The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, June 03, 1915, Page EIGHT, Image 8
FACTS ABOUT TOBACCO.
How Larue the Industry is and
How the War Affects It.
In a special consular report just
issued some idea is given of the tobacco
industry in this country. The
United States is the greatest producer
of tobacco in the world, the
production of leaf averaging somewhat
more than 1,000,000,000,
pounds a year, with a value to the
growers oft about $100,000,000.
More than one-third is exported in
normal years. These exports exceed
in value such items as cotton
manufactures, electrical machinery,
paper and paper products, and,
leather and its manufactures.
The dislocation of trade resulting
from the war has had its effect on
these tobacco sales, however, just as |
it has upon the exports of many
other items. The sales of manufactured
leaf have suffered most,
nnH these sales reDresent the bulk!
of the tobacco exports. In the first
place it is practically impossible to
ship leaf -to some of the belligerents
* at all, and, in the second place, the
factories in the warring countries j
that are accessable are not taking!
their usual supply of leaf, probably !
because sufficient labor can pot be ;
spared to manufacture it. Our
manufactured tobacco is holding its
own in spite of-the war, thanks'
largely to increasing demands from
the Far East and Oceania. In the i
actual war zone the increased consumption
by the men in the field is
more than offset by the economies!
that must be practiced by noneom
baiants.? ICxrlimiyc.
Benson Briefs.
Benson, June 1:?The picnic sea-'
soK opened in this section Saturday
last, celebrating Children's Day at
Cbntral church. The exercises for
the day were creditable to the ehil-!
dren who were trained by Miss j
Flossie Kellahan and others. As is:
customary a bountiful supply of
4 edibles of every kind were prepared
for the home folks and visitors. Rev
W I Sinnott conducted devotional
exercises after dinner to the edification
of his hearers.
Later in the same afternoon a
ball game was played. The weather
was threatening and the diamond
not being in good condition,the boys
were not enthusiasts. The game .was
one-sided, so we omit putting the
score in print.
The farmers are,up against it
now. Showers continue daily, grass
j < is flourishing and tobacco worms are
thriving on the succulent weed to
the detriment of this valuable crop.
Corn has been neglected on account
of the excessive rains of some
days ago; it had a yellow cast but in
many instances it will later, under
careful working and fertilizing,
change back to its natural color.
j Cotton is doing very well where
I it is worked.
We are extremely sorry to learn
of Editor Wolfe's illness and sincere-1
ly hope the change of climate, ere
many days, will prove a benefit to
his health* WES.
KEEP THE SHEEP DRY
Wet Ewe Is Not Likely to Do Her
Best for Owner.
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Greatest Damage Resulting From
Wetting Is Discomfort Following
?Water-Tight Shed Will Prove
Quite Satisfactory.
4 ! (By E. HENDERSON.)
A few days ago, while returning
from our home town, I was struck by
the sad and forsaken appearance of
a flock of sheep subjected to a beating
rain.
Their backs were humped up, their
heads drooping and the general appearance
gave the Impression that
they were the victims of a careless
jand thoughtless farmer.
I It Is true that the fleece of a sheep
Is quite long and dense and in an
ordinary rain it is quite improbable
that the fleece should become thoroughly
saturated, but it is also true
that all rains are not "ordinary" ones,
and we can never tell just when one
of these beating, driving rains will
. come to cause misery to the ewes and
loss to the farmer's pocketbook.
It is at once apparent that the wet
we is not one to do the best for her
owner. As long as she is soaked she
will not graze, or if she does it will
be only enough to furnish the Actual
needs of the bodv. /
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BLUE AID PINK RIBBON
By MARY MONROE.
(Copyright. 1914, by W. G. Chapman.)
For 15 years Miss Martha and Miss
Mary had inhabited the big old house
on the hill, at the top of the village
street, and neither had spoken to the
other. And nobody in Grantford had
ever learned the cause of their dispute.
When the only brother died, leaving
a little girl, the sisters, then in the
second year of their quarrel, had each
written, asking John's executor for the
privilege of caring for the orphaned
niece. So Maud had come to the
home, and from the first she had accustomed
herself to the peculiar state
fomilv
%jl duaiis in umt tv*a.iij.
