The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, January 03, 1918, Image 2
SOOTH HAS GROWN
LARGEFOODCROPS
BIG CORN CROP OF EXCELLENT
GRADE AND PLENTY OF LIVE
STOCK FEED.
Washington, December 81:?A review
of business conditions throughout
the country made public today
by the committee of statistical experts
of the United States Chamber
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OI ^oiinutrnjc- oajij v.
tion within a twelve-month of cer- 1
tain sections of the South in agricultural
and business conditions
seems almost unbelievable," and announces
that, with the exception of .
Texas and Oklahoma, Southern 1
States have raised more than enough
corn for their needs and are in a!;
position to ship it. 1
Throughout the country, the review
says, "the extraordinary and 1
abnormal demands made upon everyone,
from farm bov to corpora- '
tion head, have left the nation 1
steady with heavy resources coming 1
up for the new year."
The buying power of the nation '
Jo nrr^ntpr and more widespread than
ever before and apparently the gen- ,
eral volume of business seems as- i
sured at something like its present
during the coming winter months,
the review adds. (
Taking up the changed conditions ,
in the South, the review points to <
conditions caused in certain sections
a year ago "by boll weevil, exces- [
sive rains and the fact that negroes, .
the staple agricultural laborers,were <
leaving by thousands for the East." <
Today, it says, the reports from 1
those sections are "optomistic be- j
ond expression." I
The enlarged acreage of corn, ]
which has been of excellent grade ?'
except in Texas and Oklahoma, the '
report says, has proved sufficient to j
ship, and there is an "abundance of j
other feed for live stock, so that 1
stock raising is becoming more and (
more an important adjunct of farm- ,
ing in the territory south of the .
Mason and Dixon line." ,
Regarding diversification of crops <
in the South, the review says "the J
production of peanuts from Virginia J
along the Atlantic coast into Southern
Georgia and across into Okla- t
homa and Texas, is becoming a mat- i
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ter 01 Krtm uu^ui v,
running into many millions of dol- J
lars." Cotton, it points out, is now j
being raised in a moderate way as 1
far South as Tampa Bay.
Rice and sugar cane crops were j
not as large as in some past years, ,
the review says. An unprecedent- ,
drought in Texas hurt cattle raising i
and has not been entirely relieved
but it has served to give impetus to
raise goats and sheep."
Boy Tells Story of Killing. (
Locked in a cell of the Atlanta t
jail for safekeeping, seventeen-year- ]
old Albert Nix has told the story of ,
how he and his uncle. Barton Nix. ,
killed C L Alexander and Jesse Ev- ,
eridge in Muscogee county. (Ga) re- j
cently. He claims that his uncle en- ,
ticed the men to the place with $40 \
to buy moonshine liquor and then
killed them and robbed them before
the boy knew what was happening. {
He claims that his uncle threatened ^
to shoot him if he did not help to ^
dispose of the bodies, which were ,
buried and later discovered. The i
uncle was taken to Macon for safe- (
keeping. '
Fine Showing by Banks.
A statement of the condition of
the 329 State banks and branches in *
South Carolina at the close of busi- i
ness November 20 shows total re- 1
sources of more than $112,000,000, 5
the largest ever known in the histo- j
ry of the State, according to figures (
given !out llast week by the State ]
bank examiner, O K LaRoque. Re- 1
sources have increased approximately
$30,000,000 during the year; (
$18,000,000 of this increase came ]
between September 11 and Novem- <
ber 20. A striking feature of the <
statement is that though the total <
resources increased $18,000,000, the
loans decreased $1,000,000 from September
11 to November 20. i
Did the ingenious Luxburg engi- J
neer that earthquake in Guatemala?
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VETERAN FOREMAN |
SAW FLEET CHANGES;
BENNETT FOR YEARS HAD BIG
PART IN BUILDING BATTLESHIPS
STILL IS CONSERVATIVE.
Tells of the Great Good Wonderful
Tanlac Did Him and Says "I |
Only Took Two Bottles."
