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EDGEFIELD ADVERTISER Established 1835. J. L. MIMS, Editor TERMS: One Year._$1.50 Six Months.-75 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1911. THE LARGEST CIRCULATION IN EDGEFIELD COUNTY. 1,560 COPIES. There are only two powers in the world, the sword and pen; and in the end the former is always conquered by \ the latter.-NAPOLEON, lu ? The new cotton weigher with his new scales is ready for the new crop. Let's make Edge?eld the best market for both selling or buying this fall. The County Fair will need YOUR exhibit. No other exhibit can take it* place. ' Dry wells are bad but being sub merged in water waist deep, as Char leston was last week, is worse. The question that is asked in Edge field now more than any other is, Who'll be the next postmaster? What about the new fall sjyles? The hats will hardly be larger, and certain ly skirts no smaller. It is contemplated that the Boys' Corn Club exhibit shall be made an attractive feature of the county fair. That Charleston sea breeze which at tained a velocity of 100 miles an hour la?t week behaved itself rather un seemly. The man who will deliberately gri~d damaged corn into meal and sell to an unsuspecting public is but little better than a murderer. The cotton estimates of several weeks ago were entirely too high, giv ing the "bears" an advantage that ac tual conditions did not warrant. Th? fanner who does not plant a few acres of vetch or the clovers this fall should not expect to be classed among the progressive farmers of the county. Instead of purchasing Rye by the pint or quart, let It be several bushels to be sown on the thin red soils. The bene 5cial effect aft ; it is turned under next spring will surprise you. When howling waves smash thi the windows of state-rooms on a stet ship you can bet your boots that th occupants are not feeling altogether at ease, tn mind or body. The up-country cotton growers suf fered but little a3 compared with the low-country rice planters. A few bales of stained cotton is not to be likened to the total loss of a rice crop. It appears from the quantity of bad meal that has recently been shipped into this state that western millers >are about as devoid of conscience as were the western distillers who defrauded South Carolina during the life of the dispensary. Practically all of the colleges an nounce larger and better facilities, and are confidently looking for the next session to be their best. That augurs well for South Carolina. The greatest asset of any state is a high minded, educated citizenship. The pay-as-you-enter street cars are proving so popular that the Columbia street railway company is gradually discarding the old-style cars and re placing with the new. Wouldn't the adoption of a pay- you-go policy in all Hoes of business be a wonderful improvement over the old system? Wien your table is supplied with home-ground meal made from home grown corn there is practically no dan ger of contracting pellagra, but when corn-bread is made from damaged wes tern meal there is no telling what dis ease one is liable to contract. Then, all other considerations aside, it is far better to make corn and meal and wheat and flour at home. It will be gratifying to the thousands who have visited that beautiful place to know that Magnolia Gardens on the Ashley were but little damaged by the storm last week. The destruction of these beautiful gardens would have beer nothing short of a world-wide ca lamity. It is doubted if the old Eu ropean gardens really excel in exquisite beauty Magnolia on the Ashley. North and West Hostile to Negroes. The "Sunny South" is, after all, the best place in the whole round world for the negro race. The white people her* understand them better and as a whole treat them with greater consid eration than they are treated any where else. By frequent and conspicu ously cruel acts some sections of the north indicate that as a race colored people are not desired as citizens, and the west is also going on record as be ing hostile to negroes. Dispatches stete that white farmers have org?n ized to keep negroes out of Oklahoma. Members of the organization are re quired to take an oath that they will not sell or lease land adjoining that of a white fanner to a negro. Standard Oil Company Dissolved. There is no longer a Standard Oil Company, none in name at least. The great corporation, commonly known as the oil trust, in compliance with the decree of the highest tribunal in the land, ppssed out of existence Tuesday, the stock, valued at $625 per share, being apportioned 'among the stock holders of the thirty-odd companies which composed the trust. Juat what the effect of this dissolu tion of the great octopus will have upon the oil market is a matter of conjecture. It is currently believed that, openly or by tacit agreement, the minor companies will conduct their af fairs not as competitors but so much in unison that after all the effect will be the same as if all operated under one head and from one central office as in the past. Northern Marriage Agreements. The manner in which northern peo ple enter into written ante-nuptial marriage agreements, which are noth ing more or nor less than cold-blooded business \ transactions, is repugnant to southern s> . timent and ideals. In the marriage agreement between Col. As tor and his fiance, Miss