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her[. og'K ,fi e t rafting, of course, is nt a new I al expedient. Men hate cut s~timber' In the forests an'd.used rs to transport their :lQgs to ls ever since th' earliest. days hn4~stry. But it' has reiained for cj . e~ican West'to takethat trap r. 6rt ,lofal ex edient'.o fthe 'itlan ads tranlse it :into the;e dextinded d it to Ods s~fthe th oumbia River up in the ~',. N~A est of the-United tates, West t iers today are building log rafts as ngas ocean liners. With massive chains and with stout .steel cables they are ribbing and. bracing their ant rafts to withstand long, rough , o ages. Then they are- towing those 'to -sea and down the Pacific a osand miles and more to lumber ills in theports of Central and Sou thorn California. In that operation ere is pbril. to human life and pro ' arty. In the -daring the resource. Snessand the victories of the men 'who have braved the dangers and rsked. their' lives and staked their ''wealth and won, there are romance and drama and the materials ready nMade for an epic poem. But' this is ' business article. The Columbia River, forming the boundary between the states of Ore on and Washington for several hun 'red miles up from its mouth and then siinging northward 'through Wash ing n and far up into 'British Colum pia, is a great natuaral outlet for the products 6f the Pacific Northwest. Among those, products isthe timber of the Northwestern forests. Twenty miles up tie- Columbia and just above the ity of Astoria, Oregon s a tributary body of water called -Wallace Slough, ia the raft-building V1ht of the Benson Lumber. Company. Thirteen hundred miles to the south ward in San Diego, California, are the Ienson Lumber Company's mills. Ah'd the connecting transportationl link between the' lumber company's source of supply and its manufactur "HE WHO LOOKS BEFORE This is the pencil for any buildir buildings o. very firstq you will be There's or For farm hous gallery suppor and all "expo -lumber gives Cypress, the Here is somet For many us< just as well a Your lumber calls for and s "Buy the ( - Write us for lisi of FlTE @ andI 'n substitstes' from Soi c v~Man YOU7R L.OCAL DEAER WELL; S In t~t the Pacific Ocea na ocean- harnessed to. the uses of indus tf b an oldeily, keen-ey ,~a *fedman named John A. Fsaec~ SFastatbend is. said 'to knb ,more. 'abotbuildinig log rafts for shit.ivat er naa tion tih:nan other mani1y-. 14 Ieis tl.os4e~ ihg gen u t i ban ;son.4 oiler raftaliplni li g laltad a.lpA.tHiuate of te hrd- school of.eoxperience In h~Is ow/n highly .seilze ie .Wat he ktioh's about rafting logh an the West emn ocean the ha slerned in his own spractice of his own. peculiar profes slon. TGuided by experience and warn ed by his jfailures, hhas revised and corrected' his raft-building technique and porfected his metbde until today he can take three or our million feet of timber in th6 form- of logs, fashion that timber into .a raft more than 800 feet long, load 'it with a deck-load of shingles and lath 'and cedar posts and send it .out to sea behind ii steamship, confident that* it will hold together through the seas of the Pacifie', travel nearly the whole lenigth of the long Western coast line, ahd, two weeks later, arrive at~ its destination in San Diego arbor, 'top-side-up and all ship.. shape. Obviously 'there are difficulties to be forestalle'd and overcome. The Padific Ocean submits not willingly to the business of being harnessed; In the early salt-water rafting experi mnents, those .difficultiese evolved dis coura ig results: As far back as 1894 JonEastabend began his ex perimenting. ,In that year h~e built the--first sea-going raft on the Pacific coast-built -it for th'e Robinson Raft ing Company. at Stella, Washington, forty niiles up the Columbia, and bult it as well as he then knew how. The raft consisted of fir piling to be osed in wharf construction in S an Francis co harbor. But the fir never reached San Francisco. The raft was a spec tacular failure. Thirty miles o4ff the entrance of~ the Columbia It went to HE LEAPS BUILDS OF CYPR$SS A e time to.