Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I i ? tnuaMaanmRBK .U?Ki*j?I' JMHWIIBW?' P P : THE GK ^ \' j F. V. LIPI v* I 1? . | 'LA GRffPESl ,/J AND BAD COLDS" 2r?o mtiO V>c, BUY INGREDIENTS rnn imsir sicuiiiA run twit svHAlFiUi { | Farmers Union Adopts Policy on Fertilizers I Jt 1THE MEETING TERMINATES Hopo is Expressed That Tick Eradication Campaign Will be Carried. The State. An interesting morning session yes terday concluded n two days' meeting in Columbia of the State Farmers' union. In the discussion of fertilizer,s it was resolved to recommend to the farmers of South Carolina that they I use no mixed fertilizer this season fc and to advise buying cottonseed meal, acid phosphate and nitrate of soda for homo mixing and to advise the k/ use of only a small amount at planting time and to defer buying more till after the planting 3eason and then use ,1 v top-dressing, if acreage reduction and H j' o'ther conditions then seem to warrant I i i the investment. Th.e farmers are ad- j %. * / vised to defer the purchase of f?rtiliLh zeers as late as possible and to com ytf C''. ? biiie the fertilizer purchases and buy fk bite to got the best discounts which K will probablv he liber; 1 for cash. 'jp, ^ lb Thackston of Spartanburg * :,'v: \\ read the bills which he had prepared 1 | to he introduced in the general assembly. The State unien showed appreriation of his work by a resolution to jh ' the elfect that the true and tried plinth .ciples of cooperation, credit and so C ' curity, embodied in his bills on coop![ orative associations, cooperative rural I- credit unions, cooperative farm land I, mortgage banks, the application of p which principles has proved so beneL lieial to the agricultural peoples of I other States and foreign countries, ^ have the unqualified endorsement of v South Carolina State Farmers' union. The union indorsed the rc port of R \V. M. Hlggs, president of C lemson College, on th? work of tick orndicaWji tion and expressed the hopo that the legislature will continue the annual appropriation and th ork i >1! R, whole State is free of, T V % . . ? i \ i 1 B cattle tick m The union empl a'si d th< L j|L ton Acreage law, not ; . by but oy deciding t4 v * as it deems best to svT o ha c otnf B States where the legislatures W ii> , or soon ! o mee to Ijn the c?.iitliplo ol Ouu.li C??rc!iii; in l.u j matter. 1i . '< mei il!".g ('! V-10 .^tatC UnlO. will ho hold July 28rh, tho place to ho / . announced later. iRRfmr.' rROT ST msiii GARD d j, One American Ship Loaded With Cotton Seized and Navigated by British Prize Crew nder liritSince tho dispatch of President Wil .son's note to Groat Britain protesting >j against British treatment of neutral commerce the State Department has received comparatively little informa tion about detentions of American | cargoes or ships. Officials said to day they did not know whether there had been a change in the policy of the British \ fleet or whether American ship owners were withholding their complaints V; 1.1 11 iL.i -i II vn i/iiu wicurj umi neguuauons on me j "" general subject soon would result in a i definite statement of England's positj ion. Theh ope was expressed that that was not the case, for the departments \ /chief source of information as to dejY tendons has been the vessel owners. . INFORMATION BUREAU. [jM-. , For the benefit of the readers of the fc'J; Herald and many others we will say ^that yjre are making thjs office a sort py ? of bureau of information for the gentjf ?: erfcl public. If you : want f to know PC where, some one lives, or who has a K{ ^house or room to rent? or who will [ take boarders, come to the Herald ofr fice. If you have anything for sale i come to this office, and we will tell I you how and where to dispose of it. I We can probably tell you where you i /,nn Kiiir on Qiil omAKilo Uahoa oAttf' IV tv 11 ukaj an auuvuiwiiuj iivmdu, v.v/*t ^ chickens or eggs. All information will be given freely and free. Of course we will take care of our advertisers first of all. Aside from the direct results usually obtained from an ad in this paper, we make a personal effort to look out for our advertisers. Come to the Herald office for information about anybody in this neighborhood. WW?????nil I HIIIIIU?? ? EAT BLOOD PUR6HER. remedy for Rheumatism, Blood Poison bseasos. A wonderful tonic for both n. lias been manufactured for the At all Druggists, $1.00. PIWIAN CO., Savannah, Ga? JOHNSON'S nod 25o TONIC THE LAST LAUGH. William Allen White's stop "What's the matter with Kansas?" ir [ hf S'l t 11 1*1 111 *' TTxFn..!".. 