Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Bn Warehouse W. T. HARNSBERGER, Prop. AUCTION SALES. FARMERS! We are going to get you the high dollar for your tobacco this sea son. Mr.McDaniels will be the auctioneer for our house, and he is one of the very best in the business. He is the auctioneer at the Piedmont Warehouse at Danville, Va., one of the largest -houses there. He is an expert judge of tobacco and works hard for the farmers' interest. We will open July 1st, to receive tobacco from the farmers and will grade it at a nominal cost. Bring your tobacco to Sumter, and bring it to the Banner Warehouse CYPRESS CELEBRATED IN that the bodies were a sort of a root, all time. The Romans reverenced whereupon the laborers cannibalisti- cypress. They carved their laws on ENDaly devoured them. Hearn unearth- slabs of it. At about the same time lECED AN ii FAC eda Creole legend that these bodies statues of gods and other people were were man-root that made its appear- carved from this wood. Pliny men ance once each century in the swamps tions a cypr~ess statue of Jupiter six Famous Wood of Swamp Owes Then he wrote the story. hundred years old. The Egyptians Longevity to VegetableBut mattor-of-factness soon stepped encased the greater number of their "Smallpox" in with another version of the episode. mummies in cypress. Practically all The man-root of the story was the literature about Egyptian mummies (By Harry E. Barnet) root of a cypress that a laborer un- is centered on bodies boxed with cy There is a distinct wood of litera- wittingly and fantastically skinned press. The latter were practically the ture. It is cypress. In literature cy- with his grubbing hoe, so that under only mummies left when investiga press has the best of the mention the blood-curdling spell of the swamps tions began, for cypress is the wood whenever the element of romantic and to the laborer the cypress root took that outlasts all others. historic Interest falls in with wood on h no f a hm bod. T and timber; h a-otsoy oeewl tofcos tmnfcue t w Among the most delightful storiesalaslv.peratend bot n-hid f evr written are those in which the scenes are laid Swmplneatraoncpes iao-thoresnaed sr bivgtal * ante-bellum houses of the South. These homes, for the most part, were o~ el-bu nks o yrs r muet o.Tedsaei built of. cypress, because it is the only bae r lv ihdal epnscue yafnu hc esit wood that gracefully grows old -in that climate, and these boe eentebssfrmn Nertae knt.Te ugsexvtshos built to shelter generation afterthtwiesoealeyerdeihe interefomaq rerfannc generation. Hence, the southerninptigo pae.Fritactannhinwdad smtms structures stil aire massive. Age has teei h hr nk. codn eea nhsi egh hs oe not turned them into uncomfortable t hs aeti epn rw ofl ihabonpldr rdcdb half-ruins. If you examine the Scrip-im essie Atteelofisti th fug ,wic atssanaiep tures, and look through ancient his--i a on hn agrdi iadinlyklsisprn.Te tory, you find that where wood is srksmn es rd vgttotedsaei vr rea~it~ is mentioned by name it is cypress,evngwnteswhthhonan vttismlpxis ad tob though for a time cypress was known waee ssrc meitl ih pcy"adsasfo thv h as "gopher wood," and "beroth," as esadde.OdNgosbleeapaac fapcmre ua bwell as "berosh."thtaloth dedtesiacyrs fae Cyrs trs,"cy" tte From the birth of literature the baehv ensrc ihtehr erhv otne ogo o bulk of written matter treats cypressoftisnk.Btcm o ses 1,0 yar.Tepsrvieisn from the symbolic standpoint, or at-stp inalinitthtte"onestalo.Teoladte"ec legorfcally. But there never is absentsnk"irelyavrhamesrp nss cuetedrblty o te the suggestion of hygiene, of frag-tie Itavrg leghifrmtow d.Tesblty nd he ae b rance, of steadfastness, of endurance, fe otofe n af t akwt hc ti hpdwr esn and of mystery, especia'lly of mystery, i lr rw rboz oowieeog o h ninst eeec for two reasons.itunesd issrpd vihrdliei.Te ha tofson hirw d Cypress is a swamp tree. Swauraps teblyo e-add wtrlbrosywt rd ntuet where It flourishes are mysterious sae h oyi ary sedradte atdterhniokt places---breeding spots of fevers andanltetiedsnashrypite ls. of pestilential, bugaboos that through tnerorhrdran veyhd. N hbulhiakfom cps, centuries have been personified as de- Ohrsapltrtr fc rs huhtewo a ie nte mona, who stalk about, dripping dlis-(el ihutm~ uaa lve ae h ataiin n h 'aster and death wherever they go.wofon reuei th