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Farm and Garden GROSBEAK IS OUR FRIEND. Much Maligned Little Bird Is Active Enemy of Destructive Insects. Thf? crashesk Is a very much malign ed bird and instead of being destructive to crops he is, on the contrary, of great benefit, according to farmers' bulletin 45G, just issued by Secretary Wilson. The bulletin states that seven kinds of finches, commonly known as the grosbeak, summer within our boundaries. A majority of these are good friends of the farmer and deserve to be widely known in order that their services may bo appreciated. The grossbeaks are easilj' distinguished from other finches by their stout form, bright pluifiage, massive bills and melodious voices. They live largely in agricultural regions and secure most of their food about cultivated lands. Tliey perform invaluable service in destroying many of our worst insect pests. The rose breasted species is a great destroyer of the potato bug. lie breeds over Kansas and the mountains of Tennessee. The investigations of the department show that the bird is ^ fond of green peas, but invariably consumes enough injurious insects to more than offset the damage. lie has become famous for his preying on the Colorado potato beetle, and no less " ' - _ A ~ I -1 14. than one-tentn or me toiai iuuu it v.unsumes has been proved to be the potato beetle. It attacks the cucumber beetle. it has proved an active enemy of the Rocky mountain locust during that insect's ruinous Invasions, and among the other pest it consumes are the spring and fall cankerworms, orchard and forest tent caterpillars, tussock, gypsy and brown tail moths, plum curculio, army worm and cinch bug. In fact, it attacks the worst enemies of agriculture. The cardinal or red bird species ranges from soot hern Mexico, Lower California and Arizona north to Iowa and Ontario and east to the Atlantic coast. They are permanent residents, spending the summer and winter in the same locality. It has been claimed that they pull sprouting grain, but no evidence of damage to either grain or other crops is shown from over r>00 examinations. On the contrary, they do much good. They feed on locusts, periodical cicada, the Colorado potato beetle, the rose chafer, cotton worm, [; V insect destroyers guaranteed by uncle Sam. pipm or cherry scnlo, the zebra caterpillar of^tho cabbage, the cucumber beetles, hi 11 hups, locust flea beetle, corn ear worm, cotton cutworm, south* ern lip eater, codling moth and boll weevil and. in addition, are great consumers of injurious weed seeds. The black headed grosbeak hails from southern Mexico and invades North Dakota and Nebraska. It tills the same place in the west that the grosbeak does in the east. It,is n foe to the worst pests of horticulture, the scale insect composing a fourth of its food. The blue grosbeak breeds over the southern two-thirds of t ho United States and is greatly destructive to weevils, grasshoppers, locusts, caterpillars and worms. The. gray grosbeak inhabits Texas. Arizona and Now Mexico. It Is n consistent enemy of the boll weevil and cotton worm. It also consumes groat quantities ofTfcirraful wood seeds. The bulletin in its plea for the protection of the grosbeak says: "Present investigations prove that the services of the grosbeak in destroying insect pests are Invaluable. Bnoli kind pays especial attention to certain pests which If unchecked would cause enormous loss. Few of our birds are to / rnrlitod wti h more trond and with fewer evils than the grosbeak, and none more clearly deserves protection by the practical farmer." Grain Speculator Is a Curse. It's the business of the farmer to raise the grata; It's the business of the grain dealer to receive, clean and market the grain: it's the business of the miller to grind the grain, and it's the function of the speculator to buy the surplusage of the 5.000,000.000 bushels of grain produced In this country as a speculation, and any farmer, grain dealer, miller, artisan or professional who attempts to reap a livelihood from tluctuatlng grain prices Is a quack speculator, n counterfeit k and a curse.?J. Italph Plckejl, Secrejj tsry Council of North American Urois iJM * ' ? f?/ ? ) PREAMBLE. Touching the prosperity of the South very closely indeed, the address of the Hou. W. S. Coleman, editor of The Cedarlown (Oa.) Standard before the recent Southern Commercial Con* grass at Atlanta, was one of the most attentively received speeches of the important meeting. Mr. Coleinau drew his conclusions briefly and olearly, and showed how closely the prosperity ef the thirty-three Southern Are companies is interwoven with the fluan- ( cial and industrial progress and development of the section in general. Mr. Coleman's address follows In full: i Speech of W. 8. Coleman, Treasurer the Georgia Fire insurance Company and National Home Insurance Company, Delivered et Taft Hall, Atlanta, Ga., March 10, 1911, Repra? eentlng the Association of 8outhsrn Fire Insurance Cempanlea. , Mr. Chairman: 4 I come before you as a representative of thirty-three Southern Are insurance companies, whose combined assets aggregate over $15,000,000, and, as their ambassador In this high court of public affairs, to speak for the interest of Southern insurance companies. At the special request of this Association of Southern Fire Companies, I have the honor of addressing briefly a few remarks to this important subject, which should conoora every citlien of our section. | The question of insurance in all its branches in the South is one of vital and far-reaohing Interest to all our people, and no branch of Southern Industry deserves greater concern than this one feature of this great Congress. It Is a question that affects not only the manufacturer, banker, capi*. talist, business man and laborer, but every Inhabitant is directly interested in a business way, whether or not we have recognised the fact. i At the close of the civil war the South was left without money, without insurance companies and without means for protection along all lines involved in insurance liability, and as a result we naturally looked to North- J ern and Kastcru and foreign cornpan- I ies for such protection. Tear in and ! out the various branches'of insurance , have permeated our whole Southland, and levied vast tribute from our people. The huge volume of premiums written in the South for Are, life, cas- | ualt?\ liability and all other branches I of Insurance, has frown to such stu- | peudous proportions as to stagger out people, and this vast stream of gold has been gathered in many centers of the East and abroad, thus enabling captains of industry to finance all railway construction and the great Industrial enterprises affecting the people of this country. I We have contributed annually a large amount of our subetance to this one branch of business, drawing on our vitality and resources and taking from the channels of trade suoh a large percentage of our money that if I we were not a most remarkable people and possessed the most marvelous resources, we could not stand the drain. Few realize the fact that annually Georgians send out of the 8tate to Northern and foreign insurance companies doing business hi this terrlj tory, a volums of premiums in money equal to one-fourth the entire operat lug banking capital of the State. This is also true of all our Southern States. In 1S80-1890, In the fourteen States, , there wore written In fire insurance premiums alone over $128,000,000, and j this fund has so rapidly increased durI ing the past thirty years that It has ' reached the tremendous total of over $707,000,000. During this span of thirty years the Southern fire companies alone in these fourteen States wrote the pitiful sum of a little over $68,000,000, leaving a net balance of over $640,000,000 In money that foreign companies, operating in thin territory, have taken away from these States to the great money centers. This volume of money has made the Nortk gnd East the richest and most powerful section of this republic, and & largo share of this fund has oven crossed the waters and helpod to onrich the coffers of for e*gn countries This money Is annually withdrawn ; from our hanks and repositories, thus reducing the cash assets of our AiiaucJmI institutions, limiting our trade, restricting our manufacturing and retarding our material development. I livery new enterprise has been forced to go East for funds to finance the , undertaking, and thus our people, after tending away from their own ! land their own good money, are forced to the humiliating spectacle of borrowing hack that same money and paying a handsome tribute therefor. This ruinous method, but for eur won! derful energies and natural resources, | would bankrupt our people and dlsspirit their aspirations. But a nsw light has been seen. Our people are oonilng to themselves. We are gradually realizing the neoesslty for a radical change in the ancient belief that only by and threugh Northern enterprise and Northern capital and Northern bratns can industries of any kind?in ami el undertakings of whatever proportions and developments of whatever character?be successfully conducted. New insurance companies in the Southern Held covering every branch are being organised all over the South by our own people, and a wholesome revival of patriotic sentl* mont in favor of home enterprises Is rapidly gaining ground everywhere. Our thoughtful people are beginning to keop our money at homo, oaring for our own institutions by patronising home industries and building up here . a safe and sound development of our . own resources, x la North Carolina some ten - r; ' . ' ^ HORRY HERALD: ago there wil not a tingle insurance company chartered by the "Tar Heel State/' and every dollar in premiums was written by foreign companies and taken away from that commojiwehltb to enrich the enterprising citizens whe invaded our Southern territory to their own enhancement and to our consequent detriment. A feeling ol shame brought our sister State to a realization of her folly, and, as a result, there are now sixteen North Carolina Insurance companies chartered by that Slate, with North Carolina money constituting their capital and doing business on their native heath, writing 60 per cent, of the total volume of premiums produced by that commonwealth. Georgia wrote In tire insurance premiums alone in 1910 over $5,000,000, an*! only a bagatelle of 10 per cent, of this sum was written by home companies. In all the various branches of insurance, we wrote last year in Georgia over $15,000,000, and the same story is only sadly too true as to the total volume of business done by all the home companies of this State, and It serves to emphasize the utter lack of business prudence and judgment in our people in allowing this vast sum to be written ,,by foreign companies and the mdaiey taken from our State. If these annual tributes to other sections and foreign companies were disrnnHmm/1 n nH the mnnov 1/ont ol wMviiiuvu ????m t??v mv/uv/ ?