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l?uditor'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 meet me at the ap pointments for taking tax returns in their respective township and they are I also required to make tax returns for those who fail to make their own with in the time prescribed by law. The 50 par cent penalty will be added far 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 Jas. 15. Meriwether, Tuesday, Jan. 16. Collier, Wednesday Jan. 17. Red Hill, Thursday Jan. 18. Clark's Hill, Friday Jan. 19. Modoc, Saturday, Jan. 20. Parksville, Monday Jan. 22. Plum Branch, Tuesday Jan. 23. Morgan's Store. Wednesday Jan. 24. Liberty Hill, Thursday Jan. 25. ] Cleora, Friday J an. 26. Pleasant Lane, Saturday Jan. 27. Meeting Street, Monday Jan. 29. Johnston, Tuesday Jan. 30. Herrin's Store, Wednesday Jan. 31. Trenton, Thursday Feb. 1. The office will be open to receive re turns from the first day of January till the 20th day of February as prescribed by law. J. R. TlMMERMAN, Auditor, E. C. S. C. Annapolis Scholarship. Congressman James F. Byrnes has been called upon to fill a vacan cy at the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, by the ap pointment of a principal and three alternates for examination at the Naval Academy, . April 16, 1912. For the purpose of filling this va cancy, Mr. Byrnes will have a com petitive examination held at Black ville, S.C. Friday, December 29, 1911. Applicants must have been actual bona fide residents of the 2nd Con gressional District for the past two years, and between the ages of six teen and twenty years on April 16, 1912. Candidates are required to be of good moral character, physically sound, well-formed, and of robust constitution, and must stand a thorough examination ia all the or dinary English blanches, including algebra quadratic equa tions, and plane geometry (five books of Chauvenet's Geometry, or an equivalent.) AU persons interested should com municate with Mr. Byrnes at once. Ro?- d Trip Christmas Holiday Rates. Via Southern Railway-Premier Car rier of the South: Account of Christmas Holi days, the Southern Railway an nounces rec'ueed round trip fares between many points. Tickets on sale December 15, 16, 17, 20, 21, J 22, 28, 24, 25, 30, 31, 1911 and) January 1st, 1912, good returning | January 8, 1912. For detailed in-j formation, call on nearest Southern j Railway ticket agent, or, John L. Meek, AGPA., Atlanta, Ga. Frank L. Jenkins, TPA., Augusta, Ga. AUCTION SALE. Having decided to move to Geor gia I will sell at auction about the middle of January my piano, furni ture, store, cooking utensils, bug gies, wagons, harness, mower, rake, harrows, planters and other farming implements, 60-gallon self measur ing kerosene tank, general merchan dise, pats, corn, fodder, hay, black smith shop tools, milk cows, dry cattle, four oxen, one Devon bull, twenty head Berkshire hogs and pigs, about 40 colonies of bees. The exact date and fuller notice will be given later. S CHEATHAM. Cleora, S. C Light Saw, Lathe and Shin gie Mills, Engines, Boilers, Supplies and repairs, Porta ble , Steam and Gasoline En gines, Saw Teeth, Files, Belts and Pipes. WOOD SAWS and SPLITTERS. Gins and Press Repairs. Try LOMBARD, AUGUSTA, GA. \ PROF. TATE'S REPORT, Superintendent Fuller's Work Commended. Approves of Voting Special Levy For Schools. The following is a part of the re port made by Mr. W. K. Tate, state supervisor of rural schools, to County Superintendent of Educa tion W. W. Fuller upon his recent visit to the county, a portion of the report being withheld because of its great length: My dear Mr. Fuller: It is my custom after visiting the schodls of a county to make for my own bene fit a brief record of my impressions and to transmit a copy of my notes to the County Superintendent of Education for his information and for publication in the papers of the county, if he so wishes. I First allow me to express my ap preciation of your own hospitality and the cordial welcome which I received from all the citizens of Edgefieid county whem I had the pleasure of meeting. I shall look forward with great pleasure to a visit to your other school districts at some future time. In Edgefieid county I find much to commend. In no section of South Carolina have I seen as many coun try homes in process of erection as I saw in Ward's township. I wish that the tendency to divide up large plantations and to sell small holdings to white people who would live in the country and work with their own hands were universal in Edgefieid county and in South Carolina. I believe that the pros perity and safety of the state de mands this policy. I am pleased with the energy which you are ex hibiting in the supervision of your schools and commend most hearti ly your decision to establish Satur days and first Mondays as office days and to s >end the remainder of the week in the school rooms of Edgefieid county. I am convinced that the only supervision which counts for much in any system of schools is that in which the super visor comes in direct personal con tact with the teachers and the peo ple. I am pleased that so many of your teachers are being retained for more than one year in their posi tions. It is im possible to develop an efficient school where teachers tbange every year. If a district has had five teachers in five consecutive years, it is not necessary to ask any other question to know the unsatis factory conditions which must pre \ail in that school. In the Lott school Miss Maggie Reel is now teaching her fifth term. Since her graduation from college she has taught in no other school. The trustees have been wise enough to show their appreciation of her sor vices by words of commendation and by a substantial increase in salary. Mr. G. F. Long has been teaching at Harmony for many years and has developed there an efficient school. These examples should be followed until the reten tion of a teacher wherever it is pos sible and the annual increase in salary have become