Edgefield advertiser. (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, August 25, 1920, Image 4
?Htahital?eu 1H35. .
J. L. MIMS,_.Editor.
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ished at advertising rates.
Wednesday, August 25.
Beech Island.
(?ontinued from last week.)
.was subscribed. The president m?me
ly called* on each member who stated
the amount he was willing to put up.
There are times in the course of
events when a speech of only a few
words,is far more eloquent than a
long address^Jby a Cicero or a Cal
houn, like the "yes" or "no" from a
woman's lips. As the president, Mr.
Dunbar would .call out a name the
person addressed would quietly say
?"I'll give one thousand dollars" or
five hundred, and so it was a mere
jnatter of a few minutes and the
money was raised. This only illus
trates the excellent results that this
club attains by regular meetings and
real co-operation. -And the exercises
do not consist of a set of cold forms
of a profession of fraternity and
empty ceremonies, but go right down
to practical and substantial benefits
for the progress of the community,
where money talks.
After the disposition of this mat
ter the boll weevil was opened up for
debate and several gentlemen who
had been in the territory already in
fested with the pest gave wise and
relevant advice as^to how to combat
the evil. The main things to do is to
be sure and gather up all the dead
squares and burn them every day.
But the only sure remedy is to stop
planting cotton for two years. It
was further shown that the boll wee
vil is not so bad even in high, dry
land as in wet, swampy lands. Then
the meeting passed offin practical
debate about actual conditions and
I do not remember ever attending a
meeting so full of interest, harmony
and good fellowship, all done* in such
quiet, good taste, just like one fam
ily. At about three o'clock the meet
ing adjournedj^hen dinner was an
nounced!
We all repaired to the large din
ing room where everyone had a
comfortable *eat at the table where
you found a first-class barbecue din
ner, consisting of barbecued pig and
lamb cooked just to the queen's
taste, plenty of good corn bread
aud Hour bread, corn on the cob,
cold slaw, steaming rice, barbecued
hash in Southern style, hot potatoes,
raw tomatoes, pickle, hot coffee, ice
tea, lemonade and every sort of sub
stantial food. There were no pic
nic knick knacks, no pie?, cakes or
other sickening desserts.
After dinner a box of cigars was
handed arounded to everybody ores
present.
No ladies are permitted to attend
the regular meetings, but on 6tated
occasions ladies do attend.
After such a barbecue dinner
everybody leaves full and well fed
.airi in love wiih the world and the
balance of mankind.
Asyive drove back along the good
road Miss Kellah Fair showed us a
neat white Baptist church nestling
in the valley amid the shady grove
of trees, a quiet secluded spot where
she as a young girl gave her trust
ing heart to Jesus, and near by is a
stream cf water in which she was
baptized out under the canopy of
heaven, just as Jesus was immersed,
in the running stream in the open
air-an ideal spot for religious med
itation and real consecration!
. "There is a pleasure in the pathless
woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society where none intrudes,
.By the deep sea, and music in its
roar."
"IE from society we learn to live
'Tis solitude shou'd teach us how to
die.
It hath no flatterers; vanity can give
No hollow aid; alone, man with his
God must strive-"
Miss Kellah also pointed out to
.ns a beautiful Presbyterian church
in equally as quiet and secluded a
spot. We also passed a very large
-school house and. commodious dwell
house for the school superintendent,
wbe gets a large salary and this
dwelling arid plenty of-rrch ground
for garden and other patches-so
he can easily keep a cow. This
school is an endowed school, called j
the Downer Fund. \It is upto-dai
and first-class in every part?cula
with a good library. It ip largel
attended, affording ample opporti
nity to all children, rich and poor
if there are any poor; we never 6a
any. Thus the curse of illiterac
that is such a blight on this Soutl
land does not exist in Beech Islam
All the people I met were well edi
cated and far from the prejudie
and suspicion that ignorance breed
But with all their srreat crops an
fine stock, roaming over fertile pa
ture!", the best element of ad m ir:
tion produced there is her men an
women.
Tell me not that all men are cn
ated free and equal-not as long t
some families so far surpass othei
in all the nobler attributes of ic
soul. Good blood will- tell, eve
among cows and hogs-much moi
. in mankind. The families th?
sprung from such men as J. H
Hammond, the Laraars, the Dui
bars, the Atkinses, the Fairs, Wall
ers and others, are just natural bor
aristocrats-no such , aristocrats a
the Romanoff and Hollenzollern:
who waded through a sea of bloo
? to renown, but the real aristocrat
of brave, Southern gentlemen an
fair and virtuous women above r<
proach of dear Dixie's land.
