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/. L. M!MS,-_.Ediia Published every Wednesday in The Advertiser Building at $1.50 per year tn advance. Entered as second class matter at t^e posloffice at Edgefield, S. C. No communications will be published unless accompanied by the writer's name. Cards of Thanks. Obituaries, Resolu tions and Political Notices published at aivertising rates. Wednesday, January 23. Did you have sugar m your cottee this morning? Eat more corn and less wheat. Our Allies need the wheat. You can make Mr. Hoover smile be having an old-time ash cake now and then. Old-field pine will soon be selling by by the piece, instead of by the cord in Edgefield. Some are asking a V for a cord now. "Pro-German lawyer tarred and feathered," says a headline. People in some instances get their deserts here as well as in the next world. It appears that the Solons are too busy to indulge in much political log rolling as is their wont during sessions preceding a political campaign. Start Fertilizer Wagon. As soon as the weather and roads permit, there should be decided fertil izer movements from the railroads to the farms. In view of the scarcity of farm labor, every minute should be conserved and properly utilized. Late, hurried preparation and planting, means a handicap throughout the en tire year. Every pound of fertilizer \ I should be under 3helter on the farm ! I as long as possible before the soil is in |.' proper condition to be plowed. A Splendid Daily. Our esteemed contemporary, the Greenwood Index, leaped from a fledgling to a full grown daily atone bound, lt carries the news of all the world, arranged in a most attractive manner. And what is better still, The Index bears evidence of a very large advertising - patronage in each issue, showing that a large portion of Green wood's business interests are back of the undertaking. While it appears to an outsider that the daily field in Greenwood is ? little crowded, yet both of the progressive town's excel lent dailies are well patronized. Suc cess to The Index in its new field! "Carolina Farmer and Stockman." This is the title of South Carolina's first farm journal, the second issue of which has just reached our desk. The Carolina Farmer and Stockman is a semi-monthly farm journal published in Columbia by Mr. J. Rutledge Mc Ghee. The issue before us now is a very creditable one and we have no .doubt that is will grow stronger from month to month. It is well printed, with the several departments attrac tively arranged, ar 1 the advertising patronage indicates that it will be well supported. We see no good rea son why such a journal should not take rank with the old, well-established farm journals throughout the country. There is a need and popular demand in South Carolina for such a publication, and we trust that it will live long and aid materially in developing South Carolina's agricultural resources. Little Western Corn Shipped. Notwithstanding the fact that the 1917 crop of corn was the largest ever made, the price of western corn ia higher now than ever before at this season. This unusual condition is ac counted for in two ways. A drought of a month prevailed in a large area of the corn b^lt last summer, retard- j ing the growth of the crop. Finally, heavy rains fell which caused corn to grow later than usual, and an early frost came before much of the crop had fully matured. Notwithstanding :he fact that we are well into another y-ear, only about 40 per cent of west ?rn corn is in a millable condition, swing to the great amount of moisture it contains. The dry corn that is of fered for sale is in great demand and competive buying keeps the price up on this grade of the cereal. This ac counts for the high price of meal and hominy. Another reason for the small supply available in this section and the high price quoted, is the congestion of freight. There is a sufficient quantity of corn piled up at stations in Mis souri, Kansas, Iowa and Nebraska to relieve the temporiry shortage but transportation facilities are lacking. Here is where Dr. Garfield's seeming ly drastic fuel order will help the sec tions that are needing western cereals and can not obtain them. As soon as the general freight congestion over the country is relieved and luel is provided for imperative needs, then there will be a constant stream of western corn flowing into the South, causing a con siderable decline in price. Cost of Selective