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Boom Subscription to New Express Company. Washington, D. C., Feb. 18.-Fair fax Harrison, president of the South ern Railway System, said today "The books for subscription to* the million dollars of capital stock offered ot the people of the South by the Southeast ern Company were opened yesterday morning and were closed at night. The stock was allotted proportionate ly to all the fourteen states served by the lines of the Southern Railway System and Mobile and Ohio Rail road. The reports received this morn ing show over subscription in every state. "The stock list will be made of the names of at least twenty-five hundred widely distributed southern business men holding on the average about four shares apiece. No singfe sub scription in excess of one hundred shares was received and no officer or employe of the railroad was permit ted to participate, although many of them, especially the employes, offer ed to subscribe. This result of a test of practical business democracy and individualism in the South at a time of business depression is, of course, gratifying to us, but has pernaps a larger significance. Certainly it ful ly justifies our confidence that the people of 'the South desire competi tion and express service and are will ing to back their desire with their money and their support in other re spects. "The Southeastern Express Corn will how proceed under the able man agement of its president, Mr. John B. Hockaday, to purchase its neces sary equipment and will begin service at the earliest practicable moment, of which the announcement will be made." Crisis Passed, Says Harding. Spartanburg, Feb. 18.-"The fed eral reserve board no longer looks with apprehension on the financial conditions in this country because the crisis has been passed and the condi tion of the federal reserve banks show strength in all regions," said Gov. W. P. G. Harding, of the fed eral reserve board, speaking before the annual dinner of the Spartanburg chamber of commerce here tonight. "The thing needed now is a bolder front, horse sense, and a spread of the conservative optimism that is found over the country." His position was that the federal reserve board did not restrict credits and bring on the slump in prices but absorbed that shock when the breaks came, through natural reaction from conditions of inflation following the end, of the war. There will always be good times and bad times, he said, and we still have our problems in taxation and foreign trade relations, but they will be worked out. There are always just two places where the sun is always shining-Death Valley, Cal., and the Desert of Sahara, he said. In connec tion with the charge that the federal reserve board has withheld loans from agricultural interests he said the board has recently answered the question from a congressional com mittee showing that agricultural loans in 1919 were $721,000,000 while in 1920 they were $1,980,000, 000. The governor said the.farmers of the country should dispose of their products in an orderly fashion and follow some orderly plan of produc tion in the year ahead. Greenvill?, Feb. 18.-The danger point of the present readjustment pe riod has ben safely passed and every development since January 1 has been favorable to a revival of busi ness, W. P. G. Harding, governor of the federal reserve board declared this afternoon in an address before the Kiwanis Club. Regarding the future Mr. Harding said: "Knowing what I do of the re sources of the federal reserve sys tem, I have never felt any real dan ger of a money panic in this country. We passed one danger in October and another in December. Every de velopment since January has been favorable to a revival of business." For the Liver and Bowel?. When your liver and bowels be came torpid get a bottle of Chamber lain's Tablets. They will tone up your liver and cause a gentle movement of the bowels. They also improve the digestion. New Prices. Flat Dutch, Wakefield, Drumhead cabbage plants by parcel post or ex press collect, five hundred for 1.00; one thousand for $1.50; Nancy Hall and Porta Rica potato plants by par cel post or express collect, five hun dred for $1.25; one thousand for $2.25. Prompt shipments. Good plants. Satisfaction guaranteed. WATSON PLANT CO., 2-16-lt Edgefield, S. C. ' Would Add Weight to a War Tax. We are in the midst of a period of declining wages and salaries. Is this the time to talk about add ing a state income tax to the federal income tax? The thing can be overdone. State income taxes have sometimes driven the drawers of large salaries out of one state into another. Some of the lai-ger salaries paid by corporations having their plants in South Caorlina are now paid to citizens of other states. A citizen of Seattle may reside in South Carolina and pay his personal taxes in the state of Washington. For the present, the field of income taxation should .'