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u I I_Ln iitimi _jni>iwiiMia rVia PrAsa fttiii Banner % U.VJ AKBEVILLE, 8.C Published Every Wednesday by W. W. Bradley, W< R. Bradley, President. Vice-President Wednesday Nov* 25,1914 DOJLDKU31S. Sounds innocent enough. It might be a compound word of two parts peculiarly attractive to children. And then it would seem that the first part is intended to appeal to the little school girl while the latter is intended to appeal to the little school boy. Doll-drum. Well, what is a doldrum? Here is the definition that ten-year-old children are ex pected to comprehend: "At the Heat Equator the warm, light, air rises, and at a great height flows oft' toward the polar regions of the world. Immediately bordering the Heat Equator, therefore, is a region where the air is slowly ascending, and where at the surface we have an auea of calms known as Doldrums." This is a far cry from the innocent little "dolls" and "drums" that would be better suited to the com prehension of a ten-year-old child. And then we have "Alluvial Fans," "P e n e p 1 a i n s," "Monadnocks," "Meanders," "Monsoons," "Drum lins," "Moraines" and so on, ad in finitum." Every one of these new geographical terms has a definition that would have made Socrates wel come the deadly hemlock if he had to choose between it and their mas tery. And yet these are the lessons the State Board of Examiners have set apart for ten-year-old children to learn. And detritus. Well, the modern geography couldn't have been writ ten if this word had not been invent ed. It adorns ^every page. To the modern geographer it is a live thing, amphibious in nature, creeping along from mountain summit to sea level, moving mountains and building up lCll A *%/!."< ? rv A orvrv T 4- - - lauiuus mc ?e?. xl is as compre hensive as the solar system, em bracing everything from a huge bowlder down to clay or soluble salt. The modern geographer seems to have tried to keep pace with the medical profession in discovering new names and then inventing new diseases to fit. Now and then one ol this profession might be found who finds it difficult to clearly define some of these new medical terms. They are invented by the big doctor. just to let the little doctors know what a wide expanse of knowledge there is between them. But let some of the most learned of these who can discuss learnedly of epithelioma, ap pendicitis, neurasthenia and the like, tackle doldrums, penipiains. monad nocks, and all these varying condi tions of earth, air and sea, and their hack feathers will go up at once. The modern geographer takes the Bible literally when it says there are some things known to babes that may not be comprehended by the wise and mighty. Geography has undergone great evolutions in the last halt century. In olden times a singing geography teacher would come around about once a year and guarantee to teach oil fKn " I..* n.c coscuimis oi geography in three weeks; and he did it. Then came along in another period the old fashioned teacher of the "Blue Back Speller" type, who taught the chil dren where Europe, Asia and Africa could be found?that the Mississippi river was the longest, river in the world and the Amazon the largest, and that Africa's rivers were the "Nile, the Niger, "White Nile, Blue Nile, Zambezie and Congo." They taught the real things of geography by asking a lot of sensible questions appended to each lesson, and based strictly on it. The modern geography just touches in high places, rarely ever coining closer to earth than the snowcapped summit of Mt. McKin ley. It is more the geography of the air than of the earth or sea or if it gets down to the sea it doesn't dis cuss anything less common than cur ents or calms. Perhaps it is only a little in advanee of the age, and is intended to be studied in airships. The modern geography defines as a "young river" a river that has kept' on its course for something like six million years, and as a "young vaL ley" the Colorado Canyon, something over a mile deep and less than thir teen miles wide in its widest place, having about as much the appear ance of a valley as the incision of a cross-cut saw in a log. And then a "young valley," that in all probabil ity was there two million years be fore Adam tickled Eve under the chin. Oh, fudge! And a child is expected to learn it, and a parent is expected to teach it! The child will undertake to define a doldrum to you, and then when you ask him which is the largest continent, will answer as innocently as you please: "The Pacific Ocean." As for the questions at the end of a chapter in the modern geography, they might as