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W *W7 f Tfce Chwtatield Advertiser Paul H and Fred G. Hearn Editors PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY Subscription Bites: $1.50 a Year; fix mo..?73 cunts.?Invariably in advance. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice at Chesterfield, South Carolina. Su'-f" A GOOD CO-OPERATIVE PLAN A bill bar been introduced in Congress that ought to be of help to farmers. It provides for rs'.O' ition ? in each state for cooperative selling of all farm products. These associations are to be organized under a general plan, but the bill permits any organization already in existence to become a member. The so\eral State organizations are to elect or appoint not less than one nor more than three agents, whose duty U is to represent, advise, and assist the State associations in the marketing of their products, whether within their own States or at any place of consumption, the expenses of these agents to be borne and paid as a part of all cooperative associations in the State. One trouble about farmers' organizations is that they won't organize. While other industries not only organize but stay organized farmers are not inclined to work together. The bill referred to ought to be a great help to the farming interest and will be of much benefit if tillers of the soil will take advantage of it. Senator McCumber, of Iowa, spoke very hopefully for the outlook for farmers. He said: "The hope of the American farmer today lies in the ever-increasing numbers of the consumers of his products right here in the United States, light here at home. We have nearly reached the limit of our tillable acres, but the birth rate will continue. Population has no limit. In the light of this assurance let the American farmer take heart. The time is not far off when by reason of increased consumption in the United States, demanding every bushel of his grain, every pound of poultry and dairy products, every pound of beef, and pork and mutton, the farmer can and will receive the full benefit of this protection which has made prosperous and built up our great city populations, a policy which since the Civil War has converted a population which at that time was two-thirds food producers into a population which is now more than two-thirds food consumers. Let the fanners not try to drive this great consuming population back into the fielil of food production." FIGHTING LORD'S MUSCLE SHOALS OFFER It has been developed that a powerful lobby has been at work in Washington to block and defeat Ford Muscle Shoals offer. The lobby is composed of fertilizer and water power capitalists. Senator Harris claims that the lob troduced in the Senate a resolution asking for an investigation of the lobby. Senator Ilari* claims that the lob? by is at work in the interests of the fertilizer and waterpower groups op posed to < < velopment of the Muscle Shoals property. The inquiry which he proposed would uncover this, he said, adding that if it were as powerful as it appears from the propaganda it has sent out, congress cannot act too quickly in bringing to light the influenees which the alleged trusts are bringing to bear on members. TALKING TO THE BUCKEYES In an address before the Ohio State bar association Hon. .Toe T. Robinson, United States Senator from Arkansas, gave the Buckeye lawyers some very plain and needed talk along lines that should bo brought to the attention of Northern lawyers and lay? men. ... . 1- I i-: i-Mi ..V IV. lilK ii> i III- <111 I l-I.Y Hi lling DIM he said that no progress would be made in overcoming the mob spirit by enactment of unreasonable or unconstitutional statules, fov such efforts in the end must meet with failure. Since no federal law, constitutionally enacted, can apply to the usual cause of lynching, the remedy lies in state authority through awakening in tile public conscience greater respect for law and confidence in the courts." Referring to pr hibition he said the law must be enforced. Good citizens can not in honor respect and ob.erv unly such laws as they approve and connive at statutes which they regard as a doubtful or unwise policy. This would accomplish the triumnh of anarchy over the just, the establishment of lawlessness and terror in place of justice and security. MICKIli,THE PRINT* P" j a / MORE COTTON T1 THOUGH WEI By James A. Hollomon g Used by Permission Atlanta Constitu- j tion. 1 College Station, Texas, January 1 20. (Special.)