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ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO. (Continued from First Page.) mands more nicotine as a means of allaying the irritation it has already caused. It is one of the peculiari ties of nerve-disturbing drugs that, ?when taken, they seem to quiet the pain they have caused; but when the effect passes the pain reappears. The man who smokes feels comfort ?when he has a good cigar. But the fact is well attested that, at his best, he is capable only of suppressing the feeling of unrest caused by to bacco. At his best he feels only as a nonsmoker of like pbjsique feels all the time. The nervous system of a man is the most delicate piece of machinery known in the uni verse. Any drug which affects the nerves, no matter what nerve stimu lant, depressant, soporific, whatever it may be, can act only by putting the nervous system out of order. The cigarette may be tiny, but it does its share in the mischief. It retards development and prevents maturity. A cigarette boy of six teen rarely becomes a man; he feels like a wormy apple. Ia a man, as well as a boy, tobacco injures the eyes, throat, luugs, heart, and gene ral physical condition. Is it pos sible for a man or boy physical ly weak to have a strong, well develop ed mind? Judgment, self-control, and perception are mental powers and when an intoxicant is taken in to the system these three powers are rendered incapable of action. This tact comes to us from the Egypt ians. Plutarch says that wine was forbidden tj the Egyptian rulers six hundred years before Christ be cause it was injurious to the nerves, oppressive to the head, an impedi ment to invention, and an incentive to lust. College professors have found that those boys, who use to bacco or alcohol, invariably stand at the foot of their classes. Doctors Teport that nine times out of ten in sanity is caused by either alcohol or tobacco. Jack London in speaking of alcohol said: "John Barleycorn stirs up the maggots of the brain blotting out all reason and leaving the mind ^ blank." When the physical and mental powers are lowered naturally his moral standard is degraded. When the alcoholic thirst clutches a man, he will resort to any method to ob tain something with which to lull that burning desire. When a boy becomes a slave to cigarettes, the same result occurs. Robbery and murder has keen the result of this irresist3bl? cry of thirst and crave for tobicco. Home, work, and life itself are neglected in order that this inward ragiug may be satisfied, and each time it takes a little more to fill the ever streching jaws which lead to destruction. In passing through the cells of Sing-Sing pris son, one sorrow wreathed face after another tells the same sad story, "I did it when I was drunk." 'T had to have money to satisfy my tobac co crave." Lord Bacon says: "All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alien ate so much property as intemper ance." Drink is the mother of want and the nurse of crime. In the higher class of society the social career of a man is marred if he refuses the wine cup, cham paigne glass, cigar or cigarette. At first he takes a tip at his club just for politeness sake and smokes so that he may be in harmony with the rest; :it a ball he suggests a toast with the wine cap as a mark of courtesy. But what about the time when alcohol, like a serpent, twines his deathly arm about the inner man, when the tobacco gnaws at his very heartstrings, and he looks onlyl to find himself a drunkard and opium fiend? His manliness and self-respect have forsaken him, and he is forever more bebarred from society. Who now is benefitted by his presence in the world? An illustration will show: A man is lecturing on temperance. At one point in his remarks he tabes out his gold watch, and holding it to ward his audience savs: "I will give this watch to any one present, who will rise and tell me one class of people in this world that has ever been benefitted by the saloon." He made that offer all over the country and no one ever took it up until one day a gentleman stood up and said: "I think I can tell you one class." "What's that?" "The undertaker." The man was about to unchain his watch and hand it over when an old man arose and said: "Hold on!" Before you give away that watch allow me to say that I have been the undertaker in this community for thirty-five years, and I have buried a great many of that kind if people; but whenever I am called upon to lay away an old soak or any member of his family, I always know its a charity job, that I shall ?ever get the money. I should be much better off today if I had never had to bury one such case." And so it is with the tobacoo fiend abo, for tobacco is the leading step pins- stone to drink. Are we Amer icau people to be forever guilty ol allowing the temptations to remain which render our bovB injurious tc themselves, to others, to society, and finally to themoral character ol the children around them? The sa loon door, the tobacco smoke beck ons first to debauchery, ruin, dis grace, madness, disease, and then misery, despair and death. Lastly aside from the harmful effects of tobacco and alcohol to tho individual man, the hurt economi cally touches, and destroys the home. Take the matter of wages and effectiveness. Even the raod eiate use of tobacco and alcohol makes a worker's job insecure