% % home?a sum equal to one-fourth the money Invested Ijn all our banking in stitutions?and deposited in our own banks, we would never feel the shock and paralysis of a financial panic. This money which now courses their channels of commerce would stimulate our trade and industry in every line, seek investment in our own resources and find its way in the march of our Industrial advancement. The struggling South would lift up her burdened shoulders and shake off the lethargy and weight of misfortune, and our sec tion would become a recognized lead er in national enterprise and commercial progress. More banks and trust companies would be established, more railroads constructed, more factories built, more mines developed, and everywhere the sinews of industry would proclaim the presence of this money power so essential to the life and prosperity of every country. The mission of this great Commer clal Congress in the very heart of the rehabilitated South can accomplish nc greater result than pointing to the pre vailing condition in our section and call the attention not only of the shrewd capitalist, but the unthinking citizen, the ordinary business man, the laborer everywhere, to the fact thai in order to become wealthy and pros perous we must do as others have done. Every man who has a home CM place of business, who stands at ihl door of enterprise, who manufactures our raw material Into the finished produsi?all must learn at last the lesson of self-preservation in business, and patronizing home enterprises ii the primary rule by which we inaj hope to accomplish the desired re suits. Our people who place their in siirance in good Southern companies safely and soundly managed, are the first to realize that we must keep al home this volume of currency .now go ing to other sections, and let it serve the highest and best purposes tc which all wealth should be legitimate ly and honestly applied. We owe it tc ourselves; we owe it to our section Do not misunderstand this plea as be ing in any sense sectional, for we car not hope for other sections to intcresl themselves in our welfare more than we manifest for ourselves. We must first help ourselves if we would see* the aid of others. Every dollar saved at home adds to our wealth and taxa ble values, and every dollar invested at home in our own securities keeps Ln local circulation that much cur rency and assures the interest incom< therefrom as a direct cumulative assel of our growing prosperity. | This business policy lies at the verj basis of our commercial existence, anc makes possible our industrial develop ment. Every patriotic Southernei should spread this doctrine of patron izing home companies first and keep . ing our money at home, and ther whatever surplus of business could g< to the alien competitors. Only on thii bedrock of self-interest first can w< hope as a section to keep pace witl our national progress. It has been oui stay and anchor in the past, and it ii our only hope for the future. It hai helped to bring us to our splcndh present, and, followed to its logica finality, it will bring us /to a greatei destiny. The camp-fires of a burning patriotism have produced in us i glorious people, and have made thii laud a conspicuous part of the imper ishable history of our common" coun try. i I could not close tho??e remarki | without giving expression to that sen timent of him who writ? I 'Dear old Southland, stern and wild , Meet nurse of a poetic child; Land of brown heath and shagg] j wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires, what mortal ham | can e'er untie The filial band that knits me to th; rugged strand?" I_ ? Entries for Speed Races. Secretary C. F. Hopkins, Jr., of thi St. Augustine Power Boat club, is re ceiving new entries daily for the spee< race which will be held In St. Angus tine the first week ln April. Evefr In dication points to a very large numbei of the fastest boats in the country en terlng. It Is expeoted that the mee will hold a large number of the tour lets over. ? * give us a cnance, wo uuw u?vu some excellent bargains in town and uto-Pian< Country p.