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(Mest ?Netuspapetr Sn ^Mh Cantal EDGEFIELD, S. C., WEDNESDAY,JANUARY 29,1913 JOHNSTON LETTER. Mr. and Mrs. Jack A. Lott En tertain. Many Visitors. Johnston Represented at Corn Show. Mr. and Mrs. Jack A. Lott gave a iinner on Friday evening and it was one of the most delightfully pleasant and informal affairs of the week's social calendar. An occasion here is always a happy one, but at this time the host and hostess ex celled themselves by their genial spirit and cordial hospitality. The festive board was beautiful to be hold. The centerpiece was of nar cissus and violets, and boutonni?res of violets were at each cover. A several course dinner was served during which time conversation waxed merrily. Seated with the host and hostess were Misses Sara Beaks, Lila Maud Willis, Frances Strother, Maud Nickerson, Nina Ouzts, Lylie LaGrone and Zena Payne, and Mes srs. E. H. Smith, W. E. LaGrone, A. L. Clark, J. Howard Payne and J. E. Bland. Mrs. Lujy McLenna is the guest of relatives at Batesburg. Mr. Stanton Lott,i of the South Carolina University, spent the week end at his h< nie here. The splendid record he is .nuking is heard of with great pleasure by his numerous friends. Misses Nina Ouzts and Pet La Grone visiwa in Edgefield last week. Mr. Wilmet Ouzts spent a few days of the pu?t week in Tenille, Ga. Miss Orrie Sabe Miller, of Tren ton, has been the guest of friends here. Miss Garber, of Winnsboro,spent a few days of the past week with Miss Glady> Sawyer. Ralph Wilber, of Appleton. S. G., visited here recently. Mrs. L. B. Aspell, of Winston r?ale.:;, -V: i_^??^h^ire ' during" hrsrt eek with friends. Messrs. W. M. Clark and W. W. Satcher spent Thursday in Augus ta. Mrs. Percy Norris, of Aiken, has been the gue&t of her sister, Mrs. J. E. Sweuriugen. Mrs. R. E. Maffett, of Leesville, visited the family of Mi. W. B. Maffett last week. Miss Sallie Dozier gave a party for a few of her young friends last Saturday afternoon, and they all en joyed the hours with their friend and befire departing they were served with delicious refreshments. Mr. O. D. Black received a tele gram on Saturday from his brother, Rev. J. T. Black, of Anderson, stating the sudden death of his wife. He left immediately to be with his brother and to attend the funeral, which took place on Mon day. Mrs. Black is pleasantly re membered here, she wiih her hus band and two little boys having visited in our town a year or more ago. She was a sister of Mrs. Broad UB Knight, of Trenton. There were nine s ste rs in the family, eight of whom are living. Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Wright, of Greenwood spent last week here with relatives. Rev. Browne, of Aiken, was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Mike Clark the last of the week. Miss Alice Wilson, of Lexing ton, has returned to her home after a visit to her sister, Mrs. W. E. Moyer. Mrs. Pope Perry who has been ill for the past two weeks, is much improved. Messrs. F. S. and Julian Bland and Howard Payne went over to Columbia on Saturday to see "The Rose Maid." Mrs. Bettie Cogburn spent last week at Trenton with Mrs. Monroe Swearingen. Mr. Pickens Turner visited at the home of his nephew Mr. M. T. Tur ner last week. Mesdames Bettie Allen and Mary Ashlev, of Fruit Hill, were guests last week at the home of Dr. B. L. Allen. Dr. E. C. Ridgel, of Batesburg, "was here during the week. Mrs. Clifton Mitchell has been visiting her mother Mrs. Anna Strother. Mrs. Harry Hamilton, who has been spending two months at the ome of her father. Mr. A. C. Mob , contemplates returning to her e in Virginia this week. Her visit, has been a source of great pleasure to many frierais and it is regretted that her home is row so far away. Mr. W. T. Allen, of Atlanta, spent Sunday here with friends. Johnson is being well represented at the corn show in Columbia this week. There is a plan on foot by which ata future date, the town will boast a clock. Alcohol in Modern Business. A vacancy "occurred in a great New York bankiner house. The salary was large and the position very important. A young man from an inland city with influential friends was suggested as the proper person to fill the place. A number of influential persons united in the warmest commendations of his character and ability. Letters recom mending him were sent to the bank, and he received a request to call and see the president. He was received with affability and after a few minutes conversa tion was told