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/ * FAMIKE DV CHINA REACHES CRISIS. Fifteen Million People May Die Unleea Aid ?b Given. Washington, Feb. 5.?The (amine situation in China has reached such a crisis that 15,000,000 people may )\ die unless immediate help is given r according to information received to% day by the State Department. U Another (amine equally severe may arise next (all unless food is made available to the Chinese farmers who are physically unable to undertake the spring plowing a statement issued by the department said. The Chinese are doing all in their power to relieve the situation, the i?i?ui?ui aaaea, ana it 18 estimated that $6,000,000 will be obtained tor relief by surch&rge8 imposed on the railway, telegraph and postal services. Red Cross funds amounting to $1,000,000 will help 5,000 persons 200 days, it was stated.* Official reports, the statement said show that every economy is being practiced in administering and distributing relief. o SEES BETTER CONDITIONS. Governor Harding Minimizes Danger . of Collapse. New York, Feb. 6?Discussing credit expansions arising from the participation of the United States in the war, W. P. G. Harding, Governor of the Federal Reserve Board, in an address before the Lawyers Club here today, minimised the danger of a business collapse or financial crisis. "I qnv thU In ?11 Harding asserted. "We are now looking forward to a. year of constructive development. I want to say that intrinsically there is no comparison today with conditions a year ago, when ( *'^L there was uneasiness and apprehen\ * sion among the best informed over I ' the badly expanded credit. Business is now rapidly reaching a new level and approaching a sound and sane basis. We have a better banking situation. We have passed the danger point. We have a better understanding of conditions." THE BANKER'S NEW JOB. Literary Digest. In the8e days of tumbling prices and forced liquidations in business and industry, bankers arc learning a new trade, observes The American Banker. They are going Into merchandising?"not because they like It hilt hoMimo *">? * 1 ..y ?? * wwvwuut. vuv/ ua t c uau mcr* chandising forced upon them owing to the failure of clients to live up to their contracts." As the editor of this weekly magazine for bankers explains: Frequently nowadays the banker finds himself the owner of commodities accepted as collateral for loane which were not met on maturity. "When one meets a big banker these days," observed a Wall Street man, "the question he propounds is likely to be something like this: 'Can you tell me how to sell 10,000 cases ol canned tomatoes?" o CLERK OF HOUSE AMD PURCHASES On Many Strange and Unexplained Errands. Washington, Feb. 5?One whc reads the report of the house clerk with a discriminating eye would reach the conclusion that the members of the house have deteriorated S- into a soft and nffomlno* tion. The clerk reveals purchases for > eyebrow tweezers, puff boxes, manicure sets end sentimental cards and calendars. It is not reported for whom such puchases were made, ox whether or not the clerk was reimbursed. Some of the contingent fund appropriations follow: One box party Invitations, 4 5 cents; one dozen No. horbet cards, 12.75; manicure sets 15.40; two "From Me to You" calendars, $1; one puff box, $1.50; two three dozen metal egg crates, $2.55; one icy hot thermos bottle, $4.20; two "Something Like You" books, $1, one jewel case, $3.30; one watch bracelet, $22.50; one baby ring, $1.50; one silver locket, $5.40. The report shows that on March 16, 12 alarm clocks were purchased for $21, the impression being given that certain members of congress required assistance in keeping their eyes open. One warm August day, the report show8 that it became necessary to purchase one Kalamazoo ice blanket. Two rugs for the clerk's office cost $517. But that was minor compared with the $1,283 expended for a rug for the house lobby. The majority leader's room secured a rug at 1460 Congress trie8 to keep clean ? as far as its physical body Is concerned. Twelve dozen bath towels were bought for $126. And when congress bathes, the affair Is one of