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?Efiiabliai?f? 1235. /. L. MI MS_.Editor Published every Wednesday in The Advertiser Building at S1.50 per year in advance. Entered as second class matter at be postoffice at Edgefield, S. C. No communications will be published unless accompanied by the writer's .neme. ' Cards of Thanks, Obituaries, Resolu tions and Political Notices published at ftdvertising rates. Wednesday, Jan. 3. The express messengers are enjoy ing the calm after the storm. Plain old-field pine burns mighty good when coal is SS. 50 per ton. Florida now has a Catts for governor but his name is not "Thomas." - ' v Baby carriage dealers in Edgefield .report a good business outlook fof 1917. "On with the war! let slaughter be unconfined,1" say the belligerents. The legislature will begin to lay down new laws to us next Tuesday. The price of rubber shoes is also elastic and has stretched upward con siderably. Some people have troubles thrust upon them but auto troubles are as sumed voluntarily. One brave South Carolina boy is worth more than all the teeming millions in Mexico. Don't worry over the liquor ship ments of the past. Let's look to their curtailment in the future. It appears that Villa's New Year resolution is to raise more h-1 in Mexico than ever before. - Gentlemen of the General Assembly, curtail our "rights"" further. We are getting entirely too much "licker." As 40,000 dressmakers are on a strike in New York, some of the women folk may be forced to wear some of last spring's carried-over garments. It is said that a murder occurs in Chicago every other day. We want to select the off-day when we visit the "Windy City." It appears that Germany will not get out of the var as easy as she got into it. The Allies say tiley ar? in it to a finish--Germany's finish. Cotton, like the doubie-mi.'.-cd ma.:, is unstable in all of its ways. Befoie one can fully enjoy the -brill of an ad vance in price, he is chilled by a de cline. Make at Least One Resolution. It is well to make resolutions, when made seriously a-:d in good faith, even if subsequently they are disregarded. It is worth while when one, af ?er de liberate thought, realizes the weak places and attempts lo strengthen them through a determined resolve or a supreme effort of will. The resolu tion may be broken in some unguarded moment but the realization that the weak place or shortcoming exists will cause one to be more constantly on the alert for improvement. The ONE resolution that The Adver tiser would have all make, is to resolve to KEEP SWEET throughout the en tire year of 1917. The happiness of many a home, even homes of affluence and culture, are marred by the ill na ture "of some member of the home-cir cle. Their biting words and the sharp corners of their nature are constantly * pricking those with whom they hourly meet. It is just as easy to scatter sweet smiles, kindly words and thought fill deeds along the way as it is to make life miserable for those about us. Any way, it is the "small, sweet courtesies of life" that make living worth while. Don'.t make many resolutions, lest they be lightly regarded, but in the . few you make, one should be a firm re solve to KEEP SWEET. Mail Order Houses. The volume of business of mail order houses is steadily increasir/g. They have been astute enough to nse, in every possible way, the parcel post to swell the volume of their business. Ip o?e day, just prior 'to the holidays, one mail order house alone of Chicago turn ed over to the po3t office of that city 16,000 sacks of mail, paying thereon $26,000 in postage, This large sum .was paid however by the patrons of the house all over the country and not by the mercantile establishment itself. The consumer always pays the freight in one form or another. The secret of the success of mail or tder houses is advertising. All of them are large advertisers, using religious, agricultural and other journals, sup plementing these with catelogues and circulars. Every dollar that is sent away to the distant city decreases the volume of business of some local mer chant. However, the same means of bringing about an increase, that of ad vertising, is open to him just as to the big mail order house. If the local merchant fails to impress the consu mers in his fiei J, or section from which he draws his business, with the fact that he not only sells certain lines of merchandise but sells merchandise of quality and at reasonable .prices, then he has no one but himself to blame if the out-of-town merchants gets his bu siness. The Advertiser has always practiced and preached trading at, home. Every dollar kept in the community is a ben efit not alone to the local merchant but to the entire community. However, in this day of progress and enterprise, the local merchant who, to use a com mon expression, goes to skeo on the .job-, will have out-of-town merchants make large inroads into his business. If he is lacking in the "get-up-and get" spiri.'