Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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COTTON ROOT-KNOT HAGQ TO CONTROL Generaiiy Appears Along Wit!" Cotton Wiit Disease ROTATION OF CROPS HELP!" Also it is Recommended Thai Wilt Resistant Seeds be Used by the Planters. Clemson Colleue. Fob. in?Ttont knot of cotton is hard to control, say; C. A. McLendon, experimental licit pathologist, of Ciemson College, who has charge of all the cotton wilt ant root-knot work in South Carolina However, lie continues, it can be destroyed by careful practices and some of these lie explains. Hoot-knot if often f ttnd where wiltoccurs and it is nearly as destructive as wilt itself. It atte !<:^ cotton, ordinary cowpeas, and rrmny other licit! and truck crops. It is to bo recognized by the hardswellings or enlarge mente ("knots") on tho roots of plant affected. Root-knot is caused by tiny worms which have attacked roots where the knots occur. Since it thrives on so many different kinds of plants, this disease presents many difficulties to the farmer who has it on his land, but it can be destroyed or materially diminished by the practice of a two-year or threeyear rotation which would withhold from the land during those two or three years all crops which rcot-knot attacks. Such a rotation should contain only corn, the small grains, velvet beans, and Iron or Brabham peas. No other variety of cowpeas should ever be planted on root-knot land, and all varieties except these two?Iron and Brabham?are very subject to attack. Root-knot attacks cotton and when it occurs on wilt-infested land the damage is doubly severe, as the one disease seems to aid the other in its attack. Thn nivin ?? ..! .. --- ?v ^c4ttvt 1/11 iv;.I w 111-re- I sistant cottons ar partly resistant to root-knot, but they, too, succumb to severe attacks and the only safe meth od of control where wilt and rootknot occur, as already suggested, consists in rotating with crops immune to root-knot for a sufficient number of years to wipe out the pest and then to include the wilt-resistant varieties of cotton in the usual rotation practiced. A number of farmers in wjlt districts are cooperating with Clemson College to produce wilt-resistant seed cotton for sale to people whose lands are infested with wilt and Mr. McLcndon offers the names of these cooperators in order to help those who have wilt or root-knot to procure Dixie or Dillon seed. Orders should be placed at once with these cooperators since the supply is usually smaller than the demand. Farmers who have Dixie wilt re^, 0+0^4 ~~ 1- A ** .1 ojot-o-jii. occii lur su IC ill'G A. iVI. liCtJlCtl Dillon; R. J. Blackvvell, Marion; J. C. C. B run son, Florence; L. C. Chappell, Lykesland; H. E. Currin, Florence; John A. Drake, Bennettsville; J. B. Holman, Batesburg; J. A. Russell, Society Hill; Geo. D. Sanders, Fairfax H. I. Scarborough, Sumter; B. W. Segal's, Oswego; and L. S. Wolfe, Orangeburg. Farmers who have Dillon wilt resistant seed for sale are J. B. Register, Lamar and D. E. Rickenbaker, St. George. OWE MY HEALTH B toPeruna Down From ' Confinement Mmm to Store. Mr. C. N. Petersen, dealer In fine boots, shoes and cigars, No. 132 South Main St., Council Bluffs, Iowa, writes: "I cannot tell you how much good Peruna has done me. Constant confinement in my store began to tell on my health and I felt that I was gradually breaking down. "I tried several remedies prescribed by my physician, but obtained no permanent relief until I took Peruna. I felt better immediately, and jflve bottles restored me to complete health. I have been in the best of spirits sinoe, and feel that I owe my health to it." Catch Cold Easily. Mr. Arthur O. Peterson) R. F. D. 21, Box 21, Omro, Wisconsin. lie was in the habit of catching cold easily. ITo says: "It has been seven months now since I have taken any Peruna and I haven't felt the least touch of cowl f in e, and I am positive that 1 am now rid of the tendency to catch co!J. -Peruna is a wonderful .toin Oy." i liOi.o v.ho object to liquid rnedic! ica cr.n now procure Peruna Tabid;. S?n." W m jj| ' * COTTON STEAMER SAILS. Ship Purchased Erom German Company Loft Norfolk for Rotterdam. The American sramer Dacia saileci last Thursday with her cargo of cot Ion for Germany, which goes via Rotterdam. Great Britain threatened to seize the ship, questioning her transfer from German