The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, August 05, 1915, Page FOUR, Image 4
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KINQSTREE. S. O.
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THE COUNTY RECORD.
In men whom men condemn as ill,
I find so much */f goodness still;
In men whom MEN pronounce divine,
1 find so much of sin and blot?
I hesitate to draw the line
Between the two?whereG?>dhas not."
THURSDAY, AUG. 5. 1915.
Wilson's Third Note.
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ing the lives of those on board ship.
This is all the American Government
has ever asked.
As in a former note the most
serious utterance is reserved for the
last words. They are: "Repetition
by the commanders of German naval
vessels of acts in contravention
of those rights must be regarded by
the Government of the United States
when they affect American citizens
as deliberately unfriendly." An unfriendly
act in the dispassionate and
courteous language of diplomacy
means nothing less than an act of
hostility. President Monroe in his
fajreaching declaration more than a
century ago, which constituted the
Monroe doctrine,when he tnreatened
war against any outside nation who
should attempt to seize any territory
in the Americas, conveyed that
threat in the simple words that the
United States would regard such
seizure as an unfriendly act. i
No one, we think, familiar with'
the feeling shown in this country at
the time of the Lusitania tragedy
would question that its repetition
would mean a very decided hreak by
-OS with Germany,and President Wilson,in
his first note to Germany,said
as much, lie has in a somewhat
more vigorous utterance used it in
reply to a German argument, but
it adds nothing to the actual condi
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tions. uermauy im? piaiitivv* w v%v. |
complish her purpose without any
repetition of it, and its repetition ,
now is not to be expected. |
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The third note of President Wilson
to Germany with reference to
the torpedoeing of the Lusitania,
which was given to the press last
week, is of interest in every American
home, because it bears so much
on the momentous question that has
for some time been alive?shall we
have war? Emphatic as is the utterance,
plain spoken as are the
words, it seems to Ik* generally
recognized in neither this country
nor Germany as bringing us closer
to war. It has l>een compared to
the frank, firm, but kindly utterance
of a friend to a friend who has
wronged him. It is sharper in
expression than any previous utterance,
but no fuller of meaning than
past correspondence.
It is another manifestation of the
firmness and tenacity of purpose
the President shows when he has
examined a question and reached a
i I
conclusion, and was to be expected.
German utterance pronounces it unsatisfactory.
American utterance
approves. Its admirable argument
furnishes a solution of the question
at issue in that it points out that
since the sinking of the Lusitania
Germany's submarine commanders
have demonstrated that they can
continue the destruction of the
enemv's commerce without destroy
It will l>e noted from a card in
this issue by Mr D .1 Epps that he
has sold a part of his interest in the
Nelson warehouse business to Messrs
E C Burgess, of the People's MerMercantile
Company, and Ceo A
McElveen, both well-known and
popular business men of Kingstroe.
We are pleased to know that Mr
Epps has not relinquished his entire
interest in this popular tobacco
warehouse, since it was largely
through his efforts a market was
established here some years ago, and
to whom the community is largely
indebted for its present scope and
success. Mr Epps, however, has
other business interests which furnish
him longer and perhaps more
lucrative employment and at this
season lie finds the strain, in look
ing after them all, too trying upon
his strength. His many friends will
he gratified to know that lie has not
lost faith in the Kingstree market
and will devote whatever time he
has from other business to its further
successful development.
Good Advice to Cotton Raisers.
The official census figures of the
cotton crop of 1914 have just been
issued and show among other things
that in the course of the past fifteen
years cotton production has increased
almost twice as rapidly as world
spindleage. If, therefore, the cotton
growers of the South wish to
see the price of cotton go up and
stay up, there is only one thing for
them to do and that is continue to
reduce the acreage in cotton. Under
any conditions there is a limit, of
course, to the price which cotton
can command. That limit has never
been reached, however, and will not
be reached until the cotton growers
of the United States learn how to
regulate the supply in accordance
with the demand. Not even the
most perfect system of warehouses
can save the South from the consequences
of continued over-production.?News
and Courier.
Our Prosperous Country.
The federal crop estimates for
1915 figure out about ninety-six
bushels of wheat and 280 bushels of
corn for every man, woman and
child in the United States. This,
along with the barley, rice, potatoes,
apples, peaches, plums, cabbage,
oranges, lemons, onions, beets, turnips,
peas, watermelons, muskmelons,
cherries, eggs, chickens, steaks,chuck
roasts, ham, bacon, flitch, pig's feet,
souse, butter, milk, cream, fish sardines,
deer, squirrels, pheasants,
partridges, dew, huckle, rasp,straw,
alder, goose and other berries, currants,
cheese, nuts and a vast lot
more eaiables of various kinds, all
of which Mother Nature lavishly
provides for our national table?
these will enable Americans to worry
through the coming hard winter
with a good deal of comfort and satisfaction,
and leave something besides
for the Belgians and other
half-starved and suffering peoples
on the far side of the Atlantic.
The people of the United States
should be very thankful for and happy
over the more than plenty which
they enjoy, and they ought to feel
the same way about their preservation
thus far from the awful war
that is pending the nations of Europe
and laying upon their shoulders a
burden that will continue for generations.
When one thinks of the blessed
condition of Americans today, under
the rule of peace, and how all of
this could be transformed by war;
into terrible misfortune, it should
strengthen many times over their
determination not to engage in a
bloody conflict, if possible to avoid
it with honor.?Pittsburg Dispatch.
Today is your day and mine; the
only day we have; the day in which
we play our part. What our part
may signify in the great whole we
may not understand; but we are
here to play it, and now is our time.