that other arrange ments had been made and the place had been filled, or was about to be given to another man. He was shocked beyond measure and went home greatly disappointed. An intimate friend of the presi dent, who had warmly commended him, wrote inquiring why the place had been given to another man. The answer came back "We never em ploy men in our bank who come to us with alcoholic breath." Then it dawned on him that, feeling ner vous before calling on the president, the young man had taken a glass of wine, supposing that it would steady his nerves and make him more presentable. A famous surgeon was called to perforo' an operation on the son of a wealthy manufacturer. H? reach ed the house after midnight. As the night was cold and he hud to get in a ba&.some...miles f/om the rail road station, he took a glajs of whiskey. When he reached the house his breath indicated what he bad drunk. The manufacturer received him in the parlor, and after a few min utes conversation, said, "I have been in business over forty years and have a large number of men in my employ. 1 never allow any man to do important worK for me, who has an alcoholic breath. I must ad here to my custom, pay you your fee, and have some other doctor do the work. The physician retired with a new light and a conception that the business world had a far clearer no tion of the effects of alcohol than he had. A third instance. The president of a large railroad accidentally step ped info the office of the train dis patcher on one division of the road. The dispatcher had been in the ser vice many years and was considered very reliable, and yet that day he had an alcoholic breath. After a few moments' conversation the nresident called the superintendent .'..)d told him to replace that man at once, no matter what his excuse might be. Then he lett orders that everv man with an alcoholic breath should be dropped from the rolls of the company. A man of wea'th carne from the west to New York to elose a most imponant business agreement. On the invitation of a friend he wem into one of the big clubs to dinner. At the table not far away he notic ed two men dining and drinking freely from a bottle of whiskey. That afternoon, to his astonish ment, both of these men appeared as principals in the b usiness ar rangements be was about to make. To the surprise of all he flatly re fused to go on, saying that he had changed his mind. The next day he declared to a confidential friend that he would have no dealings with any man who felt it necessary to use spirits at meals or otherwise; that in Iiis life he had suffered more from contact with moderate drink ers than with fools and knaves. These instances may be duplicat ed in business circles, and show clearly that business men recognize total abstinence as one ol' the essen tials for good work in all th : de partments. The best brains, the clearest in tellect and the most perfect com mand of all the faculties are re quired in the work to-day, and I any thing less than this is inviting disaster. There is no theory in this or sentiment. It is hard, bitter ex perience which the business world is learning rapidly. Business, like science, has no concern with iradi tions of thc food and stimulant val ue of alcohol. . The one fact is clear to them that the man with an alcoholic breath has an impaired mentality artd con trol of his brain power;- that ?he man with the alcoholic breath j s not trustworthy. lie is incapable and in some unknown way. he will fail to meet the requirements o?t,he present. A great defalcation in a bank? caused widespread disaster, and tun* was directly traceable to the man with an alcoholic breath, who mid:, managed its affairs. A recent railroad accident was dated from the failure *>f two differ ent men, both of whom were known to have used spirits before the acci dent. These tacts are coming into the business world so sharply and. so clearly that there is no question aud no doubt about them.-T. D. Crotli ers, M. D., in International Good Templar. Letter From Gard nemile School. Dear Mr. Editor: As our school closes in just one more week we thought we would write one more letter. Our teacher will teach the Lenior school after our school clos es. We hate very much to give up Miss Mary but we all hope that we will be fortunate enough to get her back next year. Mr. John Matthews who has been quite ill with pneumonia for some time is steadily improving. Mr. and Mrs. Bennie Lanham visited the latter's parente last Sun day. Mr. John Reynolds whe has been quite sick is much better. Mr. J. V. Cooper is having a new | saw mill installed on his place and as soon as the lumber can be sawed he will bei,i:i tile b?iidi?g Oi" *!?Td now home. Messrs. Wylie Glover, Joe Gard ner, Mr. Bungey and several othei men of this community went fox hunting last niirht. Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Sweirin gen and little daughter Wilma, visited Mrs. Swearingen's parents last Sunday. One of our lovely little girls Miss Christine Cooper has been absent from school this week on account of tonsilitis. Mrs. Claude Werts of Johnston visited her parents Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Stevens a few weeks ag??. Superintendent of ?ducation Ful ler visited our school last Wednes day. We are always glad to have our suoerintendent visit us. Mr. Tolbert Glover is suffering from a nervous break down. We wish him a speedy recovery. Mr. J. S. Reynolds, and sweet little daughter Ellie Lou, visited relatives in Johnston Sunday. The Chums. Giving Thought to Seed Selec tion. Farmers are already discussing what kind or variety of seed they will plant. To seo them co deeply interested in this important matter is an encouraging sign of the times. Not many years ago farmers, even the most intelligent and most pto gressive class, would plant almost any ki nd of seed. About the only thing which concerned them then was the soundness of the seed, while now they are also concerned about the proper selection. They not on ly want seed trat will gi-rminate, af fording a complete stand, but they want seed that will bring satisfacto ry results at the harvest time. It costs as much to fertilize and work a weak, fruitless stalk of corn or cotton as it does a vigorous, well fruited stalk. Farmers have learned < this after much dearly-bought ex perience. Give your seed selection c thought and study, obtaining tile very best seed possible, not counting j the cost within reasonable limits, lt will pay handsomely in the end It was in the church yard. The morn ?cg sun shone brightly and ( the dew wa.* still on the grass. '"Ah, this is the weather that make.^ j things spring up," remarked tin passerby casual ly to an old gentle- \ man seated on a bench. "Hu<h, leplii'd the old gentleman, j I've got three wives buried here " One Way to Increase Farm Profits. Your profits from your farming is ; merely the difference between wfi?tiyon get for your crop? and what ii costs you to produce them. if cotton sells for twelve cents a pojind and you make 180 pouuds t( iheacreata cost of nine cents a pound your profit is $5.40 per acre, [f cotton sells for ten cents a pound md you make 500 pounds per acre it a cost of 7 cents a pound, your protiton *?c "e is $15. In othe? tvo^dsi the. i tw0 ways for you io increase j ?. ur profits. One is to ret more for what vou make; the :>tber is to make it at less cost. You ought to make an effort ilong both these lines; *but the lat .erfb'ne is the more impoitant, both be?au?c the individual can do more x> cheapen production than to raise prices ?md because the average cost if production is more above what it should be than the average prices relived for farm products are be lo*' a fair standard. T/he first thing to do to reduce ?be cost of production is to increase Lhe average yield per acre. The av 3rage crop in the South is net a pro fitable crop. You must make more ?hau 180 pounds of cotton or 18 bushell* of com per acre if you make much money farming. You can increace your average fields in two ways. You can prac tice better methods and you can luit working land that is too poor to produce a fair crop. You don't nave to pl int corn on land that will lot make more than fifteen bushels lo the acre. You are doing a fool sh thing when you do it, for you can make more off of such land, by planting it in some other crop, say cowpeas or soy beans, and you can '?et more for your labor by working for wages. "Lei's getdown to business in this matter-before the planting season be**Akand ? resolve that we will rn^HBww^c;-:.>grq;a cr&p uiil.