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<$> I ?> COOPERATIVE EXTENSION >V< <$> A U Kill"] ^ FAK3IEKS* EXCIIA: <$> T. M. Mills. County Demons trail <$ Miss Willie Mae Wise, Home Jieo: <$> ^ <5> < > <y ?. i ? ^ ^ <$> VJ> 5> $> <S> s 1 DO VT SPittAl) COTTON WILT ? lemson Colege, S. C., July?.Cotton wilt is more widespread a:id more destructive this season than cv- r before. -..nd tlie di-O;. : see]:.;] lo li>i Spreading gradually uuo t'.-.a Pi.;i -ion: r> iPerr?..?) n;' : ':<> >?' ??> iJo \\'C & have nad s::e imens oi (ii.-ecisol plants It',; sent 111 from Honea Pain, Ana jr*o?., Greeir. ood. Silv- r Street and WaLialla. Wilt seems now to occur 011 tne majority of farms in the coastal plain. , Cctton wilt Is recognized by blackened tissues found on the inside o: the wilting or the dead plants. Where cotton is dying split the stem open and if there are dark streaks in the wood or just beneath the bark, the riispncp ic wilt The fungus which causes cotton wilt will live in the soil indefinitely and anything which dairies soil from the infected areas to other parts of the farm will spread the disease. Plows and other implements used in plowing a field where the disease ocVia +ll/\pnn<rTili7 Ko_ VUA'O OiiVUiU KJ WTV fore carrying tliem to a field whert the disease does not occur. Tht? v disease might also be *-ned in drainage water. If wilt is occurring for the first time on your farm and is confined tc email iareas, pull up and destroy the diseased plants. Guard against its further spread by niaking sure that 110 s-il or drainage water is carried from the diseased areas to other parts | , of the farm. If you want to plant cotton back on land where the disBAED OF INDIANA HAS PASSED AjWAY Known as *Hoosier Poet* and Thorouchlv Attuned With Soirit LOf His Section. Indianapolis, July 22.?James Whitcomb Riley, ,the Indiana poet, died! this evening. Indianapolis, Ind., July 22.?James "Wihitcomb Riley died at his home here tonight at 10:30 o'clock from a stroke of paralysis. He had asked Ixior a ariiiK 01 water ana reciinea 011 this ted again. Miss Clementi* Prough, the nurse, noticing that the ; . poet seemed not to fee resting easily approached Iris bed. He died before she reached his side. {Mr. Riley suffered a violent stroke about 7:30 o'clock this morning an3 members of his household were great. ; .V ly alarmed, but under Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch's ministrations he seemed I to improve. Early tonight he was said to be much better, and information was given to tke public that he was in no danger. None of Mr. Riley's family, which includes his brother-in-law. Henry Etiel; bis nephew, Edmund H. Eitel, and his niece, iMiss Elizabeth Eitel, were in the room when the poet died. nr.. r> _ jc j i. a. y * 1'jclt. Jtuiey sunerea nis ursx strode 01 paralysis July 16, 1910. He recovered and seemed to be In good health until he was stricken a second time. This stroKe caused a cqjnplete paralysis of his right sid?. Mr. Riley?s determination to battle the illness was shown at that time 0 * ^n he set about laboriously to learn to write with his left hand. I For several years he spent his winters in Florida. On his return north last May he "never felt better" as he expressed it. Since that time he has | been in excellent spirits and seemed linna-ually strong, lie had been able to go to his publisher's frequently and f was out in his automobile as late as Friday. Mr. Riley never married. His nearest living relative is a sister, - Mrs. Mary Hayne of New York. He was> I born in 1853. Poet of (Middle West r James Whitcomb Riley, bard of the Middle West, sang the joys, sorrows, fancies and humors of its folk, largely in its own dialect. The world was so touched by his inspiration and the realism of his homely symbols thai he was one of the few, that, devoting their lives to poetry, gained a for I 'VUJLL^. Mr. Riley was peculiarly sensitive as to the advance of age and evaded inquiries as to the date of his "birth but the most accurate information available indicates that hie was born in 1848. "Should you ask his age," one of ifcis friends said, "ne would answer This side of 40,' and leave you U> guess which side." The poet was the son of Reuben A. r <S 1 )It\Y IN ^. LTC1JK AM) II(OIK ECONOMIC* S'KE DEPARTMENT or: Agent Prosperity, S .C !? '.-v Prns: eriTv > (' * <?> <?> $> ?> y $> <$> <- S> $> ?" > r ' > - t fe..se occurs. a>.k you:1 DemonsiraA.ont to write ine iloia y Division or v.iemson Coli'.'St' w::t rt-si.-unr [seed: The Dixie and the Dillon vari-1 . etles of cotton *are immune 10 wilt and . we are ? >; ?: wiui a mint her o? brftftdcrs 111 imnrovinsc tnese varie-l ' ties and keeping them pure. sn:a?i aa?oa;:t ci ei.som -s its fed t;> the fowls iii a wet raash oec^io*-j ; ally will .lei.t to keer oh some of tile J summer aiiments. ; KEI> SPIDER r t I Watch out for Red Spider on Cotton.! j They can be detected by little red ! spots 011 the leaves caused by the Red i Spider on the underside of the j leaves. jror us control spray wiuu ui the following sprays: 1 oz Potassium sulphide. 