Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Establish 1B35. J. L. MIMS,_Editor. Published every Wednesday in The Advertiser Building at $2.00 per year t& advance. Entered as second class matter at fte postoffice at Edgefield, S. C. No communications will be pub Snhed unless accompanied by the writer's name. Cards of Thanks, Obituaries, Hes itations and Political Notices pub lished at advertising rates. Wednesday, July 30. Edgefield's name is no longer "Mud." As the mercury goes up che stand ing collars go down. Why is the ex-kaiser like a Jew? He's a man without a country. Well, after all, the mud served a good purpose by conserving gasoline. The man who sheared 3, 935 sheep in nine hours was something of a wool gatherer. A timely alliteration : Pack the pan try with plenty of peach pickle andj? pear preserves. If the prolonged rains provoked frowns, should not the beaming sun shine bring .smiles? Let's imitate the lark in more ways . than rising early and sing as we work. '< The lark is said to be the only bird ; ( that sings as it flies. The race question, once a southern < problem, has now become a national |: problem, with the national capital as)1 the present locus belli. After reading that seventy million ?] animals are killed yearly to supply furs, one is forced to thu conclu sion that women do "make the fur fly." M About the only thing that we have seen baffle a Ford was Edgefield's ! ' mud. Even a Ford lacked the nerve!1 to tackl ; Edgefield's roads early last week. It's an easier matter for the news-U papers to publish menus suitable for j these hot days than it is to adjust j the menus to thc average midsummer pantry. Edgefield streets and Edgefield; county roads struck a new level last11 week, the bottom of the ruts being several inches lower than they had ever been before. i Blood and butchery marked the ' race riot in Abraham Lincoln's State Sunday, which proves beyond perad venture that the race question is not now confined to any section or clime. L One marked difference between'L this country and Europe is that ^ while the cost of living is lower t avross the Atlantic, since the war, ? it has gone further skyward in this ( country. j Wouldn't it be a fine thing if all the energy expended in chewing gum could be diverted to some profitable channel or pursuit? Would not this be converting girl-power and woman power into man-power? The Massachusetts mother who shot her three-year-old son because she was jealous of her husband's af fection for the boy, is more insane than Harry*:Thaw whose plea of in sanity has kept him from prison walls these many years. Just as the spectacle of a man crea ted in the image of God, lying beast ly drunk in a gutter, is a most effec tive temperance lecture, so the sight of Edgefield's streets and roads last week was the best good roads lecture that could possibly be made. The Austrian foreign minister is credited with saying the treaty will make Austrians slaves of the Allies for thirty years. Well, they have been slaves of Germany for a longer pe riod than that, and the Allies will be less exacting in their domination. According to Shakespeare, Henry the Eighth exclaimed: "A long fare well to all of my greatness!" and many a dusky person will paraphrase it by exclaiming: "A long farewell to all of my joy!"-the watermelons are vanishing. The latest ami greatest joke is that ;he ex-kaiser still claims the throne pf Germany. In the first place Ger many has no throne, a'nd if it did, the sid cuss wouldn't be "settin" on it. Chicago is aflame with race preju lice akin to the conflagration that swept the city the night the cow kicked over the lamp. Mr. Hoover seems to have gotten Edgefield people out of the picnic pabit. Such social gatherings have peen few and far between this sum ner. It's a strange anomaly that a young lady goes bare-headed about two ;hirds of her time and yet needs, or rather buys, more hats in a season ;han a half-dozen men. Doubtless some of the European lations feel that they are needed to pour oil on our troubled waters over iere, not realizing.that in an Ameri :an race war five years would not ?lapse between the first and second Marne. Mighty Poor Advice. Leaders among colored people in >ther parts of the country are giving ;hem mighty poor advice. In a negro nass meeting in New York Sunday ifternoon one of the speakers sug gested "following up the constructive vork done by the blacks in Washing ;on." The "work" referred to in iVashington should be referred to as 'destructive" rather than "con ductive," for if such a coui-se be persisted in by the colored people, it viii doubtless result" in their ulti nate destruction. In a dispatch from chattanooga in Monday's papers a negro preacher is credited with writing a letter to President Wilson in which he de clares that before the negroes of this country will submit to "many of the injustices which we have suffered, :he white man will have to kill more cf tHem than the combined number soldiers that were slain in the great vorld war." Such a veiled challenge sent out by a negro preacher, one who poses- as a leader of his race, is lot calculated to foster hannonious [.elations between the races. We apprehend little trouble from :he cDlortd people in this part of the country. The two races understand ;ach ctherand wc believe the same inrmonious relations of the past will continue. However, the advice given md the examples