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/. L. 'AIMS,.Editor _ . - - ? --r* Published every Wednesday in The Advertiser Building at SI.50 per year ib advance. Entered as second class matter at be postoffice at Edgefield, S. C. No communications will be published QpLeos accompanied by the writer's asme. Cards of Thanks. Obituaries. Resolu and Political Notices published at tSskig rates. Wednesday, Mar. 21 A . :\ purse is a prerequisite of a . ner pail. Those Russian revolutionists took the .. out of Romanoff. Even a quart of liquor can cause a peck of trouble. The reason ia evident why sbSINth proved hurtful to the people of France. Let us hope that Russia has been benefitted by swapping horses in mid stream. Rome was not built in a day, but Russia had a full-grown revolution in a day. With the grain practically all killed, extra early corn will be in demand for planting. Here's hoping that the Holenzollerns of Germany will meet the fate of the Romr uoffs of Russia! v le science 'has to some extent .d smallpox of its terrors, yet nujuuy wants to have it. So great is his pent up wrath that when the American Eagle does scream the foundations of Berlin will tremble. Judging from the color that is pre dominant in spring toggery, the suf fragists must have had a large part in shaping spring styles. - When Elisha Lee, representing the employers surrendered to the strikers Sunday n ght, it was j an Appomattox for the railroads. Troubles never come singly. When Czar Nicholas' revolutionary troubles overtook him all of his family were sick with measles. After April I it will not be the man with the longest political pole who will land a postoffice job, but the man with the longest head. It appears that the weather man will also have a part in making March and April "wet" months in South Carolina. But a period of semi-dryness will follow. They say Judge Kinnaird is studying .therapeutics as well as jurisprudence these days, in order that he may know who is swearing falsely after April 26. The Advertiser intended publishing the names of Ford purchasers of the paat week but we did not have a col umn tiiat could be devoted to that pur pose. The barefoot season has arrrived, but, '^fortunately, those who wear ten iar boots never allow their bare fee. i touch terra firma. Sometimes when a woman tries to look pretty she overstrains.-Spartan burg Journal. You mean she over strains by drawing 'em too tight? If the Germans would regain their -foreign trade after the war. the im print, "Made-in-Germany,." had better be leit off of ail exports. The sight of the n*rae will arouse unpleasant and prejudicial memories, As spring is approaching let's get out the paint brush and renew the old town from centre to circumference. This paragraph is intended to arouse fae men. Some of the ladies are al ready enthusiastic over painting. Fifty four Greenville young ladies have banded themselves together and .declared that the "spiked" punchbowl must go. If these young women are .determined in their stand, there will be no more "spiked" punch served at social functions in the Mountain City. Fifty-four high-minded young women oan bring about a reform in any com munity. In preparing his land for planting, the wise and prudent farmer will bear in n??T1d the possibility of corn selling for $2.00 a bushel and cotton five cents a pound next fall. With the entire world a-?ame there is *no telling what six months will bring forth. It is practically certain, however, that the price of foodstuffs will continue in the ascending scale. 0 Germany's Threat Accomplishes Purpose. The tremendous decrease of $190, 000,000 in America's foreign trade dur ing February, the first month of unre stricted submarine warfare, shows that Germany's threat had the desired ef fect, the intimidation cf neutral ship owners. What is needed now is for some armed merchant vessels to "bag" a few submarines. Such an act on the part of the neutrals will have the ef fect of shifting the intimidation to the other side. Unless more vigorous steps are taken to protect American shipping interests, the falling off of loreign trade for the month of March will be still greater. A New Russia Dawning. While the end of the great European war is not in ^Kht, yet one can already forecast some of the results of the war. Those who exercise faith in the "Divinity that shapes our ends" believe that, as terrible as the conflict is, it will be over-ruled f?r the perma nent good of humanity. The greatest benefit from the war will be the libera tion of the masses of Europe. When order shall have been restored from the present chaotic condition there will not be a monarch enthroned in Europe. Every royal head must doff its crown. The first visible evidence of this change is found in the revolution in Russia last week, which resulted in the overthrowing of the Romanoff dynasty that has tyrannized over Rus sia for nearly five centuries. When the Russian forces were mobilized for the present war, in July 1914, they