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' ' ' I Watch Label on Your Pape and Don't Let Subscriptioi Vw Expire. * r-i established 1804 sweet potato is a money getter. Informing Address *t Conference on Work of the Development Board. The News and Courier. Of particular interest at the conference yesterday in relation to the South Carolina Development Board were the remarks of Mr. H. E. Horton the board's manager on the sweet potato. State Senator Niels Christensen, of Beaufort, chairman, took part in the conference. The two officers told business men of the board's activities and the success it is achieving. Mr. Horton said that at nresent there are 107 "curing" houses for sweet potatoes in South Carol!ina and as many more projected. He pointed out that this sweet potato industry has reached Interesting proporations in the State, and that it is remunerative to those who are following it. "Cotton must always be one of the big crops of the State and we may f.ot give up its production, but the hour has struck when another cash Mop must move to the fore, namely, Jhe stoeet potato," Mr. Horton said. "Everybody, North and South, likeg sweet potato. Some of our people vM ? have not been away from home, naving been in the North, have not smdied the subject carefully, say the Northern man does not like the moist sugarery Porto Rico variety and de-j mands the dry poorly flavored pota-' to grown in New Jersey, Delaware and Virginia. Opposed to this men who have made this subject their special study report the Northern i man does like the moist sugarery, sort we like so well. "It may be asked, why haven't we built up a demand in the Northern market for our produce? The reason] why ws haven't had nothing to do with excellence of the potatoes, but is due to the fact the Southern grower has never put up a standard pack and handled the selling end in the] businesslike way demanded by the traae. lne xsew jersey grower, wun an inferior article, puts up a standard peck and handles his sales like a real business man. "What are we doing about it? The South Carolina Sweet Potato Association, backed and coached by the South Carolina Development Board, is perfecting plans at this time to grade pack and market cooperatively the pack of its eighteen member houses. The sweet potato crop will be handld in a way very similar to the way cotton will be handled by the South Carolina Cotton Growers' CooperaAssociation?locals made up growers located in all parts of the State producing sweet potatoes, districts made up of locals, and finally the head selling organization. The Development RparH ic mnlrlncr thp wPPPqqqrv efnri ies preparatory to launching this project. "The market demands graded stock, he so-called 'Number Ones' and .Number Twos.' Choice Number Ones, suitable for baking (weighing 8 to 10 ounces) retail at 10 to 14 cents a pound. Number Twos for 4 to 6 cents a pound. "To put up the choice pack it is necessary to fipd somc use for the 'jumbos,' 'strings' and 'cuts' which must be culled out. These culls may be U3ed -o make a line of high grade by-products: Cattle feed, table syrup vinegar, starch, flour. "The 'curing' process makes it possible to keep potatoes from the time just prior to the first frost until the middle of the fol towing May; and 'curing' houses lorated in the Piedmont district should have no difficulty 'keeping' the potatoes well into June. As we begin to get new potatoes the middle of July there is only a short interim when potatoes may not be offered on the market. "The sweet potato grows to greatest perfection on the light sandy loams of the coastal plain district, and with little care producers over a hundred bushels per acre of field run, and with care may be made to produce 250 to 400 bushels per acre. "There are 107 curing houses in the State and as many more projected. If the houses loin the South Car&rlina Sweet Potato Association, and i arihurc atriftlv In (la rnl<M the prnw. iftg of sweet potato may be made a I very remunerative business. "Ninety per cent of the potatoes I grown in the State is the Porto Rico variety, not that it is the best tasting as we all know, but because it is a big yielding variety, fairly free from disease, keeps "well and stands shipping." ' Leading Fairmont Citizen Dies. Mr. A. L. Jones, for many years one of the leading men of the Fairmont section, died at Fairmont early Monday morning. Mr. Joneg had been 9'jtfering from kidney trouble. Mr. Jones moved to Fairmont before the town had a railroad. He went into the saw mill business and built the road to Elrod which was later taken over by the Coast Line. He was a good k business man and accumulated a comfortable fortune. He was 61 years | of age. ? Mrs. Phil Osteen, accompanied by | her sister, Miss Nina Alford and Mrs. Elizabeth Johnson left Saturday night | for Baltimore and New York to purchase fall millinery and ready to ^ wear. I \ THE DILLON HEM THE CHIEF IN BAD. "You have got me in bad with lots of