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JWCNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7.
Buy-a-Bale Movement Has Auspicious
. Beginning in Aiken Where All
Cooperate to Help Farmers
Help Themselves
Professional Men and Others Respond to Popular Plan Which
Will Keep Cotton That Must Be Sold Off the Market While
Farmers Are Holding For Better Prices---Woman’s Club
May Join in Movement and Set Splendid Example---Cot
ton Receipts As Good As Money at Banks---Arrangements
Made to Advance Money and Hold Cotton For Farmers
Whose Obligations Are Falling Due
WALTER E. DUNCAN,
Staff Correspondent,
The Augusta Herald.
Aiken, S. C.—The “Buy a Bale"
movement has struck Aiken with ap
pealing froce, gripped the people, and
promises to assume wide proportions
by the time the cotton season is at its
height.
I’or the sake of the example thus
set. Col. D. S. Henderson, dean of the
Aiken bar, leader in the movement,
Saturday bought his bale. Other pro
fessional men of the city have declar
ed their intentions of doing likewire.
Or. G. A. Milner will buy a bale or
two. Hon. \V. M. Smoak will do like
wise. Mr. X. B. Gamble, who is con
nected with the First National Bank,
with several other young men, take a
number of bales of the market.
The Women to Help in Movement.
When, in the near future, the
Student Club, the leading woman’s
-tiub of Aiken, resumes it meet
ings for the year 1914-1915, the
will consider the matter of
buying a bale, or perhaps two
bales. A member of the Student
Club said today that joining in
the “Buy a Bale" movement would
be in thorough keeping with the
work of the club, which is affil
iated with the South Carolina
Federation of Women's Clubs, and
which, giving its consideration to
economics and co-operating in all
worthy efforts aimed at social
uplift, civic righteousness and the
spread of the gospel of education,
subscribes liberally to the Win
throp Scholarship Fund and other
kindred agencies.
If, as is very probable, the 3tudent
Club of Aiken takes evert one bale off
the market, it will have set a splen
did example for the club women of
South Carolina and other states, and
can be productive of very beneficial
results. The women of South Caro
lina and the South are affected by the
existing conditions arising from the
depression in the cotton market due
to the European war as much as are
the men, and it is gratifying that they
realize that they can help—not only
the farmer’s wife, who may be the
more directly affected, but the city
woman hs well.
Savings Accounts to Buy Cotton.
Numbers of people in Aiken who
~ gained their inspiration from Mr.
Paul A. Bowden, president of the
First National Bank at Thomson,
Ga., who has taken from the sav
ings account of his little son
enough to buy a bale or two, will
invest the savings accounts ac
* cumulated in the names of their
* children in cotton, buying a bale
for each of the little folks and
holding it.
While for the present the invest
ment may not pay four per cent, it is
generally believed that at the end of
a year or perhaps a little longer—
perhaps earlier—the dividend will be
a great deal larger: but this is only
a secondary consideration, and it is a
healthy sign that it is so regarded.
The great underlying good of a wide
spread “Buy a Bale" movement will
be the common good of all. It. will
afford a ready market for the small
farmer who is absolutely obliged to
sell his cotton, or at least a part of it.
And the cotton bought, it will not fall
into the hands of speculators. The
cotton will be taken off the market—
ar.d held off the market—while .the
farmers who are not obliged to sell
are holding their cotton for the rea
sonable prices that must come with
the world demand for the staple,
whether the European war comes to
an end and normal conditions are re
stored In the near future or whether
European nations continue to play the
game of suicide.
Holding Movement On.
Talking with a large number of
Aiken County farmers, I find them all,
with no exceptions, disposed to hold,
hold, hold. There are, of course, many
of them who, in order to secure
enough cash to complete the harvest
ing of their crops, have sacrificed a
few bales. But even those who figure
that they can pny all expenses of pro
ducing cotton by selling at the pre
vailing quotations, have enough bus
iness sagacity to realize that there is
no progress to be made In swapping
dollars. They think too, that they
can see far enough into the future to
discern the indication of betetr prices
and betetr times no so far down the
-•road that they are clouded with the
dust kicked up by the marching and
the fighting armies in Europe.