registry and she already has been the subject of diplomatic correspondence between the United States and Great Britain. It is generally expected a British cruiser will take her somewhere before she arrives in European waters and that the case will be fought out in a prize court. Watched by State Department. State Department officials will observe the progress of the Dacia across I ho Atlantic, content in the event of her seizure to have the issue of her transfer of registry come before a prize court. While the British admiralty announced it would regard th( Dacia as a prize there is no questior about her cargo. That, it was said, would be forwarded to its destination without expense to the owners, or pur chased by Great Britain. State department officials say they have satisfied themselves of the genuineness of the Dacia's sale, Having seen the eertied checks given by Edward M. Brietung, the purchaser, to the Hamburg-American Steamship company. If a prize court should rule adversely on the validity of the sale, it would forms the basis for further negctia0 c' tions between the United States and Great Britain. That probably would involve the Declaraton of London ? the international agreement governing prizes in naval warfare?over which questions of interpretation have arisen since the outbreak of histilities. ACCUSED OF PART IN DYNAMITE PLOT Matthew A. Schmidt Arrested in Mew York CAUGHT AFTER YEARS. Hold on Indictment Found in Los Angeles in 1910 Charge Implication New York, Feb. 13.?Matthew A. | Schmidt, 34 years old, was arrested here tonight as a fugitive from justice on an indictment found in Los Angeles in October 1910, charging him with having been implicated in dynamiting the Los Angeles Times building. The arrest was made on upper Broadway, where detectives had traced him after a search of four years. Dectective William J. Burns, who ? i i - n? i - ac^uuipaiueu me omccr making trie ar rest, said the indictment charged that Schmidt was one of several men who went with J. B. McNamara to the works of the Giant Powder Company in California and purchased 1,00C pounds of dynamite. Schmidt was held without hail until February 24 to await extradition. When arraigned before Magistrate McQuade the prisoner said he was v mechanic, 34 years old, but refused tc answer the other customary questions After the arraignment, however, the magistrate said the man had confessed to him in chambers that he was Matthew A. Schmidt, as alleged in the Los Angeles indictment. Detective Burns stated that the arrest of Schmidt was the outgrowth of an investigation into a bomb explosion in a six-story flat house here July 4. 1914, which killed three persons, injured others and partly wrecked the building. Detectives who examine^, the premises became convinced the bomb used was of the same type as that employed in the blowing up of the Los Angeles Times building, and similiar to those placed at the homes of Gen. Harrison Gray Otis, owner of The Times, and of the secretary of the Manufacturers Association. The investigators soon found a trail which led to the arrest of Schmidt. Piles Cured In 6 to 14 Days Vour druggist will refund money if PAZf OINTMENT fails to cure any case of itching Blind. Bleeding or Protruding Piles in6 to 14 days The first application gives Ease end Re**- 50c Will Sign Act. Gov. Manning said last week tha he would sign the referendum bil providing for a special election Sep tember 14 on the question of State wide prohibition. "I will sign the bill," said Gov Manning. "While I am a local option ist, I do not believe in denying th< people a right to vote on such ques tions." Gov. Manning was in a plensan frame of mind and was happy ovc the results accomplished by the gen oral assembly. lie was pleased wit] the progress which the lawmaker have made and thought they had mad good use of their time. STORY OF HUNGER GETS A RESPONSE Tho Evening Post Receives Many Requests for Name of Family CHARLESTON'S" CHARITY Holds Record for Large Giving ? Associated Charities Society. (Charleston Evening Post.) No better proof than Charleston's heart is in the right place and that her people are filled with the spirit of charity can be cited than in the interest displayed over the publication yesterday by the Evening Post of a story telling of how a father out of work and seeing his family on the verge of starvation walked into a