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f.JL ;.?/AiS.-.Editnt Published every Wednesday in The A ivertiser Building at $1.50 per year kn 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, March 25th. J?."T"---""""^ Take care to be an economist ir prosperirv; there is no fear of vn>ir r-eintr one in adversity.-ZIMMER MAN. . _.T. .r - ' What the new style hats lack in breadth they mak ? up in height Long may the sugar trust live! It is ^giving us cheaper sugar than we have had in twenty years. "Heavy Snows Will Make Good Crop3"-Headline. Then Edgefield county will reap a record-breaking har vest this year. A prominent physician recommends exercise and frequent bathing as a preventive of spring fever. Let's all render ourselves immune at once. Everything is all right with the Dem ocratic administration except the weather bureau. We prutest against sleet the latter part of March. What has become of the old-time farmer who called up his hogs every morning about the crack of day and fed them bountifully on home-raised com? A Newberry dealer sold 12 automo biles in 12 days recently, which proba bly will ultimately mean an increase of business for the sheriff and under taker. Other means having failed to drive the tigers from their lair, Columbia might turn a stream from the one thou8and-gallons-per-minute fire engine npon them with satisfactory results. "Powerless Firemen See Flames Sweep Durham"-Headline. Unfortu nately, such a headline sometimes ap plies to Edgefield. Even where there are real firemen they are powerless without an adequate water supply. Patronage Steadily Grows. "Notwithstanding the thorough can vass which was made during the recent . contest, a goodly number of citizens have voluntarily come in and added their names to The Advertiser's sub scription list during the past few weeks, which is exceedingly gratifying to the management This reminds us ?f what the late D R. Durisoe, a for mer editor and owner of The Adverti ser, said to us soon after we assumed the management of the paper about 12 years ego. Stopping the writer on the street one morning, Mr. Durisoe said, among other things in connection with newspaper work, "Make a good paner and the people will coma to you." We do not say The Advertiser is a good paper, but we are endeavoring, in the face of the handicaps incident to a limited field, to make it measure up to what our conception of a county newspaper should be. The Advertiser's subscription list is nearly three times larger now than it was when Mr. Durisoe made the above remark. Cotton Crop of 1913. Edgefield county can not complain of the cotton crop of 1913. According to statistics just issued by the census de: partmentthe farmets of this county made 27,436 bales in 1912 and 33,201 in 1913, the increase being nearly 6,000 bales. Some counties fe '1 below the yifdd of 1912. Marlboro, for example, produced nearly 15,000 bales of cotton more in 1912 than in 1913. The very satisfactory yield in this county, together with the better-th?n usual price, enabled many farmers to pay all indebtedness, including some old debts. Let's be satisfied with last year's yield, and instead of endeavor ing to make still more cotton let's in crease the food products of the farm. Make more corn, grain, hay, and raise more hogs? colts and cattle. As the months pa93 make as few debts as possible and then next fall there will not be such a pressing need for cotton. Again we say, instead of endeavor ing to make more cotton this year, let's rather increase the food supply on the farm. Be independent by living at home. No Corn Contest This Year. For the past five years The Adverti s r has been conducting corn contes s, paying cesh prizes to farmers making the largest yield on an acre. During 'his time we have paid out in cash more than $200 as prizes in corn, whtat and oats contests. In addition to tre actual cash we have given much time and personal effort in order to make the contests a success. For all of th's and the many columns of space in Thc Advertiser which we have contributed from time to time we feel amply re paid. Observing and thoughtful far mers from different parts of the coun ty have assured us that The Advertise? has been a means of stimulating corn culture in the county. Their state ments as to the increased corn produc tion are corroborated too by drummers and wholesale merchants who say they are not shipping one-fifth of the corn into Edgefield county that was shipped several years ago. After thoughtful consideration ot the matter we have decided not to con duct a corn contest this year. Far mers have been impressed with the need of larger production, they have proven by their efforts that large yields can be cheaply grown upon thrir own soil, and they have experienced the good fortune of having an abundance of corn in their cribs. Po, taking every thing ;nto consideration, we do not feel that any fun her stimulus at this time is needed. It is possible that next year we will again renew the agitation in some form. But for this vear we will leave the farmers to themselves, feeling that ?V ry one will profit by the experience )f his neighbor, if not by his own, and make an