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EQUIPPED FOR LIVE
STOCK WORK.

The extension division of Clemson
College is we'll equipped to assist
farmers in any part of South Carolina
with any problems in livestock that
may arise. The college has two men
giving all their time to beef cattle
and swine extension work, three dairy
extension experts and one extension
poultryman. This is one of the larg.
est ard best equipped animal husband
ry extension forces in the United
States. South Carolina farmers
shoulI take advantage of their oppor.
tunities along this line to get expert
j help free of cost.
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HOW'S This?

We offer One Hundred Dollars
Reward for any case OF Catarrh
that cannot be cured by Halls
Catarrh Cure.
F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo, O..
We, the undersigned. have known F. j.
Cheney for the last Is years, and believe
him perfectly honorable in all business
transactions and financially able to carry
out any obligations made by his firm.
NATIONAL BANK OF COMMERCE,
Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken internally.
acting directly upon the blood and mu-
cous surfaces of the system. Testimonials
sent free. Price Is cents per bottle. Sold
by all Druggists.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
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RECEIVERS SALE.

The State of South Carolina,
COUNTY OF ABBEVILLE.
The Perkins Manufacturing Com
pany, Plaintiff, against
S. j. Hester, as Trustee of The Bank
of Calhoun Falls, ct al, Defend
ants.
BY authority of Decree of the
Court of Common Pleas for Abbeville
County, in. said State, ma.'e in the
cbove stated cause. Twill offer for sale
within the legal hours of sale, at Pub
lie Cutlery, at Abbeville C. H., S. c.,
Oh Salesday in November 1915, the
following described real estate, all
OF which is situate, lying and being in
the Town of Calhoun Falls, in Able,
vile County, and State aforesaid, to
wit: (1) Lots Numbers 2s. 29 and
20, in Block 2, as shown BY map of
Town of Calhoun Falls, made by De-
camp and Cunningham and being the
house and lots now occupied by DR..
G.. C. Pruitt, and said lots having
frontage of twenty-five feet each on
Savannah Street and running back
Ole hundred and fifty six feet, being
lnnwn as the w. J. Tucker residence
and being more fully described in
DEED Book 80, Page 486.
.. Lots Numbers 25 and &c of
Llock Three of Town of Calhoun
Falls, and having a residence situate
thereon in which R. P. Martin re-
sides, and being described in Deed
Book 80, Page So.
:. Lots Numbers IS, 10 and 20 in
FLOCK 3 of the Town of Calhoun
Fails, and being house and lot in
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1915-10-27
.--.Botanist of Clemson College
a. Gives Simple Preventive
of Grain Disease.
FOROATSAND WHEAT SEED
-rormalin Solution Applied to Small;
Grain Before Planting Kills Spores
of Smut Without injury to Germii-
: mating Powers.

Smut is the most widespread ana
destructive disease of small grain and
1t occurs wherever oats and wheat are
.,syrown. When proper control meth
.eods are not practiced, it frequently
~ca1ses serious loss. Fortunately, 1t is
. aaot hard to prevent this disease. In
Gormalin we have an easily obtainable
preparation that does the work eff
rsiently. Before sowing oats or wheat,
Farmers should treat the seed with a
sEormalin solution to prevent smut.
Smut Is caused by a parasitic
plant The disease spreads by spores
cfyery small, seed like bodies) which
..chng to the Eulls or lodge in the
.creases of individual oat or wheat
grains and are thus carried into a
.1ield with the seed. The spores germi-
5uate at about the same time that the
-Rlants come up and the disease grows
,aEIirectly into the tissue of the young
plant.
Smut lives in plants apparently
tS2LlfOUI uOluS oCliOuo uo@SS
1he plants begin to head out. Then
Ths disease concentrates its efforts in
.Sae heads and black, sooty masses or
2spores fill the places where grain
SHOULD form AS these masses break
s1a, the spores are scattered over the
s9sld by wind. Many lodge in grains
esn healthy heads Of oats or wheat and
.remain alive there until the seed are
p1Hnfed again. Some remain in the
diseased heads and are carried to the
-xhresher. In threshing, the smut
spores are scattered everywhere and
znany fiad resting places in healthy
grains.
