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CJe pamfcerg peralb ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891. Published Weekly at Bamberg, S. C. JEntered as second-class matter April 1891, under Act of March 3, 1879. $2.00 PER YEAR. Volume 29. No. 37. ! Thursday, Sept. 23,1920 Whatever else you may think about him, Mr. Bryan is no wishy-washy. He has come out straight for the Cox-Roosevelt ticket. We used to think Mr. Bryan was the biggest Democrat in the country. We have not thought so now for some years, yet he is still a man to be reckoned with. He suffered a great disappointment ? _ ? ~^ rnimtrv at San fTanciscu, emu. tuv was well prepared for him to desert the Democratic ranks, but he now comes with the statement that while he is pleased with neither Harding nor Cox on prohibition and the league of nations, he considers Cox the most forward-looking man for the job, and will give him his loyal support. The writer of fhese lines is not an overly tall specimen of the rfrale speccies, but he has a protest to make to our honorable city council. He has had his dignity, and what's more painful, his anatomy, hurt by running into awnings on Main street. In the ordinary course of business or pleasure it becomes necessary for one to be transported via the pedestal extremity method from place to place. We were endeavoring to quietly and Deaceably, if not unostentatiously, perambulate 011 the sidewalk of this good town when our editorial skypiece came sharply into conflict with something more substantial than atmosphere, which, under ordinary circumstances, is supposed t# form the ceiling of sidewalks. The obstacle proved to be the iron,framework of an awning. Looking hastily about to ascertain who had witnessed the undignified procedure, we investigated the damage, which was not great, probably because the obstacle was not as hard as the substance it came in contact with. We merely threatened the owner with a damage suit for a million dollars, and not wishing to be bothered -with such trivial legal matters, he forthwith had the awning fixed. Again a week or two later our pinnacle came into contact with another awning, '1 ~ tVionl-ful to "tills time, tnuugu, wc en^ uiaumui w report, without damage. vSome fellow wanted to know where we got it, but, remembering the good old father Of our country, we admitted that we didn't have it. He then asked what the atmospheric portion of pedestrial mitted with humiliation that we had not thought of them before as being requisite for spotting obstructions on the nether portion of the pedestrial thoroughfares. However, people will 5 live and learn?that is if they wish to use the sidewalks with safety to their respective domes. We might add, merely as information, that we measure just five feet nine and onehalf inches, and could not be correctly termed an "abnormously" tall gen"tleman; and we may also add that these particular awnings no longer stretch forth their frame work to obstruct the passage of wayward footmen. The Edisto Cow Testing Association. The recent organization of the Edisto Cow Testing association makes the second testing association in South Carolina, the pioneer cow testing association having been in operation for about two years. Most of the herds of the Bdisto association are in the southeastern part of the state, so located that the official tester can conveniently make the circuit. /This will not only reduce the expense of testing over the plan heretofore in operation of sending a tester from Clemson college for each two or three herds, but it will also permit more herds to start testing work in this territory.. The temporary officers of the association are St. J. A. Lawton, Charleston, president; H. D. Jordan, Ridge Spring, vice-president; P. A. Baxley, Blackville, secretary; J. K. Mayfield, Denmark, treasurer. These are all owners of Holstein herds. Other members of the association are C. B. Whitney and F. P. Rainsford, owners of Jersey herds; Ware Shoals f Manufacturing Company; J. Watt Weir and A. M. McKeown, owners oi Guernsey herds. The new testing association will run in conjunction with the Pioneer Cow Testing association, which has a membership in Lee, Darlington and Marlboro counties. E. L. Parrott is to be official tester for the Pioneer association, and H. D. Jeter official tester for the Edisto association, with arrangements for interchange of circuits every few months. All the testing will be in pure bred herds for advanced register and register of merit yearly records. j RIVAL OF THK SPHINX. Wonderful Statue of Buddha in Western China. For many years it has been known that about 50 miles from Jah-ding, in western China, there is a very large and remarkable statue of Buddha, but it was not until a very few years ago that it was ever destribed by an Occidental. Dr. Sprague, an authority on things Chinese, visited it. At the end of two days' travel he reached the image and found it colossal in size, although not so large as rumor had made it out. The upper naif 01 tne nmsiae consists of a sandstone cliff, and in this a niche fifty feet broad has been cut leaving a central core of stone that is carved in the shape of a figure seated in European