Edgefield advertiser. (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, July 16, 1913, Page FOUR, Image 4
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LARGEST CIRCULATION IN
EDGEFIELD COUNTY.
Wednesday, July 16.
A noble heart, like the aun, showeth
its greatest countenance in its lowest
estate.--SIDNEY.
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After mu eli fuming and frothing and
much ado about nothing, as is fre
quently the casi1 when little men en
deavor to fill big jobs, the South Caro
lina militia is at last going to camp
for ten days.
Instead of sealing the bonds of friend
ship and peace, according to tradition,
over in Georgia the pipe causes the
shedding of human blood. One
man Killed another in Dalton
last week while quarreling over a
tobacco pipe.
It ls not only dry in many sections
of the interior but down on the coast,
even to the water's edge, farmers are
suffering from lack of normal nin fall.
The grower? of Sea Island cotton on
the islands around Charleston are said
to be losing thousands of dollars a day
on account of the drought.
When the members of the Georgia
legislature visit Augusta next Saturday
toinpect the Medica! college we wonder
if the officials will in pointing out the
city's assets point to'the nearly one hun
dred barrooms that are licensed in open
defiance of the laws of Georgia?
Chinese are somewhat like the fiery
little yellow jackets. When one is as
sailed all come to the rescue. When a
British vessel reached Newport News
last week 14 Chinese were arrested as
a result of a mutiny aboard ship. Be
cause one of their race was disciplined,
all of the little yellow men who were
serving as stokers attacked the officers
of the vessel.
The proposed plan of Senator E. D.
Smith for hedging off the boll weevil
may or may not possess real merit,
this can only be decided by an intimate
knowledge of the weevil infested re
gion, but it serves to show that Sena-1
tor Smith is constantly on the aiert to
promote the welfare of the farmers of
the south. He seizes every opportu
nity to advance the interests of the
tillers of the soil.
An Engine of Death.
The pleasure car not infrequently,
through the indiscretion of the driver,
becomes an engine of destruction. Sat
urday the daughter of a prominent
Charleston attorney was killed while
motoring near Lake George, N. Y.,
where the family had gone to spend
the summer. While the 20th century
provides more pleasures ar.d luxuries
than the "dark ages" it at the same
time is attended with more dangers and
pitfalls.
Mr. Bryan Makes a Mistake.
In leading his post in Washington to
go upon the lecture platform for a
month or six weeks Secretary of State
Bryan has made an egregious mistake.
Gran ting that the affairs of the gov
ernment will not suffer, his absence
upon a mission of personal aggrandize
ment will give the enemies of Presi
dent Wilson an opportunity to criticise
the Democratic administration. We
do not believe Mr. Bryan conferred
with the President before making the
engagements to lecture. President
Wilson is too wise and prudent a man
to have consented to 3uch a course
A Commendable Example.
Vincent Astor who, following the
tragic death of his father. Col. John
Jacob Astor, became the possessor of
many millions of dollars, is setting a
very commendable example to wealthy
young mea who shall come after, and
older ones, too, for that matter. A
few days ago he spent many thousands
of dollars providing an outing for 5,000
poverty stricken children who eke out
a miserable existence in the slums of
New York. It is said that young As
tos will provide a number of similar
outings during the summer. In addi
tion to this, he is erecting a home on
the Hudson for invalid children of
indigent parents. According to our
way of thinking this is an ideal way
for millionaires to unload some of their
wealth.
Will Become a Thrice-Blessed Town.
Blessed is the town that has a strong
agricultural backing and upon whose
streets hundreds of cotton laden wag
ons are seen in the fall, but twice
blessed is that town whose streets are
crowded with tobacco wagons in the
summer in addition to the cotton wag
ons of autumn. We read with envy of
i the heavy tobacco sales in some the
Pee Dee towns. The prosperity of such
towns, like that of the farmers who
live at home, is not dependent upon
tariff or currency legislation.