abundance of corn at home. County Board of Equalization. The second and last meeting of he county board of equaliz lion ^as h**1d in the < ffiee of the auditor asl Saturday and all of the town, 'hips were represented except two .r three. AH personal property, ac .ording to the verbal reports of the n> mb? i8, has been mumed for axation upon the same basil as last ear. Real estate was re-as-esse?l his year, which greatly added to he work of the township boards [??wn property has been returned t about the same value as of the, tast four years. Farm lands are re timed at from $3 50 to 815 per ere. Agricultural lauds in the towns >? assessed at $20 per acre. The verage Tor the county is above $4 ?er acre, which places this e?.unt\ bout on an average with the other ounties of the state. Tiie Meriwether township b??ard eporfed that all land that ha- been (.quired by the Gecrgia Carolina \iwer Company has been duly re timed for taxation and 'hal in ad it ion to real estate the company lade returns representing about one liird of the amount invested in the am and plant. Mr. J. P. Wood, the ompany's manager, stated to the oard that it w-s his desire lo have alf of the investment, iii?ie:td of n'y one-third, returned in ridgefield nint\ lou that the ?late of Georgia emain: t mrns or two-thirds. The oar?! pureed a resolution contend ig for one half and the auditor was istructed to lake (his matter up ? ith ie county anorm^y. The auditor as aUo instructed to (Moiler with le county attorney with reference ? requiring the holders of the Twin lily franchise to make returns. All ?d' the township boards have toured faithfully to the end that ie tax burden tie borne equally hy ie individuals and corporal ions in ie county, and all along they have ad the hearty and helpful Co Iteration of Auditor .1 \i Tim lertuati. The county chairman, J ?. Minis, will represent Rdgeti-'ld minty on the state board of t-qu til ilion, a meeting of which will soon e called by the comptroller general. tatement Of The Ownership And Management. Of E?lg field Advertiser publish i we?-kly at Edgefield, required by ie Act of August 24, 1912 Editor, .1. L. Minis, ridgefield. Publisher, J. L. Minis, Kdg? field. Business Manager, J. L. Minis, Muefield. Owner, J. L. Minis. J. L. Mims. Sworn to and subscribed bef?ire ie this 23rd day ? f March, 1014. W. T. Kinnaird, Judge Probate. My Commission expires Jan. 1st, 915. Boys Suits.' We are showing the snappiest ne of boyt, Norfolk suits in this PCtion, 8 i ZOK 6 to 18. You cannot nd any nicer suits in Augusta than re have this season in BO I id blue nd fancy serges and other new pring colors you can find as nice election in lioyd suits as you wish > see. All we ask you is to look ver our line and you will he pleased j j ilh assortment and prices. Rubenstein. What Others Say Relinquished His Authority. The obituaries of more men than one should read like this: "He was his own Loss until he married."-Greenville Piedmont. Left Off the List. We are undecided whether we have been complimented or slighted in not laving our n-<me mentioned as a pos sible candidate for some office this sum ner.-Greenville Piedmont. New Pattern For Panis. A Birmingham paper says many a pair of patched breeches hid- s an hon est heart. We would like to see the pattern of the breeches worn in Bir mingham.-Spartanburg Journal. Don't Ask TbeseJ Questions. Here are some questions that are barred out at this office: Do you think that winter is broken? Will we have a cold Easter? Will it be an early spring? Are we going to have a dry, hot summer?-Spartanburg Journal. How Many in Edgefield? It has been suggested that there should be a home-coming day for bor rowed btcks in the city. There are perhaps a thousand or more buuks in trie eiiy which have been borrowed and not returned. -Spartanburg Journal. Free Press and Free People. Where the press is really free, it can be hone>t, and where tue press is tree and hon st there is a chance tor the people to be tree. That a tree people will demand a free press goes witnout saying.-York vii le Enquirer. Don't Say ?iean Things. A good many people have an idea that they have" a right to say mean things about other people if they are true; but they are mistaken about that. Ihe question of the necessity lor the mean things to be said, tnieis into the proposition, and even that is not al ways a justincation. Rtally the best thing lor one to do with reference to mean things, is to h ave them unsaid, lt always pays one best to attend to one's own business. -Yorkville Enquirer. ?Smile Provokers BuMis-Well, how are your New Year's resolutions wearing? Duthil-Fine! Had ona little puncture, but nothing like a regular \tloW. The lawyer was endeavoring to [ja inp free advice out of the doctor. "Which side is it better to lie om/ i octor?" / "The side that pay? you the r? silier."-Cincinnati Enquirer. "That young man stays until an mearihlv hour every night, Alice, laid an irate father to lus >ounge*t lauyhter. What does your mother ?av about it?" "Well, dad, replied Alice, as she urned to go upstairs. She ?sys men laven't altered a hit." 