Oat or wheat smut can be controlled
by soaking the planting seed in a
chemical solution that will kill the
smut spores in the seed without injur-
ing the terminating powers Of the
-Beed. The best chemical to use for
this Is formalin, which Is 40 per cent
solution Of formaldehyde. 1t may be
procured from any reliable druggist.
Treatment with it is made as follows:
Make up theNormalin solution by
1snixfng one pint formalin (40 percent
ssCfuticn Of formaldehyde) with 40 gal
auns water. Sack the grain to be
-a1eate& about bushel to a sack. Dip
seach sack OF grain into the barrel OF
asolution and let it remain there for
From five to. ten minutes, moving the
sack up and down several times tc
make sure that all the grains are thor
,oughly wet. Finally, lift the sack and
let the solution drain out, after which
either pile the bags of treated grain
7Eogether and cover with bagging or
&canvas, or pour the treated grain into
n pile on a clean floor and cover with
bagging or canvas. Leave the grain
covered thus for from IL to "a hours.
As a last step, spread the grain thinly
-yover a clean floor to dry.
The grain seed should be dried as
rapidly as possible to prevent sprout-
ing Naturally, grain ehus treated
should be put in clean bins or sacks
80 as not to be again exposed to the
disease. Sacks and bins that have
contained diseased grain may be dis
infected by washing with a formalin
solution made of one pint formalin to
40 gallons water.
H. w. BARRE,
Professor of Botany,
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Professor of Botany,
Clemson Agricultural College.
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city are the Chevy Chase, the Columbia
Country Club and Dumbarton. The
last. which has it's ground at Wiscon-
sin avenue and R street. Georgetown.
years ago, when the flood of tennis
first struck the town, and now, as then,
devotes it's energies solely to the game.
1t had run along with couple of
evidence Of the new life, were added
and the membership was increased to
$50 active members.
The tournament for the championship
of the District will be played under the
auspices of the United States National
Lawn Tennis Association on the
club grounds this fall. and will in
clude mems singles, mems doubles, la
dies singles and mixed doubles. The
present titleholders. Messrs. c. B.
Doyle and w. F. H. Hoffman. under
the conditions Of the contest must play
through the series.
The group system of play has been
mend. Hillyer, A. J. Gore, G. Lewis,
A. Howard, J. M. Hancock, G.. G. Lin
coin. Ezra Gould and L. Fisher. Be-
low them are eight more groups, each
consisting of eight men. any one of
whom may challenge a member of the
team above for his place.
The spring club tournament devel-
oped much interest. and the challenges
for place in the groups followed in such
numbers as to keep the courts in use
almost every afternoon. The officers
are: President, Ezra Gould: secretary,
Mai John c. Whitaker. and treasurer,
Maj Boyd Taylor.
Families of members of the Chevy
Chase Club have the club privileges,
and their energies are not altogether
concentrated upon tennis: they play
golf as well, and have all the pleas
ures and sports associated with a big
organization of this sort within easy
reach of an important city. But golf
and tennis are their athletic long
suits, and their younger members are
especially interested in the more en-
ergetic of the two sports.
This organization. with view to
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OF A DOORWAY OF


morning the white prisoners were es-
corted to the beach, placed in sailing
cayuca and started on their toilsome
and weary journey of nearly 100 miles
to Colon, the nearest port.
There is a story to the effect that
negro prisoner who escaped from either
the Canal Zone or the Panaman peni-
itentary succeeded in making his way
overland into the San Bias country. He
found the climate. the food and the
surroundings to his liking and decided
to make his future home among the
Indians. He is said to have built him
d hut such as the Indians inhabit.
That he was not Immediately chased
out Of the country is a mystery which
he never returned to explain.
In the course of time the ex- convict
felt that he had made a sufficiently
good impression, and, being lonely. de-
cided to obtain a companion to make
his matched hut a real home. He sue
ceeded In winning the affections Of an
Indian woman. No objection seems to
have been offered. They resided to-
gether in apparent peace and happi-
ness until a child was born. Then the
chief of the vicinity took hand. Il
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hineton, 1t Seems, Is Now Playing Tennis

ample acreage and a fine golf courss
with natural bunkers. and by SYSTEM
of terraces twelve dirt tennis courts
Of almost perfect quality have been laid
down. The courts. which are set in q
perfect green. are separated from ono
another by strips Of grass: and sanca
the terraces place the courts on sevef84
levels there Is little interference be-
tween the players, even when all twelve
courts are in hotly contested use.