-In the initial article ' of this series that is, the story of how to ?row cotton successfully in spite ! of the boll weevil, as practiced in 1 Texas, Louisiana and in the Mississippi delta?I pointed out? That it is a fact, as proven by I (iviovnoi nn woki^nituiis, liiul lariiif rs :n the southwest who exorcise intel- ' ligencc and energy in their operations ?"good farmers,"so to speak?aren't only raising as much cotton today, * under boll weevil conditions as tthey did on the same acreage before the advent of the weevil, but through ; lessons learned in improved cultural methods,are in many cases raising i more cotton to the acre than in the pre-weevil days. In Neuces county?of which Corpus Christi is the county seat?76,000 bales of cotton were grown and ; ginned in 1921, which exceeded by nearly 10,000 bales, the banner crop | of the pre-weevil days, and on an acreage not to exceed 2,000 greater than ( in the pre wevil days. This is a stat- i inent that can be easily verified. Also bear in mind? The weevils were not only more prolific in 1921 than ever before, due to an unusually wet and humid spring and summer, but other crop condi tiojj? were poor, the heavy rains of June practically submerging thou-1 sands of acres. How was this record made? Ry efficient and intense cultivation,from the seed bed preparation to the harvest, along the old, well estab. lished lines without any new-fangled methods or fool experiments; by intense cultivation, getting the very best pedigreed seed of an early maturing variety into the ground as ptickly after Christmas as possible ny thorough and "systematic "chopping" and "working;" pushing the , plant as rapidly as practicable; and | by actually mastering the weevil be- I fore he could take account of his! surroundings after he emerged from ; hih?.i n-it inn ??'! U.. ? -" I v. t unit iiivii uy aysiuilittU- ' j rally keeping tab on infestitation, and by the proper application of cal-' cium arsenate in those areas showing! an infestation of 10 per cent, or more. That's how the farmers of Neuces county, Texas, did it in 1921?and in properly cultivating their cotton, as in the proper preparation of the land; and in the proper application of poison, they made more cotton on the same acreage than ever before?before the weevil swept them in to a panic several years ago. And that in a word, which will be enlarged upon in detail before this series closes, explains how to make cotton under boll weevil conditions, whether in a warm climate, like Neuces county, or further to the north. There are direct and indirect agencies of successful boll weevil control which must la- co-ordinated by the intelligence and energy of the farmer?indirect provided and applied by the farmer himself along simple,practical and non-expensive lines that have been proven now, beyond the shadow of a doubt, to be wholly efficient. In a word the one fact stands out like a peak in the plains? The boll weevil can never be exterminated, or even materially weakened in any given community or zone as an agency of complete cotton destruction; and the necessary procecduro is to control him; and controlling him can easily be accomplished, as prove 11 in tne southwest, but can only be accomplished by intelligent, systematic, energetic, intensive cultivation, plus calcium arsenate poisoning, properly applied in those areas where infestation has reached more than 1 Opor cent. it is nonsense to try to reach the goal through any other route?it is worse than foolishness to even attempt another route when the right way is not only easy, but is capable of bringing a greater reward at the end than ever achieved before, in spite of the boll weevil. As to a detailed explanation of how to prepare the seed bed; how to cultivate the land; how to poison infested areas and so on, I shall let the | recognized cotton growing expert of the south tell in his own language hefore this series closes? Let me say this, however, here and now -there are no new lessons to learn, it. these methods of cotton cul-! ture, to the painstaking, hard working j efficient farmer, who farms direct and not by proxy, and who had been a EFTSDEVIL - " ' " IAN EVER, EVILS INCREASE successful cotton grower before the joll weevil menaced him. Mistaken Ideas Prevail in Southeast I It is a mistaken idea that the wee-! sdl has revolutionized cotton plant- i ing and cultivation methods?for instance that the plants must be sparsely spaced so that the sun can reach every :?ber of every plant; that seed have to be ''treated* 'and medicated; that the stalks have to be burned or buried immediately following the last picking; that a certain grade of fertilizer must be used; that a flock of fowls must be kept on every cotton field and so on. All of that is rubbish and torn foolery as proven in Texas. It would help to burn the stalks after the harvest, possibly, but it would not keep down the weevils? and in Georgia and the Carolinas it is impracticable. I find bvto ft. micro do 30 in Texas; others do not. Other conditions being equ.il I see no differen o in results. That the boll weevil is here, and here to stay, and that farmers must not get the impression that after three or four years he moves on, leaving the path behind him practically immune from further attack. I know there is a