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TVS PLANTERS IOAN AND SAVINGS BANK. AUGUSTA, GA. Pajt Interest on Deposita. Accounts Solicited. L. C. Hajne, President. Chas. C. Howard, ' Cashier. VOL. LXVIII. EDGEFIELD, S. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBEB, 2, 1903. fTBE H?TI0MAL BSNK OF fi?GUST? L 0. HAUTS, Pint ?. Q.FOKD,Ceskter. Capital, $250,000. Surplus Undivided Prfio ts. $125,000 I Faculties of our maxnlflceat Ker Va cu: I Loaf toing 410 S nf orr-Lock Boxes. Differ- jj lem IflM tut 8 la es aro offeredlto our patrons andi j CM pabilo t? HOI tSjPMOfrst annum. NO. 49, T HE AVERAGE MAN SHRINKS FROM THE "NEW WOMAN" By Professor HARRY THURSTON PECK of Columbia University AGAINST the twentieth century "new woman" EV ERY MAN SHOULD SET HIS FACE LIKE FLINT. She is striving for economic independence, and her advanced theories have always borne some . ' fruit in the marked distaste for marrying that is growing among men. The cause for this distaste does not lie in man's heartlessness nor yet in his . profligacy, but in the FANATICISM and UN WISDOM of the modern woman. To every man who is deserving of the name a true home is of all things most desirable and beautiful. But if he sees about him only women who regard maternity with loathing and shrink from the responsibilities of sex, who believe that they have "missions" in the world far greater than the noble ones of wifehood and motherhood, or women who crave . continual excitement and who say their own natures are so. complex that no one man can ever entirely sati.sfy their needs-then what is left for men but a life about town ? The average man's judgment about the average woman is gen erally a correct judgment. The average man of this twentieth Cen tury does not want the woman of today or tomorrow changed from the woman of yesterday. A8 A TRUE WOMAN IS TODAY ANO AS SHE HAS BEEN IN THE PAST SO MAN WOULD HAVE HER IN THE FUTURE. : HE DOES NOT WISH FOR THE EVOLUTION OF A NEW TYPE OF MOTHERHOOD THAT SUBSTITUTES THE FORMULATED RESOLUTIONS OF A MOTHERS' CONGRESS FOR THE OLD TIME INSTINCTS OF SELF DE VOTION, TENDERNESS AND NEVER FAILING LOVE. He docs not yearn for a new type of wifehood, for he does not wish the sort of wife who would be a species of domestic comet, a dissolving view, or even a person he could borrow money of. He rather wishes one who in the good old way will have no interests apart from him and who will help him to make these interests broader and farther reaching. GERMANY'S TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT By WILLIAM VOCKE of Chicago |LTHOUGH considerable beer is drunk in Germany, I do not think the Germins are nearly as intemperate as many other nations. It is a rare thing to see a drunken man on the streets of a German city. The temperance movement in Ger many is about fifteen or twenty years old, and mild restrictive measures have been introduced into the landtags of the different states and into the reichstag of the empire from time to time. There are few total abstinence advocates in the country, and the move ment against drinking is in favor of temperance in its literal sense rather than against the abolition of drinking. Two. things can be said in favor of the German drinking cus ing, established the pernicious custom of "treating," and, secondly, the saloon keepers of that country are a far more respectable ele ment generally than in this country, and they have but very little, if any, political influence. IINIVERSITIES SHOULD TEACH u THE ART OF HOUSEKEEPING By Professor HORACE BUTTERWORTH of the Northwestern University T mm HE GREATEST FLAW IN THE AVERAGE WIFE TO DAY IS HER INABILITY TO COOK APPETIZING FOOD. I believe the modern university should include house keeping in its curriculum. I would make such a course a required one for all women students. POOR COOKING SPOILS LOVE'S YOUNG DREAM FAR OFTENER THAN A LACK OF SYMPATHY OR OTHER FAULTS CREDITED TO MANKIND. Northwestern could make no wiser move than to