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HOLL CROP IN SOUTH CAROLINA WORTH AROUND $35,OOO To the Editor of The News and Courier: As a shipper of holly branaches for Christmas decoration the writer must take exceptions to some statements contained in a letter allude(l, the writer will en signed "One of Nature's Admirers." One paragraph, however, in the letter alluded to the writer will en dorme most heartily, and that is when protest is made against use less and ruthless distruction of holly trees. There are at. the present time a number of holly shippers from North Carolina and other States who are shipping day large quant ities of holly branches to distant States for decorative use an( to help make glad the joyous Christ mas time. The writer cannot be I ieve that any of these shippers would authorize or countenance the wanton destruction of the holly trees as this method (cutting (Iowa the tree) not only damages the branches and shatters the berries, but precludes the possibility of gathering branches from the same tree in after years before the new growth appears. Your Columbia correspondent may he "one of Nature's Admirers" but inci(lently is quite out of (late when writing of the "so-called new in dustry." The writer has for thirty years been shipping at this season of the year the beautiful red-berried holly and could show "Nature's Admirer"' many noble holly trees in the State of Maryland which he has had trimmed two to three times with in tat perio(l and these trees are still growing with apparent ly greater vigor than ever before. Asi(le from the commercial value of the beautiful evergreen to the shipper (who well knows the han dling of which is even a greater gamble than speculation in cotton) it wvould be diflicult to estimate the relief this industry has brought to the many sorely disappointed cotton growers of Eastern South Carolina, particularly in Berkelely, Clarendon, and Georgetown coun ties. The writer would be glad could lie feel at liberty to mention "HE WHO LOOKS BEFORE HJ "Too bad wasn't us( wouldn't b( ing up job.' But we can and make a "THE E thus makir last one in replace rott Swill rot 01. in mind ti ''build for L< B~UY THE (GR For miany odd j< are: exactly the simp~jly order "s< ad no 'sulkaitutei f' rom ya b-0 I'I. the name of an up-to-date county agricultural agent in one of these counties, who, quick to see how this industry could be benefit to many of his constituents, volun teered to help in the search for holly berries. A little incident almost pathetic in its nature which occurred while Tired "I was weak and run-down," relates Mrs. Eula Burnett, of Dalton, Ga. "I was thin and just felt tired, all the time. I didn't rest well. I wasn't ever hungry. I knew, by this, I needed a tonic, and as there is none better than CARDUI The Woman's Tonic . . , I began using Cardul," continues Mrs. Burnett. "After my first bottle, I slept better and atb better. I took four bottles. Now I'm well, feel just fin*. %vt and sleep, my skin Is, Jr- . nd I have gained , sure feel thgt Oardui Is the best tonio ever made." Thousands of other women have found Cardul just an Mrs. Burnett did. It should help you. At all druggists. LEAPS BUILDS OF CYPRESS AND 'theWood F d at first. T bothering witi do the next b( H1 replacements PR EP ig each repair just that sp( ed wVoo)d with xv it quickly? J vat with Cypi :eeps.", AD)E THAT FITS >bs; of repairing the 1< thing. Knowledge rs an advantage o)ve >meI lumber," You se tNS for farmn buiblingw.-~but in the meant imec uir local Ilumb er dIeale no inatiter for wh Addlress THERN CYPRES facturers' Associatic GrahIiami lijilding, .lacksonivile. on this drive only confirmed the belief of the county agent that he was working along on his line of duty. A few miles from town we came across a farmer loading a half dozen boxes of holly. Stopping for a moment we found the man more than willing to tell us ,what the holly berries had done for him Like many farmers his small cot ton acreage had failed him as re sult of the ravages of the boll weevil. Owing the town merchants $25 with no available assets with which to liquidate this debt the farmer was in despair when, prov idintially