widespread impression in Georgia today that the boll weevil has spent his day in Texas, as an illustration. That he passed on to Louisiana, and into the Mississippi delta, and into Alabama, and within the last three or four years into a big part of cotton growing Georgia ; and that he will in due course leave Georgia, and pass on to green fields and new pastures. In the name of sound, comon sense dispel that thought! It will cost Georgia $50,000,000 in 1922 if such a thought is allowed to prevail. More Weevils in Texas Than Ever One pair of weevils have an averStories of Great Scouts fVatwn j ?, Western Newspaper Union. EDGAR S. PAXSON, THE SCUU1 WHO WAS A PAINTER Col. lOUgur S. I'axson was a scout who became a painter. lie worked for 20 years 011 one painting before It wus completed, and when the <dd scout's masterpiece was done. It was declared to he the most accurate picture of Custer's last battle ever painted. It made I'axson fuuioua. I'axson was a New Yorker who went to .Montana in the early seven ties. lie became a cowpunelier, a hunter ami trapper. When Chief Joseph led his Nez I'erce warriors on their 1.000-mile ilnsh for freedom In 1877, I'nxsnn enlisted as a scout with the United States troops and served with them until Chief Joseph was eoruered in the Bear I'aw mountains and surrendered to General Miles. After the Nez I'eree war was over, Puxson returned to Deer Lodge, Mont., und opened a studio. lie hud always wanted to paint pictures and lie took for his subjects the things lie knew best ? cowboys, Indluns, hunters and trappers. Then he conceived the Idea of a painting of the greatest Indian battle in American history?Custer's last fight with the Sioux and Cheyennes on the Little Big Horn. For years Paxson gathered information about the battle. lie went over the battlefield again and again until he was familiar with every foot of it; he talked with Indians who hud fought against Custer, and he sought officers and men who had served with Iteno and Benteen to get their stories of the tight. He learned everything he could of the position of every man In the Seventh cavalry on that fateful day in June 1876. Puxson was engaged seven years In the actual painting of the picture. His work was interrupted during this lime by his service Id Cuba during ihe Spanish-American war and In the Philippines. After the war was over he returned to his work and the picture was completed. In this painting I'axson showed the figures of more than 200 soldiers, Indians and scouts. It contained the portraits of 30 members of Custer's command painted from photographs. Kvery detull of the battle was shown historically accurate, so far as It Is possible to know how Custer and his men perished. The painting has been on exhibition In the largest cities of the United States and It now hangs in the library of the Montana State university at MlssouJa. It Is valued at $25.<X>0. In l^TS I'axson In Id down the scout's rlre to take up the painter's brus>. . nrty-one years later he laid down the brush. Colonel I'axson died in Missoula. November 0. 1910. By Charles Sughroe WfUftn Newspaper Union 1 IgggggBWS^^ age of 12,000,000 offsprings every. year. There are more weevils in Texas' today, a hundred times over, than there were in 1907 and 1908 when the cotton farmers were terror-stricken by the swarms of newly recognized pests. Weevils did more damage in Texas i nl921 among those good-for-nothing, improvident so-called "farmers" who were too lazy to fight them, or too mutton-headded to listen to or understand reason, than ever before in the history of weevil infestitation. The state entomologist at this place, whose duty it is to keep the records will bear out that statement. At the end of the year 1920 nearly 535,00 square miles of territory had been infested by the boll weevil. Ninety per cent, of the cotton belt is today thus infested; and 95 per cent, of the American grown cotton is grown in infested areas It is true, however, that cold retards his progress and a freeze kills him, just as dry heat kills him. If it were not for the indirect j agencies of control supplied by nature, as, for instance, several kinds of insect parasites that feed upon him, | the red ant to illustrate, the whole at | mosphere of the cotton belt would be I so conjested with boll weevils in the j summer that one could not live nor even breathe. Let's apply common sense to studying this problem, and' to meeting it. The fact remains that, despite all the natural agencies that effect weevil mortality, wheo a pair of them multiply at the rate of 12,000,000 a year, they are here and here to stay forever, ever increasing in numbers. They arc costing the cotton grow- j ers of the whole belt today around $300,000,000 annually, despite the successful methods practiced in the southwest for growing cotton in spite of him. There is no time to temporize with foolish ideas, or new experiments, or "patents," or any other kinds of chemical or mechanical devices exploited in order to take the money from the farmers' pockets. Intensive, early, thorough, cultivation, pushing the cotton as fast as possible, and getting in the seed as MADE HISTORY j ? By JAMES C. YOUNG. ? Oct bv MeClure Newspaper Syndicate.) THE WOMAN WARMAKER. IT WAS an Ill-fated ship which brought a wonderfully beautiful | Italian girl to England, toward the close of the Seventeenth century. But no one who saw this Ivory-skinned, dark-eyed beauty, would have thought that she was to plunge England Into a period of Nourished. So her destiny ! proved, for Mary of Modena was the embodiment of had luck to England. 