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HAS A COTTON 1 WEEVIL REME PRESIDENT WANNAMAKE COTTON ASSOCIATION, RE BY THE INSECT AND *1 RESULTS ACHIEVED 1 BACKED BY A S COTTON American Cotton Association St. Matthews, S. C., Dec. 4, 1922. Editor Manufacturers Record: I recently wade a trip to Cough, Gu., for the prupose of investigating .the Hill method of boll weevil control. Your Mr. John C. Cady was with me on this trip. During the last quarterof a cental y, since the boll weevil devastating the cotton crop of the South, thousands of remedies have been offered for the destruction of the pest, and up to the present time nothing has solved the problem. The dusting method of dry calcium, the method recommended by the Agricultural Department and the various agricultrual colleges, seems to be the moat efficacious. However, where it has been used under the most careful supervision, still there is a very heavy loss from the boll weevil, regardless of the many applications that are applied with the very latest machinery. Another serious problem is the insufficient quantity of calcium arsenate and the cost of about $15 per acre or $50 per bale. If all the calcium arsenate in the world today could be secured for this purpose, we would only have a sufficient quantity, as shown by the best experts, to annlv I to 6,000,000 acres of cotton, which is less than one-fifth of the cotton crop. At no time since the boll weevil first crossed into Texas has more effort been put forth than is being made today to secure a remedy whereby cotton can be profitably produced under boll weevil conditions, and at no 1 time has the entire world been more alarmed, and justly so, over a solution of this problem. In making this trip into Georgia, i passing through our state capital, Columbia, and ui noticing the names of , the various streets?Cotton street, Indigo street, Rice street?and remembering that the streets of the capital in the early dnys were named for the various agricultural products raised < in those days to furnish all the names for the future state capital, and that today a very few of these agricultural ( products are grown at all in the state, I could not help but ask myself the ( question is cotton destined to follow in the footsteps of indigo, rice and 1 other crops that have been abandoned in South, Carolina and in the South , i Atlantic states? IMJ^j2^3si_ng _through the former rice , F"" plantations in the fertile coastal plain of South Carolina, and in viewing the 1 magnificent colonial mansions, com- I structed largely from costly material 1 imported from England and of the t hardwoods of America, the workmanship being of the very highest j class, and these magnificent mansions j today deserted, standing as a monument to the great ante-bellum days; j and in passing through the great rice , plantations, the lands being as fertile as the valley of the Nile, seeing them densely covered with a rank vegeta- | tion of bamboo, briers, shrubbery und , trees, and when I remember that there are 11,000,000 acres in South Carolina that were in a high stage , of cultivation in ante-bellum days and millions in the other Southern states, ? /vf UaIm knf ooir twnanl# CYU1JB. 1 examined the cotton lields of the plantation of Mr. Hill and found that he had produced almost a full cotton crop during the present year. In fact, on his main farm, he produced 600 bales of cotton on 800 acres. I personally inspected the farm of a widow who planted and cultivated the crop with the labor of herself and six children, and found by gin receipts that she had produced 17 bales of cotton on 16 acres. We visited many of the tenters who used this remedy devised hy Mr. Hill and also farms on adjoining lands, and from each and everyone we received the strongest endorsement of the mixture, and the lands containing eotton stalks would prove that they had produced the c^jtton. They also had the gin receipts as further proof. I have no doubt as to the production of the cotton. I found that it was absolutely neces/ A JOLL &YJEEN FOUND? R, OF THE AMERICAN VIEWS HAVOC WROUGHT rELLS OF REMARKABLE 5Y A NEW REMEDY, TRONG AUGUSTA I FIRM. sary to make heavy applications of fertilizer to produce cotton under boll weevil conditions. There is no possibility of producing ,cotton except at a greatly increased coat?the - prep-! aration of the land, the cultivation^ ar.d fertilizer and poisons, all greatly adding to the expense. Mr. Hill informed me that after* the expenditure of $2tl,000 and-yeaf* of hurd work he has produced the liquid poison which he himself has been using for several years and which was used on the cotton referred to above during the present year.