delinquent tax payers." said Chief of Police Britt the other day. "I told them that we would havc to advertise#*heir property in this week's issue if they didn't pay up and many of them got busy and raised the money. In fact, last Wednesday Just be'fore the paper went to press Dillon |wag busier than it has been since the fall of 1919. But when I opened the 1 paper Thursday morning and there was no advertisement of delinquent taxes the first question I asked myself was 'Now where do I stand?' I have no desire to trv to pstahiinh a ro. I putation as Dillon's boss 1 r?it is too Mr a Job?and now what am I to do?" Chief Britt's intentions were good, but the law says all legal advertisements for the sale of land must be published three consecutive weeks before the day of sale, and as i there are three issues of the Herald I beginning next week, August 18th, ! before the first Monday in September, ! the advertisement must appear for the first time next week and be pub-, jlished in the next two issues. It was; not Chief Britt's fault. The advertise- i |ment was held out for the proper is! sue at The Herald office o Weekly Cotton Letter. i (By Savannah Cotton Factorage Col, The cotton crop continues to deteriorate, not only in Georgia ' and [the Carolinas but also in Oklahoma, Texas and other states. If this deterioration continues, the final yield will fall far short of the Governments estimate of . 8.203,000 bales. It is reported that a private bureau's estimate of the crop condition at this time is 57 per cent of normal, in-! dicating a yield of 7.400.000 hnloe or nearly 1,000,000 bales less than the Government's first estimate. But the course of the market will probably be governed by three fac-i tors: Whether or not the Federal. ] Reserve Banks will assist farmers to ' market their cotton over a period of several months instead of being compelled to sell as fast as picked;! whether or not the demand will be sufficient to force prices up", or jwhether or not the boll weevil conditions continue so unfavorable that .the yield will be even smaller thanj i present conditions indicate. It is unlikely that cotton grading; from strict low middling to ordinary; will decline much, if any, from the present level, on the other hand, there' ! is a good chance for these grades to !advance, because differences in price jbetween the'lower grades are still] -too wide. If the 1921 crop i8 pickeu as fast as it opens there will be few. ilow grades,'and this will result in a narrowing of differences, which 'means that the owners of such cotton ; will profit materially. Japan was'one of the first countries to experience a financial crisis 'following the world war. It is inter-: 'eating to know that this country has recently bought heavily of cotton in ithe South, and everyone hopes that' 'other far east 'and European coun-1 tiies will soon be able to enter our I markets. If they are, no doubt American mills will'follow suit, and we will be another cten nearer normal1 | conditions. o BLEASE PI,EASED AT CAMP JACKSON ABA SDONMENT. J Yoi'kville Enquirer. "I ani delighted to know that Camp' i Jackson will be abandoned," said for-j mer Governor Cole L. Blease, while' in Yorkville last Thursday en route! to the Felbert picnic. That camp, especially since the armistice, has certaiinly been a stum bling block for Columbia and there is no way in the world to estimate its cost to the capital because of in- J creased immorality .and all that sort of thing. "It has been the cause of the downfall of many an innocent girl and it has caused the city of Columbia to , gain a most unenivable reputation I | for immorality?a reputation that she' iwlll be unable to live down for a: . long time to come. "Now during the war while boys of our own state were training there,1 it was a different matter altogether.1 But since then some oT the scuminieet scum in all the earth has congregated there and there have been ! numerous robberies, various other ! kinds of disorders, assaults on white women and in fact, vice and vicrousness has been rampant. "Now understand, I don't bring that indictment against all the perannnol r\f ihn homn Dii* I .r?...UV. V. V?V VUllip. UUl lllf irtuuis since the armistice show that crime has been on the increase among the soldiers and there are many fine men in camp there. "And yet there are some of our j more or 'eH8 prominent citizens of ; Columbia who would keep it there. They came to me and asked my assistance in keeping it there. I have isome pretty strong friends in Washington, and it might havd been that I could have been instrumental, in having it retained. Understand, I don't say that I could. But I refused to lift a finger for it . What are the hundreds of thousands of dollars that it brings to the city monthly to compare with the robbery of the virtue of one woman, to's&y nothing of the Increase in other crime and general lawlessness? I have no hesitancy in saying that I shall be 'pleased when the last vestige of