*rd> too'j??or to give us reasonable hope af a fair yield. The only crops to plant on such land are soil-building 3rops-the legumes. Give the land i chance and give yourself a chance. Don't put your labor where you know it will not pay. Thousands will do it; bnt you need not. Keep the corn and cotton off thc Hopelessly poor acres. This is one -ure way to increase farm profits - Progressive Farmer. One of These Days. Say! Let's forget it! Let's put it asid?! Life is so short and the world is so wide, Days are so short and there's so much to do, What if it was false-there's so much that's true. Say! Let's forget! Let's brush it away Now and forever! So, what do you say? A.11 of the bitter words said shall be praise, One of these days. Say! Let's forgive it! Let's wipe off the slate! Fig! something better to cherish than nate. There's so much good in the world that we've had Let's strike a balance, and cross off the bad. Say! Let's forgive it, whatever it be; Let's not be slaves when we ought to be free. We shall be walking in sunshiny ways One of these days. Say! Let's not cake it so sorely to heart! rlatesmaybe friendships just drifted apart, Failure bc genius not quite under stood; Ne could all help folks so much if we would. say! Let's get closer to somebody's side, See what his dream is and know how he tried, j^arn if our scoldings won't give way to praise One of these days. jay! Let's not wither.' Let's branch , out and rise )ut ol' the byways and nearer the t ski.'s; ! ,ei's spread some shade that's refresh ing and deep Nher-y some tired traveler may lie down and sleep. Jay! L.'t's not tarry! Let's do it right now! Horne Mixing of Fertilizers. Manufacturers claim, says tlx Spartanburg Journal, that no far mer can mix the ingredients which go into a fertilizar in a satisfactory way. That is to say, if a farmei wished to make a 10-4 acid phos phate and potash mixture, he can not possibly mix the two ingredi ents so they will run in a regular way. Now, if a farmer wished 2,000 pounds, which would analyize 10-4-, he could take 1,250 pounds of 16 per cent, acid phosphate and 077 pounds of kainit and mix thorough ly and he would have 1,237 pounds. If he wished an even ton he could add 73 pounds of dry dirt or any of anything else which would do for a iiller. If he wished to get the same grade from 14 per ceut. acid, he would have to take 1,428 pounds of acid phosphate and 667 pounds of kainit and this mixture would give him 2,095 pounds in stead of an exact ton. Any farmer can mix the acid and kainit thoroughly with a hoe and shovel. The work would be so thoroughly done that samples taken from different ends of the sack would show little difference in the analysis. The cost of acid phos phate and kainit in either case would be about $14.25 to $14.75, according to the price of the mate rial. Now if the larmer should go to the dealer for' the 10-4 he would pay 518. That is, he would have to pay $3 for the mixing, which he could do as well at home. The farmer who uses only a ton or two and who does not understand what his land or special crop needs should not attempt to do the mix ing unless he does the \\ork under the advice and instruction of some one who understands the business. Such men should buy just what they can get from their local dealer. But the farmer, who uses ten tons up, can afford to mix to suit each lot of land and each crop. He ouirhtto, be able toy figure 'out just what amounts of each ingredient will be needed to give the desired analysis. If there is a field with tiiin. san dy soil after breaking Lha hard pan and putting in good condition, pot ash and nitrogen would be needed. On such land thee should be at least 5 per cent, of potash and nearly as much nitrogen. On land recently clea;ed, or with a good heavy sod or stubble turned under, more phosphoric acid would be needed and less potash and nitro gen. The farmer should study the analysis of his mature crops, so thal he would know which kind oi plant food was demanded. Oui schoolbooks need amending some what. A few such questions a> these would have a practical mean ing for the boys. How much acid phosphate and kainit should be mixed to get an 8.6 mixture? How much tiller to the ton, il' any, was necessary y How much 16 per cent, acid, muriate of potash and cotton seed meal should be used to give a 9-5-3 mixture? What is the ac tual value and weight ol' available plant food in a ton of fertilizer which contains 8 per cunt of phos phoric acid, 4 per cent, of potash and 3 per cent, of ammonia? That chapter should be added to arith metics, so thatyoung farmers could make their own calculation? and mix fertilizers so as to get special grades. The Value of Cotton Seed Meal. Wise is that farmer who ex changes his cotton seed for meal. If he feeds it to cattle and saves all ihe manure and distributes it evenly he will ?iel double pay, for it is i-.s timated that manure will be equal to the cost of the meal, for the hay and other