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ARE BR01HERS IN (REICHtRY American |idi?n ?t Hie Woret, ?nd the Hun, Shown to Have Quel ? iiiee In Common. Tin; German I* not the originator of tho ^Knmerad" ru*o. a.coOrdlnjc to Ed Houston, h farmer living north of Junction City, Ktui., w li?> followed nil account# of buttles In fiio t?i? war very cloudy, Alt', Houston s?,vh that tin: Indian was tin adept (it crying "Kamerad." In his own tongue, of course, long be fon> the (ii'iinnn empire was formed, 41 tit) cites an experience of Ids own to pi'OVO It. Mr. lloUMtoii wa* u member of Troop tJ, Seventh cavalry, the regi ment commanded hy the gallant C'ol. George CJuster, for eight years, Un? dor Captain Kdgerly ho went to the H'ccno of the I'lno Itldge troubles. The troops lined up to disarm a hand of' Indians that had given themselves up. They Included the chief, Big Foot, and a large number of braves, as well as women and children. The captives were horded together and soldiers formed a hollow square around thetd. IOach Indian wore bis blanket draped Over his shoulders, and, with arms folded across the chest io the customary Indian posltlou, maintained a stoical silence. It was known that a number of the Indians carried guns, but no treachery was suspected. Suddenly, apparently without a given signal, one Indian opened fire on the surprised troopers. Instantly all of tho other braves followed suit, and even tho squaws and older chil dren Joined In tho attack upon ^tho soldiers. Little Indian boys with sawed-off shotguns fought until killed and the battle was a bloody affair. It ended when there were no more Indians, be cause the soJdJers, angered at tho trickery that had boon shown, gave no quarter and the Indians asked for none. The following day the Seventh went to l>rexel Mission, where another bat tle took place. After the I'lno Illdge trouble had been stamped out, the regiment returned to Its station at Fort Itiley, where Mr. Houston con tinued in service for a number - of years. . Gull Gets Into Ashpit. "It's crying like a baby and fighting like a devil.," shouted Engineer JameN McQuade of the state steam tug Gov- j ernor Irvln, lying In the slij> between ! piers 18 and 20, as he ran waving his arms toward police officers, ."John Mal colm and John Maloney, on duty at the piers, writes a San Francisco corre spondent. "(Jet Captain Syinon on the phone? tell him something awful I* aboard the Irwin," said McQuade as he came alongside the oflieers, but the olllcers thought It better to Investigate before communicating with 'apt. James Sy nion. superintendent of the state tugs. "There's something In the ash re ceiver, right under the smokestack of the Irwin," McQuade said. The olllcers hurried back to the tug with the engineer. Ash-pit doors were thrown open and there, gasping for breath, lay a seagull that had llown down the smokestack. "I started working Its wings with my hands and blowing down its throat, and Maloney fanned It with his head gear. and In a few ininutes.it began to breathe all right, and flapped Its wings to be off. nicy were scorched badly and It Hew a little wobbly as It made away toward Verba Duena island. I bet that bird will remember this day," said Malcolm. Why American Publishers Are LiHted. Turn back to the magazines of 'JO or 30 years ago and compare them with what Is thought good enough for us. T was looking through such a maga zine recently and found a poem by Swinburne, a prose romance by Wil liam Morris, and much else of a qual ity you would no more think of looking for In ft current magazine than for jpnltn tr'es In Whitecbapel. It Is dif ferent In America; In spite of gross business instincts, ??