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EDGEFIELD ADVERTISER Established 1835. J.-I. BUMS,...-.Editor - TERMS: ONE YE^R . $1.50 SIX MONTHS ..... .75 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1910 ' The haunts of happiness are varied, b ut I have more ofter, found her among little children, ^ome fresides, and country homes than anywhere else. SYDNEY SMT?B?. The Advertiser will celebrate its 75th Christmas this year. Here's for a Merry Christmas and-J Happy New Year for' all of our read er*! Genuine happiness comes through making others happy. Bear this in mind in laying your plans for the ap proaching festive season. The farmer who has kept his two horse plows running during the past few weeks wiil not only have $he ad vantage of his less fortunate neighbor next spring but will reap a larger harvest next fall. ; \ There is a saying that "old fools are the biggest fools." But sometimes young fools rival the old ones for first place. A very striking instance of the latter is found in the marriage of a sixteen-year-old Tennessee girl to a man 65 years of ?ge, who travelled 30 miles last week oVer the mountains to have the knot tied. The government officials are deter mined to break up the various get rich-quick schemes over the country - that are deceiving and defrauding the unsuspecting. The cqarge under which indictments are brought is using the j mails ior fraudulent and improper pur- j poses- It does seem that in this en lightened age people would be too in telligent tobe "taken in" by "gold bricks"-and. other simila^ schemes. It is the few who are easily duped that "Uncle Sam" proposes to throw his protecting arms around. m ^ -? ? -- if iff.-" ' ' . . * One hears very little sneering now-1 ' adays about book-farmers and book farming. The fact is, the fellows who read and keep posted are the ones who are doing the best agricultural work.-Farmers Union Sun. Every farmer should subscribe for a good agricultural journal. The day has pa3t when a person can keep up with the procession in any line of bu : s ihess without r?ading and adoptin g J ideas of others, who have by actual experiment proven what they say. . Read your agricultural papers these long evenings, and ?pply the things "ihatTsre best suited to conditions on! yoi.r farm. Only a portion of what you read ca n be applied to your farm, /but you need that portion. -v?- Day of Wonderful Things. "While there is "nothing new under the sun, "yet the new application of old laws and hew uses to which old things are being put in this inventive age make it appear that something new r bobs up almost everyday. While some scientists are endeavoring to conquer the air with "dirigibles," monoplanes " and bi-planes, others are going beneath the surface of terra firma for new : fields. Long ago the underground railway] has been demonstrated to be practica ble, especially for short distances, but now they tell us that a tunnel has been 'planned that will connect the cities of - Chicago and New York, being some thing like a thousand miles in length. This subterranean highway is to be Used for the telephone and telegraph wires, and for the transmission of package freight. Indeed this is a day of wonderful and gigantic undertakings. Wonder what will come next? Maybe the chasm, or whatever yon may choose to call it, -between the earth and Mars will yet | be bridged by the Yankees. A Change Needed. A decade or more ago when farmers suffered from the low price of cotton year after year, there was good ground for the enactment of a law "providing for the extension of the time for the payment of taxes. But now that cot ton, the leading money crop of our peo . pie, has come into its own and is bring " ing something like its real value, it is not in keeping with sound business methods to extend the \time for the ?. s payment of taxes beyond the year for which they are levied. .V As far as possible, all business mat ters of the county should be closed up at the end of each year^ certainly at the close of each administration, but this is how impossible, as the bulk of the taxes, are not paid until about 60 days after the fiscal year closes. Notwithstanding the fact that taxes fo^910 are now due, the county board, .? wo understand, had to borrow money at its last meeting in 'order to pay the . current expenses of the county. The board