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.^v>‘ > JtJLY 29,1914. HOME CLASSES IN PRACTICAL FARMING Bovcstic Science for Groups of Parra Workers. SHORT COURSES FOR THE FAR;*i PEOPLE ture which leads the members of the! struction. group to foll^W the work conscien tiously and complete it. Experi ments with' free* correspondence courses show that while many in dividuals gain advantage frdm them many others, because, the material Ik .furnished free, do not feel tho same obligation to complete them as they do when they pay a-sub stantial sum of money for the ip- 7^ . THE PRESS AND STANDARD, WALTERBCF. 0, & C. iHi mm r Department of Agrlrultun* in Co-o|*- rration With Oi-tain Stale ('ol- lege** Organizing the CiameM and Making Available TexflNNiki*, l.ec. tores. Lantern Slides, Ktc. Washington, July 29.—A plan whereby 10 or more farmers or farm women can form home classes in agricultara or domestic science ami receive the textbooks, 'lectures, lan tern slides, laboratory and cooking apparatus necessary to .coaduct them has been devised by’the United Stptos Department of Agriculture inf co-operation with ! agricultural colleges In certain states- The object of the plan Is to make accessible at home to men i:n<t wo men who have not the time or means to attend the repular courses at col leges, practical short courses in ag riculture and - home , management specially adapted to their districts. These courses .which will consist of IS or 20 lectures and will consume Are cr more weeks, cal* be arrang ed to suit the spare time and con venience of each group of people. The courses to be offered at first Testing NoU. "1 have read so much about the use of lime that I ordered a stand ard soil tester. Tested some black soil with a hard packed bottom, on which 1 usually fail to get at stand.- Result showed no lime. Then I tested samples from all pver my farm, and it showed no lime, yet some places are productive and some not. Please tell me how I can tell when I'need lime.” \\> do not know anything abetit the "tester” you used. WOHIW CRIED Suffered Everything Until R»- stored to Henkh by Lydia E. PinkhAm’t Vigetn inc uompotiyiQe Florence, So. Dakota.—“I nsed to be very sick every month with bearing down pains ana backnchc, and had headache^* food deal of the time and very little appetite. The pains were so that 1 Walterboro Shoe Factory. 'nr . ' _ ■» » « — Hevere Attack of E. E. ('roes, who travels in Vir ginia and other Southern Statea. was taken suddenly and severely 111. with colic. At the first store h* came to the merchant ed Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera' Diarrhoea Remedy. ''Two doses of It cured him. No one should leave home .on a Journey without a bottle of this preparation. For csle by alt/ dealers. -"SioTLytotiw N. WLODENGER, Proprietor. little doubt that any soil T r im . .Y , m ,wt r n«Th .n sec tion is apt to be ac id and deb-' ^ cttl £’ i fe t b tt ^T,Vi f c lent in -.lime. This can be shown. | three nor* bottles cf it had fot as we harve often given directions, by getting some blue litmus paper from a drug. store. Mix up some soil wet, and pat a slip of the blue paper in it and. let it .stay halt an hour. Then if it has turned red or pink it shdw^ acidity and that the soil needs lime.—The Progressive Farmer. . , ; vrcl! so 1 could work all the time. 1 hope eve ry vernar. who suffers like I did will try Lydia EL Pink ham's Vegetable I Compound.” — Mrs. P. W.’Lanseng. | 1 Route No. 1, F.orenrc, South Dakota. | “SWEET OWEN” RUB-MY-TISM Will cure your RheumAtiam Neuralgia, Her'.caches, Cramia, Colic» Sprains. Braises, Cuts and Ilurti9,X)1d Sores, Stings of Insects Etc. Astiseptio Anodyse, used in ternally ani externally* Price 2Sc- , . < - • t* . % THXBAILKTJJ UBBER RooriNO'* CHARUSTM,kC COURTS DECIKION CLAR- ‘ IKIES PURE FOOD LAW On June 13, 1914, the Unjted Statea Circuit Court of Appeals, sit ting at Cincinnati in the Sixth Fed eral district, handed down a decis ion confirming the judgment of the ire poultry raising, fruit growing I lower court in the Coca-Cola case soils, cheese manufacturing, dairy-1 case wafi or i?l na ^>’ brought be » ing, butter making and farm book keeping; and for women especially, courses in the preparation, cooking, and ust* of vegetable and 'cereal foods. The department will supply lectures and lantern* slides covering these subjects, and t!,o states which have agreed to co-operate in the plan will lend to each group labora tory and «ookinc apparatus valued at llttd and a reference library. The textbooks igpt lectures will be made so complete that each group can safely appoint one cf its members ns study leader to direct the work cf t'fic' course. When a group has decided to tak up the work, the state which co-op erates sends an agent with the de- fore Judge Sanford of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Tennessee on March 13, 1911, and was tried at great length before a jury at Chat tanooga; T?nn. A scord o: scientists including the most eminent chem ists, pharmacologists and physician? of .