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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-06
Vote For
A. L. HEMINGER,
County Superintendent Of Van Buren,
County for State superintendent Of
Public Instruction, at Re-
publican Primaries.

Eight years of college training.
Graduate of the State Teachers Col
lege at Cedar Falls, and the College Of
Liberal Arts and the College of Law
of the State University of Iowa. Four
teen years experience in practical
school work as teacher, city and county
superintendent.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-07-14
Covetousness.

Covetousness Is not natural tc
man-Senerosity is; but coyetousness
must. be excited by a special cause
as given disease by given miasma;
and the essential nature of a material
for the excitement of covetousness Is
that it shall be a beautiful thing
which can be retained without a use
The moment we can use our posses
sions to any good purpose ourselves,
the instinct of communicating that
use to other rises side by side with
our power. II you can read book
rightly, you will want others to hear
1t; II you can enjoy picture rightly.
you will want others to see 1t; learn
how to manage horse, a plow, or a
ship, and you will desire to make
your subordinates good horsemen,
plowmen, or sailors; you will never
be able to see the fine instrument you
are master of abused; but once fix
your desire on anything useless, and
all the purest pride and folly in your
heart will mix with the desire and
make you at last wholly inhuman. a
mere ugly lump of stomach and suck
ers, like a uttlefish.-Ruskin.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-07-14

verted into worms. Damp floors may
be overcome If the house is we'll aired
and windows enough are in it to let
the sunshine in on the floors.
1t is never best to allow dust to ac-
cumulate on the partitions and in
pens used for feed. 1t is always inju-
rious to the health of the hogs.
Those who are in the habit of feed
ing their hogs grain scattered in the
mud or dust of a dry yard should
build feeding floor and use it. Go
into any herd that is fed in the dust
from thrown-down grain and much
wheezing and coughing will be heard.
This is bad on all hogs, and especially
those kept for breeding purposes.
In building afeeding floor it should
be set off the ground four to six
inches and built solidly of good tim
Der. A two by four piece should be
nailed around the whole edge, which
will prevent lots of shelled or ear
corn being pushed off into the dirt
and dust. The floor should be swept
of each time before feeding.-W. II.
Underwood, in the Indiana Farmer.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-07-14
Bushel of Corn and Butter.

Cows OF fair quality only, such as
will make $50 to 800 pounds of but
ter per year, when properly fed make
three pounds Of butter each bushel
OF corn or oats, when the two grains
are ground together and fed. Surely
that is better market for corn than
when sold as grain is sold on the
market. Referring to this matter
Hoards' Dairyman says:
! There never was time when it
paid as good q profit as it does to-day
to feed a cow we'll. Think of it..
Three pounds of butter in a bushel of
corn. That Is nearly 81 worth of
butter. What kind of farmer must
a man be that will not turn grain into
butter at that price? One great trou-
BILE is that these farmers have not
taken pains to breed good COWS that
1t will pay a big profit to feed well.
II ever farmer fed we'll he should
2 do IL now"
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-07-14
Somewhat Complicated.

Four customers had called that
morning. The dealer reflected that
the order by mail would necessarily
take time, so going TO the long dis
tance telephone he got his favorite
jobber on the wire. This conversa-
ton ensued:
Hello! Is this the Retailers Sup
ply Company"
Yes"
who's talking?"
"Watt."
What is your name?"
watt is my name"
Eyes. What is your 1ome?"
MY name is Watt-Charles Watt"
"Oh. Charles Watt. Well, Watt,
send me this order on this Moons ex-
press" (Here he reads order.)
"All right. Are you Schott?"
"No; I'm not shot nor half shot"
Il mean are you John Schott?"
mo. I'm Knott"
well, then. what is your name?"
"Win Knott
why, won't you?"
"Uh! My name is Will Knott, of
Knoxville. / want that order sent
out on to-day's noon express, sure"
Certainly, Knott. Good.by."
And Knott went back to the coun-
ter wondering whether Watt said he
would or not or what.
But he got the goods.-San Fran.
cisco Star.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-07-14
The Auto Question.

have received several letters from
parties asking as % my plan to con-
troll automobiles, control OF roads,
etc My plan is to form civic leagues
and enforce the present laws, patrol
all roads and compel all parties to
comply with our existing laws. /
mean all travellers, be they autoists
or farmers, and mean all travel. II
you or any other man in Indiana can
suggest anything better or more just
write me. This has been my reply to
all private letters.-J. j. New.
II the people are satisfied with the
present laws, and If they can be in
duced to organize, as you suggest.
your plan may work, but these are
big IFS. We don't believe either Of
them can be compassed. But let us
hear from others on this subject
Indiana Farmer.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-07-14
Insurance Agents Put on Guard.

