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EOGEFIELD SCHOOLS. McDuff?e Literary Society Held Meeting. School Addressed by Or. Bosmajian, an Armenian Minister. The McDuflie literary society was called to order by the president Friday afternoon, January 17. The minutes were read and approved and the roll called, after which the regular program followed. Current events, Neta Ouzts. Nata's paper was the most interesting one we ?have had because the time from the Blast meeting was live weeks, and SF her paper consisted of the impor W tant events which happened during that time. Al-o a few high school tips kept the audience in a laugha ble mood. Reader, Annie Mae Oul breatb. The selection this time was description of a "quilting" in the days of long ago, and it was ren dered splendidly. Margaret May played a beautiful selection. The most interesting number on the program was a well written essay by Lallie Peak, her subject being "Robert E. Lee.'^The debate fol lowed: Resolved, "That invention is greater than discovery." Affirma tive, Brook Jones, Cleora Thomas. Negative, Willie Peak, Emmie Lou Edmunds. Helen Dorn, Annabel Saunders and Edwin Folk were ap pointed to act as judges and their decision was rendered in favor of the negative. The subject decided upon for debate at the next meeting wan resolved: "That we should have woman suffrage in South Carolina." By a unanimous vote Helen Dorn and Ruth Lyon were received into the society. After the report of the critic the society adjourned to meet February 4. On last Friday morning the most interesting visitor that we have had in a long time made a talk in chap el. Dr. Bosmajian is an Armenian by birth, but because of the reli gion in that country, he came to America and intended going back as a missionary to his native people, but after remaining io America for several years he decided not to re turn. We who have been studying about the Balkan states and keeping up with the war, were delighted to have him tell and show us many of the customs and habits of that land. He visited all the history class es and made talks oot only interest- j ing but of great value lo the stu dents. On Monday at one o'clock at the college Dr. Bosmajiau lectured to the students. He told of the past and present conditions of the Bal kan states, how deficient they were -v^r-in regard, to -religion, and education, how they lacked the spirit of unity, and to what condition the present war bas reduced them. He dressed several of the girls in costumes which he had brought from that country and this gave us an idea as to how the people in thai far away land looked. William Hol lingsworth donned the apparel of an Armenian bride groom, and Dr. Bosmajian showed us what the mar riage ceremony of a heathen people was like. He played several familiar songs on a piccalo, which delight ed the children to the utmost, and then he sang several songs in the Armenian language. The admission was ten cents, half of which will go to Dr. Bosmajian and the other half to the school improvement fund. Don't forget the exercises at the school Wednesday morning at eleven thirty o'clock. The program will bo a very interesting one and we feel sure you will enjoy it. No admission. School Correspondent. Union Meeting. The union meeting of the third division will meet with the Plum Branch church. ll a. m.-Devotional by mod erator. 11:30 a. ra.-Enrollment of dele gates with reports. 1st Query-Do we forgive the erring ones as Jesus did, if not are we right ourselves? J C Morgan, Luther Timmerman. 2nd Query-How cao a church rid itself of stumbling blocks and those who cause others to sin. J C Harvely, J P Nixon. 12*80-Adjournment for dinner. 3rd Query-Can a church mem ber be efficient if he seeks his own glory? L G Bell, J M Bussey. 4th Query-Are the church mem bers making the sacrifices that God expects of them? J G McKie, C Y D Freeland. Sunday morning, Sunday school in usual order. Missionary sermon by Rev. J. F. Warren. Adjournment half past twelve for dinner. 