Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I FIRE INSURANCE E. J. NORRIS, Agent Edgefield, South Carolina i S 8 Representing the HOME INSURANCE COMPANY, of New York, and the old HARTFORD, of Hartford, Connecticut. The HOME has a greater Capital and 1 Surplus combined than any other company. The HARTFORD is the leading com pany of the World, doing a greater Fire business than any other Co. See Insurance Reports PRUDENTIAL LIFE "HAS THE STRENGTH OF GIBRALTAR." E. J. Norris, FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE. "Real Fisherman's Luck for Duke's Mixture Smokers" Good tobacco and a good reel ' That's surely a lucky combination for the anglei-and here's the way you can have them both. AU smokers should know Duke's Mixture made by /Liggett ?Sr Myers at Durham, N. C. Pay what you will, you cannot get better granulated tobacco for Sc than the big ounce and a half sack ot' Duke's Mixture. And with each of these big sacks you get a book of cigarette papers FREE. Get a Good Fishing, Reel Free by saving the Coupons now packed in Liggett <% Myers Dnke't Mixture. Or. if you don't want a reel-get any one of the hundreds of other articles. In the list you will find something for every member of the family. Pipes, cigarette cases, catcher's gloves. cameras, watches, toilet articles, etc. These handsome presents cost you nothing-not one cent. They simply express our appreciation of your patronage. Remember-you still get the same big one and a half ounce sack for 6c -enough to roll many cigarettes. Daring February and March only, we will send oar new illustrated catalogue of presente FREE. Simply send us your name and address. Coupons from Duke i Mixture may ht assorted u/itk tats from HORSE SHOE, J.T..1 ANSLEY'S NATURAL LEAF, GRANO ER TWIST, coupons from FOUR ROSES (JOc-tm double coupon). PICK PLUG CUT, PIED MONT CIGARfcTTES, CUX CI GARETTES, and other tags or coupons issued by us. Premium DepL Si. Louis. Mo. Stewart & Kernaghan JEDGEFIEUD, S. C. /IT TIAE PUT *)OA\E lyt^ONEf IN OUR, ?fl^'?jy^ - Copyright /909. br C. E. Zimmerman Co.-No. 36. -^?B^ When the crops are in.and the profits of the farm can be counted in money, the time to start a bank ac count is ripe; by doing so you may conduct your farm as every good business is conducted. OFFICERS: J. C. Sheppard, Pres. ; W. W. Adams, Vioe pres.; E. J. Muns, Cashier; J. H. Ailee, assistaufc Cashier. DIRECTORS: J. 0. Sheppard, VT. Vf. Adams, J. Wm. Thurmond, Thos. H. Kainsford, J. M. Cobb, B. E. Nicholson, A. S. Tompkins, C. C. Fuller, W. E. Prescott. The Love Letters of a Confederate General AUTHOR'S NAME AT LAST REVEALED You have reoJ the newspaper comments about the famous "Love Letters of a "Confederate General" and you no doubt, like many others speculated as to who was the au thor of this great series of love and war. He told us of great battles with startling- Rs?&Hn, be depicted the sol dier's life with humor and pethos but above all else he laid bare his own love story, one moat beautiful and sweet that gripped us from the start and went straight to our hearts. Who was this great general and true lover? Now at last we can tell you: he was Major-General George E. Pickett, C. S. A. the hero of Gettysburg. Five Forks and other not able battles of Civil War and he wrote these-hunian doc-.ii- . inents to his wife who has, owing to recent developments, given us permission to divuige his name. Thc Pictorial Review Co. . 222 VJ. 39th St., New York City Enclosed please find 25c for which please send me P. R. for three months. Name... Address State]... Send for Pictorial Review and Read the Literary Sensation of the Year Our especially low offer Three Months for 25c 15c a Copp, SI a year's subscription The Pictorial Review Co. 222 West 39th St., Nen' York City $'7-3? T?Hrrofi?lrl $II,6? Parly 25 Individual Fate JuUgclieill 0r more To Washington, D. C. and Return VIA Southern Railway Premier Carrier of the South -AC Ol "N'T Presidential Inauguration Mch. 4,1913 ?^??^????HWBg ? i ????wm lam? 11 in Tickets on sale February ??8, March 1, 2, 3, 1913, with final limit returning to reach original starting point not loter than midnight March 10, 1913. Final limit of in dividual (not party) tickets may be extended until April 10, 1013, by personally depositing same with Joseph Richardson, Special Agent, Washington, D. C. not later than March 8, li? 13, and payment of a fee of one dollar. THE SOUTHERN'S SOUTHEASTERN LIMITED. E?STENR TIME Lv. Edgefield.1.40 p. m. Lv. Washington._5.55 p. rn. Ar. Washington. 8.63 a.m. Ar. ivd^eficld . .. 