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C O MAE EGGS AND BuTTER CO-OPERATIVE C R E A M E R I E S HAVE PROVEN A GREAT F-0 NANCIAL SUCCESS. DISPATCHES FROM COLUMBIA Doings and Happenings That Mark the Progress of South Carolina Poo ple, Gathered Around the State Capitol. Columbia. Cooperative creameries operated during the past year under the direc tion of Clemson college have proved a great financial success, according to figures.given out recently by W. W. Long, state agent for the demonstra tion work. The value of the product marketed during the past 12 months was $11,217.29. The oreamery routes served 217 farmers, owning 650 cows. The college also collected 4,035 dozen eggs, which were sold at an average of 16 cents a dozen. The eggs were sold for $645.50. The following table shows the re sults of the Clemson creamery and poultry association for the past 12 months: Month. Lbs. Fat. Price Value. September .. 508 $0.35 $177.82 October ....... 846 .35 296.15 November .... 1,323 .35 463.05 . December ..... 2,001 .35 -700.35 January ....... 2,900 .30 870.00 February ...... 4,327 .30 1,298.10 March ........ 7,108 .30 2,132.40 April .......... 8,138 .29 2,359.42 May ..........10,000 .29 2,900.00 Total ....................11,217.29 Discussing the creamery Mr. Long said: "WVhen we have worked out the problem of making and marketing butter under summer conditions at our creamery at Clemson college, and when Prof. R. L. Shields, head of the animal husbandry and dairy division at the college, and B. 11. Rawl, head of the daAry division of the fedeTal department of agriculture, state that we are prepared to extend the cream ery work, it is our wish to see that the farmers and business men of Co lumbia come forward and organie a co-operative creamery at Columbia. Then we will give it all the assist ance possible from a scientific and technical standpont. "We hope to be in position to un dertake this work this fall, If the farmers and business men of Colum bla will be in position to organize the creamery. "This policy will be pursued in es tablishing other creanieries about the state as rapidly as we think condi tions justfy. "It may be interesting to note just how rapidly our creamery has devel oped at Clemson. We not only eol bet butter fat on these routes, but we are also collecting eggs and mar keting them in New York. Eggs have been cheaper 'this spring than in the passt ten years and while the farmer has not received an increase over tihe local price he has found a ready cash market." Hunter's License Act Effective. The hunter's license act adopted by the general assembly at its last session, whlich act applies, howvever, to but 17 of the 44 counties in the s-tato is now effective, t'he other 27, Rlichland among them, being specifical ly exempt. Counties in which the new law takes effect tis week are: Lexington, - Blarn-well, Beaufort, Calhoun, Charles ton, Chester, D~arlington, Dillon, D~or chester, Florence, Gireenv'ille H-amp ton, Jasper, Laurens, Marion, Oconee, Orantgeburg. Counties exempt from its provisions are: Richland, Berkeley. Clarendon. Blamberg, Georgetown, Saluida. Xken, Abybeville, Pickens, York, Lee, Gr'een woodI, Newberry, Cherokee, Lancaster, Marlboro, Union, Edgefield, Spartan burg, Hlorry, Colleton, Williamsburg, Anderson, Chesteffeld, Sumter Ker shaw, Fairfield-27. Tax Beard Should Assess Banks. In an opinion handed down, Thomas HI. Peeples, attorney general, said that the act creating the South Carolina tax commission required it to "assess and equalize the taxa-ble value of banks nd 'banking corporations for the year 915." His opinion on the subject was asked 'by A. W. Jones, chairman of the commission, following presentation of a brief -by attorneys for a number of * .4%- the banks in the state at a hearing on the matter of valuation and assess meont of bank and banking corporations for taxation. Offers a Model Building Code. That cities may share properly In the distribution of tile firemen's In surance and protection fund, F". H-. McMastr, state insurance commis sioner, has prepared and mailed to eaoh municipality In the state a copy of a building and einspection code de signed to meet the requirements of an .act by the general assembly in 1914, allowing two years for the passage of