Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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J.L.MIMS,.....Editor Published every Wednesday in The Aivertiser Building at $1.50 per year ta 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. People seldom improve, when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.-GOLDSMITH. ; ._* Wednesday, Jan. 6. "Who finds my purse finds trash." Old Edgefield county has been cut to ? the bone. _ "Tell us not in mournful numbers," rather let your voice have a joyful ring. _ Aren't you glad the "baby" county | wasn't twins? There wouldn't have been any of Edgefield left What has become of the fellows who go over the country this time every year selling fancy cotton seed? t)f the 4,194.112 pieces of gold coin that were made by the government in 1914, how many found the way into your pocket. Already there is a scramble to get on the water wagon. The tide of pro hibition sentiment is steadily increas ing over the State. Not one of the 7,593 national banks in the United States is located in Edge field county. The State banks are good enough for us. The Advertiser predicts that a com pulsory education law will be enacted by the legislature in some form probably a mild form at first. The saddest part about the formation of the'new county is there is no longer any West-sjde to the county. " It is now so small that we all live in the centre. The incoming governor could not pardon as many persons as the outgo ing governor if he wanted to, as there is not much material left in the peni tentiary. * That "hard times" are more psy chological than real is proven by the fact that the more we speak of our misfortune the more depressed we feel.- Whenever we can't sound an optimistic note in 1915 let's keep our mouths shut. Cotton Curtailment Law. The repeal of the law curtailing the ?otton acreage in South Carolina should be among the first acts of the legisla ture which will convene in regular ses ij sion next Tuesday. It was one of the few measures passed at the extra ses sion of the legislature, and we believe that many who voted for it will now vote for its repeal, realizing that it is a piece of unwise legislation. If there were concert of action throughout the cotton belt looking to the curtailment of the acreage of cot ton in 1915, it would then be in order for South Carolina to fall in line and ""o her part to accomplish the desired end. But it is unfair to the farmers of this State to hamper them with this law when no similar law has been en acted by any of the other cotton grow ing States. McDuffie County. While we regret, of course, that you, McDuffle county, ever saw the light of day, yet, now that you are here, we extend to you sincere greetings of the New Year. We regret your ..coming into exist ence because you have taken away a host of our personal friends whose faces we will see only at longer inter vals hereafter. But we wish you well because your citizenship is composed largely of the best stock that can be found in South Carolina, men who de serve to succeed, whether it be in the matter of building private fortunes or in making a new county a success. McDuffie County, all that Edgefield, the torn and bleeding old mother county, can ask or hope for her last born is that you live up to your name McDUFFIE. If that be done, you will soon take rank along with the foremost counties of the State and be an honor to your mother. Again The Advertiser salutes you, McDuffie, and wishes you weil, very well. Clemson Y. M. C. A. Clemson college is to have a commo dious, modernly equipped Young Men's Christian Association building. Mr. John D. Rockefeller donated $50, OOO for the erection of a Y. M. C. A. building on the campus upon condition that the college would contribute $25,000, mak ing a total sum of $75,000. The trus tees of the college very wisely set apart $15,000 for this purpose and the balance of $10,000 has been contributed by the alumni of the institution. While the young men who attend Clemson are being taught the arts and sciences, it is important that they should at the same time develop strong Christian characters. Of the score and more of buildings on Clemson's campus not one will be more essential in making the institution a complete plant for the milking of well-rounded young m'en than the Y. M. C. A. building. Hunters' License Tax. In his annual report State Game Warden Richardson will recommend that the legislature enact a