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' - '? 1 " 1 , "" -Ni THE WAR IS NOW OVER! May our relations ci ing up Horry County and pn # / . INSECTS CAUSE MUCH DISEASE Lcijvion.?Of tho insects responsible for tho death or disablement of hundreds of thousands in the war zone, the louse is declared authoritatively to have been one of the most deadly and to have accounted for at least 1,000,000 persons. That, however, is only a rough esA r ~ ? ? I RB We still have on hand a ni Mules. Also have in this buggies. Come and get y all picked. I Jenkin I Tabot i 9 111 1 MANY FRIENDS AND GUS1 We wish you all a PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR. Our Bank, along with all the people, has had the most prosperous yoar in the history ot our splendid Institution. Our Resources have doubled within the past two years, and Deposits increased over 100 per cent. We have met all the demands of the Government and at all times been able to accommodate our customers. We are grateful to you who have been loyal to us, and who have helped to make our Bank one of the leading institutions in Eastern Carolina. PEAOJi oniinue to be pleasant and mutua omoting the interests of her citi; les National D. A. SPIVEY, Cashier. I tiniate, and the probability is that i the toll was infinitely higher, for inl Serbia alone typhus, a louse-borne J disease, infected nearly 1,000.000 per sons and killed 500 a day in Jassy, while 200 of the 1,200 medical offi- j cOl's in the rountrv died from the dis?- I ease. This disease spread over Russia, Austria. Germany and the Balkans generally. These figures are vouched for in a publication prepared by Lieutenant Lloyd, who was chief entomologist in Northern Rhodesia. He says: "Typhus, one of the most dreaded epidemic diseases of man, is entirely ! due to the activities of lice. The j same remark applies to relapsing ; fever over the greater portion of the | world. Still a third disease, trench fever, has placed to the credit of the 'ousc and possibly even now the fuH extent of its guilt is not known." Lieutenant Lloyd, in discussing the typhus outbreak at the notorious Wittenburg camp in Germany, from which the German doctors fled, makes the statement: "The Germans know, as we do, MMaMwwM?i? nfWBn IMWW BMI ce selection of Horses and week a car load of Virginia Aim 1 r AI. vui i/iiuiuu uuiore iney are s Bros. , N.C. II" ?? TOMERS:'^^^ i / rv V if nrt 1 ru l l i Your ! |,MONEY f WHERE ! ST Iwsix I I BE I <?* A Br* i v/^ur e^i IT WILL COME IN HANDY .SOME DAY ; | I fi'j.'tj.rrz.tr i " i i i HOVERS OVER OUR LAND! '! !ly beneficial toward buildtens. ; I Bank _:j that typhus is spread by lice, and that the epidemic could have been cut short and stamped out in a week after its commencement by the disin fection of all prisoners. One of tlm1 few good points about insect-borne j diseases is that they are entirely pieventable, if preventative measures are taken in time and carried out in a thorough manner." iiLITAOY plioT NQTYET DEFIED "Washington.?No decision has been reached by the War Department on the question of universal military service, Secretary Baker told the House military committee, and he indicated j that no definite project for a permanent military establishment would be presented to Congress until the peace conference had concluded it work. When asked whether il wnntl noccssary to keep a large force in Europe for at least two years, the secrctaMy said: uWo hope that it is not true; wo are not planning for it." The secretary said 700,000 men had been discharged from the army si..r? tho armistice was signed and that an other million would he discharged j within the next five weeks. A Tonic Laxative that will remove the bile from tV Liyor and cleanse the System THOROUGHLY without griping or disturbing the stomach is truly a Perfect laxative. LAX-FOS WITH PEPSIN is the name of a Reliable and Perfect Laxative which soon relieves Sick Headache, Dizziness, indigestion, Stomach Trouble, Gas and Piles ca by a Torpid Liver and Constipation. Always uic a Reliablo Lnxativo in the treatment of Colds, Grip and Influenza. LAX-EOS WITH PEPSIN lo a Liquid Digestive Tonic Laxative excellent in its effect on the System, hnth ?a a no ? ! _ ^ f wwv.. w %v?i4v uuu no u inMMIvt'i It i~ just as flood for Children as for Adults. Plcasaut ro take. Children like it.