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VOLUME 1, NO. 184. freckly, Esteblhked 1860| Daily* Jen. 18, 1914. Pages 9 to 12 \ ANDERSON, S. C., SUNDAY MORNING, AUGSUST 23, 1914. PRICE FIVE CENTS , ' ?5.00 PER ANNUM WILL MEET HERE NEXT THURSDAY i ? TO HOLD COUNTY COTTON CONGRESS ALL OVER STATE Call HM Been Issued For Planters j To Rally In Every Section nt Their County Seats Neat Thursday will see the farmers lh "3hrery section of the state gathered | at. their county seats for the county! cotton congress. A cali has been sent out all over South Carolina by) Dr. Wade Stackhou3e, of Dillon, ask ing that this meeting be held and it j la probable that the farmers will ?.n-| ewer the call and will hold rousing meetings in every county in the] state. At the county meetings the plan for atorlng cotton will be outlined by the. county chairman. The state con gress has asked every farmer in the state tb hold one-third of his crop and that 121-2 cents be fixed as the minimum price per pound. It is the plan ot the leaders to ex tend the. holding movement to all cf] the.states of the cotton belt. ' At the county meetings next Thurs-1 day-'the, farmers will be asked to de cide on the question of an extra sea ajpn of the general assembly at which I ?pe state warehouse bill would be pre-1 Rented I Ontllne of Project. , The following resolution was adopt ed .by the state cotton congress: "Whereas, on account of war in, 4 Europe among the nations which con sume two-thirds of our raw cotton, and whereas, until arrangements can be made for ' vessels under the 'Amer ican flag, the ocean carrying trade has almost - been suspended, and whereas, under Buch conditions, the domestic - market can not absorb the, move me nt of cotton. . .""fie it resolved than the bankers I and fertiliser companies of the. state I dre r?q?est?d 'tb/ grant extension of j all. paper tor fertilizers and other sup plies used .lb'makin g the present crop. ? ' "Resolved, That In making such ex tension" the payments ba fixed at 60, 90 days and 120 days, BO as to enable the cotton to be'gradually marketed until some . provision can sc be made to finance and carry over the surplus. "Resolved, further. That in making, these extensions, they are only to be granted to merchants doing a credit business.- who will agree only to fur-1 njBh. in, 1915 those who will agree to? curtail their cotton crop to one-half of the acreage of the current year. "Resolved, further. That where the party to whom an extension 1B grant ed fa a.planter, he must agree, to cur tail bi? acreage in cotton to one-half that of the present crop as possible to reassure those whose labor harvests the'.crop ' '.'Resolved, further, That the chair appoint a committee.of seven to pre pare a warehouse bill, which will ?ork tn harmony with recent federal giplatlou, to tho end that we may nut'Into .'operation an efficient system Ol state warehouses.' The said com jmlttee are empowered after thiB is Mono, to request the governor to con vene tho general .BBBombly In special session." .V.V : . Committee to Meet. -The following committee was ap pointed: John L. McLaurin. J. A Banks, R. M. Cooper, t. B. Stack house. W A. Stuckey, .W. K. Durst. J. Q.-I*. White; tue G. Holieman and Arch B. Calvert. The committee has "been called to meet at- the jefferson hotel Monday . night at 8-o'clock. COUNTRY HOUSES NOT AS INCO*. ' VENIENT AS FORMERLY. ef?! In the current Issue of Farm and | Fireside James. A. King, an agrlcul ' tura! engineer, writes an article en 1 titled, "A Home-Water and Sewer ! ?yetem." He.ioscflboa-one that was, I installed In an Iowa farm home and Is now in successful operation. In the following extract from bia artluie ho] .makes a comparison of the o' i-f ash ioned fara horan with the modern ? farm homo: "A fara'1 hame., off?re advantage! I that cannot bo had In town or city at [ any price. They aro ad van ta ge s that go far toward making a. wholesome and a 'happy life.. IJ4tn recently town;and -Slty life ? 