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BUG GMEPMBLfM H Meat Shortage Points to Nood tiL of Conservation. \r^: :"v Man Pfonni to Establish Sanctuaries for Wild Llfo In ths National ! ** ** a nri?|| . ssOOOiVW OiO^^St [f ' Mr. Hoover predicts a meat famine itr.'lch will last for years. As an offset to this, Remsen Crawford writes in i ^Itta^Uer's, it is proposed to establish |l ^j^^^Bpctuarles in the national * K ^^^^^^vesta, where all kinds of big W 4H |h breed unmolested, snd bills r such sanctuaries are pending In congress. The general movement for a great increase of klllable big game in Amerlea has come to be termed throughout country "the Horaaday plan." It ,4 fleets Its name from Dr. William T. Jm ^Hornnday, director of the soologienl j park in New York. Doctor Hornaday I is foremost among the naturalists of L the country, vice president of the States Army league and trusII WT t of the American Defense society. t iuuih uiau iweuiy years UUS cnamIof big game has been sounding a ^^W^arning to the American people that H wild life was becoming extinct and B that some day our desolated forests V would be looked to in vain for relief K from a scarcity of home-raised meats. mr Had congress and the legislatures of several states awakc-ned to a realizsense of the Importance of pro^^^^H^hMurlld life ten yean ago there be a food problem before public today, but a calamity tliA(i"<t a conservative, acH^^^Krorate man, estimates that several rail^^^^Blon head of big game would be availH^^Bble for the market ananally If proper ^^^^^Bscauttona had been taken a decade He gives it as Ids opinion that at this late day, if well-protected ^^^^^^Bedlng places for deer and elk were ^^^^^^Bvlded throughout the vast area ^^^^^^Hwlld timber and brush lands of the States, at least a million bucks ^^^^^Bt be slaughtered annually, leav Ie uot?8 to go 0" multiplying xne ns of wild life In oar forests, i story of literally living on the the land Is no fable; this Idea ng "buck to the tall timber" to ir dally meat Is no daydream. | did the thousands upon thouIbf Indians get theirs? It Is n L known fact In the Southern Uint ninny tenants of the cotton we three months of the year on squirrels and birds without Ba pound of Western raised Bt is nn equally widely known ^Aln the extreme northern and ^ states land owners who are enough* to be within range ^ creasing tribes of big game ^Befr rifles much of the time. ^K>thing visionary In the Hornfor food relief. ^Bleatless Mince Pie. mince meat, another cull^^Bph in the art of food conBBhas been brought to the H^&of the country by the na^^Bgency garden commission ^^Hy companion of pumpkinpie and glngerless ginger^^Bmtnce meat, officially de"camouflage," was tried ^^Bred troops on a transport, ^^Hnced It perfect and called B^K-ckage of seeded raisins. Id of prunes stewed with and peal, one-quarter cup ider. four ^tab!e?.poonfuls r; chop the raisins and kier and the result is said lless mince pie which will Kthe food administration's Lsday. LTax Hits Porters. Ktrtotlc may he the motive fcg salesmen nnd the gen \o ride In sleeping cars, Hers assert they are bearnl part of the new wai Kansas City Star. Kiorter formerly receiver ts for shining the shoes KUls passenger, the ne ^f^Vow is only a dime. been reduced one^^Hsaid. since the first ol ^Hmied 10 per cent to tht a war tax. As it now ^^^>orter and not the pastax. has been 1874, the aired a ^them for countries In the write, ESQ OF PHOENIX IS FOUND Product of tho HJotorlo Fung-Whaitfl Ho?Mo Bird Procured In China by Natural ioto. .naturalists doing field work In China ! for American museums picked up an egg which the natives declared was the i egg of the Phoenix?the Fung-Whang | Ho-Ho bird. It hns Just been mounted and placed on public view tn the Museum of Natural History in New York. Examination and comparison by the ' museum staff, says the Boston Transcript, have resulted in the decision ftiat disregarding popular legend, the immense egg, 40 times the size of the egg of.the domesticated hen, is that of n gigantic prehistoric ostrich. Two imperfect eggs of this fossil ostrich are in existence and are owned by museums In the United States, but this Is the only perfect one known? perfect,*' 1 the museum announces, "with the exception of a small hole through wMch the original contents may have disappeared." Its discoverer was a peasant pi the j Province of Honan, China, who one day found it sticking In the banfc of the Yellow river and kept it as a curiosity, treasured it as the egg of that legendary Phoenix, which is still revered by designers of Chinese decorations. The fossil shell was filled with water when it arrived at the museum and was found to have a capacity of a trifle more than two quarts. Two quarts of albumen, yolk and protoplasmic material?say four pounds of foodstuffs?evidence that the high > cost of living was one of the modern ; things ancient China did not invent. 