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Ea?ab?t?hf? 1B35. /. L. A17.MS.E?/?or Published every Wednesday in The Advertiser Building at $1.50 per year la advance. Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at Edgef?eld. S. C. J?0 communications will be published ?raleas accompanied by the writer's name. Cuds of Thanks, Obituaries, Resolu tions and Political Notices published at J advertising rates. The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others. -PARKER. Wednesday, Jan. 12 Let economy have a large place in m? ol your plans for 1916. The yoong fellow who takes a "box of candy along with him when he goes to see his best girl practices pre* j yaredneas. ' . Let the seventy-first session of the general assembly of South Carolina be known ag one that stood for e cono rr y saiong all linea. Mr. Wolfe, a member of the House from Anderson, has already introduced Sf new bills. He evidently is acting for the whole menagerie. The farmer who figures a profit in growing cotton with which to buy Western mules should look over his ?gores and find the error. The new fads in feminine foot-wear suggest that the head and feet of the pretty lasses are vieing with each other as to which shall be the most gaily at tired. _ The farmer who for several years has been growing winter , cover crops and who now has many acres in clover and vetch is not so greatly worried over the fertilizer problem. The way some calves are being mer cilessiy exposed to the chilling winds reeders wearers of some short skirts liable to indictment under the law pre venting cruelty to animals. Probibition scored another victory the other day when Heart sent out an "?diet to all of his newspapers directing that henceforth all advertisements of ?whiskey and habit-forming drugs be discontinued. The State warehouse system has gained favor with the people during the past year and it is probable that the legislature will be more favorably inclined to the system than it was at the last session. Cotton goes up and down but the tendency is up, up. If the South will ?>n?y hold to its cotton a better price will yet be paid. The supply, owing to the short crop, is less than is required to clothe the world. "Sixteen Americans taken from train and alain by Mexican bandits Monday/' ?says a headline. It appears that Uncle Sam will be forced into a skirmish with Mexico in spite of the President's .earnest desire to keep the peace. It appears that South Carolina will follow Georgia in prohibiting the ad vertising of intoxicating liquors in newspapers. Poor old John Barley corni His friends are ^slipping away from him like rats from a sinking ahip. ^ What has become of the old-fash ioned woman who used to grab up her skirt on one side to keep it from trail ing in the mud?-The State. Well, the old-fashioned woman is still here bat she now wears a new-fashion skirt._ Teach your boys to acquire the sav ing habit. Encourage them to have a bask account, however small the be aconing. Next to Christian character, a good bank account is one of the best things one can provide in the matter of ."preparedness" for the future. Governor Manning has returned to the SUte Treasurer the $2,000 appro priated by the last legislature for the employment of legal counsel for the the governor. . In not using .the sum placed at his disposal Governor Man sing has acted with characteristic wisdom. The Germans will retaliate by re questing that Mr. Edward Higgins, the American consul at Stuttgart, be re called opon the ground that he h&i committed an unneutral act, the un Aeutral act being the giving of expres sion to anti-German sentiments. Judg ed by that standard, it will be difficult to Snd an American who is not guilty of an unneutral act. / Germany was prepared-and look at what has happened;-Anderson Mail. But Belgium wasn't-and look what's happened. -Newberry Observer. Had France and England been pre pared, Germany would not have pre cipitated the war. Taking advantage of France's unprepared condition, the Germans expected to march unchecked through Belgium and teach Paris within 30 days. Should Not Increase Levy. The legislature convened in annual session yesterday and already urgent appeals are being made for increased appropriations. Should all of the ap propriations asked for be granted the levy for State purposes for 1916 will have to be fixed at seven mills. The i legislature should not increase the levy j at this time. Governor Manning has all along stood for economy and in his annual message yesterday he again urged that rigid economy be practiced. Should the levy be increased at this time the impression will be created in the minds of many persons that the present governor's administration has been an expensive one. Better let some interests suffer for a time than increase the levy at this session. South Vitally Affected. When the Allies bottled up Germany, cutting off all imports and exports, they struck the South a