11.00 a. ir.. PULLMAN SLEEPING CARS-VESTIBULE COACHES-ELECTRICALLY LIGHTED THROUGHOUT. SOUTHERN RAILWAY DINING CAR SERVICE Special Train Service to he Announcer] later. For demil'*'! information, call on nearest ticket airen!, or, A. ll. Ackc, TP A., W. E. McGeee. AGP A., H. F. ( .ivy. ' ?AA., S. il. Hardwick, PLM., Augusta, <? u. Columbia, S. C., VVash'rnir ton, Washington, D. C., E. II. Cuapman, Washington, U.C. SAVING THE ITALIAN BABIES Maternity Insurance in That Coun try Has Greatly Reduced Infant Mortality. Italy joined in 1902 the few Euro pean states which have established laws for the better protection of wo m?n working in industrial occupations after confinement This law prohib ited women from working for a month after confinement, but contained no provisions about the collecting cf funds from which the expenses could be defrayed. For this reason ref lations were generally disregarded, and women went back to work as soon as they were able to do so. At the end of April, 1912, a nev/ law came into force. All women in indus tries between fifteen and fifty years of age belong now to an obligatory maternity insurance fund. The em ployer pays the dues of 20 to 40 cents a year, and is allowed to deduct hnlf the amount from the wages. These dues, together with fines of employes for violation of the law and a govern ment subsidy, makes it possible to give in case of confinement $8. It does not make any difference whether the woman is married or not. Mother and child are thus taken of for at least one month after the birth of the in fant. The Italian law requires, furth er, that a factory with more than fifty women workers must provide a decent room in which mothers can at tend to their babies and nurse them. Frequently, large factories have a kind of day nursery with a trained nurse in charge. Infant mortality has been greatly reduced among industrial workers.-The Survey. TRULY TIMES HAVE CHAINED Philosopher In Puck Moralizes Over the Advancements Which the World Has Seen. The time was when you could get a woman to do all your housework and tend to the garden and milk nine cows .dght and morning, and do it for two dollars a week and be glad to get the money. Where have they gone? Time was when you could get a man to cut wood for 75 cents a cord, and when a dollar a day wasn't paid to anybody except in harvest time. Look at things now! Time was when a day's work meant to be up by candle-light doing chores and eating supper by candle-light after the evening chores was finished. And , I'm talking about summer-not winter. I Time was when you could go to the county and get a boy to work for you for his keep. He was bound out to you till he was eighteen, and if he run away you could bring him back and lick the nonsense out'n him. If you want a boy, these days them people will ask you as many questions as if you was selling a horse. Sometimes when I look at this here country that I've give my whole life to -so to speak-I wonder if it's reely an' truly paid. I tell you I dunno. Puck. Telephone Three Miles in Air. A telephone exchange three miles in the air. This station, said to be the highest in the world, is in the meteorological observatory on the top of Mont Rosa in the Pennine Alps, 15.450 feet above sea level. At this elevation snow is always found, and advantage is taken of the high insulation given by dry snow, the wires in the last section, at the peak, being simply laid on the snow covered ground. To prevent breakage by glacier movements the line is carried through rings on the telephone poles. The poles are short and are taken down at the end of every summer sea son and replaced at the beginning of the following summer. Society and Solitude. As for the dispute about society and solitude, any comparison is impertln- j ent. It is an idling down on the plain at the base of the mountain instead of climbing steadily to its top. Of course you will be glad of all the so ciety you can get to go up with? Will you go to glory with me? is the burden of the song. It is not that we love to be alone, but that we love to soar, and when we do soar the com pany grows thinner and thinner till there ls none at all. It is either the tribute on the plain, a sermon on the mount, or a very private ecstasy still higher up. Use all the society that will abet you.-Thoreau. To Avoid Colds. Catching cold is not so much a sign that there has been great exposure, but that the body has no resistance to 6mall amount of exposure. The only way of avoiding catching colds is to accustom oneself to every kind of i change of temperature, not to try and | keep the body at a uniform heat. It ! is clear that if the body is kept within j a narrow range of temperature, every thing outside that wili be dangerous, j whereas if it is familiarized with a i wide range of temperature, everything ' within that can have no ill effect. Ex- j creise in the open air. without warm j wraps, is the chief protection against i catching cold. Durazzo. The Balkan turmoil is stirring our j historical and geographical memories, j For a thousand years or so no one has : thought much of Durazzo. Hut it waa a famous port when the Romans called i it Dyrrachium. It was the nearest point across from Brundusium-which I is now Brindisi-and was chosen by ! Cicero as his place ol' pleasant exil", I just as Boulogne is regarded fr> -.1 this side of the channel. In f.i \ ; BrundusiiMii and Dyrrachium were t';o j Dover and Calais of the Romans, and nov.