13 i 1 1 ^utiiiii}; rviii, nas oeer. 'oy t!\is time, pretty thoroughly discredited. Many of the statement?' made by the gifted writer have beer, found to be inaccurate and the inajoi part of his arguments have been punc turcd until they are seive-like. Evidently the author is proud of Kansas, or wants people, especially Kansas people, to believe lie is. Judglg from his statements Kansas has iraw 11 into its confines the double disil'ed extract of everything that was good; thrust out every atom of badness and then built a high fence around a regular little Heaven-oncarth. lie boasted about the big crops of Kansas, the per capita wealth of KanI sas, the number of automobiles in Kansas and almost succeeded in makr.g everyone believe that Kansas was wholly rich as well as richly holy. Bui 10 overdid it. And his home town, Emporia, is the goat. For years the College of Emporia has been largely supported by means >f donations from wealthy easterners, vho imagined they were assisting "a poor little college on the wind-swept i prairies." When these rich patrons read Mr. White's clever, hut mislead1 ing article they withdrew their sub| seriptions. This year the College of Emporia must "look to home" for the ( I annual donation of $200,000 which used to come out of the East. Wash| burn College, originally a Congregai lional school, has been, from the beginning, supported by the generosity of wealthy members of that sect living in New England. She too has been told that she must look elsewhere 1 for her $200,000 annual donation and that a rich State like Kansas ought not to go begging for support for her 1 institutions. ! So "Bill" White is not as popular in Emporia as he was the week after "What's the Matter With Kansas" was published. THE CROUCH. The Great Creator in His wisdom : created men of many minds and tem;n l aments knowing that if the sons : of men were alike in wishes and dc! sites it would lead to unending strife. lie created well, for man is the noble:-.' work of (led. Hut in some way there crept into the world a creature ! v. t.i ..of create- a tiling self-made c i; f< male or male, that is hated, lionised and abhorred; a thing self-creI <iied, Solf-piticd and abnormally self;loved. This s? !i.-created creature is the chronic grouch that walks here and there in every town and community searching" for happiness?that hi; may destroy it. Flowers and children, because thej represent beauty and love no detests, lie reads as he runs that .til men are lairs and all women but creatures of evil. In summer he reviles the bright sunshine and hates the green hills. In winter he reviles the cleansing snow anil the purifying frost. The bitterness of gall and wormwood is within his heart. Children flee from him and his wife can be classed among the martyrs Men shun him and the world hates him. From an early age he walks this earth spreading unhappiness and unbelief?a maker of evil and discord. Let us throw the X-ray of self-examination into our own heart and search out the little microbe that has a tendency to multiply and produce, in time, the hated grouch. There is too much loVe and sunshine in this old world of ours to spoil it with the canker of selfishness. . BERLIN PLEASED WITH ZEPPELINS. i '' > 1 Glad All Have Returned Safely. The first pages of all the Berlin morning newspapers Were given to the attack by Zeppelins on the English coast. The scanty reports from the eastern and western war theatres occupied inconspicuous places on inside pages. With remarkable unanimity the German press appears to expect that 4 u:~ :n i~ . r_n J n- ? i/iiin irthi win lh? imiuwen snoruy ny others. While the amount of damage done is not yet known, satisfaction is expressed in the fact that all the Zep s pelins returned safciy and in the an1 nounced belief that the moral efTcct of the bombardment can not fail to 1 be very great. To Prevent Blood Poisoning ' mrly ouc* the wonderful old reliable Dk PORTER'S ANTISEPTIC HRAUNG Oil,, a sur rical dressing that relieves pain and heals at the same time. Not a liuiuit'nt. 2Sc. 50c. Sl.UO I :OTTON SriiP LINER WILL S!? SEIZEt Jay the Authorities of Greai Britain in f-'aoe of Rcciuest lAMBURG-AMtRICAN LINER hanged