Shelters between the courts are 6$teff
with comfortable benches for tho us4
Of the immediate following OF tbs ouo<
testants. and a pavilion offers the ooraa
general scene. The grounds possess q
height Of the net and designed to give
the would-be successful player good
opportunity to practice by himself. Ha
drives the bah against the smooth face
Of concSete and endeavors to return
It on the rebound. Thus he can exert
himself all he pleases with an opponent
no more active than himself.
This club Is fortunate in having on
it's rolls such well known players as
the brothers c. B. and H. e. Doyle.
who. in 1914, at Chicago. came within
one game of winning the national
doubles. These brothers show such
team work that they are at least To-
cally almost invincible, and. according.
ly. for the good of the pastime. usually
do not enter the club doubles.
Under the management of the tennis
committee, Of which A Y. Leech. jr..
is chairman and Messrs. Ronsav1lle.
Shannon, Slater and c. B. Doyle are
members. the club usually gives two
tournaments. in the spring and fall
The first is a close handicap for club
members only. and the other is by In
vitation to amateurs. professional
mug hunters" being requested to re-
main away. In both the tournaments
ladies take an active part. Miss Baker
being the club champion.
The results Of the fall tournaments
of these clubs determine the relative
status of the leading players Of WASH
fngton.
The suburban leagues are made up
of a number Of small private clubs
throughout the District. consisting OF
twenty or so members. They are play
ing interclub matches on stated sched-
ules. Their play runs over the sum-
mer. and they are developing couple
of hundred men.
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form a twelfth. In each team are ten
men, forming five doubles Each de-
partment team plays each Of the other
department with the greatest total
wins.
The officers are: President. Lester
Sisler; vice president, H. w. Barber,
and secretary and treasurer. Louis 1.
Doyle. Assistant Secretary of War
Breckenridge. who plays on the No.
army team and has not missed a
match, Is the honorary president.
Where did they play? They applied
to the superintendent Of the parks,
tice and play on at certain times, and
so they have gotten along for the sum-
mer. What may happen another year
they are not saying. But wait and see.
Speaking of the municipal courts,
the capital is not tagging. They are
nineteen in number. and the accommo-
dations are not of the best. Next year
there will be fifty, and the surround
ings will be much better. They have
been crowded all summer long with
players from s o'clock in the morning
until it became too dark to play.
Nor would the story of what the
Doyle family has done for local tennis
be complete without mention of Miss
Doyle, the sister. who has won more
matches in ladies' singles and doubles
than can be enumerated. Not to be
outdone by her brothers. she has or
ganized a tennis tournament among
the women of the District. This in
cludes teams of eight members each
from these ten teams: Bannookburn.
high school teachers. Department of
Agriculture. Mount Pleasant, Washing
ton Country Club, Chevy Chase. Mid
City, Washington Heights. Young
Women's Christian Association and Co
lumbia Country Club.
Under the schedule each person on
team plays the one having the CORE
spending number on each of the other
nine teams. They also play doubles
This arrangement brings about many
matches between players of about equal
ability and gives the zest of friendly
rivalry.
Among the prominent clubs of the
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gunboat, which is to be used by the gov
eminent in preventing smuggling, carry
ing the new governor of the province on
his visits to the various coast villages and
to aid the customs collectors in gathering
the just dues of the government. The lit
tie steamer is to bring the Indians to a
realization of their obligations to the Re
public of Panama.
This tiny gunboat. the San Bias, took
the government party to the forbidden
coast" On board also was a squad Of
Panannn police in the full panoply Of their
dingy khaki uniforms and other war trap
pings. In the party, as the president
guest, was William Jennings Price. the
American minister to Panama. He was in
vited to go along because it would be an
interesting trip and he would get to see
something of the native life OF a section
of the republic which hitherto has been
infrequently visited by white men.