5th Query-Should we discard the Bible because we do not under stand all of its mysteries? Dr. W G Blackwell, W R Legget. A Sunday school talk by T G Talbert. H. E. Bunch. .For committee. Old Soldier Advocates Changes in Payment of Pensions. I shall bring several charges against the officials of South Caro lina, the legislature, the Executive and the Judiciary; for the way they have treated the old veterans. And in doing so, I must go back to the civil war to lay the foundation for the complaint. Alleged first, South Carolina rais ed more cain in starting the war than any other State; th<u is an his toric fact known to all America. In January 1861 the war dogs from the mountains to the sea howled for war, saying that the war would be over in three months; that we could whip the-whole business with corn stalks. And some went so far as to say that they would drink all the blood spilled, etc. But that class never did get there; and when it came to fire, sweat and blood South Corolina did not do her duty to her soldiers on the field. This is also a fact of history, and I can prove every allegation in the complaint. I use the word South Carolina ad visedly. ' My complaint is to the POWERS that BE, and them only. Very few of those fellows that would drink the blood ever is much as beard the music of the bullet-showers of a battlefield. My second complaint of indict ment is, that South Carolina has signally failed lo come up to the other States on the "pension" bill. These men who went to the front and returned with wounded legs, empty sleeves and bullet scars on their bodies are heroes of nobility and patriotism; men who for four years bivcucing on the ground, sleeping on fence rails, marching and fighting in the heat and cold, often pressing the ice and snow with bare and bleeding feet. Now after) being benefited by the storms and conflicts of life, they feel the need of a helping hand. Is this State so poor that she cannot do for her old veterans what other States are do ing? No, it's not that. It is an other ''Pharaoh who knew not Jos eph." Another generation that never knew anything of the pain and suf fering that follows in the wake of war. My third complaint is, the prop erty qualification embraced in the pension bili of this State. I take the ground (and I think it tenable), that where a man went into the war, leaving everything that was sacred and dear to him behind, doing his duty in camp or on the battlefield, and got back home, and went to work and accomplished a fortune I maybe, by honest toil, he bas the ?same right to a "pension" as the fel low that has never made anything. As I understand it, that is abso lutely wrong. My" fourth complaint is, the way the "Old Soldiers' Home" is con ducted. I have visited the home often, and it is always the same, as I see it. And I have said, aud now say, that I bad rather die in a sheep pasture exposed to the fowls of the air aud the beast of the forest, than at that "Home." And yet for 1915 there was an appropriation of nearly $19,354 to run that institution. There is something dead np the creek-the fountain is not pure. I say in the name of all that is holy abolish the "Home;" givo the old soldiers a good pension and let them live among their relatives and friends. My fifth complaint is the way the Pension Board cuts down the pen sion of the widows of dead soldiers, and I shall prove this alegation, and will put only two witnesses on the staud,. namely J. W. Eidson and G. YV. Lott deceased. These men went in the army at the beginning to tight to the finish, no better sol diers ever lived or died, membors of my Regiment company. G. W. Lott left his leg on the rocky sides of Gettysburg, J. VV. Eidson left hts on the banks of Chickaraauga. They both suffered for years and without auy help from the State, finally they both received the small pittance of $72.09 a year, 86.00 a mouth for giving their service and a leg to the iState. Listen, six dol lars per mouth, and when these men died, the State Board cut that down to ?20.00 a year, nearly two dollars per month for their widows, every body knows these widows needed the $72.00 a great deal more after their bread winners were gone than while they were living. I could tell of numbers who have been treat ed the same way. And it is a burn ing shame. Do you say tell it not. No, tell it in "Gath and proclaim it in the streets of Askelon. And from "Dan to Beersheba," and from Beersheba back to "Dan." The Confederate veterans will be the jurj-'in this case, what say yoi gentlemen, guilty or not guilty. J. Russell Wright. FOR SALE: All improved va rieties o"f strawberry plants now ready, 500 for $1.25; 1,000 for ft f. o. b. Edgefield, S. C. John G Edwards, M. D., Edgefield, S. C. Negro Race Conference to Meet in Columbia. Feb'y 6 to 9. The seventh annual session of the Negro Race Conference of South Carolina, of which Rev. Richard Carroll is president, will meet at the same time the white Laymen's Mis sionary Conference meets. Rail road Commissioner. Mr. W. H. Fitzgerald, wrote Carroll that the colored delegates to the Negro Race Conference can take ad vari tage of the very low rates granted for the white Laymen's Missionary Confer ence- These rates are granted to all railroads in South Carolina. Tho purpose of the conference has been for the last seven years to stimulate the colored people along