Draft. As much has appeared in the news papers recently concerning the cost of securing an army under the selec tive service law, and especially as boards in some of the States are said to have cost the government an enor mous sum, it is well to give some corn comparative figures in order to show that no such charges can be justly made against South Carolina boards. The average cost to the government, per registrant, for the entire country was 54 cents, while the cost per regis trant in South Carolina was only 48 cents, the cost in Georgia and North Carolina, adjoining States, being 63 and 6S cents, respectively. Thus it is shown that South Carolina not only compares favorably with the States at large but also with her sister States in which conditions are practically the same. The average cost in 1917 for the country at large per man of quota due ivas 57.59. while the average cost to the government per man for South Carolina's quota due was only $6.15. The cost per man for quota due in Seorpfia and North Carolina, adjoining States, was $8.02 and $3.42, respective ly. It is thus shown conclusively that thc criticism which appeared some days igo as to the tremendous cost of the se lectrave draft, being greater than the authorities in Washington anticipated, Joes not justly apply to the boards in South Carolina. Had the other nearly 15,000 boards over the country been as careful of their expense account as South Carolina; boards, the cost of raising the first increment of the army would doubtless have come within the expectation of the authorities in the national capital. Be the cost whut it may, it is yet the most economical means adopted for raising an army. The cost of recruit ing stations per capita for the first nine months of 3917 was $28.95, while the cost per man under the selective service law was only $7.59. . Delinquent Registrants. The Advertiser publishes in this issue a list of registrants to whom questionnaires were mailed and were returned by the postal author ities undelivered. Read the list and if you know their whereabouts have them to report AT ONCE lo the office of the local board. The government places the obliga tion upon registrants to call ami isk for a questionnaire, if they do ot receive one through the mail. Every person, white and colored, vtiows whether or not they regis tered, and if they registered, they know that they should till out and ile with the board a questionnaire. Unless they report to the local joard, they shall be regarded as iiaving waived all right for filing claims for deferred classification, being placed in Class 1 by the local ooard. Income Tax Returns. Scores and scores of farmers throughout the county, as well as many other persons of other-ocoupa tions, are subject to the federal in come tax and should make returns. Unless returns are made as provided by law by March 1, a penalty of 50 per cent will be levied. All un married persons whose income ex ceeds $1,000 is subject to tax. and all married persons whose income exceeds $-2,Ooo, with an allowance of *200 for each dependent child. If man and Wife have separate in comes they must make a joint re turn, if their combined income ex ceeds ?2,OOo. If you are liable for the tax, do not think the govern ment will let you pass unnoticed. Alter March i government agents will make a thorough canvass of the field, and will serve notice on all who should have made returns fail ed. Better come up like a man and shoulder your share of the lax bur den. The expense of the war must be paid, and the income tax is one of hundreds of ways adopted by the government to raise the necessary money. Do your bit and do it vol untarily. An income tax dodger is a slacker of the tirst water. LADY OF VANDYKE i FBOM STOMACH COULD HMD] Terrible Attacks of Cramps Made Her Fear She Would Die. Took Simple Home Treatment. Hasn't '< Had Cramp 1 Since. TELLS HOW SHE DID IT. j "I suffered from stomach trouble ; for a year. I tried many things i that were recommended, but nothing 1 did me any good. Everything that . I ate hurt me, and I would take spell* of cramps that seemed so Ind I didn't think I could live through i them, and I got so bad off I could I not walk anywhere, not even across the room. Thoye terrible cramping spells were so bad I thought 1 would die, and every one thought I could not live. "I had tried doctors and got no relief, and was at my wits end when ; Acid Iron Mineral was reuotnmend ed to me as the