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THK SOCIETY OF THE PVC . PUGGIES.' In his "Table Talk" Coleridge' says: "The latest book of travels ! know, written in the spirit of the old | travelers, is Betram's account of his' tour in the Floridus. It is a book ol j high merit every way." In his Coleridge undoubtedly refers not to the' works of John Betram, but to the "Travels" of William Betsam. William Betsam was bom in Kingsessing, Pa., in 1739. He grew up with the garden, ften accompanied his father on extensive tours, traveled himself, and published his travels, through North and Soutli Carolina, t Georgia and Florida. He traveled in the country of the Cherokees, the Creek Confederacy, and the country | of the Choctaws. He lived in Philadelphia, was never married, was a student of science, and kept the garden until the day of his death in 1823. Failing health necessitated hisj declination of a professorship in the University of Pennsylvania, which wusj offered him in 1782. His manuscript ( work on the Indians was published by i the American Ethnological Society in j 1853. The Seminoles gave to Mr. Bertram the name "Puc-Puggy." which; means "flower hunter." Should we not have a "Society of Puc-Puggy" ("flower hunters")?! While the pathway of our pilgrimage on earth is lined with many thorns, j the flowers are more numerous. , What we need is the flower-hunting' instinct?the disposition to look for the pleasant things of life rather than ; the unpleasant. Some one asked the old question: "Is life worth living?" and received the answer, "That depends upon the liver?" Men are still askipg the question: "Is the world growing better?" The answer to that( question depends largely upon the viewpoint from which we look and' the character of the one making the' investigation. 'This world is not so bad a world '( As some would like to make it. But whether good or whether bad 1 Depends on how you take it." There are many things that attect our vision of the world. There is necessarily the element of personal' character, the affinity of evil, and the result of associations. Then there is, the sensationalismo of evil. Evil1, spreads with tremendous rapidity.1. The evil shocks us; the good doesi not. The newspapers generally give' us the worst side of life. A bank! cashier runs away with the money of1 the institution, and the flaming head-; lines and column write-up tell the; world the startling news; but we! never see a word of the thousands of' bank cashiers who are carefully and safely handling the money of the great banks with which they are connected. Some poor fellow's wife for- ] gets her marriage vow and becomes untrue, and the entire country is ag-1 itated over the sensation presented on i the front page; but never a word of, the thousands and thousands of faith-1 ful wives who are making life worth I living for the men to whom they have j pledged fidelity. A preacher falls, and i the whole world reads with wild-eyed i excitement the tragedy of a fallen | prophet; but little do we see of thei thousands of consecrated ministers of Jesus Christ who lives are a perpe-, tual benediction to the race. How glad we should be that wej are living now! This is the best age] the world has ever seen. How differ-! ently men look upon the value of a i human life! Socrates sneered at the, grief of a mother who was weeping j over the death of a child. Plato urg-, ed that every city select some distant hilltop and construct a pen where: weak and unhealthy children might, be exposed until death and urged that physicians should noi prescribe for the incurably sick. Aristotle advocated the passage of laws making it compulsory for parents to drown , unhealthy children. Contrast with J these the many institutions all ovei | the land for the care of the orphan: and the needy. Our land is dotted, with hospitals and asylums and homes , for the destitute. Some of us were beginning to think that the world was materialistic and; miserly; but the generous response to: the appeals for Y. M. C. A. work. th( ( Red Cross, the suffering in all lands, and under all circumstances has for-j ced a rehabilitation of our opinions. ( The time was when men were burned at the stake for reading the Bible. How strange this seems now! A disabled vessel had drifted into the mouth of the great Amazon River without knowing it. Seeing another vessel in the distance, the captain signaled to the passing vessel; "Bring us water. We are dying of thrist.''' j Quickly the answer was flashed back: ! "Let down your buckets. There is' plenty of fresh water all around you." In this world, briny with the tears of sorrow, there are various places where we may let down our buckets I for fresh water. In that Sermon on' the Mount, the Magna Charta of Christian civilization, the