'Must got back from Europe, writes a female contributor, accord tig to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, iud we had an awfully rough pas ?ag??, of course. Nobody ought to mme back fr.-m Europe at this time if the year. I met a dandy fellow .oining sen MS. We were eating uni ter one dav, and suddenly he start .d from his seat, said *Au revoir!' md left. 'Au revoir!' I answered <ut the gentleman on my other side laid, wh\ did \on say 'Au revoir'?" *T wa? answering the gentleman vho just lelt the laide, I explained." "But he didn't say *Au revoir' to .nu Ile was sajing tito his din "Then I am to undersiand that hi* is your final answer, Miss Stub bles?" ' My final : ns wer. Nothing can move you? Not hing "Then my life will be a lonely me and my fate a harsh one, for my lucie willi whom I lived has just lied and left me.-" "'That fact somewhat alters the ?ase, Henry. I cannot be harsh to me who bas sustained snob recent Itereavetneiit. If I could believe that, k on are sincere-" Sincere! Oh, Miss Stubbles! "You have certainly made an im [iiessioii oil my heart. Give me time Lo think ol it." How long? "Afierall, why think of it, Hen ry? 1 am \ours. " Ot), Genevieve! "Do ma squeeze mo so ha*d, Henry. Your poor uncle! Was ile ong ill?" Three days. "It is too bad. You say he left :ou?" "Yes; he has left me." How much? "How much? I said he had left ne. He had nothing else to leave. I un alone in the world now; home ess, penniless, but with you by my ide-why's she's fainted!"-PitUi ?urg Gazette. The Triumphs of The Carolinas are the achievements in educational, agricultural and commercial progress that will astonish even native Carolinians, will make every State in the South bestir itself and Will Open the Eyes of the Entire Nation You know what your own locality is doing, but how much do you know about the combined efforts of all the Carolina counties and how these united efforts will, in turn, boom business in your town and county? Employer, employee or parent-whichever you are-you need to know these important facts, for the agricultural and business opportunities and the educational advantages of North and South Carolina today are greater than ever in the history of the two States. What's more, they are rapidly growing bigger and better. There is much to be proud of in the Carolinas. The whole significant story is told in the article DOWN SOUTH c1?r In This Week's Issue of effie COUNTRY GENTLEMAN Five Cents the Copy, of All News Agents-On Sale Thursday. Or S 1.50 a Year by Mail Direct, or Through Any Authorized Subscription Agent Our Distributinnr Agent is EDGAR PADGETT, ?SS? ma. THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY Independence Square, Philadelphia Program of Missionary Institute at Bateoburg March 28 and 29. First Session. Devotional. Greeting Response. Standard of excellence: a. Personal service, V. P. of division. b. Mission study, Mrs. Geo. E. Davis. Efficiency, the ideal association, Mrs. J. R. Fizer. Noontide service, Mrs. J. 0. Sough. W. M. S. conference. Adjournment. Second Session. Devotional. Swill earn and R. A. service. Importance nf training our chil Ireu in mission work. Royal Ambassadors and the feriuho road, Mrs. W. J. Hatcher. Open conference. Adjournment. Night Session. Jubilate celebration, with special nu^ic. Devotional power for the task, Mrs. .1. O Gough. Judson Centennial, representative af foreign mission board. Presentation of pledge cards. Benediction. Fourth Session. Devotional. Blackboard suggestions: a. How to use the Bible in pour work. b Program making. c. Ho*r to present year's plan )f work, Mrs. J. R. Fizer. The call of the girl: a. Her awakening. b. Aft. r response-What? Mrs. jeo. E. Davis. V. W. A. conference. Noontide service, Mrs. J. 0. jrOUgh. How to conserve public meetings, VI rs. .1. D. Chapman. A'ljournmen t. The Mother's Favorite. A cough medicine for children hould be harmlens. It should be ileasant to take. It should be effeot ial. Chamberlain's cough remedy s all of this and is the mothers' fa ?orin* everywhere. For sale by all eaters. A Good Drug Store JT TAKES more than a stock of drugs and: good intentions to make a good drug store. It requires an intimate knowledge of weighing measuring and mixing, which tomes only after careful rf,.:dy and experience. Your prescrip tions will be properly filled at our store. We have every modern facility and-we know how. Pena & Holstein r AU of the New Things. Our Spring stock is now complete in every de partment. It matters not what the ladies want we have it. Come in to see all the new Spring fabrics that we are showing in the beautiful colors of the season. Goods for dresses, goods ,for skirts, goods for waists-for misses and ladies. We also have a very large stock of trimmings, lace embroidery, etc. We can please tjie most exacting buyer in these goods. We are showing a beautiful assortment of un derwear for ladies, misses, men and boys. Come in before you buy your supply of light underwear. Our Shoe Department is well supplied with the most stylish oxfords and slippers. We have them in the popular lasts and in patents, gun metal, tans and vici kid. We invite the men and boys to see our stock of clothing and hats. Our prices are reasonable. J. W. PEAK.