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/. L. ?Ams,.Editor Published every Wednesday in The Aivertiser Building at $1.50 per year . I*i advance. Entered as second class matter at the poscoffice at Edgefield, S. C. No communications will be published unless accompanied by the writer's name. Cards of Thanks, Obituaries, Resolu tions and Political Notices published at advertising rates. We do not aim to correct the man we hang; we correct and warn others by him. -MONTAIGNE. ,-. ..,.."...- HM-, ..I ?? Wednesday, June 16. Mr. Bryan should add a little ginger to his grape juice. . Winnsboro should erect an enduring monument to Sheriff Hood. When a great man makes mistakes they are usually great ones. Mr. Bryan is an ex-secretary of state, but he will never be an ex-president We are willing to stake 16 to 1 that Mr. Bryan will yet regret his rash act As between marines and submarines* the subs seem to be the most dreaded. Our ship has been long delayed in coming in. It must have been sub marined. Interest in the Frank case will eclipse the Georgia legislature which is soon to convene. _ Mr. Bryan eschewed that note of the President as some people do the promise-to-pay kind. Whether Mr. Bryan likes a sensation or not, he knows how to create one of immense proportions. If the war and the Frank case were eliminated from the Georgia papers, there would be but little left. Obregon lost his right arm in a Mexi can battle a few days ago. There are not a few who wish it had been his head. * It is pradicted that the boll weevil will reach Georgia by 1916. Better -keep up the diversification that has been started this year. If conscience impelled his resigna tion, it appears that conscience would go a step further and prevent his leading the people into disloyal paths. If those communications which the President addresses to the Kaiser are only notes, we hope it will not be nec essary for him to write any letters. The county dispensaries take a heavy toll from the pockets of the people of the "wet" counties. The total sales in the 15 dispensary counties for the month of May amounted to $212,475.26. There is but one thing that makes us question the correctness of the President's course in this exigency, and that is the endorsement of the Col onel. Now that German dye has advanced I from $90 to SI,750 per barrel, it is probable that white hosiery has come I to stay, at least until the war is ( over. i Bryan evidently prefers to leave i peace prints on the sands of time. - The State. He should have left finger I prints on that last note to the Kaiser. < We can not hold up our hands in holy horror at Mexico as long as , such tragedies as the one at Winns- ? boro Monday are enacted in South , Carolina. i The man who deliberately shoots down a sheriff because he will not sur render a prisoner into the hands of a j mob, is as great enemy to society as , the criminal himself. These short dresses are shocking when there are holes in the stock ings.-Columbia Record. As muddy streets have to be crossed, hosiery ought to be holeles3 even when skirts are long. -^ -m ^ This exchange of "notes" between belligerents and neutrals is a fine thing for the cable owners. The cable tolls of the State Department amounted to $30,000 for one month since the war be gan. "More power for governors," says a headline in the Augusta Chronicle. Maybe the governor of Georgia should be given more power but the chief exec utive has too much already on this side of the Savannah. Trifles Growth of Nation. What is said to be the largest flag of the United States in existence was presented Monday tc the city of St. Louis. It is 78 by 150 feet and weighs 400 pounds. The size of this flag, as compared with the first flag which Betsy Ross made for Gen. Washing ton, may be said to typify the growth of the nation. The first flag was the standard of less than 3,000,000 people the flag of the "baby nation" of the earth. The present flag is the standard around which more than 100, 000,000 rally-the flag of the leading nation of the earth. President Wilson has caused the "Star Spangled Ban ner" to be respected throughout the earth ss no other flag that is unfurled to the breezes on land or sea. ? Backward Step. Japan has made more national prog ress during the past few decades than any other nation, and this rapid trans ition from heathendom to civilization has been attributable more to the Christian religion than to anything else. Great is the pity then that Japan does not fully realize this and open the door still wider, removing every bar rier in the way cf the spread of the gospel. Instead of removing barriers, it oppears that Japan in contemplating some reforms in government that will very materially handicap missionaries in their work. When this backward