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g, - _ I' MiiwiMngmMMMi The Chesterfield Advertiser Paul H. And Fred G. Hearn Editors PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY Subscription Hates: $1.50 a Year; six moul., '.'3 cents.?Invariably in advance. ? ' i T Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice at Chesterfield, South Carolina. SENATOR DIAL ON COTTON FUTURES In a recent speech Senator Dial called attention to the iniquity of the cotton futures market stating that he had introduced last year an amendment to the cotton futures contract law that has been pending before a subcommittee of the senate for 12 months. The South Carolina Senator said that he was not asking sympathy but was asking justice for the cotton farmers of the south. The indisposition of Congress to do anything for the suffering farmers aroused the Senator to such an extent that he used the caustic language which is given below. Senator Dial quoted from the report of the National Agricultural Congress giving the cost of raisitig a crop of cotton in which these figures were presented: The balance of $182.50 represents labor for the entire year for man, wife and two children, which is Gi cents a day for 300 days. On a 305day basis, this gives a total revenue of 10 cents per day for each member of the tenant's family of four. That. mese nsuii's are not overdrawn eun be readily proven by reference to the production statistics of the Department of Agriculture, which are readily available. Referring to this report, the Senator said: "I charge the Congress?and I realize that this is pretty strong language?with being in favor of the bears on the cotton market?uninintentionally, of course, but the disasterous result for the farmer is the same. The law simply amounts to confiscation, and I am making every effort in my power to get the Agricultural Committee of the Senate to report this amendment. If it should be reported, I believe that there will be little objection on the floor of the Senate. If we can get it enacted into law, it would help the condition of the laboring people of my section of the country more than anything else or perhaps everything else that we could do in their behalf. "These figures, Mr. President, are not mine. They are from this report of our own committee, and I say they are startling, indeed." TAXING SALT, POTASH, BAGGING AND TIES In another article The Advertiser refers to a speech by Senator Dial in which he tans the hides of the Republican Senators because of the high tariff bill that they are trying to impose upon the country. Now here comes Senator Heflin of Alabama, and he puts salt oil those same hides. This is what he sani in the Senate. "I never thought that the Rjpubhcan Partv would dare undertake to put salt?table salt, sack salt, and every kind ol' salt?upon the lax list. Through the years behind us it has been tax free?on the free list. The Bible speaks about salt having lost its savor, but under the reign of the Republican Party salt has lost its place upon the free list. Every man who kills a chicken, who butchers a pig or a lamb or a kid of a hog or a yearling, must have salt. "Salt is something that we need and must have all the time. Hereafter every child, every boy, girl, man or woman who takes up a saltcellar on the table and goes to season his other food will say: "Think of it, the 1 Republican Congress hus placed a tax upon salt." "I say to you tonight, by a record vote, take salt off the free list and ^lace a tariff of 40 cents a sack, or I a ton, upon it. Many men in the /attic business and hog business and /heep anil goat Dusiness use many tons of salt t very year, and you have increased their expense bill by your ?ote to-night. The cattleman with his great herds feeding this night on the western pUirv, and the livestock man everywhere, who uses salt to meet the needs of his cattle, horses and mules, has been burdned by the vote that you cast a moment ago to place a tux upon salt. Nobody will escape the tax that you have just laid upon the backsj of the consuming masses of America." Senator W. J. Harris, of Georgia, showed up the iniquity of the tariff as affecting the cotton farmers of the South. This is part of his speech: "Unfortunately for the South, the principal product is cotton,CO per cent of which is exported, and our farmers must compete with the pauper labor of Kgypt, India, China, and other countries of the world. Th? tariff dots' not help the southern farmer, as no short-staple cotton is imported into this country; even pauper labor of the world can not compete with us. I greatly regret that under this bill they are putting a tax on potash fertilizers, bagging, ties and everything else the farmer and his family consumes and must use in producing his crop. The price of cotton is not fixed >y the