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WAS NOTHING BUT COLD TEA Interesting Query Now ls, Wljat Did the "Rakes" of Flushing Think They Were Drinking? An impressive entry in the influence of-ralnd-over-ruatter contest is submit ted by the Flushing correspondent. A prominent turner of an honest penny of Flushing, it seems, with many a sly, knowing and suggestive wink passed the word about that he was now in a position to supply prominent residents of that legally dry district with what he with an air of infinite facetiousness denominated cold tea, to be drunk on the premises. Prominent rakes of Flushing thronged to the premises at once, a thriving business soon was built up and many a lip was smacked and many a genial jest was exchanged over the eo-cal!ed cold tea, the consensus of the best opinion being that our turner of an honest penny must have procured for his patrons the private stock of firme old Kentucky cellar. Finally one day there came along a phlegmatic, un imaginative fellow who ordered a beaker of cold tea in the accepted im portant but secretive manner, started to quaff and laid down the tipple with something, we are sorry to say, very like an oath. "Why, that's nothing but cold tea," he exclaimed with kin dling anger. OUT turner of an honest penny frank ly acknowledged that such in very sooth was the fact and had been the fact In very sooth since-the inception of his little venture, smilingly remind ing all present that he never had of fered them anything but cold tea or sold them the beverage under any other name. Our prominent rakes of Flushing, satisfied that they had been put upon and yet had no recourse, dispersed in no little confusion, thoroughly humili ated, chagrined and ashamed, for such is human nature, because they had been trapped into betraying their un familiarity with what it would have served them ill to know.-Cleveland Plain Dealer. NO TIME TO WASTE ENERGY Western Poet Offers Good Advice When He Says, Forget That Bald Pate for the Present. Lives there a man with soul so dead that never to himself he's said, when the hair on his pate, once thick, began a-looking thin and sick: "I'll put some dope on that there hair and soon have foliage to spare." Lives there a man who has not spent Iiis last red solitary cent for dope the baldhead druggist said would brin^' more hair upon his bead. Nay. Man seeks the far soli tude and rubs his shining pate with crude, or rubs a pint of vaseline each night onto his polished beam, rubs all the dope he can afford on to the thing he calls his gourd then to the druggist doth cavort, and buyeth mange cure by tho tfuart; but all his labor is in vain, he never grows another mane. Man - that Is born of woman is cf few hairs and a funny phiz, fie tjiinketh in his bosom he would look young a* he used to be if he could on his poll grown bare contrive another crop of hair. Oh man! O bifurcated gent! don't chase the hair that loug has went. That biz is picayunish biz. Use all the energy that is. and all of your hair money for the winning of this dreadful war. In this here war game don't you know you should be in the baldhead row.-Judd .Mortimer Lewis, in Houston Post. Hydraulic Cartridges. It is often difficult and sometimes dangerous to use ordinary explosives for mining and excavating in confined spaces, a fact that has lcd to the de velopment of The hydraulic mining cartridge. The cartridge consists of a steel cylinder containing numerous small pistons that move at right angles to the axis of the cylinder and expand when water ls injected into them with a hand pump. After drilling a deep enough hole The .workmen insert the cylinder and then set to work at the hand pump. The tiny pistons expand until their free extremities beor against the mass of rock with constantly increasing force and the rock is gradually frac tured under tremendous pressure. The operation, it is said, is not only cheap er than tlie ordinary blast but disin tegrates a larger area of rock. New French Slang. The language of the Poilu is ns double Dutch, to the uninitiated. Any one familiar with the slang of the Quartier Latin would probably feel more at hom?? than most. But there are many other ingredients-some patois, some picked up in Morocco, and 6ome are survivals of the soldier slang of the First empire. Such a word is "cleber." which apparently means to eat after one hus been on the point of starving. An explanation given of the origin of the word is that it ls n cor ruption nf "kleba." the Russian for bread. It is said that the French sol diers on tlie great retreat from Mos cow called out "Papa, kleba," to Na poleon. Potash in Canada. The discovery of a large deposit of potash in Saskatchewan is of great na tional importance to Cana'da. The only other considerable deposit on this continent, as far as known, ls at Searles Lake, In California. This is being developed under the auspices of the American sovcrnmenf. The Do minion and Saskatchewan iravern ments should make sure that the new depo.?!tr? are made productive as soon ss possible by the owners.