did right, but the point we wish to make is that there should be no ne ^ c ??Sriy for borrowing money in Decem ber, and there would not te were it manuatory that all taxes be paid by the close of the year. " Furthermore, the present system works a hardship on the poorly paid teachers of the county. Wheo they dis cbunt their claims it is frequently for a period of 15 months, instead of 12. Under the present system, as we un- J derstand it, a school warrant that was issued in November 1910 may not be paid before February 1912. Whereas, if the taxes levied for 1911 were paid by the close of that year these teach ers' warrants would be cashed not la ter than December 1911. We confidently believe that a change to the old system would be better for a majority of the people. It is not in frequently the case thet an individual will have the cash iii hand to pay his taxes before Christmas but as the law provides for a delay tide money ?s spent, and the tax payer hes to borrow the necessary money in the spring before the penalty is added. News of Two Counties Over the Phone. Soon after reaching home Mon day evening-about 1 fust dark," as the colored ms.n would say-our telephone rang. We of course thought it was some one in town calling us up; go, imagine our sur prise when we distinctly recognized the voice of our genial friend, Charlie Davis, who was in his home at Fruit Hill, lit required but a lit tle strain of mental vision to see the smile that always plays upon Charlie's face when he greets his friends. Charlie and the writer rather the speaker or talker then exchanged news more rapidly than a phonograph could record. We told him what was going on in Edgefield county and he came back at us with the doings of the Saludi ans. Charlie urged us to send them a few .Bob Smiths up there. He says they are needed to wake folks up, causing them to make more "hog and hominy" at home. He said the Fruit Hill school has the best teacher in three states, or words to that effect. She is. an Edgefield young lady, of course, one of which we are very proud, Miss Rehie Morgan. Charlie has killed three big hogs and will slaughter threa more this week. He says he would be in fine shape for Christmas but for his thumb that' was cut off-rather shredded-some time ago in a gin. We asked him if he were not old enough to keep his thumb out of a gin-head.- He said, like all other thoughtless fellows,having "fooled" with it so much, he forgot that it would cut anything except cotton. By the way, Charlie naid thumbs are not the only thirgs that have been under the knife around Fruit Hill. A certain prominent lady a few mornings ago put her finger too far in a sausage milli and a good portion of the end was nipped off. Be careful how you operate so harmless a machine as a sausage grinder. Charlie asked about the sundry railroad rumors, stating that be would like to reach Edgefield by rail as well as by telephone. Last, but by no means least, our friend urged, the ''speaker" to ?come up and eat sausage and spar?-ribs and back-bones and- other good things with him "next Sunday, Christmas day. We would certainly accept his very kind invitation, had we not already promised Mrs. San ta Claus and the children that the day would be spent quietly around our fire-side-not "quietly" either, for there is no quietude; where chil dren and horns and pistols and drums have right-of-way. Telephone and telegraph- instru ments make neighbors of all hu manity, eliminating space entirely. Whether one block or a thous and miles separate them, friends can converse over the wires as easily and satisfactorily as if it were only over the garden wall. Charlie Davis talked with a man in Atlanta over the wires a few days ago with the same ease that he conversed with us in Edgefield. Help to build up rural telephone lines and get in touch with your neighbors ten, fifteen, a hundred and a thousand miles away. NOTICE. I desire to give notice that I will be in my oflice Friday the 23rd in stead of Saturday the 24th, and on Tuesday, the 27th, instead of on Monday, the 26th of December. A. R. Nicholson; Supt. Ed. E. Co. NURSING MOTHERS show the beneficial ef fects of Scott's Emulsion in a very short time. It not only builds her up, but enriches the mother's milk and properly nour ishes the child. Nearly all mothers who nurse their children should take this