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mj m % T 1 _ * I The Chesterfield Advertiser i " PAUL H. HEARN J Editor and Publisher. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY ' _________________________________ 1 Subscription Rates: $1.80 a Year; six months, 76 cents.?Invariably in ; advance. T- Entered as second-class matter at the ( ' postofflce at Chesterfield, South ( Carolina. I ( $215,000.00 FOR NITRATES Farmers of Chesterfield county I have spent for Nitrate of Sodu during the past few months, through the government agent, Mr. W. P. Odom, the sum of $215,000.00. . Here is a dead loss of nearly a , quarter of a million dollars to Chesterfield county. It is an unnecessary loss because practically all farmers now know and are familiar with the ^ nitrogen-producing plans, that if only y given a chance, will draw nitrogen j from the air and store it up in the ground in unlimited quantites, improving the soil in other ways at the same time. How can we ever get ahead finan- i cially while squandering money in this fashion?in four years' time paying out a million dollars for one item * alone, just because it comes done up < in sacks, when it can be produced for I nothing on one's farm? ' ) HOPEFUL COTTON PROSPECT I A cotton export corporation has ' been organized in New Orleans, capi- 1 talized at $100,000,000.00. It prom- * ises to be a great boon to cotton grow ( era. It will finance cotton, raw and ' manufactured, intended for export, ' will buy or charter ships and arrange ' for transportation of cotton to v Europe. It will construct and opcr- 1 ate warehouses, buy and sell cotton w for export. N If properly managed, this new project seems to offer some hope for a ' good price for the South's great ' staple. That Europe will require im- ' mense supplies of cotton for her fac- 1 tories, and ever increasing supplies ' after peace is made, seems a very re- 1 asonable conclusion. That there is a good time coming is further indicated by another cir- * cumstance that has recently been ^ made public. It is that Italy, France I and Norway are anxious to place con- I tracts for three million tons of shipping. The demand for our cotton, 1 tnnA lw.? i:... r < *wu ovuiio anu wuici nujJjMirn, II'MII Europe will grow immensely, the fig- % ureg mentioned being only u begin- 1 ning. I . L PRESIDENT FOR ONE DAY ' A man who was born in Frogtown, J Kentucky was once President of the United States for one day. It happened this way. David R. Atchison, the Frogtown man, was presiding of- ( ficer of the Senate when Zachary Taylor was elected President. The 4th of March fell on Sunday and old Zach swore he wouldn't be inaugurated on Sunday. So the presiding officer of the Senate had to serve as President from noon of March 4 / 1849, until Monduy noon of March 6th. CONGRESSMAN BURNETT DIES Congressman John L. Burnett, of :i Alabama, who was one of the public n men who received infernal machines " died suddenly at Gadsden, Alabama, h He had been elected to Congress ten t terms. He introduced bills for depot- h tation of dungerous alien en?mi"a and 1 to stop all immigration for four years after peace in declared. These bil's a aroused the ire of the Holshevii.i and d they sent an infernal machine to Air. Burnett not long ago, who na-rovvly < escaped a horrible death when he op ( ened the package. " It has just come to light that had v the war lasted two months longer '' three-ton tanks, would have been roll- '' ing from the Henry Ford fuctory at 1 the rate of 100 a day. It is also '' C stated that when the armistice v.a?, signed tanks and artillery had been so assembled that the German army r would have been routed arid captured " in a sport time. Gen. Foeh was dis- " appointed when the armistice was an- 1 nounced. He wanted to finish the " job. J" Exactly four years to a day after the Lusitania was sunk and 1104 '' people lost their lives (including 114 ' citizens of the United States), Germany received the terms upon which r he could secure peace. It whh a 1 fitting anniversary of that awful day " ?????? a The prisoner at the bar is not the ' only man who gets trouble out of a 1 little sentence. When Champ Claris aid, "There is precious little dif ' ference between a conscript and a 1 convict," he started a lot of trouble " for himself. Champ should watch his " sentences a little more closely. ?????? ( Senator W. J. Harris, of Ceorgia, il the new Senator from that State, will