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/. L. MUAS,....Editor Published every Wednesday in The Advertiser Building at $1.50 per year la advance. Entered as second class matter at he poBtoffice at Edgefield, S. C. No communications will be published onJess accompanied by the writer'" came. Cards of Thanks. Obituaries, Resolu tions and Political Notices published at advertising rates. Wednesday, Jan. 17 Even Congress has booze on the bounce. Paper is too high for girls tc waste it on their curls. Along with the blind poet, the "silent sentinels" say: "They also serve who only stand and wait." The "little brown jug" will soon exist in memory only. "Bottled in bond" is a term that will not be heard much longer. My kingdom for a blotter! The war seems to have blotted out all of the blotters. Be more concerned about the leak in your nurse than about the Lansing Lawson "leak." The legislature will either make South Carolina bone dry or just a <juart-a-month wet Adnrral Dewey, the hero of Manila Bay, died yesterday at his home in Washington in his 80th year. I . . . With flour beyond the ten-dollar-per barrel mark, about the only cake a fel low can afford now is a hoe-cake. The man who says the lawmakers are having their annual fcrty-dav frolic doesn't know what he is talking about. We are dee-lighted that the cold waves that the weather man sends us do not last as long as the Drohibition "wave." It's rather paradoxical or inconsis tent for the Baptist hosts who have a decided penchant for wetnesa to be clamoring for bone dryness in South Carolina. The Jekyl-Hyde anomaly is not any more marvelous than the sudden trans formation of gattling-guns of speech into "silent sentinels. " "Many prominent people summoned to testify on leak," says a headline. But we haven't received ours yet. Maybe yours will be on the next mail. A headline tells_us that "Alabama's Governor is Investigating Himself." It wouldn't be a bad idea if all of us ?would inaugurate a self-investigation. Doubtless when Hon. William Jen nings Bryan called at the White House yesterday the "silent sentinels" saluted him-not a la Hobson, however. Now that the United States phar macopoeia (can you pronounce it? has eliminated alcohol entirely as a medi cine, why should the legislators reckon with or admit whiskey as a medicine? The women in Columbia who are ap pealing to the legislators for a "square deal" should have the astuteness to present their claims immediately after the lords of creation have had a "square meal." In telling the women how to dress for skating, a New York newspaper says "the skirt should reach just above the curve of the calf." Then, many down in this part of the country are dressed for skating when they don a street dress. Western horses are about one-third less than the regular price at this sea son and western mules are 10 per cent, cheaper than last year, notwithstand ing the fact that cotton has been al most double in price. Surely the south ern farmer is having his day. These rainy days afford a mighty good time to look over and repair the farm tools. The high prices that pre vail for all iron and steel will cause many a discarded tool to be used a year longer. .Make the needed repairs before the implement is actually needed. Senator Underwood of Alabama is not in accord with the Southland when he actively and with dogged persist ence champions the whiskey cause. Ik will yet find himself the under-dog in this national struggle and then the people of the South will laugh at his embarrassment. A trio of colonels, all good fellows, have been added to the Governor's staff, and here's hoping that none of them will ever have to measure their military prowess in actual service. While rain fell outside the State C?pitol yesterday, the reins of gov ernment were placed in the hands of Governor Manning for another two years' reign. Were Most Too Strenuous. Through attractive circulars, liquor j J houses did not fail to remind every ne gro in the country of his right under I the law to order a gallon of liquor a ?month. And the negroes only failed J about one out of ten to exercise this right. The strenuosity with which the, liquor houses worked the gallon-a month appeal was something like kill ing the goose to get the golden egg. They reaped a golden harvest, but it | was their last crop in South Carolina. Jury Seeks Divine Guidance. A Georgia petit jury that must de cide the fate of a dentist who, with five other men, is charged with mur ! der, has prayed repeatedly for Divine guidance. Only a few instances of this kind are on record. One's confidence I in a jury is strengthened when, realiz ing the grave responsibility resting upon them, that of deciding the fate of a human life, they seek guidance from a high and unerring power. It | would not only strengthen the con fidence