1 She came jovef from Italy as the be' trot lied bride of the Duke of York, j In the course of a few years he ascended the throne as James U, al mmign in tne nine of ills marriage no j ??m? could have foreseen that event, .lames was a had king, and what la perhaps worse, he wus a weak king, j The people muttered against him, tyid | Ids wife, Mary of Modena, urged that : he flee. .lahiesyhesltated, and he pres! ently was dethroned, William of Orange taking Ids place. Immediately i James' follower^ handed together in what was called the Jacobite uprlsi lugs, this being a play on the Latfn name for James, which Is Jucobus. Mary, watching events from France, paid her court to Louis XIV, She la said to have caught the fancy of the gallant Louis and to have persuaded him to declare her son the true kln^ of England, Instead of William. Louis assented and a new war promptly began, much worse than the civil conflict which had preceded It In England. William succeeded In gaining j allies when Loots declared his own ; grandson to be king of Spain. Soon the War of the Spaniah Succession was In Its full red tide and Europe ran with blood. The struggle lasted 14 years and before It ended practically every nation of the continent waa drawn In. Armies were wiped not, furious battles won and leet. Prince Eugene, Insulted by a alight of Loula. went to Austria and Inflicted heavy defeats on the Freuch. becoming the greatest military leader Austria ever had?and he was a Frenchman. Martborough won battle after battle for England and undying faipo for himself. Loula' ablest lender died and France Just escaped falling into the clutches of her enemies. Mary, the maker of wars, had well earned the name. Bnt site still waa unsatisfied, and when peace Anally came she urted all of her blandish mentg to stir up new Jacobite troubles In England. The Jacobite rebellions dragged on for a number of years. But they were hopeless, for William had firmly seated himself on the throne. Still Mary kept on with the resolution of despair and not until her deuth In 1718 couWl the English king breathe easy. vaco "vnukrv <** ^ .jiA0OOJ II I I 111 II i quickly as season and climatic conditions will warrant or make safe, applying brains and energy, and fn pushing the cotton for early and prolific boiling?this coupled with thorougnly understood system for poisoning the weevils, in plats in which infestation to 10 per cent, or more develops, with calcium arsenate?which can be secured in the tested correct proportions this year for 7 1-2 to 8 cents a pound?these methods co-ordinated, together with a clean farm, clean fences, burned rubbish?the natural things that appeal to every drrt-?*lasi intelligent, farmer, will absolutely make the boll weevil a negligible factor, as proven here in Texas. By " intensive cultivation"! mean making more cotton on less acreage. 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ALSO FLRE, ACCIDENT, 1 IN 81 We Bay sad Sell Re Lucky SAM| SUE < IAS PtWTk K * ' ' - < ' feed upon before he can affect pro- < duction provided the farmer pushes < his cotton by intense cultivation and 4 high fertilization. That is common sense and sounds * reasonable. 4 Infestation below 10 per cent, ? therefore, will do no production dam- < age, as shown by my Texas investiga- 4 tions. " ( Above that, war upon him with the < calcium arsenate, but do it right I shall explain in detail how the successful cotton farmer in the south- ' west does it?without worrying and 1 with only nominal expense?in a sub- J sequent article. One thing must always be carried | in mind, and that is that complete boll , weevil control does not make cotton. This brings me to another point I made in the first article in this se- | (Continued on last page") < ? , A.L TEST ' i lheritance, not what you start with | lesty is what will make you truly i > better conditions? 