cyrs Poncasbilsip ow yrs. Swamps mask real things equally as bae.I hsltrtr r h horrible. A typical cypress br-ake is vvd(ecitoso odofsiasI 74 on Lwo ulse heavily wooded. High above thewihtegetskeo vodos voue(erpivofhelelpmn tangled undergrowth that half eon-alaspeetAthttmeylo pparwscn -ieils the sluggish water the trees rtheir plumed tiops. Undergrowth Areonfrtemseyaotc-seedobehe et wod rm and trees are fostooned with Spanil sshstefr fisgot.I wiht aedgu aos u moss until the swamp is dark, andI haitwle ae t oosaea-teCrlns r ot fteylo always Is sinisterly still. Moss--wy ne aes hysn ppolrbladtenx aeila bedecked (lead cypress trees mingleprtbrneabvth waewi hnd ascrs.Acoiglte with the living, and the look of them aecle kes" Tedee h nycneue tta'iei h is gruesome like that of corpsehehgesc te 'kes"rie n catcmmrews h y wore they to arise from their grave s eqety, yrs rk a resdgu.Sm fteecne and draped in their funeral clothes: uiu perne o h kes arel3 arl fpoueb ie niove about among the crowds on theaeo l ie h ogt bv h ae omdte n lvs te street. It was out of a cypress brakewae.Teter sta th trecnscrid80ndiobrlaf nhear the Mississippi Delta that La-"bete"truhis"neorintrhyw esa dinwolghie facdio IHearn got one of liis bestotewodtaitrotarartdan malwdrwthsb. stories In the (lays when he was athog tes prubans.Ite hack writer. in New Orleans, writinghsoyo e utr o idte o itr bud ih mnino about Southern Louisiana. SpanishtaloXteueo cyprs"kes"Txswsbitfi.011eorsn ~laborers~ were excavating a canal onwhcarholw byte egosa Ne Olantllhetryftefrt Wthe edge of a cypress swamp whenbehie.Teth"OdFmlwaewoasyemucsflyop one of- thorn uncovered the body of a Dco ok"tl frsn rmteoae nteUie tts ti o beautiful young woman. Her- flesh br n oe fcpes ad iscerJs hntesse a s was *soft and w~hite. With visions of"kesthtIth fon tinoan absh ,buitecm amter f a brutal murder, the laborers fledexelnsav.rcdin11,w n nai'L Sfrom the spot. When they returned Trigbc oacettms y rd okoe h ytm n13 with their superitendent the excava- peswssce oteGek.I h ln a ae vrb h on tenn wan filled with bodies of men, termtooyi ssi htAol eca ak - omen and children, all of perfect lvdabatflyuhnmdCpr ni eetyas te gets fure, and glorious In their beauty.isu.Teltewachne inoa urstynNw OlaswsI Atiprintnden soo disove ed cyas ree thatend that mhese fories e yrs ak.Te eecs weemnrotta ae t per is founded on the same prin ciple of ''dependable quality" that govertis the manufacture of the "E~xibe" itself. "Exibe" Service is worth investi gating. Call for a free batterv test today. Godwin and Woodruff Summerton, S. C. terns, and on the uotside of every re aidence was one or more of them. There was no other supply, for New Orleans was built on marshes, and if you dug a hole a few inches deep anywhere, marsh water gushed up. Hence, wells or cisterns below the surface were out of the question. To, meet these requirements, a waterworks system was devised to supply the district lying between Canal street, Esplanade avenue, Ram part street, and the river, boundaries of "old New Orleans." Five-inch holes were bored from end to end of cypress logs, which were 18-feet long, and averaged 22 inches in diameter. These were the mains, and they were joined end to end by iron connections driven into each log. At the ends of various mains were wooden plugs to cut off water from delinquent custo mers. A large wooden tank was built at the foot of Canal street, wooden pumps were installed, and slaves nev er ceased pumping water into this tank. The mains connected with this tank, and the gravity system of dis tribution was employed. Scientists have written much about the very ancient lineage of cypress. They say that the entire north tem perate zone, even into Iceland and Greenland, was covered. Conditions changed, and cypress was crowded into swamps along the Atlantic coast, the Gulf coast, and the Mississippi Valley as far north as Southeastern Missouri. Dispossession of cypress took place long ago, as evidenced by standing stumps of cypress-thi sands of them together-carried down to the mouth of the Mississippi River, and covered with sedimentary de posits. These stumps were exhumed Louisiana. Cypress logs 20 feet be low the level of the mud on the bot tom of the Gulf of Mexico have been found. At the rate of deposit of mud by the Mississippi River, it required the settlings of 10,000 years to bury the logs to that depth. The logs were growing trees some 20,000 years ago.