Edgefield advertiser. (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, January 22, 1913, Page FOUR, Image 4
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LARGEST CIRCULATION IN
EDGEFIELD COUNTY.
WEDNESDAY, TANTJARY 22, 1913.
Leisure for men of business, and
business for men of leisure, would
cure many complaints.-T HR ALE.
While the South has been needing;
electric fans and mosquito nets, the
northwest has been covered with several I
feet of snow.
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The Ohio river is - higher than it has
been t^eiore in a puncher of years. It
appears that that section is getting
rain which is due os, the rainfall in
this part of the country being consid
erably below normal for Jasuary.
Wonder how many Edgefield mer
chants have sent parcels by post? A
small package can be sent to any part
of the county for five cents. A pack
age weighing several pounds would
cost only a small sum in addi
tion.
President-elect Wilson is being ad
vised to select a good man to succeed
postmaster general Hitchcock. It is to
be hoped that one who will deal more
justly and less arbitrarily with the
public will be found tor this important'
place.
It will be a fortunate thing for South
Carolina if Oovemor Blease is over
looked and not invited to participate in
the inauguration of President Wilson.
Almost every time he goes away in an
official capacity the old state is made
to hang her head in shame.
T~he White Star Steamship line, own
ers of the unfortunate Titanic, is in
imminent danger of bankruptcy. Fifty
lawyers are after the company for
.damages wrought to their clients
through the wreck of the floating pal
ace last spring.
President Taft has accepted the Kent
Professorship of law at Yale universi
ty. As Mr. Taft is an able jurist of
many years of practical experience both
on and off the bench the duties of his
new position will afford pleasant pas
time with a comfortable salary af
fixed.
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Same mischievous boys over in Ma
con have found a new sport, which
consists of shooting tacks with rubber
"sling shots" at women's ankles,
thereby incidentally injuring the pret
ty silk hosiery. This new diversion
however has cost them a goodly sum
in'fines.
While The Advertiser has no scru
ples in the matter of holding inaugural
balls, yet we think President-elect Wil
son is reasonable and right in request
ing that the inaugural ball be elimi
nated. The bent of his life is toward
business rather than pleasure. Gov.
Wilson is an indefatigable worker, as
his achievements show.
The outlook for the crop of spring
and summer shirtwaists is rather
gloomy. Something like 100,000 shirt
waist makers in New York are on a
strike, and as a result the supply of
this skimpy little garment may not
equal the. demand. Last summer's
lingerie may have to be donned again
by the scantily clad sex.
This matter of woman's suffrage is
getting painfully near home.. A reso
lution has been introduced in the North
Carolina general assembly providing
for an amendment to the constitution
permi tiing women to vote. Let's build
a veritable Chinese wall along the
north border of Palmetto state in or
der to keep the germs back.
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The bill that has been introduced pro
viding for an appropriation of $2.000,
000 with which to erect a monument to
the memory of Abraham Lincoln on
the mall near the Washington monu
ment will doubtless meet with stout
opposition among the southern repre
sentatives in congress. It one equaliy
as imposing be erected alongside of it
in memorj of 'iobert E. Lee the south
will acquiesce most heartily.
Chinese and Japanese are leaving the
congested cities in California and are
buying real estate. If they make good
citizens, Edgefield county has several
hundred thousand acres of land that
couldlbe had by those Celestials for a
reasonable sum. Certain it is that we
need an influx of thrifty citizens from
somewhere to reclaim and cultivate the
thousands of acres of waste lands in al
most every section of the county.
There Arc Husbands and Husbands.
That some husbands are worth more
than others is shown by the ?.damage
suits that have been instituted as a re
sult of the Titanic disaster. Some
widows who lost their husbands have
asked for only $25,000 while others put
a valuation of $1,000,000 on their miss
ing half. Evidently some husbands
are worth more dead than aiive. After
seeing what large amounts these wear
'ers of "widow's weeds" will likely re
ceive, wonder how many women are
secretly wishing their husbands would
ta ke a voyage on an ill-fated ship?
Nobody could blame the inmates of
homes where "everybody works but
father" for entertaining such a wish.
Large Exporter of Raw Cotton.
