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H 1 r~ ii r i MEET TO DISCUSS m FARM QUESTIONS ^^fclOLIMANS AND GEORGIANS' A HOLD CONFERENCE. H I Stress Importance of I)i ation, iDTolying Prodnci of Needed Supplies. espondent The State. , Ga., May 15.?Three liuntwenty-five farmers, repreunties in Georgia and South gathered here today to dis-; new economic condition in i , which foas been brought; the decrease in the price of he conference was arranged j adden, president of the Geor- j ber of Commerce. He de- j t it was the largest and most y conferenre of farmers; Bever held in this State. W Practically every one of the score of f speakers who delivered addresses at [ the several sessions of the conference \ urged the. farmers to pay more atten-j ticn to diversified agriculture and raise k home supplies. More than 50 of the delegates atI tending were from the western coun1 ties in South Carolina. B The speakers were given close at|?tention and were frequently interruptBed hy intelligent questioning. The Bfarmers made it plain that they were present to learn something new about agriculture. I Several of the speakers cautioned I the farmers against an extravagant use of commercial fertilizers, i Need for Orain Markets. Attention was called strongly to the iarge grain crop which will be sent to ?"t i.- ?4.1* ~ 4 lilt iuaiheis witmu uie ucal uuact ut t four weeks from the two States and a resolution was unanimously adopted calling upon the hankers and business .men to use their every effort to pror ivide for the financing of the crop and upon all wholesale and retail merchants to give preference to home . raised grains when prepared for marI ket upon a competitive basis. The conference adopted a resolution | asking the railroad commissions of I the two States to immediately promulgate intrastate rates on grain "which will entitle any town in either State to get its grain from another town in Kiat State at a rate not greater Caan pie rate from any interstate point to tliat town." Those attending the conference estimated that the two States will his year harvest about 6,000,000 bushels of wheat and that the revenue would in large measure make up for the deHcit in the cotton fund. . : , ; Fewer Political Farmers, ^Several speakers .condemned the lass of people who mingle with farmHs for political reasons," and it was clared tfoat tl:is kind of citizenship s "fast passing away." ?r. M. Mixson, of Barnwell, Harry D. iklhoun* of Barnwell; Dr.. W. J. Mealing, of North Augusta, and Commisioner Watson were among the speakrs from South Carolina to address ke gathering. The importance of food crops was pcussed from every angle and those Itending, by t):eir questions, indicated pat they were doing everything posible to live at home. mf Considerable time was devoted to a ^discussion of marketing conditions in [ the South and it was made clear that m some means must be found to speedily h take care of the large grain crop. It f -was stated tfcat the growing of food ! crops would receive a serious blow if this year's crop is not disposed of to advantage. Health For Canaries. I Even a canary must be cared ror judiciously if its life is to be happy. Regular exercise outside its cage is desirable, if its owner has time-to look after this exercise. A scrupulously clean cage, fresh water and seed everyday, greens of some sort?lettuce, eel f ery, plantain?once or twice a week, (and enforced abstinence from sugar, sweet biscuits and other odds and ends that are often fed to birds?these details insure health and, therefore, happiness to the caged bird. Perhaps the fact that it is caged, that it has so few ways of making its wants known, ^ should make its owner more careful I of its health than she would be even 01 f the health of a dog or cat?New York I Sun. Pictures In Gardens. Above most other arts, landscape architecture is based on nature, and the art c-hould be practiced on natural k lines. The evolution of growing things, I the development- of distinct types of f effect, although greatly varied, can be, ? 1 "3 1% /V 4-A KAO -n 1SI1Q SUUUiU UC. Luauc lv ucai uic stamp alike of definite, though perhaps instinctive, ideas throughout the various kinds of landscape gardening, whether it be a park, an estate, a village garden or a window box. It should make a fine picture, no matter how small or how large.?New York Telegram. Cash Prize. T Flatbush?He always was a lucky sort of a guy. Bensonhurst?What's happened? y "He's got the cash prize ;n a lottery." f "Really?" "Yes. he's just married money."