Camp Jackson is removed." lUifl LLD. DILLON, SOUTH CAROLINA, URIM RETRIBUTION. "You can say what you please about a man escaping punishment ih the other world for his misdeeds," remarked one of Dillon county's wellknown business men. "but one thing is certain?he doeB not escape it in this world. Nearly every misfortune has its origin in some little sin, some little misdeed, some violation of nature's or man's laws. Not in every case is th?? Derson UDon whom the misfortune visited directly responsible. Sometimes it is the sin of an ancestor or perhaps the evil influence of an associate that ultimately brought about the misfortune for which an innocent person suffers. But after all it narrows itself down to the unalterable law of cause and effect. I had a most striking and painful illustration of this fact when I was a younger man. I had a fine pair of mules which I prized very highly. An old negro man in my community wanted those mules, but I' did not want to sell them. He asked' me to make him a price and I made I it so high I did not think hc. would accept it. But he did and I had to gol back on my word or let him have thej mules. He paid me half cash and 1: took a bill of sale for the unpaid bal-: ance. Every time I saw those mules 1 wanted them back. Cotton did not sell high during the spring and summer months, and when the fall crop began to come on the market the price, went all to pieces. Not many farmera were able to pay the expenses of making a crop. The old negroe's paper was due the first of October and he could not pay it. I waited a few weeks and then took the mules back. The old negro hated to give, mem up, dui no could not meet his! obligation and there was nothing else for him to do. In some way he managed to buy an ox and cart and every time I saw him driving that old ox around my conscience hurt me. Down in my subconscious mind something kept telling me that I had not done right, but I did not have the courage or the manhood or whatever you would call it to go to that old darkey and tell him that I would extend his paper and let him have those mules back. Several times I resolved to do this but I kept putting it off. One day 'I sent those mules down to the water gin with a load of seed cotton. While they were standing on the bridge over the pier-, head waiting for the cotton to be unloaded the old darkey turned the corner right in front of them with his ox and cart. The mules took fright,! reared in the air, plunged into the mill pond and were drowned. In this tragedy there was a sermon on re-; i .'button so deeply impressive that I i shall never forget it." , _ ?o ?tring Beans?tutu Chitterlings. The conversation had tu*.. -d to! fall gardens and it was agreed wi*h-J out a dissenting vote that enough vegetables went to waste in Dillon county j eacli year to feed the people through the winter. A wholesome vegetable that grows in abundance is the old field pea and it is easily preserved in the form of snaps and she"ed peas. They retain their flavor and taste just as well in the winter as in the summer. Thousands of bushels of, these peas go to waste in the copnty every year, and if the people would' take the trouble to put them up in I air-tight jars they would go a long ways toward cutting down the vegetable bill in the winter. "Have you ever tried the drying process with the string bean?" inquired Mr. G. D. Barlow. "That is a. simple and inexpensive way of keep-j ing string beans through the winter. You string the beans on a thread and j hang them up in the garret or some outhouse. The shell dries with the bean and when you cook them in the winter they have 'the flavor of the fresh string bea'n and eat Just is well." "I have never tried the dried string bean," remarked Dr. W. H. Smith, "but but it reminds me of an incident of my young days that I shall never forget. I started out with a party of my young men friends one night to attend a wedding in my community. We crossed the Catawba river in a canoe and when we got on the other side it began to rain and we had | a cloudburst. The roads were so badly washed that we decided to spend the night in a farmhouse. The party was so large that we had to stay in an outhouse. There was a distillery close by, but the roads were not too badly washed for some of the members of the party to find it. After the distillery party returned and the crowd was in a happy and congenial mood some one happened to look up and there strung out on sticks was row after row of chitterlings. In a few minutes we had a fire going, and we cut those chitterlings into small links and roasted them on he coals. I don't believe I ever ate anything that tasted quite so well. When our appetites were satisfied there were not many'chitterlings left. At daylight the old * woman of the house came out to see how we were getting on. 