very thing for stom ach trouble, and I commenced to . take it, and since then I have never had a spell of cramp. I now eat anything I want to eat and it doesn't hurt me. I have gained so much ? strength I can walk two or three miles without setting very tired, and I can sleep a whole lol better, while before I took Acid Iron Min eral my sleep didn't do me any good. It has done what nothing else that I had tried could do, and I . consider A-1-M a wonderful medi cine, and believe it will do every thing it is recommended to do if taken according to directions," de clared Mrs. Elizabeth Gritnsley, of Van Dyke, Buchannon cuiinty, Va. ' When your strength gives out j and you feel like dragging around all day long instead of skipping J around spry ami lively like of old, J try taking a few drops of this nat- 1 ural iron in a glass of water after f nnals. It is simply wonderful, ? People all over this State recom mend Acid Iron Mineral. The ' beauty about it is ihat it is just the highly concentrated natural iron, ! cheaper, stronger, and much better for people in need of iron. A twelve ounce bottle usually sells for a dob ' lar, and as a tonie, aid to digestion, ' kidneys and bladder, it can't be equaled. It is sold only in original ' boitl'-s. and the trade mark "AI M" ' on bottle an 1 cartoon is the Ferro dine Chemical Corp., guarantee of strength and quality. Most drug- 1 gists have it. Get a bottle to-day. GOLF LINKS AS A LAW COURT Some Important Cases Have Been Set tled Far From the Recognized Halls of Justice. The late Sir Thomas Bucknlll, when vacation Judge, once granted an in junction nn the golf links while actual ly playing a round, relates Answers. On another occasion he granted an Injuction while out shooting. On the case coming into court counsel said: "Your lordship may recall the case." "Indeed I do," replied the judge, "be cause I nearly killed a pheasant, a bar rister and a solicitor with one shot." Quite lately one judge tried a motor accident case on the very spot on which it had occurred, and a few years ago a case concerning "ancient lights" was decided under a tree in a heavy storm. Not lons since a chancery judge heard an application In the walting rooms of a railway station. A woman charged with stealing was tried by a magistrate in the streets of Hoole, and it will be remembered that the late lord chief justice emulated Sir Thomas Bucknill by deciding a question in the Crippen case on the golf links. And, doubtless, other judges would welcome the opportunity to do their work far from the stuffy courts. Counting Up to "Boomfit." A reader who was interested In the "Indian counting" that the Companion told about on this page some months ago, has found fn the London Chroni cle something about a similar sort of counting that was long In use In a retired part of England. The Chron icle says: The elder generation of farmers In one of our northern dales used a strange set of numerals, especially when counting sheep. They made a gap In the wall just wide enough to admit one sheep at a time, and as the sheep went through they counted them, making a notch In a stick at every fifteen. Phonetically the numerals sound like "Yann, tane, tether, mether, pip, sax, sane, catterer, wheeler, dick, ynnn-er-dlck, tane-er-dlck, tether-er dick, mether-er-dick, boomfit." "Boomfit" was fifteen; when they reached lt they made a notch In the stick and began the strange chant all over again-Youth's Companion. A. H. Corley, Surgeon Dentist Appointments at Trenton On Wednesdays. M WEAK TROUBLE SHE LY WALK, SHE SAID Neighbors Should Help. The manner in which England, Pram*??, Italy and the United States ire getting together to win the war made against the world shows that governments as well as com muni Lies and neighbors must cooperate if they would mobilize their re sources for the protection of free dom and liberty. Cooperation in peace as in war is essential, and iet ns hope that human sympathy will be extended throughout the earth. And when peace i? made, another world war will he impossible. The people of neighborhoods and communities should cooperate in the great task of winning the war. There aie many advantages in neighbors helping each other. Those who would do th''ir part in the ureat task of citizenship will find responsibilities and obligations in their own neighborhoods.