2 gallons water. Commercial Lime-sulphur spray. 1 gallon Lime-sulphur. 100 gallons water. Sulphur Soap Spray. 28 pounds sulphur. 1 pound Octagon soap. Add enough water to sulphur to make thin naste: dissolve soan in 1 gallon hot water, mix and add water to make 100 gallons. Don't allow violets or pokeweeds to grow on the farm, as they furnish favorite winter resorts for Red , Spider. Riley," a lawyer and political speaker of Greenfield, Ind. The boy could not be brought to the dull routine of ?chool days, "but he was wise in th? lore of streams and fields. His motner, who was Elizabeth iMarine "before her mariage, was a writer of verse and Riley in later life attributed some of bis impracticability to her. Instead of preparing for the practice of law, as-his fattier wished, th? t son turned itinerant sign painter. For ten years he roved through the Ohio valley, painting signs on fences. He had the trick of the brush and pencil and cleverly drew sketches illustrating the virtues of merchandise. He was naturally musical and shone as a ! frriHlor in the. villages at. whi<Vh hia party stopped at night. He played for dances and at concerts in country hotels. He wrote rhymes, which sometimes found their way into country newspapers *He led this cheerful, free and easy life late in the '70s, then he took employment as a reporter on a newspaper at Anderson, Ind. In 1877, for the purpose, as he said, of proving that he -could write poetry of value, he perpetrated the Poe hoax, which for years was a literary sensation. He wrote a poem in the style of Edgar 'Allen Poe, to whic-h he gave the I characteristic title of "Leonanie," and it was offered to the public as a hitherto unpublished product of the j genius of Poe. One of the stanzas was: , "Leonanie?angels named her, Anl they took the light Of the laughing stars and framed her ,In a smile of white. And they made heh hair of gloomy Midnight and her eyes of bloomy Moonshine and they brought her to me, . In the solemn night." . In some quarters the poem was aci cepted as geniune; in others it was denounced as a fraud. After the controversy had waged for months Riley confessed. In the early '80s he began writing verses in "Hoosier" dialect for the old Indianapolis Journal. He sent some of his poems to Henrv Wads worth Longfellow and they received his praise. A volume was published and "the Hoosier poet" began to win public favor. He was an excellent reader of his own dialect verses and for the flowing 15 years, or until 1898, he made tours of the country, appearing in public with great success both alone and in association with the humorist. Bill Nye, who was his intimate friend. Publication of books of poems yea? after year brought Riley a fortune ana wiae recognition or nis memrv genius and not only in the genre form. Many of his poems are of imaginative fantasy of gentle philosophic. In 1902 he received the degree of master of arte from Yale university "i and in 1!< >4 the L'niversity of I'en::syl - | \anm CwnK-rrt i .:: on him t-io 01 doctor o: iters. Indiana uiiiver- j o:: fere J the honorary dt-uro o. !' LL. ;>. 011 him m l!"i.. . ; Indian : iui'i 11 . r a s. i'ji" ! he library and school adii:f:nstratioii{ .. .1. Air. iviif-y never married but ho xva. ?' a lover of children, v/ho/e . i 1: i i. : 1 divined so intimately, 1 of faraiiy l life. Manv of t'.e la. i y\.v.- 0. i. ne spcisn quietly '* m ci m u. . (Hided section of IndhroaiJoJis. i * > \. > 's - i (? LlrS r t < s t N A J.L Li.i .. Ih-iuilv t'lniK's Overpower Ten i Member* <?i* K;-sn:o I'urtf?-s ill ( le\t iami Workings. i Cleveland, Ji:ly 2.".?Federal ofTi- j cials investigating the waterworks, tunnel disaster which cost 22 lives; late todav ordered all attempts to j reach the bodies of V2 men in the; tunnel abandoned until tomorrow J Tests of the gas in the tunnel showed I that it was highly explosive and the officials feared a second explosion. An attempt will be made to pump ?ui the gas so that the work of recovering the bodies may progress. All hopes that any of 12 men trapped in the tunnel were i alive was abandoned today' Ten bodies, those of members of two rescue parties which tried to reach the doomed men but themselves succumbed to the deadly gas, were recovered today. Bight injured men, also members 01 the rescue parties, will recover. Four investigations, city, county, State and federal, will be started to-1 morrow to determine the cause of the! explosion. Tiie egorts of Gustav . Van Dnzen. ' superintendent of waterworks con- j < struction, and the members of the two 1 rescue parties to reach the men im- ' prisoned without gas helmets or pul- : moters increased the death list. This afternoon the third rescue party > equipped with the safety devices en- (< tereo the tunnel ana recovered the J