-One matter of complete difference of jridfr* ment between Mr. Hill and the experts concerning the ha sards of the boll weevils is this: he insists that the boll weevil feeds, not upon the squares, forms and -bolls, but that the puncturing of these is done for the purpose of egg-laying; that both the female and male puncture the squares, forms and bolls for the par4 pose of furnishing a nest for the eggs, and that tho boll weevil absolutely f<eds upon the bloom of the cotton. Until the weevil can get food from the bloom, he sucks his food from the tender leaves of the cotton found in the heart of the stalk. Mr. Hill stated that he knew it was necessary to secure a food that the boll weevil would cat to enable him to poison the weevil; that his poison has the odor of the cotton bloom, and that by applying it in the heart of the cotton stalk, the boll weevil is attracted to it, eats it and is annihilated. The amazing part is the cost of the poison. Under Mr. Hill's method, it costs from $2 to $3 per acre at the outside, this bting one-quarter to onesixth the oost of the most popular methods. I interviewed both white planters and negro planters and found them strong advocates of the poison, and the widow informed me that she had given up cotton planting and was in despair for a way to get an existence for herself and children, until she was convinced that had she not usad< Ihis poison she would never have produced over two to three bales on the 15 acres, instead of 17 bales as shown A tUUlU llVb lictp uui/ Ufsant nan tu/avit. the question as to whether cotton would follow in the footsteps of rice. Especially was this question presented to my mind when I passed through the various court house towns in the most fertile sections of the cotton belt, a section which I passed through in 1918 and 1919, which then had the earmarks of great prosperity, but which today was marked with desertion and poverty. I found in the court house towns thousands of tax executions in the hands of the sheriff for the sale of property of the cotton farmers for the settlement of taxes which they were unable to pay, on account of the inroads of the boll weevil to a certain extent, but due more largeup to the deflation policy of the Federal Reserve Board, which has brought about wreck and ruin. On this trip, in one of the most "rosperous counties, I learned that 10,000 tax executions had been placed in the hands of the sheriff. I saw thousands of the desetred farms, lands which formerly were producing wonderful crops of cotton, com and other crops, now covered with rank vegetation, and the homes and plantations having the same abandoned look of the rice planta a Dove. Mr. Hill claims that the land should be broken up in the fall of the year and thoroughly prepared; that the crop should be well fertilised, and '.hat the poison should be applied just as soon as the cpttcm ia cropped out, und that aptelj^ Kjx a^pUdU tjons of the poison are sufficient; that by applying poison very . early all of the migratory weevils are destroyed and thus they cannot reproduce, and that if all farmers Would use the poison, poisoning would ceaae eftoi killing the weevils from hibernation, but where other farms are infeeted, it is necessary to keep up the application of poison until around the 1st to the loth of August. Rains play an important part in boll weevil damage. The damage increases in proportion to the* rainfall. In our adjoining county, OySthgeburg, one of the largest cottoh-produdng counties of the belt, cotton production dropped from 115,000 bales two years ago to 12,000 bales during the present year. My county of Calhoun, one of the most fertile counties in the South, where cotton production and farniing arc carried on in the most scientific manner: still with the very latest methods of boll weevil control our production dropped from 45,000 bales two years ago to approximately 3,000 bales during the present year. If Mr. Hill's preparation will bring to other sections the benefit that it has brought to his, it will indssd prove a blessing. In 1918 and 191$ I made practically the same trip over the same territory that I made at this trip. The difference was indeed startling. On my former trips, the earmarks of prosperity were plainly discernible. On this trip just the opposite was the case. In 12 counties the sheriffs' offices were loaded with tax executions, thousands of negroes have left, hundreds of farms have been abandoned, lands that on my former tnp were not for sale could not bd sold today at all, mules that on my former trip were selling for from $404 to $500, today were practically un?