? Yonkers Statesman. FEW NOW DIE OF OLD AGE. Why This Is So and Why the Patri archs Lived So Long. I Scientists who see today how few people live to be 100 years old tind j themselves at a loss to explain how j Methuselah managed to live 1)09 years, while Noah reached the respectable age of 505 years. Recently, however, a discovery has been made which helps | to explain this mystery. When the causes of short life nowI adays are counted up it is found that most of the deaths are due to disease. ; Very few people die from old age. And ! the reason why people die from any I one disease is that they have been -i? . J i ? -i.i ? ti,A? | weasenea uy ouuei niuf??t:s nuiw have had or which have been handed j down to them by their ancestors. For example, one widespread social scourge I which weakens the constitution ot many men and women today was prooably unknown in primitive times. To some of these diseases the human race has become so accustomed that it is immune. Measles will kill off a whole Indian tribe, but among the pocos it is nnlx? ?n nnnovins childhood malady. But the variations of disease increase far more rapidly than the immunity. Noah and the patriarchs didn't have nearly as many different kinds of diseases to face because they hadn't h;id enough ancestors to hand them down a variety. Consequently their constitutions were not constantly beiug weakened as are ours today. For example. there is no reference in very ancient literatures to a cold in the ht*cL The Greeks and Romans seem to have been the first peopies to suffer from it The' real reason whj tee patriae^ Hved longer than we do now wa/ o> cause in those days the fount <V tea inanity was fresher. While immunity to certain diseases has been handed down to us by our parents, we have also received the weakened vitality which was theirs as a result of theii fight against disease. Sooner or later the race will become immune to tuberculosis, but with that immunity will nr\mA /liminicho/1 rWK'Pr AS ft rpsnll j WUJC LUt UIiUJU4<ouvu J/V..V* % - WW of mankind's long fight against the ; white plague.?Washington Post i ' j NATIONAL OFFICIAL BOOKS. They Are Named by Colors and Cove* a Wide Range of Hues. I British government publications are I called "blue books," because they are usually bound in blue paper covers and because blue is the officially iccognized color in parliament and law. in a few departments, however, "blue" books are printed in yellow covers to disti?. I guish trie department- jLupioiuauu cm ; respondenoe with foreign countries anO short acts of parliament are often left unbound, or "white." because there is no strict rule for binding any documents less than an inch in thickness* In addition to the "blue book" there j is the "red book." This contains a list of persons who hold appointments. The only other color used by England is black. A black book contains an exposure of some abuse, the name "black book" originating from the famous "black book" compiled in the reign of Henry VIII. to expose the abuses ir monasteries. i.v.nr^ Viz* fh'taf r?nlnr fnr srovprn All X iauv.g tuv, VU4VA w.v - W - 0 v ment publication is yellow. Although the latest French government report has been called a "black book," in real i ity it is published in yellow covers. It forms, in fact, one of a long set of "yellow books" which France has been issuing annually ever since the year 18U1 upon tiie affairs of the country for , the use of politicians and historians, i The chief color of Russian government nnhlir-jitfnn? oranire. Belgium uses gray, Italy green, the United States blue and red. Spain and Austria red and Germany and Portugal white or drab.?New York Press. Garden of the Near East. Brusa, situated at the foot of Mourn Olympus, in Asiatic Turkey, is the gar den city of the near east. Even mosque and public building and almos | every house stands in its own garden | under the shadow of sycamore, cypress i or fig trees. The flora of the surround I ing district is so rich and varied tha It has been the happy hunting grounc of botanists for centuries, and soim ' ?Arrn wl it O o tlm 1 n f CUIUU111IC3 lc^aiu XV uo LUV, ?v***v j of many of our sweetest spring flow ers?the hyacinth, the tulip, the snow drop and the jonquil.?London Spec j tator. i The Feminine Financier. "So she has broken the engagement 1 Did she give you back the diamom ' ring?" ' \\r /\ o**a Cfir1 M C aiu ucauivvuvw* j she will give me back the price I pai< for it, but diamonds have doubled ii ralue and that she is entitled to th< profit"?Philadelphia Ledger. Made Her a Fright. r.? Tataac V?no o nATT hof ?U1^. UUUCO UUO CL iiv. ?I I'UU "Well, you look mightily please( about it" "You just ought to see how it look: on her."