Edgefield advertiser. (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, September 13, 1916, Page TWO, Image 2
PLAN YOUR HOUSE WISELY
Your Own Interests and the Interests
of the City Alike Demand Care
in Building.
One factor often overlooked in fix
ing the value of a house is the mis
lakes in judgment that often occur in
planning and locating it.
."You have often heard the remark,
?There stands a 55,000 house on a
$3,000 street"
Meaning that while the house point
ed out cost $5,000 to build, the other
.houses on the street average only
13.000.
Such mistakes In judgment in bund
ling would be less frequent if two
ideas were kept in mind by more peo
ple when building.
Heal estate men have found that
?as a general rule, a ratio of about three
.io one should exist between the value
loi a single family dwelling and the
lvalue of the land it occupies.
Also, houses should be made to har
monize with other buildings in the
block. Keep these two facts In mind
Wien buying.
Then-fine houses are sometimes
built near undesirable surroundings,
such as noisy factories, livery stables
and the like-which are sure to lessen
the value of the house.
Under mistakes in planning comes
the "freak" house, built to suit some
man's personal whim. Such a house
.may be very costly and yet not at all
salable.
The cost of unusual or unduly or
nate fixtures and decorations is gen
erally disregarded in fixing the value I
of a building.
These things must all be considered
In fixing the value of a house-in con
nection with the cost to replace, de
preciation and obsolescence, if any.
WORK ON BUSINESS BASIS
City Parks Association of Philadel
phia, Might Well Be Copied in
Other Communities.
The City Parks association has for
.a good many years now performed a
most useful function for Philadelphia.
It has managed to combine and con
centrate the efforts of a large number
of civic organizations upon a certain
definite line of endeavor. This was
originally, as its name indicates, the
creation of a comprehensive park sys
tem-the enlargement of existing
breathing spaces, the creation of new
ones and the linking of all into a
well-ordered system. While this great
work is still in the making, the asso
ciation has expanded its functions and
lt has done yeoman service in keeping
alive high ideals of city planning,
teaching the people of Philadelphia
the importance of the larger vision in
dealing with problems of urban beau
tification and pointing out far ahead
of their actual realization the great
works whic'1. must be carried through
If Philadelphia is to continue to be a
city of homes, alive to the progress
of the times, a beautiful as well as a
comfortable place to live and work In.
Milwaukee's Trees.
' One of the charms of Milwaukee, a
charm not so distinctive as lt should
be, is the shade trees along the
streets.
Greater care should be taken of
these trees. They should be protect
ed ugainst vandals and against de
structive insects. They should re
ceive other care that many of them
do not get. Instead of being permit
ted to grow in a helter-skelter way,
for Instance, they should be pruned.
The elm tree, naturally a thing of rare;
^gauty, is not pleasing to the eye!
when ragged branches reach almost!
?to the ground. '.' .' ? 5S???f%?to- }
? The trees that adorn our streets are j
a boon to the community. They give!
the city a touch of nature that noth-l
ing else can give. The community \
which benefits so greatly from their
presence should take care of them, j
Nobody can do this except experts,
men who know the different kinds of j
trees and their habits. Milwaukee
has been suffering for years, and is '<
suffering more than ever today, from j
lack of scientific management of
shade trees.
Milwaukee needs a city forester.
Milwaukee Journal.
t Unwise City Administrations.
Any city administration whose acts
are prompted by petty jealousies and
whose officials, either elected or ap
pointed, refrain from performing the
duties they owe the people because of
those jealousies, ought to be im
peached. Honest, efficient service can
not be rendered the people when their
public servants have such a narrow
vision that they fail to appreciate the
value of public opinion, and therefore
commit those acts which prove that
such narrowness of vision really ex
ists. The public servants who accom
plish public good are men of broad
vision, whose first aim is real public
service, and not self-advertising and
personal glorification. Jealousy can
allow murderers to escape; permit in
competents to remain in office; create
inefficiency in official labors, and bring
about n chaotic condition so apparent
to the people that they cannot fail to
see it. Some cities are today suffer
ing from just such causes.-South Bend
JTribune.
HEALTHY RIVALRY IS BEST
Boys and Girls Need Something 3e
sides Home Training, Asserts
Eastern Journal.
The father of two school children
who refuses to have his offspring vac
cinated, and therefore doeB not send
them to school, says the mother ?B just
as well qualified as any teacher to in
struct the children at home.
This parent misses the point of
something more than the inoculating
quill, the Philadelphia Ledger asserts.
