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Miss Florence Mims Hears dio Wireless Concert. Dear Advertiser: I have all my life been a very c ulous person, so much so that I 1 sometimes been unmercifully tea more especially years ago. t Vi some strange tale was related, ar wide-eyed, believed it, my sc mates laughed. Well do I remem On last Friday night when it announced that in the auditor of the Tonkawa High School tl would be given a radio concert A the performers singing in Den Pittsburgh and Detroit, I belie that also. Of course, this has already b tried out numberless times before found that the wireless telephone serve the public in a musical as ^ as ? commercial way. The auditor: was filled with an expectant ero On the platform and behind scenes there were no performers, o the receiving instrument. This wa huge megaphone attached to a from wBich ran many wires receiv the air cdrrent and transmitting sound to us. An audience is sometimes like eccentric individual. One can not just how they will react so a gi1 situation. They weep over the s and laugh, as should be expected the ridiculous, but they do not alw; marvel at the marvellous, at least that the world knows :t. When the time drew near for recital to begin, I think I felt exac as I did the afternoon that I wai to .see the Old Faithful geyser play Yellowstone Park. I knew that would play, for all the statements tl I had read on ?he subject could i be false, all the people to wnom 11 talked on the subject could not w ingly have prevaricated, and yet seemed too wonderful that out of 1 mfount of mineral deposit, th? rises water like the waves of 1 ocean. But the geyser did play, a so did the radio wireless concert ta place. First, we heard the voice of a m in Davis, Nebraska greeting us, a later music, clear and distinct, fi: from Detroit, then from Denver a elsewhere. It is strange how one grows i customed even to seeing the see: ingly impossible come to pass. All t atmosphere today is surcharged wi the miracles of science and we acce them ever so casually. Our forefathers must have stoi in awe that amounted to fear befo the first steamship and the first e gine and trajn. We have lost the poi /er to marvel and wonder. Like child with a dozen new toys, we a: surfeited. It takes a great deal please us, and therefore we are fi less happy than were the pioneers i this country who made a living, ar spent a little less than they made, wi had simple joys and appreciate them profoundly. Their religion wa a subject about which they spol with solemnity, and the standarc were measured by the rules of Bibi cal lore. Around the fireplaces in the evei ing they talked of men who had dor things, Daniel Boone, and Ethan A len, and the home was the sacred cei ter, the holy unit of the nation. We are-getting to be such worshii pers of the material that the golde calf may yet be the symbol of our re ligion. "There" will never be a golde age until men value the golden do! lar less than the golden sunset, an both less than the golden rule." I began this article with the ide of comparing our blase attitude tc ward life with that of our ancestor and the very unappreciative way ii which we accept the wonders of th natural world, used unnaturally. We have come to think of the tel ephone as a nec?ssary convenien evil, and to turn on the electric switc] flooding our rooms with light witl little thankfulness and appreciation One of the faculty the other da; talked over long distance to a frien< in central Mississippi. Today mail reaches us very mud quicker than it did the colonists Their luxuries are to us the most or dinary necessities. Edison is now said to be working on an invention by which we maj commune with the spirits departed It seems to me that the finite and the infinite are entirely distinct and sep arate and that Mr. Edison is doomed to failure beforp he begins. I am not logical, perhaps, certainly not scientific, but the simple truths of the Bible are more pertinent in explaining away what seems defiance of the Almighty than all the laws of science and their various meanings. The greatest man is not he who strives to disprove all accepted the ories in regard to Heavenly Commu nication, but he who accepts the in evitable, and does not try to peer be hind the curtain of infinity. FLORENCE MIMS. ? Tonkawa, Oklahoma. Miss Mary Gaines Writes Very Interesting Letter From Boise, Idaho. Dear Home People: < Spring has come; it is in the air. This morning as we came to work, "a robin sat on a lilting spray.;" or a robin sat on a spray lilitng and tilt ing; anyway, there was a robin, and that is a sure sign of spring. The new grass is beginning to peep up all over the lawns, and a surer