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INDIANA FARMHAND WRITES cj ABOUT COUNTRY LIFE, t * (j W .ishinglon, October 12!).?An In- i lima l';iruiIt:i)i<I lias written a letter I to President KoosevlL about the f work which the Country Life Com- e mission is carrying on. The president I ihas turned the let toy over to the d Country Life Commission and the v commission has asked the farmhand ii f<> write some more. p ''I have been a farmhand just long! enough, says I lie president's cor-I 'e-pondeiii, "in learn I he cause of .s<> ma ii v suns and daughters and well- I niea ning, reliable larniliands leaving ' lie t n*:i u t i I'u I farm and country and''' -"in:: I" i ii'1 eily. A lack of order j ' ai.ii -\ >iem 'in i he I arm and too long P '1 > - lor a d.i\ is what is driving the 'M*sl mind- from ilic farm lo the city 11 "el -hop. What can we expect of a ' "land, or the farmer's wife and her ,l; po-terily. in ihe way of intellectual '' viev lopmeni when l hey gel out of f ' lieir beds ai in Ihe morning and ' Work from t hat lime until H or !) p. f >n.And no attention paid to the b sa.uiiar\ conditions of the home, and xv necessary conveniences on Ihe farm I"!- < 1 <?i11tli" farm work with the " least labor and t ime.'' a I his man has given the Country " I.ilc * oinmtssion some verv inti.rest- ' in'.' first-hand information ahou' rur- *' al conditions and recoiiimeiul.i1 i >u.- " na-f.l Mil a long experience in farm " woik and farm life, lie has worked 'or all kinds <>f farmers, good and bad. he -ays, and lie has always had !l bi- <'Vcs oji"11 ;<i detect the causes < !' * tlii'ir siiccev- or failure, lie has '' draw n hi- own conclusions and '*' Hii'm I'm ih in down-right, slra'ghi- :I lorward la-iiiou. Kducalion pays ia j '' 1 ar111i11. hi' says. The farmer who j plan- out in- w <rk ami carries it I ' nrnii'j'h in a systematic, husiue-s-I liki* manner, just as ihe city man! *' dne?, nil! be able lo -liorten the!' hours ni labor. "S.? many farmers ' \ i r y i! 11 n on the farm fronij ! a 1111; 15 III 11 f muscle,'' he con- 1 '': 1 " * a i: 11 are extreme in some j ihinu- and -lack in others. I decid-j" -' vera! \ ear- au-> that life i- i.>.> , " f l.nt'i to work lor I'eter Tumhledown ' ' a; a.ei's. ? ! I "Now. M I 'resident, " lie write.-. ! "y.m can lake this for what it is I t ii ' '' >\"nn. I have not given you half of! "'> experience. 'I'lie fount l'\ l.il'e j "iiiiiii--ion iias written liitn that his i ;-"-"e-l i"ii- are so useful that t hey | _ Mi'pe lie will send mi>re. ' . I I '' i on i pe! ihe farmer to he a bu-i- h ,lr" man.'' he says "<into | iie i ,] i I iiin'' Ol i he farmers and il -o called farmers and ascertain |li ami learn of their a nieihods o| doing the business iniii which they are engaged. And you will be sin-prised what a variety you \ w'" liud. Ascertain w hat I hey read, ' and what stress they put on Ihe liierat'ire that conies into their homes " tit any conies) bearing on the busi-I 'l"\v are engaged in. See what per cent sludv their business. " a 'ii\e me the educated farmer as a boss and the educated farmhand r as a hand. When I come iu contact n with a hand or farmer that studies n his business I find him advancing, tl and it is a pleasure to work for such r< 5U?n;, ? Ihe majority of the farmers are eight-hour men, that is. eight hours ^ 'n the forenoon and eight in the af- " i(a'iloon. Flight or ten hours on the P farm cannot well he adapted in all '> eases, but it need not be from fojir- P teen lo sixteen hours.* If the family 11 arise every morning at ."> o'clock and ' the wife and daughters attend to the 1 household duties, and the farmhands ' and son- attend to the chores and go to the lield at i o'clock ami work un- N * 'I "> 1 LoO and go to the field fi again at I and keep at it until (! n ?? clock, and go to the house and eat a ihe supper and then do the evening " bores, they have done a farm day's I' work, lxegular hours for work, and b regular hours for meals, and regular tl hours for sleep, and regular hours u for rest and reereation with plenty of y standard papers and books, inelud- ? ing the best agricultural papers and books, and a full faith in Cod. and E igood grub is wanted. "' J he family should rise at f> o'clock on Sunday morning as well as on week days, and do the necessary Sunday morning chores, and ^ then go to chureh and show the busi- u ii ess man in the city that Sunday on fi the farm dops nol consist in changing C ihe s'tocl; from one field to another, N or salting it, or unloading a load of f< hay that was brought in on Saturday b evening. I! "Coming to the meals at the meal liour makes it easy on the wife so she can arrange her household duties ft in order, as can also the husband his el farm work. The Country Life Commission welcomes letters like this, because as <T Professor L. If. Itailey, chairman of A the commission, recently pointed out, mo of I ho objects of the invcstigaions of tlie commission will be to btain, as fully as possible, tlie opinons of both farmers ami of their lands concerning the question of arm labor and tlie condition of hir<1 help. It is likely that when the ! 