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Probabilities, However, Are That It! - First-Was Brought Into Us# in j Arabia or Egypt. ** 1* not at all likely, I think, that rthe use of prayer beads originated in Arabia or Egypt. It is to India that we must go for the home of this religious device?India, '"the mother of religions*" the land where the gods outDumber tho 'people and where the - people carry their xeal to the point nf intoxication. There is convincing^ evidence that the rosary existed hM India long before It appeared in other1 parts of the world. At some remote period, when the Vedas^were still in rogue, the circlet of jewels or beads A# nMiviAtlnff niAdl. il . BTVBC no a lucaue VJ. i/tvuivitus I ttatlon and registering meritorious . sets. It may be seen in multifarious coils about the necks of the gurus of today, Cornelius H. Patton writes in Asia Magazine. Starting from India, we may clearly trace the spread of the rosary to the ?T Buddhists of Ceylon, Burma and Slain, known as the Southern school, and ' especially to Tibet, where in Lama-; , ism the faith of Gautama Reached its* * lowest level,,and whence the rosary,I along with other customs, spread toj China, Korea and Japan. j f '' The Mohammedans may easily have taken over the rosa,ry through their j contacts with India, or else, as seems; mord likely, they learned its use from ] hermits and monks of the Easteip or < Greek church through their earlier) contacts in Palestine, Syria and north-; era Africa. The oriental Christians, j in turn may have taken over the de-i f TniMafifl Ktr trotr Pa?_ TitT iiUUI U1C AUUiOU^ UJ naj VI , sis and the caravan routes of tbe | East If we could stfr with certainty i that the Roman church borrowed the ld^ from the successors of Mahomet during the Crusades, the claim of development would be logK.il and complete. We must not Tnle out;. however, the possibility that this aid to prayer sprang up spontaneously in different. ]parts of the earth, under the pressure! of the ne^d of the human heart, everywhere the same. My own opinion wds adopted both imitatively and spontaneously. /Throughout the Bud\ dhist world it Was dearly copied from India. In the Christian and Mohamv medan worlds it appears to have had an independent origin, but to have 7 \vowed somewhat to the borrowing ^process incident to travel and 'trade. ^3?""?1??. ' experiment cwould bbrn, but his friends laughed at hlro. They .would; not believe him until they had, as he wrote, "ocular demonstration of the fact." Day after N day the old room in the tavern was | crowded with the pteopla of the little v village, and the travelers who passed through, and soon to all parts of the region where outcropping of coal had 4 been discovered, the news was borne. ? y Bells With Interesting' Histories. The bells of the old missions along the length of California must have interesting histories, but N there is little of an authentic nature concerning them. One of them at Santa Ysobel, San Diego, lacks but se^n years of being two hundred year? old. It 4s "Marked "N. &de Loretc, 1782," which , means Our "Lady of Loreto. The real origin of this bell is net known, but it Is said to have been in service in Lower California where the missions were established 100 yeas'? before the mihsion fathers invaded Alta, Calif. These bells must hhve been ? powerful aid to 'the fathers in gaining |ffie attention and interest of the Indians and it seems that some facts concerning the castings should have* been kept, hut there appears to be nothing like an authentic record. k V V " ? 1 Tame Enough in Front. Pat Hegarty had just purchased a mule, but he did not obtain from the animal all that he required of it. So he wended his way back to the . horse dealer. "You said this mule was quite tame," v \ , he said to the dealer. "And so he is tame, isn't he?" replied the dealer, in an afrsrrieveri tnnp "Not altogether?only partially so," the disconsolate Hegarty replied. "He Is tame in front, I dare say, but he is desperately wild behind!** * ? n Co-Operation' in Japan. At the eighteenth national convention of co-operative societies recently 'held in Tokyo, 12,000 delegates were on hand representing 2,850,000 "cooperators,** belonging to 3,770 local ! organizations, according tovreports of the meeting received by the all-Amerlean co-operative commission of V CSevelaad. Banking is one of the v strong features of Japanese co-opcratire activities. Arctitf Sea Cow Extinct. An authentic writeup of the Arctic sea cow (now extinct) was made about the middle of the Eighteenth century by George William Steller, who was snipwrecKeo on uenng island, 1741, with the Russian navigator, Capt Vita* Bering. This "cow" was not unlike the manatee or dugong of sonth* , era waters, weighed 8,000 founds, and was 20-80 feet long. Stellar and his companions at* its flesh. " v COTTON PRODUCTION SHIFTING TO CENTER OF THE BELT. < f ' Texas excluded from the argument, the production of cotton -is shifting back to the center of the belt, where the