Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

OUTCAST CIRL AND NIl BEAUTIUL POEM Millions of people have read the -ri ten by a young and, beautiful outast girl on her deathbed under Ignble circumstances' many years a o: A London, England,.paper pro nouziced the poem the most beautiful. evei written in the United States. The snow that we had hero calls the poem c to our mind and we are append ,ing.$t with the following brief sketch of the broken hearted girl who wrote it: '"In the early part bf Ithe war be tween the states on a stormy night right in the dead of wintei, there ,'died at the Commercihl hospital, in the Cikty of Cincinnati, a young wom an, over whose head only two and twentf summers had passed. She had once been possessed of an envi able share of beauty and had- been as - she herself said, "flattered ancl sought for the charms of her face," but ,as! She had fallen from won an's high estate. Higly educated and with accomplished man ers, she might have shone in the highest so ciety. But the evil hour that pro cured her ruin was the one from which went out the innocence of childhood; and having spent a young life in disgrace and shame, the poor and friendless one lied the melan choly death of a broken-hearted out cast. Among her personal effects was found in manuscript "The Beau tiful Snow," which was carried to Enos B. Reed, a gentleman of cul ture and literary taste, who was at that time editor of the National Un ion. In the columns of that paper on the morning of the (lay follow ing the girl's death, the poem ap peared in print for the fist time. Whon the paper containing the poem 'me out, the body of the vic-' tim l'ad not, yet received burial. The attention of Thomas Buchanan Reed, one of the first American poets, was so taken with the stirring pathos that he immediately followed the corpse to its final resting place. Such are the plain facts concerning Her , whose "Beautiful Snow" will long be remembered as one of the brightest gems in American litera ture." Oh! the snow, 'the beautiful snow! Filling thesky and the earth below, Over the house tops, over the street, Over the heads of the people you meet. Dancing, Flitting, skipping along; Beautiful snow! it can do nothing wrong, Flying to kiss the fair lady's cheek, Clinging to lips in a frolicsome freak; Beautiful snow from the heavens ' above, Pure as an angel, gentle as love! Oh!' the snow, the beautiful snow! How the flakes gather and light as they go Whirling about in their maddening fun; It plays in its glee with every one, Chasing, Laughing, Hurrying by, It lights the face and sparkles the And playing (logs with a bark and a bound Snap rat the.. crystals that eddy around; The town is alive and its heart's in a glow , as Dividend& - Therc having enough your ev true cc lasts 1ot the repe , i~air~dKYou made fo de'nds in All makes of battery silfully repaired' / Goda sil To wolcpme the'. comingofthbeu o te mngof the eau tiful snow, ,How wildly the crowd goes swaying .. i aalong Hailing to each other with humor and song, How the gay sleds like meteors pass by, Bright for a inoment, then lost to the eye. Ringing, Swinging, Dashing they go, Over the crest of the beautiful snow, Snow so - pure when it fell from the "s sky, As to make one regret-to see it lie To be trampled and tracked by thou sands of feet Till it btends with the filth ' of the horrible street, Once I was as pure as the snow, but I fell, Fell like a snowflake, from heaven to hell; Fell to be trampled .on as filth In the .street, Fell to be scoffed, to be spit on and beat, Pleading, Cursing, Dreading to die! Selling my soul to whoever would buy; Dealin gin shame for %a morsel of bread; Hating thb living and fearing the dead, Merciful Godl Have I fallen so low? And yet I was once like the beautiful snow, With an eye like crystal, a heart like its glow, Once I was loved for my innocent grace, Flattered and sought rfor "Ihe Charms of my face; Father, Mother, Sister, all, God and myself I have lost by my fall! The vilest wretch that goes shiver ing by Will make a wide sweep lest I wan der too night For all that is on or above me, I know, There's nothing so pure as the beau tiful snow, Hlow strange it should be that this beautiful snow Should fall on the sinner with no where to go; How strange it should be when night comes again If the snow and the ice struck my desperate brain! Fainting, Freezing, Dying alone, Too wicked for prayer, too weak for a moan To be heard on the streets of a crazy town, Gone mad in the joy of a snow con ing down; To be and to (lie in my terrible woe, With a bed and a shroud of the beau tiful snow, Sinner, despair not, Christ stoopeth low. FEDERAL All) ROADS MUST BE REPAIRED Washington, D. C., Feb. 7.