a vote for the Woman Suffrage Amend- o ment. Senator Tom Hardwick, whom he succeeds, voted against the meat- t ure. This measure will now have a d two-thirds majority and is sure t IV pny io the Senate, I ^ d . ? ' SUCCESS TALK TO FARMERS'BOYS The following article was written by Clarence Poe, editor of The Progressive Farmer. This is one of a series of "Success Talks for Farm Boys"now appearing in that excellent paper. The next one will appear shortly. We think that every farmer's boy in the county ought to be a regular reader of that paper Because we know they are not. we are publishing this excellent article. My dear boy:? In my last letter I took up the queston as to whether you ought to make farming your life work, but I did not get through wilh it. I emphasized the fuct that among all the occupations ofmen, farming almost alone offers opportunities as an industry, and a business, and a proffesion. It offers opportunities for physical development through its vigorous muscular lubor as an industry. It offers opportunities for intellectual development through the vast wealth of scientific knowledge which the farmer may utilize in his work. It offers wise marketing and business methods, especially cooperative marketin ir. :OULD NOT MAKE LEGAL WILL* I It is u remarkable fact that men vho have made millions of dollars vere not able to .make an uncontestible will. Jay Gould, the great raiload wizard and financial king, is a onspicuous example. He has been lead twen'ty-aeven years and his loirs are in the court* fighting his vill. H. M. Flagler, who built railroads tnd fine resort hotels in Florida, left ibout ten million dollars, over which lis heirs have been fighting. Henry B. Plant was a rival in Florida of Flagler, Plant taking the west coast and Flagler the east coast. Plant made his millions with his railroads and hotels and his heirs are going through the courts, claiming the will to be unjust. Samuel J. Tilden, who was elected President of the United States, but was counted out, was immensely wealthy, and although regarded as ane of the brainiest and most successful lawyers in New York City, tie could not make a will to stand the Lest of the courts. There may be a moral in this story, tiut we leave it to our readers to find. Fifteen million Americans bought Victory Bonds. New York, Chicago and St. Louis districts were over-subjcribed. King Ludwig, of Bavaria, remarked that he had nowhere to lay his tiead, whereupon the Detroit Free Press suggests that "he is lucky to lave a head." COIUMBIA MAY LOSE CAMP District Attorney Weston, who has seen directed by the department of justice with the authorities at Camp lackson in procuring the fee by pur hase to the lands desired for the lermanent eamp, has had tiled with lim complaints against a nurrher of and owners in the proposed area as o the exorbitant values placed on heir lands. Mr. Weston said yesterday: "As much as I regret it, I lave felt constrained to forward this communication to the attorney gen?ral of the United States and regret At say that I am compelled to concur n the opinion of the agent entrusted vith the purchasing of litit land that he government is being asked to pay iuins far out of proportion to the ralue of the land." Mr. Weston says that it becomes lis duty to send to the authorities at If LI L. . I ..4 L *L. ji^iinil! vhiui'ji at wiiitri int! amis to ha bought arc returned for axation values are cumpared with >G0 to $10(1 an acre which some own rs are asking the proposition be:om??s ridiculous. Mr. Weston says that while he will )c tflad to see ali property owners liberal prices for their lands, he 'eels it nothing but his duty to speuk dainly on the subject*. He called attention to the fact that inless this property is paid for out if the money now available, the camp vill be lost, for certainly, he says he Republicans who have come into lower will not make any appropriaions to buy lands here, and all funds lot paid out of the present approbations revert to the general treasiry June .'50. So unless the lands ire bought and paid for before June 10, they will not be bought at all, n his opinion, and there will be no Jamp Jackson, in his opinion. He says that he fees it his duty to lubli ih these t ie i .it this tune so in ase the camp is lost, full notice hall have been tfiven.?The State ILLIES REPLY TO COMPLAINT MADE BY GERMANS Paris.? A reply by the allied and ssociated governments to the