The Gentle Grafter.
"Well," said a woman to me the
other day. "the housing shortage and
the altitudinous price of rent have
one good thing about them, anyway.
They furnish an alibi that we can
hand out to our relatives and friends
?nd the people we used to know back
home, who have che pleasing habit
of grafting their annual visits to the
city on us.
"For years I have been the victim
of these hold-up artists, and I've
played in no worse luck than every
body else I know; for the minute you
acquire a place in a city where you
can furnish free board and lodging,
everybody that you ever knew who
lives out of town conceives a pas
sionate affection for you.
"Your own forty-ninth cousin, and
your husband's cousins in the seven
ty-second degree; girls that you went
i to school with when you were in the
kindergarten and haven't seen since;
folks who have no claim on you" ex
cept that you used to live in the same
a longing to see you that they can no
a loging to see you that they can no
longer resist, and they write and tell
you so, and that they are coming on
the 5:45 a. m. train on Wednesday,
and wont you please meet th?m at
the station because a city is so con
fusing to one who is not used to it.
"Why, if I were to recite what I
have suffered at the hands of the
bandits, it would sound like a chapter
out of Fox's 'Book of Martyrs.'
When Jim and I were married and
he brought me to the city to live, we
went to housekeeping in a little four
room apartment. Before we got set
tied and our bridal presents unpack
ed a distant relative whom 1 hadn't
seen since I wore pig tails, descend
ed upon us, bag and baggage. She said
she was passing through the city and
felt she just couldn't go by without
taking a peek at dear little Elsie in
her new home. It took her two weeks
to peek, and she hadn't been gone
a day when another flock of these
birds of prey, this time Jim's bunch
of vultures, came to roost on our
sofa bed, and from then on we have
hardly had a day that we have been
free from some self-invited guest.
"Boys hunting for a job arrive
with letters from the parents, whom
we have the accursed luck to know
at some previous state of our lives,
saying that they know we will be so
glad to take darling Jim in until he
finds something to do; or the mother
of some girls to whom we have the
misfortune to be kin in some faint
degree, drops us a missive informing
us that she is sending Mamie and
Sadie by the next train for a little
visit to the city as she has been prom
" ising the dear children a treat for a
long time, and would we mind letting
them stay with us for a month, they 1
are such lambs, and it's so nice to'1
have young people about the house
"Or we get a screed from some
poor old soul who has been advised
to consult a city specialist about her
cancer, and she wants to come and
stay with us and have us trot around
with her to the hospital. Or somebody
from Sqeedunk, or Rabbit's Track,
has been told by her doctor that she
needs a change, and she thinks noth
ing would be so delightful as to come
to the city, only she hasn't the money J i
to stay at a hotel, but if it would be
convenient for us to have her, she
could come easily on Monday week
"Of course, anyone who has the 11
nerve to hold you up for her board
bill isn't going to be satisfied with
petty larceny like that. She goes the
whole hog, and you not only have to 11
feed and lodge her, but you have to
pay for her theatre and opera tickets
and her street car fare. So far as
my observation goes, a self-invited
guest has a Yale lock on her pocket
book, and you would have to chloro
form her before you could get a nick
el out of her.
"It is no secret to the people who
come and camp on us that Jim and I
are a poor couple struggling to get a
start in the world, and that every dol
lar counts with us. Also they per
ceive that I do my housework, and
that by homing in on us they add im
measurably to my labor and the ex
pense of our living.
"But does that keep them away?"
It does not. They only crowd in and
put me to the trouble of getting up
company meals for them, but they
expect me to run around with them,
taking them to" all sorts of amuse
ment, and to spend days in the shops
where they look over everything,
from automobiles to safety pins, and
buy nothing.. And never by any
chance do they pay for a lunch at a
restaurant or for a theatre ticket, or
even pay their car fare.
"And the expense, of entertaining
these people you hate because they
are such poor, mean little grafters,
counts up enormously, and it keeps
me mad thinking of all the things I
want that I do without because I
have spent the money on these pikers.
Why we stand for it, I don't know.
Lack of backbone, I guess, and be
cause we have been taught hospitali
ty is one of the seven shinir
tues.
"So it is. Nobody admires
loves to practice it better ?
but I want to pick out my rec
and select the time, the place, t
man, so to speak. I object- to
held up and forced to delivei
tations whether it's convenie
not.
"But I know I'd never ha\
np the spunk to slam the dope
face of Uncle Jezeboah, who's
couple of hundred thousand c
tucked away in first mortgage!
who would rather die than spi
penny of it on a hotel. Nor wou
craven spirit ever get bold ei
to enable me to write to a self
ed guest that I didn't want her
wouldn't have her, and so the ho
shortage has provided me w
ready made excuse for not ente:
ing all and sundry.