cotton producer of the South, but by the Liverpool and New York Cotton Exchanges, which are manipulated against the cotton producer. After paying expenses of labor, taxes and ao forth, the farmera who own the their investment than the owner of' ( any other farm lands in our country.' Our farmers would be only too glad to pay more for labor if they could get a better price for cotton, which at presen is far below the cost of production. Under the tariff bill we are now considering when it becomes u law it will j not help increase the price of cotton,1 but it will greatly increase the cost of j living to the farmer's family who raises cotton, when his burdens are h already greater than he can bear." tl jv WASHINGTON COMMENT , e That business should not profit u at the expense of the health of little J* children is a universal belief. That ^ child labor is expensive to the nation, ](, . an offense against decency, undesired e by those who put the welfare of the fif race and their country above immediate monetary is undeniedxzfiflfffil But there are worse things than ^ child labor; things which could wreck these United States much quicker ^ than the exploiting of many little children. J a One of these is the overthrowing n of those foundation stones upon j which this nation is built; let there: * oe no foundation and the super- * structure will crumble. Let there be no nation, and children here will be s' as are the children of Russia? a starved, helpless, dead by thousands. 11 The Supreme Court of the United ^ States has ruled that the 1919 child labor law was unconstitutional. Let us by all means do away with v ren rejoiced. But there are many P who love chidren who have not criti- ^ eized the decision, just as there n have been many wno are heart and 1 soul for prohibition who believe the n eighteenth amendment and the Volstead Act have done more harm than good. Admittedly, the 1919 child labor law would have stopped child laoor. But it would also open the doors i-o the federal government taking over all rights not reserved to and by the ' states, a thing expressly forbidden in 1' the fundamental iaw of our land. Let us. by all means, do away with " child labor. But let us do it by aroused public sentiment, by state c legislation, by education, by willingness to follow Him who would " have little children suffered to come u unto Him, not by tampering with the u strength of the country where children are most free, where children ^ have most opportunity, where child- " ren are best protected. a Let us thank God for a Supreme Court which thinks of the country ^ as a whole, even before it thinks of exploited children. "What is the matter with the church?"' ask many devout churchgoers, ministers, church authorities and serious-minded laymen. There are a thousand answers. One of them is brought forcibly to mind when the proceedings of a gathering < of a certain church are read and it is found that emphasis is being placed upon the necessity for ministers strictly to "maintain the moral law" by refusing to marry one who has been divorced for any other reason than infidelity. That, bretheren of the church, is one of the things the matter with it; ihe refusal to recognize that the human mind demands equity in its religion as well as its civic law. Marriage, a sacrament in the church, is made with mutual promises t to love, to honor, to cherish, to be i faithful. "But," says the church, "if t you break one of these you may be free of marriage bonds, but if you t keep that one and break all the rest, r bound you must be!" A man may beat i his wife, get drunk on home-made 1 hooch and stay out all night, go to 1 prison for felony, be cruel to his chil- t dren, bring disgrace upon his family, i "Never mind all that," says the l church, "stay married." But a man! may be all that is good and kind and c upright and honorable and temperate ( in every other way; if he is once un- t faithful, than, says the church, di- ^ vorce by all means. The innate sense of justice with I which we are all born protests against v the idea that a helpless woman must t stay bound to a brute who maltreats . her and his children, merely because ms lapses do run toward the other f woman." The law recognizes extreme i cruelty, desertion, and felonies as just causes for divorce in most states; ? when the church as a whole does also there will be less reason for it to ask, "What is the matter that men venerat me less each year?" ' J I YE FARME GOSSIPE ( Good fences not only make better t pastures, they also make better neigh- J bors. > c The best spring tonic comes not > out of bottles, but out of the ground. Moral. Have a god garden. ' r It's a good sign when agriculture s produces food for thought as well as * food for the body. 8 <! It is more important to plant in the 1 right sort of land than in