It was convenient to say what you
wished to say through the intermediary
of a third person, instead of having
to soliloquize.
It was when Maud Grant married
John Springer, the doctor, that the
wrench came. If Maud had only
known it, the old aunts were so chastened
by her approaching departure
that she could have made them
friends.
So Maud went to live in the new !
house at the bottom of the hill, as Mrs.
John Springer; and, . though she
climbed the lfiU- often, the old ladies
were sadly disconsolate at her loss.
But after a.while Maud did not
climb the hill so often;^tnd then the j
time came( when she did not climb it
at all And the two old ladies began to
be very busy with knitting and crochet
work, find the Lulls of yarn rolled all
over the room as the busy old fingers
pulled at them '
Miss Mary and Miss Martha sat o> j
pesite each oth -r in their chairs, their j
fingers working and the needles click- ,
ing, ar.d, as they wended, they soliloquized:
"A pink ribbon en the little cap, be- 1
cause, of course, it#is going to be a'!
toy," said I'ttlt Miss Martha.
"Mow gk A I'ain it is going to be a
girl," saia I\Iv-s y.yry. "I love,blue i
ribbons. 1 think a baby girl with a |
dainty little cap with a Hue ribbon on ;
it is just the sweetest thing in tho j
world."
"I can't abide blue," soliloquized
Miss Martha. "I am so glad that
Maud's baby is to be a boy. Charles?
Or Ferdinand? My uncle or my father?
I thipk Ferdinand will sound
prettier, and then, it would be a sort
of tribute to papa." ,
"SUie must be called Dorothj, after
mamma," Miss Mary soliloquized.
ThOy emphasized their sentiments
o callers, and it did not take at all
a long time for the news to reach Mrs.
John Springer, in the house at the
bottom of the hill. ?
"The dear old things!" she said to
her husband. "Oh, John, one of them
is going to be so dreadfully disappointed.
Whatever shall we do?"
"Well, my dear, they are bringing
their own troubles on their own
heads," laughing. "We must just
leave them to work out their own
problems. Anyway, we shaH be happy,
whichever way it is, won't we dear?"
Maid smiled up at her husband,
and he put his arm round her shoulders
and kissed her.
And now the day arrived when the
blue ind the pink ribbon each reposed
upon its cap, along with little
jackets end coats and all the paraphernalia
cf br.bydom. And the little
maiden ladies waited. And the wait
proved longer than they had expected.
And by and by rumors began to spread
about the town, and then a carriage
drove swiftly up from the station, and
a famous specialist leaped out and
ran through the room in which the
two old ladies sat, waiting. ?
"Dear Lord, save her to me!'*
prayed Miss Martha upon her knees.
"Thou knowest I want her?we want
her."
T.lt + la Hfico ntartpH frtP tills
was the first time in all those years
that her sister had betrayed the recognition
of her identity.
# "Martha! Sister!" she said iD a
trembling voice. And it was Martha's
turn to tremble and look afraid, for
she had not dared to hope that the
olive branch, held out, would bear
6uch fruit so soon.
The little old ladies looked at each
other, and of a sudden they fell into
each other's arms and cried. And as
the tears streamed down their cheeks
and mingled, they asked each other's
forgiveness with sobs and self-re- !
proaches.
"I?I?I hope it will be a girl' j
There!" said little Miss Martha.
"No, no! It is going to be a boy. I I
want it to be a boy!" answered Miss j
Mary. And each had gone es far as it
was possible .to go when she mado
that admission.
There was the sound of hurried foot
teps on tne stairs, ana ix>cior springer
came into the room. Instantly the
two old ladies had seized him, one by
each hand, and their wrinkled old
faces were upturned to his.
"John! She's doing well?" they
both pleaded together.
"Well!" cried John Springey. "Why,
it's all over. It is?"
"A girl!" exclaimed Miss Martha.
"A boy!" said little Miss Mary.
'Well?it's bpth?," admitted John
Springer, rubbing his hands. "A boy
and a girl. Eight pounders. So we'll
have use for both your gifts, after all."
And, being a man, he began to dance
for joy.
And the two maiden aunts, with
arms interlinked like schoolgirls, did
something that they would never have
dreamed of doing in more sober moments.
They followed suit.
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