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DEM ONSTRATION AGENT NEEDED Iii and Services in the art Reliable Index of the Future UtJjfUlne** of This Officer Secretary K.-union of the Sumter j ir of romnifu c says thot the I of Sumter county are cell- j the Services or A county agent | t ?long for Information abou' that, und the other things, and t the I.? k of a county agent in ng seriously felt by those who hove hoc cholera and cattle diseases to eontend wtt v Hog cholera is do? ing thousands of dollars damage right SOW The Chamber of Commerce has been in the brit possible position for the foot sevei years to see what a agent ran bsen doing for the ira or Sumter county becaise sjagugsda of phone mesauges have m re??lv*?d n that time at Cham of Commerce ror the services of county agents. Practically every ?mer who bud cholera among his or some Ilsen a* among his cat - passed the Chamber of Com nseros or called there looking for the oouaty agent. Hundreds of farmers called at Chamber of Cummeree to leave messaged for the county agent to see farmers about spraying of fruit trees, pruning; of fruit trees, grape vines, and for other assistance and Information Efcrery farmer wie wanted to ship hogs in cooperative 'oar toad lots not into Couch with the eeu/?ty agent through the Chamber of Commerce. Secretary Reardon says that It can be easily demonstrated that the number of hogs and cattle annually saved to the farmers by the county agent going promptly and in? oculating bogs antl sattle or immedi? ately getting rape t and professional assistance ia cattle diseases amounted te aauch wore than the salary an? nually reserved by the county agent. The gumter Chamber of Commerce has furnished offlcs room and desk, and stenographer* service* to cooper? ate with Courtv Agent J. K. Wil? liams, and thousands of letters are or have annually been mailed out for him. Mr. Williams on the other hand hoa heartily cooperated with the gurater Chamber of Commerce In many ways ahnt repaid that organ teaUbo and the businesa concerns of Sumter for what the Chamber did to help ihr> county agent A very aatastactorv and profitable, to both aides, cooperation has been going on and to the advantage of the farmers and the buainesa men also. rtpeakin* of the importance of a county agent now that cotton acreage will be reduced from one-third to sstty j^rr cent, and corn, oats, sweet potatoes, hogs. etc. substituted for cotton Secretary Reardon says that the Only counties that have success? fully Solved tie cooperative market? ing proposition are those where the tguhtlea had county agents organU lag the rarmeie and the business men for buelnese-uMe marketing. We will need systematic organisation in mar? keting of small grata, hogs, potatoes, we will need sweet potato storage houses, we will need some one to instruct farmers about what kind of potatoes to plant, how to put up com. oats, eU.. In merchantable and s&arke table attape. We will need an export to el] the farmers a great many things about diversification of UsKi crops. A great deal of the future county agent's work In South Carolina will be ia orgaatsing marketing facilities. While It Is true that the marketing end of ag leu ture is largely the busi? ness man's e. id >f the proposition, nevertheless the business men must know a-hether theu- Is sufficient small grsln. hog*, potatoes, eta to warrant him in putting his money in a buainesa proposition. There Is where the county agent comes In. He net only induces the ptantlng of the com, oats. p?; tutoe*. etc., but he goes goes around und helps the farmers In getting products in shape for mat s t. That will be an Important part of his duties from now on while we are changing out methods of farming. There is *ald to be an epidemic of hog e'holera, new In Sumter county, or at Wet a very serious outbreak of cholera bordering on an epidemic. Sumter count> will not produce enough hogs to feed this ? ourty or for marketing if hog chole?a Is per? mitted to continue unchecked. When Ms. Williams came to Sumter coun? ty ten years igo there were very P*w thorough bred h >gs in this county. Now practicilly every farmer has some thoroughbred hogs. The or ganlaalion of the hoys' pig and corn cisdsi esuaed a >>ig increase in the yield per sere ot eorn and pork.. When Mr. WlUms came to Sumter county the fruit Industry was dead. He showed how Is Spray and prune, and save fruit trees, and he has caused thousands of bushels of peaches to hi produced, und thousand* of pounds of grapes also. The farmer? and many rit> people today have proti tuble orcird?. as a result Of his edu? cation of tin masses and of his work In thai particular line. There are many Intelligent and successful fss*gasia who are good bus? iness saga; v ho do not think they need a OOSTStJ aflsaa*! advice or as? sistance, and p< i haps they don t. Hut easperlence has demonstrated that there grs hundreds of smaller furtners, less experienced, and not as a*? od business men who do frequent? ly use a county agent and to great advantage to... Hundreds of the '?bis; follows*' ?n the farming business think bSOSOSt PS not need- d a county agent that other* do not. If IhOSt big Inno? rs only kio'W how many BWaall agsaors Ihe county ag? nt, and if everybody knew how many hogs alone ... o v.r. , d annually >>v the <?