* saleable; cattle were a liability ink stead of an asset. In fact, one farmer told me after a desperate effort that he finally succeeded in selling his eoW to a butcher and that he brought bach one quarter, and the difference bti tween the amount due him by the butcher for the entire steer and the price he paid for the one-quarter was 12. In other words, he had to five the butcher the cow and pay the $2 in addition for the privilege. < The experience of the farm ate in their efi forts to prpduce truck crops of vari? ous kinds waa indeed distressing. It is an exception to pass through a sec* tjoii where, truck has beep planted to* the Northern markets, 'they had not been able to produce it. I do not wish to state by anything 1 have said in the above that the bolt weevil problem hps beta solved. I have only given the conditions as I found them. I am writing yon this bt great tawte aal promised Mr. Cady to write, you aftar my The seriousneee of thio problem is presented in the following statistics which have been recently iaened by P?? . I ! II I I 1L the U. S. Department of Agriculture ; "The United Stiter Depidtm?ft c Agriculture, by carefully prepare statistics, estimates the loss in ool ton production for the year 1921 b Southern farmers, as a result of bo weevil infestation and damage, of 6 277,000 bales of cotton averag weight of 600 pounds per bale. At a average selling price of 16 cent* pe pound, this amount of destroyed co< ton by these rapacious Insects repr< sents a total net loss from that sourc alone of $470,775,000, in gold or it equivalent, to the purchasing an debt-paying power of the people c the cotton states." This boll weevil poison referred t j above is the product of years an yehrS of study and experiments b MkV Doxier Hill, a wealthy and su? cessful business man, a large lan owner, merchant and farmer c .(Tough, Ga. Mr. Hill's father was .physician. He left a valuable library to which his son, Mr. Dozier Hill, fel heir, and Mr. Hill states that this li brary containing many books o chemistry and medicines, has been o untold benefit to him. Messrs. Bai rett A Company, of Augusta, Ga anions uw turgest nanaiers oi spo cotton in the belt and prominentl identified with the agricultural an business life of the Atlantic State have joined forces with Mr. Hill. I: fact, it is my understanding that Bax reti & Company have taken over th Hill proposition at a very heavy out \py of financing and thrown their ful endorsement behind it. Barrett & O are heavily interested in the produc tion of cotton, have large holdings i various business enterprises, includ ing cotton manufacturing, bankinf etc., andthey state: "We realize what our endorsement would mea and, therefore, did not give it unti we knew that the Hill mixture woul prove, beyond a shadow of doubt, o great value to cotton production." J. S. Wannamaker, President American Cotton Asso. Notice of Sale .State of Soutn Carolina, Union County. Court of Common Pleas. Peoples Building & Loan Associatioi of Union, 3. C., Plaintiff, vs. Vincent (or Vinson) Sartor and W. E G^een, Defendants. In obedience to a decree in th above stated case, I will sell befor the court house door in Union, S. C on the 1st day of January, 1923, beinj salesday, during legal hours of sah at auction, the following lands an premises, to wit: All that certain piece or parcel o land in the Town of Union, sai County and State, being part of pror erty on the West of Tosner's brancl and composed of four (4 lots nuni bered 141, 142, 143 and 144, of th subdivision of said property- made b H. C. Wilburn on January 31, 191' and recorded in Plat Book No. 1, pag 94, office of Clqrk of. Cpurt: said trac of four lots fronting 126 feet on th sotiUHtid* Of Batfalo stj^t^bsgiriniii Probate Judge, Ex Officio Master. December 11, 1922. 