A number of charges of rebating
by insurance agents have been filed
with the insurance department from
various sections of the State. Insur-
ance Commissioner McMaster has
taken the charges under considera-
tion and will make = thorough in
vestlgatiOn. He recently issued cir
cniar letter relative to rebates by in
surance agents. The circular explain
ed the law and penalty. Should an
agent of any insurance company do
ing business in South Carolina be
found guilty of rebating his license
will be revoked.
The case against an insurance
agency in Columbia for over-insur-
ance on property will be heard by Mr..
McMaster on July %.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-07-14

Column Of csrrsuA svsss .ossght
in Every osunsy From cSAs to
Mountain Gap.
colored Fair for Aiken County.

A movement is on foot to organic
colored fair association in All er
county. 1t is the purpose of the p :
moters of the scheme to hold i-..-
just after the Aiken county fair. The
consent of the directors of the Aiken
county fair has been secured, and it
is probable that the colored fair win
be held. Those behind the scheme
are: F. A. Peters of Graniteville; w
T. Kenner of Ridge Spring and e.
G. Hay of Aiken, all of whom 50
sturdy colored citizens, who havs aSs
respect and support of the white peo-
pie.
They are attempting to organize a
colored fair association with capi-
tai of 1000.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-07-14
Cleanliness in Hog Feeding.

The hog responds as readily to
cleanliness and care as any other ami
NAL on the farm. Not long since
was greatly impressed with the lack
OF sanitary conditions around the
yards and houses Of a man who has
been growing hogs more or less sue
eessfully for ten years. His feeding
troughs were foul with decayed food,
the e-s>-e -. ,,r and full of mud
s1nke the skin hei
ard free from stir bouse sbou,d
Price is SO censi ant a 1eous -
poN - enoi ' 49, they may be
case or you twice each
o>en' dAbe borne in
Aek ynlH IlruOcjsyhs\ are good
sites that may
= p slGhakps MEpbsiach and con-
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-07-14

ny J. LAURENCE LAUGHLIN.

There can be little doubt that the
retail organization by which goods 20
from the wholesaler to the consumer
is unnecessarily wasteful and expen-
sive. There are twenty butcher shops
and groceries in every neighborhood
where only one is needed. Each must
spend much in advertising, in show
windows, in rents, in costly fixtures.
, In telephones, in wages, in horses and
delivery wagons, which are not essen
tial to the total result. Five or six
| wagons, with salaried drivers, distrib-
! ute trif1ing quantities of goods to
| houses in the same street. The con-
sumer pays for this waste in the mar
gin of retap-over wholesale prices.
From 1890 to 1908, on an average,
wholesale prices have increased nine
per cent, while retail prices have in
creased sixteen per cent. The differ
ence between wholesale and retail
prices in particular cases, varies
from 1926 per cent. to 1OO-150 per
cent.
Ii one stops to analyze the process
OF retail buying it will be realized
that 1t is the seller only who practi-
cally sets the price. There is no true
retail market price. Busy or igno-
rant people pay what is charged them
without the patience or the power to
select. In these days we pay for the
additional costs of dainty and attrac-
tive packages for cereals, crackers,
figs and the like. Indeed under the
cover Of special tins an amount of an
article is sold at price which makes
pound cost two or three times as
much as formerly. The psychology
OF the retail market Is itself a study
or no mean interest. Habit, fancy,
caprice, rumor, emulation, gregarious
action OF a set, may play 4 part Once
man gets established with q cli-
entele he puts up his prices He
charges all he can get, and the con-
Hiding customer goes on paying the
bills-until there rises a general cry
OF high cost Of living, like that of the
present day. There are different re-
tail prices for each half mile as one
passes from the centre OF n city to its
outskirts. Yet some persons think it
demeaninS 10 bargain or seek for
lower prices. To spend recklessly is
an evidence of what some regard as
belonging to social position.
In the margin of the retail over
the wholesale price, in a community
not we'll shake down into form,
there is an opportunity for serious
changes in the cost of living. Out of
this margin the catalogue houses, the
wholesale grocer Y houses, the tea and
coHee houses, nave accumulated great
fortunes--at the expense of the help
less consumer. Then what is the REM
eGy? Obviously, the creation in ev-
cry neighborhood Of cooperative So
| cieties for the distribution of goods
directly from the producer to the con-
sumer at actual cost-obviating the
waste of advertising, high rents and
useless duplication of service -Scrib-
ner's Magazine.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-07-14
|M OLD South CARelIlW
A Magnificent Job for Mr.. Watson