the right c phase of the moon. t , a For the land's sake, Mr. Farmer, ' plant velvet beans in your corn. Ev- * ery acre of corn should be an acre of 11 beans. No, it does take a witty farmer ? to outwit the weeds. Frequent, shal- k low cultivation will do that and will c also save the soil moisture. Speaking of proper cuitivation of P crops, what sort of cultivation are you giving the crop of farm boys and c girls to-get them well rooted in love of C \ '?c A^ **-? *? Aikw , ,5 I^OObBj By > Biochemiit -/ I WHY DO WE EAT? From the earliest history of man is efforts have been directed toward he maintaining of life. This has inolved combat with and flight from nemies, the quest of food and mate. These primary needs are as insisent today as they ever were. Though lodern man realizes that he cannot ve by bread (and meat) alone, that e has needs of a higher nature, men1 and spiritual. Still the need or propr phyhical nourishment cannot be nelected without disasterous results. With the development of civilizaion has come a refinement in the ood of man that has brought in its rain a series of physical ailments, 'herefore, man finds it necessary toay to turn both his science and his rt toward the problem of feeding ian, the animal. It is possible for man, while eating hree meals a day, to die of starvaion. Thousands upon thousands do evelop diseases of malnutrition, uch as palagra, Berri Berri, Scurry nd Rickets (in children), while catlg an abundance of food, but food eing improperly balanced, deficient i certain properties. The food of our early ancestors /as bulky, that is, contained a large roportion of undigestable matter. Wei nd that a large part of civilized lan's intestine trouble is due to his efinements of food,the illimination of ecessary to return to them. The bulkiness is supplied by such ulad greens as spinach, turnip salad; liese bulky properties and it has been alad greens as spinach, turnip salad, abbage, celery, etc. We eat for nourishment, to satisfy lie craving for food. We dine for leasure, to enjoy the flavor of food. For civilized people, not only eattig but dining is a necessary luxury. Attention should not always be foused on nourishment, ining hour arrives the occasion tietic custom in which the nutritional lenient is subordinated to the pleasrable. This is as it should be. Foods should e properly selected, but when the ining hour arrives the occssion liould be enjoyed for its own sake. :0-0PERATlVE ASSOCIATION IN KENTUCKY A SUCCESS A dispatch from Shelbyville, Kenucky recently received at Raleigh. leadquarters of the Tobacca Growrs' Association describes payment of [ he second advance to the organized armers as follows: Approximately 650,000 dollars was listributed here today among thfc 2,>00 tobacco growers of Shelby county vho are members of the Burlcy Co perative Marketing Association. The ayments were made at the Big Burley rVarehouse, where a force of twentyive clerks were on duty before 7 'clock this morning, and had eomplet d the distribution of the 3,500 checks >y 1 o'clock this afternoon. From early morning until late this evening the streets were thronged vith the largest crowd seen in Shelby-ille in many years. The live banks of he city did a rushing business, opening earlier and closing at a later hour ban usual. For the accomodation of the visiors the king's daughters served dinlers and luncheons in the park faeng the Court- House and also at the lurley Warehouse. The American .egion Band of fifteen pieces played hroughout the day on the Public square, and in the afternoon a base>all game was staged. j Dispatches from other counties >f Kentucky described the Gala Day >n which Kentucky farmers cclebrat :w tin.- cumpiuie success oi meir orranization for Cooperative Markets. Over 4,000 contracts have reached ialcigh Headquarters in recent reeks and last week more than a housand new members came into the Association. The landslide of new members rom Eastern Carolina is rapidly gainng headway. ( 'OLAND CLAIMS OLDEST MAN, A NAPOLEONIC VETERAN Paris, May 27.?Although Poland. 11 its present form, is among1 the roundest countries of Europe, the 'oles claim among their citizens the ddest man in the whole world. .John Krasinski, the last survivor of nc ^Napoleonic armies, fought lit) rears ago in the Battle of Borodino, j \ged 22 then, he therefore today ounts the venerable number of 182 rears. Taken prisoner by the Russians? lot in the World War but during Na>oleon's Moscow retreat?Krasinski ettled down in Russia and fought in Crimea. Last year his "young wife" is he calls her, died at the age of >8. Having then learned that the Poish Government was making grants >f land to veterans, Krasinski behought himself of his original nationlity, and as his excellent claim to beng a veteran could not well be denied, he old man is today busy tilling