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THERE was no response to the Impatient knocking on the heavy doors of the Adams Express company's building near the end of the [}olumbu8 (O.) Union station, one night In the middle of winter. There stood the train, with the usuat bustle ind clamor preparatory to departure, but the express clerk and his assistant had not made their appearance. Bang I Bang I Bang 1 This time John Grossman, the ex press messenger, knocked harder than ever, for It was beginning to dawn upon him that something ^ust be wrong. A moment later he tried the knob of the door. To his amazement It turned easily and he stepped forward Into utter darkness, stumbling over boxes and packages until he reached the gas Jet In the center of the room. Papers and parcels lay In wild confusion all over thefloor, the door of the safe stood open and the clerk and - his assistant werelying In one corner, In a sort of stupor.. It was evident . that the two men-. Iiad beeu chloroformed?the slckenlngrxlor of the drug still pervaded theroom?and that the company had been robbed, in spite of the fact that hundreds of people had been Just outside the building all during the evening. These circumstances, coupled with the Pact that $40,000 was missing from the safe, were all that Allan Plnkerton had to work upon when he reached; Columbus the following morning. The details of the robbery were obtained directly from John Barker, the express clerk. According to Barker, he and his assistant were stretched out ou two cots, as usual about ten o'clock In the evening. taking a nap before going on duty on the train which was due to leave Columbus shortly after midnight. "I wns awakened by what appeared to be a muffled pounding or pushing at the door," Barker continued. "Was the door locked?" Inquired Plnkerton. "It was?and bolted. I didn't pay any attention to the matter because, whllfc we did have $72,000 In the safe ?$.'12,000 of It In revenue stamps? we had often guarded a good deal more, and I thought the noise had' been made by some one who had stumbled agulnst the door in the darkness. Then, before I got really awake,. I heard the bolt give, and the next thing } knew some one had pinioned: my arms, and I caught a whiff of something which I recognized as chlo-roform. I struggled, but It was no> u?e. When I came to, Grossman. themessenger, was bending over me, and. the whole place looked like a cyclonehad struck It. The $40,000 In cashwas gone, but they bail overlooked or deliberately left the $.12,000 1m * stamps." Plnkerton made no comment st ths^ time, but continued his examination of the room where the robbery had; inken place. A careful scrutiny of the door revealed two Interesting: fnrts: The holt had been bent, as If.' It bad been In pi are when the door1 was forced, but It was bent far more? than was necessary to secure an entrance to the room, and there were no> scratches or other signs of violence; on the outside of the door. All the evidence appeared to point: to the fact that the Job had iweui handled from the inside, and IMnkerton Immediately ordered the arrest ot' Parker and his assistant. The two men protested their Innocence. Upon looking Into Parker's antecedents. Pinkerton found that the express clerk hail a brother living lm Chicago, a man who was reputed to h?> quite wealthy and whom Parker stated would willingly go on his hall If permitted to do so. But the Chicago* branch of the Pinkerton agency reported that the other Parker was not. only not wealthy, but was prominent In the life of the underworld. "Where was this man on the night of the Columbus robbery?" Allan Pinkerton Inquired by wire. "Unable to obtain definite Information," came hack the reply; "but he was not In Chicago." "Trail him closely, and arrest him the Instant he attempts to leave the city," were the telegraphic directions which followed. Karly the following morning, less than 30 hours after the crime In Columbus, Henry Parker was arrested en route to Canada, and $14,000 was found In the lining of his valise. Pater after having been given a taste of the famous Pinkerton "silence cure," he revealed the hiding place of the other $20,000 and the details of the whole affair, which he had claimed his brother had planned. The scheme was simplicity itself. John Burker hud administered chloroform fo his sleeping assistant. Then he opened the out* side door, admitted Ids brother, and: opened the safe. After strewing i>hpera all over the floor, Henry Barkerplaced a cloth aaturnted with chloroform over his brother's nostrils, stuffed the cash In his pocket and left, lirst bending hack the holt on the door, t'lifortunately, however, he had been a little too thorough In attending rn this last detail, and had left a c'tte which enabled IMnkerton to start the two m<A toward the penitentiary within 4K hours after the dlseevery ef thg robbery. Amending It. Mr. Nagg?I suppose now you wish you were free to marry ugaln? Mrs. Nagg?No, lust free. Doubtful. North?Mr*. June* said that 1 reminded her of Iter huahnnd. West?Is that a compliment? . i ... No Place for Hor. Phi!?Did anybody oyer catch har nnder the mlatletoe? >BUJ?Nct tf they i*w har ?rat