-ope.ty. Kty> Qtien', 6? n, uto-Pianc ,! Conway Realty ?8? w : V Co. ||| -v * r Ct nway, - - S. C ^ t v|?j| One Foi ^ Both tobacco wnrpl ojses are do i THURSDAY JOLY W, 1911 Farmers Tobai FOR THE SALE Of Conway, Now Ready to Han I take this opportunity to inform the tobacco growers of Horry that the Farmers' Tobacco Wwrehouse will be opened for (he sale of leaf tobacco on Tuesday, July 25th and to lay the claims of this warehouse before the growers. In the first place, 1 am in a position to get the highest market prices obtainable in this and any o ner market in the Mate f^r your tobacco, having a full corps of experienced buyers representing some of the largest manufacturers in the country with imperative orders to buy regardless of price. Try me w J. N. FULLERTON, j LIST The time is drawing near for all spring j past, and we have decided to make hay 1 prices will speak for themselves. If yoi and let your neighbor eat the pie, that' > Ladies beautiful white embroidered skirls reduced from $5.50 to only $1.69. Another lot of white j skirts, assorted to close at 98c each. \ Ladies beautiful gingham dresses made in the . j latest styles $5.50 value while they last for only [ ; $3.98. I Ladies fancy lawn dresses made in the latest styles $3 value for $1.89. Ladies linen finish dusters $3 kind only $1.89. Ladies wash coat suits at and below cost. ; i 50 pair of sample shoes, worth from $1.50 to ) $3.50 pair, while they last you can get your pick for only $1.19 pair. [ '? 23 ladies hats left out of more than 500. Your | ?! choice at wholesale cost, no freight added. Men ' $ and boys straw hats will be slaughtered theshme * 1 ^ way. !|1 ======^ IWe don't have to holler out fvery v ing that for 10 or 12 years and life is to See us for buggies, wagons and harnes: profit at the store and a h I and Live^H^k Company hustling. 'A. C. THOMTSON, Pre I DON'T THINK OF * | I NSURAN C TC. I i|f M After you are crippled, fj i | | sick or dead or after your I j _ ?? house is robbed or burn- B | ed, it ^ ill be too late I gj then. Better sec me to . W wj||| ' 3 R Wire or wr] 3 | I SKi! ">e *? ' 1 * ""r rlssl READ G V II EL 7 If, ; 11 ACCII) NT, ? J J BURGLARY, . > ?. LIABILITY. | *J| Checkering 91 Best Companies. i ^Sjjt ^ lu t'lot-k ^ Most Liberal Policies. j >Osw N. .lENRETTE. ( sjjj| M CONWAY, S. U i 5$2. ticfr, Mali f OMi tieff, Oak "" ""^ 1111 JrSKT Stielf, Wall ??? SHAW i. Real Estate. ?gf| ftlfcSK: I Kingsbury, f sSSs King5bury Bought, Optioned, Listed, )C5lfi3 1 SOLD. I We are hore to please YOU Ju&tj)f3p?} ~ 1 tIT ?. ? M k i\ via s^ir hk o ' ico Warehouse I 3 LEAF TOBACCO ' ,J South Carolina M die Your Tobacco, f I feci safe in guaranteeing: this. ? in the second place 1 will look after your every in- ^ forest with the same care and fdility thut I would if they were my own. This insa e.i fair and square fl dealings in every tiansaction, In the third place the warchoufc is so arranged as i*|| to give plenty of light which will show the tobacco ( || to the best advantage. ' 31 And in the fourth place all things being eq in 1 it is , mi obligation eu< umbent upon every c.tizen to build ^ op his own home market which ben< fits h.'m not ^fl alone but the neighbors and the county at l.ir^e. a I 1th a Load 8 .* JW , - Manager. | and summer gfoods to be a thing: of the Vjl while the sun is shining:. The following: l don't believe us and want to stand off s your business. 7 ~ , We have the largest stock of laces, embroideries and ribbons ever shown in your county and we are going to sell at our'price, your price or any ^ old price, so if you don't intend to buy, you had > better say nothing, as we mean business and cost will not be considered. w "'V B VJJfci 231 suits of clothes now left. If you want one U | please say so and just indicate how bad, and B d '?? ? *l: | ImSi mere win oe suinciiiiiiK uumg. I 50c silk mnll going now at 12 l-2c the yard and H a bunch of dress goods to close at less than -fs manufacturers cost. < Listen! 10c can Star lye 5c.; nutmegs 5c dozen; I / j 'Jf morphine 55c bottle; whole rice only $.'1.2'? bag; < t best plate meat only 8 l-2c pound; best patent I _ W flour only $5 barrel; and if the above prices | f r j makes your head swim we will gi e you a $2 -j f bottle of Warburs Tincture for $1. it will get U your liver and head right and give you a dandy H appitite. H reek we arc leaders, you have been know- A ?o short for us to ever be trailers. r - ' ? i > i s and everything else you want. A half alfat the stables keeps the t UGAIN HOUSE . Save your time and money by seeing 3 sident Both Corporations. I >1 ni Annikil 0<i!n nf IS I iirniiiiudi oaic ui ?? ?l ANOS | / o for everybody at a price to siyt everybody's purse. fijjQC . ite us today regarding these bargains; for tomorrow Jw&SS f 'ate* > ?|J McFOLLY'THE FOLLOWING LIST OF || i ! BARGAINS: It I ; GRANDS ggg &Fon $250.00 3fSS 360.00 QSX leveral Stiefl's at greatly reducted figures, UPR 1G11T8 6?2? V?\ lOganyCase $3 0.00 QgS . .ji \ut Case 376.00 Wfi ' ^}W% 260.00 i,' , Mahogany Case 326.00 k ;'fj , Kbonized Case 100.00 WD VM Oak Case 200.00 222 f3 150.00 ?gC f pi [any others will be added during the week. JjJvrJ PLAj H nd 83 note $725.00 ?0( >, 88 note 385.00 ?RS ^ < All Mahogany Cases iron Y ?te 550.00 ^gSg \i cri oRi\ iin PJrZFiwt i .3 ty uj iiuik iwu.vv rjan , ^i| tary square pianos and organs very cheap. uEFjJ ^ :has M. Stleff SjjF LEON C. STEELE, Mgr. irtecn Gran by St. Norfolk, Va.