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1 In anticipation of the large harrest for the Fall of 1913 we made heavy purchases for every department, especially every department on our second floor, and to our second floor we extend the ladies a cordial invitation. In house furnishing? our stock is strong. RUGS-We are showing a larger assortment of attractive patterns in rugs and art squares of all kinds that we have ever shown. The prices ajre lower than these goods ate usually sold for. , , & ? V . ' FURNITURE-In furniture we are showing everything thjit is needed in the home. Complete bed-room suits, chiffoniers, wardrobes, tables, ftc.j See oui large assortment of dining chairs and rockers. We have bought-THREE'cars of furniture direct from the leading factories which enables us to make attractive prices. We also have a large stock ?f mattresses and bed springs. Try our "Blue Ribbon'* springs. .. . TRUNKS-We are showing a more complete assortment of trunks and suit cases than we have ever shown. Any site trunk from the smallest to the largest, and from the cheapest to the best grade. ' . ! STOVES AND-RANGES-Now is the season when people discard the old burned-out stove and replace it with a new one. See our stock of stores and ranges before buying a new one. You could not make a purchase for the home that would please your wite more Shan to buy a new stove. Saddles And Harness In our harness department nothing bas been overlooked, having purchased all grades ard fcizes of single and double buggy and caniage harness and also heavy wagon harness All .are direct from the best harness makers and are thoroughly dependable. We ask you to come and inspect them. Buggies And Wagons In this depaatment we have always shown the best the leading factories have made. Our MITCHELL and CHASE wagons have made a reputation in Edgetield county foi strengih and durability, capable of withstanding the worst roads. Doubtless we can save you money if you need a wagon. We also invite our friends and tha> public generally to see our buggies before making a selection of a new one. We have scores and scores ol customers who are using our MOYER and OXFORD buggies and are entirely satisfied Try one of them. Undertaking Department. We never let our stock of coffins and caskets run low, co nsequently we can always supply any six? or grade of coffin or casket. We solicit a Rhure of your patronage in this department. Our hearses, for both white and colored people, answer all calls promptl) Edgefield Mer. Comp'y. There's Dollars in It for* Planters Fertilizers Make Greater Yields ajad Profits for Farmers Produces larger crops-enriches ?the soil-makes it more productive for future crops. 'v Fanners cannot be too careful in selecting their fertilizers. They should insist that Phosphoric Acid, Ammonia, and Potash are in such form that it is soluble and available at: all times. Upon these three ingredients depend die life and size of your crops. j % Planters "Cotton and Truck Fertilizer".7-5-5 Planters "Soluble Guano".8-3-3 ! Planters "Standard Fertilizer"..9-2-2 I Planters "Special Cotton Fertilizer".SAA j Your soil needs-Planters Fertilizers. Ask our agert or write us for infonmarion and rices. See that our trade-mark in on every bag * it's our guarantee refuge inferior brands. 1 PLANTERS FERTILIZER & PHOSPHATE CO.. Charleston, S. C. s Manufacturers We use only the best S. C. Phosphate, Fish Scrap, Blood Tankage, German Potash, etc. SEE The J. Willie Levy Co., For XMAS GIFTS FOR MEN, f Women and Boys. A store full of beautiful an<* useful gifts for father, brother, doctor or friend--for mother or sister or sweetheart. Mail orders Are Promptly Filled, Make tine Old Suit Look New \ We are jbetter prepared than ever tjo do first-class work in cleaning and press ing of all kitfids. Make your old pants or suit new by let ing us clean j and press them. Ladies sk irts and suits al so cleaned ajnd pressed. Sat isfaction guaranteed. Edgefte\ld Pressing ?lub WALLACE HARRilS PROP. 5 oak, 2 mahogany and 1 walnut bcd room suits! to go at coat for civeh. . These are' fine suits andar? too high priced for this market is our reason for soiling at cost. They oan'tbe bought to-day from the factory at what you pay. sey Ss Joass. J^JbtQJVJ?fc^lO JS AIL J. H. Cantelou, Attorney-at-Law EDGEEIELD, S. C. Next door to Catholic church. DR. J. S. BYRD, Dental Surgeon OFFICE OVER PO6T0FF1CB.' Eesidooc* 'Phone 17-R. Office 3. James A. Doboy, Dental Surgeon . & Johnston, S. C. OFFICE OVER JOHNSTON DRUG CO. _IA. H. Corley, ~???& Surgeon Dentist E Appointments at Trenton On Wednesdays. FIRE INSURANCE Go to see Marling & Byrd Before insuring^elsewhere. We represent the best old line com panies'5 Harting & Byrd At the Farmers Bank, Edgefield .ight Saw, Lathe and Shin rie Mills, Engines, Boilers S lipplies and repairs, Porta ? Steam and Gasoline En a*, Saw Teeth, Files, Bell ind Pipes. WOOD SAW! md SPLITTERS Gins and Press Repairs. Try LOMBARD, Lumber For Sale._ My saw mill is located rive miles north ol Edgefield in a tine body of native forest pine Bills for sawing so licited. Will deliver lumber in Edgefield. Price reason able. R. T. Hill. Real Estate -FORSALE 125 acres land near Hibernia in Saluda county. 120 acres near Monetta, Sa luda oounty. 330 acres in Aiken county, near Eureka. 100 acres near Ropers. ! > 300 acres near Celestia or ? Davis' mills in Greenwood and Saluda counties. 