There is but little hope for an in
crease in Edgefield's cotton receipts,
for the immediate future at least, and
as for the tobacco there is nothing for
us except to consume instead of pro
duce the golden weed. But in the mat
ter of increased and enlarged support
for Edgefield, we are looking hopeful
ly to lie establishment of sundry in
dustrial enterprises ?vhich will provide
all-the-year-round pay rolis, which will
enable us to be classed among the
thrice-blessed towr.s.
Worthless Dogs a Menace.
Worthless dogs are undesirable ac
quisitions to a community the year
round, but particularly at this season
are those of the vagrant type a menace
to the community. In the summer a
larger number of dogs bocome victims
of hydrophobia, and it is at thu season
too that children as they play in the
yard or on the streets are more
exposed to roaming dogs. Scarce
ly a week passes that the head of a
dog, a hydrophobia suspect, is not sent
to the office ol the State Board of
He alth in Columbia for examination in
order to determine whether or not the
animal was a victim of hydrophobia.
Sin :e the first of January, the Board
of Health has administered the Pasteur
treatment to 199 persons who were bit
ten by dogs. So large a number as this
may not impress some readers of these
lines, but if the next victim to be car
ried to Columbia for treatment should be
a member of his or her home circle, then
the realization of what a menace these
worthless dogs are would be more
keenly felt.
It behooves the citizens of every rural
community and of every town to see
that all diseased, vagrant dogs are
killed. An ounce of prevention may
be worth a million pounds of cure.
Nothing is more horrible to contem
plate than the death of a little child,
oran adult, too, for that matter, from
hydrophobia.
Reasons For Abolishing Farms.
One of the leading arguments in fa
vor of abolishing the State farms has
been that they are used to grow cotton
in competition with farmers who are
compelled to produce the fleecy staple
for a living, and, furthermore, that
the convicts are needed on the public
roads of the counties from which they
are sent up. This argument is strength
ened by an advertisement recently
published in one of the daily papers
asking for bids for supplies for the
penitentiary for the ensuing year.
Among the items upon which bids
are requested are 20,000 pounds of
bacon and sufficient quantity bagging
far covering about 1,000 bales of cot
ton. These items reflect an unwise
policy in the management of the insti
tution and strengthen the position of
chose who advocate the sale of che
state farms. Why should cotton be
grown in competition with farmers and
the money used, a portion of at least,
to purchase meat from western pack
ers? Why not produce less cotton on
these farms and grow more corn with
which to feed hogs?
As long as these farms are maintain
ed they should be conducted as far as
po3i ble as model farms. The Depart
ment of Agriculture of South Carolina
advocates the growing of all home ne
cessities as far as possible upon the
farm, and yet the State farms grow
cotton with which to buy western ba
con. This is, after all, a comparative
ly small matter, but it reflects a policy
in the management that should not
exist.
The Advertiser has all along advo
cated the sale of the farms, reserving
a limited area upon which the actual
necessities for maintenance may be
produced. We have also urged the
placing of the convicts on the public
roads. Let the counties which have
suffered injury through crimes com
mitted receive direct benefit from the
labor of the criminals. What punish
ment anyway is it for a negro to put
him behind a plow in a cotton field? It
is suggestive of Uncle Remus' rabbit
and the brier patch.
They were enjoying a motor ride
and had just entered a country road.
"May I kis8your hand? be asked,
a little confusedly.
She removed her veil.
No," she replied: "I have my
gloves on."-Lippincott's Maga
zine.
What Others Say
Drives it Out.
Atlanta is trying to get rid of the
smoke nuisance. Send for Senator
Tillman. Heran it out of the senate
chamber.-Anderson Mail.
Men Plentiful.
The suffragettes can't get around
the fact that when a girl says she ?3
having "a perfectly lovely t;me," she
means that men are plentiful and at
tentive.-News and Courier.
Let Politics Alone.
If you know a little and aspire
to know much more and be a well
rounded man, keep out of politics. No
practical politician can rise to the high
est plane of manhood. -Spartanburg
Journal.