sign still, the store windows are full of spring clothes, and ladies are buying their spring bonnets. The mountains, around us on all sides, are still cover ed with snow, ms.king a picturesque background; this snow will be here till May or June, ano for this reason, it doesn't get very warm and springlike here, as it does at home, till late in May. ? All of the farmers think that the water supply will be plentiful for this summer's needs, due to thc amount of snows and rains of this winter. The ditches are full now, but are still frozen over. The long, dry summer be gins about April, and the country, as far as water is concerned, is absolute ly dry till the first rains of October. This water is carefully stowed up in ponds or lakes and let into the ditches as the crops demand it during th? summer. Boise's main supply is in AiTowrock Lake on the Boise river about ten miles north of the city. The dam here, is the largest in the world, and cost over $7,000,000. Sprinklers are kept busy, running all summer, for watering lawns, gardens and even the trees. Boise lies in a very level valley about fifty miles long and four miles wide, with the hills on the east and west, rising abruptly from the plain. The hills on the west are called "Benches," and are three terraces rising in succession above the city. With their homes, lovely gardens, or chards and farms, they remind one of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon; though, from the number of "Chink" gardeners here, I think they were built to please them instead of to please a queen as were the famous gardens of history. Beautiful roads around these Benches, make delight ful auto drives, and during the sum mer, when a breeze is blowing, the aromatic odor of the sage brush is delightful. The soil, in this valley, washed down from the hills for generations is very fertile; no fertilisT is neces sary and with little work *he yield is great. The land has been farmed a comparatively short time, for Boise's first resident made a home in 1863, and I suppose irrigation and*arming was begun since. The principal crops are corn, grain, alfalfa, potatoes, fruit and vegetables of all kinds. Most of the gardening and truck farming is done very suc cessfully by Chinese. They work all day and part of the night, growing the vegetables and peddling them from house to house. Most of them can and do save piles of money, for they spend little for clothes, eat lit tle, and live in dirty hovels. The cel ery and potatoes grown by them are marvelous, and are much better than that of American growers. The fruit consists of grapes, cher ries, peaches, prunes and many, many apples. The orchards are very pretty in the fall, when the trees are bending' with ruby apples and purple prunes or plums. I think the fruit shown at the State Fair, last fall, was prettier and of larger size than I had ever seen. This irrigated fruit, though, does not have the flavor of our fruit. The flavor of the peaches and melons is nothing to compare with that of our Elbertas and Georgia Rattlesnakes. I will write more of fanning and cattle in my next letter. Yesterday, being Washington's birthday and a holiday, the teachers of the Veterans' Bureau, et al, went out to dinner at 'the Owyhee, Boise's swellest hotel. This name, in the In dian language means "Place of Wel come." There are a number of Indian names, and their meanings are inter esting. Another hotel, the Idanha means "Gem of the Mountains ;" the mountains of this name were so call ed by an Indian on seeing the sun peeping between two cliffs. Then Po catello, a city below here, was named from an Indian chief, "Little Potato." There is a Bannock Street, from the Bannock Indians, and one Sunday school class named itself Tillicum, for they found that this meant "Friendship." They are not so proud of their name, sir ce they have found later that it means "Man-hunter." MARY J. GAINES. Boise, Idaho. NOTICE. All persons who are indebted to the estate of Mrs. Zelpha Thurmond, deceased will make payment to the undersigned and all persons who hold claims against said estate will present them to the undersigned properly at tested for payment. 3-13-22 J. H. MATHIS. The Law and Order Leagi The resolutions adopted by Citizens' Mass Meeting. Monday r clearly show two facts. First, show that local conditions with spect to law enforcement are what a great majority of our citi wish them to be. Second, they s that our people, or a majorit: them, are willing to aid in any m ment oh the part of our town county officials to make condit better. It is not necessary here to dea length with the details as to 1 conditions. Our people know v these conditions are and for the r part, their presence at this meet as well as some facts were gi there, indicate plainly that condit are bad. "While the traffic in liquc .one of the chief troubles that sh< give us great concern, there are ol infractions of the law that shoulc noticed and stopped. I might men some of them: Places of business o on Sundays, regulations as* to the eration of pool rooms. Minors she be kept out of pool rooms.