*- because of them, they do turn out magazines which are good to look at, and very often good to read ; for American editors think noth ing of paying a sum for a short story which, to mention to a> London editor, would make him feel :ix If something snapped in his head He wouldn't un derstand. The consequence is the best English writers send their wares first to the American market, where they are better displayed and net a better price. ? I.union Nation. "First Families" Win. Seven out of ten first prizes In th? bird puzr.ie contest. conducted last spring by l))?? Allmqnennie (lame Pro tective association. were <Milled 1'Vny by I 'uehlo an'? Nii-vajo Indian children. The contest was open to u 11 schoolchil dren in New Mexico. i>t' which1 the na tive Indians f..nn l>ut a nmall fraction, hut the superior hrM hand knowledge of the \oung rednien made tliern easy winners over nil other f-ontcMants. The contest consisted of ??? ipie>tlnns on native New Mexico birds, arranged to bring ""t knowledge ot* their habits and an understanding of their value te HgrI(Hj!t are. Medical Science. I think it 18 not an exaggeration to My that medicine, surgery, obstetrics ? nd (he many medical ?pec!altleR have made more progress in the 72 years from 1846 to 1!?1S than in as many centuries before. I am also quite will ing to believe that the next 70 yearn will fce pa fruitful n.s the last 70 hftve ?H*?n.?JlnJ. W. W. Keen, id th? VaJ# &?vlew. FERTILIZER SITUATION OUTLOOK FOR COMMERCIAL PLANT FOOD IN SOUTH Prices Net So High Ah They Were, But Materials Are j Reported Not Equal J I To Demand Atlanta, fin.?A survey of the fer tliizi i situation by n????e familiar with It indicates that there may bo u short age of commercial plant foo<l Id 1920. The reasons assigned for this are prin cipal that strikes have interfered with the production of materials. Ip addition, there htm been aome diffi culty in obtaining shipments over the railroads. To bo more specific, the long drawn out strlUe of miners in the rock phos phate finds of Florida prevented a^ supply of rock phosphate being ship ped to the factories. This and the dif ficulty of getting prompt shipments vhen the mines resumed work, it Is claimed, has put the manufacture of acid phosphate more than three months behind, besides redutiv ? the possible supply. As to ammoniales or nitrogenous materials, it is pointed out that the coal and steel plant strikes greatly reduced the possible output of sul phate of ammonia. Tankage and cot tonseed meal are so much in demand as feed as to be unavailable or too ex pensive to use as fertilizers. Ni trate of soda is being shipped in larger amounts, but not as cheaply as a .s expected. It seems that the demand for nitrato of soda in the orient, oti pecially, has kopt up the price higher than was anticipated. As for potash, there is going to be a fair'supply, the first time since the European war began. A considerable amount of potash has been shipped from (Sermany to France, whije there is quite an accumulataion of stocks of desirable American-made potash on hand. The Soil Improvement Committee of the Southern Fertilizer Association, with headquarters in Atlanta, is send ing out information to southern farm ers urging them to order their fre tilizer* early and for immediate ship ment. The reasons given are that there is going to be great difficulty In supplying the demand, and the sooner it is known how much the farmer wauts, the sooner the manu facturer will know how big a job he has on his hands and how hard he must work to accomplish as much of it as possible. It is also ?tated that the rairoads are an-xious that fertilizers be ordered early so that they may be able to pro vide cars, else there will be a serious difficulty in getting fertilizers deliv ered on time. Th? railroads are also insisting on full carload shipments, which make* It necessary to have or ders early so as to consolidate them into full carloads. It is stated that the indications are that there will be a heavy demand for fertilizers throughout the South this year on account of the promising prospeets for southern crops. It is stated, also, that the orders coming in to the factories reveal that the farmer is now wanting higher grade fertilizers than ever before. POISONING BOLL WEEVIL What in claimed to be the most ef fective method yet devised for com batting the boll weevil Is that of poi soning it with calcium arsenate. The method was perfected by B. H. Coad of the United States Department of Agriculture, at the Tallulah, La., ata tion, after several years of experi menting. The weevil is poisoned by dueting the cotton at night or while the dew is on. using a dusting ma- ! chine to apply it. The material poi sons the dew on which the weevil de pends for his drinking water. The weevil is killed, but there is another generation