severe blow. In the first place, raw cotton would be selling very much higher were it not kept from Germany by the Allies, and American cotton mills have been great ly embarrassed by the shortage of Ger man dyes, Now that the planting sea son approaches, this section will feel very keenly the lack of German potash, that element of plant food which is so necessary to the crops of the South. In a way, the Allies bottled up the South when they crippled, or practi cally destroyed, Germany's commerce. Senator E. D. Smith is making an effort to have the way opened for Ger man potash, but it is not likely that he will succeed. The blockade has been too helpful to the Allies for them to yield a inch ut this stage of the war. Just as the Germans have learned to make powder without American cot ton, so will Americans have to learn to make cotton without German potash. The Torrens System. Public sentiment in South Carolina in favor of the Torrens system of reg istering titles to real estate steadily grows, and it is probable that the leg islature will take definite action at this session. In his annual message to the general assembly, Governor Manning had the following to say with reference to the adoption of the Torrens sys tem: "1 again advise that you enact a land registration law based on what is commonly known as the Torrens sys tem. This is a necessary prerequisite to a system of rural credits. A land registration act will simplify the mat ter of land titles, reduce the expense of examination of same and furnish a simple and inexpensive pian that will chehpen the cost of borrowing money on real estate, thus making more prac ticable, at small expense, the use ot land as collateral tor k a is. ' A Torrens sys Lem deed gives the owner the secure feeling that the State warrants his title anet thus puts an end forever to any doubt or fear of litiga gation. "The time has arrived for definite action on this matter, and I strongly urge upon you the necessity for its enactment at this session." Spartanburg's Industrial School. There is an institution located near Spartanburg that is somewhat out of the regular order of things. It is call ed the Textile Industrial Institute and was founded with the view of providing a way for poor boys and girls to obtain wv education. At this institute the pu pils work half their time and attend school the other half. The school has been a great success and has grown to such an extent that larger quarters must be provided. The business men of Spartanburg are endeavoring to raise $50,000 by popular subscription for the needed enlargement. This industrial school deserves to succeed. The Advertiser would like to see scores of others like it established over the State. Had there been one or more schools of this kind in each county a generation ago, the percent age of illiteracy in this State would now be considerably less. Whenever an institution is founded for the pur pose of ai iingf poor boys and girls to get an education it should be loyally supported just as those Spartanburg people are doing. Anderson, Green ville, Columbia, Charleston and many other towns and cities should thus as sist ambitious boys and girls. It means better men and women, better fathers and mothers, better homes, for the fu ture in South Carolina. Federal Aid For Public Roads. There is a growing sentiment in fa vor of the national government aiding the States in road building upon the ground that the vast army of rural mail carriers use the public roads reg ularly. The posit office department is making money from the parcel post service while the States are maintain ing the public roads for this service. Congressman Byrnes, our own repre sentative from th* second district, has always been an ardent advocate of na tional aid, having (secured the passage, of a bill through the house providing for an appropriation for [road building but the bill was killed in :he senate. Congressman Byrnes is again behind a bill that will be introduced in the house. As the features objectionable to the senate have been stricken out, it is probable the measure will become a law. This bill provides for an appropria tion of $25,000,000 annually tobedivi ded among the States according to population and mileage of the said ser vice. South Carolina's portion will be something like $415,000 per year. The proposed act provides that the national government furnish not more than 50 per cent, of the cost of road construc tion and not less than 30 per cent. We trust that Mr. Byrnes will be success ful in his efforts to pass the federal aid bill. Jones observed an old lady sit ting across the room. 