"Fm going to live In one room
a bath and kitchenette where nc
can visit me. Thank God for al
mercies."
Mrs. J. H.
Gone Stark Mad.
Done in the Dark.
A new tariff equivalent to fift
per cent tax on one hundred .anc
teen millions of people has just i
sprung on the public in Washin
and will be jammed, in a few c
through Congress. It was not wri
by Congress but by certain prote
interests. That tariff means traj
to our agriculture in that seeds, b
and thereby boosting American ?
and tereby boosting American s
culture-these matters are now
ed. Coming taxed are such uni
sally used matters as crimson clo
hairy vetch, cabbage, turnips, alfa
grass seeds, bulbs, and garden se
Only a bagatelle of our Ameri
seeds are home grown. They ne
will be American grown. A li
growing was accomplished during
war but at prices four to five th
the prices that usually obtain. 1
seed tax arbitrarily and wilfully p
a burden on all of our agricult
and upon every woman who wa
to beautify her front yard.
Our nursing and florist trade J
completely dependent upon Eur<
for many types of seedlings and c
tings. These, too, have been hig]
taxed.
The Terrible Record.
The terrible record in the past
this country is that every protect
interest soon becomes a trust and
monopoly. Every trust restricts pi
country today faces a new trust, t
American seed growing trust who
te American seed growing trust who
actions will be just as have been i
the other trusts in our country. A
ricultural prosperity, on the contrai
depends on seeds. No one can coi
pute the intrinsic .value of a ne
2Conomic seed as generally introdu
sd. The measure of agricultural pro
perity depends upon the amount <
seeds as sold. Curtail the use of see?
and you deflate agriculture. Moi
seeds and better seeds always mea
better farming.
Satanic Doctrines.
There is no quicker way of goin
mad than by being possessed wit
some false doctrine. No country ca
prosper whose governmental theoi
2ms are neither economic nor norma
Our government today is guided an
impelled by the following three doc
trines: first, that we must ever be 01
the defense; second, that we must b
self-contained; third, that we mus
live as a nation the life of isolation
You and I, indeed, today are livinj
in a continuous war atmosphere. I:
we spent one-tenth the time and mon
ey towards general disarmament anc
towards world peace that we do ii
creating defenses and creating a wai
atmosphere then our nation would b<
thousand times happier and more
prosperous.
It is neither economic, nor neces
sary for us to be self-contained. Lei
every man and every nation do thal
which best they can do and do it as
a contribution towards the general
good. England has always been the
most prosperous nation while Switz
erland has always been perhaps the
happiest nation, yet they have been
of all nations least possessed of those
elements which our present govern
ment means by self containment. As
for the theorem of isolation, only a
blind, ignorant, selfish, heathen man
could defend it.
Agricultural Stagnation.
Our agriculture, along with, every
thing else today, is in the throes of
stagnation. It had been hoped that
agricultural activities in wide diver
sification could take place this year
so that agricultural recovery could
quickly obtain. It is too bad that our
agriculture should now be handicap
ped by this recent maneuver in Wash
ington. Our agriculture must look up
on this seed tax as a form of robbery
and murder. When I wish to plant
seeds in field, garden or front yard I
want the best seeds-and the seeds that I
come from the best hatitats and seeds |
that are the least prohibitory in price.
I am not at all interested in the per
sonal fortunes of just a few men in
California, Colorado and Long Island
-especially if these men are trying
to put upon me the usually poorer
thing and at the higher price. If we
want in general to see the effect upon
our agriculture a$ produced by the
controlling political theorems of to
day then let us look at some present
day tabulated list of agricultural j
prices. Many of our* agricultural
prices today are without warrant;]
these low prices would never have |
obtained had the methods of the gov
ernment been different.
Importing Impossible.
Not content with taxing imported
seeds and plants this Congressional |
bill makes this unheard of stipula
tion, viz., that the valuation for tax
ation shall not be based on European
costs but upon an American compet
itive cost. Thus the importer is not
only doubly taxed but moreover he is
kept in the dark as to what this
American valuation, which, of course,
is not a fixed matter, shall be. He,
therefore, has no concept as to what
his goods will cost him delivered in
his store. Indeed, the whole aim of
this bill seems to make all importa
tion impossible-regardless of how,
necessary this importation may be for
the public welfare.-N. L. Willet in
Augusta Chronicle.
Cotton Acreage Reduced a
Fourth.
According to report of B. B. Hare,
agricultural statistician in South
Carolina for the bureau of crop es
timates of the United States depart
ment of agiculture, the cotton acre
age in the state June 25 was 2,190,
000 acres, which represents a reduc
tion of 27 per cent as compared with
last year. The condition on June 25
was 65 per cent of normal against
74 per .cent on the corresponding
date last year and 78 per cent in
1019, the ten-year average being 77
per cent.