Force, which is said to hr.ve been signed tX Newport a few days ago $5,000,000 was settled upon her besides certain stipu lations- that are to bt embodied in the colonelTS w?lT. For a young woman to thus sell her self to a man who has been divorced less than a year is disgusting in the extreme, and leads one to believe that i she deserves the severe criticism that has come from practically every paper in the land. ? Miss Force has shown herself to be a very cheap young woman. Five mill ion dollars, her purchase price, is hardly more to Astor than $5 is to the average South Carolinian. Great Meeting at Montgomery. Probably the most representative body of farmers, financiers and busi ness men generally that ever came to gether in the south will attend the meeting that has been called at Mont gomery on September the 12th for the purpose of considering the matter of marketing the cotton crop of 191L To our mind, from an agricultural or bu siness standpoint, this will be one of the most important conventions or meetings ever held in the south. While nothing tangible may come of it for the present season, yet the moral ef fect will be wholesome and telling. That the most prominent business men of the south, representing ail pro fessions, meet for the avowed purpose of devising more profitable ways and means of marketing cotton, dignifies the south's great staple and places it upon a plane before the world that it has not hitherto occupied. Some are rlinrwaiw' " J. * ' 1 cultural ii. profited by o.gainzeu error? ru w.^ past and we hope to see the day come when through a compact organization ?he cotton growers and allied interests will become sucha factor in the world's affairs as to be deferred to and reckon ed with as no other organization. The meeting at Montgomery is a step in that direction. Commissioner E. J. Watson has ap pointed an exceedingly strong delega tion to represent South Carolina, be ing headed by the redoubtable Senator E. D. Smith. Hon. W. R. Parks has been selected to represent Edgefield county. Much Damaged Western Meal. For many, many years unsound wes tern corn has been killing hundreds of horses and mules in South Carolina an nually, but for some almost unaccoun t able reason it has never until recently dawned upon our people that unsound western meal was the cause of some of our ills, if not death in many in stances. Commissioner of Agriculture E: J. Watson, who is charged with the en forcement-of the law prohibiting the adulteration of food products, has for sometime been inspecting much of the meal that has been shipped into South Carolina, causing a chemical analysis to be made whenever the meal appeared to be unfit for food. In scores of in stances the meal has not come up to the required standard. That taken f rom five stores in Spartanburg has been condemned and its sale prohibited It is said the damaged meal is also be ing sold in Columbia, Greenville and Anderson. Who knows but that, with out their knowledge, merchants in Edgefield, Trenton, Johnston and throughout thejentire county occasion ally sell meal that is not sound. Commissioner Watson told the editor of The Advertiser several days ago that it is the practice of some of the western mills to mix a small quantity of inferior or positively unsound corn with the sound corn before it is ground into meal, '.hereby making the actual cost of meal to the mills much less than were it made altogether from prime white corn. While the enforcement of the pure food law id but a very small part of his work, had Commissioner Watson done nothing else than curtail the shipment of unsound western corn, meal and flour his services would have been worth to the people of the state ten times what the maintenance of his de partment has cost. . The Advertiser job office guaran tees satisfaction on every, job sent out. What more could 1& asked. We use only the best quality of material. Very Interesting Write-Up o? Mr. Cantelou's Farm. The following well-written arti' cle appeared first in Monday's News and Courier, having been clipped from that excellent journal: Mr. James Rainsford Cantelou, the subject of this story, living a mile from old Edgefield Court House, South Carolina, has so many interesting features connect ed with his farming operations that it is difficult to decide which to tell of and which to leave out. He has been farming for twenty years and is just about 50. years old, though appearing to be not over 40. He was educated in the Old North State, at the Carolina Military In stitute, conducted by Col. J. P. Thomas, in Charlotte, and after that was employed by the Southern Ex press Company for several years be fore he married and settled dcwn on the old home place to farm. Two other brothers and a sister di vided the old place among them, and as his share gives him over three hundred acres in cultivation, and nearly as much in pasture and woods, it must have been an enor mous plantation in his father's time. There are some twenty families of negro tenants living on the place, counting the wages hands, and they work the land, some for rent and some on shares. Some of them have been there ever since he began farming. Practices Rotation, But we are concerned chiefly with his own operations, that is, what is worked with "wages hands." This land is in three fields, each contain ing forty acres, all of it in sight of his