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PAGE SIX ^ PALESTINE LOST ALL ITS FORESTS \ Entire Country Denuded of' Trees?Some Wild Flowers Still Remain. The following dispatch in the Baltimore Sun describes Palestine at present: The extent to which Palestine has been denuded of its forests has been so frequently emphasized that many . have ceased to realize it. Hardly a 1 writer on the land but has set this ! fact forth, till men have scarcely cared to believe. No. jest was com- 1 moner with the men of our Egyptian expeditionary force than the one about the place of their campaigning 1 AA .. 1 t Ml 11 II neing "a lanu 01 mint ami noney.' ' Yet, as. the tide of success carried us northward and out of the miserable desert plains, we began to see, with wonder, how many features of nat-i. ural beauty still remained; and few I can have got into Galilee and Lebanon without finding that they had learned to love a country so richly and variously attractive writes Edward J. Thompson in the Spectator. One thing is very ceitain, no man who came to Palestine from Mesopotamia was ever heard to utter any word of criticism. And. even now glimpses and patches remain of the old equisite woodland. "Gad, but this is a pretty country, this is," said a brigadier in my hearing as we canr in sight of the approaches to Haifa; ! 4 I'd like to go over it with a gun." I , have no doubt that he shortly did so. 1 Great Forests Gone. The great coast forests, through ( which the crusaders came, have gone. * T have read that considerable remains j( of the oak forests of Arsuf lasted up j 1 to the war, and it is likely enough, j ? for all those slopes are full of stumps i recently cut down. The hills which run up into the country's heart, through Samaria and bv Nabkis. .have the appearance of a half-shaven sheep's back, so cleanly and utterly have the trees been cut away almost to the crest. Sir George Adam Smith ( speaks of riding over the ridges cf Gilead, "where the oak branches rus- I tied and their shadows swung to and fro over the cool paths." He did what no living man will ever do again. Ccp pice remains in Gilead, but hardly a tree; the woods went to feed th^ Maan railway. Lebanon is stripped and Anti-Lebanon, and it is on'y L ?omc of the western valleys tha* thickets of ilex and myrtle and caroh remind * us that it was here that Adonij? died andVKypris ran wailing ! that it was here that the young I world's imagination wandered. Sy | rian coppice is perhaps i the lovelies I en earth. But the Syrian prefers umake a sheer sweep of it that he ma; then terrace up the hillside for vineyards. Turkish Axes Busy. But Tabor remains, and Carmel. I I Delicious Syrup i With Cherry Flavor for Kiddies9 Coughs, Colds, (Sore 9 Formerly T?lr Balsam 1 " It instantly warms the l>ody, loosens the phlegm, clears the head, chest and nostrils and relieves the sore throat. So delightful v.'.'h its cherry flavor that children cry for it. Try a teaspoonful. Your <lruggist is jnc-meted to cheerfully refund your money if !t doesn't relieve you. S.ls at your druggist's. rmmmmsMMsmmmm NOTICE. There will be a meeting' oi the stockholders of the Farmers Tobacco Warehouse Co., at its office in Loris, S C., on Feby. 28th, 1920, at 3.0 o'clock P. M. for the purpose of in creasing the capital stock of sai Company from Ten Thousand tTwenty Thousand Dollars. E. L. SANDERSON, 2jJ2?4t See'y. & Trcas. The Turkish axes have been busy on both, yet both remain, lovelier than description can convey. I went into the heart of Carnriel early in April of last year. I have seen many lands, and know the forests of Burma and the Himalayas; but I can truthfu'ly say that I have seen nothing more exquisite in beauty than April in Car mcl. I had seen it a month earlier In Austrian Hospice and bowls filled with great velvet, all-but-black irises and the slopes were lit with yellow asphodel ine. It was glorious in Esdraelon then, at its first burst of wild lilies, when the