a fixed custom in Edgefieid county. I was pleased to note the interest which you are taking in the selection of good teachers for your country schools.. The greatest service which a coun ty superintendent can perform for any district is to assist the trustees in finding a good teacher. The trustees should place on the county superintendent an increasing meas ure of responsibility in this matter. I commend most heartily your efforts to pay the teacher's salaries when they are due, and to prevent the discounting of pay warrants. A teachers salary is small eneugh at best and she cannot afford to pay the substantial discounts which have been demanded in Edgefieid county. If the trustees add the dis count to her salary, "fie length of the school term must be shortened accordingly and teacher and chil- i dren are finally the losers. The school finances of Edgefieid county need serious attention from the people and their representatives in the legislature. In South Caroli na it is frequently the case that the schools open in October and the taxes to pay the teachers are not collected until December. It is com paratively easy to make arrange ments for this brief period. In Edgefieid county, however, as 1 understand it, the county school fund is a whole year overdrawn. The origin of the debt seems to be obscure, but is usually credited to the year '76 when no taxes were collected because of the unsettled state of affairs attending the over throw of the Republican govern ment The old debt has been in creased slightly from time to time until the present intolerable condi tion has resulted. I am pleased to note the con tinued movement towards special school taxes in Edgefieid county. I trust that the remain ?g districts will soon avail themselves of the opportunity which this tax offers to secure additional funds from the state treasury. Edgefield county should make more extensive use of the school building act. Three districts of the county have erected new buildings during the past year Others should speedily take advantage of this act under which the state and county pays half the cost of the ordinary rural school building. I commend most heartily the decision of the trustees in Wards district to discon tinue the Satcher Branch school The building is leno than a mile from the Lott's building and the few pupils who now attend the school can easily reach other schools. To spend $200 on six or eight pupils who can be otherwise accommodated is an unwise use of county funds. It sepms to me that the patrons of the Barr's Chapel and Antioch schools should get to gether and organize a good two teacher school. It took just seven minutes to drive from Barr's Chapel to Antioch. i*(t$ Allow me in closing to call at tention to the fact that the reading in the schools which we visited in Edgefield county was by no means satisfactory. Reading is the basis of all education. Most children in South Carolina are trying to read books far too difficult for them. Let the teachers of Edgefield county give special emphasis to reading during the current year. This sub ject should ba continued through the seven grades of the elementary school, instead of being dropped at the end of the fourth as is now frequently done. May I suggest to the good people of Edgefield that they need a new schcol building. I do not call to mind now another county seat in South Carolina which has not pro vided itself with a good school house. In my opinion, the public school in Edgefield should be mov ed to a good lot somewhat more re mote from the Institute and should be given an independent existence. Both institutions would then enter on a new period of development. Sincerely, W. K. Tate, State Supervisor Elementary Rural Schools. Mrs. Jane M. Brooks. Mrs. Jane M. Brooks, wife of the late Col. ?John Hampden Brooks, who died in Columbia about a month ago, was buried in Elmwood cemetery in this city Monday, fol lowing the funeral services at Trini ty church Monday at 1:30 o'clock. Mrs. Brooks died at her home. "Roslyn," in Greenwood county, near Ninety Six, Saturday night, December 23rd. Before her marriage te Col. Brooks, Mrs. Brooks was Mrs. Jane M. Gist, nee Miss Jane Adams, a daughter of the Tate Governor Adams of Richland county. She was a sister of Miss Mary G. Adams, who became Col. Brook's first wife. Mrs. Brooks is survived by one sister, Mrs. Caroline LeConte of "Alwehave," Richland county and ll children-Mr. Preston S. Brooks, Mrs. J. Quitman Marshall, Miss Mary P. Brooks, Mr. Carroll Brooks, Mrs. William M. Shannon, Miss Kell Brooks, Mr. Loudon Brooks, Mr. M. Berrien Brooks, Mrs. Benjamin R. Heyward, Mr. Bai ry Brooks and Mr. Whitfield Brooks.-The State. Another Little Flat Rock Girl Heard From. Editor The Advertiser: As I am just from our little Christmas en tertainment I will write you about it. AH of sur parents were there. You know that encourages us to do better each time. Old Santa Claus came to see us and brought each one a little sack of fruit. I have en joyed going to school all the fall. Miss Eileen Ouzts visited friends in this community this week. We always welcome her back at any time. Miss Ruth Vam will leave for her home at Ruffin tomorrow where she will spend her Christmas holi days. Mrs. Mattie Kenrick is going to give a tacky party for the sunbeams next Wednesday evening (December 27th) from five till eight p. m. Miss Ellie Dorn will spend her Christmas with her mother and father. Mr. O. O. Timmermau will move to Shatterfield right after Christ mas. They have bought a stove for the ' church and we can have preaching and not get cold. Everybody must hang up their stockings for Santa Sunday night. Well as this is my first attempt to write to the paper I must stop and get to work. If I find this in print I will write again. A Flat Rock School Girl. Modoc, R. F. D. FARMER AND THE MIDDLEMAN President Worst of North Dakota Agricultural College, Talks on Emancipation of Agriculture. .. President J. H. Worst, of the North Dakota agricultural