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THE FIN, M FARM WAGONS HALF PRICE Farm Wagons and box with sp seat We are offering during this special prices on all wagons comp 1% inch patent, regular i $165.00, Sale Price_$8 1% inch regular. Formerly for $160.00, Sale Price $8 inch Plain, regular v $170.00, Sale Price.$8 \Vz inch Patent, regular v $175.00, Sale Price_$8 2% inch Thimble Skein reg value $160.00, Sale Price $8 IVs, inch one horse or light \ on, regular value $97.50, Price_$4; See this big line of wagons be you buy. A full and complete in this great stock. HORSE COLLARS Heavy, genuine bark-tanned le er, curled hair stuffed, face tuf easy on horse's shoulder. A he well made collar. Regular value $! Sale Price_? Brighted down, solid leather, tra heavy collar, made from se bark-tanned leather. A big value ing collar, regular price $10.00, ! Price___ __ __ ROCKING CHAIRS Extra heavy oak spindle arms value $5.50, Sale Price Child's wood seat, high back i very fine solid built chair, regu $2.50, Sale Price -_ B* B What Women Are Doing With the Ballot. Now that the ballot is in the hands of woman, what is she going to do with it? Many women realize its value They are receiving it reverently and joyfully, with clear eyes, looking to wards a brighter future for women, and, in consequence for mankind; for woman's destiny, woman's statu?, woman's quality are inextricably in terwoven with that of man, and with that of the state. In 1865 John Stewart Mill, the great English philosophical writer, logician and economist, said "The consequenne of the inferior political positions of women, intertwine them selves with all the evils of existing society, and with all the difficulties of human improvement." Some women do not know the in trinsic worth of this new gift, the infinite possibilities for good, the in sidious danger that will ensue from neglecting this opportunity; they are bound too much by tradition, and pity to say too often it is merely lo cal tradition. They may be fearful of "thrusts and jibs," forgetting that were those who jibe "but half so wise and fair and kind, and truthful as they should be much that women claims as right had ne'er been moot ed, but as frankly their's as dues of nature." They forget that it is im possible to get rid of this new gift -which they are ungraciously con templating. They think that they may ?cast it from them not knowing that, bomb-like, it has the power of ex ploding. Or they think that they may bury it and cover it with neglect not remembering the servant who went and digged in the earth and hid his opportunity, and that after a time the lord of that servant will demand a reckoning. No, neither neglect nor opposition is ever going to rid wo men of the responsibility of having so (potent a power for good placed within their hands. The question remains, "What are "we going to do with it?" Well, the first thing to do is to study it-on all sides-and, in or der to understand it the better, to find out what other women have done with it. To see this fairly exemplified it is better to make our study in a coun try where the operation of women's "'.?V-/ AL DASH [HST . BE . T SCAN THES SINGLE WAGON LINE 7-8 inch made from good, bark-tanned leather, a big vaule ular price $3.75, Sale Price SADDLES McClellan U. S. Army patten dies, solid leather with skirt ant der. Regular values $25.00, Price_'-% Number 35 leather quilted sea die, light tan color, regular i $22.50, Sale Price. Boys' Horn and Wood tree s, all leath?r trimmings, regular A $12.50, Sale Price __ HAMES Number 61 extra heavy iron 1 hames, made for all collars. Re value $2.00, Sale Price_ DOUBLE BREECH I N( Yankee Double Breeching, extra heavy and from select tanned leather. Regular price %\ Sale Price_ TRACE CHAINS Extra heavy electric welded chains, regular value $2.00, Price_ ILIBRARY TABI Quarter sawed oak rubbec two book shelves, regular Sale Price_._ Fumed oak and mahogany regular value $35.00 Sale P . JON ballot was not hampered by prece- ] dent and prejudice. There is such a country to which we can turn, where the first settle ment was made as late as 1814, and where a government has ripened within the last 30 years into such an assured success that older govern ments have sat up and gasped. It is called the "land of social wonders," "where people are too hap py," "too well conditioned," "too comfortable," where "life is some thing else beside a grind," "where human things like