We had the pleasure of meetm
several of our Edgefield friend
there, Dick Parker, who marrie
Miss Gertie Gainey, and his so
John Parker who was a gallan
captain in France, where he reu
dered great service in helping t
, down the Kaiser-William Dot
son,. Henry Lake, Hughes Lake
Law Hill and John Hill, and se\
eral others, all prosperous piar
ters.
The greaC point in calling tb
attention of the people of Edge
field to Beech Island, is to sho\
the good of this Agricultural Club
which is a good model for the va
rious communities of Edgefield ti
follow. The secret of the succ?s
of this club is that it is devoted ti
farming altogether, nothing bu
farming, and of course the neces
sary appurtances of farming. I
has never been allowed to becorai
a Political Organ on which mei
ride into office, it is not in an?
sense wedded to any Religious De
nominations, neither is it a plac?
where young people can indulge ii
frivolities of social festivity, tbei
the members all act in harmony
and thus co-operation they savi
much money and trouble, and es
c pecially potent to keep up the or
ganization is that 'inontbly barbe
? cue. A young married lady one?
wrote to an elderly woman to knov
the secret of keeping her h?sbanc
happy, the old lady answered ir
three words, ''feed the brute.'
1 Man is naturally convival and tone
of good eating and also we all love
archange of diet at times, and there
' is nothing that so draws us togethei
as to sit down and dip out of the
same dish. vOur Saviour set a good
example in this respect as in case
, of the Lord's Supper,'and very few
men will miss a meeting when they
know that they will get a good
barbecue dinner, that draws more
perhaps than any other one thing.
Then too the subjects of discus
sion are not dry abstract theories
on abstruce subject?, where there is
diversity of opinion, but they dis
cuss practical matters, that relate
to their every day wants and inter
est, and there is nothing that draws
people together like a united in
terest in a financial way, and op
posing a common enemy.
Tuen again, the people are edu
cated, in vain can any people act
in harmony who cannot read or
write, they have good schools there
and spend money on them and no
amount of money spent on educa
tion is wasted, provided it is salted
down with wholesome Christian
influence. We have just been
taught by the Kaiser, that educa
tion alone is a dangerous thing
when not wedded .to Religon, the
Beech Island folks are a peaceable
and religious class.?
When we think of what a deli
cate piece of God's handiwork,
man is a wonderful combination uf
bones and muscles-and when we
dweli upon the many deadly mis
sives, explosive and chemicals late
ly used with so much devastation
on the land in caves under the
ground, up in the air above, and
down in the trackless ocean, the
hellish torpedoes that can in one
swift blow sink an iron clad steam
boat of helpless women anet chil
dren out on the wide, wide sea, the
deadly gas which was turned loose
in the air and which when breathed
congealed the lungs into jelly, those
Plutonian flames of liquid fire, the
improved variety of fire arms from
the pistol to a monster cannon
that will shoot eighty miles away,
and that shocking anguish of going
over the Top amid such awful con
flagrative carnage as never was
dreamed of this side of hell, when
? say we think of all this so fresh
on our minds the world can't af
ford to go into another war. lt
would soon wipe out the population
of the civilized world and bank
rupt all Chritendora and leave the
naked savages in the jungles of
Africa, alone to smile at the hor
row of what we term a civilized
life. Just think of the consequences
should a fertile land as Beech
Island was lade waste and torn to
pieces like the Germana devastated
parts of Belgium and France.^
The deadly sword must be
sheathed by some sort of agreement
among the nations who have lately
destroyed so much, and nothing but
the Chrisiian religion of the Bible
can make this world a safe place to
live in; so let us emulate the exam
ple of the good people and culti
vate these three sisters of\ peace
and prosperity. The Religion of
the Bible, efficient schools, and
a successful system of agriculture,
teach the South that there is no life
so independent and that of a coun
try gentleman-and check this wild
rush of so many country people
moving to town where they cease
to be producers and become con
sumers, many of whom eke out a
miserable existence, struggle with
debt and living in some close little
shop breathing musty .air.