establish such a course of study during the summer months. Too much Latin, Greek and higher mathematics are taught and too little of the more domestic arts the acquisition of which would tend to make her home life more enjoyable and happy when the pupil leaves the schoolroom. Girls should learn to cook. They should learn to cook well. It is more important to a girl and her domestic happiness than many of the more abstract studies which she spends years in acquiring. w ireless Telegraphy Will Help Blaze the Way to the Pole GUGLIELMO MARCONI I. T will not be necessary in the future for arctic ex plorers to die from starvation uecause they are lost from civilization. By means of the wireless I telegraphy it will be very easy for an exploring party to keep in daily communication with their home people. Every arctic expedition hereafter probably will be equipped with a wireless telegraphic outfit The explorer can tell his friends at just what point he stands. IF HE IS IN NEED OF SUPPLIES HE CAN DI RECT HOW THESE SHALL BE FORWARDED TO HIM AND OF WHAT THEY SHALL CONSIST. HE CAN DIRECT HIS RESCUERS HOW TO REACH HIM. All that applies to the arctic explorer applies with equal truth to the explorer in the jungles in the interior of Africa and Aus tralia. Had tho wireless telegraph been invented in Dr. Living stone's time i$ would Bot have been necessary to send Henry M Pfonjey \o ?>ake T&nganY?ka to find Mm- He would have been abje fo wire for help when he first fell a victim to the jungle fever. is better equipped tha TYPE and ] ??STSend risa f uzzle the Agitators, and Questions Can Be Solve! By Bishop WARREN A. CANDLER of the Methodist Episcopal Church HE "Chautauqua season" is a very dangerous perioc*' of the year, especially during those years when the congress of the United States is- not in session ano? the thrifty statesman who is deficient in a sense of responsibility for Iiis words is "out for the stufig: and when platform managers who have an eye fof the gate receipts only are out hunting for "drawing^: sensationalists without regard for the kind of things; that the sensation mongers may pour out of their easy acting mouths. What a pity that these men undertake to handle matters so serious and so complex! Yea, what 8} peril ! Adventurous sportsmen discharging firearm^ in a powder house would not be a greater mena?a to good order and security. Good men, helped of God, can solve all our questions if they cad' only find a way to MUZZLE THE AGITATORS or ii they c find a way to switch the agitators off on subjects that they can ta about without endangering the peace of society. I think, for exam) pie, that the race question could be settled if wo can find out ho\| to silence the men who make merchandise out of its discussion. Foi one, *I am not nearly so afraid of the race question as I am of th? race of "Chautauqua PLATFORMERS and PERFORMERS.? ft The apprehension of the mischief they may do to all the races in ouj country haunts me all through the dog days. I know how to get on with the negroes, for I was brought up with them. But one of thes? problem solving talkers scares me. I am not afraid of him for wh he really is, but for what some well meaning people may take him ti be. A bleating calf jumping suddenly from under a chinquapin bus may make a really gentle horse run away, or a moon eyed hors^ hitched alongside a reliable nag may shy at what he thinks is a bogy and frighten his mate in the most dangerous misbehavior. It is thus some good men have been led to apologize for lynching. They have seen nightmares until they are prepared to conjure with a real horr?? in order to down a ghost. ?ictionary Makers Are Charitably Disposed Toward Slang Won By BENJAMIN E. SMITH, Editor of the Century Dictionary HERE is a popular misconception as to the purposes which a dictionary may properly bc put. Stria |J||^-;::. speaking, it is NOT A STANDARD OF GO' USAGE, but its mission is rather to interpret usi as it finds it. Because a word