splendid food tonic, not only to keep up their own strength but to properly nourish their children. FOE SALE ST ALL DEUGQ?STS Send lOo., nam? of paper and this ad. for oar beautiful Savinci Bank and Child's Sketch-Book. Bach bank contains a Good Luck Penny. SCOTT & BOWNE, 409 Pearl St. New York ELS LIL?? The Advertiser's Message Santa Gau?. Having gotten in "wireless" com munication with Santa Claus, The Advertiser has telephoned the fol-1 lowing Christmas suggestions to the old gentlemen, whose goodness is exceeded only by his ubiquity: Please briDg Edgefield another] railroad. It matters not whence it I cometh or whither it goeth-just ao it goes somewhere. Please bring along a. good sized chunk of' Uucle Andy Carnegie's peace donation to be expended in maintaining^ peaceful relations be-1 tween "Pig Town" and "Bun combe." Please put a thirty-pound gobbler head-foremost in the sock of every minister in the county. So small a turkey is not commensurate with their deserts-but these good men will never receive on earth all that they deserve. Please bring more hair for some of Edgefield's men and less hair for some of the women. Please smite the oonscience of the Edgetield county youth who dares even contemplate putting a bottle or pistol in Mis pocket during the holiday season. Please bring enough Billy Wal tons or Bob Smiths to supply one for every rural community. Please whisper into the ears of | the lawmakers that a short session of the legislature of 1911 is very earnestly desired. Please bring a blush to the cheek of every farmer who can but will not grow corn enough to supply his farm. Please bring husbands for the! eager widows, wives for the long ing widowers, willing bachelors for the hopeful maids and beaux for all 'of the bewitching belles. P. S. Our bachelor friend Bud ' Russell desires to be remembered in this connection. Please 'supply Edgefield with an other public well-one removed from overflowing branch water. please, besides just lots of nice things, bring great joy and happi ness to Mr. Robert H. Mims, who has hung his stocking in the same house-indeed, in the same room 76 years, and during all of this long period he has been an exceptionally "good "boy"-Sunday, Monday and every other day of the week. Please bring a new left ankle for | Mr. Arthur Tompkins and a new right instep for Capt. George Evans -"Pig Town" folks certainly have "got it in the feet," Santa Claus. Please bring a rich velvet carpet for the new Presbyterian manse one on which Brother Burgess will mire knee deep. Please, when you go down little Jack Feltham's chimney, in the Pearl of the Piedmont, put the prettiest toy in your pack in his stocking and label it "From the Buncombites of JJdgefield," charg ing the expense to The Advertiser. Please search*your shop through for the very best things you have and bring them to Judge Roath and Judge Allen-your best is not as I good as they deserve. Please bring the as surance that the good roads will, continuo until the farmers haul their guano, or 'gwano" or "jewano',or"joanna,"or whatever you choose to call it. Please bring Edgefield a mail schedule that will give us a South Carolina daily paper before the news becomes stale. Please bring a gold medal as! large as a cart wheel for each of the-| managers of the county fair. And, Santa Claus, please see that Manag er B. B. Jones' medal is inlaid with diamonds, rubies and pearls. Please bring Edgefield a sterling citizen to take Wallace Prescott's p^ce. The loss will be unbearable without-something to offset it. Please bring thc members of the JJ. D. C., W. C. T. U., L. T. L., K. D., J. W. A., F. L. A., W. M. S., C. L., W. M. U., "A. B. C's.," "X. Y. Z's." and all of the other women's clubs and organiza tions in Edgefield a bright, hope ful and encouraging outlook for the new year. Please, Santa Claus, if you ig nore all oth^r suggestions, bringa) lighter tax burden* for 1911. Please bring a hundred carloads of Berkshires, Essex, Tamworths, Poland Chinas, and "razor backe," distributing thep according to the I needs of the people-the needs are very great in places. Finally, Santa Claus, please bring increased patronage to every busi ness, trade and, profession in Edge field-except the doctors and un dertakers. To wish these (our friends) well will ,be wishing other friends ill. Orphans Remembered. ' The Baptist