This we know; it is a part of action,
not of whining. It is a part of love,
not cynicism. It is for us to exnress
love in terms of human help
fulness. This we know, for we
have learned from sad experience
that any other course of life leads
tward decay, and waste.?David
Starr Jordan.
The Clerk Guaranteed It.
"A customer came into my store
the other day and said to one of my
clerks, 'have you anything that will
cure diarrhoea?' and my clerk went
and got him a bottle of Chamberlain's
Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy, and said to him, 'if this
does not cure you, I will not charge
you a cent for it.' bo he took it
home and came back in a day or
two and said he was cured," writes
J H Berry & Co, Salt Creek. Va.
Obtainable everywhere.
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Origin Of The Tomato.
Excepting our scientists, there are
comparatively few people in this
country who ever stop to think of
how many important products that I
now minister to the health, sustenance
and pleasures of mankind were
addM to the world's supply by the
discovery of America. A few of,
these are incidentally mentioned in an:
interesting article on "The Tomato," '
in the current number of The Bulle-'
tin of the Pan-American Union, by
Edward Albes, who writes:
"The greatest febrifuge known
today?quinine?came into existence
because the Incas of Peru had discovered
the medicinal properties of
the bark of the Cinchona tree; the
leaves of the coca plant, a South
American product, have served to
alleviate pain the world over by their
essence?cocaine. Indian corn, or
maize, was unknown to the Old World i
before it was found to be the great j
food staple of the Americas. Irish
as well as sweet potatoes had their
first home in the New World. The
delicious concoction known as chocolate,
serving man as both food and
drink, had been known for centuries
by the Incas of Peru and the Aztecs
of Mexico before the SDaniaras
JOB PR]
NEATH AND PRO
Almost any style type ar
paper you may desire. Our t
plete with the newest and be
found it in these countries and introduced
it into Europe. Tobacco,
whose rings of aromatic smoke now
circumscribe the earth, was added
to man's pleasures by the Indians of
America. Many other products
might be enumerated, but among
thern all perhaps none ministers
more delightfully to the palate of
the modern epicure than does the [
tomato, that luscious, succulent, re- |
freshing vegetable-fruit, which gratifies
the eve with its beauty of color
and form, stills hunger with its;
meat, and thirst with its juice."
The name "tomato" seems to be
of Aztec origin, given aa tornati hv
some authorities, and as xitomate
by others, and stifl persists in
some few of the older Mexican town
names,such as Tomatlan, Tomatepec,
etc, but the general consensus of
opinion among botanists seems to be
that the plant and its culture for
edible purposes originated in Peru, \
whence it spread to other sections of j
the Americas. It is certain, at any
rate, that it was known and culti-:
vated for its fruit centuries before!
the Columbian discovery.
That the cultivated tomato was!
known to some of the European botanists
over 360 years ago is evidenced
by the fact that two large varieties
were described by Matthiolus as;
early as 1554, but for many years it)
was only in Southern .Europe that .
the value of the fruit for use in I
soups and as a salad was recognized. |
It was quite generally used in Spain
and Italy during the 17th century,
but in England and in Northern
Europe generally the plant was
grown only in botanical gardens as
a curiosity and for ornamental purposes.
It was seldom aaten. being
commonly regarded as unhealthy
and even poisonous. This belief
probably arose because of the close
resemblance to the plant of its allied
relative, the nightshade, or belladonna,
and had, of course, no foundation
in fact. Not until the early
part of the 19th century did the tomato
come into general use as a food
in Northern Europe and the United
States. Since about 1835, however,
the use and cultivation of the vegetable
has grown to such an extent
that it has now become one of the
most important of our garden crops.
When a successful process of canning
the fruit was evolved the tomato
industry at once assumed large
proportions. It was found that for
all cooking purposes the canned
fruit was as good as that fresh from
the vine, and as a result the tomato
has become a staple food the year
round, and millions of dollars are
now invested in canning factories in
the United States, whose chief output
consists of tomatoes. From statistics
compiled by the National Canners'
Association for the year 1914,
it is learned that among the tomatoproducing
States Maryland ranked
first, with a production of 5.850,000
cases of canned tomatoes; Delaware
second, with 1,335,000 cases; Indiana
third, with 1,295,000 cases. The
total production for the whole country
amounted to 15,222,000 cases of
tomatoes and about 5,000,000 cases
of tomato pulp, used in making
catsup, sauces, soups, etc. The total
was therefore over 20,000,000 cases
of 24 two-pound cans each, or an
output of 480,000,000 cans, weighing
480,000 tons, and having an approximate
value of $28,000,000. If;
these cans were piled one on top of j
the other the resulting column would j
be very nearly 37,000 miles high, or j
if placed end to end in a row would
encircle the earth one and a half
times at the equator. These figures
deal only with the canned product
of factories keeping accurate statistics.
When we remember that perhaps
twice as many more are eaten
raw and canned by the thrifty housewives
and Girls' Canning Clubs, we 1
may get some idea of the importance
in our national economy of the gar- I
den tomato. |_
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Kingstree,
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DEAR FRIEND:?
This is to inform you that w
Geo. A. McElveen one-half interest
style of firm will now be known as
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Epps, Mclnti
These gentlemen are well kn
you will see it's to your interest to ?
erything possible will be done to fa
ing the low prices prevailing this sea
Nelson s Warehouse has beei
existence, because its proprietors w
interest of its customers, and we pi
tion in your behalf at all times.
Very Truly 1
Epps & IV
Kingstree,
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