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PIANOS! PI^NOS?I Are you thinking of buying a piano? If so no doubt you want a good instrument: one that will last a life time and give satisfaction. If you buy an Strich & Zeidler piano or an Adam Schaaf piano you will have no cause to regret it. They are made for service. If inter estedyet us hear from you. We always keep on hand a nice stock of the celebrated FAR RAND ORGANS. Your pat ronage solicited. Holland Brothers Greenwood, 5. C. The Timmons Drug Store. Is amply prepared to take care of its patrons in their preparations for the apfestive season. Largest tock of =Fancy and Toilet ARTICLES= n Edgefield from which to select Christmas gifts, eautiful line of high grade == PERFUMERY ===== Very large assortment of pictures, China, Vases nd toys of every description. This is the place for anta Claus to make his purchases. Fresh Nuts, Fruits and Fireworks Galore Fruit cae and pound cake in quanity desired M\ of the nice things such as Mince Meat, Gelatine, ello and flavoring extracts. Large shipment of fresh ndies in beautiful boxes from one to five pounds. B. Timmons e Us For job Work EYE TALES No I Under this heading I propose to jive yon each month a paragraph or iwo concerning your eyes. While designed to advertise my Optical establishment, the talks will, at the same time be interest ing-if I can make them so. GLASSES Now add it least thirty years of 2omfortahle vision to the average life time, so my work aids every [sailing and promotes human happi ness. It always makes me happy to belp others. Will you not let me help you? MY GLASSES SATISFY. GEO. F. MIMS, Optician. Edgefield, S. C. Auditor's Notice. AH persons owning property of any kind whatsoever, or in any capacity, as husband, guardian, executor, ad ministrator or trustee are required to make returns of the same to the Audi tor under oath within the time men tioned below and the Auditor is requir ed by law to add a penalty of 60 per cent to all property that is not return ed on or before the 20th day of Febru ary in any year. All male citizens between the ages of 21 and 60 years except those ex empt by law are deemed taxable polls. The township assessors are respect fully requested to meet me at the ap pointments for taking tax returns in their respective township and they are also required to make tax returns for those who fail to make their own with in the time prescribed by law. The 50 per cent penalty will be added far fail ure to make returns. For the conveniente of tax payers, I or my representative will be at the following appointed places on the dates mentioned to receive tax returns: Roper's, Monday Jan. 15. Meriwether, Tuesday, Jan. 16. Collier, Wednesday Jan. 17. Red Hill, Thursday Jan. 18. Clark's Hill, Friday Jan. 19. Modoc, Saturday, Jan. 20. Parksville, Monday Jan. 22. Plum Bransh, Tuesday Jan. 23. Morgan's Store, Wednesday Jan. 24. Liberty Hill, Thursday Jan. 25.| Cleora, Friday Jan. 26. Pleasant Lane, Saturday Jan. 27. Meeting Street, Monday Jan. 29. Johnston, Tuesday Jan. 30. Herrin's Store, Wednesday Jan. 31. Trenton, Thursday Feb. 1. The office will be open to receive re turns from the first day of January till the 20th day of February as prescribed by law. J. R. TlMMERMAN, Auditor, E. C. S. C. Annapolis Scholarship. Congressman James F. Byrnes has been called upon to fill a vacan cy at the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, by the ap pointment of a principal and three alternates for examination at the Naval Academy, April 16, 1912. For the purpose of filling this va cancy, Mr. Byrnes will have a com petitive examination held at Black ville, S.C. Friday, December 29, 1911. Applicants must have been actual bona fide residents of the 2nd Con gressional District for the past two years, and between the ages of six teen and twenty years on April 16, 1912. Candidates are required to be of good moral character, physically sound, well-formed, and of robust constitution, and must stand a thorough examination in all the or dinary English branches, including algebra quadratic equa tions, and plane geometry (five books of Chauvenet's Geometry, or an equivalent.) All persons interested should com municate with Mr. Byrnes at once. Round Trip Christmas Holiday Rates. Via Southam Railway-Premier Car rier of the South: Account of Christmas Holi days, the Southern Railway an nounces reduced round trip fares between many points. Tickets on sale December 15, 16, 17, 20, SI, 22, 28, 24, 25, 30, 31, 1911 and January 1st, 1912, good returning January 8, 1912. For detailed in formation, call on nearest Southern Railway ticket agent, or, John L. Meek, AGPA., Atlanta, Ga. Frank L. Jenkins, TPA.f Augusta, Ga. AUCTION SALE. Having decided to move to Geor gia I will sell at auction about the middle of January my piano, furni ture, store, cooking utensils, bug