style, not crosslegged as Buddha is so often represented, i The traveler found the height of the image to be not less than one hundred feet. A series of five tiled roofs, descending like a flight of steps, built in front of the image, protects it from the weather, so that only the face can be seen from without. When the doctor came within sight of the great Buddha he paused and rested from his journey at a point near one of the gates to the walled city that lies in the valley below. As his eyes turned to the great face, which has been gilded until it shines like metal, as the immense size and perfect preservation of the idol made their impression, the thought came to him that "this is more marvelous than many of the world's boasted wonders." He thought of the colossi at Thebes and the Sphinx. Scarred and ruined and defaced by the hand of man and the efforts of time they are little bet* * f * XX J 1 T">.,4. ter tnan iumps*oi Dauerea tocks. dui far in the west of China sits this old Buddha, unnoticed and almost unknown, yet greater in size than the Egyptian colossi, with his .proportions preserved intact, with temples above and below him, and with the priests in attendance to keep the incense burning at his feet. There he sits, grimly gazing out over the tiled roofs ? of the city that lies before him. WOOD ALCOHOL GOT THEM. \ Seven Men Drank Wrong Kind of Poison and Died. The list of fatalities among civilian employes of Edgewood Arsenal, at Baltimore, resulting from drinking some form of poisoned alcohol was increased to seven last Wednesday by the deaths of Nelson Lucius, of Rochester, N. Y., and James Davis, of Salisburg, 3Id.- Michael O'Leary, of Baltimore, the last one of the known victims is expected to recover. He was reported as improving today, but was too weak to talk. Thus far, the military authorities at Edgewood have been unable to find out where the liquor came from by the refusal of the men to tell where they got it. An official board of inquiry will be convened at Edgewood today, and the local police authorities are continuing their investigations. After an inquest held yesterday ov er the three who were dead at that time, the coroner's jury rendered a verdict that the men came to their death either from wood or denatured alcohol. A large quantity of alcohol for chemical purposes is stored at the post, the military authorities said, and because of thefts of the liquor, it was denatured. A warning to this effect was issued, and not only to the soldiers, but to the citizen personnel as well. Little is known of the men who fell victims to the poison. Most of them had only been employed at the arsenal a short time. ^ < i ? Audience Fou^d Him. After many years of parting, the old school chums chanced to meet again and spent an interesting hour exchanging reminiscences. "But," began one suddenly, "you say you are in me grocery uusmess. I thought you wanted to go on the stage?" "So I did," confessed the other sheepishly; "but?er?I found out I wasn't suited for it." "A little bird told you, I suppose?" The other man hesitated and his face flusehd. "Well, no, not exactly," he said * "but they might have been birds if they had been allowed to hatch." Hot Stuff. A preacher was describing the "bad . place" to a congregation of naval cadets. "Friends," he said, "you've seen ( molten iron running out of a furnace, haven't you? It comes out white hot sizzling and hissing. Well?" The preacher pointed a long, lean ' finger at the lads, i "Well," he continued, "they us* that stuff for ice cream in the place I have just been speaking of."?New Central Magazine. \ r GROWING COTTON DESPITE PEST. W. B. Taylor, of Dublin, Ga., Tells How He Beats the Boll Weevil. The following article is reprinted j from the Dublin (Ga.) Courier-Herald. Laurens county cotton fields look very much like a mighty small crop this year, since the boll weevil has gone after the bolls in such a vig-i orous manner, all except upon one' farm. That farm is the one owned I by W. B. Taylor, of Dexter, and it has 256 acres of cotton that will come very near fulfilling the prediction in July of 25 6 bales of cotton. A. representative ui I.ms paper went over the cotton fields with Dr. Taylor Thursday afternoon, for the second time this season, and was shown just what kind of yield was being picked. He found that the heavy crop prospects that the same fields indicated about July 25th were being realized. Many of the fields were being picked over the second time, and yet they showed a better crop open on the second picking than will be gathered during the entire season on 80 per cent, of the farms in Laurens this year. How it Was Hone. Most of the farmers had a good crop prospect on July 25th, just as Dr. Taylor did. Not all of them had indications of as big a yield, but the crop was much better than last year. They had very few weevils, and they were getting ready to use calcium arsenate freely. Every one was hopeful for a 30,000 bale crop. And they had good reasons to hope for that many bales. About August 1 rain set in and it kept raining every day. Using calcium arsenate was out of the question. Along with the rain came the migratory boll weevils in