. he should blame no ene but himself. 'the Youngest Child Taken. The inexpressibly sad death of Edward Homar Blalock, the eleven vear-old son of Rev. and Mrs. P. I*. Blalock, was a great. 6hock to the community. Several days before Cbristaias Domar had an attack of appendicitis and early last week he was carried to a hospital in Sumter, where he underwent an operation Wednesday, December 27. The disease hud so far advanced, how ever, that the operation failed to save hi?, [ife. He died Sunday af ternoon about one o'clock and his bodv was brought to Edgefield Monday and interred in the family square in the village cemetery. The funeral w?s held in the Presbyte rian chinch, being conducted by Dr. E. Pendleton Jones?. Domar s parents aud his sisters, Mrs. Ludy J. Blakelv aud Mrs. W. S. Boyd were with him at the hos pilal and accompanied the bodv to Edgefield. Everything possible known to science aud skill was done to save this young life, but for .- onie reason, which finite vision can not discern, God took him out oe this world. The Divine plan in his shoit life was completed on oa-rtb and he ua^ taken to that upper realm, i?o naar was widely beloved and his death also calved profound son ow among the children, boy? and .%i U, of the cominnnity, and esi ?ciallv aujoii^ his school ma tes. When dea i? ?euiovrd this bright boy ibe last child w. .ken from the horoe-ch cle. Being the on ly one left to them, the devoted parents were already leaning upon him despite his ieuder jeasi. Borour was t?->e lh'hl, the life, the joy of their hearts and of the home. Tile beautiful iloial l. i bules were silent e.. pinions of sympathy from friends, and seores of others share tba sorrow and min gle tears with t' ei.'.i in this buuv oi uuclterble grief. Edgelie?d County Teachers Association. The next meeting of the conni v teachers association will take place in the auditorium of the school building, .Saturday Jan. 13, begin ning promptly at eleven o'clock. I he o.beers are trying to make this the best meeting of the year. The program will be entertaining aud instinctive. It is earnestly desired chat every teacher in the county be present. There is no reason why Ed&etield counlv should not stand in the front ranks in the forward niai ch of education. No body can make this association a success but the teachers themselves. It is the duty of every teacher to attend the meetings and to freely express them selves upon all subjects for discus sion. Tue program will be as follows: 1. (a) Illiteracy in Edgefield county: (b) Its Remedy. (a) Statements of conditions now existing in the county. Leader, Miss Snow Jeffries, Edge field High School. (b) It's Remedy-Leader, Prof. G. F. Long, Harmony High School. The subject will be discussed gen et ally hy all present. It should ar peal strongly to every teacher in the county. Address, Dr. W. S. Currell of of theUniversity of South Carolina. Dr. Currell is one of the finest speakers in the South. No teacher can afford to miss this address. We invite all pupils of the High Schools, and the public generally is urged to be present. T. J. Lyon, Pres. . CM. M.il ijhamp, Sec. 9o. Teachers Association FOR RENT: 5-room house on Addison Street. Apply to J. H. Allen at Trie Bi nk of Edgefield. Wanted-To buy 7 pounds of goose feathers. State price per pound. Mrs. E. H. Crews, Edgefield, S. C. Off For College Again. The college hoys and girls carne home and spent a merry ten davs and have resumed their studies. Miss Marion Hailey h.is returned to the Chicora College for Women; Miss Ida Folk, Miss Janice Morgun and Miss Lula On/As to Winthrop, Miss Gladys Padgett to the G. VV. C., Miss Helen Tillman lo Hol lins, Miss Nell Jones to Converse, Misses Helen Dorn, Minnie Lan ham. Emmie and Alma DeLoach and Miss Florence Mims to Coker. Glover Tompkins, William and Diomede Hollingsworth, Goode Reel and Walter Mays have return ed to Clemson, Carroll Rain ?lo td and James Thompson to the citadel, Waller Cantelou and Edgar Stroth er to the University of South Caro lina, Gill Dunovairt Lo Woft'o'd Gus Tompkins to Davidson ai.fl A - lour Tompkins kio toe law School of the University. Rains'ord Can telou lo Atlanta Oolle'>e of Pharma cy. Ed^.elield is very proud of luis splendid lot of young ladies and young gentlemen and expects great things of them. Citation. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUN'TY OF EDCKI/IELD. By W.