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i Women Juries Now Popular. New York City, Jan, 14.-Impress ed by the ability of women juries in New Jeresy, New York is now con sidering the advisability of introduc ing women jurors into its courts. A bill amending the present jury law to include "female citizens of the United States" as well as the male ones, is to be submitted to the New York legislature this month, and, as the legislature is known to be favor ably disposed on the question, it is believed that it will be only a short time before "Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury" will be an established form in the courts. With the change in the law, jury service will become an obligation on the part of the women just as much .as it is today with the men, and they "will be subjected to the same strict rules. The present law provides that any person subpoenaed for jury duty who fails to respond is subject to punishment for contempt of court, and may be fined to the extent of $100. It is doubtful whether this, . -compulsory feature of the law will prove any more popular with women than with men, after the novelty of jury duty wears off, but for the first few years there will probably be few attempts at evasions. Under present conditions, the courts are having more and more dif ficulty in obtaining complete juries of men. No man, it seems will serve on a jury if he can possibly avoid it. Already masculine ingenuity has been strained in inventing a large as sortment of excuses from jury ser vice, and it may be that in the future a long list of feminine excuses will be offered, headed by "necessity shopping" and "bridge club meet ings." j But, so far, women have shown themselves much more interested in Jury duty than men. It was Judge Daniel A. Dugan, of the Essex" county court, range, N. J., who first tried the experiment in this part of the country. In November, the judge suddenly found his panel of 300 men jurors drawn for his ^ court at the beginning of the year running out, all of the men finding excuses of one kind or another to re-1 lieve them of the work. So, being more annoyed than usual, he took the radical alternative of drafting the "newly enfranchised New Jersey wo men. An Aristocratic Jury. . The women chosen were carefully * picked,; and represented^ somey>f the j -best families in Orange*- Mucluto theil surpris? of the court, they appeared promptly in answering to the sum mons, and none offered an excuse to avoid serving. At the last moment, it is true, Mrs. Thomas A. Edison tele phoned the judge and asked to be ex cused because her husband was ill, but she said that she would find some .way to come if he could not find1 some one else to take her place. According to Mrs. Everett Colby, who was appointed foreman of the jury, the women talked the matter over and decided that since they had gained the ballot after such a long, .hard fight, they ought not object to fulfilling . its responsibilities; when the call to jury duty came they would accept it without complaint. "It was the most interesting ex perience," Mrs. Colby declared when the trial was over, and the ladies were discussing its features in the . domestic atmosphere of an Orange "tearoom. "It was the first time I had . ever had the chance to watch the operations of a court, and there were lots of things we didn't understand, .'but of course we couldn't interrupt to ask questions. "The most astounding thing to me was when two witnesses swore to ex actly the opposite thing on the same point. We had to decide between them as to which was telling the " truth, and we had nothing at all to go upon. We knew nothing about their history or what kind of people they were,- and yet we had to deter jnine which one was lying" and which .one was telling the truth. Of course, .one of them was lying. But he was permitted to come into court and swear to a lie that he knew was a lie, and the jury decided against him, decided that he was lying, but he was allowed to go without anything being done to him." "Our case, of course, was a simple one," continued Mrs. Colby. There ?was a dentist who came from a fam ily of hucksters. There were three brothers and the dentist had taken one of his brothers and kept him in school, sending him through high school. Afterward, the boy became a huckster, but also helped in the of fice of his brother, the dentist. One of the witnesses, a woman, testified that she went to the