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2 THE PIEDMONT, GREENVILLE, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1917.

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THE PIEDMONT
Established 1824.

Every Afternoon except Sunday. At
117 S. Main St., Greenville, S. C.

LEWIS W. PARKER
1865-1916

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1917.
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[H. C. L.?] AND PELLAGRA.

A new danger that may be atten-
dant on the increased cost of living
is pointed out by the public health
service at Washington and is well
worth the consideration of the pub-
lic in general. It has been estab-
lished as a result of goverment re-
searches that pellagra is produced
by an insufficient and poorly bal-
anced diet. This knowledge has been
widely [discriminated?] and is now
pretty generally known. The appli-
cation of this principle greatly re-
duced pellagra during the year just
passed as compared with preceding
years.

The health service has issued a
bulletin saying that the great rise in
cost of forage is causing the people
in many localities to sell their cows,
with the consequent danger that
they will deprive themselves of milk
one of the most valuable of the
pallagra preventing foods. Most
eggs, beans and peas have been cut
down in many families because of
the increased cost yet all four are
valuable as pellagra prophylactics.

"In affecting economics the gen-
eral public should bear in mind the
importance of a properly balanced
diet," said the health service. Es-
pecially among the workers who do
not have time to return to their
homes at meal hours and must take
their meals from the lunch boxes or
cafes this is important advice. The
sales girls habit of making a lunch
of ice cream and cake one day and
pickles the next, especially is a dan-
gerous one. For one with a sweet
tooth of course it is a big tempta-
tion to invest in ice cream of cake
but it is a case of poorly balanced
rations and should be avoided. So
with the familytable at home, much
of the pellagra preventing foods
are no higher in price than the [blurry]
well-balanced provisions that we
waste money on and should seek to
avoid.
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GARDENER.

There are few if any men but
would be made better by the asso-
ciation that come with intimate
work with God's good green grow-
ing things. The cop of garden jokes
at the expense of the suburbanite, in
part of the spring newspaper and
magazine work, just as house-clean-
ing is a part of the housewive's
spring labor, or putting in fertilizer
a part of the farmers work.

You may not be in a position to
grow a garden full of vegetables or
of weeds as the case might turn out,
but you should at least attempt to
grow something. Why not a few
flowers in the front yard for your
own individual care and interest?
Got no front yard? Oh well even a
man who lives in an apartment
house can have a window box pro-
vided he uses proper care to fasten
it so it won't fall in the street below.
If you can't do this much you might
at least have one little jar of flow-
ers or if you are ultra-ulitarian
try a lemon or an egg plant. If you
can garden, however, do so. The
pesky sparrows and the potato bugs
and the cabbage lice of course will
seem in league to wear out your
patience by recurring stages of a
long protacted siege, but when you
come thru victorious think of the
joy of sitting down to a meal of
vegetables you have tenderly nurt-
ured, handled and petted from their
swaddling clothes up. And if you are
defeated by cut worms, and the oth-
er pests you at least get the value
of outdoor exercise.
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Did you ever notice how much
more you want a thing before you
get it than after you have acquired
it? But if it were not for this some
folks would have no ambition.
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No, no Sweet Agnes, one should
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speaking of it you should remark in
the words of the late Artemous Ward.
The sun is about to retire, and the
heavens are blushing at the per-
formance.
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Oh, Geraldine, we heard someone
prophesy this morning that the Na-
tional Guard will be sent back to the
border inside of forty days.
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If you don't like a girl's dog you
had better not let her know it, un-
less you want her to have the same
opinion of you that you have of the
dog.
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Our idea of a fellow that needs a
nurse or a wife to keep him straight
is one that insists on wearing yel-
lowish brown time with a bright blue
shirt.
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We would suggest as a cleaner for
some of these white-topped boots
the ladies are wearing this winter,
a coat of black polish.
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A girl will go with most any old
fellow but when it comes to getting
married she looks for a husband
with the coin.
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Misunderstadings that last
through life might often be satisfac-
torily cleaned up if a little time
were spent in explanation.
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If [yo uhaven't] had a cold this
winter, you had better knock on
wood.
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In the language of Editor Booker
if you don't believe gripp is an aw-
ful thing just have gripp and see.
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Won't somebody please wire the
weather man that we would like
a little clear weather for a change.
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What Others Say

The Man of Leisure.