50 acres near Edgefield C. H. 250 aeres near Trenton,S.C. Several tract1? near meeting Street, and other tracts near Monetta and Batesburg.J j -Apply to A. S. TOMPKINS, Edgefield, S, C. GEO. F. MIMS OPTOMETRIST Eyes examined and glasses fitted only when necessary. Optical work of all kinds. . EDGEFIELD, S. C. To Care a Cold in One Day Tike LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine. It Mop? the Coa gt and Headache and works off UM Cold. Druntas refund money ii it inila to cure. S. W. GROVE'S ??juter* ??Mata. So. MUCH ADVERTISING WASTED Many Benefits and Advantagea In Good Adi-Actual Art in Clever Ways of Publicity. The advantages of right advertising ia emphasized by an article in a cur rent magazine, which discusses the extravagance of wrong advertising. A small family, living in a modest way, received in one day for example, cir cular letters, done on expensive paper and with gold or silver stamping, an nouncing such things as a new hotel In a distant city, a mark down on some Paquin gowns worth hundreds of dollars, a tailor's card with colored cuts showing "refined garments for gentlemen" at a high figure, cards for a society vaudeville entertainment, samples of laundry wax, tickets for a fair somewhere for an institution they hajj never heard of, and other things. The contention ls that all this adver tising was waste so far aa that family waa concerned, and doubtless with regard to a large proportion of the families who received the circulars. Then there is another wasteful form of advertising whereby handbills are cramed into mall boxes, sometimes half a dozen duplicates. These are rarely glanced at by the house owner. They serve as a lesson in patience, hut nothing more. Advertising then has Its art, and suitability and the fitness of time and place are both to be considered. Ad vertising rightly done brings to busy people information of articles they might otherwise have to shop for at loss of much time. Advertising that gives the prices and quality of thing? likely to come within the scope o? the average family ls of great ad vantage. Purchasers are enabled to compare prices, to find out standard values, In things they know they real ly need; and they learn in this way of new things which make the round of every day easier or pleasanter. It* has lately been said in defense of the custom of advertising in a newspaper that people often buy the newspaper for the sake of the adver tisements, especially when they know that the paper discriminates in its acceptance of advertisements. The newspaper in this way brings the shops to the door of the pur chaser. One's favorite purveyor for the table of tho house or the wardrobe may thus communicate every day if he will just what he has to offer. Every sensible shopper knows that to go down town with a handful of slips cut from the newspaper as a shopping guide for that day or week saves an enormous outlay of time. Is not this the real use of advertising? If all purchasers availed themselves of this method the expenses of the shops might be considerably reduced. FIRST ASTOR AN ADVERTISER One of His Announcements Appeared In the New York Gazette 100 Years Ago. That tho first John Jacob Astor was an advertiser ls not generally known. An advertisement of his ap peared in the New York Gazette 100 years ago. It read as follows: "To let, for one or more years, a pleasant situation and an excellent stand for dry goods store, the corner house of Vesey street and Broadway. Inquire for particulars of John Jacob Astor, corner of Pearl and Pine streeta." The house advertised by Mr. Astor was one of five which occupied the Broadway front now covered by the Astor house, built in 1835. Before the Revolution it was the home of John Rutherford. Advertising Without Waste. An advertiser who has been making daily use of newspaper space for a great many years says in an article in an advertisers' magazine that only one or two per cent, of the readers of the papers he uses can possibly be in terested in the commodity he sells. And yet he finds that the advertising pays. There are comparatively few lines of business in which sd small a proportion of newspaper readers can be interested. The retailer of articles of clothing and everyday use, for in stance, can count upon interesting 99? per cent of all the readers of the newspaper. If an advertiser to whom newspaper advertising is 98 per cent, waste can still make it pay, there ia hardly a chance for failure in the case of the advertiser the character of whose business reduces the element of waste to an absolutely negligible quantity. The larger the number of possible consumers of a given product, the greater the necessity for exploit ing lt vigorously in the newspapers, which are read by everybody. Divert? Minds of People. To advertise in to advert or turn towards, and advertising is essentially the great force for turning the minds of men and women toward a given object That it may be put to tri val or unworthy purposes does not reflect upon its merit? any more than ;he transportation of harmful products re flects upon the railroad, or than the fraudulent use of the mails discredits our indispensable postal convenience. -Emerson P. Harris. Advertising a Duty. If you have a good thing, no mat ter what it is, religion or business, a sermon or a practical invention that is