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Nobody's Business Written for The Chronicle by Go* McGee, Copyright, 1928. Nobody? BusJneoa TAX ASSESSOR ? "How much stock do you curry?" MERCHANT?'"About H hundred and $0 dollars worth." !>UN & BRADSTREET? "How much stock do you carry?" MERCHANT?"About H thousand and 5 hundred dollars worth." I NSC RANGE AGENT? "How much stock do you carry?" MERCHANT "Ai?out lh thousand and 5 hundred dollars worth." A I A'FRTl/.F.MFNT ? "Big Sal#*: W> stock of 2* thousand dollars worth i of merchandise must be sold at once. I promised a friend that I would quit writing about short dresses, und I'm thru. Hut reckon how much thinner they are going to get? That's something to worry pbout. _ Uncle Joe says its not a pleasant, subject to talk about, but he has already told Aunt Mi nervy what to do I in case he died suddenly while in bed. hirst, he wants hi* night cap and sox removed and hid. Second, he desires that his feet he washed. Third, he wishes his undprwear to be exchanged for a night shirt. Then she may call tlx* undertaker and coroner. Cotton l-etter New York April . IU.?Liverpool came in o points lower than due, but spots hedging. Southern selling, and , Northern buying forced the nearby months to a new low for the month't : but July eased oif on a forecast for ; rain in the interior and clouds in the exterior next week at 1 o'clock. 1 Chopping is progressing slowly hut ' -urely in South Texas and Egypt, but j the new secretary of agriculture has ; not yet said whether he's for the i farmer or the specular, *u we antici- , pate a decline in yarns and soft goods. Mat Xock, s. C. april the 1UT 1U2J. highway cammish, deer sir:? please -consider?rrfjr-bid to biId the road from here to the 4 mile branch, and here it is: if you will furnish the mules and niggers and scrapes and cement und lime and sand, i will boss putting it down for 55$ a mile, i hare not had no experients jn road bilding, but i can stand around and hold my hands in my pockets as good as any other bosses you have on the job. and i also no how to pick out rough detours so's folks who hafter travel same will be ruadashell all the time, if i am successful in this bid, send wfj 25$ on my first mile, as i need a little money to fix mv beef wagon which 1 of yore dern sand trucks run over Just week and didont say nothing, rite or foam yore anser. yores trulie, mike Clark, rfd. Uncle Joe is getting ready to farm. He 1m,ngh? a 10-cent curry comb yesterday. All he needs now is guano and -i,i ne mule feed and some grocer a*.*, hut he's waiting on Farm Relief which Mi Hoover promises to fetch as soon < (ingress is convened. And that means that Uncle Joe s family will move back, to the cotton mill about week after next. It's a peculiar fact, but as had as they are?there aint any detours on the road to hell. And "they say" it i* a one-way road too. So, my bebelovcd sinners, even if it - is the wrong place to go, ju>t think of the pleasure you will have on-route, as there won't l>e any trucks^ with 15foot-wide loads to meet, and no big busses wiilikeep you scared to death all the time that you're to get run over. Hut it is possible that after you arrive, the "soul" punishment that will he meted out it, you will he negotiating detours that roadbuilders have selected for you. And that will be hell a-plenty. A good friend has asked me t< wnt,?,g about short dresses, and 1 think 1 shall concede to her wi.-hes but before 1 do so, I want to explain that I did not invent or d> -ign the garments that leave the knees e\posed, but 1 am now making this prophecy: within "10 years from now. rery lew young g'.rl- including t1np|? !>. will wear any skiit at all. all, but w.il be content with a garment which will l.?o a cross between a pa' r of knti kers and a pair of teddies, an,! after we get used to them. I'm -urc they will be entirely satisfactory, hut from now on?I'm oiT of short dre.sxu; nnsofo-th. unless, of course news iscarce. Cotton Letter Now York. April 6.?The marke declined 25 points on information tha the Federal Reserve bank had reduce" the discount rate to speculators t K percent, and had called all loan due by bulls who are losing. Spinner takings for February were less tha for January, due to the fact that th former was shoxtcr than the latte but this error was not discovered ui till after the slump when some bei got to fig go ring up his profits. TV Intermediate Ciedif bank has loan* farmers so far this year for agricu tural purposes the sum of 11 dolla and 2.1 cents, including the cost i drawing the mortgage on 6 mules, cows, 4 calves, 3 pigs, and the far plus the documentary stamps, and ' cents for