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Uncle Walte THE DIFFERENCE 44T SAW you coming up the street X and standing at the gate with Mr. Honeybug and Mr. Playfair," said Mrs. Jamesworthy. "All three of you were laughing so the whole neighborhood could hear you. I wonder why you do a11 the your friends, and >>^|H do nothing but wi<\ grumble and BJSI ?cowl at home. I L haven't seen you HkMH' lonirh In tha hnnco 1 in five years, as you laughed out tbere wIt^ those WgH men." v I | "There's nothIn^ lD thiS **OUSe r \ to laugh at," re- j is piled James- | worthy. "Jim Honeybug is a good story-teller, and he was telling us a bully yarn, and for a brief season we forgot the burdens laid upon us, which are greater than we can bear. If you could tell a story as well as Honeybug does, I'd fill these ancestral halls with silvery laughter. , but you never try to say anything amusing, Mrs. Jamesworthy. You do tell stories, but they are of a gloomy and tragic character. ^Xast night, when I came home, you told a dramatic story to the effect that you had callers all afternoon, and hadn't a chance to cook anything for me, and so I had to eat canned salmon and soda crackers, and wash them down with water, and I insist that when a husband comes home from his arduous labor? In the. clanging mart, so empty that huTwatch chain" makes a clanking sound when it flaps against his spine, he should have warm victuals, something he can consume with pleasure and pride. The fact that you h|j yji ^ u ? . "My sainted mother never would have permitted any callers to interfere with her management of the cookstove. She realised that her old man kept the shebang going, and that he should have the right of way. If any old hens happened to be In the house wnen gruD ume upprvBcoeu, mjr uivuj- % er would request them, firmly but re- I spectfully, to chase themselves, and If | they didn't like It they could lump It When my father came home from his ? work, the hay wqp always In the a manger for him, and he never had to t wait five minutes for a meal. < "The day before yesterday, when I ? came staggering home, faint and i weary from my herculean efforts to < make both ends meet you told me an- I other story. It was to the effect that you had been downtown sizing up a shipment of new spring hats, Just received at the millinery foundry, and you were so Interested you forgot the lapse of time, and didn't get home In time to cook anything. But you flashed a winning smile at me, and said it wouldn't take you ten minutes to warm up a can of beans, and there was some cold coffee left from breakfast, and you had plenty of smoked herrings on hand. Doubtless I should have burst forth lanoKfav avos tMo An. UilU WUiUVIM *C*U?UV?A VTV4 UMV VH tertalning anecdote, but somehow it didn't appeal to my sense of humor. I waa so busy that day I hadn't time to eat anything at nooo, and all the way home I waa hoping you would have a porterhouse steak about three Inches thick, and a raft of boiled potatoes, and perhaps a slab of mince pie as an epilogue. "The day before that when I came home as hollow as a baas drum, and fairly gnashing my teeth with hunger, you related a humorous story to the effect that your dob didn't adjourn on time that afternoon, and yon dldnt get borne until late, so I would hare to get along with a plcked-up supper. If I would be patient a few minutes, you said, to make the story seem more spicy, you would boll an egg for rae, and there was cold corn bread In the cupboard. "Such stories, Mra Jamesworthy, may seem highly amusing to an Innocent bystander, and I have no doubt they would make a great hit if written up and printed in London Punch, but there is something wrong with my sense of humor, or I am at the wrong end of the stories. Anyhow, I can't gurgle over them as I do over Honeybug's yarns." His Status. "That man la a human snake." "Why, he Is one of the big copper 4 kings." "Exactly what I said, only In other words. He's a copper head." Letter Printing Machine. "j A new form letter printing machine i cots paper fed from rolls Into the "i proper size, uses three colors of ink * when desired and aotomatlcally f changes the names and addresses for ^ each letter produced. I Flat Dwellers, Take Notice! An eminent professor recently said 1 that it was possible to lengthen one's life and Improve the general health merely by tiptoeing for a few minutes . very day. SOgggd cigarettes ^ for 10c from 2 one sack of sc GENUINE pi "BULL" ! DURHAM