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A U. I . ... MEN WHO RAN DOWN TEACHER (Continued From Page One.) other lying down in the wagon. The one lying: down, she thought, was lying down flat. She could not say that all were laughing, but all three in the wagon were talking. She thought there was a case of disorderly conduct in the magistrate court against these men. W. J. Ayres learned there had been trouble in the road and went to the place. He saw where the track of the wagon turned out of the road. He and one other trailed the wagon and found the horse and wagon at Jane Ray's. Fowler was down on the pnrch. After a little Grainger and Cooper came up and said they were drinking. Cooper said he had been . 1..^ 1 J ?i I uneasy pver since lie1 nan a riven over the teacher. Later Fowler said he had told Lonnie not to do that. He saw part of a jug of w^ne. A boy so id the horse and wapon belonged to Daggett Fowler. The wine was taken bv Officer King. Fowler was sleeping soundly. The wagon had not left the ruts anywhere except where ran over the teacher. The wagon was the width of the wagon outside the ruts. Cooper he thought said t*iat Grainger was driving the wagon. * Cooper was not sorry at first. One of the boys said it was a lie if anybody said they had turned out of the ruts. J. C. Ayres next testified. The teachers came to his house and told about what happened. He went to the place and saw where the wagon turned out of the road. Finally he helped to trace out the men and found them at Jane Ray's. Fowler was on the porch and the two others came up after-a little while. They acknowledged they had run over the young lady. T)ve? rural policeman came up and the defendants were brought to jail. The men afterwards wanted to make it up and pay some money to the young lady and pay some to the school. On cross examination he said that one of the defendants had said that Oainger was working with Fowler. He is a trustee of the school ,and D. 1V1. Causey is also a trustee. They were present when the warrant was sworn out Miss Derring did not swear out the warrant. Both of the boys seemed to have been driving from what they said. Later on one of them said that this horse had the babbit of getting out of the road. F. B. Sarvis testified that he saw the men in the wagon. They wej*e the men indicted. The horse was trotting at the time. They asked him if he wanted a drink of wine. H. N. Anderson was also a good "witness for the State. J. K. King, rural policeman, testified about getting the wine from the wagon party. The Defense I.. L. Grainger, the youngest of the defendants, took the stand and s,aid lie was seventeen years old. that he alone was responsible for running the wagon over the young lady. On cross examination he said he h id gone to look at a man's place to buy it, etc.; that they had gone to J/me Ray's house to get out of the Tai:i. He could not explain why he and Cooper were out in the rain when the men came to Jane Ray's. He claimed nobody drove the horse except him. o Floors, Wal^* Steps, etc. , Scrub the cold-cellar with a "red Seal Lye solution of one teaspoon ful to a bucket } of water. Prevents fermeni tat ion and mould, keeps vegetables and preserves sweet and good. Ideal for treating any grimy wall, - steps or floor. RED SEAL Lye gives very fine results when used with white-wash on out - buildings, chicken* houses and the like. Write for booklet describing uses. Pull directions in each can. Be *n- -?^ sure and buy only the genuine RED SEAL Lye, WSiwyH F.C.Tmmi&C*. jj STREET OWENS UNDER ARREST Marion Negro Makes Liquor on Horry Side of The River Street Owens, a Marion County negro, is the latest catch of the prohibition authorities, as he was placed in the Horry County jail on last Friday evening, in default of bail, charged with distilling whiskey. He is a young negro man of about nineteen years of age, capable of having been engaged in lawful work. The trail which led to the capture of Owens began in Marion County where Eichelberger located a ring that was disposing of quantities of blind tiger and walked up on Owens while he was operating a still in the river swamp on the Horry County side of the Little Pee Dee river. rn _ 1- Ji * * 1 taxing tne negro into custody, he hold him in Mullins until the sheriff ?nd Deputy H. N. Sessions were notified at Conway. The Horry County officers also brought in the stiH, consisting of a gasoline drum and a copper still worm. With the outfit they got about two gallons of whiskey. The officers said that it was one of the finest outfits they have seen in a long time. o THE FARMER PLEDGES HIS OLD FARM Old farm, with your pillaged fields sprend out to the winter, brown and bare, It strikes me, summing the whole year up, that I haven't treated you square; I have taken all that you had to give, with never a grateful sign, Though I knew, deep down in my greedy soul, your right was as sure as mine. And now that the year is young again, and folks start off anew, I am going to turn a brand new leaf, and do my part by you; There shall be food for your starving soil, soft grass where your wounds have been, And, to cover your breast from the winter rain, a bright, thick coat of green. I swear to you here, with my shamed face turned to the light of the friendly sun, The careless harm you have hat at | my hand this year sKall be undone; Patient