4U?nA% pertain physical comfort wh?eh>ere not to be had In 'Ifce' farm homo,- and tho absence of . detr>?tM;fcreatlyfr???fha at-, rones* of farm life. Thea? were advantage* end comforts, that go ', fur?aoe; heat, - water .works, . and systems. But recent; develop^ now malt o lt possible to have _. advantages in ino country home tat no grehter exIhihBe then In the city : home. So now oountry Mte holds' out all Of the adtf^ta???, with none of the \dIsadTantageav?otclty and town Ufe;?? *?'--.;-..' - . . .?- > . . ?HuiBQBtifpS PRIZE WINNERS IN COMMUNITY CONTEST COMPLETE LIST HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED A GREAT SUCCESS Riverside and Toxaway Mill Peo pie Tried Hard to Make Fair a Succ?s and All Are Pleased Tho community contest recently in augurated by thc Riverside and Toxa way mills, has come to a. close and officials of thc mill, as well as the em ployes of the mill, say that the con test was a groat success, that it was enjoyable and that the mill villages are much prettier places to live HA a result of the contest being given a try ! out. The following is the complete 1 list of prize winners as announced by 1). B. Goseett, president ot the mills: Bire?rtilde Village-Flower Gardens First prize-Mattie eBasley. Second prize-L. W Church. Thirds piize-MrB. Pike. Fourth prize-Annie ePace. Fifth prize-J. A Alexander. Fifth prize-A. C. Allison. Best Kept Premises. First.prize-L W. Church. Second prize-Annie Peace. Third prize Mellie Curry. Fourth prize-Mrs. Pike. Fifth prize-Lonnie Fraklin. Specials Bci.t front yard-Mattie Beasley. Best Back Yard-L. E. Smith. Best Condition Shade Trees-A. W Beasley. Best Condition Fruit Trees-Mrs. Pike. Best Home-L. W Church. Toxaway Tillage-Flowers Gardens. First prize-Mrs. Acker. Second prize-.J L Head. Third prize-J. H. Davis. Fourth prize-A H. King. Fifth prize-E. A. Hutchison, netao' shrdlu ahrdlu hrdlhrdluhrdl Fifth prize-E. J. Campbell Best Kept Premises. First prise-Mrs. Pearson. Second prise-J H. Davis. Third prise-J. E. Moulder. Fourth prize-J. H. Alewlne Fifth prize-J. B.Estes. Specials Best Front Yard-Mrs Acker. BeBt Back Yard. P. A. Hutchison. Best Condition Shade Trees-A. B. Cromer ' Best Coidition Fruit Trees-Mrs. Junklns. Best Home-Mrs. Pearson. BAPTISTS ARE GETTING RESULTS Baltimore Editor Congratulates People of State On Hospital Purchase In reference to the purchase by the South Carolina Baptism of tho Colonia hotel In .Columbia for a State hosptal, R. H. Edmonds, edi tor of 'the Baltimore Manufacturers' Record, writes to a member of. the hospital board: ' "I note* In The Baptist Courier pt July 23rd that the Baptists of South Carolina have secured for a Bap tiri hospital the! Colonia hotel at Colum bia Surely those ' who. haye been Instrumental in bringing thu about have rendered a very great service to every patient who being sick, can be so fortunato as to ba located in. such a building as a hospital. I have stopped many times at the Colonia, and lt has always Impressed Itself upon me as one of .the most attrac tive hotels In all. the South. It ls Unlike ordinary hotels. It is restful, refreshing, beautiful within and beau tiful without. It is less like a hosp tal than any place I have ever seen end with thc splendid location In the heart of Columbia, lt must be now an immensely valuable piece of prop erty and destined to very great In crease In value in the future. .I* . . I cannot help sending you a line of congratulations to them who have ' succeeded In doing this, and congratulation to the Baptists in being able to secure such an unusual property for hospitat - purposes; a bulldlnf; with surroundings of such character that rest and peace and comfort will surely be the part of ev ery patient.