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BLUE DANUBE A HIGHWAY ' Allies Complete Internationalization 01 Famous Central European River The completion of the internatioh. atization oC the Danube by the recent ionnal action o? me H^ia-stod i allien powers announced in Pavistdispatches is the occasion for tne issuance from the Washington, i/\ Ly., headquarters of the National Geographic society, of the following* bulletin descriptive of the famous river: "l?rom the lJlack lorest to the | black sea, over a course 1800 miles in , length, the Danube has long been a i chain upon which romance and history have vied ?with each other to hang interesting traditions and oc-; curences. Geography too has done j its share, and, although the Volga exceeus its rival in length, and although the Rhine in Thackeray and Hood has had better press agents, the Danube is large enough and beautiful enough to rank in interest with the great rivers of the world. "There was a time when the Danube was symbolized by an old fashioned waltz. But since the world war began, nothing but a hesitation typifies the place the river has held in the economic life of the countries through which it runs. It has been less the highway and more the barrier than in pre-war days. Not yet does it serve to bind the various nations through which it passes into a friendly and cooperating group. It has been officially open to ships of all nations since the forming of the Danube commission in 185G and the various states interested long cooperated to improve the navigation facilities, especially in the lower reaches of the river; but political conditions have done much to weaken ! 1_ 1 1 1 ? tut- economic miK wnicn once Dounu I<inz and Vienna to the great grain shipping center of Braila, to which ocean going vessels can steam, and to the Black sea ports themselves. "Charming villages, beautiful mead ows, picturesque hills crowned with ruined castles, princely palaces, ecclesiastical piles and two of the worlds most fascinating* capitals are strung along the lengthy and winding river. Thriving industries raise their smoke stacks beside the stream whose legandary color is blue but whose true tint varies from a dirty green to a muddy yellow. More tragic than the encroachment of factory smoke has been in late years the sad sight of countless chimneys from which the lifebreath of industry seem ed to have expired forever. "Near its source at Donaueschingen the river passes between the castle which gave its name to the late ruling family in fGermany and a war monument to the Hohenzollern men who fell in the Franco-Prussian war. Farther down it passes through the once proud capital of AustriaHungary, where the fine government buildings ;stand to the despairing Inhabitants as a rocking reminder of better days, and beside the Prater, once a deer park and later a pteasmv garden noted for the Viennese gaie ty. "Still farther along its course just after entering Czechoslovaki, at it? junction with the March, there i.? a towering cliff spired with a monument erected to celebrate one thousand years cf Hungarian nationality. This is Chechoslovakian territory now and there last summer the Star* and Stripes were dropped on the oc4M?ion of the visit of a large group of Czech-Americans to the newly freed land of their fathers. (mMfiolouo / ??1?1?I--*-' jjn.n.iuna, ny >1 \//iCVilU:SIUVUKItl river poil, was once the city in who:-., dignified cathedral the Hyngaria king's were crowned. The boat shi tion there reveals the changes whkt! history has wrought. Over tk center of the landing the preson Dame is given, but to the left on ea*n see most of the letters of the" 'German name 'Pressburg' and t the right there is the Hungarian name 'Poszony'. "Vienna, brooding in its lovely parks, which lack the care that was once lavished on them, and contemplating with cynicism the motto 'Si Vis Pacem. Para Bellum,' whose golden letters decorate the walls of the ministry of war, is a sad sight. But Budapest, still militant, e' ill hauhty in the consciousness of itbeauty, seems to have been less trou bled by the passage of war. "Food is the main reason. Hungary, reduced as it is, still contains some of the best land in Europe. Vienna, its industry stopped, can do little to earn the food it needs. During the summer of 1920 all traffic between the two capitals was stoppe 1 by mutual boycotts and