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BREAD DISEASE WILL COME BACK Influenza Epidemic Sure to Return. I Washington, Aug. 5?If you hope | to keep your health this autumn, get lyourself into the pink of physical con-! tedition and take all possible precautions to avoid infection. For the flu is going to hit us again, and the amount of damage it will do depends largely upon how well we prepare for it. This is the message of Dr. Ootto Geier of Cincinnati, secretary of the' American Medical Association. Already the visitation of the most dramatic and destructive plague of TvmHorn times is beginning to grow' dim in the memories of many people, and this despite the fact that there are reminders of it everywhere. Nearly everyone has a friend who is not able to work as he did before he got* the flu. Nearly everyone who has i traveled during the past year, and in- j quired for old friends, has heard; again and again the depressing words1 "he died of the flu." Nearly everyone has noticed, too, the surprising number of women with short hair. Some of these are afflicted with artistic inclinations but most of them gave up their crowning glory reluctantly enough after having the flu. Indeed, in some sections the flu is said to have created quite a vogue "for bobbed hair. Short hair is the least serious of the after affects of influenza. Doctor Geier says that it will add 40 per rent more people will die than would! have died had there been no flu. They will die because this strangely weakening disease has sapped their resistansce to other diseases. These fearful after affects of the flu. even more than the number of; lives it destroys at once, make it a1 national oalamity which we can ill af- j ford to pass through again. The' country is strewn with men who! thought that they were in their prime1 and w'ho got over the flu only to find that they were old and about done; with women who can no longer be wives or mother." since they had the flu, and with children whose growth has been checked. One or two more winters with such epidemics, and the United States will have suffered almost as much loss of human power as some European countries did through the war. In support of his claim that the influenza epidemic will recur, Dr. Geier cites the record of the nearly allied disease of lagrippe, which appeared in epidemic form in 1899. It did not reach its peak until 1901, and two years after that it recurred an d destroyed thousands of lives. We have 1 1 ~ om ina nf CrlnDC IlciU IWW UlUCI Cj'iuvunvw w* or or influenza one in 1867 and the other ir 1895, and both of these showed the some recurrent quality. In the face of this literal certainty that we will have no combat influenza again next year, we are totally unprepared to do so. Medical science knows little more about influenza today than it did a year ago when the scourge was spreading like a prairie fire over all the world. For this reas^^on, the doctors are making elaborate | '^^and extensive researches into the ' cause and effect of the disease in order to try to be better prepared for the next outbreak. Medical men are hopeful of discoveilng a specific remedy for the flu as was done in the cases of yellow fever, diptheria, and typhus fever. Among the medical men of this country making studies of the flu are Dr. William H. Park, famous bacteriologist and head of the bureau of laboratories of the department of health in New York; Dr. John F. Anderson, former director of the hygenic laboratory of the federal government and Dr. E. L. Fisk. director of the Life Extension Institute, The American Medical Association is promoting this research work. At Uo ww>on) <?nnvpntinn in Atlantic Citv a resolution was adopted asking congress to appropriate $1,500,000 to stimulate and encourage research work. This suggestion was acted upon the other day, when Representative Fess of Ohio, introduced a resolution in congress for the appropriation of that amount. The money is to be turned over to the United States public health service to be used for cooperation in the research work that is being carried on by the various State health departments. Not only are the medical men of the country preparing for reappearance of the disease, but civic organizations in different communities which under took to care for the numerous victimso f the enidemic a year ago are also making plans aeainst a recurrence of the maladv. These organizations do not intend to be caugh* off their guard in the event of another outbreak, and in a number of towns throughout the United Statpa special comnuuses nave utoi upturn ied to make preparations for .lust such an emergency. During he epidemic a year aeo. many thousands of people died solely for want of care. In his letter to Congressman Fess. urging the federal appropriation. Dr. Geier gives some impressive ficts about the flu. He savs it caused half a million deaths in this country la?