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Ss?abli?hr?i 1S35. LL.MIMS-...Editor ? ____ Pub?she 1 every Wednesday in The Advertiser Building at $1.50 per year in advance. Entered as second class matter at he postoffice at Ed^efield, S. C. No communications will be published unless accompanied by the writer's name. Cards of Thanks. Obituaries, Resolu tions ann Political Notices published at advertising rates. Wednesday, Jan. 31 Beer in mind that Mr. B. Weevil is coming this way "as sure as gun's iron."_ ( With cabbage? and turnip? selling so high, even thesupplyjof pot "licker" is j limited. We'll try to adopt some of the 1917 fashions, but deliver us from wearing a wrist-watch! The election of a woman as speaker of the Oregon house of representatives is in keeping with the fitness of things. With Washington hotels asking $200 p ?r room for inaugural week, we have decided to remain in Edgefield that week. While swelling buds and singing birds ? re harbingers of spring, yet The Advertiser does not pretend to predict that the backbone of winter is broken. Gentlemen of the General Assembly, you see how much trouble that "leak" is causing in Washington, so give us a prohibition law without a LEAK in it. As headlines tell us that "nine hun dred and twenty-nine Mexicans washed in a single day," there is yet hope for them. They have taken one step to ward civilization. In speaking of Paderewski, the world's greatest living pianist, always pronounce his name as if it were spelled Pa-de-ref-ske, with the accent on the third syllable. If the newly elected 'State Ware house Commissioner Smith can get all of his kith and kin over the State to store cotton with him, a successful ad ministration is assured. Tue 5?tn anniversary of the Kaiser's birth was celebrated in martial style Saturday, but it is hardly probable that a.iv congratulatory messages were re ceived /rom London, Paris or Petro grad, j Rev. Billy Sunday has pitched his tent in Buffalo and for the ensuing six weeks he'll have the d-1 on the run. Next he wjll clean up New York city, which undertaking is looked upon as a man's jou. i - * 1 ? Tho committee inquest of the "leak" ' have at last iound some footprints that look suspicious. Now let them find the foot, that made the tracks-then we'll all take back what we have said about Lawson. Fashion ".^kes say kimono sleeves will be worn by men this spring. Well, might as well get accustomed to the new order of things, for it appears now that the entire garment will soon become a part of a man's wardrobe. Some very unusual things happen out in the "wild and woolly" West. Among these unusual happenings was the elop^m^n: the other day of a m&n with his mother-in-law. But wifcy should be sensible enough not to mourn his loss. If the prohibitionists and near-pro hibitionists in the legislature do not get busy and grind out an improvement upon present prohibition legislation be fore the session is too far spent, Billy Sunday will have to be sent for to say a few things to them. The failure to enact "constructive" legislation, should there be such a der eliction during this session, should not be charged altogether to the prohibi tionists. Let's not forget that the se lection of a suitable person to take over the State warehouse keys is con suming considerable time. A Word of Warning. All ye men who are building political atr-castles had better profit by the ex p?rience of the mon out West and be if ? onerous. Th? women were given th ;:!!< t in Oregon and the other day a -nari ran for mayor of the town a, s- her husband, defeating the) 1 v by 2.3 votes. Among the Bl ; who were elected on the ?. i Mr.-. Moans who will make the . . als weep ?ind wail and the tu ?? ted recorder, 51 rs'. Cherry, w?? _ em bounce. Use Every Possible Precaution. Edgeiield has not had a very ( trous fire in some time, butn knows how soon the flames will ch building after building, home home. Do not let such a disus-ter fall the community through your iessne=s. See that the danger lire is reduced to a minimum on premises. Be careful with ashes 1 they are removed 'from the fire-p Countless homes are burned by < in an ash-box left on the piazza or der the house. See also that leavt not accumulate on the roof w sparks are liable to ignite them, much care can not be exercised at season. A little precaution may your home from being reduced to es. , Cigarette a National Menace. The government received reveni 1916 on 25,232,960,928 paper wra] cigarettes, which exceeded the nur manufactured in 1915 by about 40' cent. As soon as the whiskey evi checked, if not altogether stamped those who are interested in elimina the things that devitalize and des the human body should then turn t attention to tobacco, particularly cigarette. Teeming thousands of i who are hewers of wood and drav of water all of their lives could tr their unfortunate lot to the cigare In their early youth the cigarette only sapped th?ir