In fact the boll weevil is not
worrying the people of Beech
Island much, they know that by
combined action they can lise every
known method to destroy them,
and if they cannot, why they feel
safe. When corn is now selling
for near three dollars a bushel, hay
at fifty dollars per ton and such
things as peas, potatoes, pumpkins^
peanuts, small grain arndell sorts
of vegetables and fruits, with good
pasture lands and where velvet
beans and other coter crops grow
<?o easi'y, they are not going to cry
over the boll weevil and worship
old King Cotton. They know that
there are too many mouths to be
fed in the city for any dilligent
farmer to ever want a market to
sell other things besides cotton,
they do not have to be the slaves
to cotton, tho they recognize that
cotton will always be a good money
crop, provided the farmers by
proper co-operation , will contTpl
the price of it and not be dictated
to by a few men in Liverpool,
England.
No better country exists for rear
ing live stock, atid when I think
of what I read lately about so many
people out around the regions of
that waterless waste about Arizona,
who make a living from rearing^
stock who live on cactus, and a few
wild grasses, with water to haul
sometimes forty miles away, why
we people in Edgefield, with our
fertile land, all abounding in
streams of living water, we can
surely get along, if necessary with
out any cotton; I remember that
during the war between the States
no cotton was sold at all and yet
we made plenty to eat at home and
besides fed the hungry armies of
both the south ?nd the North.
In addition to Gov. J. H. Ham
mond, there are other distinguished
men and women who were reared
in this fertile soil. Gen. Marcellus
Hammond, who was the father of
the queenly Mrs. Annie Walker,
who lives here in Edgefield some
times with her daughter, Mrs. Stel
la Walker Blaloek- Gen. Ham
mond I say, who was a West Point
graduate with honors, was a gal
lant officer in the Mexican war.
That beloved scholar James R."
Randall married a sister of Mrs.
Walker. The present learned Jurist
Henry Hammond, who is the Judge
of the Superior Court at Augusta,
Ga., the late lamented Joseph La
mar who so gracefully adorned the
Supreme Bench of the U. S. Court,
the gallant Tbos. J. Lamar, Bar
ney Dunbar of commercial renown,
that eminent Baptist Divine, What
ley Lamar, and others, sprung from
? this good land, and the soil of
Beech Island is consecrated with
some of most precious dust which
when animated with life, ever fell
on the field of battle, iu the vari
ous wars in which they were en
gaged, or ever struggled along the
industrious parts of peace. As we
think of them, we are led to ex
claim.
"But when the rising moon begins
to climb,
Its topmost arch and gently pauses
there*
When the stars twinkle thru the
loops of time,
And the low night breeze waves
along the air,
The Garland forest which the gray
walls wear,
Like laurels on the bald first
Ceasar's head,
When the light shines serene, but
doth not glare,
Then in this magic circle, raise the
dead,
Heroes have trod this spot, 'tis on
their lust ye tread."
A. S. T.
flow To dive Quinine To Children.
PEBRfLINE is the trade-mark name*glven to an
improved Quinine. It is a Tasteless Syrup, pleas,
ant to take and does not disturb the stomach.
Children take it and never know it ls Quinine
Also especially adapted to adults who cannot
lake ordinary Quinine. Does not nauseate not
cause nervousness nor rinding In the head. Try
it the next time you need Quinine for any pur?
ttose. Ask fdr 2-ounce original package. The
?me FSBRU.INE is bi own ia bottle. 25 vest?
That one T?as to
doesn't have to
that nearly all
keeping an oper
alone has elimn
merchandise bec
to force a sale OJ
We have re
Hats ai
Fa
and it wi*, pay you to s<
S??? Portations it will take sc
ot it.
Music Club Met.
( Communicated. )
Mrs. J. L. Minis and Miss Florence
Mims was the hostesses for the
August meeting of the Philharmonic
Club. The subject for study was
"Women in Music" and after the
business session a very interesting
program on this subject was carried
out. Miss . Genevieve Norris play
ed Godard's Venetienne, after which
Miss Florence Minis gave an inter
esting original paper on "Women
in Music" which was entertaining
and instructive. Miss Justine Can
telou played a lovely piano solo,
Norris sang "Knowest thou the
Land" from the opera "Mignon".
At the close of the programe the
hostess served delightful ice cream
and cake.
Miss Sophie Minis was welcomed
as a new member.
Wherever there is danger from
loss by fire a "Pyrene" fire extin
guisher is needed. It will extinguish
Ure from gasoline or any other cause.