A Magnificent Job for Mr.. Watson.
Col. E. j. Watson, Commissioner
Of Agriculture Of South Carolina,
who addressed the South Carolina
Cotton Seed Crushers' Association at
Wrightsville Beach, announced that
be had been rendered an important
post by the national government, a
newly created position that will take
one to various parts of the world to
exploit American manufactures. The
work is in line with that he has been
doing for South Carolina, though on
a more extensive scale. Colonel Wat
son was called to Washington one day
last week and found that his name
had been suggested in connection
with the new position recently de-
termined upon by the Cabinet.
The position is one of the most
attractive in the gift Of the govern
ment at a salary larger than the
governors Of the States, save ten,
and, in effect, better perhaps than
that of United States Senator. It is
understood that the salary exceeds
$4,000 a year with expenses in addi-
tion.
Colonel Watson stated that the
duties would be in the nature of these
OF a special representative of the
Washington government and of a
purely constructive and non-political
character, being the execution of a
recently developed determination on
the part of the government to push
with especial vigor American trade
and commerce into the fartherest
sections of the world. The person
discharging the duties will have the
world as field, first for some years
In the Orient, China, Japan and
Mongolia, and then to South Africa
and other countries The duties
would be such as to enable one to
accomplish much for the textile in
dustry Of the South as well as of the
country at large. and perhaps to do a
great deal Ill all matters pertaining
10 cotton.
Colonel Watson is given reasonable
tine to decide whether or not he will
accept the position.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-07-14
areyention OF Disease.

For 1.-The greatest causes of dis
cas-. FaiIirG fowls is from lice and not
dislnfecting the poultry houses prop
,erly. 1 have never had a contagious
disease among my fowls. Eighteen
years ago 1 lost quite a number from
Timber neck. I did not know the
cause then. but by sad experience
,rne q lesson that has been worth
d great deal to me. never allow
any dead chickens or any other kind
OF flesh to lay about where the chick
ems go. 1t is sure death to them If
they get magsots from any kind OF
ifiesh.
+ For destroying lice and mites I fu-
migate my poultry houses with to.
lbaero and sulphur. usually do this or
Sdanworids, and is better If done once
~ r-A. We not only believe 1t Ii
ood for the fowls, but for people
We have not had a spell of fever
since we have been fumigating witt
Sacco, while SO many of our neigh
. have fever every year. Thi.
'mises to be the greatest year II
iltry business, yet In my exper
:, have never known eggs as higt
as they were last winter. have new
er had such a demand for eggs an6
chickens; can't near supply the order.
for the last flve or six weeks. II yor
want every mail to bring in order!
and inquiries advertise in Farmers
Home Journal and you will have al
the work you are looking for--Mrs
Emily Gibson, in the Farmers HON,
journal. A-.ysss, ,,,c.p ~
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-07-14
Congressional Names on Ticket.

The official list of the candidates
for congress has been addressed to
the county chairman of the Demo-
cratic party of the State by Gen.
Wylie Jones, the State chairman, cg
ing attention to the fact that No
names of candidates for congress ia
primary elections shall be put on the,
county primary tickets. The matter
OF arranging and having printed the
county primary tickets is left to the
county chairman.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-07-14
To Vote on Slicing oconee.

Gov. Ansel has ordered an election
to be held on September 15, on the
proposition of annexing a portion of
Oconee county to Anderson county.
Clemson college is located within the
territory which it is proposed to
annex to Anderson county. This ac-
tion of Gov. Ansel followed a pc
tition filed with him and the report
OF the commissioners appointed to
make an investigation.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-07-14
The Sow in Farrow.

Nothing is so certain to produce a
: small and Improbable litter Of pigs
tsas to have the sow in farrow to share
her lot or bed with a pen of half
grown shoats or with other sows. In
summer she will go off to some Sc
cluded spot to make her bed and thus
escape the danger of crowding. In
winter or early spring, however, she
cannot overcome the habit of hud-
ding up with the lot even up to her
time and thus endangering her off,
spring.
I, The thrifty farmer will provide
I2I pes, SST-l25tssa7ff5arf .5ts, and rteimAt,s5-.
90 much-of straw and shelter
rain. After the pigs are week
vo or three sows may be run to-
e. or course, 1t takes more time
.Iter and feed the sows separated
say, but 1t pays to do 1t.
s a great disappointment and
y loss of time and feed to have
promising brood SOW turn up
Ttnly one or two pigs. If 1t is
atault you cannot make it up
.ason, and by another the
opportunity may have passed.
gra IS Home Journal.
HI I-A, -.I
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-07-14
Florence to Have $4,000 Mill.

2: The books of subscription to the
Florence cotton mills, have been
opened. The proposed stock is $780,
600, of which about half is already
III sight and the rest can be raised
with very little trouble. All Of the
moneyed men of the city are inter-
ested and are subscribing to the
stock and many of the wealthy farm
ers have expressed interest in it, az
well as bankers from Timmonsville
and other paints IN the county.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-07-14
What Amount is Income Tax?