although steamers plied the Danube from Lirr/ to Budapest, no through pas .. VI I I vy l"l C I IXU 1 V l"l I "To the casual observer, Budapest is tho same proud citv as of old. The fine Parliament building and tho imposing palace on tho heights across the river, where Admiral Horthy 7iow rules, seem as attractive as before the war. Tho upper river i^ *ti!f crowded with bathers and with winoes and rowboats in which chaining women and stalwart men do thoi> best to attain a spacious coat of tan Alon g Franz Josef Qual. the promenade adds a lively t^uch of color t' the cmb soenos to which the beautify bin'*. Danube has become accu<<to"ied "From '/emun. on tho last Hun ffarian portion tho Danube, a shori tr>n between low banks bring one t< iferjrrr/ie, tno cani^.m of t*?e n^v kingdom of the S*rbs, Croats ant J5)?venft?, where thr* steamer ronnd **o of the ancient fortress whiH dates hack to the t??ne <^f the Celt' the Pnr o?>? and t^e Franks, am eomes ?t-* dock a 'ittle way up th Save, whi^h h^re enters the Danub <Wom the south, , *A bout four honrs nail beloi Bft)grade the wide plains give way t STREET CAR ADVENTURES Chinese Student Comments on Trolley Car Rules. To master the frequently changing rules and fares on our trolley cars I is hard enough for natives, ooserved the New York Times. Yv nat must it often he for foreigners .* The president of Wesleyan University of South Dakota sends to tlie Times a kopy oi a letter recently written by iChinese student spending nis first \ ^cuv in America. He had gone to St. Louis to look for work and has [the following experience: 'Lots to learn. 1 was ready for I the tram and was going to slop in when Ihn 1 ?^ wiiuuvvvi ^iufvu its aoor. I was bewildered for a while and sot ir.e to think whether it was tne custom of a racial problem prevailed in the city. But 1 got my nerve and waited for another. 1 stepped in from the back door this time and got in all right as well as ihe other passengers. But I am not tnrough yet; I got to pay my fee. "I gave the conductor a dime and 1 got the return of one button money made of nickel and three pennies. As my money has decreased 2 cents in return, I thought that 2 cents was the fee and I have paid. * was about to slip in my money in my pocket when I saw somebody drop their fee in a machine box. This puzzled me the more and fearing if I made a mistake I dropped all the 8 cents. Another thing made me dizzy yet. It is the ticket question. Some got it, some did not, and 1 did not have it either since the conductor did not give me any. "But I am glad I can solve all this mystery now. The first one Is, "Get in from the back door and leave oiT in the front door. That one nickel button I received is worth 7 cents plus the other three pennies, which is exactly equal one dime in exchange for my dime. Chinese money is complicating but this is more bewildering! That machine T>ox Is a register box for money received, used as a vouchsafe system run by electricity. The fee is 7 cents, so I lost 3 cents for the first time in my ignorance about the affair." o J'Ever Hear This One? "Some of the promises made by can didates," said Bellingham Bray, the efficiency expert, at the New York Athletic Club, "are as fantastic as Farmer Haricot's shooting story. Describing1 a pest of birds which had made their appearance on his farm, Haricot said to a neighbor: " 'I was very much troubled with these winged thieves, for they made terrible havoc among my com. I put scarecrows up till I was tired; then I took up my gun, loaded it with powder and shot, and you should have seen the quantity I brought down. By the next morning my boy rushed indoors and yelled: " ' "Dad, hundreds of birds in the corn again!" " 'T grabbed down my gun, put in the powder, but couldn't find any shot, so I thrust in a handful of tacks, and ofF I ran. Getting to the corn, T yelled hard, and up flew the birds into a tree. I fired and blamed if all the birds weren't nailed to the tree, with their wings flapping as if flying. Struck with the sight, I stood watching them, when?I could hardly believe my eyes?the blessed things pulled up the tree and flew away with it.' "?Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. o Leprosy Not Fully Understood. Leprosy Is still somewhat of n puz le to inert I <>n I science. nnrt the menus t .vhlch it Is spread lias never been -Mtlsfoetorll.v determined. The house'\ Is suspected of occasional agency i flip matier. but the case agalns? luir insect has never been proved. If considerable majority of enses sturt d personal contact with lepers I'^mi'd unquestionably to be accou-Jt tble for the Infection. o T emperamenta'. Six-year-old Bessie, returning from church and eager to tell the news, said. "Oh, mother we have a new terror In the choir."?Boston Transcript. hilly country where the Transylvani: Alps curve down toward the jumph of mountains which extends to Mon 1 r-> Tl. 1 1 I icnr^i ; emu ureece, it is 111 mis rc "ion that the main obstruction o the river occur. But the most famou obstructions and the finest scenes come at the Kazan Dufile and thi 'Iron Gates,' where the rivers ha col looted a gruesome toil. "At Rustchuk, the railway travele from Rumania ferries/across a broa< and sluggish stream to continue hi journey to Sofia and Constantinopl and here the banks of the Danub are lined with huge barges, many o which are still idle. Below Silistm the river curves to the north an passes through Rumanian territor throughout tho rost of its length. A Cerna Voda, it is crossed by one c the longest railway bridges in th Wni'lfl tVir? In of r\f fl\A .. v,. .vM v.?v u?.?v wi tuc; many in mm 1 which cross the stream, some < i which are now destroyed as a rosu of the war and post-armistice fiph ' inj?. / "Rrnila, 125 miles from the thr< mnin mouths of the Danube, is > port for the prain and produce of 1 ri^h agricultural reprion. In nre-w* davs its wharves teemed with 1i* - H,q huf*e prrain elevator^ hnldf*< t with tVio rirh products of Wallar^ ) T^ohind'a. which has peon pro: ' lovolonnicnt sin^e the Russians fa1 i t'? Wnmnnio in^t^ad of thn mo ^'vnhiphle ond fe~t,'J^ tra^t.Q of \ 1 PvpWq. From Galnt* to the sea r>nr?nhe has alroo/lv liopn undor t.1 1 ' optvoi of or* international c>m*v?f o -inn dutv h'-'s heon to tl P vIvav ond the ma?w nat'*ona'ifif?s ' \vV?Am t^e river is Mf*hwav or harri v ^"^ordinf to t.h* t*d*?j of human pa 0|Sion and national life." THE HORKY HERALD < I' I Everything Is Bas Americans Are I By LOUIS THOM Nothing is founded on traditii on speculation, gambling on the sto( cans are intensely active and first ai When the A. E. F. was in Frai nblv wasteful Americans were, how how ridiculously shortsighted in ma gamblers. They don't want to mak ! make a lot of mouey in a very short take chances. The American's wastefulness, w as well admit that we are sometimes is easily understood if you consider Money won in games of chance and most American money is like th their money by luck, by a stroke of < deuces (and not by the sweat of theii thrift and wasteful to an inconceiva Everybody wastes in the Unitcc women, who, as a rule, do not seem nomical habits of their old world t o ACTIVITIES OF WOMEN. Divorce is unknown to women of j the Isle of Jersey. The women in Italy work on the farms just as the men. Fifty-four nurses are attached to the American forces in Germany. Women climbers are particularly numerous this year in Switzerland. The Secretary of State and f State Historian of Alabama art women. ' i ' The first woman's Republican club in New York was organized in 1895. Silk stockings are claimed to protect their wearers from lightning. M iss Bernice C. Shidelsky is making a tour of the United States for the purpose of studying divorce. Miss Margaret McArdie Is buyer for one of the bitr steel corporations in Birmingham, Ala. Miss Dorothy M. Rehfeld, ot Aberdeen, is said to be the only woman practicing law in South Dakota. The smallest species of women Is found in Lapland. Thev average four feet nine inches in height. At a mothers' meeting held recently in South Centre, Kan., a ban was put on short skirts and high heels. Mile. Hanoun known as Turkey's Joan of Arc, is likely soon to be named as the onlv woman ami bassador to the United Spates. Women now can hold office In Missouri, the question having been carried bv a lnrge maionty In the recent State-wide election. o Honest *Swain. "I'm erlad I broke ofT my en pavement with Charles " said Merry Blue. "He'c i'o irentleman." "Oil!" said her friend Cherry. "Why, I thought him one. What has he done?" "Weil. I sent him hack his presents," answered Merry. "I sent him all back except the diamond riner and ; a few other things which I thought T was really entitled to, considering the hours of my time I gave him, and I asked him to return mine." "Well" asked Cherry, "did he refuse ?" "He did not. He not only sent me back a box of cigars, unopened, and a necktie, which the brute had never worn, but he also sent five boxes of face powder, saying that he estimated that to be about the quantity he had taken away on his coat during the time we were engaged."