Worthless Dogs Killed.
The Charleston dogcatcher has killed
more than 200 dogs since May. And
the city is that much better off. Other
cities and towns, and country districts,
also, might follow this good example.
-Newberry Observer.
Heavy Shipments.
The Southern railway announces the
shipment of 116 cars of cucumbers
from the section around Blackville this
season. How many "tummy" aches
will 116 cars of cucumbers make? -
Yorkville Enquirer.
Should Keep Statistics.
Over in Georgia Governor Slaton is
urging legislation which will provide
for the systematic collection of vital
statistics. The importance of keeping
an accurate record of births, deaths
and marriages is recognized in every
civilized country, and the people of
the South have been paying dearly in
various ways for their backwardness
rn enacting and enforcing laws to this
end. - Newa and Courier.
Say No More About lt.
The way to keep up hard feeling and
antagonism between the North and
South is to keep eternally prating about
the twosections beingreunited and that
now they are one people. If a man
and his wife are constantly parading
their happiness and harmony before
the public and telling every one how
happy they are, yo-i may expect a hot
old time in that home.-Spartanburg
Journal.
Smile Provokers
Inspector: "Any abnormal chil
dren in your class, Miss Pedagog?"
School teacher: "Yes, one of
them has good manners."-Life.
Ho: They say ?Sally Simpson is
married at last.
She: Who's the happy man?
He-Her father, of course.
Judge.
He-A penny for your thoughts,
Miss Sterling-but I suppose you
value them at more than that?
She-Oh, no! The fact isl was
thinking of you.-Yale Record.
Pat: Nixt toime Oi pass wid a
lady Oi want yer to remove yer
bat.
Mike: And suppose Oi refuse?
Pat: Thin, bedad, you'll have ter
remove yer coat.
Well, sonny, did you take your
dog to the 'vet' next door to your
house, as I suggested?
Hoy-Yes sir.
Old Genn-And what did he
say?
Boy-'E said Towser was suffer
ing from nerves, so sis had better
give up playin' the pianner."
"A little girl wrote the following
composition on men: "Men are
what women marry. They drink
and smoke and 6wear, but don't go
to church. Perhaps if they wore
bonnets they would. They are more
logical than womeu and also more
zoological. Both men and women
sprung from monkeys, but the wo
men s.orung farther than the men."
-Answers.
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"Have you no decent brands of
cigars?" demanded the man who
was pawing over the case.
''I think lean suit you," said the
dealer. Here are three brands of my
own-the kicker, the grumbler and
the El Groueho."
The man made a quick selection
without further comment.-Louis
ville Courier-Journal
''Here's a joke for which Capt.
"Jim" Bell, compiler of the Con
gressional Directory, is responsible.
" Wharfo, you didn't preambutate
to our camp meetin' on las week,
aunt Ca'line?''
"Lawd, chile, I low'd to went,
but I found de gwine so bad it was
on possible for me to came."
Washington Sta?*. I
A Knightly Blow.
Lest we forget-and in no sense
to re-kindie any of the'dying flame
of animosity -we recall a noble in
cident which happened right after
the war. It is suggested to us by
the Sunday .school lesson of last
Sunday, where Moses upon seeing
one of his own down trodden race
cruelly treated by an Egyptian
task mahter who had him in his
power, smote the Egyptian to the
ground and buried him in the s ind.
Of this noble and patriotic deed
Mr. Ellis says in his lesson com
ments:
"Ons day Moses struck a blow
that made him an exile and an
emancipator. Our hearts warm to
the young Hebrew prince for that
deed although we know that he was
hasty and that maturer judgment
would have made him patient.
Without condoning the act of Mo
ses may we ^ot speak a word of
caution against that cold, calculat
ing spirit which from prudential
considerations stifles all brave and
chivalrous impulses. Let us be
glad of the men who have nothing
of the jelly fish in their composi
tion and who dare to blunder be
cause they 'abhor that which is
e?il.'