^ 50c.^ M'lduaud icvoiuiliniucu t0? the puul'c by Pal!' Medicine Co., St. Louis, Mo., manufacturers o> Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic. o A special meeting of the State board of education was held in the office of John E. Swearingon, Stat superintendent of education. This meeting has been called by Governor Manning in order to wind up the educational affairs of the State.' board of education for 1918, and also the educational program of the gov cinor's administration. LAND SETTLEMENTS IN 1 SOUTH CAROLINA. Clomson College.?Secretary Hou* ton, of the Department of Agri t culture, yield in an address recently \ delivered to a conference of editors ol 11 agricultural Journals: "It would bt ( desirable to facilitate land settlement t in more systematic fashion. This has been too long left to the haphazard intervention of private enterprise, and the* Nation has suffered not a little * from irresponsible private direction 1 I think it is high time for the Federal < and State governments both, as wel! I as local communities, to seek to aic 1 in, land settlement by furnishing actua facts, reliable information, and agri j cultural guidance to begining farmers and to promote well-considerod settle mont plans. It is particularly vita ( that the process of acquiring owner ship of farmers bo encouraged ant hastened." Those views are, also shared by th Department of Labor and of the In terior. Secretary Lane has associar esd, with him, some of the best engi neers who have been connected witb reclamation work of various kinds The semi-arid lands of the West, th? cut-over and swamp lands of the South are being visited, that propel measures may be taken as soon at possible to render them fit for th? plow, and open them for settlement In those days of reconstruction when industry may be disorganized bj the cancellation of Government con tracts for its products, and by the demobilization of large bodies both o. working men and soldiers, the lane beckons to the man more insistantlj i than ever before. It will certainly bt j made easier for the man who wishes t< j own a farm to get it on reasonable | terms. And these measures cur< a far worse evil. They provide tht very host security against the discon tent likely to arise from unemploy ment and a lack of food. Tire idle acre: can givo healthful and profitable em ploynrent to all who can he place<; upon them; but home ownership mus" be the goal, and fair annual profits above a normal standard of living liruot bo the means advanced to so euro these settlers. Almost ever^ man can find congenial employment at his home, if he owns it. or is be coming the owner of it. A few acres will suffice to provide food supplies ii largo part, for the family, and a sur plus for market. Organized methodi of disposing of the surplus in anj community will go far towards pro viditig funds for the other necessariei of life. In South Carolina, there are about 19,500.000 acres. Two-thirds, or about 13,500,000 acres are in farms. One; un:u 01 mo state lies absolutely idl? for agricultural purposes; it consisti of roads, towns and cities, and worn I out and swamp wood land. But of th< | 13,500,000 acres in farms, crops arc grown on loss than half. To be exact j the crops of 1917 were grown on 6,198.1 000 acres. Probably at least as mucl more can be used for growinj I crops and for pastures, but le i us say there yet remain onl 2,000,000 acres in the State fit foi farming. As 35 acres is the size a the average farm cultivated, there i: room then for nearly 60,000 more farn families. What a vast amount of lan< settlement r-ould he done in Souti Carolina; what untold wealth could b? ; added to the property lists, if the loca ! communities, as Secretary Iloustoi ! suggests, should aid beginning farm ! ers! Federal and State aid in the settle ! mont of large tracts is necessary, bu nothing can be done anywhere unles. the people who already own the lane are willing to sell it at reasonable prices, and to welcome the new set tiers. We have perhaps the best all tht year climate in the whole country, a , .... .? - i i is snown oy me location or so man; army camps in the South. We cot tainly have vacant land in great nbun dance. It is cheap cnly because of tli ! sparsity of our population, a.nd