Ask Frank Logan about the "Py
rene."
YONCE & MOONEY.
Dysentery
i?
can be checked and the pain re
lieved by the use of
ANTI FERMENT
Take a dose every three or four
hours until relieved.
' Directions with each bottles.
"Ask Those Who Have
Used lt."
Campbell's
ANTI-FERMENT a
Fer Mild Disorders of the
Stomach and Bowels.
ld
I Goes
advertise to succeed, and the onl
advertise for business is the Mint,
merchants are buying in limited
i eye^on the market as to price
lated any possibilities of reductic
:ause there will not be, any heavy
ti ?*er stocked goods.
eeived several si
id Dresses in the
ll Styles and Cole
5e what we have to offer now, as
ime time to secure what you net
ARE HERE TO SERVE
Corner i
wm: mam
County Campaign Meeting. -
On account of the absence of onr
linotype operator we will not at
temot to report the county cam
paign meeting of Monday which
was held in the court house Mon
day at any great length. Our fa
cilities for puttipg it in type are k
too limited this week. About the
same candidates spoke, the only
change from the meetings that
were held in the past being the
presence of Congressman J. F.
Byrnes who spoke after the county
candidates. -
if '
A STATEME]
SENATOR E.
Giving the Facts on Roll Ci
cular Issued by
There is being given circulation
throughout the state to H pamph
let purporting to come from one
H. F. Scaife, of Washington,
D. C., making an attnek upon
my record in the United States
Senate. The burdeniof the pub
lication is that I have neglected
my duties ai Senator by not at
tending to some of the roll-calls.
I have challenged comparison
of my record in this respect dur
ing the campaign and since the
issuance of this circular with the
average of those Senators who
stand high in the Senate and in
their respective parties. The
challenge was not accepted and
for the information of my friends
throughout the State I wrote to
the Hon. Charles M. Galloway,
former Civil Service Commis
sioner and now practicing attor
ney . in Washington, requesting
that he compile from the Con
gressional Record the record in
respect to roll-calls of the "follow
ing Senators:
Senator Hitchcock, Democrat,
Chairman of the Foreign Rela
tions Committee when the Dem
ocrats were in control of th'?
Senate, and Demcratic leader in
the Senate during the treaty fight.
Senator Owen, Democrat,
Chairman of the Banking and
Currency Committee under Dem
Smith. Hitchcacl
Total votes and quo
rum calls,. 4649 3799
Total absences, not vo
ting and paired_ 2060 1893
I respectfully sabmit this i
the Scaife circular to the votei
y business that
due to the fact
quantities and
conditions this^
ms in any fall
stocks on hand
lipments of
Latest
?rs
due to delayed trans
id if we havejdisposed
FLORIDA
A GOOD FARM LAND-HIGH
. ROLLING AND HEALTHYl
Good Roads, Good Schools,
and Good Neigh hors in Red
Clay Section of North Flor
ida,,adapted to general farm
ing, cattle and hog raisins;
any size farm $20 to ?50
per acre.
~-^For information write
JOHN PASCO, Monticelo,Fla.
NT FROM
D. SMITH
ills in Reply to a Cir
H. L. Scaife
ocratic control of the Senate and
one of the leading authorities on
banking aad currency in the
country, a candidate for Presi
dent, endorsed by his state and
voted for at San Francisco by
his state delegation to the last.
Two years ago he was renomi
nated and re-elected by his party
with a plurality of 36,066.
Senator Penrose, Republican,
Chairman of the Committee on
Finance and acknowledged leader
of the Republican forces, both of
the Senate and the country.
Senator Tillman, Democratic,
Chairman of the Naval Affairs
Committee under the Democrats,
whose record in the Senate needs
no comment as to his diligence
and faithful attention to his du
ties as Senator, as well as to his
statesmanship.
Senaror John Sharpe Williams,
Democrat, whose long service,
both a9 Congressman and Sena
tor, and whose usefulness to his
party and nation is unquestioned
and who is recognized as the
ripest scholar and most forceful
debater in the House or Senate.
The records from the Sixty
first Congress through the first
session of th? present Congress.
as sent by Mr. Galloway, are as
follows:
i. Owen. Penrose. Tillman. Williams
4553 4648 4015 4322
2839 2866 2218 1390
comparison in answer to
:s of the state.
E. D. SMITH.
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