residence. He rotates the crops on these three every year. Right now one field is covered with peavine hay, after oats; another is in corn and another in cotton. Next year they will change places , and the year after again. He keeps careful records of all work to the smallest details. So in the case of the big cow barn, for instance, he coald tell instantly its specifications. It is sixty feet wide, by eighty-four feet long, requiring seventy thousand feet of lumber to . build. On the roof there are over one hundred squares of galvanized roofing ma terial. There are thirty-two cow stalls on the ground floor, each one 10x10 feet. There are two drive ways entirely through the barn and a loft that is immense, holding' about two hundred tons of rough age. As the roof is a "self-sup porting" one, there are no obstruc ting timbers in the loft, and the ef fect on one who goes up into the loft for the first time is very queer. Ho .feels as if he were in a foreign country._. turns, cora nuuse, oat house ana sheds, etc., was cut and sawed on the place, and all the buildings were planned and built with home talent strictly. Uses Much Concrete. Mr. Cantelou is also expert in the use of cement, and believes in using it wherever practicable. In the horse yard he has a drinking foun tain constructed of concrete, that is a thing of beauty and a joy forever. It is like a huge saucer, three feet deep and six feet across the rim. It is kept filled with spring water, coming; up-hill eighteen hundred feet, to a height above the spring of one hundred and ten feet, that is, to the top of the reserve tank, whence it flows to the horse foun tain, then overflows to the cow bara and to the hog lot. The wa ter runs all the time, with practi cally no cost of pumping, for the power is furnished by a little auto matic machine called a hydraulic ram. The Hydraulic Ram. When the muddy water in the pasture branch was dammed up in order to get sufficient "head" to operate the ram, some people thought he was crazy to pump such filthy looking water into a tank. But they soon found out better. The fact is, he put the ram down stream about seventy-five yards in the vicinity of an old spring. Then a barrel was sunk in the middle of the branch, and whether it was luck or science, no one could guess, but tho spring immediately located it self in the ban-el, and strange to say, there was all the ch?ar water he could desire, coming apparently right out of a muddy stream. Then the muddy water and the clear both went into the ram, by different pipes, of course, and the muddy water is pumping the clear water right up the hill one hundred and ten feet, as mentioned above. The barrel for the spring and the 3-4-6 foot box for the ram, and the dam across the branch are all of concrete, and may reasonably be expected to serve for Mr. Cantelou's children's children. To return to the big barn. The forty head of registered short horn cattle that are housed there give a profit on the milk, butter and in crease; but they are of the greatest value, above that in furnishing three hundred tons of compost every year conveniently n?ar the land that makes the crops. He uses fertilizer also, from two to three hundred pounds to the acre, which he mixes himself as he thinks it ought to be mixed;,but his fine crops he at tributes to the liberal amount of barn yard manure and to the other mmmm STORE OF MANY DEPARTMENTS. F?R more t! ama::e its Edge prices as nermi this i season eve you i;his Fall g ability that go( Inlmany of t shouldn't they? The ji?w Surra stronjg place ar do all the busir tron^ the best ? get the prices a this assertion. WW important fact that he rotates crops. Kb Last Year Crcps. When I asked him how many bales of cotton he made last year, he said first "forty-three bales." Then more explicitly he added, 'you can say five hundred and .twenty-five pounds of lint cotton on each acre of .the forty." In corn he made two thousand bushels on the forty acre;, field. Also more "stover" than the barns would hold,, .fox-he uses a shredder. The 40-acre oat brop.. threshed out over nine hundred bushels, and he kept enough out io feed six head of horses. The pea vine hay averages a ton and a fourth to the acre. Outside of his crops, Mr. Cante louisoneo" the South's for<"~~' ?o tm pOI .. _iruin uic iTvo weighs now at 3 years old, seven hundred pounds, when fat. "Star Masterpiece IY" is his title. He wouldn't raise registered hogs if there were not money in it, but sec ondarily, it is a sort of hobby or passion with him. He likes to feed them the stuff that is* grown on the place; aud he likes to carry them to the fairs and win the prizes and ribbons. . Angora Goats. Just so with-, the Angora goals His herd of spine forty head origi nated a few years ago in the mind of a physician friend who persuad ed him to raise them "on shares" as a diversion^ But they seemed to thrive with so* little expense, and were so useful in keeping the pas -tures cleared of briars and under growth that ie now takes great pleasure in thi im. They are shorn every year, tl i wool selling at 40 cents per pound, and the hides when tanned with the wool on sometimes sel for very fancy prices, as they make, beautiful rugs and lap robes. But Mr. Caitelou is interested in other things lesides his own enter prises, or he irpuld not be as he is, the president >f the Edgefield Far