Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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South Carolina < Clubs Leai O. B. Martin, supervisor of p home demoustration and can- z T ning club and home demonstra- * tlon work in 15 Southern States, cl spoke of the work in South Ca- g rolina when in Columbia re tl cently. b "South Carolina women and Vl girls are leading the nation in ^ the canning chib and home de- 81 monstration work," he said. ^ "A representative of our oflioe e; was sent to San Francisco a tew J ^ weeks ago to address the aesocia- ^ tion of American agricultural)01 colleges. She said that she had' P ttam many inquiries from the North and West in regard to Miss ^ Edith l'arrott and her work in o1 South Carolina. Miss l'arrott ^ had addressed the same associa- a tion in Chicago last year. At p the request of college authorities '' and demonstration workers in ^ Arkansas and Oklahoma, she ei went to those States a few y months ago to t.jll them about progress in South Carolina and h also about her methods of organ- d ization and work. We have hud b< simi ar requests for her to come tl to other States. Our ollice and iH the ollice of home demonstration E work at Winthrop college have tl had numerous requests for the r< outline programme of work ft which Miss Parrot t and her as- gi sistants, Mrs. Dora Dee Walker o! and Mis* Hufliington, have is- tc sued for the yeur's work in South ci Carolina. There is also a lively demand for their plans of malr rn ing tireless cookers, ironing el hoards, iceless refrigerators and t' other conveniences and devices ?' The short courses for girls at several colleges aroused much si i itereat also. ot "The statistics which have at- pi ready begun to come in wilt n show some marvelous results,of lie continued. "There are 25? ai counties in South Carolina which th have home demonstration agents ir and which have organizations of er women demonstrators and girl st club members. This is the larg- ti I Sunday I M iftpJnrm r\/ J I and other \ workers w paper for a \ ant annou ! Ura'm JL titalk X?i | ?>ise ttc Sow Grain and let u: IB Drill made for jHHSBfll Prepare your land w BBfifflBBBBgM Harrow. We jHK9j9jj|H That famous McK HHH Come in and set HHHB Disc Harrows?50-fc and adjustable. HBaBfefflK our pr BpHffiHBffi Right now is the ti WBBSBfflBf goods, so come in a jUfflfBWffiaffi for the comii C M F d the Country st percentage of county org&niitionb in any of the States, here have been 3,175 members oing regular garden work in the lubs in 1915. Most of them rew tomatoes, but hundreds o' Ijcm branched out on work with eans, peppers, okra and other egetables. Likewise, they have een doing things with fruits, joh as the preserves, juices, jeles and other products in the x hi bit put up by Miss Dorothy apier and her girls as the exibit at the Columbia Chamber f Commerce has shown. The imento pepper work, which was arted in Rarnwoll ennnfv bv ? . y ?. w. VW?..- J "J [rs. Dora Dee Walker,is an bher thing that is bruising the oath Carolina work to national btention. There are now 432 imento gardens in South C'arona belonging to club members, imilar work has been undertakn in many other States tin ear. "()[ course, you understand," e continued, 'that in the farm emonstration work we are n<> oasting unduly when we sav lat the best work in the South the best work in the nation. ?r. Seaman A- Knapp bega lis work in the South and h ?ceived active coorperatioa om Southern colleges, con ressmen, business men, schoui licere, teachers, legislators, ed" >rs and other public spirited tizens. The result is that tin outh is ahead in this develoj ^..4. I 1 1 XT ciif 1 uavo uearu m?\ny north n and Western people ad 111. lis fact ai d they are looking t ? for suggestions. "I judge from a little comjonce that has been received in jr office that there are a few op!e in South Carolina who do t fully understand the nature ? the work done by Miss Parrott id her splendid corps of assis mte. All of this work is done i cooperation with Winthrop dlege, just as the farm demonration work is done in cooperon with Clemson college." School, Society church atch this n importincement. rills | Uters | trrcwj | s sell you the best the money. r ith a good Dischave them. ay Stalk Cutter. : for yourself. * I ooth, two sections Investigate ices. I r I me to buy these T nd lets get right I ig season. lARDWARf "ANY I f Jim's j II Return 1 jj By H. M. EGBERT I S i?i (Copyright. 