gies, wagons, harness, mower, rake, harrows, planters and other farming implements, 60-gallon self measur ing kerosene tank, general merchan dise, oats, oom, fodder, hay, black smith shop tools, milk cows, dry cattle, four oxen, one Devon bull, twenty head Berkshire hogs and pigs, about 40 colonies of bees. The exact date and fuller notice will be given later. S CHEATHAM. Cleora, S- C HOLD COTTON, SAYS BARRETT Urge? Firmer? to Farm M rf Stapf o Crop Not In Existence- South Carolina Plan. To tbe Officers and Members of the Fanners' Union: At this critical stage in the cotton situation, with the Farmers' Union and scores of business leaders and general southern factors battling to stem the tide of unfair prices, tbe first duty of tbe farmer ls to bold bis cotton. Those wbo sell at present prices are simply giving away a margin of several million dollars to spinners and speculators. Quotations after the first of the year will establish the truth of that assertion. The most difficult part of the campaign is now upon us. To waver is to loee the effect of the splendid work al ready accomplished. I In South Carolina, under the lead ership of E. J. Watson, president of the Southern cotton congress, they are Instituting a ey stem ot pledgee which hinds th? planter to hold his present cotton for thirteen cents; and farther, net *? sow more then a tx ty per ?ent of the arable acreage in cotton fer the soaring M semi. The pian ia an exc?dent ene. Stailsttas and oar own ccmusMM sense tell us that the crap now ta hand ls w%rth much mora than ls heine offered for IL But lt ctviii satton needs the sharp leesons nf a short crop to emphasise the wisdom of rah* dealing with the farmer-then ao be ttl The south ls m better position to se absolutely Independent than any other section of the ecrmtry. Just assume, fer the sake A illustration, that soil conditions were such that we could not produce cotton. We would then proceed to realize upon the south's heaven-sent heritage by producing the great staple crops rais ed In every other section of Ameri ca, the crops they rely upon to sus tain life, to bring in revenue, to pro mote prosperity. Think what southern soil can yield. Com. wheat, oats, barley, rye, sweet potatoes, Irish potatoes, turnips, peas, vetch, burr clover, alfalfa, rib bon cane, sorghum, watermelons, all kind? of vegetables, cows, hogs, sheep, goats, mules, poultry and poul try products, dalry products, and all manner of fruits. We could simply wipe cotton out of consideration, still make a living, and bring In enormous suras from, the world-at-large for southern crops. In the face of these tremendous as sets, it ls nothing less than criminal folly to concentrate on cotton. Cut down on lt, ruthlessly! Make lt strictly a surplus crop. Produce any or all of the other crops I have enu raerated.' Then the perennial cotton problem will cease to be one, the cot-, ton we do raise will bring a fair price and it will not be incumbered by tbe large amounts now insanely sent outside o ftbe section for staples that should be raised here. CHARLES S. BARRETT. Union City, Ga. OTHER FELLOW GETS PROFIT Pork Can Be Raised Just as Cheaply In South as in West-Picture by Prof. W. F. Massey. "But go down in the cotton country and you will see thousands of men year after year growing a small crop per acre of cotton by the aid of a lit tia low-priced fertilizer bought on the credit of the cotton crop, and paying big prices for western bacon that the Dutchman raised and made a profit from, a railroad made a profit on car rying the hogs to Chicago, and the packer became a millionaire, and an other railroad hauled lt south and the local merchant, who has a chattel mortgage on many a crop of cotton, puts a big profit on bacon because of his risk, and the cotton croppers try to make all these people rich out of their one crop, when they could make the pork cheaper in the south than the western farmer can, because of the cheap land and the great variety of crops they can produce for the hogs to gather for themselves." What do you think of the above picture by Prof. W. F. Massey? Is lt true? We regret to admit the cold facts as stated by Professor Massey. Now let us call our wife and children around the fireside on a cold winter night and make a'vow to live at home, practice the most rigid economy, and stay out of debt and the problems will soon be solved. Then we will be in dependent prosperous farmers. Werk for Humus. When all fall and winter seeding has been done then utilise the time whenever the weather and condition of the soil will permit In plowing un-, der all the vegetable matter on the cultivated lands to furn lah humus. Whenever the weather Is unfit for outdoor work we can repair harness and gear, work In the blacksmith shop, aad so on. When the soil ls too wet sad the weather will permit, we can remove stumps, construct