- shar some close fi~ ig jobs ahead of r, repairs to old < iestion that wil -"What lumbers dly one answer WOOD ETElR -"OF COURSE." es,.barns, outhouses, ts, columns, rails, floc sed -to -weather"~ us such ever-lasting s prized wood of the :hing, else to I'emen s the lower grades nd save you some dealer will know wh vill advise you to 'rade That Fits LNS for farm buildings-.but in the meantir your local lumber dealer--no matter for SAddress JTHERN CYPRE ufacturers' Associat 177 Graham Building, .Jacksonvilie, Fla. UIPPLY VOU. IF? HE EASNT ENOUGHI CYPR Mililone Pacts Of Flowe' Seeds Free We believe in flowere around the ifomne otjhe South. Flowers brighten up the- bonse Surreundings and give pleaseure. and satisfaction to those who have thein. We have. killed more. than a'milliof paokets' of seeds, 6f beautiful yet easily, grown flowers to4 be given to our customers this spring. . ' 'ouldn't you like tobhve five a*ketu of beautiful flow..-s free? OU 04N GIDT THEMI Hasting4 1922 catalog Is-a 100-page handsomely illustratd 'seed book full from cover' to: cover of truthful YeS tion- a 1itiktratione of vegetables 'flowers 11r "tos. :Itii full f lipfilga deo,'ftloer and farm-f i6fiWitation that' is needed in every Southern home, and;'too, the catalog tells you how to get these flower seeds absolutely free. Write for our 1922 catalog now,. It is the finest, most .valuable and beau tiful seed hook ever published, and you will be mighty glad you've got it. There is no 'obligation to buy any thing. Just ask for the catalog, and it will come by return mail. H. G. HASTINGS CO., 8EEDSMEN, ATLANTA,' GA. pieces in the Pacific seas and scatter ed approimately 450,000 lineal feet of good grade piling over twenty-five miles of the C atsop beaches on the Oregon coast. The following year John Fastabend tried again. He built a second raft, built it of the same size as the ill fated first one with a length of 500 feet and a draft of 25 feet and a con tent of about a half-million feet of piling. But the second one he built better than the first. He built it so much better -that, when it-went to sea behind a steamship, it held together until it reached a point off the coast of California; then it, too, went to pieces. Two years later the raft-builder tried again. This time he succeeded. His raft of fir piling went down the coast intact, arrived in San Francisco in excellent- condition and brought its owners so good a price and saved so much in transportation charges that it almost paid for the loss of its two predecessors. ND BUILDS FOR KEEPS." pen- your uring on you, new )nes. The [confront ballIuse?" to that - fences,walks, rs and steps, es, no other atisfaction as Southland." ber, too. will answer' real money. at your work 'the Job." ne Inisit on "CYPR ESS what purpose you buy, SS water" Cypress -you can idenItify [QIt b~y this mark: ESS IET US KNOW AT ONCE. Meanwhile other lumber operators had been watching the expbriments. Encouraged by the success of the third Fastabend venture ,another concern, the Hammond umnbe' Company, em barked'in log-rafting activities under the name of the Oregon Rafting Com pany. Over the course of .several years this company constructed thirty giant rafts on the Columbia and tow ed all but. two of the msuccessfulfy to California" ports. Just.now, however the Benson Luni ber.- Company, with John Fastabend, the original poieer, as its- chief con stru.Ctor, is e only concern actively and extensively engaged in the enter prise of rafting logs down the Pacific. At this company's raft.building plant : WallaceSlough John Fasta behd~ building giafit rafts at the rate o bfive a year. He has developed a method of raft construction that has come to be accepted as standard. By this method he has built fifty seven rafts for the Benson company. His latest, raft Number 57, sailed from Wallace Slough September 4, 1921. Fourteen days later it was moored at the Benson lumber mill in San Diego harbor. Of the fifty-seven rafts, all but two have arrived at their destination in San Diego entirely in tact; and of the two exceptions only parts were lost at sea. On