forage and bedding goes in with the manure. But tile followinjr suggestions are for the farmers who use the meal without feeding. In buying acid phosphate and potash, it is cheaper to buy the IC per cent, acid and muriate ol potanh. In buying a ton ot kainit oin? yets : 250 pounds of available potafh. ; A ton of muriate of potash con- i tains 1,000 pounds, or five times : as much, and the freight is the same. * Suppose a farmer has the meal .' on hand and he wishes a high- I ffrade fertilizer. Let him mix 1,000 < pounds of acid phosphate, 2?o t pounds muriate of potash and 8UO pounds of cotton seed meal. That will give him a ton, which s will analyze 0-5.S-2.8. Suppose jf he wants more ammonia and le-> ? CORN EXPOSITION. Every Farmer Should Attend. Great Exposition Lasts Until February 8. Many States Represented. Every farmer in the south ought to be laying his plann to visit Co ombia S. C., during the national ::orn exposition which will last un til the 8th of February. It is not >nly the biggest thing of the sort which bas ever been held in this ?tateor the south, but in some res >eets it will be ahead of anything he country has ever seen. In a sense it is a misnomer to ipeak of it as a com show. Of jourse, it is a corn show, and pre iininently so, but it does not stop .here by any means. Step by step t has grown in the last half dozer* /ears until its sci?pe has been broad jned to include practically every mportant problem of agricultural ) rog ress. The exposition this year promises ;o be by odds the best that has been ?eld since the project was first con jeived. More time has been allow id for preparation and those who ire in charge of it have been at vork now for nearly two years naking all the needful arrange nents and thoroughly advertising the event throughout the entire jountry. It is expected that at least thirty-five states will be represented; letween twenty-five and thirty ag" rica kural colleges and experiment stations will have exhibits; more in lividual competitors have been en- . tered than ever before, and con gress having at last given the expo sition officiai recognition, the fed eral department of agriculture is nstalling the most comprehensive ind elaborate exhibit ever put up it any exposition. Too obvious to require stressing 7 ire the benefits frhich the. south ?fiouia reap 'from the bringing -to v rhia section of hundreds of the most prosperous and intelligent agricul turalists of other parts of America. They will be here from the farthest tontines of the nation and a con siderable percentage of them will i)e men who have learned in the ichool of experience how to esti mate the value of undeveloped op portunities. It will pay the far mers of South Carolina handsome ly to get in touch with them when they come hen They are ready to teach and they are also ready to be taught. We can learn of them and th AV should learn of us. This is the first time the national jorn exposition has been held in the south. Its stand i np before the jountry is already established. Far mers of every southern state, and ill others who are intelested in the idvaneemcnt of the people have ihead of them a great educational' privilege. They should wake up to the fact before it is too late. They diould determine without further lelay that they will not miss visit ing the exposition for at least a day, md they will make every effort to prolong their stay. It will be too hig an event to take it on the run.. -Atlanta Journal. phosphoric acid, he could cut out 2UU pounds of acid and add 200 pounds of cotton seed meal. That would analyze 7.t?- -t?-3.7. That would be excellent for corn or cot ton on the ordinary clean land. If kainit is used instead of mu riate of potash, a high grade can not be made. For instance, take 800 pounds 16 per cent, acid, 600 pounds kainit md GOO pounds cotton ?ced meal.. The analysis would be 7-4.2-2. That would be equal in value to the standard fertilizer (8.(55-2-2,. which is sold on the market for ibout $19 or S20 aton. The cost to the farmer, exclusive of the.' .\ai, would be $10.20. Any one mid see how niue!; that would ?ave in the use of ten tons. It is a nintake to claim that farmers eau tot mix fertilizers well enough for ill practical purposes. Two lively hand* can mix, re tack and weigh live tons a day, md they can do the work so well hat there will be 110 appreciable I inference between thai and the ma :hine mixed goods. Now is the time to put out onion els. We can furnish you with rcsh sets. Tim mons ?fe Morgan.