luxury, as the report shows that on July 15 eight bars of soap were purchased at $1.69 per bar, and the additional bars at the plebeian price of $1 per bar. Cleopatra, whose baths are still the subject of song and story had nothing on those of the memberB of the house who serve the plain people. Huge numbers of Christmas cards were purchased from the contingent fund, enough to put one in the hands of every voter of the United States. Fifteen pages are filled with amounts paid for folding speeches ol members. On June 10, $40.50 was paid for six barrels of paste to be } used In sealing envelopes containing these Demosthenean utterances. Death8 are costly. When a member dies a coffin valued at $350 Is purchased. And funeral Dartl*? ? large sum from the money of the taxpayers. Investigations, especially when conducted by Republicans Just prior to a presidential campaign, costs so much that to mention the specific sum would arouse animosity. Representative James A. Freer received $2,600 for expenses incident to a trip with an investigating subcommittee. This i^ Just one of a list of hundreds of such Items. There Is no other conclusion, but that legislation "comes high" despite ifth* public pleas tor economy. POULTRY HINTS (Prepared by County Home Demonstration Agent.) One of the greatest assets on the farm is the poultry. In making our poultry a better paying proposition the following suggestions will be found helpful. Every farm should have a flock of uniform standard poultry. Not ...*n aw... - uuiu iucu c?u we expect to demand the top price for our products in competition with an A grade standard uniform of products. However, the world was not made in a day, so a right step in that direction is the next best thing. Dispose of that scrubby, knocked kneed rooster and get a purebred Plymouth Rock, Rhode Island Red, White Wyandotte, Leghorn, or any good utility, vigorous > bird. You will be so well pleased with the improved fryers, pullets and eggs produced next year that you will go the whole thing another year with an exclusive flock of pure bred birds. Always watch for the best layers ; in the fall and use them for breeders during tbe hatching season. The best hatching season is during the months of January. February and March. String is nature's most favorable growing season, hence the early > hatched chlckg will have the advantage of this favorable growing season. Given the same care and attention, chicks hatched the first of March will weigh more when they arc four months old than those hatcheu the first of May when they are four months old. i Green feed is excellent for the , flock and can be substituted for a considerable amount of the grain ration. If you have no green feed, Epsom Salts giveQ every ten days ? i about 1 pound to 100 hens?in the drinking water will give surprising results. Salts has ? of for.? ,.n_ to green feed, as a laxative and a cleanser. A hen, to lay well, should drink i a great quantity of water In winter as well as in summer. Ice cold water i chills the body, reduces the temperature and circulation, and retards egg 1 production. Warm the water. In addition to grain, green feed and water, the fowls need protein. It is a seriou8 mistake to overfeed with corn and leave off the proper amount of protein. This protein has i an important effect on the egg prol duction and the development of the . chicks. From it are made the flesh, i feathers, blood and the whites of the ' eggs. In the summer bugs and ini sects supply the protein, but when winter comes it must be supplied by ; buttermilk, clabber, or peas. Never allow the mother hen to 1 range with the young chicks until ' they are at least two weeks old. Large numbers of young chicks die ' every year because they are allowed to run in the wet gras8 during their early life. Be sure the flock Is comfortably i housed. The house should be built > with a shed roof and open front fac' ing the south. Arrange the perches ' on a level with the dropping boards. Be sure the house la kept dry. Oak leaves may be used on the floor. a ' HOG CHOLERA, CAT. ' , TLB TICKS AMD SIN. One will pay you as well as the other. Uucle Sam tells us that