thoi use of poor agricultural methods. It is still comparatively cheap. on< at prevailing prices, is in many part o-f the State, an attractive investment But there ought to be in every com munity, a committee of the Chamhe : of Commerce, or of the Fanners | Union, or of self-appointed citizens, or I at the least, one or two men, whosi ! business it is to find new settlers, t( assist them in buying their farms am to make them feel at home among us It is not necessary to wait upoi State or Federal movement. We ca: begin now by assisting those who havbeen tenants, and wish to heron: owners, to find good farms in oi? own neighborhood at reasonah' prices. Certainly wo can help thes men to join a National Farm Lon Association, and so obtain half tl purchase price of their farms at th most favorable rates. To have i share in multiplyig the prosperous contented farm owners of any com munity ia to render a very iarg'j sun ice to the State and Nation, for upoi them our civilization ultimately rest; That large service every one of u? may perform in some measure. A fev of us will make somo financial profit by the settlement of our idle lands but all of us will bo increasingly en richcd by the fuller, healthier eountr; life consequent upon their settlemen by farm-owners.?W. H. Mills, Profes sor of Rural Sociology. ________ TALY WELCOMES ! HONORED GUESTS Turin.?President Wilson's special irrived here this afternoon. The ^resident was met at the station by j. he prefect of the province, the may>r, the general commanding the roops here and other authorities. Although the reception to the American chief executive was unofficial, he station was decorated with the talian and American colors, while . everywhere in the city the Stars and ' Stripes were flown beside the Italian 'lag. The president's train left a short iime later amid the enthusiastic jheers of a crowd which had gather- * ?d to greet the nation's guest. n W3UBBVB 1 wo nuuj Many children and adults are constant sufferers from cold hands and feet and are acutely J susceptible to every chill and i sudden climatic change. There 1 is definite help in SCOTT'S I KM!B!8 CIAM v/hich furnishes fuel to warm he body, helps make pure, ed blood anci maintain the system n a state of robustness, so that he buffeting v;inds or the sudden ;hill of evening arc enjoyed rather than feared. For coinforfc of body and bouyant heaith, take Scott's Emulsion* V If Scott & Bowue, Eloomfteld, N. J, 1S-13 o TAX RETURNS. For Fiscal Year 1919. The County Auditor of Horry County will attend tho following places at times specified below for the purpose d taking returns for the fiscal year 1919, of all poll tax payers, also o* a", personal property owned January 1st, 1919. All able bodied male persons between the ages of 21 and 60 years capable of earning a support, shall he deemed taxable polls. Executors and administrators are required to make their returns. Failure to make returns within the time pecificd subjects the delinquent to a penalty of HO per cent. Bayboro?Monday, January 6ta, from 10 to 12. Rchoboth?Monday, January 6th, from 2 to 4. AH. Pisgah?Tuesday, January 7th, from 9 to 11. Hinsons Store?Tuesday January j 71 h, from 1 to 4. Stevens X Roads?Wednesday, Jan- ' nary 8th, from 10 to 12. Stroud's Store?Wednesday, January 8th, from 2 to 4. Floyds School House ? Thursday, January 9th, from 10 to 3. Spring Branch?Friday, January 1 Ai 1. C A J -4 r* loin, iroin v to iz. Grassy Hay?Friday January lOili, from 3 to 4. Green Sea?Saturday, January 11th from 9 to 12. Hammond?Monday, January 13tn, from 11 to 12. Daisy?Monday, January 13th, frcm 2 to 4. Nathan Bellamy's Store?Tuesday, January 14th, from 10 to 12. Longs?Tuesday, January . 