<? un? v agent gettlrg ? > the farmer when the cholera first appears and saving the majority of the drove hy Inocu 11 ; hay ? ould appreciate a ooun ? ly agent's work much more. Hut hundreds of big farmers annually use the county agent also in inocu? lating hogs, and In cattle diseases, -hipping hogs In cooperative CsHoSjC: lots, and in other ways. BREWEkiES Face \ injunctions Four Plants Said to Have Been Manufacturing Real Beer. Others Suspected Chicago, Jan. ?.?Federal Judge Landls today |SSn?d temporary In? junctions restraining four Chicago breweries from violating the prohibi? tion laws after Attorney (leneral Kd- 1 ward J. lb-undagv had submitted evi denee gathered by his representative I which he said proved that the brow* sates had boon manafacturlag real teer Mr. ttrundage said that today*! in? junction* were the tlrst i.tep in a drive against local breweries to be conducted by the state a;id that in? junctions j.gainst 20 more would be ai ked within u few days. I READY FOR BUSINESS War Finance Corporation Now Revived Says Houston Washington. Jun. U.?nie war fi? nance corporation is open for busi? ness Secretary Houston wild today, adding that the corporarion would carry out the law creating it in the spirit in which the statute was drawn . s a result of the action of congress in overriding the presideat's veto of the resolution to revive the corpora? tions activities. Tho treasury secretary said the means to be adopted by the corpora? tion in making advances to export? ers would not be determined until it wss known what needs the corpora? tion would be called up .m to meet. Funds for making the loans must be borrowed by the corporation or the treaauiy ho said, ' but until it is known how much money will be re? quired it would be poor policy to pay interest on its loan fund. T/he corporation, therefore, wi 1 wait untit applications far advances under the terms of the law are mad *, he added Secretary Houston said the fact that the corporation can not make advances directly to producers but must extend Its loans to exporters or Institutions financing o-siports should not be lost sight of. Appli? cants are required by law, he ex? plained, to satisfy the corporation that they can not obtain the desired loan elsewhere on reasonable terms, must produce adequate security and the export proposition must meet with the approval ot the corporation. From this it would appear he added, that an exporter must bavt his con? tract before a loan from the corpora? tion can be obtained. Addition of another member of the corporation's board of directors may ?bo necciwary, the secretary said be? fore applications can hat e the fullest attention. New York, Jan. C.?Submission of a report opposing revival of the wur (Inane* corporation aroused opposi? tion at today's meeting of the New York chamber of commerce and precipitated a discussion that ended In tabling the report. The committee on finance and cur? rency, of Witten Thomas W. Lamont was acting chairman, submitted the report und the opposition waa led by R?gens Meyer, Jr , former managing director of the corporation. ^The report of Mr. Lamont pointed out in submitting it, contained no definite recommendation but was pr - pared at the request of the chamber for information on foreign trade re? lief and particularly whether such relief should be made through re? vival of the war finance corporation. Mr. Meyer asset ted acceptance of the report would be sj| evidence 6n the part of the chamber of oppo | tion to the corporation. The report discussed economic conditions and declared the general trouble is not domestic but worldwide, and is due less to overproduction than to under consumption. Any attempt to revive the corporation as a measure of re? lief. It declared, would prove -"Inef? fective and unwise." NOTE IS LEFT BY DOCTOR AIKEN Suicide Clearly Indicated, Says Sheriff Reid Ijaurens. Jan. 6?The theory of foul play in the death of Dr. H. K. Alken which occurred here yesterday after? noon was dispelled today by the state? ment from Sheriff Held, that the doctor's pistol with an empty car? tridge whs found in the bathroom where his body lay. A note was left In his room