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The Ad is read most 8, Strawberry Festival. The ladies of the Episcopal church Trill serve real strawberry ice-cream and cake Thursday afternoon, be ginning at four o'clock on the lawn of Mrs. Bettis Cantelou for the benefit of the church. Help these ladies by giving them a liberal pat ronage. Public School Commencement. The annual commencement ex ercises of the Edgefield graded school will take place at the college auditorium on Friday evening of this week the 10th at 8:30 o'clock. This promises to be one of best en tertainments ever arranged by the teachers of the grades, all of whom will be represented, and the public is invited to attend. "The Touchstone and Loadstone of Character." The above is the subject of the sermon at the Methodist church next Sunday night at 8:30. The morning sermon will be about some thing that everybody ought to do. Hour ll. The mens class enrolled six new members last Sunday morn ing. Don't you want to be one of six for next Sunday at 10? J. R. Walker. Presbyterian Service at Johnston In the Johnston Presbyterian church this Sunday, Rev. E. C. Bailey will preach his sermon on *'The Destruction of the Titanic in its Theological Relations." Great stress has been laid on the human side both by pulpit and press. It is Mr. Bailey's aim to raise and answer the question as to whether the Devil or God destroyed this vessel, or was it a mere "happen so," and to discuss design in all -calamity. Miss Fearless & Co. The Dixie chapter U. D. C. gave the public another successful play on Monday evening, and the patron age of the people on this occasion enabled them to raise sufficient funds to pay all debts and also lay aside enough to purchase all the needed iron crosses for veterans' graves,still leaving a surplus in their treasury. The gross receipts were about $45.00. The young ladies showed most palpably that mem bers of the male persuasion could be dispensed with on the stage at least, the play being conducted en tirely by the young ladies of the chapter, and it was interesting and humorous throughout. Daughters of Confederacy Meet The regular monthly, meeting of the II. D. C. was held at the home of Mrs. Mamie N. Tillman yester day, Tuesday afternoon. The his torical program was conducted by Mrs. R. A. Marsh, and consisted c three selections, the first read by Mrs. Lovick Mims, another 4'The seige of Vicksburg" by Mrs. A. A. . Woedson, and an article from the Confederate Veteran by Mrs. J. H. Cantelou. After the program the re-union and Memorial Day plans were dis cussed, and all committees made re ports. Each member, was requested to bring two wreaths to Mrs. J. D. Holstein's residence Thursday af ter noon. After the historical and busi ness program, strawberry ice cream .and cake was served. Mission Study Class. The last of the series of the mis sion study class was held on last evening, Tuesday, at the home of Mrs. A. E. Padgett Japan and Ar gentina being discussed. The rain was pouring at the appointed hour .but a very representative number of the class ventured ont in spite of it and were fully repaid for their effort. As it was the last meeting, and the class felt greatly indebted to Dr. Jeffries for his leadership, Mr. A. -S. Tompkins expressed to him the gratitude of the members for his valuable assistance. Thanks are also due Mrs. Tillman for her efforts in organizing and encourag ing the class. At the close of the study hour, as a climax to all pre vious occasions. Mrs. Padgett served most delightful and elaborate re freshments, and all who were fortu nate enough to attend have made very hearty expression of their pleas ant entertainment. Death of Mr. D. D. Brimson. On Thursday last Mr. D. D. Brunson passed away after a linger ing illness at the home of his neph ew, Mr. D. B. Hollingsworth. Less than a month ago, Mr. Brunson visited Edgefield as usual, but about a week before his death his illness assumed an acute form, and human hands were unable to stay the hand of death. He had lived for many years in his home adjacent to Mr. Hollingsworth. He leaves six broth ers, Capt. Joseph Brunson, of Ai ken; Mr. John Brunson, of Parks ville; Mr. ?. L. Brunson, of Edge field, and Messrs. A. L., W. P., and L. R. Brunson, of Cleora. His funeral services were conducted by Dr. M. D. Jeffries at the Baptist cemetery on Friday afternoon. Strong Appeal From President of National Farmers' Union. To the Officers and Members of the Farmers' Union: The greatest assets of this coun try are not its mighty commerce, its wonderful acreage or its gold mines. Supreme above all these rise the assets of ni ai: hood and wo manhood. And the boy and girl of today, too often snubbed and too seldom studied, are the men and women of tomorrow. I speak advisedly when I say that never in the history of the republic hajye opportunities been vaster or more plentiful than they are in this year of our Lord, 1912. I know it ia popular to say that the "trusts" and commercialism have stifled com petition and muzzled opportunity. The statement is only a half truth. I have been from one end of the country to the other. I have visited every state. I have studied conditions in practically every city of importance. I have observed above and below the surface in eve ry line of trade and industry. And, as a result, I am convinced that the loudest cry today is for men and women-not just men and women, but men and women with trained ability and charact?r. Across the front of every vocation of mo ment, they ought to erect in big let ters the sign: "MEN AND WO MEN WANTED." It would be the absolute truth, provided the men and women were properly equipped to answer the advertise ment. Do not treat your