damage from boll weevil has been most severe and where abandonment has been greatest Due to the labor situation, the labor being mostly negro tenants, the storm was not j weathered as well as in communities of small,^industrious white farmers. Jndeed the extensive negrc tenantry system of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and'"West Alabama, was, in many localites, all but completely disorganized when the weevil came and got going good in his work of destruction. But conditions have changed in this central territory outlined. That porton of the cotton growing area east of a line running north and south through Little Hock west of Montgomery and Birmingham will be seen witbin approaching years to be gaining in cotton producton, and Georgia and the. Carolina*: will fall off while the people are becoming adjusted to the new order of things. Increasing production of cotton is travelling back west while the weevil continues his journey east I . , I and northeast. Moreover, it is a qustion as to whether Georgia and the Carolinas can /produce cotton as cheaply as in the central territory. Lands are higher in price and taxation heavier, labor tsVhigher and the necessity for commercal fertlzer much greater. In j this central region the use of ferlilizenk was meagre before-, the weevil came and its consumption decreased { under weevil inefstation. Due to disorganized labor condi- j tions and abandonment more cotton land has been lying fallow for several years than in any other portion of the cottoir belt of the South.,In the meanwhile-nature has restored to the soil, in the natural prpcess of rest to the land, much of the valuable elements of humus and organic matter. The agriculturists of authority tellj us that |fi:here humus and orgar\K matter is contained in the soifrthe better results may be a fKf'. * <" " bees;? ^ For Ch ' Ij f * ' \ ; fTA lf.1 IT i u iviaKe nun x / \ >\ . \ Comfc / ( ? * FURNITURE AND HO A rocking chair for yourself, * | Beautiful Rugs, Art Squares i Shades and Curtains, etc. f ! A number of articles selectee ! v , numerous to mention. Come, s ] | not. A hearty welcome awai ? \ H. A. Taj V ! 1722 Main Street, 1 . . I ; The Little 1 . jjfls chock full of everything1 good for | groceries, fruits, candies, cakes, n\rt? jipf cake ready-baked, fire works and c i season joyful and happy. Co vie an<3 HARRY A. I Lexington, S. C. IBEESBI WSt5B5E8St*rsSB3555?3EBBS3& S \ . : j But regardless theory or science \ we have many facts developing to I sustain the view thai the increase in cotton production will nerceforth be greater in those sect-Tons of the belt where the weevil wrought. the greater decrea.se in fields acre or per man. VV. F. Bell, or H ;';?< ?. Greens County, Ala., has this year proved what can be and is' being lone when Georgia and Carolina methods of fertilizing and cultivation are applied in making- cotton in localities where the extensive large plantation system has been all the go for the r.u st part. On a Kittle less than 400 acres he has made this yea* 22? hv.it.-.-:. of' cotton. His average amount of fertilizer used per acre was 2")0 pstmds of the 10-22 grade, supleirienTea with an average/of 75 pornos cf nitrate of soda per acre. Or ias path patch of 2 1-2 acres, he .made -i bales with 600 pounds of fertilizer and 100 pounds of nitrate per acre- lie plants the Warmamaker-CI^veland variety of cotton. His iand of a sandy nature, with clay subsoil under most of i t' * it. His method of culture is fasti and (intensive, with an intelligent j limit to the acreage per plow. Ho irj successful ?i > evidenced by having j bought a plantation and paid for it growing cotton uhd?r boll weevil conditions. He is a native of Tuscaloosa county,v e conditions arcsomewhat similar to Georgia and Carolina in hiiiy lands and where there are industrious white farmers on small J:\rms. . He is the only white man o?_ jiis plantation. . He uses no boll w<?ev:i poison, but a .visit to his place would convince one that he has ;iir<dft>.ned" his negro renters and shave croppers with a knowledge of. how to grow cotton and make money, using fertilizer and improved methods. Mr'. Boll induced to locate near Boligee a Yew years ago by A. B. DeMc\f.iie,. T:nw a jetired supply merchant, but.1 a man who kept his head and higher\*e all through the era of .dc:;as^ticn and boll weevil demorali?a' fe stood by h'ls people -and ^epi. them going. His motto and r.r'y^rs |?ere to "make plenty ?f 'an-.: then all the cotb.enefac * "H ' \ : yg ristmas | v ie Bright and >rtabk - iUSE FURNISHINGS f wife and children." T j and Carpers. Window i ' i i specially for Christmass too see them whether you buy o its you. ; j 'lor Inc., Columbia, R. C. I \ MMMMmmrw~ Wtmmm i r* I urocery 5 Christmas, ?: .ndaxd and fancy ?j ' ' >4 >; figs; raisin/-* i::;: and all kinds 3 ther things 1 ?h ; Christmas ?j t see me for y..u- v \r.\a. | ROBERTS J v / vision.: In 1918 he cleare.i $7000 on 85 acres of land, *.-> " negro tenants supervsed : ..