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'Card of Thanks. We wish to thank our neighbors and friends for their loyal and un tiring assistance they rendered du ring the illness of our loved one, J. F. Atkins. We feel grateful for their many kind acts and words of sympathy during our hour of sore bereavement. His Wife, Brother and Sisters. Roof Caught Fire. The roof of the graded ' school building caught fire Tuesday morn ing from the stovt flue. Soon a ter the alarm was given the S. C. C. I. boys secured a ladder and made a vigorous charge upon the flames. In a number of instances the college boys have proven themselves to be splendid fire fighters. The fire did but little damage to the graded school building. Will Hold State Convention Here. Edgefield will have the honor of entertaining the state convention of the United Daughters of the Con federacy next December. Several weeks ago the local chapter extend ed an invitation through Mrs. C. E. Graham, the state president. Satur day Mrs. J. D. Holstein, the presi dent of the Edgefield chapter, re ceived a letter from Mrs. Graham accepting the invitation. The last convention was held in Charleston. General Lee's Birthday. The Daughters of the Confedera cy have arranged to hold the annual exercises in observance of the birth day of General Robert E. Lee Sat urday afternoon at three o'clock in the Baptist church. Capt. N. G. Evans will act as master of ceremo nies and the address of the occasion will be delivered by Col. U. R. Brooks ot' Columbia. The opening prayer will be made by Rev. P. P. Blaloek and the closing prayer bv Dr. M. D. Jeffries. These annual occasions are generally largely at tended in Edgefield, and this year ehould be nu exception Modern Soda Fountain. There are evidences all about us that Edgefield is gradually putting on city airs. Tais does not mean that our people are imiutors but that they are steadily going for ward, keeping abreast of the times. But few indeed are the city drusr stores that have a handsomer soda fountain than the modern fountain that is being installed by Messrs. Timinons & Morgan. It is construct ed chiefly of onyx and marble and is exceedingly beautiful in design. It has attracted considerable while being erected b;. the expert who was sent out by the factoiy. Mr. P. W. Cheatham Re-elected. The first session of the new year of the county board of commission ers consumed the greater part of two days, much of the time being spent in balloting for a clerk for the board. As the salary is now $200 per annum, instead of 8100 a?? formerly, there were several men of sterling qualities who applied for the place. Near 70 ballots were tak en before the majority of the board could agree. Finally Mr. P. W. Cheatham was re-elected. He has served for the past two years and rendered very efficient service. The experience which he bas trained will enable Mr. Cheatham to render even more satisfactory service. Moved to Greenwood. It causes us much genuine sad ness to chronicle the departure of Mr. W. H. Turner and his family from among us. They moved to Greenwood last week to make their home in that thriving lit.le city, Mr. Turner having opened a store in Greenwood last September. He will however continue to conduct the Corner Store in Edgefield, di viding his time between the two places. Mr. Turner has not only been a progressive eitzen but has al ways been actively interested in every phase of our community life, never hesitating to take a stand for the right in every crisis or exigen cy that arose. While Edgefield has not lost Mr. Turner, entirely, yet we are loath even to divide his time and energies with Greenwood. Enthusiastic Mass Meering. There can no longer be any doubl in the mind of Col. F. N. K. Bai ley that the people of Edgefield very earnestly desire that he con tinue to conduct the S. C. C. I. in Edgefield. He attended the mass meeting which was held in the court house Friday afternoon and heard what representative citizens who stand for the upbuilding of the community bad to say concern ing bim and bis splendid icstitu tion. It is trae that there were few discordant notes but they fleeted only a very small portion our citizenship. It would be but 1 tie short of a miracle if all of t people of any community agre upon a given proposition. ' Thert always a minority and a major:I But in this instance the minc rity so small in numbers and represen so little of the town's interests th it is not likely to be further hea from. It was exceedingly gratii ing to see that a number of the m who have 6ince the first meeting o posed its action voted enthusias cally with the majority in the rne< ing of last Fiiday. Mr. M. P. Wells was called the chair and Mr. L. W. Cheatha was elected secretary. Gov. She pard at considerable length state the object of the meeting and spol of the value of the S. C. C. I. Edgefield, urging our people to a as one man in their efforts to ke< the institution here. His remarl made a fine impression upon tho present. Before taking his seat, Go Sheppard introduced the follow ii resolutions which by their practica ly unanimous adoption accomplis ed the purpose for which the mee ing was called: Resolved, first that it is the sem of