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The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-06-01

and overwhelming them with shining
new utensils wrapped in huge
bundle and decked with a bunch of
carnations. The host and hostess hur-
riedly ordered refreshments and
made an impromptu party which was
thoroughly enjoyed by a congenial
company assembled Sunday State.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-06-01

Teacher-Thirty-three eggs at So
cents per dozen is what?
Pupil-Outrageous, pa says.-Bos-
ton Transcript.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-06-01

The directors of the Pennsylvania
railroad authorized President Rea to
subscribe $5,OOO,OOO for Liberty
bonds.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-06-01
MIR. AND MRS. FLORA
SHOW Erred SATURDAY
Logan School Teachers Present
Kitchen Equipment for New Home.

A. c. Flora, principal of Logan
school, and Mrs. Flora, who have just
gone to housekeeping in a cottage on
Price avenue, were yesterday after
noon given a kitchen shower by the
Logan teachers. About % strong, the
young women called upon Mr.. and
Mrs. Flora, taking them by surprise
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-06-01
SaixRxsSiAAklfi>-
LIBERTY BONDS.

New York, May 28.-The Liggett &
Myers Tobacco company today sub
scribed $1,000,000 of the Liberty Loan
bonds.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1917-02-15
Cleansing the Mind.

There are kinds of illness that clear
the system, and there are kinds that
spread through the system a subtle
Infection. There are wounds that
heal from the outside and that tester
within. In the mind and the spirit
there may be conditions precisely sim
liar. Now, everything depends on the
treatment, upon getting at the deepest
causes, sometimes so far away as to
be almost beyond detection. When we
trace the causes we are almost GER
tain to find them associated with some
defect of character. 1t is this defect
that must be treated. The wound may
be only the clamoring of health, under
the circumstances a blessing in dis
guise, bringing warnings and incen-
tives.-John D. Barry, in New York
Evening Telegram.
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sheep-Raisina in the East.

If the abandoned farms could be
utilized for sheep-raising, it will be a
long way togard reducing the cost of
living in this country. The sheep in
dustry was originally started on the
Atlantic seaboard, of course; but it
has worked it's way westward until
now there are only few sheep breed
ers in the East. That the industry
can be brought back to the East is a
sure thing. Sheep, it is well known,
are the most economical domestic ami
mails produced. They can live on all
most nothing. 1t has been estimated
that every sheep in the United States
produces a profit of $40 annually. If
we can bring back the industry to the
eastern states and use the abandoned
farms for grazing, we shall very soon
make dent in the high cost of llv-
ing.-Boston Globe
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A Pair of Tricksters.

They were on leave from the front,
and they had dined well and wined
well, and finished at theater.
Outside they separated, and the
leader Of the party was lucky enough
to secure a taxi. Half way home,
however. he discovered, on putting his
hand in his pocket, that he was penni-
less. What was to be done!
The British army is never at loss,
and In a few moments he saw q way
out.
He caught up the speaking tube and
shouted "Stop" Then, jumping out,
he told the driver to wait.
Il just want to pop into this tobac-
consists to get box Of matches. I've
dropped a sovereign on the floor of
the cab and can't find it In the dark"
He entered the tobacconist's and
the moment he was through the door
the driver and the cab softly and sud
denly vanished into the night, as he
had MISUNDERSTANDING.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1917-02-15
HONOR ACCORDED TO GREEKS
Believed to Have Been the First Peo-
pie to Introduce Written Alma
macs to the World.

The first written almanacs probably
were complied by the Greeks of Alex
andria between 100 and $50 A. D. Cal
endars are much older, the ancient Ro-
mans having proclaimed the first of the
month and posted notice Of It's oc-
currence in a public place. The first
of the month thus came to be called
The Kalends, from Il CALI or 81 pro-
claim" and thus the world calendar"
was derived.
Probably the oldest calendar in ex-
istence was found in the ruins of POM
peii. 1t was cut upon a square block
of marble, upon each side of which
three months are registered, each head
ed by the proper sign of the zodiac
The first almanac printed in Europe
covered the years 1475, 1894 and 1913
and was published at Buda, Hungary.
The first printed almanac in England
was the "Sheapheards Kalender,"
printed in 1897. In the fifteenth and
sixteenth centuries almanacs became
comparatively common in Europe The
early almanacs contained many prog
nostications regarding "the Dispocis-
sion of the People and also of the
Wether"-to quote one of them, as al
so instruction in "Phisike and Sur
gerye" and information about "infortu-
nate Times to Bic and Sell, take Medi-
cine, Sowe, Plant and Journey, etc."
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1917-02-15
DIFFICULT TO GET
RID OF CORN SMUT
Rotation Is Recommended by Col
orado Expert as the Best
Method in Large Fields.

