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ft # URGE AREA IN II. S. TO ^RECLAIMED Amount of Desert Is Over ' Sixty Per Cent of Cultitivated Land. Within this country an empire more than (>0 per cent as larj^e as the total cultivated area lacks only improvement, and the output of agricultural products will be at least double; developments of industry and commerce stimulated, economic, political and military power of the United .......ii.. : 1 i Kivutiy incruii.suu aim immense health resorts, decreasing mortality and invigorating the nation as a whole, provided, says a Ncv York special to the Baltimore V>un. The total cultivated area of the United States is less than 800,000,000 acres of land, while more than 200,000,000 acres of desert await reclamation by drainage or irrigation. Impressive as those figures are, they don't tell the whole story. The most fertile countries are the arid ones, obsolete methods and crude implements notwithstanding. China, India and Kgypt are famous for their a., i k ~ ?4i t i a. * hji ti 111\ . '\jii tnu utnur nuim, inc most j successful stock raising and dairy industries and carried on in the drained lowlands of Denmark and on former swamps and under covered fields beyond the gigantic dykes constructed by the Netherlands. Arid countries are veritable health resorts. Sickly Europeans flock to Algiers and Egypt in quest of re cuperation and health. In our own arid West, especially California, nature has provided a vast sanitarium for the American nation. Of the 17 arid and semiarid states in which irrigation dvelopments have been started or are planned, California, Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Utah and Washington are included in the registration area which is covered by the mortality statistics of the United States Census Bureau. Every, one of these "irrigation states" has a lower death rate than the total registration area. Among the five states with the lowest death rates in 1917 (no later official statistics being available) are four of the six ' irrigation states" which are included in the registration area, the four states being Washington (death rate 7.0), Utah (death rate 10.4), Colorado (death rate 10.9), and Kansas (death rate ll.Ji) the only non-irrigation state being Minnesota, with an annual death rate of 10.3 per 1,000 I: l .. (1...I 1 : -*i i.i in m i. in iiuit I'liiHit'cuun 11 must ho kept in mind that Minnesota, though not included in the irrigation proiect, is semiarid territory. / . By extensive reclamation of swamp Wa H H H Our Entire Consideriti of furnltui Mattresses .:/!.! is j .o iy.'.;; CHILDREN'S HIGH CARTS, A Cane Seat Chairs, regul; Cane Seat Chairs, regul; Cane Seat Chairs, regul Large Rockers, regular Large Rockers, regular Large Rockers, regular Large Rockers, regular' Iron Beds, regular price Iron Beds, regular price Iron Beds, regular price Pee Di MULLINS, Soul / and arid lands, our crops, the keystone of national power, would be immensely increased; the United States, with unsurpassed mineral wealth, would be self-sustaining even when her population should have increased 100 per cent, and be in a position successfully to defend herself against the rest of the world. Long before any historical record was kept, an improved agriculture was effected by irrigation. Northern Africa, Mesopotamia and Arabia were famous for their fertility in ancient times while irrigated. The early settlers of California and other j arid states and territories developed primitive irrigation by diverting small streams upon adjacent valleys where the slopes of the country were ..uch as to make the work easy. Subsequently more difficult irrigation projects were undertaken until the difficulties to overcome assumed such proportions that private capital could not any longer be enlisted. Then the national government took the matter up. The reclamation act, establishing the reclamation service and providing for irrigation in Arizona, California, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wyoming was passed iji 1 1902 and amended and modified from time to time by subsequent acts. Approved irrigation projects on which work had been begun or com- * pleted June 30, 1911), will, on com- : pletion, turn 3,212,092 jy\*es of arid land into arable soil. Accj ling to the . latest official records, t reclamation service so far has { yided for reservoirs, carriage and \ ributing < systems, etc., by- which tho United ? States is prepared to deliver \\uter to 1 1,731)247 acres of land, of ywhich 1 1,141,516 acres were actually irrigated < and 1,051,193 acres were cropped out by settlers in 1918. The 1918 product of this acreage 1 was worth $66,825,396, or $63.60 per 1 acre. The net cost of constructing * the irrigation improvements was ' $115,164,177. The material values 1 created by the construction act have been far greater than the amount ex- ; ponded upon the development. Tens 1 of thousands of prosperous homes 1 have been Established, towns and vil- 1 lages nave sprung- up. wnen an i prospects now under way have been completed, 01,.'