14th. from 2 to 4. Brooksvillo?Wednesday, January 15th, from 9 to 11. Little River?Wednesday, January 5 f>Lh, from 1 to 3. Wampee?Thursday, January 16t.h, Tom 9 to 12. Hand ? Thursday, January 16th, Tom 2 to 2:30. Cool Spring" ? Monday, January .Oth, from 1 Id 3. Oalivants Ferry?Tuesday, January ! list, from 9 to 3. Dog Bluff?Wednesday, January 1: nd, from 10 to 11. J ordar villc? Wednesday, J anuary 22nd, from 1 to 3. Cooper's Store?Thursday, January 23rd, from 11 to 12. Stalvey?Thursday, January 23rd, j from 2 to 4. Burgess?Friday, January 24th, | from 9 to 12. Fowler's School House?Tuesday,; January 28th, from 9 to 11. Loris?TuesTlay, January 28th, from 1 to 4, Sanford?Wednesday, January 29th from 9 to 11. Adrian?Wednesday, January, 29th, Mom 1 10 3. Aynor?Friday, January 31st, between trains. The balance of the time at the Auditor's Office in Conway. Please remember the time for making returns expires on February 20th. N. C. Adams, County Auditor. SENATORS REVEAL WILSON'S SECRET {is Plan Would Not Forcibly Interfere With Any Nation ilORAL FORCE HALTS ANY LAW MAKER iis Confidence Kept Until He Could Talk With European Leaders. Washington?President Wilson has n mind no League of Nations that vill dominate the world by force of UU * ? mr picture oi a court above ongresses and sovereigns that Senitor Lodge, Knox and others have tainted in their opposition to the President's plans for having the mahinery to prevent wars an integral feature of \he pea^e treaty is only i fancy sketch. It became known to-night that before he U ft Washington the President divulged some measure of his dca of what would constitute a League of Nations competent to procoot another world conflagration to t number cf Senators, not all of his party, and that idea is as far from the super-tribunal prepared to blast with fire and sword any country offending against its decisions as could be magined. Nations Still to He !>ee. The League of Nations President Wilson outlined to these Senators would interfere with the government of the constituent countries in no particular. It would not even take away from them the power to declare war, except as the opinion of mankind would make such a declaration unthinkable and would bring in its train such penalties in the form of non-intcrcourse as would make it impossible for the offending nation to persevere. The League would have no international police to impose its sentences on sulprit kingdoms and reuublics, but it wouM have the moral influence of a united world, each competent of which would lend its power to make the verdicts of the international congress effective. "Nations go to war," said one. of the Sconaiors who received the President's confidence, "in order to advantage4 themselves, either by gct'ing something they haven't got or to prevent another nation from taking from them something they wish to retain, either material or moral. If the cause that would isemd them in to battle is just they can win it through a league of nations; if it isn't ihov know H>nv mnnnl trot 't and with the certainty of going up against the world instead of the single nation they wish to victimize, they iye not going to attempt it." Senate Likely to Approve. When the President's treaty comes before the Senate it probably will be approved, because none of the objections that have been raised against the hypothetical treaty will apply. d Use Jojf cf k&&eted laid Women Tel? How Thev Mad? Evant One of Great Happbem. In every nnrl: of the land tlicro are wornrn who fell hnw, through the application of Mother's Friend, they entirely avoided tho Glittering1 usual]/ incident to motherhood. They relate in no uncertain terr.u Ivjw i'rom its use tho days were made bright ant! cheerful and tho nights calm and restful, how the crisis was passi .1 without the usual rufTerinc experienced when nature io unaided, and liow they preserved their heallii and strength to devote it to the rearing of their children and to tho things life holds fill" tlwim Mother's Friend Is a mort penetrating remedy, prepared especially for expectant mothers from a formula Of a noted physician. Strain upon the ligaments h avoided, and instead of a period of discomfort and constant dread it is a season of calm repose. The hours at the crisis are less, and Mother's Friend enntdon the mother to relain her natural grace, and her skin Is not cracked and does not become l:urd or disfigured. Write to the Brndflold Regulator Company, Dept. L, Lamar Building, Atlanta, Georgia, for their Motherhood Hook, and obtain a bottle of Mother's Friend from the druggist today, o Since his incarceration in the Greenville County jail several weeks ago by federal authorities, Sam Plumley, believed to be an escaped alien enemy has become insane, according to statements of officers v.*ho have boon observing his actions and his custody is presenting a problem of increasing emcbarrassment. 0