Of course, the mother knows her own
children, and no doubt has retained
from her own schooldays and subse
quent reading enough book learning to
qualify as their instructress. Many
wise men and good women have profit
ably gone to school at the mother's
knee in the three R's as well as in
piety. But the rule is that children
do better who face the competition of
the schoolroom and undergo the disci
pline of healthy rivalry with their
comrades. There is less danger of
growing up a spoiled or a solitary
minded child.
Every boy and girl needs that part
of schooling which comes from other
pupils, not from the teacher. There is
evil sometimes mingled with the good,
and a careful supervision must go as
far as it can to check any pernicious
influence. But the child grows up to
a world to give and take, and must
know how to "fear God and take his
own part" In lt. Moreover, there ls
nothing like keeping the definite hours
and following the plan of impartial,
inflexible routine in the school life.
Home is a respecter of persons; the
mother is likely to be led by her affec
tions into an overtenderness that tem
pers the wind to her shorn lamb. The
republic of school stands upon the
doctrine of equality in human rights.
Fair play is its reign of law. It is not
disparaging the mother to say that in
normal pupilage the teacher who is
"no relation" is the best.
DERIVED FROM RARE EARTHS
Where Some of the Most Valuable
Metals Known Have Been Dis
covered by Scientists.
Rare earths are the oxides of such
metals as thorium, cerium, titanium,
zirconium, tantalum, niobium, tung
sten, uranium and vanadium. The
most common and familiar uses of
these metals are: For thorium and
cerium in the making of gas mantles,
and for tungsten in the making of In
candescent lamps. Tungsten, to
gether with vanadium, is also used in
making certain kinds of steel. Thori
um, or one of its compounds, is used
extensively in searchlights, motor car
headlights, and In flashlight powders.
Cerium alloyed with certain metals
makes the flaming alloy used in cigar
and gas lighters and to trace the flight
of artilleiy shells. The same metal,
or one of Its salts, is used in pho
tography, in dyeing leather and for
coloring glass. Titanium alloyed with
iron is often used to purify steel, cast
iron and cast copper. Zirconium oxide
makes crucibles and similar vessels
that, even when brought to a white
heat, can be plunged into cold water
without cracking. Tantalum makes
surgical and dental instruments that
will not rust and that can be sharp
ened like steel and sterilized by in
tense heat. Nine-tenths of the tung
sten and the vanadium produced ia
used in making steel.
Old Wines.
Some time ago a bottle of ancient
wine was found during the demolition
of an old house at Finsbury, England.
It appears that this ancient bottle is
eclipsed by the treasures of France.
Some of the cellars in Paris contain
bottles of Sauterne at least two cen
turies old. This Is a very respect
able age, but it is nothing compared
with a certain Ribeauvilliers of 1652,
or a Steinwein of 1540, or a Jewish
Passover wine of five centuries and a
half. Still, in the museum at Reims
there is a far older wine, or rather a
bottle containing something which was,
once wine." "*" '''"'; .' - *~"
It ls said to date four centuries be
fore our era. This, tradition says, was
found in a tomb of the Gallo-Roman
period. Berthelot, the celebrated
chemist, has left cn record that he
once analyzed a bottle of wine made
in the neighborhood of Rome about
Nero's time. In this case the analyst
had only a dry residuum to work upon.
Couldn't Blame Him.
"You were pretty well pickled when
I brought you in last night," said the
copper to tho man who had been ar
raigned in municipal court.
"Was I?" replied the man, whose
thumping head was also telling him
that he had drunk not wisely but too
well.
"You sure were. You gave the desk
sergeant your name and address, but
you couldn't for the life of you tell your
occupation. You tried and tried, but
you couldn't say it."
"Well, no wonder! I'm a statisti
cian!"
The Usual Way.
"Say, Grimshaw! Would you rec
ommend young Sam Skook as being
of good moral character and entirely
worthy of confidence? I have a po
sition of trust for which ho is an ap
plicant."
"Certainly!" replied Grimshaw
heartily. "Give the young fellow a
show, Jinglefritz." Then after the in
quirer had passed onward, satisfied,
Grimshaw turned to Trotter. "Who
the deuce is young Sam Skook?" he
asked.-Kansas City Star.
JANE LAWRENCE
By ELLIS DICKSON.
"If I had known about Jane Law
rence I never would have become pres
ident of tho board of managers of
St. Prisca's home. But then how was
I to know? But If I had known of the
case of Jane Lawrence I really couldn't
have done lt. I have actually stayed
awake nights over lt. And thlB after
noon, when I ought to be spending all
my time at the tailor's and dressmak
er's, I have to have a board meeting
here Just to discuss the matter."