were driven to the front as so many sheep to the slaughter, Czar Nicholas ruling with an iron rod. That a won derful change has been wrought in two years is shown by the attitude of the Grand Duke Michas! Alexandrovitch, the successor of Nicholas, who declared that he would only accept the throne with the consent of the Russian people. Heretofore the people have had practi cally no voice in the government, the great masses of the people being no more than beasts of burden in the esti mation of the royalty. This in one of a number of indications that a new Russia is dawning. Henceforth it will be a nation ruled by the people and not by a cruel monarch. Florida. i Of all the beautiful spots along the East coast of Florida, the city and suburbs of Miami is the most lovely-as Spencer writes in bis "Fairie Queen." "It was a chosen platt of fertile land, Amongst wide waves sett, like a little nest, As if it had by nature's cunning hand Bene choycely picked out from all the rest, And laid forth for example of the best. No dainty flower or herbe that grows on ground, No arborett with painted blossoms drest And smelling sweete. but then it might be found To bud out faire, and throw her sweet smells all around. *'No tree whose branches did not bravely spring No branch whereon a fine bird did not sitt, No bird but did her shrill notes sweetly sing, No song but did contain a lovely ditt." . Mr. Flagler took great pride in Miami, and saw with prophetic practical vision that it was bound to grow. Like New York city, it is happily situated on the Biscayne bay with deep water for boats, where the gentle waves of the Atlantic softly kiss the white, sandy beach, or dash their rude imperious surge against the rock W3ll or breakwater. There is something about the restless never ceasing waves of the sea that reminds me of the spirit of a man. It is very entertaining to stand on the battery about G o'clock ?D the afternoon and see the fisherman bring in great boat loads of every kind of fish, the red snapper, king fish, spanish mackerel, Brem, salt water trout, and a delightful shell fish, called the craw fish. It is really a species of lobster with red shell and when boiled done one can take a fork and fish out the snow white meat served with a salad of crisp head lettuce and plump red it makes a meal as delicious as lob ster. Miami has grown faster than any other city in the LTnited States since 1910. It has grown 190 per cent while Detroit has grown 42.2 per cent and Jacksonville 59.7 percent. In 1910 the population of Miami was 7,240, in 1916 it was 21,060, while the population of Jacksonville in 1910 was 92,160. The assessed value of property in Miami in 2912 was $1,999.418, and in 1912 it was $13,251.400; assessments are based on one-third valuation. The climate of Miami is delight ful and compares in temperature as follows: Highest Lowest Range Miami 96 29 67 Los ?ngeles 109 28 81 San Diego 110 25 85 Sn the temperature is hardly e^ below 4T nnd never a hove 90, \ averaye being ahont ti") with ve Little rai:? i:? winier Sometime tor' M" Flagler died lie was NTew York lalkino- to a man abc Minmi: "Where the deuce is J ami, asked the New Yorker?" Florida, said Mr. Fingier." "But where is Florida, he asked Mr. Fl aerier replied: "You go jax and follow the crowd!" Last year M ?ami had 75000 vi tors, thia season she has over o hundred thousand. Her streets a clean and wide. Her buildin white and attractives and the roa the best in the world, lt is easy make trooJ roads, as it ia a le\ country with little grading. Th dig up the rock ready at hand alo: the side of the road and crush ai make a foundation, then smear tar mixture on that and theu po oil over this and make it soi smooth and water proof. In consequence of their coi roads, not only in Miami but ? over the State, you see swarms costly automobiles, and very fe horses or mules. The visitors bril their automobiles along with thei In fact, in the river just back the Royal Palms Hotel is a loi line of private yachts, and many o in the harbor; some costing ha million dollars, and on these yach they bring automobiles galore, ai roll them off the yacht ready fi travel; them many tourists cou down from the great North-middl west in their automobiles. We sa a party of big.framed oanad? women in Miami who came all tl way in an auto, and wander? about and slopped wherever nig! caught them. Besides the Deerir Estate and William Jenning Bryar home, Miami abounds in magni cent homes of millionaires, wi like birds of afeatherflock togethe There are several large banks Miami and to show the strength < them, take the First National, has as handsome a building as ye will find in any large city with pa; up capital ?150,000, surplus au profits ?120,000, and resourc amounting to $3,500,000. Thei are several as large departmei stores there aa are in Augusta, Gs with Kress and other ten cent store There is a curtis flyiug machii government station here, and ye can look up any time of the day ar see these aviators