dentist's office one evening at 8 o'clock and the boy tried to pull a tooth for her, but the tooth broke, and the blood began to flow. The boy told her she would have to go away and come back again when the tooth stopped bleeding." A Sample Case. "She went away and when she came back her jaw was terribly swol len and she was suffering intensly. The boy explained that he could do nothing until the swelling went down, but as the pain was so great, she de cided that she must have treatment immediately and went to another dentist. The new dentist treated her and- extracted the piece of tooth left in her jaw, and told her to take it back to the other dentist and show j him what he' had done. "The three brothers all swore that the boy was merely a huckster, and that he had never been in the den tist's office and had never worn a white coat in his life. But the woman positively identified the boy and oth er witnesses also identified him and said he had treated them in his broth er's office. The boy was placed in a group of men seated in the court room, instead of on the platform, and still the witnesses had "no difficulty in picking him out. They were also very positive in their statements and could not be confused and they didn't have any reason to be against the boy unless he really had been in the office." Furthermore, the boy did not make a good impression in the court room. He had a regular Charlie Chaplin mustache, a lovely complexion and big, eloquent brown eyes, but he was too pert and flippant and sure of his ground. "I'd much rather be tried by a jury of women than by a jury of men," he remarked on the morning that the case opened. "Women wouldn't be fair to a woman who was being tried, but with a man it'll be different. I'm satisfied, all right." Thus the decision of the jury, must have burst upon the young man with a tremendous shock. For it took them almost no time at all to find him guil ty of the serious offense of practicing dentistry without a license. At first two of the twelve women were inclin ed to acquit him because they felt sorry for his brother, who had work ed so hard to educate him, and who would now probably lose a good deal of his practice, but these did not hold out very long. The decision came in just seventeen minutes. Judge Likes Women Jurors. Judge Dugan was ? tremendously pleased with the result of this trial. It was, ho declared precisely the de cision :?he wouLl. h.-ivw ? J?adc .vlumse;f. Since ""then he has been encouraged to repeat the experiment. We have found women juries an unqualified success," he said recent ly, "and they have had the effect of making men juries easier to get. The men seem a little ashamed of them selves and they are not offering so many .excuses to escape serving. I think including women in the jury lists will make the whole business easier. It doubles the number of available jurors for one thing. "It is also possible to get a higher type of women to serve on a jury the same type of men are too busy j to serve. Some of the male juries we have are almost feeble minded, and. the verdicts they render are ab solutely ridiculous. I have thrown out many verdicts of men juries and orr dered retrials. Sometimes I let them j stand, because it doesn't make any difference, anyway. But often the verdicts are too irrelevant to the facts." Judge Dugan is not sure that wo men would be -as efficient in a murder j case, or a very long-drawn-out civil case, where every point is a basis of a long argument. They would get tired, of course, but then it is not an unusual sight to see masculine jury noddling and dozing in the jury box, entirely oblivious to important tes timony. Women -could not do any worse than this, he says. Anyway the judge is going to try it, ar.d see what happens. The panel of 300 jurors for the Orange court this year is to be made up of 150 men and 150 women. And the next thing 'that is to be tried in court is a mixed jury of six men and six wo men. For the mixed jury, it is believ ed, will be -the most successful kind of a jury ever developed under our judicial system. SCHOOL NOTICE. We expect to have a good meeting of teachers and trustees in the school auditorium Saturday, January 29th, at ll o'clock An interesting program will be had and the ladies of the W. C. T. U. will entertain us at luncheon. All trustees who can be with us, will please write a card to Mrs. J. L. Mims, that she may know how to pre pare. All teachers are expected unless providentially hindered. W. W. FULLER, County Supt. Education. l-12-2t. December Dairy Honors. Clemson College, Jan. 15.