this meeting, that the Soul Carolina Co-Educational Institu and the Public School should be d vorced absolutely and completel; and we desire to impress upon tb trustees of the public school the ic portance of accomplishing an eft ec ual and permanent separation < the two institutions. Second, that it is the sense < this meeting that the people of 01 town are morally bound to sav from loss each and all of our cit zens who became responsible to tb bank of Edgefield for the mone that was advanced for the furnisl ing and the improvement of th? ii stitute building, as represente by their n^es now held by sai bank. Third, that a building committe be appointed by the board of trus tees of the Male Academy and th board of trustees of the Publi School, acting together, whose di ty it shall be to cause an accurat estimation to be made of the repaii and improvements that are neoess; ry to be made at once to put the ii stitute building in proper and con fortable condition fur its prope maintenance. Fourth, that the senator and men hers of the House of Representative! from our county are requested t cause an act to be passed by th* legislature to authorize a levy o taxes to be made upon the property within the corporate limits of ou town, sufficient to reimburse who ever may advance the money witl which to pay for such repairs anc improvements, and to discharge tin present indebtedness of the boan of trustees, incurred in the repair and improvements on and in con nection with the institute. That saic levy of taxes should be divided into four separate payments, so that tin burden upon our citizens will bt distributed over four years and nul to exceed $4,000. Cul. P. B. Mayson was spokes mau for the opposition, but thost who were formerly with him, so fat as one could tell, voted for th? adoption of the resolution. Tht Editor of The Advertiser has beer a resident of Edgefield for more than 20 years and he has never be fore seen the people of the town sc thoroughly united as they are in their effurts to huid the S. C. C. 1. They realize the utter folly of let ting the institutiun be removed when other towns are clamoring fur schools and colleges, putting up enormous sums as inducements. Rev. R. G. Shannonbouse also spoke at length advanc.ng and stressing the idea of needed im provement of the graded schoul. His remarks with reference tu the graded school met the hearty ap proval of those present. Mr. W. L. Uunovaut also spoke of the needs of the graded school. Col. Bailey stated briefly what his connectisn had been in the past with the eraded school and express ed the opinion that the removal of the graded school from the campus would be of benefit to both institu tions Col. Bailey said he has never received a dollar of the public schoul funds, this statement being corrob rated by the trustee* of the graded school. This meeting gave Col. B iley an opportunity to make his pos-i ion perfeotly plain and to set at re >t some false reports. His friends believe that he is now bet ter understood and that both he and the colic .ie are more fully appreciat ed and ni ore thoroughly established in theconlidence of the people than they have >>een at any time during the 15 years that he .has been in Edgefield. Col. Bailey has not yet made known his decision but will make a statement for publication in a day or two. It is confidently believed that he will now refuse tho flatter ing offer that was made him by Greenwood and remain in Edgefield. Doings of the Good People of Red Hill. The holidays are over, the quietest we have ever seen. There were several marriages that your correspondent attended, Miss Robbie Jones to Mr. Preston Lyon, Mr. T. M. Hammond to Miss Rosa Holmes, Mr. Elmore Dorn to Miss Edna Eubanks. To thc above young people we extend ou>' congratula tions. Messrs. Jasper and Charlie Mc Daniel, have bought Mr. Ernes;-, Qua rles stock of goods and have al ready taken possession. They are now doing business at the Red Hill old stand. Mr. Ernest Quarlcs has moved out to his farm and will make an ideal farmer. Mr. Bob Edmunds and Mr. Wil bur Christian were in our town last Saturday. They were welcomed visi tors to the Masonic lodge. Mr. E. C. Bussey is building a nice house, also Mr. Bussey Waits is having a new house built. Mr. O. J. Holmes has had his house painted. Uncle Ollie and Aunt Mollie are getting proud in their old age. Mrs. Littlejohn and the little boys spent a week with friends and relatives in Laurens during the holi days. Miss Hassie Quarles accom panied them. They all report a good time. The repairing of Republican church has been completed. The church is up-to-date in every res pect, it is very comfortable and a thing of beauty. Rose Cottage. The Cigarette in China. The following is an interesting article taken from the ftmrth annu al Medical Missionary Conference, held at the Battle Creek Sanitarium, and is from the pen of the presi dent of the China W. C. T. TX, Mrs. Chauncey Goodrich of Pekin. This is good material for a co-ope rative meeting with missionary so cieties: "The magnificent stand that the Chi nese nation has taken to rid itself of opium is well known. It was most thrilling a year ago this winter when mass meetings were being held in