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Established 1844. The Press and Banner ABBEVILLE, S. C. Wm. P. GREENE, Editor. Published Every Wednesday by The Press and Banner Co. Telephone No. 10. < , ? * ' -M ? Entered as secona-ciass uuu m#ir ter at post office in Abbeville, S. C. Terms mf Subscription: One year ;|1.50 p Six months : .76 Three months .50 Payable invariably in advance. Wednesday, October 25, 1916. { THE COUNTY FAIR. . if -l 1 The people of the up-country are learning every year something new , about farming. The time has passed when a man plants at a certain season, works his crop at a certain season, fertilizes his land with the kind of fertilizers his dealer happens to 12 have, and plants certain lands in certain crops because it is convenient to do so. In the past twenty years no vocation in life has seen greater progress in the manner in which the work is done, and the thoughtfulness with which tasks are performed, than that of farming. The farmer of today is a man of real intelligence and he works, and thinks, and reasons as do the men in the professions. When he buys a certain fertilizer he buys a certain fertilizer he buys it for a reason, when he plows his lands in a certain way, it is because from the best information at hand, and from experience, he is convinced that this particular way is the proper and most efficient way. He plants corn tlio-lon^o nro Aiiitahle for corn raising, and so with cotton, and small grain and other farm products. He gives his thought, too, to raising on his farAi all kinds of live stock and food crops which two decades ago he never thought of. He plants vetch and alfalfa, and sows , peas and other crops, some for hay, aad some to enrich the lands. He v puts out bermuda grass for pasture laads, and other grasses for hay crep&r1 80 that farming has become to be oae of the learned professions, if we r might call it a profession, lather than a vocation. With the possible eneption of the medical profession, no profession nor vocation offers " greater fields for research for information, for intelligent reasoning, and intelligent application of known principles. \ Like the medical profession, the operation of a farm according to the beet principles, furnishes field for investigation and thought every day which the day before did not exist It is a growing business and occupation. There is always something to learn, there is always something new, there are constantly changing conditions, and changing problems to be met Therefore, the farmer is looking around all the while for information, and for means to meet his problems. His neighbor is doing the same thiag. And it is because of these things that the county fairs are gotten up. Of course there must be attractions, and fun for the children and the ffTOWn-UTlS. Thprp is rnrmn -frvr tkn right kind of amusement always, and for a day of recreation. It is pleasant to imeet ones friends and to shake hands with the neghbors at the fair. It is a privilege to see friends of the years gone by and to go to the fair and talk with them of other days. The school children and the young people all must have their part But with all this there is a serious side to the county fair to the farmer. There is a chance to learn. For this reason the exhibits from the farms should be full. Every effort should be made to get the farmers of the county, and their housewives, to exhibit the production of +1.0 :i i .* ii- i?J? 1 utc dvu anu ui biicir iianuiworK ai - these fairs, in order that others may see and be taught, and go home prepared to make something there which has not been made before. There may be a simple remedy for this difficulty, there may be a certain kind of cotton, .or corn which you plant, and which suits a certain grade of lands. You know all about it and j your neighbor wants to know; Go to the fair and show him the crops and tell him what you have done. And those farmers who are more . progressive than the others may always furnish information as to the use of this or that machine, of the way to save this or that kind of ferS wl, ?A. . . . . tilizer, of the time to use it, an the manner of applying it. Demon strations of these machines, of th crops grown by the plans adopte and anything else which you hav learned in the last few years wi! be of interest and of immense valu to someone who wants to know, i man may be a real benefactor to community, or to county, in a quie way, and without knowing it, an without appreciating he that is doin something for the community. Therefore, we hope that the fai mers of the county will take the tim in this good year, when cotton i nearly twenty cents per pound, whe: all farm products are filling -the poci ets of the farmers with* gold, whe the land flows with milk and honej to come to the fair, to YOUR COUN TY FAIR, and here meet you neighbors and enjoy with them th results of the good times, and hel prepare them for another year's pros perity, so that they may the mor efficiently, and with lesser cost am trouble, meet the problems of th farm. OUR ADVERTISERS. A