step is taken, should it ever be done, it will mark the beginning of retrogres sion as a nation on the part of Japan. The world at large is interested in Japan, because she has reached a stage of development that makes her a world power and must now be reckoned with. Let us hope that Japan will not take a backward step in the matter of re ligion. The Japs are a sagacious peo ple and what they most need now is heart culture, which comes only through the influence of the Christian religion. Street Railway Strike. Millions of people in Chicago are suf fering from a tie-up of the city railway system, due to the strike precipitated by 14,000 employees. The company sells about 3,000,000 fares per day, which shows to what extent congestion has resulted from the strike. The cause of the strike is the demand for higher wages on the part of employees, their demand being refused by the company. We do not know anything as to the justice of the demand on the part of the employees in this particular instance, bat, speaking generally, this is not a time when wages or salaries can be increased. There is a possibility that this strike, like some that have occurred in the South, was precipitated by officials of the labor unions. The men "higher up" in labor organizations must occa sionally bring about a strike in order that they may then step in and take the part of the union men, impressing upon these men the importance of hav ing national officials to represent them when demands are made upon their em ployers. Cases are not infrequent in which thousands of working men and their families have been made to suffer as a result of a strike that was ordered by some union official living many hun dreds of miles away. We like to see men of every trade and profession or ganized, but we do not like to see thousands of people suffer and the pub lic greatly inconvenienced in order that a few men may be benefited. Mob Always Unreasonable. Whenever individuals form them selves into a mob to commit an act that is without the pale of law, gener ally the operations of the mob extend beyond even what they themselves at first intended to accomplish. One man bent upon wrong doing may be reason ed with, his purpose changed, but to reason with one or more hundred men who are determined upon committing an unlawful act is practically *an im possibility. The momentary courage, resulting from the force of numbers, engenders a spirit of defiance and a determination that is altogether heed less of reason. Following the anti-German demon strations in London, there broke out a few days ago in Moscow an anti-Ger man demonstration and street riot of a more serious nature. With their de mand, that German operatives be dis charged from all mills, unheeded, the Russians began to raid and loot Ger man stores. Finally in their mad rush to destroy property, the members of the mob did not confine their looting to stores of foreigners but many Rus sians themselves, being hoist upon their own petard, had their places robbed and demolished. One of the worst features of mob rule and mob violence is the demorali zation which the members of the mob themselves art: bound to experience, and thus while incapable of exercising sober thought and judgment they not infrequently commit rash deeds that bring shame upon themselves and the community and State of which they are a part. The dispatch from Russia shows that human nature, we might in this instance say "mob nature," is the same the world over. Remember the movies every night.-Adv. I What Others Say Edgefield Should Try lt. A town is like a girl. It is wonderful, wonderful what a little fixing up will do for her. -Barnwell People. The Miss Understanding. Some lovers quarrels are caused by miss understandings, and others are caused by the miss understanding the man.-Daily Mail. Can Fight 'em. Every man who really wants to fight | Germany can make the necessary ar rangements without any considerable difficulty. There are already a good many Americans in the trenches. Yorkville Enquirer. "Blooming Fools." About this time of the year some of the young college graduates begin to learn that an alumnus may not be so "luminous" as his title might suggest, and that after all it is possible to be a college graduate and a blooming fool too.-Greenville Piedmont. Not a Jingo. Taft says: "If we had a jingo in the White House, this country would now be at war with Germany. Instead, our chief executive is a man who appreciates his responsibility and realizes that, considering the temper of the people, a turn of his hand would plunge us into an international conflict. "-Orangeburg Times and Democrat, Against Pool Rooms. A poll of Greenwood's leading busi ness men has revealed the fact that practically all of them are opposed to pool rooms, and do not hesitate to put them* selves on record to that effect in the Eublic prints. While much of the armful effect of a pool room depends upon the character of i:he manage ment, we are of the opinion that every community would be far better oft without these institutions than with them.