The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, August 04, 1921, Image 4
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THURSDAY AUGUST 4, 1921.
ITSlNG A I) V A NT AG ES.
Some fanners take advantage ol
all there is in getting ahead while
others merely get that which is al/nost
thrust upon them. The raising
of live stock is a good thing because,
while the farmer sleeps or
even tends to something else, uiture
makes it grow. It does ?ot come;
and go with the seasons as vegetables
do. In the vegetable line
there are crops that wiH grow and
produce for the farmer in the
winter time, yet it is too chilly for
them to have a wheat field or a
celery paten. Some of them will
save their earnings and buy farming
machinery which enables them
to make larger crops with less labor
and expense. Others will dig along
with the old fashioned tools of a
hundred years ago. Farmers are
different and there is a difference in
the way they live and enjoy life.
Perhaps the most important thingshould
be brought up last. It is read
ing and obtaining information from
others about new and improved
methods. We find in almost every
community the reading farmer and
the non-reading farmer. It is always
easy to tell them apart. True
that it does not take an academic
education to make a man a successful
farmer. He is only a better farmer.
One wtio has but the rudiments
of an education, if he will read and
study, can go on everv venr im. I
proving1 his fortune.
Anything that will wake up the
planters to a sense of their duty in
,he matter of improvement, is a great
thing in this day. It was always
great, but it appears to be more important
now than ever. The ten
dency of everything is toward the
easiest way, the most profitable way,
the shortest route to any end in
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view. Iii trying to accomplish these
things any farmer needs the experience
of others while those other*
may profit by his.
It Is *l<mj?&ake for any man to decide
thatk peak of perfection ha?
been rea<^* ^ in anything. It is not
so. ImpiV^ment is still possible n?:
i matter hW far we have gone in
that direction already. To realize
this is to make every man feel it
1 his duty and a great privilege to try
to improve on what himself and
others have already done.
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' The present prices of both cotton
and tobacco must not be taken alo?i^
as matter for complaint, until the\
are compared with the present
prices of other things and the prices
back yonder. Once sugar wa$.'10.00
for one hundred pounds. Now
at the present time the same $30.00
will buy about as follows and leave
monov si ill ill lino 11 rwl ?-r?rl
pounds of sugar for $0.00, one sack
:<>f rice for $9.00 and a whole barrel
of flour for $12.00. Comparisons
arc of much value as in other things.
1 If man could but do all of the
things his mental vision can conjure
up, this would bo a great world. We
speak of some as being visionary,
and when we say it we mean that
such people do not amount to much.
It really means that they do not
have the ability to distinguish between
theory and practice, imagination
and cold fact, aiming to do and
having the ability to accomplish.
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There were entirely too many auction
sales of land while thr prices of
dirt were at their highest point.
Small banks took the paper caused by
such sales and are now uncertain
what to do about it. They will have
to do sooner or later.
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All over the tobacco growing bell
of this State, it is hoped and fully
expected that the coming of the better
grades on the markets will mean
better prices as the buyers will want
it.
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When money was very flush those
.vho could make any acted as if they
were compelled to spend it. Money
burnt their hands and they had to
turn it loose instead of keeping it
until its value doubled.
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When it is too wet to plow there
nlpntv t\f vvnrl- In-Tl nlimif flir>
farm that can be done in any kind of
weather.
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This county appears to be blessed
this year more than usual with goo-i
corn crops in every section.
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At last the people of Horry are
interested in something rise beside
the stock law and free range.
We cannot see ahead but can see
behind whenever we take the time
to look back.
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Some will hold cotton until it rots I
or get a "better price. j
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BURMESE HAVE
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Smoking Big Cigars and Chew;
ing Betel Nut are Favorite
Sports
There is to be a change in the
; government of Burma, following the
recent reshaping of the governmental
machinery of India, according to
dispatches from London, where a
: committee of Parliament has been
considering whether a constitution
shall he granted and even whether the
country should eventually be severed
from the Empire. That there have
been changes in Burma in other than
political fields is brought out in the
following bulletin of the National
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vivwumjjiin. iMna-ij, ISSUCC1 I I'D 111 its
Washington, D. C., headquarters.
Recently in Burma. the old pagan
order of things has been passing,
and modern ethical ideas and manners
are gradually seeping into the
Oriental mind, and replacing many
picturesque and amusing customs,
says the bulletin.
Perhaps the most characteristic
concomitant of the Burmese men,
women, and children's appearance is
the inevitable "whackin white
cheroot." !t is said that a mother
often transfers her lighted cigar
from her own mouth to that of the
! wee child in her arms; and no lady!
would 'start on :i dress parade with-',
out taking a necessary stock of
'smokes' to supply her while she is!
out. This cheroot is more like an >
over-grown cigyvctte than anything)
else, and is said to contain but a
jsmall portion of the real tobacco leaf, j
Another Burman custom, com-j
mon to boys, girls, men and women,'
is kun-chewing. The Burman has
been said to smoke between chews
and chew between smokes, but to
have little time for anything else.