=t year, and that it cost the insurance companies $240,000,000. The epidemic loss to the countrv. he says, is hard to estimate, but it Is enormous. Economists agree that a human life is worth at least $5,000 IU IUC kittle, ?U llirti ?II?- iiMin?-iai ? value of be liven lost alono would be about $2.5000.000. Add to this (he , working time lost by people who were sick, and the total economic loss to ' thp countrv is somewhat between three and four billion. Dr. Gelr cites these fienres to show that it will pav the tax pavers to let congress spend some of their money preparing: to prevent a recurrence of the flu. This loss of time and man power, he says, is not really half so important is the impairment of the country's health? the lone lingering after affects of the disease. As an example of what these amount to in one city. Dr. Geir states that the Red Cross chapter in Cincinnati is spending $200,000 in examining persons who have had influenza, and finding in an enormous percentage of cases that they have come through the disease with impaired organ ? heart, kidney or lungs. It is also caring for a great many invalids who were able to make their own living before they had the flu. Dr. Geier firmly believes that the flu problem can be solved by medical I science. One after another, mysteri-1 ous diseases have appeared to kill and j baffle, and one after another, they have been conquered. Typhoid, yellow fever, diphtheria, typhus?they were each at one time as deadly and mysterious as the flu is now. In each case, the germ was discovered which caused the disease and then a specific was made or discovered which would kill the germ. This same method must and will i be applied to the flu. Many eminent scientists are making studies of the subject. What is needed is an appropriation and authority to enable the public health service to coordinate all these efforts and make them into a national campaign against the plague. o 11,639,653 BALES, HESTER REPORTS. Says the Prop of Texas Is 541,000 Bales Less Than Last Year. New Orleans, Aug, 9?Serretary Hester's annual report on the commercial cotton crop, issued today, puts the crop of 1918-19 at 11,639,653 bales, a decrease under the crop of 1917-18 of 1,301,281. He says that the crop of Texas is i 541,000 bales less than last year, the group of "other Gulf States" (embracing Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arizona, California, Kansas and New Mexico) show a decrease of 381,000 bales, and the group of Atlantic States (including Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia. Florida. Kentucky and Virginia) and increase of 655,000. Crop grade average barely middling. He puts the average per pound of middling for the year at 30.36 cents compared with 28.86 last year, 18.41 year before last and 11.99 in 1915-16 and the average commercial value per bale at $155,14 against $147.39 last year and $94.82 the year before and the value of the crop, including the seed, at $2,045,251,868, against $2,001,682,939 last year. Mr. Hester's report of commercial crop by States is as follows, in thousands of bales. Alabama 756 against 521 last year. Arkansas 914 against 1,00,04. Florida 34 against 50. Georgia 2,029 against 1,980. Louisiana 541 against 665. Oklahoma 590 against 1,016. Mississippi 1.154 against 979. North Carolina etc 908 against 717. South Carolina 1,491 against 1,295. Tennessee, etc. 543 against 460. Texas 2,680 against 3,220. i | Great ! OXF I X % For the | to sell all s | they will go t | were being s> 6 f One lot of mt % go at $2.95. $ Oxfords wort ? Ladies oxforc f Ladies oxforc X Ladies pump: f Ladies pump; ? One lot of chi V White oxford i L , L $ New shipmen a the latest styles V Priced specia | White wash $3.50; formerly i EXTRA GOOD I i V I || Jones Railroad Ave. next to pit Total crop, bale 11,640, against 11,007 