.be left to the federal government. The taxes are now col lected from a class-the class having net incomes of more than $2,000, if having no dependents, or $1,000 if without dependents. An income tax enacted in South Carolina, with sim ilar exemptions, would be in eifect no more than an increase of the tax es paid by this class, to be collected with the indirect assistance of the federal revenue officers. We hear torrents of nonsense about "home rule" and, on the heels of it, a proposal to transfer taxcol lecting, in some degree, to the gov ernment of the United States, a gov ernment in three weeks to pass into the hands of the Republican party. Manifestly, no state income tax will be generally and equitably ad ministered to long as tax collectors are chosen by primary. Apparently, the enactment of a state income tax law would be simply that, after having had one some 20 year and having failed to enforce it, having miserably "laid dow" on the task of dealing squarely with our selves, we are ready to try it again, in the hope that the United States will make it impossible for us not to enforce it with a measure of uniform ity and square dealing. After a few years, if the country remains at peace, the federal income tax law will be repealed or the rate of it greatly reduced. It is now an excessive tax-because it is a war tax. Shall South Carolina, while this excessive burden is at the peak, de liberately enlarge it? Moreover, a state income tax should not, if enacted, provide ex emptions of $2,000 and $1,000. There is no reason, in equity or jus tice, that anyone should be wholly exempted. It should be graduated, that is a sound principle, and it should fall lightly on persons of small income, but no one should be allowed to feel that he is entirely free of ob ligation to bear a part of the burden of the state out of his earnings, if part of the burden is to be placed on earnings. It may be a good law but it is not good morals for legislatures to divide the people into classes of taxpayers and non-taxpayers. If South Carolina is to have an. in come tax, every man and woman ex ercising the rights and enjoying the privileges of citizenship should pay it, though the minimum be no more than a dollar of fifty cents.-The State. Shows Big Cattle Price Drop. Washington,-Beef cattle on farms lost in average value pei-.head from January 1, 1919, to January 1, 1921, all that they gained during the participation of the United States in the World War, and more than half as much again, according to the bu reau of crop estimates of the depart ment of agriculture. The loss occurred mostly in 1920. This has been established by the re cent annual investigation of prices of farm animals per head made by the .bureau. The average price per head, all ages, of cattle other, than milch cows, was $35.92 in 1917; $44, 22 in 1919 and $31.41 in 1921. Jan uary 1 last year the farm price was $4.51 below that of 1917, several months before this country declared war. A statement by the bureau says: "In the case of swine the average price per head, all ages, declined in the two years, 1919 and 1920, 88 per cent of the gain in 19|17 and 1918 and two-thirds of the decline, was in 1920. , "From 1916 to 1919 the average farm value of corn per care increas ed from $21.67 to $38.54. The corn crop of 1920, taking the average val ue of the product of one acre, fell to $20.93, and this drop not only wiped out the gain of the preceding three years, but perceptibly exceeded it. The commonly used percentage of decline since the break in prices be gan fails-to dis?oyer this fact be cause a percentage of decline from a higher number is not comparable with a percentage of gain during the pre ceding years, which is based on a comparatively low number." i BEAUTY AND BEAST ? By MILDRED WHITE. ((c). 