Gerlan note protesting against the ecoornic terms of the peace treaty as eing calculated to cause the Indusrial ruin of Germany has been deivered to the German peace plenipotentiaries. '1 he reply is under 1 I heads and nswers each German contention. P. eclares that the allied arid associated overnmonts in framing the economic crinH "had no intention to destroy iermany's economic life." On the contrary the report points ut that in the reconstruction of the world's alFairs'Germanv will have her iart in the progressive development iut also will Hhure with the rent of he world in the conomic losses and lisad vantages inevitably resulting rom the war. The reply points out that the tiernan note fails to take into considerition the fact that the disarmament if Germany and the end of militarsrn will relieve the German people of in immense burden of taxation and eturn to the ranks of useful prod union millions of men formerly in the irmy who have been entirely withIrawn from industrial or agriculural activity. The reply also makes art emphatic ejoinder to the German complaint hat the loss of the German merchant riarine will throw out of work thousrids of German merchant seamen, he allies answer is that the destruction of merchant ships, chiefly by ierman submarines, has had the unortunate effect of limiting the opporunities for work of seamen through ut the world, the allied powers bong the greatest sufferers. It adds hat there clearly is no reason why Icrmany should be exempted from ts share of the economic disadvantages growing out of this destruction f merchant ships. The reply on the economic objecions is regarded as one of the best ocuments in the exchange of notes, fany persons attribute it to Preai nt Wllaon. The idea I tried to stress was that if you are to go into farming and expect to make farming pay, you should utilize all these opportunities. You should be a 100 per cent farmer and not a 33 per cent or a 00 per cent farmer. I realize, however that this is not sufficient answer to your question. "Suppose I do set out to be a 100 per cent farmer," you say,*"oan I even then feel reasonably sure that I can make farming pay?That is to say, will the same effort of mind and body put into farming pay as well as if put into other work? What are the conditions which have kept farming from being a paying business during recent years, and are these conditions really changing now? That is to say,, may I go into farming with any assurance that conditions will really be better than they have been for the last 25 or 50 years?" These are serious questions and they call for serious answers. Farming during your father's lifetime, it is true, was not the paying business it ought to be. It has not paid any class of farmers as well as it ought to, neither the 33 per cent farmer nor the 00 per cent, nor even the 100 per cent farmer. It is my belief, however that furniing is not only more profitable than it has been, but is going to be still more profitable in the future. That is to say, I believe farm crops are going to bring more i^nd pay better in the future than they have been in the past. 1 In giving my reasons for this belief I shall hnvc to talk about some rather big questions, but I know you 1 are serious-minded enough to be willing to consider when they mean so much to you anil your future. I believe that farm products are iroinir to brine bettes nrices in the future, for five or nix reasons which I shall now mention. 1 because the drift to the cities has left fewer people to produce food. All over the world the last fifty years the proportion of people in the towns has been increasing and the proportion in the country decreasing- This means a much (creator proportion of food-consumers than formcly and a smaller proportion of food-producers. I am not yet forty years old, yet when 1 was born, about .'10 people in each 100 here in the United States lived in towns, and about 70 in each 100 in the country. We had more than 2 country dwellers for every 1 town-dweller. Now the proportion of country residents and town residents is almost e<|ual. Or take Kni?land. On a recent visit to that country I found that during the preceding years the city population of England and Wales had jjrown from 17 million to 28 million, while the country population had actually shrunk from 8,000.000 to 7,000,000. Similar conditions are reported in France and even in far-away Japan, I found statesmen and newspapers discussing the same problem. Farmers the world over have simply been "Kointf on a strike"a^ainst the low wa^cs formely paid them. They strike by Ifoinj? into town industries. Now this movement has gone so far that it is no longer easy for people iri towns to tfet abundant food at the low prices in order to keen on the land enough workers to supply these products hereafter. 