Mrs. Stoddington had been sitting
for fully ten minutes before she began
her complaint, at the little spindle
legged desk in her study.
Tom Blaine, younger by ten years,
was sitting impatiently waiting at her
side. Besides being the wealthy wid
ow's only brother, he was her attorney.
"The trouble with Jane, Tom, is sim
ply this: She is very pretty. Not
just rather pretty, but dangerously,
absurdly pretty, and a girl in an in
stitution of that sort really has no
right to be pretty.
"Whatever are we going to do? She
is only eighteen now and she has not
left the home, but in a month she must
begin to go out to earn her living.
"For several years we have realized
that Jane was different from the other
children in the home. She is really a
beauty. The matron has been wonder
ful, too. She has done all she could
to keep the girl from realizing. When
the other girls have had pretty hair
ribbons Jane has had none, and she
has been made to brush her hair as
plainly as possible. When the other
girls have gene on excursions Jane
has beeil kept at home. In her lit
tle room the matron even took down
the mirror so she would not be tempt
ed to be vain. Still the girl seems to
crave pleasure, still she seems to be
at heart quite a coquette. If we could
only get her married off to some hon
est, hard-working person who would
give her a heme with plenty of work
she would be all right."
If Tom felt any special interest in
the case of the little orphan girl he
did not show it
"To begin with," he said in his most
professional tone, "you have gone
about it in the worst possible way. It
doesn't take a lawyer or a deep stu
dent cf human nature to tell you that
the best way to arouse a girl's in
terest in pretty things is to deprive
her of them."
Tom paused for a moment and
thought "Here's my remedy," he re
sumed. "Call off this board meeting
this afternoon. Then give the girl a
real taste of happiness. If she is well
behaved invite her to your own home,
treat ner as you would a guest pro
vide her with.a few pretty clotS?yand
take her about with you. Let her Bee
the normal side of life. Let her real
ize that a woman can be pretty and at
tractive without being a sinner."
It was two weeks later, and Mrs.
Stoddington was again seated before
her spindle-legged desk. Tom again
sat before her in apparent impatience.
"That plan is a failure, just as I
thought lt would be," she began. "Why
I ever thought you could advise me in
the case of young orphan girls is quite
beyond me. Oh, yes, she was very
sweet and lovely for a while and all
my friends declared she was beautiful,
and two or three of the bachelors who
never look at a debutante suddenly dis
covered a decided fondness for my
drawing-room chairs-I needn't tell
you that for you are much in the same
boat yourself. There was nothing in
\he least blt forward about her though.
She was as sweet as a girl of our own
class-and then suddenly she went off
yesterday. And at the teatime she
came in smiling and refused to tell
me where she had been. She is up
stairs In her room now. I am going
to have her packed up tomorrow sent
back to St Prisca's. It is really too
disgraceful. Gone a whole day and
won't tell where she went! Tom, it is
all your fault."
Tom drew his chair closer to that of
his sister and this time showed evi
dent interest in the case of the little
orphan girl.
"Suppose I could tell you where
the girl was yesterday. Suppose I
could prove to you that she left the
house on an expedition to find the one
to whotn she felt indebted for her little
liing in the world of normal pleasure
and happiness. I believe she did ask
you who it was and you told her. And
then, of course, suppose you knew that
that humble benefactor, quite in spite
of himself, persuaded the girl to have
luncheon with him downtown, and
then sent her home with a promise not
tc tell where she had been, would you
blame her very much? I thought that
I might explain it more easily than she
could."
Tom had risen, as if to go, but of
course, he had no such intention, for
he had net yet seen the little girl in
question that day.
"You know your idea was a good
one, perhaps even better than mine,"
he told his sister. "You know you
said you would feel your task complete
when you had seen her married to
some honest, hard-working person. I
am quite sure that I am hard-wcrklng
and, In gplte of my profession, I make
certain claims to honesty. It ls a rath
er hasty decision, but I have gained
Jane's consent. We are Just waiting
for your permission."
(Copyright, 191fi, by the McClure Newspa
per Syndicate.)
An electrically-lighted cross revolves
on top of a San Francisco steeple.
Sale of Land in Edge
field County.