- A'j, room is a place that should be wa ed, for it offers a great bpportui and a great temptation to gambl do not frequent pool rooms an make no charge against the pool rc of Edgefield. I merely raise the qi tion, Is the Edgefield Pool Room : according to the town and state i ulati?ns that control Pool Rooms It is evident that a great naajoi cf our citizens wish to better coi tions. They will stand by our offk in any attempt to rid the town i county of these conditions. They peet the officers of the law to do til duty. Our officers are in office for \ purpose. They should be watchful i ready to make any initiative to t end. They have no right to assu that by common consent cert things may go by. unnoticed. If 1 citizens of the town want places business open on Sunday, they char the law. But until the law is chang then it is the duty of the officers enforce it. If the citizens of the to1 and county want to have their sc and daughters debauched by boot-1 liquor, then start a movement to : move the 18th Amendment. I am sx that a large majority of our citize want our laws enforced. Then w should a small minority be given t right to do as they please about thc things? Thc League and Politics. So far as I am in- a position to spa as to the purposes of the League; will not take a personal part in i coming town elections. I do not ? pect either on my own respo?sibili or as President of the Law and 0 der League to ask any man or womi to vote for any man or woman ru ning for office. It has been insinuati that the purpose of the League is put out a ticket in the spring ele tions for the municipal offices. If may speak for those who first met consider the organization of such League, no mention was made of ar such object in view. At our publ meeting no candidate was mentionc and none endorsed. The matter of s lecting the officers who have upc themselves the responsibility of go erning the town is left to the ind vidual conscience. The Objects of the League. The objects o'f the League may I briefly stated in two short sentence The League will work to have tri laws enforced. The League will WOT fer an open policy in the administri tion of municipal affairs. We believ the best results can be had by a large amount of publicity. Let the peppl know what is being done in the Tow Council. Truly, members of the cour eil are servants of the people. The spend the people's money and the pee pie have a righi to kr.ow what the do and what they can not do, or wr not do, as the case may be. This ai plies not only to matters pertaining t the criminal but to the financial mal ters, as well. The tax payer is burden ed these days beneath a heavy load If he can be assured that his moiie, is well spent, honestly spent, eco nomically spent, wisely spent, he feel better satisfied. I read in the paper from time to time records from tb sittings of Town Councils in variou places. If our Town Fathers are faith ful in their struggle for law and or der and for a wise administration ii the town affairs, let us citizens know and you can be assured of our sym pathy and support. I have often sa in the gallery at other places and lis tened to the discussion of problemi with which the Town Fathers wres tied, with a great deal of interest anc sympathy for them. But if a towr council never meets except on specia occasions, and when it does meet meets in closed sessions, the public can not know of its ardent labors tc give the people the best government possible. Facts, Not Personalities. What we wish to deal with is facts, not personalities. We want a better WARREIN & C?IMTELOU THE HOME OF GOOD EATS Every Wednesday and Friday we have Fresh Tomatoes, Straw berries, String Beans, Bell Peppers, Celery, Carrots and Lettuce. We Can Supply Your Every Want in Groceries We have a full line of Canned goods. Also a nice display of Candy. Agency for* Stone Cakes. Give Us a Trial. Will Give You Service. > EDGEFBELD, ?. C. 