-ni a:.d supported well. He belie-vt-s -ding the land as well as t'-- lab-.r. _>n it and claims that i,t pay?* ?=.-!? tf-ed the land where one has the labor. With commercial p-nlizer and nitrate of soda he made on the 85 acres 52 bales of cotton and plenty of corn to run the place another year. The good price received for the cotton of course increased the profit, but the fertilizer and in tensive methods employed told the greater secret. DeMoville was doing good farming before Bell moved to Bolfgee, but Mr. Bell, by carrying his intensive methods into a section of country where the extensive system was mostly in vogue, is paying back borrowed money to people who don't need it or want it, preferring to collect the''interest only. But Bell and DeMoville are not alone.Vn doing things at BoligeeVBouchlle Bros, and several others \ are working in the lead and deserve ; sjicci." I mention as benefactors anc' ' boosters fo- Boligee, a section wherb ! nature ha-- a en lavish in her expenditure of tei. ni: but a community of ' he.?pk- w>b h.-there is more in j the man than .n uV- land: and a localit. 'A'i.?.re I.ruin* mm .management % CITATION \t)T I (> :. State of South Carolina, County - i Lexington.?By W. " liook, Ksquire, Probate Jud* . Whereas, Mrs. Eu.t A. ollev made suit to me, to -ram her Letters of Admni'st' of Estate of and effects 01 . Hu'Jey. > These are TJ*.< -ft-uro . :.e and admonish all a- > 'dagnlar ;.he kindred and Credito- = ,*f Th" sa:u S. B. Holley, decea?- ? ;ha" 'hoy be and appear, bef" ^ v. the Court of Probate, to be held a: dexington, C. H., S. C.;>, on 22d day jf December, 1922, / , next, after publication hereof at 11 oclock in the forenoon, to show 'cause if any they have, why the said Administration should not be grant?ed. Given under my Hand, this 7th day of December, Anno Domim 1922. / W. F. HOOK (L. S.) Probate Judge Lexington Co., S. C. Published on the 6th day of December, 1922, in the Lexington' paper, 2 weeks. liFor Ci \ ?? V On and af sell for cash, ment and hai v mowers, bine ware C. O. D to buy for caf i We carry Gantt, Olive\ and repairs. tional, Avery at per Clad range Sherwin and W and a fall line o Cj Barre Phone 103 j have shown that the hill counties 01 j *mall farms have no monopoly on < ! growing cotton profitably under boll i weevil conditions. And Boligee will never go broke as long as the people 1 there and thereabouts believe in 1 planting food and feed crops plentifully and then all the cotton one can . possibly make on surplus acreage to : bring tfn surplus cash. WATERIXGFORD NEWS. Gee, this seems just like. Christmas weather! But we can't have summer all the time. Small grain is up and looking fine, but if this cold wind continues very ; lrrno- it'll soon look IOXV. ? Mr. E. F. Kyzer killed the fat- ] test hog recently that will be killed < in Lexington county this winter. Well sir, it was so fat that you could not i see its tail. Mrs. Minnie Kyzer and the Little ] Kyzer's spent last Wednesday with Mrs. Kyzer's mother, near Pelion. 1 The smiling face of Mr. M. D. j Kyzer Vras seen 'in our community last Tuesday. Old "Uncle Henry" made a busi ness trip last Thursday in the Huffman burnt mill section. Mr. Stanley Kyzer who has been < living in Columbia the past two ? ? . ! " { TtfEUNIVE \ We wish to annou have on hand a i cars and we. are ex carload in a few d Also several used < DuPre Auto ? ? "?? ^SHO / * ter January 1,1 and cash only, dware concerns i lers, plows, and and we haven I >h and sell on ere a full line r, Vulcan and A We are agents id Moline lines of im >c Rirhmnnrt sfniie Tilliams and Davis* \ / general hardware. KLL TO SEE I Hardwai *' Les /ears have moved to Mrs. W. 3antt's where he expects ta Messrs. C. E. Lewis and J. T. Mailman are now driving their motor The' stork according to prev*.ous?|^M arrangements has delivered a Christmas present to the homes of Messrs. I. T. Hallman and Sidney Bouknight each present being a beautiful ..ciri'-'^B baby. Some proud parents they ar??$B as it is their tfrst girl. white rock: news. ';^jh White Rock, Dec. ;9.?MissesJ^B Rubie Sanael, Reba Smith, Sunie Meetze, Paul/ne Lowman, and 2' and Mary Ruth Harman, sjudeat* Summerland College, spe:4 the pasrhlM week-end at their homes. o Mrs. Hugh McCrcery has return :o her home in Laurens after be'.hg'^^H with her father, the Rpv. Jo'iephjvB Riddle, who is very all. * I The Rev. H. J. Black of bid, President of the S. C. Lutheraii^^9 Synod, was a guest at the TThugj^^J Rock Parsonage one night this weelu^M Miss Marie Guise of Orangeburgi^M visited her mother, Mrs. GuSie last Saturday night and Sunday * Miss Daisy Johnson of Kinards visiting her flster, Mrs. CharltO)fj^H & 1 Jkw RS AL CAR j^Hj nee that we now 9 lumber of new I ipecting another |S| avs. cars on hand. 4H i?iii? ?nn mi.n?? ?NLli hhmbmmmmhhbhhuhhhmm^bi' S^UB '. /. v-v 923, we will I ?nri i ^ ^ I^H i he lmple- 'JH aiu diiippui^-?| other hard- fl 't the mon^J|| {very Plows fl for Interna-$H !plements, Cop's and ranges, paints and oils, fl ' i?s ~-"z " re Co || dngton, S. C. til ui