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The J. Willie Levy Comp'y. -of Augusta, Extends a fall time welcome to our friends and an nounce the opening of the besand newest ideas in fall suits, overcoats, hats and furnishings for young men and boys. ? For the ladies we have just placed on display the brightest and most up-to-date ideas in ready-to-wear suits, cloaks, waists and odd skirts.^ Call and make our store ?your headquarters while in . Augusta. Waiting and resting room for the ladies. fcs-__-, Henry B. Garrett Van Holt Garrett Frank A. Calhoun Incorporated ' Co?tera factors Cor. Reynolds and 8th Sts. Augusta, Ga. We solicit shipments of your cotton. Quick results and prompt returns. E. J. NORRIS, Agent Edgefield, South Carolina Representing the HOME INSURANCE COMPANY, of New York, and the old HARTFORD, of Hartford, Connecticut. The HOME has a greater Capital and Surplus combined than any other company. The HARTFORD is the leading com pany of the World, doing a greater Fire business than any other Co. See Insurance Reports PRUDENTIAL LIFE "HAS THE STRENGTH OF GIBRALTAR." E. J. Norris, FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE. Last as long as the building, and never need repairs-never need any attention, except aa occasional coat of paint. Just the thing for all kinds of country buildings. Fire-proof Handsome-Inexpensive. Caa be laid right over wood shingles without dirt or bother.(4) Stewart & Kernaghair EDGEFIELD, S. C. General Insurance Agency I beg to annouuce to my friends and the public generally that I have re-entered the fire insurance business, and am in a position to place any business intrusted to me with a due and proper regard for the confidence placed in me by my patrons. I also represent one of tbe leading Life and Acci dent Health companies. Respectfully soliciting a share of your business and with appreciation ot past kindnesses shown me, I am, truly yours, C. A. Griffin, Rear of N. G. Evans, Esq . THIRD TERMER'S E ON LABOR Branders Shows Right to Organ ize Is Not Recognized. THE PLATFORM IS SILENT Noted Lawyer Exposes the Flimsiness of Promises Made to Workingmen by -Perkins and His Candidate, Who Stands for Private Monopoly. "The new party pledges itself to so cial and industrial justice and specific ally to 'work unceasingly for effective legislation looking to the prevention of occupational diseases, overwork, invol untary unemployment and other in jurious effects Incident to modern in dustry,' * . but nowhere in that long and comprehensive platform * . * can there be found one word approving the fundamental right of labor to organize or even recognizing this right without which all other grants and concessions for improve ment of the condition ?of the working men are futile. The platform promises social and Industrial justice, but does not promise industrial democracy. The justice which It offers is that which the benevolent and wise corporation is prone to administer through its wel fare department There is no promise of that justice which free American workingmen are striving to secure for themselves through organization. In deed, the industrial policy advocated by the new party would result in the denial of labor's right to organize. "The new party stands for the per petuation and extension of private monopoly from which the few have ever profited at the expense of the many and for the dethronement of which the people have, in the past, fought so many valiant battles. Thac cursed product of despotism the new party, proposes to domestl a?.e in our republic, proclaiming, 'We do not fear commercial power.' Certainly organ ized labor has had experience with the great trusts which should teach all men that commercial power may be so great that it is the part of wisdom to, fear' it" JiTaasr^^'S^^i^'^r'^' The above declaration was made by Louis D. Brandeis before the conven tion of the American Federation of Labor, Massachusetts state branch, at Fitchburg, Sept 18. Of Supreme Importance. He urges a careful study of the new party platform, particularly its effect upon labor, noting not only WHAT IT CONTAINS, but WHAT IT OMITS, adding, "When you make that exami nation you will find that there Is a significant omission-and that this skill fully devised platform TAKES FROM LABOR MORE THAN IT GIVES." Labor Record of Trusts. Mr. Brandeis then lays bare the la bor record of the trusts, declaring that "great trusts-the steel trust, the sug ar trust, the beef trust, the tobacco trust, the smelter trust and a whole troop of lesser trusts-have made the extermination of organized labor from their factories the very foundation stone of their labor policy. The abili ty to defeat labor's right to combine seems to have been regarded by the trust magnates as a proper test of the efficiency of their capitalistic combina tion." Mr. Brandeis shows that in 1S99, during the Colorado smelters' strike, the American Smelting and Refining company closed its mills where the strikers had beeniemployed and trans ferred the work to other mills, thus breaking the strike. The United States Steel corporation had similar success in 1301 with the Amalgamated Asso ciation of Iron and Steel Workers. Had the association been dealing with competing employers the result would have been different The United States Steel trust was prompt in introducing this