mers' Clab, aid of the County Fair Association, f And he believes in varying the monotony of [directing labor with some recreation, chiefly fishing. Every little while he has to take a load of corn to mill to be ground, and he invariably takes a camping outfit, fishing tackle and a few friends alon? to help him catch fish. Always it means spending the night fishing! and often part of the aext day. Brem, trout, jack and suckers all furnish their quota of the sport. And the catch is suffi cient generaly to give supper to anywhere from where from four to a dozen m^n. Twenty-five were entertained jon one occasion last spring, but ute fishing was in a pri vate pond. R. G. Shannonhouse. Edgefield,^. C. Has Entered Upon His Duties. Mr. James; D. Mathis, who was elected some time ago to succeed Mr. Henry j ,W. Hughes who re cently resigned as cashier of the Bank of Trepton, has formally ta ken charge of the bank. Mr. W. T. Roper wlo is very efficient and universally popular will continue to serve. as kssistant cashier- The board of directors made a wise se lection in etecting Mr. Mathis as cashier, as nts able management of the bank's ?airs will prove. \ ?MS JHE ?OR [ian ten years this s afield patrons with ? t only of fair profit ;n beyond our own e oods with the snap )d judgement deim ihe weaves cotton : ) yet we are showi: h, Bengaline, Satin, ound the popular th less, but 'tis our int article for the least ,nd examine the ne^ Respectfully, COR* Resolutions on Death of C. C. Burkhalter. Oak Camp, Number 61, Wood men of the World, Parksville, S. 0. Whereas the Supreme ruler of the universe has in His all wise providence seen fit to remove from our camp, our brother Cook C. Burkhalter by an untimely accident, which proved fatal, be it resolved, that we place on our record our of less sense and of our true appre ciation of the friendship and of our departed sovereign. The lodge has lostagood member, the community and state a good citizen and his familyan attentive and faithful com panion. That we extend to his bereaved heartiest sympathy tion. these resolutions minute book, a D. N Dorn, D. A. J. Bell, C. Robertson. Committee. Notice To Contractors. The county board of commission ers, Edgefield county, South Caro lina, will receive bids at twelve o'clock noon, on Monday, Septem ber 25th, 1911, at their office at Edgefield, S. C., for the construc tion of a bridge over Big Stevens Creek, about two miles from Modoc, S. C., in Edgefield county. Said bridge to consist of one steel span, 125 feet long, with road way 12 feet in the clear, with wooden tres tle approaches of about 210 feet on the east side, and 105 feet on the west. Lumber to be furnished by the county, but all work to be done by contractor, according to the plans and specifications on file in the office of the clerk of court of Edgefield county, South Carolina. All bidders must accompany their bids with a certified check for $500. 00 as evidence of good faith, and successful bidder will be required to furnish sufficient bond to guaran tee compliance with bid. The county board of commission ers reserve the right to reject any, and all bids. W. G. Wells, Supervisor, J. O. Herin, N. L. Broadwater. County Board of Commissioners of Edgefield, South Carolina. The New Cotton Weigher. Mr. Jordon G. Byrd, the newly elected cotton weigher, was prompt ly at his post Friday morning last, the 1st of September. The highest evidence that Mr. Byrd very ear nestly desires to be strictly fair and just to all, is found in the fact that instead of purchasing second-hand scales, he ordered scales from the factory which cost considerably more than those that have been used. Mr. Byrd can not please every body, nor can any one else, but he will do his utmost to be perfectly fair to everybody. That is all that can be reasonably expected of him. Lumber For Sale. 10,000 feet of heart weather boards, 6 inches wide, ready dressed at $15.00 per thousand. 3,000 feet 3-4 inch by 3? inch Ceiling well matched at $18.00 per thousand. This is nice lumber, being cut in early spring from forest pine, and has very few knots. Matching and dressing done any time, and all work guaranteed. Colliers, S. C. H. W. McKie. NER STORE A STORE OF MANY DEPARTMENTS. tore has endeavored to delight and seasonable goods of merit at such ;. We feel that we have succeeded expectations. We are going to sell that fashion dictates and the dur inds. fabrics hold their prestige (why ag lovely silk and wool materials. , Duchess and Corduroys hold a ings.Tis not the aim of this store to ention to give our friends and pa money at all times. Come in and N fall fabrics and we'll make good ?ER STORE li SR SMITH-MARSH , COMPANY TO THE FRONT We hope to be ready for business by Sept, 1st Mr. Smt?h is now jn New T^ork b?jd?g?^ds. When ?1 our doors for business we feel confi dent that we can show the mosi complete line of Dry Goods, Notions, Shoes and Ladies' Ready to-wear ever brought to Edgefield. Mr. J.D.May, Mr. S. 0. Morgan and Miss Iris Hamilton will be with us and will be glad to serve their friends. Notice of Opening Later New Arrivals X The early shoppers are invited to call and see the many new things in fall goods and styles thai are arriving daily. While in New York recently I ? purchased a very large stock which is bein^ opened np and and put on display as fast as it comes in. Call to see us. T- TO7\ PEAK X 1