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I • f A . * ' f 9 10 COOPERATE IN OPENING EDISTO RIVER TO COMMERCL 4 * \ The Commercial Club Will Co-operate With Orangeburg and Charleston In Appeal To Board Of Engin eers. For several weeks a concerted movement has been made by several the counties adjoining the Ed into river, looking to the opening of this etream from Orangeburg to Char leston to navigation. Capt. E. If. Adams of the Corps of Engineers made ah inspection of this route and a report to the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Har- %ora, recommending that the Na tional government take steps to open up the stream. . Thia report wm acted upon un favorably by the Board of Engineers, recommended that the com- along the river would not justify the improvement There ia, however, an appeal poa- aibls, and it haa been decided to take advantage of thia appeal. Accord ingly the Chamber of Commerce of Orangeburg and Charleston have ap pointed committees to appear before the Board of Engineers in Washing ton. Jan. 3, and argue for the adop tion of the report. Congressman Lever is very much interested and is doing all in bu power to secure the improvement. Colleton county would be greatlv interested, and the Commercial Club has taken hold of the matter with a view of taking some steps to aid the Orangeburg and Charleston committees in their fight. Accord ingly President Padgett, has ap pointed a committee to secure data and report tu a special mee ting of the Club. Either a committee will be sent to Washington or a strong report sent up by the commitrees from Oi angeuurg and l hailestnn. The result of this fight will be say: and watched with much interest. The Sun has the following to Notwithstanding the strong favorable report made by Capt. Adams. II. S. Engineer, on the Edisto River project, the Board of Engineers at Vt ashmgton have turned downjthe proposition. Thia news came as a* great ,surprise and disappointment to Orangeburg, but the hustling people of this city are not all dismayed, and on Wednesday night an enthusiastic meeting of the local Chamber of Commerce was held and it was determined to ap peal to the Washington authorities to reverse their decision. The following delegation from thia city was appointed to go to Washington and present the ^ppeal: Hon. Samuel Dibble, Messrs M. 0 Dantsler. W. G. Suith, R. H.* Jen nings, W. L. Glover, J. W. Smoak and Fred Wanamaker. Congressman Lever as usual is hard at work on the matter and got the Washington board to set Janu ary 3rd for the hearing. Both Rowesville and Branchvil'.f will send delegates, and it isexpecU* that Charleston will be represented by at*!mst a dozen of its citizens. It is also earnest>ly desired that other s^tions interested in the pro jeet will send representatives. A large a delegation as possible i.- wanted to go and press our claims The board has reversed iisel many times before, and it is firmb believed that the Edisto advocate; a it I be able to make snch a show ing as to get (be board to chang< its report on our project to a favor able »ne WOMAN’S DEPARTMENT -by- MISS H. E. MALONE NOVEL READING There is no question that more novel< arc read Uian any other kind a « i < i ■* and enjoys reading, fully three time as many books of history. biographv, poetrv, and criticism as she does o- of literature, and the reason is not!novels, then perhaps she is in n< far to seek. Just as long as people I danger; but if the proportion is all .i— -'— ~i— *—» the other way. thewhances are that she is enervating and enfeebling hei mind with too many sweetmeats. It whi r' W Hubert-on. the great preacher, s man of the most elegant uterary attainments, who said that mw»t young Janies of eighteen ban *ead more hooks—especially new nooks- than he had. But Robert- .■uw’s book* had been carefully select ed fr >m srnong the master pieces, and th- se had been read and reread perfer dainties rather than olam but wholesome fare, as long as they love ease and relaxation, and are prone to avoid iab>r of any kind, so long will the novel be most popular in tbs world of books, and a compare tive distaste will oe formed for tolid reading. If the question were put, is novel-reading injurious? The answer would probably be. yes; but perhaps a fairer relply would be, and no. 140 doubt if we could .re e nrfvei-reading within bounds.! until they had been thoroughly similHted and m-«de his own. u-e his words, “they had passed as Tu like LETTERS FROM FRIENDS AND PATRONS OF GOOD OLD SANTA CLAIB. We are sure good old Stanta Claus will read with much interest the following letters from his Muje friends, and we trust he will bring each little tot just what is asked. Dear Santa Claus:— Please bring me a drum, a horn, a little chicken in its cage, and that’s all. William Smoak v Wslterboro, Dec. 30. __aingsuch