tinifornm' ordinances. The code is r'ecommnended for adoption in cities which hiave/ not previously adopted building 'codes. MHme Club Wark li . It 4 The home deo$Xtreti4 'work has been established in 'P COUntties with 24 well trained demobstrators, em ployed for 10 ,Xuonths each year, ac cording to a repdrt 41164 With Gov. Manning by Miss Edith L. gParrott, state agent. The report is contained in the annual statement of all hea(1 of depat-tments of' Winthrop college. Approximately 3,090 women and girls are receiving practical lessons in home economics and elementary agricul ture. A four year's curriculum of study has now been iapped out for tbe inembers of the clubs. Bread club work is now being con ducted itn all of the 24 counties. This new feature was inaugurated in 1914. This summer a short course will be given at Winthrop college. Two girls will attend from each county. In addition three-day courses will ~e glyen at Charleston, Gaffney, Coluin bia and Greenville. "Our home demonstration work," says Miss Parrott, "is a strilving ex ample of the interdependence of town and rural activities." The demonstration work has been litagurated in the following counties: Abbeville, Anderson, Barnwell, Beau fort, Charleston, Chester, Cherokee, Clarendon, Darlington, Dillon, Flor ence, Greenville, Horry, Lee, Lexing ton, Marion, Marlboro, Newberry, Richland, Spartanburg, Sumter, Union, York and Williamsburg. The various agencies have raised $22,525 for the support of the work. In 1914 the counties coutributed $13,325 as com pared with $17,150 this year, which shows that interest in the movement is increasing. "With the growth of the Lever lund, our organization w'il he strengthened from year to year,,' says Miss Parrott. For Eradication of Cattle Tick. Systematic campaigning for the eradication of the cattle tick will be undertaken at once in the 13 coun ties yet under quarantine: Barnwell, Hampton, Jasper, Beaufort, Bamberg, Orangeburg, Clarendon, Williamslburg, lorry Georgetown, Berkeley, Dor ,,Counties in which the work of crad ication is now being carried on are: Lancaster, Kershaw, Fairfield, Rich land, Lexington, Saluda, Edgefield, Alken, Calh-oun and Charleston. Ter ritory not included in the two named divisions has been released as exempt from the cattle tick. This free zone approximates 12,484 square miles, or two-fifths of the state's entire area. Inspector, plan to release eight or ten more counties during the current year. Ten veterinary inspectors and 40 lay inspectors are engaged in the work. Just now there are 200 dipping vats in operation in the state about 50 of these benig in Charleston coun ty. An appropriation has been pro. vided by the state legislature of $30, 000 annually the last two years, the United States government duplicating this amount. The work in South Caro lina is under the supervision of Walter K. Lewis, who represents the bureau of animal industry of the Uni-ted States department of agriculture and who works in conjunction w'ith this department of Clemson College. New Charters During Past Week. A commission to the DuPre-Kc~nnedy Construction Company of Columbia, which proposes to do a general coni tracting and construction business, wtith a capital of $5,000. The petition ers are Ernest M. DuPre and T. A. Kennedy. Alcott Lumber Company of Sumter, has been chartered with a capital o $5,000. The officers are: G. G. Tweed, president; J. W. Jackson, vice presi dent; S. Finlay Tweed, secretary and treasurer. Lenox Realty Company of Charles ton has been chartered with a capi tal of $5600. The officers are: Paul M. MacMillan; president; A. G. Hoist, vice president; E. H-. Robertson, secre tary and tr-easurer. A chnrter has b~een issued to the People's D~rug Compneny of George town, wvith a capital of $5,000. The officers are: Caper-s U- Barr, preside(nt ner, secretary and treasurer. Charleston Cotton Company has 1ew-n chartered with a c-apit al of %;,070. Th le officers are: H yman P'earst ine, president ; Charles L. l'oarlstine, v'ice president; David Co. hen. secretary and treasurer. 