appears in a dictio: it is not necessarily a word which writers of cultivated taste wei*! Each case must be determined by itself. When a word has for some reason caught the public's fancy so that it becomes established in the language of slang it generally finds its way into the dictionaries. If a writer of such admittedly good taste as Lowell, for instance, then uses the word in a serious sense it thereupon ceases to be slang, and the explanation "slang" or "colloquialism" is dropped out. *? * ? Good taste in writing must be obtained by reading what men have written whose literary taste i? unquestioned. It cannot be acquired by consulting dictionaries, the makers of which are far more charitable in accepting newly coined words than are the best writers. How soon may "stung," the latest slang word that has obtained any general usage, be expected to find a place in a dictionary? All it has to do is to STING HARD ENOUGH and it will find a homo somewhere. The Responsibility of Citizenship By JACOB A. RMS (Author of "How the Other Half Lives"), President Roosevelt's "Ideal Citizen" CITIZENSHIP that lies down, content to let itself be robbed, abused, made a byword of, is bad citi zenship. I prefer the company of the man "who does the robbing and the abusing any day to that of the fellow who tamely submits to it. The doctrine of nonresistance does not apply to civic politics. I am afraid it does not apply to anything-yet. I wish it did. But I don't see how you can make things go with it until first you have hammered the life out of the other fellow. Good citizenship, now and forever, is Chris tian citizenship. CHRISTIANITY AND CITI ZENSHIP TO ME ARE CONVERTIBLE TERMS. The Christian who is after a place in heaven for himself merely and is willing to step on his neighbor to climb in, who saves his soul with the hope of a beautiful mansion in the skies while he lets his helpless brother wallow in a pigsty here below-I wouldn't give a cent for his Christianity or for his chances in the other life either. By rights he ought to take his turn in thc pigsty, and I think likely he will. THE AMERICAN WHO THINKS MERELY OF GETTING RICH, WHO PLANS HOW HE CAN LAY UP RICHES WHILE HIS BROTHER IN HIS POOR TENEMENT FREEZES AND STARVES AND HIS DAUGHTERS ARE SOLD INTO* SLAVERY OF PROTECTED VICE, IS NOT WORTHY OF THE CITIZENSHIP THAT IS THE PRICELESS BOON OF THE REPUBLIC. The man who can help and will not, who will leave his poorer neighbor to the slums and slum politics-that man BETRAYS HIS COUNTRY as much and as truly as if he deserted its flag in a fight and went over to the enemy. And the man who dares not go to the polls and vote according as his conscience, and nothing and nobody else on earth, dictates, deserts and betrays his brother. n ever for turnin g out FI] STEW SUPPLY OF MATE! us your orders. Satisfaction Guaranteed, OUR, WORD B LAWLESSNESS THE FRUIT OF ANARCHISTIC AGITATION By Governor W. T. DURBIN of Indiana HE mob spirit is not to be attributed to a sense of justice rising above the barriers of the law, for" tho crimes to which it leads are themselves essentially unjust. IT IS NOT A PROTEST AGAINST THE LAW'S IN ADEQUACY AND THE COURTS' DELAYS, BECAUSE THOSE WHO JOIN IN COMMITTING MOB MURDER WOULD THEMSELVES GO SWIFTLY TO THE GAL LOWS IF EVEN THE PENALTIES PRESCRIBED BY LAW WERE SPEEDILY VISITED UPON THEM. The law should indeed be "freed from every ves tige of technicality and. delay," not as a concession to elements in our civilization guilty or capable ol' a resort to riot, but because the loyal and law abid ing people of this cruntry deserve better protection against doers of crime, whether operating singly or in groups. The spirit of turbulence which ruarifests itself in the lawlessness of the mob is the fruit of agitation essentially anarchistic in its effect, if not always in its purpoLe. It is the flower and fruitage of the seed of discontent and prejudice and hate sown in the soil of ignorance or thoughtlessness. It has taken