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CHURCH DIRECTORY OF THE COUNTY 4 REV. E. C. BAILEY, Presbyterian. EDGEFIELD. 1st and 3rd Sundays ll a. m. TRENTON. 1st and Sundays 8 .p. m. 4th Sunday ll a. m. JOHNSTON. 2nd Sunday ll 15 a sn., 4th Sunday 8pm REV. HENRY B. WHITE, Baptist STEVENS CREEK: .Every second .Sunday morning (at ll o'clock. REV. G. W. BUSSEY, Baptist MODO.C: 1st Sunday 3.30 p m RED OAK GROVE: First Sunday .morning at ll o'clock, and Saturday before. REV. P. E. MONROE, Lutheran ST. JOHN'S. Johnston. Preach ing 2nd Sunday 11.15 a. m. 4th Sunday 7.30 p. m., 1st 7.30 p. m MT. CALVARY. Preaching 1st and 3rd Sundays 11.15 a. m. GOOD HOPE. Preaching 2nd Sun day 3.30 p. m., 4th 11.15 a. m. REV. FOSTER SPEAR, Methodist McKENDREE. Third Sunday morn ing ll a. m., 1st Sunday afternoon at .4 o'clock. REV. H. E. BECKHAM, Methodist. JOHNSTON First and fourth Sun day mornings at ll a. m, Second and third Sunday night at 7.30. HARMONY: Third Sunday morn ing at ll a. m. Sunday afternoon at 3.30. SPANN. Second Sunday morning at ll a. m., 4th Sunday afternoon at 3.30. J. E. JOHNSTON, Baptist. BOLD SPRINGS: First and third Sunday mornings ll a. m. GRAVES L. KNIGHT, Baptist. TRENTON: 2nd and 4th Sunday ?mornings at ll a. m. REV. J. C. BROWN, Baptist. PHILIPPI: Second and fourth Sun day mornings at ll o'clock. REV. J. R. WALKES, Methodist. EDGEFIELD: Preaching every Sun day morning at 11:00, and every Sun day nigiit at 8:30, except third Sunday morning and first Sunday night. Prayer meeting every Wednesday afternoon at '5 o'clock. TRENTON: Third Sunday morning -at 11:15 arid first Sunday afternoon at at 4:00. MILL CHAPEL: First Sunday night at 7:45. REV. R. G. SHANNONHOUSE, Episcopal EDGEFIELD: Preaching, first and and third Sunday mornings at ll o'clock. Prayer meeting every Wednesday af ternoon. TRENTON: Second Sunday morn ing at ll o'clock. First and third Sun day afternoons at 3:30 o'clock. RIDGE SPRING: Fourth Sunday .morning at ll o'clock. BATESBURG : Second and fourth .Sunday afternoons at 5 o'clock, and fifth Sundays. . DR. M. D. JEFFRIES, Baptist EDGEFIELD: Every Sunday morn ing at 11:30 and every Sunday night at -8:00, except fifth Sundays. Prayer , .meeting Wednesday night at 7:30. HORN'S CREEK: Third Sunday .-afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. REV. P. P. BLALOCK, Baptist. BEREA: First Sunday at ll o'clock. GILGAL: Third Sunday at ll o'clock. REV. B. H. COVINGTON, Methodist. BARR'S CHAPEL: 2nd Sunday at ll o'clock. PLUM BRANCH: First and third Sunday at ll o'clock. PARKSVILLE: First and Third Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock. DOTH AN: Fourth Sunday at ll o'clock. MERIWETHER: Fourth Sunday .afternoon at 4 o'clock. REV. J. T. LITTLEJOHN, Baptist. RED HILL: First and fourth Sun day afternoons at 3 o'clock. Third Sunday at ll o'clock. REPUBLICAN : First Sunday morn ing at ll o'clock. REHOBOTH: Second Sunday at ll o'clock. COLLIERS: Third Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. ANTIOCH: Fourth Sunday morn ing at ll o'clock. REV. P. B. LANHAM, Baptist. CLARK'S HILL: First Sunday morn ing at ll o'clock. EDGEFIELD MILL: Second Sun day morning. HARDYS: Third Sunday morning. Mt ZION: Fourth Sunday morning. REV. J. EARLE FREEMAN, Baptist. PLUM BRANCH: 2nd and 4th Sun days at 11:30 a. m. PARKSVILLE: 1st and 3rd Sun days at 11:30 a. na. 8ti*.?K I IPROEESSIOiSr AL DR. J. S. BYRD, Dental Surgeon OFFICE OVER POSTOFFICE. Residence 'Phone 17-R. Office 3. Ai-. CORLE Y, Surgeon . Dentist. Appointments at Trenton on Wednesdays. Crown and Bridge werk a specialty. James A. Dobey, DENTAL SURGEON, c Johnston, S. C. -TFFICE OVER JOHNSTON DRUG CO. 3 SWEEP COUNTRY Democratic Gains in Vermont and Maine Impressive* OTHER PARTIES' PLIGHT Third Termers to Poll Their Entire Strength From the Rapidly Thinning Republican Rank?, That the result of the state elec tions in Vermont and Maine mean a tremendous Democratic victory in No vember, ia freely admitted by all ex cept the bitterest partisans. Politi cal experts have done some analyzing, and some claim to have reached nove) conclusions. But these facts stand out: 4 On Monday, September 9, 1912, the Republican and Third Term parties combined elected William T. Haines governor of Maine, over Frederick W. Plaisted, the present Democratic in chimbent, by 3,023 plurality; in 1908, a presidential year, a Republican was elected governor by 7,653 plurality; in 1904, the plurality was 25,800, and in 1900 it was 34,132. u-In other words, bj 12 years the?