rlearlv indicating sui? cide. Talbotton, On., Jan. 7.?Authorities today continued the investigation of the lynching or Sam Williame, the ne? gro, last eight, whose body was rid? dled with bullets and found tied to a tree, The sheriff has been unable to lehnt whj Ihe negro was lynched. Luxembourg, Jan. T.?Grand Duch ?ss Charlotte, who married Prince Keiiv of Bourbon-Parma m 1911 gave /birth to a son yesterday, lHarls Jan. 7 ?Miners tn the Retard letriel al (Isrmany have de cided to deprive Bavaria of coal as a hh-p towards forcing Bavaria to div arm the elvll euarde the dlehandmeni of which Is demanded by the alllea I/>Tlngton, Ky. Jan. 7 Tobacco growef?, bankers ami warehousemen u set hire today In an effort to find a eyfUtten of the situation j i central Kentucky, treated by the (allure of the tobacco buyers to aller prices satisfactory to the growers. The growers' meeting was held in the merntltg and the bankers and ware housenn n In Ihr afternoon, i^ondon, Jan 7. I.e. | alltner 10 day resigned bin portfolio as secrt tary for the colonise. WINTHROP COL? LEGE REPORT Annual Report of the Hoard of Trustees to the Legislature The Annual report of the board of trustees of Winthrop College to the | general >mbl) of South Carolina ; jh?s been made up. It covers the I work ot the past year and present! the needs of the coming year. 1 I The total enrollment In all depart- 1 ments Includlni the summer school i the training school together with the regular College classes is 2,915. Of the SOU new stud on I sudmlttcd thlH I year L".'0 are from seconder} schools and obllegeo, 22 have been admitted ! upon examination and 0 upon h- i ers' aartlflcatci and Im upon certifi? cate find examination, ul' the total number of students enrolled in the college classes 341 or 32 per cent are the daughters of farmers. There are , three si 'dents pursuing post-gradu- ] ;tte courses at the college, this year Working for the a. m. degree. Of the twelve South Carolina wo- j men pursuing post-graduate courses at higher institutions ot learning out- J side of South Carolina, six are Win throp graduates. With the compl dion of the UCW dormitory at Winthrop, now rotated in, j the College will be in position to I accommodate 160 more students and i Wttl thus be able to admit all of the high school graduates prepared for college who have heretofore been turned away for lack of room. There arc now 5,500 Winthrop Daughtc rs. Winthrop College renders n great service in Its extension work to the people of the state outside of the col? lege Class rooms and campus, it gives I correspond* nee courses; reading j {courses; consultation service relative! to school grounds and civic improve- | ment supplies speakers for address ami lectures; it makes educational ! surveys; conducts count/ study center work for county teachers; publishes d weekly newspaper; issues many im? portant and helpful bulletins; helps school.-, to secure teachers best suited to their work, (this department re? sponded t?. l It? calls for service In this particular last yeai coming from Colleges, hi;,h schools, graded schools, and rural schoojf The hom< onstratlon work of the college is car? ried on In 4 4 counties o! thi itati f< v the Improvement ot th?> homes and living conditions' of th;^ people. Dur? ing the year 191*0, ?.Oio mooting* of the woman's and girls' home demon? stration clubs were held with an at- ' tend., nee of $ 'J s 11. Winthrop College's chattel- granted in ls!>i, when no other South Caro? lins State college was open to wo* j men, provides for the practical and ? higher education of women, literary, Isolsntlflc and professional, and Wln I throp college has been conducting [courses through all Of these years in jaacordance with this charter. The!' has been verv little sickness I at the college this seksion, and as a I consequence the studen's have been leery regular In their attendance ami have mads unusual progress In their studies. The students are strong and well OS a ruhv Of .14f? new students weigh? ed upon entering college this session and weighed again before leaving for home for the Christmas holidays :i2x gained an average Ot nine pounds each. Only seventeen students had lost weight, the average loss being two pounds and a fraction. The committee of teachers and offi? cers SppolntOd to investigate and re i port upon the College fare reports Jthrt ugh its chairman, the head of the idepartment of domestic science, that [the food is palatable, well served, and I ample in quantity, und that good j wholesome, properly balanced meals lot more than sufficient caloric and ! pl'Otcln value are boing served to the \' l| 'U "Op s?nd< nts. The building operations at Win? throp ? ?? p. pressing. The new dor jmitorj is roofed in, the