swarms, hunting fresh fields where there wrere plenty of new squares. They found these in Laurens, and they located in this county, being probably the most unpopular visitors that Laurens ever entertained. It continued to rain and it then rained some more for good measure. While the rain fell, the weevil got busy, and Laurens county farmers were forced to stand idly by and see their crop ruin. They were able to fight him up to the last few weeks of the season, and then werej powerless at the last to realize on their good work of the season. One of the first questions asked' Dr. j Taylor by the reporter was how he defeated the weevil when every one else los^His answers were very sinl-i pie, but he had the results to demonstrate,their truth. Bolls Too Tough For Weevils. "It was due to the fact that on my cotton the tough, inner parchment lining of the bolls gets too hard for the weevil to puncture in from 15 to 21 days, while the average cotton requires 30 days for this inner skin to get too hard for the weevil," Dr. Taylor replied. Pulling some bolls off the plants at random, he proceeded to show what he means. Some of them he pulled were just a little more than half grown. On the outside could be seen numerous small weevil punctures. It looked as if they were hopelessly ruined. Then they were cut open, all but the smallest of them were found to be sound. The weevils could not bore through the inner parchment-1 like skin of the boll. He could bore into the outside easily, and had done it, for the signs were plentiful, but the tough skin inside stopped him. Some of them showed spots on this tough skin where the weevil had almost got through and caused a discolored place on the skin, but in veryfew cases had he been able to punc-. ture this inne* parchment-like skin. Some of the bolls thus immune were not over 15 days old. Some of them were older, but only the small ones, a portion of the 15-day-old bolls were damaged by the weevil. "That is the secret of my cotton crop," Dr. Taylor said. "This Toole cotton I am using naturally prpduces a flinty boll, much more so than the average cotton used in this county. And, since I have been fighting the weevil, I have been selecting the hardest, flintiest bolls for seed. This had resulted in mv getting a strain of seed that produces bolls which get too tough for the weevil in from 15 to 21 days. Many of them have an inner skin too tough for the weevil by the 15th day, while all of them are past danger by the 21st. This makes them immune to the weevil. That is the reason I did not lose my crop during the rains which came in the first half of August, when every other crop in the county went to the bad. The bolls which other types of cotton had could be punctured by the weevils up to the 30 days of age. That made it out of the question for the farmer to get more than the earilest bolls of the season. The weevils got the young bolls as well as the squares. "This flinty type of cotton is similar in principle to the flint corn that is being grown by many farmers because it is too hard for the corn wee ' I firs Yy YY H If Now A& is the tim< AA COUNT. AA know wha >?? now. 5 pee ci ft ff I FIRST *k|* A^A A^A A^A A^A A. Jl^LAA^A A^A A^A A^A A^A J? vil to attack. There are many varieties of the soft kernel corn which are ruined every year by the corn weevils, while the flinty variety, with an extra hard grain and tough husk, is imi mune to weevil attacks. This is the same way with my strain of cotton. I have bred it to where it not only grows fast, put on fruit quickly, but the inner parchment skin gets too hard for the weevil in from 15 to 21 davs. some 10 or 15 days ahead of the average cotton. Because of this, the young bolls are protected, and can grow to maturity without harm from the weevil." i Dr. Taylor was asked about the use of calcium arsenate. "Yes, I used j about 2,000 pounds of calcium arsen! ate, but I don't believe it did much 1 | good, except from the time the cotton is chopped until it begins to bloom. Then is when the calcium arsenate did the most good for me. After the middle of July I didn't see much good to come from using it. I expect the weevils to get the top crop in spite of all that can be done." However, Dr. Taylor has not quit using calcium arsenate altogether. He is now conducting some very inj teresting experiments with it. - A large pen enclosed completely with fly screen netting now encloses a number of full grown cotton plants on the edge of his field and he is experimenting with weevils and calcium arsenate in this pen. He is endeavoring to find out just how much poison will do in fighting the' weevil. His Rules *or Success. In discussing the plans he followed in making this, his second successful cotton crop under weevil conditions, and also under very unfavorable weather conditions he laid down his fundamental principles for growing cotton under such conditions. "First;. Get a type of seed that has a flinty boll, and grows off fast. After you get a good type of seed keep breeding it up from y^ar to year I and plant only the most carefully seI inntorl ac>f*rl frnm vour fields. IV/VtVU N/N WV% ? * - "Second. Plant your cotton on ridge. Do not plant in the water