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FERTILIZER SITUATION OUTLOOK FOR COMMERCIAL ? -vrnpi r?Ann TXT CJrtliTTS FJLIAAVI fUUi/ ovuji** P Trices Not So High As They f ; Were, But Materials Are | Reported Not Equal t To Demand -&13 j I ? Atlanta. Ga.?A survey of the fertilizer situation by those familiar with It indicates that there may be a short^ age of commercial plant food in 1920. W The reasons assigned for thi3 are prini cipaly that strikes have interfered with the production of materials. In t addition, there has been some diffif culty in obtaininf shipments over the railroads. j thp lone drawn JL V UC UJLV1V 9yvv?4*Vf w out strike o? miners in the rock phosphate fields of Florida prevented a supply of rock phosphate be in 4 shipped to the factories. This and the difficulty of getting prompt shipments when thr mines re?umed work, it is claimed, has put the manufacture of acid phosphate more than tnree months behind, besides reducing the possible supply. As to ammoniates or nitrogenous materials, it is pointed out that the coal and steel plant strikes greatly reduced the possible output of eulphate of ammonia. Tankage and cottonseed meal are so much in demand as feed as to be unavailable or too ex \n pensive to use as xenuisera. titrate of soda is being shipped in larger amounts, bnt not as cheaply as was expected. It seems that the demand lor nitrate of soda in the orient, especially, has kept up the price higher than was anticipated. As for potash, there is going to be a fair supply, the first time since the European war began. A considerable amount of notash has been shipped from Germany to France, while there is quite an accumulataion of stocks of desirable American-made potash on hand. The Soil Improvement Committee of the Southern Fertilizer Association, with headquarters in Atlanta, is sending out information to southern farmers urging them to order their fre* M 1? ? 3 phiTV_ tinzers eari) <niu iut immruiaiu o^ ment. The reasons given are that there is going to be great difficulty in supplying the demand, and the sooner it is known how muc'i the farmer wants, the sooner the manufacturer will know how big a job he ha#? on his hands and how hard he must work to accomplish as much of it as possible. It is also stated that the rairoada are anxious that fertilizers be ordered early so that they may be able to provide cars, else there will be a serious difficulty in getting fertilizers delivered on time. The railroads are also insisting on full carload shipments, which makes it necessary to have orders early so as to consolidate them into full carloads. It is stated that the indications are that thorp will hf? a heaw demand for fertilizers throughout the South this year on account of the promising prospects for southern crops. It is stated, also, that the orders coming in to the factories reveal that the farmer is now wanting higher grade fertilizers than ever before. * t DfiicnMiuc Dm i turrifii v ruiuuivuu vcll iillsjl What is claimed to be the most effective method yet devised for combatting the boll weevil is that of poi soning it with calcium arsenate. The method was perfected by B. R. Coad of the United States Department of Agriculture, at the Tallulah, La., station, after several years of experimenting. The weevil is poisoned by dusting the cotton at night or while the dew is on, using a dusting machine to apply it. The material poisons the dew on wbich the weevil depends for his drinking water. The weevil is killed, but there is another generation batoning out. so inai me poison must be applied three or four times at a week or ten days intervals. Experiments show that the weevil can be kept down to such an extent that they can not do serious damage. The cotton eaved is worth far more than the cost. It is important that the right kind of calcium arsenate be used. There are different kinds, made for different purposes. The wrong kind may be too weak to kill weevils, or too etrong and injure the cotton plant There is no uee to begin dusting the cotton plants before about t?n oat of every 100 equares are punctured th* weevil. It will be a waste of ? ? ^ ? ?.