college, sees some discontent up his way in the expense attached to marketing the farmers' crops. In an adrdess on the emanci pation of agriculture, delivered to the graduating class on the occasion of the seventeenth annual commence ment, his striking conclusion is that the farmer must get rid of the middle man. He said: From its strategic position, agri culture could easily regulate the dis tribution of the chief forms of wealth it produces, or at least have a voice in the organization of the machinery necessary for distributing it among the consumers of the country. More over, the financial gain that would thus reward the producer would not be the only nor yet the chief advan tage that would accrue. The effect upon the country itself would be most salutary. Higher education would be directed less toward the desire for making off the other fellow. Agricul ture would also acquire the habit of attending more largely to Its own bus iness affairs. The consumer mean while would more nearly secure his goods at prices determined by the law of supply and demand. Under the present regime, however, the farmer can neither regulate the price of what he has to sell or buy. He is completely at the mercy of those whom he supports. Most coun tries of Europe have been forced long since by sheer necessity to dispense witi?~all but necessary middlemen. The time is not far distant, moreover, in this country when agricultural co operation will become a necessity, for in business as in nature, the organiza tion invariably seizes upon and son snmes the unorganized elements. Or ganized capital exacts tribute from productive labor with the same ease and freedom with which the wheat plant captures millions of atoms of earth and air and weaves them Into its own structure, without so much as by your leave.s Hence agriculture, un organized and unco-operative, must inevitably become the common prey of organized forces. From this con clusion there can be no escape. INCREASED COST OF LIVING National Master Bachelor Says Farm* er Is Not Receiving His Propor tion of Advance. National Master Bachelder in an ad dress before the 44th annual meeting of the National Grange, used the fol lowing language: "Thi increased cost of living ls a most widely discussed question, for whs'jfc-there has been a marked ad vance in retail prices of farm prod ucts, It is a mistaken idea that the farmers are receiving proportionately higher prices. The great discrepancy between the price paid the farmer and the cost to the consumer ls due to several causes, among them being bad roads, which Increases the cost of marketing the crops; excessive freight charges, based on watered stocks far exceeding the value of the railways; and the exorbitant profits of the commission houses and others in the chain of communication between the producer and the consumer. An encouraging sign of the times is the formation of associations of farmers for the purpose of eliminating these abuses, and securing fairer treatment in the matter of freight charges, stor age charges, etc. The general adop tion of such co-operative methods by the farmers would give them. larger profits and at the same time reduce the prices paid by the consumers of the towns and cities for food stuffs." Protect the Birds. The ruthless shooting of birds 3hould be stopped right now. It is true that in some sections English sparrows and hawks are the only birds killed promiscuously. The peo ple in those sections of the country look on other birds as friends and protect them. This should be true all over the country. Robins, turtle doves, mocking birds, quail and a number of other valuable birds have almost been exterminated In many localities. We should culti vate the higher taste and think of our Interests and cease to slaughter our best friends-at least to the point of extermination. Practice Sane System. Many of our people are wide awake and rushing at high speed along the highway of achievement. Many of our farmers are clearing their land of roots and stumps, drainig the land, reducing erosion to the minimum, practicing a sane system of farming a system that means fertile Boll, rais ing large horses and mules to pull the plows, getting more pure-bred stock of all kinds, buying labor-saving farm Implements and so on. Let na all join the procession. Most Economical Way. The growing of forage crops and the keeping of pure-bred stock lie at the foundation of all economical meth ods of soil improvement. There ls no surer or faster way of increasing the fertility of fhe soil than by grow ing leguminous crops and feeding to pure-bred live stock and saving the manure and putting it on the land. It is not only a sure and fast way, but it ls also the most economical way. ......... ,,1 ?? a. fc&2tt$AtoiaB?@fi! Notice to Farmers. The Graniteville Manufacturing Company desires to purchase from the farmers and others, good grades of cotton (nothing below Strict Low Middling, Augusta Classification). Augusta prices will be paid for such v cotton. No low grades or wet cotton can be purchased, as it is undesir able for our usu. A. H. GIBERT, Secretary. Wood and Coal. I have opened a wood yard and am prepared to deliver wood any size or length anywhere i.n town at reasonable prices. Can also fill orders for coa".. . - Will move ray saw cut wood where lots of four or more cords are offered at one place. I also run a public dray. Ring me np. My phone is No. 32. J. R. TOMPKINS We are Prepared to Make Liberal Cash Advances on Cotton stored with us. Your patronage solicited. Adams Warehouse Co. First Shipment Kentucky Horses and Mules We have just received another shipment of mules and horses for the season. This stock was bought in person by Mr. Wilson athis leisure. In the lot you can find anything you want in driving and saddle horses, also some good brood mares. Would like for you to see the gentle ponies suitable for child's use. Our mules are decidedly the best bunch we ever ship ped. Some extra good large teams among them.