from the German tc the American Flag and Load ed at Galveston With Cotton. It so cms that trouble is again brewg between the United States an< veat Britain over shipping questions ising by reason of the European nr. Lately the German ship Dacia /as purchased by American business | ncn for the purpose of shipping cot| en to Rottcndam, and the vesseel ai uco changed fi'om the German flag to hat of the United States. According o a dispatch published the last of the reek, Great Britain will seize the vesI .el and carry her into the prize court, hough standing good for the cotton, i i lie article reads as follows, explaining fully about this matter: The British government announced tonight through the embassy here hat if the Darcia proceeds to sea she will be captured and taken to a prize ourt. Her cargo of cotton will be purchased by the British government >r forwarded to Rotter dam as the >wners may prefer. The state department had communicated this information to the Darcia's owners as a remit of a message from Ambassador Rage and inreply was notified that .he vessel would put to sea from Galveston notwithstanding the British government's position. It was be lieved that the owners had resolved io test the issue of a prize court. Incidentally, the war risk insurance bureau of the American government today insured the cotton cargo at 4 per cent, but declined to insure the /essel itself. The British embassy's statement said: Transfer in Question, ".n connection with tho trnnsfov ni' tile Dacia from the German to the American flap:, the British government, while anxious to avoid causing loss to the shippers of the cargo, have found it impossible to agree that the transfer, in the circumstances in which it has been effected, is valid in accordance with accepted principles of internativn law. 'If therefore the Dacia should proceed to sea and should be captured, the British government will ind themselves obliged to bring* the ship (apart from the cargo) before i ?e prize court. "it, is stated that the cargo is to consist solely of cotton owned by American citizens. If this is so, and ' if the vessel should be captured, the Iriti h government will guarantee it He r to purchase the cargo at the price which would have been realized 'the cargo had readied its destination in* if preferred, they will under io.hr frrv/ard the cotton to Rotter; dun without further expense to the I .1,: - . . ?> ?"M 1 I jj j>C L Law No! Si ttlod. Under the declaration of London a transfer .of flag must bo proven l< be bona fide. One of the alleged uspieious circumstances cited in ill is ease at first was that the Dacia planned to traverse her old route from the United States to Germany. The statr department asked that a single voyage of the vessel he not interrupted. Soor after the war began, holding that al parties to the declaration of Londor were amending it at their own pleasure, the state department announcer that the United States would not bf hmind hv tVinso florinvsitinnc (^t\n?n. quently the American government if operating under the general principle* of international law, which recognize bona fide transfer of ownership o1 merchant vessels of a belligerent pow er even in time of war. A dispatch from London says thai Sir Edward Grey, the British foreigr secretary, today submitted to Ameri; can Ambassador Page Great Britain'* reply to the state department's re quest that the former Hamburg-Amei icap line steamer Dacia be permittee to make a special trip to Germanj with a cotton cargo without establish ing a precedent as to the validity 01 the vessel's change in register. Th( reply was forwarded to Secretary Bryan. Every effort is made to reassure tin United States that Great Britaii wishes to expedite the cotton irtove ment but that she can not abitiidoi her position that belligerent ship: must not be permitted to escape th< effects of the belligerency by trans ferring to another flag. English papers recently have car ried dispatches saying that Greek an* Italian firms are negotiating for th< , purchase of interned German an* Austrian ships inthc Mediterranean Great ilritain and her allies, it i stated, will do everything possible t< prevent enemies' ships transferring t flags of any neutral country. London newspapers express th hope that America will realize Great Britain is acting on what writers tie clare is a well established principh