well be questions on psychology or moral ethics in so far as having any connection with the lesson is concerned. The State Board of Examiners have adopted a geography for the fifth grade that they themselves could not stand a creditable examina tion in ; and if they knew it all, they . still could not bound Wyoming. WHAT IS THE MATTER ' (Rev. S. A. Steel, D. D., in Christian Advocate.) Well, Brother Nettles, I am afraid I something is wrong with our people. [This frantic appeal to everybody to "buy a bale" these unmanly moan ings about hard times, these out-cries ' ovon frv TTnpiP 1 IU I.lie legislature auu <.ivu vw sign. What has become of the good old doctrine of self-help, our noble ' Anglo-Saxon pride of self-reliance the splendid spirit of the old South that > preferred to "tote her own skillet" to the humiliation of asking help from anybody under the heavens, or above ' them, except Almighty God Himself! 1 I don't like it. It means a softening of the fibre of our manhood. Here : is a letter from a young man who 1 says he feels called to the ministry, foT etaoin shrdl taoi hrdl taoi shrd ia and wants an education, but he is i afraid, unless he can gei help he will ' have to give it up. I think he had better examine his "call." I don't, care how poor he is, any young man who is called of God to preach the 1 gospel, can get an education and pre- : pare himself for the work. Let him help himself, and as soon as it is shown that he has itMn him, he will 1 find all the helD he needs. I was ' as poor as the poorest when I strated ' We were just out of the war. Sherman ' had been to see us?that means that, nothing was left. It was winter, and snow was on the ground; but the per petual summer of a living faith was in. my heart, and I went to school or, '; rry own will-power. I slept on a pal let of straw, scraped the enow away, and roasted my potatoes, and broil ed my rabbit, which I had cross-ties t" get money to buy my books; and i I now and then sent home a few stamps and told my father if he needed any- I thing just let me know! O, the <^ignity 1 and the nobility, and the inspiration there is in depending on one's self, paddling his own canoe, and spitting in the face of discouragement, laugh ing at impossibilities and saying "It shall be done!" A wide-awake presiding elder found me at work, and the Methodist arp ao me at that work, and the Methodist church then held out a friendly help ing hand. It can afford to helpv those who intend to win whether anybody helps or not; and it cannot afford to help any other sort. Now here is a whole State, and that the State of South Carolina, that sixty years ago got her dander up, shook her fist in the face of the civilized world, and , declared her independence, on her J knees begging for help! I tell you sir, something is wrong. We are too ready to ask the public to do for us what we ougni 10 uu iu? ourselves. I don't like this proposition to say by law what, or how much, a man shall or shall not plant on his farm. It is very dangerous legisla tion. Only the most desperate cir cumstances could justify it No such circumstances exists among us. The greater part of the trouble with us is an unmanly scare. I have sold cot ton at a dollar a pound, and then I have seen it sold at five cents, and the country lived through both ex tremes. The present stringency is due to a sudden emergency, and is tem porary; and while it works great hard ships for the time it lasts, yet we should meet the crisis with a bouy ant and self-reliant spirit, and not sit down and boo-hoo like a big baby. No man in the world ought to be more independent than a South Caro lina farmer. What more could God do for anybody than He has done for a South Carolina farmer! He has giv en him a soil that responds prompt ly to all intelligent culture; a climate that favors every effort in the field, seasons that encourage the highest hope. Diversified agriculture in South Carolina would make it one of the most self-reliant and independent States in the nation. And this sug gests that not only has nature done all that he could asl; for him; but science holds out her helping haad, and in bulletins from her great agri cultural college instructs him as to what he may do to the best advantage telling him what to plant, how to plant it, and the way to cultivate it to make the largest yield. "How do you mix your paints to produce such glorious colors!" asked a visitor to the studio of an artist. "What brains' was the significant reply. If South Carolina farmers will mix their brains with their soil they can do wonders And as long as our sunny skies bend above us, and our fertile