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icefield Advertiser Tl'US. J. ADAMS,.EDITOR WEDNESDAY, JAN. S, 1896. Utah has been admitted to the Union as a State, President Cleve land signing a proclamation to that effect on January 4th. Another big corn crop and a p?en;y of hog m?at will make the Southern farmer solid and able to dictate the price of cotton in the markets of the world, but wo great ly fear the Edgefiold farmers are going io do the foolish thing and plant for 8 cents cotton and get 5 cents. The commissioners appointed by the Presidont to locate th3 Venezuelan boundary are ae fol > lows : ''David J. Brewer jf Kansas, Aesociate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States; Rich, ard H. Alvey of Maryland, chief justice of the court appeals for the District of Columbia; Andrew D. White of New York; Frederic R. Coudert of New York ; Daniel C Gilman of Maryland, president )f the John Hopkins university. The Columbia Register says: "Congressman Talbert has been at home for the last fortnight at the ? bedside of his sick wife. While ? hersickuess compels his^ absence from Congress, he is too faithful a representative of the people to neg lect their interest. He was paired against both the tariff and bond bills, so his vote counted in oppo sition to those iniquities just as well as if he had been in his seat in the House when they were pass ed. The report of Phosphate Inspec tor Jones, of this State, makes a very deplorable summing up of the phosphate outlook. The roy alty on phosphate will have to be reduced, if not taken off entirely The Florida industry in this line has much tc do with Vhis state of affairs, and also the discovery in Tennessee of large beds of this rock which are now being develop ed. Up-to a recent date it was supposed thal South Carolina had a monopoly in phosphate deposits? but it seems the Give- of all good has distributed this good more widely than we wot of.. The New York World seeing that President Cleveland is so anxious to make . ar calls upon him to make war upon the Bond Syndi cate that has brought such dis grace upon the country and so scandalized his administration. It says : "Nowis,;-ur ume, Mr. Cleve land, to make war. Make war on fraud and wrong. Make war upon the usurpations of speculative wealth. In this matter lies r:ai peril to the integrity of our insti tutions, and you have recently pro fessed your readiness to go to war in their defense at all hazards. Will you rise to the occasion? Are you equal to your golden opportu nity? G. Walt Whitman, Reform lead er and anti higher institution statesman of Union county, is the first man on the ground with a definite announcement for the race for Governor of South Carolina next year. He tells the Greenville News that he is for R. B. Watson, of Edgefield, for Governor If Mr Watson refuses to run Mr. Whit man says he will make the race himself. Mr. Whitman wants Clemson confined to what he says is its legitimate function, that of au industrial school, and the other State institutions abolished. He predicts that Irby will succeed himself unless he weakens on the educational question; that J. G. Evans will be found not "in it" when the pinch comes. He de scribes B. R. Tillman as being in the critical stage ok political ty phoid fever with recovery doubt ful, Lut has made abd sent him a dogwood pitchfork to be used on Cleveland. Limiting: the Cotton Crop. MEMPHIS, TEXX., Dec. 26.--The jkwnent looking to no increase ^^btton acreage next year was PHiugurated by the Memphis Cot ton Exchange this afternoon at a general meeting called for the pur pose. The preamble to the resolu tion adopted sets forth that a large crop of cotton grown at heavy ex pense brings out little if any largei total value, contrasting the pres ent with past years to establish thc fact, and adds : "Another :i . Uer for the farmer.? to bear in mind is that at the pres ent time, when there is a remotf possibility of a war, if such should occur the inevitable result thereoi would be to depreciate the value of cotton and appreciate the value of all food crops ; therefore, be" it "Resolved, That the Mero ph ic Cotton Exchange urgently recom mends to the producers "that the production of homo supplies b( made the first consideration ir planting operations for the cornir year, and that Ihe acreage of cot ton be not increased over that o last year. "Resolved, That wo-oinprove anc nt endorse the American Cotton Grow ers' Association for bringing about the reduction in the acreage