root and grown not because our country offers conditions favorable to the development of seed so sown, but because the planting and culture of patriotism have been A DUTY NEGLECTED by the loyal citizenship of this republic. * st te The time has come for wider recognition of the fact that genuine patriotism in this republic consists not merely in careless acceptance of our institutions and passive compliance with our laws, but that the complete fulfillment of the obligations of citizenship means the exer-1 tion of an active influence in behalf of the laws and the institutions winch give to citizenship its value. WITH THE AMERICAN j PEOPLE AROUSED to their responsibility no danger can threaten this government. It is their government, with legislation and admin istration so made subject to their will that the suggestion of domestic hostility to it or outbreak against it is palpably irrational. TYPHOID IS CONTAGIOUS ? j? By Professor ROBERT KOCH, World Renowned Physician WARN everybody that typh, as well as typhoid, is communicated from man to men, that it is highly con tagious-as contagious as cholera, for instance. Typhus and typhoid can be restricted and fought by the public health authorities and henceforth must be subjected to the rules end regulations that apply in cases of cholera and malaria. 9t * * I spent three months in the typhus and typhoid districts about lxeY^^GejmaiiY^where unimproved towns and vi Haces were alike affected Wltfi deaaTy results: rf uen x tran numo ?a 5uVvu..u missioner I prepared statistics about each fever stricken household in order to keep track of the disease. In this way I learned that ONE CASE WAS PROPAGATED BY ANOTHER, despite ordinary sanitary precautions. First one person sickened; two or three weeks later a second; again, after a few weeks, a third, etc.-a perfect chain. The disease was communicated by inhaling the pa tient's breath, by a handshake, by wiping his brow, by washing his linen in the same tub with the rest of the people's, etc. n n n Whenever a typhus or typhoid epidemic breaks out, the water supply is blamed, and there is usually excellent cause for blaming it, but in the majority of cases people's unclean habits, negligence and downright contempt for scientific rules and regulations are no less blamable. IN THE TREVES DISTRICT I LIKEWISE OBSERVED THAT SMALL CHILDREN OFTEN SUFFER FROM TYPH FEVERS IN MILD FORM SO AS NOT TO BE OBLIGED TO TAKE TO THEIR BED, THE ILL NESS PASSING FOR A SIMPLE DIARRHEA. I FOUND OVER 100 SUCH CASES WHERE PARENTS HAD NEGLECTED TO CALL IN A PHYSICIAN. AS A CONSEQUENCE NO PRECAUTIONS WHATEVER WERE OBSERVED, AND WHOLE HOUSEHOLDS AND SCHOOLS WERE INFECTED, SOMETIMES LONG AFTER THE LITTLE SUF FERERS HAD GOT OVER THEIR INDISPOSITION. T he Historical Novel ls More Wholesome Than the "Society" Novel By ANDREW LANG, English Author and Critic T.O me the recent revival of historical romance in Amer ica seems an excellent sign of the times. Not that it isnot overprolific. Every success provokes imita I tion and reaction. Not that all historical novels are good; the reverse. Many are ignorant, imitative and stupid to an extreme degree, just as many nov els in dialect and many novels of psychological anal ysis and many serious "sociological" novels are a weariness to the child. of nature. But I like to see a boy or girl read almost any historical novel, for he or she has escaped out of the world that is too much with us and he or she may acquire a taste for history, "more instructive than novels and quite as amusing," said King James IL, whose own history was of the gloomiest. Therefore, though there be many BAD new historical novels-how bad few know better than I-though many are IMITATIONS at fourth hand, though in others far TOO MUCH BLOOD is superfluously shed, still the tendency to the historical novel is "a good humor." The "Iliad" and "Odyssey" were practically the historical novels of Greece in verse, and what remains of the school is of undeniable