as it seem to him, came the holly man who exchanged for holly branches (on which the farmer supposed there was no value) thirty-seven good American dollars enablng him, as he said, to pay his debt for which he was thankful and have $11 besides for Christmas gifts for the wife . and children. Extravagant statements are in circulation which would give the impression that great profits are made by those who deal in these Christmas evergreens. Holly ship pers recall with little pleasure the Conditions two years ago when hundreds of boxes of holly were dumped or given away in Philadel phia and New York owing to over supply. It may be many years be for the holly shippers will come to South Carolina again for their holly, as usually there is an abun dant supply of berries in Dela ware, Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina with the advantage of lower freights. Many of the hard pressed farmers of Eastern South Carolina who have had the oppor tunity of selling their holly at a profit may have the double pleas ure of giving their families a happy Christmas from the proceeds of this nature crop, which they had heretofore - considered of no commercial value-a crop for which they had toiled not-and at the same time providing Christmas cheer for thousands of people in the great cities, who appreciate so greaty 'the beautiful rld-berried holly and the berried mistlitoe bought. P. E. Squires. Mann11ing, S. C. Subscribe to The Times BUILDS FOR KEEPS." ternal' 'hen we 1 this fix :st thing of job the >t. Why rood that list keep -ess you THE JOB. wer grades of this fact r those who ~e the point. nsist on "CYPR ESS at purpose you buy. S water" Cypre s you can Identify 1l it b~y this mark: ,~ IE i ~ mAan~ You'll get with Si pipe that Prince Albert is brin sold in toppy red bak. tidy red tins, SMol Iandsome pound end half pound tin humidors and in tae P ound crystal glass humidor. with tong sponge moistener top. exch -m~m idea pipe ~2 of y forn W MR/ ER MBhomi fun beca, Copyright 1921 by R. J. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Winston-Salemc, N.C. BIG FIRE AT LATTA Latta, Dec. 9.-Friday morning about 1:30 o'clock Latta had the worst fire that it has had in many years. The fire swept the area be tween Marion street and Railroad avenue, consisting of one block and about half of another before the flames could be stopped. In the path of the flames were 14 pl)aces3 of business, including a shoe shop, a blacksmith shop, a large negro boarding house, with a dance hall and piano underneath, one barber shop, a tobacco warehouse, a grist mill and seven grocery stores, which carried small stocks of groceries and fruits, e-rept S. E. Brunson, who carried -- :rge stock of groceries and undet ..ng supplies, and did a con sidera',' , business; also B. F. Moore & Co., who did a large business and handled an assorted line of goods. The people of Latta sometim: re ferred to this section as "The Bow cry." The loss in dollars and cents to those who owned these little places of business is great and will probab ly reach between $30,000 and $40,000. H. E. Parham, in losing his tobacco warehouse, in whbich was stored a lot of corn in the shuck and cotton seed, will Probably be the greatest indivi dlual loser. COTTON NEWS Columbia, D)ec, 12.-The cotton growers of D)illon county are looking with great favor andl enthusiasm up on the movement for the cooperative marketing of cotton, according to Senator P. L. Bethea, a Columbia v'isitor, yesterdtay. Approximately 4,000 bales have already been~ signed up in that county, he said, and an ac tive canvass he thinks wvill result in a goo, portion of the county's crop being signedl. "I have given the marketing end of our problem considlerable thought <huring the past few years', said Sena tor Bethea, "because I have recogniz ed the fact that there was something radically wrong about, it and that somet hing ought to be done to correct it. 1 a mconvincedt that the solution of the prioblem will be fou nd in the co-operative marketing of cottoni along~ the lines that we are planning. "'I amn confident that the effiort, to form the SouthI Carolina Cotton Grow ers Co-operativ'e Association will sue ceed. 