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<?Umt .Newspaper M $ovth Carolina EDGEFIELD, S. C., W?&ESDAY, JULY 23,1913 JOHNSTON LETTER. Dr. Allen Underwent Double Operation in Augusta-Mr?. Mobley Entertained Vets at Reunion. Dr. B. L. Allen was operated on for appendicitis on last Wednesday at the Augusta hospital. Upon ar rival at the hospital it was found that further complications had de veloped aad a double operation was necessary which kept him upon the operating table two and one half hours. Considering this he is im proving as rapidly as can be ex pected. His brothers have been with him during the time, and Mrs. Allen is still in the city with him. Mr. Lewellyn Cogburn of Colum bia, is visiting his sister, Mrs. M. W. Clark. Miss Frances Turner is able to be out again after a week's illness. Mr. and Mrs. M sGarity of Fair fax, are visiting in the home of Mr. T. R. Denny. Mrs. McGarity is pleasantly remembered as Miss Ruth Shaw. Mrs. Mary Hamilton is at home from a several months visit to her daughter, Mrs. Horace Black, in Atlanta. Mrs. Alice Cox was a visitor to Augusta during the week. Miss Daisy Brockington is spend ing a few days in the home of Mr. C. F. Pechman. Misses Ruth and Elizabeth Har ris have returned to Deering, Ga., after a visit to their grandmother, Mrs. P. N. Lott. Theil COUB?O, MiB8 Sallie Dozier, accompanied them home. Mr. Garland Coleman of St. Louis is spending awhile here. Miss Lillian Mobley is spending sometime in Orangeburg with her sister, Mrs. Siftly. > Miss Effie Griffin of Newberry, was here with relatives during the past week. Rev. and Mrs. Calbraith B. Wright and little Elizabeth are visiting relatives here. Mesdames Bettie Allen and W. W. Johnston have been spending several days he* 3 at the home of Dr. B. L. Allen. Messrs. M. W. Clark, J. W. Payne, and W. W. Carson went to Saluda Saturday to attend the vete rans' reunion. There were 91 vet erans present and very enjoyable exercises were had. The chief speaker was the lieutenant Gover nor. A picnic and barbecue dinner was served. Mrs. Dessie Hogan of Columbia, is a visitor at the home of her tat ri et, Mr. O. S. Wertz. Miss Amelia Pride Bechara of Parksville is the guest of Mrs. B. L. Boatwright. J Miss Bertha Gibson of McCall is the guest of Miss Sue Smith, and has been the recipient of much so cial attention during her 6tay here. On Thursday afternoon her hostess complimented her with a beautiful afternoon party, and on Friday evening Mrs. M. L. Crouch enter v tained in her honor. Misses Btsssie and Laura Plunk ett of Graniteville, have been visit ing the Misses Woodward. Mrs. L. B. Asbill and Miss Anuie Aebill of Win8ton-Salem, were here last week visiting friends. Mr. and Mrs. Goodyear and fain , iiy of Augusta, have moved here and are domiciled on Addison St. Miss Sara Stevens entertained on Friday evening in honor of ^liss Bessie Mae King of Savannah. The ride out to her suburban home was enjoyed and the cordial hostess made the hours pass very pleasant ly. Ices and cake were served dur ing the latter part of the evening. Mrs. Edwin Mobley was hostess on Wednesday afternoon for a num ber of her friends and progressive Rook was enjoyed at five tables, the score cards being four-leaf clovers. Six games were played and as the changes from tables were made, visits were made to the punch bowl, Misses Bettie Becham and ^ Virginia Harrison serving the re freshing beverage. Bonbons were on each table. Mise Frances Stiother made the highest Bcore and received a set of Rook cards. Frozen cream and cake were served following the game, and this was artistically arranged. Miss Pearle Padgett and Mr. E. E. Padgett were visitors at the home of their sister, Mrs. J- L. Smith, last week. Miss Mollie Waters will leave Thursday for Nashville, Tenn-, to visit Miss Lula Scruggs, and upon her return will spend a week in Chester with friends. Mrs. F. M. Boyd will leave next week to visit her mother, Mrs. M. M. Stewart. Miss Sara Waters is at home from Sullivan's island. Mrs. J. K. Allen and Miss Mary Lewis spent Friday with Mrs. F. A. Tompkins. Mies FranoeB"Strother entertained a few friends with a dining on Wednesday. Miss Bettie and Mary Wates have returned from a week's visit to their cousin, Mrs. Philipps, in Augusta. Miss Minnie Kirk Taylor of Cam den is the guest -of Miss Elise Crouch. Miss Foster of Jonesville is the guest of her sister Mrs. Will Hoyt. Mr. Leroy Wertz of Belton spent a few days here recently. Mr. W. L. Coleman has returned from White Sulphur Springs,where he bas been for two weeks. Mrs. Coleman will remain there for