merit. MUCH MORE WHOLESOME IS THE HISTORICAL NOVEL THAN THE "SOCIETY" NOVEL, NOW DESCENDING TO TH E ABYSMAL LEVEL OF SOCIETY JOURNALISM. RST-CLAS WORK. UAL just arrived. NEW FOR IT. SNAPPY FALL S?HTS AND OVERCOATS. f TA FRESH FROM THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS MAKERS. ELIGANT NEW FALL STYLES. -0 There is character and dignity in our CLOTH ING. There is the touch of the hand tailored gar ... -nts-a made-for you appearance that stands the scrutiny of the most expert tailor MEN'S SUITS single and double breasted the best of all the best from $8.00 to $25.00. MEN'S OVERCOATS. None better for the price we ask for them anywhere $8.00 to $25.00. There are years of Clothing experience behind every garment we sell. fWRemember the GRAND PRIZE DRAW ING FEBRUARY ist. Look into this, it will be worth something to you. Large stock of Boys and Children's Suits and Overcoats. I. C. LEVY'S SON & CO AUGUSTA, CA. Correct Dres8er8 for Men and Boys. County Treasurer's Mee. County Treasurer's office. Edgefield, S. C., Sept. 22d, 1903 The tax levy for various pur poses is as follows: The tax books will be open for collecting State, County and School taxes for 1903 from Oct 15, 1903, to March 1, 1904. No penalties will be ac.ded until Jan uary 1st, 1904. A penalty of one per cent, will be added on all laxes unpaid by Jaunaray 1st, 1904. A penalty of two per cent, on ail unpaid by Feb. 1st, 1904. A penalty of seven per cent will bej added on all unpaid March 1, 1904. For State - - 5 mills For County 5 mills For Schqol .... 3 mills For Pickens R. R. bonds 6 mills For Wise R. R. bonds - 3? mills For Edgefield pchool b'ds o? mills For Edgefield R. R. b'ds l| mills For Edgefield school 2 mille For Johnston school - 3 mills All male persons living within corporate limits of cities or towns, students attending any college or 'school of the State, ministers iu charge of regular congregations, teachers employed in public schools, school trustees during their term of oflice, persons per manently disabled and those ac tually engaged i u the quarantine service of the State are exempt from tho payment of road tax. All other male persons between the ages of 18 and 50 years ara re quired to pay said road tax, or work not less than six days du ring the year. " The pofl tax is $1. C. M. WILLIAMS Treas. Edgefield Co. I A.HEMSTREET&BBO. 623 BROAD STREET. GUNS and REVOLVEfiS. FINE REPAIRS. Fishing Goods' and Fishing Tackle. AUGUSTA, ' fe GA. INSURANCE FIRE Insurance,HEALTH Insurance, ACCiDEN Insurance, Fidelity and Indemnity Bonds of all description issued. Your Business solicited. ^ GRIFFIN & MUS , A, GBIFFIN. I E. J. MU?S Office Over May & May's Store. yt* . j*.** Groceries ! ^PLANTATION SUPPLIES I am prepared to save you money on IStarjle and Fancy .GROCERIES. Always get my prices before buying. I represent SITH BROS., of AUGUSTA, GA., and cad supply you with Gro * ceries at Augusta Prices. Give me a call. Respectfully, E, a JOHNSON ADVERTISER. BUILDING Augusta Bee Hive Has just received a full and complete line of FALL AND WINTER GOODS Consisting 0 f CLOTHING for stout and lean men; Clothing for uths; Clothing for Men and Boys. Also a full line of Oveicoat M^n and Bovs. The finest assortment of Men's and Boys Hats A .'ul 1 ?nd complete line of -?FURNISHING GOODS^ My Dress Goods Department consists of everything the ladies need in Plaiu and Fancy Goods. SILKS of all shades aiid prices. In Ready-to-wear Skirts aud Shirts, I have the most complete line in he city. iVdCilliner^r Department My Millinery Department is complete in every detail. All the different styles r>f Walking Hats aud Dress Hats, of the finest quality md latest Parisian styles, Shoes. Shoes. iiijiiiuiiiiiminiimiiiiimiimu iimiiiiiiiiiiimwimiimuiuim My stock of Shoes is too well known to need any comments, lave for the tiny infants to the No. 14 brogans. All you nued is t ,11 at THE AUGUSTA BEE HIVE to be convinced that this is th ace to get your bargains. , ABE COHEN PRO