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MUCH DAMAGE BY WEEVIL Calhoun Cotton Farmers Suffering From Loss St. Matthews, Sept. 9.?If the boll weevil should keep up his march of invasion until the end of the season as he is now doing in this part of the country, incalculable harm is going' to come to the farmers. With only a few reported here and there last season, there was little apprehension that it would anything more than make his debut this year. The extra-i ordinary prospect for a good crop in the early and middle summer and the excessive fruitage seemed to contradict his presence and little fear was manifest. But while confidence reigned, the weevil worked and now it is ont only present but is here in force and causing disaster. In many sec-| tons of th county, planters now say that they will do well to harvest a crop. Others report the damage still greater. Scarcely a field is exempt from its presence and it now appears that 1921 will be a real boll weevil year for Calhoun. It is no longer argued that this area is too high and j that the \teevil does not thrive except in low places. o TELLS STRANGE SNAKE STORY Negro Cells on Governor Cooper and Claims Man Employed Witchcraft Against Him, Causing Him to Shoot Negro Woman. "Ever had any experience with the' Lord?'' was the odd question that was thrown at Governr Cooper Saturdaj 1 can't get help," and the nervous his offices at the State House. His Interrogator was Frank McAllister, a coal black negro, as strange a figure as has been seen in exectlve nfflcoa in manv a Hav With ha.eea.rd face, clothing in disarray, black skin shinning and eyes unnaturally bright, j he stood near the entrance to the "* outer offices, looking out of place in the well appointed chamber. When the Governor entered, the negro wanted to "inow if he was the: Governor and on being answered in j . the affirmative fired his next ques-J tion with regard to the Lord. "Well, I've been out in the woods praying, for I'm in a tangle and the Lord told me to come to the Governor for .help. , "I'm all in a tangle. I'll be losing two horses, many hogs and 15 pigs if I, can't get help," and the nervous hands hardly ceased to twirl the hat: he held between them. I'm all conjured," he continued. | "A negro man conjured me, and I here's how it was: "I rhot a woman Saturday a week ago. I couldn't help it?I would not i have^shot her for all the money this room would hold?but I couldn't help it. That man done 'witched me. He was trying to come between us. I Saw Black Snake i "Here's how it was," and the negro,' thin from half rations and the long! tramp from Williamsburg county, < I' 1 JONES FOR LO NE OUR Mr. of new pants, shoes, b at invariable 1 The live model Cors< Boys' Knee Pant Su The bipgest and best lc at 75c to $4.00. JONES DR seemed not to be able to talk fast enough to get his story out. "I worked a crop, and this woman helps me hoe and I plowed for her. Saturday we were coming from Troy Fuimore's place where we had been grading tobacco. We were going to her house, walking along a path with me in front. "We passed a big dead pine tree. There was no bark on it?it was slick and shiny. My shoulder brushed against it?Just like that," and he struck his shoulder a light tap. "I heard something rustle behind me and I turned quick?and a long black snake was between me and the woman?done come down out of that dead pine. "I said, 'Jane, what that passed between us?" and she said, 'It looked like a black snake.' "Governor, the grass around that place no high than one inch. I looked everywhere for that snake?he had disapeared?just gone," and the excited voice sank to a half whisper and it needed little imagination to picture the scene in the woods, with the tall dead pine standing sentinel. "Yes, sir, that snake just gone. I couldn't help it, Governor. I shot the woman?she was not far from me and I shot her with a shot gun. And the shot just tipped the top of her head ?they just wanted it to be enough to get me in trouble?and I am to lose two horses and hogs and pigs? for my wife and little children can't look after the crop,'' and the negro, a truly pitiable figure, stood before the Governor of the Sta^ with his eyes fixed on the floor. The people that heard the story were white. Memories of strange stories of voodooism, .of voodoo "priests" and voodoo "queens" with the snake as the object of worship, must have arisen in each mind despit^ the fact that the rumble of electric street cars and the tooting of auomobiles, all indications of modern progress, were loud in the ears. Goes to Jail rovernor Cooper turned the negro over to Constable S. W. Lowe, who came in the office, and he was later placed in the Richland county jail. The Governor has received a letter! from T. P. Fulmore, magistrate