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$i%zM? %?mtmt. Edgefield Up in Arms. A handsome and very popular young gentleman of Augusta had 'better henceforth keep himself . strictly on the south side of the Sa vannah. ' Even then he i,s uot.al together safe, for some Edgefield young men may engage a Zeppelin and while soaring above Augusta drop a bomb squarely upon his thead, after the manner of the Ger mans. Mr. Hal De Witt Beman is the young Augustan who is in great Jeopardy, because he has carried .away a beautiful Edgefield girl. Miss Marie Key, as his bride. The impression prevailed in Edgefield ~-~that these young people, aided and abetted by Cupid, had some plans that would be consummated in the spring, but the announcement thai they were married at the home of tbe bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Key, Monday afternoon, -came as a great surprise, even to their most intimate friends. There > were no guests invited. The ceremo ny was performed by Rev. J. R. Walker. Soon after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Beman left in an au tomobile for the groom's home in Augusta. The people of Edgefield will forgive Mr. Beman for taking .one from us who made herself wide ly beloved by har sweet spirit, gen tle manner and amiable disposition, if he will promise to make as fre inent visits to Edgefield in the fu ture as in the past, bringing Mrs. Beman with him each time. Mr. Beman is a prominent young business man of Augusta who hold? a responsible and lucrative position .in the Georgia Railroad bank. The Advertiser extends hearty congratulations. To All The People. The Im se attendance at Metho dist church is gratifying to pastor and people. Come again next bun bay morning and night. We are pleased th it we are having with us in large numbers our Baptist peo ple during the time, that their church is without a pastor. We are glad to have others i also when their pastors are elsewhere. People not members of any church are cordial . ly invited. J. R. Walker. ? ~*~"~ Sorghum For Forage. For emergency feeding, few crops . if any are equal to sorghum. Ordi nary sweet or saccharine sorghum may be considered one of our most important forage crops. Sorghum tolerates drouth as very few other crops do; it endures hot summer weather and has the well-known adaptation of reviving and renew ing growth after a drouth, when rain finally comes. Sorghum should be planted on rich soil. Il responds readily to rich land and good cultivation, yet it will endure a poor soil, dry sea son and general neglect as well as .any crop and much better than most of them. But this makes it all the more important to plant on good soil and cultivate well, espe cially when only a few acres are needed to feed the stock. Sorghum may be grown as a soil ing crop and this is one of its best uses, provided green feed is scarce. For hogs, cows, beef cattle, sheep, horses and mules sorghum is fine. The animals relish it ana consume large quantities. With a little grain, green sorghum makes an ex cellent ration. As a hay and forage crop sorghum ranks with the best. For forage it is cut with the binder, cured and stored under sheds or in hay barns. When sown broadcast and the plants crowded close together it makes palatable, nutritious hay. But this requires rich land. Ssrghum silage is considered nearly as good as corn silage, pro vided it is ensiled at the proper stage of ripeness. It should not be - cut green as the silage will' be sour and apt to mold badly. For ensi lage, sorghum,""beads should be ripe. The yield of sorghum when used for silege is better than corn under the same conditions. On soil of good fertility sorghum should yield from one to four tons p*r acre more of s il a ge than corn, but of course the corn would be somewhat better provided the ears were properly formed. The crop should not be planted until the ground is warm and all danger of fsost is past, hts will be a week or two later than oom planting time. The rows are from three feet to three and one-half feet apart. The seeds may be planted on a slight ridge, or in a furrow, as is the common practice where rain fall is very light and winds rather severe, as conditions may be on the plains. In the more humid regions where surface drainage is needed the ridge is preferred. It will re quire from four to six pounds of seed and to plant an acre.