of international law which must bi maintained if Great Britain and he? allies are to prevent the German merchant marine from escaping the consequences of the war. SKI LL MYSTERY SOLVED AT iiAS'1 Gruesome Find in Ancient Mansion Correctly Classified. Charleston Evening Post. Shades of Edgar Allen Poe, the my* tery of a human head, the gruesome flinty relic picked from the walls ol th old Laurens mansion, that is be in& rapidly razed to the ground at il. . I 1 13 -i. i uie corner 01 ^aureus aim Day sueei. has been exploded. Hundreds of people have stood be fore the King street store window ii which the petrified head from the oh Charleston residence has been exhibit ed since its discovery. The Savants, and the highbrows of the community have swapped glib surmises across the unresponsive dome that was acclaim ed a cranium. Just what these suspicious lookingboulder with two holes where a hu man's eyes are supposed to happen and a pitiful wrinkle about its wid< open mouth, chanced to be in this life has been a matter of ardent conjecture during the past several days. That Fracture. At first he was an Indian, who came to his end by some foul means an< was bricked in a-la-Black-Cat-or Cask-of-Amontillado. An irregulai wound had evidently been suffered b> the unfortunate stone head. Some mu erable sneak thief had probably onto ed his wigwam at dead of night and a tempting to extract a few paltry strings of negotiable wampum arous ed si souaw. whoso shriek awardo. her lard in time for that worthy to rc ceive his deathblow. Some onlookers differed as to th< location of the death wound. A deej cut, that had undoubtedly been stitch ed while fresh with cat gut and a fisi bone needle appeared directly abov< the left eyebrow or at least the plan where the eyebrow used to be. The ossified Indian theory was abai doned when it became known that peritiication in this neck of the wood: means limestone and not flint. Those High Cheek Hones. The object of public curiosity am some solicitude for himself and hi: family bore criticism with extreim fortitude and a good will Tt was ever mentioned in his presence that lie luu high cheek bones, and again that Iv ' had come over in baliast in the hob ' of a tramp steamer with a bunch o other cobble stones that took thei ? Auinin /?ln\r lnoo (iiw* All r\ I* i ) \ * ? / I 1^.111 1 I V i 11 V I CI p IV. O O 1 I 1 * X \ k h V/ I I I the hungry skill!, with the open mout received without comment. "I will donate it to the Chaidosto' museum," said the holder of the an eicnt relic, 'after the populace hav> 1 gazed their fill." To doubters the ever present groin of excited "scientists" have me red y c. tended the unfortunate human's gum: "Peel here,' was the sesame wh.ie! opened the door of i>reception for thless imaginative of its heholder."clenrly he (the satv.s of Ncnndertha'. ' suffrage appears to haye left no flout'' 1 as to the sex of the deadhead,) pos sessed a splendid set of molars.' That jaw-hone-tooth-socket expend: meat proved a clincher. ; The neophytes have been succumbing to it ever since the outraged cobble stone be 1 came the center of a label that endow ' ed with former human attributes and 1 petrified it subsequently. ' \Vhat it Really Is. I ' A cobble-stone?for such it has beei ! pronounced by a government expert one of the nations' ablest men in such ' lines of research who is in Charleston I today. The expert, reading of this "10,000 ^ yoar old" Indian skull,'paid a visit to .. ? . . - iii i its depository, expecting to atid to nit store of anthropological information. But he had no sooner taken flue look 1 at it, than he threw up his hands, to exclaith that it was. irierely a cobble* ' Btone of irregular t. shapq, explaining that the. holes resembling ey^sockets, . and other coincidental indentations had mislead the fin,de^s of the rock. It 1 resembled a human head in 'a vague J. way bhly. r A** Bevoir. Anyhow, the so-called IndJ&n Skull, f even if it is nothing but cobblestone, has; served to interest .the public no & little, ajid should be e^hihite^ perma1 tifehtly as ,an Indian ex-petrificd exskull. 