*' Tiie Whim of Today. Easley Progress. ^ . ' While we believe factionalism ls croppng out to some extent In the an-1 noun cements t?t the senate and house, | yat we trust the people generally, will ignore, these lines and vote for the men that they think will reflect the most cr?dit on the county. In a few years the issues of today will have been . forgotten, but the j future | pros per! ly ' and . advancements of ' the ma terial Interests of the county and state depend much on the men whom you place at the helm now. Thin is no time for narrow-misded men la any jpbaitioo. ARMORED AUTO WITH MACHINE GUN Ul "The Geruiuo army has numerous armored motorcars on which rupld Ure machine guns are mounted. NET TO PROTECT BATTLESHIP This u?t, held m place by booms, ls designed to prevent the destruction of a war vessel by torpedoed ol' mines. It extends far below the surface of the water and is kept In pince at all times when danger threatens. BICYCLE CORPS OF FRENCH ARMY Photo by American Pr CBS Association. ooo o o oooooooooooooo . . o - -ANDERSON F AHME ns . o o o ?oooooooooo ooo o o o o . o (G. F. Hunnlcutt in an editorial in The Southern Cultivator, Atlanta) While over in Anderson county we spent one night with Mr J. S. Fowler. We always enjoy talking to Mr. ?Fow ler and ; looking over his crop. He has. ct ruck it hard this year, but bis Cotton pro m ines fal ri y well. The old cotton'is well fruited, but he has much that did not come np till late. This makes his cotton have that un even or "ragged appearance." He does not count upon , his usual yield and saye, "three-fourths of a crop is all that he ls .expecting." His corn IB not so good either: 8till. he has fairly good .ears, though. his stalks. arc miall. He'said: "There small stalks are mighty bra ve to shoulder such good sited ears, as they have done." This alone can come from liberal fer tilization. Plenty : of plant food will make small talks, do wonders. In other worda- it will make a fair corn crop on .stalks that otherwise vvoula make nothing at &U- Fearing ? short corn crop, .Mr. Fowler did the wise thing-he planted his stubble lund in corn, and this youn?L corn lookB Very promising. <Ths thing is-never give up. . ?.?.... We A?S? .went.to see the crops or the Drake Brothers, j. Wade Drake and Hal ph Drake. They arc geoa runners living out south of Anderson They ' are ' progressive farmers; sow ing oats, - planting* burr, clover and co v. . ". -V ' * ^'v*''>-V' ti: /, ? ' ' H'.'.-';4 ' '? ?* ' ' ?A- .? ?r-'-Ji'.lr .'?J'.-.V.'K *. r-.-.i :>.-? .-.'??it ?.>.{'? er crops. Their crops-were good for the year. Mr. Ralph Drake succeedca In getting a good stand and bis cotton was fine. His corn wai? also goou. Ho took us down below his farm u few miles to see thc great damage the hall storm hod done. On thc farms 01 Mr. Morris and Mr. Parker lt was ut most total destruction. Here the cot ton stalks died, instead of putting nut anew as they visually do. We do not think Mr. Parker has. more than enough cotton left to make seven bales on a seven horse farm. The next day wc whet out with Mr. L. Oscar Dean. ' He has a seven hun dred' acre farm south of Anderson. His land is hilly but he is keeping ii from washing and has a good crop on lt. Mr. Dean has several hundred pe can trees and as many apple tree?. He also has a small piece of bottom that he irrigates with' surface irriga tion, simply by turning ? small branch over lt. Here he bad good beans ana garden stuff in ?pito of the dry weath er. After spending the day with Mr. Dean he carried us over, to Mr. J. C. Pruitt's and that is another story which you should read. A Lou Mann Selle Washington, August ' 22.-President Wilson today nlgned the bill recently passed by ' congress, au thor! ?in g tho secretary of war . to return to the state of 'Louisiana the original ordinance of secession, adopted by that'state at thc inception pf tho civil war. o oooooooooooooo oe O O o o o ELECTION FORECAST n ll . ' .0 0 0 0 o o o o o o e o oj o To the Smlthites that has got tho blues Coley ls going to the senate have you heard the news . . The Smlthites guying trying .to turn Coley away But he ls golog to bc elected on the 25th doy Then Smith can laugh or ho can cry Or he can turn palo face But ho will learn when candidates IB running Kot to enter the race to the pollocks and Jennmgsites 1 have nothing to say Just wait and ?<*?? who is elected on the 25th day. , . Then the other three candidates can return home and to their'wives ' say Ole Coley got elected on the 25th day ? . ?' '.