-Rock ingham's Tulip, a guernsey owned by !R. M. Cooper, Jr., Wisacky, pro duced an official test in December 68.04 pounds of butter-fat and 1, 475.6 pounds of milk, thus winning first place on the December honor roll in the official test of cows in ?South Carolina. Rockingham's Tulip is not only a great producer but a remarkable show cow, and has won many honors on the show circuits. In 1920 she "won 8 grand champion ships and did much to show the peo ple of Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Mis sissippi, Alabama, Georgia, what; South Carolina can produce in dairy cows. After returning from the show circuit, she was placed on official test in October, and her December production of over 5% gallons of milk per day is further evidence of her ability as a producer. * Second honor on the December roll was won by Hazel Korndyke, a Hol stein owned by H. D. Jordan, Ridge Spring, with a production of 66.34 pounds of butter-fat and 1,819.7 pounds of milk; third honor going to another Jordan Holstein, Aldrich, with a production of 65.72 pounds of butter-fat and 2,018.1 pounds of milk. Included in the honor roll for De cember weil 21 G?ernseys, 23 Hol steins and 2 Jerseys, making a total o? 46 out of 123 on official test. Of j those on the honor roll 19 cows pro duced 50 or more pounds of butter fat and six of these produced 601 or more pounds. Owners of cows on hte December honor roll were H. D. Jordan, Ridge Spring; J. K. Mayfield, Denmark; St. J. A. Lawton, Charleston; P. A. Baxley, Blackville; F. F. Rainsford,j Trenton; South Carolina Experiment Station, Clemson College; J. Watt Weir, Cornwell; R. M. Cooper, Jr., Wisacky; J. M. Ervin, Darlington; A. L. James, Darlington; Jas. L. Mc Intosh, Dovesville; C. ?. McCall, Ben nettsville and Ware Shoals Mfg. Co., Ware Shoals. Beat the Boll Weevil. Now ready. See me quick. Cab bage Plants, Garden Seed, Onion Sets Seed Peanuts, Seed Irish Potatoes, Sweet Potato Plants in season. WATSON PLANT CO., Edgefield, S. C. 5s A Tonic For Women . "I was hardly able to drag, I was so weakened," writes Mrs. W. F. Ray, of Easley, S. C. 'Thedoctortreatedmeforabout two months, still I didn't get any better. I had a large fam ily and felt I surely must do something to enable me to take care of my little ones.' I had heard of The Woman's Tonic "I decided to try it," con tinues Mrs. Ray . . . "I took eight bottles in all.. . 'I re gained my strength and have had no more trouble with wo manly weakness. ? have ten children and am able to do all my housework and a lot out doors ... 1 can sure recom mend Cardui." Take Cardui today. It may be just what yod need. At all druggists. E81 FOR SALE. Pure bred Poland China pigs, five months old. Sub ject to registration. Prices reasonable. P. B. DAY, JR., Trenton, S. C. Frost Proof Cabbage Plants. One hunted acres, thirty million good stocky plants, ready now. Early Jersey, Charleston Wakefields, Suc cession, Flat Dutch. Parcel Post paid. 300, $1.00; 500, $1.50; l,00O, $2.50; Express 2,000, $3.50; 5,000, $7.50; 10,000, $12.50. Count and delivery guaranteed. PARKER FARMS, Moultrie, Ga. For loans an real estate. See CLAUD T. BURNETT, Lawyer. Over store of W. W. Adams & Co. Hastings Seeds 1921 Catalog Free It's ready now. 116 handsomely Il lustrated pages of worth-while seed and garden news. This new catalog, we believe, is the most valuable seed book ever published. It contains twenty full pages of the most popular vegetables and flowers in their natu ral colors, the finest work of its kind ever attempted. With our photographic illustrations, and color pictures also from photo graphs, we show you just what you grow with Hastings' Seeds even be fore you order the seeds. This cata log makes garden and flower bed planning easy and it should be in ev ery single Southern home. Write us a post-card for it, giving your name and address. It will come to you by return mail and you will be mighty glad you've got it. Hastings' Seeds ara the Standard of the South and they have the larg est mail order seed house in the world back of them. They've got to be the best. Write now for the 1921 cata log. It ls absolutely free. H. G. HASTINGS CO., SEEDSMEN, ATLANTA, GA. 8 h SUFFERING? Most of the pain we suffer is unnecessary. Why continue to endure it-to sacrifice 3'our . youth, beauty, and enjoyment to it? The combination of simple harmless medicines found in Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pilla is especially effective in re lieving pain without bad after effects. For more than thirty-five years sufferers from headache, neuralgia, backache, tooth ache, sciatica and pains from other causes have found re lief by taking these pills. \yhy do 't you try them? ?