2 Western farmers can no longer Kive away farm products in competition with our own. About fifty years aj?o the United States gave away to settlers millions and millions of acres of marvelously rich lands in the corn and wheat belts of the West. Kver since the creation of man these prairie soils has been storing up fertility. Most of them were treeless and so required no clearing; and the new settlers rushed in and made enormous crops for little or nothing Consequently, thy sold those crops for little or nothing. and so 'p/jced down prices for all other farmer's in the United States Vow this condition is chanjfintf.Western lands sell for from $100 to $.'100 per acre; rents must be paid on this basis, and the people also see that they must make plans for keeping; up the fertility of the land. Consequently, corp-makinK in the West than it used to be and Western products must therefore sell higher. Our Southern farmers will never afcain have to face such competition from cheap Western form product* m pour aw? - father had to face. 3 Higher wages for Southern labor will mean higher prices for Southern farm 8products. An abundance of cheap land just after the Civil War forced down prices of corn and wheat in the West. In the same way an abundunce of cheap labor forced down prices of cotton and 'tobacco here in the South. Lincoln's proclamation set free 4,000,000 Negro farm workers. They had low living standards, worked for low wages, and their cheap labor made cheap cotton?because the world pays for a product only about what it costs to make. Now Negro farm labor is no longer abundant or cheap. Negroes are going into town industries. They know what wages they can get in West Virginia and Pennsylvania coal mines, in street work in Northern cities, or in railroad or factory work nearer home. Consequently the Negro is coming to demand practically the same wages for farm work as he could get for town work, and will not mr.kc cotton unless he can get Buch wages. This means that in order to get enough cotton, cotton prices must go high enough to meet this increased expense. 4. Higher wages for town labor means better markets for farm products. All over the world town la Dor ih better organinzed and better paid than ever before. Labor is getting a larger share of the profits that once went to capital. This fact helps the farmer in two ways. In the first place, it means a better market for farm products. Millions of town laborers in the past have been undernourished. They haven't had food enough to keep them practically "fit." The first thing the town laborer wants when he gets better wages is better food. Better wuges for town labor therefore means keener competition for the farmer's foodstuffs and therefore better prices for the farmer. In the second place, the high wages which the town laborer now demands?and gets?from his employer makes the farmer more independent. "If you don't give me fair prices for my products, I know what I can do," says Mr. Farmer. "I can go to town and become a town laborer." 5. flood schools and the rule of the people will help farm conditions. All over Kurope and Asia where the peasant farmers have been kept in ignorance and held down by C/.ars and emperors, the people are getting on top. They are getting an education which enables them to know their rights, and are also getting popular rule which enables them to obtain those rights. These peasant farmers are going to demand more and get more for labor anil for their products than ever before. This will help raise prices for farmers in all other lands. 11 These are some of my reasons for believing that the prices of farm products will be higher in the future than in the past. In other words, I believe that the man who uses more muscular labor will get better puy than heretofore. Nevertheless, the big fact you need to remember is that such labor will never give a man a real profit. A bare living is all it will provide. ..