The acreage planted and standing
in the entire United States on June
25 is estimated at 26,519,000 acres
? reduction of 28.4 per cent or 10,
524,000 acres less than last year. The
condition on June 25 was 69.2 per
cent of normal against 70.7 per cent
and the corresponding date of 1920
and 70 per cent in 1919, the ten
year average being 79.8 per cent
Mr. Hare's report of last month
indicated that an average of 267
pounds of fertilizer has been or wil?|
be used per acre to cotton this year,
against 490 pounds last year. It is
estimated that 2 per cent of the fer
tilizers used this season will analyze
8-3-0; 6 per cent 8-4-0; 47 per cent
8- 3-3-; 4 per cent 8-4-4; 5 per cent
9- 2-0; 8 per cent 9-2-2; 7e per cent
nitrate of soda and 3 per cenf'other
grades."
Condition of cotton in South Caro
lina on June 25, 1920 and 1921, by
counties follows in tables below: .,
1920 1921
Abbeville_ 76 66
Aiken_ 70 65
Allendale_ 73 59
Anderson_ 78 68
Bamberg_ 72 63
Barnwell __ __ __ 71 59 '
Beaufort_ 60 56
Berkeley "_ 78 64
Calhoun_ 77 61
Charleston_ 76 60
Cherokee_ 80 70
Chester __ _. 72 64
Chesterfield .._76 ' 59
Clarendon __ __ 72 61
Colleton __ __ __ __74 59
Darlington -- - 78 71
Dillon_ 76 68
Dorchester_ 70 55
Edgefield_ 76 66
Fairfield_ 72 61
Florence __ __ __ 77 65
Georgetown_ 75 55
Greenville __ 79 68
Greenwood_ 74 65
Hampton_ 70 58
Horry_ 74 68
Jasper __ -_ 60 55
Kershaw_ 75 62
Lancaster_ 73 60
Laurens - ~ __ 78 67
Lee_ 75 70
Lexington_ 72 64
McCormick __ 70 61
Marion_ 75 65
Marlboro_ 80 72
Newberry_ 74 63
Oconee_ 75 67
Orangeburg - -_ 74 61
Pickens_76 '. 67
Richland_ 70 58
Saluda_ 74 65
Spartanburg __ - 78 68
Sumter_1_ 72 61
Union_ 74 60
Williamsburg_ 72 63
York_ 74 62
.Conditions of cotton on June 25 in
other states is as follows: Virginia
70; North Carolint 67; Gerogia 64;
Florida 70; Alabama 58; Mississippi
67; Louisiana .64; Texas 72; Arkan
sas 78; Tennessee 74; Missouri 80; J
Oklahoma 75; California 77; Arizona
88; New Mexico 87.-^The State. J
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Take the Camel package for instance. It's the
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Such things do not improve the smoke any more
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It's Camels for you. r
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Notice.
Notice is hereby given that an ap
plication has been made for a dupli
:ate Certificate, of Deposit No. 3018
for $1,000.00 issued to Mrs. E. A.
Werts of Johnston, S. C., by the Bank
Df Johnston on July 21, 1919, and
payable July 21, 1920. If any person
or persons are interested in this cer
tificate of deposit, they must show
cause at the Bank of Johnston on or
before July 9, 1921, why said bank
should not issue a duplicate of the
certificate, above described.
W. B. OUZTS,
vice-President.
June 20, 1921.
Notice
As the Federal 'Land Bank will re
sume the making of loans to farmers,
I will receive and file applications for
loans for farmers.
S. McG. SIMKINS.
JiEpiri CN'? IS THE ONLY
GENUINE MN3GA SALK
NOT WHAT
OU MAKE
UT WHAT
OU SAVE
THAT
COUNTS
Copyricht 1909, by C. E. Zimmerman Co. -No. 66
EVERY DOLLAR that you spend foolishly, every proportion?
ate amount of money that you earn that it would be possible to
save and do not, is only money that you have to work for again.
On the other hand every dollar you put in the bank is money
that is going to constantly work for you. Which is the best; .
money always working for you, or you always working for
your money. Come in and start that bank account. Don't put it
off another day. '
BANK OF EDGEFIELD
OFFICERS: J. C. Sheppard, President; A. S. Tompkins, Vice-President?
E. J. Minis, Cashier; J. H. Allen, Assistant Cashier.
DIRECTORS: J. C. Sheppard, Thos. H. Rainsford, John Rainsford;
M. C. Parker, A. S. Tompkins, J. G. Holland, E. J. Mims, J. H. Allen.
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