-"A stitch in time saves nine," and when this is applied to the repair of im proved ,highways, it means the sav ing of hundreds of thousands of dol lars a year to taxpayers. Building the highest types of im proved highways and then promptly forgetting them, expecting them to TTERIE5 in ServiCe is real satisfaction in a battery with power to respond instantly to ery call. Ar 1 there is nomy in a battery that' ig without the help of ir shop. vill find that the Exide r your car pays big divi service. grin & Woodruff, AM ERTON, S. C. Hastin.s' deeds 1 922 Catalog ree It's ready nqw.. 100 handsomely it luqtrated pagds of worth-while seed and garden news for Southern garden era and farmers. This new catalog we believe, is the most valuable seed book ever published. It contains 1( full pages of the most popular vege tables, 'flowers and farm crop plants the finest work of its, kind ever at. tempted. With our photographid illustrations and .color pictures also from photo graphs, we show you just what you can grow with Hastings' Seeds even be. fore you order the seeds. Our cata log makes garden and flower bed planning easy and it should be in every single Southprn home. Write um a post-card for it, giving your name and address. It will come to yo by return mail. and, you will be mighty glad you've got it. Hastings' Seeds are the Standard of the South, and the largest mail order seed house in the world is back of them. They've go' to be the best. Write now for the 1922 catalog. It is absolutely free. H. G. HASTINGS CO., SEEDSMEN, ATLANTA, GA. provide their full measure of economic service without further attention must ston. This, in effect, is the de. mand of the Unite& States govern ment as expressed in the recently eira acted federal aid ,bill providing $75, 000,000 for road building in 1922. The provision for compulsory main tenance in the new federal aid bill is one of its most important features In harmony with the spirit of Presi dent Hardinig's firse message to con gress, in which he deprecated the fail ure to give proper attention to roads after construction, the new act lay; a heavy penalty upon failure to main. tain roads to be constructed with fed eral aid. The act defines "maintenance" it its broadcast sense as "the constant making of needed repairs to preserve a smooth-surfaced highway." To insure that each highway aided by the government will receive that kind of maintenance, the act provides that the secretary of agriculture shall serve notice upon any state which al lows a road to suffer fqr lack of main tenance. If within 90 dlys after notice th( proper attention has not been giver to the road, the secretary is authoriz ed to proceed to maintain it himself and to charge the cost against the federal funds alloted to that state The secretary is further ordered t( refuse to approve any other projeci in the state until the' amount spent for maintenance of the project ii question has been refunded by the state. When the money is paid bacl< it is to be reapportioned among all of the states so that the delinquent statt will lose all but a small portion. Even the highest types of pavement require maintenance at some time or other, but some more than others. A concrete pavement will crack at ir regular intervals, and these crack: must be treated to keep the pavement from quickly disintegrating. Bitu mrinous pavements may roll up am( dev'elop bmj sp)ots o'ecasionally, wvhicl spots muitst be cleanied out and re storedl. In brick pavements there ar< timos whien some structulral defeci needs1 to he remed(1ied to pre'ven1t im. pairmienit of the surface. oln the cast ot seondalry pave-menlt types, incelud ing the mlacadam famiily, periodic e. storat'on and reconistruction are nec. essary sin1ce tihe adlvent of motoi it is, thierefore, to the initerest 0 the various states: 1. '" consider, in the se.lectionl o pa:1vemie! 