set in other parts of the country are anything but >vhol asome and may have harmful ef fects. Bolts White Primary. It is almost unbelievable that a South Carolina white man, one born pf South Carolina parentage, reared in the Democratic atmosphere of the Palmetto State, educated in South Carolina institutions, and, too, one vho has given direction to the affairs if State for four years and there fore realizes how fraught with dan cer is such a course, should be so dis oyal and so untrue to the traditions pf the South as to repudiate the white primary and seek office by entering ;he general election in opposition to he nominee who shall be chosen in :he regularly constituted, Democratic vay. And yet, as calamitous as it is, his is true. Ex-Governor Blease has innounced that he is a candidate for Congress from the seventh district mt will not allow his name to be vo ed for in the primary election fixed dr August 20. He furthermore urges lis followers not to vote until the reneral election, .which is without ace or party restriction. Considering the fact that the Re lublican party is now the dominant laity and will leave nothing undone j hat will embarrass and humiliate he South, and considering the fur hev fact that race conditions nation lly and in our own State have not een more acute since the trying ays immediately following the Civil Var, rendering it imperative that here be no division among the white eople of the South, such a course as Ir. Blease has adopted is all the more erirehensible. While we know nothing of Mr. floase's motives, and do not now im ugn them, yet in view of (the hun reds of pardons issued to negroes nd in view of certain well-known pseches he has made to large negro udiences in the past, does he not ?ad one to suspect that this denoue lent is a bid for the negro vote? We ave been informed that the negroes re registering in large numbers in he seventh district. Every true South Carolinian owes : to himself, to society and to the Hate, to throw the weight of influ nce on the side of relieving the i;nse racial and pollitical situation, tistead of seizing upon it as an op ortunity to further selfish ends, iurely such a course as Mr. Blease has adopted will not meet with the approval of even a handful of white mer. in the seventh congressional dis trict. A Retrospect. There are some things we ought to forget, and there are some per sons who deserve to be forgotten; but to forget those who have ren dered us a service either by act or in fluence, to forget them is to injure ourselves and to deprive life of an inestimable blessing. Retrospection delights the mind, especially if the recollection of a person has benign influence and sanctifying effect upon one's conduct. Such was the influence of Thohias Lanham Dorn, the flower of whose sweet life faded just about one year ago, and made the commu nity the richer for his having lived and poorer for his having left us, but still the perfume of that flower lin gers with us. For his companions to remember him, will make it always more difficult to do wrong and easy to emulate his beautiful example. Just to recall his sweet face will rebuke us in the hour of temptation and inspire us with an ambition to be Christlike! We are satisfied that the life of this boy's influence has contributed much to en rich the minds and hearts of those with whom he was associated in child hood. If this dear little fellow was passed by unnoticed by those of ma turity, then we are poorer for our neglect, but the souls of those who took him in have caught a vision of another and better life. There are some people who stagger our faith in immortality, but there jare others who defy us to doubt. We are too prone to magnify the loss of a grown person and minimize the loss of a child-forgetting that the great world teacher took children in His arms and said: "Of such is the Kingdom of Heaven." In writing this retrospection we are not prompted by professionalism, but by an actual experience which grew out of the association of a child so near and dear, and bearing the same given name to my own son, whose life has been so benefitted by his playmate that I am satisfied that both the life and death of this dear boy has been instrumental in con firming religious impressions that were made in his home. ' So that, gratitude to the deceased and a per sonal love and admiration prompts us to record a retrospection of most for tunate character. He was born January 22, 1904 and departed this life July 30, 1918. Du ring his brief life of less than fifteen years he grew in favor with God and man. Each day mraked the un folding of a splendid manhood ?:ac. promised to bless th? world, bu; in the wisdom cf Ged he was transplant ed to a life where the "rainbow ncv?r fades, where the stars will be cpr?aJ before us like islands that slumber on the ocean" and where glory meets the eye; to a land where the "wither ing word, farewell, is never heard, where there is no night, nor tears, nor'groans, nor sighs; to a land where we long to go because the good have gone before. It is not the absence of the worth less and the wicked that dispels the j shadow of the inevitable, but it is the I absence of the beautiful in form and spirit that beckons us to immortality, that removes the sting and conquers the vale. And that which makes heaven so real is the life that on earth was lived. This dear child was filled with the greatness of