recording the debenture credit. Therefore, we look for low prices and more rain. Our Fame Vegetables To Be Spread Abroad Columbia, April St.? The South Carolina Natural Resources Comraf. sion has well under way its program for placing the merits of South Carolina products before the consumer* of the country. Work is be| ing pushed as rapidly as possible on j the lithographing of the copyrighted I label which proclaims the natural | iodine content of the State's fruits, vegetables and milk, and these will be ready for the producers of the stale within the next few weeks. All the departments of the state government have united in the request for the lithographed lubpl upon their stationery; bankers, merchants, manufacturers and those engaged in every* kind of business, some of whom are already using a legend on their stationery, have signified their intention of using the label as soon as it is available; the newspapers of this and other states arc broadcasting South Carolina agriculture to the world, and of wide significance, among other things in connection with the movement, is the visit of Doctor John Harvey Kellogg, eminent medical director and superintendent of the Battle Creek sanitarium of M ichigan to the state research laboratories In Charleston. This agricultural momentum wijl naturally carry with it all other phases of industrial activity^ and inquiries are coming from canners and others as to desirable locations for manufacturing plant*. At the meeting of the Natural Re source* Couj mission on Thursday, May 9. the presidents aryi chemists of j all the colleges of the state?denominational and other institutions of higher learning?are expected to U.* i present to gain at first hand an ipsight into the work of the commis sion, and the splendid opportunities for the state which it seeks to take advantage of. With regard to South Carolina fruits, vegetables and dairy product*, something of the demand which t? already being created for them in the markets of the country, and which must give them a commanding plac? in those markets, may readily be understood from a statement by Governor Richards expressing his belief thgt the discoyery of their high iodin.content will be far-reaching in solving the state's agricultural and economic problems. He thus summarizes: "For instance, South Carolina shows only two or three per cent, bf goiter, while In Michigan, Minnesota and many of the other states of the Great Lakes region und the Northwest and Pacific Coast States, the per centage, I am Informed by our medical experts, runs as high as forty to seventy-five per cent. Doctor MoClendon, of the University of Minnesota, has found that the iodine content of the fruits, vegetables and. drinking water of these states exists in small proportion, much too low to provide for nutritional requirements, and*he and other distinguished chemists have ex ; a mined our fruit*, vegetables and milk, and all of tbein assert, as a result of their examinations, that if people regularly eat our fruits and vegetables and drink our milk, they could not have goiter and other cottditjon* that are now commonly recognized a.^due to a defleinecy of ! iodine." W The Commission has outlined a j broad scope for its work, under the i A? t of the recent General Assembly. 1 First outlining its policy with regard to Intensive study of agricultural > problems and the development of the stale's basic industry of agriculture as primarily important, its announcement says that " it shall further be the policy of this commission to encourage the development of *all the natural resources' of the state, and, among other things, "to encourage the establishment of manufacturing ' enterprises in the various lines, and j to protect their operation, insofar as j possible, against unwise interference I j or improper legislative enactment." j j Exhibits under the/ direction of! i Doctor William Weston, for years j i prophet of the vast wealth wrapped up in the iodine and other minera4! j contents of South Carolina fruits, ! vegetables and milk; and managing director of the Natural Resources Commission, will be placed at various chemical and medical meetings throughout the country, especially in j the fifteen States having forty per I cent, or more of goiter, and the { message will be carried by the Com mission directly to the people of j South Carolina, through the county organization committee, of which W, W. Smoak of Walterboro is chairroaa. The Commiaaion is composed of Governor Richards, chairman, T? C. Wiiiiama of Columbia, secretary, Doctor Wiljiam Weaton of Columbia, managing director, George D. Sandera, Fairfax, B. H. Peace, Greenville, W. J. Hoddey, Sr., Hock