-? <3 r* PI T " money IU UUUC luiac LU op J. a. j a uciu thoroughly to when there are fewer weevils in the field. While it will kill practically all that are alive, the cew hatch will have to be taken cr.re of by subsequent sprays. It is not advised that any one undertake to dust the plants wi'h anything: el?e than the regular dus'ins machines. The pole ard beg methods has cot proven cessful. T>*: ..ison rnrtenal will cos1 foi four app-ic .fions Jicm $S to $4 por ; BRED GREAT MEN Italian City of Florence May Claim High Honor. i ! j Birthplace of Many of Those Who 1 " 1 Ahilitv and ndni^i in Achievement, Far Above th# Rest of Mankind. j At rirsj Thought on*1 would he apt ; to claim for London, the grt?;it raetrop' oli?. rht- honor of hnvini; giveD birth ; ro the {rre:itfst number of (he world's gent uses. ! Amor.? oth*r profit Londoners the following DJi.^ht be Hred: Francis P>acon. philosopher and essayist; Spcn ser. JOiiSun, Pinion ami ftfins, ?unui known and honored poets; Hogarth. Turner. Watts. Millais and Hohnan Hunt, artists whose achievements are acclaimed by all the world of taste; i Fox. Pitt and Beaeonsfleld. statesmen | who have Influenced the building of empire; Daniel Defoe. the novelist; taraaay ann uuxiey, uie scicuupif. and many others. All these would stpnd in the very froDt ranks of greatness, some of them, like Milton and Bacon, towering above their fellow men like mountain peuks among molehills. The Frenchman would undoubtedly stand up for the claims of Paris, quoting a long list of poets and painters and novelists and statesmen to justify his boast. The Italian would probably put the question: "How far back may we go la this quest? For If ancient Rome is to be added to the record of the more modern city, where will you find her equal?" Then Athens would lift up her classic voice in protest, and quote a long list of her sons who have formed the models of all subsequent time In art and poetry and philosophy and architecture. to onnthcr nnmnptitop DUi. UlCAC 10 uuviiivi ? which can beat them all in this combat. Compared with London or Paris, or even Rome, it is a small place. The city is Firenze?Florence?the native city of Savonarola, of Fra Angelico, of Donatello, of Botticelli, of Leonardo da Vinci, of the mighty Michael Angelo, the glory of his age and of all succeeding ages; Florence, the * - - ? > - 4.1. ciiv oi isoccacciw, i ne uium ui umciists; of Machiavelli, whose very name is a proverb, and of the famous Medici ; yes. and lastly, Florence the city of Dante, the first both in time and position of this glorious galaxy of stars of the first magnitude. *T _ 1- -11 /vntVA HOW SUCH a SlIKtil punt; v>cj fea>c birth to so many mighty sons of genius is one of the standing puzzles of heredity and environment and education. Why does not Glasgow breed geniuses? Nobody knows. During a period of two hundred years Florence was a forcing bed for supreme achievement. During that time the little city broke all records, ancient and modern, and it is hard to see where her competitor is to spring from who shall take away her crown of laurels. Somo War Economics. There is probably nothing thnt seems so useless in the eyes of th* average person as an Irish potato which has begun to rot, but the department of agriculture in Its war-time experiments has discovered that starch can be made from a decayed potato just as well, if not better, than from a good one, and so the surplus stock of the fanner or dealer need no longer be thrown away or wasted. in IIKe IUM1IUI1 ciiemiMS scrniuj; j methods to avoid world-wide food j shortages have found that sugar cani not only be made from beets, but f from sweet potatoes as well. The j farmer himself can make good sirup from his sweet potatoes by boiling them until they can be mashed in the water to thick, mushy liquid. To this ; ground malt is added and the result, after properly cooking for about an hour, is a thick sirup, which is strained through a cloth and us>ed for any sort of sweetening. Modest Hero. i ? ? ? 5- - -\Vn i Jiy Heroic ucuuii ?ii> ui?. ??c ?cnr ! lying close up to their defenses, and for four days had not been able to climb out; we lay like reptiles. There was not a dry spot; one could riot get accustomed to it. And II?. the ensign. had been caught on the wire when we had started to attack. At first he asked for help, called on the men by name; but one could not show one's nose without being shot. Then he only groaiu 1 and .breathed heavily. That went on for four days, and he still lived. It is a sin to gf"?mble at God, but here one says: "\Vhy be careful I of one's soul?" I couldn't endure it and took him oft the wire; but I got wounded. Then these was an tack, and our men captured the post ?London Times. Fire-Retarding Paints. Frnm tests rr.adp at the federal bn reau of standards It appears that, while practically all paint coatings have some fire-retarding action, none of those so far tested afford very great protection. All the samples in question wore materially damn god by application of tl Mhe for a few second*. Both in;;! and whitewash rank Co*;.!