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12 Pages Oldest Newspaper ||h South Carolina. t/OT, 74,. EDGEFiELD, S. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17th, 1909. W?BBT' m.?r Wx, AND TOB*a0. Very Able A .dress Delivered by P.o'. Burns Eefore Re cent Mcetir.g of Edge ll dd W. C. T. U. If you ladies co lld have s jen the i e t; t c glee and uiiivsar.ined g?oat ihg and o c.'.-.! iu" > lido ^ith I I.Mi.i?t'ii '. ie pr? Cl-edillgs of tay Aia- ?uri L. i:i>la?n ?* when I j ?*as ?.ti ? ?. :i . t?- iii II i-r, you'd j iifVvi ?1 ?iil>t the ..> nr.* i y . ? my j :n?. r.:?.? v- . .-.i ine t . 1 am i u.c. by i. . i.taii ?n.d by j -..UllCAhlvsl!, a. a.:'. Ill o Ii -Ver i I j '?cmiitre i-- a nm ai -sstic nuil a '. hv?v-ilt;:u vi. ;u. .?' ??':.:'.?. o l'i\..: io - j n.?n a* .i ?i> casun1. in f.icu i gu i n' to \ .ird eing au ex /.MI,st. i j h.'t ?. i Uli! wilhlig U- i.- i.Xll'Klv i; .??! renie measure.-) 'sue c? ?.iire i. I ii lit.* d-jvt r can fix nt - r> A . , . :. i d ina ry tr-; tment v ry gu *i ?m j well, but if h? .-ays heK?.i? r.:ia ? ! d;es must be used and a i .?;? :i-r.i. i: j performed. 1 I Iii ti < ld ls J WI iu.ir j say, k*iA;etwr, get me a tiefet io i IM iK-spital, and pi.irk my grip for a.? louis a trip as i.; neeessa.y." 1 should not like to IK* considered hysterical but I don't mind being , called radical; for when that impu- ? tation is put on nie I can laughing- , ly fling at the* accuser those words of Josh Billings: "I figure it, that | if you're right you can't be too , radical; and if you're wrong you , can't be too conservative." The , knowledge that I was right made | me get keen enjoyment out of the . situation that came up in the ui32t- ( ing of the temperance committee of | our Legislature when spaaker Car michael disregarding and cutting , short the expostulation of the Anti Prohibitionists uttered the ringing , exultant sentence: You may as well . shut up, gentlemen, we have got the . cloth and we are going to cut it to ? suit ourselves." , I confidently believe that not only , will Alabama "cut the cloth to suit | itself but the Prohibitionists of , South Carolina and Florida and ? Louisiana and every state in the | entire south will do the same. If j however our temperance laws are to , be operative in the future the pre3- , ent campaign of education is to be | made more extensive and moire in- j tensive. The laws can only safe- j guard in a passive way our moral , interests. We must all be inclined ? toward morality if the greatest , good is to be effected. Carpers are , assuring us- that we must secure , total abstinence not by legislation , but by education. .We are taking , them at their word so far as the education goes and we are merely proving orr faith by our works when we enact such legal measures > as shall best present the undoing of what we teach. We realize that all ( effective laws are the out growth of sentiment though laws themselves ( may in tarn do much toward di recting a proper sentiment and we - realize too that the m^st effective , educatiou is that which we give the ( children. There is beyond any . question as law makers and all o ther ( right-thinking people understand,an , imperative need for the instruction j of children in the matter of alco hol ies and narcotics. Theoretically, the , task ought not to be a hard one, and certainly is not an impossible one. , If it be possible to impress on a ( child's mind indellible, ineradicable religious convictions why should it not be quite as feasible to imprint the proper convictions concerning alcohol and tobacco? Now what shall they be taught in the graded school? My ans wer may at first blush strike you as pure ly inrn , for I am goii g t ) say teach the pupils the fonts. In some i npa tience you say, "Of course, the facts," but don't let your impatience run away with you for I am hasten ing to my explanation. We want the facts, not some clap-trap stuff miscalled scientific and allowed to pass unchallenged simply because labelled with that magic catch-word scientific. This is pre-eminently the age of science and most of us in our eagerness to keep up with the procession have made a fetish of science. We are disposed to accept anything that is said to be or is pre sumed to