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(Sedgefield ^dteriisec J. L. MIMS._..Editor. Published every Wednesday in The Advertiser Building at $2.00 per year in Advance. Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at Edgefield, S. C. No communications will be pub lished unless accompanied by the writer's name. Cards of Thanks, Obituaries, Res olutions and Political Notices pub ished at advertising rates. Wednesday, October 27. When cotton is low every business suffers except the circus. * * * ? \ Unfortunately, as cotton goes .down the rate of interest goes up. * * ? * They tell us that things will be bet ter after the election. W:.i, we are all hoping so. * * (jr'* The paper Currency in circulation kis said tcv-W $51,000,000,000, but it always our lot to handle the one jWlar bills. As it now takes two pounds of cot ton to buy one gallon of gasoline,, there should be a great slump in gas oline consumption. * * ? ? Cupid is reaping a good harvest in this portion of his domain this fall, making up for the partial fail ure of the summer "crop." * * ? * It's a mighty good time to trade at home, instead of sending off our diminishing dollars to the mail-or der houses, from which they never return. ' * . * * So-called "night riders" are their own worst enemy, doing incalculable harm to the cause which they profess to befriend. Let's have no night rid ing in Edgefield county. * * * . Sumter farmers are advocating the passage of a law prohibiting the planting of cotton in South Carolina during 1920. If the price goes much lower, no such law will be necessary. Be it said to his credit, the Hon. Thomas E. Watson has made a good start by writing the Republican chairman that he is 100 per cent the nominee of the Democratic par ty. . . * * * ? Not a gin should be shut down un til every lock of cotton has been .ginned. But few farmers are pre pared to house their cotton in the .seed, -and furthermore the fire risk is greater. And still the wonder grows that a man would pay more than seven thousand dollars to be governor of Georgia. The recent campaign is said to have . cost Governor-elect Hardwick $7,487.64. * * * ? . - >. .? According to the Good Book, "there is a withholding that tendeth to poverty," or words to that effect. That is just what the government .has done. It has withheld credit from -the eotton producers and there will follow a poverty of income tax re turns from this section. Not one cot - ton grower in ten who paid an in come tax last year will be liable for it this year. * * * * Sow Large Grain Acreage -Ruin stares a large number of our .farmers in the face, if they persist in planting cotton to the neglect of food crops. The boll weevil is not coming, it is already here, and has wrought considerable damage to the cotton crop of the present year. If . we are to judge from the experience . of others in other portions of the . cotton belt, the damage will be great ' er next year. Then, too, in addition 7 to the boll weevil menace, the price . of cotton is too uncertain for farm ; ers to depend so largely upon the : staple. During the past six weeks (cotton declined more than one hun dred per cent, and the producers are "powerless to remedy the situation. They have met and adopted resolu tions and resolutions as to the price but in the face of their earnest ef forts to keep the price up it went down, down, down. There is but one safe and sane course now left to farmers and that is to reduce the acreage of cotton and plant more food stuffs that have heretofore been bought elsewhere and shipped in. Live at home should be the supreme effort of every far mer. Begin now by sowing more grain. Do not wait till next spring. Jt will be too late then. Passing Worthless Checks. With increasing frequency :ees in the papers instances of ] ;ons passing worthless checks \ "raudulet intent. It appears to b favorite means of crooks in obfc ing cash and merchandise from suspecting persons. Just yesterda; was reported that a man in R Hill secured cash to the amount $600, and also a considerable qu tity of merchandise, by pass worthless checks. Such a crim: should be punished severely. Tl is now a law upon the statute bo bearing upon 'the passing of wo: less checks but it is not dra enough, hasn't sufficient teeth ir to be feared by evil doers. B? checks should be so safeguarded t they will pass anywhere at their f value, as so much "green-bacl without question. * * * m Heavy Vote Should Be Cast. The American people will ba next Tuesday for their chief exe tive, and every person of the m than one hundred and five mitli of population who is qualified to v should go to the polls and vote. Th has been an indifference in the rr ter of voting in the general elect on the part of the people of Ed field county heretofore that was excusable. Let us hope that a lari per cent of our people will vote n Tuesday than have voted in the pi Unless we go to the polls and ex eise our right of citizenship, we < not really blame the Republicans the North if they threaten to redi our representation