and kind you have always been, and true to your Maker's plan. And my heart speaks now to your own clean heart as man may speak with man. I will play you fair by the hopes I hold for the fruitful years to be. That when at last, as God may will, the son that comes after me Shall poss down the burdened golden fields his father's hands have sown, He shall turn his heart to the need of the land as surely as to his own. Katherine Atherton Grimes in "The Southern Agriculturist." o FERTILIZING VALUE OF VELVET BEANS Clem son College.?In the Weekly Mews Notps of J/an.. 27th, 1023, in an irticle under the above title, the potash content was given, in error, as 4.59, when it should have been 1.59. To correct this error and to serve further to answer inquiries from farmers regarding the fertilizing value of velvet beans, the article is repeated here. Velvet beans in the pod have approximately the following composition on the average: Phosphoric acid, .69, nitrogen 2.74, potash 1.5ft. Of course the most valuable constituent is nitrogen (or ammonia). It is readily seen that on the basis of composition, the velvet bean when ground with the pod is about half as valuable as cottonseed meal as a fertilizer. In each case the ammonia is in organic form and of course there is more organic matter added with the velvet bean. The agronomists say that if the velvet bean is to be used as a fertilizer, it should be added at or before the time of planting for any crop; and if used under cotton, it should be sud plemented by the addition of a more readily available form of ammonia, such as nitrate of soda. In fertilizing cotton properly, never more than ialf of the nitrogen should be added i the form of velvet beans, and probbly in most cases the logocal use of he velvet bean is as a feed rather han as a fertilizer. o WAS A WHOPPER A whale skull, so large that it had o be sawed into eight pieces for \andling and crating, was recently *ound on the shore of Alitak Bay, \laska, by a representative of the biological Survey, U. S. Department )f Agriculture, who was in the territory investigating the fox farming industry. First aid was given by the courteous skipper of a passing ship who took it to a nearby cannery, from The other defendants did not testify. The arguments were made or Monday evening. On Tuesday morning the court fin ished up the case against Dagget Fowler, Jim Cooper and L. L| Grainger. The jury returned a verdict of guil ty of simple assault and battery anc the sentence was passe dat $100 01 30 days each. I THE HORRY HERALD, OOIM THE ROMAN EMPIRE By Reba Floyd, 8th Grade Mt. Olive School. The establishment of the Roman Empire was a gradual process. After the beginning: of the empire the first two centuries w,as one long period of good government for the Roman world. A few of the Caesars at Rome were weak or wicked, Sut their follies or crimes were felt 'nly by the nobles of the capital. The system of government had become so fixed that the world moved alcr.g on much the same lines whether a philanthropic Cornelius or a mad Caligula sat upon the throne. To the Rom.an city the empire was political death; to the provinces it was the beginning of new life. Everywhere rude stockaded villages changed into lively markets of trade, huts in palaces, footpaths into paved Roman roads. Roman irrigation made part of the African desert the garden of the world. From drifting sands J l_i_ ! 1- il- - i 1 ? 1 ue.-suiuie rums iuock tne traveler or today. Tn Gaul, Caesar found no real towns but in fhe third century that province had 116 flourishing cities, works of art, roads, aqueducts and schools of eloquence and rhetoric. Particular attention was paid in cities to the water supply. That of Rome was better than that of London or Paris today. The cities had more and better public baths than the modem capitals of Europe or the cities of America. In the main, it was a city of life, but most cities rested directly on agriculture. A letter ascribed to Hadrian declares that in Alexandria "No one is idle; some work glass, some make paper (popyrus), some weave linen. Money is the only god." Slaves performed most of t,h#? unskilled. Vinrrl labor in the towns. For the "gentleman class" there were the occupations of law, the army, literature, and the forming of large estates. A middle class furnished merchants, engineers, architects, bankers, teachers, and many of the men of letters; medicine. commerce and bankers, however, were not for the noble class. Banking had for .1 long time been an important business. The roads were safe, piracy ceased from the seas, and trade flourished as it was not to flourish again until the days of Columbus. The ports were crowded with shipping and the Mediterranean was spread with happy sails. One Roman writer exclaimed, "there are as many men upon the waves as upon land." Private travel from the Thames to the Euphrates was swifter, safer, and more comfortable than ever again until the days of railroads, well into the nineteenth century. One language, or at most two, answered all need from London to Babylon. Whole families took pleasure trips in a body, and quite in modern fashion. They defaced precious monuments of the past with their scrawls. There were many private post companies, however, to carry people and letters from city to city, and the wealthy sometimes sent letters to distant