Great Teacher warned against fault-finding. In Dr. James Moffat' "a New Translation of the New Testament'' i the passage is rendered as follows: j ?v ny uo you note ine splinter in your | brothers eye and foil to see the plank ( in your own eye? Ho wean you say to, your brother, 'Let me take out the i splinter from your eye,' when there lies the plank in your own eye? You hypocrite! take the plank out of your own eye first and then you will see properly how to take the splinter out of your brother's eye." In order to become flower hunters the thorns. The noblest and best souls it is not necessary to become blind to of earth are those who, like the Master, see the evil, but determine to overcome it. "Let me live in a house by the side of th eroad Where the race of men go by? The men who are good and the men who are bad As good and as bad as I. T l A s i nuuiu uui Mi in nit; scorner s f'eai , Nor hurl the cynic's ban. Let me live in a house by the side of the road And be a friend to man.'" We should not only be flower hun-i ters, but we should be flower dis-j tributers. A thoughtful young lady, carrying some flowers on the train, saw a little crii>i>le girl. Going over to the cripple child, the young lady gave the flowers to the little one. The] child pressed them to hpr lips and fell asleep. When the fathei ' anie in and the little one was arouse-, she said: "Papa, I've been in heaven and got some flowers.'* We should not save all the flowers' for post-mortem administration. Peo-1 pie that are dead catch no fragrance' from the elaborate floral displays! covering the mound where their bod-; ies lie. A poor friendless and penni-' less man died in a charity hospital and 1 left a card upon which was written j u message, ine suusiance ui n uii'u wasi that we should never keep all ouri flowers until others are dead for dis-j tribution, but should give them whilei men can get some good out of them, j Let us all join the "Society of the. Puc-Puggies." The following from the Booster! contains good advice: If you are on the Gloomy Line, Get a transfer. If you're inclined to fret and pine, J Get a transfer. Get off the track of Doubt and Gloom, Get on a Sunshine Train; there's room Get a transfer. If you are on the Worry Train, Get a transfer. The Cheerful Cars are passing trough, And there is lots of room for you. Get a transfer. If you are on the Grochy Track, Get a transfer. Just take a Happy Special back. Get a transfer. Jump on the train and pull the rope That lands you at the station, Hope. Get a transfer.'' WATSON B. DUNCAN. o Georgia Crops Good. The editor of The Herald spent several days last week at Monroe, Ga., where he attended the annual meet- ' ing of the Georgia State Press Association. Nearly every section of Georgia was represented at the Association 1 meeting and the editors talked very 1 encouragingly of crop conditions in their respective sections. The crops around Monroe are fine and the peor?l? n am t hiifinf firt AVAd a nvAf_ I yie aic vu in UMUCUV me piwopeots of an abundant harvest and high prices. If all the Georgia crops i measure up to those around Monroe, Georgia will make a record-breaking crop. Monroe is one of Georgia's most progressive towns. It is located about i 50 miles this side of Atlanta on a branch line of the Georgia Railroad, , and to reach there one changes cars at Social Circle. It is an old town and 1 there are evidences of wealth. It has many pretty homes, substantial stores and two large cotton mills owned by 1 local capitalists. While in the city the editor was the guest of Dr. J. A. Fiekle, one of the town's leading and most progressive citizens. Dr. Fiekle is also a large farmer. He has been watching the progress of the boll , weevil and says if the weevil's advance is not checked it will reach Monroe in the next year or two. Dr. Fiekle is turning his attention to the culture of tobacco. Tobacco is an unknown crop in the Monroe section, except here and there where a small patch is planted for home consumption. The lands around Monroe will grow a fine grade of dark tobacco. They have the red clay with a peebly top soil. In making cotton they use from 400 to 600 pounds of meal mixture. The use of soda is practically unknown. One thing which interests the visitor is the development of the bottom lands around Monroe. Two or three years ago these lands stood under water and in dry seasons would bog an ox. Drainage projects were started under laws similar to those in this state?that is by levying a tax upon the lands it was proposed to drain?and the results have been hip'hlxr rrro t i f vln v Tho firct vp.tr nftm I "*0"V p. * "V *.