(By H. E. VASEY, Colorado Agricultural
College. Fort Collins.)
How can you prevent smut in corn
Would seed treatment destroy it?
Unfortunately, there is no practical
method of preventing corn smut. A
seed treatment does no good because
the smut itself is not carried on the
grain, as it is in the case Of wheat
or oat SHUTS. Corn smut lives over
winter in the soil and gains entrance
to new plants by means of spores
which pass from the soil to the tender
parts of the corn plant where infec-
lions are started.
Where 1t is not too impractical, as in
the case of small fields of sweet corn,
the smut boils may be cut off before
they break open, and then burned.
This, of course, makes too much labor
where the field is of any great size.
Rotation of crops is to be consid-
cred the most effective way of handling
corn smut. A soil which is badly con-
taminated with smut can be sown to
oats or wheat, or other crops, for a
period Of two years and then followed
again with corn. Very little, If any,
corn smut will persist in the soil for
longer time than this.
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ness. 1t does seem so inconsistent, SO
unreasonable; and what will it all
lead to?
The adolescent years are those in
which the child feels that he can do
anything that older human beings can
do; and, in truth, no one has yet found
the limits of what he can do. The
rapid growth in physical and mental
strength gives rise to the feeling of
unlimited growth; and past perform
ances quickly lose their interest with
the advent of new powers. All the
possibilities of the child come te the
front, and it is only as these are tried
out that the most profitable lines of
development can be discovered.
The danger for most children dur
ing this period of growth and impress
sion is not in the dissipation through
contact with too many lines of inter-
est, but in the lack of opportunity to
try out enough to give a broad sym
pathy in sentiment, a wide outlook in
intellect and wise choice of perma-
nent interest.
Let the children dabble while the
dabbling is good; soon it will be too
late.
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they were entitled to all that worry
they worried in the wrong direction.
The young people, If they are fairly
healthy, and If they are fairly free to
find out about what's going on In the
world, and If they are fairly free to
go In for things that do not bring in
money-or especially if they have a
chance to go in for things that cost
money-are quite sure to take up
one absorbing hobby after another. 1t
is just because there are so many ex-
ceilent things to do on the solid earth
and in the air, and in the water, too
that they need several years to find
out which they would rather do. And
apparently the only way to find out is
by trying the feel of them all.
OF course, this is rather expensive,
because the things with which they
clutter up the house are never used
up entirely, and they form worth
less collection of junk to mark the me-
anderings of the adolescent mind. But
the most serious concern Is not the
cost in money, for where the money
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1917-02-15

Is not to be had we find the same ten
dency to jump from one interest to
another. The fear of adults is always
that the growing girl or boy will be-
come a dabbler, trolling stone," an
unsettled wanderer without definite
purpose or goal. And it must be adj
mitted that once in SO often person
reaches years of maturity without hav-
ing found guiding aim in life.
For the adolescents in general, how
ever, this rapid shifting of interest
seems to be the normal manifestation
of the rapid development going on
within the organism. The changes in
the nervous system bring forth null
titude of new interests and new i'm
pulses, which simply cannot all find
expression at the same time and which
crowd upon each other in such fash
ion that now one and now another
breaks to the surface in quick success
sion-
To people of comparatively fixed
habits and conventionalized standards
these tickle ways are not only annoy
Ing but often even alarming. Those
of us who cannot remember the golden
days when we wavered between the
operate stage and a lonely island in
the South sea, or between saving the
world from selfishness and sin and be,
coming the chief of band of brigand!
simply cannot understand this tickle
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1917-02-15
NEGLECT OF TEETH
ENDS IN DISASTER
Examination May Be Made by
Running Hand Into Horses
Mouth-Furnish Soft Feed.