1915. by W. O. Chapman./ I. "Feeling better, ain't you, pard?" Jim Syrett nodded curtly. He was appreciative of the boys' kindness In coming up to bis shack to see a sick man, but sometimes he felt too ill to show his feelings. At such times he always said he was better. Although the boys tried to make him believe 1 that he would soon be about again, I Jim cherished no illusions on that scoro. "Bill," he said, turning suddenly to his friend, "1 want you to promise me I Bomuimng. come and Bit with me , when I'm going to caBh in." ' "You ain't going to cash in in fifty J years," said Bill, unconvinced of his ; own statement, nevertheless. "When you see tho white flag flying ! from in front of my door, you'll know i what it moans," said Jim. j It was ten days later when Bill, in the valley, saw tho summons. He hurried up tho mountainside. Jim Syrett was lying beBide the flag; ho had not had strength to retutrn to hiB bed. "I'm all in," ho said, as Bill carried him within. "Nonsense," said Bill. The other was steadily growing j weaker. Toward night he opened his eyes. "Bill," he said, "there's a girl back East?" "I'll write her, Jim; Just to ease your mind," said his friend. Jim shook his head and smiled faintly. It's better not too." he said, j "Nellie and I were engaged once. I guess she's got a better man, though. I always was a waster. But 1 never had a chance. Harvard, parents died when I was a kid, and a capital of two I million dollars, you know." I till codded, because he had noth- | lng to say. ; I "She said she'd wait for me. Hut 1 . was no good. You know what 1 was > before this sickness started." "Never mind," said Bill. "You'll be better soon." "I'll be better off soon," replied the other. "But I wish I'd had a chanco. 1 wish I'd been poor and decent. 1 wish I'd been brought up with Polly, j I don't so much regret never being 1 Saw That His Friend Lay Dead. able to marry her. I want a good woman's sympathy. I'd like to be? oh, God, I'd like to bo her son!"' He groaned in anguish and remorse. Presently his eyes closed. For awhile Bill thought that he was sleeping; presently a strange sound from the bed aroused him It had grown dark, and Bill was dozing unconsciously. He lit a lamp hastily and saw thnt his friend lay dead. On his face there was the smile that a happy child wears at nightfall. When Bill dressed his friend for burial he saw a curious stain, a birthmark, extending from the base of the nock an inch or two in the direction of the right shoulder. II. Polly Raymond looked up from her letters at the breakfast table with a cry of distress. "What is it, dear?" asked her husband, coming round the table to her. "Jim's dead, Tom. Poor old Jim. Lock at this letter from this man. It's roughly written, and the spelling isn't up to much, but it shows somebody did care for Jim, doesn't it?" "You cared for him once, Polly," said Tom Ravmnml hnlriino- hoi- nnH ? 0 ? I I letting her cry in his arms. "Not really, dear. 1 thought I did. Hut 1 know now that it was only pity for him. 1 wanted to mother him, Tom. The poor hoy wasn't bad, he Just never had a chance, with all bis i money. Poor old Jim, dying out there all alone!*' Polly and her husband had been back from their honeymoon two weeks, and, as everybody knows, the first honeymoon is only the prelude ; to the real one, which lasts all life I long. The moment that she met Tom | she knew that Iter former love for ; Jim Syrett had been the vainest of vuln things. Yet she had novel ceased to roproach herself for what she called her fickleness. She had known or the boy's wild attaclnr.ont toward herself, and that If anyone could havp kept him straight it was she. And then? "Tom, dear," she nald, rubbing her cheek against his own, "1 remember something now which I had totally forgotten. I had the strangest and moat dreadful dream the other night. And it must have been Just at the time when Jim lay dying. It cornea back to me now so vividly. "I seemed to be lying somewhere in space. Thore was nothing around me, and, although I was fully conscious of my own existence, I seemed to have no body. And then It came I to me that this was thftt place, or con tect, awaiting tbeir summons either to heaven or to?to some of many other possible destinations, Tom. "Then, as I stood there, I seemed to realize that Jim was with me. He was very much astonished at finding me therO. " 'Why, Polly,' he said, "don't you know that you are not to pass over for nearly a year more?' "I was so torrified I did not know what to do or how to answer him. "'Yes, Polly,' ho said, 'your time on earth will be up a year from next week Unless?' "And here his voice became bo vague and indistinct that I could understand nothing. When I heard him again, he was tolling me how he died. " 'I wanted you ever since I knew you, Polly, dear,' he said. 