books, as have un deniable literary merit, and taking _ these only as we would take an oc- iron atom-4 into the blood ’ isionai sugar-plum, novel-reading If many novels are read, assuredly light be not only harmless but bene-.they ought not to be ne w novels * Few have either the tune 'or the « billitv to decide wisely on tne m -ri ■ ut ne* o kiKS. So many uf them are popular today and dead tomor row. And life is Phi short to reid all even of the be«t —t*ioae which have come forth from the ordeal of time. A bright woman, more than or- fidat. For if the autnor were of real geniu , qua ified to read aright and to ree matruct the comp’exities of life, and give us a tale which wg cm Id at once depend upon as true to nature, and-at the same time md u.re a* ideal. th« i such a story Would be a valuable addition to our own experienced serving to interpret .. 4 and enlarge it, and lift our whole dmarity gified with both topgue plane of thought to a higher level. Ther, too. it is uselesa to deny that even ihe novel considerably short of “atanda'd” may onng a certain advantage of us own; for although it may have little suiutantial value. and pen. baa had tma to say aoout novel-reading: “Much as i disliked the restriction then. 1 am now sincerely thankful that nw Puritan father not only c nnmanded me not to' read novels. Walter boro, Dec. 20:—Dear Sant* Claus.—I wish you would bring me a doll and a doll carriage, and some candv and apples, and anything else you think I would like. Your little friend. % Laura May Yon. Walter boro, Dec. 20,—Dear Santa Claus: Please come to see ua this year and bring me a toy pistol and some capo, some candy and apples. I want s6me fire crackers too. Your little friend, Parker Yon. Walterboro, S. C. Dec. 15, 1910. Dear Santy I wont you to bring me some firecrackers and a little wagon and a hold croud of other toys I am a little boy three years old I havent started to school yet. I am your little boy Kenneth PadgeU. Walterboro, S. C. Dec. 15. 1910 Dear Santy 1 want you to bring me a ot of toys for Xmas and some fire trackers and a trycicle and some fruit and candy and nuts and I want . ou to bring me a cannon to shoot (maa day. Your little boy. j * Cecil Padgett. Walterboro, S. C. Dec. 15, 1910. Dear Santa;— . Please bring me for Xmas, a large doll dressed in olue, a set of paper dolls, some nice ■hocolate candy, and nuts, and iring me a balloon. Hoping »’OU will not forget me. / Yours sincerly. Careen Padgett. also that Dear Santa Clsus:— Please bring me \ toy goat-cart, a horse and a train alsp some firecrackers and plenty of me* fruit and candy. I will be glad of anything else you would give me. A small boy. Lazarus Gr.ffin. Ruffin, S. C. Dec. 16,1910. ■ Ruffin, S. C. Dear Santa Claua:— I am a amall girl -iving out in the country. I want -ou to please bring me a pretty doll with little shoes and lots of fruit and Tandy, also bring me a cute pair of vasen and a doll tea set. Sarah Griffin. Dee 16. 1910. Ruffin, 8. C. Dec, 12, 1910-Dear Unde Snata Clause You no its near Christmas and I ask you to please be sure U> step in to see us and brag us two teasels Two room sets and fjqiit plenty of fruit and be sure to not elite ovr kind Editor for his kind to us. Pearl, and, Letha. Mile Ulmer. Cottageville. S. C. Dear old santy I am little boy 6 years old I weigh 36 lbs I ahve all that I want for Xmas except a nice little cup and saucer and plate a nife A fork and if you have a point that I can ride and saddle do please bring me one and if you havnt got the pony you need not bring the saddle Harry D Reeves. Dear santa done Please bring me a toy no to nckle a a automobile an coconut an some nuts ana foot ball Daniel Walker. Dear Mr. Santa in a little boy 7 yean old i can spell an i want yon to bring me a train a toy wagon a pack of baby canoas an som nuts an some candy come soon i will hang ny slocking on the dore Pirre Walker. an santaduas I made one mistake in my letter 1 did not know it till I had sealed up my letter it was about the doll 1 said that i wanted a doll five feel high but now 1 no it will very tall but now i Use it to be too feel high and 1 want all »weet things H may give thoce wmise experience but s.iecewfnMy prom ruled the tern ___ been limited along bUCh lines an idea of social life and of social rules and convention.