lands by trusted salves. T ovntinn hv flip rpntvnl o-nvpvmiipnt I was heavy, no doubt, but during these two centuries it was less in amount than most of the provinces had had to pay to their earlier native rulers, ft very farmer and landlord p/iid tax on land. In the towns every citizen and every trader paid a poll tax. Tariffs were sometimes collected at the frontiers of a province on goods entering or departing. Roman citizens paid a tax of five per cent on inheritances. Furthermore, Africa and Egypt paid a peculiar tax in grain. Although the imperial tax was heavy, it was usually collected with the greatest possible consideration. In a bad season, in a given province, the amount was lessened promptly by imperial order. If an Egyptian village, on a dry year, received too little water from the Nile for its usual crop, the tribute in grain was remitted (?) or lightened. The government did not build hos pitals or asylums, or maintain complete systems of education, or care systematically for the public health, yet the government of the Roman empire came nearer doing: these things than any government in the world was to do after it until very reccnt times. And two things in particular it did do. It kept the "good Roman peace." And it built and kept in repair the Roman roads?the bonds of union and means of intercourse in the Roman world. This meant a huge expense. By its generous policy, by its prosperity and good government, by its uniform law, and its means of close communication, the empire won spiritual dominion over the hearts and minds of men. Rome, without conscious effort, molded the manifold races of her realm into one. o IJAKDKN PROFITS Bij Money in Small PlotH. Clemson College.?"Story books say - that there is a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Maybe so; I don't doubt it." says Geo. P. Hoffman, Extension Horticulturist; "but I do know ' that there is money under that rub, bish pile in your backyard or in that , implanted garden. There is health and wealth waiting to be dug out of ' 'Mother Earth' for every Gardner. Arc you tickling 'Mother Earth' until she which place it was possible to send it tb the States. In accordance with i a co-operative understanding the skull was sent to the Smithsonian Institute - at Washington. t o The bridge at the Half Way Creel on the National Highway, near Todd ville, is a fine piece of work, as far af 1 all appearances go. It makes a bij r difference in the looks of the crossing:. / ? yAY, S. 0, MAE. 8, 1923 NONEAR-FIGHT HAD HAPPENED Last week there was a story current about the streets that a nearfight had taken place in the grocery store of B. T. Hynian, between Holmes Russ and an unknown man who happened to be trading in the store at the time that Mr. Russ was. The Herald man heard of it as it went the rounds and an item appeared in the paper last week concerning the alleged occurrence. After the last issue of The Herald had gone out, the proprietor of the <2tore said that it was all a mistake; that what actually happened took place, in what he thought was a joking way, between two men, who happened to be in the store at the same time, one of the men being Mr. Russ and the other a member of the firm of Banner Brothers, who keep a dry j?ood? store on the same side of the street as the grocery store. This correction is made regarding the matter and attention is called to the tendency which seems to exist in regard to trivial occurrences whereby such things will be taken up by the street and enlarged and varied by various tellers of the story until it is out of all proportions to the thing which really took place. This story was being told as the absolute truth by those who seemed to enjoy it. In about the same hundreds of things about like it are taken out every day and told, and re-told without any regard for the actual I fact3. is green with vegetables, or are you paying- some one to do it for you? A prescription written by a good gardener and filled by a good garden is a sure cure for 'spring fever'?and the pills do not have to be sugar-coated." Although the garden produces more real profit per acre than any other portion of the farm, Mr. Hoffman continues, it is always the first to be neglected. There is no section of the country. North, South, East or West, which is better adapted to vegetable gardening all the year around than is South Carolina. Our winters are mild and our summers temperate and the rainfall is abundant and well distributed over the entire year. Different people have different ideas about a home garden. The housewife says: "It furnishes me a supply of fresh vegetables for the table and gives me material to can for winter use". The small city gardener says: "It furnishes me a place for profitable exercise and at the same time reduces my grocery bill." The busy farmer says: "It's a blamed nuisance, because I have to stop my farm work to do the garden work." As a matter of fact, the home garden furnishes many advantages to all; such as. an abundant supply of fresh vegetables all the year round; assurance of fresh vegetables of the best quality; saving made by use of vegetables in place of more expensive 'oods; better health resulting from arge use of vegetables. The Extension horticulturists have accurate data showing that a backyard garden of one-twentieth of an acre has been operated at a cost of $18.04 