Dr. Doyle took in a large part of the Great West, and it goes without say ing that he had a splendid time. It makes little difference to thcf.e of us who don't drink how the liquor election goes, but it will make a big difference to those who drink if It shuts of their supply of booze and make them save the money that they have been wo*'S9 than throwing away in buying it. The mite boxes of the Foreign Missionary Society of the St. Paul Methodist church will be opened at he meeting at Mrs. I). II. Marchant's on Amelia Ktreet at half-past five o'clock Friday afternoon. A full attendance is earnestly requested. Don't forget to carry your mite box. Snyjestion For a Day's Food. Kai? T.'i>?on Clark gives the following menu for u hoi ?urnmer day: ]f yon want breakfast, dry toast or a crusty roll, with whatever beverage, preferal-lv cocoa, you like, may sullice. Fruit or eggs may lie added, and ?orne feel that they can not get along without a chop or a hit. of st^ak. For luncheon oold meat, cal ad with little or no oil and iced ten or lemonade are gen crallv enough. For dinner a light soup, with fish, Iamb, beef or game, irreen vegetable?, salad ami fruit, either stewed or raw, should serve. If coffee is desired it is Lest without iniil<.