hog 1 cholera is not a very paying invest' ment and if we could get rid of it we would have lots of smoked ham and ' bacon, sausage, hog jole and greens, and so we would. Then if we could 1 be rid of ticks, fleas and flies, what milk and butter, steak and stew we could have, and what money we could make out of hogs and cattle! But sin?just plain, every day sin ?costs us more in money?hard money?than all the plagues and pests of the world. A race of grafters, gam' biers, liars, thieves, robbers and libertines could not build up a town . with banks, stores, factories and shops, nor could such people have a , city of homes with love and child iiooa, nowers and songs. Sin is a failure; the paths of sin lead nowhere but to failure and death. Yes, cholera in hogs, ticks In cattle and sin in man belong in the ' same class. To get rid of cholera, vaccinate the hog. To get rid of ticks dip the cow, and to get rid of sin?well, ' that's another story. Better get the , OLD BOOK and find out how. Bet. ter go to church and see if the preach, er knows. Better go to Sunday school . and hear what others are saying , about sin. Say, why not take better care of . your hogs and cattle and your children? While you are at it, why not j take better care of yourself? Yours for better hogs and better men.? (Selected.) 1 . o , WILL YOU HELP SAVE A LIFE? i The situation in the Near East la so critical and the need for funds to ; save the women and little children of i Armenia from death by starvation la , so great that The Herald has decided i to open its columns for their relief. For humanity crushed, enslaved, i bleeding, we plead; exiles wandering in the desert, children orphaned, i Christian girls prisoners or slaves in ; Moslem harems; a stricken nation i amidst implacable foes, its ancestral territory, made sacred by the martyrdoms of fifteen centures, seised by 1 others: hnm?a ( > mi"? u ?? * , ,u .uiiio, uuyeo crumii ed, lives imperiled. * This prostrate i Armenian nation, still the battle: ground of contending armies for two years after the close of the world ' war, its crops repeatedly stolen, 2,200,000 of it8 citizens massacred or , starved to death, begs of prosperous, i happy America for food enough to sua. ' tain its life till the promises embodied in the terms of the Armistice are fulfilled. Will you help save toe grief i stricken survivors, or will you, through indifference, let them die? America alone can save them! > The Herald will receive and for. ward to the Near East Relief head1 quarters, 211 Liberty Bank Building, Columbia, 8. C., all funds eoatrlbut: ed by the people of Dillon county and i will acknowledge receipt of same through the eolmmae of this paper. I ? I, WLLOl, iOW OiM wr?*w^w?^r? . .mi. BEATEN BY BOOSE. Many Famous Fixture* Now Down and Out Because Of It. Manhattan halls the eonquerer and shuna the defeated. Success is the golden key that open every door, writes O. O. Mclntyre, noted New York newsperman. Failure builds its own barriers. It is a changing city and ruthless. In-almost every endeavor there is to be found that silent, brooding dejected army of men who have lost their grip. In the Globe theatre lobby, gay with silks and furs and expensive shirt fronts, the other night there came a young old man who seemed hurl or! t n hi. nhoKku ? - ?!4V ? *M MJO uuui/u/ wcivuai wiiu his hat pulled down. Two critics bowed quickly, but no one else heed(Q him. Yet only a few years ago in the same theatre he rose blushingly In his box to the cries of "Author," aud bowed his thanks. K1b decline was swift. Whisky. The tale is old among the medical fraternity of the surgeon whose nerveless hands made daring strokes before spellbound clinics and who had bis stone mansion at Newport and a ''ast Westchester estate. And yet one night, twitching and hollow-eyed, he was taken out of an all-night Tenth avenue safe to a waiting patrol because he could not pay a 20-cent check. He was on Blackwell's Island foi three months without a visitor. The cross streets of the Forties aro filled with men whose name illumined theater programmes of another year. They cringe at the doors of movie exchange8 hoping for