Many a horse becomes weak, poor
In condition, and emaciated simply as
result of bad teeth which have been
neglected. If the horse turns his head
to one side while eating, shows signs
of poor nutrition, and passes whole
grains Of oats or corn with the feces,
his teeth need attention.
The continual grinding Of the teeth
in eating causes the outer edges of the
upper molars and the inner edges of
the lower molars to become sharp.
These sharp edges lacerate the thin
skin of the inner cheek and the tongue,
and make chewing painful. This and
irregular teeth tend to cause the ami
NAL to imperfectly chew his feed be-
fore swallowing it; and unless the teeth
receive proper attention, the animal
becomes emaciated.
In old animals the teeth often be-
come smooth, making it impossible
for them to chew hay and grain. In
such cases only soft feeds should be
given.
An examination Of the teeth may
be made by running the hand into the
mouth and feeling them to see If they
are sharp or If any Of them are too
long. Only qualified veterinarian
should be allowed to treat the teeth
Clemson College Bulletin.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1917-02-15
CHAMBERS is MOST
INFECTIOUS DISEASE
As There Is No Cure for Trouble,
1t Is Best to Destroy Affect
ed Animal at Once.

Chambers Is an infectious disease af-
fecting horses and sometimes attacks
man. One of the symptoms is the for
nation of ulcers in the nose and a dis
charge, mixed with blood, but without
an offensive odor, from the nose. The
glands under the jaw often swell.
Swellings often occur on the legs, Ill
GERS sometimes form on the skin, the
coat is apt to be dull and the affected
horse loses flesh.
The discharge from the nose con-
tains the germs, which shows how
easy it Is for glandered horse to In
feet watering trough or manger. 1t
also gives an idea Of the care that
needs to be exercised when CHAMBERS
is In community in order to keep
well horses from becoming infected
Horses that come from a distance,
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(By FRANK d. ToMsoN.)

(By FRANK D. TOMsON)
The year 1916 has witnessed an ex-
pansion of the influence of improved
live stock, an expansion heretofore I'M
equaled in the history of the live
stock industry. This expansion seems
to apply with especial emphasis to the
shorthorn, both at home and abroad.
There has been an unparalleled demand
for shorthorn breeding stock through
out the United States and prices have
naturally held to a higher plane than
usual. To be sure, in former periods
prices reached higher levels, but neith-
er the demand nor the prices were ever
so uniform before-evidence of the ex-
listing substantial demand for prac-
teal farmers and stockmen.
Boom for Live Stock.
All through the New England states
and along the Atlantic seaboard, down
through the Southern states, there has
been decided inclination to en-
gage in. live stock husbandry in order
to conserve the fertility of the soil and
increase the income. The farmers of
the central states, comprising the corn
belt, are turning again to beef produc-
ton, and throughout the mountain and
coast states there is a general inclina-
ton to replenish the depleted supply
of cattle. SO 1t is from coast to coast
and from the Gulf far into Canada
recognition of the necessity of using
improved blood has induced an active
investment In registered cattle and
shorthorns have steadily gained In IA
vor, for this historic breed has been
safely relied upon for more than a
century in this country to improve the
cattle stocks.
Exchange of Judges.
Early in the summer an exchange of
judges was arranged for between the
United States and Argentina and three
men of recognized ability, Dean G. F.
Curtiss of Iowa, Frank VanNatta of
Indiana and Robert Miller of Ontario,
who judged the sheep, were selected
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1917-02-15
TRAINING TODAYS'
BOYS AND GIRLS
The Dabbling AdoIescent and
Value of Her Fads.
ADVENT OF NEW POWERS
Period When All the Possibilities of
the Child Come to the Front and
He Feels He Can Do
Anything.
By slDoNlE M. eRuENBERe.