-wv J V W* the canals were dug the lands were planted in corn and the net profits were more than enough to pay the cost of the drainage. Second year crops bid fair to produce from 60 to 75 bushels of corn t0 the acre and the lands are held at from J150 to $250 per acre. Before they were drained the lands had no value. The owners did not consider them worth the taxes they paid on them. Thousands of acres of these bottom lands have been reclaimed, adding to the taxable of value of the county's resources and greatly increasing the per capita wealth of the county. There are low lands in Dillon, now considered almost worthless, that can be reclaimed by a similar process. Drainage projects were started in Robeson county several years ago and thousands of acres of worthless lands in the Elrod and Pembroke sections were reclaimed and made profitable. We have here in Dillon county thousands of acres of the same character of lands which could be quadrupled in value by a system of drainage intelligently directed. Dillon county farmers should not pin much faith tQ the reports that Georgia crops are bad. The editor was in one of Georgia's favored spots, but the newspaper men from other parts of the state said their crops were good. The onlv exception was in the lower part of the state where they have had excessive rains. o POTASH INJURY. Darlington County Trouble Traced to Tronn* Potash. Clemson College, July 8.?Clemson College authorities hare investigated the potash situation which has given trouble in the Pee Dee section, and have traced the matter to its source in the use of Trona Potash, which contains impurities injurious to crops. Mr. Bright Williamson, a prominent banker and farmer of Darlington, and John M. Napier, County Agent of Darlington County found trouble with potash in that county recently and reported the matter to Clemson College. Prof. C. P. Blackwell, Agronomist, and Mr. J. L. Seal, Plant Pathologist, went immediately to Darlington and Florence Counties where they met Dr. W. W. Garner, Chief or the Office of Tobacco and Plant Nutrl tion Investigation. The three studied I the situation in the fields of Dar-1 lington, Florence and Dillon coun-| ties. o They 'agreed that the very erratic e seasons have caused poor crop con- f ditions in parts of Florence County * which some have erroneously attribut- ]' ed to potash. In Darlington county, however, where Trona Potash from v Searl's Lake, California purchased v through a Charleston broker, was 11 used, very serious injuries were ob- ' served on a number of farms. The Clenison and Government ex* perts were convinced from field ex- ^ animation that this Trona Potash is ^ responsible for the trouble. Thous- Q ands of acres of crops in Darlington ^ have been destroyed. n Other sources of American potash jj have given good results so far as in- ^ vestigations show. Since nearly all the soils of the Coastal Plains sec- ^ tion of the state are in need of Pot- ^ ash, it would be unfortunate to have ^ all potash indiscriminately condemn- Sj ed along with this one source. si Director Barre announces that ex- tl periments will be begun at once at tl the Pee Dee Station to obtain all pos- p sible information on the effect of h this material on plant growth. Furth- h er study will be made in Darlington (ri fields to assist farmers in securing ti data upon which we base claims for K damages. These investigations will be,%\ considered by the Board of Fertilizer^" Control. jt1 There has probably been injury to, ti crops from this same source in other, 1< sections of the state, and if farmers i' think they have this trouble they h should consult their county agents,' all of whom have been posted about ^ the matter. |P Late in June Director H. W. Barrel^ of the S. C. Experiment Station at-jSi tended a potato conference on Long j11 Island t0 examine tests of all sources,n of domestic potash. Trona potash iu showed marked injury to potato;a plants, and the conference developed e the fact that similar trouble was be-iCi ing experienced in North Carolina ja cotton, tobacc0 and corn. Similar) , troubles seems to have been exper- \. ienced in several localities along the' J Atlantic coast. ^ For the guidance of farmers, Prof. ^ Blackwell gives the field symptoms . as follows: In the case of cotton and ij corn germination is retarded or pre-j^ vented. Soon after plants which do|0 germinate are above ground, they|t, turn white or yellow and die. To-j^ bacco when transplanted turns light 'NV and soon dies. The roots ore found |p to be undeveloped and many dead.'p The trouble is worse where tobacco I c] beds have been knocked down, as'n this brings the roots in closer con-1 tact with the poisonous substances. I fj YVih all crops the trouble is worse onlfi light sandy soils than on heavier!g soils. n o v Why Not Drain Maple and the b Reedy Creek? tl P Editor Dillon Herald:? As you always stand for the up- si lift of the county and town, it