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f?geffet? gdvofiset. SataMtsitf? 1B35. /. L. MIMS,._.?fttor Published every Wednesday in The Advertiser Building at $1.50 per year in advance. Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at Edgefield, S. C. No Communications will be published unless accompanied by the writer's name. Cards of Thanks. Obituaries, Resolu tions and Political Notices published at advertising rates. LARGEST CIRCULATION IN EDGEFIELD COUNTY. Wednesday, October 8. .j. * I mistrust thc judgment or every man in a casein which, his own wishes are concerned.-WELLINGTON. The Old Ship of State acquires sufficient momentum to glideserene ly along while Secretary Bryan steals away for a lecture or two. What a pity! The boys of to-day who are to become self-made men can't boast that they studied by lightwood knots or "burned the midnight oil." Edgefield roads are so good that one seldom hears any more about good roads- Just wait till January and February though and then you'll hear a county-wide chorus. If the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth is told in that Grace-Whaley investigation, the remainder of South Carolina will doubtless want to secede from Charleston. The dispensary people down in Barnwell oounty seem determined to make that county "wet" from centre to circumference, having al ready established ll dispensaries. Wonder how many are to follow? An exchange says, "Negro fid dled while Rome was burning, but j that is better than playing the flute." A close observance of this sentence will cause you to say that such a statement is unfair to the j African race. The prospect must have been not | at all pleasing to the Greenville groom who fainted at the marriage altar. It must have dawned upon him with irresistible force that from the standpoint of high cost of liv ing the twain, although made one, could not live as cheaply as one. Concerning the marshalsbip, a a dispatch from Washington states J 1 that "Mr. Sims has the inside track." The Advertiser would like to see him receive the appointment. Despite the damaging rumors and reports that have been circulated in order to defeat him, Mr. Sims is j a good man. The Anderson Daily Mail makes bold to remark, eren with the at-j mosphere permeated with militan cy, that much time and money would be saved if there were no mirrors in the world. Granting fori the sake of argument that there is a modicum of truth in the remark, we would not like to lead in a mirror-smashing campaign. Welcome to Presbytery. Edgefield is a Presbyterian town this week. The menbers of this very devout sect, who wherever they are found stand for the highest, the noblest, the best in every depart ment of life, have the right of way in Edgefield this week. We wel come the coming of the members o' the Charleston Presbytery and shan regret their iiparture. It is a privilege and a pleasure, as well as an unspeakable benediction, to have j these godly men in our midst. Edgefieid welcomes you most heart ily, members of the Charleston Presbytery. Succees Has Been Phenomenal. The Pee-Dee Fair Association of Florence has been captalized at $10,000. Why, Edgefield has been holding a fair for five years that has compared favorably with any of tho county fairs in the State on a cap ital of one tenth of that amount. Owing to the limited capital, the offi?ers have had to do some splen did financing in order to make both ends meet and yet some people have tried to create the impression that it is a money making enter prise for a few people. All of the officers have given their services without a cent of compensation, and that too at a very busy season of th e year. They have even neglected their private business in order to make the county fair a success. Considering the odds that have been against it, the success of Edgefield's fair has been phenomenal. The officers are determined to overcome every obstacle and make the fair of 1 913 the greatest sucoess of them all. Dream May be Realized. One of the most striking examples of order and system that we have ever seen was displayed by the Southern railroad several years ago when Mr. Spencer, the president of the road, died. As a mark of res pect to this the highest officer who had gradually worked his way i p from the humblest