happiness, hope, comfort, have sprung up flower-like by way of evolution, and not r?volu-1 tion, where fewer babies die per thousand, where, during the,war, the upstanding hard hitting Anzacs came from. Yes, you know it now. It is New Zealand. I am finding this information in an article written by Rose Young in 1919. Women did not "do it all" in New Zealand to make it such a livable country. They never do it all. It was not intended that they should. But, Rose Young says "Woman suffrage is integral to New Zealand's spirit of democracy. It has gone on the principle that no ideal of government for the benefit of the people can go far unless it proceed on the assump tion that women are people." The New Zealand woman voter immediately laid eager hold of what ever was humanitarian in New Zea land's program. She inevitably be came interested in social welfare. The moment she began to vote the Stress began to be laid on child wel fare, on domestic-relations problems, on the protection of the potential motherhood in the woman worker, on community morals, on the relief of poverty and on the prevention of sickness, and education, j First, there were laws aimed at the relief of individual and community setbacks resulting from poverty and sickness. There were Old Age Pen sions and Widows Pension Act which grants a small pension to a widow who has a child or children born in New Zealand and the act for the Protection, of Aged and Infirm Per sons, also the National Provident Fund which enables workers on pay ing a small sum weekly, to secure an annuity at sixty years of age vary ing from $10 to $12 a week. It also HALF ] AKEN' . TO . E PRICES FOR :s solid . Reg $2.45 i Sad 1 fen Sale il 2.50 t sad ralues 11.25 addle, values $6.25 )ound gular $1.00 made bark L1.50, $5.75 trace Sale $1.00 TEAM LINES j . Double Lines H4 inch'stoc good quality. This is an ace ly strong and serviceable; lin? lar value $9.50, Sal" Price _ 14-foot Lines, well made ished, strong and durable^ Th< are made of selected /park leather cut heavy and full Regular value $8.50, SalejPrh SEWING MACHINI Free Sewing Machines' of s quality. Free Ball Bearing Dr< Sewing Machine fitted with an head lift. Quarter sawed oa work. Complete with attachme cessories and instruction iboofc value $85.00, Sale Price All other Free Machines ir ennt style cabinets priced as with all attachments complet) Reg. price $75, Sale Price Reg. price $65, Sale Price Reg. price $60, Sale Price Reg.'price $55, Sale Price PHONOGRAPHS Raymond Phonograph's, p records but Edison. Finished ly hand rubbed mahogany, j price, with ten records, $135, Sale Price_-_ _i._ JES I and polished, value $45.00, _$24.85 , 2 book racks, rice $24.85 BEE White and Ivory Bt for $30.00, Sale Price Iron Reds in Verni oxidized, 2 in posts, * $20.00, Sale Price - helps widows and parents on the birth of a child. Second: Laws to safeguard the child and the family. Through the Infant Life Protection Act, New Zealand women saved the babies as the women of no other j country have ~aved them. In Dunedin, one of New Zealand's largest cities, only 38 babies die per thousand. It is the healthiest baby city in the; world. Compare it with New York, where 125 babies die per thousand. (Remember Tennyson's prophecy j that she would "gain in mental breath nor fail in ch : ld ward care.) New Zealand women have thrown legislative safeguard around the health and happiness of school chil dren. They ride free on the street cars in going to and from school. They have secured the passage of an Industrial School Amendment and a Juvenile Smoking Suppression Act. They've passed the Destitute Per sons Act, which provides for the reg istration of a child born out of wed lock in its father's name where pa rentage is proved and for the power to claim in any state, maintenance of | such child. They have secured. the passage' of j the Legitimation Act, which provides that when parents marry, any chlid born before such marriage shall be j entitled to all the rights of a child I born in wedlock, including the inheri I tance of property. New Zealand women have stood back of the effort to establish tech nical schools, giving equal opportu nity for both sexes, and the effort to secure scientific temperance instruc tion in public schools as well as measures for the general raising ef the standards of public instruction. By 1911 the standards of literacy in New Zealand was brought to the point where there was no such thing as