will g probably be not a miss to devote some ti space for something that will ever h be of untold benefit to the public as b well as the individual. The drainage a basins of the above mentioned stream 1 s? are as fertile, naturally, as any lands jh in the coastal plain. A great many individuals think when first a drainage project is mentioned that the j xj swamp land is all that wil be bene-! p fitted. That is not what a drainage q project is for. While the drowned ip area would be reclaimed and is na-jq turally very fertile. Iq The land already in cultivation is p the stuff to the most interested in p As all projects are eventually a ques- q lion of dollars and cents, we will ook c at that side. Some might point to the n project in North Carolina near Pern- q broke and tell the truth when they ^ say that the small land owner was 'V overburdened. Our projects in Dillon; -Jcounty are altogether a different |v proposition. The land to a great ex- ^ tent is already cleared and in about as good a state of cultivation as pos- q sible t0 make it undrained. The peo-l,, pie in North Carolina had to clear j, those (rog ponds, and of course they L were burdened for awhile, now some e of those lands are selling for $1001c to $150 per acre that were at one;p time only fit to raise frogs and mos-L qui toes and could be bought for $l|y to |10 per acre. The Keedy Creek and Maple basins ^ have a clay and not a quick sand foundation. ^ I have from time to time in the last few years had occasion t0 run ^ levels in and around the town of Dil- ^ Ion and I consider myself familiar ^ with the general contour. I can say L truthfully that Dillon will remain wet until Maple is drained. That is abso- p lutely the only way unless an enor- g mous amount of money is spent in t] sinking a drainage conduit to Little g Pee Dee river. And than I would not y say it was perfect drainage. Money ^ spent in a little ditching now and y then around the town is practically all of no value, and never will be. Maple is now a very sluggish stream y and is filled with trees due to the D timber cutting. Dillon will continue to get wetter until Maple is drained. p If I were aske dhow much it would ! p benefit the town alone I would say|a that you could not estimate it in dol-l^ lars and cents, for the benefit would I be perpetual. How long would it take? With the * machinery available it would take| aDoui as long to nandle one of these projects as it would take to build a V house which is about a year more or e less. e The projects were all up before the war but were dropped as they should a have been when we went in. If there a are any individuals interested I shall H be glad to give them the benefit of p my best advice. OTIS M. PAGE, C. E. }j ii fi Typewriter Ribbons ? Smith and o t Underwood machines at The Herald office.?4-10. '7 Employment for Discharged Soldiers.' A distinct step forward in the work ' f securing employment for discharg- j d soldiers and sailors has been tak-, n. Col. Arthur Woods, Assistant to he Secretary of War, has made pubic the first list of great manufactur-1 ag concerns throughout the country . illing to take discharged soldiers j ,-ho heretofore have been unskilled i ten, and train them in special trades, j a.virig them good wages while at j ork learning something better. The Merchant Shipbuilding Cor-i oration, at Harriman, Pa., h'-ts writ-' sn uie following icuer iu v,uiuuti; roods, as a sample of what is now: ffered the returned fighting men, in rhich 300 ambitious young-exservice j ien are called for, who are willing to I egin work at from 46 to 58c. an, our. "I have your letter of July 2nd, ad-l ressed to the Merchant Shipbuilding; orporation, regarding our taking sol-' iers and sailors who are in need of; pecial training, to fit themselves fori killed work. In reply I wish to say bat we have men doing this very [ling on an extensive scale since earr in the winter, arid have taken on l addition to our own employees undreds of ex-service men, who are apidly being trained and promoted 3 higher positions. We can use a irge number in addition to these rhich we now have, and would be ery glad to have you direct to us ft-o or three hundred husky, ambious ex-service men who weigh at >ast 140 pounds, and who are willig to start work at 46 to 58c per our." "We have found," said Colonel [ iroods, "that skilled men ere com-: aratively easy to place, but that the; ifficult problem has been to secure ltisfactory positions for unskilled' ien. This large class of exservicei ien, because of their army exper-, mce and training, are much morel, uibitious than they were before they j ntered the war, but lack in many ! iises the skill in order to hold places': s expert and skilled workers. Al[ irge number of America's leading in-'( ustrial training classes and 'vesti-1 ule schools' through which it is J ossible for men of this type to be-n ame skilled worker on uie jou, wimc jceiving wages that will support him. . considerable amount of work was one by the United States Training ervice under the Department of Labr during the war to aid in the eslblishment of such training classes 1 plants, but on July 1st this service! as discontinued. A great many lants, however, realizing the imortance and value of such training! lasses, are continuing the work, and lany are ready to do so.