of the people in the jury sys tem but increase respect for the courts of the land, as well, if a greater num ; ber of men or juries sought Divine guidance when human life was at I stake. Not All Actual Gains. The "gains" daily credited to the Germans in the papers remind us of what we once heard a country mer chant say of the alleged continued rise in the price of tobacco. He stated that for years it has been the practice among tobacco salesmen to press their ] claims for an order upon the ground that a tremendous rise in price would soon become effective. Each tobacco salesman who came along, month after month and year after, would use the rise-in-price argument to get an order. According to the aforesaid merchant, had all of the predicted or threatened rises been placed on the price of to bacco, the weed would now be selling for $10.00 the pound. So it is with the Germans. If all of | the gains credited to them in head lines were actual accessions of ter ritory, they would now possess both the eastern and western hemispheres, with all of the isles of the sea thrown in. Just Across the Savannah. Study the official boll weevil map on The Advertiser's front page this week, which is published through the courtesy of The State. In spite- of the facts | that have been repeatedly published cpncerning the steady progress of the boll weevil, there are yet scores of farmers who are skeptical about its coming. Those who refuse to heed the warning will in a few short years real ize what fools they have been. Far who are prepared will not suffer irre parable loss through the ravages of the weevil, but those who fail to diversify, supplanting cotton with other crops and engaging to a larger extent in stock raising, will be crippled, finan cially, to such an extent that an ad-1 justment to new conditions will be exceedingly difficult. Do not any longer be doubting | Thomases, but begin at once to pre pare for the unwelcome, but inevita ble, pest. A Faithful Army. May the Lord bless the faithful rural mail carriers! They brighten many a home these dark, dreary days by car rying to its very threshold every morn ing something new and fresh to read. The rain falls and the mud deepens but this vast army of humanity-blessers never fail or falter. Be kind and cour teous and thoughtful of your mail car rier. Had it occurred to you that a hot drink or some other "creature com fort" handed out to him with a smile, about the noon hour, would cheer his spirits and quicken his circulation these chilling days? Furthermore, such a thoughtful act would not go unreward ed, being as bread cast upon the water. The men engaged in "border duty" are not the only ones who are serv ing their country and humanity. The 45,000 rural mail carriers who trave daily considerably more than a million miles are likewise rendering a service of estimable value. Let YOUR carrier know that you appreciate his faithfulness. Scores will rush in to tell him of alleged shortcom ings, so you hand him a rose while others prick him with the thorn. Reduce Rather Than Increase Acreage. Already then- are indications that farmers are planning for ;i large icot ton acreage this year, and should they plant cotton to the neglect of other crops, it will be the greatest mistake they have ever made. While cotton brought a good price last fall, far mers have no assurance that it will command a high price next .fall. Everybody hopes the United States will be kept out of the war, yet who knows what six months or a year will bring forth? By the time the 1917 crop of cotton is harvested conditions may be worse than they were, in the fall of 1914. And instead of having cheaper foodstuffs for man and beast they would under such conditions be higher than at present. . In planning for a large acreage in cotton bear in mind two things: First, the price may be below the cost of pro duction, arl, second, bear in mind the high price of everything the farmer has to buy, much of which can be pro duced at home. Fir3t of all, plan to live at home as far as possible. The only independent farmer is the farmer who can live from what he produces on his own premises. News From Over the State. Governor Manning entered upon his second term Tuesday at noon and Tuesday night he and Mrs. Manning gave a reception at the Mansion to the members of the gen eral assembly. William A. Stucky of Bishop ville has announced that he will be a candidate for governor in 1918 He is a large farmer of Lee county. There are a number of applicant* for the position of State bink ex aminer, Mr. Mauldin having resign ed to accept a position with the Palmetto National Bank of Colum bia. Saluda's .senator, Hon. Jeff ?. Griffith, is the youngest member of the State senate, being only 27 years of age. A thief entered the home of Mrs. Mary C. Dibble of Oranereburg Sat urday night