industrial, moral and religious lines. The program this .year is a very strong one. One whole day, Feb ruary 8, will be devoted to evangel ism, and among the prominent white speakers on that day are Dr. Weston Bruner, of Home Mission Board, Atlanta, Ga., and Dr. John B. White, of Anderson, S. C. Col.F.N. K. Bailey, of Greenwood, S. C., and Mr. B. E. Geer, presi dent of Judson Cotton Mills, Green ville, S. C., will address the colored laymen on February 9. Among the oolored preachers who are to speak on evangelism are Dr. C. T. Walker, of Augusta, Ga., J. C. Clement, editor of Star of Zion, Rev. J. M. Green, D. D., Green ville, S. C. Subjects will be dis cussed on the church'and sanitation. Dr. H. M. Green, of Knoxville, Tenn., a physician who has had quite a success in the cure of pel lagra, will addrest. the conference on the 8th. Special arrangements have been made for school teachers to hold sessions Friday night, February 4, Saturday ? and Sunday 6 at Bene dict College. This will enable the negro school teachers to attend the conference and not be away from their schools. Dr. B. F. Riley (white),, of Birmingham, Ala., au thor of "The White Man's Barden," will speak to the teachers. Dr. J. H. Dillard, secretary of the Joannes Fund Board, of Charlottesville, Va., and Mr. Swearingen, superintendent of Public Schools, City of Colum bia, have been invited to address the teachers. Samuel J. Stafford, a negro of Tennesee, who bas made money raising Berkshire hogs, is on the program to speak on hog raising aud prevention of hog cholera. W. F. Coleman, of Kershaw county, a successful negro farmer, will tell how he makes a bale of cotton per acre on sandy soil. Carroll has a large number of jubilee singers, who will sing during the conference under the manage ment of J. A. Smiley, evangelistic singer of Louisville, Ky. Richard Carroll is anxious that the white readers of this journal will inform the colored preachers, and especially the laymen aud farmers in their dis tricts, to attend this conference, as this conference for the last seven years has been very helpful in mak ing the colored people more useful and better citizens. All information concerning the conference can be bad by addressing I. S. Leevy, 1221 Taylor St., Co lumbia, S. C., or Richard Carroll, i President. There is no Substitute for Potash. We are being repeatedly asked for a substitute for potash in the fertilizers for 1916. We regret that we know of none. It is true that certain methods of handling the soil may make more of the potash already in the soil available for feeding the plants; but it is too late now to bring about those results. If for ihe last ten years our soils had been fed with stable manure or crops turned under, as they should have been, we might now be able to get along better without potash. Oa most of the olav and clay loam soils, especially from Alabama westward, generally crops like cot ton, corn, etc., will not be seriously affected by the fact that the fertiliz ers contain little potash. On the southeastern soils, especially for crops like tobacco and truck, the scarcity of potash is a much more serious matter. Lime is being recommended as a substitute for potash, on the ground that it will set free the potash al ready in the soil; but to what extent lime will do this is not clear, noi are all those who assume to know agreed as to the extent potash will be set free by the use of lime. It ie quite generally a good practice tc use lime 3n southern soils, but it ii doubtful if it should be done with the expectation of its setting fre< sufficient potash on those soils when past experience has shown that ap plications of potash are necessary tc produce satisfactory crops.-Pro gres8ive Farmer. FOR SALE-My house and lo on Columbia street. Terms can b arranged. Mrs. S. A. Morrall, Edge held, S. C. r Clark'* HUI and Meriwether Take on New Life Witn The New Year. My, how busy the wood wagons areaiound Clark'? Hil) to Meri wether! Mr. John G. McKie and Frank Middleton seem to be the wood kings. They keep the road full nt wagons every day and are delighted to see the cold spell which calls for wowd. He who wants wood can get it on short notice. We have other kings here besides the wooden ones. There is John G. McKie, Jr., who will soon have placed on the C. and W. C. right of way 2,000 oak cross ties. Thin* of $1,000 before any cotton is plant ed, what does he care about potash from Germany? The grain crop is looking so well. Wheat, oath, and rye all over our hills hold them together. Some clover and alfalfa patches are here also. Farmers are getting ready for ! planting, not that they are going to plant in the next few days but have dedided to get