sailing up in tl air, and we noticed several buzzare flying around these air ships, as they wondered what business tbes machines had up in their territory-1 alas! the buzzard only feeds upo the dead, but the chief purpose c these human birds of prey is to oe; troy human life, as the present Zep pelins are teaching women an children. They will allow visitoi to ride up in these airships and tak a birds eye view of the country, fe fifteen minutes at $1.00 a minut< I did not care to spend ?15 tha way. Tho' many people, even la dies go up. Biscayne Bay, betwee Miami and Miami Beach, 30 mile in length and 2 miles wide, is on of the best iand-locked harbors ii the South. Here every year ie : mid-winter regatta, where the fines boats compete in the boat racing attended by thousands of people But the chief charm of Miami i the numerous places to go. Bis cayne Heights, 5 miles north, cai leaves every two hours, round trij 40 cents; Cocoanut Grove. 5 mile! south, Bus leaves every little while, 25 cents each way; Ocoll Park, north west, fare 10 cents. A de lightful trip is up the Miami rivei in a boat, to Musa Island and the Everglades. The scenery up the river is grand, and at Musa Island we land amid groves of cocoanuts, palmetto's, bananas, orange groves and grape fruit orchards. There ie a refreshment room where you are served with a punch made of the pieces of seven different kinds of fruit; thelemou, lime, orange, grape fruit, cum quart, pineapple and al ligator pear. Then a trip to Marine gardens out in the sea. You go in a boat with a glass bottom and look thru this glass into the pellucid waters and view all sorts of fantastic and beautiful sea weeds and flowers that grow under the water, where God has created so many wonderful and varied kinds of fishes and strange products of the animal and vege table kingdom. As the roads are so good, large autos, jitneys, holding from 25 to 30 people run for miles around from Miami. One trip is down to Flo rida City, 31 miles, fare same as railroad, 95 cents. We went to Florida City and then I went into a garden, near the canal, where the sun shines like spring and the frost nover bites. Here I picked fresh, ripe strawberries, tomatoes, lettuce and other young vegetables, and there were large cabbage, bigger than your head. There are two different kinds of soil in this part of Dade county. The pine laud, where the soil is composed of a hard limestone rock, with a little earth in it, and it does not look as if it would sprout cow peas, but I walked in a field to where a negro man was hoeing and found he was digging the earth to plant peas and bearii, and with fertilizers one can raise good crops, and 'hen, too, you can grow fine oranges and other fruit. Then there is inteivpread along the prairie land, where no trees ever have crown, a rich black, soft land, and they grow tomatoes and all sorts of track in abundance. Fortunes are made here in tomatoes. At a station on the way to Florida City, called Peters, there is a Mr. Peters who has made about a mil lion dollars on tomatoes alone- Ile has planted now Too acres in toma toes, and uses ?50,000 worth ferti lizers and manure por annum. They were picking tomatoes while I was there. The tomatoes are pulled as green as grass and hauled to the de pot in boxes made for this purpose. Here they are sorted and tho large-t are wrapped in tissue paper and crated for shipment and were selling all along from Charlot^ to Boston at from ?3 to 84 a crate and a car holds some 300 to 4C0 crates, so they cet from ?1200 to ?1500 per car load for a short season. Then they can raise a crop of corn or po tatoes on this same land. Much of the negro labor here comes from Nassau, an island out in the sea some 100 miles irom Miami. They pay laborers from ?1.25 to ?1.50 a day as a rule, and all over Florida the negroes are orderly and kept under good control, and many ne groes are land owners and well to do. As we walked around we no ticed that all the pines lean away from the sea at quite an angle, which shows how strong the sea breeze is here, thare trees have grown at this angle and are fixed in this position. As we looked about in this spring like land of soft sunshine, fruits and flowers, when all nature seems to speak in sweet tones of peace, and thought of the war acrons this glassy sea. It seems that "every prospect pleases, and man alone is vile." Why can't civilized man act under the impulse of those lines of Pope? "Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the faults I see, That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me." Civilization led the intrepid spirit of Andrew Jackson to drive the lu d?an from this, his happy floral hunting ground, and ran him across the Mississippi-will the insatiable millionares, who are fencing up vast acres, improve conditions in this land of flowers? But million aires do not abound anywhere and civilization, under God, like the juggernaut had to crush the untam ed and untamable Indian under its steam roller