' Occasions do not make heroes;
they only reveal them-' Back of
the blow that Moses struck was the
life that he lived and the thoughts
that he had been thinking."
It was when our couutry was
down trodden and under the cruel
heel of the scalawags of our home
land and the carpet baggers and
thieves from the North, and when
most young people in the language
of some lady of Georgia, thought
"Dara-Yankee" was all one word;
and when federal troops of rather a
low type of foreigner and some ne
groes were stationed at Edgefield
court house and were tyranizing
over not only the white men, but
delicate white ladies of oui land,
that one sale day Mr. John C.
Strother, who lived up on Saluda
river in, at that time, a part of
Edgefield district, was standing
near the court house here in town,
and saw a Yankee soldier attempt
ing to shoot Mr. Coleman, a friend
and neighbor of John Strother. The
place was crowded with armed fed
eral soldiers. Mr. John Strother,
without a moment's hesitation and
in the face of what seemed almost
certain loss of his own life, pulled
his pistol from his pocket and
killed the Yankee and saved the
life of his friend. In the confusion
thaUfollowed this open and manly
dnTpiay of bravery, Mr. Strother
ran back of the court house and
jumped on the first horse he Cuuld
find and went speeding down Beav
er Dam creek and near the place of
Mr. R. C. Padgett he galloped out
in the field, got right in the middle
of the creek and rode several miles
in the water and bed of the stream
and thus left no impression for pur
surers, by riding in the rocky cur
rent and ia this way he eluded the
angry troops who were following.
After riding down about the
Eichelberger plantation, some four
miles, he rode across country to the
residence of his aged uncle, the late
Mr. David Strother. It was night
when he got there. He went in and
told Mr. Strother, who was an in
valid., that he had killed a Yaukee
in defence of his friend and wauted
$300 to run off. To this his uncle
and aunt readily consented and
while Mrs. Strother was counting
out the money in gold, John
thought he heard the troops riding
up, but it was really an old negro
man bringing in some stock from
the pasture. But John went out a
window and hid down in the pas
ture in a gully, and the good wife,
Mrs. Strother, walked all about for
quite a while in the starlit night,
filled with patriotic anxiety, with
the gold in her hand and whisper
ing in a low voice, "John here's
your money-here John, take it."
He finally heard the low and sweet
words of his aunt and crawled out
of the gully and took the money
and got on a fresh horse of his kind
uncle's and rode thru the woods up
to his home on the willowy banks
of the Saluda river and after a few
hasty preparations and tearful part
ing from his family had to flee to
the mountains of Tennessee, and
for many weary weeks his residence
on the Saluda where his family
lived, had au espionage of Yankee
troops prowl inj; around the prem
ises ai d coming rudely into the
sacred privacy of home at all times
of the night, searching in every
room and nook and corner of the
house.
Some time after Reconstruction
times Mr. Strother came back and
lived with his family.
John C.Strother was a handsome,
brave man, and this knightly stroke
of self-saoi ificing bravery deserves
to be recorded and filed among the
archives of the noble deeds of the
heroes of the South.
A. S. T.
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Monuments and Tombstones.
I represent the S partan burg Marble and Granite
works tn this section and shall be pleased to show you
designs and quote pricer on all kinds of work. Write
me a card if you are interested and I will cali to see you.
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Gandy belting, 2-, 4-, 5-, 6-,
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Sinks
Bath tubs
Lavaratories
Gas tanks
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Gasoline engines
Rapid Fire hay presses
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Fifth chains
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Hot Weather
Garments
You cannot control the mercury but you can
suit your clothing to the weather. The "good
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so you had better provide the light weight gar
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We have light weight clothing in all of the
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We have oxfords
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Oxford
We have light weight underwear of all kinds,
can ?t any size and satisfy any taste.
We have stylish hats in straw? panama and
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we have ever carrie!.
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the best shirts on the market tor the money.
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