Figures that have just been publish
ed in the News and Courier show that
a large portion of the cotton crop is
sent abroad through the port of Char
leston. Up to this time 25 tramp
s teamers have left Charleston this sea
son loaded with cotton for foreign
ports. The last of these to embark
carried 6,700. bales and the cargoes of
the entire 25 steamers aggregated
166,480 bales. When it is borne in
! mind that one of these vessels takes
aboard approximately as many bales
of cotton as will be marketed at Edge
field this season, some idea of the tre
mendous volume of a cargo can be
gained. While Charleston now han
dles a large volume of raw cotton, yet
when its deep water and importance as
a port are taken into consideration the
wonder is that, Charleston does not
h andie even more cotton.
Ranks Thinning Rapidly.
It is indeed sad to observe what
great inroads death has made in the
ranks of the Confederate veterans
within the past few years. Here and
there a death is announced which con
stantly reminds us that the old soldiers
are steadily passing away, but one is
brought face to face with how fow re
main in looking over large audiences
and noting the small number who are
present. When the exercises celebra
ting the birthday of General Lee were
held in the Baptist church Saturday af
ternoon only one veteran was present,
several who attended a year afro hav
ing joined their comrades on the other
shore since that time.
There are left to the sons and daugh
ters of veterans but a few years in
which to honor the men who wore the
gray uniform, and it behooves us not
to lose an opportunity of contributing
to t heir comfort and pleasure. Edge
field sent as gallant men to the Civil
war as ever drew a sword or shoulder
ed a gun, and they richly deserve
every honor that can be heaped upon
them.
Country Life More Attractive.
Five cents cotton and the generally
depressed condition which resulted
drove hundreds and thousands of far
mers from the rural districts to the
towns and cities a decade or so ago to
seek employment. Now the tide has
turned and all over the country the
slogan is heard, "Back toihefarm."
Not only are all farm products bring
ing better price? but rural conoitions
generally are more attractive. The
daily free delivery of mails has brought
even the remote country districts into
intimate touch with the world. The
rural telephone lines in many sections
have greatly added to the comforts
and pleasures of country life. Instead
of being isolated, a farmer who resides
ten, fifteen or twenty miles from town
who is on a telephone line can converse
.sith neighbors or friends socially or
on business one or ten miles away as
conveniently as if it was only across
the street.
Now that the parcel post has come
farmers ca., have merchandise deliver
ed at their doors in the country prac
tically as cheaply as can the suburban
residents of the cities. Every form
and phase of country life is more at
tractive than ever before in the histo
ry of the country. And that which is
of greater importance in connection
with the efforts that are being made
to re-people the country districts with
a thrifty white population is the very
decided advance in all farm products.
Within the past decade all farm pro
ducts have advanced from 10 to 100
per cent.
The one thing that ?snow most need
ed, not only in this county but in eve
r} county in the state in the matter of
rendering country life still more at
tractive, is better roads. Modern roads
will make it easier and less expensive
to market farm products, as well as
making it easier for neighbor to visit
neighbor and to attend schools and
churches.
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% Current Comment !
Likes Cheap Notoriety.
Governor P.lease seems to be doing
his best to raise a row with some one.
- Orangeburg Time* and Democrat.
As the governor likes cheap notorie
ty he generally succeeds in raising a
rump us whether in the state or out.
A Safe, Sensible Man.
No panics, no inaugural ball, no
daily hand-shakings. Woodrow Wilson
is making good start. -Spartanburg
Journal.
Woodrow Wilson has made good from
the day he announced his candidacy.
Some Good Advice.
When you wish to say a mean thing
about a neighbor, keep the word back
a while if it almost kills you. Perhaps
you will not say it after waiting.
Spartanburg Journal.
Half of the mean and spiteful things
that are uttered would never be said if
they were given serious reflection.
Keep "Uncle Josh" at Home.
The Anderson Mail consoles itselfjby
saying that "the people should be con
siderate and not judge some counties by
their legislative delegation. "-Green
wood Journal. ?>
If the Anderson people are ashamed
of some members of its delegation,
why don't they keep them at home?
Wants Them Out of His Way.
Governor Blease might'condense his
messages to the legislature on the sub
ject of newspaper editors with a brief
message something like this: "I re
oommend the passage of a law that
will require all newspaper editors to
get off the earth except those that are
my political friends. -NewberrykOb
server.