Wallace Slough construction work on the rafts is going forward all the time; their trips down the coast, however, are timed- so as to take advantage of the most favorable weather. Ocean weather, of course, is the big consideration, just as it used to be the insurmountable difficulty. The rafts must be seawosthy; and that require ment demands care in design and construction. The rafts are built in a cylindrical ligar-shaped, wooden structure called a "cradle." In general appearance the "cradle" resembles the framework of a huge wooden ship. Along its bot tom runs a massive, ship-like keel, and from this keel wooden ribs arise; the ribs, however, are king-pinned in place, and hence removable. In leng th, diameter and general contour the "craddle" resembles the raft it is to hold-800 to 835 feet long and 55 feet wide. - The "credle" is, in fact, a 'e mountable mold in which the raft is to be built' and shaped. A raft of logs, enciosed within a chain-linked "boom" such as is used in rafting operations on fresh water, is umerely a single layer of logs, all oflating on the surface of the water and only loosely held together. When John Fastabend builds a log rift to send to sea, he makes a creation that has not merely two dimensions, but three-lengt hand breadth and depth. One of his rafts will float as deeply in the water as an ocean-going ship; it will have a draft of twenty-eight feet and it will embody tremendous bulk and weight. Such a structure as that must have strength and rigidity. It must have backbone. Johr I astabend lays through the center of each raft a backbone of steel. Through the center -of the "cra (lle" his workmen first stretch that spinal column-a chain whose links are made of two-inch stock. Running out at right angles from .this back bone of chain ,at twelve-foot intervals are other chains and two-inch steel cables. These are the "ribs;" they are to encircle the raft and hold it together. Backbone and ribs togeth er resemble the skeleton of some huge fish; John Fastabend himself calls the arrangement of chain and cable the "herring-bone." The logs either in the form of pil ing or of bigger pieces , five feet through at the butt and forty feet long, go into the cradle after the "herringbone" has been laid in place. Tier by tier of timber, the raft is built up, burying the chains and cables within its mass until it rises above the ribs of the "cradle" anl to its own predetermined height of about thirty-five feet. The "(leek" is flat tened like the dleck of a ship. The ends are brought to points an'd cover ed1 by great iron caps that will consti tute the stem andl stern. Next the long ends of the lateral chains and cables are thrown aroundl the entire bulk at their twelve-foot intervals, drawn taut with donkey engines andl mnade fast. The "hull of the raft is now complete and ready to go to sea. State of South Carolina County of Clarendon. Court of Common Pleas Decree. Ida Levi, Plaintiff, vs. Johnny D~avis and D. W. Alderman and Sons Company, Defendants. Pursuant to a Decree of the Court of Common Pleas for said County and State madec in above entitledi action dated December 31st, 1921, 1, J. E. Gamble, Sheriff of Clarendon County will nell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, in front of the Court House door at Manning, S. C., on M~1onday, February 6th, 1922, being saleaday, within the legal hours for judicial sales, thme following de scribed real estate: "All that piece ,parcel or tract of land lying, being andl situate in the County of Clarendon, South Carolina, containing twenty-four (24) acres, more or less, as per plat of G. T. Floyd, Civil Engineer, lodged in Judgm~'nt Roll No. 4476 in the office of the Clerk of Court for Clarendon County in the case of Lutitia Davis and others against James Arthur Davis and others and designated on saidl pint as Lot No. 7 andI bounded and butting as follows to wit: North by lot No. 6 awarded to Nabor Davis; East by lands of Mrs. Rosa Weinberg; South by lot No. 8 awvard ed1 to Cartei- Davis now the property of Estate of A. Levi; and West by lot No. 4 awarded to Lutit ia Davis and lands now or formerly of Robert Boyd. Purchaser to pay frpaper. Sheriff of Clarendon County. bHIC E SPILLS yearkoonasDeit.SafestAtways etabte 0LDBYDRUGGISTSEVERYWHERE "S.S.S." Makes Beautiful--Youi an isi D -I he bt at yc This shows what S. 8. 