illiteracy in the length and breadth of the islands. At the age period of 15 to 20, 99% per cent of the whole population could read and write; be tween the ages of 15 and 20 99 3-5 per cent could read and write. (Com Ipare this with South Carolina's rec ! ord.) Fourth: Laws to raise the legal economic and political status of wo men. They have championed the inter ests of shop girls through the Shop Assistants Act. This safeguards the ORE/ FORCI PRICE. THI RAISE . MONE BARGAINS UNI :k extra ?ptional \. Regu - $4.75 and fin ?se lines :-tanned length. :e $4.25 SS tandard ip Head tomatic k wood ?nts, ac :. Regu $42.50 i differ follows e: $37.50 $32.50 $25.60 $21.75 .lay all in fine Regular special $50.00 Hiteh Your Dollar to the Biggest Load It Ever Pulled is ids, 2 in posts. Sold -$14.50 s Martin white and & in filler. Sold for .$10.75 BE Folding Bed I upholstering. Re Price_. wages and health of shop girls and insures better working conditions for them. They have secured the passage of a Factory Act, which recognizes the principle of equal pay for equal work. New Zealand women have equal ized the standards of morality by se curing the passage of acts that en ables a wife to divorce a husband on the same grounds on which a husband can divorce a wife. Fifth: Laws to raise the standards of community morals and social help fulness. New Zealand women were instru mental in passing the Licensing Amendent which provides for the gradual abolishment of barmaids, to make early closing universal, and to do away with bottle licenses and the locker system, all of which were working to the social disadvantage of the community. They have repealed the Contagious Disease Act, which notoriously fa vored dissolute men at the expense not only of dissolute women but de cent women as well. All this goes to show the kind of legislation in which women have in terested themselves. And is this point not proved by remembering the na ture of the public activities which have engaged the attention of women in this country, and to which they have bent their efforts, and lent their influence even though they did not have the ballot? Does prohibition owe anything to the W. C. T. U.? Were child labor laws influenced in any way by women? And are not these things the natural outgrowth of wo man's true and constant duty which cannot be alienated from her whether she be by the fire-side or by the ballot box? Lastly: Do the women in New Zea land really vote on election day? That is, do they go to the polls? Let us see: There were in New Zealand, a quarter of a century ago 140,000 women over voting age. There were very few miles of railroad annd New Zealand is a mountainous country. Yet when it came time to register 109,000 of the 140,000 registered. When it came time to vote 90,000 of the 109,000 went to the polls and voted. Let us ba equally alevt in regard to our privileges. Let us joir. the League of Women Voters and toge th VT ED S DRASTIC Y" . AT . ONC ?ELIEVABLE BRIDLES inch extra heavy cap blinds, heek rings and brass mounted, class heavy work bridle. Reg alue $7.00 Sale Price $3.50 1, heavy, staple blind bridle, : value $3.25, Sale Price $1.60 ry 1% inch cheeks with leath )s, roller buckles, brass trim ;ensible blinds, regular value Sale Price_$2.15 a heavy 1% inch Phosphat blinds, roller buckles, short >rass trimmed, an exceptional l made bride. Regular value Sale Price_$2.15 long cheeks, cupped blinds, heck rings and brass trimmed, made and serviceable bridle, r value, $5.50, Sale Price $2.75 LAP ROBES sized, single grey buggy robe, value $4.50 Sale Price $2.25 >le Robe, green plush, a real i, regular value $7.50, Sale .-$3.75 1 all wool Auto Robe a very ade, soft wool, regular value Sale Price $7.50 >k Double Plush Auto Robe, a assortment to choose from, bargains, regular values Sale Price_$9.00 r values, $15, Sale Price $7.50 ilue $13.50, Sale Price $6.60 Ar Bugg Price Ph Bugg Price St? gy, i Price Ru gy, Price Ste gy, Price Su; Price Fo fail I carry gie?. Fo: and ( lar. J loath' lar v Lei paten well value D LOUNGE tounge, extra heavy plush ?gular price $40.00, Sale .