- once more Durazzo is springing into importance. LIFE'S WORTH ONLY AS IT IS OF USE HAT is our education but a preparation and a guidance for the investment of life? These tens of thousands of boys and girls who are crowding for the first time to the doors of our schools and colleges came here to learn how to invest tl ?ir powers and \ears to the best advantage. Each has a gift in the hand-the gift of a life and power which the world needs and they alone can give. The figure of Christ's parable holds. The master of Life has called his servants and given to each a sum to be used in life's business-to one ten talents, to another five, to others one or two. Life is of no worth unless it is put to use. The money that is merely hoarded cramps the soul. The scholar who thinks of learning only as ac cumulation haa no reason to expect useful or ha*>py days. The school and the scholar must think of their work as training for investment. The teacher '''ho best succeeds in kindling the imagination and relating present tasks to future purposes will accom plish most and earn most of the pu pil's gratitude in memories to come. Life's Real Value. Just in these days of school comes a world-wide reawakening of discus sion about the origin of life which will work its way down in influence to the minds of all our children. Just now, also, we have that noble, but mistaken action by which a great man of Japan has taken his own life as a protest against the growing luxury and carelessness of the boys under his. charge in the nobles' school. Both of these bring warning that life is to be weighed in its qualities and not as a thing of value in itself. They urge us to make wise investment of our years. The life that begins in such simple forms that the chemist is beginning to believe that he can fashion it, is not to be compared in value with the life which the boys and girls are learning to invest for the good of others and their own power and joy. Quality Above All. These discussions which seem to call in question the value of life in itself considered, have this to say to all of us-that quality is the great thing after all. Suppose the chemist succeeds in putting together the form which life, as we say, inhabits, so that it moves, it feeds, it renews its tissues, It divides and multiplies. Be tween that simple form of life and its aevelopment into the lowest type of man, there are millions of years of stiuggle and endeavor, running through uncounted millions of separate lives. Before the lowest savage could rise to the level of the American schoolboy's opportunity there were In numerable years and uncounted lives of struggle and self-sacrifice. Of all these years and lives we are the In heritors. It is the fruit of. these strug gles and savings which we are learn ing how to invest. If we invest selfishly and unwisely, we are bringing all the efforts of the ages in our behalf to naught. We are defeating all the winners of these countless battles. We arc disappoint ing God, our Heavenly Father, and our fathers and mothers upon earth. Such splendid attainment, measured by such countless years all whose patient ly accumulated treasures of power and quality are trusted to their ha ads for investment! Shall we fling back into the gulf of darkness whence it came? Or shall we take our part in the advancing multitude of those who are studying how to invest their lives for God and for their brothers,?-The Congregationalist and Christian. World. Prayers God Answers. Desires turned toward God are pray ers. Some people suppose that they: are praying only when they are on: their knees, or sneaking to God In, some reverent attitude of devotion. But many of the most real and moBt acceptable prayers are never voiced in words. They arw only breathings of the eoul, longings of the heart, yearn ings and Espirations which cannot be put Into language. One of the Lord's beatitudes was for those who have longings in their heart?, "Blessed are' rhey that hunger and thirst after1 righteousness: for they shall be filled." Hungerings and thirstings after God, desires to be better, longings for more holiness, wishes for closer communion with God. are prayers which God pro miser to answer. Hunger is a mark of health. Not to hunger any more Indicates illness, lt is so in the body, lt is so in j the mino, it is so in the soul. The true spiritual life is full of1 longings. - 1. .. Turn Sorrows to Service. Don't let your sorrows stagnate: they will turn your heart into a fen of bitter waters, from which will sprout the rank ru.shea of self-ill and rebellion against (Jed. Turn your sor rows outward into currents of sym pathy and demis of kindness to other people, ant! they-will become a stream of blessing. A baptism of trial may be your IX E', baptism irr christ's ser vice. \\'or!;;n.; is- i) tter then weeping: and if you work cn tili the last moil ing breaks, you will mad In that clear light the meaning of meny of your Borrows.-Rev T. !.. Cuyler, D.D.