'She gave us. a pleasai# good morning, but when she saw what had been going on during the night her eyes drifted toward the empty chitterling sticks. Throwing up her hands in horror she exclaimed, 'The Lord have mercy; if they ain't eat up every chitterling I had saved to make soap grease out of!' That shows you, concluded the doctor, what a few drinks of mean liquor will make a man do." .. . . - -. u %i\ THURSDAY MOHMXCJ, Al'Ul'ST 18, WHAT THE BOLE WEEVIL "One of the prettiest sights I ever saw," remarked Mr. L. C. Braddv, "was down here near Monck's Corner in Berkley county. It was a cat-' tie farm with 250 head of the pret-| tiest herefords and short horns you ever put your eyes on. The farm is! owned by Nathaniel Heyward, formerly one of the largest cotton plan-j ters in Berkley county. Today Mr.' Heyward does not raise a stalk of cotton on his place. The boll weevil | found a foot-hold in Berkley several i years ago. It cleaned up the cotton fields, and as Mr. Heyward said, almost put him in the poorhouse. He had been making front 500 to 700' bales of cotton a year; the last year! he gathered only 78 bales. Mr. Hey-j ward fenced in hi8 place, planted it in J grass and bought some breeding cat-j tie. Last year he sold $7000 worth off, the farm and has 250 head left. Mr. i Hey ward is one of the happiest men ) I ever saw. He said he did not know how easy it was to make a living on the farm until the boll weevil came' along and forced him to give up cot-' ton. He is done with cottoa forever." Mr. Braddy bought 15 head of I herefords and short horns from Mr. Hey ward and is getting his place in . shape for the boll weevil. He is fencing in his lands and making preparations to plant grass. He left Tuesday night for Georgia where he will spend several days on a stock farm selecting more cattle. It is Mr. Braddy's opinion that everybody should get l together and havc a big cattle sale here during fair week. This may he the last time the people will have any money to buy cattle and he thinks they should be encouraged to buy as many as they can well handle during the fall. There is no doubting the fact that the boll weevil is here to camp for a while, and the cotton crop in Dillon county will be cut in half next) year. It is the wise man who prepares foi his coming. Honey Dew Crop a Failure. "The honey dew crop in this sec-1 tion is a failure," said Postmaster Carmichael, an expert on beeology, I "and there will be very little hone\ made in the eastern part of the state this year. I don't know how it is in other sections, but if honey dew is as scarce elsewhere as it is here honey will be worth its weight in gold this year." For many years Mr. Carmichatl has worked with and made a] study of the bee and what lie does! not know about the bee family is not worth knowing. "Honey dew forms] in flower buds early in the spring,"! continued Mr. Carmichael, "and a1 late spring makes a short crop. You ! will remember, we had a very late spring this year and that is the best! explanation I can give for the short' crop of honey dew." When told tlmt I Orangeburg folk attributed the short ' ' oney crop to the scarcity of bees. I man.,- of which they claimed, had 1 been killed by the calcium-arsenate-' molasses treatment the farmers used on their cotton to kill the boll weevil. Mr. Carmichael smiled broadly. "The bee does not get much honey out of the cotton blossom," said Mr. f"V* r m iohonl * 1T ho m Act 4 U/v A. is gathered in April, May and Ju.'e! and cotton does not bloom until about the middle of June. The bee has stored yp the most of his honey before! the cotton blossom opens and even i when it opens he does not pay much ' atttention to it. It has only a limited i amount of honey dew and the bee has, too much trouble getting it out. No, 1 the scarcity of honey in Orangeburg is not due to boll weevil poisoning. It is due to the scarcity of honey dew. If there is any scarcity of bees it is, because they have gone deeper intol the swamps where the cold sprinK weather did less damage and honey dew flowers 'are more plentiful." & I^et Fortune Get A/way. All that glitters is not gold, but lack of glitter is not a certain test for worthlessness. it was found by I gold diggers along a river in Papua, British New Guinea, recently. While searching for gold the men encountered a bluish-gfa.v flakish substance which they ckst aside as worthless. Two months airo two noiinds of this Bubstance wa8 bought in London by an American firm for approximately $6,000. or eight ttimes the value of the same amount of gold- It was osmiridium, a member of one of the hardest metals known and used for the tipping of fountain pens and for delicate 'bearings of fine machinery, i It is worth $200 an ounce. When j the prospectors learned the value of | the substance they hurried back to( the river and learned that tropical i rains had washed away most of the precious stuff. By careful work they raked' together what was left, had it refined and sent to London. o Maj. O. M. Page returned to Virginia Monday night after spending sev-j eial days at home. Maj. Page is in charge of a big ro?d construction pro.J ject in Henry and Patrick counties.' He is building a stretch of hard sur-j face road across the mountains and 1 will be engaged in this work till Oe-' tober. When the present job is co-j pleted he will be engaged in a $2,000,006 road construction project near Roanoke, Va. The work is being done with federal and state aid, the| federal government putting dollar for dollar with the state. t rulii. | 1921. CO I'XT V NEWS. I^iike View. Mrs. It. F. Elvington and littl?