1 No scientist has *ver seen a bone i. or remnant MpoJ ?nTcu iatd I ovoia? like this one from the mud of ; Yellow river. It may be Imagined that the traveling naturalists had some dif- > Acuity In acquiring it for the Phoenix j to which It was locally attributed i , stands In Chinese art and tradition as j the symbol of Immortality and resur- j rection. Farther west one of the le-; , gends of the bird has been that every j < 000 years it flew out of Arabia old and , decrepit to Holiopoli, and there on an , altar burned itself and rose from its ashes young and beautiful once more I . ?no bad symbol for the China of the! present hour. Boloism. Charles F. Murphy of Tammany said ! in a- discussion of Boloism: "The spread of Boloism shouldn't surprise us, for money's corrupting power is immense. "Let me tell you a story. "A senator, while traveling in the South, attended a colored church one1 Sunday morning and put a $20 bill in | tne collection plate. "The collector gave a start. He car-; rled the plate, with Its little heap of coppers and nickels and Its crisp yellow bill, np to the pulpit. There he and the preacher and a couple of elders conversed excitedly In hissing whispers for several minutes. "Finally the collector tiptoed down' to the senator and muttered In hlsi ear: " 'Boss, when yo' gwlne to leave dls; town?' " Tomorrow morning,' said the senator. " 'Wall, boss,' whispered the collector, 'we uns have decided to pass her If you'll promise to keep still. Dere ain't a man In town can tell her from a good one.*" An Operation by Telegraph. An operation carried out under directions given by a surgeon 1,800 miles away and sent by telegraph 1 saved a life In Australia recently, according to the Scientific American. The subject fell from his horse at, Hairs creek in northern Australia and suffered serious Injuries, including a rupture of the urethera. An operation was urgently necessary and there was no doctor within 1,000 miles. The condition of the patient was described by telegraph to a doctor In Perth and. he sent back, by the same means, In-j btrnctlons under which the postmaster j at nail's Creek with such surgical In- ] stmments as he could get, the chief of which was a razor, carried out the operation successfully. Turkish Government. The Turkish government Is a hereditary monarchy, of which the sultan ? Is both temporal and spiritual head. > The succession to the throne, or sul tnnshlp. goes In the senior male de, scendent of the house of Osman. of which the present sultan, Mohammed V. Is the thirty-sixth sovereign In succession and twenty-ninth since the ( taking of Constantinople. Under the ( constitution of Turkey, the sultan does not marry, hut all children horn In the harem, whether of free or slave worar en. are counted legitimate and of , equal lineage, the oldest male child always suaAMdlng to the throne wlth| out rega^^^Hj^tntus of the mother the ^^^^^^^^ynnrrlage, which really d^^^^^^^^Lln the case at all. JAZZ MUSIC for or BLUES Dsm Not CsnsisB, M to NaasraHy #o> lisved, of Lot of Noioo WWIno ' Rhymo or Reason. Vnrtoas description# at Jan music have from time to time appeared, but j uoue seem to hit the mark exactly, | says a connoisseur of this art. The ; common impression la that tt consist a of a lot of peculiar and noisy sounds j without rhyme or reason. This la not . the case, however. It consists chiefly I of syncopation, peculiarly accentuated; { variations by#some of the Instruments; | Improvisations by others, mingled with I odd sound effects. Through all this j the melody of the selections rendered ! must be distinguishable at all times? j tin can noises, beating the life out of ' the drums, blasting by the brass in- j struments is entirely unnecessary. vuiunisis oeiween pianissimo and for- i tissimo passages should be shown Just as much in Jan music as In the class- j Ich. Another wrong impression is thatj Jazs orchestras must consist of a cer- 1 tain Instrumentation. This also is not the case. The violin, 'cello, cornet, plnno, or in fact, any legitimate instrument, can be used. As jazz music is originally Ethiopian, the banjo and suxophone are used merely to lend negro character to It. The number of musicians that can j Jazz properly is said to be small, be- i cause it really requires good musl- ! clans, who must also be endowed with j tli<? swing or knock of performing it. 1, Although many of the cafe and thru- \ ter orchestras are composed of good 1 musicians, those who cun jass are 1 scarce. On the other hand, many of i the self-styled jazz orchestras are mN?