land n the province of Posen. The sweet potatoes which rot in ne year would pay for enough poato curing houses to save the entire rop. If you want to get the cream of rofit from dairy farming, ask the '.xtension Service for Extension Cirular 35, "Production and Care of. ream for Shipment," which ie now! -- ? |"V AMPS^>V H O \ ? MADE HISTORY % By JAMES C. YOUNG. ^ ((?) by McClur* N?w?p?p?r Syndicate.) THE ANQEL WITH THE FROZEN HEART." IN 1793, with the French revolution at Its height, a flfteen-year-old girl was married to a banker almost flfty and all Paris smirked. But Paris would have been ashamed If It hud known, as historians believe, thut Jacques Recamler was the father of his bride, Jeanne, and married her so that she might have his powerful protection. Throughout his life he kept a paternal attitude toward her. Mme. Recamler undoubtedly was one of the most beautiful women who ever graced Paris. An admirer said that she had a "complexion that Is a bowl of milk wherein float rose leaves." Another tells us of her "orange-tinted vyva hnu hii agreea mat sne was "tne angel with the frozen heart." From the welter of the revolution and the reign of terror Napoleon emerged. When he had made himself secure he looked about at the beautiful women of Paris and his fancy fell on Mme. Recamler. He made lazy love to her. But she refused him. Napoleon, In a spiteful humor, ruined her husband and banished her. Then the two left for Italy. There Prince Augustus of Prussia fell In love with the banker's wife and wanted her to become his princess. Again she declined. Luclen Napoleon, brother of the emperor, lost his head over her. After him came the gallant Genoral Bernadotte, and left disappointed. Benjamin Constant, the statesman, loved her, and she made him an Instrument of revenge against Nu poleon, but granted Constant nothing. General Moreau was next, then Murat, king of Naples. Mme. Recamler Inveigled him Into conspiracies against his master, who fell not long afterwurd. And the Recnmlers went back to Paris, leaving Murat empty handed. Mme. Recnmier's salon became the most brilliant center of the restoration. Recamler died and a thousand suitors besieged his beautiful widow. When 6he was more than fifty she met the only man to whom her heart was not indifferent, Chateaubriand, the author, a cranky, saddened man. But even theirs was a platonlc love, for It seemed that her heart could no; be warned and won. She tended him In Ids last days and died soon afterward. Perhaps she really loved him Stories of Great Scouts Vatson I ?, Western Newspaper Union. "BUFFALO CHIP" JIM WANTED TO BE LIKE BUFFALO BILL Plain Jim White was h's mime, hut along the whole western frontier he was known as "Buffalo Chip" Jim, a name which he carried to his grave. He had been a boyhood friend of Buffalo Bill, and when Cody becnme an Indian scout, White also took up that occupation. For years he was Buffalo Bill's faithful follower?halfservant, half-"partner." He copied Buffalo Bill's dress, his speech and the way he walked. He let his hair grow long in Imitation of Cody. Ha was always at the famous scout's Ride, and took more care of Buffulo Bill's guns and horges than he did of his own. Avo stories of how he got his name are told. One Is this: General Sheridan hail arrived at Fort Wallace, Kan., and was seeking Buffalo Bill to guide him on a buffalo hunt. White appeared and told the general that Cody was away. "But when Mr. Cody Is away, I'm Buffalo BUI," declared White. "The h?1 you are!" said "Little Phil" with contempt. "Buffalo chips, you mean 1" And the general stamped away angrily. According to the other version of White's christening, one night at Fort Laramie he claimed the tight to ho known by some other name than simple Jim White, something descriptive of his close friendship for Buffalo Bill. "All right," said Major Morton of the Ninth Infantry. "We'll call you Buffulo Chips'1" White was with the Fifth cavalry when It attacked Chief American Horse's camp at Slim Buttes, S. D? In the autnmn of 1876. After the defeat of the Indians, the soldiers began hunting down little parties of Sioux hidden In the gulches and ravines near the edge of a cliff. He had raised himself to his feet and was ready to Are at a warrior down In the ravine when a shot rang out. White sprang In the nlr, clutched bis hands to his breast and with the startled cry of "Oh, my God, hoys, they've got mo!" he plunged forward down the slope, shot through the henrt. "A slmpler-mlnded, gentler fron ttersinan never lived. He was mod esty and courtesy Itself, and he had three unusual traits for men of his class?he never drank; I never hearr him swear, and no man ever hearc him lie," writes Gen. Charles King who knew him well and who saw hiir dip that cold September morning hi 811m Battea. A. F. DAVIS MARKET The Finest Fresh Meets The Best Fancy Groceries High Grade Canned Goods The Best of Everything for the Table A.F.DAVIS MARKET EYES EXAMINED Neglect may prove serious. 