> \!'-Y ? >i V?'?.? i MV, Thero ls just' one moro thing'I would like to say I Just lons; to see the Smlthites on the 26th day \l After the election - all the Smlthites can say Old Coley won the record on the 25tb . day.' W. J. FRICKS Explained Mistress-7-"Aro. you married f' Aplicant-'No'm, I bumped - into a door I "-Scribner's. Armageddon---W By Where IB Armngeddon? Tills qu?? tlon has been asked thousands ol tlinea In recent months. Col. Roose velt brought the word prominently beforo the people when he Bald, "Wo will meet nt Armageddon and buttle for thc Lord." Armageddon is the ilnul battlelield of the Apocalyptic, or Revelations of St. John, on which the final Btrugglo between good and evil will he fought. Of course lt ls related thal the forces of good will .prevull. Therefore In likening the recent presidential elec tion to Armageddon. Col. Roosevelt rather proved himself to bc tho devil of a fellow. That'B the log ic of it. The Armageddon of the Apocalypse is a figurative battlelield. Aa to lo cality it lias been conjectured-from a pusRuge of the 1st Epistle of St. Paul to the Thessalonians-that wo s- linn be caught up in tho clouds on that great day. Hut, as a matter of fact, there was an Armageddon of ancient history, a place of actual, physical warfare, and it was not KO far from the Boat of thc recent war in the Balkan states leas than thc distance from Ander son to Now York. In fact the old bat tlefield is in Palestine, now a part of Turkey; between Mt. Carmel or? the Mediterranean and Mt. Tabor nn the Jordan and 10 miles north of Naza reth. ?? Armageddon was tho great battle field of the old testament, \vhcr_ tho chief conflicts took placo between thc Israelites and their enemies-the ta ble land of Esdraelon in Galilee and Samaria, now the province of Bei rut, Syria. The'unciontiown of Meg gido gavo the ptain Us nanto. In fact. Armageddon In all ancient history has beep a famouB oatllcfiold from the time of tho wars between Atty ria and Egypt even on down to Napoleon's campaign in thc eant. The plain of Esdraelon was famed for two great defeats and two great victories for the Israelites. Thi il rat victory was that of Barak over the Canaanites, when Deborah, the prophetess, the ?prototype of Joan d'Arc, led the Israelites. Sisera, tho let der of the Canaanites waa assas sinated by another woman, Jael, who urove a nail ?brough her temples ns she slept. The next great victory was that of Gideon over the Mldlan IteB, about 100 years later. "The Midianitos and tho Amalek<tct and all the children of the eant lay along in the valley Uko grasahoppcro for multitude; and their camels were without number as thc sand hy tr-o ooooooooooooooooooo o o o FARM FACTS o o o o o o-toooooooooooooooo (?y reter Radford, National Lecturer, Farmers' Educational and Co-opera tive Union of America.) Those who till tho soil are the chosen people of God. Farming is as old as the human race and ls yet in its infancy. Success ls bound to come to the farmer who plana while he (lows. .No civilization has ever advanced beyond its arlcultural development. No farmer is successful who thinks more of bis barn than he doea of his home. The development of tho farmer him self must precede the full develop ment of the ground he tills. The most beautiful fact in the far-! mer's work is that everything ?>o planta 1B a lesson In faith. The beat farmer does not bother about getting ahead of his neighbor; < his great business ls to get ahead ot himself. We must give to the people who live on the farm the . aamo educa, tlonal advantages for their children as those of the cities enjoy. ? The country clergy Ia an agency of much potentiality because the rural life movement ia religious as well as Industrial and social. There should.be a social and an In-j dust rial survey of every community I The pastor, tho teacher and the school and church officials are they -who should make such a survey. . j frere and When w. B. seaside for the multitude," reads tile account in thc book of JudgeR. And yet "Gideon's band of 300, *v.ih J trumpets and pitchers and lamps, put tho vast multitude to flight Tl e Mldianites were so frightened that that they slaughtered each other." The two serious disasters which h - fell the Israelites on this plain were thc death of Saul at Aphck, something like 200 years a?