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?atabli?tye? 1835. J. L. MIMS,__..Editor. Published every Wednesday in The Advertiser Building at $2.00 per year in advance. Entered as second class matter at ?fee postoffics at Edgefield S. C. No cummunications will be pub lished unless accompanied by the writer's name. Card of Thanks, Obituaries, Res olutions and Political Notices pub lished at advertising rates. Wednesday, January ll. Miss Florence Mims Writes From Oklahoma City. Dear Advertiser: Mark Twain once made several ill remarks about Oklahoma, which re marks survived only because they .were witty. He wound up his male diction by saying that one could see father and see less in Oklahoma than any state in the union. One can cer tainly see farther. In looking across tlie country, it is as though the eye ?were supplied automatically with a ?high powered lens. If all of the states <ezst cf the Mississippi were like it, I might on some clear night look for the water tank at Edgefield, but the red old hills and the Ozarks and many others between would interfere with my line of vision. It never seem sto me that I am out of the home surroundings until I cross the Mississippi, and after that I am a "pilgrim in a barren land." At Memphis it is neither startlingly .wide nor imposing. Other ports have gi'iren it the name of the "father of waters." Nevertheless, it is with a sort of reverence that one crosses it, anything so stupendous in nature, and I saw fellow passengers drop ; their newspapers or magazines and , gi\ze out, but the Arkansas and other ] ricers were passed unnoticed. One associates ideas with things Sn nature from earliest childhood. The , Mississippi as the "father of waters" : is the trunk of a great family tree, .whose many branches water the crops . ox many states, and its coat of arms anight be historical, scenic or com mercial. Although I had taken identically 1 the same trip before from Edgefield ? to Tonkawa with no change in the rente or otherwise, except that Sat zurday mc ming the Rock Island sat or stood in the station at Memphis a .whole hour after time for leaving, ; "by the watch, before it finally de cided to start on, "a slow train through Arkansas." I saw for the first time the capitol building from : the tram at Little Rock. It was in plain sight, and since capitol build ings are a sort of hobby of mine, I can't imagine how I missed it before. But stranger still, and then perhaps, , not strange at all, I didn't know what the capital of Arkansas was, in fact had never thought that Arkansas might have a capitol at all. Seeing the imposing building, I : remarked to myself that this must be ' the chief building of this city, for which I have no lost love. Some states like some vegetables I have an innate : dislike for. Those states, I have never : bothered to find out about, even as ' some vegetables I have never tasted. : Arkansas is chief among the states, ? and spinach among the vegetables, i However, I have a good friend in that ' state, and I should rest uneasy if she ? should find a copy of this article. I shall have to visit Arkansas again, however, to see if I can find i the Ozark Mountains. Low peaks 1 loomed all along the journey, and '. thinking they were the ozarks, I was ' delighted, but later learned that they 1 were the Magazine Mountains. I iNow, I have been told that "con sistency is the mark of small minds," 1 but I believe in consistency when it i comes to names. It seemed to me also i that some of the small stations had 1 received their names by having some- 1 one fill a hat with all the letters in i th alphabet, and picking out several, 1 ?ive or six of the letters, regardless of ] ieuphony, had thrust them on the un ^sus_pecting hamlets as a name. It i seemed a pity that the train did not h stop at all of these, for the pronun- < elation of each would have been en- ] lightening. j At night, however, the hills acquir- 1 ed a very different aspect, different ? from any sight I have ever seen be- i fore, and perhaps shall ever see < .again. The night seemed to envelope 1 the world outside the train, and the more startling did the scene appear. < A burning trail of light, like