'Phone 65 town where law is enforced. Where there will be less danger of our boys going wrong. We cordially invite an open, "frank and full consideration of these matters by those who hold orn ees of responsibility by the vote of our citizens. G. W. M. TAYLOR, President Edgefield Law and Order League. "It Got His Goat." A big excursion?boat, filled as full as it could float, With passengers bent on pleasure and east, Had a nigger cook named Sport, and for a mascot a goat, And several boxes of limberger cheese. , It gave the captain much pain, the way the passengers did complain Of an awful odor somewhere about. They said again and again, they would go insane "With that scent going up their snout. Some said it was the goat, some the nigger, Sport, Some said it was the limberger cheese; The captian said "Bring the goat, and I'll take ? note Of the change he makes' in the breeze." In a big arm chair sat the captain, in the small cozy cabin, For it was very close and tight; And it seemed almost .a sin, to bring anything 'in That didn't smell exactly right. So they brought the goat in, with the whirkers under his chin, And the captain got a good whiff, -hh \, as enough for him, his eyes went glim, , He-fainted and lay cold and stiff. And before he revived, with the nig ger they arrived, And the goat stood there disdained; Such a scent, gee, man alive, no one could survive, And even the billy goat fainted. In an hour the captain awoke, and thus he spoke, "Take that nigger and knock him in the head." They tried to revive poor billy, but the scent had knocked him slily, And he lay there stretched out dead. It was too close a room, to exhibit such perfume, The captain in his diary wrote; And on the billy goat's tomb I make bold to presume, . They inscribed "It got his Goat." W. S. G. HEATH. Candidates for Warden. T hereby announce that I am a can didate for re-election as warden from the 5th ward of the town of Edge field. S. B. NICHOLSON. I respectfully announce that I am a candidate for warden of the town of Edgefield from-the 5th ward and solicit the votes oi^the people in that ward. F. B. &EESE. I hereby announce that I am a can didate for warden of the town of Edgefield from the 1st ward. M. H. DEAL. I hereby announce that I am a can didate for warden of the Town of Edgefield from Ward 2 and solicit the votes of the people in that ward. J. D. KEMP. I respectfully announce that I am a candidate for warden of the Town of Edgefield from Ward 2 and solicit the support of the voters in that ward. G. V. CROUCH. / I hereby announce that I am a can didate for warden from the 4th ward of the town of Edgefield. W. C. TOMPKINS. Sunday afternoon a placinum bar pin on Colum bia street. Finder will please return to Dr. A. R. Nicholson. Resolutions by Johnston K. of i C. Lodge. Since God in His wisdom has visit ed the home of our Brother J. A. Lott, and removed by death his' son, Marion, Therefore be it Resolved First, That we extend to him and his wife our sincere sympathy in their bereavement. Second, That a copy of these reso lutions be spread upon our minute, book, one sent to the county paper and one sent to the family. Signed Dr. J. A. D03EY, C. E. SIMON?, T.- C. EDWARDS. Committee, for Johnston K. of P. Lodge, No. 40, Johnston, S. C. Come and inspect our beautiful line of sport skirts, just what you have been looking for for your spring attire. I. MUKASHY. FOR SALE: One Delco light plant in perfect condition. .Will sell cheap. If interested, write or come to see me. T. P. SALTER, Trenton, S. C. WU Surely Steo Thal C?uo& TIUGGTNS7" STORE AT THE DEPOT Not the Biggest Store ' In Town. Oh, No! But Huggins Treats You Right. And Have You Tried That E-K Special Coffee ? 19c. a Pound HUGGINS' STORE AT , THE DEPOT Candidates For Warden ! I hereby announce that I am & j candidate for warden of the Town of Edgefield from Ward 2 and solicit' , the votes of the people in that' ward. J. D. KEMP ; I respectfully announce that I am a candidate for warden of the' Town of Edgefield from Ward 2 and solicit the support of the voters, in. that ward. March 8, 1922. G. V. CROUCH NOTICE TO CREDITORS of Application For Discharge In the District Court of the United States, For the Western Div-_ _trict of South Carolina._ IN THE MATTER OF S. Neal, Johnston, S. C. (No. B-266 in Bankruptcy.) I To the Creditors of the above named Bankrupt : Take notice on Feb. 28, 1922, the above named bankrupt filed his peti tion in said Court praying that he may be decreed by the Court to have a full discharge from all debts provable against his estate, except such debts as are excepted by , law from suoh discharge, and hearing was thereupon ordered and will be had upon said petition on Mar. 30, 1922, before seid Coutr, ta Greenville, in said District, at ll o'clock in the forenoon, at which time and place all known creditors and other persons in interest may appear and show cause, if any they have, why the prayer of said petition should not be granted. D. C. DURHAM, Clerk. Dtred at Greenville, S. C., February 28, 1922. 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