some extra bit. A magazine illustrator is now a doorman at a Madison avenue club where once he lived. Most of the members he knew and had dwadled with them over the nit^itly Scotch and Soda, but few recognize him now. Longacre square has become accustomed to the occasional visits of the powerful figure, collurtesa and unkempt who frequently conies out of a side'street at midnight with uncertain steps. He shadow boxes with imaginary foes, mumbles and cackles to himself and is finally chased away by a sympathetic trdffic officer The man was once a mighty boxer and has battled before crowned heads. Now he lives over his past in drug dreams. New York in its mad scramble for success has not time for failure. Only the bells of the Bowery pawnshop ring a welcome to the down-and-out r. Sooner or later they go to the Mis. sions where they find food and warmth. And sometimes they come tack, but as a rule they remain. o THREE MEN KILLED IN AUTOMOBILE COLLISION Greenville, S. C., Jan. 30?Three men were instantly killed and another seriously injured when the automobile in which they were riding was struck by Southern Railway passenger train No. 37 at a grade crossing at Central, S. C., early this afternoon-. The dead are: W. M. Strickland, 45, driver of the ear; N. E. Strickland, 40; A. J. Sentell, 37; W. I. Miller Is the injured man, he being in a hospital here with a chance for recovery. All are well known citlsens of Central. o ? MISTAKES It is the part of prudence to en ueavor 10 reduce mistakes to the minimum, but no great success is ever accomplished without some mistakes. If there is such a thing among human curiosities as a man of affairs who has never made mistakes in his business or daily life, it is a safe wager that man has not been very successful?he simply has stood still, while his more progressive brethren have gone ahead and built success upon the lessons of their mistakes. The best thing one can say about mistakes is that we learn something from tbem. Standing still is one of the greatest mistakes, but lt8 lesson generally comes to late to be of any benefit. Progress demands action. Take a chance, not necessarily a gambler's chance, which usually is recklessness, but one of the ordinary, necessary human chances; make mistakes maybe, but do something. It applies to the newspaper publishing business and without it there would be no publications no aHvortloinir nn Arvmm.in ity expression. And without these the wheels of progress would soon stop. ?Publishers' Auxiliary. o SMILES COME AGAIN TO PRETTY FACES The Charm of Good Health Has Its Source in Rich Red Blood. Nothing on Earth So Necessary for Beauty. PKPTO - MANGAN BUILDS RED BLOOD Restores the Quality of Your Blood, i Brings Back Your Color and Renews Vitality. Personal charm is like a light. It i sheds its rays everywhere. Is the light of your personal charm hidden under the bushel of bad blood? Instead of habitual smiles do you wear a tired look?almost a scowl? Do you tire easily? Are you pale and lacking in vital energy and ambition? You are not really ill. Your blood has become weak and sluggish. It is kail mAm ? a - ' * * an Dim?ou. w iiat you neea 18 IDC blood-making qualities of that splendid tonic, Pepto-Mangan. After yoc have taken Pepto-Mangan a little while you will feel a big improvement. The smiles will come back. People will see a difference in you. You will make friendg again. You will have plenty of rich, red blood and feel stronger. Pepto-Mangan has been building red blood for years. Physicians prescribe it right along. It has Just the Ingredients that starved blood needs. Sold in liquid and tablet form. Both have the same effect. But be sure you get the genuine Pepto-Mangan. Ask for "dude's" and be sure that the full name, "dude's Pepto-Mangan", Is on the package.?Adv. 2 10 It. The wine cellar of the WaldorfAstoria hotel In New York City Is to h? made over la to a gymnasium, IMM A. VRVMMT MOBHTPG, PI ROCHESTER TEAM WILL TRAIN AT DARLINGTON Columbia, Feb. 6?Walter Hapgood, formerly business manager of !thr Boston National League baseboll 'club, was in Columbia today and Jwhile here made arrangements for : a game between