?Houston Post In Distress. ) "Whv are vou flying your flag up " - - - : side down, Suburbs?" "To let the neighbors know that tlr I cook's gone and all invitations are off.' ?Philadelphia Ledger. King of the Penguins. Many of the Falkland islands are in habited only by penguins, whence thi title "King of the Penguins." which i: sometimes bestowed on the governo of the Falklands. It does no good to advertise for youi lost self respect?Youth's Companion. > A LAOY AND h BABY And Uncle Sam's Polite Consu i In a City In France. HOW THEY MET AND PARTED And How Light Was Thrown on thi Problem That the Woman. Who Wa French and Voluble, and the In fant, Who Was American, Presented Not verv i<?n? after bavins takei % charge of oue of the consulates n France I was one morning seated a , my desk busily enpitfcd in tijruriuj ' over my quarterly aecouuts. wbeu sud denly a woman carrying a bundle ii ber arms appeared before me. 1 bat I not resided in France sufficiently ioni , to imbibe the unadulterated Krencti pc liteness. but 1 Dad progressed sui . ficiently to ask: "Madame, what can I have the pleas ure of doing for you this morning?" "Monsieur," she exclaimed, walkinj 1 toward me, holding out the bundle a ! if to deposit it od my desk, "this is a: [ I American baby. What shall I do witl i itr Abashed at the prospect of so sud ' denly becoming a father with the 01 ange blossoms and rice omitted am knowing that the American govern noto KlichfiH ra\ nro/^Dnt n 1UCUI uau COl?UUOM^U MV piVVVMVu^ W maintaining orphan asylurns either a home or abroad. 1 hesitated a momen and replied: "Will the inadame please be seate over there by the door aDd tell m why. being a Frenchwoman, she ha become possessed of an America: baby?" It never occurred to me to examin the little bundle of humanity. I had 1] previous times rather prided myself o: . my ability to distinguish tbe natlor ality of people, bad even boasted . con Id tell them t>y their shoes, hut , had never tried my perceptive power on infant physiognomies. "Voilar she said, seating herself. 1 shall never forget that word voils It was one of the first French words oror io?rm*rl Von know it means?ot so many things when used exclams torily. as it generally is. Usually, hovs ! ever, to the beginner in tbe Frenc ( language it conveys tht, meaning c "Here it is." That was about as far a j I had progressed in my French educs ! tion at that time in regard to the man I varied meanings of voiia. and 1 d( termined that if it meant the baby the it would retain its geographical Iocs i tion indefinitely-that is. in the won an's lap over by the door, or preferabl ; outside- Hut tier voila referred nt so much to the infant as to the stor of how it came to be in her possessioi rnliiKlr I frm/1 tr\ u( : i^uc Luin.ru miumj ? mic 11 ten iw u> sume the defensive power of silenc? But to a Frenchwoman?well, silenc simply means what the jockey jrlve the horse in the last heat--encourag( ment. From the verbal French cyclone sh 1 burled at me I gathered a few fra$ i ments that enabled me to unrterstnnt For three months she had heen en ployed as nurse by an American won an who had paid her good wapes. Fou j weeks previously, however, the raothe . ; had returned to New York, saying sb ! was going over for only two or tbre I ^ knoiviACtia mottnr on ' j uaj> S Uil an Ulgl'Ul uuoiursn Ujnun uu ! would return at once. Sbe had not see . j or beard of ber since. Being a woma . | who bad to work for ber own livin< j tbe baby was a burden on ber hand; ' She could hardly support herself, muc less provide for the infant, and as th , child was of American parentage sb thought tbe representative of tbe Amei ( ican government ought to take car or 11. 