Plans for Next Year.
And with faith in the future, de
termined almost to a man to hold,
Aiken County farmers have turned
their faces toward the rising sun and
are considering plans for next year,
realizing that a holding movement,
even though It extended tnroughout
the entire South, would be productive
of little good should another monster
cotton crop be raised in 1915. This,
they know, Is Impossible, There will
not be available the money to be ad
vanced by the banks.
Though the farmefi still have
the bulk of this year's crop to
gather and are busy In their fields,
working as though no war had
crippled business and clogged the
wheels of finance, and though they
know they must wait for many of
the things they hoped to accom
plish this fall, they are not dis
heartened nor excited. Next year
they are going to heed the gos
pel they have heard preached so
long—the gospel of diversified
crops, which though 1' has spread
wonderfully throughout this oec
llon In recent years, will iave
thousands of new converts by
planting time next year.
Cotton as Good as Monsy.
'•Cotton is as good as money with
this bank." said George A. Durban,
cashier of the First National Bank
of Aiken. Mr. Durban has Just re
turned from Columbia and other
Bblr.ts, where he has conferred with
’'The larger corresponding banks on the
1 situation. “We will take cotton at cur
r«nt prices for money."
While the Kiret Nationel le the only
natlonel bank in Aiken County, it is
in position, should It become neces
sary to do so. to secure from tb* na
tional treasury a large amount of the
emergency currency.
Mr. H. M. Dibble, president of the
Bank of Western Carolina, which with
the home bank of Aiken has branch
banks in Johnston, North Augusta,
Graniteville, Wagener, Salley, and
several other points In South Carolina,
it- at present in New York conferring
with correspondents there.
The Spirit of the Farmer.
One of the most progressive farm
ers in this section of South Carolina
is Mr. A. W. Reynolds. Mr. Reynolds
gave expression to the spirit of the
Aiken County farmer when he said
tersely:
“The sheriff will sell all of my
"cotton before I will sell a bale of it
at the present price.”
Mr. Reynolds, who operated 20
plows this year, stat" that next
year he will plant his place one
third in cotton, one-third in corn
and one-third in oats, rye and
wheat.
Within the past few days Mr.
Reynolds has cold something over
a hundred dollars worth of hogs—
shoats averaging 240 pounds and,
at nine cents, bringing $21.60
apiece. 4
"It hasn't been many years ago,”
said Mr. Reynolds, “that all I
could have gotten for these shoats
would have been three cents.”
On his place, five miles from Aiken,
Mr. Reynolds still has SBOO or S9OO
worth of hogs, but he stated that he
will sell no more, but will kill them
later on and feed his hands through
the winter.
Arranges to Help the Situation.
This year Mr. Reynolds has sold in
Aiken County about SIO,OOO worth of
commercial fertilizer. He has made
arrangements with a warehouse in
Augusta whereby he will be advanced
sls a bale on cotton —agreeing to hold
the cotton for at least ten cents—and
will take cotton from those farmers
who owe him for fertilizer, advance
them the sls, and hold their cotton for
them.
“We’ve simply got to he,p one
another," said Mr. Reynolds.
“That’s the only way out. It
arouses my indignation to see any
man, in the present condition of
things, shutting down on the far
mer. The man who does it is
bound to lose by It.
A Blessing in Disguise.
“What we are suffering now Is go
ing to prove a blessing,” declared Mr.
Reynolds. “The time when the far
mer spends money is in the fall when
he sells his cotton, not ip the summer,
and too many of them are disposed to
buy things they could get along well
enough without, spending the money
before they pay their debts, and the
result is that many who owe, for in
stance, five bales of cotton, can then
only pay four and they begin another
year in debt. They won’t spend
money recklessly now. And another
thing—they are going to have to raise
stuff to eat and to feed their stock.
“I can pay all expenses of raising
my cotton crop with eight cents cot
ton," continued Mr. Reynolds, “but I
want my profit and I’m going to hold
until I get it. Cotton warehouse re
ceipts are just as good as money, just
as much as a dollar hill is worth 100
cents. Perhaps not today, but they
will be tomorrow."
Preparing to Hold.