'The Peoples Supply Company of Georgetown, 'has applied for a dissolu tion fo charter. Hloward( French Dry Cleaning Com pany of Charleston has been comnmis sioned with a capital of $2,000. The petit-ioners are WV. S. Ga'dsden, Abe C. Holst and Paul MV. MacMilllan. The Racket Store of Johnsonville~ has been chartered with a cad ital of $4,000. Thpe officers are: M. Rosen feld, pr-esident; W. D. Gasjiuo, vice president, secretary and treasurer. A charter has been gr-anted the Grove Realty Company of Charleston, with a capital of $5,000. The officer-s are: J. A. Patia, president, secreotary and treasurer; Nathan Patla, vice pros Id(ent. South Carolina New Charters. D~uPr-K-ennedy Construction Corn pany of Colomh\ 'Nas chartered witI, a1 capital of $5,000 to do a general con. tracting and ,cons'rucetion busIness. The~ officers nre: U. M.- buPro, presi dent and treasurer; M. P. :Cohble, vioe. Presidlent; T: A. Kendrick, secr-et-ry A charter- was i~iued to Hloward French D)ry ('leaning -Company of Charleston, with a capital of $2,000. The officers are: W. S. Gaeden, pres'. dent; A. (1. Holst, vice-piesident, and 10. H. Robertson, secretary and tres IN THICK OF FIGHT Fierce Exaltation of Battle Told by Frenchman. Corporal Describes the Hoarse Shouts, the Rasp of Steel on Steel, the Appeals for Mercy In Street Fighting. Paris.-"No more excitement; an astonishing caliml fills us as we open fire upon the Germans who have taken cover in the houses in the outskirts of the village," swrites Charles Tar dieu in a recent installment of his "Impressions of a Corporal," published in the Figaro. "From windows, embrasures, from the cover of doorways they blaze away at us. Forty bodies are strewn aeross the interval between us; a few wound ed men are scrambling and wriggling in the mud. Little by little we re gain our breath. "At the top of the village street de bouches a company of German infan try. A hellish fire welcomes them, but still they come on, sowing their dead by files. Faster and faster we pump our breech bolts. Thei first ranks crumple, they tramp over them; the next rank falls,, still they come on. At last their chief, a hugd..devil of an officer, who is waving them on, goes down. A new volley drops.seven or eight more men. This time they stop, hesitate a second, then turn and run. "'Ohirge!' roars the captain. 'Give them the steell' We rush in, our two buglers, their neck veins swelling, playing us the heart-stirring notes of the charge. . A heroic intoxication swells through us and we run like be ings possessed into the narrow 'treets, through the humming bullets. "Into houses, through gardens, past open doorways the skirithishers throw themselves, to come out with dripping bayonets. No more shots--death shrieks, groans, hoarse shouts, piteous cries for mercy are mingled with the crash of falling furniture, the slam ining of doors, the nasty rasp of steel on steel. And over it all the strident notes of the charge! "From each house as it is silenced pour our men, some of them wounded. Hatless, coatless, without their'packs; one man has discardod his blouse and is working with his sleeves rolled up. "Trampling on the corpses that strew the way, leaping over obstruc tions, we niake our way up the street, when a machine gun section appears in front of us. But before they have time to unlimber we are upon them. An instant of hard work with butt and steel and its crew is down be side their overturned piece. We pass on. "Into the cross street we turn. A few bodies are lying there; one house is burning briskly. Spiked helmets bob over the walls as their wearers IS CHUM'S MAID OF HONOR I - 1 Miss Hlanna Holstein, daughter of the former Norwegian consul-general at Paris, recently came from Norway to act as maid of honor at the mur ringo in Philadelphia of her chum, Miss Heolena McKinley, to lBarton Lavin. Miss Hleistein introduced Mr. Lavin to her chum in 1912. A year later Miss McKinley introduced Miss lleistein to a captain in the Norwe gian army and an engage-ment fol lowed(. SINGS WAY OUT OF -COURT Scot WIth Burr in HIs Speech Is Told Not to Let It Happen AgaIn. Chlcago.