hatching out. so that the poiBon must be applied three or four times at a week or ten days intervals. Experiments show that the weevil can be kept down to such an extent that they can not do Herious damage. The cotton waved is worth far more than the cost. ~ 1 It is important that the right k'.nd of calcium arsenate be used. There art' different kinds, made for differ ent purposes The wrong kind may be too weak to kill weevils, or too strong and Injure the cotton plant. There is no use to b^gin dusting the < otton plants before about ten out of every 100 squares are punctured by the weevil. it will be a waste of money to undertake to >}>r<i> a field thoroughly to wh ^n there are fewer weevils In the field While it will kill practically all that are alive, the new hatch will hare to be taken care of by subsequent > prays It in not ad vised that any one undertake to dust the plants with anything else than th? regular dusting machines The pole and bag methods has not proven sue cessful Th? p' materiel will coat fo foui applications from $3 to $4 pe *cr* REPUBLIC'S TWO (iREAT DAYS lcu?4or Twice ? Year 0?1?brat?i Itr Freedom From the Domination ?rf the Spaniard. The republic ?>f Kcuador celebrate* two nailonul holidays. and. strange to say, both are "Independence days^ lioth are observed with the same en thnsiaxm mid patriotic fervor that la displayed hereon the anniversary of the adoption of the. Iinuiortul declare Hon, according to the i'un-Amorican Union. The liberty-loving patriots Inid to ahoot two holts at Spanish domination before they succeeded In gaining per manent Independence. The ttrst time they bad a quiet hut determined revo lution In Quito, the present capital of the republic, the patrlota assembling at the house of Manuela Canizarea, a brave and beautiful wotnau, on Au gust 0, 1800, when they prepured their declaration of Independence and chose the officials who were to compose the provisional government. That night the conspirators guthered their forces In different parts of the city, und Cap tain Salinas, who commanded the two companies of regular troops antd guarded the city, sent to their bar rnckSt read to them the declaration^ and won them over to the cause of the patriots. They overpowered the bodyguard of Kulz de Castllla, the Spanish governor, early on the morn ing of August 10 and thus established the first republic without shedding a drop of blood. It lasted only about a year, when Castllla succeeded In over throwing the patriotic government and again brought the country under Span ish dominion. p The fires of liberty hnd been kin dled, however, and the Ecuadoreans kept up their heroic struggle notwith standing many reverses, until 11j 1820 the people of Guayaquil, the loading seaport of the country, succeeded In rebelling on the 9th of October. With the aid of Gen. Simon Bolivar, the greht Venezuelan emancipator, and of his compatriot* Gen. Antonio Jose Sucre, the Ecuadoreans after many bloody battles succeeded in complete ly annihilating the Spanish forces and established freedom In Ecuador for ever. Therefore it Is that the Ecua doreans celebrate two, "Independence days," the 10th of August and the 9th of October. New Male Garment Planned. Cot ready for next fall, follows, for the blanket cape. For you are going to have your appearance changed. The new sartorial style Is really a capo and blanket.?whlch will be filing over many a pair of masculine shoulders. Just how many It will hnng over Is yet to be determined, but If the Interest the Invention moused at the concluding session of the semi-annual meeting of the American Designers' association In the Martinique hotel is sustained the garment will acquire considerable ?vogue, writes the New York corre spondent of the Pittsburgh Dispatch. The blanket cape consists of an army blanket with a few holes and buttons and a detachable collar. When the owner Is asleep the blanket cape per forms its primal functions oif keeping the sleeper warm, and nothing more. When he awakens he removes a cir cular bit of cloth buttoned to the mid dle of the blanket and unbuttops a slit about a foot long that starts at the hole. This gives him plenty of room In which to insert his head. A Napoleonic storm collar Js then at tached to the