> ( Misses Davis and Hilda Elvington spent last week 'at Myrtle Beach. Miss Lizzie Powell is visiting Miss Hattie Hood at Roanoke, Va. Mrs. A. \V. Smith has returned home after two weeks stay at Wrightsville Beach. Miss Florie Ford is visiting Mrs.j \V. C. Wallace at Johnsonville. Miss Winnie Davis Smith of Mt.J Vernon, Ga., is visiting relatives near, town. Mrs. C. L. Norman and baby Hal C. of Chicago, are here for an extend.! e<| visit to relatives. Miss Elizabeth Graham of Rennert, N. C., spent part of last Week with | Mrs. D. K. Ford. Miss Florence Shaw of Sumter was the guest of Miss Ethel Simpson lust week. Mrs. L. W. Temple,'Misses Alimae,, Hattie, Sadie and Lyall Nichols Tem-| pie. Mrs. Janc Temple Watson and i little Miss Betty Joe Watson are at Wrightsville Beach for the remainder, of the summer. Mrs. Missour. Ford of Bristol, Fla.,| is visiting relatives here. Miss Kate Stello of Charleston spent the week end in town. ('nrolinn. Mrs. T. J Bennett recently visited her sister Mrs. Jim McQueen of Rowland. Mrs. Lilly McDonald and children of Clio are spending several days with the former's brother. Mr. J. E. Norton. Rev. and Mrs. Neill Mclnnis and two small daughters, of Smithfield, N. C., ate on a visit to the former's mother, Mrs. C. M. Mclnnis. Mr. N. D. Alfoi'd of St. George is visiting relatives here. Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Morrison of McColl spent Sunday at the home of Mr. Dunk McLaurin. Rev. C. G. Brown left last Monday for Montreat for a stay of several days. Mr. Dan Henderson bad an interesting meeting of Christian Endeavor Sunday night. Three short talks were made on the topic, which was "Time Temperance in Our Hearts and Lives." Several good thoughts were expressed on topics. Hearty singing by the society and a solo by Bill Mclnnis helped make this one of our best meetings. The death angel entered the home of Mr. and Mrs. Laurin Mclnnis on Qnn/lnv A..CV..O* 7tl? on J bor., ftw? sweet spirit of their only son, James Laurin. to its Heavenly home. He had been sick for almost a week but his condition did not become alarming until Saturday night. All that loving hands and a skilled physician could do could not stay the fatal disease. For three years and two months he was lent to earthly parents and devoted sisters as a bright ray of sunshine, but God in his infinite wisdom saw fit to call him to join the throng DPiore his nirone, wnere "Thousands of children stand." The 1 it11o body was laid to rest in Carolina cemetery the following day beneath a bank of beautiful flowers. Fork. l''ss Marie Vaughan has returned to | - home at Lamar after visiting M '.<r >/orci Carmichael. U ?\ J. M. Kujrcs of Lynchburg, S. C., spent several da>o .V?st week here with his mother, Mrs. Marj risers. Miss Sadie Moore has returned home from Bennettsville wherc she visited friends. Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Moody of Kemper spent Sunday with Dr. and Mrs.i N. N. Schofield. I Mr. Eugene Marley of Columbia spent Sunday at the home of Mrs. L. K. Bethea and was accompanied home b> Mrs. Marley who has been spending some time here. Messrs. Eugene Carmichael and Burt Roberts spent a few days last week in Camden with friends. Dr. and Mrs. T. W. Carmichael of T? n ur 1 q rt H vicitoH r?.l n t 1 foe V?,.rr? Sunday. Miss Gertrude Breeden of Bennettsville is the guest of Miss Sadie Moore. The ladies of the Fork School Improvement Association will have a public meeting Friday evening, August 19th in the school auditorium. A very interesting program has been ar-j ranged and the public is cordially invited to attend. o Co. Officers Settle With Comptroller. The foreman of the grand jury, other county officials interested in the settlement with Mr. H. F. Jack- ] son. representing the comptroller, general met in the office of the County Auditor on Friday for thej purpose of witnessing the annual settlement between the' Auditor and; Treasurer for 1920 taxes. The ac-| counts were found in H satisfactory condition and no changes or alterations were necessary. The taxes for the past year exceeded those of any previous year b> a considerable amount, the amount of the actual taxes being $71,438.54! for State purposes, $128,403.51 for! all county purposes and $117,089.21 for school purposes, making ji total of $316,931.26. The actual - amount involved in the settlement was $76,299.61 for state purposes, $232,359.88 for school purposes and $280,735.08 for all county purposes making a total of $589,394.57. Tho