man is generally more ready t assist another when he asks for as sistance than to assist one who onl; takes assistance in a half-hearted wa; when it is offered. It" is the sami way in business. A man vho ask you to trade at his store is more ap to appreciate your business and fe try to please you than one who doe not care whether you trade with hin or *ot Advertising is the modern way o: solicitating the favor of a call fron you iii business matters. It is th modern and recognized way of askini for a chance to serve the public. I is the modern way of offering good for sale. Therefore, a man wh< really wants your business advertises Conversely, the man who does no advertise, according to modern me thods, may be said to care very littl for business, and to be less appreci ative of your business. j Again a man who advertises an 1 Hmitm vnnr VinninefiR is more likel to be alive to your wants, and there fore to have what you want H stores your wants and tries t please. A man who advertises a ways does the most business ant therefore, may sell at less profit tha the "tight-wad" who is too stingy t let the people know just what he hai and to invite them to come to hi store in the only accepted way. No town in South Carolina has better set of merchants than Abbe ville. No merchants carry better o fuller lines of the goods you warn All the best merchants advertise. A those who are modern in their met! ods and who will be glad to se you, and who will put themselves oo to please you, are asking in the put lei prints for your business. On be half of those wljo are advertising i this paper, we invite you to visi their stores while in the city, at an of which we guarantee that you wi be fairly dealth with, and that yo will receive for every dollar spent dollar's worth of what you buy. A GOOD OLD AGE. (The Columbia Record.) I Once we saw pedallinga bicycle i Atlanta a man whom we learned wa 85 years of age. He lived to be mor than 90. He saw more than 70 year pass after his graduation from co] lege. This man was a ntive of Abbe viDe eounty, S C., Gen. Jas. P Grave father of John Temple Graves, th well known newspaper man. We saw somewhere a brief state ment from Gen. Graves, advisinj young men how to live to a ripe ol age, and we reproduce it from i scrap book: ' Do an honest days' work eacl day. Pay your just debts. Live well within your income. Save a little for the rainy day. Eat moderately, chiefly on fruit and vegetables. Eschew meats a far as possible and drink plenty o water. Use wine only for your stomach'] sake. Smoke a little if you reel yoi must Be an optimist. Love your neighbor as yourself. Fear God. Gen. Graves' rule of life was live< up to by himself. Some may scon such a way to pass through life an< may declare that the general mus have missed a whole lot in life. Per haps so, but we never saw a man whi enjoyed life any more than he, evei at his great age. d SUNRISE IN THE SUNNY SOUTH. e (By N. 0. Pyles.) d During the quiet restful hours of e the night, hands of angels, hidden H from mortal eyes, are changing the e scenery of the heavens and when ^ tne cock's snrm clarion nas signeuea i the approach of dawn, the early riser I a can witness; first, the soft-tinged heavens in the east, then a deeper d and deeper tinge, till Old Sol again g begins to shed his genial rays Over [ mountain tops down into valleys,1 - fields and meadows, awakening from e their slumbers all living creatures, 3 transforming myriads of tiny dew Q drops into sparkling diamonds, gladdening the tasseling corn, turning to gold rich fields of waving grain, ripn ening luscious fruits of orchard Tf and vineyard, painting rainbows in ~ the sky, lining with silver floating r clouds, filling to overflowing the grae cious horn of plenty, making still p more beautiful and fragrant, the i_ rose, the jasmine, the magnolia and e the orange blossom, giving a tinge j of red to the pale bloom of the cotton, one of the staple crops of our own beautiful and glorious Sunny South, the land of Dixie, the gem of America, the land of the free, the home of the brave. I STAR-LIGHT UNDER SOUTHERN SKIES i- . jr (By N. 0. Pylea.), y 1 The children's hour, the time between the twilight and the darkness, 2 has come, and millions of devoted 3 ones, through with the days' occupat tion, full of hope and love, unite in > happy family circles around their 3 respective firesides. i x One by one, the stars come into view, till the heavens are bedecked f . l e Buy Now i. ; Pay Later i n is "s ; ' / a I I V ' .l y* r , t. 11 . i- < e lt / *v x ?- \ i n it y I v i n s ! e s l/ is e {. : | a < 3 ' * s i A little Now i A Little Then | with ten thousand sentinels of the ' J night, differing in brilliancy and in is magnitude. 