} 10 farms of from 10 to 1G0 acres will he reclaimed. o ( COTTON REPORT. * c The tabulation of the card reports ] shows telegraph summary to be cor- ; rect. There were 4,.100 bales of cot- i ton, counting; round bales as half ' bales, ginned in Horry county from I the crop of 1020 prior^to November i 14, 1020, as compared with (5,515 j bales ginned to November 14, 1020. Verv respectfully, SAM L. ROGERS, Director. Tul Beginning M i Stock Will ig going out of the re, conisting of D j, Chairs and Rod I CHAIRS, ROCKERS, BI iLL AT ACTUAL COST. ar price $1.50, Sale Price ar price $1.75, Sale Price ar price $3.50, Sale Price price $10,00, Sale Price price $6.50, Sale Price price $6.00, Sale Price price $5.50, Sale Price $11.00, Sale Price i $16.00, Sale Price ^ $18.50, Sale Price ee Hard' th Carolina ? THB HORRY HERALD. OO*1 CHRISTMAS TREE OF PAGAN ORIGIN Ancieitt Tribes Started Custom Now Dear to the Hearts of Children. The Christmas tree has made its appearance. This harbinger of the gladsome yuletide is always greeted with much pleasure, particularly by the juvenile element of the population. This pleasure reaches its climax when the tree tastily decorated stands in the corner of the parlor, usually, as in most homes the utmost homage is given to this Christmas symbol. Then Christmas night, in some homes Christmas eve, or early Christmas morning, is chosen, it bursts into a> radiant splendov with its countless wax tapers or hotter still colored electric lights. The hap piness of the children is then supreme. The incorporation of the Christmas tree into celebration of yulelitlo is ;i stranco "stow. Parti*' an'! parcel of a midwinter celebration of Pagan Teutonic tribes in the shadowy recesses of history, its presence nt yuletide in a home where there ire children has become as necessary as fruit cake, turkey, presents and juice of grape. When the old Teutons, including the Scandinavians, Angles and Saxons and all members of that branch of the Aryan race, went into the woods at approximately the time of ( the year as Christmas, and proceeded to hang little baskets of foot' { for the birds on the firs of the northern European forest* little did i,hey think thai this ceremony would Bfo through a process of evolution to the Christmas tree of today with its welcome gifts glittering ornaments and still more glittering lights. 1 When the children of today gather around the tree with their elders, ittle do they think of the origin of Lhe tree, so much has it become in- J tor mingled with celebration of the birth of Christ. o NOTICE OF DISCHARGE. Notice is hereby given that the unlersigned Administrator of the personal estate of D. I). Norris, e'e leased, will apply to the Judge of Probate of Horry county at his office , it Conway in said county at eleven [1!) o'clock in the forenoon on the 20't'.i day of December, A. O. ror a final discharge of such Ad- 1 1 i.'i: trator. I l|l<S'td M. C. BUTLER, Administrator of the Personal Estate of 1). D. Norris, Deceased. o Advertise in The Herald. onday, December 6t Be Closed furniture busines ining Room and <ers of All Kinds, 1 :ds and date q $1.20 =s MON 7.00 1 5.50 4% -? DEC. 8.50 IIrso AND CONTINUE! II ware ai % v X WAY, 8. 0., DBO. 9, *920. BMW ... .LJ-J _J . TRESPASS NOTICE All persons are hereby forbidden to enter, or trespass in any manner upon any of the lands of this Company which are located in Conway, Dogwood Neck, Little Kiver and Socastee Townships, under penalty of the law in such cases made and provided. This notice is intended to prohibit hunting, fishing, ranging, gathering straw or leaves, cutting or interfering with trees, timber or light-wood and, in fact any entry of any kind upon the lands herein mentioned. Myrtle Beach Farms Company. 