last figureg include balance of previous' year, money borrowed and all other1 miscellaneous collections. rhe Date on the Label is the Date Your Paper Will Be Stopped. ?? VOli. 27. NO. 4H. (illtli ATTEMPTS sriCIDK. "I Am Tired of l.ife at Seventeen,** She Wrote. Pre Dee Advocate. Miss Nellie McLendon, a seventh en year old white girl, who is in jail for disorderly conduct in Bennett sville, attempted suicide in jail Tuesday night by tightly tying and twisting a scarf around her neck. In u note left for Deputy Sheriff Hyatt she said: "I am not going to ste another day dawn in this place it self murder will prevent- ... I air. tired of life at seventeen." The girl was arrested in Bennetisville on July 22 for reckless driving and being drunk and disorderly in company with Jim Davis. Mayor Crosland hud previously had several complaints about her conduct in and near th(. city. He sentenced her to $100 or 30 days in jail. She failed to pay the fine, ami after ehc had been in jail a week, Mayor Crosland had her released on condition that she would leave Bennettsvillc and remain out of the city. On August 4. less than a week after she v as released. Chief Cunningham arrested her at night, near the depot, !.nd put her back in jail, where she l.as since remained. She occupies a cell in the female ward on the first j floor. jmi mown, nit' cm negro who is 'serving a lift- term for murder, and [is the sexton at the court house, occupies another cell on the first floor, which remains unlocked. Before day yesterday morning Jim in 'passing through the hallway, going to the closet, saw a note hanging by a string outside of Mis.- McLendon's cell. Jim then knocked on Mr. Hytt's door and told him about seeing the note. Mr. Hytt Told hint he ( would get it when he got up. After day Mr. Hytt got up and got the note. it read ?t follows: "Mr. Hytt. I um not going to see another day dawn in this place if {self murder will prevent. 1 ant going to kill myself tonight. When jvou tind nie in the morning 1 hope ; I will be dead- My peoplt, don't care for me. I am desperate from remaining in jail so long. Ant tired, of life at seventeen. Good bye. As ever. Nellie McLendon." i Mr. Hytt then went Into the cell land found the girl in a semt-eonIscious condition, with a scarf tightly tied ?nd twisted around her neck. Mr. Hytt quickly removed the scarf and 'summoned Dr. J. F. Kinney, the county physician. Dt. Kinney said that life was almost extinct, and that in a few minutes more she would I have been hevorut h,.ln oHi>iin i&teri'd stimulants and restroatives, istered stimulants and restoratives, i Miss McLendon is a member of a 'good family, a daughter of B. Frank 'McLendon, of Richmond county N ' C. She is said to be an incorrigible 'daughter, her parents not being able I to keep her at home or do anything with her. Site is good looking and i intelligent. The note, which she tie(] out side her cell is written in a good hand. \ About two yea's t >-o the same ,giil attempted suicide in the Dillon coil, 'v jail. She followed a carnival lo Dillon and was arrested for allePeu immoral conduct. While confined in the Dillon jail she attempted to hang herself with a scarf. Deputy Britt discovered he in time to save 'her life. She was only a hild and proiiii>?'d to beg' life < er again. Mr. Britt f?nt her i posit io She held the position s^vt al <lavg ;i d pave it up. In th< n ft ie Air. i ritt bad ccmmunica'^. ,h : ??r p. -euts and they came "i, ''Jillon at..; ook her home.) ? o ? A Siuike Story From ( *eds. Cliester Reporter. Here's a good snake st ry sent The Reporter by one of 011 readers at Leeds. Mr. Editor:?Phase. a> ow me space in your paper to tell y< ur readerr, how 1 ':iUtd a family o snakes the other day. I was down in the bottoms working on my pasture, and a snake went across me under the wire. She stopped just on the other side of the wire under somc bushes. I could not get to hit her for the bushes. Well, I just took a post and jabbed it in her. Well, that held her fust. Then 1 commenced beating her. Then I got my axe and chopped her head, and I took her on my post as it was sticking in her. I dashed her up the hill, and I looked back at her. When she hit the ground there were 15 more snakes running around there. Well, I went to killing and countin until I counted fifteen. I just stopped counting until I killed them all. Then raked them off one by one and counted them nnd there were 35 little snakes about the size of a large pencil and about aK long as a case knife. I think she was the mother and the grandmother and perhaps the greut-grandmother of the snake family. She was about as large as a wire post. She was the biggest snake I ever saw in my life. First Bale at Augusta. Augusta, Gu., Aug. 11.?The first bale of new cotton marketed here this season was sold At public auction today from the cotton exchange, and brought 22 cents a pound. It was graded strict middling. Th^ grower is C. A. L. Anderson of Chauneejr, Ga. I' t ?