and stole 1575 from a trunk. A ?ommittee representing the 150,000 Baptists of South Carolina hare drafted resolutions petitioning the legislature to pass an iron-clad prohibition law, making no com promise. The Greenwood Woodmen of the World are making preparations to entertain the State convention which will meet with them the sec ond week in March. There are 40,000 members of the Order in South Carolina and about 800 dele gates are expected in Greenwood. Mrs. Mildred Rutherford, one of the most prominent women not on ly of Georgia but of the South, will deliver an address before the Green wood chapter, XJ. D. C., on Janu ary 19, the occasion being the cele bration of Gen. Lee's birthday. . Some of the writings of the late Robert Gonzales will be collected and published in book form. A large edition will be necessary to meet the great demand. Capt. William H. Frazier died at his home in Ninety Six Friday. He was born in Edgefield May 26, 1843 and spent the early years of his life here. Farmers of Greenwood and ad joining counties have 7,900 bales of cotton stored in Greenwood ware houses. A year ago the number of bales stored in Greenwood was 13,000. Miss Eudora Ramsey, a daughter of Dr. D. M. Ramsey, president of the Greenville Woman's College, is making a tour of the State in the interest of woman suffrage. President Riggs arranged for a number of Clemson cadets to see the photoplay, k A Birth of a Na tion." at Anderson Saturday after noon. Convention at Clark's Hill. Don't forget to come to Clark's Hill Sunday, January 21. Read the program that is in The Adver tiser this week of the District No. 3 Sunday School Convention. We want our Edgefield friends that are near enough to come and be with us that day. It will be worth a ride across any county, regardless of weather or roads, to listen to such a live Sunday School worker aB R. H. Webb. He is coming brim full of information and it will cost you nothing but to come. Ask him what you may and he will gladly advise you, so make a memorandum of what your school is doing or not doing and I know he can help you. This is going to be our conven tion, so we want everybody to come of eyery denomination. Don't let the rain keep 5rou at home. Our church does not leak and we have a good stove to keep you warra. , S. T. Adams, Pres. District No. 3. Bargains in ladies' shoe?. We are offering 50 pairs of ladies' shoes for fl. 19 the pair. We have your size-1 to 3 1-2. Tiie Corner Store. FOR SALE: Two very large liome-raiHed Mules, one six year* old and the other nine. D. E. Lan ham, Edgefield, S. C. Jau. 9, 1917. I Statement Concerning the Bible. Editor Edgefield Advertiser: The Rev. J. H. Daoner, who as sisted Dr. J. L. Stokes in a revival meeting' -in Walhalla Me'hodist church some time ago, used a very comprehensive statement of what the Bible is, and I will ask you to publish it: It would be well for everybody to read just what the Bible is in the beginning of this new year of grace 1917. THE BIBLE. When v>e pray we talk to God; when we read the Bible God talks to ns. Wonderful book! I hold in my hand the only chart which has safely guided all former navigations of this treacherous sea. Here is the sublimest poetry; the oldest and only code of morals, an cient and accurate account of our ancestors and tour origin; the only revelation of our duty and destiny; the only reliable definition of good ness and of God; the only authori tative statement of seasons and rela tionships of causes and conse quence. It marks out the only road from sin to salvation, from sour to sweet, from bad to better and best, from fear to freedom, from hovel to a home in Heaven. Blessed Book! Bond of union between me and mine, between the shadow and the substance, between the seeming and the substantial, the smoky here and the sublime here after. Wonderful Book! I let it fall open before me, and I see my sin fulness and my Saviour, my help lessness and ray help, ray criminal ity and my holy calling, my con demnation and my Christ, my cross and my crown, my calvary and my coronation, my rain and my resur rection, my fall and my Father, my life's brevity and Jordan's bridge, my last sickness and my eternal soundness. . My Book! I want nothing more cooling when burned by the last fever; I want nothing warmer as a cover in the chill of death; 1 want no softer pillow in my coffin; I want no brighter light in the dark valley; I want no better staff when feeling for Jordan's crossing; I want no sharper sword when assaulted on the last battlefield; I want no de viner rod of corafor:; I want no better legacy for my children. I bequeath only this to posterity. I will pontoon Jordan with its pages; I will take.it as my passport to the entrance gate yonder. I will plead the merits of its Central Figure in the judgment; on its authority I will die in hope