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All persons owning property of any kind whatsoever, or in any capacity, as husband, guardian, executor, ad ministrator or trustees are required to make returns of the same to the Audi tor under oath within the time men tioned belovv 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 Eebru ary in any year. ?** All male ci?zens between the ages of 21 and 60 years except those ex ejnpt by law a ;e deemed taxable polls. The 50 per cent penalty will be added for failure toi make returns. For the convenience of taxpayers, I or my represen :ati ve will be at the following appointed places on the dates mentioned to receive tax returns: Roper's, Wedn ?jday Jan. 15. Meriwether, Thursday Jan. 16. Collier, Friday ian. 17. Red Hill. Saturday Jan. 18. Clark's Hill Monday Jan. 20. Modoc, Tuesday Jan. 21. P-arksviHe, Wednesday Jan. 22. Plum Branch, Thursday Jan. 23. Morgan's Store, Friday Jan. 24. Liberty Hill, Saturday Jan. 25. Cleora, Monday Jan. 27. Pleasant Lane, Tuesday Jan. 28. Meeting Street, Wednesday Jan. 29. Johnston, Thursday Jan. 30. Herin's Store, Fridav Jan. 31. Trenton, Saturday Feb. 1. The office will be open to receive re turns from the first day of January till the 20th Kay of February as prescribed by law. J. R. UlMMERMAN, Auditor, E. C. S. C. Treasurer's Notice. The County Treasurer's office will be open for the purpose of receiving: taxes from the 15th day of October, 1912, to the 15th day of March, 1913. All taxes shall be due and payable be tween the 15th day of October, 1912, and December 31st, 1912. That when taxes charged shall not be paid by December 31st, 1912, the County Auditor shall proceed to add a penalty of one per cent for January, and if taxes are not paid on or before February 1st, 1913, the County Auditor will proceed to add two per cent, and five per cent from 1st of March to the 15th of March. After which time all unpaid taxes will be collected by the Sheriff. - . The tax levies for the year 1912 are as follows: For State purposes . 5 3-4 mills. " Ordinary County 41-2 M " Cons. School tax 3 44 " Special County tax 2 3-4" 44 Bacon S. D, Special 2 " " Edgefield S. D. 2 " 44 Long Cane S. D. 3 " 44 Libertv Hill S. D. 3 " " Johnston S. D. ? 5 41 44 Collier S. D. 3 4< 44 Flat Rock S. D 4 41 44 Prescott S. D. 3 4< 4'Plum Branch S. D. No 1 5 " 44 White Town SD 3 4< 44 Trenton SD 2 " " Ward SD. 2 4< " Moss SD 3 " Parksville SD 3 M " Washington SD 2 44 " Oak Grove SD 3 44 44 Red Hill SD 21-2 " 44 Shaw 2 " 44 R R Bonds Wise T's'p 11-4 44 44 R R Bonds Pickens 3 44 44 RR Bonds Johnston 3 44 44 RR Bonds Pin? Grove 12 44 44 RR Bonds Blocker 12 44 44 44 Bonds Town Edgefield 1-2" 44 School Bonds 1 44 44 Town of Edgefield Corporation Purposes 10 44 All male citizens between the ages of | 2a years and 60 years except those ex empt by law are liable to a poll tax of One Dollar each. A capitation tax of 50 cents each is to be paid on all dogs. The law prescribes that all male citi zens between the ages of 18 and 55 years must pay $2.00 commutation tax or work six days on the public roads. As this is optional with the individual, no commutation tax is included in the property tax. So ask for road tax re ceipt when you desire to pay road tax. James T. Mims, Co. Treas. E. C. DID NOT LIKE BRIDGE PLAIN SPOKEN GUEST TOLD WHY HE OBJECTED TO IT. Mollycoddle Talk and Stereotyped Piffle Demanded By the Rules Too Much For Him. A certain large-featured, firm-jawed man, with views on things, was "in vited out" the other evening, along with his wife. After the hostess had seen to it that her guests were all well enough fed that they wouldn't have any kick com ing, they all crumpled up their nap kins and filed into the front room. They had been seated for about forty-four seconds-frail women In spacious plush or leather chairs and the more ponderous men in the party on delicate little gilt chairs out of a child's playhouse set-the hostess an nounced beamingly that they would "have some bridge." Whereupon she, assisted by her husband, a docile looking little party, began to get out a couple of card tables. "We've just enough for two tables," tb? hostess twittered on pleasantly. "I wonder which of you are the best players?" The firm-Jawed man had been watching these moves with patient resignation. "Pardon me if I seem to be casting a wet blanket on the card feature