For twelve years William F Bennett
was foreman at the Brooklyn
Navy Yard, I'ncle Sam's hive of industry
for the country's defense,
where thousands of skilled workmen
toil at the nation's vital work.
It was from the ways of this great
vard that some of our greatest
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dreadnaughts were iauncneu. air
Bennett had a part in this work
:md there he saw the evolution of
the American navy worked out.
Today Mr Bennett, aged <>s, is retired,
living at (108 Gates avenue,
Brooklyn. He is still the conservative,
carefully speaking man of the
navy yard days, and so the story he
recently told will have added force.
"For a long time," Mr Bennett
explained, "I kept having a pain in
my chest, and a full, heavy, bloated
feeling in my stomach and abdomen.
It felt as if I had eaten
something that disagreed with me,
but I couldn't tell what. My food
did not digest,but seemed to sourand
lie like a lump. I got so I couldn't
eat vegetables at all. I lived on
eggs and milk, and lots of time I
didn't have an appetite even for
that diet. Besides, I had night
sweats and I could not really rest
more than an hour or two at night,
ind then only when 1 was all tired
eut. I had to lie so tired I just
dropped off to sleep. I took lots of
medicine and was treated many
times, but I just kept on feeling
bad. But now," Mr Bennett continued.
"I feel better in every way.
I can sleep all night long. J havel
i good appetite and can eat any-)
thing with pleasure l?ecause my
stomach is easy and does not distress
me, but digests my food. I
feel so good I make it a rule to
walk twenty to thirty blocks each
lay.
"What did this for me? Why,
Tanlae. So many people told me
about Tanlac that, though I really
lid not l>elieve all of it, because 1
lidn't think any medicine could be
is good as they said it was, I decided
to try it. And I only took
two bottles," he added.
Tanlae, the reconstructive, system
purifier and tonic, is designed
to go to the root of such trouble as
Mr Bennett had. It is designed to
create real digestion and assimila"f
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ishing and so build strength through
blood and tissues.
Tanlac, the master medicine, is
sold by Kingstree Drug Co, Kingstree;
Mallard Lumber Co, Greelytrille;
Farmers' Drug Co, Hemingway;
S S Aronson, Lane; R P Hinnant,
Suttons; W D Bryan, Bryan.
Warden Killed by Federal Prisoner.
Dr Jas R Brock of Trenton, Ga,
ieputy warden of the federal penitentiary,
was killed in the prison at
Atlanta last Thursday when Dimitre
Popoff/a prisoner, struck him down
with an iron bar as the prisoners
were leaving the dining room. The
murderer's only statement was that
t was "a personal matter." Popoff
was serving a sentence for counter
feiting from Ohio.
The week of February 4 was set
iside by the Department of Justice
"or the registration of the 500,000
unnaturalized Germans in continen:al
United States by police and postmasters.
in pursuance of President
iVilson'3 alien enemy proclamation
lirecting this action as a means of
minimizing the danger from enemy
lympathizers in the United States.
Leather shortages are being mitigated
by the use of fish skins. A
10ft pliable leather suitable for shoejppers
or heavy gloves was made
from the intestines of a whale. The
JKin UI tt puipuisc pn/uutcu Ck uuc
?rain, thick leather, shark skin was
tanned into a coarse leather for mechanical
purposes, and the pray fish
produced acceptable leather for4book
pinding.
One of the Mullins banks has paid
Dut $7,200 in Christmas checks.
Bank deposits in that prosperous
town are double those of a year ago.
Whenever You Need a Genera! Tonic
Take Grove's.
The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless
chill Tonic is equally valuable as a
General Tonic because it contains the
well known tonic properties of QUININE
and IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives
out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and
Builds up the Whole System. 60 cents.
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COURT TRIALS IN ITALY. |
The Criminal Code There Is Utterly
Different From Ours.
Criminal court triads in Italy are,
conducted under a very simple system,
though utterly different i'roin
tlie system which governs procedure
in American or Kuglisli courts, says
' an exchange.