and rise in expect ancy. Through its teaching I ex pect to know how to assist in crown ing Jesus Lord of All. Guided by it I will know my house in Heaven, and ray place among the angels. What a blessed book the Bible is. The book contains the mind of God, the state of man, the way of salva tion, the doom of sinners, the hap piness of believers. Its doctrines are holy, its precepts binding, its histories true, its discussions immu table. Read it to be wise, believe it to be safe, and practice it to be holy. It contains light to direct your feet, to support you, and comfort and cheer you. It is the traveler's map, the pilgrim's staff, the pilot's com pass, the soldier's sword and the Christian's charter. Here Paradise is restored. Heaven opened, and tho ??ates of hell dis closed, Christ is its grand spirit, our good its design, and the glory of God its end. It should fill the memory, rule the heart, and guide the feet. Read slowly and frequently, slowly and prayerfully. It is a mine of wealth, a paradise of glory, and a river pleasure. It is given to you in this life, and will be opened at the judgment and be remembered forever. It involves the highest responsibility, rewards the greatest labor, ai.d condemns all who trifle with its holy contents. J. Russell Wright. Seneca, S. C. BE RID OF THAT ACHE? If you are a eufferer with lame back, backache, dizziness, nervous ness and kidney disorders, why don't you try the remedy that your own neighbors recommend? Mrs. M. W. Padgett, Cedar Row Edgetielu, says: "I had torturing pains in my back and general Weak ness came over me, causing me to feel depressed and tired during the day. At night, I couldn't get mnoh sleep, owing to kidney trouble. Doan's Kidney Pills brought me quick and prompt relief." (State ment given April 12, lull.) After a lapse of over three years, Mrs. Padgett taid: ''Whenever I h?ve backache or any other signs of weak kidneys, Doan's Kidney Pilla never fuil lo relieve me." Price f)c at all dealers. Don't simply a*k for a ki<lne.>, remedy ?ri?t Donn's Kidney PH ls-:th? same thal M? - I udge?i ila? Uvice publicly recommended. Foster-Milbnrn Co. Props., Buffalo, N. Y. Programme Sunday School Con vention. The following ia the programme of the District Number 3 Sunday School convention to be held at Clark's Hill Sunday, January 21, 1917: ? Morning Session. 10:15 Devotional services by J. G. McKie. 10:30 The duty of the church to the Sf.hool? T. G. Talkert. 10:50 The cradle rolFand its. value to the Sunday school? Miss M ill wee Davis. 11:20 Song. 11:25 How the organized work helps the individual school? R. D. Webb. 12:00 Appointment of com mittees. Adjournment for dinner. Afternoon Session. 1:30 Devotional services? J. D. Hughey. 1:45 The banner Sunday school. Measuring the schools on the Dis trict chart? R. D. Webb. 2:30 Improving the elementary work? Miss Millwee Davis. 3:00 Questions and answers. 3:20 Gathering reports. 3:30 Adjournment. S. T. Adams, Pres. Statement From Mrs. Rainsford Concerning Essay Contests. To the Teachers of the County: The time for the annual essay contest has arrived, and the Wo man's Christian Temperance Union hopes to have the co-operation of every teacher in the county in this important work. Martin E. Brumb baugb, recently governor of Penn sylvania, and once superintendent of the schools of Philadelphia, said: "The essays written by the chil dren in our public schools here on scientific temperance, particularly upon the laws of health as they re late to the question of temperance, have accomplished an immense amount of good. "The children have learned im portant guiding principles for their lives, and the whole proceedure has been so uniformly satisfactory that ? wish to give it my cordial ap proval." Thio is one of many testimonials to the value and benefits of the es say contest. ? The teachers are again invited to enter the contest. Subject for teachers: "The Best Methods of Teaching Temperance." (By temperance is understood moderation in healthful things and abstinence from danger ous things.) Markings: The essay shall be graded entirely upon presentation of subject. Subject for pupils fifteen years and over. General subject: "The Value of Total Abstinence to a Life." Special theme: 1 Alcohol and Tobacco." Markings: Essays shall be grad ed three-fourths on subject matter and one-fourth on style and gram matical excellence. Number of words: The maxi mum number of words shall be fif teen hundred, and the minimum one thousand. Subject for pupils under fifteen years of age: "The Harm in the Use of To bacco." , Markings: Essays shall be grad ed one-half on subject matter, one fourth on style and grammatical ex cellence, and one-fourth on appear ance of paper, which shall include penmanship and spelling. Number of words: The maxi mum number of words shall be six hundred