be/a scientific doctrine. We conld not fall further short of the scientist's ideal than by so doing. Science deals with plain, unvarnish ed, and ungarnished facts. In our teaching let's not be hysterical and exaggerated. Exaggeration and mis statement always react on the cause they are intended to bolster. Of course it is presumed that no one would consciously and knowingly ?llow their enthusiasm for temper ance to lead them into intemperate statements. Such danger as arises comes from a lack of proper infor mation and a plentiful supply of misinformation. The desire to pro pound a clever or startling state ment sometimes leads teachers and expounders and temperance lectur ers into making assertions that sober judgment may later modif\ Intemperate teaching has a ver; bad effect on children. With t'id characteristic and beautiful.. I'd . they are disposed to receive :i> g?-s pt) lilith everything gained from tea;tlK*r and book ami the re.tclioi. caused by detecting tit1 er in an in .icc ii ni to statement, is lik ly t< make me discredit the \? nole soiieuu ot' instriictio .. Last sum ?i??r ~ y .?ar ago 1 at-Urnd ed service a . mu of the most inrlu ?nti.il count.-y e'ui robes in the Low Country. Th f pantorras an old is.il lege II an who fancied that the learn ing uf a generation ago was as good .is any, and whose memory was gutit-y of playing him most treacher ously. In the course of his sermon which he doubtless considered very scientific ho said: "We think wc arc the discoverers of new things, the invention of new devices, but we arc vastly mistaken. We think gun powder ?\>r instance a modern dis cover but believe me that some years ayo when excavators were digging in tin; ruins of ancient Pompeii and Herculaneum they .'oui d beside a city irate the re mains of a Roman soldier standing ?.Jth a musket in his hands." Now honestly what respect could any boy or girl studying ancient history have for such pseudo-scholarship as lhat? Or what boy could be made to believe that as a general rule most cigarettes are made from the stumps af cigars and other cigarettes scrap ed from cuspidors? Just the plain bare facts of the evils of tobacco md liquor are enough to win their ?ase. Wa need never bolster the truth ! In like manner I should say we aught to teach the essential facts. Let us not insult even the intelli gence of children by hurling at them irguments that are beside thu mark. The reason for not smoking cigars is not that Pittsburg stogies are nade by aiberculur girls in teue ren t sweat-shops. The reason is to oe found in the harmful nature of the weed itself. Beer is not a curse Eor no other reason than that it is browed in unsanitary quarters. In fact 1 ara told that possibly the neatest, cleanest place in St. Louis is the Anheuser Busch Brewery, the home of Budweiser beer. Beer is harmful because of itself and not because of where it is made. Give children as well as grown people credit for having sense enough to see a point when it is made. Tobac co made in the cleanest factory is unclean in itself and that is the point. Beer and whiskey are of them selves unsanitary no matter where brewed or distilled. Most teachers are familiar with the leading facts about alcoholics. They know and have only to im press as forcibly as they can its destructive effects on body and brain. They know what alcohol will flo for a raw egg and it is an easy inference as to what its effects must be on the far more delicate cells of the brain. They can test its effects on flesh and can infer what its ravages must be on the delicate mu cous membrane of throat and di gestive organs and of heart and [iver and kidneys. If they know that a bar-tender wears out more shoes than any other man and that simply because the beer in puddles of which he is constantly standing eats up the leather it' is an easy ?uess as to what alcohol will do for the walls of vein and artery. Beside the atrophying the brain and per manently injuring and uisintegrat ing the tissues of the body, alcohol together with tobacco has the dead ly characteristic of forming a habit, of creating a craving and the awful thing about that is that a bad habit undermines the will and the char acter. To undermine and disinte grate the brain and body