I' TOBACCO * " Is to nAifliflimiTif ATAnaar MHwmumn aiuiwut ei BINS FOR AGRICUL- 5 JURAL LIMESTONES d< [By W. M. Goodman, Editor Farming.) nc An article appeared in a recent issue cc >f a Chicago paper, giving an account ^ >f a procession of farm trucks and F) vagons, extending almost the entire St ength of the main street in a West 8, an town, all loaded with agricultural w lmestone and the parade headed by a 08 irass band. One might conclude, upon P1 ending this article, that the farmers cc >t_that section had struck "pay dirt" iT*thia material and had good reasons a* or a celebration on the occasion re- ^ " ^ i, * 0 at their station. And this is true. The value of lime er n agriculture is recognized to all ae* dc Ions where tests have been made by a^ ?&cttcal farmers, and In many of the fiddle and Western States It is now 81 spidal as essential to the most prof- of taMe development and persMMbi cc aprmewrnt oiaoUi Limestone aano- cc battens have been tanned by tansies *j a somber of counties ct III mole, the ul Wyjm. 1 fi waicu, h suuau tu um i ?illeM and by-lava. "Shall to t? annate tto general interests of rt rtaw by encouraging tto on at ^ tHtoe, phoapfcata, ate, oa aar * *:- - ? Ttoae uaoetadoca tore ararfad 9 snaaaaaity agrfcsitaral limestone atorige tto* In soma conn ties ttoy km tad the co-operation of merchants cad Qj dtor bnaineas md, vtoo are tone Math to aaa that a& farm lnprnee w neat work leads te larger farm In- ^ ismaa and better trade for dtWa and owes. The accompanying lOastrmtlea ^ '- sfto ban bow tow of tasse btes ana an u bHUia TtOB tm is CQOtRMd W*b y, ndtot stowmtora, cc UswtoM gtoM^e bin ihwrid ba _. i?at at railwsj ststtaoa is errrj ticrt~ p, Karsi asetios of the South. Ik would {e my ts build sad equip Mas Ub lbs mm shown in tho iHuatratlsu, M a d bant dbsd tor otorln* Hantaan is a Mttor than sstbiag. The objsct ht? M ew ttnstooo stored whars it sn bs m >rocsjP>d st ssj tints, so that tor lo Srraer ooalaf to tows with s wagon ^ v track lssd of prodaes ssa hsal s a osd of Unstoas back ts Ms ton to> oJ sad sf rstaraint with sa sopty ss> dds. Tbs small fsnasr ess not boy ^ iiassfsw? br the csitosd. sad tbs v. ire* farmer would prefer t? havu the ^ natarial handy so that he mm haul It ip md spread it on bis land whan It Is a oenvsniaot to do so. TW odvnn- er ages of such bins as are equipped ^ rltb bucket elevators are found la the avlng of time and labor In twlandlnf ^ are and loading wagons and tracks. ^ t will pay to erect bins of this kind. ya The farmers sod merchants ad dhe ^ krath should get together and build pr Irneatone storage bins as *.bey are doog in the North and Wast This mil! ^ >o courage the use of lime, and that aeans *'^e profitable raising of otyr ^ tod other legua>?s and greater pto- n toeing power of aoita. Io, th o r* th mmmmmmmmmi^mmmm bi< Ralmafesta Palmetto State Festival * iolumbia, Mar. 28 to Apr. 2 J w/mmi^mmimimm^mmm^^M 3r it A. D. NESMITH, J DENTIST. >,ake City, S. C. '] ' r-. V V. 1- v . tllE "OF COTTON "{ SEED ASJERTIUZER J eed for Fertilizers Not Eco- g nomic, Says Authority. Atlanta, Ga. ? February. ? It would ^ ) a mistake to use cotton seed as || rtilizer, as some farmers are talking ?| ' doing, according to J. N. Harper, S? tveral years in experiment station s| ork in the South, and now director of S e Soil Improvement Committee. Con | suing he says: "It would be a mistake for two rea || ins: First, the South would be de Ived of a great wealth producing ibstance?cottonseed oil; and sec- |s id, cotton seed are not the best form j ? ! fertilizer to apply. jg "On the first point, while It is un k rtunate that the vegetable oil market w off and the oil miller cannot offer gg hat the seed are really worth, it is ?tter to accept what the miller can ford to give than to allow the oil to ?? i destroyed when it is needed sc g? uch especially in starving Europe. "To use cotton seed as a fertilize) jj| to throw away the oil of the seed r oil is not plant food; in fact, it is p slieved that it will retard plan1 || owth. j|> "Cotton seed contain plant food, bat hen the seed are applied, it is not ?| issible to scatter it so as to feed Kg e crop properly. It puts the plant jw od on the land in lumps as repre gg inted by the seed. "It takes the seed a long time tc p| >cay and become plant food. In fact ?& ) great amount of the plant food lx || itton seed is ever actually used by 1| e crop. As evidence of this, we cite |g irmers' Bulletin 286 of the United g| ates Department of Agriculture, page 0 from which we quote: 'The seeds ?