'ountry Life Commission readies Iniana in the tour of the country rhich it will make early next month i L will endeavor to get into personal imicIi with this letter writer. ( How Do Forest Fires Start'? , What starts these forest fires? ] 'his (|ucslion has been asked over | ml over again this snintiicr by read- ( i'- "! i he accounts <>I* the destructive , ire- which have been raging in all , arts of ill** countiw. Campers and locomotives, is the sual answer. Many of the othcV lings which start blazes in the for-t are forgotten. I| is true that per- , aps one-half to tliree-!o.iriIia :>f <h?> ?resl fires do begin a< a result of , iif: carelessness of some campe/, or r<>ni sparks flying from locomot' . ev, nt there arc a number of things hich set the woods afire. A complete report of forest fires 1 n the private forests of the country ml their causes is not kept by anyne. I'licle Sam, however, is most a refill t<> account for the damage i?ne by the blazes on his timberland nder forest administration, aggreating about 1(58,000,000 acres, and ich year the total area burned over, ic timberland burned over, the mount of timber destroyed and its aloe, the cost of fighting fiivs, and ie causes of fires are carefully iccked up. These reports are made ' t the end of the calendar year, and 1 lie announcement of this year's sses will therefore not be known ' or more than two mouths. 1 Last year's figures, however, give > U'ood idea of I lie tilings which ause tires in forests. Of the l.'lofi 1 ires discovered on the National For- I >t- last year, all of which were 1 lieclved by ill" rangers before they ' ad burned -ver fourteen hundretlis j I' one per cent (1 I-100 of I per cent) i | f !lie National forest area, campers'] aii-e.l ; 11>. while railroads followed || it 11 '_'7o: liu'htniuu' came next, with j, . : d >nkey engine- used in lumber- ; ig operations, fourtb, with t>o; care* j, -s brush burning by homesteaders j learinu" land. ,'M: fires caused by in-j endiarie> and those >e| by herders j' ml hunters. .'!(). For more than 100 : f the fires the cause is not known. ' "hi-> i- noj siranue when it is rcinemei'ed thai a lire may smolder for r ays. if the* air is too thick to permit j lie -moke to be seen at a distance!' et'ore it breaks mil when fanned by I 1 wind so as In reveal its presence ' ' ? the watchful forest officer. \\ bile campers caused more fires lian locomotives last year, there are I lany seasons when the railroads hold 1 udispuled claim to first place. For- 1 s| fires started by both are mostly I nnecessary. If campers would ex- I rcise care in starting camp fires I ml be sure that they are extinguish- ' il before they are left, and if the), ailroad companies would use the i ios| modern and efficient spark ar- j sters, it is reasonable to think that j ie annual forest fire loss could be , ' duced more than one-half. Light- j ing ranks third among the causes f fires, and of course, man has no realer responsibility in this case lan to put the fire out as soon as ossible after discovery. Careless rush burning by homesteaders and ' ersons clearing land is said to be ie cause of many of the fires which ave started this year, particularly liose which have swept -over the ' akc States. < The rainier force on many of the a 1 iona 1 Forests has been kept busy iiihting fires which, if left to run nchecked, would have done incaleul- ! hie damage. !>v quickening coin- 1 iiinication between important points 1 irongh the construction of telephone lies, and building roads and trials, 1 ie National Forests have been made < lore accessible during the past two < ears and fire fighting has been i reatly facilitated. ( IXCURSION RATES TO COLUM- t BIA, S. C., AND RETURN VIA i SOUTHERN RAILWAY. i c Account South Carolina Colored 1 tate Fair the Southern railway an- 1 ounces very low round trip rates 1 om all points in South Carolina to olnmbia, S. tickets to be sold ( ovember 7th to 13th inclusive, and | >r trains scheduled to arrive Colum- | ia before noon of November 14th, | M8. limted for return until Novem- , cr 10t.lv, 1008. i For rates, detailed information, t Ic., apply to Southern railway tick- ' I ageuls or address, < J. C. Lusk, 1 I>ivision Passenger Agent, i . L. Meek. Charleston, S. C. sst. Hen. I'ass. Agt., Atlanta, On. t % NOTICE TO CREDITORS. In the District Court of the United States. For the Western District of South Carolina. In the matter of Eiebtr L. Bailes, Bankrupt. In Bankruptcy. To t'he creditors of the above named Bankrupt: Take notice that on the 21st day of October, 1008, Elbert L. Bailes", ?i Newberry, Newberry County. Soutli I'aroliua, heretofore adjudged -i Bankrupt in said court, filed his petition in said Court, praying for a lischarge as such Bankrupt; ami that i hearing was thereupon ordered, and ivill ho had npmi said petition, before said court, at Charleston, in said District. on the -Ith day of November, 1008, at 11 o'clock a. in., at which lime and place, all known creditors, mid other persons in interest, may uppear and show cause, if any they have, why tho prayer of the said petition should not be granted. Witness the Hon. William II. B raw ley, judge of said court, and the *cal thereof, at Charleston, S. C.. this Jlst day of October. A. D., 1008. (Seal) Richard W. Ilutson, Clerk. STATU OF SOUTH CAROLINA. COUNTY OK NEWBKRRY. British and American Mortgage Company, Limited, Plaintiffs, against Jno. W. Ropp et al., Defendants. By order of the court herein I will <ell to the highest bidder at public met ion before the court house at Newberry, S. ('.. ditfring the legal lioiirs of sale on saleday in November. 