library en* 1 ipemtht Is going forward and the let here1 home has been begun with practically all the material for the : building '. n the ground, The board of trustees of Winthrop College wish to avail themselves of the Carnegie plan for the pension - f the teachers of Winthrop ( ollege (and are arranging to put that plan in operation for another year. The enrollment In tb-o summer school last Summer was u-is. The prospects for as good an attendance SB this, if not a better attendance, for tin* next summer school are ex? cellent. It Is due Winthrop College to call attention to the fact that, although the inventory of the college plant submitted to Ihe budget commission last summer shows the value of the plant to be on June 80, l?20, $2,25o, Sil'..;;- the state of BoUth Carolina has paid front tlm state treasury of this *! . o mt, from the beginning of the college in ,sst; to June 30, 1920 only $031,117.02. Tin- remainder repre? sents the vahu of the proporty ac? quired through donations and savings from college revenu ? other than the state appropriations through the 34 years of iis life, together with some enhancement In the value oi some of 1 the land acquired, 11 should also be renn'ii Im r? I In connection with Win throp's i*c?ptests for ai pr ?prigtlons that . .i part of i in- money re qun st ed Is lo be r< I urn< i1 to I he state tie." ury for the revenues of tin cod. ge. Coebrn n, .' n 7. The n . ? 1?n lloxmlc a, wlio laude?; hi ?' ? ? i i north I ,? ? ' \ <? days ago afl . illgl from lloekaway, N. v.. are cxp ut< to arrive hy tonlr.ht hi t ? tili .i leithei at Clute, Matticc or Codi run ! Will hiflgbm, Jim. 7 I vd donee as to coal prices paid in Iti'Jti hy ihe a n deptirtnn nt were transmitted to Ihe department of lust Ice with the rec? ommendation for action by Chairman t'aider of Ihe senate committee on re [construction, i< was anno ami. i Ui day, Norfolk, Jan. 7. Lot d Ma. or t >'< * 11 laghan. ot Cork, haves tonight fOI New York. NEWS OF THE BALLOON ISTS Desperate Plight Described in 1 Letter Found in Underwear p _ h New York. .Ian. 7 (By the Asso-j' elated Prerw) Description of the! desperate plight of 111 * - three Amcrl-I ran naval balloonists after tliey had j' landed in the Hudson La. country*. Fiecomber 1 i end started work ins* j their painful way back to habitation 1 at Mooet Factory was rec< Ived here today In ?'? U tter from H. Ft. Ehrope, manager of lievillon Freres, trading j post at Moose, Ontario. The hstcr was directed to the chief | Inapcctor of the company for ihe ?' Jamos Bay districl at Montreal and forwarded to John M. Revillon here, '! be baliooniata were in a pitiable i condition when found and two of j Ihem had to be taken to the Hudson j Bay post at Moose Factory on a sled, the latter said. Their clothing was torn to pieces and one of the men j was found In ins underwear, having ripped up his trousers to niad up his' feet. Lader date of December 19, the let- | ter said "Thomas Mark picked up i three strange fellows down at about J Mlddleboro some place, who turned! OUt 10 be three American naval j service men who wl nt up in a bal- i loon oh Monda.v p. m., the Kith, over1 New York, making observations for the United States government. ''ilny got carried away in a gale, finally landing about 2 p, m. on Tuen- 1 day, the 14th. some IS or 20 milea I back in the bush of Nicholson's j L*r< k way. "The\ had not seen any signs of anything at all In that distance, but j eventually heard some dogs bark SJ they passed over and commenced to | descend as fast as possible and land-' ed back h< l*e In the bush. ? [Taing Ihe balloon's compass, they i steered a courae back due south-1 < ls| and cairn out at the mouth of j Nicholson's creek. Beelllg Tom Mark on ih<' Ice about Mlddleboro, the youngest of them ran across to him and he took him t'? his t nt and tier, went Up to the Hudson Lay' coi tpany and Ihey sent a team down in get the other two. "One of them was a In, not hav- i ing had ayiithlng to eat but two car-} rier pig oria which they happened to havi with them in the balloon, Phoir ? lot hing was all torn to pieces, one of vkf m arriving in his Underwear, \ hn Ihg torn his plaids dp to wrap <. ! their feet. They say one was in i is bane feet." "Mr, (landet and throe men loft early yesterday morning wtlh two (lo/< toama to v,o to Und tin* balloon ,h? ugh I heard they are not gninj,' i?