A FTER dinner the grown-upS sat
IA about on rockers down on the lawn
while the younger people danced on
the wide veranda to the music of a
monograph.
father was saying that so far as
he could observe the chief reason for
1.-THE nigh cost of living was to be found
an the fact that the young people are
so tickle in their tastes. He did not
remember just how many dollars-but
they We're many-his son Percy had
invested in cameras and ruby lights
and dishes and chemicals less than a
year ago, and now he did not care a
bit for photography-was going in for
geology. and had decided to go to col
lege just to have q chance to study
that.
Father thought that he might have
stuck to photography and finally
worked into the business-it is a
pretty good business-or he might
have made up his mind about geology
last year and have saved all that
money
Mrs. Darling felt the same sort of
grievance, for her Genevieve had
made such a muss about tha house
with her photographs and things, and
now she hardly ever takes her camera
out. Indeed, Genevieve bBs had four
hobbies since she took up with the
eamera-there was raising pansies,
nj oh nd 20
eign missions. and now it's dancing
The Darlings never mention the cost
of anything; but such shifting and rest
lessness is very dlstracting.
Another mother observed that after
all we have to expect to do a great
deal for our children, but she did
fear that her son was frIttering away
altogether too much time in ways that
would prove to be improbable. He
gave up collecting stamps when his
album was far from full, and there it
was. after all that work, doing nobody
any good. And it was the same way
with his wireless telegraph. They
had had so much trouble getting a per-
init for the masts, and he had worked
so hard studying the codes until he
was able to pick up all sorts of curl
Gus and interesting messages (the
mother could not conceal her pride be-
hind her complaints), and now all was
abandoned since he met that North
boy. who interested him in antsl What
all this would lead to goodness only
knew, and she was patient enough,
goodness also knew.
And Mr.. Burrowes, who dreaded the
water, felt the same way about 1t /;
for had not his son dabbled about in
dozen-yes, a score-of useless hob
bies, only to turn around suddenly
with his mind made up to enter the
Naval academy next year, when he
would be old enough? AS if there
were not a hundred excellent things
TO do on the solid EARTH And he pro-
ceeded to enumerate some of them,
though he stopped long before he
reached ten.
But the fathers and mothers in the
party worried together more than
they had q right to. Or at least, If
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1917-02-15

to serve in the great show of the year
at Buenos Aires. In return came
Senior Pedro Z. Pages and Senior Car
los NJ. Duggan from Argentina, who
passed on the shorthorn breeding
classes and the fat classes, where
grades and crOss-breds competed, at
the recent international show at Chi
cago. These gentlemen from Argen-
tina are among the largest cattle
breeders in the world. While in the
States they visited many of the best
known breeding establishments of the
several improved breeds in order that
they might become intimately familiar
with the methods and the standards of
our breeders generally.
Shorthorn Sale.
An interesting fact is that at the
Argentine show sale of ShorthornS
resulted in an average of $500 per
head, the reserve champion bull SELL
ing for $4,000, Argentine money, or
approximately $4,000 United States
gold. AS the Argentine breeders are
steadily in the market for high-class
breeding stock, the closer relations
which are being established between
this country and Argentina will have
tendency to greatly increase our
trade. Our position is strengthened,
too, by the fact that the display Of
breeding stock at the international
show, Chicago, was of the highest
merit throughout and the largest num-
bers in the history of the show. The
shorthorn breeding classes alone con-
tanned approximately 500 entries. The
numbers represented and their uniform
merit made a most favorable impress
sion upon the Argentine judges and
the United States breeders have, there
by, gained a material advantage. The
prospects for further extension of
trade at home are bright A number
of Western states already have en-
acted laws prohibiting the turning of
any but registered bulls on the open
range.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1917-02-15
ARE YOU EFFICIENT?
HERE is A TEST WHICH MAY BE
OF INTEREST.
Anyway It's One Which Very Few
Persons Find 1t Easy to Master,
So Don't Be Distressed If You
Should Fail.