\merica .testiiied as expert wit nesses. At the conclusion of the trial the government withdrew a i of tlie charges except .two and ou these two the tourt instructed the jury to return a verdict la* .avor of the Coca-Cola Company. The,,case was then appealed, and the recent decision of the Circuit Court of Appeals at Cincinnati, con firming the judgment of the low ; court, sustains the claim of,the Co ca Cola Company that product is neither adulterated nor misbranded within the meaning of the Pure Why will wctr.en continue to suffer day In and day out or drag out a sickly, half hearted existence, missing three fourtbw of the joy of living, when they can find health in Lydia E. Pink ham’s Vegetable Compound? I| For thirty years it has been the stand- 1 ard remedy for female ilia, and baa re stored the health of thousands of women who have been troubled with such ai' ments as displacements, inflammation, ulceration, tumors, inregt|larities, etc. If you want special advtee write to Lydia E. plakham ModkineCa. teoafl- deatial) Lynn^Hana. Yoar letter will ho op earl, road and answered by a and hold IT strict THOROUGHBRED High Class Stallion will be at Rizer and Ayer’s Stables through month of , A. MeGS, August. Owner. Mow To diva Quinlan Ta Front LINK it the traAMBM* am* ri-M to an improved QwiniBe. It lea Trttelea. Swap, plea *- r.nt to take oaddoea not diatarb tfce atomacb. Cnitdrea take it aad never know it la Qataicr. Alto eapeciaity adapted to adults wko caam t ?rke ordinary Ouieine. I>oea act Baaaeate air caute nervoutatr* norriagtaf in the b 4 the Best time yea aetd Quinine for pone. A-k for ? rnnee c-’Kinal p»c; nctse fk-HSLlhl^U i~ blovra i*> ’Joule. ~ cet.i' POWERS CARPET CLEANING AND RUG COMPANY. The most modern and beat equipped plant in the State for rug and carpet cleaning. Our souring prep-cess makes your carpet look new. Carpets altered and remade. a Out of town work given promp t attention. We guarantee our work to be the best. Write us for estimates stating the quality and *ize of rugs. Powers < arpet Cleaning anti Rug Co. f IfW Wentworth street, <'harleottm, S. C. » ‘ To prevent 3!ood PciMMdng r~ . r-'v at once the wonderfn! old re1tsi>le rn. ~ s> ..STJsV.vrfi K»^t-J:.'<iO;C v a ‘U ■TV- f ; ■—-’t»K tHr’t ft W •<*« rvnn aod at Piles Cured in 6 to 14 Days Vrnr drunrirt will rrftind monrT if PAZO OINTMF..NT fan* U' cure anv t»v of Itching, hlirid. BleeHin* ool’rotrudityt PilrtonS to 14 da—. NOTICE I represent the Conti nental Marble & Gran ite Company of Canton, Ga. Anyone desirous of purchasing Monuments or Tombstones will save ^ R. • ’ * money by seeing me. Orders given prormpt attention. Also .agent ' for the Hot Air Vacuum Clothes Washer. * Dr. H. W. Black, Walterboro, Si S. partinent'a rtspressentative to organ-1 Food Act. izi sample clajs and^assisi iite lead- ’ l he lollowing quotation irom th« • r v. hotn- the> select in laying out offlcial codrt record «T11 prove iiv^J ».ork and showing him the best teresting alike to the manura£;ur- uelhods of procedure. Tfie classes^ a,,<1 consumers of food products :.*:d trom fc.oo to 12 in the a * clear exposition of one ;;g and from 1 to 4 in the af- of <h e ntost important sections of tlie i’ure Food Law and also de fines the i character of Coca Co!;>, the popular soda fountain beverage. |? reads as follow^; ‘ There is a/micldtr Vr°w, wliTcli in sufficieni for the juirposes c>4 this case and/\vhich wii* vtteognize 7 com petite meaning of ’added., cleie- terio^J.’ rather than the separa-^ meaning of each worcL'This view is that in using the word ’added' with reference to a possible delete-, riorts food iiHfredient t Congress •.: 1 . » in mind -ah addition above an : be yond the quantity in which such in-- gre<!ient was normally, found in rrv- ual anct customary artic-lc>s of fo<-1. and that no such Ingredient should be considered as ’added’ if it -was present only in the quantity* J.j j which ; it ex!«4**d in these cqii’meu artic les of, food with which every j metqber ef ('o;;gress was familiar, dnd.- whic h had generally been thought wholesome. For examp!*-. Creosote unci other products of do-1 -T' trQ' live wood distillation are. - d* pemi-ntly consideredi ittiuriciw ;, buf they have* always been present in smoked hams. Can the addition of. the earn? preservatives to the s;tm« .extent to the same meat b< sonic (long that Congr- -^ •ntended -tp prohibit? The bone aetd, found in apple*, is a preservative, if «er- tain apples which are to be preserv ed are' not up tp the maximum in this element, did Congress intend -o forbid supplying tlie deficiency ny the same element from another" source? Acetic acid may, of course, be injurious, but if, by its use an artificial vinegar is ••.ace witlrh is chemically and in every way equiva lent to the natural vinegar familiar to the niemh^rs of Congress mi any- compounds would tljey have*, thought of it as a deleterious addi tion? No. example js so dear as the very one here involved. Every member of