serviceable or good, it ls your duty to advertise it, to let your fellowman know lt and advise him where he can get the best returns for his money; the most complete satisfaction for his minds and heart. The world would be a dreary place hi many ways If lt were not for the advertiser-H. BL Qraffman. RECALLS OLD TRAGEDY NAME PLATE OF RIVER STEAMER LOST IN 1859 FOUND. Interesting Relic Now In the Posse? sion of the Sole Survivor of the Crew of Missouri River Freight* er of the Long Ago. A thrilling story of life on the Mis souri river when Omaha was a yoong city and a river of much significance was retold the other day by Capt Boger J. Teters, first mate of the river steamship Stephen A. BeU. which caught on fire and was barned on a sand bar just across from Omaha In the summer of 1859. The nam* plate of the boat, a valuable relic ot silver, was found by workmen grad ing up a boulevard on the low land just east of Omaha, in Council Bluffa. Captain Teters came from his homet at Marshall, Mo., to get the relic. "I was a young man then," said the captain, "but I had lived on the river all my life. I was born at Miami, Mo., on the banks of the river. That was my first trip up the river. Wa came from St. Louis with a boatload of knock-down houses for Sioux City. They were houses built at the yards and put together on the frontier much like a puzzle. "We got as far as Omaha without trouble, making a fast trip of it We stopped several hours there. Omaha was a lively, growing city then. Our captain, a man named Sullivan, met a friend of his in charge of another boat, and we decided to race to Sioux City, a trip of a little more than a day for us. We had just started when there was a muffled explosion in the engine room and the crew rushed out with a cry of 'Fire!' "We beached the boat on the har across the river and a little above Omaha. By that time the boat was a mass of flames and we had to escape? the best we could. The boiler .explod ed and killed two of the heavers. The explosion had been caused by too hot fires, prepared to get up steam, for the race. Before we caught a down-river boat the captain disap peared and we never heard what be came of him. He was to blame for the loss, as freight boats were never to be raced, that amusement being left to the passenger crafts. The boat was beached In seven feet of wa ter and we never recovered a thing." Teters, who later became a cap tain and was for years on the r*ver. is the only living survivor o' the wreck, he said. When he heard of the charred remains of a boat being found by the graders he immediately came to Omaha to obtain the name plate if possible. The plate was found, the workmen gazing at it with interest for a few minutes and then throwing it aside as a worthless piece of rusted metal. Captain Teters, who is now retired, took the plate back home with him.-Omaha Correspondence New York Sun. Strenuous Business Demands. If a man's heart isn't in his busi ness like the butcher, if he isn't hammering his business like a car penter, or jawing about it like a den tist, or blowing it up like a blaster, or firing it like a blacksmith, or put ting it down like a paver, or kicking it like a job printer, or throttling it like an engineer, or raising cane about it like a sugar planter, or puffing it Ilka a cigar maker, or punching lt like a. prizefighter, or spreading it )(ke a. painter, or testing it like a chemist, or measuring it like a tailor, or hit ting it like a ball player, or boring lt like a driller, or talking it like aa. auctioneer, or laying it out like an un dertaker, or weighing It like a grocer, or dosing it like a doctor, or trying it like a lawyer, or lambasting it like a cook, or nosing it like a perfumer, or fighting lt like a soldier he might as well call it a failure and make a. noise like a bankrupt Air Pressure Slows Tunnel Train. The effects of air resistance are well shown in the 12^-mile Simpl?n tunnel through the Alps, where an exception ally large amount of energy ls required to run the electric trains. The tunnel, which is 15 feet wide and 18 high, with a sectional area of 260 square feet, has a ventilating current of 3,530 cubic feet per second, maintained by two large blast fans at the Brigue ead and two exhaust fans at Iselle. B. KUchenmann, a Swiss engineer, finds that trains going with current encounter less resistance than In opea air up to 15% miles an hour, but at higher speeds or in the opposite direc tion the resistance is much greater than outside. Coasting by gravity down the 7 per 1,000 maximum gradient, a train, even though going with the cur? rent, cannot exceed 35 miles an hour on account of the braking by the air. Her Interpretation. 1 At a certain school the mistress, feeling well disposed toward her class during a hot afternoon, sent one of her pupils to buy a pound of plums from a fruit vender. "And be sure, Neille," she remarked, aa she banded a dime to the little girl, "to pinch one or two of the plums be fore buying any to see if they are ripe." Presently Nellie returned to the classroom, her face wreathed la smiles and presented the mistress not only with a large bag ct plums but also with the dime. For some time she could do nothing but talk Incoherently. Then: "Instead of pinching only one or two as you suggested," she said, laughing, "I waited till the man wasn't looking, and pinched a whole bagful!"