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EDQiiFiELD ADVERTISER Established 1835. j. ii. mms ? - - . EDITOR TERMS: * ONE YEAR- - - - - - $1.50 SIX MONTHS - - - - ' .75 WEDNESDAY, JAN. 26, 1910 ? Dost thoa love life? thea do S S aot sqaaa?>r time* for that is S ? the staff life is made of,- ?j ? FRANKLIN. ? ? Nepotism-another new disease; one that afflicts colleges and which the legislature alone can cure. Judging /from the great number of new measures proposed, the legis lature will spend half of the session introducing new bills ?nd will con sume the other half killing chem. The small boy had one advantage at the California aviation meet last week. He didn't have to strain his. eyes peeping through a knot hole to see the "new birds of * the air," as he docs sometimes at a base ball game. -"i" The New York man who sleeps so soundly that it requires a battery of thirty alarm clocks to wake him is almost as dead as some non-ad vertising merchants in Johnston, Saluda and Greenwood-We don't mean Edgefield, of course not. At any rate, if the cost of living gets too high, we can all go out on a farm and snap our fingers at the cost of living.-Augusta Herald. How can ihat be, when we saw a farmer hauling meal, flour, lard, bacon and turnips from town a few days ago. All farmers can't "snap their fingers," for they do not all "iive at home." Hon. Seaborn Wright Coming. It gives The Ad vertiser peculiar pleasure to announce that through the efforts of the Woman's Chris tian Temperance Union, the Hon. Seaborn Wright, of Georgia, has been engaged to deliver a lecture in the Edgefield opera house on Tues day night, February the 8th. This gifted lawyer and silver tongued orator is now one of the foremost lecturers upon the American plat forms. He has' a number of engage ments in Missouri during February, and about March 1st will go north to fill one .continuous round of en gagements till June 1st. A faller an n on neem on t will be made next week. We're Watching Charleston. . In a short editorial last week Thc Advertiser called upon Charlesto n ians to arouse from their lethargy and improve the opportunities that . lie at their door, and the News and Courier rushed to their defence in an editorial entitled, "Watch Char leston Grow." That's what we have been doing, but it's like waiting for Cook's proofs or the coming of Hal ley's comet. Our watching seems al most in vain, which is to say Char leston's growth has not been com mensurate with her opportunities. Let it be understood that the wri ter is no enemy, of Charleston; not one who finds delight in holding her shortcomings up to public gaze. In truth, it was within her bor ders-to be more specific, within The Citadel walls-that we spent -several of the happiest and most profitable years of our life. And while we may be charged with pr? pnmptiou for criticising or making suggestions at long range, we have had ample opportunity of observing Charleston at close range. In the offending editorial, The Advertiser did not criticise Char leston for desiring the government steamships to stop there while en route from New York to Colon. On the contrary, we said the request of Senator Tillman was reasonable, timely and in order. The Adverti ser did say, however, and is still of the opinion that if Charleston 'would develop her resources and : im prove her opportunities, she would "become a city of such impor tance and a commercial factor so potent that such appeal*, either to President Taft or individual steam ship owners, would be unnecessary. Her wharves would be teeming with vessels flying almost every flag. . . With characteristic modesty the ews and. Courier recounts the fol lowing. achievements of Charles Ion: "Sixteen of the largest lumber ing plants in the south; two new lines of railroad coming into this port; two new lines of steamships : established within the last th ret years; the largest sugar distributing depot, in the sooth; more than 100 per cent increase in. th,e expo?t and Oldest Newspapefin South Carolina. EDGEFIELD, S. C., WE?NESDAY, JANUARY 26th, 1910 NO. 52 V7 ^M?~H*^^r>*>4,^v*^*4'^-*^MH,M? ll What Others Say. ff. aja^'?i'l'-t' ?!? ?! I -? ''?'-t"!"! l-'-I- -l-il1 'I' ^"?j?g yg? ->->->->->-M--?- -W-->-^>-^?~^v*?