Our contemporary sums up the situ
ation in a few words.
Condemns Governor's Act.
The Newberry Herald and News,
one of che few newspapers in the State
which is friendly to the governor, does
not like his wholesale removal of nota
ries public. This office is one of ne
cessity in business affairs and should
not be made the plaything of a parti
san executive. The general assembly
should take steps at the present ses
sion to remedy such a condition. - Bam
berg Herald.
Every unprejudiced man will con
demn the governor for revoking the
n otary public commissions indiscrim
inately.
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"Pa, . hat is rara avis?"
"A Democrat, my son,who doesn't
think he's going to get some sort of
job toen."-birmingham Age-Her-,
aid.
Willie-Paw, what is a speech
less dinner?
Paw-One where the guests are
too full for utterance, my son.
C incinnati inquirer.
. "You seem to know a great deal
about Mrs. Wombat's affairs. I
dido'? know you moved in the same
circle."
''We have the same laundress,"
said the other lady, guardedly.
Pittsburg Post
"I can't understand how you have
the presumption to think I \\ ould
permit mv daughter to become your
wife."
"It does seem rather surprising,
I suppose; but cheer np. You're not
half as badly upset as I was when
she su?r?xested it to me."
Teddy was walking across the
fields with bis grandpa when be saw
a cow for the first time, "What is
that, grandpa*"' he asked. "Why,
that's only a cow," was the reply.
"And what are those things on his
head?" "Horns, Teddy." The two
walked on. Presently the cow mooed
loud and long. Teddy was amazed.
Looking back, he said, "Which
horn did she blow, grandpa?"
London Weekly Telegraph.
"Mrs. Dowdier wa? here this
morning. She said she saw you at
the grand opera night before last?"
she asked.
"Yes, my husband and I go regu
larly twice a week."
1 "She seemed to think it was ter
rible the way some of the ladies
were dressed."
"Ob, did she? I thought it was a
very dressy crowd."
"She objected to the low-cut
gowns that some of the women had
on. She said she wouldn't think of
appearing in public in that way."
"I don't blame ber. If I had a
neck like the upper side of a wash
board I should feel just as she does
PDOUt it."'-Chicago Record-Herald
Full linc of liou.?e paints of all
ki nds. detour prices before buy
ing.
Timmons Sz Morgan.
MAN HEIM CF ALL THE AGES
His Body and Mind the Accumulated
Inheritance of Countless Myriado
of Forebears.
Man is the heir of all the geologic
ages; he inherits the earth after
countless generations of animals and
plants, and the beneficent forces of
wind and rain, air and Bky, have in
the course of millions of years pre
pared it for him. His body has been
built for him through the lives and
struggles of the countless beings who
are in the line of his long descent;
his mind is equally an accumulated
Inheritance of the mental growth of
the myriads of thinking men and un
thinking animals that went before
him. In the forms of his humbler fore
bears he has himself lived and died
myriads of times to make ready the
soil that nurses and sustains him to
day. He ls a debtor to Cambrian and
Silurian times, to the dragons and
saurians and mastodons that have
roamed over the earth. Indeed, what
ls there or has there been In the uni
verse that he is not Indebted to?
One would fain arrive at some con
crete belief or image of his life or
descent in geologic times as he does
in the historic period. But how hard
lt is to do so. Can we form any men
tal picture of the actual animal forms
that the manward impulse has trav
eled through? With all the light that
paleontology throws upon the animal
life of the past, can we see where
amid the revel of these b'.zarre forms
our ancestor hid himself? Can we
see him as a reptile In the-slime of
the jungle or in the waters of the
Mesozoic world? What mark or sign
was there upon him at that time to
the future that was before him? Can
we see him as a fish in the old De
vonian seas or lakes? The primitive
fishes were moBtly of the shark kind.
Is there any connection between that
fact and the human sharks of today?
Much less can one picture to one's
self what his ancestor was like in the i
age of the invertebrates amid the trllo- j
bites, for example, of the earlier
paleozoic seas. But we must go back
even earlier than that, back to uni
cellular life and to original proto
plasm, and finally back to fiery nebu
lous matter. What can we make of
it all by way of concrete conception
what actually took place-of the visi
ble, eating, warring, breeding animal
forms in wt ose safe-keeping our heri
tage lay? Nothing.-John Burroughs,
In The North Americian Review.