and reduces his ability to earn. Investi g?tions in Munich, Dresden, and the Rhine regions revealed the fact that after a sunday spent in drink ing the workmen performed from fifteen to thirty per cent less work than in days near the end of the week, and where working on piece work they lost considerable money. A large automobile factory in Mich igan discovered that after the bi weekly pay days, coverinsr a period of ten weeks 100 men lost ?705 in waces through absence because of drinking habits to say nothing of the money spent in the saloons while drinking. To-day, every pen ny of the workinjr man's salary is needed in the home. Children of drinking and smoking fathers stand with mouths open for food, soul and body open and eager for knowl edge, which can not be filled. The inmates of the home are made un comfortable by the one who smokes or drinks. The delicate members of the blue-eyed babeare seriously wounded by tobacco smoke; fresh air necessary to his growth, is snatched from his' helpless hands and polluted by the ever present cloud of smoke. The mother, strug gling always to promote the happi piness and every care of her loved ones, is pierced by cruel words: her face, in early davs so bright and cheerful, now wears a downcast, gloomy expression; the large lumin ous eves glitter with tears and the smiles seems afraid to come out from their place of refuge; all be cause of the thoughtlessness' and brutality of a drunken hus-! band. ' Forty million women and one million men abstainers, is there nothing you can do to render our boys, our men and women, and our homes free from the curse of alcohol and opium? The cry for help goes up from millions. The echo is caught and wafted on the wings of wind from one end of the earth to the other. Remove the curse, I beseech you. so that our country's stars may float unblushingly be neath the stars ot heaven, and a land that can and will be the hope star of nations. ACCEPTED AD VICE OF HE? GA. FEIEND -o- . I "I DON'T THINK IT CAN BE EXCELLED," SHE DECLARES. EMPHATIC STATEMENT Mrs. Ida Vernon, of Anderson, Grateful for Her Good Fortune. "Tanlac is the finest tonic I have ever taken. I don't think it can be excelled." Those emphatic state ments were made by Mrs. Ida Vern on, of 31 Henderson, St., Ander son in an endorsement of Tanlac she gave May 23. "I took Tanlac for a badly run down condition and ray healtii was so bad I was unable to do ray housework when I began taking Tanlac. I employed a cook then. I had indigestion badly, and lots of foods I couldn't eat, because of the suffering they would cause rae. Really, I was just a nervous wreck. I had been under treatment almost continuously for almost five years, but I did not seem to im prove any. "A friend in South Georgia told me about Tanlac and I took it. And the Tanlac ?rot me to feeling' as well as I ever felt in my life. My appetite was returned to rae. the indigestion was stopped and my whole Bystera was strengthened. Tanlac surely did help rae wonder fully. I gained about ten pounds in weight, too. Tanlac, the Master Medicine, is sold bv 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 VV Bracknell & Son. Plum Branch, R F D No 2, E P Winn & Bro. Trenton, G W Wise. - What is a Ton of Cotton Seed Worth. 1 Cotton growers are already be 1 ginning to show considerable inter I est in the probable price of cotton seed this fall, and the question is being asked: "What should a ton of cotton seed bring the farmer at present price of oil, mea!, hulls and linters?" This question can only be answer ed by first finding the amounts of oil, meal, hulls and linters obtained from a ton of seed and calculating their total value at current quota tions, and then deduct the cost of handling both the seed and the pro ducts, the cost of milling, iDcludins overhead expenses, and a fair profit to the oil millers, from the total value of the products. This could be obtained accurately as to individual oil mills if the oil millers were willing to throw open their books to inspection, which they rightfully and naturally are not willing to do. But so far as .we know, there are no authentic data available for making a general statement regarding all the mills or of stating the average results for all. The best we can give to our read ers is an estimate based on actual facts, as regards the results obtained in a few individual mills. Wheo (j this is done the oil miller who does not get as good results as those esti- i mated complains, while those farm- | ers remember only results obtained i in past years, when all costs of operating were lower or who have information regarding some particu lar mill which gets better than average results, complain that too much profit is allowed the mills. Only general estimates which ap proach average results can be given, and in considering these the farmer must, to be fair, give due weight to the poorer quality of the seed early in the season, the greater amount of moisture, the risk of decreasing prices for the products of the cotton seed, and all other losses and inci dental expenses. The oil obtained from a ton of seed should average on the season's run around 40 to 42 gallons or 300 to 315 pounds. The meal will run from 800 to 900 pounds according to the grade of meal made. If as, low grade meal as made last year is made, say 7 per cent of ammonia or 5.76 per cent of nitrogen, then