1 suggested that I would write to th city authorities in New York asking a to the genuineness of the address ths ^ the woman said the mother had leJ with ber. "And what shall I do during all tfa 1 time you are waiting for an answer starve?" 5 My answer finally was a twent " franc gold piece, with which she di * i parted, saying she would try to tak 3 care of the baby until I could bea J from the New York authorities. * | Now. the reasonable and the nnre.' " sonahle part of the story is that sine . her departure, though the sun ha - risen hundreds ot times, sne Das neve returned. It had not risen more tha seven times, however, before 1 learne | the reason. - | It was just one week later at an ii J formal dinner of the sixteen consul who resided in the city that in tb 3 course of a conversation with my Ita 1 rvillpjifmp I rolil him tlie story < i j the woman and the baby. What d 5! you suppose be answered? i "Weil, well." be laugbed. "why, th? j same woman came to my office, onl sbe had an Italian baby. And 1 thougl j I was fortunate to get rid of her f< 1 50 francs." In the genera! conversation that fo s lowed I discovered that the woma had visited every one of the sixtee ; consulates in the city, and by her abi j ity to change the baby's nationalit f. from English to German and froi Haitian to Japanese and all the oth( e colors of the rainbow she had extrac .. --3 nnnonlor Oofno nf thflt nfi CU tiUUJ LUC V.UUOUIUI vvifu v> t ticular French city the sum of 71 Jrancs. This incident is just one of a serif . of similar experiences with frauds an e fakers a consul has to face in the pe 5 formance of his duties.?Thorn we r Haynes in New York Tribune. Who hangs himself in the chimnc r should not complain of smoke.?-Ge man Proverb. I V i >TJ W h- ni I ' VI* i S3# s 1 g. aB M .5 :i ^ o :i cf C O . D M a" i I i If t t ^ ft _iij : ^ i gmaprf : M I a s ! 2 ! O 2 \ o qj ; s ^ : P 0) i s B : << a D D z : CD l9 < tfi I r a J ir lie LS | ?r : D O is (D Sie 3* cw (D << y (6 <J o o 3 : 3 5C s H 3 V LABOR AND ART CLASHED.^ f"he Battle Was Rather One Sided and j Labor Won the Night. Among the experiences which Sir; Frederick Cowen. tiie eminent ewmpos- j ??r- in IllM ll(W?k* "Mv Art :nid I My Friends" is the following: Once while conducting in Melbourne a terrible noise of hammering started overhead as soon as the concert began. "I put down my baton and stopped." writes Sir Frederick; "so did the noise. Thinking it was over, I began again; so did the noise. I then sent a rnes senger with a polite request that the noise should cease. After about ten minutes, during which the hammering grew more aud more persistent, the messenger returned, and I said to him: " 'Did you give them my message?' " 'Yes, sir.' "'Alia wnat was tneir answer: " 'They said. "Tell Mr. Cowen we've got our contract to finish by a certain time and we ain't going to stop for no concert or nobody."' "Upon this I turned to the audience and said: " 'Ladies and gentlemen, as you have possibly noticed, there has been a fight between labor and art Labor has won. I am very sorry, and I wish you all good night' "Then 1 dismissed the orchestra, and there was no concert that evening." FIRE RISKS ON FARMS. Safety First Should Be as Much the Rule There as Elsewhere. A contributor to Farm and Fireside shows how appalling fire risks are on 1 farms. He tells how to redone some of these fire risks and writes in part < as follows: "The inveterate smoker is about as dangerous as a walking stick of dyna mite. It makes me shudder to see a man smoking around the farm buildings. One man I know never will forget the way he was run off the farm when I caught him smoking a cigarette while stacking hay. "Another dangerous practice of which the average man is guilty is that of carrying ordinary matches loose in his pockets. He should carry either safe ty matches or keep the ordinary kind in a metal box. "On most farms the lantern is still the usual light for working about the buildings after dark. A good way to keep it clean and safe is. first to take out the burners and clean them by boiling in strong soapsuds. This will keep the ventilating passages of the burner working properly. Then wipe all leaking or spilled oil off the base. "Never set a lantern down. Either hold it or hang it up. Then when it is accidentally struck It will swing instead of upsetting." A Gladstone Anecdote. Lord Alverstone tells this anecdote of Gladstone in his "Recollections:" "Mr. Gladstone was very much interested in the Caucasus. I had a friend. Captain X., who had recently come home from that district and I gave him a letter of introduction to Mr. [ Gladstone. A few days later I met Mr. i Gladstone in Parliament street He ! stopped me and said. 