their land in good j shape. Briers and bushes are being. cut and gullies filled. Some ten or fifteen thousand peach trees have1 been put out this fall and some let- ; luce is being put out .for market. ! The strawberry patches are looking ' Will Some of OUT men will go to Mc Cormick tomorrow to indulge in the j auction sale of town lots. We hate j to leave our good friends in old j Edgetield but McCormick is calling : to us to come. We do not know what will be the outcome. Do you remember Mr. G. O. Whatley? You would not know him now, My, how he has grown since j the arrival of G. O. Jr., on Christ mas eve. He feels like he is the big gest mau and has tho finest boy in all the world. We have been look ing for him to como out to Sunday; school and let us enroll the boy'? name but not so. He will not leave the boy for one minute, not even to wait on a custom. Mrs. G. B. Satterwhite and little Frank who have been visitiug Mrs. S. T. Adams left last week for Greenville, York and points in Vir ginia. From here she will go to her home in Iowa ! Mrs. 6. T. Adams is spending this week in Augusta with friends. Poor Sam is at home keeping batch and has quite a plenty of it too. Great will be the day for him when she retaros. Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Fouchee spent the week-end with friends- in Meri wether and Clark's Hill, j Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Walton and sweet little Frank, the brightest -?iii in Clark's Hill, spent Sunday with Mr. Walton's brother, at Evans, Ga. Dr. J. B. Auamsof Plum Branch was among us one day last week driving one of those great Fords. ' Mrs. Eugenia Middleton, whom we all love and miss so much at Sunday school, ia with her daughter, Mrs. J. E. Luke of Augusta. Mrs. Mattie Jones of Macon, Ga., is visiting cousins here, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Baxley. We were told at Meriwether this morning by the man that bau con tract for sawing the lumber for Meriwether depot that it would be loaded on cars tomorrow. Guess we will have to mark or bell H. A. Adams or we will never find him iu a large depot. He has been in a lit tle box car so long. Miss Nola Ilawls, one of our bright young girls, got married last week /to Mr. White of Alabama. We regret verv much to give her up but could not help ourselves. ^Cja^sJliM^^_ FOR SALE-2 young home raised horses. For terms apply to T. E. Miller, Colliers, S. C. l-19-2t. RENT-To rent or work on shares to white or colored, a 2 horse farm. Address B. F. Lan drum, Eureka, Aiken county, S. C. FOR SALE-A No. o Liddell saw mill, 48-inch diston saw, a yoke of good oxen five years old, good engine and boiler. Apply to H. J. Turner, Johnston, S. C., R. F. D. 4. ' Mozley's Lemon Elixir THE BEST FAMILY MEDICINE For Constipation, Biliousness, Indi gestion, Sour Stomach, Colic, Dizzi ness, Headache and anything caused by a Disordered Liver. Removes "That Drowsy Feeling" by putting your digestive organs to work, increasing your appetite, and, in fact, makes you feel like a "NEW MAN." 50c. and $1.09 a Bottle "ONE DOSE CONVINCES" For Sale and Recommended by Penn & Holstein, Edgefield, S. C. Ford Cars Have Stood the Test The experience of scores of own ers of the Ford Automobiles has proven that there is nothing better made for the Edgefield roads. 'Ford cars will carry you safely over any road that a baggy or any other ve hicle can travel. s An AU-the-Year-Around Car They are light, yet substantially built. They are cheap, yet the b?st of material is used in their con struction. Are you contemplating purchasing a car? Let us show you a Ford Run-About or Touring Car. Gk W. ADAMS Edgefield Auto Repair Shop Next to Court House S. M. Whitney Co. Cotton Factors Augusta ...... Georgia Established 1868 Personal Attention to all Business. Correspond ence Invited W^^^S^^^^W^^^^P^V^^^^ tit rs A. J. Renkl J <$> R E E WEI We have the largest assortment of pres ents in every department yt hat we have ever shown. We have orderecF0argely of Clocks. Watches, Gold ano Silver Jewelry, Sterling Silverware, Cut Glass and China. Every de partment is filled. lt matters not what you want we have it or will order it out at once. Come in to see us. We have our entire stock marked very low, much lower than you find the same class of goods elsewhere. 706 Broad Street, Augusta, Georgia I HEADQUARTERS FOR We announce to our Edgefield friends that we carry the largest stock of Fresh Fruits, Candies and miscella neous Table Delacacies in Augusta. Come in to see us when in the city California . Fruit. Store Corner Jackson and Ellis Sts. Augusta, Georgia VOTAN The wondefully different coffee in the Hermetically Sealed Can SOLD BY Penn & Holstein