broad hill side embankments, repair and build fences, whitewash outhouses and so forth. Wa should value our time tn the winter more than we do. Cotton Crop ls Greatest Cotton ls the greatest money crop m the world. An average crop of cot ton ls a good thing for the south-a big crop ls a dangerous thing for the south. Let each Individual farmer do ala duty tn thia matter nert year. Farmers9 Educational rnla^?VQEeratiye Union cf America N Matters <f Especial Moment to I I-I the Progressive Agriculturist I Many a six-footer ls a little short Most rat holes will bear looking1 Into. One way to raise money is to rais? mules. Isn't the lover who braves the storm a rain-beau? It doesn't require an axe to cut an acquaintance. Sometimes the clothes speak louder than the maa. Co-operation spells recuperation* among fanners. Keep busy and you'll have no tin? to Se mia?rabi?. Many things oro well don* that sa? stet worth doing. Corn on the cob is more acceptable^ than corn en the foot. The lawyer thrives upon the contest tiona ot his neighbors. ?, Cut down your cotton acreage avril( try te increase the yield. There is no impropriety tn using <n spring wagon in the fall. Time ls the most expensive kau. that enters lo the average job. ? cross husband is about the mem eat cross a woman has to bear. Most farmers want to be considered! as men before they are labeled and ticketed as farmers. Co-operation and the employment of trained business men in the selling liv the salvation of the farms. What profite th lt a man if he raise* the best crop in the country andi loses money in the selling? Knowledge ls power, and so ls av gasoline engine. Both must be used, to get the most good out of them. The real leaders in farm work or hi' anything else are the men who say "come on boys," not the men who say "go along." Its easy to be thankful when we are. prosperous but it takes real optimism, to be 'thankful things are no worse when we suffer heavy losses. PROFITABLE FARM IN SOUTH Prosperity Seen When AH People Live on Farm Products and Grow Cotton as Surplus. G. H. Alford, one of the agents of the government representing the ag ricultural department and who baa been working chiefly In Claiborne county this year, talked to business men and planters at the Vicksburg Cotton Exchange last week and said some good things, among them the following: "The planters who keep their la borers and force them to grow plenty of corn, rice, potatoes, molasses, hogs and poultry for home use. and to cul tivate say six or seven acres of cot ton, according to government instruc tions, will grow more prosperous ev ery year. They will not grow as much cotton, but it will not be neces sary for them to send two-thirds of the money obtained for cotton to oth er sections of the country to pay for farm products. Boll weevil or no boll weevil, prosperity will be the rule In Warre- county when all her peo ple live on the products of the farms and grow cotton ?s a surplus crop. I meet planters every day who are anxious to sell their plantations. They tell me they are in debt and will never be able to raise the mort gage. They say that the boll wee vil ls. here to destroy cotton-their money crop. They are mistaken on two counts. Profitable crops of cot ton can be grown m spite of the boll: weevil and cotton is not now a sur plus money crop. They will grow profitable crops of cotton as a sur plus crop In a year or so. They win, then all live at home and grow say two-thirds as much cotton. The cot ton money will then raise mortgages instead of paying for corn, bacon, lard, mules, hay, etc. The boll wee vil means diversified, farming anet, stock raising. This means fertile SOU' and good farming. Fertile soil and good farming means high priced land. The boll weevil will probably keep the price of land down for two or three years, but diversified agricul ture and the raising of good hogs,, cattle, mules, horses and other stock will force the price up and up until rt will sell for four or five times its present market value. Let every planter hold a tigh grip on his kind There ls no excuse for the blues. The northern farmers are getting; rich. They cannot grow cotton. They cannot grow sugar cane, rice and many other crops that can be grown In Warren. Any crop will grow herei that the northerners can grow. Dive**' Bined farming and stock raising and the growing of cotton ai a surptas crop will put Warren county on the high road to genuine prosperity. Teachings Bear Fruit The old mortgage and credit sys* tem ls rapidly weakening. The teach ing of the Farmers' Union ls bearing fruit Every true blue farmers' unSK man ls living at home and practicing the most rigid economy. Thousands are leaving the land of bondage and entering the promised land-the land of pay-cash-as-you-go. Let us all jotn the hand that is marching to the promised land. ??^ 'WI