furrow. Cotton planted -xm a ridge will grow off and mature quicker. "Third. Put at least 600 pounds of fertilizer to the acre. Put this i fertilizer down when the seed is plant| ed. This amount is a minimum. You can use more with a better chance of success. "Fourth. Chop your cotton just as soon after it is up as you can. If it is allowed to stand very long without chopping, the growth will be stunted. "Fifth. Leave two stalks to the hill. You can see by actual demonstration in my field, how this works out for bigger yields. Push the plant every inch it will stand. Keep it moving as fast as you can. Work for a big crop of early bolls. "Sixth. Use calcium arsenate on the young plant from the time it is ifirst cultivated until it begins to bloom. Only one grain to a plant is necessary at a time. You can treat your crop three times at that period at a cost of 50c per acre. It will be ! worth twice as much as calcium ari senate used in July. "Seventh. Don't let up on cultivation, nor picking up squares early in the season. Pick up the fallen squares even while you are using tne calcium arsenate early in the spring. Also pick the weevils off the plant. Use every weapon possible against the weevil. You will need it. "These rules are all based on good common sense. They are all good farming principles. Breed your cotton to produce heavy, and grow hard flinty bolls. You can see that for yourself on my place. Get plenty of plants on the ground. The land will $ support a heavy stand. Don't waste 3 I I \ A^A A^A A^A "A" "a ?A Vr W^ Tr y A^ A" "A" "A" ?y IA A^A A^a A^A A^k A^k A^j^Ak^kAkAkALAkAkAkAkAkAkA^At AkjA^AiAk ||y "y "^f "A? ?Af ?A? "A? ?at Ty^T T^T vy y y y y "y y "y y t National Bank 1 ' v AA d BAMBERG, S. C. X* 1 # a j j i to open a permanent SAVINGS AC- I The boll weevil is here. We do not - J t the future holds. Save your money 1 .. I 3NT. PAID ON SAVINGS DEPOSITS ^ 1 JATIONAL BANK ? .11 ! "|T 'y y T^f f^T Ty yy T^V V^V :-. * . \ " ! z \ \ t /. \f\ c *^ *^i ' . s Primarily. Of course, it is the soldier in war who V 9 w is the patriot?he produces fighting qualities, his life, his all. \\ Just as important was the worker at home. Without him the soldier must fail. ' i ' s.'. p. We supported the soldier as far as we could. We honor and encourage the producer at home. 1 To each we offer most freely the services of this B . 9 ' . c - - * > - < , I When we can be of service to you, I , call on us freely. i IHTEgEST ? E jBWIMCS ACCOOHTS 1 H H ( A good BUY ^- I I j A six-room house, and lot 90 x 125 feet. Just ? . one-half block from Main street. Two rooms can | I be rented, which will pay good interest on the in- f | vestment. | REID, THE JEWELER, Will tell you all about it I ^liiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiBiiiHiiiiiiHiiiiiUiiiiiiiiiiiiiiliiniini'miuuimiiGiiiniBUiiiiiiMiiiiHiiaiiiuiiuiiniiiiiiiimiiainiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiiiiiKiimBniuninimiiiiiiinimBHimiBiiniiiniimiMrf^ NOTICE OP FINAL DISCHARGE. PTAH OfD TrUIlfr Notice? ?. - i,op SCRATCHING; dersigned executrix of the estate of HOP 7riirnilTP Henry J. Zorn, deceased, will on Fri- I |\H K|Nb v day, October 15th, will make her final VUiJ uLiVlLlUll?i accounting to the probate judge of . Bamberg county, at his office in Bam- jt makes no difference how long berg, as such executrix, and will at you have suffered with eczema itch the same time apply for letters dis- or any other skin disease, Zemerine missory. will help you as it has helped others. MBS. BERTHA O. ZORN, Zemerine stops differing where other Executrix of the estate of Henry J. remedies have failed and restores the Zorn, deceased. skin to a healthy condition. * September 21st, 1920. . 10-14 The first application of Zemerine SHE WAS ALMOST PRETTY. b/^s relief, stops the burning and lfobine' thp ripsirp tn spratrh nasspn i Except for an inflamed, red splotc away, and healing becomes ppssible. ' ^ on her cheek, which- revealed how Read what others have to say about x / eczema tortured her. Zemerine Zemerine: "Send me another box of brought relief If you suffer like- Zem/f,iD% * has me a of orougni renei. good. "I have used Zemerine and wise, try a bottle without risk?mon- it gave me more relief than anyey back if it does no good. Sold by thing." leading druggists. Qnrf6?ierin^Liri Sy}^ i-W? SjZeS' and $1. Sold by leading druggists space by a thin stand." everywhere. All these principles, with eternal ? vigilance, have enabled Dr. Taylor to CARD OP THANKS. grow a crop of cotton two years jin j We wigh tQ take this method of ex. succession where the rest 01 me cuuu- pressing to our many friends our sintry failed. They are worth trying, at cere appreciation of their many kindieIst nesses which were shown us during m tmt m our recen^ bereavement, in the sickIITTI1 .. , ,, nes and death of Mr. D. P. Smith, and The Girl Why on ear h does e jQr many. consoiing expressions orchestra always make that din in 0f sympathy we received. this restaurant?" MRS. D. P. SMITH and Family. The Man To down the cries of Just received, shipment of Americomplaint of the diners w,hen they see ^can ^rjre Fence. See me at once if their bills! London Opinion. you nee(j fencing. G. O. SIMMONS. K r <