grocery store here and took a bag of flour and a ham, which he said he would pay for when he was able. He was followed and his family, found to be almost famished, was given prompt aid by the grocer whose store he visited. This is in brief, the story as told a reporter for the Even in<r Post, and while names of the grocer and of the poverty stricken family were not furnished, yet assurances were given that the affair was an actual occurrence, and so the case of misery as well as the generosity of the grocer were promptly made public. Generous Offer. This needy family is in the way of liberal assistance, for numerouse tele phone offers were received by The Evening Post today from good-hearted people who are anxious to help them. They arc invited to make their name known, in confidence, to this paper, eo be put in touch with generous friends. From the Associated Charities today came a communication to the effect that the organization would be more than glad to assist this family. A request is submitted by the Associated Charities for the name of the people told of yesterday . Associated Charities Writes. Charleston is notably willing tc help its needy people. It spends more charity per capita than probably any other city in the country. It has numerous organizations specially equipped for helping the poor and afflicted The Associated Charities is a clearing house, for many other charitable efforts, and is in a most excellent financial condition. It welcomes all reports of distress conditions. Ready to Help. "We note your account of "A family near starvation," and while it ha* been our policy not to publish our affairs, it may be proper under present abnormal conditions to let it be known that we stand ready to adequately relieve such cases without delay, requiring only the knowledge of want and that the needy ones belong tc Charleston; for we believe that there are other agencies here to look after itinerants. "Please, therefore, give this statement the same prominence that your articled received, and furnish our office with the name of the family to which you allude. Not Fair Asserting that the Lusitania adopt ed "a permissible stratagem," in hoist ing the American flag to avoid danger j in the final stage of her dash for Liverpool, the Manchester Guardian, published in London, declares "an act may be perfectly lawful without being expedient or altogether fair." The paper says: "The fact that our fastest liner had to change her flag has shocked our pride as much as the loss of the ship would have shocked our humanity. If all or many of our mereh^"* liners were to do the same the result would ' be as American papers are pointing out, to diminish the value of protec, tion given by the American flag. Not only would that be undignified in us and unworthy the nation which rules , the seas, but it also would be unfair { to the United States and it would reflect on us the same indignation as was aroused by Germany's threat to disregard neutral flags." > The Disregard of a Cold has often brought many a regret. The fact of Sneezing, Coughing or a Fever should be warning enough that your system needs immediate attention. Certainly losiQ of clnnn ic rv>o/n>5/mi? T*. {<. ? i? iiiviot ovi iuuo, 1 L in ?1 t warning given by nature. It is man's ] duty to himself to assist by doing his part. Dr. King's New Discovery is based on a scientific analysis of Colds 50c at your druggist. Iluy a bottle today.?adv. Senate Marking Time, e Washington, Feb. 11.?A Compro mise proposal designed to extricate the administration ship purchase bill t from the deadlock that has blocked ts v passage in the Senate, and to avert an -'extra session, was put forward last li J week by House Democrats through h Representative Kitchin, of North Car e olina, chosen majority leader of the next house. WHAT POTASH IS U. S. Government Seeks Domcstk Supply?Is Solution in I'tah. "Comparatively few people perhaps know the details of the nation-widi search for potash which has for years been conductedl by the national government through the Department oi Agriculture, nor of the activity of the geological survey and the valuable and painstaking work performed b> the bureau in the same great quest." Said a man well known to this country's fertilizer industries, in the course of si recent discussion of that painfully absent ingredient. "Nor is it generally known that