plan. June 17, 1901, six weeks after it began its operations, its execu tive committee passed this vote, which was offered by Charles Steele, a part ner of George W. Perkins in the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co.: "That we are unalterably opposed to any extension of union labor and ad vise subsidiary companies to take firm position when these questions come up and say that they ar e not going to rec ognize it-that is, any extension of un ion in mills where they do not now exist" Union Men Not Wanted. The result waa that the bulk of American union laboring men in the iron, and steel industry were made to understand that they were not wanted at the works of the United States Steel corporation. Places once filled by American laborers loyal to their union were given to others, and, as the Stan ley committee found, "Hordes of la borers from southern Europe poured into the United States." * * . Hence about SO per cent, of the un skilled laborers in the Iron and steel business arc foreigners of these class es, the profits going to the steel corpor ation. Mr. Brandeis declared that "the immediate and continuing result of the steel trust's triumph over organ ized labor has been an extensive sys tem of espionage aud repression." There has been no disturbance of business interests during this presiden tial campaign. Why? Confidence in the integrity of the Democratic nomi nees and right purposes of the party. r-^ Well, no, Bl>h, I cain' como doss now Ter he'p clean house-I cain', nohow I Yo' fiee, de 'lection's moughty close En so dey's sent fo' me, o' cou'so, En I got lots o' wuk ter do Ter he'p dem cannldates git thoo. Hit's 'portant dat I's 'roun, yo" see, Fo' 'lection day 'uhpends on me. Um-yassah! Yas, I knows yo's right. Mos' any yutheh day I might Come "roun' en take down all yo' screens But yo' knows whut dose campaigns means! Hit's runnin' hycah en runntn' dah En lapin' plans bofe noah on fall. Dey dess cain' spaih me-fo', you se, Dis 'lection day 'uhpends on me. En den, yo" soe. I'se dressed dis way, So nach'ly I cain' wuk terday. My Lawdy! Woulden* I look fine Wis dlshyero long-tall coat o' mine An* dishyere plug hat-sho* 'a yo' live Er-slfiln' ashes thoo a sieve. No, all clem gommens say, yo' see, Dis 'lection clay 'uhpends on mc. Um-yassah! Takes mah long-tall' coat En high plug hat ter git dc vote! En den, o' cou'se, yo' got ter mix Wid lots o' folks In pollytlcs. We's all des got ter sackerfice Ouuh time-dat's how we pay de price O' gov'mlnt. En, stih, doan' yo' see Dis 'lection day 'uhpends on me? How dat mah wife-kin she come 'roun* TK?p de wuk? Well. I be buun' D4MF" !"n eomc! No, she um" yet Sot out ter be a suffergette! LTh-yasslndeedy! I kin say Dat she'll come to yo' house dis day, Dut I cain' come, 'uhcause, yo' see, De 'lection day 'uhpends on mo. Willing to Help. "Ah, will I never* be released?" ?wailed the imprisoned heroine, beat ing her fair white hands wildly against the bars of her window, while from behind the scenes could be heard the hoarse chuckle of the vil lain. Many in the audience were seen to apply their handkerchiefs to their eyes. Her prayers for release rose again upon tne still air. and lost themselves in the echoing flies above. "Either git a babbyus corpus, lady," shouted a friend from the gallery, "er walk out over de footlights!" And the curtain came down with a whizz. Mr. Peck Agpin. "Dear me!" said Mrs. Peck, who was reading the paper while Henry waited patiently for a look at it. "H?re is a case of a woman who packed up all the furniture and left home while her husband was away at work, and now he can find no trace of her." And Henry's face lost ii s expression of patient resignation, taking on t^.o light of a great buoyant, hope. For he had read that women were sometimos Influenced by what they saw in the papers. Another Great Historian. "And so you have been reading 'Plutarch's Lives?' " we said to the Studious Person. "What impression do you form of Plutarch?" "It seems to mc." answered the Stu dious Person, with the air of one who lins given great thought to a matter, "that he was tho Murat Halstead of his time." ? Possibly. "Get up, thou baldhead!*1 shouted the naughty children to Elijah. "It Is bad enough," muttered Elijah, "to have those barbers soaking nie all the time for hair tonics, but to have their children jeer at mo herauso I don't grow any hair is too much." The rest of the story ls well known. Said Adam. "Suppose." remarked Eve, while they were discussing the question of what to have for dinner, "suppose we have sparc ribs and kraut." "I," replied Adam, rather gloomily, "I have had about enough spare rita to do mo for a while." Jim's Position. "They tell me that Jim Muggins ls one of the directors In a big city cor poration now," said the Grocer. "Yes, I seen him las' time I waa .lown to town," said Mr. Meddergrass. "He directs the envelopes fr the firm." A Log on The Track of the fast express means serious trouble ahead if not removed, so dees loss of appetite. It means lack of vitality, loss of strength and nerve weakness. If appetite fails, take Electric itters quickly to overcome t1 ause by toning up the stom- and curing the indi gestion ichael Hessheimer of Lin ^eb., had been sick over thrt years, but six bottles of Electi ic Bitters put him right on his feet again. They have helped thousands. They give pure blood, strong nerves, good digestion. Only 5U cents at Penn & Holstein's, VV E Lynchh & Co. tnraT I Mrs. Jay McGee, of Steph ie enville, Texas, writes: "For nine (9) years, 1 suffered with womanly trouble. 