By virtue of a deed of trust
made to us by E. C. Lassiter,
and Mrs. A. L. Bird, recorded in
the Clerk of Court's office for Edge
field County S. C., in Book twenty
ty-five (25), page two hundred and
fifty-five (255), we will sell at public
outcry to the highest bidder for
cash (if not sooner sold at private
sale) at Edgefield. S. C., on salesday
in October next ( 191 ?). the real es
tate herein-afttr described, the pur
chaser or ourchasers to pay extra
for stamps and papers. We will
sell the land as a whole or cut up
same into as many tracts as we
deem best and sell the tracts sepa
rately.
The land is described iu said deed
as follows:
All that piece, parcel or tract of
land situate in the County of Edge
field, State aforesaid, containing
777.7 acres, more or less, being all
of the 1613 acres of land in said
County and State, hereinafter de
scribed, except 835.3 acres, more or
less, conveyed to Mrs. Elizabeth L.
Sparks and Alkethea Sparks by
deed dated December 13th, 1913,
recorded in Clerk of Court's office
for Edgefield County, S. C., in
Book--, page-. A fuller de
scription of the 1613 acres of land
as follows:
"That certain tract or parcel of
land situate and being in the Coun
ty of Edgefield and the State of
South Carolina, formerly owned by
Mrs. E. A. Talbert containing 1613
acres, more or less, bounded by
lands of T. W. Morton, - Cart
ledge, W. J. Talbert, - Price,
lots 12 and 15 of the Talbert lands
and others, and is made up of the
following lots or parcels; Lot No. 1
Burton Tract 130 acres; Lot No. 2
Burton Tract 126 acres; Lot No. 1
Talbert Tract 250 acre?; Fox Mill
Tract 85 acres; Lot No. 2 Talbert
82 acres; Lot No. 3 Talbert tract
70 acres; lot No. 4 Talbert Tract 76 j
acres; Lot No. 5 Talbert Tract 116 \
acres; Lot No. 6. Talbert Tract 101
ai-.res; Lot No. 7 Talbert Tract 05
acres: Lot No. 10 Talbert Tract 91
acres; Lot No. ll Talbert Tract 100
acres; Tract No. 14 Talbert Tract
115 acres, all of which tracts or
parcels are shown by a plat of W.
H. Yelldel made for the Scottish
American Mortgage Company, and
is the same laud conveyed to the
McCormick Land and Lumber Com
ber Com [ any by said Scottish j
American Mortgage Company, and j
conveyed by McCormick Land and
Lumber Company to R. Frank Hall, i
land by R. Frank Hall conveyed to!
H. S. Williamson and E. C. Lassi
ter. Reference to said The McCor
mick Land and Lumber Company
deed is craved for a fuller and
further description of the lands
herein conveyed.
M. L. BONHAM,
G. CULLAN SULLIVAN,
Trustees.
Aug. 1916.
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LARGE ASSORTMENT OF
*| Perfumery, Toilet Water, etc.
FROM THE LEADING MANUFACTURERS
THE FARMERS BANK OF EDGEFIELD, S. C.
Capital and Surplus Profits.$120,000.00
Total Assets Over.$400,000.00
STATE, COUNTY AND TOWN DEPOSITORY
Does a General Banking Business. Offers its Services to You as a Safe
Guardian and Depository for Your Money.
Invest in One of Our Certificates of Deposits Bearing Interest.
It is a better investment for you than a mortgage of real estate.
You do not have to consult an attorney about titles. It does not shrink
in value like lands and houses. You do not have to insure against fire.
Finally you do not have to employ an attorney to foreclose to get your
money. You can get your interest and principal the day it falls due.
Safety is the First Consideration in Placing Your Earnings.
A Cordial Invitation
We extend a cordial invitation to our Edgeficld
friends to visit us in our handsome
new home, where we will
be delighted to
serve them
Wm. Schweigert & Co.
84G Broad St. The Jewelers Augusta, Ga.
ARRINGTON BROS. & CO.
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YOUR PATRONAGE SOLICITED
See our representative, C. E. May.
Notice of filial Dis
charge.
To All Whom These Presents May
Concern:
Whereas, J. H. Allen has made
application unto this Court for Fi
nal Discharge as Administrator in
re the Estate of Ina C. Holland de
ceased, on this the 5th day of Sep
tember 1910.
These Are Therefore, to cite any
and all kindred, creditors, or par
ties interested, to show cause before
rae at my office at Edgefield Court
House, South Carolina, on the 9th
day of October, 1916, at ll o'clock
a. m., why said order of Discharge
should not be granted.
W. T. Kinnaird.
J. P. E. C., S. C.
Sept. 5, 1910-4t.
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