Mr. Otis Courteny, who farms on
the Levels, is at present building a
big shed at his place in which to store
his cotton.
Mr. Courteny raised this year a
magnificent crop of pea-vine hay and
a fine oat crop. He has sold 75
bushels of oats at $1.50 a bushel, and
could find a ready market for more if
he cared to dispose of them. Next
year, he states, he Intends to plant
more oats than ever before.
Warehousing facilities will be found
for more cotton in Aiken and in other
places throughout the county than has
ever been stored at any one time be
fore.
At Graniteville , the Graniteville
Manufacturing Company will either
%uy what cotton is offered, or store
(t and issue negotiable warehouse re
ceipts.
Mr. J. M. Holley, who deals exten
sively In mules and who has sold be
tween $20,000 and $25,000 worth of
stock this year, Is converting his big
stables into a warehouse and com
plying with necessary requirements,
will get the same rate of insurance
as does a bonded warehouse.
Mr. Holley will accept cotton from
farmers owing him for mules on a
basis of ten cents, having made fi
nancial arrangements with the banks
to carry him over until normal condi
tions are restored.
Mr. Chris Hahn, Mr. Jason Woo -
ward, Mr. R. B. Toole, Mr. Conner*
Woolsey, Mr. S. J. Brooks, Mr. Tom
Cushman, Dr. J. M. Quattlebaum, are
all holding their cotton off the market,
but «o are all the farmers in this sec
tion.
Mr. Horace M. Cassels, of Ellenton,
in this county, who is at the head of
the Aiken County branch of the
Southern Gotton Congress, has made
arrangements to hold off the market
an Immense amount of cotton.
Mr. Cassels has sold between $40,-
000 and $50,000 worth of commercial
fertilizer this year. Representing a
manufacturer In Charleston, Mr. Cas
sels has prfected arrangements with
this concern to accept cotton receipts,
upon which the notes of the farmers
will be released as they mature and
the cotton is turned in to Mr. Cas
sels and shipped to Charleston. There
it will be held, on a ten cent basis,
for one year, or to be sold earlier only
upon the order of the owner, the dif
ference m-de by the Increase In price
to tber» be paid to the farmer.
Saturday—the big trading day In
Aiken—brought the usual crowd to
town. The streets were filled, a*
usual. And every man, apparently,
had money In his p»;ket—some money
al least, for the merchants did an
average Saturday's business, even for
this season of 'the year. Of course It
is true that the cotton-pickers had
just been paid off, but there Is work
for them for many weeks yet to come.
In Aiken I could not but notice the
conspicuous absence of the calamity
howler. Everybody seems disposed to
make the most of the situation. One
sees no groups of full-grown men
standing on the street corners bewail-I
ing hard times. J
AT THE GRAND
HOWE’S TOURS OPEN GRAND’S
SEASON TONIGHT.
There has been no greater exhibi
tion of endurance and sheer nerve In
the history of the world than Uncle
Sam's fight with the forces of nature
down "on the line”—otherwise bet
ter known as the Panama Canal. It
is this tremendous conflict waged by
an army of 50,000 souls and mighty
machines doing work with almost hu
man precision which will be repro
duced by Lyman H. Howe at the
Grand Theater tonight and Tuesday
evenings.
The film is in reality an astound
ing—moving- living pictorial review
of how supremely organized and in
telligent effort scored a marvelous
triumph over difficulties. As such it
appeals powerfully to all mankind but
particularly so to the victors—to us
as Americans, and in order to form an
adequate conception of how this
$400,000,000 victory was won, every
American should take advantage of
the opportunity Mr. Howe offers, it
will be the only opportunity as this
film is the only reproduction made
that is commensurate with the mag
nitude of the work and at the same
time that is absolutely perfect photo
graphically. And it is the only time
Mr. Howe will present It here. It
woudl he indeed impossible to describe
d tails of the reproduction which
f jvers the entire 50 miles of the ca
bal and all the gigantic workings of
this greatest engineering feat in his
tory.