<>>11 J.WIMHIK "n mi liiuuniijr. I.IUI way iut is making three profits-one profit from farming as un industry, one from it as u profession, ami one from it an a business. As a matter of fact, these ignorant farmers pet only half the profits out of farming even as an industry. That is to say, they work very hard themselves hut they do not multiply their power hy the use of improved imple CALOMEL DYNAMITES A SLUGGISH LIVER Craihci into sour bile making you sick and you lose a day's work. Calomel salivates! It's mercury. Calomel acts like dynamite on a sluggish liver. When calomel comes into contact with sour bile it crashes into it, causing cramping and nausea. If you feel bilious, headachy, constipated and all knocked out, junt go to your druggist and get a bottle of Uodson's Liver Tone for a few cents which is a harmless vegetable substitute for dangerous calomel. Take a spoonful and if it doesn't start your liver and straighten you up better than nasty calomel and without making you sick, you just go back and get your money. If you take calomel today you'll be sick and nauseated tomorrow; besides, it may salivate you, while if you take Dodson's Liver Tone you will wake up feeling great, full of ambition and ready for work or play. It's harmless, pleasant and safs to fivo to ehUdroa; thty Ilka it Adr. i i aaiin-*- ' with physical man-labor aided by the 1 crudest tdols. Let us see if we can make the idea a little clearer. Let us say that the Oriental farmer and the average European peasant farmer get only one profit from their muscular mun labor?whereas the up-to-date American farm boy can muke five profits as follows: 1. One profit for his own muscle. 2. One profit by use of more horsopower and machinery. 3. One profit by utilizing agricultural science and knowledge. 4. One profit by converting raw farm products into more finished forms?agricultural and manufacturing. 5. One profit by wise buying and selling. Let me say m conclusion therefore that if you have an ambition to make the most out of farming, it seems to me to offer as good a prospect as any other average line of work opening up before you. But if you arc to succeed you must not be a 33 per cent farmer, but a 66 or 100 per cent farmer. If you are to succeed, you must be not a one-profit farmer or two-profits farmer, but a three, four or five-profits farmer. Sincerely, CLAIlENCE POK. "FAKE" ASPIRIN As I have said on prcvous occasions: "Where skill and intelligence hegin there profit begins. In that part of farming where competition with the most ignorant?that is to say, with mere muscular labor?must be faced, there is no profit. It is only as we advance into branches where skill and trained intelligence are required that profit begins." So it is that while the farmer who uses muscle only may hope for a somewhat better living than hereto fore, it will still be only si living. And if y/>u put yourself on a working level with the mere muaele-farmer anywhere the ignorant Chinese or Hindu farmer, or the ignorant farmer sit your own door?you must also accept his pay-level. If you farm as he does, you must live as he does. The way out is plain. These ignorant farmers in other lands are only .'13 per cent farmers. The way to get out of competition with them is to be a 00 per cent or 100 per cent farmer. These ignorant furmers here and elsewhere make only one profit?a profit r...... ? .. .... v WAS TALCUM Therefore Insist Upon Gen* uine "Bayer Tablets of Aspirin" Millions of fraudulent Aspirin Tablets were sold by a Brooklyn manufacturer which luter proved to be composed mainly of Talcum Powder, ."Bayer Tablets of Asp iin/' the true, genuine, American mude and Amcricun owned Tablets ure marked with the safety "Buyer Cross." Ask for and then insist upon "Bayer Tablets of Aspirin" and always buy thent in the original Bayer package which contains proper directions I and dosage. Aspirin is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Monouccticacid- 3 ester of Salicycacid. Rm U3j M Ki Erfl |w] Tor titration* tha in 1 auffarina woman of ArnerU Nfl B'tl ca, particularly af tha Houth |m* HI ?hay# found relief from Iti M "woman's Ills" through tha in t famoua prescription of i n Kj| famous Boul^hfrn^ doctor M ^ j Woman know when they Mt I 7 tiern a remedy for weakness Mb and misery la body and MM , i'j inlnd. Mothers know that M If, their young deughtere. et Ml ' the critical aye. need a MM 1 J harmless regulator and a Bill . ill wholeaoms tonic. KM ID HTKI.I.A VITAK supplies HI 1 m this need. Sold by your Km ] fti! **1 eea cheerfully