boy or your girl simply as a private possession, to be worked iu the fields when you need help, to be yanked out of school in their most receptive years in order that you may squeeze a little money out of the land| Money won in this way is the dearest bought imaginable. Money, orad vantage of any sort, won at the ex panse of the men and women of to morrow, is blood money. Not only will the parents themselves pay for it some day, but the penalty will also be visited upon the republic in a weakened citizenship, whether of husbands or wives, fathers or mothers. The old fool adage runs "children should be seen and not heard." It's a lie. They should be both seen and heard. Seen with the eye of loving, self-sacrificing intelligence, heard with the ear with faculties keen enough to catch the tramp of posterity, as well as the patter of today. Unless we follow this oourse, we fail in the duties, not on ly of parenthood, but equally of oommon American citizenship. Charles S. Barrett. NOTICE TO BREEDERS. I will stand Colonel Russell this season at my place one mile east of Parksville, known as W. R. Parks Roller Mill. I have just purchased this Jack from J. T. Cook & Co., Lexington Ky. Colonel is a black jack with white points, and is 60 inches high and is a registered jack. Terms-$12.50 to insure, money due when fact is ascertained or property ohanges hands. All oare taken to prevent accidents, but I am not responsible should any oc cur. R. A. Prioe. Parksville, S. C. A NOBLE VETERAN. Veteran of Two Wara Passes Away at Ripe Age. "God's Fi ger Touched Him, And He Sleeps." Let rae come to-day with uncov ered head, and lay a bouquet of flow ers on the newly made grave of my friend and comrade, Uncle Joe Cul breath. This is one time that I wish I could use the pen of a ready writer of this wonderful man. One hour before high twelve, April 18, 1912 God's finger touched him and Uncle Joe went from labor to re freshment. Tried by the fires of two wars, and never found wanting, he was called twice to uphold the honor and defend the flag of his country and most nobly did he answer the call. In 1846 when war was de clared against Mexico, he volun teered in Capt. J. H. Williams' company L, of the famous Palmet to Regiment, commanded by Col. Pierce Butler, and was in every bat tle in which his command was en gaged. He was promoted from Fourth Sergeant to First Lieuten ant for galantry at the battle of Vera Cruz. It was in this battle that a piece of shell tore off a part of the sole of his' shoe without wounding the foot. He was dis charged with his regiment at Mo bile, Ala., in July, 1848. He was awarded a froid medal containing $52.00 worth of gold. On one side is the Palmetto tree, the coat-of arnis of South Carolina, with his name and rank; on the other side is the sail ship landing his regiment at Vera Cruz. It is a valuable beauty, which Uncle Joe prized very highly. It is a letter of no bility, which will be kept sacred by the family, aud handed down to their children as an heritage of chivalry and courage. In 1861, when the bugles again sounded the alarm of war, Uncle Joe again responded to that call from his native county, Newberry, and volunteered in the Third South Carolina Regiment, and nobly fol lowed his mighty chieftain from Manas8as to Appomattox. For a long time he was color bearer of his regiment, and was what we call a charmed man. He was in about forty battles and skirmishes during the two wars, and was neyer wound ed. On three occasions the color guard was all shot away, but Uncle Joe held the (sacred emblem where, it could flutter in the breeze. It never left his hand nor trailed the dust, but somehow the bullets went around him. The Mexicans had tried to kill him, and the Yankees tried it for four years, but the balls were never moulded for that. Uncle Joe was again promoted to First Lieutenant (I believe at The Wilderness, may have been at Cold Harbor). Ho was my ideal of a soldier, always calm, ready to meet duty and danger, and always pres ent when the roll was called. He had three names while in the army: Uncle Joe, Big Joe, and Iron Sides, because he could not be hurt with a ball. I have known Mr. Culbreath in war and in peace. In war he was as brave as Caesar, in peace as gen tle as Ruth. Words seem too com monplace to express an estimate of Uncle Joe as a citizen. He was as loyal to truth as the needle to the pole. He was a man of strong con victions, and these convictions were based upon the high standard of truth, honesty, and virtue. He had abiding faith in Christ, and a sweet hope. He was rich in the curren cy of Heaven, and dying left be hind him the sweet fragrance of a pure Christian character. His tran quil life was an inspiration to those who knew him best As the gentle stream gives verdure andjbeauty to meadow and forest through which it flows, so his life, unselfish, ten der in his sympathies, and spark ling with humor that had no sting of malice in it, was a benediction to all who came within its influence, and he was always ready to throw the mantle of charity over the faults of others, and could say with Pope. "Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me." His devotion to his family was beautiful and his love for his friends sincere. His children bear the im press of his character in the integ rity of their manhood. He will be missed in the home, and there are no words to tell it. A chair is vacant that can never be filled. Uncle Joe played long at the game of life, but he played fair. He could say with Paul: "I am now ready to be offer ed, and the time of my departure is 'at hand. I have fought agcod fight I have finished my course, I have kept the faith." He met his Pilot face to face at the