1 7 1 ' . : I s George B. Perkins Sentenced to Three B Years in the Pen. Columbia, Jan. 22.?George Bachelor Perkins of Boston who hap beef' on trial in the federal court three days * for the killing of P. W. R. Hinman. business manager of the Florida Tim1 es-Union, was convicted yesterday af' ternoon and was sentenced to three s years in the federal prison in Atlanta, o By "exceptionally good conduct," it o will be possible to reduce the penalty one-third. Only one ballot was taken e by the? jury. AN ANCIENT SKULL FOUND IN CHARLESTONi In Walls of Old Building Seine Dismantled Last Week AND SOME HAVE DOUBTS Other Curious Things Told h Article Concerning This Mystery. Some time ago in dismantling th old Laurens dwelling in the City o Charleston, what was believed to be ; human skull was found inside of oiu < . ? ? ? oi mo ancient walls. The matte created some thought and not a litth speculation, and some had doubts tha it was a skull at all. The latest newt concerning the matter comes fron Charleston last Saturday as follows: Mr. A. J. Buero, who purchased th; old Laurens mansion at Last Bay an. Society streets, and who is now engai ed in wrecking it in the interests o the Carolina, Atlantic and Weston Railroad, is conlident that the skul recently found in the walls of th mansion is really petrified bone. Mi Buero challenges the statement reccn ly made that the skull is nothing bu a cobblestone ,and declares that if th. people of Charleston have any doub* on the subject he would like to submit the skull to chemical analysis to de termine tlie substance which compose: it. Found in a Flue. Mr. Buero has had a great deal or experience in handling phosphate rel ics and declares that it is a conimo: thing for an irish potato to turn int petrified flint stone and that it wouh not be extraordinary for a hunur skull to turn into stone also. M: Buero asserts that the cobblestone i: not a native of South Carolina am that it was not common enough ii South Carolina two hundred years ag to justify anyone in storing one awn; in the manner in which this relic \va: placed . ho says that from the position in which tho skull was found, in a flue o the chimney, it could not have beei placed there after the house was huil but must have been concealed in th flue during the course of construction It was found in a flue about fourteen inches square from the top to the hot torn and was lodged between the second and third stories in the cei'.inj and fell down through the Hue as the building was being torn down. Two Copper Pieces. Shortly after the discovery of llv supposed skull, and while continuing the destruction of the building, Mr Buero found two copper pieces, whic he is now preserving as curiosities One of the pieces is apparently ai English coin. The nature of the othc. piece has puzzled Mr. Buero am friends to whom he has shown it, a: they agree that it might have been ; coin, originally, or a medal. The copper coin is badly deface and the date has been obliterated. B< vend the fact that it was sruck in th ciVn of one of the Georges, there b no n onns of tolling its ago. On one ide of the coin is the figure of a hu nan head, resembling a women's h.oa am re than that of a man. On (lie otl. r there is a (lower. Mail Coach Half Penny. The other piece found is in nuiel hotter condition. The inscription or both sides are easily read. It bear. n<? date. On one side of the piece ? iho design of a mail coach, with "Mile Coach Half-Penny" inscribed above the design, and "To trade expedition and to prosperity, protection. Payable in London," below the design. On the other side is the following inscription: "To J. Palmer, Esq. This is inscribed as a token of gratitude for benefits received from the establishment of' mail coaches." The encyclopaedia contains no mention of J. Palmer, Esq, in any article relating to mail coaches, or stage coaches. * Hecause of the inscription on the rc yerse side of the piece, some had maintained that it was struck as a medal to reward J. Palmer. Others say that it was struck as a coin, point ing td the "Mile Coach Half-Penny," and "Payable in London'* inscriptions. THE WAGES OF SIN. 