1 The brightness of these jewels of the sky, suggests the thought, "Hope 1 sees a star, and listening Love hears lif< the rustling of a wing." Rv and hv the risinc moon be?rina Ru to shed her soft rays over sleeping mountains, fields and forests, green meadows and silvered lakes, and ?' Eii flowing waters, making the scene like some enchanted garden with Its myriads of nymphs, one of exceptional beauty and grandeur. > , Now, under Southern skies, all is wa quietude, save the occasional hooting ^ of an owl, the music of the mockingbird, mellowing the soft balmy air rai with its varied songs, the barking of the fox or the echoing notes of the fn distant whippoorwill. , 18 ( THE NEIGHBOR'S SAY CJU roj pe: If he is regular in attending lo\ church, he is too pious. we If he doesn't attend church, he is pr< on the road to perdition. If he sends his family away for ms the summer, it is more than he can in* afford. 1 If he doesn't allow them a vaca- ms tion, he id called stingy. Ea If he happened to be successful in ,A business, he achieved success un- sei fairly. , we If he doesn't succeed, he missed so< his calling. wa If the piano is silent, why donft pei they buy a player? std If they have a player-piano, it an- mc noys the whole neighborhood. . ca: If he gives freely to charity, it is for show.x to If he doesn't, he is classed as a to: tightwad. 1 \ (_' ' : ' ; ' \ ' ' ' * ' ' . J > ' > ' . 1 ' V ' ' **.- ' ' . ' . ' . '7 ' ' . , L . . | WBP A BOOKCASE in the hotiseia A one more piece, of furnitur rallying point of home culture dren's treasure chest, the store of romance, brother Bob's fipmnei and the genial* companion and ] friend or thetelder members of 1 It is the Heart of the Home. * A a Globe-Wernicke Sectional h grows as the book collection gro1 11 : ^ Jjl "*l?he IHeart of thsHams* The Ke FurnitureMain Street [f his wife does her own work, she at "killing herself" for the family. tr? [f she has servants, she ought to fo more economical, j o] [f he dies young, he led too fast a S1( 8. aian Cold and Snows Have No lerrbr* for This Staunch Overland ' C< Shortly after the outbreak of the wi ropean war it became necessary in find a new road from England to cc :ssia. Passengers were sent across ti< >m Newcastle to Bergen, in Nor- pi y; thence over land through Nor- p? y and Sweden to Karngi, at that le the last station on the Swedish ab ilway. From there to Tornea, the sh 3t town in Finland, and the west- S< 1 terminal of the Russian Railway, m a distance of thirty kilometres. cj This distance had to be covered by 01 rriage, sleigh or auto. With no C ids worthy of the name, and a tem-j Si rature from 25 to 40 degrees be- ] v zero the difficulties that autos to re up against Can be readily ap- j w jciated. |w A. number of machines of various inj ikes , were put into service includ- dc A -1 J ' I O ; au wvcx iiiiiu. | &9 This car, was the only one able to oi intain a regular service between rungi and Tornea. . fare of $8.50 to $5l00 per pajSr\ h< lger was charged, and people who in re in the habit of making this trip a? >n came to',know that the Overland s the one car ^that could be deeded upon to make the trip in fety. As a result its owner had a* ?re business than he could take g< re of. The hood of the car, of course, had T be heavily wrapped and the radia- m r wqs emptied every night ; fj In spite of ihe deep snow and the li f j *.i-' v K*'*% ! ~ ^ *. ' >?"! ~ \' / v 4 ' : v ' .?/),; ; ./ ' . 1 |tf? > - y -t\ ^ (. . % <*>* ' ' \ . 'v!' <V.. ::l -r.:' < -s-? , Y V"'- l vjjwW^':.v . f v . > ' ,' : i i more than being added to sec e. It Is the never overflow an i, the cKil- open shelves, the log sister 8 dog-eared or be ds r of yarns Globe-Wernicke philosophic die perfect protect the family, dude dust and c knd if it is prevent sticking, hi bokcase it or mechanical_diffi< tvs, 8ecnon ever. . ; , jHnB|BSH|jHH|B^^^^^H Sold only by irr Furniture 1 Dealers in -Rugs?Matting?Pictu Abbevi ' jsence of any deep toadB, 10 greet juble was experienced during tie ur or 'five months this car was in >eration before the railroad extra- /, 3ii could be completed. ' . i CHARLESTON COAL EXPORT ,-T?7 Charleston, S. C., Oetober ' instruction of the Southern Rail ay's modern exnorfc coal titml* hav. ? , g made Charleston available as a >al port, the ferst year of its opera- V Dn has closed with a record onuses great expansion and prosirity for the city. Dring the year when there was an normal scarcity of ships, 98 steaxntips have taken eoal froai thf:1', 3them's Charleston pier for moveent overseas, 7 taking cargo, irgo and banker, and 77 banket' ily. Of the cargoes, 14 moved, to aba, 6 to South America) and 1 to >ain. The export / movement amounted 63,123 tons while 40,080 . tons ere bunkered. There was a coastise movement of 46,255 tons, makg a total of 149,464 to* i of coal imped over the pier. Ia addition 066 tons of iron ore and 2,114 t^ins ' coke were exported. > ' . . - . . A Don't forget to keep the chicken \tioft in nonif o rtr aA?i4iiiA? If Km JUOC lit OOIUMU/. WBUAMVH4 A? i W?portant to do this in coldweatiber i well as in hot weather. I Are your roads going to be in I ich shape that you eantravei them I 1 right this winter? ^(f aot, better I ;t to work on them. H he man who lives at home u the I tan who will make money, aad the I ui garaen enaDies me mni?r- wh home "-j ~:?'*- A y? tion as needed Boob? 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