12-13-20-2 Notice of Solo State of South Carolina, ' Union County. Court of Common Pleas. W. H. Poole, Plaintiff, vs. Pan Greer. Defendant. In obedience to a decree in th above stated case, I will sell befor the cour^ house door in Union, S. C on tb? 1st day <Qf January, 1923, bein salesday, during legal hours of sab at auction, the following lands an premises, to wit: All that certain lot of land in tb City of .Union, said County and-Stab known as Lot No. 1 of the baseba grounds, as per plat recorded in tb office of Clerk of Court for said Cour ty, and bounded: North by lot no1 or formerly of Janie Brandon: Eai by lot now or formerly of Beula Gill; South by lot now or formerly c Lou Jeter, and West by O'Shfelt i Street,' being lot conveyed to Da Greer by Munroe Whitlock. hv dw 4ated December 7, 1915, and recorde lib Deed Book No. 48, page 94, Cler 'of Court'* office. I Terms of sale* Cash, purchaser t pay for papers and stamps. W. W. Johnson, Probate Judge, Ex Officio blaster. December 11, 1922. 12-18-20-2 Notice of Sale State of South Carolina, Union County. | Court of Common Pleas. Mrs. N. B. Pamplin, vs. ,Viola Scales, Mabel Scales, Job Scales, James Arthur Vaughan, at James Vaughan, Pofendrnts. In- obedience to a decree in tl 'above -stated case, I will sell befoi the court house door in Union, S. C on the 1st day of January, 1923, bein salesday, during legal hours of sal ;at auction, the following lands st ^premises, to wit: All that tract of land in Unk Township, said County and State, < both sides of main road running fro: Phillini Church to Adamsburg, at ,bounded as follows: North by lam of M. A. Scales and ethers: East t lands of Gist Fair* and Mrs. Far 'South by lands of Wflllhm Vausrha and West by lands of Lease Vaughai containing 148% acres, more or Iss iwhich descended to J. W. Parr fro his mother. Mrs. Jane P. Farr. Terms of sale^Cash. W. W. Johnson, December 11, 1922. 12-18-20-i Notice to Debtors And Creditor All persons holding claijns again the estate of W. A. E. Black, d I ceased, must present the same, du (proven to us, and all persons indebb .to said estate must make payme .to us. J. H. Black, B. a Black, . Executors Est. W. A. E. Black. f December V, IMS. 12-18-80J :&> ' - .. Notic* of S?l? 'i -s? d State of South Carolina, i. Union County. " Court of Common Pleas. * New York L:fe Insurance Co.. Plain H tiff, - VS. a liouia E. Garner, etal., Defendants n In obedience to a 1 decree heretofon ^ made in the above stated ease, I wil t sell before the court house door ii ^ Union, S. C-, od the 1st day of Jan ^ uary, 1923, being salesduy, durinj 3 legal hours of sale, at auction, th j following lands and premises, to wit All that certain tract of land, witl improvements thereon, lying and be ing in the County of Union, said State 0 containing 404.8 acres, more or less d and bounded as follows: North tr _ lands of G. L. Inman and lands of 9 * C. Inman; East bv lands of W. N ^ Garner and of R. J. Inman; South bj d lands of W. N. Gamer R. J, inman ,f and C. K. Meng. and West by land n of the estate'of J. E. Meng and land of G. L. Inman. being the same trac f> uf land conveyed to Louis E. Garner II by W. W. Johnson, Special Master, b^ [- deed dated April ?-, 1920, and record n ed in the office of Clerk of Court foi - said County. 1 The said tract of land will be firs sold In four subdivisions as follows ., Tract No. 1?154.6 acres, known a: . fVio I. R flnrnnr hotnu lr.nl. t No. 2?113.1 acrea, known as th? y Sprouse tract; Tract No. 3 (consist d ing of two tracts) containing 137.1 ?, acres, known as L. E. Garner tract n Tract No. 4?containing 59.4 acres known as W. N. Garner tract; and " after the sale of these separate tracts ? the entire plantation will be sold ai ^ a whole, the sale to stand which real U izes the largest amount. Terms of sale, One-third cash, bal ance on a credit of one and two years from date of sale, with privilege t< n purchaser or purchasers to pay al |_ cash. Credit portions to be securer by bond of purchaser and mortgage j.' ot the premises, and to bear interes d from date of sale' at 8 per cent pei n annum, and bonds and mortgages t< U provide for ten per cent attorney's j commissions, in case of default oi . collection by attorney. t W. W. Johnson, Probate Judge, Ex Officio Master. December 11, 1922. 