energy and ambii but seriously impaired them mor? and physically. One reason for the enormous incre in the consumption of cigarettes d ing the past year is the steady incre in the number of women who smo It is bad enough for the hands o bright boy to be stained with nicot but it is infinitely worse for a heauti girl to be thus poluted. Surely sor thing should be done to decrease ' cigarette menace. Torrens System To Be Perfected. As Governor Manning hus all ale urged the adoption of the Torrens s of registering real estate titles in t State, in compliance with his reco mendation and too yielding to the p< ular demand for such a system, 1 legislature of 1916 enacted a law wh: made provision for the operation of 1 Torrens system, but for some cause has never become operative. As t need for the system is now more i perative since the land loan banks ha been established by the national gc ernment, affording a low rate of int est and easy terms for farmers, t legislature will simplify and make c erative the Torrens act. The folio ing is the text of an act that has be introduced in the house looking to th end: Sect:on 1 provic that after an e amination by a refutable attorne setting forth his conclusions as to t estate contained in said title, that shall be the duty of the clerk or regi ter of mcsne conveyance in the coun in which the said land is situated, examine carefully the abstract, ai verify and attach his certificate of a proval, and such certificate, with of cial seal, shall be prima facie evideni that sueh title is a good and merchan able one. Section 2 says that any land own< holding a title properly certified, i provided in section one, who shall a| ply to the State treasurer of this Stal can have same guaranteed. Thre [ weeks' notice must be given in som newspaper published in county wher land is situated that parties have af plied for a guarantee of title. Afte 20 days, if no adverse claim is file with the treasurer, he shall give an ol ficial State guarantee with official ses attached. Section 3 provides for a fee of one fourth of 1 per cent, of the assessei value of the land for the guarantee title, and the funds to be placed in ; fund known as the "State title sinkinj fund."_ Already Evidences of Diversification. The boll weevil agitation has no been without visible results. As everj practical farmer knows, the only waj to make farming profitabl in the cot ton growing districts after the weevi appears in large numbers is through diversification. Along with diversified agriculture must come improved mar ke ?ing conditions and also increased demand locally for products not hither to produced in large quantities. In anticipation of the new conditions, new enterprises are already being planned. Packing houses that will pro vide a market for hogs, sheep and cat tle for a radius of many miles arc be ing established in several towns in the State. Creameries that will encourage dairying on a larger scale are also be ing established. The latest enterprise is the making of starch from sweet potatoes. The authorities of Clemson college have proven that starch, supe rior in quality to that obtained from corn, can be made from sweet potatoes. Should this new enterprise become a success, it would greatly assist farmers in answering the question, After cot ton-what? Few, if any, crdps can be, produced more cheaply in South Caro lina than sweet potatoes. Enormous yields are possible at a minimum of ex pense. Up to this time, sweet potato growing, something like the vegetable garden, has been with most farmers a sort of side issue, a neglected crop. Without half trying a farmer has been able to grow enough sweet potatoes for table consumption. But were they convinced that all they can grow could be marketed readily at a profitable price, thousands upon thousands of bushels would be grown throughout the State. It is to be hoped that the develop ment of the starch industry, the mak ing of starch from sweet potatoes, is one of the blessings that^will follow the coming of the weevil, it being con ceded in some sections that the weevil is a blessing in disguise. Should Not Lower Rate by Legislation. A bill has beenyintroducud in the house fixing the legal rate of interest at six per cent, and the contract rate at seven per cent. The Advertiser has always taken the position, that it is a mistake lo attempt to lower by statute the rate of interest. It has a tendency to drive capital from the State, thus reducing the'amount of money availa ble for the borrowing class, without ac complishing any material benefits. When an individual or corporation is determinedjto evade a law, especially one that is unpopular, there can gen erally be found a way. This i?