church sent a special contribution of $200 to Connie Maxwell orphanage last week. Fif ty dollars will be applied to the fund being raised to erect a build ing to take the place of the one re cently burned, and $150 will be ap plied 'to the current expenses of- the orphanage. For several years the annual con tribution from the Edgefield Bap tist church has been sufficiently) large to support five orphans. . j Farm For Rent* 83^ acres about half open land. Will rent all open land reasonable to right party. Write F. L. Parker, Johnston, S. C. "Why don't you sell that,,old mule of yours?" "Well, suh," replied Uncle Ras berry, "I jes' doesn't dare. I hasn' deface to sell him to one o'de neighbors, an' he wouldn't last foh a drive long enough to sell 'kn to a stranger.-Washington Star. AH. CORLEY, Surgeon . Dentist. Appointments at Trenton on Wednesdays. Crown and Bridge werk a specialty. Nights of Unrest. No Sleep, No Rest, No Peace for the Sufferer From Kid ney Troubles. No peace for the kidney sufferer Pain and distress from morn to night. Get up with a lame back. Twinges of backache bother you all day. Dull aching breaks your rest at night. Urinary disorders add to your misery. Get at the cause-cure , the kid neys. Doan's kidney pills will work the cure. They're for the kidneys only Have made great cures in this locality. Mrs. B F Matheny, 934 Barnes street, Augusta, Ga., says: "I am very glad to say that I haye used Doan's kidney pills with great bene fit. I suffered from backache and pains through my loins and kidneys and I could. hard ly get around for days. It was al most impossible for me to rest, I had but little strength or energy and suffered from headaches. I spent a lot of money doctoring, but did not get satisfactory results un til I heard about Doan's kidney pills and procured a box. Since using them my back does not pain me and my kidneys are normal. I now feel like a different woman and have told many of. my friends about Doan's kidney pills." For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buf falo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name-Doan's and take no other For Rent: Two one-horse farms, a portion of my home place. Ap ply to J. N. Schenk. Large . assortment of bicycles, tricycles, wagons, etc. Stewart & Kernaghan. Charles W Gordon, whose picture is given above is agent for the At lantic & Pacific Tea Company in Ogdensburg, N. Y., and resides at 78 King street, that city. In giving testimony regarding his own case, Mr. Gordon recently made the fol lowing statement: "Some time ago, while suffering from stomach catarrh, I was advised to take Cooper's New Discovery, Our $15.0< Our 20.0' They are mostly of ha ished serge worsteds inl with neat] ha strips.. Nice of colors, vi: TRIMMED ERS ALSO CLONIC SHAPES ) COMI Saved From Awful Death. How an appalling calamity in his family was prevented is told by A D McDonald, of Fayetteville, N. C. R. F. D. No. 8. "My sister had consumption," he writes, "she was very thin and pale, had no appetite and seemed to grow weaker every day, as all remedies failed, till Dr. King's New Discovery was tried, and so completely cured her, that she has not been troubled with al cough since. Its the best medicine I ever saw or heard of. " For coughs, | colds, lagrippe, asthma, croup, hem orrhage, all bronchial troubles, it j has no equal, 50c, $1.00. Trial bot tle free. Guaranteed by Penn & Holstein, W E Lynch & Co., B| Timmons. Pure mountain Buckwheat at May & Prescott's. Fresh Cranberries and cranberry sauce at B. Timmons. Nabob coffee one-pound tins 25 cents. B. Timmons. Seeded raisins, citron, currants, figs, dates and nuts of all kinds. Dunovant & Co. * We can supply you with the celebrated Indian River Florida oranges-best on the market, also apples, bananas cocoanuts, etc.. Dunovant & Co. Parched coffees at 15, 20 and 25 cents per pound. B. Timmons. morty ? ? \ wes Interesting and did so, two bottles of the prepa ration putting my stomach into good condition. Previous to my taking the New Discovery I could not eat a meal without experiencing pain and discomfort afterward. ? , "I had been in this condition for a long time, although I had tried many different remedies in search of relief, and at last reached the conclusion that I had exhausted every available resource. Cooper's New Discovery was therefore to me almost a heaven-sent blessing, and the work of the medicine was so permanent and lasting that I have had no recurrence of my former trouble whatever. "I can eat anything I care for j without noticing any bad effects af- ? terward. I have recommended Cooper's New Discovery to many persons of ray acquaintance, and it never fails to give satisfactory re sults. It reaches the seat of stomach trouble in mighty short order." Persons who are suffering from stomach disorders will find in Coop er's New Discovery a most potent remedy. There is a heavy demand for the Cooper preparations, for which we are agents in this commu nity.