last year. Mr. Hester says that the prices paid for this crop have been the highest witnessed for the past fifty-two yearn. He then gives a table showing the exports lor the five-year war period compared with the five previous years of the ante-war period showing a total for the war period of 30,666,000 and calls attention to the fact, that during the five year period prior to the war Germany and her Allies took 13,000,000 of the balance while in the war period they took only 349,000. Mr Hester nuts the actual growth for 1918-19 at 13,070,000 and he puts the number of bales carried over in the interior of the South, including Southern mill stocks, at 3,571,000 against 2,184,000 carried over at the close of 1917-18. Mr. Hester then gives a statement of the total catry-over of American cotton in the United States and abroad on July 31. These figures show total in interior of .cotton belt 3,575,000 bales, United States port stocks 1,213,000, Northern mill stocks 504,000 total United States, 5,291,000, European mill stocks 28.5000, European part mill stocks 1,248 total European port stocks 1,248,000, total Europe 1,533,000; total carry-over 6,824.000. He says of the total carry-over 699,000 bales were linters. Consumption of the South in round figures was given as 3,534,000 and the North 2,500,000, a total of 6,034,000 bales of American cotton, including linters. In addition to , this American mills have consumed 173,000 bales of foreign cotton, making a total consumption of American and foreign growtn Dy American mius ui 6,207,000 against 7,6000,000 last year. Consumption of linters, included in the preceding year was 449,000 bales, including 293,600 in the South and 156,000 in the North against a total last year of 1,100,000, includirg 600000 in the South and 500,000 lr the North. Mr. Hester puts the spindles in the South at 15,187,000, including old, new and idle and uncompleted, against 14,786,000 last year, and says there are in course of construction in the mills and being added to new mills in the South 209226 spindles. He put the world's consumption oi American cotton including linters al 10,620,000 against 12,282,000 bales last year. CREDITORS NOTICE HaVing qualified as administratoi of the estate of A. LeRoy Bethea, de ceased, notice is hereby given that al! persons holding claims against th< said estate are hereby notified to pre sent same duly authenticated withir the time provided by law or this no "? ?Ko,i (heir recov lift Will picnu *i? wr?A V<. V..W.. ery. All persons indebted to said es tate are hereby notified to make im mdiate payment to the undersignet qualified Administrator. D. W. BETHEA, 8-7-3t.?386 Administrator. : Shove 7ORD < next 10 days ummer footwe rnt almost as f hoveled out ;n's oxfords worth h up to 6.00, $3.7! is worth up to 10.0 Is worth up to 8.0( s worth 5.00, $2.9 s worth 4.00, $2.C ildren's, worth 2.0< s and pumps all ret ADIES SKIRT it of ladies fine ski in high grade metei lly at 8.00 to $17 skirts on sale, sp r cnlH at 2 Rft to UVAV* W V mm 9 w v T " BARGAINS IN EA( Dry Goo cture show. DILLON, $? ^ Professional Cards. i OTIS M. PAGE, < ' (Formerly Major of Engr's U. S. A.) t -Surveyor and Engineer. / j Surveying, Drafting, Blue Printing, jj Drainage, Sub-Divisions, Etc. | Office Over Dillon Pharmacy. . J Dillon, S. C. I < j " GIBSON & MULLER 1 Attorneys-at-Law 1 I over Malcolm Mercantile C? < ! UiLiAl.li O. \J. | . Yaetlce in State and Federal Court* :' | , 11 DR. J. H. HAMEK, JR. ,? Dentist ' Office over Peoples Bank. i. [ i i JOE P. LANE Attomey-at-Law Office Next to Bank of Dillon, Main St. Dillon, S. C. L. D. LIDE 1 Attorney-at-Law j MARION, S. C- 1 I < i DR. C. R. TABER J Physician and Surgeon Office at residence, No. 5 Harrison ( 1 t. Residence Phone No. 90. i J. W. JOHNSON Attorney-at-Law 1 .*ra?tlee in State and Federal Court* J Marion, S. G. I i L. B. HASELDEN J Attorney at Law i DILLON, S. 0. Money to Lend on First Mortgage Real Estate. !! 8. O. HENSLEE, M. D. Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Spectacles Fitted. | Office Hours 9 to 11 and 2 t? 4 i: Evening Hours by Appointment. 