--Joseph McGilloch has a burr in his speech that betrays his Hiighlandl ancestry, but he sings. lie stood before Judge Riafferty and heard him say, "One hundred dlollars and costs." Mc~lilloch smiled a rueful smile. Then ho was moved to song. "Stop your ticklin', Jock--," he sang with a chuckle. Judge Riafferty's eyes twinled. "Go.," ho saId, 'but doni lot it hap pen agaIn." Mc~illoch was arrestced at Van flu ron street anid Wabash nvenfue for re fuming to . out of a tax~ieab. ho'" A dbj# i_ .F* We BELGIANS STUBBORN w44 'TlIs photograph, taken during th were attempting to drive the Belgians I the soldiers of King Albert's army, ar perately against the heavy odds of the the brave defenders of the trench is se retreat through the gardens. A scat tered fire is heard on all sides. At the end of the street, behind a bar ricade of overturned wagons and wine barrels, some of the Germans who still hold out open up on us. 'Charge bay onet!' "We rush on, when a shuttered win dow bursts open and the head of Lugagne, the bugler of the Third, pops out, blowing a frantic charge. Our comrades, making the frontal attack, have won their way through. "Sweeping everything before them, our comrades join us, shouting with the joy of battle as they scale the barricade. By groups, rallied at haz ni-d, we search the houses. All who show fight are finished; those who sur relder are rapidly hitri-led to the rear. At last there are no living forms but those clad inl Fiench uniforms and we arrive at the other end of the village, which is 110W (omeIICtely cleaned out. "Our officers, in the dusk, rally their men, bringiag order out of the confu sion. Some tnree hundred prisoners, livid, trembling, are herded into the courtyard of a house, under guard of the sergeant major and twenty men. Th'ey will be well guarded. "Hut what is this? Crash! llooooomn! They are opening fire with their artil lery' upon the village. The captain comes running. "'Corporal; what a-e you loafing there for? Find the major and ask for orders!' "I go running, aimlessly. The ma Jor? Where is he? Bodies, bodies SMUGGLN Business, Not Romance, Marks the Contraband Trade. Chiefs of the Runners In Holland Are Well Dressed and Their Dens Are Modern Offices--Guard Methods Closely. Rotterdam.-TVhe r'omantic smug gler waiting for' a dark night to r-un his lugger ashor-e in a cove and then bury his bales and barirels in the sand has disappear-ed, but the tradie still flourishes and probably brings muor-e profit than ever, especially just now in Holland. The mnodernl snmuggier- here, however', is interested chkIly in get ting cointraband out of thec con ti-y rather than bringing it in. A call at an up-to-dlate snotggler's dlen, of which sever-al exist ini tiht (een ter' of Rlotterdamn, proba bly woul hiei veal a middle-aged Getc man driessed in a well cut business suit at a (leak, ini fionit 0of hhn1 small hetaps of spiices, gra in of vairiouis spciesH, ci leake ande r-aw r-ubber-, and samiple bot ties of burninl lg and( li brica(tinhg tils. iromi time1 to time the siiutggiei- chief takes the telphone r'eceiver- down anid enlbi; a number, and bar igains in terse phrases over tihe price of job) lots of thie articles, samle~ls of whichu lie be f'ore him11, sent foir his approval by mner chants anud dlealers who held stocks mnore or less extensive before the new aind strIct gover-nmnt regulations call ing for an inventory were issuedl. Then follow other telphonue calls on shlippers or their skippers. 'The smug gler' chlief is trying to ari-ange for the transport of his~ illicit exports acr-oss the bor-deir jiin inuto Giermiany or Del glum. Frelghuts for this trade are huigh, and the smumgglei-'s efforts am-e dlirectetd towai-d beatiing dlown tile ship iper to as low a figure as possible, but the shipper holds out. for- lie knows smuggled goods br'ing high rates wvhen safely broughit to thelir dies' tiation. Torturi- wouh14 not foirce thle smnug glers to disclos'' the tinlthlida by which thecy manlage to for'war d the conitra band beyond the closely guar-ded fi-on tier'. It is huintedi, hlowfvr, that many railroad cars ustensiby coinveyinug fr'eight from Holl11aned tI an mark and from D~enmarki to Il'olhod arei mys teriiously unicoupled :Ind disappear while Passig over the inlter-viniing G~eriman t erritIory,. Dutich iishing b~oats, too. often arec seized oli the coas! by German patrol borats and taken into Ger'man ports, whence they are re leased after their cargoes huave been LY 'HOLD TRENCHES heat of battle white the Germans rom a position in the trenches, shows ned with machine guns, fighting des. Germans. In the foreground one of en lying dead. everywhere. Wounded men who whim. per, helmets, knapsacks, rifles, strewn about. Blood everywhere-on the walls, on the doors, on the paving stones. Cries, shouted orders, the plaints of the wounded. A streaia of injured men looking for the sur geon. "Somewliere a bugle blows the ai senhbly and I rush through the wound. ed, who are patching themselves up as best they can, soine dragging a leg, some with- arms in slings. " 'The major? Where is the major?'" CAPTURE A "LIVE" GIAN' Amite City Hears This "Broth of a Man" Hasn't Shaved In Two Yr.ars. Anilte City, La.