'For heaven's sake he reraarkea" to Robinson, who is that extraordi narily ugly woman there?" "That, answered Robinson cold ly, is ray wife." Jones was taken back, but quick? recoveed himself. "Well, be- said, persuasively, you just ought to see mine." TOWN PLANNING IN AUSTRALIA Antipodeans Show Wise Interest in Subject and Profit by Experience of Older Countries. Australians are showing a wise In terest in the subject of town planning and housing in general. The trouble with older countries has been that they have not begun to think much about improving housing conditions until housing conditions have got to be insufferably bad. Australia, being a young country, should be able to profit by the unfortunate example of other countries, and it is apparent that Australia is striving to do this. Building, an Australian publication, devotes much space to this subject. Al. luding, fdr example, to the direction of the movement in Victoria by the Town Planning and Parks'association, these activities are described as intelligent, enthusiastic and energetic. "The flow of active campaigning established," it. appears, "threatens altogether to swamp the slum and its wedded evils beyond the hope of re-establishment "The association, very sensibly, is enlisting the sympathy and support of the masses by alert regard for their well being. The essentials of the move* ment bear directly on the existence of that section of the people whom cir cumstances have handicapped. This the association recognizes. Settled evils which primarily deny the common her itage of sunlight are being squelched. Conditions of living '-?c'aVcely befit?i^g* the brute cr?ation, but to which hum?n llesh and blood are subjected/are be-) lng s\vept way as speedily as the pon* derous arm of the law can be operated. In brief, the movement in Victoria, di rected Dy the Town Planning and Parks' associ?t: on. is making good. "The association ls making a special point of making plain the principles of town planning to those in the position of facilitating reform. For instance, the mayors and councilors of the mu nicipalities ana" shires were recently circularized on the new and extensive powers conferred upon local governing bodies, by recent amendments of the act A portion of that circular reads: " 'It is hoped that advantage will be taken at once of these powers-ap plied, perhaps, in conjunction with building regulations to avoid the crea tion of slum or insanitary areas. In this connection St Kilda council has recently passed a by-law providing for a minimum area, devoted exclusively to open space, for each dwelling equal to at least eight-eighteenths of that occupied by dwelling and outhouses.' " FOR RHEUMATISM. As soon as an attack of Rheuma tism begins apply Sloan's Liniment. Don't waste time and suffer unnec essary agony. A few drops of Sloan's Liniment on the affected parts is all you need. The pain goes at once. A grateful sufferer writes:-"I was suffering for three weeks with Chronic Rheumatism and Stiff Neck. Although I tried many medicines, they failed, and I was under the care of a doctor. For tunately I beard of Sloan's Lini ment and after using it three or four days ara up and well. I am em ployed at the biggest department, store in S. F where they employ from six to eight hundred bands, and they surely will hear all about. Sloan's Liniment.-H. B.. Smith, San Francisco, Cal.-Jan. 1915. At. all Druggists. 2 Are You Interested in Light and Water Works for Your Home? I can install for you a complete Electric Light Plant. (lights on tap at all times), using storage batteries and a small gasoline engine for 1225.00 up, depending on the capac ity of the plant, . You can charge the batteries while pumping water, making the lights obst but little. R. H. MIDDLETON, Clark's Hilt, S. C. In Memory-of Linie Allen Who Passed Away With the Old Year. Old year, farewell, a long farewell! Thou art dead to earth, while time shall last, But dying, didst not go alone, For in thy strong expiring grasp, Thou carrieds't one whose virtuse rare, Made life more sweet and friends more dear. The bleeding heart cries out in pain For her whose presence brightened home, The weeping eyes look out, alas! For one who ne'er again will come. But, old year, thou dids't waft her this The misty rays of waning night Into the presence of her Lord. Where shines eternal, glory light. The New Year finds her safe in heaven With sainted loved ones gone before, And now they sing with one accord, Their Savior s praises ever more. New Year, for her, will ne'er grow old. For God the Father gave it birth With endless life and peace and joy And naught of sin, or taint of earth, Farewell, old year, a sad farewell, Life ne'er more can come to thee. But thou, dear sainted child of God, Wilt live through all eternity. M. Secret of Success in Winter Egg Production. The secret of success in winter egg production is briefly told in the ! following words: Keep the fowls healthy, contented and comfortable by common sense care, wholesome feed and modern open-air quarters. The top, both sides and back of the house must be tight Under these conditions there will not be drafts on the* birds to caine colds and make them liable to attacks of roup. Have the house so located that the water readily