>:: ho^. iii.-h. These have 11: > ad* am::; * of ?-!,"apnes?; arai can both be u ti the sumo surface. However, scrolling to ; reed * hrM?''i;? of >!>e hurt : u n?- ' i ' :ae.ir <? ,i'*or oiv'Cti'<!i ciilt '??* *>v^ ? .' ! ' *o'*\ e ;:s aTj off? ; ;>t\> r <. * . :on. :: 1 ' . ' n?o ?.f .. . , : !: !'' .;>{ !< :.<t .' IP ? . llf kiollal L-:'jCkiniic auuiiisi aro. V (THE TROUSSEAU IN UHUMA I ! Ho? It Figures When Pians Are Made for Marriage of Daughter of Family. i j \Vh?mi I was r?'a y*?;ir< old my spkvi Inx woman made a mark h<M-<> in th*4 I * middle of my forehand. If was mad'* l with red faee puinr and had to be rei newed ev?*rv time I went ontside the ! f-or.ioonnd. That fdirn meant iliat i was old enough to beeonje Lr***!. and that my parents would consider ! offers for me. Soon after. an <>!d i w? man carte ro st*e me. She made i:sy serving ^'ornan remove nil my eJnth: iu^r. Tlien looked me over. She j made me threat! a need'e?t<> reft mv i eve6;. She mode me sew a seam?to ! try try skill. Shs looked at my teeth, j and nim hcd my body all over?to sre if I was healthy. Then she went away, i One day. when 1 was twelve. I heard j my mother fa.'kim; abotit me?with the ! old woman who had been to see me ; before. They were talking about my t mMfHa ii'imvin Kjlid 1 | (.'Minting. m lir- iiiiuu r j should hav* four pairs of s>lk frous; ers and three of cotton. I was also to have six white undvrjrariin'nts of i cotton, and four linen for the hot i weather. My outer garments were all ; to he of silk. and rill must have ! embroidery about them. Two heavy | garments were ro he liniMl with silk, 'and padded with new cotton. These ! were to wear In the cold vca'her. They i talked half a day about my trunks. 1 The middle woman held out ihat I should have four. all covered with pijrI skin, hut my mother was determined ; I should have only two. At last it was agreed that I should have three pig-skin trunks and two boxes cov 1 ?i?k niotn r>irtth V hen they Crt'U V> mi ^iaju w came to an agreement about anything a teacher wrote It down, so uiere would be no forgetting after. He would read It over to them often and had to change the writing when one or the others said they did not so understand. The middle woman grew very angry when they were talking about the bedding I should have, and left the court. A servant called her and she returned. All the while they were talking about me I felt most important, for I had never before had a value placed on me. Then I thought I had not understood mv mother all my life. She had always treated me with unconcern, because I was not a | boy, and now she was pointing out nil i my good qualities and setting a value 1 on each of them. Then they told me i I was to ho married. I was to marry a man I had never seen and thev would not even tell me his name. I asked ' my mother if h& might come to our ' t"l.? 1,1.wl j court and play wnn ine. *>m? j me. lie lived eight miles away, and could not come that distance just to see me. Silly child.?Asia Magazine. Plenty of Room Behind. A mule was brought and tied near the group head headquarters and some j one asked to whom it belonged. One j of the young second lieutenants sugj gested that it must be the chaplain's ; mount. At the officers* mess that ! evening the joke was sprung on the I chaplain, a dignified college professor ' In lifp>_ | "Where did you get your tint' mount ' we saw tied up out then- this afternoon, chaplain?" queried one of the young officers. "From Missouri," was the prompt answer, and without a flicker of a smile. "I think we ought to have the chaplain head our review tomorrow on that | mule, and we would all come parading j along behind him," said the mis cmevous lieuifiiuuu "There is one thing certain," replied the chaplain, "you would not crowd j him." Radium Production in United States. C. H. Viol, writing in Science, states ! that the total production of radium ' element in the United States down to ' 1019 is about 55 grams, which is | probably more than half the total ' radium produced in the world. Dur. ing the war, with no carnotite exports, the createst part of the world's ra diura supply has been produced in this country. In 301S the United State* produced 13.6 ^rarns. With regard to a discussion that has occurred concerning the amount of radium that can be produced from the carnotite fields, Mr. Viol says that the carnotite holdings of the Standard Chemical j company, which comprise about 35C I claims and are the largest holdings unj der the control of a single concern. : are estimated to be capable of yieldi ing at least ">00 grams of radium.? 