a ton of seed which made 800 pounds of meal containing 8 per cent of am monia or G.59 per cent of nitrogen should make over 900 pounds of meal containing 7 per cent of am monia. The linters obtained vary according to the ginning and de linting, from 75 to 125 pounds, and the hulls of course will also vary according to the grade of meal made, | being higher the higher the grade j of meal produced. There will also be waste ranging from 50 lo 100 pounds. If' w assume the following pro ducts as obtained from a ton of cotton seed, at the prices quoted in the press about July 20, these pro ducts are worth ?09 per ton: 315 pds. or 42 gals, of oil at ?l per gallon-?42.00; 900 pounds cottonseed meal at ?43 per ton ?19.35; 025 pounds cottonseed hulls! at ?15 per ton-?4.69; 100 pounds] linters at 10 cents-?10.00-60 pds. j loss; total number of pounds, 2000;: total cash ?70.04. 1 If the results obtained by the mills vary from our estimates or if the prices vary, of course the value' ot the products will vary. From I this ?76.04 must be deducted all the j expenses of the oil miller. He has? capital invested in his mill which is j only operated a part of the year; ! all expenses of operating are high- ? er than formerly; he has expense in I buying the seed and in transporting ; them to the mill and money is also invested in these until the products are sold. In the.'early part of the j season seed are damp and of less value and the risks of loss are great er. He must also hold the products until marketed and both operations cost money, and he is entitled to a fair profit. These expenses vary so greatly that it is scarcely worth while attempting an estimate, but if they total an expense of from ?10 to ?15 for every ton of seed handled he should still be able to pay the farmer from ?61 to ?66 per ton for j the seed, on the basis of our esti mates. These estimates as to pro ducts obtained and the prices quot ed are as nearly accurate as any one can state them, for they are based on actual results and quotations. Progressive Farmer. FOR SALL. A fine lot of pure Fulghum oats at ?2.00 per bushel. Purchaser to furnish sacks. Jas. D. Mathis, Trenton, S. C. July 25, 1017. FOR SALE: 121 acres of lane three-quarters of a mile from Red Hill church, half in cultivation, well watered, good pastuie and good graded school near by. L. Gr. Quarles, Edgefield, S. C. 7-25-2t. August 14 to August 24 BIG n Days' Sal The Corner Store's Big Annual Clearance Sale for the summer to make room for the fall goods is later than usual on account of the late spring; but better late than never is going to be our slogan in this big sale, and we are going to give values in this sale that will surprise you, now that every article money can buy is advancing by leaps and bounds. A special feature of the sale is to be an assortment of 75 pairs of Ladies' and Misses' Slippers to go at 50 cents the pair; values up to $3.50. All other Oxfords One-Third off. This is now your opportunity to avail yourself of a chance to get your oxfords at a price that you will not see again at some future date* All Summer Hats in the millinery department to be placed in the sale at One-third Off. Better get your pick of them before it is too late. See our special display of remnants and small cut pieces. You will be sure to find a dress in this display that will please you for your trouble. Waists! Waists! Waists! About fifteen $1.25 waists going at 50c. $1.25 and $1.50 voile and lawn waists going at.79c $1.75 and $2.25 voile and lawn waists going in this sale at : - - $1.39 $6.50 Georgette crepe (colored) waist go ing in this sale at - - - - $5.00 $7.00 Georgette crepe (colored) waist go ins in this sale at - - - - $6.00 House dresses worth up to 2.00 going now at.$1.39 All boys' 25 cents underwear to go at six garments for.$1.00 A good assortment of men's Sunday shirts worth up to 75c. going at 50c. A special assortment of ribbon included in the sale at 10c. and 15c. a yard. A good assortment of boys' Sunday straw hats going at 10c. and 15c. A small lot of kid and patent leather belts to go at 5, 10 and 15 cents. Barrett's and shell hair pins, values up to 50 cents, "oing for 10 cents. Skirts! Skirts! Skirts! $1.50 white wash skirts at 1.75 white wash skirts at 2.50 white wash skirts at .89 $1.00 1.89 Black your shoes with Mason's shoe blacking at 3 cents a box. Fifteen pair of 25-cent rubber heels go ing now at 10 cents. Twenty-five jar egg beaters going now in this sale at 5 cents. About 300 yards of embroidery insert ings at 3 cents the yard. 10 cents heavy Torchon lace selling in this sale at 5 cents the j'ard. Palmolive soap gets the dirt quick for 8 cents the cake. Bradley's $1.00 toilet water selling now in this sale for 50 cents a bottle. Men's and boys' 10-cent collars at - 5c. Men's and boys' 15-cent collars at 10c. Polish your tarnished silver with Allen's Royal Silver Polish-10c. boxes at 5c. Keep your laundry hanging on the line with our clothes pins at 5c. a dozen. See our display of odds and ends in Enamelware, Hardware, Towel Racks, Clothes Lines. You will_see something to please you, especially when you can get them so cheap. We are going to put our best efforts in this sale. Remember the dates, as nothing will be reserved or sold at these prices before the time specified. The store that always says, Thank you . Corner . Store Sale Prices for Cash Only