'Your friend. Captain X.. knows more about the Caui casus than any man I ever met* A I few minutes afterward 1 met <^apiain j X. in Pall Mall. I said to him. 'Well, j you have made a great impression. Mr. Gladstone.' 'Have I?" he said. 'Yes.' I replied. 'He says you know more about the Caucasus than any man he ever met.' 'Well,' said Captain X., 'that j is very strange, for. though I was with j him for three-quarters of an nour. i I ARE YOl to t Panama-Pacifi i ai San Francis Diego, G by one of VARIABLE PREE * If so, write the unders fares, folders and all partic Excursion tickets per famously attractive and T. C. V General Passenger Age Atlantic C The Standard Raili I ^ mrrrr m *mmtm mmm~mmmmmmmm? v.". How Indi2ns Purified Water. The- Indians ri;i<1 a way ot purifying '! wafer mm: a [k>i.<1 <>i swamp nv dig- 1 giny a Unit about a loot and j down a hour sis in?-h?*s tnMow nie water level a tew feet from ilie pond. After it w:is tilled with water thev bai!?>d It out <jtiicKlv. repeat]us the nniimg process Htxiiit three tirnes After the third h.-nliuu the hole would t>e tilled wtttl filtered water. Try iL? Boy Seoul j Handbook. i Why Corn Has Silk. A Potato Hill 111:1 li who is sixtv-one years did never knew until recently ; that for every grain <?u an ear of com there is a silk running out to the end t?? light and moisture. These silks run back under rhe Disk. One is attached to each irrain on the cob and nourishes it. Kverythinn id nature is more won derfni than any invented story.?Potato Hill Cor. in Atchison Globe. ? i ~~ J Culture's Progress. "Our daughter is studying French. German, music, dancing and painting,'* said the foud mother complacently. "Well." replied Mr. Cumrox, "that's a good start. But has she yet learned not to use back number slang and chew gum?"?Washington Star. NOTICE OF ELECTION IN FORK SCHOOL DISTRICT, No. 55. Whereas, one-tf:ird of the resident electors and a like proportion of tne resident freeholders of the age of 21 years, of Fork School District, No. 55 of the County of Newberry, State of Souta Carolina, have filed a petition with tae County Board of Education of Newberry County, Soutfi Carolina, petitioning and requesting that an election be held in said School District on the question of levying a spe city annual tax of two mills to be collected on the property located in the said School District: Now, therefore, the undersigned, composing the County Board of Education for Newberry County, Soutfe Carolina, do hereby order the Board of trustees of the Fork school districts \ No. 55 to hold an election on the said question of levying a two mill tax tobe collected on the property located in said school district located in tfce foe said school district, which said election shall be held at Fork school house, in said school district No. 55, at which, said election shall be held at Fork school !:ouse, in said school distritc No. 55, on Saturday, June 5, 1915, at which said election the polls shall be opened at 7 a. m. and closed at 4 p. m. The members of the board of trus tees of said school district snan act as managers of said election. Only such electors as reside in said sc!:ool district and return real or personal property for taxation, and Who exhibit their tax receipts and registration certificates as required in general elections, shall be allowed to ivote. Electors favoring the levy of such tax shall cast a ballot containing the word "Yes*' written or printed tfiereon, and such, elector opposed to sucfr levy shall ca?t a ballot containing fte word "No" written or printed tnereon. , Given under our hands and seal on May 35, 1915. GEO. D. BROWX, S. J. DERRICK, J. S. WHEELER, County Board of Education for Newberry County, S. C. J GOING he ic Expositions I co and San alifornia the many i IRECT ROUTES ? ? signed for low excursion :ulars regarding your trip, mit stopovers at many scenic points and resorts. VHITE, mt, Wilmington, N. C. 'ao et T mo >uaoi ijuiv oad of the South. ? *