'And I am going to liavo you for my very own, through til eternity.' in at win never Happen, Jim,' I answered. '"Oh, yes, It will,' he said, 'and, more than that, you will be glad. Hemember, a year from next week.'" Tom Raymond frowned Impatiently. "Of course, it may have been some sort of inner perception that Jim was dying," ho answered. "I have no doubt bucIi things are possible. But in dreams they become blurred and distorted, and one must never rely on Buch nonsense. Lose you in a year's time, indeed! I'd like to see myself!" He kissed away the tear$ that were falling freely. Hut after he had gone Polly remained for a long time thinking of the boy who had died in such a lonely fashion upon the mountains. III. The house was strangely silent. Upstairs there was no sound at all; downstairs only that of the man who tramped slowly backward and forward in his library. Mercifully he had forgotten his wife's prediction. He was conscious only of that agony of soul that comes whon one's dearest is wrestling with death. The doctor came into the room, and Tom Raymond spun round and faced him. "Tell me tho truth!" he cried. "Is there any hope?" "Yes," said the doctor, frankly. ** * - - * * * i urn u is uuyc, l)Ul 11 IB 11 very 1U1I11 one. You must be prepared for the worst, Mr. Ruymond, and I cannot delude you with any false anticipations. Your wife is dangerously ill. She Is at present sleeping. It all depends on the first rest." "And the child?" "A splendid girl. She is doing finely. I have seldom seen a child so healthy at birth." Tom Raymond groaned. At that moment ho felt utterly indifferent to his child. If only Polly lived! She nnst live, for his sake. The doctor took pity on the haggard man. "1 don't think there is any reason why you should not sit by her bed! ide, if you go up very softly," he said. Raymond ascended the stairs and entered his wife's room on tiptoe. The nurse roso from tho bedsido and laid her finger on her lips. Raymond j crept to tho chair which she had vacated and sat down. Polly was sleeping, but it was more correct to say that she was unconscious. She was barely alive, and her breast hardly stirred under her light breathing. Her face was asheil, her lips as pale as her cheeks. Sometimes her husband was afraid that Bhe had ceased to breathe. The hours went by. lie still sat at hor side. Midnight sounded. He did not move. With all his nower he was will ing that Polly should live. And so the night passed, and gradually the light of dawn began to penetrate the room. Suddenly the nurao started and stepped to the sick woman's side. Her trained ear had detected tho little sound of awakening. Next moment Polly was conscious, und her eyes were llxed on Tom's. "I am going to got well, Tom, dear," And Tom could read that In tho tinge of color that had como back to her cheeks. The nurse, obellent to the sick woman's unvoiced wish, stepped to the cradle and brought out tho baby. "Isn't she a dear, Tom!" murmured Polly. "And she has tho deareBt little birth-mark. Show him her shouldor, nurse." There was a faint stain, extending from the base of the neck an inch or two in tho direction of tho right shoulder. Woman's Way. A pretty girl stood in the middle of a country lane, at either end of which a lover was waiting for her.v Each had hi3 hack turned to her, but from where she stood each looked equally handsome. If she had been a man, she might have tossed up a com to see which lover she should call, but being a woman she called to one io*:er, knowing that the other wouia near ner. And the one she didn't cnll was the one she wanted. OVR JITNEY OFFER This <xnd 5c DON'T MISS THIS. Dot out this slip, enclose with oc and mail it to Foley & Co., Chicago, Illinois, writing your name and address clearly. You will receive in return a trial package containing Foley's Honey and Tar Compound, for coughs, colds and croup; Foley Kidney Pills, for pain in sides and back, rheu mutism, backache, kidney and bladder ailments; and Foley Cathartic Tablets, a wholesome and thoroughly cleansing cathartic, for constipation, biliousness, headache and sluggish bowels.? Square Deal Drug Store, FOLEY KIDNEY PILLS ?Oft 0ACKACHI KIQNIYS MO BlA0 9it 5HF TO PREVENT SMUT t Botanist of Clemson College Gives Simple Preventive v of Grain Disease. 