1008. same being the 2nd day of <aid month, the undivided interest of lohn \V. Ropp in all that tract of land situate in No. < Township, Newberry County. Slate of South Carolina, of whieh the late Caroline W. l*opp died seized and possessed, eonlaining one hundred and thirty and | two-thirds ( 1 :?(> acres, more or less, and bounded by Saluda river, lands of I{. (I. Williams. F. A. Lindsay and others, the interest of the aid John \\ . Ropp being one-fourth >f said tract of land. Also, at the same time and place, ill that lrac( of land lying and beinu itnale in the county of Newberrv. State of South Carolina, Township No. Seven, containing six hundred md eight ((>08) acres, more or less, Hounded on north by lands of D. M. Spearman, cast by lands of Alice R llipp and Sophia Deloach, south bv Pallida river and west by lands of W. t. iioiiow ay. Terms of Sale. One-third of the purchase money to be paid in cash, Lhc balance in one and two years in equal annual instalments, the credit >orlion to be secured by bond of the mrehaser and a mortgage of the premises sold and to bear interest Prom the date of sale at the rate of >'S'ht per cent per annum, interest to >e paid annually, with leave to the mrehaser to anticipate the credit portion in whole or in part. Purchaser to pay for papers and recording same. II. II. Rikard, Master. Master's Office, Oct. 8, 1008. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF NEWBERRY. Court of Common Pleas. Bedell B. Boland, in his own right md as administrator of the personal 'state of Carrie E. Boland, deceased, Plaintiff, versus R. Todd Boland. in his own right md as administrator of the personal state of Carrie E. Boland, deceased, md Josephine Taylor, Defendants. By virtue of an order of the court lerein, I will sell to the highest bidler at public auction, before the ;ourt house at Newberry, S. C., durng the legal hours of sale, on salelay in November, 1008, the same bong the 2nd day of said month, all hat lot of land lying and being sitlaic in the Town of Prosperity, South Carolina, bounded by a public dreet of the said Town, by lots of > Dr. fioo. Y. Hunter, Elvira Kildcr, A illiain and Irving Long and per- I laps others. I 'Ionus of sab: One half of the pur- > diase money to be paid in cash, the >alancc in one year from day of sale, he credit portion to be secured by )ond of the purchaser and a mort 'age of the premises sold, and to | >ear interest from the day of sale at I he rate of eight per cent per annum, villi leave to the purchaser to antiiipinfe payment in whole or in part. urchaser to pay for papers and for coording same. 11. H. Rikard, I Master. 1 Master's Office, Oct. 8, .1908. 1 / N Newberry Hardware C s3 np ^ ssamm cw DEWBERRY O V HARDWARE i' uuitjj vuwuvv u\/f j.oyfa' You Moke No Misteke? When You Purchase your FALLS GOODS FROM US. H We bought when goods were at the LOWEST jj^H and we sell at much LOWER PRICES than the everlasting Bargain Day Sellers. The nimble nickel is more appreciated by usfl^H jthan the slow dollar. . Compare quality and you will invariably fine j|^B that the greatest GENUINE BARGAINS arej^^J always to be found at O. KLETTNERjl The Fair and Square Dealer. |JH First shipment of fall goods arrived. jl IHK I Never no better, nor cheaper. COME. |H ; The First Cough of the Season, * jM ^ Even Hiough not severe, has a tendency to Irritate the sensi^ live membranes of the throat and - delicate bronchial tubes. ^ Coughs then come easy all winter, every time you lake Vne glightest cold. Cure the first cough before it has a chance to 4)! set up an inflamation in the delicate capillary air tubes of the V?mHB ? lungs. The best remedy is QUICK RELIEF. COUGH I a SYRUP. It at once gets right at the seat of trouble and re- ^ mBMi 2 moves the cause. It ia free from Morphine and is as safe tor m @ ft ch^d as tor an adult. 25 cents at ^ J MAYES' DRUG STORE. * HH | THE THIRD ANNUAL 1 I Georgia-Carolina Paiil will be held at Augusta, 6a., Six Days, I November 2nd to 7th Inclusively ? Come and see the GREAT AIR SHIP. H $4,200 given in purses for BBSS .Trotting, Pacing and Running Racefl^K Great Agricultural, Horticultur fHH and Live Stock Exhibits. |2Efl| Champion Foot Ball GamS On Thursday, Nov. 5th, ]H[ Between University of Georgia and Clemson Colle^J^g| More Free Attractions than Ev/?^H Given by a Southern FairjjjjJJ Something doing all the time. A Great Midway with Best of Shows. Cheap Railroad Rates on All Railroads. For further information address fSBB| FRANK E. BEANE, W