-Dearborn Independent. POULTRY SANITATION VERY IMPORTANT Cle'nson College, S. C., June 6. Most of our poultry diseases are brought about by unsanitary con ditions in the poultry yards, poultry houses, and feeding utensils. Recent ly examination and thorough study was made on some poultry farms in Florence County, where there had been an outbreak of a disease, re sulting in heavy mortality, says N. R. Mehrhof, Extension Poultry Spe cialist, who reports that upon exami nation of the birds tape worms, roundi worms, and coccidia were found, and that upon studying the conditions under which the chicks were living it was found that they were housed in unsanitary houses, the yards were unsanita'ry, and the feeding hoppers wvere dirty. What dloes sanitation mean? It means clean sanitary houses; houses that are dIry, properly ventilatedl plenty of sunshine; clean yards, that are planted in some good green crop; clean birds; clean feeding andl water hoppers; clean feed. If we (10 not have the above we cannot make a success in poultry. There is no one phase o the poul try industry that is neglected as much as this. We cannot expect to get results if our poultry dloes not have the proper enviro'nm~int. Sani tation means better poultry and more profit. FORD SA LES SHOW - RAPID) INCREASE Rush of Orders Boosts April Output to 10,164. .Ford retail sales showed a rapid increase in volume during March, says a report from the Ford Motor Comn pany, Detroit and have necessitated the building of 101,164 Ford cars and trucks in April in order to meet the requirements. This is the largest output of Fiord cars ever scheduled for April, heing 10,000 above the same month of a year ago. It also marks an early opening of the spring and summer buying and seems to indlicate that even more Ford cars and trucks will be sold in 1022 than in 1921, whIch was a banner year. Ordlers for Ford cars and trucks have already exceedled the suppily in many parts of the country and pur chasers are finding it necessary to ac cept dleferredl delivery. The Ford factory at Detroit is getting into ca pacity production as fast as possible, with the hope of preventing a similar shortage when the spring-summer rush begins. Ford dealers throughout the United States are urging Ford. customers to place their orders early and thus pre vent the possibility of having to wait for denlvary-Adv. rage seven, Best. News TODAY! Our Semi-Annual Clearing Sale of Dresses will be on all this week, if you are a good judge of values ybu had better take advantage of this sale. 50 New Dresses 50 Consisting of Taffetas, Crepe de Chines, Messa lines, and Canton Crepes. These have been assort ed in four Groups and they are offered you at prices that should make business "hum" in this de partment. Group No. 1--Special Sale Price ---------.$7.50 Group No. 2-Special Sale Price --------$10.95 Group No. 3-Special Sale Price --------$15.75 Group No. 4-Special Sale Price --------...$18.75 These dresses are on display in our window, look them over, compare values and we believe you will render a verdict in our favor. SUMTER, S. C. We Have Unbounded Faith in the farmers of this section to resolve more fully than ever before TO LIVE AT HOME, by raising first a sufficient amount of food and feed for their own use, and their money crop when this has been taken care of. Such a program of safety for 1922 will not only see us back to normal conditions, but find us enjoying the fullness of prosperity. We'll be glad to help you if we can. First National Bank W. C. DAVIS, President. -- A. C. BRADHAM, Vice-President. J. T. STUKES, Cashier. Rheumatism at 60 S. S. S. Thoroughly Ride the Body of Rheumatism Impurities, onioebody'. mothter is suffrin to d~~1 i"' ~ sffering, bent ~for'vard, sh ees bu ~ thear common grund,thbuttae ageod greatest blood-DurifIers knovn, an It icinal ingredient ar purely vegeta le.I never diarranges th stoach. rmakera a bloo enricher. It banishe It iswathoyrnbodly' mother eeds tonight: Mother if o n notrge Somebodye geta bottloo .H .nw Let somebody's mother begIn to feel 11ow glorious you will fe. et or, ftsyu r notierl S. . . is sold at 9.- 6,dolt, It Wil build FOU Up to lagr sizose i t mo conomical. BRII)IG YOUR JOB WORK to The Manning Times Office.