hole collar and the two dies that fall over the arms.vare con nected Into sleeves by concealed but tons. And there he stands. In a smart looking poncho that gives him lots of room to get Into his pockets and keeps nway the cold also! It can be any col or or any cloth the wearer chooses, but these details are left for the author of "What the Men Wear" to have a lit tle fun with. Stamps of 1918. "Another yonr comes to a close with far more than 500 new postage stomps having been Issued," writes Kent B. Stiles in ills department, "Stamps," In Boys' Life. "The chronicle at this writing shows a total of 511 varieties, but It will be several months yet be fore American collectors can gain In formation regarding many issues re ported abroad, so that the record for 1018 may tell of as many as 000. In 1017 there were 000 varieties. "These 511 varieties were put forth by nations and their possessions?such as islands, protectorates, colonies, de pendencies, occupied territories, etc.? to the number of 88 governments. Of the 511 varieties 388 were due to the war alone. The United States has Is sued more than fifty varieties, Includ ing shade and die varieties due to in ferior dy est tiffs and to worn plates, but the British empire leads the list with nearly 200 varieties." Mexico Market for Tractors. In the fiscal year 1018 the United States shipped almost as many trac tors to Mexico as to all other Latin American countries, Mexico's share lacking only .34 of the combined total of the others. The leading position of this neighboring country In our export trade in tractors is due to the action of the Mexican government In stimu lating agriculture by exempting farm ing Implements from Import duty, and even by Importing such machinery /or sale at cost to Mexican farmers. Makes Money From Muskrats. By trapping muskrats on his farm near Prime Hook Neck, Del.. Ilnrry B. Roach has made enough to pay for his farm and will have some mon#y left to help put It under cultivation. He get* $1.35 far black hide*, 88 cents for red one* and 15 cents each for th? meat Be fcaa made more than $1.10(Ji A BRIEF TELEGRAM By VICTOR KEDCUFFK : ? ? (Copyright. N?w?p?pcr UnU>o) Wheij Robert Penwell called at the Burrow* home Km oldest daughter, Madge. wondered why. It vvuo a con tinuance of regular visit* made when her younger siste> Allda whs there. Madge whh thirty-two, h continued spinster. and never for a moment al lowed herself to Imagine that Robert . had any peculiar Interesi in herself. - "He acta lonesome, mother," who ob served. "1 always thou if 14 ho and [Allda were mutually attracted, but Allda never mentions Ids name in her ! letters and 1 do not think they are cor responding." Allda Burro.ws had been the life of the house with her sprightly, interest ing ways. It was her beauty and pop ularity that had depressed Robert Pen well, who felt that she wan not likely to favor him amoyg a train of ad mirers. He wa? deeply in love with her, but had never dared to tell her so. That last evening when Allda was at home Robert had In his pocket a letter he had written, telling all. There were a great many of her young friends present and he could scarcely count upon being alone with-her, but she j was most friendly towards him. It reposed there now, two weeks after the departure of Allda to Chester, where she was to teach a little country ; school. He cherished the privilege of calling rpon the other members- of the Burrows family, all of whom thought a good deal of him. Madge was kindly ami sympathetic. More than once Rob ert had been on the point of making her a confidant, and Madge herself, sus pecting the situation, was ready with a pleasing smile to encourage him, b'ut his boldness oozed out before he reached a definite action. One evening Robert arrived nt the ! Burrows home to find all of the mem 'hers of the household, absent except Madge. She invited him in with her Utlial cordiality, but klttlf apologeti cally. "I am In the midst of *on>? spec-tut work, Mr. Penwell." she nahl. IndlcaN Inir a doaen or more IItrie parcels on the tatye done up in tissue pa|>er. each otic having a card attached. Reside them wan a large, stout pasteboard hox. "Perhaps you will help me In my packing. You nee. next Tuesday la "Allda'p birthday, and