wheels, to give place to cultivated fields, and well appoint ed cities and the advantages of edu cation and christianity. Florida feeds her tens of thousands all over ?lie land. As you sit down to a meal anywhere, whether on the train or in New York and eat your grape fruit or orange with your morning coffee, or your crisp head lettuce and pulmp, red tomatoes in your dinner salad, you pay tribute to old "Hickory Jackson" who pion erred his dangerous way thru the Everglades of Florida to clear the way for the present lands of fruits and flowers. When we consider the dangers and privations that our forbears endured, in having to set tle these lands by contending not only with nature in cultivating the soil, but having to fight those rude, but brave savages, we should not complain at our lot but be content ed. There are a few scattering tribr s of the Indians about in Florida, but ?sadly degenerated from the mighty j warriors and brave chiefs of the 'past. These remnants are mainly used for commercial purposes by j the American white man, who ex hibit them in camps, all dressed in crazy quilt blankets asa part of a cheap ahow, like the monkey and organ, or alligator-ye shades of Oceola!. How you would weep lo see how the mighty have fallen; but an educated Indian is about as useless, so far as his natural line of business goes, as an educated ilea who is a curiosity but out of the way by which he naturally makes his living. A. S. T. THE Fall ? Nation THOMAS DIXON'S Thrilling Sequel to The Birth of a Nation at the Movies Mar. 23 and 24 Admission 25c. mm SPR With our early pun stunt awival of new prepared to take cai our various departn White an Wash will please you in MILLI! This department is charge of Miss Marie Cc will take pleasure in sh department. This dej receiving the new things Make our store youi town. Respec RESULTS TELL There Can Bt No Doubt About the Results i(. Edgefield. Results the tale. All doubt ia removed. The testimony of an Edgefield citizen. What better proof can be had? T. J. Paul, prop, of garage, Je ter St., Edgefield, savs: ''Kidi:ey trouble in my case was brought on by being on my feet continually. I had a dull pain in my back and I tired easily. When I was on my feet for any length of time, my back got sore and stiff. My rest] was broken at night, as the kidney secretions were too frequent in pas sage, causing me to get up a num-| ber of times. Three boxes of Doan's| Kidney Pills, procured at Penn <fe Holstein's Drug alore, cured the backache and other symptoms of kidney trouble." Price 5c. at all dealers. Don't | simply ask for a kidney remedy get Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that Mr. Paul twice publicly recommended. Foster-Milburn Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y. To Drive Out Malaria And Build Up The System Take the Old Standard GROVE'S TASTELESS chill TONIC. You know what you are taking, as the formula is printed on every label, showing it is Quinine and Iron in a tasteless form. The Quinine drives out malaria, the bon builds un the system. 50 cent? i SOME STRIKE IT RH i OTU;! BANKV EVERY WEEK GoDTmht 1909. by C. E. THERE is nc money in sure and positive, fl is the satisfaction th? tive in every way, bo and that it is safe. BANK OF I OFFICERS : J. C. Sheppard, Presi E. J. Mim8, Cashier; J. H. Allen. Assist DIRECTORS : J. C. Sheppard, Thc Nicholson, A. S. Tompkins. C. C. Full [.hases and the con goods, we are well re of your needs in lents. Our line of (I Colored (jOOCls price and style. MERY most complete, and in ?wan of Baltimore, who owing you through her xirtment is constantly : of the season. . headquarters while in tfully, ?IVES Taxation of Automobiles. As some persons have been under the impression that the tax levied upon automobiles by a recent act of the Legislature was ia lieu of the ad valorem tax, we publish the fol lowing letter which Auditor J. R. Timmerraan has received from the Comptroller General bearing upon this matter: Mr. J. R. Timmerman, County Auditor, Edgefield, S. C. Dear Sir: I have had inquiry from a num ber of County Auditors with refer ence to the Highway Commission Act and some seem to think that under the terms of that Act, that automobiles are not to be returned as personal property as heretofore. This is a mistake, tinder the terms of the Act, a State License is re quired to be paid, and such license ia in lieu of any other county or Municipal License, but does not ex empt automobiles from the property tax. I send this for your information. Yours very truly, Carlton W. Sawyer, Comptroller General. FOR SA LU: Fifty bushels of bright "Iron" peas at 82.25 per bushel. 100 bushels of Cleveland Big Boll cotton seed at ?1.00. Peas and cotton seed f. o. b. Trenton, E. L. Ryan, Trenton, S. C. Zimmerman Co.-No. 51 ) doubt about the bank, it is laybe slow, but there at it is sure. Posi th that it will grow, SDGEFIELD ident; B. E.Nicholson, vice-President ant Oashier. is. H. Rainsford, John Rainsford, B. E. er. E. J. Mims, J. H. Allen.