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i Gifted Entertainer. ^ Sidney Landon, the entertainer, is the best oharacterist that has ?ver appeared in Memphis. He pre sents characters as they exist and appears in make-up for each char acter, changing: rapidly before his audience.-Memphis Reveille. m, m_ I Card of Thanks. I avail myself of this means of thanking the good people of the Collier. Bed Hill and Red Oak ?Grove sections for their extreme kindness to me during the many months that I have .been in failing health. I shall never forget nor fail to appreciate what the people have done for me. J. H. Cosey. Brother Lanham on Double Duty. When it comes to tying nuptial knots Rev. P. B. Lahhara "takes the cake." Quite frequently it re quires the services of two ministers to tte the knot satisfactorily, but Mr. Lanham can tie t wo knots at once all by himself-but don't you know he trembled like the erstwhile terra firma did in 1886. Brother Littlejohn, you are not in it any more. You've lost your knot-tying laurels. Nine Days of Bargains. In this issue of The Advertiser Dr. W. E. Prescott devotes an en tire page to his bargain-giving sale ol nine days. Commencing Thurs day, January 9, he will conduct a special sale that will last through Saturday, January, 18. During this time he will offer first-class mer chandise at lower prioes than it has ever been sold in this section be fore. Every department of his large store will be included in the sale. Nothing will be reserve?!. It will pay you to borrow money and an ticipate your needs in groceries and dry goods. Read every word that Dr. Prescott says. He stands square ly behind every statement he makes. You take nu risk when you make your purchases of him. Every arti cle guaranteed to be just as repre sented. Remember that you have only nine days, and those who call first get the cream of the big bar gains offered. Read every line of the whole page advertisement. Next Lyceum Attraction. The third lyceum entertainment of the course will be given in the opera house next Wednesday even ing by Mr. Landon, the celebrated impersonator. We quote the follow ing concerning this successful en tertainer: "Mr. Landon is more than a mere impersonator-he will make you think the real, live, noted men, whom he portrays, are standing be fore you and speaking to you. "Mark Twain, our greatest hu morist, will be there and deliver an after- Jinner speech so characteristic of him, you will think, almost, that he has returned from the grave. "The genius, Poe, the little-un derstood author, will make him self more real to you and you will realize how human and appealing he was when he shows you his heart in his rendering of "Annabel Lee." "Rudyard Kipling and some of his characters will tread your stage and live for a few minutes before you. "Bill Nye" will convulse you with his fun-this portrayal is given as the result of a thorough study of the real Nye in which Mr. Lindon was assisted by Congressman Frank Nye, a brother of "Bill Nye." Only Two Changes. The campaign and primary last summer made only two changes in the official family of the county. Mr. W. G. Wells retire, as county supervisor and for the next four years Mr. A. A. Edmunds will fill that office. Mr. Wells gave the peo ple a straightforward, businesslike administration, one to which he can hereafter point with prid e. Both in the office and out upon the public roads Mr. Wells has done his very best as he saw it. Of course he has not pleased all of the pe opie. That was an impossibility.'Mr. Edmunds will likewise do his utmost to serve the people faithfully and satisfacto rily, giving the taxpayers an economic administration. The 8ecoud change was in the office of sheriff. Mr. W. G. Ousts has given place to Mr. W. R. Swearingen. Mr. Ouzt3 practically grew up m the sheriff'H office which caused him to be thoroughly fa miliar wit h the duties when he suc ceeded his lamente a father. He was courteous, conscientious, capable, makiDg a,re?ordr'.that was without ?a, blemish; ;Mtv- Swearingen, the in coming sheriff, is likewise a man of sterling q?a??y*' -ati^will also fill t he office wifu credit to himself and io the peoplebr?to elected him. S , Successful Impersonator. Sidney Landon made all laugh and he showed himself to be an im personator of no mean ability. His make-up (on the stage) of the old man was marvelous, as was also the Dutchman of New York who wanted to talk politics, and the Swede, who was homesick and in love-"Bac yimminy, aye wish aye har hem agaiu."