?Houston Post. o Oil of Apples. Chemists l)Hve newly succeeded In extracting from apple parings, by means of ether, an essential oil, yellowish. and of a somewhat gummy consistency, which possesses In high dfygtee the characteristic and delicious odor of fresh apples. C'abappie parings yield more of this oil than those - (?f ordinary apples. It is likely to be turned to useful account for flavoring ? urposes and conceivably for per fumes. J STRIPES AND PLAITS L ^ ^ With the stripe plus the plait ieslgners arc endlessly Ingenious. On <tf the new skirts for spring Is show; above, made of material having i f>r pteln stripe alternating with a cheeke ia- qm. By means of box plaltc til dMeks are almost knit sight of. JON "7AY. S. 0., SEPT. 8, 1921. ed on Speculation; always Gamblers. AS, French Writer. >n in America. K very thing is based k market and the exchange. Amerild last gamblers always. ice our experts noted how immeasur indifferent to the cost of things and ny ways. It's because Americans are i3 a fair profit for a long time, but to time. In order to do this they must hieh amazes the French (for we may ; economical to the point of avarice), the gambling spirit. ' slips through the fingers like water, at; in America so many people made renins, by a series of favorable coinci brow) that they are naturally spend1)1 e degree. I States, even the poor, and especially to have had time to acquire the ecolisters. VELVET? BEANS The Best and Surest Summer Legume for South Carolina?Great for Feed and Fertility, Says N. E. Winters, Extension Agronomist. Clemson College, April 25.?Of the great variety of legumes which may be grown in South Carolina for feed, pasture, and soil improvement, velvet beans probably head the lint for the following reasons: They make a fairly good growth on the poorest land in the South. They make a bigger growth than almost any other legume. Because of their growth they take a large amount of nitrogen from the air; and when plowed under or pastured off and all residue and manure incorporated with the soil, most of this nitrogen and large amounts of organtic matter are added to the soil. Every ton of growth may add to the soil from 25 to 30 pounds of expensive nitrogen. They will make more milk and meat per acre as a pasture next fall and winter than anything farmers can plant this spring. Last, but not least, when planted In corn they help to check that "Fodder pullin* disease," an antiquated and expensive method of making feed. Varieties. Probably the best varieties for South Carolina are the Early Speckled or Ninety Day, and the Osceola. Th? former matures in about 120 days and the latter in about 160 days. The Osceola makes a larger growth of vine and foliage and larger pods than the Early Speckled; but as it needs about 40 days longer period, it is not so well adapted to the upper part of the state. The Early Epeckled matures anywhere in South Carolina. Livestock usually eat the Early Speckled more readily than the Osceola, although Ihey like both. Method of Planting. Velvet beans make more seed and better pasture if they have a trellis to 1 I ? t U n , run uu, it iiw rum ir? me iiiunu |iujuiable trellis. Moat velvet bean growers plant them in their corn, in alternate rows with the corn, using corn rows <? 1-2 to 7 feet wide. If the length of season permits, it is a good pl*n to plant the beans from 20 to 30 day* after the corn, which permits the corn to make more growth before the beans begin to entwine around it, and results in the corn standing up better At harvest time. Another method adapted to the upper part of the state especially is to lay off all rows about four feet apart and plant every third row to velvet beans with com in the two rows between. This is especially advisable where the beans are planted at the same time as the corn, as it takes longer for the vines to cover the corn and usually leaves a better opening between the two corn rows in which one may walk in gathering the oorn. Amount of Seed Per Acre. Farmers are using from one to two pecks of