$24.00 National shaped. R?) Blue rib for 20 yei Price_ eld9 * er learn what we may in order to act intelligently, and prudently and rev erently. Mrs. DUPRE! CALHOUN, Member Publicity 'Committee, Green wood League of Women Voters. The People of Meriwether. The citizens, men and women of Meriwether township, Edgefield county, have formed a league to en courage and assist enforcement of law and order, having especially in mind protection and punishment of violation of the prohibition laws. That is an excellent thing for the people of Meriwether, one of the ex cellent communities, by the way, of South Carolina. If the prohibition laws are to be enforced in this state, action of a similar kind needs to be taken in townships, villages and towns everywhere in the State. The sole hope of driving bootleg gers and moonshiners out of South Carolina lies in the alertness, ag gressiveness and continuing activities of the men and women who desire that this state be a secure and pleas ant land in which to live. The law-breakers are banded. The bootleggers and the moonshiners have no ritual, they are not bound by weird and blood-curdling oaths, but they know how to help one another. They are a numerous body of men and they travel far and fast. If the respectable -people of South Carolina are to be saved from the demoraliza tion that they cause and from the crimes that their nefarious business; makes to flourish, it is necessary that they organize, following the example that the people of Meriwether have set. A hundred thousand brave men and women of this state uniting their efforts and working with sincere pur pose can enforce all the laws in the statute books.-The State. Sunday Schools Popular. Greenwood, S. C., Oct. 3-Figures obtained today show that the Sunday school enrollment of Greenwood is al most as larg ? as the enrollment of the city schoolr, 2,165 being enrolled in the white Cunday schools and 2,485 in the white day schools. Rally day was observed yesterday in many of the city churches, the Sunday schools being reorganized and new members being enrolled. i ACTION TOP BUGGIES HALF PRICE ched Axle Rubber-tire Hackney regular value $215.00, Sale '-.-$107.50 lin Axle Rubber-tire Hackney ,y, regular value $215.00, Sale - -.-- $107.50 iel Tire . Hackney Top Bug ?egular value $195.00, Sale -_ $97.50 bber-tire Open Hackney Bug regular value $185.00 Sale -.- $92.50 iel Tire Washington Open Bug regular price $125.00, Sale -.$62.50 rumers Rubber-tire Top Bug-; regular - value $185.30, Sale -.._ $92.50 r real values in buggies don't o see this wonderful line. We a full line of high graide bug SINGLE HARNESS rty-nine sets to sell, single break luilted saddle harness with col L wonderful bargain for an all; ;r, heavy single harness. Regu-: alue $35.00, Sale Price $17.50 ither saddle, brass mounted, t leather trimmed, a very fine made single harness. Regular $32.50, Sale Price - $16.25 BED SPRINGS Bed Springs, oxidized, diamond ?. value, $8.50, Sale Price $5.60 bon Bed Springs, guaranteed irs. Regular price $8.50, Sale -.$5.50 Why Trade at Home? Many people ask that question but very few trouble to seek the answer. Why should people patronize their home merchants? Because it is a great saving of time and time today represents money. Because the home merchant can only remain in business through the patronage of home people, and a. town without merchants would be s sorry place to live in. Because the home merchant sells goods that do not have to be return ed because of defects or inferior quality. It is the only way in which a local man can hold his trade. Because the local merchs^?^?s not in the habit of charging excessive prices. You may at times be able to get the same article elsewhere for a little less money, but the quality will invariably be reduced in proportion to the price. The local merchant can not afford to sell "cheap" stuff. The customers would not tolerate it. Because the prosperity of a com munity depends upon the amount of money in circulation and that i? regulated mainly by tn? marketing of surplus products abroad and the keeping of as much -as possible of the receipts at home. Because a community that spends most of its money abroad for sup- ? plies soon finds that it has but little left for the purchase of additional supplies. ( It is so simple a child could under I stand, and what a child can compre hend should not go unheeded by I adults. Think it over. Thinking may accomplish a lot of good. It certainly will do no harm. -Exchange. NOTICE ! Concordia Lodge No. 50, A. F. M. will hereafter hold its ?regular communica tion on the SECOND MONDAY night of each month in stead of Friday night as heretofore. All members are kindly requested to observe the change and be pres ent accordingly. J. H. CANTELOU, W. M!. Edgefield, S. C., August 1, IS 21.