-Valentine (Neb.) Democrat. Moved to His Farm. It is with deep regret that Edge^ field gives up Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Ouzts. They have sold their proper ty in town to Mr. J. H. Allen and Mr. M. P. Wells and have moved out to their valuable farm in the Harmony-Trenton section to make their home permanently. These good people have made useful citi zens and every phase of our com munity life will feel the effects of their absence. If Mr. Ouzts makes as good farmer as he did an officer of t he law he will be the winner of m an y agricultural prizes. Success to our friends in their new home! Letter From Gardnerville School. Asl have started back to school, my first thoughts are of writing to the dear old paper. We hare had a merry Christmas without any seri ous accidents in our community. We had at our school house a Christmas tree on Christmas day and we little ones enjoyed it bige ly. Old Santa Claus gave out a lot of presents and amused us by his attractive appearance and conversa tion. Some of our school, the Gardners and Hancocks, were absent on ac count of sickness. Our . school opened yesterday I am glad to say, with but two out of their places. Wishing you and yours a prosper ous and happy new year. Brown Eyes. Local Merchants Awake. Local merchants need now to awake, says an exchange, to the pos sibilities of the new parcel post system. The man who gets busy and takes advantage of the new system is the man for whom its benefits are stored up. The mail order houses to get trade The local mer chant has the advantage. He is near the customer and the rates for send ing matter are so much lower for his legitimate territory than they are for the long distance concerns. But he will not get this trade un less he goes out for it. It will not come to him. He must let his cus tomers know what he has and how well he can serve them through t parcel post. Advertise the fact and doubly impress it in every way pos sible. In this way you benefit your business. From Missionary John Lake. The following letter from Rev. John Lake was publish*.! in the Baptist Courier last week: Dear Dr. Cody:- You will excuse pencil and ,cheap stationery, I am sure, when I explain that much of my correspondence is carried on in trains orin railroad stations-in the odds and ends of time, during these strenuous forlough days. Mrs. Lake says it takes an iron constitution to stand a furlough home! She and I have just closed a series of meet ings in Washington, lasting a week, in which we spoke seventeen times in Baptist churches of that city. We spoke in Lexington, Ky., yes terday, and I am down for five speeches tomorrow. We are swing ing around through Louisville and Nashville, and expect to reach Greenville early in January to fill the engagements in the itinerary so kindly arranged by Mrs. J. D. Chapman. It sounds like ancient history now, but of course we see The Courier irregularly, traveling so much, and the object of this letter is to call attention to a report of a talk 1 made before the state conven tion at Abbev;lle. The brother who made the report did not, of course mean that I said there were but four .nissicnaries in the great city of Canton, but I am afraid that some people, less informed on mis sions ihan he, might fail to get my meaning. I was speaking of the number of male members of our Baptibt Mission before Brother Snuggs and I left for our furlough. Of course there are the wives of the missionaries and the single ladies, and now Brother Buckner has been called t'> Canton from Yingtak which is like robbing Peter to pay Paul-and of course there are the missionaries of other denominations in that city with its population greater than that of South Carolina, perhaps as great as Virginia or Ken tucky. I was pleading for reinforcements and I s aid that, with Brother Snuggs and me on furlough, there were just two male members of the Baptist mission in Canton when Dr. Graves and Dr. Simmons died thi* year. Please print enough of this hurriedly written scratch to make this plain to all. Think of it, there are on that compound the Theological Semina ry with some fifty students, the Boys' Academy with about a hun dredths Girla* Boarding school with something like a hundred their last yesr, the Woman's school with over a hundred, the orphanage and the School for the blind girls, and only ten members of the mission there, including Mr. and Mrs. Buckner, and only three of them men. These^same ten missionaries, in a city of some two millions, h??ve the oversight of seven Baptist ohurches and preaching halls in the city and of numerous out stations. One of these ten missionaries, Dr. Chambers, with two young men helping him, has charge of the China Baptist Publication society about which I apeak so much in these meetings, which employs some sev enty Chinese printers and workmen and gets out over a million pages of Christian literature a month. This publishing house for the Bap tists of all China is located in Can tontear the compound of our South ern Baptist Mission. Surely these figures are eloquent of Canton's need for reinforcements and explain how eager a missionary is to go back to a work that needs him so. Mrs. Lake and I are planning to go back to China earlier than we had at first planned-we would nat urally be expected to stay in this country till the summer of 1913 is past, and we hope that