a few weeks to continue the treatment for rheumatism. Mrs Missouri Lott is visiting in the home of her son Mr. A. P. Lott. Marketing and the Conference. After the crop is made what is to be done with it? Marketing is not j as simple as it may seem; for the! best prices cannot be had with the j haphazard unloading on the market. The field must be prepared by co operation, and low rates must be secured in this way before the farm er with diversified crops can meet competition or the one-crop farmer get a fair return. To dump canta loupes, for example, upon an over loaded market is about as sensible as shooting them at the moon with smokeless powder, for powder is cheaper than freight bills. Some years ago farmers plowed acres of this melon under because the price was too low to pay to ship to mark et. Disposing of the product clear ly needs as much thought as pro ducing it. Now, if farmers and consumers could get nearer together, both would undoubtedly be benefitted. While this ideal situation will not be attained altogether at the Con ference for the Common Good, to be held in Columbia Aupust 6-7, and following that, in the various counties, the meeting will, among other subjects, consider this all im portant one of what co do with the product after it is produced at the cost of months of toil and anxiety. The result of the eonference will be to draw market and farm closer together. The conference has been fortu nate in securing the services of such men as E. W. Dabbs, president of the Farmers'Unior;; W. W. Long, of the Stato Farm Demonstration Work; B. B. Hare, of the office of Rural Economics of the U. S. De partment of Agriculture; W. R. Meadows, the Government Cotton Technologist; J. W. Shuford, of Hickory, N. C., Mrs. W. S. Mather, President of the Housewives' Leag ue, of Charleston, S. C.; Clarence Poe, editor of the Progressive Farmer, and several farmers of this state. These experts will consider marketing, under such topics as the following: Typical Examples of Loss to Farmers on Account of Poor Marketing, Creating a Home Market for Home ProiuctB, Co operative Marketing in North Car olina, and Marketing the Cotton Clop. The discussion will be open to all farmers and to any others in terested. This is but a part of the pro gram. Other broad topics to be taken np in detail are: "Co-opera tion for Rural Development; The Part of the Church in Rural Devel opment; Permanent Homes for Our People; with plans for helping mill workers purchase homes and for tenant farmers to acquire land; Education and Child Welfare; and Problems of Citizenship. Special rates to the Conference have been given by the railroads. Treat your eyes fairly. Do not deny them the help of a pair of glasses if they need it. Remember you will need them for a long time. Geo. F. Mime. The Gettysburg Meeting. On the hallowed ground of Ge tysburg, consecrated by the bloc of the blue and the gray, after tl lapse of half a century the Non and the South meet with the Ea and the Weet under the America flag, to do honor to the soldie: still living, and to pay loving an respectful homage to those who ai asleep in the stillest of all slumber) Neither stress of time nor distant of home shall break or blur thi friendship that our brothers seale with their blood. And as we tal over together the wonderful an glorious events of those days c conflict; as we walk together ovt this great battlefield, we pause i the close of the day and clas hands with each other and wit hearts united we are constrained t breathe a silent prater that peac and fraternity may abide until th trumpet shall sound and life's shae ows flee away forever. As w walked over this field of carnage the Peach Orchard, the Wheatfield and the "Devil's Den/' where Kei shaw fought and Barkesdale fel and so many brave men of the blu an i the gray stained this soil wit their blood, I uncovered my heai and felt like plucking the shoes of my feet. I could locate quite a number o places where we lost heavily. Whi Lott lost his leg at the foot of Mis sion Ridge near a large chestnu tree which is still standing, but i is dead. Only one apple tree i standing in the Peach Orchard, an< it is also dead. I followed the lin* of Pickett's charge up to the ver brow of Little Round Ton, (th' Yankees call it the "High wate mark of the Confederacy") whicl has gone down in story and sonj as the grandest charge that has eve: been recorded in the history of ani war. It seemed to me that I coule hear Pickett as he led the charge say, "Come on boys; press the bat tie to the gates-forward, guide center." That was fifty years ago. A