-*, which may come in most happKy at some^ future time, and aporove itself ju*t a-* much “power*’ a* any otner Kind of knowl- ^dge - put in spite o* exceptions, the ptaiien from coniine in hischildren’s way. Until 1 was fifteen yean* old 1 never saw a volume of the* kind "Pilgrim’s ProgreW was ihe near est approach we made, bur it s^m-* profanation to refer to that cnoice Engiksn classic in that degenerate connA-ction rule holds Dtood that novel reading ia A kind and garruloui seamstress. J Use the ; who de dared tnat thie 'aw of our not a who'esome habit; and wine-bibber* the omnivorous novel- reader generally gets worse and worse. Temperance is. in this mat ter, the one saving thiug; and tetr is the very thing which it is ; tu maintain if hou ehold wist a ‘shame’, loid us what she couid remeuiuer of ‘The Children of the Abbey’, and finally brought in. curreotitiously. ’Jane Eyre’ and Thadriens «f Warsaw/ But tbs glamour uf those highly seasoned pages was iinheaMtful. and made'human nature’s daily food', the common past »ral life we l* j d, and nature's soothing beauty seem h » tame and tas'eleea that the reul- jeion was my life’s first sorrow How evanescent and unreal was th.* pleasure of m'*h reading; a sort of apirilual hasheesheating with- hard and painful wakin/; a tenumbing of ih- healthful, every dav activities; a losing of so much that wa-* mmole and sweet, to join so little that was at best a fevered and fantastic vision of utter unreality In all the years .sincii then, I have believed that novel-writing, save for Home high, heroic, morral sun, while the moat diversified, is the iiio-*t unproductive of all industries- Tne young people who read th«* greatest quantity of novels, know the lewt, are the dul lest in aspect, and the modi vanid in conversation. The fUnor of indivi duality has been burn* d out of them Always imagining themselves in an irufirul relation to life, always con tent pt look through their’ author’s giassts, they become as common n.ace as pawns upon a chtsa— toind.’’ ABE PEARLSTINE DLLED AT BRANtS- VILLE LAST THURSDAY NORNME. Prominent Young Business Man Of BrancHyille Killed Last Thursday By - John J. Jones, A Former Colleton- Jones Out On Bond. Walterboro, Dec. 19, 1910. Dear Santy—1 want you to bring me a coat a pair of school pants some fire works and fruit. Good Night, James Richard Adams, Walterboro. S C Dec. 15. 1910- Dear Santy bow are you getting along thebe long days Xmas 1 want you to bring me a dait and a doll carriage and some toys Xmas and some fruit 1 am a little girl going in ten years old going to school at Ml. Cat met we have a nne teacher this year. 1 will hafter cio«e for this time your little girl Kate Beach. Williams, S C Dec. 15. 1910- Dear Santa Claus, I want you to bring me a waggon that will bring i i wood #ith and a two blade home that ia sharp, and that ia worth something and some fruit fire crackera. Everett Utaey. ‘ Dear Uncle Santy Please come to aee me Cnlutmas As I am a little Girl only 7 seven months old. me wiil not bother you much to bring me much this Xmas Just bring me a gocari necklace ring a big doll and some apples and candy 1 dont like anything that sweet so 1 will give the candy to my little Friend to ate I am Papa A. Mams Pet Little Mai le Crosby. K'jund, S. C. Walterboro. S. C. Dec. 15, 1910. Eeat Danty 1 want plenty of fruit and a doll and a carriage and a chair and a goacart and 1 ct addle and some nuts aod Some candy and pienty ol other things nice. 1 am eleven years old and will soiMi be twelve years 1 want you to bring me a nice present for a birthday present 1 will close Your little girl Maggie Beach. tan. 1 r A fatal shooting scrape oenired last Thursday at Branchville in which Abe Pearlstine a voung mer chant and business man was shot and killed by John J. Jones, Esq., a young attorney of that place. The shooting oecurrod in the lobby of the post office about 9:45 o’clock, and followed an alternation about claim which had been sent Jones to collect from Pearlstine. Pearlstine claimed that he had paid the claim to Jones, and accused Jones of not having reported the collection to hb client. He had some correspondence and bilb. together with the receipt-^ ed bill from Jones, and wished to have an explanation from him as to the matter. Jones refused to look at the correspondence, wish so exas perated Pearlstine then he struck him. Several blows were passed. J. Marion Byrd the postmaster, hearing the noise, rushed out into the lobby, separating the belliger ents and asking them not to fight in the presence of hb wife. Mr. Peafl- stine appologized to Mr. Bytd, and while assuring him that he wss very sorry for what had already happen ed, Joqes who passed by the two and was aoparently leaving, the post- office, stopped just inside of the door, whirled, drew a pbtol from his hip pocket, slipped the gun out of a shield, and fired at Mr. Pearl- stine. who was still conversing with Mr. Byrd. The ball struck Pearl stine in the abdomen. The unfortunate man exclaimed, “I am i-hot.” Mr. Byrd said, “Let’s, go to the doctor.” MP Mr. Pearbtine replied, “I am Dear Santy Clause. I want you to bring me rifle some apples oranges firecrack ers some skyrockets some jromble candles pare goto wagon candy some resons. * Hudson. There will be Christmas services for tlie chHdren at the Presbyterian church Sunday morning. Regular will he held at night. Walterboro, b. C. Dec 15, 1910. Dear Samy Cieus. 