Pekin that action might be taken, on the one hand to urge their own government not to make a new trea'y with England binding China for seven years longer to the impor tation of opium from India; and on the other hand to petition the Brit ish government to return to China her sovereign rights, so that she might at once cease to import opium, and make it easier to de mand that the growth of the poppy and sale of the drug should cease, to hear again and again the cry that, "The Christians of England are on our side." Up to date some of the provinces have gone republi can, some independent. This means that the whole question of the growth of the poppy and the sale of opium must again come up. What waa easy todo in an auto cratic government is far more diffi cult to do in a republican form of government, and it is with grave apprehension one reads of the re planting of the poppy in the great and magnificent province of Sze chuan, where it was so widely cul tivated and so widely used, but where the British attache, Sir Alex ander Hoxie, after most careful in vestigation for the British govern ment, said it was practically not grown at all. While working to aid the ladies of Pekin, some of them women of high rank, in their crusade against opium, the most touching instances of the terrible evil wrought by this drug came to my notic?-, bul none more so than the testimony sent me from the young women of the under world, that nine-tenths of them had been sold by their relatives for the sake of obtaining opium to satisfy their craving, and so they were "in a shoreless sea, and there was no possibility of helping them," but to save their sisters they dared beg that opium be banished from China. To say nothing of the great economic loss to China through opium. The Morals of a Nation. are gone if opium is widely u?ed. Ever since the crusade against opi um has commenced, the sale of morphia and the hypodermic needle has gone on apace, although great efforts have been made to prevent this. Up to the year 1900 many men and women were given to the smok ing of tobacco, but aa the bowl of the ordinary pipe used waa so very ? small, the evil effect was slight; but since 1900, tobacco companies have awakened to the idea that China . was an excellent field for the sale of cigarettes, and so no stone has been left unturned to introduce them in to the country. Their agents have gone into the most remote placea of the most distant provinces as well as those bordeiing on the coast. The walls of cities, villages, and even hamlets are covered with large We invite the f our 3-horse disc pl excellent work and tor deep plowing i also want you to s< well equipped fan Stews flaming- posters telling of the great value of the cigarette to banish fa tigue, to awaken an appetite, to re lieve phlegm gathering in the morn ing, to make one feel generally happy and able to accomplish more work. Pictures of the women of various nationalities, all only slight ly'atti red, are placed in some cases inpeach box, while large pictures ??reon view at each stand where these are sold. To Introduce the Cigarettes, officials and others have been pre sented freely with large boxes con taining cigarettes and in some cit ies the small boxes have been thrown in at every gateway or store to create the habit. The finest printing press in Shanghai is owned by the American and English To bacco Co., and last year they were employing one bandied and twenty five European salesmen, besides countless Chinese. The ease with which the cigarette is carried, and the ease with which it is smoked, has made its spread very rapid, un til we see men, women and even lit tle children under five, and even three years of age, smoking it. The consequence's that many Chinese unconscious of its evil effects have become so addicted to its use that the trembling hand and the trem bling jaw are very common on the part of very youn? people. Its use is undermining the health, affecting the brain, and blighting the morals The tendency to tubercular trou ble, which has carried off more of our brightest pupils in mission schools than any other disease, makes smoking the cigarette unu sually perilous to the Chinese. It is with real pain that one sees ihe cigarette taking the place of food on the part of large numbers of working people who can ill afford to forego nourishment. No small effort has been made to inform the people of the evils and to unite them in a crusade. This has been very effective in certain places, notably Foochow, where it is said to have been largely driven from the city. In Pekin we have posted large pos ters, three thousand in all, on the city walls, the posters dealing with the nature of nicotine, the evil ef fect arising from its use, and what different nationalities are doing to prevent its use among minors. This poster was prepared on be half of the W. C. T. TJ. but the tract society printed it, and created a sale for it in many provinces, and Farm F 350 acres; 14 miles Augusta; 12 mil acres cleared. Frame 8-room residen crib, etc. Will sell at a bargain. Te for 5 years at 8 per cent, annual inten JAMES FRANK & SON, armers o? Edgefield county to lows and our pony disc plows I can be easily drawn by 2 hor s