~?" .' Always the Heafl. A Toledo judge has decided that if the wife earns the rooney on^ which the family lives,- she is the head of +h? family.' . SJ is she also if she-spends -the-money her-hus J23i?d;makes.-News and Courier,,. Oh, Yon Women! Mention'is made of a young wo man who captured a husband by having her picture printed in a newspaper. That may furnish a clue as : to the reason why suf fragettes like to have their pictures printed.-Augusta Harald. "Rib" Always Rules. A Washington paragrapher says th at the United States was governed for awhile by a": backbone, but ttoa* 'tis now ruled by n/stoma oh. This is awful.-Anderson Intelligencer. ?'rib" would make a desirable change.-Abbeville Medium, Didn't Steal Enough. Out in Indiana a mother of 18 children is awaiting trial on a charge of stealing coal to keep tlip 18 from freezing. This woman showed bad judgement. She should have contrived to wreck a bank OT- j steal a million dollars and thus have j become a heroine instead of a felo: --Georgetown Item.. x State Foots Bill. Some of the members of the South Carolina legislature drink branch w?ter at home and think it mighty good, but when they get to Colum-| bia tl)ey shy at Columbia water which is offered free, and make the State pay for water from Glenn Springs. ''How we boss apples do float.''-Barn berg Herald. -. So so Left Yet. A Fall River attorney refuses (oj accept a legacy ol' oightpep, thous and dollars left him by a ellen--; who ! overlooked his nieces and nephews1 in bis will. The lawyor is going to j divide the money among the right I ful beneficiarios. As tho Charles-! ton Evening Post s:iys. sometimes I you find them like, this, ont they aret very rare, almo??; extiuct.-Orange burg Times and Democrat* -?. Boost Your Town. Occasionally one will hear the re mark, "I wish I. was out of this country," and then one feels like" saying, 'I wish you were," for a man who stands on the street cor ners, sits on the fence chewing and spitting, telling obscene stories, cursing the town or farm, finding fault with his grandmother because she was a woman, claiming that the merchants are a lot of thieves, that lawyers and newspaper men would skin arrian to a finish, and a whole lot more, is a nuisance and an?bom-. ination. Any town or farm pester- ? ed with one or more such worthies' would be justified in exercising cowhide authority on the bosom of their pants. No one is obliged' to live where he is,not suited. If one hasn't an encouraging word for the business enterprise and institution of his county, he should shut up and "go way back and sit down." If things don't suit you, move to where they will. A growler and sorehead is an enterprise killer every time. It would pay a town OT j county to donate him ?5.00 and tell him io move.-Bamberg Herald. Beautiful iron and enameled beds just what you need. Ramsey & Jones. HEBE Brand New ZBOBSSBBSBM We desire tb call the at public to the fact that wc : restaurant in the Miss Ida invite ladies, gentlemen a see us when hungry, thin keep fresh oysters cooked bread for sale all the tim fact anything usually kep rant. Always a supply 01 but no hard ones. We li in indulging in the latter, have ORDER, etc. Y MAY and Oldest Newspapefin South Carolina. EDGEFIELD, S. C., WE?NESDAY, JANUARY 26th, 1910 NO. 52 Made *t? i liaies of Cotton ? With O? ly One Mule Read in our Farmers1 Year Book or Almanac for 1910 haw a planter in sTerrell County:,, Georgia, made 41 bales of cotton with only one jjiowj a record breaking yield, and he had a nine /weeks' drought-the worst in years. His gross income was $2,098.47 for this crop. You can do it top Virginia-Carolina Fertilizers liberally, combined with careful seed selection, thorough cultivation, and a fair season. Ask your fertilizer dealer for a copy o;f this free book, or write us for ojie. Be sure you haul home only Virginia-Carolina Fertilizers Mall us this Coupon VIRGINIA CAROLINA CHEMICAL COMPANY. Please tend me a cc py of your 1910 Firmen' Year Book free of ccu. Name. Town. State.. SALES OFFICES t Richmond, Va. Atlanta, Ga. Norfolk, Va. * Savannah, Ga. Colombia, S. C. Dor-ham, N. C. Wln?on-8alem, N. C. Cbirleaton, S. C. Baltimore, Md. Colambni, Gc Montgomery. Ala, M; aphis, Tenn. 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