12-13-20-2' Notice of Sale State ol' South Carolina, Union County. Court .of Common Pleas. Nicholson Bank and Trust Co., Plain ?, tiff, C. G. Gist, et alM Defendants. In obeaience to a decree in lh< 1. above stated case, 1 will sell befon the court house door in Union, S. C. e on the 1st day of January, 1923, beinj e salesday, during legal hours of sale ., at auction, the following lands am g premises, to wit: i. All that certain tract or lot of land d lying and being in Santuc Township said County and State, containing on< f hundred and seven acres, more or less d and bounded by lands of Miss Nor: t- Thomas, L. B. Jeter, C. G. Gist an< >. others, and the publi? road, being thi i- tract conveyed to C. 6. Gist by W. H e Poole, March 21, 1921. y Terms of sale. Cash, purchaser b r, pay for papers and stamps, e W. W. Johnson, it Probate Judge, e Ei Officio Master. g December 11. 12-13-20-2 o Notice ijrSale State of South Carolina, Union County. Court of Common Pleas. ? The Citizens National Bank of Uniot " S. C., Plaintiffs, vs. J. L. Lamb, et al., Defendants. In obedience to i decree in th above stated case, I will sell befor the court house door in Union, S. C on the 1st day of January, 1923, bein salesday, during legal hours of sah at auction, the following lands an premises, to wit: _ All that certain tract of land, i t Bogansville Township, said Count and State, containing 94 acres, mor or less, and bounded on the North b f land now or formerly of Landrur Padgett; East by Union & Glen Springs public road; South by land ie ol Henry Smith, and West by Boga e, lands; being lands purchased fror II Fletcher Burgess. i? Terms of sale: One-third casl i- balance in two equal annual install w ments, credit pcrtianv^to be secure it by bond of purchaser &nd mortgag h of the premises, with interest fror >f date of sale; purchaser to jgay for pa Is pcrs and to r.ttve the option of pay n mg all cash. d W. W. Johnson, d Probate Judge, k Ex Officio Master. December 11, 1922. 12-13-20-2 0 1 ? Notice of Sale ?tau oi south uaronna, Union County. trj Court of Common Pleas. Merchants and Planters Nationi Bank, Plaintiff, vs. Mat Boler, et al., Defendants. In obedience to a decree in th above stated case, I will sell befoi the court house door in Union, S. C on the 1st day of January, 1928, bein salesday, during legal hours of sal in at auction, the following lands an id premises, to wit: All that certain tract or narcel c ?e lund, in Fish Dam Township, sai re County and State, bounded by lane J., of Minerva Boler, Cornelia Dawkin g Charner Dawkins and Mary Jar e Jeter, being lands bought by Mi id Boler from Charner Dawkins, coi taining 35 acres, more or less, n Terms of sale, Cash, purchaser 1 >n pay for papers and atamps. m W. W. Johnson, id Probate Judge, Is Ex Officio Master. >y December 11. 1922. 12-13-20-i r. n. Japan Raises Brazilian ]} Legation to Embaaa ?9 m Tokio, Dec. 23.?Japan has decide ; to raise her legation in Brazil to tt status of an embassy, while the Bn zilian legation here likewise will 1 27 rasied. Relations between Brazil and Ji pan have become much closer aim r* the conclusion of the war. Japan at trade with Brazil now approximate e- 6,000,000 yen yearly, while the ii ly creasing number of Japanese who a Ml settling in that; country makes nt nocesaary for Japan to be well re; resented there diplomatically He Another good ^ny to prevent grt * hairs is to have the brake linings e 27 amined at intends. T r Mayfiwld'a Swat May b? Contest ad By Hugh W. Roberts. Washington, Dec. 21.?A thorough end pro lounged discussion of the Ku Klux Klan will feature the first weeks of the extraordinary session after j March 4, it is confidently believed by ' senator of all political faiths. R. B. Creager, chairman of the state Republican committee of Texas, has * returned home convinced that the 0 right of Senator-elect Mayfield to ^ take his seat will be challenged. He came to Washington to make arrange>, ments for the fight. While here he i> saw Republican politicians and Ref publican senators. [ He declared before leaving that he j had done his work welL i Mayfield will be challenged on three 3 counts, it is said. He will be charged t with having expended four times the , amount of money Texas law permits i1 a senatorial candidate to spend; he " will