In view of the we'll known hostile atti-
tude of the San Bias Indians toward all
foreigners and more particula rly toward
all Spanish speaking nationa.ities the ex-
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BI.aSI

ports has ever laid duty to the gov
eminent nor have any of the manu-
featured articles and other imports ever
paid tribute into the Golfers of the
country.
Along with the scheme of exploita-
ton and customs collecting there is
connected a plan whereby ii is made
unlawful for any one to trade with the
Indians except with the consent of the
government of Panama. 1t was de-
creed that none OF the goods shipped
into the Indian country or shipped out
of 1t should enter or leave except in
vessels flying the Panaman flag Il
was hoped in this way to compel the
Indians to do all their trading through
the port of Colon. The scheme in eff
feet Is a highly monopolistic one which
undoubtedly will work out to the detri-
ment of both the government and the
Indians.
In order to accomplish this and to
inaugurate the new form OF government
an expedition was organized by President
Porras into the Indian country. 1t was
in the nature Of visit of state The law
passed by the assembly also provided Il
small steamer vicariously designated
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the policemen were armed and the IN
dams had only a few inefficient shot-
guns there was no question OF their
refusal to obey the orders of the IN
dams.
Several years ago two American
sailors who had been shipwrecked
found themselves on the San BIAS
coast. They were taken in charge I'M
mediately by the chief of the district,
who could speak a little English Ihe
involuntary intruders were informed
that they could not remain in the san
Bias country over night and that they
must depart Immediately. They laughed.
There was no other place for them 10
go and they thought the old chief was
joking.
Quite the contrary. as they immed1-
ately learned. The chief locked them
up most securely in a strong bamboo
hut around which he stationed guards
with Instructions to kill should the
captives attempt to escape. I'm the
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ENENNIS is a game so well known
in this country that it needs no
description. but the extent to
& which it has developed in Wash
ington during the present year is hard
ly realized.
In an unostentatious way the tennis
courts have found their way to unoccu-
pied lots and the public parks. as well
as to the grounds of the prominent
clubs
The Columbia Club. the Chevy Chase
Club and the Dumbarton have beauti-
full grounds and attractions for those
who play, but besides these there are
the Inter-Departmental League tourna-
ments. the Home Club of the Interior
Department. the suburban leagues. the
Y NJ c. A, and dozens of smaller clubs.
like other good sports, seems
10 go over the country in great waves"
said a veteran of the period of Sears.
Il remember about 1855, when 1t ran
over the young people like an I'M
checked attack of, measles in an or
phan asylum. Everybody was playing
the game. l myself played on the mead
Ows of a great municipal park on
court No. PIP. ! don't know how many
more courts there were. but l remem-
her that none was empty. The men
were not thought to be properly
dressed unless they wore kncker-
bockers, and the girls adopted tennis
clothes of all the brighter colors of the
rainbow, and an orthodox blazer re-
sembled a variegated rainbow zebra.
Without training and infinite prac-
tice it is impossible to attain so high a
degree of skill as to be ranked with
the players of national reputation. and,
fortunately for the pleasure of the
players and the popularity of the game
in this city, the craze for a winning
team has not developed to the extent
of supplanting good general play and
keen and friendly rivalry with few
champion players Not that the Dis
trict is without first-rate tennis play
ers. The Doyle family is too well
known to permit a statement to the
contrary, but the general characteristic
is that the big tournaments attract
many excellent players rather than
few who are invincible.
No story of Washington tennis would
be complete without reference TO the
Doyle family-fve brothers and a sis
ter All play, but. unfortunately. two
of them are no longer active in the
game. The family came from Philadel-
phia to Washington when the boys
were very young. but they brought
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PANAMA, September b, 131o-
|oR nearly 400 years the northern
III littoral of the Republic of Pana-
ma, from Colon east to Puerto
q Obaldia, has been known as the
forbidden coast because no person
not a men Der of the San Bias Indian
tribe was permitted to land and spend
the night ashore. SO jealousy has this
stretch of coast been guarded that to-
day it is the proud boast of the inhab-
itants that they have kept both their
race and their lands inviolate.
They maintain that the blood of no
other race flows in the veins of a mem
Der of the tribe who has remained true
to the tribal traditions and who has
always lived in the native villages.
Their boast is not a vain one.