-Farmers Ranch. Quit Your Worrying. We are given the gratifying as surance by the department of agri culture that there is absolutely no danger of our starving to death. We have plenty to eat, according to the department, and then some to spare. So cut out your worry ing.,. " In a statement issued this week it was stabed that the United States was in no danger of food shortage despite the enormous exports to Europe. The surplus of wheat, above do mestic needs, on hand February 1, the statement said, would permit the exportation of uearly 1,000,000 bushels daily-about the recent aveiage-until the new crop is available. Moreover, there were larger supplies of corn ard other grain, meat animals, dairy products, potatoes and fruit at the opening of 1915 thanffor many years. Incidentally, it was pointed out that the average price of meat ani mals was 7 per cent lower in Janu ary than a year ago; buUer 2' per cent; potatoes 35 per cent; apples, 37 per cent, and the price of chick ens slightly lower. "The 1914 wheat 'crop of the United States was estimated to be 891,000,000 bushels," said the state-x ment. "The estimated surplus car ried over from the 1913 crop was 76,000,000 bushels making a total available supply of 967,000,000 bushels. As the normal annual per capita consumption of wheat in the United States is about o.3 bushels, 520,000,000 bushels should meet our normal domestic requirements for food, 90,000,000 bushels are re quired annually for seeding, there fore 610,000,000 should supply the normal domestic demand. This would leave a surplus of 357,000, 000 bushels. Of this surplus about 210,000,000 bushels were exported by January 30. This left r47,000, 000 bushels or 40,000 bushels more than our average annual export for the past five years for exports be tween February 1 and the appear I ance of the new crop or for carry j ing over into the next crop year." The statement adds that the acre ! age of winter wheat sown in Den ! mark. Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States. India and Canada shows an increase of from 3 to 33 percent. "But suppose a shortage in wheat should develop in the next three months, what would be the situa tion? the department asked. "There is a great surplus in other food crops in the United States, a num ber of which can be used as substi tutes. The most important pro ducts are corn and potatoes. Nor mally about 3 per cent of the corn crop is consumed as food. The po-1 tato production in the United States average 3.8 bushels per capita. This year the available supply is 4.1 bushels. "It would seem that the United States is not "likely to be threatened with a shortage of foodstuffs." Spartanburg Journal. A Song of Consecration. To thee beloved country Forever grand and free! From ocean unto ocean Immanuel's land to be, To thee we pledge allegiance, For thee our souls are strong; With heart to heart united In prayer, in work, in song. Our land shall be triumphant, O'er foes that now oppress; This pilgrimland of nations Her children all shall bless; Shall banish sin and sorrow, The curse of drink o'erthrow, Shall bring a glad tomorrow In righteousness to glow. The dawning day is glorious, Our country's sky grows bright; We hail the holy radiance Of prohibition's light! O God of nations, hear us, Our trust is all in thee; To thee we'll give tho glory In psalms of victory! -Anna A. Gordon. Half Your Living Without Money Cost A right or wrong start in 1915 will make or break most farmers In the Cotton States. We are all facing a crisis on cotton. Cotton credit is up set. The supply merchant cannot ad vance supplies on 1915 cotton. You must do your bestvto produce on your own acres the food and grain supplies that have made up most of your store debt in the past. A good piece of garden ground, rightly planted, rightly tended and kept planted the year round, can be made to pay half your living. It will save you more money than you made on the best five acres of cotton you ever grew! But.lt must be a real garden, and not the mere one-plant ing patch in the spring and fall. Hastings' 1915 Seed Book tells all about the right kind of a money-sav ing garden and the vegetables to put in it. It tells about the field crops as well and shows you the clear road to real farm prosperity, comfort and independence. IT'S FREE. Send for it today to H. G. HASTINGS & CO., Atlanta, Ga.-Advt For Weakness and Loss of Appetite The Old Standard general strengthening tonic, GROVE'S TASTELESS chill TONIC, drives out Malaria and builds up the system. A true tonic and sure Appetizer, For adults and children. 