recommend n? . Iff year BTXLLA VITAS. Before I Ml 1 111 need It I eeffered wltk palaful MT* I IH per 11, err ere backache eud 5jHa U to In* scuss my abdomen. I de- QB ^ L. VITAK, and now aft the pain* and R3 srhes bare dtaappeared, and I ne Ka long* fear nir monthly periods." Ml Thacher Medicine Co. \4 1 ? Cketteaoes*. Team., U. S. A. '> For Sale By THE CHESTER 1*1 El.D DRUG CO. WINTHROF COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP ALL) Kill KANCE EXAMINATION 'Ihe examination for the award of vacant scholarship* in Winthrop College u;id for the admission of new students will be held at the County Court House on Friday, .fuly 4th, at 1) A.M., and also on Saturday, July 5th, at 9 A.M., for those who wish to make up by examinations additional units required for full admission to the Freshman Class of this institution. The examination on Saturday, July f?th, will be used only fpr making admission units. The scholarships will be awarded upon the examination held on Friday, July 4th. <-i|>j>ii< iiiiin muni. nni ??? less Tfian sixteen years of age. When scholarships are vacant after July 4th, they will be awarded to those making the highest average at thin examination, provided they meet the conditions governing the award. Applicanta for scholarships should write to President Johnson for scholarship examination blanks. These blanks, properly filled out by applicant, should be fil ed with President Johnson by July 1st. Scholarships ate worth $100 and free tuition. The next session will open September 17, 1010. For ' i. ther information and r. > * ague., address President D. B. J Jmios, Reck Hill, f. C. J> The Flavc Always JP the best fml buy for price jK^jj W ?vTe< oft Seeled Tight?Kept Rlflht ret iiWlBflU 'A SPLENDID TONIC"! ?yi Hixioo Lady Who, On Doctor's Advice, Took Cardnl And Is Now Well. Htxson, Tenn.?"About 10 years ago was..." says Mrs. J. B. Gadd, of tilB place. "1 suffered with a pain In ly left side, could not Bleep at night rlth this pain, always In tho left tde... My doctor told me to use Cardul. I l aok one bottle, which helpod mo and j Tier my baby came, I was stronger .tid better, but the pain wan still bore. I at first let It go, but bognn to g"t 1 r<nk and In a run-down condition, I o 1 doclded to try somo more C'arilul, ! rhicli I did. This last Cardul which I took made ne much better, In fact, cured mo. It ins been a number of yenrs, at-ill I lave no return of this trouble. I feel It was Cardul that cured me, ind I recommend It as a splendid fcnale tonic." Don't allow yourself to become weak and run-down from womanly roubles. Take Cardul. It should surey help you, as It has so many thouiand? of other women In the past 40 rears. Headache, backuclie, sldeache, aerrousness, sleeplesEncsn, tired-out eel in g. are all signs of womanly trou>Ie. Other women get relief by taHrig 3ardnt. Wbr not vnut All drn??i i? ~ ~N&iia | i The I H .4 I B - I | iOf Life Infvintnco A vyarda every cemetei a desolate home. ] of the widow. It \ iti black. The policies of Trust Company, Gre to-datc in every res I Chesterfield I 8 C. C. DOUG1 S3 ALSO FIRE, ACCIDENT, II g INSU K Ws Buy asd Salt Km g=g >r Lasts i .'1 Hf reshment iUBl 1 possible jj&N to set. BB I The m Flavor Lasts\jgtf IRAKIS RAPID HEADWAY Adil This fact to your store of Knowledge. Kidney disease often advances so rapidiy that many persons are firmly in its grasp before aware of its progress. Prompt attention should b' given the slightest symptom of kidney disorder, if there is a dull pain in the buck, headaches, dizzy spells or a tired worn-out feeling, or if the kidney seciv .oris are offensive, irregular and attended with pain, procure a good l.idncy remedy at once. C ft fill Iroil niilipnmon 474 K. Proud St. Darlington, S. C., says: "About three years ago I had trouble with my kidneys and bladder and had terrible paints in my back. spells came on at times and I also had headaches. Finnaly I heard uuiut Dean's Kidney Fills being bo good und I used them. They cured me of all the compluints." Price CO cents, at all dealers. Don't simply usk for Kidney remedy?get Doan's Kidney's Fills?lite same that Co., Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y. ?Adv. 3I re Is "'lenty I rjjiimont. It h<*adu t<? y. It returns a^ain to It glistens in thcr tear valks the streets clad the Southern Life and ensuoro, N.C., are uppect. ioan &' Ins. Co. LASS, Manager KALTH, HAIL, LIVE STOCK RANCE j I EiUU?Momjt Lo?a?<