we of the family ?re sending a few little pres?nts." Robert was delighted to assist in a function that had Alida for Its aim and end, and told Madge 90, It waa quite ? Ph-'a<?ant tank and hour for him. White Madge aorted the packages ax to size, lie placed'them snugly Uvthe box, and when they had finished their tank Mini had spread several sheets of tissue over the top, she retarded his intention of setting the cover In place. ''Walt Juat a moment, please." she ?poke. "I want to put In a few of Allda's favorite flowers. The pansles ?re In' lovely full hloom and she will treasure them greatly," She left the room and Hohert was ?lone. The thought that It had been 1 his privilege to touch gifts that would ?oon be lu the hands of Ida one and only love, had kept his senses thrilling ?nd of a sudden suggested an auda cious thought. Why not send the let ter? What better medium than these offerings from the family? What bet ter opportunity for Its favorable recep tion. than when her emotions would naturally bp tender and graoloup? Rbbert drew forth the letter and slipped it under the top layer of tlssip juat as Madge reappeared. She spread out the pansles she had gathered, | placed the cover on the box, then en- j cased It In wrapping paper, tied It with string and addressed it "All ready for shipment," she an nounced In a pleased, satisfied way. "Would you mind walking with me as far as the express olttce, Mr. Pen well?" Robert was nervous, fidgeting, alter nately filled with hope and fenr when they returned from the stroll suggest ed. lie felt that the Juncture was mo mentous. fie did not sleep thait night and the days following were passed In anxiety and suspense. The first eve ning of the following week he called at rh? 'ttirrow* home. ?l hop# your stater was pleaH?t h??r birthday Kltts." he Anally vem?2 nni'^ously ?"he unai h'eful thing r dgfei Mud '?? i) simulated i?>ih|??'i "i^hi>T3l uaMv hart 'he nurtndt v to wrftf ^ back that she would not even op*,, J" tiox until I redeemed iu> p^nnIm* ooitlf and *"'?* her You ?<?>,. | ... plftltrc- myself ro he wlt^ ht>r ?n JJ hjrtbday bin I wouldn't arrange ?>m until next week." "Ami >!'?'?? -ye*. I see | s?^? * inured Robert in so extraord'n*iy | flutter that Madve regarded Mm ^ derlngly "You'll open i? that Is It. Isn't It? If?If-." \,9 ,Jjl bled i?n "you find ilmi I*. if j g iiiciiilonV'l. you'll bring me word. ^2] you? I must really uo; I only xie|>ptf In to auk If you had heard from Mifcj ?I mean Miss Burrows." After that Robert Pemvell couuJ the hours, Everything was now in^ hands of f?t* ?nd won he w? know "the worst." He dared not hv for the best. Two itiornlnga lat^1 telegram arrived. It wan signed Madge and contained n hrlef but mentous message. . The box had been opened, the had beer read, and Alldu had i one *? u. hut obi 10 precious, ?olumoa: ?'Conn*!** Breaking It Gently, Kind Old Lady (visiting penltc^ tlary)? Ah, my poor fellow; you 1*4 like an honest man. Why did they p* you *bere? poor. Fellow?Ter right ; It ?H| shame, leddy. They put me here )* fer tryln' to open up 0 little huMln^ Kind Old Lady?Why, that wm M outrage 1 What kind of a busln* was It? Poor Fellow?The little business* the front of a safe. Saw Another Chance. "Say. that lot you bold me Is tbrtt feet under the water." "Is It?" "Yes. If Is. and 3'ou know It." "V'e , it's a good thing you told 1 can let you have a. bargain h*|: canoe.?Kausns Olty journal. ^ ^ Fine Metals Make a Fine Car As a car is 98% metal you can readily imagine how great a part metals play in its quality. A Maxwell is made of fine metals? extra fine metals; otherwise it never could have survived those 1,500,000,000 miles that oSvners are estimated to have driven it. These metals had to be of the finer grades in a Maxwell. ; For a Maxwell is light?2130 pounds. Lighter metals had to be used but lighter in weight only?not in strength. Such metals are the extra fine metals that the great science of metallurgy has produced. They are high priced. But they have won countless friendships for Maxwell, developed a gr^at family of owners approaching 400,000 in number. Th is vast number is growing daily at the rate of 100,000 per year. Carolina Motor Co. (Incorporated) Camden, S. C. Af*r? mllM&r fM? Mf *ii" ? tim