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EstaMteftrfc IB35. ). L. Ml MS._.FMitor Published every Wednesday in The A ?vertiser Building at $1.50 per year ie advance. i Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at Edgefield, S. C. No communications will be published unless accompanied by the writer's same. Cards of Thanks. Obituaries. Resolu tions and Political Notices published at advertising rates. LARGEST {"CIRCULATION IN EPGEFIELP COUNTY. Wednesday, March 4th. (He who is most slow ic making a promise is most faithful in its per formance.-ROUSSEAU. Onlv standing room has been left in the new spring skirt. Wonrfpr if it is ever cold enough to liill political microbes? We congratulate The Chronicle upon its new spring dress. Edgpfield's news papers are getting old but they will "keep up with the style. It seems that the Solons lear, more toward perennial than biennial sessions cf the legislature. Under the changed schpdnle, Edge field people going to Columbia will now have ample time to enjoy one of those "square meals." ' If you had ham and eggs for break *d better not tel! ir, lest it be )rima facie evidence that you > for the income tax. Sf be hoped the tomato club not car:; the prevailing styles work. Ail of us want cans ire and without a slit in 'em. is a word that the read c has grown tired of, but ie past few days we have of any who. objected to it led with a little "L" re years of continuous agita lucation, will it be necessary \dverteer to hold another ' this year in order to keep com in the cribs of the rt?nate it is that "orange unlike other flowers, are d by the extretr.? cold. Du leason of lew temperature nand for these nuptial neces ites t. irg recently gained distinc nishing the first woman's suffrage organization in the State, ?nd now that Anderson has imported a teacher to teach the tango, wonder whait Greenville will next do in order to keep pace with her progressive sis . ter towns of the Piedmont? Since the papers induced nearly 15,000 persons to attend church a few Sundays ago in Augusta, the power of j the press of that city is not any longer I questioned. Think of 15,000 Augus tans attending church in one day! What a pity the ministers can not now induce the papers to U6e some of their power in suppressing lawlessness in Augusta. As to Revenue Lice as ec. When a law was enacted in Tennes see recently making the holding of a United States revenue license prima facie evidence that the holder was vio lating the prohibition law every place that retailed whiskey war closed. That has been the law in this State for some time but we haven't heard that the of ficers of the law have been instructed to close blind tigers. There must be several hundred license holders in Char leston alone. This, however, suggests the question that the national government should 'not issue a license to violate a State law. The wishes of the people of a State or county should be respected. And our prediction is that the day is not far distant when public sentiment will force congress to prohibit the' issuing of liquor licenses in dry ter ritory. The Concealed Weapon. Be it said to their credit, very few homicides have baen committed by white men in this county during the past few years, but the same can not be said of negroes. The} seem not to ! realize the gravity of the offense of: -airing human life. Upon the slightest provocation they draw the concealed ed weapon and shoot some member of their race dead. Not such a large percent of the hot supper and church rows would be at tended by serious consequences were it not for the ready pistol. We have been informed by some of the older negroef that when one of these altercations oc curs at negro gatherings fully a half dozen pistols are drawn, indicating that the practice of carrying concealed weap ons among negroes is growing. When the negro who stole the horse and mule in the Horn's Creek neighborhood Sun day night was arrested on the North Augusta bridge early Monday morning, as the result of a telephone message to the Augusta authorities, a concealed pistol was found on him. Unless the law prohibiting the carry ing of pistols concealed is more rigidly enforced, the practice will grow and the number of murders will continue to increase. When a pistol is found con cealed, the maximum penalty should be imposed. As long as the offense is treated lightly, the nuisance will not only be unabated but will increase. Jail Caught Fire. Several times the grand jury has recommended that some changes and improvements be made in the jail for the protection of prisoners. The fire which occurred in the kitchen of the jail Sunday emphasizes the necessity for these improvements. At present there is only one exit from the two up per stories, and that is by a stairway leading down into thekitchen. Had the fire Sunday made such headway that the flames could not have been extin guished, making it too impossible to remove the prisoners, the four or five human beings that were locked on the second and third stories would have been roasted alive. This is horrible to contemplate, and yet it is liable to occur any time. Several grand juries have in the past recommended that a stairway be placed in the hall leading to the second floor. This world afford another meanB of escape should fire make the use of the one leading down into the kitchen im possible. This matter should receive attention at once. We have also been informed that the roof of the jail leaks and is badly in need of repair. These matters should receive prompt atten C?imate, the South's Great Asset The very large unactivated sreas make the influx of desirable immigrants one of the South's greatest needs. And instead of having raw recruits from abroad, such as are flocking to the large cities by the hundreds of thousands annually, it is preferable that we induce small farmers from the northwest to come South. One of the greatest inducements that we can hold out to these people is the short and mild winters of this section. The ex tremely cold weather which has pre vailed in the North and West during the past fortnignt should makes it easy for the South to attract people from that section. While the mercury has been unprecedently low in the South, yet it has been proportionately lower in the colder regions of the country. There is no denying the fact that one of the greatest assets of the South is the comparatively mild weather. The editor of the Manufacturer's Record who is spending some time in Florida had the following to say by way of editorial correspondence in his excellent journal last r:eek: ''Climate as an asset for a country's development is tangible in its value as coal or iron or timber. Whenever the biting blizzards sweep over the North and West, leaving suffering, destruc tion and death in their trail, were the pre-eminent advantages