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Oldest^ ^^^L VOL. 74. vi EDGEFIELD, S. C., WIDNESDAY^ JULY 21th, 1909. ? ' M TIMELY ADVICE. Besides Giving Neighborhood News The -Sage of Faifa Gives'Wise""'Counsel to Young Men. Editor E?gafield Advertiser: "Well, as I nm alone in the house from one of three things. Wife and the little girls, gone to spend the day. with one of my boys and his wife; the boya in the cotton pa,tch, one plowing the other two hoeing. And now for one cf those three things; why, I ara in the house while the boy? are in the field. Well, first I had started early this morn ing to visit Mr. C. T. Hammond, who'm I learned yesterday evening had been quite sick, but on meeting up with Mr. T. M. Dorn I was told that Mr. Hammond was better'and able to be. up. I came back, home and felt lonesome, so I just thought you and I would have a chat or 1 Avould chat you. That winds up firstly. Seconaly, I am lazy, sick or worn ont, 1 don't know which guess it is a general mixture of the three. Now, for thirdly, the sun shines mighty hot, and I imagine that it hurts my s feeling or burns my flesh. Now, here goes for the waste basket or print just as you, Mr. Editor, shall see fit to do. . Cotton crops are late in this section, more on account J3? SO much rain in June than from. Lite planting. Early corn that was?worked looks well and one or two mv?re rains will insure good crops. While the late corn looks well, it has the month of August to face. \ Anybody sowing peas? Yes, , sir, and a lot of them. Some are still sowing while some have finished two or three; weeks ago, and those sown ?n June look very promising. Peas sowed, peas in corn, pea -patches are on many farms, s Sweet potatoes? Yes, sir, on every hand. Sorgh .tm cane, not as much a's should b 3, but if seasons suit there will be some sopping^of home made raolos3as in several hofnes around here. Why not in eyery home! , Watermans? Not . much, too wet in JuneVbut it you and your wife and little ones will come down during our meeting, the week ?fter 4th Sunday in this month, the wri ter will see il he cannot give you all you want of them, if no disaster come to my patch. No fruit ssarcely; only a few or chards had aay peaches, and apples none at all. But such a crop of blackberries! and I won't tell what fifteer.-ytar-oid girl( it was who did it, but 'tis a fact. She picked berries enough to fill two dozen q uart jars and two and a half dozen gallon jars and I hear that they aie ke?ping ever so nice. That girl got full of reo? bugs or chiggers, we call them, but I am told that the way she outgeneraled the bugs, she would bathe in camphor after her clay's long picking. AniLjpow what do you suppose the writer did? He got full of led bugs and having heard of th? camphor treatment tried it and to his surprise the itching stopped almost as soon as the camphor touched the skin. Don't orget that now, Mr. Editor, for ome of those little bugs may get hold on you while picnicking a ronnel. Mrs. G. ?. Whatley, who was carried to Atgusta two weeks ago for medical treatment, I learn is expected home to-day. Mr. T. M. Dorn, who passed his sixty-four mile post. on the loth of this month killed a nico fat pig and then what-well, he hasn't felt very well since. Rev- Eddie Seago was visiting at Mr. Dom's (being Mr. Dom's son in-law') at the time the pig was cooked and should have forewarned T. M. not to tat too much fat pig and the weather so hot, but all we old gray heads are as hard headed ai; we are g raj'. G. M. Dorn I hear has decided to let one. of his boys get him a house keeper. I don't like that;'better get one himself tc- keep him at horne, for he is aa-sly'as a fox. But George is all right, and a good woman would make ro mistake in taking charge of him and his boys, for they certainly are the most devoted quar tette of male folks 1 ever saw. Well, I guess I had better not say anymore, about my neighbors or I might have to take to my heels, and I can't rua or lope like I could in my young (lays. A word to the young men and boys of Edgefield county, an? I am done for this time. All have heard mo doubt of that shocking tragedy- - Bush killing his wife. When Bush was a boy of about fourteen or fif teen years of age he went to school to the writer and a more studious boy I neve/knew; a boy of power ful intellect, a natural bora orator. For his age I never knew.a boy who could tis easily master hard prob MILL PROPERTY SOLD The Entire Plant of the Edge-] field Manufacturing Company Purchased by Mr. L..W. Parker of Greenville. Pursuant to a decree of .the Uni ted States' Court, as recently pub lished in The'Advertiser, the proper ty of the Edgefield Manufacturing Company, consisting of a farra of 70 acres, a cotton seed oil mill and a cotton mill, together with- all ma chinery and operatives houses, were sold at auction Saturday last."at noon. The property was sold in thi ee I separate