large number has been spared tc come back, bearing the olive branch, and the white dove of peace hat spread her silver wings about the blue and the gray, saying, "How good and how pleasant it is foi brethren to dwell together in uni ty." This peace conference at Gettys burg has already done more to es tablish brotherly feeling than any thing that has ever taken place, anywhere Oi in any country. A pe tition was gotten up in this camp asking Congress to pay back.to the South the tax we paid on our cotton for three or four years after the war and I believe every man in blue signed it. I was in company with three men in blue, two from Pittsburg, Pa., and the other from the state cf N. Y., who, speakin; of this meeting said: "I have seen and felt more since I have been here than I ever expected to see or feel this side of beaven. Not only the United States, but the whole world is look ing at this meeting with wonder and admiration." And they went on to say with the tenderest feeling "You Southern soldiers must have a pension as the Federals have." I took the old battle flag back and let it float once more on that historic plain, and it was very pop ular, the ladies flocking to see it and to get a picture of a Confederate battle flag. A lady from Pittsburg came up and asked if she could iee the flag. With pleasure I showed it to her. "I see from your o/adge that you are from South Carolina," said the lady. "Yes, madam, born and reared there, and a Rebel died in the wool." "Give me your hand then" said the lady, "when I get back home I can tell my people that I met and shook hands with a man from South Carolina-and a Rebel at that. You are the first Southern man that I have ever talked with." In a pleasant manner I asked her what kind of a thing she thought a South Carolinian looked like."Why of course a body of noble, patriotic men." It is my honest opinion that if such a meeting as this at Gettys burg could have been possible with the rank and file of the blue and the gray in the 6G's peace could have bee.j made at any time. Bul the fellows that fanned the war clouds most did the least. I shall never forget what Col. J. C. Smy ley said to ray father in April 1861. He said that he would be willing to drink' all the blood that would be shed;'that the South could whip the figtrt-and be back home in three months, and turning to myself and two brothers who were about ready to go to the front said, "Boys, when you get to Virginia, if the Yankees cross the Potomac giv(e them b-. And we did. But the Colonel nover did go, never did eee or drink any blood. There were legions of that kind. The men and women at Gettys burg were loud in their praise and admiration of the Southern soldier. Let me quote again this beautiful little Pittsburg girl. She said to me while looking at the flag "You Southern people fought with a pat riotic fury unequaled, and you h?ve written your history in blood from Gettysburg to the Rio Grande. And perhaps you do not k?ow it, but the Southern soldiers who followed Lee and Jackson are the admiration of the world to-day." I told her that I knew what she said was true, arid had known it all these fifty years. I said to her, that is a grand eulogy, and that alone is worth coming to Gettysburg to hear from one of Pennsylvania's noble women. And she is good authority for she backed up what she said with history. I told her I was glad that I was in the struggle of the sixties, that 1 believed then as I do now that the South was right, but the negro was not in ray thought, and while I live I shall be lieve that the South was right. I want no greater greater heritage to leave my children than that I was a Confederate soldier. My bullet scars are letters of nobility. J. Russell Wright. About One Thousand Bushels. We like to hear of large yields of o?ts; for it means increased prosperity for the farmers and for the county at large. Upon being questioned ?as to his harvest of grain, our young fn?bd R. H. Nicholson told us Monday that he had threshed 900 bushels of oats and 80 bushels of wheat. That re minds one of the phenomenal yield of grain in 1882, we believe it was, when the harvest surprised every body as cotton did in 1911. White Town News Items. Dear Mr. Editor: I will try to give you a few dots from our town. We got a nice rain last Sunday and Tuesday evening, which we had been wishing for a good while. Miss Belle Reynolds and Mr. J. T. Holliday were quietly married at the home of Mr. and Mrs. F. P. White on July 20, 1913. Mrs. W. B. White visited Mr. and Mrs. Clay Jennings on Tuesiay last. Mrs. Luther Ridlehoover and her sister Miss Nenie White went on a business trip to McCormick on Thursday last. Misti Nenie and Georgia White were the welcome guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. White ou Wednesday last. Mrs. J. R. White visited Mr. and Mrs. O. D. White last Monday af ternoon. I Miss Snnie Freeland is expecting to take a trip to Martiotowu. We hope her a pleasant stay. The little infants of Mr. and Mrs. K. E. White were buried the 31th of July. We extend sympathy to the family. A Sehool Girl. Chicken Prayer for Tillman. Washington, July 27.