1 had ter rible headaches, and pains in ,. my back, etc. It seemed as if q I would die, I suffered so. At last, 1 decided to try Cardui, the woman's tonic, and it helped me right away. The full treatment not only helped me, but it cured me." TAKE The Woman's Tonic Cardui helps women in time of greatest need, because it contains ingredients which act specifically, yet gently, on the weakened womanly organs. So, if you feel discouraged, blue, out-of-sorts, unable to do your household work, on account of your condition, step worrying and give Cardui a trial. It has helped thousands of women,-why not you ? Try Cardui. E-7i f J Saved by His Wife. She's a wise woman who knows just what to do when her husband's life is in danger, but Mrs. K .1 Flint, Braintree, Vt., is of that kind. She insisted on my using Dr. King's New Discovery, writes Mr. F. "for a dreadful cough, when I was so weak my friends all thought I had only a short time to live, and it completely cured. ' A quick cure for coughs and colds, it's the most safe and reliable medicine for many throat and lung troubles-grip, bronchitis, croup, whooping cough, quinsy, tonsilitis, hemorrhages. A trial will convince you. 5U cents and $1.00. Guaranteed by Penu ?fc Holstein, VV E Lynch & Co. Saves Leg of Boy. "It seemed that my 14-year old boy would have to lose his leg on account of au ugly ulcer, caused i>y a bad bruise, wrote D F Howard, ?vuone, N. C. "'All remedies and doctors treatment failed till wc trifcil Bucklen's Arnica Salve, and cured him with one box." Cures barns, boils, skin eruptions, piles. 25c at Penn <t Holstein's, W E Lynch & Co. ^ Light Saw, Lathe and Shin gie Mills, Engines, Boilers, Supplies and repairs, Porta qle , Steam and Gasoline En gines, Saw Teeth, Files. Belts and Pipes. WOOD SAWS and SPLITTERS. Gins and Press Renn i rs. Try LOMBARD, AUGUSTA.. Ci A. A nice line saddles, prices right. Wilson & Camelon. Wc invite thc men to call ."to see our fall stock of clothing, hats, furnishings, etc. J. W. Peak. Large stock of school supplies, such as pads, pens, pencils, exami nation tablets, etc. B. Timmons. Have you tried Noah's liniment? It cures ills of man and beast. B. Timmons. Treasurer's Xotice. The County Treasurer's office will be open for the purpose of receiving: taxes from the 15th day of October, 1912, to the 15th day of March, 1913. All taxes shaH be due and payable be tween the 15th day of October, 1912, and December 31st, 1912. That when taxes charged shall not be paid by December 31st, 1912, the County Auditor shall proceed to add a penalty of one per cent for January, and if taxes are not paid on or before February 1st, 1913, the County Auditor will proceed to add two per cent, and five per cent from 1st of March to the 15th of March. After which time all unpaid taxes will be collected by the Sheriff. The tax levies for the year 1912 are as follows: For State purposes 5 3-4 mills. " Ordinary County 41-2 " " Cons. School tax 3 " " Special Countv tax 2 3-4 " " Bacon S. D, Special 2 " " Edgefield S. D. 2 " " Long Cane S. D. 3 " " Liberty Hill S. D. 3 " '' Johnston S. D. 5 " " Collier S. D. 3 " " Flat Rock S D 4 " " Prescott S. D. 3 " Plum Branch S. D. No 1 5 " " White Town SD 3 " " Trenton SD 2 " .' Ward SD. 2 " " Moss SD 3 " Parksville SD 3 " " Washington SD 2 " " Oak Grove SD 3 14 " Red Hill SD 21-2 " " Shavv 2 " " RRBrnds WiseT's'p 11-4 " " R R Bonds Pickens 3 " " RR Bonds Johnston 3 " " RR Bonds Pine Grove 12 " " R R Bonds Blocker 12 " " Bonds Town Edgefield 1-2 .. " School Bonds 1 " " Town of Edgefield Corporation Purposes 10 " All male citizens between the ages of 21 years and 60 years except those ex empt by law are" liable to a poll tax of One Dollar each. A capitation tax of 50 cents each is to be paid on all dogs. The law prescribes that all male citi zens between the ages of IS and 55 years must pay ?L'.0u commutation tax or work six days on the public roads. As this is optional with the individual, no commutation tax is included in the property tax. So ask for road tax re ceipt when you desire to pay road tax. James T. Mims, Co. Treas. E. C. EYE TALK NO. 4 DETAILS The diff?rence between a peni itentiary and a palace is largely a matter of detail. Both are designed for human hab itation and serve equally well to protect the inmates from the ele ments. But ont is a vastly more comfort able place of abode than the other. SO IT IS WITH GLASSES Crudely fitted glasses MAY help your vision, but great care in every detail ot adjustment is essential to safetv ?Tnd comfort. YOUR EYES ARE WORTH A CORRECTLY FITTED PAIR OF GLASSES. GEO. F. MIMS, Optician, Edgefield, S- C Fortunes in Faces. There's often much truth in the saying "her face is her fortune," but its never said where pimples, skin eruptions, blotches, or other blem ishes disfigure it. Impure blood is hark o'" them all, and shows the need of Dr. King's New Life Tills. Tiley promote health and beauty. Try them. -Joe at Penn & Holstein's NV E Lynch cc Co. i INSURANCE Go to see Marling dz Byrd before insuring elsewhere. We represent the best old line com panies. 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