-Chester Reporter. America's Demands Stated. The understanding is that President Wilson's reply to the German reply will go forward to-day. The bone of con tention, as we understand it, 4 'Is Ger many willing to go back to the recog nized mandate of international law, and refrain from sinking hostile pas senger steamers until after she has boarded them and given the crew a chance to get off. Next of course Germany will be required to apologize for sinking the Lusitania and agree to make such reparation as may be de manded for the loss of American lives. Yorkville Enquirer. Another Blow to Whiskey. Colonel Maus, Surgeon General of" the Eastern Department of the United States Army, now on the retired list after active service in the Medica) Corps, has this to say about alcohol: a "Practically all of the crime corni mitted in the army, directly or indi' rectly, can be traced to the effects of alcohol. Murders, robberies, de sertions, courtmartial, and dismissal of officers, prison and guard house sen tences of enlisted men, fights, brawls, broken friendships, misery, wretched ness, and moral degeneracy, should generally be ascribed to the use of in toxicants." Remember this is the deliberate opinion of an Army doctor of forty one years experience. It is just a cold blooded summary of what be has ob served.-Greenwood Index. * + I Smile Provokers * 4* Mr. Tompkins was obliged to stop over night at a small country hotel. He was shown to his room by the one boy the place afforded, a colored lad. "X am glad there's a rope here in ca?e of fire, commented Mr. Tomp kins, as he surveyed the room, but what's the idea of putting a Bible in the'room in such a prominent place?' "Dat am intended foh use, sah, replied the boy, in case de fire am too far advanced foh yo' to make yo' escape, sah."-Harper's Maga zine. Gerald had been spending the Christmas season with his aunt, and when he returned home his mother said: "Gerald, I hope you were a good little boy while you were at aunt Louise's house, and didn't tell any stories." "I only told ber the one you put me up to, said Gerald." "I put you up to? Why what on earth do you mean?" cried the sur prised mother. "Why, when she asked rae to have more turkey, I said, no, thank you, I've had enough." ** A merchant who had been travel ing some mouths was, on his return, informed of the death of a valued friend. A few days later ' he called upon the beaeived widow to offer his expressions of sympathy. During the visit he remarked: "I was a good friend of your late husband. Is there not something of his which I could have as a memen to of him?" She raised to his her velvety brown eyes, which a few moments before were moist with tears, and said softly, "How would I do?" A Sign Board. I will paint you a sign board, rumseller, And hang it above your door, A truer and better sign board Than ever you had before. I will paint with the skill of a master, And many shall pause to see This wonderful piece of painting, So like the reality. I will paint yourself, rumseller, As you wait for that fair young boy, Just in the morn of manhood, A mother's pride and joy. He has no thought of stopping, But you greet him with a smile, And you seem so gay and friendly That he pauses to chat awhile. I will paint you again, rumseller, I will paint you as vou stand, Holding a glass of liquor. Sparkling in either hand, He wavers; but you urge him "Drink! pledge me just this one," And he lifts the glass and drains it, And the hellish wirk is done. And next I will paint a drunkard, Only a year has flown, But into thi3 loathsome creature The fair young boy has grown. The work was sure and rapid, I will paint him as he lies In deathlike drunken slumber, Under the wintry skies. I will paint the form of the mother, As she kneels at her darling's side; Her beautiful boy was dearer Than all the world beside. I will paint the shape of a coffin, And label it one word-lost, I will paint all this, rumseiler, I will paint it free of cost. The sin and the shame and the sorrow, The crime and the want and the woe, That were born there in your rumshop, No hand can paint, you know. But I will paint you a sign, rumseller, And many shall pause to view That wonderful swinging sign board, So terribly, fearfully true. Sayings of "Billy" Sunday. The launching of a boy or girl to live for Christ is greater work than to lannch a battleship. . I tell you, if you give God a chance, he will fill your heart to overflowing- Just give him a