when you readers see this statement they will understand why it will be impossi ble for us to accept any more invi tations to speak than we have al ready accepted. We wish we could write personal letters to all in South Carolina and other states, who are so kindly inviting us, but, as our correspondence grows, this becomes impossible.Please beg your readers not to be offended when only a postal card or a notice through the papers, like this, is all the reply we can sometimes make to a letter of invitation. Tell them we would come if we could, end we would write if we could, but that we are drawing on our strength. I will not say reserved strength! se riously now. and as 60on as engage ments already are fulfilled we must take a little rest to fit us for the coming years in China. Two things:-it is extremely gratifying to see such an interest in foreign missions at home; and to see how the native workers are be ginning to bear their share of the burdens, so that ten men and wo men can oven hold the fort and mark time while the churches in the homeland are raising the funds and training the recruits for the Titanic struggle in China of the next few years-let us not permit it to bea Titanic wreck! It is God's work! Yours fraternally, John LaL_. On the wing between Washing ton and Louisville. Illustrated Lecture on Cattle Tick at Corn Exposition. Columbia, S. C., Dec. 6.-(Spe cial)-Complete details of the life story of the destructive cattle tick will be depicted in moving picture films at Fifth National Corn Expo sition here next month. Uncle Sam will conduct a moving picture show at the exposition, as one of the nu merous features of the elaborate government exhibit, and one entire reel will be devoted to a close, de tailed study of the life and habits of this expensive pest, its rapacious methods of obtaining a living, and the most effective methods of eradi cating it. . The cattle tick film has recently been completed, after two years of research in obtaining pictures. It has been given a preliminary try-out before secretary Wilson and other : officials of the department, but its first public appearance will be re- ' served for the Fifth National Corn ; Exposition, which opens January 1 27th. Thisreel is highly instructiva, and will especially interest the cat tle owners of the south, who are es timated to lose annually from $50,000,000 to $100,000,000 through the cattle tick alone. Magnified many times, the ticks in all stages of growth will crawl upon the screen before the audience. This reel is supplementary to the cattle dipping vat-another instruct ive feature of the department ex hibit, at which will be actually demonstrated this most certain, effective and permanent mothod of eradicating the cattle tick. Executor's Notice. All persons holding claims against tho estate of Camilla' B. Blalock. deceased, will present them duly at tested to the undersigned for pay ment, and all persons indebted to the said estate will make payment at once to the uudersigned. P. P. Blalock, Executor. The Corne We find our shelves v well known brands of dep( for future use. $4.00 shoes 3.50 " 3.00 " 2.50 " 2.00 M Sale prices for c Th About Time to Gill a Halt. A dispatch from Atlanta says the musty superior court room, which usually smells of moth-eaten books and stale tobacco is perfumed again with violet toilet water, carnation cologne, rosebud face powder, sweet peas and the thousand and one other seductive and commingled odors that hover over any gathering of dolled-up femininity. In jtber words it is matrimonial wash day again in Atlanta, and Judge Pendleton, aided by a jury is called upon, with the help of the law, to put asunder some ninety-two couples who believed that they were joined together by the Almighty, but who have found out since the ceremony that the Lord had nothing to do with it. The monthly Atlanta divorce court is getting to be the biggest and most spectacular event of iocal court circles. The calendar usually has anywhere from 80 to 125 cases on it, and the fair prosecutors or de fendants represent every walk of life, every grade of society. The di- j vorce suit of a prominent society woman has been known to be called on the same day as that of her ne grr^k?ok. The more we read of this divorco business in other places, the more pleased we become that South Caro lina does not allow divorces for any cause, and that over here in this be nighted region, as some divorce ad vocates refer to us, a man marries one woman fora lifetime. We hope it will never be otherwise.