tracts or parcels, the first, j the 70 acres of farm land, was 'pur chased by Mr. Lewis W. Parker, of Greenville for $2,500, this being the only bid. The second tract which contained the entire cotton mill plant, was also purchased by Mr. Parker for ?30,000 and the oil milli wis knocked down to him at $15,000 f making a total of $47,500 for the entire proj>erty. As directed by the decree, the tracts were then sold as a whole, with the understanding that if the property brought more when sold as one tract, then the last* bidjwas to stand and the former sale annulled. Under the second sale Mr. Lewis W. Parker purchased the property for $75,000. As soon .as the Court confirms the sah; of Saturday, Mr. Parker will pay the cash for the mill and take immediate charge. Mr. B. F? Zim merman, a practical and very suc cessful mill man who has been con nected with the Yictor mills at | Greer's for twelve years, will move at once to Edgefield and manage the mill for the new company. Mr. Parker stated to The Adver tiser's representative that he will first repair and repaint all of the, buildings'and overhaul all of the machinery-in other words, have a general and very thorough cleaning up. Actual operation will be resum ed as soon as the repairs can be made. It is Mr. Parker's purposie j to double the capacitv/ of the ki i'll in. thc near future. " We were pleased to learn that] "Mr..-Parker - will eonpjpy 'the.beiit class' of operatives, rle will brin<r only such as will make desirable) citizens-people who respect them selves and have respect for otheni. There ave thousands upon thousands! lems and questions,and if he had the advantage of an education that some boys have, could easily have made himself a power for good. He was of a quiet disposition, not afraid of .work, of good morals, and for a time worked and supported his grand-mother, his mother and sister, living on a farm working in the field. He knew but little if any thing about strong drink till after he had grown to young manhood When he commenced to sell whis key at Troy on the^C. & W. C. railroad and to drink it, then troub le began. He became disagreeable, sq much so that his wife left him, but she on his promise to do better returned to him. But the serpent drink had gotten him within its coils and again his wife went away from him to her parents. Hoping to have better treatment she tried again to live with him but the drink habit now had him fast and for the third time she left him. And then what follows; because she ^would not. go. back and live with him he took her life and then his own. Beware of how you tamper with strong drink, for at the last it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like' an adder. I was talking with a neigh bor a few days ago about Bush, and in the course of conversation the neighbor said that in farming Bush never cleaned around' stumps and trees. Possibly so, but it put the writer to thinking, and the thought came:Ts it not a fact that so many of us fail to clean around the stumps and trees we come across in life? Temptations to do wrong beset us on every side, and if we do not watch there may be a weed growing close by that we m?y fail to see. 'Tis such a tiny little thing but, like the weed left around stump or tree in the field, when the crop is laid by there it stands, having taken some of the life from the stalk of corn or cotton as the case may be. Our lives are made up of small things, and when our race is run for all these small things we are to give an account to Him who made us. Young men, boys, for your own sake, for mother's, sister's, wife's sake (for they ar? the ones who suffer most) let strong drink alone. Excuse me for being so long in what I have said but I just could not say less and do justice to my feelings in what I last wrote. NOW-AND-THEX. Faifa, S. C. - Program in the Address, "Civic of the South Ci Address, "Educa Cromer, of Ne\ Address, "Prohil DuBose, of Nas Address, "Count] man A- F. Le^ Music Concert morning Pienie and B ; body of good people who earn a livelihood by working in cotton mills,, and it is very gratifying that the mill vil lage in Edgefield will be composed of operatives of that class. - iyir^w^\V^Pa?ke7 is One of the foremost cotton manufacturers of the country, and the people of our town are delighted, that he has invested his money here, feeling that a new day industrially and commercially has dawned in Edge field. x The following from a recent is sue of the American Wool and Cot ton Reporter concerning Mr. Park er's career will be of interest to our readers: Mr. Parker is the biggest cotton mannfacturer in South Carolina, if not ruthe whole South, and although in this generation of leaders and strong characters in the South, we would naturally expect to find most such men engaged in the manufac ture of cotton goods, the story of Lewis W. Parker's advent into this field is interesting. In the