tinsel ] draping a Christmas tree, curled it- ] self in strange shapes along their < sides. It was a forest fire purposely < built, and tended for the burning < away of timber. To me it looked as if j they were celebrating the New Year, I Dut as each moment brought me ne? :r to the New Year of 1922 and ne* er the line of Oklahoma where trc are as scarce as green backs in t South, I wondered how anybody coi burn a tree when I had been p?ris ng all winter for the sight of o pine or cedar. Before midnight, we had cross the Oklahoma line, and at twelve t Lrain pulled into McAllister, Ok. norna, where there waited a crowd train officials and others who rude awakened all the sleeping passenge with shouts as the train came in eel brating the coming of the New Ye< And so it was last year that I-w in Edgefield, and it seems all of thr hundred and sixty-five days. FLORENCE M?MS. Skirvin Hotel, Oklahoma City; Okla. Jan. 1, 1922. Lott School News. Program of the Eumenean Lite ary Society rendered January 6th. Scripture reading: Frontis M Gee. Prayer: Lucile Franklin. Short Story: Azilee Salter. Quartette: Ruth Coursey, Kat [ene Jackson, Lucile Franklin Marti Derrick. Narration : Evelyn Salter. Jokes: Alison Carpenter. Narration: Elise Franklin. Song by school. Story: Homer Randall. Duet: Lucile Frankline and Kati lene Jackson. Spice: Lucy Holmes. School News: Bobbie Merchant. The following paper on the Fift Commandment was written by seventh grade pupil: "Honor thy father and thy motl er that thy days may be long upo the land which the Lord thy God gn eth thee." There is not a more lovely sight o earth than the unwearied care and ai tention of children to their parent; No young man or woman will tur out unfit for anything who loves an honors their parents. A child affec tionate and dutiful will never brin the gray hairs of its parents to th arrave. Love for parents will keep me: from sin and crime. There never wi: come a time while your parents liv when you will not be under obliga tion to them. The older they grow th more need will they have for -ou care and attention for their wants The venerable brow and frosty hai speaks loud to the love of the child Parental love will never gG unreward ed/ I ^ y Most boys who become successfu men are thoughtful of their mothers Napoleon, Washington and Garfieh were loving and obedient to thei: mothers. Our blessed Lord himself in the hour of his great agony, care< tenderly for his sorrowing mothei who had so gently guided his ways Why do not children honor am obey their parents more? Surely ii they would, they would change thi: chill world into a heaven. Home love is the best love. Th( love that you are born in is the sweet est you will ever have on earth. Yov who have escaped from the home nest, pause a moment and think, nev er again after strangers have broker the beautiful bond will there be any thing as sweet as the little circle ol father, mother and children where ^ou are cherished, protected, prais ed ana kept from harm. You may not know it now, but you will know it some day. Honor for father and mother is the corner stone for good morals. The very name, father, is it self a law of justice. How often is the joy and comfort of home blighted by the unkind and disobedient acts of children. But there are those children who by their kind and obedient acts are the cen ter of joy to their parents, crowning their brows with honor and making their own hearts happier and better. We may not all have equal oppor tunity of honoring our parents, but if we are honoring them to fie best of our ability, we are meeting all that ix required o:" us. Home is no iome where children do not honor ind obey their parents, but happy are the children who are happy with their parents. In keeping the fifth commandment ive not only honor our earthly pa rents, but in honoring them we honor sur Heavenly Father. Learning to respect and obey his earthly parents is a child's first and most important lesson in learning to honor, respect md obey God, his Heavenly parent. Benjamin Franklin well said "Let a mild's first lesson be obedience, and the second may be what thou wilt." "Hearken unte thy father and de spise not thy