* espe cially true of a law fixing a lower rate of interest than conditions warrant Generally, to the injury of the bor rower, the one whom the law is in tended to protect, the means of 'eva sion adopted fall more heavily upon the borrower than would the payment of a higher rate of interest. The law of supply and demand will regulate the rate of interest, just as it controls the price of commodities in the marts of trade. For that reason the rate of interest islowerjin some sec tions, where a plethoric condition pre vails, than it is injothers, where the sup ply of money is hardly adequate to meet the ordinary demands of busi ness. Furthermore, the rate of inter est is gradually being lowered, ' espe cially on large amounts and on certain classes of security, and any effort on the part of the legislature to force a lower .rate will prove a boome rang. In'Greenwood the other day a local, bank made a loan to the town of Green wood at two percent. Such a low rate would not have been possible in 1914 or even last year. But this instance sen es i to prove that a statute^is not neces sary. The rate charged by banks or individuals who have money to lend will be fixed by local conditions and any interference on the part of those who would pose as defenders of the bor rowing class will only make the bur dens heavier of those whom they would defend. It must be borne in mind too that some banks are paying five per cent, in their savings department and as the rate of interest charged by a'bank is lowered the rate ^aid on savings ?de posits must likewiseibe^lowered.,^ -- ?><* 40 Years He Fought Losing Battle. WITH VICTORY NEAR CO LUMBIAN ALMOST LOST HOPE.-WIFE URGED HIM ON. SA vs IK HE HAD NOT FOUND HELP Wu MN" HE DID HE BELIEVES WOULD NOT "BE A LIVING MAN TODAY." -. After suffering forty years with his physical troubles, D. D. Gordon, of 720 Seventh street, Olympia, a suburb of Columbia, on October 2Sth declared that "I just can't praise Tanlac high enough, and four dollars worth of Tanlac com pletely broke up ray troubles after hundreds of dollars worth of other medicines had failed to even help me." Continuing, Mr. Gordon said: "l suffered from stomach trouble, some kidney trouble and a disorder of the bowels. I had these troubles, especially the indigestion, for about forty years. After meals I felt all puffed ap. I was in considerable pain, and my stomach was so dis ordered that my food was not di gested. I suffered^ constantly with a severe form of bowel trouble and my food of tea passed through me before it was hardly more than half digested. Severe pains often ag gravated this trouble, too. "Though I had tried a great many kinds of medicines that were said to be good for my troubles, I just kept on getting worse and I had about lost hope of getting well, and, if I had not gotteu Tanlac when I did, I do not believe I would be a living man today: Really, I do think Tanlac has kept rae from the grave. "When I was told about Tanlac, I had taken so much medicine that I had no more faith in medicine as it all had failed me; but my neighbors kvpt telling me of Tan lac and finally I gave my son a dol lar and told him to buy me a bottle. When I started taking Tanlac I was in awful shape and it had been j months since I had gotten a good ' night's rest. The first bottle did nie no good at all, so far as I.could tell, and I did not want to get any more, as I thought I was just throw ing ray money away by buying Tan lac just a> I had when I bought the other medicines. My wife kept af ter roe, though, and I bought the second bottle. "The second bottle was half gone before. I began to feel better. Then the Tan lac took hold of ray troubles and now they uave been completely broken up. Four bottles gave me complete relief, and I am in fine health now. "The Tanlac gave me a good ap petite, and now .1 eat three creal big meals a dav, though I used to never eat a bile of breakfast, for my system waa in such bad shape I never was hungry in the mornings. 1 have gained a good deal in weight, loo, but I have not weighed re cently, so I can't say just how many pounds. , "I can now eat cabbage, fish or beef-three things which were like rank poison to me before I took Tanlac. The Tanlac also drove away that sleeplessness and I rest like a child now. "I recommend Tanlac now because I want the world to know what it did for me, so they will be able to take it. I have persuaded a lot of people to take Tanlac, for it is wonderful." Tanjac, the master medicine is sold by: Edgefield, Penn & Holstein. . Cold Springs, H Ernest Quarles. Edgefield, R F D No 2, J. H. Reel. Johnston, Johnston Drug Com pany. . Modoc, G C McDaniel. Parksville, Robertson &? Com pany. ? Plum Branch, J W Bracknell & Son. Plum Branch, R F D No 2, E P Winn cfc Bro. Trenton, G W Wise. Honor Roll, Edgefield Graded and High School. Graded School. First Grade-Carolyn Dorn, (x) Fitzmaurice Byrd,'(x) J. R. Tim raerraan, MazieKemp, Byrnes Ouzts, Alice Hume, Ned Nicholson, Wil bur Moore. . Advanced First-Maurice Ruben stein, Mary Thurmond, Margie Prescott. Second Grade-Effie Allen Lott, Margaret Strom, Martha Thurmond, Frances Louise Townsend. Frances Welle, William