in the natio: congress. Our people are loyal j a active in the primary elections. vV not take an active interest in the g eral election? Not to do so is im cusable. * * * * That Democratic Dollar. The clarion call .comes to ev? Democrat to contribute one dollar the national campaign fund. Can y afford to turn a deaf ear to the ? peal? There are but few citizens this county who can not make a cc tribution of one dollar to this De ocratic victory fund. With most those who fail to do so it is indiff< ence or a lack of loyalty. Sure Edgefield county will do its part. "V are an integral part of this gre commonwealth and we should be wi ing to bear our part of its burder In making such a contribution ^ are contributing -to the promoti of our own interests. The past h proven that beyond reasonable pt adventure this part of the count receives greater consideration at tl hands of a Democratic administr tion thar at the hands of a Repu Hean administration. So it behoov us, putting it on a selfish rather thi patriotic plane, to do our bit, that i contributing one dollar to the n tional campaign fund. * * * ? Flagrantly Lawless. Thus far not a gin has been bun ed in this county this fall, but tl incendiary with his torch is comin steadily nearer. This morning tr, burning of a gin, believed to be th act of some lawless person or pei sons, is reported from near Granit? ville, in Aiken county. This is to b deplored. Scores of gins have bee burned in other parts of the cotto belt this fall by lawless persons wh claimed to commit the dastardly dee under cover of darkness in order t prornote the interests of cotton grow ers. But you can just set it down a a fact that can not be controvertei that nobody's interest is ever reall; advanced through lawlessness "There is a way that seemeth righ unto a man but the end thereof ar< the ends of death," says the Gooc Book, or words to that effect. Anc lawbreakers of this type especiallj should be given to understand thal they will be shown no quarter under the law. The shutting down of gins I will have no appreciable effect upon the cotton market, and persons whe would by violent means try to im prove present conditions are render ing no service to those whom they profess to befriend. Let there be no night-riding in Edgefield county. Notice of Election. Notice is hereby given that an election will be held on the 9th day of November, 1920 for the purpose of voting on whether or not a cer tain area shall be cut off of Edge field county and added to McCormick county. The voting place will be at the residence of Daniel McKie. The following managers have been ap pointed for this election: Daniel Mc Kie, J. G. McKie and J. W. Johnson. C. A. GRIFFIN, L. T. MAY, S. B. NICHOLSON, Chr. Commissioners State and County Election for Edgefield County. 9 - The Best Hot Weather Tonic GROVE'S TASTELESSchill TONIC enriches thc blood, builds np the whole system and will won derfully 3trenzU.?n and fortify you to withstand the depressing effect of the hot summer. 50c Are You a Good Wif Do you ever wonder if y< satisfaction as a wife? When ; your husband of an evenir the smoke pf his cigar curling his head, and a far-away looi syes, do you ever wonder \ he in thinking that the 'best ment he made in his life wa he bought you a wedding r what a fool killer was doing get his number on the day he took to be your meal ticket fe If you are curious on this s apply these acid tests to your Have you thrown away tl with which you caught your You baited your hook wit] looks. You were always- clei fresh and dainty with yoi combed so becomingly, and yoi nicely powdered, and you fe* ankles so trim and neat. Hai grown sloppy and slovenly am dy? Do you screw'your hair v, a little hard knot, that would the Venus de Milo look like a crow, because its the easiest A get it up? Do you wear run-di the-heels slippers around the and consider a much-be-soiled ria good enough to adorn ye in for a mere husband? It ti man with a superhuman talei loving to keep enamored of a \ who looks as if she needed to b to the laundry, and whose taste like cold cream. / You also baited your hook flattery. You made the poor s who nibbled at that alluring 1 believe that you thought he WJ biggest, strongest, handsomest, est man in the world. When 1 pressed an opinion, you appeal think it was the utterance of ai cle. You asked his advice and le tell you how he would run the if he was at the head of things laughed at his sentries and apph his jests. Have you quit burning incen his feet? Do you interrupt him i midst of his best story to tell that the woman next door has new hat? Do you remind him yuo raed the joke he has just in the column of the funny pa Do you openly flout his opinions criticize everything' he does, the way he has his hair cut fc pronunciation? It must be a terrible disillusic thing to marry a woman because think you are getting an adm audience in her, and then find that you have got a cricket on hearth who the president of Amalgamated Order of Lady Kr ers. So many women never thinl their husbands as