law re quiring hunters to take out a license and to pay a fee therefor, provision being made of course for land owners to hunt on their premises. It appears that such a law would reduce the number of hunters who are in a sense vagrants. As soon as the game season opens many indolent negroes and some white people who stealthily bunt upon lands that are posted or slaughter game on farms of individuals whose lands are not posted but who object to promis cuous hunting. Not only would nui sances of this class be reduced, were a a tax required, but it would mean that less game would be slaughtered. It. appears that legislation along this line would greatly improve conditions in some sections. The Salvation Army. A decade or more ago the work of the Salvation Army was. not fully un derstood or appreciated. In spite of the jeers and unjust criticism, the earnest men and women who compose this vast host of Christian workers I pressed steadily forward in their ef forts to uplift the poor and the out j cast, knowing that in a feeble and humble way they were following in the footsteps of the Master who min istered chiefly to the needy. To-day wherever the voice of a mem ber of the Salvation Army is raised it commands respect and whenever an appeal is made in the name of the or ganization it does not go unheeded. During the recent festive season teem ing thousands of stockings were filled through the efforts of this organiza tion and as many Christmas dinners were provided for the poor' of the large cities. The members of the Sal I vation Army are trained in this special field and are thus enabled tc accom plish more for the unfortunate people in the slums of the cities than the lo cal churches or local charitable organi zations. Never let an opportunity pass to give the Salvation Army work your moral and financial support. There is no more helpful organization outside of the church. Wheat Goes Higher. The steady advance in wheat should be sufficient to cause farmers to let cereals of all kinds have a large place in their plans this year. In dividing up your acreage for this and that crop, let the best land be set apart for food crops. It is predicted that flour will be higher during thi3 year than it has ever been in this country, higher even than Joseph Leiter forced it in 1898 during a period of world-wide peace. If food* for man and beast is not made at home this year, where will the money come from for its purchase. Surely no one will depend upon cot ton until the war is ended. If a large yield is made this year, it is easily within the range of possibilities, quite probable indeed, that there will be no market at all next fall. Farmers who have seed wheat and have been unable to plant on account of the almost incessant rains in Decem ber, should yet sow wheat. Hon. W. R. Parks of Parksville, who is conceded to be one of the best anthorities in the county on growing wheat, says he sowed as late as February 7 some years ago and made good wheat, and that he has several times sown in January with fairly satisfactory results. Of course, he does not advocate the late sowing of v/heat as being a wise or the best course to pursue, but he advisea that farmers who have not sown their full acreage should yet sow wheat. The Liver Regulates the Body A Sluggish Liver Needs Care Someone has said that peop'e with Chronic Liver Complaint should be shut up away from hu manity, for they are pessimists and see through a "gks3 darkly." Why? Because mental states depend upon physical states. Ii i 1 H o u s ness, Headaches, Dizziness and Constipa tion disappear after using Dr. King's New Life Pills. 25c. at your Druggist. I f What Others Say f Good Times Ahead. Better times are coming. And we be lieve there are already evidences of the change. Our people are standing together, they are planning to carry on the business of the farm, the store and the mill. They have pluck and strength of heart. "Everything is all right."