mother when she is old." Proverbs 23:22. Aa long as parents ive they should be honored and re ?pected by their children. The duty ?njoined in the fifth commandment ioes not cease at maturity, nor when :he child leaves the parental roof. The fulness of the promise given n the fifth commandment will be realized in the life to come, when ill those who have truly honored their parents and kept all God's command ments will be restored to the eternal home. Disobedience to parents is a mark ed characteristic of the present gen eration. Never before was it so com mon or so wide spread. The root of evil however, lies not so much in the children as in'thc parents. Many pa rents are disobedient to God, and so have failed to bring up their children in the fear of God and in the ways of righteousness. Bible instructions, les sons of faith, and prayer must not be neglected if we would see obedient, God-fearing children, growing up in the world. "Honor thy father, for when thou wert young, Who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught tho first words that fell from thy tongue, And joined in thy. innocent glee. Honor thy mother, for lo! on her brow May traces of sorrow be seen, O cherish and comfort her now For loving and kind hath she been." SCHOOL GIRL. Simplified Tax Returns. In taxation matters, one can be thankful for small favors. Conse quently, the announcement that a board is at work upon the forms for income tax returns, for the purpose of simplifying them, will be received with gratification throughout the country. The last installment of the 1920 tax is still fresh in our memo ries, and yet, the portentous shadow of March 15, when returns must be made for the calendar year 1921, looms just ahead. To the laymen, it has always seem ed that the return forms were need lessly complicated. The great majori ty of tax-payers in the less than $5, 000 class-seventy per cent of them, according to one estimate-derive incomes from but one source, either salaries or wages. And, this same class, as a rule has few exemptions to note upon the returns. Then, why should the average citizen be requir ed to hire an expert or to worry him self gray-headed in attempting to fill out the myriad of spaces which stare him in the face when he opens up the blank return? In the case of corporations and in dividuals with large incomes, derived from investments of varied kinds, it is a different question. In order for the government to know exactly what it is entitled io underMhe lawj the | taxp?yer must furnish ^fcmplete in formation. This can not always be done in a form as abbreviated as the taxpayer would wish, and in view of the variety of entries needed, it is j probable that assistance would be re quired ' y the majority of these wealthier citizens, regardless of the simplicity or complexity of the blank which they are directed by law to fill out. It is anticipated that the simplified forms will be available in ample time for distribution before the date for filling them out and submitting them. Until they are seen, however, it may be well not to be too optimistic over the prospect of their being complete ly understandable by the average tax payer. Efforts to eliminate red tape in governmental work have been known to have a contrary effect. Columbia Record. Eyes scientifically examined and glasses properly fitted. GEO. F. MIMS, Optometrist-Optician, Edgefield, S. C. HAMBON?'S MEDITATIONS SOMt LON6-FACE FOLKS PER-NOUNCc D?Y& p.ONE (?UIT PE DEBIL , WEN PE TRUF IS, PE PE3IL wu2 so FAS' HE JES' RUNNEP OFF EN L?F' 'ENA I! CopyrltM. 1021 by McClure Nr*?poper Syndicat*. Afti will now be will put on sj Bi Assorti] Assorti] at 5c. 2 75c. a j center i THE i Supervisor's Report for Month of December. L. Prince_$ 54.00 D. Holstein 81.63 I J. 0. Sheppard_ 30.00 . 43.75 21.00 37.50 . 37.50 . 16.66 12,50: 75.00 19.75 49.39 2.95 A. Edmunds._102.85 W. M. Burnett_. Jas. T. Minis __ __ _ C. H. Woodward __ _ Warren F. Paul_. M. A. Watson_ T. L. Talbert_ Jas. B. Tompkins __ _ J. L. Minis_ Edgefield Mere. Co. _. Reel Bros. __ __ __ _ A. J. H. J. T. R. B. Holmes __ __ __ 12.50 il. Sanders_ 10.00 D. Kemp & Co._ 39.15 E. Miller_ 25.00 M. Johnson _. 