Hill, W. A. Coleman Jlyinan, John T. Stevcna, ^Cerahaw, H, A. Eaaterling, Denmark, Robert Small, Charleston, Holmes Ii. Springs, Myrtle Beach and Greenville, T. W. Bennett, Meggetts, W. \V. Sn^pak, Walterboro?all men well know/it throughout tho state. The office of the Commiaaion la in the State Hour.e in Columbia, and Jchn K. Aull is full-time assistant secretary. Held For Killing Woman Geneva, 111., April 4:?A coroner's jury Tuesday recommended that a deputy sheriff who shot and killed an Aurora woman during a liqpor raid [ be held for the county grand jury for j prosecution on a charge of man| slaughter. The jury reached its verdict after spending the day hearing witnesses tell of a raid on the night of March 25 on the home of Joseph De King, of Aurora, during which Do King was beaten into unconsciousness by Deputy Hoy Smith, who also shot Mrs. Lillian De King, Gerald De King, 12 years old, then shot and wounded the deputy who killed his mother. A house in California which is spread out tike a whole village has 114 rooms. Roar of Mountain* The "m.ui of tha moon tain'* UH garded ? an indication of appr J iug storm and it i* often th* |jj9 of superstitions. It is u very ing phenomenon, aaya the Bureau, to anyone not aceustoi*j]^B Meteorologists say the pheno^^l commonly oeeurs in response to^H strong and persistant wind# on 9 forward side of a cyclonic stora J proaching a hilly region. Many ^9 storms in wintertime are likely heralded by gales and aocoinpsjB by thickening clouds and rain may last for several hour# or *9 a day or two. The aeolian io9 produced hy these winds n^r (9 crest "i the mountain before 9 storm breaks ure due in part to I' fact that the trees are ^'iiiped^fl bare mj that small branchee ^B twigs often Vibrate as musical str9j> <1<> when wind-rushes over them. ^B forested growth on the mountain ^B produces a low sighing or moi9 sound. This "mm rout of tho fotti9 as the poet puts it> grows in i (9 hours to the cataract "roar of mountain."?The Pathfinder. ffl i'*"' - /-'^B Mrs. Annie W. S, Lowe, Hi, of Seth Lowe, former mayor of York, and former president offjH lumbia university, died MondtjB her home in New York city. j j On sale at Drug Stores, Soda Fountains, Grocery Stores,Delicatessens,Tea Rooms, Restaurants, LinucJt Counters, Drinfc Stands ^ all tOWn Yo\t can now buy the best ginger ale for a nickel a bottle. You can buy it in the handy 'liospitality" carton (6 bottles) for thirty cents* From practically every store where carbonated beverages are sold at all, you can now obtain Cascade at the popular price of 5 cents. There is no finer blend of ginger ale than Cascade. The materials used cost just as much as those employed in the manufacture of any or the higher priced brands. The Cascade formula*- composed of Jamaica ginger, blended with the flavoring properties of citrus fruits, iuid made with club soda of the required standard for perfect carbonization, has stood the quality test for more than thirty years* ?? v Social Qesture Wh?n friends drop in for * octal chet, or a bridge party la being entertained in your home, no more delightful compliment can be paid your guests than to aerve Cascade Ginger Ale. b u, 30*. Uf *? ? ? mil ft I IH>. e??a? nwmo -irrrfi The increasing popularity of ginger ale for home use presents an economic factor which must be adjusted to meet the widespread demand for this favorite beverage on a fair-price basis, more in keeping with the production cost than is the general practice now. There is no sane reason why the very best grade of ginger ale should not be sold profitably for a nickel a bottle (7 ounces), provided the bottles are used over In the drawing room of your home, in your office* at your club, or wherever men H are brought together in social or business conference, you can serve Cascade (finger JH Ale with complete confidence that it If equal In quality and flavor with die most expensive shipped-in brand*' w and over again, as is the custom with other carbonated beverages* I The method now employed in distributing Cascade ginger ale is H the same economical practice in H general use by most all bottling I plants?including the dairiet^of I returning the empties for refund or - ^ exchange. It is the sensible wnjri. H and the economical way to pui^ H chdf| all sorts of beverages* H For convenience of handling, Cascade , is supplied in the attractive 6-bottle I "hospitality** carton, which can be had everywhere for 30c, or, if preferred, CtOi I be bought by the sihgle bottle at drink I stands, or served from bottles over the I counter at soda fountains, for 5 cents.. B ?| CAROLINA COCA - COLA BOTTLING C OfiTp'kwYl|j