50c Sabbath Keeping and Crime. Some years ago the New York Journal of Commerce gave this tes timony as to the Sabbathless work ers on the Erie canal: "Thousands of men and boys have become vi cious and debased beyond almost any other of our population, and tbev have imparted their own char acters to the contamination and ruin of other thousands. They furnish one-half of the prisoners at Auburn. This would never have been the case if the Sabbath had been-ob served'on th i canals." Field Fowler, when 'proprietor of the Metropolitan horse railway of Boston, said of the financial aspects of Sunday cars: "It is impossible to get honest men and keep them so and make them work on Sundays. You employ them to violate the fourth commandment and expect tlum to respect the eighth; you find j human nature is such that both con ductors and drivers suffer. Drivers become reckless and more* accidents result." Those who have been indifferent to the desires or the moral and physical welfare cf men on the great railway lines should read the dignified and pathetic plea made by 450 locomotive engineers on the Vanderbilt lines for "the cessation of Sunday labor," which is in part as follows: "This never ending labor ruins our health and prematurely makes us feel worn out like old men, and we are sensible of our in ability to perform our duty as well when we work to excess. The cus toms of all civilized countries, as well as all laws, human and divine, recognize Sunday as a day of rest and recuperation, and notwithstand ing intervals of rest might be ar ranged for us on other days than Sunday, we feel that by so doing we would be forced to exclude our selves from all church, family, and social privileges that other citizens enjoy. Nearly all the undersigned have children that they desire to have educated in everything that will tend to make them good men and women, and we cannot bel p but see that our example in ignoring the Sabbath day has a very demoraliz ing effect upon them." That petition has . been rightly called a ''classic in the literati re of capital and labor," and the refusal to grant it will come up for judg ment in the great day of final reck oning. One railroad roan saidjj "Sunday is the saddest day in the week." Another exclaimed with tears in his eyes, in response to words of sympathy; "Those cursed Sunday trains!" Bennett Young, president of the Louisville, New Albany and Chica go railway wrote a letter to the Rail way Age of Chicago, in which he stated: "The laws of God and the laws of man are conclusive on this point, forbidding labor *on the Sab bath day; and every railway mana ger operating a road on that day violates human and Divine com mand, and by forcing his employes to do the same sets before them a continued example and practice of the disregard of the highest obliga tions. When you consider bow these men from fear of losing their places, are compelled to do this labor (much of which is totally unneces sary), it becomes a monstrous wrong against the religion and family rights of these employees." Dwight L. Moody said: "I be lieve that the Sabbath is the work ing-man's day of rest, and unless we stand up for it, it will be the same here as in France, where capi talists have taken the Sabbath and make men work." The repeated appearances of train auditors on the railway lines cross ing Iowa indicate a suspicion of moral declension in their employees, by the officials .. of the operating companies. How much this decay of conscience has come about through the compulsory violation of the fourth commandment, and how large a share of the responsi bility for this rests upon professing Christians who patronize Sunday trains, is a question that may be prayerfully considered by members of churches and young*people's so cieties. These cannot ask the Cain ques tion, "Am I my brother's keeper?" for the claims of Christ are upon them. "Ye are the salt of the earth" defines duty for these. Belle Huntington Mix. A Test for Liver Complaint Mentally Unhappy-Physi cally Dull. The Liver, sluggish and inactive, first shows itself in a mental state unhappy and critical. . Never is there joy in living, as when the i Stomach and Liver are doing their work. Keep your Liver active and healthy by using Dr. King's New Life Pills; they empty the Bowels freely, tone up your Stomach, cure your Constipation and purify the Blood. 