The trial takes place before three j
judges and a jury, to which are added
a certain number of extra jurors,
who arc sworn and are present in
court to hear the testimony and are
held ready to take the place in the
jury box of any juror who may in
the course of the trial be incapacitated
from further service. The
depositions of all the witnesses have
been taken in writing and signed before
the trial begins. Each of the
judges has a copy of these before ,
him. The prosecutor and the conn- j
sel for the accused furnish to the1
court a list of the witnesses they j
desire called, and these are all sum-1
moned by the court, which has pow-1
er to punish nonattendance.
The first thing that happens when
the trial begins is the questioning
of the accused by the presiding justice.
In Italy, as in most of contiental
Europe, a man accused of a
crime is considered by the law to be
the very best witness to his own
guilt or innocence. In England and
America the accused need not testify
unless he chooses. In Italy he is
the first and most important witness.
The accused is allowed the widest
scope in defending himself. He has
a right to tell his own story in his
own way, to offer anything he can in
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Even hearsay evidence is admissible.
The judge has absolute discretion as
to what testimony may be received
and what excluded, and anv judge
who exercised this discretion unfairly
would be an object of execration.
Bias on the part of one judge is possible,
but there are always the other
two judges on the bench with him,
and they are a perfect check against
unfairness.
When the accused has given his
testimony he is confronted personally
with his accuser. The accuser is
necessarily the principal witness
against him. Strictly speaking, the
prisoner has no right to interrupt
his accuser while the latter is telling
his story, but in practice the judges
permit it, and the confrontation
sometimes becomes a three cornered
debate between accuser, accused and
judge, the latter giving the accused
the widest leeway to demonstrate
hie innnr-prifo ?Case and Comment.
Source of Ivory.
Ivory is a hard substance, not unlike
bone, of which the teeth of most
animals chiefly consist, the dentine
or tooth substance which in transverse
sections show lines of different
color running in circular arcs. It is
used extensively for industrial purposes
and is derived from the elephant,
walrus, hippopotamus, narwhal
and some other animals. The
ivory of the tusks of the African
elephant is held in the highest estimation
by manufacturers. Tho
tusks vary in size, ranging from a
few ounces in weight to 170 pounds.
Holtzapffel states that he saw fossil
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tusks on rne uauKb ui xivcio m
northern Siberia which weighed 186
pounds each. Ivory is simply tooth
substance of exceptional hardness,
toughness and elasticity.?Book of
Wonders.
Ration of the Soldier.
The daily ration of the soldier in
the United States army, says the
American Medical Journal, consists
of bread, 18 ounces; butter, one-half
ounce, or jam, 1.28 ounces; potatoes,
20 ounces; bacon, 12 ounces; beans,
24 ounces; lard, 0.64 ounce; salt,
0.64; pepper, 0.04, and vinegar, 0.16
gill; coffee, 1.12 ounce; sugar, 3.2
ounces; evaporated milk, 5 ounces.
This ration contains 4,199 calories
and is greatest of any of the armies
of the world except Russia, in which
the ration is said to contain 4,929
calories. The calorics in the French
ration arc given as 3,340, the British
3,292 and the German 3,147.
Ancient Tunneling.
Although tunneling is among the
most ancient of enterprises, more
progress has been made in it the last
century than in the twenty centuries
which preceded it. It is now known
that back in the semi-mythical days
of the Theban kin<rs the long tunnel
into the mountain rock, expanding
at a distance of 400 feet or so into
some loftv chamber, was a common
work. The rock temples of Nubia,
too, and of India show that in certain
matters at any rate moderns
may still learn from the ancients.
Dark Ages.
The dark ages was the period of
European history beginning with
the irruotion of barbarian hordes
before the fall of the western Roman
empire (A. D. 47G), extending
to the Italian Renaissance (thirteenth
century) and characterized
by the decay of civilization.
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Stables. 9-28-tf
GLASSES!
If you need Glasses, come
to me. Single and double
lenses fitted correctly at lowest
prices. Broken lenses du- \
plicated.
T. E. BA6GETT, Jeweler
KINGSTREE
Lodge, No. 46
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month. Visiting brethren are cordially |H
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The Old Standard reneral strengthening tonla,
GROVE'S TASTELESS chill TON IC, drives oat
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