8. can do In pg tilling out your cheeks, brightening er your eyes, clearing your skin. It means he years in appearance sthicken off oft your facel is The launching process is a simple 1 one. Lashings f it have held the raft i in place in the "cradle" during con- 1 struction a're thrown off;-the "cradle" itself is dismantled; and, with the first high water, the raft is afloat. Possibly a deck lo'ad is added. Ben son raft Number 57, for instance, with a length of 835 feet, a beans of 55 feet a depth of 86 feet and a draft of 28 feet, and consisting in itself of about four and one-half million feet of tim ber, carried a deckload of 1,500,000 shingles, 300,000 lath and 41,0000 lineal feet of cedar poles. Within the body of the raft there was, besides, a total weight of 125 tons of chain and cable in the "herringbone" skeleton. With the raft afloat and ready for its voyage an ocean-goihg steamship that is a magnified towboat with 1,200 or 1,500 horse power in her engine room, swings in line ahead.of the tre mendous log-built craft and makes fast her two-inch steel towing hawser to the towing link on the end of that backbone of chain that runs through the center of the raft. Then a river tug, a fussy little body important and officious over the responsibility of guiding the way down the sea, backs down to the bow of the bigger towboat and there make fast her own towline. A gray-haired man on shore sur veys the whole scene, sees that all is ready, then waves one arm at the men standing at the mooring lines and shouts, "Cast off." - Fro mthe bass-voiced siren of the big toveboat there spurts a single burst of steam-a grunt in ship-lan guage that means, "'Let's go." The little river tug echoes the remark with a single burst of steam; but she speaks in falsetto---"Let's go." That makes it unanimous. Bells jingle in two engine rooms. Two towing haw sers stretch out, dripping water. And the raft moves slowly out into the stream ,bound (low nthe Columbia for the 'sea and San diego. Once outside the river muoth and in the open sea, the little river tug casts off, puts smartly about, screech es a hurried farewell to her big com panion and goes scurrying back to ward the Columbia. The bigge rves sel grunts an absent-minded good bye ,then swings her nose to the south ward and, with her huge consort far behind her at the end of her drooping hawser, she settles down for the long, two-week pull down the coast. Despite its name, the Pacific is no mill pond. The earth's biggest ocean has its tempestuous moments of tem perament; even when becalmed, its blue surface rolls with long, heaving swells. It was those long, heaving swells that played havoc with the early rafts--broke their backs, ripped loose their towing hawsers and strew ed the bealhes for miles wvith their logs. Today the herringbone that. John Fastabend builds through the lenters of the rafts has beaten the swells-- John Fastabend 's herring bone, helped out by a mechanical de vice known as a towing engine. \With every rolling heave on the towing hawser, the Fastabend herring hone arrangement of steel through the center of the raft tightens the grip of the encircling bands of chain and cable; and thus wvith every heave the raft becomes stiffer and1( stouiter and more :-n""rthv.. Trhe towing engmne is a steam-driven automatic con trivanace that perches on the stern of the towvboat and dlevotes its attention solely to the dIrooping, straining towline, wvhich it holds over a big, grooved reel. In effect the towing engine is a spring, an elastic band in the towvline. Its business is to equalize the strain ,to take in the slack when the pull eases off and to pay the line out slowly when the pull imcreases on the crests of the swells. With the herringbone at wvork in the raft and with the towing engine at wiork on the towboat, all is serene. On the rantail of the