be charged with having direct connection with the Ku Klux Klan; t urd it will bo contended that there : was no election in Texas inasmuch as 3 the coalition candidate was not able j to secure legal authority for the putLi. ? it - iiiik uu Ilia iiumo Oil IQV UCKCU i The discussion of the Mayfield case ? will result in an open discussion of ' the Ku Klux Klan, it is strongly indi| cated. The klan is not confined to the * South. It has extended itself into all " states of the union. In each state it has members who will defend it, and } enemies who will fight it. The discus) sion in the senate, for that reason, is | expected to be of nationwide interest, j As previously pointed out in the dist patches of this bureau, the consensus r of opinion appears to be that Mayfield } Will be denied his seat. The reason J tc be given, it is indicated, will be that because his opponent's name was not permitted to go on the ticket there was no free election. j But underneath, it is suggested, will be the affiliation of Mayfield with the klan. It is generally said that Republicans would hesitate to support a klan.sman because of the heavy negro 1 vote in certain Northern cities and i states. There is no question but that ! Democratic senators above the Masonbixon line are in part dependent on * the support of the Irish and the He1 brews. f m ^ m r " Usually the muscles of the right i side of the body are better developed than those of the left, but, curiously * enough, the left foot is often larger I than the right. j Notice to Tax Payers B > The books of the County Auditor >v'.il be open for making returns from 9 January 1st to February 20th, 1023. AH those liable for taxation please see that your returns are properly made. In making returns be sure to state which school district or districts your property is in. No real estate is to be returned except in the real estate transfers and where new buildings have been erect?? d since last returns. All personal oroperty must be returned. Poll tax from 21 to 60. Road tax from 21 to 60. e l'lease do not put off making your ? iei urns until the last few days but ? make them early and avoid the rush. ? Returns will be gladly received at ci the Auditor's office on and after January 1st through February 20th, 1923, n and at the following named places and dates. y Auditor's Schedule For Receiving n Tax Returns. ^ Monarch and Ottaray Mills?Thursday, January 4. Union Mills?Friday, January 5. n Kxcelsior Knitting Mills and Gault Mfg. Co., Tuesday, January 9. lluffalo, Thursday, January 11. d Lockhart, Tuesday, January 16. ? tCarlisle, Wednesday, January 17. Santue. Thursday. Januarv 18. Coshen Hill, Friday, .lanuary 19. Cross Keys, Wilburn's Store, Tuesday. January '23, morning. Sedalia, Minter's Store, Tuesday, 7 January 23, afternoon. West Springs, W. J. Betsill's Store, Wednesday, January 24, morning. Adamsburg, Adam's Store, Thurs; day, January 25, morning. ,|j Kelton, J. M. Little's Store, Thursday, January 25, afternoon. .lonesville, Friday, January 26. J. S. Betenbaugh, County Auditor. !., 12-19-26; 1 2 9 16 23 5 FELT TIRED, SO TIRED ?f ' id s* lodiana Lady Says She Was it Dowm, Suffered With Her Back, Took Cardni, tad Got WeH | Richmond, Ind.?"I thought I would >7 write a line or so, to say that I owe my good health and strength to Cardul," ah a letter from Mrs. Cora Courtney, 31 Railroad Street, this city, y *i was alt run-down until my family thought they would lose me," writes Mrs. . Courtney. "My husband coaxed me to !lt take Cardui, so, to please him, I did, and je will say I do not regret it, for I am able i. to do all my work and do my shopping. )e "I have five children, four ia school, my husband and a boarder to do for, and I do all my owa work for all of us, and ? find time to ptaj. We all praise Cardai. co Every sick and run-down woman should ?9 take this wonderful medicine. M "I suffered with my back; a very weak feeling in my Hmbs. n* "I felt hardly able lo drag; Just re tired?so tired all the time, it "It eras aa effort for me to do aayp thing, but Cardui helped me ao I felt ttae a different woman." If you are to a run-dowa physical condition,sufferingas this Indiana lady W says aha did, give Cardui a Mr trial, ft x- should help you. TakaCardaL NC-147 Pari* Cold to F "No Tip" Enthusiast V Paris, Dec. 23.?A man who did not want a tip