* Democrats have cat down the Republican plurality in state elections by 31,109. In this period the Democratic vote has increased from 39,000 to 68,000 whereas the Republican vote has de creased from 74,000 to 71,000. The Democtatic vote of this year exceeds that of September, 1908, by 1,000. but the Republican vote ls about 2,000 lesa than that party cast four years aga The split in the ^publican ranks, following the election of William T. Hafnes, ia pronounced. If the divi sion in Maine in November is as it was in the recent Vermont election, six-tenths of the Republican vote will go for Taft, tMree-t?nths for Roose velt, and une-tenth for the Demo crats. It is signlflcant that the latter party has to date suffered no loases, as compared with the vote in previous years, from the Third Term move ment. On the contrary, it has gained. The result in Maine may be expected to be something like this: Wileon, 74,000; Taft, 42,600; Roosevelt. 21,300. The returns from the recent Ver mont election show, in rpund ligerea, that the joint Republican and third party vote was eight per cent, short of the Republican vote four ywars ago, while the Democratic vote in that stats shows a gain of twenty-five per cent, over that of 1908. It ls of spe cial interest to speculate what will happen next November throughout the nation if the-. Republican and Democratic vote for the national tickets happen to bo affected aa the gubernatorial vote thiB month in Vermontfhas been affected. The New York Evening Post has done some interesting figuring along this line and as a net result it is shown that, under tte contingencies mention ed. President Taft would carry only two states in November, Rhode Island and Vermont, all the others going for Gov. Wilson. The conclusions reach ed by the Post follow:, "To compute this result we should have to deduct 8 per cent, from the vote cast for Taft four years ago and apportion tae remaining vote in the ratio of 62 to 38 between Taft, and Roosevelt, and we should have to add S5 per cent to Bryan's vote in 1908. and give the 'demnition total.' to Woodrow Wilson. In other words, give Taft 57 per cent and Roosevelt 35 per cent, of Taft'B vote four years ago, and give Wilson 125 per cent, of Bryan's vote four years ago. "The result in round numbers would be as follows, so far as regards Taft and Wilson. States. Taft Wilson. Alabama . 14,000 93,000 Arkansas. 32,000 109,000 California .122,000 160,000 Colorado .- 71,000 159,000 Connecticut . 65,000 85,000 Delaware . 14,000 28,000 Florida .~ 6,000 39,000 Georgia. 24,000 90,000 Idaho . 30,000 45,000 Illinois .860,000 503,000 indiana .199,000 423,000 Iowa .157,000 226,000 Kansas .113,000 201,000 Kentu.ky .135,000 305,000 Louisiana . 51,000 79,000 Maine . 38,000 44,000 Maryland . 66,000 145,000 Massachusetts .152,000 194,000 Michigan .192,000 219,000 Minnesota .112.000 136,000 Mississippi . 3,000 75,000 Missouri .199,000 448,000 Mont;.na .18,000 33,000 Nebraska . 73,000 164,000 Nevada . 6,000 14,000 Newwllampshlre_ 30,000 *42,000 New Jersey .151,000 208.000 New York .497,000 834,000 North Carolina 66.00Q 171,000 North Dakota . 83,000 41,000 Ohio.327,000 528,000 Oklahoma .?3,000 153,000 ?regon ._ 86,000 48,0 Pennsylvania .426,000 661,0 Rhode Island _- 35,000 31,000 South Carolina .... 2,000 78,000 South Dakota . 39,000 50,000 Tennessee . 68,000 170,000 Texas . 37,000 271,000 Utah . 35.000 63,000 Vermont . 23,000 14,000 Virginia . 30,000 103,000 Washington . 61,000 fi 73,000 West Virginia . 79,000 139,000 Wisconsin .142,000 208,000 Wyoming . 12,000 18,000 FARMER GETS LESS, BUT He Has to Pa^ More for What He Doesn't Raiso. } - The TJ. s. Department ol Agrlcu?tore has just announced that notwithstahd ing the increased cost of living among the people as a whole there was a greater decline in the pric?* paid to farmers from Aug. 1 to Sept 1 this year than there waa laet year. The average farm prices of the im portant crops (corn, wheat, oats, bar ley, rye, flaxseed, potatoes, tobacco, cotton and hay, which represent about three-fourths of the value of all the country's crops) declined 7 per cent during the month, while in that time last year they declined in price only 4.4 per cent, and during the last four years the decline in price aver aged 3.S per cent. The average of farm prices on Sept 1 was 2.S per cent, lower than on that date last year. Prices paid to farmers on Sept 1 thiB^year, with comparison of prices paid on the same date last year, fol low: Articles. 1912. 191L Corn .