-Special: Senator Tillman has received a large number of letters relating to his re cent alleged utterances on the poor quality of Washington chicken, but the one which seems to have amus ed him most is the following, from a broker in Chicago: "Senator B. R. Tillman, Wash ington, D. C.-Dear Sir: After read ing in the papers of the great sup ply of fried chicken that had been sent you by some of Washington's fairest cooks, a prayer offered by Capt. Ben. W. tibbey, of the As sociated Cooper Company, of Ari zona, seems very appropriate for your ue>: "0 Lord! we bles* Thee for chick en young and chicken old, Chicken hot and chicken cold, Chicken tender and chicken tough; We thank thee, 0 Lord, we've had chicken enough! Amen. "Trusting that this may be of some service to you, I beg to remain very truly yours, etc." g Lark heedsKon Boll Weevil. Washington, July 28.-Protect and encourage the meadow lark, for hs principal diet consists of cotton boll and alfalfa weevils, grasshop pers and predaceons ground beetles, advises the Department of Agricul ture. While the bird, it is acknowl ? edged does some damage to sprout ing errain, its value as a destroyer of injurious insects is shown to be far greater. Furthermore the department calls attention to the fact that the birds go most vigorously for the insects which are most abundant, thereby increasing their efficiency at the time of an insect outbreak. When Will Boya Stay? Why do so many boys leave the ? farm? This question has been asked many times and there are almost as many answers as there are people who ask the question. The answer that the boys them selves give is the correct one: "Be cause the farm doesn't pay." Not many boys could be induced to leave the farm that be knows a great deal about to begin life in the city about which he knows nothing if the opportunities of each seemed equal or if the farm held out better inducements, lt is not reasonable to suppose that farming as a busi ness appeals strongly to- the thou sands that seek employment in the city. It is in obedience to the funda mental law of self-preservation that our first 'concern is for our own prosperity. Men do not seek the professions and salaried positions because of the pleasures and con venienoes of city life, but because they believe there is better remu neration for their labor in these po sitions. Boys who have toiled through summer heat and winter cold,on the farm and been deprived of education are not exceptions to this law. They seek the positions that they believe offer the best inducements to them. Their ser vices are in demand in business and they naturally seek such em ployment. The farra will never interest the industrious, ambitions boys until it offers them better inducement. As it is on many farms, the soil has been impoverished by continuous cropping and the products market ed in a wasteful manner, thus de- I priving the farmer and his family i of a fair competence. < There are opportunities on the ? farm for these industrious, ambi tious boys who are determined to succeed, but they have yet to real ize it. Farmers who are concerned 11 in building up rural life must change their method*, read more, study out their problems, build up the soi and make more profits. This is not I an easy task, but will r2quire close t co-operation, not only among far mers, but between fanners and bu siness men. The loss in wasteful marketing, speculation in farm pro ducts and other oppression must give away and the farmer must have a fair show. The farm can make good, the progressive manager can show his sons that the farm will pay. lTntil this is done we may ex peet that the city will couiinue to recruit from the farm.