of the crop now being marketed, and we respectfully urge the Hon. Hector D. Laue, the president, and his co-adjutors, the presidents of the various cotton States of said asso ciation, to continuo in the good work, and to take up the matter at the earliest practicable moment, and urge it again upon the atten tion of the cotton producers of the South. "Resolved, That the various col ton exchanges, throughout the South be and are hereby requested to co-operate with this exchange in this matter, and thal the Southern newspapers are also requested to publish these resolutions." An Open Primary. The Greenville Mountaineer very truthfully says: "The revolution of 1S90 swept away one class of politicians, many of whom consid ed that they had a mortgage on the S-.ate, an.l it may take another upheaval to convince a different set of politicians that they do not own the commonwealth. .Let the people begin to think with the opening of a campaign year, and see to it that triers is a free, open primary in this year of grace 1806." Weather for December. Weather Observer C. A. Long, of Trenton, sends us the following data of the weather for "lie month just ended : Max. tem. 71; date 25th. Min. temp. 23; date 6th. Mean. temp. 47.9. No. of olear days ll; partly 13; cloudy 6; 1 day misting. Pre vailing wind dir? ction 7. W. Precipitation: For Dec. 1893, 2.93 inches. - Dec. 1894, 3.37 inches. Dec. 1895, 3.96 inches. For 12 months 1894,54.81 inches. '- For 12 months 1895, 57.33 .nc hes. CORRESPONDENCE AN AtVFTJL RESPONSIBILITY The Entering: the State of Matri mony-and the Rearing ol* Children. MR. EDITOR: Perhaps there is no one except myself, who gives entertainment to subjfcts of so pe culiar a character as I am at time* constrained to do. I am some times ?'.mazed at roy own frivolity in expending what little mental energy I may have in thinking on subjects ignored by th* most of mankind, but since such is my inevitable fate I acquiesce, and shall now proceed to giva a few words relative to a ?abject that has occupied my attention for the last few days. The rearing of children is a theme far too delicate to be hau dled lightly or slightly. What*! delicate! Yes, delicate ; very deli cate. AV n? iiho L.r\r\r oixrey ved with ? what inattention to this question ' of questions our own race entails misery, ignorance, and suffering upon each succeeding generation? I suppose every man and woman think it his or her inalienable right to marry when he or she pleases, but it is a question in my mind whether such be the case. Let me illustrate. When a man contemplates as suming the leadership of any en terprise it is supposed by all that he has seme knowledge of his bu siness before he attempts to put his plans into execution. In fact a railroad company will not em ploy a man to survey a road unless he has studied the higher mathe matics; the merchant does not want a man to keep books unless he has 'studied book-keeping. Ev ery one can see the reason why the merchant will not emply a man ignorant of book-keeping to keep books. Indeed a man is put dowu as a fool, if he undertakes to carry on a business of importance un less he has first made some prep aration for the business. But how different it ts as regards the rear ing of children-the most difficult and responsible position men and women evt?r fill. As soon as chaps are'about grown, as we say, they are looked upon as eligible to this awful responsibility of rearing children. Oh, horrible! horrible! condition of affairs. What can we hope for so long as this is the case? What can we expect so long as multitudes of the young assume this fearful responsibility without the least preparation? Mr. Spencer says parents shall ht least have a general knowledge of physiology and psychology in order to rear their children to any advantage, but, if Mr. Spencer could have associated with the masses, perhaps his curriculum would have been made much lower. If he could, have seen thousands of parents struggling against their ignorance of the common school branches, and worse still, many who can not even read, perhaps he could have announced to the .world that the millennium was yet a great way off. But ho says that no man or woman who is igno rant of both the laws of body and mind is fit to rear children, since every act of mind mid exposure of body goes toward fixing tne desti ny of the child. No doubt Mr. Spencer is right in this. We are often alarmed at the cor ruption ol'the State, but wc noyer seem to be uneasy about the cor rupt