25c at Druggist, Buoklen's Arnica Salve excellent for Piles. Treat Sin as a Rattlesnake. When I first started out to preach I diagnosed the difficulty as being located in the gray matter. I said, "The bunch seems to be from Mis souri, and I guess it's up to me to show 'em." So I got down the En cyclopedia Britannica, Webster's Unabridged, and all the authorities on highgrade English and rhetoric. I had some sentences so long and complicated it would make the jaw of a Greek professor sqeak for a week after trying to pronounce one of them. But it never delivered the goods-it produced no more effect than shooting green peas against Gibralter with a pop-gun. Finally I said: "Lord, I think I have this thing 3oped out wrong. There's nothing the matter wiih anv one except they have the devil in them." I loaded my old Gospel gun with words not so polished and ele gant as those that come from the. nickel-plated, copper riveted, bomi letical, theological arsenal, but with common everyday phrases (which everybody could understand) and with rough-on-rats, barbed wire, ipecac, dynamite, and rock salt-I pulled the trigger and blazed away, and the feathers have been flying and the bunch have been hunting ; their holes ever since. I think too much of the preach ing nowadays is too nice, too pret ty, too dainty-it don't kill. I find there is no use gojng to war on a skunk with cologne water-you've got to select your weapons accord ing to the kind of game you are af ter. One reason why sin triumphs is because we treat it as though it were a cream-puff instead of a rat tlesnake. A minister is God's ar tilleryman, and I propose to keep firing a .vay at iniquity and let.oth ers provide the Red Cross wagon. Rev. Billy Sunday in Christian Herald. JUST IN TIME. Some Edgefield People May Wait Till It's Too Late. Don't wait too late. Be sure to be in time. Just in time with kidney ills Means curing the backache, the dizziness, the urinary disorders. That so often come with kidney troubles. , Dean's kidney pills are for this 't??fy purpose. : Here is Edgefield testimony bf their worth. John D Smith, overseer at cotton mill, Edgefield, says: "The kidney secretions were too frequent in pas sage and very scanty. They were highly colored and I had to get up several times during the night to pass them. I also had headaches and dizzy spells. Friends recommended Doan's kidney pills and a3 I had also seen them advertised, I decided to try them. One box cured me of all symptoms of kidney trouble." Price 50c, at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy get Doan's kidney pills-the same that Mr. Smith had. Foster-Milburn Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y. "Speaking of stingy people, said the shopkeeper, reflectively, there's no one that can beat old Scrimp." "What about him?" queried the customer who had come in for a pound of coffee. "Why, he even looks over the top* of his glasses for fear of wear ing them out."-Tit Bits. Use Agricultural Oyster Shell Lime. It is good for jour Vegetable Garden, your Oats and Wheat, your Cotton and your Corn. I have it for sale at $10.50 per ton, 91.10 per sack. I used ten tons on my farm last year and am well pleased with results. M. A. TAYLOR, Edgefield, S. C. Feb. 12, 1915.-2t. FIRE INSURANCE Go to see Harting & Byrd Before insuringjelsewhere. We represent the best old.line com panies Harting & Byrd At the Farmers Bank, Edgefield DR J.S. BYRD, Dental Surgeon OFFICE OTOR POSTOFFICE. y Residence 'Phone J7-R. Office 3. (ri3. B. RUSSELL, JR. R. E. ALLEN^ Ship Your Cotton to RUSSELL & ALLEN Incorporated COTTON FACTORS AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS Liberal Advances Made on Cqtton in Store ^Augusta . . . Georgia^ Ginning Notice Beginning at once, we will operate our .Ginnery every Wednesday and Friday until March 1st. After that time, we will discontinue ginning until next sea son. Thanking our customers for their patronage. We are in the Market for Cotton Seed at all times eaver Dam Plant L. L. CLIPPARD, MANAGER EDGEFIELD, S. C. We have accepted the agency for the Ford Automobiles for Edgefield County, and will have constantly on hand a stock of Touring Cars and Run-Abouts. Shall be pleased to show them to those who contemplate buying a car. The Ford cars defy Edgefield's winter roads. They are an All-the-Year-Round Car We will also carry a full assortment of all parts of the Ford cars, and can fill or ders at our Garags without your having to wait to get extra paris by express. Make your auto wants known to us. and we will satisfy them on short notice and at reasonable prices. Edgefield Auto and Repair Shop Edgefield, South Carolina 1 J. C. LEE, President F. E. Gibson, Sec. and Treas. ^ FARMERS, MERCHANTS, BUILDERS, If you are going to build, remodel or repair, we invite your inquiries. COMPLETE HOUSE BILLS A SPECIALTY. We manufacture and deal in doors, sash, blinds stairs, interior trim, store fronts and fixtures, pews, pulpits, etc., rough and dressed lumber, lath, pine and cypress shingles, flooring, ceiling and siding. Distributing agents for Flintkote roofing Estimates cheerfully and carefully mane. Woodard Lumber Co. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. Corner Roberts and Dugas Streets. Our Motto: SSS I _ J