is horri ble enough but could anything com pare in horror with the undermining and disintegration of mind and character? Points like that can not be overstretched. And I presume that no one needs to be told the facts about tobacco. A few remarks however I can not refrain from. I have had occasion to observe frequently in the case of others and of myself that tobacco smoking deadens and benumbs and inhibits the proper functioning of the brain. Before I quit tobacco I often noticed that with the first three or four puffs of pipe or cigar a kind of skim or film seemed to come over my brain; and if I were writing or reading, no matter how intently, I would find^ myself com pelled to pause longer over those places where such a break was made. I have even thought that I could reread a letter or a chapter and tell where I stopped to relight my pipe by the faintness of my recollection of such parts. I have observed till belief has become posi tive knowledge that students who use much tobacco can not get as (CONTINUED ON PAGE &.) ^>?^^ ~ _-, ,-.-, -=TI=^-TnfCT11, i..rr ~^f~? Penn & Holstein's float That Won First Prize in Trades Display at County Fair Teach the Boys and Girls Co Work. ' We must not, however, make the mistake of allowing the children to grow np in idleness without sonic regular fixed duties to perform. Ko person has any right to live and en joy the privileges and pleasures of this life who does not work. The more clearly and forcibly this is impressed on the boy and girl by requiring them to give something in the way of definite regular ser vice for what they receive, the more wholesome view of labor and the responsibilities of life will they acquire. Usually if the parents are hard workers, the children are required to work, and as rule we believe too much labor is required of the boys on the farm, but there are parents who make slaves of themselves to maintain their chil dren ?n idlenesfj. This, is -worse than either over-work or idleness for all. "The boys and girls kept in idleness while their fathers and mothers slave for their comfort and maintainance are almost certain to develop a supreme selfishness, as well as habits of idleness, which will remain throughout life.-Pro gressive Farmer. Better Tillage Did lt. What can bc accomplished by the mere fact of a thorough cultivation of the soil has been brought to the writer's attention very forcibly du ring the past few weeks. A 50 or GO acre field belonging to a farm which has been share rented for the past 20 years and hence gradually robbed of its fertility-for it has not been manured or ieplendished with clovei-was given a deep plowing and this year plented to corn. Prior to this year the field had been sort of an agricultoral by word, little being expected of it and as little being realized from it. This season, however, different tactics were followed. The field was put in good tilth as a seed bcd, good seed planted and a good stand of corn secured. Daring thc growing season it was cultivated thoroughly five times. Tho result was an eye opener. Not only did this handling result in in good growth of stalks which were well eared, but so mel low was the surface kept that the crop was able to withstand protract ed dry weather in muchjbetter shape than richer and heavier land which was not so well tilled, notwithstand ing it had a coarse gravel subsoil. A lot of farmers who have driven past this field have been wondering what magic was used on it. It was just a matter of cultivation of the soil which unlocked its possibilities, in spite of tho fact that its fertility was badly depleted. The same cul tivation coupled with manure and clover, would accomplish even bet ter results. These three things ought to be tried on thousands of farms through the cotton, corn and small grain belts.