Comptroller General Jones will,
within the next two weeks, call upon
the county auditors of the State for
report on the income tax returns.
The total amount received as income
taxes by the State from last year was
$16,236.57 which was double the
amount received during the year
1908.
In 1898 the income taxes amount
ed to $6,S9O.55: 1899, $4,S29.63; 1900,
$975.37; 1901, $6O9.22; 1902, 1922 .OS;
1903, 81 ,476.74; 1904, $1,2Sl.26; 1905,
$2,130.61; 1906. $12.2O1.4 40; 1907,
$1O,6S7.34, and 1908, $S,431.52. The
total amount received since the law
went into effect is $66,042.31.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-07-14
Another Mill for Laurens.

Application has been made to the
secretary Of state for a commission
under which will be organized a com
pany for the purpose of building
new cotton mill in Laurens. The
corporation will be capitalized at
100000 and It is proposed to break
dirt for the erection of the plant as
early as practicable after complying
with formalities incident to effect
ing the organization of the company.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-07-14
. Cotton Seed Crushers Fine Meetinp

The South Carolina Cottonseed
Crushers' association completed its
annual meeting at Wrightsville
Beach, N. c., with the elsction of
officers for the ensuing year and the
Endorsement of the North Carolina
associations legislative suggestion
presented through w. A. Reynolds of
Charlotte, rounding out a very prof.
table session and laying the ground
work for future policy Of Co
operation which is expected to be
of much benefit to the members Of
the organization and to South Caro-
lima farming and manufacturing in
dustries.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-07-14
Opinion Wanted on Fertilizer Act.

Attorney General Lyon has been re-
quested by the fertilizer department
OF Clemson college to give his inte--
probation Of the act passed at the last
session of the general assembly re-
quirlng that every package of COM
mercial fertilizer or fertilizing ma
terials sold or offered for sale in the
State shall contain either 100 pounds
or 200 pounds each and that the
weight be plainly printed on the pack
age. The penalty for violation of the
act is fine of $40 for each package
and Imprisonment not to exceed 80
days. The opinion will be given by
Attorney General Lyon during the
present week.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-07-14
Columbia Undertaken is Punished

. The special committee of the South
Carolina Funeral Directors and En-
balmers' Association. found D. F..
Collicut, a Columbia undertaken,
guilty of violating the code Of ethics
of the Association I'm advertising
prices in the newspapers and of Gun
professional conduct" Hetwas fined
$40 on the first charge and the second
charge was held open.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-07-14
A Suicide Signal.

Suicides in the parks are of such
common occurrence that the small
children with their nurses grow tc
look for them. What do yor
Think" a tot of a girl said to heI
mother, coming home from her parh
outing. Johnny heard shot, bui
he couldn't find the body anywhere.
Tip, in the New York Press.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-07-14
Need Men for Government jobs.

1t was announced at Washington
by the civil service commission that
at the following places, on the fol-
lowing dates, examinations would ba
held In South Carolina to fill vacan-
cies in the Government service: An
derson, September ID; Charleston,
October IL, September IA, October IL;
Columbia, October II, September IA,
October II; Greenville, October Is.
September IA, October IL.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-07-14
The Hero.

"Who's the hero of this draHna?"
said the stage manager at a first re-
hearsal.
II am" shouted a man from al Dob
scure corner of the theatre. fT'm
The fellow who is putting upf the
money for the production" Wash
ington Star.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-07-14
Killed by q Mosquito.

Miss Muriel Weston, sixteen years
old, daughter of Thomas p. Weston,
died at Alexandria, Va, as a result
OF being bitten by a mosquito.
While in her yard, Miss Weston
was hitten on her chin. A few days
later a boil developed and the young
woman suffered considerable pain.
Physicians decided that an operation
would be necessary. : The place on
her chin had become Infected, which
resulted in bleed :oisoaiag. She ID
native cf Corgaiec.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-07-14
Gen. league for Commander u. G. v.

AT a meeting of Camp Heyward,
No. 4G2, [. c. ", held at Walterboro,
Its delegates elected to the State Re-
union were instructed to vote first.
last and all the time, for Gen. B. II.
league for division commander, as
the proper and logical successor. in
military parlance, "to our greatly es-
teemed friends and commander, Gen.
Zimmerman Davis"
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-07-14
New South Carolina Industries.

Among the new industries in South
Carolina. the following are noted in
the Tradesman:
Anderson-Automobile company.
Chester-$10,000 automobile COM
pany.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-07-14

1t is calculated that no fewertthap
$1,000 people spend their livss on
the canal boats AID barges or ing
land alone. ~
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-07-14
Daniels Dispensary Auditor.

j. Mortimer Daniels, Of Columbia
has been appointed as dispensary
auditor to succeed w. B. West, who
resigned to accept a position in the
Agricultural Department.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-07-14

or the 30 young men taking the
examination before the State phar-
maoeutical board. at Spartanbury,
only II passed.