Cogburn, Mary Lyn nh, June Nicholson, Milton Swearingen, Elizabeth Johnson, Herman Rubenstein, Sara Hughes, Orlando Morgan, Jane Hume. Third Grade-Julia Strom, Kath ryne Stewart, John Curran Feltham Mary Lily Byrd, Elizabeth Bailey, Ransford Minis, Renaud Shannon house. Corrie Dunovant, Luther Johnson, Albert Rainsford, Anne Lawton. Fourth Grade-Robert Tompkins, Felecia Mime, Mary Marsh, Allen George Thurmond, Ode'. Holstou, Jack Feltham. Fifth Grade-Isabel Byrd, Eliza beth Lott, John Wells, Gladys Law son, (x)JBenjamin Cogburn, (x) Al len Edwards. Sixth Grade-Lillian Patterson, George Tompkins, Raymond Folk, Mitchell' Wells, Eleanor Mims, Wil liam Strom, Helen Nicholson, Rob ert Ouzts Seventh Grade-Mary Nicholson, Dixon Timmerman, William Jones, Rhae Timmerman, Thelma Jack son, Raymond Dunovant, Ruth Paul, William Folk. High School. Eighth Grade-Frances Jones, Coralee Cogburn, Reba Cogburn, Edith Ouzts, Strom Thurmond. Ninth Grade-Margaret Blocker, Hob Byrd, Ilene Harling. Edwin Folk. Tenth Grade - Margaret May, Willie Peak, Brooke Jones, Neta Ouzt6 ?Eleventh Grade-Ouida Patterson, Emmie Broadwater, Pearl Quarles. Students with (x) opposite their names made the same average. Their names are arranged alphabetically. T. J. Lyun, Supt. NEGLECTED COLDS GROW WORSE A cough that racks and irritates the throat may lead to a serious chronic cough, if neglected. The healing pine balsams in Dr. Bell's Pine Tar Honey-Nature's own remedy-will soothe and relieve the irritation, breathing will be easier, and the antiseptic properties will kill the germ which retarded heal ing. Have it handy for croup, sore throat and chronic bronchial affec tions. Get a bottle to-day. Pleas ant to take. At all Druggists 25c. 1 Whonever You Need a General Tonic Take Grove's The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic is equally valuable as a General Tonic because it contains the weU known tonic properties of QUININE and IRON. It nets on the Liver, Drives out Malana, Enriches the Blood and Builds up the Whole System. 50 cents. POINTED PARAGRAPHS Lnp-jand ls the country for small children. Some mon make matters worse by trying to explain. Offering to bet that you are right is a poor argument. Charity usually begins at home, but reform usually starts elsewhere. A woman's bira of heaven is a place where every day ls bargain day. Many reputations blow up when a political campaign Is in full blast. The man behind the gun is all right -If ho doesn't invite you to hold up your hands. One never knows how foolish some men can act until they br?ale into the new-father class. Did you ever hear of n woman's giv ing to charity the money she had saved up to buy u new bonnet? When ono girl meets another she in variably repeats the conversation site had with the last young man she met. Even matrimony bas Its advantages. A bachelor has to pay to attend lec tures, but a married man gets his at home, free. SOME DEFINITIONS Husband-One who must explain. Wife-A place to hang ornaments. Gossjp-What keeps a small town small. Weather-What they talk about in dull life. Bridge-A device for wasting one's time, for prizes. Society-An exhibition of the best people at their worst. War-An outdoor sport in countries where there has never been any game protection. Newspaper-An excuse for not look ing up when there is a lady standing in the street car. Firewater-Something to play with after one has become too old'to get any pleasure out of playing with matches. Spinster-A woman who believes in freedom.-St. Louis Post-Dispatch. . HUMAN NATURE . . _ . . _._._J tL. . o Many a man nets smart and fs . made to smart for lt. . It Is possible to smile and J o smile and be a hypocrite still. . . A man's love' for his wife e J doesn't necessarily Include her * . chin music. . . It ls their confiding nature . o that makes some women Avant to 0 . tell their family troubles to 0 e strangers before they have . . known them ten minutes. J J FLIPPANT FANCIES Financial reverse-being rejected by nn heiress. Would you call a retired horseman an exspurt? Some mon are very bright when they're "lit up." It's all very well to be breezy, but don't be full of hot air. He must'be a cur who would dog? another's footsteps. Air castles are frequently built with "gold bricks." _ It is well to have grit when you are out of the dust. We've never seen a cruiser fight, but we've seen a ship spar. The man who Is continually getting Into a hole wouldn't necessarily make a good golf player.-Boston Transcript STATISTICAL NOTES . o _ China In 1915 exported 3.5G5 tons of white benns. Japan buys 70 per cent of China's white bean crop. Switzerland is Importing $7,000 tons of Java sugar. Marseille, France, has 50 motion picture theaters. Spanish wine exports In 1915 were valued nt ?ll,000,0d0. W?rttemberg, Germany, this year devoted 4.S51 acres to hop growing. -In five years. 