first place Mr. Parker's earlier education was not in the direction of textiles, and certainly spinning and weaving were not suggested by paternal or ancestral example. For the first 20 years of hip life after college Mr. Parker practiced law, and he was one of many generations of lawyers. In all of our big American industries a trained legal mind has been of ser vice; in the textile trade one well known lawyer was John R. Dos Pa sos, who formed the American Thread Co. The American Wool en Co. has a lawyer on its directo rate. Mr. Parker is the example of a lawyer who has left hi^ briefs and given his whole attention to our industry. > "Lewis W. Parker was born in July, 1865 (the year of peace) at Abbeville, S. C., and practiced law for 20 years until 19?5. At that time he was on the board of directors of the Victor Mfg. Co., at Greers, S. C. This mill did not. go into re ceiver's hands, for Mr. Parker saved it, through his earliest management of it after he was forced to take it over, was practically a receivership; but he rescued it, and then discover ed himself a manufacturer, although before that time he had tried his hand at organizing, and made good. The beginning of Mr. P?rker's cot ton manufacturing career was at Greer's, in October, 1897. In 1901, in company with Mr. T. F. Parker, he built the Monaghan Mills, at Greenville (and there is no prettier mill in the country). The Appala chee Mill he built in 1903, and ih 1903-the same year-he was called upon to reorganize tour mills in Co lumbia, S. C., viz., the Richland Mills,Granby Cotton Mills, Olympia Mills and the Capital City Mills. With these mills Mr. Parker is run ning 340,000- spindles and 8,564 looms, producing print cloths, shirt ings, nainsooks ,dimities, etc. Item ized the list of mills is as follows: Appalachee Mills, Arlington, S. C. sp?ipit/^m s. c. M? ar olin a Ipversity. tion and food Citizens vberry. 1 lition anlfGood Ciiize ihville, Tenn. *y Life atp Good Ciiize fer. and afitepoon, and th nterspef ??d with mus is eo inv 20,000 spm^^p^OO looms; Mr. Park er, president^ capital $350,000. Capital City'?lills,. Columbia, S. C. 15,000 flp??d?es- 300 looms; Mr. Packer pr- aiid'.trfiasnrer: cap;. ital ?310,000; Richland Cotton Mills,, Columbia S. C.; 26,000 spindles,. 720 looms; Mr. Parker,president and treasurer; capital' ?300,000. Granby "Cotton Mills, Columbia, S. C.; 57,000 spindles, 1,500 looms Mr. Parker, president and treasurer; capital ?800,000. Olympia Cotton Mills Columbia, S. C.; 101,000 spindles, 2,400 looms, Mr. Parker, president and treasurer; capital ?1,750,000. Monaghan Mills, Greenville, S. C.; 60,000 spindles, 1,500 looms: Mr. F. T. Parker, president; Lew is W. Parker, treasurer; capital ?700,000. Victor Mfg. Co. Greers, S. 0. 60,000 spindles, 1,524 looms; Mr, Parker, president and treasurer; capital ?700,000. This gives a total capitalization of ?4,910,000. Prior to becoming South Caroli na's greatest cotton manufacturer, and with his law practice, Mr. Park er was a banker. In 1891 he organ" ized the Piedmont Savings & Invest ment Co., and. of this bank he was treasurer until he reorganized the four large mills at Columbia. Mr. Parker is to-day president of the "Bank of Greers," and a director in several local banks in Greenville, S. C. As busy as a man may be as the executive officer of seven large cot ton mills,? Lewis W. Parker finds tillie to respond" to many outside calls. At Charlotte, Is. C., he ad dressed a convention of the YT M. C. A. at a large welfare meeting. The Nationai.Cotton Manufacturers1 Association has heard him speak at one1,of their annual conventions in Boston on Southern Labor Con ditions. He left his own affairs to talk to* a convention of overseers and superintendents in Greenville, at the meeting of the Southern Tex tile Association. Mr. Parker lias been generally recognized not only as an organizer and reorganizer, but as a manufacturer and man of affairs, whose views on any subject pertain ing to cotton manufacturing are of value. Probably no cotton manufacturer in the (jountry is so well posted on Welfare Work as is the new' presi dent of the American Cotton Manu facturers Association. No one cer tainly has done more for it. Tak ing the Monaghan Mills as an exam ple, other cotton manufacturers have modeled their own works in this direction At Monaghan not only are the homes of operatives model cottages, but beyond that the welfare of the operatives is kept in mind. Here is a mill hospital or dispensary, mill Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. Welfare directors em ? ployed by the mill live in the. mill village. Lawns, gardens and base snie i tchell, President hip," Dr. Geo. B. nship," Dr. H. I. nship," Congress e program will be ic, ' Free. Every ited. ball fields are kept up, and thc mill itself is ? beauty, the front almost completely covered with ivy, and surrounded by a lawn.' Even pas-] .t?1!:^. isJui:jj.whc(l for cows <?