*' Colonel Wood's office has made the irst list of concerns which have work ar discharged service men and will ive vocational training along employ- 1 lent, s0 that eventually the men can rork into better pay. In each case a etter job is waiting for the men in tie same plant as soon as they comlete their training. The demand for skiled labor is now o great that such firms are glad to ive the training in order to get beter men. Here follows the list of those ave volunteered to train soldiers for etter positions while paying them, nd men interested should apply peronnally to the firm nearest their ome. The General Electric Company, Iain Office, Schenectady, N. Y.; The nderwood Typewriter Company, [artford, Conn.; The Barber-Colman ompany, Iiockford, 111.; The Niagara .ithograph Company, Buffalo, N. Y.; he B. F. Goodrich Company, Akron, hio; The Davis-Bournonville Comanv, Jersey City, N. J.; The Miller ,ock Company, Philadelphia, Pa.; he Acme Machine Tool Company, incinuati, Ohio; The Burrough Addlg Machine Company, Detriot, Mich.; he Reo Motor Car Company, Lansing licliigan; The American Mosaic & ile Company, Louisville, Kentucky; 'he Victor-Monoghan Mills, Green-1 ille, S. C.; Tlie Timken-Detroit Axle ompany, Detroit, Mich.; Chain Belt ompany, Molders, Milwaukee; Wis.; he Lunkenheimer Company, Cincinati, Ohio; The Timken Roller Bearig Company, Canton, Ohio; Delco,ight Products; The Domestic Enginering Company, Dayton, Ohio; Spener Lens Company, Buffalo, N. Y.; inffalo Weaving and Belting Comnny, Buffalo, N. Y.; Montgomery i'ard & Company, Chicago 111.; The layton Engineering Laboratories Company, Dayton, Ohio; J. & T. Couins Company, shoemakers 373 De.Kalb Ave. Brooklyn, N. Y.; The Emlsyment Industry of the Y. M. C. A. 'ood working, 8 East Third Street, ew York City; Lanston Linotype Mahine Company, Philadelphia, Pa.; ,odge & Shipley Machine Tool Comany, Cincinnati, Ohio; Danguard layer Action School, 609 West 51st treet New York City; Boston Typolietae Board of Trade, 176 Federal treet, Room 504, Boston, Mass.; /hitcomb-Blaisdell Machine Tool ompany, Worchester, Mass.; Passaic letal Ware Company, Passaic, N. J.; merlcan Optical Company, Southridge, Mass.; Steul & Thurman Co., Tood carvers and cabinet makers, uffalo, N. Y.; Sears, Roebuck & Com any, Chicago, 111.; Royall Typewritr Company, Inc. New Park Avenue, lartford, Conn.; The Cleveland Met1 Products Company, Cleveland, >hio. iOTICE OF FINAL DISCHARGE. Notice is hereby given that J. W. i'ethington as administrator of the state of Teletha Wethington, deceasd, has made application unto me for inal discharge as such administrator, nd that Tuesday, August 19th, 1919 . i i _ ? . 1.? i, I 11 a. III. ill i iiv luicuuuu uaa ppointed for the hearing of the .said etition. All persons holding claims against he said estate are requested to file hem with J. W. Wethington, adminit rator on or before 11 o'clock in the orenoon of Tuesday, August 19th, r this notice will be plead In bar of heir recovery. JOE CABELL DAVIS, Judge of Probate, -2-I-41 353 Dillon County. <5X3?^^ I "C^VERY luxury of comfort, every essential of T | power dictated by nineteen years' successful : I automobile engineering are embodied in the | ROGERS "ciwEtGE I I Phone 51 ; Ash For D imonstration i ?SX5X!XS>?(sXS><S>?<!XSXSXSXSSX3^^ The Citadel THE MILITARY COLLEGE OF SOUTH CAROLINA CLASSED BY THE WAR DEPARTMENT AS A DISTINGUISHED MILITARY COLLEGE Full Courses in Engineering, Sciences and Languages One beneficiary scholarship, which pays nearly all expenses, is vacant in Dillon County and will be filled by a competitive examination to be held on August 8th at the County seat. This examination will be given on the following subjects: Algebra through quadratics, plane geometry, English grammar, composition and rhetoric, literature, American histo-y, ancient history and physical geography. A limited number of pay cadets will be received. Total expenses need not exceed $400. Early application is necessary. For catalog giving full information, address / COL. O. J. BOND, Superintendent. The Citadel, Charleston S. C. wrapped package, air* fl tight, impurity proof? fi WRIGLEYS I is hygienic and wholesome*. The goody that's good for young and old. a The Flavor Lasts 's Look for the ^