1910 to 1914, Argen tina Imported GS.071 dozens of bottles of ginger ale. There are 0,292 foreigners living In Yokohama. Of these 1,100 are British and 430 Americana. TAKE OUT GREASE SPOTS _ ! Blemishes That So Greatly Annoy tho Housekeeper May Be Effectively Dealt With. Grease spots may be removed by the application of carbon tetrachloride, ac cording to H. F. Zoller, assistant in chemistry in tile Kansas State Agricul tural college. "Removing grease spots with gaso line or benzine is both dangerous aud wasteful," said Mr. Zoller. "Chloroform is effective, but is dangerous. Carbon tetrachloride is used by cleaners be cause of ?ts safety, cleaning power and the absence of a disagreeable odor. The disadvantage ls its expense. "Ink is difficult to remove if it has been iu the garment tor some time. Iron inks may be removed by oxalic, acetic, citric, or dilute hydrochloric acids. In case of the coal-tar Inks, the spot must be bleached. "Iron rust can be removed by fairly strong oxalic acid solution, if allowed to stand ou the goods for a short time, and often when it is exposed to the sunlight the action is a little quicker. The excess of oxalic acid must be washed our, andi the yoods washed with a good soap, in order to neutralize the acid. Hydrochloric acid is thc best re mover of iron rust, if bandied by an ex perienced person. "An excellent formula for the remov al of fouutuin-pen ink, especially iron ink and iron rust, is the aceto-oxalic acid formula. It is made by saturat ing a 1U per cent acetic acid solution with oxalic acid, and mixing one part of the product with four parts of al cohol." HOUSEHOLD HINTS To Induce a canary to take a bath sprinkle a few seeds upon the water. This added attraction will make the' hath become a habit with the little fellow. To keep flowers fresh, place a pinch of bicarbonate of soda in the water before putting them into a vase. To make glassware clear and spark ling, add a little washing blue to the soapsuds when washing. If ink ls spilled on the carpet or.ta ble cover, cover it immediately with salt as it absorbs the ink. Powdered alum added to ordinary stove blacking adds to its brilliancy. Oxalic acid and javelle water are excellent for removing ink stains. New tinware will never rust If greased with a little fresh lard and baked in the oven before it ls used. Corn Chowder. One can corn, fibur cupfuls potatoes cut in one-qunrter-lnch slices, one and one-half-ineh cube fat salt pork, one sliced onion, four cupfuls scalded milk, eight common crackers. Cut pork in small pieces and try out Add onion and cook five minutes, stirring often that onion may not burn. Strain fat into a stewpan. Urboil potatoes five minutes in boiling water to cover, drain and add potatoes to fat; then add two cupfuls boiling water; cook I until potatoes are soft, add corn and milk, then heat to boiling point. Sea son with salt and pepper and butter and crackers, split and soaked in enough cold milk to moisten. Re move crackers, turn chowder Into a tureen and put crackers on top. Colonial Cake. ' One-half cupful butter, one and a quarter cupfuls granulated sugar, three eggs, half cupful1 thin cream or rich milk, half even teaspoonful soda, one even teaspoonful cream tartar, two cupfuls of pastry flour, half cupful seeded raisins. Add whites of "eggs last and hake In tubo pan. When cold frost with a heavy white icing that will contrast prettily with the yellow of the cake. Citron sliced In thin strips may be used Instead of raisins, or In com bination with them. Chocolate Pie. Four tablespoonfuls cocoa, one pint of water, yolks of two eggs, two table spoonfuls cornstarch, six tablespoon fuls sugar. Boil until thick, add one tablespoonful vanilla. Bake the crust, pour in the chocolate. Beat the whites of the eggs with one cupful of sugar, spread over top and brown. One tea spoonful of baking powder In one-half cupful granulated sugar added to the white of one egg stiffly beaten makes a fluffy meringue. .Cornmeal Muffins. Sift together one cupful cornmeal, one cupful bread flour, one teaspoonful soda (level) in one cupful sour milk, and add lt to the sifted ingredients. Then add one-quarter cupful molasses, then two eggs, two tablespoonfuls melt ed drippings. Beat well and bake In well-greased muffin pans about one half hour in moderately hot oven. Makes 12. Graham Drop Biscuits. One pint graham flour, one-half cup ful white flour, one level teaspoonful soda, one-half teaspoonful salt, one tablespoonful sugar, one egg, one table spoonful thick cream and enough sour milk or buttermilk to make a stiff bat ter. Have gem pans hot and well greased. These are fine. Baked Salmon Wiggle. One can of salmon, one-half can of pens, butter size of egg. salt and pep per, milk sauce. Bake about one-half hour. White Sauce.-One pint milk, small piece butter, salt, thicken with heap ing teaspoonful flour. Rice Soup. Add a cupful of boiled rice to one quart cf heated soup stock. Stir until lt comes to a ?boil, season with pepper, salt and parsley or anything you like.