a year with a net return of $47.28. Can you beat it with any other crop? No, so roll up your sleeves and begin "spring house cleaning" in the garden, so that you may qualify for the front rank in the big Garden Week drive in March. County farm and home demonstration agents and Smith-Hughes agricultural teachers will be glad to furnish ammunition in the form of "Garden Dope" to help make the campaign a success. i USE FEB FOR Q * Get n ED L. SMI i <* f * ' ? Clemson College.?That the farm demonstration Service of Clemson College covered a wide field of activities and rendered valuable services in many ways to South Carolina agriculture in 1922 is borne out by facts and figures found in the annual report of the Extension Service for 1922. Compartaively few people have an adequate conception of the amount and varietv of Wftrlr rlnrie nl- nfrtmnfa/l ? m ? v* VBVIIV V* |#4 VlllVVWt by these demonstration agents. MARCH FARM CALENDAR What to Do This Month Agronomy Prepare land thoroughly?where cotton is to be planted. Purchase fertilizer in carlots and pay cash, then mix at home to save money. Repair all planters, plows and other machinery for spring use. Get seed ready for planting and make sure of having plenty of the best seed possible on hand. Pelint cotton seed and make germin of i/\r* 4-Aof uaviv/ii tcnii VI tuilli Horticulture v Plant fruit trees before the weath er turns warm. Prune back severely late planted trees. Raspberries and blackberries may be planted at any time in March. Prune and spray fruit trees as instructed by your county agent, and prepare to follow up with spring sprays.' ^ Cultivate and fertilize the orchard. It is as necessary as with cotton and other crops. Prune bunch grapes not pruned. They will bleed to some extent, but that is better than not pruning. Remember that a good many of the winter vegetables should be planted in the early spring?such as celery, salsify, carrots, parsnips. Animal Husbandry. Give the sows close attention at far| rowing and for several days afterwards. Put each sow and litter in a separate lot if possible. Get ride of non-producing sows. Fertilize and re-seed poor spots in the permanent pastures. Sow rape on good land for spring and summer. Clean up pastures so the weeds can be kept down by mowing later on. *Use crude oil or coal tar to rid hogs of lice. Dairying. r Seed the permanent pastures now. MOTHER! MOVE CHILD'S BOWELS "California Fig Syrup" is Child's Best Laxative Hurry Mother! A teaspoonful of "California Fig Syrup" now will thoroughly clean the little bowels and in a few hours you have a well, playful child again. Even if cross, feverish, bilious, constipated or full of cold, children love its "fruity" taste, and mothers can rest easy because it never fails to work all the souring food and nasty bile 1 Virginia a Chemica LTILIZ best res /V1KUjm/\ \ CAROLINA \ 1^7*1 ^3 \ CHEMICAL / X^CO^/ iy prices before TH,Agt., CON * ; . X .. *"/. *; %? Si ft ? .u^Myv.#. Extension Circular 32 will tell you I how to do it. I Plant corn in late March to be ready I to feed as a soiling crop in July when I thp pasture is poorest. I Breed cows this month to calve in I December or early January when milk I and butter prices are highest. I Do not turn cows on the pasture I until it gets a pood start. You will I he amply repaid later. 1 Entomolgy I See that the spray pump is over- I hauled for the spring spraying. I Get Information Card No. 16 and I prepare to control the leaf plant lice. I Get Extension Circular No. 25 and I be ready to follow the spraying pro- I gr*m to control orchard pests. I Prepare to poison the boll weevil I but consult the county agent before I buying machines or poison. I r?nn?t. nla^t. or>rr> after corn on land I lv% mliU U511 ? uuoavgu mui uiu-uugs. Spray the chicken house -well with lime-sulphur wash to control mites. . Plant Diseases. ,J Last call for the dormant cleanup and spraying of the orchard. Get "Certified" seed Irish potatoes for planting. Treat Irish and sweet potatoes with corrosive sublimate for disease control before planting. Delint cotton seed to control disease and stimulate germination. Get seed of wilt-resistant cotton. cowpeas, melons, or tomatoes, if the fungus wilt of the crop in question is present in your soil. Make and store lime and bluestone preparation for use in Bordeaux mixture later. Lay in other spraying supplies and see that the spraying machinery is in (rood shape. Beys* Club Work All boys who expect to join one of the boys' clubs should do so this month. See your county agent. Kills rats and mice?that's RAT-SNAP, the old reliable rodent destroyer. Comw in cakes?no mixing with other food. Your money back if it fails. 35c size (1 c.^ke) enough for Pantry, Kitchen or Cellar. >4, 65c size (2 cakes) for Chicken House, coops, or small buildings. $1.25 size (5 cakes) enough for all farm and out-buildings, storage buildings, or factory buildings. Sold and Guaranteed by Piatt's Pharmacy, Conway, S. C. > j right out of the stomach and bowels without griping or upsetting the child. Tell your druggist you want only the tfCnuillP "Palifornio t'ln ...1.: -X. 0 M. |? ujr I Ujl ? men has directions for babies and children of all ages printed on bottle. Mother, you must say "California." Refuse any imitation. -Carolina I 1 Co.'s I ERS IT TW Tin I >ULI2> i buying WAY'S. C f Brail ' r - lfffcirifef