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According to the hysiclans, it was practically a ctorilnty that he would die without rejvering consciousness. After leaving orders at the hospital hat he was to be notified at once if is friend showed signs of being able ? talk, Tracey visited the scene of the hooting 4n the hope of being able to nd footprints or other evidence which rould assist him in the search which e Intended to make. The investlgalon. however, was entirely fruitless. The dying policeman's revolver had een tired three times, but without ffect?for Tracey found the bullets )dged In the rafters of a nearby wareouse, sufficiently close together to rovlde a hazy outline of the place rom which Lawrence's assailant mast iave fired. So far as Tracey was able o reconstruct the affair, Lawrence had ome upon some one trying to break nto the wnrehouse, had probably earned him by a shot over his head nd followed that by two other shots vhlch failed to take effect. The burger hnd then turned and fired point ilank at the policeman, dropping him t rhere he stood. But who wns the other man? Tills was the question to which rrnee.v determined to devote ns much line ns necessary, th? problem wlth?ut a clue. It was late the following night beore Lawrence's condition showed any ;igns of change, and then only for the vorse. The physicians gave him only i few hours to live, and Traeey hung 'ontinually over the hed, hoping for mine word or sign which would provide an Indication of the murderer's dentlty. Finally It came. With an almost superhuman effort he dying ofllcer raised himself on one dhow, and gathering every ounce of lis fast-falling energy, whispered the dngle word: "Wll-kln-son 1" Then he fell back, dead. But that last word was enough. Had It not been Traeey who heard It, It ivould have meant nothing?for the two officers had been secretly working i>n' a number of recent warehouse liurglarles nnd they alone knew of the suspected connection of Daniel Wilkinson, son of a prominent New Hanophlre family, with the one-roan thefts. \To\v Traeey knew that not only was VUklnson guilty of the burglaries, but of a far greater crime?the murder of Policeman Lawrence. Putting himself In the place of the criminal, Traccy fe't certain that the latter would not remain In or around Bath. He must have known that Lawrence had recognized hlin, nnd would fear that the dying man would And some way of imparting this knowledge. It was probable, therefore, that he would head for some hiding-place where he would be comparatively safe. Knowing that Wilkinson's family, In nn effort to whiten the character of the black sheep, had sent him to sea a number of years before, Traeey thought It likely that the fugitive would attempt to Join the crew of a sailing vessel and lose himself In a foreign port. He accordingly warned me authorities of all the New Eng'ond sea ports to be on the watch for a man of Wilkinson's description, and then, securing leave of absence, he took up the search?combing the waterfronts of every city and town rrom the Canadian border to Boston. It was nearly six months later, af* er he had almost abandoned hope, hat Tracey wandered along the wharves at Bangor and spotted the man he wanted "porting" lumber Into the schooner Good Intent, at the foot of the Railroad street wharf. Without a sound the policeman edged his way along the dock until he was behind Wilkinson, and then dropped on top of his man, flattening him to the deck.'*' Almost before he knew what had happened the fugttlv* found himself handcuffed and on his way back to Bath, there to be convicted of the murder of William Lawrence, after one of the hardest-fought legal battles In the history of the state. 5 The fact that, In the shadow of the r state prison wall at Thomaston, there stands today a headstone bearing the numerals "2tt8r>," does not close the case, for there nre many who claim that the murderer had powerful friends who succeeded In saving him from the gallows and helped spirit him out of fh A AAlinteiT I"*'* 1 " "" ...^ iiimi cm- \ iiunman wormwest. But Traooy, who Is now house detective at a big Florida hotel, considers that he fulfilled his obligations to his dead friend, when, after months of patient searching, he located the man who was responsible for Lawrence's death and produced the evidence which led to his conviction. "Maybe Wilkinson Is still alive," says Trwey, "but the soul of Bill Lawrence apd my conscience are both at peace." : | J. ARTHUR KNIGHT Attorney-at-Law Office In Courthouse Chesterfield, S- C. R. L. McMANUS Dentist Cheraw, S. C. At Chestereld, Monday A Page land, Tuesday. At lit. Croghan, Wednesday morning