-(Penir & Holstein.) D and $18.00 suits at Oand 27.50 " " Navy, Bro and Gray, is now on. Owing to reduction made Lnd fin s and :erlined ir lined i range z: Tans, no goods sent on ap] HATS, SHAPES and ARE TO GO itf T] SALE. MANY 1 fcND COLORS. 2 get a to complete the leasure CORNER ST Hyson, Oolong- and Peri-Walla tea. B. Timmons. Fresh breakfast bacon at 16-2-3cts. per pound. May <fc Prescott. . Full supply of belting, packing and lace leather always on hand. Stewart & Kernaghan. Large assortment of perfumery and toilet water. ^ B. Timmons. Large assortment bf hair brushes and combs. ? B. Timmons. New crop Georgia cane syrup. May & Prescott. When you want a dependable fountain pen-the best on the mar ket-try a Waterman. We carry a full assortment of these celebrated pens. / Penn & Holstein. Hall and dining room lamps at reasonable prices. Ramsey & Jones. We keep a full supply of repairs, for the McMormick, Deering and Osborne mowers. Call on us when you need any parts. Stewart & Kernaghan. We have accepted the agency for Babcock buggies. Large shipment now on the road. Call and inspect these high-class vehicles. Ramsey & Jones. ? j , \ We can furnish you with wire for baling hay. Stewart & Kernaghan. Ye farmers, come to us for your farm wagons. Our "Old Hickory," "White Hickory" and Hackney wagons are known throughout the length and breadth of the county. They have been tested for years upon Edgefield's rough roads. Ramsey & Jones. ?H9 Its double strehgthx cuts thecoffee bp intwo;Itesuperi()T quality gives ife a value.double, its j)iiee. THE REILY TAYLOR CO^ NEW ORLEANS,U.$A. 1 $10.00 12-50 wn, Black The sale i the great in prices will be proval FEATH ?IS CY PRETTY suit Yuletide 8RE .fr* ++ ?fr* 4 Auditor's Notice. All persons owning property of any kind whatsoever, or in any capacity, as husband, guardian, executor, ad ministrator or trustee are required to make returns of the same to the Audi tor under oath within the time men tioned below and the Auditor is requir ed by law to add a penalty of 50 per cent to all property that is not return ed on or before the 20th day of Febru ary in any year. All male citizens between the ages of 21 and 60 years except those" ex empt by law are deemed taxable polls. The township assessors are respect fully requested to meei me at the ap-' pointments for taking tax returns in their respective township and they are also required to make tax returns for those who fail to make their own with in the time prescribed by law. The 50 per cent penalty will be added for fail ure to make returns. ' For the convenience of tax payers, I or my representative will be at the following appointed places on the dates mentioned to receive tax returns: Roper's, Monday Jan. 16. Meriwether, Tuesday, Jan. 17. Collier, Wednesday Jan. 18. Red Hill, Thursday Jan. 19. Clark's Hill, Friday Jan. 20. Modoc, Saturday Jan. 21. Parksville, Monday Jan. 23. Plum Branch, Tuesday Jan. 24. Will Winn's, Wednesday Jan. 25. Liberty Hill, Thursday Jan. 26. Cleora, Friday Jan. 27. Pleasant Lane, Saturday Jan. 28. Meeting Street, Monday Jan. SO. Johnston, Tuesday Jan. 31. N Herrin 's Store, Wednesday Feb. 1. . Trenton, Thursday Feb. 2. The office will be open to receive re ceive returns from the first day of January till the 20th day of February as prescrib?d by law. J. R. TlMHERHAN, Auditor E. C. S. C. James A. Dobey, DENTAL SURGEON, Johnston, S. C. Office over Farmers Bank. Building J AS. S. BYRD, SURGEON DENTIST, EDGEFIBLD, S. C. Office over Post-Office. Light Saw, Lathe and Shin gie Mills, Engines, Boilers* Supplies and repairs, Porta qle , Steam and Gasoline En gines, Saw Teeth, Files, Belts and Pipes. WOOD SAWS and SPLITTERS. Gins and Press Repairs. Try LOMBARD, . AUGUSTA, O A,