of Cades, Williamsburg county, in which he asked that a reward be offered for the capture of Frank McAllister a negro who on September 4, shot Jane McClain, a negro women, with a shot gun, according to the magistrate. The letter further said that efforts made to capture the negro had proven futile. The magistrate also says in his letter to the Governor that this is the same negro who was convicted some years ago of murder and who after serving ten years in the penitentiary was paroled by C. L. Blease. The magistrate says "he is a bad characsary, however, as the negro of his own accord made his way to the Governor's office.?The State. o Subscribe to The Herald, $2.50 a year W PRICES MERCHA Jones personally fall cloaks, coat lankets, hosiery, < ower prices. I and up fW/I r dresses special Buster Bi which me _ Ladies' 4 down to \ Ladies' Childre | nown to ; KABO CORSETS ?ts. You'll like it. Priced $1.50 to $ BOYS' KNEE PAXT SI/ITS its, best styles, on sale at $10.50 and MEN'S AM) BOYS CAPS tt of Caps we have ever shown, golf ai Y GOODS CO SMALL TOWN HAPPINESS j The following very enjoyable arti-j cle is from the pen of Robert Quillen, I ! editor of the Tribune at Fountain Inn, j S. C., who makes weekly contribu| tions to the Saturday Evening Post ! under the head of "Small Town 'Stuff:" I When one travels about he learns 'a number of very interesting things. ! He learns, first of aH, that folks are 'folks. From Maine to Texas and ilroni Florida to Washington, i n bi g 'towns and s mall, folks are actuated 'by me same hopes and ambitions and' 1 faiths and fears. They are striving to1 1 get money, to earn fame, to win1 sweethearts and to make homes. Their standards vary but little, and j the quality men call culture, which ' IS Utll ill'^UUlUiaiiCC ?uu uvuno auu good manners, is no less universal ] than the use of talcum powder . The city man, who has learned to 1 dodge surtace cars and taxicabs, feels i fiat he is wiser than his country I brother. The countryman, who has' learned to dodge the business end of j a i.?uk, feels that he is less wicked j than (he city man. The provincialism that is common' to both city and country keeps each] of them in ignorance of the other's virtues, and out of this ignorance! grows the assumption of superiority and the myth that city dwellers andj country dwellers are distinct breeds. \ The city man and the countryman are, in fact, brothers trained in different schools. The difference between tliei.i is superficial; their common parentage is in their bone and blood. The ignorance of the one concerning many things is balanced by the ignorance of the other concerning as many more. One gets from l^e manyi things the other misses, but misses' otoer things of equal worth. If one appears to have a higher seat, rest assured he pays a price for it. The city man is prey to the atmosphere in which he lives. It is an atmosphere of haste. Because others hurry, he hurries. He canters rather than walks. He speaks rapidly and sharply. He is a machine, geared to match the speed of other machines about him. TVio nftvinontioro that nprmiflries him to travel in high has a similar effect upon his spending. He spends in high. Being a city man, he must live up to the city. He dresses well because his associates dress well. He lives up to a standard, not down to his purse. And becaue he dresses well and live well and spends freely to hold up his end, the high cost of living has him by the scruff of the neck and is making his life a burden. The countryman But let us begin at the beginning. One cannot wholly understand a piece of oak flooring until he has seen an oak tree. Our town is, in many particulars, as like other American small towns as one pea is like another. We have water and sewer systems and electric lights, but our streets are unpaved and our sidewalks are but dirt? iNDISE F y visited the Easl suits, dresses, sw stc.,?too extensr ou should see ou: LADIES' R onderful line of ladies special at $19.75, $2 at suits the acme of s1 to $79.00. esses in tricotine sp* 5 priced special at $13 at $7.95. D st heavy cheviots fo in. sheeting good qua] >od apron ginghams on HOSIERY ? rry, Cadet, Arrow-Head, \ own and Society Hosiery, \ ans the best. \ Silk Hose, at $4.50 and \ $1.00. \ Lisle Hose at $1.25, and \ iOc. Cotton Hose at 25c per pr. \ n's Ribbed Hose at 75c and 25c. I < (\ \ down to $6.50. > 11 ud jocky style, on sale MP ANY, ~ shaded dirt walks pressed hard by generations. None of our buildings are more than t^o stories high. When we wish to brag about our town we tell how much thd new schoolhouse cost. The school and the churches are the main centers of our community life. We have four mail trains each day. When the mail bags are brought over from the station we gather in the lobby of the post office