chance. There is no power on earth that can lift to heaven, or shove to hell, like the touch of a mother's hand. What's the use of trying to keep your boys from becoming cigaret fiends when their fathers smoke a cigar? The only way on God's earth you will ever solve the problem of reaching the masses, is by getting hold of the children. You get the boys and girls started right and the devil will hang crepe on his door. To plant a thought in the mind of a child that will stay there and grow, is greater character beats building a Building character beats building a skyscraper, or battleship, ot a railroad. I tell yon, woman, fooling away your time hogging and kissing a 'poodle dog, caressing a Spitz, drink ing a society bran mash or cock tail, and playing cards is mighty small business, compared to mold ing the life of a child. Mothers and teachers of children, whjther in public school or Sunday school, fill places so great th it there isn't any angel in heaven that wouldn't be glad to give a bushel of diamonds toc?me down here and take your place. A young man joined the church and the preacher asked him, ''What was it that I said that induced you to become a Christian?" Said the young man, "Nothing that 1 ever heard you say, but it was the way my mother lived." There is power enough in a word or act to blight a boy or girl, and through them to curse a communi ty. There is a power enough in a word or act to influence the life of a child, so it will become the power to lift the world to Jesus Ohtist. Charity and Children. How to Make a Fly Swatter. Buy some wire fly screening. Cut it in pieces five inches wide and dght and a half inches long. Bind the two sides and one end with black cloth. Next, fold over the two lower corners of the unbound end and secure this into a strong and slender, wooden handle, 10 inches long. In making this handle your in genuity will devise everything from soaked cedar with ends to combinations of rulers and taeks. It is the finest thing in the world for swatting flies. There should be a nail in every room, on which is always found one or more of these swatters. If you prefer to buy the swats get them by the dozen, for an occa sional fly will get into even the best screened house, and that fly may be the very one that brings second-summer trouble to the baby. It is more effective to kill a dozen flies now than a thousand in mid summer. Should you be renewing your screens, get the wide kind and the strip you cut off the side will be just the width for swatters and it will cost almost nothing.-Progres sive Farmer. We want the farmers to know that we have just received a car of Cerealite for top and side dressing. Send in your orders. W. W. Adams & Co. CHANGE OF OWNERSHIP I take this means of notifying the public that I have purchased the EDGEFIELD FRUIT RES TAURANT COMPANY, formerly conducted by John Scavens & Co., and I will continue the business at the same stand, next door to the postoffice. I will conduct a First-class Restaur ant all the year round, serving meals at all hours. We solicit your patron age and guarantee to please you. JAMES VELIX ? Ford Auotmobiles We have accepted the agency for the Ford Automobiles for Edgefield County, and will have constantly on hand a stock of Touring Cars and Run-Abouts. Shall be pleased to show them to those who contemplate buying a car. The Ford cars defy Edgefield's winter roads. They are an All-the-Year-Round Car We will also carry a full assortment of all parts of the Ford cars, and can fill or ders at our Garage without your having to wait to get extra paris by express. Make your auto wants known to us, and we will satisfy them on short notice and at reasonable prices. Edgefield Auto and Repair Shop Edgefield, South Carolina ????????BBDBHBrHH ITMMES HOME, (to So HAPPY To lave A BANK Caeyrieht 1509. by C. ?. Zimmerman Co.-No. 4f F all the unhappy homes, not one in a hundred has a bank account and not one home in a hundred who has a bank account is unhappy. It seems almost foolish to put it off any longer, when it is such a simple, easy matter to start a bank account. BANK OF EDGEFIELD OFFICERS : J. C. Sheppard, President; B. E. Nicholson, vice-President; E. J. Mims, Cashier; J. H. Allen, Assistant Oashier. DIRECTORS : J. C. Sheppard, Geo. W. Adams, Thos. H. Rainsford, John Rainsford, B. E. Nicholson, A. S. Tompkins, C. C. Fuller, E. J. Mims, J. H. Allen. Notice to Farmers For the benefit of our friends we wish to advise that you can bring all of your live stock intended for sale to our North Augusta Abattoir Just East of North Augusta Bridge and sell them to our customers without charges. Express shipments of Live Calyes, Hogs and Lambs should be made to office in Augusta, Ga. No charge made for handling. L. Scharff & Co. Augusta, Georgia