|p YCU2 .?.R U G GI ? T 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. J. S. BYRD Dental Surgeon Office Over Store of Quarles & Timmerman Office Phone No. 3 Residence Phone 87 FORSALE. NO. 1 Ten-room dwelling with tin roof, almost new, within a short w?lk of post office. Completed with mod-] ern conveniences, electric lights, etc. Has garden," also corn and potato land at premises. All out buildings. NO. 2. Twenty-one (21) acre farm with seven-room, modern dwelling with electric lights, and all out build ings. Has plenty of wood, pasture with water and 18 acres will make a bale of cotton to the acre. Conve nient to High School. Partly in the town of Edgefield. E. J. NORRIS. FOR SALE. Extra Early King Cotton seed, grown by me. $1.50 per bushel f. o. b. Clark's Hill, S. C. Cash with order, or $1.25 to those who call with sacks at my home and get them. Come on Ruben and be ready to plant early. G. D. MIMS, Clark's Hill, S. C. l-12-8t. For Sale. Cleveland Big Boll cotton seed. Seed from Wannamaker's last year] and ginned on private gin. Yield 40 bales on 36 acres in nineteen-twenty. Price $1.00 per bushel in January. B. R. TILLMAN, P U A NIT E R'S F ERTI'LI Z E=R Increase the Yield of Farm Crops Corn, cotton, truck, barley, wheat, oats-these, and all other crops will pay well if a little attention is given to the proper fertilizer for your soil. Planters Fertilizers are especially suited to the needs of Southern soils. You cannot raise a 100 % crop unless you hare a 100 soil. _ Fertility is largely a matter of balanced conditions of the sol Phosphoric Acid, Ammonia, and Potash must be present in thc proper proportions if bumper crops are to be raised. rUNTERSFOmUZER DOUBLES YOUR YIELD because it contains available Phosphoric Acid, Ammonia and Potash in the right proportions. Every bag is stamped with our Giant Lizard Trade-Mark. Look for it--it*s for your protection, ?nd better place your order for Planter's right now and avoid delayed delivery. Ask our agent ia your town for information, free advice, or prices, or write us direct. Planters Fertilizer & Phosphate Co, MANUFACTURERS CHARLESTON. SOUTH CAROLINA ca How Are You Traveling? Are you in ? financial rut? Are you plodding along as you have for years? Are you traveling in the same old circle that lands you nowhere? If so isn't it about time to make a change, to ,vget out of .the rut and into the broad highway where the successful people travel? It may not--he easy, it may not be done all at once but it's worth tryirier. How can it be done? As others do it, by saving, by placing the savings no matter how small, in our bank, by keeping this up, by adding to the account by forc ing yourself to save. It is no easy job tb get of a rut, but it can be done- We will help you. The Bank of Trenton, S. C. All checks drawn on The Bank of Trenton can be cleared free of ex change through the Federal Reserve Bank. FARMERS: Sell Your COTTON and Hold It Ask Your Tankers About This Method We Handle Ten Bale Lots on Margin of $10 Per Bale You need the money, but you don't want to let go of your cotton because you believe the price will ultimately go higher. You can get the money and the ultimate advance in price if you hedge with us. To do this, sell your cotton at the best price you can get and buy an equivalent amount of future cotton, holding back one-fourth of the sell ing price to protect the same, like a banker does when he lends you mon ey on warehouse receipt. Then if the market goes up you still get the benefit of the advance, In this way you pay no interest, storage charges, depreciation pr in surance, yet you have just as much money as if you borrowed on aware house receipt. Write for free booklet 4'How Cotton Markets Are Made." Set tlement made in Columbia of all contracts carried there. Net bal ances subject to draft. Address - Martin & Co. Edmund A. Felder 81 Broad Street "New York City, N. Y. OR S. C. Representative 1512 Sumter St., Columbia, S. C. YOU TAKE NO CHANCES! ?fi ^y- Razors are tflZWrrUlle, Guaranteed for Life For Salo by EDGEFIELD MERCANTILE COMPANY