'The idlea is spreading very ia pid ly and the eyese of our people are being opened to the wisdom of the mnovemen t. Tlo me it appears to he he most sens ible thing that the far, mcirs havi e uinderta ken in many years.'' A ieport fromn Chester' ro'e'~(ived at I he otlice of the cooperat iv' associa lion yesterday said that the meetings in behalf of the ma rke tin.' movement in t ha'. county were be inig i.-ll attendl ed andl that much ent husiasmn was being shown. Ettle difllcenity is anti cipta t ed in) securing that county's Lowndes J1. tlrown ing has assumed charge of the c'ampaign in Union 'oun ty anid 11rom0ises thant. the coun a y's quo1ta shall be si.~iged up. Subscribe to The Times St ranage, is it not , how fallaucious andI( periei'ons ideas still at this late day possess5 the minds of our * ople ? 'Take for examohple the erroneous idleas which even educl(atedl and other'wise intelligenut te- ple entertain relative to that most treacherous and fatal d is'.as~e of chiildhood --Whooping li!~ cmewhere a pipe and P. :art fresh all over again at.1 I-and forget every smoke ei spilled the beans! For a iful with Prince Albert, wi: cejoy you ever registered! it a pin in here! Prince . ue or parch your throat. B isive patented process. So, you may have stored away t I We tell you that you can ur life on every fire-up-if y packing! hat P. A. hands you in a pip .-made cigarette! Gee--bui rolling 'em with Prince All use P. A. is crimp cut and s RINEE A the natiOnal joy Whooping Cough is a disease well known to all, but is, unfortunately, consir'-red by most persons a very simupl disease of childhood which in their :inion, does not require the at tenti( of a physician. This, however, is no, the case, as Whooping Cough with i - -complications "is a very fatal aaccetion, 'ranking first among the acute infections as a cause of Death in Children unIer five years of age." The earliest and most serious consideration should be given pa tients attacked with this disease, and it should be isolated and quarantined as1 ridigedly as any disease I know of, for its effect is as fatal and the ser ious conditions suffered after the di sase as numerous and as severe- as can well be imagined. Among the complications and after effects of Whooping Cough may be mentioned hemorrhages of various kinds, death rrom spasm of the throat, convIusions, Fish, Oysters, Shi When in Sumter coI nice line of Sea Foods. tra Large Oysters and SI Oakland Avenue, on the us a call. CLARK FISH Sumte C o Theli BLUE DI On hand now.' to keep a stoch~ Manning CHANDLER & f/ he beginning! Get a :perience you ever had jimmy pipe, packed I trim any degree of [t's a revelation! lbert can't bite your >th are cut out by our just pass up any old hat you can't smoke a and just have the time ou play Prinice Albert a it will duplicate in a : you'll have a lot of ert; and, it's a cinch tays put! LBERT smoke hemorrhages on the brain, rarely paralysis, markbd wasting of the body, numerious and varied diseases of the lungs which are extremely ser ious and are responsible for nine out of ten deaths due to the disease, as thma, serious, and ofttimes perman ent, heart troubles, tu-erculosis, etc. "It causen more deaths than Dip theria and Scarlet Fever." The con tageousnesn; of the diseLase persists probably for a lon time hence the importince of an crty dia:nc:is and effective quarantine for the proper length of time for all persons suffe' ing with this most dangerous disel e. If we do not wish to have our child ren suffer from this dreaded disease we must bring them early to compet ent physicians for the earliest diagno sis and prompt treatment and aid the health authbrities in their efforts to prevent the disease by giving them our hearty and fullest co-operation. imp and Sea Food. ne to see us, we handle a Fresh Daily Norfolk Ex arimps. Our place is 1302 corner. Phone 1083. Give & OYSTER CO. r, S. C. WEN BROS. MARBLE I and GRANITE CO. DEsIGNE~RS MANUFACTURERS ERECTORS Dealers in everything for the cemetery. lhe largest and best equipped mnon ental mills in the Carolinas. -enwood,.-..--.-- --.-S. C. ~amous XIE GEM! We will endeavor at all times. Fuel Co. SPROTT- Pro- prs.