'types, the (questioni of cos of mintenaniiicel~ 1 over tile entireC ii f of thle liavemen0It, rath~er thian the firs cost alone1. 2. Tlo keep all piavemnents iln a goot staite of re'pair. 3. To keep comlplete, det ailed amu accu rate recordls of miniIteniane' costs oni all types5 of pav'fenits. A niumbher of states, as for examph Oio , Ii ilno. , Massachiusetts ml.A dev Yor-k alreadly aro keeping such main tenianlce records, separatinlg tile cos on1 the surlface pr~oper from thle cos 'signs1. Ini Illinois, for inlstance, blrick am concrete types are listed as followvs ii the last report of the state hiighwa: 'omminission, the figureCs shiowinlg thl average cost for one0 year oif repair ing the surlfalce of a mile of 18-Coo roadway:, Concrete, cement-------.$12.:2 Brick, all types, .. ......... 6.3: In Oh io, the reccor-ds arec even mor complete, revealing tihe followim mlainitenanice costs for one year aiti per mile o (f all wid1ths: Bienk, rigidl typ)es - .. _ ..._ -$ 23 Concrete, cemrent----..---...$ 98 Grave1'(l, rollod ......_ .$ 1 Concrete, bituminous -....--31 Mplend(ami, waterbound-._..$381 Macadami, bituminous ..--.$38f With the governmlent nowv addinl its influence to promlote proper- main tenance, it is thought that an increas ed interest in the keeping of such re edrds wvill result in great saving ti t~he tnannae WHAT WOULD I-DO IF-I WERE IN YOUR PLACE? All are familiar with the old gag How do, you pronounce Czstoria ? and the answer-Doctors pronounce it harmless. But, it is really true that BOLL WEEVIL spells DISASTER--DISOR GANIZATION-POVERTY -- unleys the proper preventive and protective measures are applied in time. You have been advised how to com bat the weevil and the plans for fighting the weevil as outlined in pre vious letters shoulk be carefully studied and followed, but, the thing that I would do first as a County Ag ricultural Agent, Banker or Merchant would be to call a meeting (not a public meeting) of a few of the lead Iers in my county or township, being sure to have several successful farm ers present; to size up the situation and decide what Ito do. In advance of the meeting I would prepare a statement showing the population of the county, the number of farms, size of farms, farms operated by owners and by tenants, scrage in different crops and production; also the num ber of domestic animals of different kinds, beef and dairy cattle, swine and sheep, poultry and egg production bee colonies etc., (This information is available in the 1920 census advance sheets) A careful study of this state ment showing the basis wealth of the county should be made, and the weak as well as the 'strong points of the farming system discovered. Then, with a proper understanding of the situation the committee can decide up on a farming program for the county. After- this comes work, not indifferent appropriation of the plan, but en thusiastic support. If you are con vinced that the program is all right make it your business to convince the other fellow-keep at it-it is going to take several years to put the plan over. Bear in mind that we should con tinue to grow cotton if this can be lone at a profit, but cotton mony must be "velvet"-A living on the farm comes first-we should not have to buy food and feed. Carpet grass and lespedeza pastu res, velvet beans, soy beans, cow peas, .jilk cows, sour-cream dairying, poul try, hogs, peanuts, sweet potatoes to bacco and many other farm crops, all offer the farmers in the Coastal Plain of the Carolinas opportunities for a living-and as world conditions gradually improve, steadily increasing incomes. LESPEDEZA AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR A COTTON CROP Lespedeza, one of the South's great est legumes, is the title of an inter esting article prepared for the Lespe deza Seed Growers' Cooperative As sociation, Inc., by