the Rochester In' teinational League team and the Phil adelphia National League team at jCamp Jackson on Sunday, April 2. Mr, Hapgood, with George Siallings, [will control the Rochester club next season. The Rochester club will train at Darlington, S. C. While in training A hnrnotnrmtn<r ??I11 I." 1 - o ? ..w?va MAtug kvui mil UC LUKUt* 'of South Carolina towns. The Inter'national leagues will meet the Phili lies at Darlington-on April 1, Che! raw, April 2; Camp Jackson, April 13; Camden (tentative), April 4. The 1 Phillies are managed by the famous "Wild Bill" Donovan. On April 6 the Rochester will then take on the Boston American League I team playing that date at Bamberg, ' possibly on the 6th at Camden and on I the 7th at Darlington. The Columbia |South Atlantic League team will play 'Rochester in Darlington perhaps on I April 11 and 12. They will start train|ing about March 20 and continue until about April 14, when they will 'move to their own camp. I Mr. Hapgood spoke Interestingly of JCoumbia and of the South Atlantic League, saying that he considers this one of the fastest minor league8 in baseball. He predicted a very successful season for the Sally. He believes Lacy and Johnson, who went to the ; Boston Braves from Columbia, and Archdeacon, who went to the same club from Charleston, will make good. The entire Rochester club will be rebuilt with only Fred Merkle re1 mainlng from the old squad. Merkle | will play first and captain the team, jDespite the overhauling process Mr. ; Hapgood says he will have a good team to show South Carolina fans. o A kitten crawled inside the rim of a large fly wheel in a mill at Burlington, Nebraska, and fell asleep. The machinery was set in motion and the wheel whirred for nine hours. Whet the machinery was stopped for the j mgni ine kitten was still alive although it had traveled the equivalent of 600 miles. Doyouknow Su can roll Ogflgd agarottosfor lOcts from ono bag of GENUINE BullDurham TOBACCO Cp|) z zzl ?c*^>q _._ i pl YOUR prosperil crops at the k> that cy?7 acre mv The crop yield be sure you supply The increased y Fertilizers bring yo Atlanta, Gtu CRRUARY 10, ION. SOME HUSKY HUSKER. > Bloomsbury, Pa., Jan. 31 ?W. P. | Girtoc a farmer near here made what ^ is believed to be a state record for corn husking when for thirty minu- 4 tes he husked two bushels of corn i (every minute. There were times, ' when he had eight ears in the air at once as he threw them on a pile.. I I r A D/n WliYV. MILL COMI Dillon, LET I S GRADE YOUR COTTON dred dollars Invested in most Oar charge is 20 cents per b per hour and return seed on WE AKE TAKING ORDERS Ft Seed Potatoes. Price $1.75 pe ford to plant mixed sweet pc WE ARE JUST COMPLETING < feed plants in the South. V chickens to try Sunny South Poultry Mash. Feed our ma: BARGAIN SALE?CHOICE Mil. per bag at mill door. Try a MIX YOUR OWN FERTILIZER ton on your fertiliser bill, will sell you acid phosphate ure a formula and prore tl Yours t< Caroline Coml an for Profi ry during 1121 depends upo west cost per pound or bus! ist produce more pounds and is in proportion to the plant r plenty of plant food. ield from the liberal use of S >u a large profit. Buy now. rift & Compan (FERTILIZER WORKS) Charlotte, N. C. Nr FOR SALE BY ^ Mwwy b?It wttbowt qwnlw JK \1 if HUtrrs hi>< &uu in a* u m \| trootmoot of ITCH, BCZKMA. W|T K// KINOWORU, TiTTBtw f If fY otbor itchlnff akin dliMMa /4 Try TV wit bos at oar riok. Sold by Evans Pharmacy i w w m r ? I 'Llri A ,ING >ANY South Carolina f SEED. WE HAVE 8JX HUNapproved grader on the market, ushel. We can grade 25 bushels wagon bringing them. 3B CERTIFIED IHHtTO ItICA r live peck crate. You cannot af tatoes for sale. [)NK OF THE BEST CHICKEN' l >re wish every one who feeds i Scratch Feed and Sunny South 5h and double egg production. L FEED, lOO LB. BAGS, $52.00 bag before supply is exhausted. AND SAVE FULLY $10.00 PER Exchange seed for meal. Wo and kainit on time. Let ug figie saring to you. 5 Please, i Milling pq/iy j Lt ?n growing your heL This means more bushels. food supplied, so wift's Red Steer 0 ? - .-V III w Orleans, | - - ' ' , If I JE . -?. ? .1 <?M?% H ><t! * ^'*6'^ ;$&1 &