Congress has year after year appropriated hundreds of thousands of dollars in the work that has until recently been proved unavailing. "The search for nntnsh cnvnvnfl fhn continent and the results were negative. They found it elsewhere nearly all of the common rocks contain it, some of them in large amounts. Feldspar is particularly rich in the coverted material, but it can not be recovered. They found it in the desert; they found it in kelp, the giant sea weed of the Pacific coast; they found it in the basins and beds of ancient dried lakes where they bored many hundreds of feet down to the saline beds and pumped the brines to the surface at enormous cost. They found it there, too, but still it was "inavailable," that is, it could not ? produced in quanity and at a price that would make it a profitable commercial possibility. What Pot .h Is. "Potash as a plant food is necessary to the prosperity of the country. There is no substitute for it, and the farmers of the Eastern and Southern States particularly can not raise their crops without it. "Tlie world is dependant upon Ger many ior its prensent potasn supplies and our tribute to the German world monopoly amounts to about $J(>.000. 000 annually. Years ago it was forseen that this supply might be suddenly cut off. Germany at war with a powerful opponent or if the United States, should go to war with an enemy powerful enough to blockade our coasts, the supply would cease at once Hence the great search for a source of American potash. "Two years ago Secretary Wilson of the Department of Agriculture, in a public interview widely copied at the time by the newspapers and trade journals of the country,, announced that kelp was to be a source of Ameri can potash. Kelp is a sea weed that grows in 50 to 100 feet of water. A drag drawn by a steam launch s used to tear the weed from its ocean bed. W li o r> if flriafa f/-? fli/^ if ? f A&VU A. u iiv/uVkJ VV7 tuc out I avc 11 lo gathered and piled upon scows, taken to land, where it is cut up and dried by artificial heat and then burned. After that the potash is leached from the ashes which takes the potash up in solution and must then be evaporated to get the potash. The process is long, tedious and expensive and the returns small. When the process is cheapened?it can not be simplified? kelp may some day supply the needs of California. It is far from doing it now, although there are several plants in operation. Kelp is not the source of American potash, Mr. Wilson's opinion to the contrary notwithstanding. Alunite Solves the Problem. "It should be particularly interesting to the people of Utah that a possible source of American potash anc the most profitable one lies within the borders of their State. In the alunitc deposits of Marysvale there are manj millions of tons of potash which, according to the experts of the geological survey and the engineers and experts of the Florence Mining anc Milling Company, which own the greater part of the immense deposit can be recovered by an extremely sin pie and cheap process." IF YOU WANT TO BE LOVED Don't contradict people, even if yo\ are sure you are right. Don't be inqusitive about the affair; of even your most intimate friend. Don't underrate anything because you don't possess it. Don't believe that everybody else i happier than you. Don't conclude that you never ha< any opportunities in life. Don't believe all the evils you hea Don't repeat gossip, even if it doe interest a crowd. Don't jeer at anybody's religious b lief. Learn to hide your aches and pain under a pleasant smile. Learn to attend to pour own busi ness?a very important point. Do not try to beanything else but gentleman or a gentlewoman; an that means one who has considerato for the whole world, an dwhose life i governed by tho Golden Rule: "Do un to others as you wiuld like to be don by." ?Christian World. Invigorating to the Pale and Slckl; The Old Standard RreneraJ strengthening ton!' GHOVK'S TASTRI.K8S chill TONIC, drives 01 Malaria.enriches the blood.andbulldsnpthesy tcui. A true toute. l or adults uud children. 5( LA GRIPPE^: AND BAD COLDS ?.??? 