-Toronto Mail and Empire. SEA ELEPHANTS. "Good-day," said Mrs. Sea Elephant, as she saw Mrs. Sarah Sea Elephant, ''How are you today?" "Nicely thank you, and how about yourself?" "Well indeed," said Mrs. Sea Ele phant, generally known as Mrs. Sea. "They say there are going to be great days ahead and that if every Mr. Sea Elephant doesn't fret the Mrs. Sen Elephant he wants there'll be a battle," said Mrs. Sarah Sea Elephant. "Isn't that glorious?" said Mrs. Sea. "That's the sort of a Sea Elephant mate I have. And so have you. When other Mr. Sea Elephants got in the way of our Mr. Sea Elephants before they bad asked us to marry them, they quickly fought and got them out of the way." "Yes." said Mrs. Sarah, "I wouldn't give a fig for a husband who wouldn't fight for me." "Dear me," said Mrs. Sea. "I don't think you're saying much, for what in ' the world, or the sea, dees a fig mean to you?" ! "That's so," agreed Mrs. Sarah, "a fig doesn't mean anything to me. Gra cious, no ! Why a fig would be lost In the sea and figs most certainly don't mean anything to me, the little silly, sticky things." "Why did you say that?" asked Mrs. i Sea. I "I just used it as an expression and it shows how much we say without ! "lt's Our Big Season of the Year." thinking. I said that absolutely with out thinking, for I meant tn say that I wouldn't give anything for a man who wouldn't fight for his wife." "That's better," said Mrs. Sea. "Well, all the Sea Elephants will fight for their mates. There are lots of battles around tne mating season-lots of them." "There are Indeed." said Mrs. Sarah, j "We never fight." said Mrs. Sea. "No, ladies never do," said Mrs. Sarah. "I suppose they might and sometimes it would do a great deal of good but they never have-and cus tom is custom." "They say," remarked Mrs. Sea, "that there ls one part about us which con be burt so that we are killed." ! "Yes." agreed Mrs. Sarah, "that is true." "Teil me about it," begged Mrs. Sea. "I would like to keep that part out of sl^ht if dangerous enemies were around as I he:ir they sometimes are. with guns and rifles and other fire arms." "Yes," said Mrs. Sarah, "sometimes we are shot at. We are like seals you know and we have very useful, valu able oil in us." "All very well," said Mrs. Sea. "but I'm not generous. 1^ prefer to keep my oil for myself." "So do I," said Mrs. Sarah, "only I was telling you some facts." "Yes, go ahead," said Mrs. Sea. "Well." continued Mrs. Sarah, "you know when the mating season comes around and we are chosen by the handsome Mr. Sea Elephants as their mates we all lie about the beach and chut and gossip and have Hie very best of times. It's our big season of the year. "I've heard of folks who go lo sum mer resorts and winter resorts und to J pluces for the baths, or the mountain air, or for some other reason. Well, our resort is the beuch and we lie up on it when it is the mating season for ! then we are picked out and chosen. "We can hear the tales of adventure which the Mr. Sea Elephants have to 1 tell us and we can talk of the new ' styles-though we never have any real ly new ones. Still we can discuss fashions and the weather and how we think the water feel? and tastes this year, nnd all such things!" "But," asked Mrs. Sea. "you were going to tell me about the place about us which is not protected." "Oh yes," ?nid Mrs. Sarah, "bullets from guns can hit us anywhere and not hurt us in the least but roll right off us, except in one spot which ls soft, just above our eyes. That Is tho part to keep out of the range of our enemies." "Thanks for telling me." said Mrs. Sea. "I am very glad to know it and so glad that all the rest of my big body is safe, quilo safe!" Rarest of Gifts. One of the raresl nf gifts is the abil ity to do a favor so as io leave no burdensome sense of obligation. Meaning of Difficulty. What '.< a difficulty? "Something that shows wind wr really are," wus a great philosopher's answer. Abbeville-Greenwood Mu tual Insurance Asso ciation. ORGANIZED 1892. Property Insured $2,500,000. WRITE OR CALL on the under signed for any information you ma; desire about our plan of insurance We insure your property againsi destruction by FIRE, WINDSTORM or LIGHT NING and do so cheaper than any Com pany in existence. Remember, we are prepared tc prove to you that ours is the safest and cheapest plan cf insurance* known. Our Association is now licensee, to write Insurance in the countiei of Abbeville, Greenwood, McCor mick, Laurens and Edgefield. The officers are: Gen. J. Frasei Lyon, Presiden, Columbia, S." C. J. R. Blake, Gen. Agt., Secy. & Trea.s, "Greenwood, S. C. DIRECTORS. A. O. Grant, Mt. Carmel, S. C. J. M. Gambrell, Abbeville, S. C. .Ino. H. Childs, Bradley, S. C. A. W. Youngblood, Hodges, S. C. S. P. Morrah, Willington.S. C. L. N. Chamberlain, McCormick S. C R. H. Nicholson, Edgefield, S. C. F. L. Timmerman, Pln't Lane, S. C J. C. Martin, Princeton, S. C. W. H. Wharton, Waterloo, S. C. J. R. BLAKE, GEN. AGT. Greenwood, S. C. AUDITOR'S NOTICE. All persons owning property of jany kind whatsoever, or in any ca pacity, as husband, guardian, execu tor, administrator or trustees are re ! quired to make returns of the same ito the Auditor under oath within the time mentioned below and the Audi tor is required by law to add a pen alty of ?? per cent to all property that is not returned on or before