1 .4 DRS. ROGERS & DARWIN Dentists Office Over Bank of Dillon 5 HARGROVE A BRADDY Attorneys-at-Law. " Office first floor People Bank Bldg. DILLON, 8. C. NEW COLUMBIA SIX FOR SALE? I Has been run 400 mikes. Insured s against fire and theft SI,750.00. Will sell for $1,750.00 or give a ? good trade in an Essex ( Dodge, Hup or Ford if in first class order. Apply to B. M. DuBose, Brownsville, S. C.?ltp. o 1 Colds Cause Grip and Influenza LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE Tablets remove the cause. There it only one "Bromo Quinine." ' E. W. GROVE'S sUnstore oo box. 30c. JmJ. l-Out I 5ALE I | V u;e are going % ar so cheap | ast as if they * T | up to $5.00 to Y T f 5 T 0, $6.98. | ), $5.95. 5. * J5. * 1. si.oo. -T T? J iuced. Y s I I j i rts just arrived, ? rials. Y 50. X\ >ecial at 1.75 to Y ).00. $ :h departmt. | ids Co. | SOUTH CAROLINA t Victory Button Order Modified. Word has just been received from Washington so that Victory Buttons :an now* be issued to all honorably lischarged officers, enlisted men, field :lerks, and members of the Army Parses Corps who served on active luty in the army of the United States it any time between April 6, 1917, md November 11, 1918. This entitles the members of the student Army Training Corps, who vere excluded under Circular 187, W. D., to be issued Victory Buttons. The Army Recruiting Station in savannah is issuing Victory Buttons is rapidly as the claims come in. l liey hppi'fll lQ r?ci j mail nnv iu ? titles to t Victorv Button to make ipplioation immediately. There will b no delay, for he Victory Button is 3ent out the day the claim is received ind the quantity of buttons on hand s sufficient to take care of all. TAX NOTICE. I now ha\e in my hands the 1918 tax executions. I will have to close them out by December 1st and all iroperty on which taxes have not been paid by that date will be sold on the first Monday in December to satisfy the executions. Some one will be in the sheriff's office every Monday and Saturday for the purpose of receiving axes. r-31-4tC66 S. V. Lane, Sheriff No Worms in a Healthy Child All children troubled with worms have an unhealthy color, which Indicates poor blood, and as a rule, there is more or less stomach disturbance IROVE'S TASTELESS chill TONIC given regularlj tor two or three weeks will edrich the blood, improve the digestion, and act as a General Strength>nlng Tonic to the whole system. Nature will ther ihrowoffor dispel theVorms, and the Child will b< n perfect health. Pleasant to take. 60c per bottle PALMETTO HARDWARE Co. Dillon, S. C. L. A. WOODRUFF, G. OPt. Eye Slight Specialist Oiffce New Jewelry Store No. 10, Main St. MULLINS, S. C WOFFORE Spartanburg, Located in the high Piedmont long history of distinguished s trains for character and leaders ing Corps. Write for catalogue now. HENRY N. SNYDER, m Tobacco Receiving bi tobacco sole Dixon Bros. J. M. Todd D. G. Huggins C. R. Brabham W. F. Rogers & Huggi: Cowser Alfred Smith & Brown G. B. Kearse P. S . Conner A. M. Brabham J. M. Kearse C. C. Rogers J. W. Hill Farmers never g sick when they sell | NEAL&DIXC Piles Cured in 6 to 14 Days Druggists refund money if PAZO OINTMENT fail* > to cure Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles. | Instantly relieves Itching Piles, and you can get ' restful sleep after the first application. Price 50c. | GOOD HOUSES AT LOW COST. 3 WHY? ? ? ? ? ? ^ (BECAUSE?We do a large amount of work with special Modern machinery instead of by hand, and building in large quantities as we do, we eliminate the expense of plan and specifications, s BECAUSE?We get lumber I from the forest, and other i supplies in caiiots and we are i satisfied with' a reasonable profit. i You can have a home right [ now ! _ ! ! ; We make a variety of sizes and styles of ready to put up ; houses at prices of $200.00 UP. Write or 'phone us for our illustrated free catalog, or i come to sec us. Dixie House Co. CHARLESTON, S. C. ' ' ) Bicycles I an ? Bicycle Supplies. I keep on hand at all times a complete line of Bicycles and Bicycle Supplies. \ " You can buy at closer figures at my place because I buy what the people need and and in larger quantities. The place where Bicycles are repaired and rebuilt. t r M.n ia | J. JD. 1'ici/uiiaiu. | =?= > COLLEGE South Carolina section. A real college with a ervice to the whole state. It hip. U. S. Reserve Officers' Train? President. . . i Growers g checks for I with Neal & check for $1,355.71 " << 1,224.36 " " 1,369.57 ris 1 f 043.00 " << 2,114.46 << << 1,028.93 " 1.065.63 << << 969.13 << << 801.71 817.42 " 846.02 907.07 o home strapped and | their tobacco with | )N, Mullins, S. C. I