1 21. Western Newspaper Union.) Dulcie was the beaut}', there could be no doubt about that,, but whether Jim Harford or his dog, best answer ed to the Jattf r description, Dulcie was undecided. Certain it is, that when she first heard of Him Harford, the girl Indignantly exclaimed, "The Beast !" And Aunt Did ein ia was shocked and horrified as usual. Dulcie as a child had brought into the house various stray cats and shag gy dogs which she called her friends. Returning one day froiu an errand the girl was accompanied hy a hulking mastiff which she pleasantly informed her frowning relative, had joined her In a walk. "I was going down Lynden avenue," Dulcie said happily, "when this big fellow came running from the road to walk at my side." The mild and lov ing animal ending his scrutiny of Miss Dulcinia's face, gave a low and threat ening growl, exhibiting fiercely his sharp and shining teeth. The elder woman paling suddenly, crept behind the shelter of the door, while Dulcie dropped upon her knees her arra ca ressing the dog's head. "Emperor," she admonished, "don't be unreasonable, this is aunt's house, and she ha? a perfect right to be in it" "Drive the brute awnj\" snapped Miss Dulcinia behind the door. "Why do you call him that fool name?" "It's on his cellar," Dulcie cheer fully info-^ied her. "Emperor, property of Jim Harford, 202 Bale street. Bale street is away down In the lower part of the town and poor Emperor is covered with scars of battle. A nice kind bf owner he must have to beat him so cruelly. Jim Harford-" Dulcie's blue eyes.rested on a huge welt on the dog's head. "The beast," she exclaimed, and it was Jim Harford she refereed to and not the dog. The animal, his grum blings ended in a loving whine, looked up at her In adoration. "He's afraid I will take him back' to that Harford person to be beaten again," she exclaimed Indignantly. He might know that I would not-I am his friend." "Friend," scoffed the exasperated Miss Dulcinia. She wont determined ly to the telephone. It was a gruff voice with a German accent which answered. "You'd better called up," the voice threatened, "before I gets the police after you. That dog is valuable. He guards our storehouses. "The girl coaxed him away. I heard~ her. 1 vas on de vngon. She vistled, and Emperor vent. Den I lost dem. I'll come after him, yes-but I'll give that tog such a whipping-" "Oh, you must not whip him, really." Dulcie heard her aunt's frightened voice saying, and in a whirl the girl had the telephone in her hand. "I won't give up your dog," she said defiantly, "until I nm sure he will have decent treatment hereafter. See if you can make me." She did not await the expected an gry reply, but replaced the receiver, facing her aunt with" rose-flushed cheeks. I am going out," Dulcie announced, "to sit on the front steps beside that dog until the man comes." On the broad stone step sat her niece, the mastiff's head against her shoulder. After an Interminable time a car came swinging up the road and it's driver descended. He was a young man of pleasing and correct appear ance, -Miss Dulcinia noted. And as the young man stood hat in hand, Dulcie gave him permission to be seated. It was evident that an earnest con versation followed. Emperor after a time of speculative Interest, shifted his vast, bulk so that it rested confi dently between the two. Dulcie raised her voice slightly at last, and the lis tening lady could hear, "Then you will see your dog is taken care of. It Is a pity that you trusted him so long to your warehouse manager." She laughed. "Evidentlyj the man who beat your dog ^unmercifully was afraid to face one small woman, so he sent you." And many weeks after this occur rence, Dulcie came, all- rosy and shin ing eyed, to her aunt. "I am going to marry Jim Harford," she announced. "You see I have be come very much attached to Emperor, and as Emperor Is a valuable dog. and as I really have no right as you said to harbor another man's property, why-" "Dulcie, Dulcie," murmured the much-tried aunt, then tenderly she kissed her. Peat Used as Fuel in Earliest Times. The use of peat as a source of heat goes back beyond the historical period into the ancient history of the early tribes in northern Germany. Pliny, the Roman naturalist, gives us possi bly the first indication of the use of peat. He reports that the Teutons on the border of the North sea dried and burned mud, what we now would call peat. In Ireland, Great Britain and Russia, Scandinavia, Germany, Hol land and parts of France peat has been used ns a fuel since time Im memorial. The peat was cut from the bog very much in the same manner as It ls still being done In many parts of Europe, where lt is cut In brick shapes, allowed to dry In the wind and sun. County Treasurer's Notice. The County Treasurer's office wil [be open for the purpose of receivinf I taxes from the 15th day of October 1920 to the 15th day of March 