The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, February 26, 1920, Page PAGE SIX, Image 6
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PALESTINE LOST
ALL ITS FORESTS
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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.
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Coughs,
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(Sore
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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.
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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.
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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, (
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They couldi
now for twi
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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
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, They are capitalized for
1 much less than their actu
? thousand dollars today w
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English railways are ca
mile; the French at $155,(
t even in Canada (still in
; they are capitalized at
average for all foreign
e
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Low capitalization and
Bt ency have enabled Amei
the highest wages whil
1 rates.
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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
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[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
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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
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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
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The oldest Amer
THE MUTUAL LIFE INSURA
W. B. Coxe, $
F. F. Covington
Bullock
R. M. Bulk
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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
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Come to the old relial
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Toddville,
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BAR COMPAN Y I
k done right?Right Now.) ?
AGENTS
FOR? H
ILLARD STORAGE BATTERIES,
a battery in stock for every car.
JLCAN AND TUTHILL SPRINGS
. in stock to fit all cars.
rARTER FOR FORDS
res tires
tteed for 6,000 miles, and have a
of cars. Come around, plenty of
i money on your Tires and Tubes. * I
fries
r plant in the City. 6 Vt. charged
rntal batteries 25c per day.
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nuLt.1 ranio I
ievrolet parts and are in position I
advantage where quality counts. I I
want come around we cah^
le under the supervision r. I
s experience in garage work and
Engineer.
CAR COMPANY J I
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I can install Sanitary
Plumbing in any home.
See me while in town.
W. J. BENSON. H
SEPTIC TANK.
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Agents were through the county
last week and week before .sellinjg'*'^^^^
stock in a well known automobile
and truck factory, a branch of which
ie located at Greensboro, N. C.
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in 14 to 21 Days |^H|
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prepared Syrup Tonic-Laxative for Habitual
Constipation. 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.
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\ 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
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