/ bother with it. so I presume the Hudson Lay company is going to try and M? t it out, as there will be a lot 1 of ilk tent In it. it is supposed to be worth about $5,000 thojgh they ha : to throw everything away, pos ? ble to lighten up so as to stay in h \ air till they saw bo me sign of I civilisation. "One of them la a Mr. Hinton who j made that trans-Atlantic tlitfht in one i of thoae NC seaplanes, though he say* this Is his first and last expert ? nee In a balloon." Mr. Rsvillion, president of Revil lon Freres said the company's post is near Moose Factory, ? Cochrane, Ont.. Jan. 7.?Another day of intense activity and exeite | ment rarefy experienced in this re? gion of the bleak north has passed 'without definite news of the approach lot ihe three United tSntes navy air? men bottling their way out of the Hudson Lay wiilderneas. Basing calculations on the a&sump- j tion that the intrepid little band started from Moese Factory for the railroad iwO l ? 's after Christmas, natlvo gu!des and weather fharps prepared Cochrane's population to n iff hi to be in readiness to extend a i welcome to the adventurers by Hun* daj at the latest. The trail to Clune was deep with snow today and the going bad. Revil Ion Frerea* packet party, due here tn m Moore Factory, has not yet re por ' d. George W. Lee. chairman of the Tcmiskamlng & Northern Ontario j roll w a y commission, telegraph* d messages of greeting t<> the advanc? ing, airmen to be delivered on their arrival In Cochrane, the road's ter? minal. His message b> Lieutenant Hinton said: ? Will be glad to furnish free long distance telephone communication to I Rockaway Point, N. Y.. or to govern - i ment at Washington, whichever you I may desire on arrival at Cochrane." ri o the throe naval officers he sent j the following: "The T. N. I >. railway oiler you, the most hearty congratulations on I..our miraculous escape. We re- | Ijoiced With the rest of the world* when we heard Iho good news of your safety. Wo have very much pleasure Id extending to you free transportation over our railway and hope you may accept same. With t kindest wishes." Cochrane, Ont., Jan. 7.?The storm, which today threatened to blot out tho trolls over which the three American balloonists are heading i hack to civilisation, cleared away this afternoon nnd snow ceased 5 1 Wheeling, Yv'. Vs., Jan. 8. Oeorg? f*row, u ho was reje<1 d .'ii accouul f advanced ace when he attempted i ? ? nliet for service in the civil war . ;.??: .it his home near here. He re ?ntly i elebrttted his hundi ed and eighth birthday by riding n horse i iuhl miles. Marlon, Jan. K I lop res? ntatlve |hif|i?r, oi Pennsylvania, chairman 1,1 I he house naval committee, conferr cd with S? n it >r Harding today on means ol reducing naval expendi? tures withoul in pairing the eMi? ll nej ol t he nut ion's Urs! line do The fact the i-i ? sub ni ^ i'son Is aide lo b.03 a $250,000 home m Washington shows that, though brok eg, he not broke.? Houston Post. r'M)ing Vom* Way Into lice keeping, j; - i ? I iixio Beekeeper?. Ij a business won't pay itfl Way ?f h*v it Iff given tin- proper timount of ?xpurience and the necessary capital!; ''-bt on into a far greater business it is indeed a poor business, if i; prop erly cat ra il out all the way through In an economic manner. Beekeeping is certainly a busineaa that will, even almost from the start. There are thousands of progressive? beekeepers in our land who havi just | a good start in tin- bee business ami the business at just such a point that ti<;-- don't know which way to turn. Well, it is just this way, they haven't < nough to give them a support to rely j upon it solely ami too much capital and Interest at stake to continue it ' on a mere side line. 1 believe this ,s the most critical time or point in a bee-keeper's life, if my experience and advice is in order let me give it rieht here for the sertou? considers tion ot sUch beekeepers. The ilrst money J ever borrowed to invest in be.>s was just at this critical point and 1 had to do it or let my bee bus? iness suffer the loss of some of mv ? juo^t valuable tlma that it should have, for there was other work pend? ing and 1 needed the returns to de? fray living expenses. At this critical time ] decided in favor of keeping more bees and l didn't have the necessary capital to do this for up until this time I had been investing in bees every cent l i realised from them. Well, the situa? tion is easily seen. I did this: 1 bor? rowed money to carry my bee busi- i ness on further, and make it pay me, and paid 4 cents per month Interest! on it, which would have cost me 4 s cunts on the dollar had i kept it for three months and for security gave a mortgage on everything I had In the world. This of course was an unrea? sonable rate ol interest but was the best I could do, and i made good ev? ery time and 1 kept this up for sev? eral years in succession. Money was scarce then, and hard to net but there was one old fellow who happened to have a few hundred surplus dollars. This good old fellow is dead and gone now, but I always believed that he wanted my bees and