CarmeFs foot, with anemon's, white, blue and scarlet, and with the small gold iris. But in April the spring had ripened. For a doze miles I went on till I reached the traditional scene of Elijah's contest with the nrirsts of Rani. flarmol's lone* summit, a plateau with rugged edges, glens dipping down to sea or Kishon and wooded still was one face of flowers. The Mediterranean front had been ruined before the war by the German colony of Haifa; for the native woodland they had planted eucalyptus and pines. And among these pines were our G. H. Q. huts. We were making a second Kantara here, cutting down the pines to make way for long wooded sheds. When the work of devastation had gone moderately far, plans were changed and it was decided to makr Carmel the summer home not of general headquarters, but of corps. It matters little. The Muses are unrepresented on either, and the wood gods get short shrift from both. Corps of general headquarters?they Vccgrize that it is "pretty country," good to go over with a gun. So T struck inland. The copse hid I con slashed and broken up, but the flowery carpet remained. There were miles of cistus, both white and pink, \ shrubbery in themselves, rough hvarf bushes covered with multitudes of daintiest blossoms. From the defts hollyhocks sprang and cyclamen not yet finished flowering. PRICES NOT HIGH MATERIALS NOT EQUAL Atlanta, Ga.?A survey of the fer tllirer situation by those familiar with it indicates that there may be a shortage of commercial plant food in 1920. The reasons assigned for this are principaly that strikes have interfered with the production of materials. In addition, there has been some difficulty in obtaining shipments over the railroads. To be more specific, the long drawn out strike of miners in the rock phosphate fields of Florida prevented a supply of rock phosphate being shipped to the factories. This and the dif ficulty of getting prompt shipments when the mines resumed work, it ie claimed, has put the manufacture of acid phosphate more than three months behind, besides reducing the possible supply. As to ammoniates or nitrogenous materials, it is pointed out that the coal and steel plant strikes greatly reduced the possible output of sulphate of ammonia. Tankage and cottonseed meal are so much in demand as feed as to be unavailable or too expensive to use as fertilizers. Nitrate of soda is being shipped in larger amounts, but not as cheaply as was expected. It seems that the demand for nitrate of soda in the orient, especially, has kept up the price higher than was anticipated. As for pota?h, there is going to be a fair supply, the first time since the European war began. A considerable amount of potash has been shipped from Germany to France, while there is quite an accumulatalon of stocks of desirable American-made potash or (land. The Soil Improvement Committee of the Southern Fertilizer Association with headquarters in Atlanta, is send ing out information to southern farm erft urging them to order their fre tilizera early and for immediate ship ment. The reasons given are tha there is going to be great difficult: in supplying the demand, and th< sooner it is known how much th< farmer wants, the sooner the manu uiciurer win Know now Dig a jod m has on his hands and how hard h< must work to accomplish as much c it as possible. It is also stated that the rairoad are anxious that fertHizers be ordere early so that they may be able to pr< vide cars, else there will be a seriou difficulty in getting fertilizers delh ered on time. The railroads are als insisting on full carload shipment! which makc? it necessary to have o dors early so as to consolidate thei into full carloads. It is stated t.hat the indications at that there will be a heavy demand f( fertilizers throughout the Soufh th year on account of the prom is in prospects for southern crops. It stated, also, that the orders comir in to the factories reveal that ll farmer is now wanting higher