- , representations, uud cannot play the : semlclasslcs _ or classics adequately, j Some cannot perform it properly, untl i to offset this, resort to noise and discord in imitation thereof. The per- 1 centage of musicians who can do Justice to the classics and also play jazz is consequently even smaller. Tills i kind of orchestra is prp??iin<,iw scarce. Jazz music is rhythmic and inspir- J log. It is declared the best antidote i for the hlues.?Milwaukee Sentinel. ! GREAT PROFIT ON STEAMERS ; One Vessel Sold for $2,000,000 More i Than It Cost After Being In Service for Five Months. Some Idea of the tremendous ad- j 1 vance In the price of*vessel property i and the fabulous prices now being paid j for vessels that can be boaght is shown in the sqje of the Boston steamer Tidewater, which has changed owu- ' ership after running In the coal-cnrry- ' Ing trade to this port for less than five : months, says the Boston Globe. The big collier cost to build ubout $670,000,; . and was sold for more than $2,000,000, j a profit of more than $2,000,000. The Tidewater was built at the New J York Shipbuilding company's yard, Camden, N. ,T., and was completed early the present year. The vessel Is constructed of steel, is 3G8.6 feet long, 55.2 feet beam and 30.5 feet depth of hold. Her net tonnnge Is 3,354 and gross tonnage 5,200. She* was owned by Castner, Curran A Bullitt, and was sold to the American-Italian Steamship company of New York. Mexico an Indian Country? It Is of Importance to Inquire Into the attitude taken by the southern Tn<ll?n. ?* 1 ? -> - *- - - ? * uuiuno ui iuc?iv;u lunuru uie uinciai i Spanish civilization, says the New lie- . public. If it is difficult for an outsider only slightly acquainted with the southern Indians to understand the reasons for their marked hatred of the Spaniards ... It seems selfevident of anyone who has spent any time with them. To the southern Indians, the Spaniard and his successor, the Spnnish:spenking Mexican, Is 'ho.; cruel alien conqueror. They feel that ; they are Indians and that Mexico Is ! an Indian country. For instance, one ' of the common objections to Madero ' encountered in Onxncn was that he was not an Indian and that the president of Mexico should be an Indi in. This attitude is significant, and it is not strange to find even a north? rn Indian like Huerta proudly excla;m- i ing: "Yo so Indiano." Carranza's h ck of popularity in the south is not so much due to the fact that southi rn j Mexico is the home of Diaz as to the fact that Carranza is not an Indian, j Piece of Fir 515 Years Old. The forestry office at Portland, received from one of the Washington rangers a specimen of Douglas fir known to be 515 years old. The tree, when 125 years old, fell to the ground,; #here a cedar tree took root In the log and grew undisturbed for 20t J vpnru Jho pwluaSaii p<w?or.tl? out In. to shingle holts^^Hstie specimen of; fir found^^^^^^^^^Woodsmen can a tree by the in the felled. fir Is to kind tn T Witchcraft those who ^^^of lloroccoJ^^^^^^^^| iwmda this old story of Milk "Oue evening a few years ago^fl Matthews and Prude dining together at the New York when the fonnei^^^^^^H suggestion that they write Mark Twain. "But,* object^^^^^^H son, *we don't know where a time when Mr. always traveling somewhere. Professor Matthews, that do^^H make any difference. It Is find him. I think he Is some Europe, so we had better put^^^^H stamp.' So the two composed a letter whicl^^^^^H dressed to MARK TWAIN, 'God tn due time they recel^^H^H^J rrom Air. Clemens which He " 8urmlse Was Corr^^H^^^H A certain schoolmaster hatW^i^ji tlculnrly troublesome set of boys to , < deal with, and consequently had to! resort a good deal to the Influence of < the cane. j One day, when some unpardonable breach of discipline had been committed, he stood with several of the ringleaders in front of the class. Buys," said he, sternly, "It seems to me that I have to work the cane a great deal more than I ought to work It." "Yes, sir," retorted the demon of the class, with a significant look at the cupboard. "I shouldn't wonder If It comes