position, tor a given time on the afternoon of the funeral, every train, every engine, every wheel that was operated throughout the entire system, was stopped. Everything was brought to a standstill. Would it not be a fine thing if the farmers of the cotton belt were as thoroughly organized, as a gigantic railroad corporation and the mar keting of cotton could, as the word was passed down the line, be stop ped, pay for a period of ten days. The 1 bears" would be crushed in the stampede for cotton that would fo How, and the price would hardly stop short of 20 cents. While this is picturing an impossibility under present conditions, yet it serves to show what could be achieved through organization. If farmers were sufficiently inde pendent and, too, sufficiently or ganized to be able to order a shut ting off of sales on short notice spinners and exporters would be m ore eager for the staple while it could be had. Even a suggestion of such conditions seems to be, md at this time is, chimerical, yet who knows but what the day will come when cotton will be marketed with as much system as Standard oil is now? Let shrewd, scheming, far-sight ed*'Yankees" continue to acquire cot ton lands, and not many years hence cotton will be marketed as syste matically as many of the produots that are controlled by the trusts. School Day at The Fair. In this issue Superintendent of Education W. W. Fuller urges the trustees to co-operate with the teachers in making a suocess of the school day at the county fair. A very attractive feature of the fair last year was the decorated school wagons that participated in the an nual parade. In order to give prominence to the school feature and too to make it still raoie attractive, the officers of the fair association have set apart Thursday, November 6, as school day. All of the schools are urged to come in decorated wagons th at are to form the school parade. Three cash prizes will be awarded the school wagons. In order to in duce a greater number of schools to participate., the prizes have been made larger than last year. There should be at least 25 wagons in the parade. Just a word to the patrons and trustees: It will be impossible for the teachers to provide and deco rate the wagons without assistance. . day at the fair can be profitably spent by the children of your school, so what time and effort -re expend ed on the wagons will not be lost. Furthermore, the fair is a county wide enterprise, one in which the farmers who reside in the remotest parts of the county should be inter eated. Tbe fair need9 the co-ope ration of the farmers at large. It is an agricultural fair and is held primarily for the benefit of the ag ricultural interests of the county. One way you can contribute to the success of the fair is to have your school represented in the school wagon parade. The most progres sive school* will have prominent places. That has been the case in the past. Will you let your school be outstripped by other schools in the c untyV Concerning The Oldest Newspaper. In its failure to produce either any record or additional facts in order to establish its claim to be ing older than The Advertiser, the Georgetown Times resorts to analo gy, citing instances where names of individuals and cities had b*en changed without affecting their age. We could with as much pro priety, and just as effectively too, prove by analogy that The Times is not entitled to the birthday and p restige of a paper that ante-dated its first appearance by 64 years. But having no desire to prolong the matter unduly, we will refer here to only one vulnerable point in The Times' contention. Let us look closely into its claim to being a lineal descendant of The Gazette. For some reason The Gazette which was established in 1797 discontinu ed publication and some time there after*, about 1864, The Times was first published. If the publishers of the last named paper felt that they were justly entitled to the date of founding and prestige of The Gazette, why did they not place "Established 1797" at its masthead? Instead of doing this they began The Times with Volume One, Number One. If the founders of the new paper did not feel justified in claiming that The Times was a continuance of The Gazette, when they then and there understood all of the