and the minimum three hundred. mizEs: For teacher's essay, $5.00. , Mest essay written by boy or girl fifteen and over, ?5.00. Second best in this class, ?2.00. Best essay by boy or girl under fifteen, ?5.00. Second best, ?2.00. All essays must be in by the 15th of March. The State prize is ?5:00 in gold, and the best essays in this county will be sent to State Superinten dent and be entered in the State contest. Mrs. Thos. H. Rainsford. GEO. F. MIMS OPTOMETRIST Eyes examined and g.asses fitted only when necessary. Optical work of all kinds. EDGEFIELD, S. C. A. H. Corley, Surgeon Dentist Appointments at Trenton On Wednesdays. MANURE AS A TOP DRESSING lt Greatly Stimul?tes Growth of Wheat and Assista to Prevent Winter Killing. (By M. F. KH/LER, Missouri College of Agriculture.) Every year sees a greater number cf Missouri farmers using manure as a top dressing on wheat. There ls con siderable evidence to show where wheat ls grown In a rotation, manure can very often be applied to better ad vantage as to a top dressing on this crop than as an application before corn. There are two principal advan tages of this practice. The first one ls that lt greatly stimulates the growth, of the wheat and helps to prevent win ter killing with a resulting increase In. yield. The second one is that since clover and grass are usually sown with the wheat and since manure aids very greatly in securing a stand of these crops when used as a top dressing with the wheat, this alone may be sufficient reason for its application. As a mat ter of fact the top dressing of wheat with manure almost insures a stand of clover or grass on land which is at all suited to these crops. The land may; be too sour or too wet to- grow clover Much land in Missouri is too sour. If it ls only slightly sour, the manure greatly aids In getting a clover stand. If it is very sour, lime ls usually es sential in addition. BEGIN POULTRY LICE FIGHT Effective Powder Can Be Made at Home by Using Cresol, Carbolic Acid and Gasoline.' A very good lice powder for use ort poultry may be made at horne from in gredients that, when bought separate ly, will cost little as compared with the expense of commercial lice pow der made of the same or similar mate* rials. One of the best of these home? made powders ls prepared by mixing: one pint of cresol, or the same quantity of strong, ?rude carbolic acid, with, three pints of gasoline. To this ia added, while stirring, Just enough plas ter of paris to take up the liquid. It will take about ten pounds of plaster for the amounts of cresol and gasoline given. Larger or small amounts may be prepared by Increasing or decreas ing the three Ingredients proportion ately. After making this powder it should be kept in a well-covered recep tacle to keep it from losing strength. The best way to apply the powder is to put it into a sifting box made by punching numerous small holes Into a tin dan, and, holding the bird- by the feet, head downward, sift the powder well into the fluff. SAW-TOOTHED GRAIN BEETLE Insect Infests Almost Everything of Vegetable Nature, Such as Cereals, Nuts and Seeds. (By A. A. GIRAULT.) A minute, flattened, chocolate-browa beetle, with the margins of its thorax roughened with toothlike projections? if found abundant in groceries or other edible substances, may be assumed to? be the saw-toothed grain beetle. The slender adult Is not more than a tenth of an inch long. The pupa is white, and is occasionally inclosed within a delicate cocoon composed largely of Saw-Toothed Grain Beetle, a-Adult; b-Pupa; c-Larva. particles of the food substance. From five to seven generations of this spe cies may be devioped within a single year, the number depending, as usual upon the temperature aud upon ttie supply of food. The beetles infest al most everything of a vegetable nature used as human food, including pre served fruits and various cereals, bread, nuts, seeds, red pepper yeast, spices, sugar, flour and also tobacco and snuff. This beetle is generally dis tributed in North America as well as other countries, South America, Eu rope and Asia. PlrOFITABLE FEED FOR HOGS Nourishing Slop Made of Linseed Meal Is Cheaper Than, Bran-Has Big Fertilizing Value. Linseed meal makes a most nourish ing and profitable slop for hogs of all ages, and It is cheaper than bran these days; but don't food it too freely. It is concentrated sturt*. Every pound of lt fed on your farm has a fertilizing value of at lenst 50 per cent of its cost, o side from its food value. WATCH CLOSE FOR BLACKLEG Disease May Be Prevented by Vaccine Treatment-Keep Sharp Lookout for Its Appearance. Prevent blackleg with vaccine. IC?ep a sharp lookout for the appearance of this disease in your herd or your neighbors' herds and give the treat ment quickly. Your druggist can get the vaccine if he docs not carry it in stock.