$0.776 ?0.669 Wheat .858 .848 Oats .350 .404 Barley .535 .770 Rye . .708# -76a Buckwheat.766* .740 Flaxseed . 1.626 2.036 Potatoes .650 1.137 Hay .12,140 14.610 Cotton .113 " I" Butter. .242 .231 Chickens .113 .111 Eggs . .191 .174 But the prices on tariff nurtured articles of manufacture wb,ich the farmer has to buy continue to 69ar. TRUTH ABOUT TKE ' TRUST "Expected Economies from Combina tion" Do Not Materializo. (Louts D. Brandeis in Collier's.) . Leaders at the new (Third Term) party argue that industrial monopo lies should be legalized, lest wc lose the efficiency of large-scale production and distribution. No argument could be more misleading. . . ' It may be safely asserted thai m America there ls no line of bus'-neqs in which all or most concerns or plants muet be concentrated in order to attain the 6lze of greatest effi ciency. For while a business may be too 6man to be efficient, efficiency doe? not grow indefinitely with lncr?.asing size. What the most efficient Bise is can be learned definitiv only by ex perience. The unit, ot greatest effi ciency ta reached wheo the disadvan tages o? size counterbalance tie ad vantages. The unit of greatest effi ciency is exceeded when the disad vantages of size outweigh the ad van ta gea The history of American trusts makes this clear. That history Knoffs: First-No conspicuous Aairi?a!? trust owes its existence to the desire for increased efficiency. "Expected economies from combination" figure largely In promoters' prospectuses; but they have never been a compell ing motive in the formation of any trust. On the contrary, the purpose of combining has often been to curb effi ciency or even to preserve ineffi ciency, thus frustrating the natural law of the survival of the fittest Second-No conspicuously profita ble trust oweB its profits largely to superior efficiency. Some trusts have been VT-7 efficient, as have some In dependent concerns; but conspicuous profits have been secured mainly thrc ugh control of the market through the power of monopoly to fix prices-through this exercise of the taxing power. * Third-No conspicuous trust has been efficient enough to maintain long as against the independents its pro portion of the business of the country without continuing to buy up, from time to time, its successful competi tors. w There is plenty of peace about the Tkdt candidacy, but nobody claims "lt pasBeth understanding." Woodrow Wilson says to the lnng suffering farmer who buys in a trust controlled, highly protected market and sells Ms wares m a free market: "Walk into your own house and take possession." How many of those who are strug gling with the "High'Co8t of Living" believe there is to be any relief if the Republican party, which brought it about remains in power? The Bull Moose ran things with a big stick at Washington for seven and a half years and'didn't by act or word smite the bosses he now rails against or promote the causes he now "em bodies." Being "a practical "man," he asks a third, etc., term. By applying the common sense test to Rooseveltian romance Governor Wilson manages to keep the country both amused and thoughtful. What's a Moosette? A Third Term peekaboo! ^ Gov. Wilson said to the newspaper men, at the New York Press, Club banquet: "Suppose you had a House of Representatives mixed like the pres ent Senate. I think we could all go fishing for the next two years." But he's at the helm and there won't be any mixing. Democrats-that's all. PROPER HOUSING OF POULTRY Chief Requisites of Building Ar? Dryness, Perfect Ventilation and Plenty of Sunlight. (By N. R. GILBERT.) Frequently poultry keepers com plain bitterly of the failure of their fowls to show pront, when the whole I fault Hes In defective housing, j Poultry lead an entirely artificial I life when they live penned in a run, or even when at liberty and provided with a sleeping-house-that is to say they have their food provided them and do not sleep In the trees, as their natural instinct would teach them^ It is simply the difference between sleeping in a house and sleeping in trees that upsets them. When they j do the latter, they may not lay well i but they keep their health. More than s half the diseases modern fowls suffer 1 i housing. The chief requisites of a house are that it should be weather-proof, so that whatever the Inclemency of the season, the fowls keep dry. It must be provided with ample ventilation and should have a sunny aspect. The sun is life to all animals, .and the more fowls get of it, the better. Yet, sometimes,, fowl - houses are placed in dark, secluded corners, and built to admit hardly any light A A colony-house that supplies plenty of fresh air to the chicks. Six feet long, two feet six inches wide, two feet four inches high In front, eighteen I Inches high in the back. I poultry-hcuse should always, if pos I sible, be placed on ground sloping j slightly away from n, then in the wet weather the rain drains away. If the ground is quite level the rain off the j roof shows as tendency to remain in the form of puddles. A trench should be dug to carry it I away, or better still, there should be a spout o_n the roof to carry the wet away down to a down spout connected with a surface drain. It is important that the ground around the house, as well as the house j itself, be kept dry, as fowls never do well on wet land, i; Special attention should be paid to the roof. The eaves should overlap some three inches, and it is all the better if built of stouter wood than the walls. There is no necessity to cover the roof with felt, provided it receives a good dressing of tar at first and a farther coat each year. On" no ac count make the roof df corrugated zinc. tf Stich a house will 'be cold in the winter and hot in the summer. If the poultry-keeper has some sheets of this very useful article-for such it certainly Is-make a roof of thin boards and put the zinc on top. For the floor, the earth needs to be beaten down quite hard and a dress ing of some inches of Band or light dry earth put on top. If the soil is clayey, lt is better to have a^wooden floor, for it must be dry. In any case, observe scrupulous cleanliness, removing all droppings once a week and taking care there ia never any smell. Ventilation Ia a subject better un derstood now than formerly. ?We in dulge in more of it for ourselves and more for the fowls. Yet for them as for ourselves, we must not forget that the thing ran be overdone and that a good deal lopends npori the location of the house and the outsido tempera ture. IMPROVEMENT 0F: FARM EGGS Gove.-lrnen.- Bulletin ;:r.-tains Result of Careful Study of industry In Si??te of Kansas. Every reader should road circular 141 entitled . Th< mrovement of the Farm Eg^"' issued 'he department of Agriculture, Waaoington, D. C. Among otho: things tuL- contains the results of tho careful study made of the industry in the state of Kansas, where an effort has been made to bring about an organization of the egg Industry and Che co-operation of the state authorities for the purpose of compelling the traders in eggs to buy on a quality basis only. There is no question in our mind but that the result of the investigation in Kansas will be that the "case count" system will he discarded In the very near fu ture and there will be substituted In Its, place the "loss-off" method of buy ing, says an erchange. When thia goea into force it will be squarely up to the egg producer to handle his product so that when lt ?Btmarketed it will be in first class condition. We pre dict that there will be a very radical change in the next few years in this matter and as a word to the wise is sufficient, it will bo enough to again suggost to our readers that they send to the department of agriculture, j Washington, D. C., for this ciroular. Harness Pictured in a dialogue always looks 'pretty. The compil ers see to it that r.oue but pretty" pictures are printed. But the pic tures don't show the quality. oa must see the harness itself to judge of that. Come here and do so. You'll get all the beauty you can ask for and an assurance of harness quality as well. We are making-a drive on several styles of gfine carriages which we have been using: as samples in our warerooms. If you can use one we will make it an obieet to pur. hase at once. The car .?a are all right in both appear." and make. But we are get?' new samples and have not . for both. Hence this unu carriage chance. Wilson & Cantelou Nowadays women may have an in dividual bank account-something that no woman should be without. We Lave provided a Lady's Department, which will make it easy for our femi nine patrons to maintain-that?which is so necessary to independenc?-money in the bank. Bank of Edgefield OFFICERS: J. C. Sheppard, Pres. ; W. W. Adams, Vice pres.; E. J. Mims, Cashier; J. H. Allen, assistant Cashier. DIRECTORS: J. C. Sheppard, W. W. Adams, J. Wm. Thurmond, Thos. H. Rainsford, J. M. Cobb, B. E. Nicholson, A. S. Tompkins, C. C. Fuller, W. E. Prescott. 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