-T. Kinnaird, Probate Judge. Whereas, A. A. Edmunds made suit to me, to grant him Letters of Administration of tho Eftate and effects of Mrs. Emily Middleton, deceased. TlrPseAie Therefore to cite and admonish all and singular the kin dred and Creditors of the said Mis. Emily Middleton, deceased, vbat they be and appear before me, in the Court of Probaia. to be held at Edgefield, C. H., S. C., in my of fice at ll o'clock on the 19th Janu ary, 1917, next after publication thereof, at ll o'clock in the fore noon, ?o show cause, if anv they ?rave, why the said Adminislration should not be giauteu. Given under my H.nid, ibis 2nd day of Jan uaw A. D., 1917. W. T. KINNAIRD, Probate Judge E. C. Jan. 3 -3t. Almost Lost Hope In Repeated Failures. CHARLESTON MAN DE CLARES HE WAS UP AND DOWN ALL NIGHT LONG-"ALMOST DROVE ME CRAZY. Charlesion Railroad Man Declai'es Tint Ai Last He Has Conquered His Troubles. "Tanlac has done a great deal for me. Since I bep;an taking it I have gained ten pounds in weight and I do not suffer with any of those dis tressing nilmenis arni I am steadily improving in health and sM'egl.h." In these words. W. II. Lowis, a Soulhern Railway section foreman, of 44 Drake St., Charleston, sum med ii!> the great relief Tanlac, "The National Tonic,"' had given him. Mr. Lewis' ?tatement fol lows: "My system was generally run down and out of tone before I be gan taking Tanlac. I was a sufferer with indigestion and nervousness. I had contended with indigestion and stomach troubles for about twenty-five years and it seemed that nothing I took would take give me permanent relief, and gen erally 1 failed to get relief. I have taken a great many different medi cines and have been treated by phy sicians, but I continued to suffer with my stomach. Gas formed in great quantities on my stomach and I was troubled a great deal with pains around my heart. At night I was very restless, and my sleep was broken and un refreshing. and I was up and down all night. Pains in my abdomen also added to my troubles and dis comforts. "I was subject to severe attacks of nervousness, and when my nerves were in that condition, any noise, if it continued a while, would al most drive me crazy. ^ "The Tanlac advertising had caught my eye, and finally 1 deci ded to take it, even if so many oth er medicines had proved disappoint ing to me and had done a lot to kill my faith in medicine. But Tanlac proved the exception to this rule. Tanlac has done a great deal for me. I have gained ten pounds ' in weight and I do uot suffer from any of these distressing ailments as I did. My appetite is good and I digest what I eat and I do not have those pains after eating as I once did. "My nerves Were quieted by tak ing the Tanlac, and I was also im proved eo much that I can sleep well now and I feel much better and ?^i?^^ i^^^i^^^f^?^^ ?F^""- cr^ri rT^^ c^7^ ?^^? r75^! r^^^^ir^g^nss^^L^^ Wm g BK ?7"; 352 .JJ I* cf H Ufe Wishes its many patrons a prosperous and happy new year; and, also, takes this means of thanking them for their continuous loyalty in the past., - We are certainly grateful of the encouragement shown the store in the past, and it will be the policy ?f the store to'be conducted on the same lines as in the past, and hope to hold the confidence of the patrons in the future. WM more refreshed in the morning now than I used to. In every way I feel a whole lot belter. "JMy wife also took Tanlac. and it gave ber just as satisfactory re sults as it gave me. I am ?lad to recommend Tanlac, because of the results it crave ray wife and myself. Tanlac has been of gi eat benefit to both o'f us, and I highly ?ecommend it." Tanlac, the Master Medicine, is sold by EDGEFJELD COUNTY. Edgefield, Penn & Holstein. Cold Snrings, II Ernest Ojiarles. Edgefield, R F D No 2, J. H. Reel. Johnston, Johnston Drug Com pany. Modoc, G C McDaniel. Parksville, Robertson & Com pany. i'lutrt Branch, J W Bracknell & Son. Plum Branch, R F D No 2, E P Winn & Bro. Trenton, G W Wise. AAA lH"J'4,^'<'4'^4"i"l"I"l"l"l,'l"H"H"t"l 4"t"H"|"|"|"H"t"|"H"i"l"H"|"|"H'4"H'4'4"|'^ ? NEW YEAR'S . J v GREETINGS I I am deeply grateful to the people for the splendid business accorded me in the past, and wish one and all a Happy New Year. I will appreciate a continuance of your patronage L. T. MAY * +? ? * * A * +++A ?i- .;. ? !. A .}. A A A OF eld The year just closed has been a very satisfactory business year, and we owe much to the people who have so generously patronized us. We take this means of thanking them, and also solicit a contin uance throughout the year 1917, which we hope will be a happy one to all of our friends. We expect to keep our stock complete in every department in the future and solicit a share of your business, doing at all times our best to merit your confidence. Mukashy Bargain House V