caused an Incipient di riot in Paris recently. Ha was the di ownei of a taxi motor-cab, and F thought he could operate his own at property as he say fit. So he placed ni on his vehicle a sign reading: 441 own this taxi, and I accept no tips." to The ruction was caused, not by a w rush of customers, but by the anger ft of fellow taxi-drivers. "What does di this upstart mean?" asked one, th climbing down from his seat and hur- di rying toward the revolutionary car th with threatening vigor. "Renegade" if cried other chauffeurs from the cab Ui stand. le Epithet followed epithet, anil th meanwhile the crowd grew after the )a fashion of street crowds in Paris, te with the customary baker's boy, jn butcher's boy and flock of "Midin- f0 ettes." When the crowd had grown to impressive proportions the owner i? of the taxi said to his colleagues: jsj "You don't appear to like this announcement." There was a loud jn chorus of "No." With no backing olJ i rum poaBioie customers, tne auda- th cious taxi proprietor decided to capitulate. So he took down his sign; the crowd melted, and the tip- fe ping system was saved. js| Christmas Seals ' w; This state as a whole came very tj( near the bottom of the list in the per capita recrrd of Christmas bonds and seals sold last year. Only one ()f seal was sold for every person in the olJ state and yet the death rate from tuberculosis in South Carolina is very high, 1,835 deaths resulting from this rj( disease last year. Surveys recently np made show that there are eight to 10 ^ cases of tuberculosis to every death su from that dissease. It is also estimated thnt each death means an eco- B nomic loss of $5,000 to South Carolina. Although New York has the highest death rate from tuberculosis, this ! . state also had the highest per capita ; record for the sale of Christmas seals. nj The record last year was 7.4 seals to J a^ every person. ^ In this state Richland county had the largest number of seals bought to its credit last year. Greenville, Chester and Laurens counties came : nc I1CAV III UIUIT. The largest number of deaths from tuberculosis reported from any one . county in the state last year was 178 m from Greenville county, which includ- ^ cd the figures from the government hospital. Charleston came second ^ with 170 deaths reported. Richland county had 84 deaths excluding those w from state institutions. tr aweekkcmfwypshrcmfwy Thd efuns The funds secured from the sale of Christmas bonds and seals furnish the means for the fight against tubercu- es lcsis, except for the. legislative appropriation for about 150 beds hrsfie nl state. The sale this year Is going ai better than last and encouraging re- jy ports are coming into the state tuberculosis headquarters from all over the state. Christmas day ends the Christmas se al and bond sale. It is hoped that a ^J1 special effort will be put forth these 'e last few days and that the little dt Christmas seal will have reached ev- ^ ei y nook and corner of the state by Christmas morning. re fo Profiteers are Only in Patrons of Moscow Taxi* ,h ar Moscow, Dec. 23.?Automobile taxicabs operated by private owners have appeared in Moscow, but the tariff is so high that on several occa sions the government has issued ' * warnings to the public to bewarde of 1 extortion. The street cars, about the ?r cheapest thing in Moscow, are al- (1 ways crowded to such an extent that j foreign visitors never consider riding in them. The carfare is now about 500,000 Soviet rubles, or about two cents. The four wheeled drosky, drawn by 01 one or two horses, which never ceased in operation even during the revolution, and the sleigh when snow is on the ^ ground, continues to be the most ,)( popular way of getting about the ol city. The drosky drivers insist upon VI a fare about fifteen times more than 1,1 r*v the street car charge. The taxicabs are patronized chiefly by speculators who are interested in daily transac- aI tions of billions or trillions of rubles, and who care little about what they spend. 1 It Is Not Easy? To apologize. To begin over. n To take advice. o To be unselfish. a To admit error. To face sneer. ' To keep on trying. n To be charitable. fa To be considerate. t, To avoid mirtakes. ^ To endure success. f To be broad-minded. To profit by mistakes. > i To forgive and forget. ! I To shoulder deserved blame. If To maintain a high standard. To recognize the silver lining. But it always pays.?Rough Notes. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt received the first stamp of the new five-cent serier, portraying the bust of Presi- { dent Roosevelt. Spain is the last large European! country to adopt courts for children. J Only one-third of the world's population is white. 'lays Modern Women in V. C. T. U. Addreu at Sydney Sydney, N. S. W.t Dec. 21.?The ness and moral* of the woman of toay were censured by Mr*. Grant orsythe, in the president'* address t the annual convention of the Woisn's Christian Temperance Union. "We deplore many of the new Ctt*ims and habits that have crept into omen's lives," she said. "The too ec manner and careless, immodest ess, the inelegant, slangy language, ie cigarette-smoking and wineinking, the betting and gambling lat are as meat and drink to many, not to the majority of girls?ell -e signs of the times. We dare not ave them unchallenged. Some of ie evils could be rectified by legistion; some only by example and aching. Women's place still begins the home, and there we must look r the remedy. Mrs. Forsythe said that she had uked forward to the time when legItttlirp WnillH crlva flto - ? ? ?? ?? Ri?v VM? pvvj/lt OH VJ1" rtunity of expressing their opin to the liquor question, "and when ir intelligent men and women study e question of prohibition with unased minds." The convention voted to ask the deral government to introduce leglation in Australia which would giv-j arried women the right to retain eir British nationality on marriage ith an alien. Other recommendains urged that Australian representees at the Imperial Conference ould endeavor to have legislation this kind made uniform throughit the Empire. The secretary said that many woen did not realize that if they marad a foreigner, they adopted the itionality of the huBhand and wonld ive no claim upon an English con1 abroad in the event of trouble. eacon Hill Resists Encroachments of Trade Boston, Dec. 23.?Beacon Hill, with i purple window panes, front stoops, .n lights and other architectural arks of distinction, is organizing :ainst encroachment. Residents of e district which once was the cenr of the city's aristocracy seek to event further business invasion, any of the old first families are >w scattered. The brownstone and brick fronts Beacon street, facing the Common, several instances have given place shop windows, while just beyond jacon street, in the more secluded tctions near the crest of the hill, oston's rival to New York's Greenich Village is slowly gaining round. On the borders of the disict garages are closing in. The Beacon Hill Association has , jen formed to protect the inter- J its of the remaining householders. . Han Forbes, William G. Codman id Miss Marion C. Nichols aY6 nong those interested. lust Reduce Production Costs or Lose Trade Tokio, Dec. 23.?Japanese manuicturers have been marned that unss they alter their methods and reice cost of production they will lose eir foreign trade. Mr. Akiyama, ' the commercial and industrial buau of Tokio, on his return from a reign tour, in his report says that China wages are very low and at for this reason Japanese goods e being forced out by Chinese man 'actures which arc, he says, just as >od as Japanese. He also declares iat in the South Sea markets Chi?se goods are slowly supplanting ipanese merchandise and that unhs Japan is to lose these markets itirely production costs must be rein PAnntrv nported More Lumber Than Market Demanded Yokohama, Japan, Doc. 23.?Gov -nnient encouragement has resulted more lumber being imported into ipan during the present year tha i le market demanded. There is reacted to be several millions of feet f American timber stored at the rrious ports for which, owing to the .isiness depression, there is no sale, his timber, it is feared will suffer sterioration, due to damp climatj :id ants. To prevent chilblains, rub the hands nd feet with dump salt. FORSALE To make good bread you -mat have good flour. Try ne of the following brands nd you will be perfectly sattfied. You will find it will sake you more and better read. Every bag guaraneed: Capitola Plain, Miaa >ixie Self Rising, Tellico Plain. )lympia Self Rising, P. P. P. Main or Always Good Self li&ing. 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