real estate for he kept coming around looking over it and about it Just as if it was his very own. At the end of this time, which whs about four years from the time I borrowed my first money, I had gotten on my feet and did not need to borrow any more capital. Two years later I had $l.ooo to my cred? it at the bank at the close oi the season. I took this money and went to Florida and bought up seven hundred swarms or- bees in log gums and box hives, not a modern hive In the lot, leaving me $- 0 to buy sup j plies for them, which 1 did as far as the money would go. I had some e\~ tra supplies left over from the pre? vious season. These I added to the bunch, and in order to make them go as far as they would, I made my own hive bodies, bottoms and covers. Money gav% out, and there 1 was again. I went to my banker and tried to borrow $300, which would tide me on until 1 could make and sell my lirst lot of homy for that season. The bank d< nied me the loun, but they told me that 1 might borrow this amount Horn a widow lady and they gave me her name. 1 w? nt to her at once. Sh.? did not deny me, but put me off and told me to come back In 30 days and she would see what she could do. I went home very much discouraged. My wife told me (seeing that I worried so much), that she had an uncle who was a banker and that if I were to write to him maybe he would make me a loan. This 1 did and got a re? ply at once, stating he would, and cent me a tilled out note to sign and said that he could not loan me but $200. I Signed the note and returned it and he sent me $I7<;. charging e 12 per cent interest. I paid up mj helper and some past due accounts and at the end of 30 days 1 went back to see the widow lady and she said I hat she could make me a loan of $:>i)u at 12 per cent interest. 1 took this and put it in my business and at the close of the season I paid back these two loan-, leaving me out of debt and a little ahead, but it was a poor year in Florida and 1 made no spring hon? ey Crop at all. 1 paid the man I had I placed in charge of the bees up and told him to go. j was up well with my work in Georgia then and went at once to Florida and took his place. a late hom y flow came along and 1 made over $K00 worth of surplus honey from those bees that we had been transferring and getting them in shape to work. [ bought the needed supplies for the coming year and had $600 left to meet my run? ning expenses with. During that summer, Mr. Ii. IV. Herlong of Fort White, Fla., died, leaving his widow with sum*' eight hundred colonies of bees. Toward fall she wrote mo to come and buy her bees, that she wanted to sell. ] went to sec her and we traded and the consideration was $?.2f>0 and 1 paid her $250 and gave her my notes for *3,00u. $1,000 tail? ing due each year. There was some surplus honey left on around al all yards and 1 went right to work taking it off and I got $lso worth. This with the other little i had left over kept up running expenses. At ihe cud of three years my part of the returns of those lares, for 1 had them worked en shares, not only paid for ihe hoes, but a good Interesl <>n the money besides, i must slop here, but you see how the h? ,-s continued lo pa) Its way right on. I know that other beekeepers have bad similar experiences in (Inanelns carrying on and out then business. The noticeable lhing about It Is ibis, m\er at nn\ '.one did we have such great obligations to meet, and it we had we might have fell down and lost out. And remember too, that wo did not hotrow mOlto> to start off our bus? iness with but had it first going well. Somewhere between two and three hundred colonies and only borrowed money ihen to make it greater and If v.. hoi not borrowed money for this pet pose at this critical time we would have had to draw our living Horn the 1 ores and business would have bctie choked down ami greater progress would have been Impossible. The | points to observe are these; Borrow] us soon as your business justifies and ' im ?mall loans'aa onset We, and don't nay Interest on it any longer than possible, yes, borrow money if you i <?<l n and con properly place it in a i < t business and borrow more when V"ou need it, and s<? on, and don't you Worry; the be??s will pay up all In lerem and ths principal. i*ss, and you live, too, on the returns, providing it is managed skillfully. But 'first of all tmember t?> invest In bees very much. One must OS an apiarist ami know his business, BILL TO CUT COTTON ACREAGE Columbia, Jan. 7. -Attorney Gen? eral S. It, Wolfe is at work on B bill, to be submitted to the two branches of the legislature, which starts Tues? day, by Senator Alan Johnstons sod Representative George s. Mower, both ?>f Kewberr}*, to make it a crimln ii Olfens?