5 i ~ * " 1 1 > P : Twelve Reasons - Wfiir Xf ? TT 11 J IUU Should Buy Youi Groceries of Is Ao, 7. BECAUSE wo carry best grades for those who demand highest quality. We eater to the "best trade" as well as to those in moderate circumstances. This is a. high class store for | every on?.. I i CONWAY, S. C. 1 WHERE WILL YOU TRASS I It is good policy to carry I to an old established store wh< ! ing many years must and will 1 ! During the year that has pass< vors to give each and every cuj est deal. This is the reputatioi many years. Where will you carry you: now begun? If you are an oh us and we have tried to please ue to give us your patronage, tomer, we gladly extend the ii you the best value we possibly at our store. DUSENBURY & CO., h BRITISH AGAIN BORROW BUR Fill Hrduna of Cunard Line Flics I , in Crossing Irish Sea ! FEARS GERMAN SUBMARIMI I Officers Said That the Fla Was Used as a Protection to Americans. 1 ; New York, N.Y?Officers on tt , British steamer Orduna, of the Ci i nard line which arrived here froi England said the Orduna flew the An erican flag for nearly 24 hours, c January 31st while passing throug the Irish sea. 1 The stars and stripes they said wei hoisted Sunday, an hour after the O: s duna left Liverpool and wore not hai ed down until early Monday. e The Orduna was to have sailed froi Liverpool Saturday January 30, bi s did not depart until 10:30 the ne: morning. Passengers heard the dela rl .... - - was caused Dy tne presence of a Ue man submarine in the vicinity. Tl r American flag was raised, they sa s shortly after the Orduna cleared tl Mersey. The ship touched Queen e town the same day and wr.s flyr the stars and stripes when the enter* s and left that harbor they said. Passengers said some of the O - duna's under officers explained tin the American flag had been raised ' a protect American citizens among tl (| 240 passengers. H. T. Strong, of th n city, and James Ford, of I.ynn, Mas: g were two of the passengers who sa they would vouch over their nann o that the American flag was carrh by the ship. They said it was not u til they had cleared the Irish sea th; it was hauled down. Capt. .Thomas M. Taylor, Comma a dor of the Orduna, refused to discu ? the matter, saying he was under o V SEEEu JOHNSON'S k u4 Ttbleta dffc TONIC flu A?4 1 BEST 7 P'-f J GRADESI C jwy _jjGOODSh IBk MULUNS, 5. C iOURING THE NEW YEAR? your trade during the new year 2re the reputation built up dur^e kept up to high water mark. 3d we have used our best endeastomer a fair chance and an hon 1 we have tried to maintain for A. % ? * * * ~ r traae during- the year that has I customer, you already know you, we believe you will continIf you would become a new cus ivitation and we promise to give f can for every dollar you spend TODDVILLE, S. G. , clers from the British admirality not to talk. j THE HORRORS OF WAR. Down 1.1 New York the cafes ring with the new English comic war sonir I "Sister Susie's Sewing Shirts for the Soldiers." This journal, always to the fore-front with pertinent suggestions, jl offers a few refrains, around each of which our finest song carpenters are g. invited, even challenged, to construct full-fledged lyrics. And, that we may not be charged with partiality, we will include all of the other warring countries (that we can remember.) ie Rosie's Ripping Rags for Rampant 1_ Russians. ; ro Susie Sings So Servia will Scrap. Pollie's Planning Panties for the n Prussians. 1 :h Jennie's Jarring Jelly for a Jap. Fannie's Frilling Fancy Fobs for "? Frenchmen. f- Austrians Accept Amanda's Work, ul Bettie's Basting Belly-Bands for j Belgians. i m and it Tillie's Tatting Tidies for the Turk. 1 <t . tv ? ? - - i\auiteration of Oats. r~ Seventy-five carloads of oats intend V )c cd for export have recently been seiz- Js 1 ed by the Federal authorities because ? they were found to be adulterated H s~ which the meaning of the food and [| drugs act. The adulteration charged j] is the addition of feed barley or water or both. Under certain circumstances W 1" adulteration in these ways may be so l| profitable that it is believed to be at fl to times a common practice among grain / shippers. The government, however, i 13 is determined that the practice shall "f y cease at once, and field reprosentativ- J* es of tlie department have all been 3| instructed to exercise the utmost vi- si ( gi la nee in detecting future shipments 9 n~' adulterated in this way. jj To Prevent Blood Poisoning 11 n" irrly Ot one? the wonderful old reliable DR. [I SS rORTKR'S ANTISKPT1C HEALING OIL.asur- J ?ical dressing ihnt relieves pain and heals at r" lhe same time. Not a liniment. 25c. 50c. S100.