12 i) 20-4t By G. C. Graham. IT ISN'T FAIR .THAT'S ALL! To Your Family?To Your Friends?To Yourself? Going Around Half Sick TAKE CARE OF YOUR HEALTH If Your Blood is Weak and Clogged with Poisons, Pepto-Mangan Will Strength en and Purify It. When you get over-tired day after j [lay, your system has to get rid of so much waste it can't create new energy fast enough. The result is that your blood is filled with waste matter. It becomes clogged. You are trying to get around with a lot of poison in your system. You look had; you feel poorly. You ^et out of patience easily. Ambition is lost. You just don't care about anything. That is no way to live. Your blood needs help for a time. It is starvedYou will find help in that fine tonic, Pepto-Mangan- Pepto-Mangan purifies the blood and fills it with red corpuscles. In a little while you'll have plenty of rich red blood and you won't know yourself. It isn't a magic medicine. It contains iron and other ingredients that feed starved blood and make it rich and red. Physicians have prescribed Pepto-Mangan for years. Pepto-Mangan is sold in liquid and la/ljjoL form. Take either kind you prefer. One acts the same as the other. Both contain the same ingredients. Hut be sure to get the genuine Pepto-Mangan?"Glide's." The full name, "Gude's Pepto-Mangan," veil rill If 1 I\n r\n t !in nu/tl/ n #va A -1 "V V'.l im. /All*. I Ml h and Continuing to Out At and 5S, we have decide Parlor Furniture, Fine Line of Rugs F SALE IS RUGS-A 9x 12 Art i in A If 9x12 Art i IIIII Y 9x12 Hea< | Uff I Velvet, ref Regular pi nT|| Regular pi h I H Mahogany I Will. Mahogany Buffets, re I UNTIL JAM. 1ST Sg id Furn TIGHTENING MONEY [ CHANGES ASPECTS Things Are Not Exactly as They Seem Regarding Finances. The determination of the banks sometime ago to tighten down on the loaning of money seems to have had various effects. Chief among the effects' would appear to bo the apparent lack of funds on the part of some of our business concerns, or if they do not lack funds they wish to a<!d to the funds they already have by collecting in what they have out. This is the way that the situation Is viewed by those who hold secured papers or either accounts. This may not really be the 'right view to take of it as if banks have ceased to make loans frequently then the business concerns who have not sufficient money to do business on must collect it in from those who owe them. It appears from a general observation of the last few weeks that there are mort chattel mortga calomel' con^e: crashes into it Take "Dodson's Li1 If you feel bilious, headachy, constipated and all knocked out, just go to your druggist and get a bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone for a few cents, which is a harmless vegetable sub stitutc for dangerous calomel. Take a spoonfuland if il doesn't start your liver and straighten you up better and quicker than nasty calomel m % January 1st Below Cosl d to close out our , Iron Beds, Bed S j, Art Squares ant RT SQUARES, LINOLE bHADLS Squares, regular price $7.50, S Squares, regular price $12.50, vy Taps, regular price $35.00, *ular price $65.00, Sale Price OAK DRESSE ice $35, Sale Price rice $45.00, Sale Price Dressers, regular price $40.( Dressers, regular price $65.00 DINING ROOM FUR . .1 & s r\ r\r\ o 1 :guiar price cpou.uu, oale I^ri< lites, regular price $375.00, Sa ak, regular price $375.00, Sal* Sure Cc ON TH * ges of real estate, book accounts, and other liabilities being collected right now than was attempted at this time last year. MOTHER'S FRIEND For Expectant Mothers Used By Three Cenemtions WRIT! FOR booklet ON motherhood AND THI BABT. Fin bbaonclo Regulator Co., Din. 5-D. Atlanta. Ga? iRj M g HORRY COUNTY g i TRUST COMPANY g P Real Estate P g28 L. D. Magrath 50$ Manager. H m Real Estate Loans P ^ Bonds ^ s-s Insurance w IK 23 85 ea s s ss 25 si ^^SW8fafl& ; ilpp~ 4 IS CARDED DANGEROUS ivates! It's mercury. Calomel nite on a sluggish liver. When s into contact with sour bile it , causing cramping and nausea* ^er Tone" Instead! anil without making you sick, you just go back anil get your money. If you take calomel today you'll be sick ami nauseated tomorrow; besides, it may salivate you, while if you take Dodson's Liver Tone you will wake up feeling great, full of ambition nnd ready for work or play. It m harmless, pleasant and safe to give to children; they like it.# ????? ??? tfor Cash entire line prings and t I Linoleum UM AND WINDOW >ale Price $5.00 I Sale Price .....8.50 I , Sale Price 27.50 I 53.00 I RS I $28.50 I 37.50 I )0, Sale Price 32.50 I I, Sale Price 55.00 I N1TURE I :e $ 52.00 { ile Price 300.00 | e l^nce 300.00 impany E BIG CORNER