grac fertilizers than ever before. % :r' . ? THE HOUR? HERALD, OOH\ Watch the Little 1 They are I Unsightly and Disfiguring Signals of Bad Blor 4, Pimples on the face and other Farts of the body *arc warnings rom Nature that your blood 1.1 sluggish and impoverished; Some* times they foretell eczema, boils, blisters, and other skin disorders that burn like flamss of fire. They mean that your blood needs S. S. S. to cleanse it of these 1mIpure accumulations that cap cause (Where cornfields had usurped the 1 forest's place the yellow marigold ^ and gladiolus grew. I Blue Cornflowers Everywhere. x Both of these are "of the corn- * fields" (chrysanthemum segctum an 1 c _i_ ji-i- . - ? - giauioius segetum). Under the rock ( roses crept their tiny kinsflower, the |fc sunrose (helianthemum). Blue corn- * flowers were everywhere. Lilies were * over, except for gladiolus, garlics and 1 ornithagalum; but red ranunculus 1 was out following on the heels of red 1 anemone, which had reigned during March. Marguerites and those most i ubiquitous of Palestine wild flowers, c i pink flax and cream-colored scabious, s (v. ere in their prime. Other flowers i that I noticed were b?rmangold, p'nk 1 campion, campanulas of several c sorts, including one tall enough an 1 1 with bells enough to be a wand fo"* i Silenus, the sylvan deities' jester; bu- t ! plevrum, nogella, knapweeds, thyme l i?carpets of thyme?thistles, pink!\ | bindweed, poppy, adohir ("tears of | Christ"), yellow saxifrage, white clo- i vcr, dwarf yellow trefoil. But the i t copse was Carmel's greatest g ory. j i A stray pine had seeded itsel f here jr and there from those abomo. able 1 i Teuton groves. But the copse, where ' j , the ax of war had spared it, lent a 11 fresh, native sweetness. Styrax is t\ \ very showy plant, was in flower, ( Jr f ^ %j^DI I They couldi now for twi j When the talk turns froi and the traveler with th in with, "There's an a\ the railroads," here are to give him: American railroads hav I ?roadbed, structures, st als, freight and passeng from the great city term A good concrete-and-as 1 - - - $36,000 a mile?just a 1 ing the cost of culverts, 1 Our railroads couldn !1 day for $150,000 a m f ^ , They are capitalized for 1 much less than their actu ? thousand dollars today w 9 English railways are ca mile; the French at $155,( t even in Canada (still in ; they are capitalized at average for all foreign e i0 Low capitalization and Bt ency have enabled Amei the highest wages whil 1 rates. y 8 Qfiis advertisement r Slssocicition ofdli r\' ~ Those tlesirintt information con jH I may obtain literature by vn g ! Rail'oay Executives, 6/ 18! IB ! 10 I i ii H mi?>II i i ? i > Jo I ! ? I mm- >11 mmm nnd?a? I " VAY, S. P., FEB. 26. 1930. >:mD|es. 5" Nature's Warning unlimited trouble. This remedy Is one of the greatest vegetable compounds known, and contains no minerals or chemicals to injure the most delicate skin, Co to your drug store, and get bottle of S. S. S. today, get rid ot those unsightly, disfiguring pimples, and other skin irritations. It will cleanse your blood thoroughly. For special medical advice free, address Medical Director, 41 Swift 1 Atlanta lung with' white tassels; arbutus, vild bay (Laurus nobilis) and holnoak. (Quercus psepdo-coccifera) vere all blossoming. These,' with .awthorn, no longer in flower, butchjr's broom, terebinth and carob, made ip the thicket, a thicket, as I have laid, lovelier to my mind than great orests of magnificent trees. Cistus j 'illed up the interstices and made ti jurified fringe: red-berried bumet1 md coarse, pungent lentisk added a ough jungle of their own. Two sorts of broom, both flowerng, were in places?Genista spha;oalata and Calycotome villosa. Blue alvia is almost a shrub, and this was ibundant; and thymeloea (which , ooks somewhat like yourtg box) is ertainly one, but this was rare. By Sl-Moukrace?the place of Elijah's sacrifice?the wildest pa it of all his lovely region, I found a