1921. All taxes shall be due and payable [between the 15th day of October 1920 and Decem". r 31st, 1920.. That when taxes charged shall noi be paid by De'cember 31st, 1920 the County Auditor shall proceed to adc a penalty of one per cent, for Janu ary, and if taxes are not paid on oi before February l?t 1921, the Coun ty Auditor will proceed to add twc per cent, and five per cent addition al, from ,the 1st of March to the 15t? of March, after which time all un naid taxes will be collected by thc Sheriff. Thp tax levies for the year 192C I are ^ follows : Mills For State purposes_ 12 For Ordinary County_ ? For Past Indebtedness_2.Vz For Special, Good Roads_ 2 For Constitutional School Tax 2 For Antioch_ S For Bacon School District_ 14 For Blocker_ S For Blocker-Limestone_ 4 For Colliers_ 4 For Flat Rock_ fi For Oak Grove _ 3 For Red Hill _ ' S For Edgefield_ IC For Elmwood No. 8 ___.- 8 For Elmwood No. 9_ 2 For Elmwood No. 30_ 2 For Elmwood L. C._ 3 For Hibler _ fi For Harmony - 3 For Johnston _ 15 For Meriwether (Gregg)- 2 For Moss_'- 3 For Brunson School-. 4 For Ropers- 2 For Shaw _--_ 4 For Sweetwater-.- 4 For Talbert_ 8 For Trenton _ll Va For Wards _ fi Por Wards No. 33- 4 For Blocker R. R. (portion 15 For Elmwood R. . (portion - ? 15 For Johnston R. R.- 3 For Pickens.R. R. -,- 3 For Wise R. R.- 3 For Corporation -30% All the male citizens between the ages of 21 years and 60 years, ex cept those exempt by law, are liable to a poll tax of One Dollar each. A capital 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 $4.00 commuta tion tax or work 4 days on the public roads. No commutation is included in the property tax. So ask for road tax receipt when you desire to pay road tax. Time for paying road tax will expire March 15, 1921. j. L. PRINCE, Co. Treas. E. C. WANTED: Men or women tc take orders among friends and neigh bors for the genuine guaranteed ho siery, full line for men, women and children. Eliminates darning. We pay 75 cents an hour spare time or $36.00 a week for full time. Expe rience unnecessary. Write International Stocking Mills, ? PI YOUR prosperii crops at the lc that every acre mi The crop yield be sure you supply The increased : Fertilizers bring y< Sv Atlanta, Ga. EDGEM Lombard Foundry, Machine, Boiler , Works and Mill bupply 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 i Pumping, Wood Sawing and Feed [ Grinding Outfit?. 1 For Rent ! On Dixie Highway between Tren ! ton and Augusta, 360 acre level to slightly rolling farm. Over 100 acres ; rich, open land with clay subsoih ! Fine ' two-story dwelling and good i out buildings. Rent reasonable. For > terms apply to Sheppard Bros., Edge ' field, S. .C. B. F. GAINES. ARRINGTON Wholesale Grocei Corn, Oats, Kinds c Gloria Flour and Da Our Le Corner Cumming ai On Georgia v August YOUR PATRONS ??BP" See our repr?sentativ an for Proi ty during 1921 depends up ?west cost per pound or bu? ist produce more pounds anc is in proportion to the plant j plenty of plant food. field from the liberal use of >u a large profit. Buy now. rift & Compai (FERTILIZER. WORKS) Charlotte, N. C. N? FOR SALE BY ELI) MEECANTILE CK Notice of Final Discharge* To All Whom These Presents May Concern: Whereas, H. W. Kenner has made application unto this Court for Final Discharge as Administrator in re the Estate of W. B. Kenner deceased, on this the 14 day of February, 1921 These Are Therefore, to cite any and all kindred, creditors or parties interested to show cause before me at my office at Edgefield Court House, South Carolina, on the ,18th day of March, 1921, at ll o'clock a. m., why said order of Discharge should not be granted. W. T. KINNAIRD, Probate Judge, E. Co. Edgefield, S. C., February 14, 1921. , . J. S. BYRD Dental Surgeon Office Over Store of Quarles & Timmerman. Office Phone No. 3 Residence Phone 87 *ift&s HEW LIFE PILLS ?he Pills That Do Cure. PIUS** "I don't need them very Ie often, but when I do, I 'need them quick. One or two and the pain is gone.'* Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills will relieve you quickly and safely-no unpleasant after effects-no danger of form ing a drug habit. Next time you pass a drug store stop in and get box. r. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills contain, no habit forming: drugs. Your Druggist Has Them. BROS. & CO. 's and Dealers in Hay and all >f Feeds n Patch Horse Feed caders id Fenwick Streets R. R. Tracks a, Ga. IGE SOLICITED e, C. E. May. on growing your shel. This means I more bushels. food supplied, so Swift's Red Steer ew Orleans, La. )MPAKY