--A reminder of the Oice " lody Tangipahoa'" is In jail here. I le is Louis SinS;.leton, the iost powerful man physically in TIangipa hon. Without a haircut or shave for tw years, Singleton looked more like huge grizzly bear than a hu manm. IlI relatives say that they have been ui able to keep him at home. Singleton has two brothers, Walte and Ezra, and the old 2;0-acro hon stead is situated three miles norti cast of Kentwood. The brother, Wa ter, together with Louis Singleton, charged with shooting a neighbor cow and disturbing the peace. G IN WAR unloadled, to the evident satisfactio or the skippers. * Dozenms of Rhine lighters pass dalil up and (down the river whose cours runs through Germany and H-oiland and occasionally one is held up be cause of' the presence of illicit cargo butt it is possible that for each on, stopp~ed several others pass mauste with forbidden goods oni beard and ari received with welcome by the Germal authorities. From numerous p)oint, along thme frontier, closely guarde< though it is by D~utch troops, come re ports of calltle andl horses being dinvei across in to Gerinm territory, whleri the lines of sentinels are thin or wood: prievenit a clear view. Th~le galins to b~e obtained by the run m inzg of contraband arie so temp lti nj t hat the efforts of the authorities hav< beenm remndered futile. PracticaIty hal thle 1)u t ch troops now mnobilIized a r4 Enlgag(ed iln guading the frontie'rs, no againist. fore'igniers but against iDutch menii trying to)lIS pass ctntrabandi. It 11 dliflicuilt, however, to guard every yart of the border line anid if the attentiom of a senir en cn be dlistriicted tor onil' a few inutes i t. hio g'ives' lie wil sumuggler his ctiance to get across witI his goodts. "BOX CAR ANNIE" IS B3ACIF Woman Hobo Calls Again, for Drut Cure at Hospital In Kan sas City. Kanisas City, Mo.--"flox Car Annie' is back at t he General hospital agair seeking a second trial of thme druj cure. it was im March, this year. tha the stringent enf oreement of the f't oral d rug act senit the woman habi to the ( 'ity hospItal. After takin, the cuire shi" "bummred'' her way souti: visitimng Oklahoma, Louislina an 'Texasa. A few. days ago she felt the 01(1 d( sire for d rugs coining back to her an iimdiate'ly startedl north for Kansau ('ity where, she said, 'they have tne hbtnch to help you.'' Magei' D~rapei', alias A nni Smiti alias "iHox Car Annie,'' is thIrty year old andi a well-known chairacter~ in th western tpart of thme Unitedi Stateu he has been ai professional hobo fe about twelve years. -Average Life of an Officer. Loendon.--lt has been fIgured o that the average life of a liritish ofi cer once ha reaches the firing line only 23 (lays; a cavalry horse latbts te (lays in actual fighting and aI t. mobile about one fnouth Miss t Minerva and William Green Hlill Are Coming to Town. You will meet them in these columns in a few days and thereafter for a deliciously funny period. You will laugh till you crywhen you read "Miss Minerva and William Green lill" By FRANCES BOYD CALHOUN Our New Serial INCIDENTALLY-A De lightfull Little Love Story PRINCIPALLY - Whole some Perennial Humor Watch For It! r2 4J Were you ever a victim gf Peck's Bad Boy-? SDid you ever hug behind a school desk, or inside a school geography, Tom Saw yer or Huckleberry Finn? 9 Were you ever up o' nights with Ald rich's Tom Bailey-? 9J Have you enjoyed the acquaintance gf e &lrs. Wiggs? 9J Did you ever with Helen's Babies watch the wheels go round? 9 If you are a part in 'the fun-loving world, read about B IL LY and his friends, JIMMY, FRANCES and LINA, in Miss eY~inerva William Green *Hill - A deliciously humor Sous serial SOON TO APPEAR IN THIS PAPE&R. tg Don't ,*miss it if you enjoy genuine eAmnerican