\vned by operatives. The above /foes not attempt to describe conditions at Monaghan. The Monghan system has been the subject of ' many com plete newspaper articles. It is a pleasure to meet Mr. Park-| er personally. Across a room he seems to be not approaching middle age, but younger, not much beyond thirty years of age. When one gets within handclasping distance, one notices character which 30 years or less do not bring out, and a little of the weight which a man of forty odd years ought to have. Mr. Park er is a good man to know. No Miracle. Teacher: The people were led by a cloud of dust by day and' a pillar of lire by night." Johnny. '"An auto?" ? The Eternal Problem. "Train up a servant in the way she should go," says the Philosopher of Folly "and the first chance she gets, she goes." Young wife: Some people profit by the mistakes of others. Old Hubby: Yes, like the parson who charged a guinea for marrying us!-Sketchy Bits. Patronize The Concord Nurseries. . To my\ friends and patrons throughout Edgefield and Saluda counties: r_ I beg to say, I fear I will not be able to visit the home of every land owner in the interest of the well known, and justly popular Concord Nurseries of Georgia, but any one wishing to inspect our line of fruit or ornamental tress, can notify me through tho mail, and I will call on them with pleasure. I would call special attention to the ever-bearing mulberry, which begins to drop its fruit carly in spring and continues through the summer, being very A'aluable for hogs and poultry; One tree is worth a barrel of corn every year.' It is also valuable as a shade and or namental tree, and will bear thc second year. One of my customers says bc has one that he would not take twenty-five dollars for. Drop me a card at Edgefield, when in need of any kind of trees or flowers. Pr. K. WAT KS. Try our Famous Votan Coffee 35 cents per pound. May tfc Prescott. FARMER'S INSTITUTE. Very Able Addresses, Large At tendance of Representative Farmers, Much Good Will Result. ' It was indeed gratifying to those interested in the agricultural ad vancement of the county, to see so large a number of the most intelli gent farmers come in to attend the Fanner's Lnstitute that was held Monday m orbing. The meeting was called to order and presided over by Hon. B. E. Nioholson in the morning, and by Hon. W. R. Parks in the afternoon. Several similar in stitutes have been held in the psst but the attendance then w,as not half what it was Monday. To our mind this indicates that the far mers of this county are more thor oughly aroused and are more deeply interested in those things that will improve the agricultural conditions than they formerly were. The first speaker presented was Prof. C. L. Goodrich, his subject being ''Soil Fertility." He urged rotation of crops and the supplying of humus to the soil by planting peas on winter ' crops, ,such as red clover, crimson clover or vetch. Thc first thing necessary to the produc tion of a large yield is moisture, and in order to conserve moisture there must' be a large amount of vegetable matter in the soil. Prof. Goodrich had charts showing what a small percentage of water sandy soil held and how quickly it evapora ted, also showing the large per centage held by soil containing humus and how very slow is thc evaporation.. Tho. qnickest and best means of supplying humus is by applying barnyard manure; but as the supply of this is limited, thc speaker urged the planting ol' winter legumes, which not only alford a crop of forage and store nitrogen in the soil but prevent the washing away of tho soil by the winter rains. Crimson clover is an excellent covering for winter and should be sown between September 15th and October loth. About 15 pounds of seed should be sown to the. acre. Prof. Goodrichapproyes of a liberal application of cornmerciaI fertili zers, showing how by their proper use better results arc obtained from rotation and thc growing of le gumes. Numbers of questions were asked the speaker bj' intelligent farmers, which showed not only their in tense interest but their desire and purpose to apply what they had heard to their own farms. The second speaker was Prof. J. N. Harper who gave valuable in struction upon ' Fertilizing for Corn and Cotton." He first urged thc fanners to plow deeper in order to increase thc amount of available potash in the soil. He stated that scores of tons of potash/ could be found on an acre, and all the far mers have to do is to go down after it with large plows. The soil is de ficient in ammonia and phosphoric acid, which if the best results are obtained must be supplied in the proper proportion at the proper time. Prof. Haper approves of the Wil liamson plan' of growing corn, ex cept in the method of cultivation. He liked the thorough preparation, bc distance between rows, distance of corn jn drill, and the method of fertilizing. Ile