-Union Times. Worth in New Role. . Ye gods and little fishes, what Southerner ever thought he would live to see the day when Northern newspa pers would use a state's rights argu ment. And yet scores of them oppose nation-wide prohibition on state's rights grounds. ' Whatever the SUE may do, the world sure do move. - Greenville Piedmont. Indicative of Sentiment. The whole of the South Carolina del egation in the lower house of Congress, including Whaley of Charleston, voted for Mr. Hobson's resolution to submil the question of nation-wide prohibition to the different state / legislatures. From this one would judge that the prohibition sentiment in this state is very strong. -Greenville News. What a Dispensary County Says. The people of this State are almost sure to have a vote on the whiskej question this year. Petitions are be ing gotten up in every county of the State asking the legislature to give the people a chance to express themselves on the question. If the matter is lefl to a vote, the State will go dry.-Unior Times. _ Other Money Crops. A traveling man in Newberry a daj or two ago told The Observer that al Johnson City, Tenn., a few days be fore Christmas, he saw a drove of 1,8(K turkeys that had been driven into thal city from the surrounding country tc be shipped North, and a trainload ol chickens going the same direction. There are more ways of making monej than raising cotton.-Newberry Ob server. Conduct Condemned. The conduct of the Clemson Cadets who crowded into a cafe in Greenville and despoiled the place is not to be excused on any ground. We know'al! about "fun" and "playfulness" anc "mischief", but the proprietor of the cafe was entitled to protection, and the Clemson Cadets were expected tc deport themselves as gentlemen. We overheard a Cadet say that "there'll be a little talk in Chapel and it wif blow over." We have no wish to mag nify the occurrence, though we think it safer to magnify it than to make light of it.-Manning Herald. . . t .t_.?. . t *.-? .t..l t,,L t fiiTiiflf' t- ?--.-.?--*..I--*. * 'TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT I Smile Provokers + if TTTTT TTTT V TTTTTTTT "Jack, when we are married 1 must have three servants." "You shall have twenty, deat but not all at the same time." Wife (at 2 a. m.)-Wake up, wake up! There's a burglar in the next room. Husband (sleepily) - Well, I've no revolver. You go in and look daggers at him.-Boston Trans cript. The painstaking artist anxious to please, remarked to a prospective customer: "I can paint you a portrait of your wife which will be a speaking likeness.1*' "H'm! Couldn't you do it in what they call still life?"-Lippin cott's Magazine. A New Yorker was spending a night at a hotel in a southern town* and told thc colored porter that he wanted to be called early. The porter replied: "Say, boss, I reckon yo ain't familiar with these heah modern inventions. When yo' wants to be called in de mawnin', all yo' has to do is jest to press de button at de head of yo' bed. Den we comes up and calls yo'."-Tit Bits. A small boy who was sitting next to a very haughty lady in a crowd ed subway car kept on sniffling in a very annoying manner. At last the lady could bear it no longer and turned to the lad. "Boy, have you got a handker chief?" nho demanded. The small boy looked at her for a few second*, and then in a digni fied tone, came the answer: "Yes, I 'ave, but I don't lend it to strangers. "- New York World. A Missouri farmer, whose son was an applicant for a position un der the government, but who had been repeatedly turned down, said: "Well, it's hard luck, but Joe has missed that civil service again. It looksflike they just won't have him." "What was the trouble?" "Oh, he was short on cpellin' and geography and missed a good deal in arithmetic." "What's he going to do about itr' "I dunno, said the farmer. Tirae9 is mighty hard, an I reckon he'll have to go back to teaching sohool fer a livin'." Death of Mr. Sam Garner. On Thursday morning: the 24th pf December, Mr. Samuel F. Gar ner died at his home in this com munity. Mr. Garner was stricken with paralysis on the 11th day of November one year ago.On tho same date in November just passed, he suffered a second stroke, since when he has gradually failed till the end came. Mr. Garner was a brave soldier in the civil war and the same coura geous spirit whrch served him through th ose years of trial and ; danger, bore him up most beauti : fully when he came to meet the last [ great foe. ! In bia case the gloom and sad > ness of death is greatly relieved in ' the thought of his loved ones by the remembrance of the patience and resignation with which he bore his affliction and tne utter fearlessness with which he met death. He had expressed his faith in Christ as the t Saviour of mankind, aud his hope < that through Him, his sins had been 1 forgiven. He often said that he was , not afraid to die, and that he was ? only waiting for the Master's time to call