of the South generally understood throughout the entire country, millions of people would seek this section, either for a perma nent or a winter home. Even now rail roads are overcrowded with tourists into the South, but if the South's climatic aduantages were as widely known as they should be it would be impossible for years to come to have rolling stock enough to bring the people who would take up their march southward. "To hundreds of thousands in the far North and West who have to suffer six months of snow and ice and zero weather the short winters of the Pied mont regions of the upper South, and ev m some of the mountain sections, where nature has engirdled beautiful valleys by protecting mountains, would seem to make thap region a Garden of Ed m. To others, seeking a warmer climate, there is a great coastal plain stretching along the South Atlantic and the Gulf coast, taking in Florida and all the region that stretches to the Rio Grande. In this Southern country, with its mountain ranges, its Piedmont region of hills and valleys and the level country of the seacoast, there is every variety of climate that the heart e-f man could wish. ' Today v/hile the North and West are freezing, while millions are suffer ing, while railroads are blocked by great snowdrifts and many schools are closed because of the weather, there are signs of spring throughout Florida and the coast country, the trees are budding forth, the flowers are bloom ing, the birds are mating, and man and beast are free from the suffering of the death-dealing blizzards. In this climatic advantage the ,conth has an asset worth billions in its material developments. This climate lessens the cost of living, lessens the cost of live stock raising, and makes possible out door work 12 months in the year. It gives to the fruit growers and the farmers productive power at least twice as great as that of th?ir competitors in less Javored regions. " ' What Others Say Better Service, Not Lower Rate. We have heard no general demand l'or a two-cent railway tare. What the people demand is better service. -An derson Intelligencer. . President Can Say No. Still another thing we admire about Woodrow Wilson is that his won'tpow er is as fully developed as his will jjower.-The State. Precedent Broken. Another precedent has been broken. A New York trained nurse married a wealthy rath nt and then let him get well.-Daily Mail. Somebody Woise Off. "Snow Six Feet Deep hi Some Piares in Indiana"-headline. We can nlways find somebody in worse fix than yourself if you will just look around a bit.-Greenville Piedmont. Retrograding. When a body like the state senate puts itself on record as opposed to pri mary reform we cannot throw off the feeling that South Carolina is retro gressing politically.-Dillon Herald. In Great Danger. Senator Sullivan, of Anderson coun ty, had the courage to speak a kind word of the press of South Carolina in the senate the other day. It is to be hoped he will escape impeachment. Spartan burg Herald. A Suggestion to Edgefield. The city council of Aurora, 111., does not believe in race suicide. It has pass ed an ordinance exacting a tax ot $5 a head from every male resident of the city over 25 ye?*rs of age who is not a father.-Greenville Piedmont. Treaty Troubles. The United States is making more treaties in spite of the fact that it has been rather conclusively shown that treaties are nothing more than trouble breeders and that we get on in our in ternational affairs very much better without them.-Florence Times. Doesn't Seem So Funny. We agree with our friend, Ed De Camp, that the phunnygraph writer of the Columbia State is one of the most brilliant writers in the country, but when one of those squibs is pointed right at you it doesn't 6eem so funny. Reminds you of Lee Holleman's story about the old negro who lost ?10 in a bank failure. He had heard of such things before, but this was the first bank he had ever had to "bust right in my face."-Anderson Intelligencer, t? Heck-Do you play any instru ment? Peck (sadlj)- Second fiddle, at home. -Boston Transcript. lt i He-Why do you women persist in wearing such tight skirts? She-To match the allowance Our husbands give us to buy them. '-.-. . ? Teacher-Tommy can you tell ?ne what great men were born in Feb ruary? Tommy-George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, St. Valentine and Mr. Groundhog.-Birmingham Age-Herald. "My gracious, boy, said the un cle, you do certainly eat an awful lot for a little boy." "Well, sir, replied the boy, may be I'm not so little as I look from the outside" Freddie-Are you the trained nurse mama said was coming? Nurse-Yes, dear, I'm the trained nurse. ^ ? Freddie-Let's see some of your tricks, then 1-Tit-Hits. "Oh, by the way, dear, said the merchant as he was preparing to leave the bouse in the mo min tr, if I find I can't be home to dinner I will send a note by messenger." "Don't trouble yourself, said the wife, sweetly,. I have already found it on the blotting pad."-Western Mail. A miner once got killed, you know, and a tactful associate was delegated to break the news to the widow. So the tactful fellow called at her house and said: "With your golden hair, blue eyes and pink and white complexion ma'am, you'd break every heart in town if you wore widow's weeds." The young woman laughed and blushed for pleasure. "Oh, go on, she said." And you are a widow, too, said the tactful miner quickly seizing his chance. Bill's head and legs and arms was just blown off in au ex plosion. Dut, by crinus, ma'am, ain't you goin' to look good in black, though!" The Corner Store Cold weather time is practically over. Soon the snow caped hills will blossom forth in beautiful Spring attire. We make the first bow of the season with SHIRT WAISTS in Crepes, Voils and Flaxons. See the lovely Spring Creations and elegant values all with the new sleeve effects priced all at the one price of $1.50 each. Respectfully. The Corner Store i Cotton Requires Fish-Scrap -3 TRADE MARK mr. REGISTERED Aro {Ks orignal fisli fertilizers Fertilizer ammoniated with Fish-Scrap is universally admitted to be the plant food best suited to the cot ton crop. This is not a theory, but a fact proven by the experience of many. The popularity of Royster's, the original and genuine fish-scrap fertilizer has caused a host of brands to appear with fish in the name: if you want to be sure of getting fish in the goods as well, be sure to buy the brand that made fich-scrap famous; F. S. R. If you are not already acquainted with the splendid results from ROYSTER'S fish-scrap fertilizer, we simply ask that you test it alongside any other brand and abide by the proven results. F. S. ROYSTER GUANO CO. Norfolk, Va. Baltimore, Md. Charlotte, N. C. Tarboro, N. C. Spartanburg, S. C. Columbia, S. C. Macon, Ga. Columbus, Ga. Montgomery, Ala. t