crossing, and finished his course with joy, and his body sleeps at Bethlehem Cemete ry, beneath the cedar and the pine, and all the soft whispering1 winds will chant their requiem, and the running brook hard by will sing a lullaby, while the everlasting hills will keep watch round his sleeping dust, until the trumpet shall sound in that morning. "There is no death, the stars go down, To shine upon some fairer shore, And in Heaven's jeweled crown They shine forever more. There is no death, an angel form Walks o'er this earth with silent tread, He bears our best loved ones away, And then we call them dead. But ever near us, though unseen, Their dear immortal spirits dwell, For all the boundless universe is Life-there are no dead." J. Russell Wright. Johnston, S. C. Sketch of Gov. Milledge L. Bonham. James Bonham, the father of M. L. Bonham came from Maryland to Edgefield and settled near the river in what is now Saluda county, during the early part of the nine teenth century. His mother was Sophia Smith, a ?grand daughter of that Jacob Smith I think, who settled and named Mount Willing. She was a woman of great culture and refinement, of rare intelligence from whom her noted son and her hardly less noted grandson, the present Gen. Milledge ,Bonham, have doubtless, inherited their intellectual ability. A woman noted for the extraordinarily fine, even old world manners. She waa very old when I knew her, but I never saw her lacking in any of the little essential of a lady. She lived here with her son, Gov. Bonham until she died. Milledge L. Bonham was the youngest son of his parents. Ht was considered a very pious young man and even used to preach. ] remember him well, a man of fin? personality and of a striking milka ry bearing. In the 25th year of his age h< graduated at the South Carolina College, read law and became whiU still a young man a very successfu practitioner at the Edgefield bar He was made one of the circuit So licitors and was a member of con gress when the state of South Caro lina seoeded. He was created ? Brigadier General in the Confeder ate army, was elected to the Con federate Congress in Richmond then Governor of his state to sue ceed Francis W. Pickens and hele that position for two years during the war. After the war he heh different publio offices and diet while in the service of his state It is of Bonham as a military mai and as a brigade commander that ] wish to write. He had been a military man, had fought against the Seminoles in Florida in 1836. Had served in th< United States army in Mexico ai Colonel in command of a regiment so it seemed but natural that at th? first call to arms for the defense ol the principles of his state he should have responded, and no less natura that the Powers behind the Confed erate army should have singled hin: out to be one of their Brigade lead' ers. So, in 1861 he was placed ir charge of a Brigade composed ol the second, third, seventh and eight! regiments of South Carolina volun teers. This body of soldiers did valiant service around Charlestor and in Virginia in the first battle of Manassas. After the battle of Manassas ht was elected a member of the Confed erate congress at Richmond 1861, He was Governor from 1862-1864, during which time he showed greal interest in the Confederate cause and in sending soldiers from South Carolina to fight in Virginia and Mississippi. He has been somewhat criticized for this beoause he had a great bat tle in progress in his own state at that time. The Federal army wai trying with all their might and main, both on land and at sea tc capture Charleston, in which at tempt they were never sucoessfuL It was not until Sherman's great army came over from Georgia that thc Confederates withdrew from Ch?V leeton. Bonham throughout all these trying times proved himself s War Governor indeed. "Cheering on his conntrymen while they foughl and died." Proud Edgefield! lift thy bannei high! Shout loud through age? hoary Give echo to the song that swells. Of all thy well earned glory! Agatha A. Woodsen. Dissolution Notice. Notice is hereby given that th? undersigned who have been asso ciated in business under the firm name of May ?e Prescott have dis solved said business by mutual con sent the same being sold to L T May. He assumes all liabilities anc all accounts are payable to him. L. T. May, W. T. Prescott. Program Junior Recital At College Last Friday Radetzki March.STRAUSS 1st Piano: 2nd Piano: Emma Mints Linnie Corley Corrie Vam Kittie Hutto Im FlugeUdeide.KRAMER ]st Piano: 2nd Piano: Emmie DeLoach Onida Pattison Alma DeLoach Jeanie Simkins Geneveve Norris Catherine Darlington Polonaise..RIEDING Myra Morris Polonaise.LICHNER Roland Snuggs :-: A May Day.....RATHBEEN Janie Reel, Faith Snuggs, Harry Joye. Valse Noble.B?HM Margaret May Rondo.STREABBOG Janie Reel, Nelle Clayton, Clara Sauls Marche Lyrique.KOELLING 1st ?a?o 2nd Piano: Margaret May ' Alma DeLoach Jeanie Simkins Emmie DeLoach :-: Began piano in February. v RS'?i.;c?R A clanger signal ! At last the world is beginning to co norehend th it evces?ive weight in a man->r an automobile--is a sure in lic.ttion of trouble ahead. We are selling seventy-five thousand new Fords this year because they are light est, rightest-and wonderfully econom ical. All Fords are Mod?i T's-all alike ex cept the bodies. The two passenger runabout con1? $59^-the rive passenger touring car $5cp-the delivery car $700 -the town car $900-f. o. h. Detroit, completely equipped. Grit latest cata alogue from VV. J. Hatcher and V. E. Ed wards, Johnston. S C. Tennesse Horse & Mule Feed The king of all feeds. Keeps your stock up and feed bills down. Sold by the best merchants every where. Manufactured by UNION CITY GRAIN AND FEED CO.