soil spreads out beneath us, and seed-time and harvest return to us in their regula circuit of the year, let us depend upon ourselves, raise what we need to live on at home, ana arter tnat maise as much cotton as we please, without having a lot of law-makers monkey ing with our business. If I were a farmer in South Carolina, and the leg islature passed a law telling me what I should or should not plant I would sell out for what I could get and emi grate to a free country. Bah-! A few years ago I held a meeting Id a Texas town situated i? a section that had been ravaged by the boll weevil. The land, before the little invader came, easily made a bale, and a bale and a half to the acre with ever a thought of fertilizer. But, like Gen. Sheridan, the weevil did not believe in leaving the enemy "any thing but his eyes to weep with," or perhaps a little cotton to wipe his tears aWay. A field of a hundred acres produced less than half a bale when the weevil went through it. This obliged the farmers of that county to quit cotton, and plant other things The leading banker in the town told me that a greater blessing could not have come to that section; that there were ten dollars where had been one; - rvf r ana mat nouuuv wumu iuiua up turning to the one crop system. After all the farmer holds the key to the situation. He has file stuff, or can have it, if he will. With corn in his barn, and wheat in his bin, and pigs in his lot aiid sheep in his mea dow and cows in his pasture, he can stack his cotton up in his own ware house under ' the shed in the back yard and wait to sell till the price 3ults him. Everything depends on him and we who live in town and have every blessed thing to buy, even water, are the folks to be pitied. Now let some farmer get huffy and dare me to tell what I know about it and I'll hit him with a hundred and thirty-seven and a ahlf pounds of solid "steel!" Then he'll know something struck him, any tiow. Columbia, S. C. Master's Sale. The State of South Carolina, County of Abbeville. Court of Common Pleas. Miss Theresa Giles, Mary Giles aod Miss Sue Giles, under the firm name and style of the Misses Giles. Plaintiffs, against Moffatt Dreu* nan, as Executor et al, Defend ants. By authority of a Decree of Sale by the Court of .Common Pleas for Abbe ville County, in said State, made in the above stated case, I will offer for sale, at Public Outcry, at Abl eville C. H., 8. C., on Salesday In December, A. D. 1914, wilhin the legal hours of sale the follow! g described land, to wit: AH that tract or parcel of land situate, lying and beinj? in Abbeville County, in the State aforesaid, containing Three Hundred and Two (302) Acres, more or less, and bounded by Hunter Brothers, Mrs. J. L. Drennan, James H. Drenran, Mrs. H. Drennan and the Cade Estate. Terms of Sale?Cash. Purchaser to pay for papers. R. E. HILL, Master A. C.. 8. C. The State of South Carolina, County of Abbeville. Probate Court. [n the matter of the Estate of R. E. Cox, Deceased. Notice to Debtors and Creditors. ? All persons indebted to said estate must settle without delay, and those holding claims against the estate must present them properly attested to Mrs. Jennie M. Cox, or W. F. Nlckles, Administrators. David C Judge c 10 o'cloc apply f< as such All pe estate v or befoi oated, o Get A Ui 0\ Abso ******* ******* ******* *******) ;******** ******** With Every Ci account in our stor When you get $30. with a large Unitei If the teachers a their friends, will g Abbeville County si Flag to float over t I Haddon-V f)Org Relieve Hh. uni.nl.nl dy who is afflicted with j am in aDy form should by ' keep a bottle of Sloan's Lin band. The minute you feel eness in a joint or muscle, pith Sloan'd Liniment. Do Sloan's penetrates almost dy right to the seat of pain, he hot, tender, swollen feel naking the part easy and le. Get a bottle of Sloan's ' for 25 cents of any druggist t in the house?against colds, wollen joints, rheumatism, - * - - i in? 1 of South Carolina Jounty of Abbeville. IN PROBATE COURT. Clinkecalea, Administrator of estate of June Hunter, deceas Plaintiff, against h Hunter, John W. Hunter, imas Hunter, Lem Hunter, la Hunter, Martha Hunter, nes Wansley, Oza Wannley, ie WansJey, Cbeser Moore, Lil Goores, Joel Cunningham, and 3. LeRoy, Defendants. lant to an order of the Probate I will sell at Public Outcry at lie Court House, on Salesday In )er, 1914, oext, for the payment 9, the following described real >elonging to the estate of June ', deceased, situate in said State unty, to wit: hat tract or parcel of land, as the June Hunter place, con One Hundred apd Sixty Acres, r lean, and bounded by