*V Gideon. Saul eon suited a witch who conjured up the spirit of the old prophet 8amuel who foretold Saul's fate, as he had forsak en God. t And here 400 years later the good King Josiah wu? killod. He too, had the guidance of a prophoteBB, Huidah. She foretold the destruction of Ju dal). Josiah put down Idolatry, hq renewed the covenant of ?.he Lord "and like unto them thero was ' no king before him that turned to tho Lord with all h's heart." But we are told In ll Kings. 23:29 that ramon Ncchoh marched to the river Euphra tes. It was Josiah's fate to bo be tween the warring natlonB. Ncchoh warned Josiah to keep out of the way, that he was not warring against Ju dah, but Josiah went out and Nechoh's urchen; Bbot bim down. The death di Josiah ut Megiddo prompted. the heart broken lamentations, of Jeremi ah .And the prophet Zechariah even 1C0 years later wrote of the sorrow of that day "the mourning", of Had ad - rimmon in the valley o; Moglddon." In July 1700 Napoleon Bonaparte himsolf battled at Armageddon. He made a tuoceaaful entry into- Egypt, then a dominion of Turkey. .It' was Ibis intention to go to British India. But he never, got further .. than the , olalns of Acre. He landed successful ly at Jaffa on the coast of Palestine, but. Achmed Pasha? n^med . DJer.tar, "the butcher," successfully halted Na poleon at Acre. It was ot.tho foot of Mount Tabor that NqpoloohV favor ite marshal, Murat, won the name, "the bravest man in tho world." It waa there with 5,000 met) he withstood tho charges of 30,0t'?' mounted Turka for hours. ' It was grossly soe rill gloua ,of Col. Roosevelt to compare his politlctl campaign with the great : battle 'of good wtih evil, and lt was grotesque ly egotistic for him to assume so much importance'/, What h Armageddon?' No man knows,.for as we are told by,St.. Payl In Ephesians and also. In '.the apo calypse, lt will come "like a thief in- the night." But lt does seem that hu man events aro chaping np to great Anal warfare between Christiano and Moslems between Slavs and Teutons. In a recent survey of a community of New England, the average annhat Income of 154 farmers who had* a com mon school education was ?229, while the averego net Income of 122 farmers of the Hame locality with ..a high school education was-$483- innually. This was worth to each farmer who I possessed lt $263 each year. THE WAGES THAT F|RfcEB? GET. v In the current Issue of Farm and Fireside, the national farm paper pub lished at Springfield, O.. Judson C. Wol liver. . Washington correspondent ?of that publication, writes a.moat.In teresting article in which'ho pub lishes many facts recently collected 'by the United States government In Ithe course of an investigation of 700 farms in Indiana, Illinola and Iowa. , On the question of the wages that the farmer earns. Mr. Wtelliver reports": "The most interesting computation mode by the experts from ntudylng thope 700 farms was that concerned . wltb the wages the farmer1 gets. The hired man always knows what his vyagez is; the farmer generally hasn't an Idea. Well, the statistics show, that Just about one-third of the'farmers m ?naging their own forms 'gat less thin no wages, at all. "The group of the men who. earned the largest incomcB as compensation for their management of their farms are shown to have been In almost or quite all cases live-stock farmers. "In general, tho live-stock farmer Improves bia land most;,and, tho man who sella his crops improves lt least, and commonly may be said to injure. lt most." - -, --?%?> ; . / Timely AM.-, .''"TT? The Chaperon-"Young man, you have your ann;around- that .young dody's waist " Th* Young Man-"Thanks! . . I've been trying to rind the spot "all even. ;ng, but with these..newgowao;a fal low hardly knows whore ho's at"-* Puck. .' i H ns-II i II ns i ur*