1 want you to not forget me Xmas. 1 want you to bring me a nice doll amt plenty of fiuil bring roe some nuts and plenty of candy and a nice lea-wt please bring me a doll carnage and a chair a cradle A a gocart Well 1 havvt.i got any more to say 1 will close fur tma time but will write next time. Your little girl Padgett. Ruffin, S. C. Walterboro, S. a Dee. 15. 1910. Dear Santy How are you getting aloag these lonesome days Xmas I wont you to bring me a doll and a carriage and some fruit and tops I am a little giry ten years old going to school at Mt Carmel We have a fine teacher this year and I am learn ing fast I am in the fifty grade I am your little girl ‘ 1 Reba Carter. Williams, S C Dec. 15. 1910. Dear Hants Claus please bring me a wagon train and a rockery horse, and fruit and candy, please bring Willard a train and a wagon with a pony to it Jessie ard Willard Utaey. Dear Santa Crius Please gring me a craddle and a doll and a table and some chairs and a little doll watch and a dcgl bed an J some fruit and ■tome Candy. Miriam Utsey. Walterboro, S. C. Dec. 15,1910. Dear Sant* Please bring ms for Xmas, a nice box of Chocolate, a while Teddy bear three (3) ft high; A doll three and one hall (34) ft. high; dressed in pink; and some nice nuts. Hoping that you will not forget me. Yours sincerely, * Cary Beach. dying.” and reeled against the door leading into the postmaster’s private office, and a moment later fell back* ward oiTtho floor, where he breRthed hb last leas than five minutes after the fatal shot. Dra. Wimberly and Parker were hastily summoned, but wtrs un able to render any assistance to the dying man. iONKS ARRESTED. Immediately Jones was arrested in hb lawoffice by S. S. Byrd. Ha was turned over by Magistrate Dukes to Mr. Browning, chief ot po lice, who carried Jones to Orange burg and delivered him to Sheriff Salley. W. C. Martin appeared at the inquest representing the Pearl- stines, while W. C. Wolfe of Orange burg represented the defendant. It was brought out at the inquest from the only threo eye-witnesses to tha tragedy, that the deceased was not Rimed. Jones has since been granted bail. He has had nothing to sav for pub lication. Nr; Pearbtine was taken to Char- leatea where be was interred. Ha leaves a widow and two small chil dren. hb aged mother, three sisters and four brothers. Mr. Jones b a Colleton man, hav ing been born near Smoaks in upper Colleton. He has been living in Branchville for several years and was married to Miss Minnie Sauls of Walterboro. a daughter of Mrs. G. A. Sauls. He was a candidate for the House of representatives from Colleton two years ago. Mrs. Saub immediately upon ra ce ip t. of telegram Thursday left for Branchville to be with her daughter. RUSHTON-MAXCY. Lodge, Dee. 19,—Special: Sun- • day afternoon. Dec. II, a few friends assembled at the Baptist parsonage at Lodge, to witness Um marriage of Ira M. Maxcy, and Mb* Nora Ruahton both of Smoaks. Rev. G. A. Martin assisted bf Rev. S. J. McLeod, of Jacksonville, Fla . performed the ceremony/ The bride b a daughter of Rev. J. E. Rush ton, a well known and highly esteemed Mcthodjst minuter, who took up the work in Smoaks circuit one year ago. In spite of the fact that Mian Rush ton has lived in Co'leton only a short time she has by her winning ways made many friends. Mr. Maxcy b a well-known and promising young business man of Smoaks, a member of the firm, Smoak. Carter and Maxcy. The many friends of this young couple unite in wishing for them a life filled with usefulness, success and happiness. Mr. and Mrs. C. 1 Jetton of Tam pa, Fla., who nave been vtoiung Mrs. J-*i-u*rs aunt, Mti*. C D. May. left yesterday for Early Branch where they will be till after Xmas. NEW K OF P OFFICERS. At the regular meeting of Ashby Farrow L>dge, No. 63, held last night the following rfii<*erH were elected: T. P. Murray, C. C.; J. M. Moorer, V C.; C. G Padgett, P ; A. S Kar-sh, M. of W ; E. D Lemaeks, K of R & S ; D B Black. M of F.; 4 M. Klein. M. «*f E ; J R Halford. M at A ; J A WesterU rg. 1. G.; J. M Ackerman. 0. G ; M P. Ho v el!. W K Ackerman, II. W. Black, Jr.. Trustees. NOTICE TO'pmmt mjb/ribers. The C<»lleton Copnty Telephone Comnany will discontinue service on SutidayM In t» een i he following hours beginning Sunday. IlecemOer 25; 8'00 to 9 00 a m , 1:00. to 2:00 p. m., 6:00 to 7:00 p m. On t hristma* Day the exenange will he c!->s»*d at the n-w»n hour from 12 30 to 2:00 p. m.. instead of from 1:00 to 2:00 No calls wrti Ih* answered between th# above mentioned hour a. XMAS TREE AT PE.PLESSCNOOL There will be a Xmas tree at P*a- P , *-h h' , 'i.h>| TVirpitay evt ning. Dec. 22. M>sa l>eila Padgcb {is teacher of this achool. Dr Btscs |nd Mr Smoak of the county board of edu cation have been invited to mas* addreswe. : ‘J