and talk until the general delivery window is opened. The postmaster distributes the daily papers first, in order that those of us wh ohave lock boxes may get in touch with the outside world without delay. If there is a* screaming usual import someone in the lobby will begin to read aloud and the others will listen. Then we discuss the news while waiting for our letters. The letters are distributed after the newspapers, and the circulars last. When one is in a hurry to get back to his shop or office, and suspects that the postmaster has begun to distribute circulars, he calls back .1 V. n?r?itlnn trt oqlr whpfhpr llii U U&ii IUC yaiiuviuu ww the letters are up, and, being assured that they are, closes his lock box and goes about his business, followed by those who have no interest in mail matter bearing one-cent stamps. On Sundays the first train comes before we are out of bed and the second while we are at church; but the afternoon trains find us idle and we walk down to the station to watch them come in. Of course the trains are frequently late, and while waiting for them we talk. We are all dressed up for Sunday, and it is a sort of Bocial function. There are never any ladies present, except those who expect guests or those who are going away, and these sit modestly inBide the station. Also on Sunday afternoons?if the weather is neither too cold nor too hot?young -couples walk about town and families walk to the cemetery or visit a neighbor. Many of us have cars, but there is little pleasure in Sunday driving, for the people in our nearest city like to get out into the country on Sundays and their hurrying cars keep a dust cloud along the highway until late in the evening. None of our homes aer expensive, and few of us have more than one spare bedroom. The spare bedroom contains our most expensive furniture, and its pillows and towels are hand embroidered. Nearly all of us own our homes and and spend our summers coaxing a lawn. In the back yards we have real gardens, both winter and summer, and the gardens cut our grocery bills in half. We fence the gardens and let our chickens run where they will. During the winter it is necessary to buy some feed for the chickens, but in summer they live well on table scraps and bugs and grass. Wehn our wives can5t thinfl of anything new to fix for dinner they kill a frying chicken; and for breakfast we have the eggs gathered the evening before. We have no servants in our homes. A few families have fat old negro OR PEOl tern markets and eaters* middies, 1 1 5A< Onr shoes *ff Skuffers in all /m Men's Tan /WT Boys' Eng H Ladies sty 1 ^ Children C A Children's A Children's \ \A V ^ \ Ladies' Ha R. R. Avenue i \ I mammies who come in the morning to do the cook and go back to their cabins after finishing the supper dishes, but moBt of the women are more particular about their kitchens than about their living rooms and will not tolerate an alien hand among their spotless utensils. Our wives are good cooks, ustly proud ol their skill, and our daughters learn the art before they are through high school. The Domestic Science Club, which meets on Thursdays, does not discuss calories and carbohydrates and things like that. It discusses regular eats and methods of preparing them. Doubtless we eat too much, but when there is fried chicken with gravy and rice and creamed potatoes, hot biscuit, pickled beets, fruit salad and a great chocolate cake, what can one do? A lew years ago one could have in a colored woman to scrub and polish the floors and dust the furniture at a cost of twenty-five cents the room; but now these women ask a dollar, and our thrifty wives will not I pay it. They do their own scrubbing cinu ucvnuy unuyiro 111 men ciuuna. The family washing is done by colored women. They call for it early on Monday mornings?"soon in the mawnin'," is their way of saying it? and carry it home on their heads. The family furnishes the soap, and the colored women do the washing, starching and ironing for one dollar and a half. Our womenfolks keep up with the styles, but they make their own dresses. They have one or two nice dresses to wear to church and to parties?the same frock serving equally well for either occasion?but at home they wear gingham. They do not always look well in their more expensive dresses, but it is impossible to be other than charming in a crisp gingham fresh from the laundry. When the women go shopping they wear their gingham dresses and go bareheaded. We are all home folks and it isn't necessary to put on airs before home folks. They wear cotton stockings, except on state occasions. When they wear their silk ones they take them off when they get home and wash them out in cold waer. It is surprilng how long one pair of good silk stockings will lasl if properly cared