circum stances, does it seem just and prop er that publishers of The Times should endeavor to claim "kinship" .49 years afterwards? If the Unf of descent is so plain (ind Bureljc^it was plainer then than now), wJiy did the founders of The Times dis own the "blood relation" that im mediately preceded? The alleged ties were severed by the "Volume One, Number One" of the Times when the publication began. And yet 49 years after wards the publishers of The Times say "Established 1797." Until some other paper produces unquestionable proof that it has been published longer than The Advertiser we shall claim the dis tinction upon the record which we can prove beyond peradventure. County Treasurer's Report on Money Paid by Magistrates. In accordance with an act of the Legislature requiring the Treasurer of Edgefield County to publish, itemized quarterly statement of all money received by him from the Trial Justices of Edgefield countv, I hereby submit the following for the quarter commencing July 1st and ending September 80, 1913. July 1st, N. L. Brimson $20 (No. itemized statement) July 1st J. F. Pardue $95 for the following road funds: Battic Clay, Pierce Carroll, Geo. W. Chira, - Holloway, Hetti* Houston, Hairy Anderson, Collier Cook, Jim Johnson, Solomon Sulli van, Emanuel Turner, Robert Um phrey, William Umphrey, Mike Cook, Luther Johnson, Dock Them as, Robert Thomas, Jr., Tom Tay lor, Jr., John Gardner, Tommie Gardner. July 1st J. G. Mobley, $45 for the following road fucds: Sam Goode, Brooks Murrell, Mack Mc Kennie, Wash Valentine, Y. M. May, L. L. Moore, Jim Turner, Laurence Yonce, Mat Hardy. July 1st W. B. Posey, $30 for the following road fund: Wallace Bright, Luther Jackson, Arthur Jackson, Lee Powell, John Henry Lanham, C. P. New. J. T. Mims, Treas. E. C. Men's Inhumanity to Man. Some men, when they are arrested on a serious charge, are sent to Jail. Others, like one in New York, fare mucL. worse. The magistrats told blt wife to take him home and toll bim what she thought of him. - Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. Never bei completed as i thing you car dress hats. A vets, plush ito and ribbons, trirrmer, has ( will be glad to All we asl a great saving Ri Oar Store Will i till 6 O'clock in i What Others Say Took Advantage of Him. A California woman eloped with a man whose legs were broken. It is a safe bet that he will escape as soon as he gets so he can walk.-The Daily I Mail. Poor Fellows! Secretary Houston has asked 50,000 farmers' wives to tell him how he can best help them. Some of them, if they are candid, will suggest that the Secre tary send a hookworm expert to oper ate on the head of the family. -News and Courier. Store tho Moisture. Now is the time to reduce the loss in crops from drouth next summer. Those who make a reservoir and store moisture by early and deep plowing will have a good chance to compete with the drouth. Many did this last year and were liberally rewarded with increased yield.-Farm and Ranch. A Good Law. Baltimore has passed an ordinance forbidding white people to move into blocks where negro families predomi nate, and forbidding negroes to move into blocks where white families pre dominate. This, we believe to be wise legislation.-Abbeville Medium. Smile Provokers Pop, why does the moon get full?" "I don't know. Don't bother me-" "Pop, I guess if the moon would only stick to the milky way it wouldn't get full, would it?" Agnes-Where did you get the new slit dress? Carrie-It is my old hobble; I got the slit in stepping from a streetcar this morning.-Youngs town Telegram. Lady (meeting her former ser vant): Oh, Mary, I suppose you are getting better wages at your new place? Mary-No, ma'am; I'm workin' for nothing now-I'm married. London Opinion. A guest was expected for dinner, and Bobby had receiyed 5 cents as the price of his silence during the meal. He drew the coin from his pocket and rolling it across the ta ble, exclaimed: "Here's your nickel, mama. I'd ! rather talk."