the 20th day of February in any year. All male citizens between the ages of 21 and GO years except those ex empt by law are deemed taxable polls The 50 per cent penalty will be added for failure to make returns, j For the convenience of tax payers, ll or my representative will be at the : following appointed places oi\ the i dates mentioned to receive ti * re turns. - The office will be open to receive returns from the fir.?': day of January ?till the 20th day of Feb. li)-.9, as pre scribed by law. J. R. TIMMERMAN, Auditor, E. C. S. C. Dec. 17-1918. HARRIS' j PRESSING CLUB I take this"means of letting the people know that I have re-opened j my pressing club, and will appre ciate their patronage. I am better ; prepared than ever to clean and press ali kinds of garments, both ; for ladies and gentlemen. All tvork ? guaranteed. Let me know when you have work and I will send for it and make prompt delivery. Wallace Harris Sheppard Building Down Stairs dial ion. State of South Carolina, I County of I >dcr< Held. ) By W. T. Kinnaird, Esquire, Probate .i nd ge. Whereas. E. J. Mund;, made suit to me, to grant him Letters of Admin istration, cum testamento annexo of the Estate of and effects of Mattie Mundy, deceased. These are Therefore to cite and admonish all and singular the kin dred and Creditors of the said Mattie Mundy, deceased, that they be and appear before me. in the Court of Probate, to be held at Edgefield, S. C. in my office on January 30th, li?lil next after publication thereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said Administration should not be grant ed. Given under my band, this 13th day of January, Anno Domini, lilli). W. T. KINNAIRD, Probate Judge, E. C., S.C. Published on each intervening Wednesday until January 30th, 191'J in The Edgefield Advertiser. ? U ?J P. L.. 1 w ?2 ra vii g-ofc? ?w? j wjp BHwifc? ?fiLii Comm For A We desire to no ready to supply ti for delivery reliab tested for years 1 over and over aga Besides the mi: meal and acid ph( desire at home. Come in to see i your fertilizer con j T Treasurer's Notice. The County Treasurer's office will be open for the purpose of receiving taxes from the 15th dav of October, 19IS. to the loth day ot March, 1919. All taxes snail be due and payable between the 15th day of October, 191S, and December 31st, 1918. That when taxes charged shall not be paid by December 31st, 1918, the County Auditor shall proceed to add a penalty of one per cent, for Janu ary, and if taxes are not paid on or before February 1st, 1919, the Coun ty Auditor will proceed to add two per cent, and five per cent additional, from the 1st of March to the 15th of March, after which time all unpaid taxes will be collected by the Sheriff. The tax levies for the year 1918 are as follows: Mills For Statepurposes &lA For Ordinary County 7 For Constitutional School Tax 3 For Antioch 4 For Bacon School District IVs For Blocker 2 For Blocker-Limestone 4 For Colliers 4 For Flat Rock 4 For Oak Grove 3 For Red Hill 4 For Edgefield 8 For Elmwood No. 8 2 For Elmwood No. 9 2 For Elmwood No. 30 2 For Elmwood L. C 3 For Hibler 3 For Johnston ll For Meriwether (Gregg) 2 For Moss 3 For Ropers 2 For Shaw 4 For Sweetwater 4 Talbert 2 For Trenton 8 Vs For Wards 2 For Blocker R. R. (portion) 15 For Elmwood R. R. (portion) 15 For Johnston R. R. 3 For Bickens R. R. 3 For Wise R. R. 1 % For Corporation ll All the male citizens between the ages of 21 years and GO years, except those exempt by law, are liable to a poll tax of One Dollar each. A capi tation tax of 50 cents each is to be paid on all dogs. The law prescribes that all male citizens between the ages of 18 and 55 years must pay S2.00 commuta tion tax. No communtation is includ ed in the property tax. So ask for road tax receipt when you desire to pay road tax. JAMES T. MIMS, Co. Treas. E. C. ^RIC?TFOR^A?L^ We will soon begin thc tearing away <>? the oil mill buildings anil will oiler .second hand brick Tor sale at $5.00 per thousand. Now is your opportunity to buy ?>ood brick at almost halt prices. ADDISON .MILL. T. A. UlGHTOWEK. Supt. ercial Fertilizers Jineteen and Nineteen tify oui farmer friends that we are ?eir fertilizer needs, We have ready le brands of fertilizers that have been by farmers of this county, and have in proven their merit. ted goods, we carry a large stock of )sphate for mixing any formula you is and get our prices before you make tracts for 1919. Adams & Co. Good Tires Speed Deliveries No car is better than its tires. And time lost through tire troubles cannot be replaced. Good tires are the best practical guarantee of your car's continuous and economical service. United States Tires are good tires-the best tires our 76 years of experience in the rubber business have taught us to make. You have your choice of five different types for passenger car or light delivery use 'Nobby', 'Chain', 'Usco , 'Plain', and the famous 'Royal Cord'. There is also the 'Nobby Cord' for heavy duty vehicles, as well as the Solid Truck Tire. Among these good tires you will find exactly the treads best suited to your car and your driving conditions. Our nearest Sales and Service Depot dealer will gladly point them out to you. United States Tires are Good Tires