18.75 Jackson Market __ __ 2.75 J. M. Holland_ 31.25 W. W. Adams & Co._ 4.30 W. T. Kinnaird _. 53.10 Jno. G. Edwards __ 10.00 Mukashy_ 22.70 \ E. Prince_ 70.00 A. Thurmond_ 30.70 L. W. Reese_ 62.00 C. A. Cheatham_ 25.00 W. W. Fuller_ 118.01 Wallace W. Wise_ 31.25 E. M. Crouch_ 25.00 F. F. Edmunds_ S5.00 Shunk Mfg. Co._ 4S.00 R. L. Bryan Co._ 4.92 W. R. Swearingen_ 153.50 Smith-Marsh Co. _ 22.97 W. N. Edmunds_ 18.00 Merritt, Reel & Co. __ 115.05 Stewart & Kernaghan __ 16.65 W. Harling __. 6.00 S. H. Allen_ 91.50 Paul Cogburn_ 12.95 P. W. Cheatham_ 31.25 Dr. J. N. Crafton_ 5.00 ?Jas. P. Richards Co._ 30.94 Satcher & Co._ 70.53 B. B. Jones_ 10.00 B. T. Bussey_ 25.00 J. A. Hungerpillar - - 4.30 W. R. Swearingen __- 2.65 J. R. Timmerman_ 52.25 J. O. Byrd_ 30.00 T. E. Byrd_ 10.40 L. S. Reese_ 60.00 W. E. Ouzts_ 71001 J. E. Bryan_ 56.25 J. W. DeVore_ J. H. Bledsoe_ T. B. Greneker_ A. Daitch_ J. F. Payne_ Board Public Works 12.50 18.50 20.00 20.26 4.00 17.90 ir Inventory S ali the rage. 80 fron )ecial close prices on di -ginning Saturd January 14th lent of Lace at lc. a ya: lent of Lace and Lace 1 md 10c. a yard-vain* ?ard. Just the thing ? piece. wm Edgefield Chronicle- 9.75 Dorn & Mims_ 10.25 Total_$2,258.71 A. A. EDMUNDS, Supervisor. M. A. Watson, Clerk. STOMACH INDIGESTION T?iecfor?'s Black-Draught Highlj Recommended by a Tennessee Grocer for Troubles Re sulting from Torpid Liver. East Nashville, Tenn.- The effie lency of Thedford's Black-Draught, tht genuine, herb, liver medicine, fe vouched for by Mr. W. N. Parsons, o grocer of this city. "It Is without doubt the best liver medicine, and J don't believe I could get along withoul it. I take It for sour stomach, head ache, bad liver, Indigestion, and al! other troubles that are tho result oi a torpid liver. "I havo known and used It for years And can and do highly recommend ll to every one. I won't go to bed with out it in the house. It will do all ii claims to do. I can't say enough foi It" Many other men and women through out the country have found Black Draught just as Mr Parsons describei .-valuable in regulating the liver ti its normal functions, and in cleansinf the bowels of impurities. Thedford's Black-Draught liver med! cine is tho original and only genuine j Accept no imitations or substitutes Always ask for Thedford's. E. fi Tax Sale Notice. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF EDGEFIELD. Under and by virtue of a delin quent tax warrant or execution for the sum of twenty-nine and 73-100 ($29.73) Dollars issued and deliver-1 ed to me as Sheriff of Edgefield County, State-of South Carolina, by L. Prince .as County Treasurer of Edgefield County, state aforesaid, dated June 14th, 1921. I have levied upon and seized and taken exclusive possession of the below described a m i now on we fi?rent items. ay rd. Mding 3S lip tO or that ?TORE said county and state which said lands I shall sell at public auction be fore the Court House door at Edge field, S. C., on salesday in February next (1922), same being the 6th day thereof, at ll o'clock a. m. Proceeds to be applied to payment of said de linquent taxes and costs and ex penses of this sale. If terms of sale are not complied with within 1 hour thereafter, premises will be resold same day at risk of former purchas er. Purchaser to pay-for stamps and papers. Description of land to be sold: All and singular that certain piece, par cel or tract of land situate, lying and being in the county of Edgefield, S. C., State of South Carolina, contain ing Sixty (60) acres, more or less, and bounded as follows: North and East by lands of Clifford Sneed; South and West by other lands of said Laura Ann Griffin and from which this tract is cut. Same being the north-east corner of the original tract of said Laura Ann Griffin con taining 260 acres. W. R. SWEARINGEN, Sheriff Edgefield Co., S. C. Edgefield, S. C., Jan. ll, 1922. NOTICE ! All persons holding claims against the estate of Mrs. Belle Jones Gallo way, deceased, should present them properly attested to the undersigned for payment, and all persons indebt ed to the said estate should make payment to the undersigned at once. J. W. 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