-Progressive Far mer. Three Texas "Tightwads/' It is said that three of the stingiest men in the State were in town yes terday. One of them will not drink as much water as he wants unless it is from another man's well. The second forbids any of his family from writing anything but a ''email hand" as it wastes ink to make large letters. The third stops his clock at night in order to save wear and tear on the machinery. All of them decline to take their county paper, on the ground that it is a terrible strain on their spectacles to read newspapers even in the daytime. Olney (Texas) Oracle. ?; . , Look Well at Home. Tt is the duty of e^?ry woman to always look well at lidme. If, says an exchange, she does her own work, a little care andv proper cloth ing will make her look "clean and neat even in the kitchen. . Particu laily in the afternoon :and .evening, she should make herself look as sweet and pretty as possible. No mntter how much your husband loves you, he will love you all the more if, when he comes home to supper, you meet him with a smile, neatly dressed and with your hair combed in the most becoming style -the wa"y he likes to see you wear it. Do you not wish to always keep your husband your loyer? Do you not wish him never to regret the choice he made and always think you the most charming of women? This is one,. p":'.ret' of the way to accomplish such .;U object. -Exchange. -.' - - Take Care of the Machinery. The working life of a machine may be greatly prolonged by good care, oil and paint. The plow, for instance, when laid aside (under shelter of course) should be cleaned free from all earth; it will keep bright and polish well in the soil when used again if the mold board is greased. Tve seen much good time wasted and many a brick worn out because this was neglected. Every tool or implement should be placed under cover where it will bc dry. When put away for the sea son, all dirt, gummy oil rnd such things should be removed from the different parts. Before it is used again it should be overhauled, worn out or broken parts replaced or mended, bolts tightened and a coat of paint applied. ''But I can't paint"? Oh, yes, you can, and a gallon goes a long way. You maj* not be able to turn out a job like a professional painter, but you can cover the different parts with a good covering. You are not so much interested in the beau ty of the job as in getting thc parts covered to keep out moisture. Car ed tor as indicated, machines and implements which go to pieces in a season or two may bc made to do long years of service. 1 remember a farmer who purchas ed a new mowing machine, one of the first to come into his section. His nearby neighbors got one, also, at the same time. Fifteen years lat er the first farmer's machine was still doing good service, while, to my positive knowledge, his neighbor had purchased four new ones during that time. I wonder why? One mower was all he jieeded in any one season to handle crop.-H. Harold linne, in Raleigh (N. C.) Progress ive Farmer. An Industrious Negro. A Bamberg county farmer sold yesterday a bale of cotton weighing 780 pounds, for which he received all told the sum of 8124.77. The white man who bought the bale stat ed that thc negro would probably be able to pay somthing on his lien, make a payment on his mule and have money left with which to buy a bottle of whiskey from the dispensary. But it appears to ns that this industrious negro will spend what he has left to a better purpose, and more probably buy a blue shirt for one of hispickaninies, if he has any, or a hat with a feath er on it for his wife, or even invest the surplus in a pair of suspenders for himself. He has perhaps, more sense than to buy the liquor.-Char leston Post. Give ;the Boy a Chance. There is no doubt that if farm ers would make farm life more at tractive and. less of drear drudgery, the boys who are suited to be farm, ers would-be attracted to the farm and would return there after ge' ti?g the proper education. But the dnty of the farmer^as it is the duty of every man, is to give his boya and girls the very best education he cao. An education that will educate not only the mind but train the hands to enable the man to do something that the world needs having done. The fact .?hat a boy has been raised on the farm does not mean that be is alwayf the man for the farm. His education may open to him iine3 of. usefulness in which he will make a better success than on the farm itself, and, if J% has the advantage of a good \ag?' cultu ral college education; ' ag/'?ltuie IwjiJ be all the better if -he hV^s lhatJ he is better suitee to be a scientist in the sciences on which agriculr ture is founded, that if he