rescurers, two of whom were dead. Van Duzen was among the rescuers i revived. < Headed by D. J. Parker and L. M. Jones of the United States bureau ol < mines, who arrived here from Pitts- < burgh with the mine rescue car, the ] third party of rescuers penetrated 2<H; 1 feet into the wrecked tunnel from the crib end. They could see at the j far end of the tunnel that a large 1 cavein had occurred, but did not make < a complete investigation, i According to the federal investigators, .the electric wiring in the tun- n eel was faulty. After they had en- j tered the tunnel with the rescue party ] they ordered the electric power shm off. They would not venture an opin-j ton as to the cause of the explosion, | but most of those concerned with the i disaster helieve that one of the unfortunate men probably plunged his pick into a large pocket of gas which caused the explosion. Others believe a -crossed light wire caused the dis aster. $ > <?> A WOMAN'S # ! <S> OfiEATEST ENEMY <S> s> <e; Q>q><$><$><$>Q>4>?<$>$><?><$>Q><$>G>$><?> Is dirt. Borax removes dirt. It kills germs. It is woman's natural ally for cleanliness. Sprinkle 'borax freely under sinks, drains, or wherever there is danger of germs. The best washing compound is made of one part .borax and. three parts soap. It makes your clothes cleaner?with le6s trouble? and less expense. All grocers sell the famous "20 Mule Team Borax" and "20 Mule Team Borax Soap Chips." A 25c package of chips will do mor? cleaning than 50c worth of bar soap or washing powders. CIVIL SEHYJCE C0MISSI05 HIT T TIAT Tk nv A "MTV 1 riYI/kV TlXbli XXKJXjXJ ? IIAXIV^ The United States -Civil Service Commission will hold ail examination for stenographer and typewriter (male and female) August 8, 1916, to fill seventeen existing vacancies in J Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississip- ! pi, Tennessee, and South Carolina, ! and other vacancies as they ma) oe^iir. Entrance salaries from $900 to $1,080. Age, 18 years or over. Application blanks and full infor- ! mation can be obtained by app. ing . to Secretary, Local Civil Service Board, your city, or tlie Secretai;-. Fif+V> rh'vil fforviAA TVi strict. Atlanta Ga. This is an excellent opportunity for ) competent stenographers and typewriters to secure government positions. A KILMM; OF hitler fAIT OF LIN ATI C * ' . I?y a >I;i? ' razc-.'i 1)} .{< .u.usy,' Coi. Mai !:**rt i>. dare >. ; Wii; hincton. July I'l*.?Tlie war do pertinent receive*! ..n o i report } i..; .v.iol..u liiui Lie-:*. t'ol. Mai' t . l . ! ! !>.'i'# .jWi1..'- i 'rC'l to iliS death oy Henry Syaniiell at AI;;iae, . .t:-. Yi::<r.v!.iy. "It \l\io -t old fcioo'l- I, i?reme''nr.ur.ser, a. tin . j or 1 Jl v.at t v ar . . : l t ..lay i a: lilrs. ? !. ('. I; tier i :?i the Misses Butler, wl.ii Col. Butler's body, will reach Washington* . .o:. :;.y :iii:at 7::'.') o' ?.' '>I. . utler will be ; irio-'l in Arlingiri ry*v. ith military hor, : The re; on received by the war uoparti.:ent from Lieut. ' ol. J. K. Mac ert. Fourth Texas Infantry, commanding officer at Alpine, regarding! the death of Col. Butler, is as follows: "Answering your telegram request-j ing further details regarding the death of Col. Eutler, will state Co. i Butler was sitting with me and other officers and citizens in front of the hotel about 8:45 p. m., July 20, when Mr. and Mrs. Spannell drove up in their car, Mr. Spannell driving and Mrs. Spannell occupying the rear seat. ! "Mr. Spannell called Col. Butler, to j the car, reached back and opened the rear door, asked Col. Butler to take the seat with iMrs. Spannell. Col. Butler did so and the car immediatel> drove off around the corner of the hotel. 'After the car had proceeded about 600 yards into the residential part of the town Mr. Spannell shot and killed both Col. Butler and Mrs. Spannell, Sring several shots into each one. He then walked to the jail and surrendered to the sheriff. Just how the ?" killing was done can not be positively '* stated as there seem not to have been mv witnesses present. Col. and Mrs. Butler lived at the Holland "hotel here, and both associated freely With Mr. ind Mrs. Spannell, proprietors of the notel. "Both couples took frequent drives in the auto of the Spannells in tho evenings. "Mr. Spannell seems to have been of extremely jealous disposition. It is stated that he had frequent disagreements with his wife, who was a great beauty. "The general opinion here is that Mrs. Spannell has never given her husband any just cause for his jealousy and the unanimous opinion ib that -Col. Butler was absolutely inno - * ? ?- ? TTTV /> +A TT A1* A ceni OI any wrung, * wxuilg vci tuc sause, it appears like a cold blooded, premeditated murder committed by a man crazed by jealousy." LIEUT. COL. BUTLER BURIED South Carolinian, Yictim of Texan's Jealousy, Rests in Arlington. Washington, July 24.?The body of Lieut. Col. M. C. 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