anything but 1 children's father, a convenience cifully ordained hy Providence supply the wantc of Johnnie Tommy, and Mary and Janey. He no rights where the youngsters concerned and if he has to be w ed to jLeath to indulge them in ev tb-'ngCdieir greedy young he crave^^l, its a pity, but it ha be done. iiS? ? T^S Are you one of these all- moi wives? Do you let your husband up alone while you hold the ba hand while it goes to sleep until si other woman begins to hold his ha Are you merciless in squee2 money out of him for the childr Do you let him see that he is no i account in the family, and that y first thought is for them, not hi There are no_t many men so hum! and with so little self love that t] enjoy knowing that they are noth but the cash-register in their hon Are you a good house-keeper? matter whether you have every ot! virtue under the sun, but are a pi cook and keep a messy and unt: house, you are a failure as a wif It's just as much a woman's* bu ness to be thrifty and economical a spend her husband's money wise as it is his business to make t money. What sort of dinner do you ; your husband down to at night? E it come out of paper bags or is it t (kind of a meal that a man thin cheerfully of all the way home? I you buy finery that you cannot a j ford, or do you keep within your i come. A man can't think many nil j loving thoughts of a wife when 1 I realizes that she has sold him im J bondage to milliners and dressmake land that his whole life work goes 1 (their enriching. I Are you a good spoht? Have yo (got the courage to smile and buc J your husband up when things g [wrong with him? Do you make hil feel that no matter what happens h has got one loyal friend who wi! fight with him, back to back, to th bitter end? Or are you one of th whiners and complainers who are al ways fretting because they can' have things like Mrs. Astorbilt am who take the last bit of nerve out o a man by telling him they don' I know why he can't get along as wei as some other man? I Do you show your husband any ap predation? The average man doesn'1 get a thing out of his daily toil ex cept his board and clotehs. All the balance of it goes to the support ol his family, and if his wife takes this (tremendous sacrifice without one word of thanks, he is bound to feel that he is the goat that is offered up on the domestic altar. ""Do you ever tell your husband that you realize all of this, and how won derful and sublime you think his conduct is, and that he's one of the unsung heroes of the world? Finally, do you make your home a place of cheerfulness, of quiet, of peace and rest, a place to which a tired man may come and gather up new strength and courage for the next day's battle? Or is it a place of nagging and fretting and quarrels! and discomfort that nobody would return to if he could help himself? (Do you think the kind of a home you make is the realization dream of the bachelor you married I Just listen to the turn of ithe key We Strive TO Give You True Value for Your Money's Worth And it has always been our aim to please our customers, and that aim, in connection with quality goods and our reputation for square dealings, has been the corner stone of our business. . We always try to make it a point to give our customers quality goods at prices less than they can be purchased in larger towns and in connection with the recent market reductions of nearly all commodities, we would advise our customers to keep an eye on us, as we have a treat in store for them. The Corner Store GET YOUR NOVEMBER PICTORIAL NOW in the front door tonight when he comes home and you'll have a close up, as our movie friends say, of how you look to your husband as a wife. / A. B. CLOER. FOR' SALE OR TRADE: Two mules for sale or trade for milch cows. B. T. LANHAM, . <^ Edgefield, S. C. The Aiken Municipal Club, two weeks ago, refused atmittance to the women of Aiken. The women voters were championed by the best and most representative men of Aiken, led by Hon. D. S. Henderson. They were defeated by a vote of 60 to 51. Indignation among the women and representative men ran so high that the opposition was brought to terms and the action of the first meeting was rescinded by a large majority. ?Si BYRD _ Dental Surgeon":*--43l Office Over Store of Quarles & Timmerman Office Phone No. 3 ' Residence Phone 87 Edgefield, S. C. ? \,, Cotton is all open and will soon be picked. In order to begin the extermination of the boll weevil for next year, all of the stalks should be cut up and turned under. The sooner this is done the better. For this work you will need a Stalk Cutter and Disc Harrow WE HAVE THEM BOTH It is "'.so time to put in a large grain crop and you will neea the disc harrow for this work. These im plements are not only labor saving but they will do the work as no other implement will. COME IN TO SEE US AND GET OUR PRICES We carry a full stock of everything, farmers need in the way of implements and hardware of all kinds. If we haven't what you want we will get it for you on short notice. STEWART & KERNAGHAN mm