| e Incased in hulls which must de eg .y before the crop can utilize the ?5 ant food in them, and the kernels ?| mt&ln oil which is supposed to retard p eir decomposition, so that considerile moisture is^equlredTo decompose jj| e seed and make available the plant || od. Tn case' of a very dry season ,j? jipes not become available fast g? iough to supply the crop, and~no j| mht a nortion of it fails to become a reliable until after the crop mature#.' || "A table on page 9 of this bulletin || low# that a difference of 303 lbs. || seed cotton per acre In favor ol || IttSnseed lineal aa compared with || itton seed, was obtained in a test |g frgre tw^'e jj| "South Carolina Experiment StatlbL M its and tests of four other southern || atee show that a pound of a well g danced mixed fertiliser will produce pound and more of seed cotton. A |g st In Alabama shows that It took |f pounds of cotton seed to produce i & ktvvisl rtf nn/wl rwllnn _ Tl other words, at present prices g 1 ooAon seed and complete fertillz- ^ s, there is no doabt that it wllJ $? ij to sell the seed and buy the ter- || isers. "In exchanging cotton seed for cot g| n seed meal, it will be well to re- & ember that if the plant food is to ?| > taken into consideration, that a ton ^ 1 meal contains three times more losphorlc acid than a ton of seed; ro and one-half times more nltro- yj: m and one and one-half times more p >tash than the seed contain" FERTILIZER SITUATION | xtension of Credits Will Be 1 Restricted?Large Yields Per ? Acre Keenly Needed for j| Overcoming Handicaps, ?1 The fertiliser situation in the South g unusual. More than 75 per cent of jp ie Southern farmers' fertiliser ac- p mats that fell due in the fall of last ?? ?ar have come orer Into this year unkid, according to authbritles on the 11 utillser business. ? This means that the further extan- ?? en of credit wfil necessarily be Tsry nch restricted to debtors until their g mounts are paid. Many 1920 farm- & T Botes are suu in tne nana* 01 s? cal dealers and banks. This restricts Si ie ability of these agencies to extend p wdit, thus increaslnf the difficulties || ! the situation. jg Fertiliser manufacturers state thai p tey are taking losses not only on p id accounts, but also on the mateala that they bought at high prices. || his, coupled with the unsatisfactory p edit situation, Is making the fertUls- p ' manufacturers slow about pushing ielr goods en the market. Though fertiliser prices have fallen, p ey have not gone down as much as e price of crope. Nor have land dues, taxes, farm equipment and Is- & ?r been reduced in proportion to the p ice of crops. It follows that every g| fort must be made to produce tbe ops economically. g When crop prices are low it is nec- ? sary to get high yields per acre to g ake any profit at all. Low yields and w crop prices can mean only one lng, and that is loss. Therefore, g e Southern farmer must make every p dw count In 1921. Each cultivated g re most be forced to do its best & producing economic high yields. g In order to do this, fertilizers must p i used, as every cotton belt farmer & alixes. Fertilizers are needed so % to get more for each day's work g td keep down the cost per pound, p bale or bushel of crops produced || will, therefore, be unfortunate 11 j| y Southern fanner is financially un- g ile to avail himself of the full ben p Its of fertilizers In producing a g| eap crop in 1921. No one who Is j? ile will fail to do so if he under inds this season's cropping problems ' g? i toT'ss'iVi m . . | Daily Arrivals I' j Beautiful line of Ladies' Spring GarI ments and Millinery at astonish- . I J ingly low Prices. | j You are coadially invited to call and I I inspect our showing. 1 Silverman's Department Store, r t Kingstree, - - South Carolina ? jP J A FRESH CAR OF |jj I MULES and HORSES 1 [ Have Just Arrived I ! ^ We told you we were with you to stay. We It. have a load of Mules and a few cheap Horses at Ir j! our stables for your inspection. || I These Mules are bought right and we will sell | ~ TX M r-v ? U/\?<na mem rigiu. 11 yuu uccu a inuic, ui tutajj uuiat, m I or a fine Harness Horse, we assure you that we can ^ I and will supply your wants at a price that you can J| afford to pay. 1 | Come in and see this stock and . get our price ? on them and you will see that our interests are in f direct accord with yours. IArrowsmi Mule Company t KINGSTREE,, SOUTH CAEOLINA fj i . . i i ?[