Congress"* had , been fa miliar. from childhood, with tea a fit! coffee; perhaps most of them 'drank. It. The average cup of coffee cov fains more than two grains of -caf feine; the average cup of feta, one and one-half grains. A glass or iq-e ta Cola,, as consumed. cenTaTnL* and one-fifth grains of caffeine. The chemical qualities and the physiolo gical effects of the caffeine tthic* in tea or coffee and of the caffeine jvhich is in Coca Cola" are precifely^ the same. We are qifite convinced that the use in an artificial bevet- age of a certain element which had been’one of ita characteristic e\g- menta’foi’ nianjf years. op'I'-Whien ■uch roV was in a lean proportion than the same element was known to make up In different natural erages then in universal - use and generally thought wbolesomer—that such an element so employed could not have been within Am tneanhik of Congress when it chose the words ’added deleterious ingredient.’ ’’— Adv. ' ... , \* . ; . are.- mo: i<i ,c .;. two or three days each wet»;. Tin* sessions are not held ev ery day,- so that the members will time a.tend to tliej^ farii. dutk-j between the sessions «s weft as before and aft* r the instruction peritd. The < lasses meet comtuoii- ly ai the most convenient far - iiOii -e. Curing the morning hours, textbook work is done m tlie a.- ternoon laboratory work is <x>ndavt- ed, and the wonien who have eo-ey/ - «i to tak - tb*- (Tiniestic scit^Bcc courses nave practical lessons ' ni cooking. ? / * A- soon as a < las ; i: •> yibiish. 1 the state organizer wild;draws to ■start a 1 lass in t sotue,mher «; is trier *:;e work, thereafter is- deft tn onarae - : i<*«fd< r, wiki receives ;.^sisP . i.yma|! Irofu the coliego or the department irjFcarrving otf trie ,.nrk. As tfi*-r** Is no re-gularly paid* ih- stru'etor -classe: can tie 1 arried b* ,ail ovyT the state as* rapidly as the college organizer <nu visit tlie* so' er^l croups, and as Ute laboratory sets supplb.d by tipi >> *• leg** beM.n.t- avctli;;);-:. 1 in* loial leader will pr*»si*ie «luring the r* u; ; ng of the lecture ^and references, 'lor which full texts and lantc. slides are supplied by tlie dtj>a r nient. lie will al o be r*^po* -b .* tor the laboratory ••ql ipniet ; i.v-rv one who completes the tours* 1 will receive a certifuav from the- state tollege. »• Not all of the nates Hliv* yet \agre®*S to co-operaf- .n tliis pi i: . Last w inter experin » nts along ■’.lies.- linet were tarried cut successfully in Pennsylvania, and thia has .stim- ' ulated an. in the method in other atates. In one of the Penn sylvania classes more man .applied than could be accommodated, anl and all of the 20 men and 15 women who began the course completed it. Pennsylvania is now arranging for more classes, while Massachusetts, Michigan, Vermont and Florida ex pect to take up the work. Other states, such as Maine, Sew Yot& New Jersey, and Delaware have sig nified their willingness to co-oper- „ ;• Ordinarily a college in a state us ually. .applies to the department seeking its co-operation, when suf ficient interest has been shown in the plan 'in several communities where te n or more people have sought th? Instruction. -For finan cial reasons, certain’colleges are no* so able to engage in the work a*» are others. / „ The advantage •laijiie^l for the, flaw home uoursea with local Jehd* ers and laboratory ••quipment over the ordinary correspondence course* t* that only a'small percehMge of thoaa who taka the iidividual ‘cor respondence course "finish it* Study ing in a group with laboratory wor*. »ad a loader, seems to stimulate tke Interest and add a social faa-i x This merchant is using an old-fashioned unpro tected cash drawer; ’ • F / * •« - ■ - , * / 4 - / , ‘ * . * ft / ., . . ‘ He does not know how much money he should have at the end of the day's business. ./' ■ s * • He does not know how many items his clerks forgot to charge. s He does not.know if money is missing because of carelessness or temptation of employees. . x \ “ He runs his store by gue&swork, depending on memory for a record of his business. Each day he does unnecessary work, and worries about his business after working hours. This merchant is using an up-to-date National Cash Register. / , , • ’• .... He knows that all money received during the day is^n the drawer at night. He has a printed record of each transaction* r f . . He knows that nothing has been lost through temptation or carelessness. ' • * ■>-' . • ‘ X ■ ' He can tell which clerks sell the most goods* When he locks his store at night, he leaves all business cares behind^ Forgotten charges, disputes with customers, and, loss of trade don’t worry him. 4 ‘i E r • N * ' , This injures, his .health and unfits him for^ the next day’s business. j**" ♦ * Call at our nearest salesroom His mind is free to think about h more business. * how to get l v or write for more infk,*4*muun. THE NATIONAL CASH REGISTER CO . Dayton. Ohio H. A. PONTIOUS, Sales Agent, 308 King St., Charleston, S. C. • ' - "V.^ r ’ { *-*