Dr. R. E. Lewis, Ulains, Louisiana, a prominent far m er who is specializing in the growing of this profitable crop. While the name, Lespedeza, was supposed to have been given this pl1ant by botanists in 1800; it was not until 1880 that it received the atten tion its merits wvarranted , as a comn mercial farm pr'oduct., under the de velopment of Col. J. B3. Ale hee, of Laurel H ill, ALuiianiIa, who0 r'ecogn iz (d its value as a feed for farm ani mtals andl as a soil builder, antd who saing its prlaises for years. Its place in southern agricul ture is due lar'gely' to Col. Ale~hee, says Dr. Lewis. Le'sped(ezai is ani annual, mnaturingi its seed1 in the fall, whliich shatter lead ily and riesee' the ground for the cooming yeari. . ormally, these seeds whtiebI shat ter oil' at maturing ime renmain dormit..t until the warm Lih and moisture germinate thenm. It Iis the practice to plant from F'ebru art' 15 to May I. I The st ens and 1( branches of' the L es pedez~a plant. arec slend~er' and the leaves small1 btt very numerlous. A goodl (crop will grow tol the height of 15 to 18 inches, and on fert ile soils 30 inches is ntot unknown. It is esti mated( that. a good stamnd of L~espede. za will r'epriesent a ton of hay foi eachI G inches of' its gr'owth. This plant will grow on almost aIny of the type's (If soil in the cotton bel01t, but, (of 'onr ise 1like most ofthei lalnts does best on a more fer'tile, well dra'iinled soil. It is thought that no pla0nt is mor'e suitable to1 fol low~ cottoni, as Le.sp1edezia brings the soil XPECT 11MOTHERS For Three Gener ationls '~Have Madto Chl,d-Bir th Easier By Usingj - Walytto :OOKLUT OM NOflHERHOOD ANDTHI BABnY.Fmi CARDUI HELPED REGAIN STRENGTH Alabama Lady Was-Sick For Three Years, Suffering Pain, Nervous and Depressed--Read Her Own Story of Recovery. Paint Rock, Ala.-Mrs. C. M. Stegall, of near here, recently related the fol. lowing interesting account of her re. covery: "I was in a weakened con dition. I was sick three years In bed, suffering a great deal of pain, weak, servous, depressed. I was so weak, I couldn't walk across the floor; just had to lay and mr little ones do the work. I was. almost dead. I tried every thing I heard of, and a number of doctors. Still 1 didn't get any relief. I couldn't eat, and slept poorly. I believe If I hadn't heard of and taken Cardul I would have died. I bought six bottles, after a neighbor told me what it did for her. "I began to eat and sleep, began to gain my strength and am now well and strong. I haven't had any trou ble since ... I sure can testify to the good that Cardui did me. I don't think there Is a better tonic made and I believe jt saved my life." For over 40 years, thousands of wo. men have used Cardui successfully, In the treatment of many womanly ailments. If you suffer s these women did, take Cardui. It may help you, too. At all druggist. D 85 back to its former state of fertility. The custom of seeding Lespedeza with oats has ,become more or less a fixed habit among the producers, as th'e oats, by virtue of its shade keeps down weed sand grasses and allows the Lespedeza to make rapid growth. however, just is good crops can be produced when the seed is sown alone; but seeding with oats has the advant age of giving the planter two crops from the same ground during the the year, with but one cost of culti vation. Experience indicates that one bushel of seed (25 lbs.) per acre is about the right amount to he plant ed. It requires no inoculation, as the rough little jackets containing the seeds carry enough from the fields from which they are taken to insure perfect inoculation. No special soil preparation is neces sary, although it has been demon strated beyond a doubt that soils well supplied with phosphates will proluc'e the greatest grrowth. The method of harvesting the hay will depend somewhat on the grade of hay desired. In any event, the chief effort should be directed to the preservation of the leaves upon the stem as they constitute a great part of the feeding value. Cctting is not started until the plants are in full bloom, and the hay should not be cut while the dew is on or while wet from