Nothin*- less than the film itself
enn depict the sinking of the huge
caissons, dynamiting hills, huge
dredges scooping up tons of rock at
“one fell swoop” and carrying it away
as easily as a child would lift and
carry away an apple, the conveyance
of thousands of tons of material along
cables in mid-air, the towering lock
walls and gates, the deep gorges and a
thousand other sights in this prod
igious pageant of man's indomitable
will and ingenuity. Here, at last, it
may be seen in all its actuality—and
—also for the first time as well as the
last time.
“OH! OH! DELPHINE.”
At the Grand on Wednesday, Sep
tember 23rd Klaw and Krlanger’s mas
sive production of the New York
musical comedy success, “Oh! Oh!
wmm
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Mabel Allan, who plays the part of St. Simone in the big Klaw
and Erlanger Musical Comedy production, Oh, Oh, Delphini,
at the Grand September 23rd.
THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA,
Delphine" will be presented and will
be looked forward to by the patrons
of the higher class of theatrical of
ferings ns one of the most noteworthy
events of the present season. “Oh!
Oh! Delphine" is in three acts sump
tuously mounted as regards both
scenic and costume equipment and is
the work of C. M. S. McLellan ami
Ivan (’ary 11, author and composer of
“The Dink Lady” and “The Little
Case." The story is extremely enter
taining, depicting the adventures of
ai. artist who is serving his time as a
soldier in search of a model for the
left shoulder of "Venus Rising from
the Sen," which he Is painting. The
piece divided an entire season's en
gagement at the Knickerbocker and
New Amsterdam Theaters, New York,
where it was regarded as the most
pretentious musical comedy offering
in recent years.
SMALLWOOD VS. WILLIAMS
IN SIXTH SALLIE GAME
Albany, Ga. —With three games won,
the Savannah team will meet Albany
here this afternoon In an effort to win
the fourth game of the post-season
series and capture the flag. The Sa
vannah manager will likely send
Smallwood hack to the mound tc face
Williams, Mannsh's star pitcher.
Should Albany win today the sev
enth game will be played in Jackson
ville tomorrow.
U. S. TREASURY.
Washington.—The condition of the
United Slates treasury at tlie begin
ning of business Saturday way:
Net balance in general fund, $122,-
138,603.
Total receipts Friday, $2,256,16.
Total payments Friday, $2,645,976.
The deficit Ibis fiscal year is $14,-
941,117, against a. deficit of $7,680,896
last year, exclusive of Panama Canal
and public debt transactions.
APPEALS TO POLES.
Petrograd, via London, 12:45 p. m.
—Henry Sienkiewioz, the Polish auth
or, has issued an appeal to the Aus
trian Poles to fight with Russia. Mr.
Sienkiewicz is the author of "Quo
Vadis.”
Eye Glasses Should Go
Says New York Physician
Here Is His Free Prescription.
“Many wbo wear glares could dis
pense with them. Only ordinary care Is
necessary. The eyes of old and young
should be properly bathed night and
morning. This is more important than
cleansing teeth,” says be and then he
goes on to say:
“The following treatment is worthy of
fullest confidence. It is scientific, im
mediately effective and positively harm
less to the weakest of eyes. Go to any
drug store, get a tube of Optona tablets,
dissolve one in a two-ounce bottle of
pure water and bathe the eyes two to
four times daily. What is generilly
known as eye strain will soon be banish
ed while tlie muscles and nerves are
permitted to perform their normal func
tions. It helps diseased eyes and it
keeps good eyes healthy; it is absolutely
harmless In every way; does not smart
or burn, has a wonderful effect on gran
ulated lids and is especially recommend
ed for dull, bleary or glassy eyes. it
helps all eyes and should tie in every
home for use in emergency.**
The following extracts are from letters
received from users of this prescription:
“I used Optona one week for a cold
in my eyes; It did me a great deal
of good.”
“My eyes have been falling for
years. I am sure Optona is doing
them good and shall continue its
use.”
“Have only hern using Optona a
short time. My eyes are improving
wonderfully.*’
“1 find Optona very satisfactory
and recommend it wherever 1 find an
opportunity. I find it very sooth
ing.”
“I’ve been benefited by Optona and
Intend to follow the treatment.”
“Have been using Optona for about
three months and it has greatly im
proved my sight.”
“My eyes have been sore for sev
eral years: were red and Inflamed.