says the farmer of South Carolina do not have enough corn on the land. By making only one ear to thc stalk, it is impossi ble to make a very large yield "with out having a large numb . of stalks. Prof. Harper has experimented with corn from six to thirty-six in ches apart in six-feet rows, and has obtained the best results from that which grew 12 inches in drill. He approves of large stalks, because less moisture is needed to grow small than very small stalks. It is estimated that 500 tons of moisture is necessary to grow one ton of dry corn. It is easily seen then that less water will be required to grow small, low stalks than large, tall stalks. The best corn that Prof. Harper has grown at Clemson on upland yielded 05 bushels per acre, with 500 pounds of guano. The bot tom lands made more. He approves heartily of the application of nitrate of soda, using about 100 pounds when corn begins to tassel. .Prof. Harper approves of the side application of fertilizers for corn but not for cotton. Ile applies all of the guano before planting cotton, including about 25 pounds of nitrate of soda to the acre, lie uses this to obtain a rapid growth of the tender plant. As nitrate of soda is easily soluble, it becomes immediately available, while other ammoniates, such as meal, can not feed the plant rapidly because of the few roots. Prof. Barrow next spoke upon the "Improvement of Crops by Seed Selection." He gave detailed instruction about the se JOHNSTON NEW Building to be Erected derg arten, Sunbeams Picnic, Many Come and G Mr. and Mfrs. Herman family, of Savannah, Mrs. Martha Kenny. . Mr. and Mrs. Ernes little daughter have gusta after a visit to r Mrs. Henry Forres pretty daughters, Mr* Ruth, visited here la Mr. and Mrs. Jacl gone to Hendersonvi a month's stay. Mrs. Kneece, of her parents, Mr. Clark, during last v Mrs. Julian Harri little children, sp her mother, Mrs. Miss Maud Sa sister, Mrs. Henr^ last week. Miss Goggins,) the guest of her f) Mobley. Miss Eloise P? is visiting her ut ker. Miss Rosa L turned from a; Darlington. Mrs. W. J. a delightful evening in comp Miss Hollingswoi Miss Teresa Edgefield, is visiti Miss Grace 'Hal ti wa At an early date, be erected on the which will be used for garten Department. Mrs. W. J. Hatcher, er of thc Sunbeam society, thc members to Ridge/on for a picnic. Dr. James A. Dobey has Parl sville, S. C., [to join his who is visiting at the home of father, Mr. L. JE^Dorn. On last Thursday, j Mrs. P. N. Lott gave a home picnic for the pleasure of her daughter, Mrs. Har rri?i ?nly the relatives .'were, invited, . and all enjoyed the day' and the de lightful * dinner spread under the\ shade trees in the yard. Messrs. James SLaGrone, "Wilber Wertz, Wilmot Ouzts and H. W. Crouch have been spending a few days at Sullivan's Island. Mrs. Gary, of Newberry, is visit ing relatives. Mrs. A. P. Lewis has returned from a visit to her sister Mrs. Mob ley at Thompson, Ga. Mrs. Estelle Gough, of Atlanta, is expected to visit friends during the month of August. Mr. John Eidson, and Misses Minn and Minnie Eidson have gone to Glenn Springs. Misses Dosia Wertz and Maud Nickerson will leave this week for Henderson, N. C., to spend a month. Mr. O. D. Black, who is traveling salesman for R. M. Hughes & Co., of Louisville, Ky., is be congratulat ed upon receiving the prize offered by the firm'for the highest number of sales made during the year. This prize, a silver cup, is a beautiful and handsome one, properly- en graved. For three years he has w?n the prizes offered. Misses Lucile' and Josie Mobley complimented their sister Mrs. Or lando Sheppard, Jr., of Atlanta, and their friend, Miss Virginia Holmes, of Augusta, with a sunset tea on Tuesday evening. The affair was a charming one. Mrs. Missouri Lott, who has been visiting her son Mr. A. P. Lott has returned to Edgefield. lection of seed corn from field, in stead of from the crib. ?First, a large, well-formed ear should be selected from a stalk of normal size and growth that is surrounded by other stalks that bear good ears. Seed corn should not be selected from stalks that grow near barren stalks-those that have no corn. By selecting good corn Prof. Barrow says the stand can be improved, as well as the yield, increased ten per cent. He says also that corn can be dwarfed, if seed is taken year after year from stalks of medium size. The height of the stalk and the height of the ear from the ground can be regulated by selecting seeu from the field. Just as farmers se lect high bred stock to raise from, so should they be careful about the selection of the seed they plant. Prof. Barrow says the laws of heredity apply in the vegetable kingdom with the same force as in the animal kingdom. We regret that Ave did not hear the addresses in the afternoon on "Insects and their Treatment." and "Raising and Feeding Live Stock,'? by Prof. A. F. Conradi and Prof. D. E. Barnett, respectively. M t