rain. Little need be said in favor of LI's pleieza Iay as a feed for all kinds o' stock after looking at t he fol lowine compliiaativye anta lyses: imo11th y con taiins 2.8 per' cent prloteCin, 283 per1 ('ent c'arblohydra tes and 1 .1 perctt fats. Lespe'dezai contains '7.6 per'cenlt proteini, 31.0 percent car1bohydr iater antI 1.8 per' cent Jats. As comparediti with thler legumle hays it ha1 th ad(vanlltage of bintg Ireet fromi W woody tiont andit is free fromi . the extremte hcgIxatyropetiestt willch makesom OF' COTT~lON " \AiPlAlCGN ON into theis ogtf thle South1 C: ioin C:ottonl Gr'owers' Co-operative Asstoci: ti onl here. E~very mail binigs signed5 c'ontractsu anti letter'ls tellin tg of en thuSiasml for' the mo(vemnl~it in var. Dlilingtoni counity tobst rved'5 "in up-Da y"' last 'iTuestlhy andi~ cotr~at reprlesenltin '1,830 bale were (!5signe bring tile total numnber olf blales sign Cheoster'field sent. ini its lirst. report 'onitracts repretletin g tover 2 ,20J hales. A letter' from the Ahhtevilh cotunty, repots lite hieadwayv bline F~armers mieber. of the G--at'ral IEAGLE "MIKADO" For Sale at your Dealer ASK FOR THE YELLOW EAGLE - EAGLE PENCIL C( rage seven Assembly are signing the contract. Senators George K. Laney, of Chester field, P. L. Bethea of Dillon, and F. C. Robinson have already signed and in the House of Representatives Clarence J. Jackson, of Sumter, John V.'. Mc Kay, of Dillon, L. R. Windham and Julius -S. McInnes, of Darlington; F. Gentry Harris, and J. H. Mabry of Spartanburg have already signed. The campaign for contracts will be pushed with the greatest possibe; vigor all over the state during t1 e next three months. INFORMA'TION ABOUT THE TOIBACCO ASSOCIATION Florence, S C., Feb. 4, 1922. In reply to telegi .m sent to Mr. .J. C. Stone, President of the Kentucky Burley Tobheco Growers Co-operative Association, asking him to give the South Carolina Campaign Committee some information as to the Kentucky situation, the following reply was re ceived: Lexington, Ky., Feb. 1, 1922. "South Carolvi Campaign Coin. Co-operating Tobacco Asso. Florence, S. C. Gentlemen: Owing to my o'bsence from the of fice your telegran on Jan. 26th has just been received, and in reply will say that there are about 132 loose leaf warehouses in the entire Burley district. Of these houses our Asso eiation now owns 117, and there are 15 houses, mostly small ones, selling tobacco at public auction. Up to this time they have sold around thirty-seven to thirty-eight. million pounds, and for the last ten (lays receipts in these houses are ex tremely light ,and in my opinion, they will not sell over twelve or fifteen million pounds more. The Association began receiving to bacco in Lexington on Thursday, .Jan 'ary 20th, and on Monday, Ja nu ary 30th, we began receiving in all of our other receiving points, about 90 in number. We are making a substantial ad vance to each farmer on delivery of his tobacco, and this advance in most cases has proven to be more than the farmer got for his entire crop last year, and I am glad to sa ythe farm ers over the entire district are not, only satisfied, but are charmed with the way their Association has started off. We estimate that the Association will handle this year in the neighbor hood of 1 50,000,000 pounds and from present indications, I feel confident that we will sell most of our tobacco in Winter order. However, we are prepared to finance and redry all of the crop, if it becomes n.-essary to (o so. We all feel very much encouraged over the way our operation has start ed off an11d the members of the Asso (iation are pleased with the way their business is being handled, and I feel confident it is going to be the salva tion of the business int.oetst of our section. If there is any information at :my time that you desire, write me and I will give it to you. With kind regards and best wishes, I am, Yours very truly, (Signed) James C. Stone, President and General Mgr. Subscribe to The Times Pimnples Keep They Make Women, Too, a Puzale! Hlow S. S. S. Stops~ Shin Eruptions Positively. ofite Crusi g;4, 14::;4441'4 Il ives 4ilfal \\4.o i 44 , 4. MIKAD )MPAN . NF . YORA13