seed ner acre for planting In corn, planting from 12 to 24 inchef *part In the drill. If planted alone in rows, about one bushel of seed pei acre- is required, or about six pecks broadcast. Effect on Corn Crop. The first year the beans may re duce the yield of corn about two bush sis (about the same reduction as pull Inpr fodder causes): but the next yeai following a crop of velvet beans th< field of corn Is likely to be increase* About 33 per cent, and cotton about 2! percent. On poor soil the increase! ire often more than this. Fertilization and Inoculation. It is usual to fertilize the corn ai you otherwise would and let the velve heans use what the corn doesn't get Some farmers increase the amount o their corn fertilizer for the benefit o the velvet beans. It is never necet sary, however, to increase the amoun of ammonia in the fertilizer for vel vet beans. n Velvet beans use the same tnoculc tlon as cowpeas, peanuts, and leap? d deza or Japan clover, hence Inoculi tloa fa practically never necessary, a oar tolls are already inoculated to tfctOL X. % CALCIUM ARSENATE TREATMENT An idea of the benefit gained by application of the calcium arsenate treatment devoloped and recommended by the United States Department of Agriculture against the cotton-boll weevil is found in the experience of a largo planter at Tallulah, La. With the exception of certain test plats, this man's entire acreage was (lusted with [ calcium arsenate, the cost being $').20 an acre. He obtained an average yield of 1,215 pounds of seed cotton to the acre on tho land surrounding the test piats, while these unpoisonod test plats averaged only 300 pounds, rir about 25 por cent of the yield on the poisoned cotton. Thus his net proiii from poisoning on these areas on sales made before declining prices of cotton v/at! about $120 an acre. o No Advocate but itsa?f Do imt waste >? minute, not n seo ond. In trying to demonstrate to nth i>rs the merit of your own performmire. If your vork does not vlndlcure Itself, you cannot vindicate It. but you can labor steadily on to the something which needs no advocate but Itself.?Thomas Wentworth Hlgglnson, "A Letter to a Young Contributor." | ANNOUN My R m limit Wi , Thursday a Sept. 22 i I When I will have on displ attractive line of Pattern shown in Conway, incluc that were shown in the F All of thp larlips nf Tnri vv I dially invited to attend. \ I of ladies' Dresses, Coat S I from the Factory. Cloal I and invite you to examine B material before buying els I My Millinery Open i Friday, Sept. 23, 1921, in | Respect f 13rd. Ave. - - I : PUSH the BUTT' I AND YOU HAVE ELECTRI AT YOUR SERVICE IN M DIFFERENT WAYS. LET US SHOW YOU THE M ELECTRICAL DEVICES TI WILL TAKE THE DRUIX AWAY FROM HOUSE WORK J MAKE HOUSEKEEPING EAS f "An Electrical Home mc t Happy Home " iPhone or Ca ij Quattlebaum Lig "I f yt v Looks That Way. An Italian was among a party of young men working on a road when a smartly dressed young fellow in a motor car went by slowly: 1 He had a young lady with him and ?to show off?he yelled out to the Italian: I ley, Macaroni, whcre's your monkey? | Quick as a flash the brawny Genoese yelled back: 1 give him a day off, mister, and I think he's taken his best girl out joy ridin' in a section hand car.?Clipped. o Wtoe I.HW8 of the Ancients. Tim Llrlnuin law. effective 275 B. C.. forbade anyone to own more than *><io acres of land and more than 100 lame cattle, or 500 small animals. An* oilier law of the same name. 56 B. O.. Imposed n heavy penalty on those who organized clubs for massing power at mi election, while another law, 103 B. C.. limited the funds one might expond fur supplying his table. o When you consider the delicate character of the skin and flesh of a chicken, and the pressure that the poultry in a heavy package exerts upon itself, it is easy to understand why the small package has its advantages. IGEMENT | egular iiy Opening 11 be Btivd Fridav >23,1921 ay the most up-to-date and I Hats that has ever been I ling twelve of the patterns I ashion Show in Baltimore. I (t 'ay and the country are cor- I Ve also have a real nice line I uits and Coats. All fresh I cs for Misses and Children, I i our Goods as to price and I ewhere. I ing at Loris, S. C., will be I the store with Gore Bros. I ully yours, | IRKS CO. Conway, S. C. I eramnmB .. ? -1 IANY \ ^3 I >CTp ;ERY I ^ II to He* U8. I [ht & Ice Company I