8 FOROATS AND WHEAT SEED : c Formalin Solution Applied to Small 1 Grain Before Planting Kills Spores l( of Smut Without Injury to Germil- . nating Powers. Smut Is the most widespread and { destructive disease of small grain and it occurs wherever oats and wheat are " grown. When proper control methods are not practiced, it frequently | f, causes serious loss. Fortunately, it Is ^ hot hard to prevent this disease. In formalin we have an easily obtainable " | preparation that does the work efll- e I ciontly. Ilefore sowing oats or wheat, farmers should treat the seed with a , formalin solution to prevent smut. p Smut is caused by a parasitic growth that lives in the tissues of the 8 plant. The disease spreads by spores ' (very small, seed liko bodies) which I* j cling to the hulls or lodge in the i creases of individual oat or wheat | grains and are thus carried into a field with the seed. The spores germinate at about the same time that the plants come up and the disease grows directly into the tissue of tho young plant. Smut lives in plants apparently without doing serious damage until the plants begin to head out. Then the disease concentrates its efforts in tho heads and black, sooty masses of spores fill the places where grain should form. As these masses break j up. the spores are scattered over tho ' field by wind. Many lodge in grains on healthy heads of oats or wheat and j remain alive there until the seed are .planted again. Some remain in the diseased heads and are carried to the thresher. In threshing, the smut spores are scattered everywhere and many find resting places in healthy 8 grains. Oat or wheat smut can be controlled / by soaking the planting seed in a ^ chemical solution that u-ut uni .smut spores in the seed without injur- i ins the germinating powers of the seed. The best chemical to use for this is formalin, which is a 40 per cent 3 solution of formaldehyde. It may be procured from any reliable druggist. ei Treatment with it is made as fo.lows: , Make up the formalin solution b\ mixing one pint formalin (40 percent \ solution of formaldehyde) with 40 gallons water. Sack the grain to be treated, about a bushel to a sack. Dip each sack of grain into the barrel of solution and let it remain there for from flvo to ten minutes, moving the sack up and down several times to ? make sure that all the grains are thoroughly wet. Finally, lift the sack and let the solution drain out, after which either pile the bags of treated grain together and cover with bagging or canvas, or pour the treated grain into a pile on a clean floor and cover with bagging or canvas. Deave the grain covered thus for from 12 to 24 hours. As a last step, spread the grain thinly over a clean floor to dry. The grain seed should be dried as rapidiy as possible to prevent sprouting. Niaturally, grain (thus treated should be put in clean bins or sacks so as not to be again exposed to the disease. Sacks and bins that have I contained diseased grain may be disinfected by washing with a formalin solution made of one pint formalin to 10 gallons water. H. W. BARRE, Professor of Botany, Olemson Agricultural College. $100 Reward, $100 The reudcra of this paper will be pleased to lenrn that there la at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is catarrh. Catarrh being greatly inltu? need by constitutional conditions requires constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts thru the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces of the System thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in the curative powers of Hall's Catarrh Cure that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list Of testimonials. Addima: K. J CIIF.NRY A CO.. Toledo, Ohio. Sold by all Druggists. 