The betel nut is chopped fine, a red
lime paste is spread on a certain
kind of astringent loaf and all arc
jammed into the mouth together.
Then the chewing begins. To extract
the last bit of flavor from the
combination, the chewer contorts his
[face while his cheeks puff out more
and more until finally discomfort
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fresh 'charge.'
The Burman has a pride that
makes him in his own estimation
second to none on earth. He is descended
from angels who came on
earth and gradually adopted the ways
of human beings. His kings, before
the days of Thebaw and his queen,
Supiyawlat, had complete power over
her Fubjects and bore a list of titles
which make the letter abbreviations
of orders after the name of a British
celebrity seem few by comparison.
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ever, to be known as "Lords of the
White Elephant," for short.
There is no elaborate caste system
among the Burmans like that
which proves a curse among the
Hindus, but certain classes are outcasts;
the pagoda slave remains a
pagoda slave generation in and generation
out; a grave digger never
hopes to rise above his occupation and
his benignted social position; and the
lepers, beggars and the deformed or
maimed are believed to suffer the
stigma of some terrible sin of a former
existence.
The -Wurman is the cleanliest and
dressiest of the races of his countl'V.
hut his* irjlllrlv cilk
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indication that his pockets will Rive
forth the merry Jtinkle of coin. lit)
this sparsely populated country one
finds Talaings, Khans, Karens,
Kachins, and the Chins, whose manner
of dressing: would call forth little
comment if they would only keep
their clothes on.
As strict Buddhists these people
are not supposed to take life in onyj
form, special and uncomfortable;
noils being: reserved for fisherman
and hunters; but few of them manifest
any unwillingness to eat the
quarry when it. is served as food.
One respect in which .the Burmese
shine as a people among: the other
Orientals is in the position of their
women. Though they consider a man
far superior to a woman, and though
her fondest hope is that she may be
born to this high estate in some future
.existence, she walks the streets!
in absolute freedom and puffs her
cheroot to her heart's content. She
[takes part in, ami quite often has
jcomplete charge of, the business affairs
of the family, retailing her;
wares in a stall in a hazor or mar-j
ket, figuring her accounts in herj
head?for she never has any schooling?and
meeting her husband's
friends on the same plane with him in
the household.
Courtship in Burma is a more open
and natural flirtation than it is in
almost any other part of the East.
The young man usually manifests his ^
interest at one of the pajroda feasts
by shy attentions; he then calls in
company with his boy friends to find
that the young lady with a bevy of {
her friends is awaiting him. He ]
mei-ns business, however, and if the
families consent be persuades her to 1
eat a meal with him in public and by ]
virtue of this procedure his bachelor- 1
hood is brought to an abrupt end.
F'.efore the young girl in Burma
make ; her debut she must have hei* 1
ears pierced for earrings. The holes ,
are kept open and enlarged by wear-i1
ing in them glass or metal tubes of ]
increasing size until they are half an <
inch in diameter, capable of carry- 1
ing weights similar to the decorations 1
worn by the South Sea Islanders. In
olden times the fashion demanded ]
much larger holes than those in 1
vogue at the present time, and many 1
an old Burmese lady uses hers as (
holders for her cheroots, somewhat 1
after the American doughboy's con j<
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ceit of wearing: a fag behind his eai
A dead man in Burma always pay
his fare across the mystic river o
death with a small coin which h
carries in his mouth. The curse tha
rests on grave-diggers as a clas
probably comes from the fact tha
most of the men of this trade have n
scrupies about digging the poo
wretches up for their coins. It is be
lieved that this causes the spirits o
the disturbed ones to return to thi
world to suffer all the ills that th
Burman imagination can conjure u|
for them."
MINISTERS OF 90
YEARS IN CHURCH
Several other methodist Preach
ers Are More than FourScore
and Ten.
n.:? mm 1 '
vim-iim'.? i iii'ii! are uurcy minis
tors over 90 years of aj>o in the
Methcdist Episcopal church. There
is one minister of 98 years of age
one nearly 9r years, and three abou<
9G years of ajro, according to a state
ment issued by Dr. Oliver 3. Kaketel,
New York, editor of the Metho
dist Year Hook.
The oldest patriarch of the Methodist
Episcopal church, is the Rev,
Seth Reed, 98 years of aiio, bom
June 2, 1823, at Hartwick, N. Y.. He
is a member of the Detroit conference.