returned to the farm with a longing to be en gaged in those scientific pursuits. The experiment station looks to the colleges to train men for theiF work, and the farms need the trained investigators in the stations fully as much as they need farmers on the farms. Give the boy the real practical education and then let him take his natural bent, for if he was cut out for a farmer he will get to the farm eventually. It is the uneducated boys who drift hopelessly to the cities. The boy traieed in a good agricultural college will always have a place open r.o his abilities, for as Mr. Carnegie once said: The world is always on the hunt for men with educated minds and trained hands." As ? have before said, this agricultural education is the hope of the South, whether the boys go back directly to the farm or not, for they will be a force in the ad vancement of the work wherever they go.-Progressive Farmer One On the Doctor. As a South Jersey country physi cian was driving through a village he saw a man amusing a crowd with the antics of his trick dog. The doctor pulled up and said: "My dear man, how do you man age to train your dog in that way? I can't teach mine a single trick." The man looked up, with a sim ple rustic look and replied: "Well, you see, it's this way, you have to know more'n the dog or you can't learn him nothin'."-Scranton Truth. Too Much Luxury. A man who had been three times married and as often left widower was reported to be thinking a fourth time of entering into the blessed and comfortable estate of holy matrimo ny. A friend ventured lo ask whether there was any truth in the rumor and received this sagacious reply: "Na, na; what wr mairryin' them and what wi' buryin' them it's ower expensive."-Answers. Great Expectation. Father-So you want to marry my daughter? What are your ex pectations? Suitor-We expect to elope if you refuse your consent to our mar riage, and we expect forgiveness when we get back. Then we expect you to make us an allowance.-St. Louis Times. .Vir . .Fannie V? right Made Bc .quests to Methodist Church anciTwo Orphanage*. Miss Bradford Dead. Miss Etta Copeland spent the week :n Columbia with her sister, Miss Pearl Copeland. Prof. Curry, of Lander college, -pent Sunday here. County Superintendent of Educa ion, A. R. Nicholson, visited thc High school here on lastFrid.iv and j.vpressed himself as being^ highly pleased with the system of school york. M ; F. E. WngbS who died ?ere recently, bequeathed ber home io Wj Johnston Methodist church r a par^onage.She also bequeathed ilou DU each to the Epworth 01 li nage and Clinton Orphanage. M .ss Finta Carter spent a few day. d' last week with Miss Maud Kick ?rs* n. Misses EthJ and Lucile Sheppard .fie visitors here on Thurday. Mr. Wm. Wright was quite sick it his home near town last week. Miss Sue Bradford died at home in Columbia on last Thursday eve ning afar a lingering illness. She was an amiable Christian girl and her death is greatlj deplored. She was a niece of Mrs. G. P. Cobb, and for a number of years, she, with her parents, made this place her home. The interment took place in Colum bia. The >?oung gentlemen of the town gave a n*pe" dance at the hall heie on Friday evening. Jones' Orches. tra of Aiken, furnished music. The following couple attended: , Mr. T. S. Bland with Miss Maude Sawyer, J. H. Payne with Miss Ward law Stansell, A. M. Clarke with Miss Gladys Sawyer, Joe Cox with Miss Edith Miller, Jule Bland with Miss Marion Robley, Joe Allen with Miss Hastletine Smith, Edgar Hart with Miss Earline Allen, G. R. Cole man with Miss i_ary Harrison, J. E. LaGrone with Miss Ffle wei lyn Car ter, Henry Hughey with Miss TilU man,Willie Roper w th Miss Miles, B. W. .Bettis wilih A .isa Hey^ward. n^Torapkins:?ith^feMa "ju. "(The stags were Messrs. LaGrone, Sam Pos?y, L. ?L*. ou? mes, Jack Cullum, V. E. Hims, A. L. Weathersbee, Ralph Jones and FL E. Randie. Miss Zena Payne went to Green wood Tuesday for a a visit and also to attend the stite convention W. M. U. A Thanksgiving service will be held in the Baptist church onThanks ?iving morning at ll o'clock in which all the churches of the town will unite. Rev. T. P. Burgess, of Edgeiield, will preacli and special music will be arranged for by the members of the choirs. Mr. John Bland, of Vidalia, Ga., is visiting at the home of Mr. S. P. Salter. Mesdames John Hill and Ed Mims risited Mrs. W D. Ready on Sun lay. The Carnival was here in full Force last week and departed on Saturday wi tn all its racket and con fetti. They AH Owed Him. This one comes from Missouri, where one editor "showed" them why: "An evangelist asked all the men present who were honest and paid their debts to stand up. All arosi but one. He said he was the loca editor and couldn't pay his debt: because the men standing were his delinquent subscribers.