now og. Better come to see ic our disc harrows and stall m should be supplied with these i rt and Kerna also a folder, tbe same in different form. More than thirty thousand of each were sold or given away. In one city in Shansi the official 'hanked the missionary who had the poster placed on the city walls. He -aid foreigners were too often ready to get gain from the Chinese and they greatly appreciated those who were striving to prevent their in- j jury. In Pekin an anti-cigarette socie ty has been started in the various girls' schools, and mass meetings are held several times a year. It has been a great revelation to many to discover that so harmless looking a thing: as a cigarette had its perils. The president of this society has been Mrs. Kung, a Chi nese lady of fine seholarbhip and a representative of China's bluest blood. The society has over a thousand members, one a princess, .herself the daugh er of a Manchu < rince, but the wife of a very en liuhtenerl Mongol prince. The Chinese, according to Wil liams, define spirits ("ehiu") a* that which perfects the good or evil in men's nature, or makes fortune or misfortune to them. The inventor of spirits is said to have been a wo man, Tu Kang. Yu Wang, one of the most virtuous of the ancient kin?!*, said that spirits would be the destruction of the empire, andi was said to have banished the mak er. At one time the 1 Chinese Were a Race of Drunkards. One has but to gather together the phrases about spirits found in liter- ' ature, and among the common say- 1 in gs, proverbs, etc., to discover that even so^simple a beverage as many claim the various kinds of alcoholic ' drinks to be, have already worked yreat evils throughout the centuries The king of Han through wine lost his faithful ministers of state; princes died because of it, while Li Po, Chin i's most famous poet, in a ( drunken bout fell into the Yang 1 Tse and was drowned, others suff- \ ered imprisonment, people were ' scattered, kings loee their feudal 1 states. Brothers, because of liquor, 1 fall out of harmony, and husbands and wives even revile their fathers 1 and mothers. It has always been common to serve spirits at feasts, but the Chinese wine cup is small, and many drank but the one cup. In fact, I have a small wine cup and on it are the words, "Grace iain One Cup." Brewers and manufacturers of al- 1 or Sale es Edgefield; 4 miles Trenton; 100 ce, painted, fine repair, also baru, ?.ms: One-third casn; balance loaned ;st. Augusta, Ga. call and inspect , the latter does ses. The saason us at once. We v cutters. Every implements. ig ban coholic drinks are emulating the tobacco companies in zeal to extend the sale of these. Advertisements in all public places, at railroad sta tions, and in the public press, dilate upon the virtues of these drinks, some stating that the advancement of foreign learning and science is due to the use of these beverages. Dinners ar? made to which princes or officials are invited, and there these drinks are served and the ap petite is formed. Foreign wines are now fashionable at all dinner parties in place of Chinese. In fact it is now common to serve wine in place of tea to guests calling. A young girl who was an an opium smoker, knowing she must break off was told that foreign wine would greatly help. The family came to one of our hospitals in great dis tress. They said the girl now had two habits, the old one of opium smoking, and the drink habit also. Perhapi no one agency has help ed of late to expedite the cause of reform in China more :han the ver nacular press. Mou of these pa pers have shown real ability in their conduct, and usually held aloft high ideals, but they have felt com pelled to accept advertisements for foreign drugs which, in the manner of expression, were fitted to cor rupt and bring about the very thing advertised against. In the new heaven and the new parth which St. John saw in vision is the city into which the nations of the earth are to bring their glory and honor. Intelligent Chinese, ??ince the war with Japan, have been stung to the quick at the posi tion their country occupied in the pyes of the world. Something within them tells them that by nat ural endowments they are not infer ior to other races, and that they have something to bring, to add to the wealth of the world. In the sariy days of the Revolution the students of Wu Ch'ang, Han Yang md Han Kow appealed to Admiral Sah to assist the revolution. They said that they plead for the free orrowth and development of the Chine ie who, if allowed to be free, ire bound to make a wonderful con tribution that will go to and enrich the civilization of th e whole world. "Friends," they cried, "does not God call us to be more courageous, to fight, yes, fight against these gi gantic evils of our race that are un fitting men and women to become, in body, mind and soul, that which God meant them to become? Tem perance is essential to freedom, and freedom is essential to man, if he suter into his divine inheritance." "Jn the beauty of the lillies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in his bosom that trans figures you and me. As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free. Since Christ is marchiag on."