-Farm ind Ranch. Did So Much To Aid Her Boys And Girls. i MRS. CATHEY TELLS OF RE-' BULTS TANLAC GAVE- | "IT SURE IS FINE." m I ANDERSON WOMAN SAYS SHE IS, "GLAD TO RECOMMEND IT Pru r.icr. v." "I am glad to recommend Tanlac x> the public, for it has done so nuch to give back health to my boys and girls and other relatives. Usure is fine niedicine,declared Mrs Josephine Cathey, of No. 12 R, St., Anderson, in a statement she .rave May 25th. Her husband, a laughter, a son and daughter-in aw, Mr?. Oath ey said, had all been greatly helped by Tanlac. My husband suffered from indi gestion and he was troubled a lot with headaches, and also his appe tite was bad. He complained fre quently of being weak and run down. My daughter, had about ihe same trouble her father did, indigestion, nervousness and terri ble headaches. Mi. Catbey thinks Tanlac is a mighty fine medicine, for it helped him so much. Now he never complains of these troubles for which he took Tanlac, and Tan lac got him in fine.. Tho Tanlac just made a new person of my daughter Mattie and soon had hen in tine health. It sure is one more good remedy. One of my married boys and his wife also took Tanlac and it helped them a lot." Edgefield, Penn S? Holstein. Cold Springs, ll. Ernest Quarles. Edgefield, R. F. D. No. 2, J. H. Reel. Johnston, Johnston Drug Coin pan v. Modoc, G. C. McDaniel. Parksville, Robertson & Com pany. Plum Branch, J. W. Bracknell &, Son. Plum Branch, R. F. 1). No. 2, E. P. Winn & Bro. Trenton, G. W. Wise. A non-commissioned officer was writing the names of a number of recruits. "Your name!" he snapped to the first. "Fox." "Next!" "Hear," was the reply. The sergeant sniffled, and glanced at the third. "Wolfe," said the recruit, and his interrogator gave him a sharp look. "And what do you call your self?" he asked a tall youth. "Lyon", the recruit responded, whereat the non-com threw down his pen and shouted, with good natured laugher: "Go and order some cages to be built" he roared to a private. "We've been recruiting from a menagerie."-Exchange." NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CREDITORS. Notice is hereby given to all per sons indebted to the estate of F. E. Randall, deceased, to make pay ment to either pf the undersigned. And all persons holding claims against the said estate should pre sent them for payment to either of the undersigned properly attested. W, IL PAR DUE, R. D. RIPLEY. Executors. Jan. 10, 1018. the Quinine That Does Not Affect The Head flecnuse of its tonic and lnxative effect. LAXA TIVE BROMO QUININE is better than ordinary Quinine and does not cause nervousness nor rinpitiR in head. Remember the full name and look lor the sicnature of E. W. GROVE. 25c. r ANNOUNCEMENT NEW ENGLAND MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE CO. 87 MM K STREET BOSTON, MASS ACH US ETTS January 2, 1918 We announce the appointment of Mr. Horace J. McGee, of AMerson, South Carolina, succeeding Mr. Theodore W. Bethea, who has resigned from our service. General agency offices will be established at An derson, arid for the convenience of our Charleston Policyholders a District Agency will be retained at Charleston, at our present offices?Xo. 50 Broad St., with Mr. William B. Mitchell, for many years close ly identified with our Charleston General Agency, in charge as District Manager. Mr, McGee has had broad life insurance experi ence in office and field, and is well equipped to meet the requirements of the position to the satisfaction of the company and its members. He will assume charge of on February 1, 1918, and the prestige of your interest and influence will be appreciated. Very truly, D. F. APPEL, vice-President. S5& STOKE IT REH TO PUTA LITTLE IN THE BAH EVERY WEEK CoDTrizht 1'.'09. br C. C. Zi^'oirman Co.--No. 51 is no doubt about money in the bank, it is sure and positive. Maybe slow, but there is the satisfaction that it is sure. Posi tive in every way, both that it will grow, and that it is safe. BANK OF EDGEFIELD OFFICERS : J. C. Sheppard, President; B. E. Nicholson, vice-President E. J. Mims, Cashier; J. H. Allen. Assistant Oashier. DIRECTORS : J. C. Sh*pnarJ, Thos. H. Rainsford, John Rainsford, B. E Nicholson, A. S. Tompkins. C. C. Fuller. E. J. Mims. J. H. Allen GARRETTS: CALHOUN Augusta, Georgia COTTON We Solicit Your Business Call, write or wire when desirous of information of cotton market of country. li. B. RUSSELL, .lit. R. E. ALLEN RUSSELL & ALLEN Incorporated COTTON FACTORS 857, 859 and 861 Reynolds Street AUGUSTA, GEORGIA Correspondence invited and consignments solicited.