-A tl anta Constitution. In Price, not Size. He looked in a store wTindow and saw "Hats reduced". "Heavens!" said he to himself, *'\Vhat was their original size?" Augusta's Lead EVERY department plied and "vve solic Edgeiield people. Augusta's Larg Cut Glasses, Sib Jewelry, Watches, We solicit your Fine w Call or send us your , orde A. J. R 708 Brond Stree :-: W O W. Carop Crowing. Sad Death of Young Teacher. Farmers Have Sown Much Grain. Last'Sunday \vas; 'ideal day .for church goers and, qu^te a large con gregation worshipped -at Rehoboth.. Our pastor, Rev. J. IV Littlejohn,, preached what was considered one )i" tiie best sermons, we ever heard, ;sing the words, ""We*have found' the Messiah." John 1 ;t chapter ind 40th verise. His theme was : Uncovering the good that is hidden in us by patting forth an effort for the canse of Christ. We were gtad to see as home visitors in our con gregation Mr. and Mrs. E. C. W'nu /f Plum Branch. Miss Weinoni Strom and Mr. Charley Strom of HMgefieldalso worshipped with us and paid home folks a flying visit Miss Mabel Strom who is teach ing in the flourishing school of Red .lill spent Satimhy and Sunday vi th the home folks. Miss Mami.e Seigler left List Mon-. day Nov. 8th, to accepta position in a school near MeRae, Ga. Miss Fannie Joe Strom, another one of our talented young ladies, is teach ing the flat rock school near Mt. Vernon. v The marriage of Mr.' Walter Sfxoin and Miss Jennie Cheatham at Republican last fifth "Sunday was quite a surprise to a number of their many friends. Miss Jennie is the pretty and charming daughter of Mr. P. . W. Oheatham of Cleonv, and Mr. Strom is one of Rehoboth's best young men and son of Mr. S. B. Strom. This happy younssipu ple has the best'wishes of a host of rienda. . Misses Mary and Maggie and Messrs. T. C. s,nd Weaver. Winn attended the Augusta Fair last week Mrs. J. C. Seigler has been very i indisposed for -several days.. We hope to see her weil again. Miss Jdlia Strom ??nq Mrs. C. Strom and perhaps others, will at tend tb e lat) i($ conven ti on, at G ree n - wood-this week. Thiofcommniuiiy will-have some xhibits at the Parksville Fair, which-takes place Nov? 26th. Our W. O. W. camp at Liberty Hill continues'to grow in members and interest. A W. O. W. Circle is to be organized in the future. Quite sad indeed was the death of Miss Auld, of Charleston, the teach er of the Liberty Hill school which she taught only three days and was taken suddenly sick and died short ly afterwards. She was a gentle and lovely lady, 22 years of age and had already made many friends. Her remains were carried to her home by Mr. Robert Quarles and Mr. Abram Cheatham. Our farmers are about through sowing small grain the acreage be ing much larger than for several years. SUBSCRIBER. Lady Didn't Blame The Mule. Mr. T. T. Wakefield was telling a capital story today. The other day an auto buggy pass ed through the Lebanon section, and met a lady driving a mule to a bug gy. The mule got frightened, of course, and ran out of the road. !No damage was done, and the lady soon got control of the fractious animal incl drove him back into the road. Mr. Wakefield came along about ;hat time and attempted to console the lady. "Oh," replied the lady, "That's all right. My mule isn't used to seeing a buggy running along with out a mule pulling it, and I don't blame him. I would be frightened too, if I should see a pair of trou sers running down the road without a man in 'em."-Anderson Daily Mail. Ung Jeweler ot our store is well sup it the patronage of the ;est Dealers In erware, Diamonds, Silver Novelties etc atch and Clock repairing, rs for Wedding presents. ENKL, :-: Augusta, Ga.