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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;
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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
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When you get $30.
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Abbeville County si
Flag to float over t
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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,
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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
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pain or sor
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not rub it.
immediate
relieving t
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comfortabl
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and have ii
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Notice
All persoi
settle with<
claims aga
them prope
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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
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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
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ith every
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Opportunity is Knock
ing at your Door.
A geunine money saving opportu
nity?a real chance to buy high class
clothing and furnishing at a fraction
of the goods real value is offered you
at a cut price.
Mens' $i8.00 Suits at $i5.00
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Ladies and Misses Long Qoaks at a big
Reduction. ? '
$10.00 ladies plush cloaks, latest
styles at $7.89
$6.00 cloaks at , 4.7Srm
4.25 & 4 .5o cloaks at 2.98 .if
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MISSES CLOAKS
$4.oo Misses cloaks at J2.85
> 3.00 Cloaks at 2.25
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Attend this cut price and you will
be dollars ahead. These prices for
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