'Twas down, in Oil City, that place of renown, A pumper named Archibald Sinn r aroun' ! AnV S?nn had a, habit of lickin' his wife ' ' An' rttnnin' her .often the lease with a knife. ' ' She sued' for divorce an' got the decree AV Stnn had to pay her, as alleymonee, A half of his wages, the pesky old sneak. An' the wages of Sinn was twelve dollars a week. ?E, F. Mclntyro. The Best Hot Weather Tonic TASTELWSScliiil TONIC enriches tli >looU, buiKls v the whole svs'em and will wot* lerfully slreujjf* *n and (ortifi you to wilhstop lie Jeptessing effect ol Hie hot summer. SOc. % GERMAN GAIN VICTORY ! BY GREAT CARNAGE 1 Celebrate Victory Before Siossons in Usual Way MANY MEN HAVE PERiSHED The Fight Which Lasted for Eight Days Resulted in German Victory but Not Decisive. Last week the eermans, after eitfht lays of fighting, the fiercest of the war, gamed a victory near boissons. The destruction of human life was terrible during the eight days of the iierce fighting, acording to a dispatch reaching this country the latter part of last week. It described the day after the victory as follows: At the headquarters of a certain German army yesterday evening, Gen von Kluck and his stair celebrated the battle and their success at Soissons in :ypical German military fashion, with a simple soldiers' meal, a bowl of punch brewed by the expert hands of von Kluck himself, a graceful little speech by the general, and a silent toast to the dead?French and erman. The earth was still dropping on the graves of the fallen. So many men perished during the eight days of the bitter struggle for the heights across ihe river from Soissons that today the fourth after the close of the battle, the plateau and gorges are still strewn thicklyw ith dead, although 4,000 members of the lanstrum have been engaged without pause in clearing up the battlefield. Still Lie in Open. Most of the German dead have been given to the earth, but French infantrymen in their far-to-be-seem red and blue uniforms, swarth-faced Turcos, colonials Alpine riliemen and bearded territorials still are sprawling the altitudes along theh eights, in the deep cut gorges of the plateau and across the flat valley bend on the north sTiore of the Aisne. 'The battle of Soissons?so called in default of a better name?although it really was fought across the river from that city?in the number of men engaged and the extent of the losses, would rank with bull Run or Antiotam of the American war of Secession or with Woerth in the Fran co-Prussian war; but in this war it passes as an incident worthy only of passing mention in the official report. No newspaper description of the battle has been written from the Ger man side. Tile Associated Press representative was the first and up to Ine present tlie only newspaper man to inspeet the battlefield and have opportunity to supplement the brief v official report with descriptive details leathered on the spot. Con sid e red I m por t a n t. The results of the German eoss are regarded here as highly important. 'file French w< re expelled from .he heights north of the Aisue? vantage ground from which they had hoped to launch a successful attack against the big elbow in the German lino?and driven across the river, vhiall now runs brimful and at many daces is overflowing its banks between the two armies. The French retain a foothold north of the river only at one point ?St. Paul?whore the bridge from Soissons crosses, and hold this apparently on sufferance, since the bridge head is completely commanded by German artillery on the heights. The river at this time forms an effective barrier to any repetition of an attempted French offensive on this part of the line . The battlefield covers a front of approximately seven miles. On the western side is a deep valley running northward which is bounded on either side by turnpikes from Soissons to La Fere and Laon. A high level plateau rising steeply a couple of hundred feet from the valley of the Aisne and from this side of the valley forms the centre and eastern flank of the battlefield. The plateau is deeply notched by three steep-sided ravines, running down to the Aisne, through which the French brought up supports unnoticed. * 1* \ J The Tiger's Trick. A missionary teMs of visiting anot> e* nissiona^y land decided to nave a tiger h \nt. The hen went tP s'eep comfortably, 'eavipg a native t6 wateb through the night'and ke'ep a -fire bnroi^g. But he di ? not 'o his uty, ano ?ent off to his own house, letting thefire die down. s ^ ? About four oVoek a tiger cane along an', seeing a mnsionaYj. foot sticking out from t te covers grabbed it in is teet.i, and started to run off it? it! Springing up the missionary ? aved the sheep, .hich frightened the anioir, and he vent gal'oping like a wild horse. So, instead of nissionaries hunting the tiger, it was the tiger ' 10 hunted t e missionaHei?ano noar'y got ti cm!