of the evening's entertainment," he put lu casually, at this juncture, "but I don't play that bridge game." "Wh-a-a-t! You don't play bridge!" exclaimed hostess and the rest of the guests in unison-just as they might have said: "And you never eat food!" "Nope " repeated the firm-Jawed man. "I never learned the game." "Oh, well, but we can soon teach you." "No. I thank you. The fact ls I don't care to learn-again begging your pardon for spoiling your plans. You know, I never could stand for the game on account of the mollycoddle ish talk I hear 'em getting off when they're at it-Tray do,' and a lot more stereotyped, piffle-piffle-who-talks-the piffle expressions. So that lets me out. I won't play any game where you have to say things just the way some fellow tells you to in a bank. I'd just as soon play the old reliable safe and sane croquet or parchesi. If you want to sit in a little game of seven-up or nosey poker, or some other good old-fashioned caru game suitable for playing anywhere from a parlor to a haymow, I'll go you, but I'll have to ask you to cancel any dates for ,me on the bridge proposition." Whereupon everybody glared at him the rest of the evening for speaking his mind so freely, and regarded him as an altogether "impossible" per son. But he did not mind. For he was rewarded with the clear conscience that goes with having stood by one's convictions. Fierce Cheese Eaters. James Oliver Curwood, the novelist and magazine writer, was aboard the steamship Megantic, at Montreal, and just before the vessel left on her trip for Liverpool was watching the loading of an enormous quantity of Canadian cheese. A number of school teachers were on the boat, bound for Quebec, and these young ladies were very much interested in the loading of the cheese. One of them asked the writer how many there were. "The Megantic takes on from 15.000 to 25,000 cheese every trip," he truth fully informed her. "How-how many people are there on board?" she asked. "About 1,200 this trip." For a moment tfie young lady re garded him in astonishment; then she looked at the cheese being loaded by the hundred. "It's truly wonderful!" she gasped. "I never would have believed it if I had not seen them with my own two eyes! And only 1,200 people! Good ness me, they must be fierce cheese eacers!"-Judge. Tb Watch Egypt's Banks. Lord Kitchener is preparing to in troduce an innovation In Egypt which is also contrary to the practice at home bi Great Britain by establishing a system of inspection for banks, both native and foreign. The rigid govern ment scrutiny of banking establish ments, both state and national, which prevails In this country, has no coun terpart in the United Kingdom. The Egyptian ministry of finance, however, has drafted a law for bank examinations which is to be submitted to the legislative council at its next session and will eventually go to the mixed court for its sanotlon, so that lt may be applied to foreign banks. In the meantime, a meeting of bank managers Is to be convoked at the ministry of finance to discuss the de tails of the scheme for; which a spo ols! department will be created. Cynical Clrcassla. Justice Levenson of Baltimore re cently raided the alimony rate La his court on account of the high cost of living. In a discussion of this wise action, the justice said: "The women of the land will thank me, but thc men-at least those men who have marital troubles-will de velop a cynicism equal to the Circas- j sian proverbs. "There's a cynical Circassian prov erb about marriage that says! " 'The next best thing to no wife ia a good wife.' " . I PUMA THE FR OD OF MAN South American Mountain Lion, Na tives Say, Will Defend Him Against Other Animals. The North American "mountain lion" does not take kindly to cap tivity or taming, but the South Amer ican representative of the species, the puma, enjoys the title among the Spanish speaking people of "el amigo del cristiano," or friend of the Chris tian, and many cases are on record wherein it has been made as tame as a domestic cat or dog. The people believe that not only will it in its wild state never attack man, but will defend him against other animals, and especially against jaguars. Felix d'Azara, a Spanish naturalist who spent years in the accumulation of material for a work on natural his tory, cites many cases known to him cf the taming of pumas. The