The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, September 08, 1921, Image 8
BLUE DANUBE
A HIGHWAY
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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 <
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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. - -
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LET US SHOW YOU THE M
ELECTRICAL DEVICES TI
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AWAY FROM HOUSE WORK
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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>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, |
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Conway, S. C. I
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