The forbidden oast'' is forbidden no
longer, however. Henceforth conditions
probably will change rapidly. The San
Bias Indian has agreed that the for
eigner shall not only visit the ancestral
villages, but also shall be permitted to
roam ashore at will, remain as long as
he desires and generally do as he
pleases, provided, however, that he
keeps a safe distance from the Indian
maidens-
An entering wedge has been granted
and the prospects are that before many
years have passed the proud boast Of
the Iniians will have become merely a
tribal tradition. With the coming of
the foreigner. bringing his own ideas
of ethics and morals. the beginning of
the end of the splendid isolation of the
San Bias Indian is at hand.
The opening of the forbidden coast"
came about in this wise The last ses-
sion of the Panaman national assem-
bly, passed q law which made of the old
province of Colon two provinces, nam
Ing the newer one the province of San
Bias About forty miles east OF Colon
IN the Bay of San Bias. an island was
chosen on which 10 build new city,
which Is to be the capital from which
the Indians are to be governed by the
white men. This also is to be the head
quarters Of the customs collectors, for
shat is really the secret of the opening
sf the forbidden coast"
The Republic of Panama had reached
the parting of it's financial ways 1t
had acquired a national debt which it
had never had before. and depleted
treasury requiring replenishing It was
believed by President Belisario Porras
and his cabinet that in the exports of
the San Bias Indian there was a fruit
full source Of revenue provided it was
possible to make the Indians come TO
a realization of their civic obligations
to the country in which they lived
True. Panama had never really done
anything for the San Bias coast ex-
cept TO leave 1t blissfully alone and to
make absolutely no attempt to foist
upon IT the doubtful, from the Indians
point OF view. benefits of a civilized and
republican form of government
the colonization and exploitation of
the San Bias coast were determined
upon The exports, ii has been esti-
n1a3ed. have in recent years reached
the respectable sum of $75O,Oo0 annu-
any. mostly In cocoanuts, vegetable
ivory, rubber and other native products
which the Indians managed to culti-
veee On some OF the most fertile lands
w0E219n Khe boundaries of the republic.
IA Indians have grown fairly
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Any one IN class may challenge AS
for his position. a condition which
keeps A6 very busy, SO It behooves him
to challenge and defeat AS as quickly
as possible, so that AS may become
A6, with the attendant obligation of
meeting challengers from members OF
group; but they. in turn, are not per-
mitted to remain idly waiting, for any
c group member may challenge any B
member and fight out with him the
right to his group position. And this
continues down the line to the J
group. all Of whom evidently are try
This arrangement. 1t is hoped. Will
make fairly comprehensive way OF
bringing about contests between play
ers of nearly the same ability.
With the hope OF developing It's own
members this club gives with its large
number of playing members. a club
tournament every spring. These are
handicap games and are for mems sin
giles, mems doubles. ladies' singles,
ladies' doubles and mixed doubles.
They also give each summer an open
tournament to which all the best local
players are attracted. Team matches
are had each season with Dumbarton.
Columbia and the Baltimore Tennis
club
Although the popular white tennis
suits have superseded the gaudy skirts
of long ago, and the girl who could not.
has given way to the girl who can.
smash EN-" The impulse older. much
older, than the game OF court tennis.
has not been supplanted by any mod
ern innovation or attempted improve
ment, and many games Of mixed dou-
bles, not down on the schedules. come
Off on Chevy Chase grounds. as they
do on every other tennis green in the
country.
The Chevy Chase Club has a large
and earnest tennis committee, COM
posed of Messrs. Wilcox chairman,
Simmons, Hopkins. Dom, Marrow and
Morehead. They are anxious to en-
courage the development of young
players not so much for the sake of
the game as for the individuals for
they believe that of all others It Is
the exercise which develops the
muscles, the organs, the nerves and the
brain.
These knowing men are aware that
the mental concentration necessary for
a lightning play is a tonic to quick
wittedness, and SO they are liberal in
their encouragement of the younger
people to play the game"
The Columbia Country Club has
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Has Developed Remarkable Extent Washington the YYog
Old Find Enoyentn Game Which Was Looked
YeaEntsm Wnd After the First Run
the Front Clubs of the District
Organizations champions Help the Consolidating Play.