belief of the natives of South America that the puma will defend a human being against any other wild animal is founded on the fact that in any region where two species of one genus inhabit the same country they are usually at enmity; and this being the case with the puma and the ja guar, the puma's well known indis position to attack man, joined with Its ferocity toward the jaguar, easily creates the impression that lt is de fending the human being against the jaguar. There ls a story of a Spanish gov ernor of Buenos Aires, who once had a Spanish girl tied to a tree in a place Infested by jaguars, as a punish ment for visiting the Indians. It was supposed that she would be torn to pieces by the jaguars before morn ing. The next day, however, she was found unharmed, and she averred that a puma had sat by her all night, and kept the other beasts away. This was regarded by the people at the time as a miraculous interposition in the girl's behalf. It would not be so regarded now. The puma, having no desire to eat the girl, was simply playing the part of "the dog in the manger." In the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in London there is pre served the skeleton of a puma that was the property of Edmund Kean, the tragedian. This animal used to follow Kean about his house and his garden, and wa3 even introduced into his drawing rooms. The Objection of Fritz. A veteran of more than two score years of service in th?, wholesale clothing field relates the following. It proves that entertaining buyers is by no means a modern custom, and that entertainment is not always appreciat ed by those who receive it. The scene is laid in a local men's wear house some 40 years ago. The chief charac ters are a salesman and the buyer, a shrewd merchant tailor named Fritz. Fritz had come down from his place of business that day, and in the morning, had bought, bought carefully, wisoA and well. Appreciative of his* gooxr buying, the salesman took Fritz to a rather elaborate lunch. Returning to the house, Fritz was shown a bolt of cloth. He scowled at and fingered it and, finally, bought it. For the next hour Fritz continued to look at mer chandise, his scowl deepening all the time. Nothing seemed to please him. Finally, becoming a little exasperated, the salesman asked, "What's the mat ter, Fritz? Don't you feel well." "Ach, I'm all right," replied the buy er, "but, since you made up the price of that fine meal on the first piece you sold me this afternoon, why keep tack ing it on to every piece you show?" Floating Dock Risks. At Lloyd's of late there has been an unusual amount of business in connec tion with the insurance of floating docks. Two of these huge structures one of them with a lifting capacity of 32,000 tons, built at Birkenhead, and another of the same size constructed at Wallsend-are now, to the great re lief of underwriters, at their destina tion, Portsmouth and Sheerness, re spectively. The risk on both was $2,500,000, and during the towage of each several big reinsurances were ef fected at fairly high rates. Prepara tions are being made to take the dock of 25,000 tons, which was jilt at Barrow, across the Atlantic to Mon treal, and three Dutch tugs have been engaged for the purpose. The policy at a premium of five guineas per cent, covers $1,250,000, but some underwrit ers, who fear trouble owing to the prospect of unfavorable weather con ditions, are offering reinsurance at an advance of six guineas on the original figure. On the long voyage the anxiety of the market ls naturally intense, as dally reports of the progress made are of course Impossible.-Consular Re ports. Photographing a Tornado. We frequently hear of the daring of photographers who expose themselves to real dangers in order to obtain unique and Interesting photographs. Here is an example of auch daring. Last May a tornado occurred In Okla homa which devastated a section of country near Poca City, killing a num ber of? people and destroying much property. Notice of the approach of the tornado had been telephoned ahead, which gave an enterprising photographer the chance to prepare to record the phenomenon with his camera. He took the photograph from a house which lay directly In line with the approach of the tornado. The pic ture clearly shows the funnel-shaped cloud formation. 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