drains off and have about ten or twelve inches coarse gravel or cinders in the bot tom so that the floor is dry at ali times. Have the house face the south and have an opening three feel wide and as long as tue house. Have straw on the floor in which such grain, as corn, wheat and oats is thrown so that the birds must scratch for it See thal* they have green feed. If they have no patch of rye, oats or rape to run ou, hang up a cabbage head, or a turnip, on a nail close to the floor to give them exercise in picking ai it and lat the same time provide their green feed. Give about one pint grain feed to each dozen birds each morn ing and the same amount in the evening. Just before guing to roost allow them lo have hot bran mash made by cooking some vegetable as turnips and mixing this with bran, Using boiling water and mix until the mash is of a rather dry consist ency yet thoroughly mont. If the nights grow cold hang a burlap curtain over the open front at night and remove it in the morning. Have the perches on a level in the rear of the building over a platform to catch the droppings, and clean the droppings off once a week and scatter on the farm.-North Caroli na Experiment Station. A Level for Making Terraces. Several years since I saw a de scription of a terracing level in a farm paper made in the shape of the letter A, the two uprights 16 ^eet 4 inches apart at the botlom, brought together and bolted at top, .with a plumb bob swinging from the center. Having some terracing to do, I made one of this kind, which did the work all right, but was rather slow and unwieldly lo handle. Deciding that a level would do much better than th*? plumb hob, I changed mine and made it as fol lows, which any one at all handy with tools can do: Take two pieces I inch by 3 in ches by 6 feet for uprights, one piece f inch by 3 inches by 10 feet bolted to the uprights at the top, and one piece 1 inch by 4 inches 12 feet bolted to the uprights about one foot from the top9, on which the level rests. This latter piece should be as nearly straight as possible, and should be bolted exactly the san e distance from the bottom at ends. Now try it, placing the level on i the oenter piece. See that the air ! space in the glass is right; if not; ! shorten one of the uprights until it is. . Should you wish to give your ter race sixth-inch fall in the 100 feet, raise one of the uprights one inoh, or one-sixth of the fall you wish it to have, then mark on the level how far from the center the air space moves and in using it see that it always moves back to the mark. This will be found muoh quioker than.the old way of making one of the uprights longer by nailing a block on it, as yon can use either end in front.-J no. F. Kemp in Progressive Farmer. PHOTOGRAPHS. See the new, Post-Card Photos in beautiful folders at Miss Eliza Mims' Studio. Something new-only $2.00 per dozen. Jan. 12-4t . '-M MUST QUIT EATING CROP BEFORE MADE South Must Stop Time-Honored Sys tem Of Economic Suicide, Says H. G. Hastings Atlanta., Ga.-(Special.)-"The peo ple of the south must quit eating their cotton or other so-called 'cash crop' before it is made if they ever expect to accumulate wealth and have the comforts and luxuries of life due them," says H. G. Hastings, agricul tural vice president of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, and a fore most authority on farm conditions in the southeast. "The south must stop forever its time-honored system of economic sui cide," says Mr. Hastings. "Advance steps were made last year toward a condition of farm independence in the Cotton Belt. They were forced steps, it is true, but they marked an advance just the same, and more bread and meat, more grain, forage and other food and feed stuffs were made ha 1915 than ever before, with the result there are tens of thousands of farm ers better off than in past years, despite short crops and business de pression. "With higher cotton prices, it is going to be a great temptation to drop back into the old habit of nut ting cotton, or whatever other cash crop one may be growing, in pawn for bread and meat We are'suffer ing today from the old system total ed on us by conditions following the CivilVwar, necessary then, but'uimec "Tear1 after year we have stayed in the same old rut as a matter of habit, eating our crops, so to speak, before they were made, a financially suicidal policy for the farmer, each year put ting his nose a little closer to the credf^grindstone. "If the south had not been so rich in natural resources, this system would have bankrupted us long ago. What's the answer? It is home pro duction by each farmer of every dol lar's worth of food and grain supplie* needed on his farm that it is possi ble to grow on his own acres. This means good big home gardens; hogs, chickens, cows and something, to feed them Cn through the year." Gen. Gorgas Given a Gold Chicago.-Mij.