1 Crtiantifip American. Twins Six Times. J Mrs. Dowinton, a resident in j Guernsey, has given birth to six sets : of twins in 31 years. She also has ten other children. Of this remarkable family 18 are living, and the case was reported to the king and recommended for special notice. Seeing that the record | was so remarkable and that the famlly was a deserving one, his majesty j sent a donation. mkj? ??, tn Hp confused with the | 1 I1IO 10 UVV, 1V vw j "king's bounty," which Is claimable only in the case of triplets.?Lonflor Chronicle. i Makes Pine Needles. A discovery has been patented whieh !s of crreat interest nnd value in connection with the ?.-\!i!e industry. }*j ! the process paten i there is obtained ! n useful suhs.'itute for cotton and jute : ;r n*HPS. Tlie nooUiOs fjrs- <>r j>ij r ti-'iv <" liorjii'i'ly -r-lrM* tl?rn v ' I;, t lixod h"* iror'Ii.ia v' : t!:c fihro!'.-: rnsT C:\'i bo V"-? 1 iiii} ortiicur; f .?imlng uuciiiut DEFIEOMOKALLAW; Why Kaiser and H's Huns Were Defeated. Like Every Thing of Evil the Seeds of Its Own Destruction Were Born With Autocratic Madness, Pastor Believes. A group of nien were standing round the firenlare at the country club after their game of golf. They were dlscussiug the cause of Gor-; ratiny's defeat. One laid It to the: food shortage, another to At:??ricau ! forces, anoihnr to the diplonn.?v of the allied governments. whiW) h.id ranged against Germany virtually the whole of the civilized world. i ' Just at that point. Dr. Edgewortl 1 the pastor of a local church, joined OI...1K1 r* r\ri thov InrnOil tit him fuT I .tC ?1 WU(.>. Oil" UH.I iuiuvu < V ...... his opinion. The good do?i.or thought a niomcnt, and then he said slowly, "You meu kDow me well enough, I think, to feel that I am not so naf? row that every thought 1 have ends in a church spire. And so you won't think me guilty of a pious plaritud* when I say that I firmly believe that the determining factor in Germany's ' (Meat was God. j 1 ?<t\^ vah Mir.cmtwir" rnrtiniied. I l/u f \IU ICUI\1UUV>| ?V ; **what Victor Hugo said about Napo-! leon's defeat at Waterloo? It runs j this way: '"Was it possible for Na- j poleon to win at Waterloo? We au-; swer, No. Why? Because of Wei-! llngton? No. Because of Blucher?, No. Because of the rain? No. Be- j cause of God. It was time this vast, man should fall. He bad been im- J I poached before the throne of the in-, j finite, and his fall had been decreed.* j And thea Victor Hugo adds, 'Napo- 1 leon bothered God/" j "But I don't see how Hugo can j p?ove it," replied one of the men. "No, he couldn't prove that the in- j tervention of God defeated Napoleon j at Waterloo," answered the doctor, "not with mathematical precision. This sort of evidence is the most ticklish in the world, but I heard an officer ' from overseas say thai ho couia Jay j his finger on no less than three instances whore nothing but a miracle saved the allies. "There aro certain historical incidents that get written down as bear/ ing marks of the intervention of God. ! The storm that defeated the Spanish | I ic nnp nnd men aro begin r.ing to look at the first battle of the Mnrno as another. Competent authorities tells us that the German defeat cannot be adequately explained on human grounds. Il* it is true, as Herbert Spencer says, that we live in the presence of a moral order, then something must happ#n when that order Is violated. That Germany violated that order no one doubts, and when it did so it was fighting against the stars in their courses. 1 | "The text that has been running through my nesci ever sine*; uti mnnj crumpled is, 'Not by might nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.' and I get a lot of comfort as I think of it. Ours is a wonderful world. Wonderful for Its chemistry, wonderful for its geometric precision, wonderful for its vital processes, but most wonderful of all for the moral purpose streaking it like - - - , ?. . veins of 5>oJd. The world is piteneu to good, fcs movement is that way,. Eve^y evil thing has, therefore, the i seeds of its own destruction born with' it. Your Pharaohs, Sofinacheribs,; Xpros, Artilas. Mohammeds, Alvas, Na-j poleons and Kaiser Wilhelm IPs CO" ; tinually arise, putting the nations in fear and threatening to uproot civilization itself. But there is always; some rock on which their armadas j split; some Moscow in which their ai> mles perish.'