steamer George W. Fenwick, at sea on a hiazy, lazy autumn after-noon and bound fronm Astoria to San Diego wvith a raft of logs in towv ,a deckhand sits contented ly in the sun. He runs an appraising eye back alon gthe dripping, twang ing towline of steel to the log raft, nosing its way easily through the swells like a gigantic and halter broken w~hale. ie spits expertly over the rail and to an (iler wvho has 'rome up for air he remarks: "Well, Blackie, this is Wednesday and the tenth dlay out. We'll (lock in San Diego Saturday in time for you'n me to run down to Tin Juana and see if there's any of the old red-eye left." 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S. S. is sold at all drug o. .s, in two sizes. The larger slze , the moro economical. end, the raft-builder, is crading mother of his monsters.-The Busi less Magazine. WAITER'S THROAT CUT Norfolk, Va., Jan. 30.-Rogelio Perez and Guilermo Kustoro, both prisoners in the city jail here, will have their preliminary hear ings tomorrow on charges growing out of the murder of J. B. Jones, a negro prisoner, whom Perez stabbed to (ath in jail this after noon. QusterQ in charged with be ing an accessory. Jones, who was a trusty and was waiting on the table, had of fered Perez bread which the Span iard did not like and, as the negro turned away. Perez slashed his throat with a dirk, severing the jugular vein. Jones (lied a few minutes later. The dirk, which was later found where Perez had hidden it in the kitchen, was made from an ordi nary case knife which had been sharpened into dragger. The han dIe was wound with leather and cord. Jones had only a few weeks to serve on a two-year sentence for robbery. Perez and Gustoro were recently sentenced to four years for housebreaking. Subscribe to The Times State of South Carolina, County of Clarendon. Court of Common Pleas Decree. W. H. Anderson, Plaintiff, vs. Acy Williams, F. W. Trulu.Gand McKnight Stuckey, trading as Tru luck-Stuckey Co., Defendants. Pursuant to a Decree of the Court of Common Pleas for said County and State made in above entitled action dated January 3rd, 1922, I, J. E. J. E. Gamble, Sheriff of Clarendon County will sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, in front of the Court House door at Manning, S. C., on Monday, February 6th, 1922, being salezday, within the leal hours for judicial sales, the following de scribed real estate: "All that piece, parcel or tract of land, situated near Summerton, Coun - ty of Clarendon, South Carolina, con taining fifty (50) acres, more or less, hounded on the north by the lands of Mrs. M. S. Cantey, on the wvest by the lands of ,James R. Ragin and T. G;. Ragin, on the east by the lands of Holladay, and on the south by the lands of tih' estate of Wesley Rich bou rg." P urchaser1 to pa y for papers. J1. E. GAMBLE, Sheriff of Clarendon County. State of South Carolina, County oIf Clarendon. Court of' Common Pleas. Decree. Clarence Iseman, P'la intilT. vs. Ishamn H. Hilton, Defendant. Pursuant to a lDeeree of the Court of Common Pleas for saidl County andI State made in above entitled action dated January 1.4th, 1922, 1, J. E. Gamble, Sheriff of Clarendon County wvill sell at public auction to the high est biddler for cash, in front of the Court H ouse door0 at Manning, S. C., on Monday, February 6th, 1922, be. ing salesday, with in the legal hours for judlicial sales, the~ following deC scrib~ed real estate: All that piece parcel, or lot of land measuring thirty-five feet square with the buildings and improvements thereon situated in Davis Station in the County and State aforesaid bound ed and butting as follows to wit: North by the Right of Way of North Western Railroad of South Carolina; Eo4t and South hy lands of JI. 1). Carter; West by lot of C. L. Ne'lson's estate the saidl lot of land~ being t he same that was conveyedl to me' by dleedl of ,J. D. Carter dated Septe'mber 1st, 1915 andl recordled in Book K-5 page 483. Purehaser to pay for papers. JT. E. GAMBLE, SherifY of Clarenudon County. Pencil No. 174 Made in fIve grades NCIL WITH THE RED BAND MIIKADO W1PANY- NF.W YORK