-Gen. William C. Gorgas, who waged successful war against the yellow fever scourge in Panama, was presented to-night with the gold medal of the Geo graphic Society of Chicago for his distinguished services to humanity. The gold medal has been bestow ed on only two other men Capt Rolud Amundsen when he reached the south pole, and Maj -Gen, GPO. W. Genthals, builder of the Pana ma Cahal. The presentation was made at a banquet given by the society and after receiving the badge of honor the fighter of disease spoke on the subject, "Sanitation in ?ts relation to geography." Gen. Gorgas said: "Disease is about as strong and terrible an enemy as any which is likely t'o invade the United States. The? preventable mortality in this country i?? greater than the mortali ty caused by the European war. Thousands and thousands of per sons die in America who oonld be saved if the sanitary millennium bad been reached. "Science knows that the chief cause of disease is poverty-that disease can never be eliminated so long as people are forced to live poorly and close together. In Pana ma we were able to eliminate pov erty. The government doubled our wages. Poverty vanished and with it disease. "How can we eliminate poverty? I'm not a Socialist nor a pingle taxer nor anything radical political ly. But one solution is the throwing open of the unused lands of this country. If the congested city popu lations couid be turned into this vast space a great part of our dis ease problem would solve itself." FOR SALE-My hou.se and lot on Columbia street. Terms cari be arranged. Mrs. S. A. Morral 1, Edj:e field, S. C. Collett & Medal. PHARM Prescriptions Com] Drugs at ali hours. Prompt an? Fancy G Beautiful Song by Rev. T. P. Burgess. Crawfordville, Ga., Jan. 8.-The many friend* of Rev. T. P. Burgess, pastor of the Presbyterian Church? will be in ta rested to know that he has recently composed a beautiful song entitled, "Jesus, at Thy Feet." The music was composed by his daughter, Miss Frances Burgees, who is in charge of the music de partment ot the schools of Clinton, S. C. The music is very appropriate and attractive. After the regular services Sunday night, the song was rendered by Mr. and Mrs. Burgess and their two daughters, Misses Frences and Mell Burgess, and dedicated to the congregation of I the Crawfordville Presbyterian Church. The song is in three stanzas and will prove quite an ad dition to the music of the churches using it. It will be published hy the church and put in shape for general use. The words are as fol lows: 41 Jesus, at Thy feet I bow, Hear an humble sinner's vow, Do-not let me plead in vain, Wash my soul from every stain, Make me clean and white.and pure, Now, henceforth, forevermore. Jesus, at Thy feet I rest, Peace has calmed my troubled breast? Now on thee alone I trust ?Thy word is true and just, Thy grace so full and free, Saves a sinner just like me. Jesus, at Thy feet I wait, My life I now consecrate, Let Thy joy refresh my soul,. With the story never old, And may I bright jewels win, From their lives of guilt and sin." Concentrated Lye Not a Fer* tilizer. A number of farmers have writ ten abkiuu whether they can use the concentrated lye as a sou ice for potash. No, the lye is not potash, but caustic soda, and is of no use as a fertilizer, and if it was potash it would be too costly to use for this purpose. Then some are asking about using hickory ashes in making a fertilizer, with cottonseed meal aud acid phos phate. The large percentage of lime in the ashes will be apt to make some volatile carbonate of ammonia fruin the nitrogen in the meal, and it would lend to revert the phos phoric acid in the acid phosphate and make it leas available. Ashes spread liberally broadcast and har rowed in will make a fine source of potash if they have been kept dry and are not leached. Then mix the cottonseed meal and acid phosphate, and if any ammonia is set free it - will be absorbed by the soil. Bat never mix ashes or lime with mate- * rials having organic nitrogen in them. We have told this so often that all of our readers should know it.-Progressive Farmer. I TO CURE CHILDREN'S COLDS Keep child dry, clothe comforta bly, avoid exposure and give Dr. Bell's Pine-Tar-Honey. It i? pleas ant, soothing, antiseptic, raises phlegm and reduces inflammation. The first dose gives relief, continu ed treatment with proper care will avoid serious illness or a long oold. Don't delay treatment. Don't let your child suffer. Get a bottle to day. Insist on Dr. Bell's Pine Tar-Honey. 25c. at Druggists. 2 FOK SALE: All improved va rieties of strawberry plants now readv, 500 for Isl.25; 1,000 for $2 f. o.b. Edgefield, S. C. John G. Edwards, M. D., Edgefield, S. C. Buildings For Sale. I ara authorized to offer for sale the two wooden buildings on the school grounds that w?re?formerly used for the graded school. Persons contemplating building should see .me.l J. C. Sheppard, Chairman of Board of Trustees. Mitchell ACISTS Dounded from Pure d Accurate Groceries