condition of the family-the fountain head of the State. WH spend our lives trying to purity the streams, but you nevver hear any one mention the "Slough of Des pond" from which the stream flows. A constitutional convention moy wisely spend several days qualify ing a man for suffrage, but to qualify a man for matrimony s v would be too insignificant a ques tion for an august bod}*. We speak ol tho freedom bf man to choose in this life, but when I see chi dren living iu misery with out any choice as to their exis tence, and whose invironments a e 3ijch that it would require almost the will power of a God to over come them, I am in wholesome ioubt regarding man's freedom of choice, I am ready to ask : What is life? Is it worth living? The an swer comes, it depends upon the preparation one's parents have made to bring him up i . hi1; early days. VAN STAR. The Lord Loveth a Cheerful Giv er.-A Practical Sermon by a Practical Man. EDITOR ADVERTISER: On the thirtieth of December just past Miss Annie Ouzts died, the latter part of last November her brother Piiir-.ney died in Texas, also on the first day of last September her el dest brother Willie died. They were all young and in the prime of life, yet in four months time that dreaded disease consumption con signed them all to the tomb. Only a few years ago their father and mother preceded them to 'the grave. O how sad it is that a whole family should be stricken down there being only one, a half sister, Miss Ellen May left. Hundreds and thousands of the human race have been called from time to eternity during the past year, and.yet we have been spared to see another new years day. How thankful we ought to be that we have been spared to see another new year, and we sh nu ld love sud serve the Lord better in the future than we have in the past, and ought to be more thankful to him for the many blessings he has be stowed upon us from time to time, both spiritual and tempo-ial, and not live for self alone, but for the good of others, and help to bear their burd ns and encourage I hen. spiritually t) fight on and never give up the field to the enemy. The first and most important duty we should attend to on earth is to keep God's law, and obey all his commandments, and prepare ourselves to depart in pena-, sc that when he calls upon us to die, we will have nothing to do but fall a sleep in the arms of Jesus and be forever happy throughout Ihe tear less ages of a never-ending eterni ty. But, again, as we journey ulong through life there is another im portant duty we owe to our fellow man that we should perform, and | that is if he be so unfortunate as to have his house burned .or his h.irse or mule die, and Iv hu too; poor to replace them, ajjj-^rf*^?p^! being au honest^wrf" industrious mau, shouj^oe assisted by all the citi?ejr??in the surrounding country, a little help from all wou'd hardly be missed by them, and would do thc poor unfortunates a great deal of good, uot only in a financial way, bul would revivo and cheer him up and enable bim to work with a light and cheerful heart with love and gratitude to his friends for placing him upon a solid foundation. Where such unfortun^~-"."~^irl,:gBT?tea lt}e E aajonty of th?mr never regain \ heir losses, and are weighed down ! nth hard labor md toil and are j ast down all the days of their E ives. We ought never to turn a j leaf ear to appeals for help in . uch oases. 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Dank hil'g: Safe and furniture, Due from ot lier banks, fasti in vault, $94,127.52 3,S82.S7 1,116.48 5,796.11 11,013.08 $116,536.66 Lu BILiTIES. Capital Stock, Individual Deposits, Iii Ils Payable, Undivided Prod ts, *(JO,CO000 40,234.77 10,000 00 6,300 79 $i: 0,^5.56 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, ) COUNTY OF KIX;KKIKI.I>. \ I, E. .J. M ivs, Cashier of I lie Bank of Edgcfield, do solemnly swear that the Above staten,fut is I rue te Hie Lest of irv knowledge lind belief. E. J. WIMS, Cashier, Sworn lo befen' me this'the third dav of .Lan nary, 1896; j?. B. JoicKH,.lf?s.J N. P. S. C. We hereby certify thal wc have ezaminetf'tlie herks cf the Bank ?nd Irate counted the moi.ej and tind ilie above statement correct. ALVIN ll A RT, A. 'J OM PK I NS, J. I!. LuUKNtOUT DIRECTORS : J. M. SKiriNJors, J. II. Bot-KNIGHT, A. S. TOMPKINS, J. C. SHKPPARD, T. S. LKWI8, C. C. Fui.LEK, J. ll. No: ms, ALVIN HAKT, W. E. PKKSCOTT, OFFICERS: J. C. SHEPPARD, Pres., ALVIN HAKT, Viee-Pres., J. L. 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