goodness, for he was modest, humble, affectionate, respect ful, gentk, ihoughtful, generous, kind, loyal and consecrated to high ideals of life. In the home, on the ! streets, on the playground, he ex hibited those traits which add a charm to personality. Of course he was not faultn?ss but possessed enough humanity to temper him with the milk of human kindness. Just as soon as he realized the meaning of Christianity he identified himself with the church, and to the day of his death he enjoyed the services of the sanctuary and Sunday School, con tributing not only his presence and influence but also of his means. He is gone but not forgotten! His parents and relatives have a treasure in Heaven where the heart can safely be. What a sweet retrospection! The lasting perfume of the flower that ; fades; the paradise where, the soul delights to dwell; the wealth of mem ory stored with visions of beauty; it summons us back to the past, cheers the present aching heart, enables us 1 to have a better perspective of life. His message to us is this: "Christ made what I am, and what I am be- 1 longs to Him! Playmates, do not dis-^ ? appoint me! I am waiting and watch ing for thee! A FRIEND. Some People Get Rich making their money work for them. You can put your quarter to work for you if you will come in and see what we have to offer for it. We are going to fill up the west window, with articles worth up to $2.50 to go at 25 cents each. Now is your chance to make your quar ter work for you. We still have a few bargains left over from the sales. Come in and see them. Another shipment of Worthmore waists just in. The Comer Store Senator Tillman's Will File in Augusta. Augusta, Ga., July 29.-A copy o .he will of the late United State ! Senator Benjamin R. Tillman o Trenton, S. C., has been filed wit] .he local clerk of court here togethe 'with the papers appointing his son B. R. Tillman, Jr., executor. ' I The will was originally fih.d witl the clerk of court at Edgefield las ?August following the death on Jul] 2,. 1918, of the senator. Under this will Mrs. Lona Tillmar Moore is given the Tillman propertj at the corner of Broad and Kollock streets now occupied by the Augusta Vulcanizing Company. The othei property of the late senator, consist ing of valuable farm lands in Green wood, Aiken and Edgefield counties of South Carolina and other property in North Crolina was divided equal ly among his widow and four chil children. The home place at Trenton was left to his widow and other prop erty divided equally among the four children. Certain sets of books were left to his grandchildren, the bulk of his library remains at the Tillman home in Trenton. Two busts of the late senator were given to Clemson and Winthrop colleges of South Caro lina. By terms of the will the children are required to care for one of the old and faithful servants at the Till man home. LOMBARD Foundry, Machine, Boiler Works and Mill Supply House AUGUSTA GEORGIA Cotton Oil, Gin, Saw, Grist, Cane, Shingle Mill, Machinery Supplies and Repairs, Shafting, Pulleys, Hangers, Grate Bars, Pumps, Pipe, Valves and Fittings, Injectors, Belting, Packing Hose, etc. Cast every day. GASOLINE AND KEROSENE ENGINES Pumping, Wood Sawing and Feed Grinding Outfits. WANTED: White families to cul :ivate one, two, or three-horse farm. Must give good references. Apply to J. 0. ATKINSON, Colliers,. S. C. 7-16-3tpd. - Moira timiyltayl i Sake your iol a ^lyP^ Iranspori?tion even S more Economical I T EARLY a million Ford cv;: : . "$J ers have found that mam.:;- jj JL TE nance and ?.ire cosis are jj reduced approximately ZO pe: cent large saving is made in fuel by the fe* FORD Trzsakz PATCNTCO They protect riders from disagreeable shocks and jolts-make any Ferd ride as smoothly and comfortably as a $2,000 car. They make thecnr safer, preventing sidesway at high speeds. The same shocks that disturb the passengers, also rack, strain and wear out the cai-. Hasslers prevent squeaks, rattles and deterioration. They make a Ford car or a Fordone-ton truck lastlonger and giveit a high er resale value. The spiral, conical springs of chrome-vanadium steel compress on either upward or downward movements. They last and make the car or truck last. -Day Trial Offer ride without Hasslers because someone tries to discourage you.Theyare a quality product-worth their price. We will put them on for 10-days' trial. Your money refunded if you say so. Ask for Trial Blank. FOR SALE BY Yonce Motor Company NOTICE. "The Union Brothers of Love Charitable Society will apply to the Secretary of State for a certificate of Incorporation three days after ;he publication of this notice to in :orporate as a Religious, Education ?, Social, Fraternal, Charitable and Eleemosynary Society," with head luarters in Meriwether Township, Edgefield County, S. C., Postoffice, tforth Augusta, S. C. Signed GEORGE THOMAS, President. Willie Britton, Secretary. ' ' WANTED. Splendid opportunity for men and women selling guaranteed hosiery. Handsome profits made in either full or spare time. Full line of men's, wo men's and children's up-to-date styles. Large commissions. Experi ence not necessary. Write PHOENIX HOSIERY CO., West Market Street Station, . Philadelphia, Pa. '?o Frevc.t L*.jod Poisoning ipp'.y at once the wouderfulold reliable DR. MRTER'S ANTISEPTIC HFALING OIL, a sur. eic.il dressing; tbat relieves pain sud heals at Uie same time. Not ? liniment 25c -s* ^X?C