cephaanthea in the arbutus thicket, tal , vaxen spikes of virginial whiteness. There is only one village on Carnel, where Druses live. 1 visited hem on my way back, and they told ne of the devastation which the Turks had made. Formerly Caimel | lad abounded with wild animals. But | low the leopards had fled, all but wo or three still haunting the glens cading down to Kishon; and the roeleer were almost extinct. ? it I I ^ ! [ft be built | tce$71,000 m politics to railroads, le cocksure air breaks i vful lot of 'water' in i > some hard-pan facts re cost $80,900 a mile j ations, yards, terminer trains?everything linals to the last spike. j iphalt highway costs larp rnflH rnnnt. nv% VVU*A|- | bridges, etc. i }t be duplicated to/7e. only $71,000 a mile? lal value. Seventy-one rillbuyone locomotive. pitalized at $274,000 a 300; German $132,000; pioneer development) $67,000 a mile. The countries is $100,000. high operating efficirican Railroads to pay a charging the lowest | | is published by the lilway executives eerninj> the railroad situation itint> to The Association of Broadway, JVew Yo~k j222^jljjj^2SSiiSnnSSSSSnQS?ijh?!5liiSiSiSSBiiiSS3 F3*sr: *' ' n CONWAY MOTOC I (The place to gret your wot AGENTS FOECHANDLER W CHEVROLET CLEVELAND AUTOMOBILES VI AND TRAFFIC TRUCKS ATWATER KENT S' . TIRES Til We arc agents for Fisk tires, guaran large stock on hand to fit all makes free AIR. We guarantee to save you , BATTEI We have the largest Battery charging ?1 AA 10 \r*. ~U ? ?n OA T? 1V1 <pi.VV| V U Clltw gtu 1UI fi.VV I\l FORD AND CHEV We carry a big Stock of Ford and 01 to handle your repair work to your a When you Don't find what you furnis All work performed in the shop is dor John Coles, who has had several year Mr. H. G. Cushman, licensed M. E., I CONWAY M0T01 Phone 88. CONWA ENJOYS HIS 3 MEALS A BAY !r. Woolen Thinks Much of ZIRON Because II Made Him His Old Self Again. Sick people do not get much out of life, n order to eniov vour meals, to do vour /ork well, you must be strong and ealthy. Pale, weak, nervous people frequently eed iron to enrich their blood ana to relore vitality to their system, and a good /ay to supply the iron is to follow the xamplc or Mr. Clayton Wooten, ot Scotmd, Ga., who used Ziron Iron Tonic and as this to say about it: 4I have taken Ziron according to direct3ns and 1 can truthfully say that it is a ne tonic. It has done me all the good, ince 1 began taking it, 1 have gained eight ounds in weight and enjoy eating three leals a day. 1 shall do all I can to reommend Ziron." Try Zironl Your druggist sells Ziron 1 in a guarantee to refuna your money if i he first bottle fails to benefit. You canlot lose anything, but very likely will ;ain much, by getting a bottle of Ziron, odayl ZN 14 'Your Blood Needs ' 11 The oldest Amer THE MUTUAL LIFE INSURA W. B. Coxe, $ F. F. Covington Bullock R. M. Bulk I Buy in thi Where high rents are not to haps this item doe* ppt exu only the State and County expense in selllpg goods; ar es do not have to be paid. Our store is in the cour where you can come and sc and the advantages we enj< some money when you arrh We keep the best gooi and we keep a good stock. 1920 for fertilizers, dry q< ore' haprfufopo VI V IIUI UIIUI VI Come to the old relial DUSENBU Toddville, I BAR COMPAN Y I k done right?Right Now.) ? AGENTS FOR? 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It relieves promptly but should be taken regularly for 14 to 21 days to induce regular action. It Stimulates and Regulates. Very Pleasant to Take. 60ccer bottle. 4 ican Oompany NCE CO.. OF NEW YORK Special Agent , District Agt. i ? . >ck, Mgr., Agents. i t Country ll i hp nnnsirfprprl whprp npr. W+ V WVIIWIMVI VMy ?f Iiv? W prww \ at all; and where there is taxes to be added in as an id where the high town taxitry but it is on a good road e us without much trouble, j^H >y win enable us to save^ou is to be had for the money Try us at Toddville during )ods, groceries, and farmRY & CO. 1 S. c.W