out on strike soon." And sure enough it did.?London Tit-Bits. - ' 1 Why the Audience Smiled. A certain clergyman, inclined to corpulency, officiating as chairman at a social gathering that had met to celebrate the building of a new schoolroom addressed the audience in the following manner: TPrlends-" h? Mid. M?t the plnut nf this meeting there will be a collection. It will not be for the poor," and, unconsciously putting his thumbs Into his trousers pockets and tapping with his fingers his waist band, continued, "but for the development and enlarging of this department." Lacks a Home. "De kind of charity dat begins at home," said Uncle Eben, "mos'ly aln' got no home." 1 Boss of Everything. "But," exclaimed the man of delicate sensibilities, "will your conscience permit you to do as you suggest?" "Look here, friend," answered the politician, "1 am accustomed to bo boss, even of my own conscience." || Was a II II Misery II 11! I Mrs. F. M. lones. of IIHI I Palmer, Okla., writes: ill "From the time 1 en- u||J tered Into womanhood ITU ... I looked with dread H I from one month to the III next. I suffered with my III back and bearing-down IfI pain, until life to me was ||U a misery. I would think III 1 could not endure the 111 pain any longer, and I III gradually got worse. . . HI U Nothing seemed to help jfl afl me until, one day, . . . I I 1 decided to I B TAKE ! CARDUI The Woman's Took ; n "I took four bottles," I I Mrs. Jones goes on to II Kill IIHI h - ?gieauj icueveu, uui can yiy, H truthfully say that 1 have H11 I H not a pain. . . HI I I "It ha&now been two HI H H H year*tinda I tookCardui, HI V]X and I am still in good |ffi| 11H health. . I would ad- IHI H H vise any woman or girl IHI Lj H to use Cardui who is a IHI IH tulferer from any female IHI l^^pron. deceased, has this day incPKpplioatloii unto me for a final discharge as such executor, and that Friday the 1st day of February at my office at 11 o'clock a. m. has been appointed for the hearing of said petition. JOE CABELL DAVIS, Judge of Probate Dillon County. l-10-4t. Notice of final Discharge Notice is herebv- riven that D. W. Bethea administrator of the estate of Caroline M. Bethea, deceased, has this day made application unto ifie for a final d'scharge as such administrator,'and that Friday the 1st. day of February my office at 10 o'clock a. m. has been appointed for the hearing of said petition. JOE CABELL DAVIS, Judge of Probate Dillon County. l-10-4t. MILK IN WINTER Why do your cows give less milk In winter then they do in summer? Just because nature does not supply them with grasses and green food. But we hare come to the assistance of Dame Nature with B. A. Thomas' Stock Remedy which contains the rery Ingredients that- the green feed supplies in season, only, of course, in a more highly concentrated form. We guarantee that this remedy win make your cows giro more milk, and better milk, with the name feed.?Jan. TI BANK OF An (Hd and Rel Capital $75,000.00 DEIH January 8th. 1915_ January 8th. 1916. January 8th 1917. January 8th. 1918. WE SOLICITYOl W. H. MULLER, Preside WADE STACK] JA I To Those i Be Inti C in a real | with a re m I beg to annoui Marlboro and | Agenoy for ''Hi B should see Serie % it is a beauty, m glad to have yoi it over. ''Hupmobile' ' M the shop. I B days ago by a a 4 years, and si oarried it to tji Office Honrs 9 to 11 and 9 to 4 I i sains Hoars by Appointment. L C. BR^DDY, JR. " If. Attorney mt Taw. , ^ Office first floor Bank of DUOS BAdfl. tH DILLON, 8. C. J1 GIBSON 49 HULLKB fl Office oyer Malcolm Mercantile Oa * - w! DILLON, g. C. Practice in State and Federal Ooarto O. M. PAGH, O. A **** Surveyor and Baflfesesr Special attention to Farm Bsnva Drainage, City Lota, etc. Address Kouto fl, Dillon, JL O. ^ J. M. JOHNSON, O. A ^ My surveying and Engineering of- T fice will be open daring my absence, and prepared to take care or any 1 work aa usual. Address all comma* nlcations as heretofore. * J. M. Johnson, Marlon, 8. C. | L. D. UDB \ Attorney-at-Law } MARION, S. C. 1 DR. O. R. TABER , Physician and Saigeun Office at residence. No. S Harrison* Residence Phone No. f 0: " 1 IE I - DILLON i iable fastitation -^gj Surplus $75,000.00 ^ )SITS * ^ $211,206.75 $253,551.69 $312,667.37 $518,175.55 IJB PATRONAGE IOUSE, V. Pres. iS. M. SPRUNT, Cashier. Who May I ^ zrested 1 Automobile 1 :putation I ^ noe that I have m Dillon fiftiinfn lpmobile.1' You x s "R" 1918 Model, % <3 and I would be m djl i oall and look ? ' a stranger to was told a few _ m jBH an who used one 1 he had 6 shop.