Used everything recommended and
gaind no relief. I had my eyes ex
amined and wore glasses for six
months I rend of Optona and
thought I would give It a trial. Am
glad to be aide to state I got satis
factory relief, and have not w f orn
my glasses since. I feel my eyes do
not require them.”
Many others have made similar re
ports. If' your eyes bother you, have the
above prescription filled; It may do won
ders for you. Do not become a victim
Qf neglect. You perhaps value your eyes
more than any other organ, therefore
It’s your duty to protect them. This free
prescription has given relief io thou
sands.
VAPOR TREATMENTS
FOR COLD TROUBLES
Ar« now all honpltulß. The
vapors carry the medication to the lungs
and air passaged without disturbing tho
stomach. When Vick’s “Vap-O-Itub”
Croup and Pneumonia Salvo ia applied
over the throat and rhent, theno vaporn
—of Menthol, Thymol, Eucalyptol, Cam
phor, und Pine Tar—are releuHed by the
heat of the body. Uduuliy the w<rt‘Ht
colds go in one night—croup in fifteen
minuted. Vlck’H Ih fine for head colds,
asthma, and catarrh, and absolutely
harmless. Three sizes from 25c up.
IF BLADDER OR
KIDNEYS BOTHER
Try the Favorite Recipe of
Old Folks—Buchu and
Juniper.
Everyone knows that Ruchu anil
Juniper properly compounded Is the
best medicine for weak kidneyH or
bladder. When Pile urine becomes
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you have an unusual flow of urine,
scalding, dribbling, straining or too
frequent passage from the bladder —
your head and bark aches —your ankles
or eyelids are swollen, spots before
the eyes, leg cramps, shortness of
breath, sleeplessness and despond
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hud you have rheumatism, try the
following: Get from any reliable
druggist a good sized bottle of Stuart's
Buchu and Juniper Compound. Take
a spoonful after meals. Drink plenty
of water Drop the use of sugar and
sweets. In a day or so your kidney?
will act fine and natural. Stuart’a
Buchu mixed with Juniper haa been
used for years to clean out Impurities
from the kidneys and bladder, also to
neutralize the uric acids In the blood
and urine so it no longer Irritates,
thus ending ull kidney and bladder
weakness nnd curing Diabetes. Stu
art's Buchu nnd Juniper Is a fine kid
ney and bladder regulator and has
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most every other medicine failed to
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Avoid Danger of
Blood Infection
Get Your Blood Strong to Resist
Daily Perils
A host of people have thanked their
lucky star to have used 8 H. H. for
the Mood Instead of those dangerous
drugs such »h mercury, calomel, arsenic,
etc. It la an easy matter to yet tho
blood polaoned from contact with dlaeaae
*rcrma They lurk In almost everythin*
we touch or handle and a sllsht scratch
or aklri ahraalon la often tlia gate of
entrance for a vast army of germ*. If
the Mood la Impure, If pimples, holla,
ec*cma or other eruptive condltlona make
the akin a danger apot uae 8. H H. at
once and fortify th« ayatem. Get your
blood atron* and full of red corpuac.ea
to renew tissue health. Let 8. 8 H keep
down tendency of all germ* to multiply
and your akin will soon renew Itself
These facta are explained In a beautiful
book Just Issued and will he mailed fete
by The Hwlft Hpeelflc Co., 110 Hwlft
Itldg, Atlanta. Ga
Get a bottle of H. 8 8. today of any
druggist but Inalst that you will have
nothing else.
Kor more detailed direction* write the
Medical Dept as suggested la circular
around the bottle.
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War Talk Let Us
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72x90 Bleached Sheets at 50c
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A Clean-up of Lawn, Batiste and ,
Voiles, worth up to 25c, at 5c
36 inch Bleached Drill at 10c
$1.39 Long Cloth at $1.19
Large Huck Towels at 10c
Bath Mats, in fancy colors, at.. ,49c
25c Flaxon at 19c
50c 45 inch Mercerized Chiffon at 29c
One lot of Children’s Dresses, in good
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Standard Apron Ginghams at 5c
jK,'
Mr. H. Koenig, maker of Ladies’
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