-Orange burg Times and Democrat. Railroads Underpaid For Car rying The Mail. Washington, D. C., Dec. 5. That the railways of the United States are underpaid for carrying the mail and that despite this fact the postmas ter general is not only seeking to have the present rates of pay reduc ed, but is plannin g to force the railways to transport without any compensation whatsoever the enor mous additional amount of mail matter expected to be offered by the public under the new parcels post to be inaugurated on January 1, such service without compensation to continue on the railways of the southeast until 1916, are some of the startling statements convincing ly set out in a pamphlet just issued by the committee on railway mail pay, representing 268 railways, op erating 214,275 miles of line. The pamphlet shows that the railways receive a smaller rate for the same space on their passenger trains devoted to the mail service than they do for the space assigned Lo passengers or express. As every , one knows that the passenger train service of the American railways is j less remunerative than the freight service this makes carrying tho mail the poorest paid service which j the railways render. Daring the last twelve years the t post office department has made g jreat reductions in the pay for rail way transportation, but has not re faced the total of its other expendi lures or the proportion of such ex- j [jenditures to its total revenues, all ? savings in the department's opera lion having been made at the ex pense of the railways. Having repeatedly failed to get ' redress from the post office depart ment for either the unjust reduc lious in pay or the numerous bur iensomc requirements made of ihem, the railways have determined lo take their case directly to the peo ple, feeling that when the facts are knovyn the American people will aot Sanction the methods which the oftioijals of the post office department r Store's Clew 0f Shoes nth too many shoes and for t indable foot wear at such price going at, per pair a !. a a a a a a a a a .< ?ash only. Respectfully, !E CORNER STOl ?ata??-WWI . .|. Get read; Blizzard coming t We hav stock o at low Dorn ? have adopted to make a record of economy for themselves by unfair treatment of the railways, which render the one vital service of the mail system, that of transporting the mails from one section of the country to another. Work for the New Year. Farmers should not forget the wet weather they had last spring. For four months there were not three consecutive days when plow ing could be done. When the first of April came there was very little land ready for planting. Never was a crop planted under such unfavora ble conditions and the cultivation was difficult. The first work to be done with the plow in the new year is prepar ing land and sowing oats. Many farmers have sown none and others did not finish before the rains cam<3. The next work will be the pre paration of land for the next crop. Let us repeat former advice. Do not turn clean land bottom-side up, bringing much clay to the surface. There are many fields with their 3oil three to four inches deep. If three inches of clay are turned up on top of that poor soil, it will be a poor crop raised on it. If the clay J s broken on sush soil only a little ihould be brought up at a lime and bat should be mixed with the top ioil. Some farmers claim that the best vay to prepare land for corn or iotton is to bed it out, breaking the lard pan. Then they should rebed j t just before planting time. There is a job on every farm vhich requires sound judgment. Farm Ft 350 acres; 14 miles Augusta; 12 mile: acres cleared. Frame 8-room resident crib, etc. Will sell at a bargain. Teri for 5 years at 8 per cent, annual inter?s JAMES FRANK & SON, :? rance Sale he next few days offer ?S that will pay you to buy $3.00 2.70 2.25 1.90 1.65 RE sard! y for the that is his way. e a big vercoats prices. z Mims That is the cutting of firewood so as to save the timber. Some time ago we passed through a lot of woodland, original forest, from which much firewood might be cut so as to promote the growth of the balance. There are many trees which have ceased to grow. They are worth nothing except for fire wood. They should be cut out so as to give the others a chance. There were many places where five or 6?x trees stand where there should be but one. Such places should be thinned and young vigorous trees left. Any farmer who has sense enough to own land ought to have sense enough to trim out his timber land so as to increase the growth of the timber left. You may notice that a small tree, taken from the woods and planted as a shade tree at the house, will soon grow and spread and be a large tree, just be cause it is not crowded. If scrubby, half-dead trees are cut from the for est and only vigorous thrifty trees left they will soon be large trees. The time has come when the pre servation of timber is very impor tant.-Spartanburg Journal. "After four in our family had died of consumption I was taken with a frightful cough and lung trouble, j but my life was saved andi gained ? 87 pounds through using DISCOVERY I W. R. Patterson, Wellington, Tex. ] PRICE BOc ands 1.00AT ALL DRUGGISTS. -MwaMW?wwwpaw w r .yr Sale i Edgefield; 4 miles Trenton; 100 ?, painted, fine repair, also baru, ms: One-third cash; balance loaned t. .: :-: Augusta, Ga. nm. mk