There was a time when the man
who had nothing to do that is to say
the man who could live without
working, was looked upon as a for-
tunate being, and the millions who
toiled and slaved from morn to night
envied him his leisure. But things
are different now. The man of leisure
is no longer envied but rather pitied,
for there is no more irksome task
on earth than having nothing to do.
Especially is the task of the lounger
a difficult one in small cities and
towns. In such places as these, time
becomes a burden on his back and
many become nervous wrecks for
the want of something to occupy
their time and attention. Work, and
plenty of it is the safety valve of
human existence.

Let anyone accoustomed to reason-
ably hard and steady work, whether
it be manual or menial, be given
three or four holidays at a time, and
on the third day he is well [night] dis-
tracted—that is unless he exper-
iences a complete change of environ-
ment and scenery. How much more
tiresome and ervating then must
be the life of the man who does not
need to and therefore does not work.
For him the hours come in never-
ending sameness; day follows night
and night follows day. The months
and years pass by, and he goes out
at last with no accomplishment;
nothing left behind him but a mem-
ory of a "good spender", perhaps.

But for the man who works day
in and day out there is always a
goal for is he not accomplishing
something? For him the time passes
all too quickly; night is at hand ere
his day has scarcely begun. He
may not be blessed with an abun-
dance of the world's goods, and may
never know the [blurry] and luxury
which riches are supposed to bring,
but, as a general rule, the man who
works and creditably discharges his
mission in the world know a large
measure of happiness. He is never
"bored," nor does he ever get the
chance to "feel like dying of [ease?].
No; the world has no use for drones
as has been the case since the world
began; it is the busy bee that gathers
the honey.
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Hamilton W. Mabie.

News of the death in New Jersey,
of Dr. Hamilton Wright Mabie,
scholar, editor, lecturer and author,
will be received throughout the en-
tire country with profound sorrow.
Dr. Mabie was one of America's dis-
tinguished men of letters. He was
known personally by many Rich-
mond people and had been heard
here with pleasure on the lecture
platform. His life was worthy and
his ideals high. As associate editor
of "The Outlook." He had contribut-
ed largely to the success of that
publication.
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A [Meddlesome?] Judge.

One day last week Judge Glenn of
the Asheville police court, who seems
to be a [meddlesome?] sort of person,
took a 'notion' to look into the
weights of coal sold by dealers. In
Asheville, as in most other places,
the coal dealers weigh their own
coal, on their own scales, and the
customer accepts their weights.

Well, this Judge Glenn person had
the police to order drivers of coal
wagons to the city scales, which said
scales had been tested as to their
accuracy, weighed the coal, an officer
saw it unloaded and then weighed
the wagon. Did they find a few
pounds more coal than the ticket
called for? Not on your life. The
shortage on every load ranged from
10 pounds to 150, the average being
30 to 40 pounds per load.

Not content with showing a short-
age of weights this same Judge
Glenn got quotations on retail prices
of coal from cities all about and
then showed that Asheville dealers
were not only giving short weights
but were charging above the market.
He even asserted that they were
selling poor washerwomen, who had
to buy coal by the bagful, at the
rate of $10 a ton and giving them
short weights.

The dealers have done a lot of ex-
plaining but they haven't explained
away Judge Glenn's facts. Asheville
people are now agitating for what
every town should have—an official
weightmaster.—Statesville Land-
mark.
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Lost.

Charlotte has lost the Farm Loan
Bank, but it loses to a mighty good
competitor, and one that had the im-
mediate backing of a powerful influ-
ence—that exerted by Congressman
Lever. This individual is in congress
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nection with the agricultural depart-
ment and his commanding influence

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