the f O. L. Cann and others on the by the estate of W. E. Daniels) South, by J. M. Young on thej d by the .Rocky River on the being the same tract of land ed to June on the 2nd day of ber, 1885, by Alice S. Boyd 3 deed to same being recorded k 3, page 463, in the office of ;rk of the Court of Abbeville , State aforesaid. s ? Cash. Purchaser to pay ers. J. F. MILLER, Judge Probate Court. It Heally Every bo Rheumatii all means iment on pain or sor batbe it v> not rub it. immediate relieving t ing and i comfortabl Liniment and have ii sore and s neuralgia, Your mon does give s The Sta cox; In the Mat ginia E Notice All persoi settle with< claims aga them prope The St& ( The Perki Master's Sale. S. J. Heste Calhoun houn F? In pursua above state to the credi them as def claims and this action the 16th da in and nrov ) litLC Ui OUUliU vni vnuu) COUNTY OF ABBEVILLE. ourt of Common Pleas. Building and Repair Co., Plain , against Eliza Walker, Lula ten, W. D. Barksdale and G. T. ?an, Defendants. uthority of a Decree of Bale by irt of Common Pleas for Abbe ounty, in said State, made in >ve stated case, T will offer for public outcry, at Abbeville C. C., on Salesday in December, 1914, within the legal hours of e following described land, to \11 that tract or parcel of land, lying and being in the City of lie, Abbeville County, in the foresaid, containing more or Ipsa, and bounded by >f W. O. Moore, Theodore and bite, Greenwood road and otti tle being tbe dwelling houee oc by El za Walker and Lula is of Sale?Cash. Purchaser to papers. R. E. HILL, Master A. C., S. C. leave to an ested part proved wit] tion of tbe i Nov. 16,1! The Sta c In the Pro Woodhf of John Petition f tate of David Callaham. if fitAftlAniAnt. and AoDlication for Final Discharge. Notice that on the 30th day of No 1914,1 will render a final account ictings and doings as Admhaistra i the will annexed of the Estate of lallaham, deceased, in the office of >f Probate for Abbeville County at k a. m., and on the same day will 3r a final discharge from my trust Admr. with the will annexed. rsons having demands against said rill present them for payment on e that day, proven and authenti r be forever barred. W. A. Callaham, Admr/with the will annexed. OO ic^avuc Merkison < whose wh< notified t( Probate C on the daj) to intervei eats in sai< Given c seal this A. D. 1914 [seal] 11-25 6! nited States lutely Free! ish Purchase or Pa; e, we give you a Fla: 00 in Coupons we pt d States Flag, 4 x 6 i To secure the sma ng flag for the little jet Flag Coupons w :ash purchase to th )f $i.00. nd children, with th et busy, every public hould soon have a 1, heir school building. Wilson Comj sciatica aau ime uuujeijis. i ey back if not satisfied, but tlmost instant relief. te of South Carolina, 1 NTY OF ABBEVILLE. " ( PROBATE COURT. ter of the Estate of Mrs. Vir [agan McBwain, Deceased. to Debtors and Creditors. is indebted to said estate mu&t " >ut delay, and those holding inst the estate must present rly attested to Geo. A. Mcllwain. te of South Carolina, flinty of Abbeville. ns Manufacturing Company, Plaintiff, against r, as Trustee of the Bank of i Falls, and the Bank of Cal ills, Defendants. ,nce of an order of Court in the id case, notice is hereby given tors of W.J. Tucker, or such of . sire to come in and prove their contribute to the expenses of within thirty days from this ,y of November, 1914, to come e their claims before me with y creditor or any other inter Lto object to any claim so ten days after the expira said thirty days. R. E. HILL, < 914. Master. ' * te of South Carolina, ounty of Abbeville. < bate Court.?Ex Parte A. J. rat, Executor, In Be Estate Vance, Deceased. or a Final Settlement and Discharge. ORDER. foodhurst, as Executor of < #?f John Vance, deceased. ? :d his petition in this Court lat a day be fixed for a final of said estate, and it appear there are probably certain legatees of said estate whose its are unknown : 1 order that the law in such j and provided may be fully vith, It is ordered and de it Monday, the first day of [5, at 10 o'clock in the fore- 1 and the same is hereby fixed and date of said settlement. >ns interested in said estate s, and especially Savannah :>r her legal representatives, ?reabouts are unknown, are > be and appear before the ourt for Abbeville County, r and date above mentioned, ae for their respective intej i estate. ? j a inner ray oaoa aim uluui?i the 23rd day of November, J, F. MILLER, Judge of Probate. : Flag yment on . g- Coupon, esent you !eet. 11 march= : children, ith every e amount le help of - school in arge U. 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