-Farm and Ranch. How to Feed Salt to Stock. I am asked: "How would you feed salt to livestock?' Salt may be given daily raixnd with the feed. If - this be done, not over three fourths to one ounce should be given daily for every 1,000 pounds of the animal's weight. After extensive experi ments Babcock concluded that a dairy cow should have about three fourths ounce for 1,000 pounds weight daily and three-n'fths ounce additionail for every twenty pounds of milk produced. Owing to the danger of giving the ?alt irregularly, and giving too |j much at times, the best plan is to give about one ounce a day for every J ,000 pounds weight for about a week in order to satisfy any undue craving for it. and ihen put < the salt in boxes under shelter where < the animais can run to it and eat at will.-Progressive Farmer. To Cure a Cold in One Day Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine. It stop? thc Cough and Headache and works off thc Cold. Druggists refund money if it fails to cure. E, W. GROVE'S signature on each box. Sc Baptist sunday acnool conven tion Met With Antioch. [Communicated.] The Edgefield Baptist Sunday school convention which took place at Antioch last week was well at tended and proved to be very bene ficial as well as entertaining and in structive; these meetings bring the country people togetner and also of late have been mingling the county and the town people, as the Edge field Village Baptist church has been sending along a good crowd of delegates and they have been spiced with several lady members. It is well for the two influences to flow harmoniously together. The meet ing was organized by the election ? of the following officers: President S. B. Mays, Vice Pres. S. A. Brun son, Sec; and Treas. W. E. Lott, The address of welcome was made in a gracious and warm-heart ed manner by Rev. J. T. Littlejohn and he was responded to in a happy style by Rev. M. D. Jeff res. We are glad to record that most of the Sunday schools had repre sentation at the convention and they made verbal reports, most of which were very encouraging indeed. On Wednesday, the 28rd July, after the organization, Rev. J. D. Moore made a very earnest and in structive address upon the Sunday school work. Mr. Moore is the state representative of the Baptist Sunday schools in this state and by virtue of his extensive travels and contiuuous practice in this work he has always much to say looking to the development of this most im portant department of church work. In the afternoon the following question was discussed: "Features of Sunday School Work, which are be ing emphasized to-day." Dr. Je fires opened this discussion in a clear and comprehensive statement of some Df the most important branches of this woik. He was followed by W. E: Lott. In the afternoon Rev. . " J. D. Moore gave a very clear and sntertaining talk upon the uses of the blackboard. . On Thursday morning, in the ab sence of the president, Rev. J. T. Littlejohn was appointed to the ?hair. After devotional exercises md some beautiful songs, the fol owing query was taken up. "The Best Methods Before the Class." Phis subject was opened up by O. Sheppard, who began his instruc :ive address by speaking in tones :>f high praise of that worthy and coi.secrated Christian worker, the jainted Daniel Brunson, whose voice had BO often resounded in the walls of this church in earnest pleas md sacred warnings during his no :>ie life and whose great example mould be an inspiration for those ?eho came after him. The next query was "The rela tion of church members to Sunday ichool work." This discussion was opened by Rev. P. B. Lanham, in i very 60und and practical address mowing the necessity for all church nembers where it is possible to take part in the Sunday school work. He was followed by a very whole jome address on the subject ofr country Sunday schools, by the Rev. J. D. Moore. Mr. Moore waa himself raised in the country and pointed out the abundant resources of country life. The opportunities and the various methods to promote and encourage the ever green Sun day school in the oountry. It used to be a fact that most of the coun try churches did not have Sun day schools but once a month and some of them did not have any, but conditions are much better now. Afternoon the subject of "Wo man's work" was discussed by A. 5. Tompkins and he emphasized especially the salutary sentiment created by the good women on the mbject of temperance. "Teachers Developments'* was :hen gracefully bandied by W. B. Dogburn in an appropriate talk, mowing the high cal>ing pf the "aithful teachers. The music at the convention was nost excellent-the dinners delici ?is and abundant-and on motion >f 0. Sheppard the convention ten lered the good people of Antioch ts most hearty thanks for the kind jospitality and delightful music. The crops around Antioch are pery good in fact Mr. Lester Tal 3ert's crop in sight of the church is pery fine.