His entire ministry has been
in Michigan, where he has been active
for over 70 years, and has now
a retired relation. It is said he i.-<
the oldest livinw minister and has
the longest ministerial record of service
in tho pastorate. .Most of these
ministers are on the retired list and
are pensioners.
Rev. Edward S. Best, Maiden,
Mass., member New Enirland conference.
was born September 1824,
Newry, Ireland.
Tlv so born in 1825 are: R<*v. Mil ton
L. Haney, Pasadena, Cal., born
Richland county, Ohio; Rev. Ammi
li. Hyde, Denver, Col., born Oxford,
N. Y.; Rev. James B. Lathrop,
[ireensburj?, Inel., bom Greensburpc,
[nd.
Those born in 182(5 are: Rev. John
H. Vance. Chautaunun. N\ V J
Reaver county, Pennsylvania; Re".
William S. Turner, Spokane, Wash,
Jersey Shore, Pa.
Those born in 1827 are: Rev. John
11. Coper, Eldorado, Kan., born Knox
/ille. O., Rev. Creiffhton Springer,
Takinia. Wash., born Zanesville, O.;
Rev. James 11. Hawxhurst, Ocean
Grrove. N. J., born Ellenville, N. Y.;
Rev. Joseph C. Dana, Pasadena, Cal.,
jorn lOswego, N. Y.
Those born in 1829 are: Rev.
Micaiah C. Dean, Dundee, N. Y.,
>orn Barrinpfton, N. Y.; Rev. Joseph
FTober/*, McMinnville, Ore., born
Germany; Rev. B. D. Jones, Green ivich,
O.. born Cadia, O.; Rev. Joseph
I{. Wheeler, Registerstown, Md.,
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J Those born in 1829 are: Revr |?1
aac R. Vandevater, Beach, Cal.,
t born Fishkill, N. Y.; Edward
s "H. Durell, Woodbury, VT. J., born
t Moore>town, N. J.; Rev. James H.
0 Moore, Polol, 111., born Halcottville,
r N. Y.; Rev. J. W. Thompson, Lake
wood, O., born Upper Sandusky, O.
f Those born in 183C are: Rev. T.
s Morris Terry, Brooklyn. N. Y., born
c Southampton, N. Y.; Rev. Willian.
p S. Jones, Bath Me., born Bristol,
England; Rev. Edward i Wasmuth,
Glen Ellyn, 111., born Germany; Rev. s J
Robert Booth, Roseburg. Ore., bq^'n ^
Lancashire, England; Rev. Levi S.
r Wa'ker, Richview, III.; Rev. Robert I
[ H. Rhodes, Denver, Col., born Milltown,
Intl.; Rev. Edward L. Bray,
Southington, Conn., born Bridgeport,
1 Conn.; Rev. Nathaniel B. C. Love,
Perrysburg, O., born East Rushwell,
jO.; Rev. James Stanton. OrmamL
i f la., born New Woodstock, N. Y?;
Rev. William F. Kins:, Mt. Vernon,
la., born Zanesville, 0., Rev. Samuel
. C. Miller, Peru, tnd., born Connersville,
Ind.
The friends of S. M. Allen will be |
, i>\ad io know that he has returned )
from the hospital in Florence where
he went for treatment some time '
ago.
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See Dr. C. S. Dietz, Dentist, office
over S. T. Sessions store, for your
Dental Work.?Advertisement 8;4 tf.
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Imparting the Truth.
There 0:111 bo n<? doubt thnt th?
proprr way ??| conveying ro my under*
KlniMlIm; n truih of which I am lgii<:111111
or or' iinpt'pssli upon mo a
binior pt'rsu!i.<'on ?r r . truth with
w hirh I inn in'MPriMood ts by an ap*
m *n l ii> VIM in Hi Godwin.
MED!I'M SALTING
IS LIKED BEST
Butter that is too highly salted is
difficult to move in the ordinary
trade channels, and creamery men
would do well to iruurd airainst VnVb
salting- unless they have a special outlot
which calls for the kind, say
specialists of the Bureau of Markets
and Crop Estimates, United States
Department of Agriculture. A gritty
condition of the salt in butter seriously
injures its market value.
A number of butter receivers are ad
vising shippers not to fill their butter
tubs too full. Duving the summer
shipments are often exposed to the
heat of the sun at some point in trail
sit, and the butter at the top of the
tub becomes very soft and runs over
the edge of the tub when handled.
Such shipments are brought to receivers'
stores in bad condition, often
showing a heavy shrinkage in weight,
resulting in a direct financial loss
to the creamery which could easily
have been avoided by filling the tubsproperly.
This condition rarely occurs
in carlot shipments. When lessthan-carlot
freight or express shipments
are made the butter should be
thoroughly chilled before shipping.
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