- for a farmer to plant more than one-third Of his total crop-acre, age in cotton. Mr. Wolfe is drawing the Mil at the special request of the tWO Ncwlii t ry solons. This bill was urged by the recent cotton acreage reduction meeting of the Newberry cotton association. Mr. Mower is quoted as saving that he believes the bill will DOSS and that if it does pass it will stund the tests of the courts. However, officials and many prominent citizens, farmers as well as business men, take the po? sition that BUCh an act would OS un consUtutlonoi, and that should the courts hold it constitutional, it would be impracticable, from the viewpoint of its enforcement. The bill prom? ises to be the subject of some inter? esting debate during" the coming term. ___________________ _________ \Mi> Leave The Farm Because The Tide Is If04 in? Your Favor at All Tiiucs? (By Prof. M. A. Blackwetl, Director of Agriculture, Bateabmg, s. c.) In visiting and discussing the farm questions and problems with the many farmers in the different sec? tions of the state, we lind that the average farmer's mind tends to leave the farm because of the depressive conditions which now face him. i But, we would say to the mind that is being tinned in this direction, that I we realise that the way is no doubt hard and long, but success does not come to any individual or to any peo? ple, or to any nation that move or < hange to relieve themselves of life's responsibilities, btu to them that find the solution to the problem. Yes, we i t alise that the farmers are now fac? ing that which he didn't hope to see quite so soon, but nevertheless ws have learned from experience if noth? ing else that: the time to prepare for war is In time of peace, and when j the test comes we will be ready to , up et them and not to leave. By this we do not say that the farmer didn't prepare nor do we say l that he is not ready to meet the pres? ent issue, but we do say that he hould have e"< ugh determination and courage ot play a fair game in his business and find the solution to the problem not by giving up, or be? coming discouraged, but by prac? ticing the three principles: thrift, e< onomy and skill, and a better day will come. Then Mr. Farmer, we would sug? gest that you remain on the farm and reduce your cotton acreage and sow wheat, oats, and other crops for the winter. Plant more corn, raise more hogs get a good milk cowT raise chick? ens and stay away from the grocery ' store and in audition to this raise all I the cotton you can, and put into prac? tice the thrt e principles that we have named above?thrift, economy and skill, and trust In your (?od for ths balance and you will be able to meet your demands, clothe your family and Bchool your children and .live as a ? itisen, as all others who are faith? fully performing their many duties, ' In this busy world of ours. Don't I give up. Don't lose hope. A better } uay will come. WHY THE LIGHTS? i The residents who live in the im ' mediate and nearby neighborhood of the new Memorial Park are noticng the very bright lights shining every night In the park and are wondering the 'why" of it sometimes. Their homes are at times without B vestige of an electric light while all is bright .and lovely out In ths park. The wunder in those days of conservation if the matter could not be so arrang /ed SO that the current used so labishly j In lighting the park in midwinter could In some manner be curtailed and the homes in that section get the benefits. Mesnbersblp Card Heady. Atlanta. Jan. B.?Pocket-SSSf CSTsls for life and patron members of the American lied Cross have been is? sued and ;irl now ready for distri? bution, it was announced today at southern divison headquarters of the Red Cr??ss. The purpose of Iiis cards, it is stated, is to identify such members at all times and to protect them from solicitation during ths annual roll J calls. Cards will be issued to any I life and patron member, old or new, I on applica! Ion. Washington, Jan. v?The Liitish Ited Cross, to which was referred for riconvniendation the appeal of Lord davor O'Callaghan, of Cork, Ire I land, to tiie American Led Cross for relief measures in behalf of the vic? tims of the recent great tire at Cork, has cabled national headquarters ht re that all necessary relief steps have been taken. The cablegram, signed by Kir Arthur Stanley, was as fol I iov s: "The lnsh Joini Comniittee of t ' d < ?i.s ami St. John's Ambula reports that all necessary arraj ments i?n relief werk in t'ork h been made after interviews with corporation and the Homan Ca* i id Protestant blsUopg and leading rlttsens. No need for tnce kindly offered by the i 1 Ited Cross.*' It is eejtlreb appropr views ot some latter that we start the .New holiday.?Burlington