The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, September 23, 1920, Page 4, Image 4
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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
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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.
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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*
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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
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of the city that lies before him.
WOOD ALCOHOL GOT THEM.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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Just as important was the worker at home.
Without him the soldier must fail. ' i
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We honor and encourage the producer at home.
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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.
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