*?Youth's Companion. Answered. Mrs. Hughes, wife of the Australian 1 premier, is very fond of children and has a fund of anecdotes concerning them. One she is fond of telling concerns a; visit she paid to a certain elementary school In Melbourne shortly before j starting for England. Among the questions put by the mis-j tress to her little pupils was the fol-. lowing: j "Cunnnsinfr Tee had hoarded a ship [ Inst night and steamed a hundred miles , I due southwest, where should we be' | oow?" the correct answer beln?. of I course, 'Off the eoa*t of Tasmania.'" i There was ft moment of breathless! silence, and then a tiny girl in the front row, who had just recently, it transpired, returned from a rather roucrh and stormy sea trip, piped out shrilly: "In the cabin, ma'am, sick."?Tit-J Hits. Teredo, Ship Eater. Although it was declared that wooden ships could be built fast enough and strong enough to outwit the submarine, they cannot be bnilt to escape! ^^1TT anomr fh* chfn- ! J tneir own iuu^i uc?u..r suvu,.,, t. ( \ wonn, or teredo. This animal or worm ; ' eats away the wooden ship in much the same manner that cancer eats away, the human body, but it is so small when it first inserts itself into the wood that the closest inspection fails tc j show the warning pin hole. Once in : the wood, however, it eats its way' I alonir. growing steadily, and when a! ! quantity ?>f these tiny worms get into I. a ship !lx\v turn it into a veritable. scp.mire h'?Jvy<,o:n!u,d tunnels. t-or?v] M>/?r i?. .^n tl> . i; , . ; ' (* CC'< : y-y mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmamammmmmmmmmmmmmmammmammmmmmma For I The Culbreath hoi Cottage in Cline $ One acre lot in M If you want to sel See Me f I Frank R. Real Estate &. NO! For the highest class of C fail to send your work to Qi Don't fail to join our club; i t* u,? ?n nV> lTTrtrlr T ntJliiemuej. an uuu num ? tention as job work. All ' by experienced men. LADIES' WORK QUALITY STEAM Phon< Mules! If von want a ? J ?. and well broke, price, see us. We also have a ond hand mules t cheap. The Pin PEAS PE We want 500 bush< ,We offer $4.00 Pe Bring them to oui as possible. R. D. Sm: WHOLESAL Phone 88 Indian Prince Blinded by Order of j Brother. The tragic story of an Indianj prince who was. blinded by order of j his brother after 23 years of attempt- j ed revolts against him, is related in j the history of the Mogul emperors of; India during the early part of the j Sixteenth Century. The story revolves around the sons of King Barbar, of the Mirza family of emperors who lived during the years of 2383 to 1530. He was succeeded to the throne by his oldest son, Humayun, while his second son, Kamram Cirza was the governor of; Kabul. Kamram started rebellion \ after rebellion against his brother, j each one being accompanied by acts [ more atrocious than before. ( During the seige of Kabul, Kamram killed the three young children of one of the Humayun's officers, and j threw their mangled bodies over the \ v.-all to the beseigers. He gave the j wife of the same nobleman to the i vnV,ble in the bazaar, to be dirhon Sale use in !High Point street t ain Street 1 your property? ; ^ . Hunter Firft Insurance I "ICE wmmm Cleaning and Pressing don't lality Steam Pressing Club. $1.00 per month, four suits. vill be given the same at- ' work supervised and done A SPECIALTY PRESSING CLUB s 260 t Mules! asm v HB warn <v BSBEBBMHBPWWraBIBBMBWIi food mule, young at a reasonable it , i lot of good sechat we are selling ceil Co. I I AS PEAS sis Good bound Feas. i | ;r Bushel r warehouse as soon ith & Son E GROCERS i Newberry, S. C. ^ ored. In each case his brother, the emperor, acted leniently with himr saying that what was past was past, and that they could again meet as brothers. In the year 1553, however, after Kamram had been rebelling more or less constantly for 23 years, Huma yun finally followed the advice of his councillors and ordered hisr brother's eye lanced. Blinded, Kamram was finally rendered harmless. A conciliation, between the two brothers followed. The blind man became a pilgrim and went to Mecca,where he died four years later. "Isabel, since I have been on the bor.rd of alderman I have been approached by three different individnflls xrhn hrvp r.hp insolence to think they -:an buy my vote." "That's splendid, dear. There are so many things \vc need."?T. ife. Subscribe to The Herald ar.c News? <SO ?**/) p T7