76c. South Is Coming Strong. Business is unquestionably better in South Carolina. The Smith's steadfast patience dm- ? ing last year's period of trial is. being dazzlingly rewarded. The * buy-a-balo movement had its " psychological elFeot. A part of the 11)14 crop was * marketed last winter and spring at living prices. With fewer products to buy fch s year, as result of more diversified farming, the south has a substantial ll)lf> cotton crop to sell at 12 cents, or possih y even limher quotations i obtainable by waiting. ' Cotton seed is beimet disnriacd of at prices never before heard of.' Even the lint by-product of ginning cotton in bringing $60 a bale for use in relieving the suffering of war victims. _ The statements of railroads and other utilities which were g'oomy enough six months ago, show a moat cheering improvement. Bank clearings are better. Local retail trade is actively on the ^creaRe in practically every southern town and city, the newspapers are carrying bigf | advertising fcpace again, and it looks all alonjg the line as if the ' first of the year would see even greater improvements.?The Co Uainbia Kecot4 AH Wrong I he Mistake is Made by Many Ohestertield Citizens. Look for the cause of headache. To be cared you must know he cause. If it's weak kidneys You must set the kidneys working right. A resident of this vicinity hows you how. Mrs. J B. Caudle, Church St.. Iheraw, S. O., says: "My back kched so badly that I couldn't lo any work. I was sore and ame a?.d tired easily. My head >ched, 1 had d:zzy spells and the lidney secretions passed irregu arly. When I read about Doan's iidney Pills, 1 used some and .bOUIlt fonr hr?vt>a ri<l r?.o . .X4 UIV WA (411 | igns of kidney troble. I have aken Doan's Kidney Pills since hen, when 1 have needed a kidley medicine and they have nevr failed to relieve ne." Price 50c. at all dealers. Don't imply ask for a kidney remedy -get Doan'sKidney Pills?the amfi that Mrs. Caudle had. Koser-Milburn Co., Props., Buffalo, 1. Y. When )ou come t Hurst-Stn Before yoi Cotton ' They will ^ive von ippreciate your trade jrocx ries, Wagons, ] ng, Cyprus Shingle: my thing you wish to [uality considered, a * hereHURST-STREAI COLD We aro not running a sain i front of our store wrapped i is printed in all the gorgei something purporting to set er have we these little flags which is printed something these contr iptious cost mo pay this bill. Now that we have a stock ol hand and other shoes that much less than the standard the WALK-OVER Shoe, a The prices run #3 50, ?4 00, YVe will se <> $3.00, $3.50, $3 Other makes will be so ODOM COM SAFET1 Now in these tfood time! around twelve cents, why have been putting ofT so lor piotect your wife and child now?" .... CAR Y 1 Chesterfield, i NOT Write me and 1 will e: days of a severe ease of Piles out pain, knife or detention suffer from thi6 disease wher right here in South Carolina, 20t-6a _ BANNA &> HUN LEY $P ?ATTORNEYS? -"''^^81 R. E. Hanna C L Huuley Chesterfield, B. C. Office it Peoples Bank Baildin 1)RL H TROTTI Dental Burgeon Chesterfield, B. 0. v Office on second floor in Ross Building. All who desire my services will please see me at Chesterfield, as i have discontinued my visits to other towns Office of County Supt. Educa tionOffice open every Saturday and the I firm Monday of each month. "MONEY" The mint makes it and under the terms of thoCONTIK ANTAL MORTfiAtlK CO.V.I'ANY you ran si-eure it at 0 per cent for any legal purpose on upproved real estate. Terms easy, tell us your wants and we will co-operate witli you. 908-9 Munsey Bldg , Baltimore. In watch and jewelry repairing you want the best. Yon will make no mistake if you carry them to McUall for repair. :o Chesterfield see eater Co. 1 sell your or Seed i top prices and will in Dry Goods, Shoes, Buggies, Wire Penes'ad in fact most buy at as close prices, ,s you can get any[R COMPANY FACTS 11 the sense that we have the ip in white cloth on which ons colors of the rainbow forth great bargains; neithhung around in the store on to catch the unwary. All ney, and somebody has to f WALK OVER SHOES on we are willing to sell for i I price. Everybody knows rid knows the price of them. $4. SO and $S.00 II them for : 75, and $4.00 ild correspondingly low. Yours truly, ' BROS. P4NY ( HIRST s when cotton is bringing not buy that policy you ig. A policy with me will Irtn. "Eventually, why not HUN LEY. 'South Carolina ICE tplain how 1 was cured in 4 i of 40 years standing, withfrom business. No one need i this humane cure can be had ? R. M. J(y)SEY,