-Pittsburgh Chroni-| cle-Tclegraph. Stubb-What's the trouble, old chap? You look angry enough to fight." Penn-Oh, I'm sizzling. I lt took! me an hour to button up my wife's | waist in the back, and then I told her a joke, and she laughed so r uoh the buttons all flew open. What's the use in telling a woman a joke, anyway?" E LECTRIC THE BEST FOB TVT.? ?? JLV BILIOUSNESS BITTERS AND KIDNEYS. ?ore was our millinei t is this season as \ i mention in read; large assortment c ivers, all kinds of f Miss Bryans, an charge of this depar show you around. i is give as a trial ai . by buying your ha abenstei be Closed Saturday the Afternoon, Aca Petit Jury, Second Week. M M Dorn, Modoc, Wade Derrick, Ward, W O Holraes, Collier, W E Ouzts, Wise, J A Prince, Moss, vid Strother, Pickens, xi -V McDaniel, Modoo, C I Gay, Edgefield, W H Moyer, Ward, Walter Wise, Trenton,. W M Sawyer, Johnston, C W Taylor, Meriwether, J W Johnson, Clark's Hill, W F White, Hibler, L J Bryan, Wise, E E Walker, Trenton, M N Parkman, Blocker, J B Holmes, Johnston, L S Stevens, Meriwether, J R Bryan, Elmwood, W P Branson, Moss, C A Long, Trenton, Alvin Derrick, Ward, W W Mayson, Hibler, T B Cnlbreath, Talbert, Clifton Hall, Elmwood, S W Gardner, Jr, Roper, J F Boone, Moss, C H Whatley, Talbert, . Sim Clark, Johnston, F P Ouzts, Wise, J F Strom, Meriwether, W M Leppard, Trenton, L S Sawyer, Johnston, B J Rhoden, Ward, T A Broadwater, Pickens. Truths in Short Paragraph. A humorist's reputation always hangs on his latest joke. A woman can be relied on to look on the bright side of a mirror. Look out for the man whose meth ods should be looked into. The fellow who is all Ps expects the rest of us to be all ears. The power of speech demonstrates that many a man with a deep voice makes decidedly shallow remarks. TEACHERS AND TRUSTEES. The Fair Association has given us a day for a school parade, and have offered three substantial prizes for the three best floats. We had a very oreditable display last year, but if the teachers and trustees will work together we can make it bet ter. Thursday, Nov. 6, is our day, and I hope to hear from a number of teachers that they will take part with their schools. Notify me. W. W. Fuller, Co. Supt. Ed. Veterinary Dr. J. H the veterinary surj will be at H. C. W Edgefield, Monday stocK for all diseai be in Edgefield eve thereafter. ry department ve have every y-to-wear and >f shapes, vel ancy feathers, experienced tment and she id you will find t from us. .N y, October 11th, ittnt of Holiday. Pleasant Lane News. Miss Ida Timmerman leaves the 25th of this month to accept a school near Prosperity, S. C. Miss Jennie Briggs left Thursday for Greenville, S. C., where she will finish her course in nursing at the Greenville hospital.For thc past two winters she has studied at High lands Sanitarian!, N. C. Mrs. N. E. Murrah of McRae, Ga., is here visiting her brother, Mr. S. T. Williams and cousin Col. J. P. Hagood. She will leave Mon day to visit Mr. J. R. Timmer man's family in Edgefield, and from there she will go to Eureka, S. C. to spend awhile with Mr. and Mrs. Preston Seigler. Mr. and ; Mrs. Ov A. Etheredge and Miss Lena Ouzts of Gaines, S. C. spent several days last week at "Rose Cottage" with Mr. Ether edge's mother Mrs. M. E. Ether edge. Miss Sallie Maye Nicholson has accepted the Pleasant Lane school and will begin teaching the 27th of this month, and Mamie Cheatham will teach the S. T. Williams school' again, it beginning tjjie 1st day of November. Miss Kate Williams of Phoenix, S. C., spent several days last week with her uncle, Mr. S. T, Williams. Miss Pauline Byrd left Saturday for her school at Laurens, S. C. Pleasant Lane has three young men attending the B. M. I. this year, Messrs. Stewart Timmerman, Harry Strom and Julian Williams. Mr. and Mrs. Jerome P. Timmer man of Edgefield visited relatives in Pleasant Lane last week. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Ouzts of Edge field S. C. came up Sunday and spent the day with Mrs. Ouzts sis ter Mrs. F. L. Timmerman. Misses Ida Timmerman and Ruby Watson spent Monday in Augusta. Messrs. Hudgens and Kinnaird of Edgefield came up for the fox race last Monday night. A farmer in great need of extra hands at baying time finally asked Si Warren, who was accounted the town fool, if he oould help him out. "What'll ye pay?" asked Si. "I'll pay what you're worth," an swered the farmer. Si scratched his head a minute, then announced decisively: "I'll be durned .if I'll work fer that." Surgeon. I? Love ?eon of Johnston atson's "tables in , Oct. 13, to treat I ses. He will also ry second Monday