him home. The burial took place at Sweetwater church on Christmas day, the funeral service ; being conducted by the Rev. J. P. - Mealing. Mr. Garner leaves his wife, a ; daughter of Mr. Stephen Mays, ? who years ago was a prominent ; planter of this place. He leaves also 1 four children, one son, Mr. William Garner and three daughters, Mrs. Jason Whitlock, of Georgia; Mrs. Avery Franklin of Beech Island and 5 Mrs. Eldred Bartow, of this neigh . borhood. J The sympathy of the community ' is with these loved ones in their be : reavement. Mt. Zion. Stick to the Land. The Edgefield Advertiser gives eound advice when it urges all those , who are now engaged in agricul s ture to stay on the farm. It is true, I as The Advertiser suggests, that j "the present low price of cotton will doubtless cause many farmers ? to seek other employment." But our i contemporary says truly thal those j who do this will make a mistake, especially those who are financially able to continue to farm. ! "Why brood over the present low price of cotton," says The Ad ? vertiser. "One should not forget . that practically everything else pro" ; du ced on the farm iain great de j, jman 1 at profitable prices. F ur the r . morefthe day is not so far distant ' when the sooth's great staple will again come into his own, and then the mah who left the farm will find it difficult to re-establish himself. - His labor will have to be replaced, the farm will have to be re-supplied with live stock and food for man , and beast. While it is true that For tnne may not be smiling upon you now, you had better 'tough it out' ! and remain on the farm, learning and practicing the lesson of rota tion and diversification till the new day dawns." Every word of this is to the point. But th<i best reason for every body, white and black, to stick to the farm if they can is that in the towns and cities there are already more workers than work. No intel ligent white man is going to leave the land if he can help it. Every thing which can be done to dis courage the negroes from flocking to the towns ought to be done. They will not better their condition by the move.-News and Courier. Notice. State of South Carolina, County of Edgefield. Notice is hereby given that pur suant to the Commission issued to us by the Secretary of State, dated December 24th, A. D., 1914 the books of subscription to the Capi tal Stock of Farmers Warehouse Company will be oponed at Geo. Wise's Store, Trenton, S. C., OH Saturday, January 7, A. D., 1915 from nine o'clock a. m., until four o'clock p. m. ot said day. B. R. Tillman, J. B. Knight, A. F. J. Miller, J. R. Moss. Board of Corporators. Trenton, S. C., Dec. 30, 1914. V. A. Hemstreet & Bro. GUNS, REVOLVERS, CARTRIDGES, ETC. ' JUST BELOW GEORGIA R. R/ BANK 655 BROAD STREET AUGUSTA, GA. Put some money in the Bank of Edgefield and you will defeat pov* erty. Everybody has a horror of poverty. There is only one 'way to insure against it, that is to culti vate a habit of thrift which you can easily do by putting money in this bank. Courteous and prompt attention given to all business. OFFIERS: J. C. Sheppard, Pres.; B. E. Nicholson Vice pres.; E. J. Mims, Cashier; J. H. Allen, assistant ashier DIRECTORS: J. C. Sheppard,*Geo. W. Adams, Thoa. H. Rainsford, John Rainsford B. E. Nicholson, A. S. Tompkins, C. C. Fuller, E. J. M iras, J. H. Allen INSURE NW It is an "overthrow" to am?n's confidence when a bachelor's stove is accidentally overthrown and he remembers he has neg lected to insure his effects. Do not let it happen to you. Cover the value of your belongings with a Fire Insurance policy, for you never know when a blaze will occur. We can insure you in a good and reliable Company for a trifling annual premium. Edgefield, South Carolina. Plant Oats and Help Solve the Cotton Problem We have BEST of all Varieties: Fulghum Appier's Genuine Texas Oklahoma Your order or inquiry will have our best attention. ARRINGTON BROS. & CO, WHOLESALE GROCERS See Charlie May. AUGUSTA, GA. Ranges, Stoves, Grates Furniture Now is the time to purchase a New Range, Stove, Heater or Grate. See Our Prettv Rockers and Full Line of Furniture Prices in keeping with seven-cent cotton. Jones & Son -HBM--B --? FARM LOANS. Long term loans to Famers A Specialty. Your farm land accepted as security WITHOUT ENDORSER or other COLLATERRAL. Unlimited funds immediately available in denominations of Three Hundred and up. Established 1892. JAS. FRANK & SON, Augusta, Ga.