Inadvertent Humor of Signs.
"Long before Dickens turned the
limelight upon that Tooley street sign:
'Carpets cleaned, advice given, fur
niture moved and poetry written on
any subject.' the study of a city's
signs has interested the strolling
stranger," remarked a stopover tour
ist from the west.
"How suggestive that sign of a cou
ple of ice dealers we saw this morning
?2 Georgetown, 'Coot and High.' And
tue versatility of his race was exhibit
ed by an Italian in a sign over his
shop on Ninth street, near the public
library: "Wood, Spaghetti, Coal and
Olive Oil'-all the Italian necessities
of liff.
" 'Have you got any coal oil ?' I ask
ed, urged by curiosity.
" 'You se da sign,' was the Delphic
response! I don't know now whether
he had any or not.
"As we neared the wharf, bound for
Mount Vernon, my wife pointed to a
great roof sign, over a large supply
house: 'Iron Sinks; Wood Floats,'
lt ran. " 'Humph,' she sneered con
temptuously, 'we didn't have to come
all the way from Indiana to find that
out' "-Washington Times.
Many Soldiers In Munich.
One cannot walk half a square in
Munich without hearing the clank of
a sword. It makes one think of two
things, preparedness and taxes. The
German officer and soldier is omni
present. He looms up before you. in
his close-fitting gray coat and high
red collar, at the theater, the opera,
the concert, the cafe-everywhere.
He passes your window, perhaps in
the morning at the head of a com
pany of soldiers, all of them singing
a rousing marching song at a rapid
cadence. And it is the singing soldier
who interests one the most. His song
is unlike anything we hear at home.
One hundred of him marching down
a hard granito street at sunrise, with
the tramp of many feet marking the
time of the song, will get anyone out
of bed. The song has a way of halt
ing here and there for a brief inter
val. In the middle of a parase it sud
denly rests, while three or four re
sounding steps ring out on the pave
ments. And then the song goes on
again until lt dies away in the dis
tance.
Dried Peas as Liver Pills.
An enterprising swindler in England
has recently been arrested for selling
dried peas as "little liver pills." They
were sold on the assurance that they
were "excellent medicine." Of course,
dried peas are not an "excellent medi
cine," neither will they cure "liver
trouble," but the same may be said of
the many liver pills which contain
drugs and are sold under claims even
more fraudulent. The British swind
ler Should have been better informed.
When he desires to sell "liver pills"
he should put some drugs in them
poisonous or otherwise, the kind
doesn't matter. Then he can lio
about his product to his heart's con
tent and he will be immune from ar
rest. In fact, If he can sell enough of
them he may look forward to a peer
age. In Groat Britain, as in the Unit
ed States, it is not the mere act of
swindling, hut UH* method, that proves i
dangerous.-From the Journal of tba I
American Medical Association. I
McCall Patterns in Stock
WE
We wish to inform the ladies of EdgefieU
and the surrounding country that we now han
dle McCall patterns and are keeping some in
stock that you will not have trouble of waiting
to order. We will take orders for the McCall
Magazine for
50 CENTS A YEAR
and give you any 15c pattern out of stock.
Any little giri 12 years old and under calling
at our store will be given free by asking, one
doll pattern.
Yours to serve,
Rives Brothers
Horses And Mules
I am now located at Edgefield
:n the western part of town at
the place of Mrs. Emma Marsh
and will have on hand mules and
horses for sale or exchange.
B. Lo HOLSTON
General Insurance Agency
I beg to annouuee to my friends and the public
generally that I have re-entered the fire insurance
business, and am in a position to place any business
intrusted to me with a due and proper regard for
the confidence placed in me by my patrons.
I also represen: one of the leading Life and Acci
dent Health companies. Respectfully soliciting a
share of your business and with appreciation ot
past kindnesses shown me, I am, truly yours,
C. A. Griffin,
Rear of N. G. Evans, Esq .
entucky
Stock
Our second ear of
horses has just arrived
They were purchased in
by our Mr. B. B. Wilson in
person.
Come in to see us when you
need a good horsQ or
mule at a reasonable pri?e