Are you efficient? The awful query
refuses to down0 The clocks tick it,
the fiat wheels in the subway thump
it. the INCREASED curves of the ele-
waited screech it. If you are an old
business fogy, the question burns in
the eye of every plying employee.
You find your wife measuring the
en- cabinet and your son computing the
power necessary to propel a football
in the lowest arc. The telephone COM
pany advises you to give your name
instead of saying Hello"
Blessed be the concrete of thought,
if not of heed Concreteuess enables
you to see Just what the efficiency
master mean. One of them, William
Fretz Kemble, tells in Industrial
Management "How to Test Your EN-
ployees." OF course, every man who
reads it will first test his most i'm
portant employee, his fathers son.
Watch with pad and pencil are all
that is needed to acquaint yourself
with your virtues and faults. In 30
seconds answer as many of these ques-
tons as you can:
Give the name of a vegetable, a
metal, an insect, reptile, a fish, a
man, a woman, an ocean, lake, a
town.
If at the end of the half minute
you have written only "beet, gold,
flea, adder" you are pretty poor. II
you have also put down trout,
Hughes, Pickford, Atlantic" you are
up to human average of eight an
swers. If you feel that you can go
beyond ten answers, you may describe
the color of water, tea, beer, ivory,
the sky, grass, milk, chalk, coal and
skin. But men who go beyond Is
answers in 80 seconds are rare; they
should have secretaries, limousines and
big black cigars.
Next try to answer five difficult"
questions in 20 seconds.
1. Who is the greatest living gen.
eral?
Lucky for you if you are pro-ally.
"Joffre" or "Haig" is written so much
more quickly than "Hindenburg" or
"Mackensen."
2. What is the most powerful force
in the world?
Perhaps love isn't, but it's a shorter
word than militarism.
3. What is the greatest modern dis
covery?
Quick, man! Radium will do.
4. What is the greatest necessity of
commerce?
Secretary Redfield probably would
not answer that in less than 11,S40
words. You perhaps will write "ships"
or railroads" and pass on to the
last:
5. What is the cheapest food for the
human race?
Bread, unless you are a fiend for
lentils or employed by the makers of
f1uted oat-corn. But you ought to an
swer three of these questions in 20 sec
onds, says Mr.. Kemble. If you answer
fewer, it indicates "slowness or de-
liberation in thOupht"
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Loves Stratauem.

Betty Bright think, dear, you had
better speak to papa tonight.
Jack Timid-Why tonight, particu-
larly2 Is he in good humor this
evening?
Betty-Well, he's In humor to give
me to you. I arranged with my mill
liner, dressmaker and dentist TO send
their bills in to him this morning.
Boston Transcript.
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whether brought by horse-traders, i'm
migrants or gypsies, sometimes are af-
fected, and so spread the contagion.
There Is no cure for CHAMBERS, and
being so contagious it has been found
best to kill glandered horses. The
sooner they are killed and destroyed
the less danger of other horses becom-
ing infected. This is so much of a
community problem that most states
pay the owner of a glandered horse
that is killed by one of the agents Of
the state a part of Its value.
1t is not always possible to dag
nose CHAMBERS from the symptoms. A
test called the Mallein test can be
used to determine whether a horse has
CHAMBERS or not. This test is very re-
liable.
Chambers also attacks humans and Is
usually fatal. Care should be taken
in handling a glandered horse. The
infection comes through some Of the
CHAMBERS pus getting into the eye or
gaining entrance through the skin
where it is cut or scratched.
In case horse is suspected of hav-
ing CHAMBERS, report to the state live
stock sanitary board or your state vet
erinarian and deputy will be sent
out ito investigate the case, and If it
is CHAMBERS, proper steps will be taken
North Dakota Experiment Station.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1917-02-15
AS the Old Year Died.

Il couldn't get out of marrying h8r5'
Henpeck explained. "When she pro
posed she said: "Will you marry met
Have you any objectionY You see, no
matter whether said yes or mo-, she
had me-"
"Why didn't you just keep silent,
then?" inquired his friend
That's what / did, and she said,
Silence gives consent and that ended
It,"
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1917-02-15
Wasted Enerux

what terrible crush p exclaimed
one lady to another in an overcrowded
car.
1T is indeed" said the other. "An
such a waste of energy, too"
Waste of energy?" echoed lady
No. /.
Eyes, explained the other. "No
bargain counter near. See?"
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1917-02-15
Could 1t Be Pleasant I

Redd-I hear your brother spent the
autumn in his airplane?
Greene-Yes, he did
well, I hope he had pleasant
TALL"
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1917-02-15
The inducement,

Willis-What makes man always
give lady a diamond ring?
Gillis-The lady.-Orange Peel.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1917-02-15
Stone Wall?

"Why do they call it Wall street,"
Bump up against it and you'll find
mt