for. i The men are not so particular. ve to be detailed i r r stock it you w EADY-TO-m i coats in all the new 4.75, $37.50 and up tyle priced at special ;cial at $19.50 and i i.75 and up to $65. C bmestics. r shirts and dresses a ity on sale at yard 2 aalp at var A 2.V me young ienows wno naveni yei begun to earn their own way weai silk socks and silk shirts, but the older men wear socks that cost thirtyfive cents a pair, and keep on wearing them until the darned spots have become too numerous for comfort Many of them buy the goods and hav< their wives make their shirts. Most of us buy one good suit ol clothes each year. There are n< dress suits in town, but we have blacJ suits that we save year after year foi funerals and weddings and churcl wear. About the only thing that car put a good black suit in the discarc I is an expanding waistline. In sum mer we leave our coats at home. / few of the old chaps who still clini JONES OF 1 bought an overv [mens, dress good in a newspaper,ant the hest at 1< SAR styles and shades, to 95.00. I $23.75, $33.50 ap to 49.00; silk J ^ne lot silk dresses M t on ly 39c. . .V jes, Shoes are all leather, and not only look v sizes, priced $2.00 to $6.00, accordin i English, a beauty, at $12.50. Our lish, brown and black, regular $9.00 lish Shoes priced, special at $4.50 to Children's \ oats in great variety, on sale, special a Wool Dresses.sp ecial at $9.75 to $1( Cotton Dresses for school use at $1.50 DA DIES' HANDBAGS ndbnrs. in novelty style, pried at 75f Dillon, 5c | to the ancient idea that pants can't be trusted without suspenders wear black alpaca coats, but the younger , men go about their business In their i shirt sleeves. , We attead..the_ movies in our shirt % sleeves. The movie show is our chief relaxation. On night when the movie ' house is dark we stroll down to one , of the drug stores and have an ice t ! cream. Then we go home and read the magazines until bedtime. Bedtime is ten o'clock. Very few residence lights are burning after that hour. A light burning at midnight means a party or sickness. rj You know us now. We are just J ^ plain small-town folks, deeply inter- . 1 ested in State, national and even international affairs, because we have | no thrilling interests at home?hardworking people, earning our bread , and saving a little of what we earn? riioHinir rn noh Kdpoucd tiro havo f O W L . ,,v, . lighter pleasures?a little intolerant , in some matters, but very matter-offact In our views of government and good citiaemhip. And the point of our plan and the point of this article is that the high , cost of living doesn't distress us. It . doesn't distress us because we don't , live high. Our tastes are simple; we . do not think it necessary to show off before our neighbors; we wait on ourselves and dress in a manner suited 4 to our earnings; and we make ends . meet with surprisingly small incomes. ., j None of the store clerks earn more ! than seventy-five dollars e month; * (1 yet they pay rent, clothe and feed . I their families, give something to the . church, and aave a little. There are /dozens of other men in various occupations whose earnings do not exceed .1 one hundred dollars a month. It may , be that they do not live up to the , J American standard of living so frequently referred to by economists with . axes to grind, but they do live up to , the American standard of happiness , and good citizenship. , Very likely there is not one among . us who would refuse a gift of a mil. lion dollars. Very likely all of us - - f ; leei a iitue enviuus ui iu? ncwui; r in cities who live in great houses, [ surrounded by servants, and possess , luxuries we cannot afford. We are \ not philosophers. Poverty prescribes our mode of living, and necessity teaches us thrifj. I Yet we are happy. The wealthiest canont buy better books than w? > can afford,. nor can they win more . lovable friends. We have our work 't to give us contentment and self-re> spect, our school and town affairs to . train us in teamwork, our churches ? and small charities to teach us the? art of unselfishness, f Once in a while business or pleas> ure takes us away from home for a c few days. Some of us go to the r great cities to buy goods. And when i we come back again and the smiles j i of old friends greet us we would not 1 trade the decent poverty of home, - with its simplicity and genuineness l and hearty companionship, for all the I j wealth and glitter of a metropolis. I 1 ; FOR QUALITY TASTE irliplminrf cfnplr V llWXliJ Xll^ M VW AV Is, toys suits, ?all to te sold )wer prices. MiiUJA-J STYLE 2034 he Family k-ell, but will stand hard service. ,g to size, price just $9.75. quality, at only $7.50 i $12.50. I/ v eui it $6.75, $9.50 and up to $27.50. 1.75. ? and up to $6.50. \ to $4.95. mth Carolina