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i?gefielsl ^im?im ~-~ fisiablis?t?? 1035. /.?. A!/A?S,"_....Editor Published every Wednesday in The Aivertiser Building at $1.50 per year IA advance. Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at Edgefield, S. C. No communications will be published unless accompanied by the writer's name. Cards "of Thanks. Obituaries, Resolu , tions and Political Notices published at advertising rates. If I am faithful to the duties of the present, God will provide for the fu ture.-BEDELL. Wednesday, Feb. 10. Long live the Edgefield Rifles'! The Germans haven't yet seen War saw. John Bull should stand by his colors and let Uncle Sam's alone. The State department is seeking elucidation of the Lusitania incident. The Allies are still meeting with ups and downs-Zeppelins and subma rines. . - Whoever thought a British ship would take refuge behind the Stars and Stripes? If modern statesmen speak 12 hours at one standing, pray how long would stateswomen speak? Brace up and cheer up. The birds j are beginning to sing and nature is j throwing off the lethargy of winter. Bread is going to six cents the loaf but thank Heaven a cup of cold water can be had without money and without price. Angry women beat two men. to death. -Headline. Another proof that the female of the species is more dead ly than the male. England will acknowledge her ina bility to cope with Germany, if she al lows the latter to establish a blockade _on-i^eJjigh-seas. Putting the boys in school this r^"1 eration will mean the putting of be - ter men in the ranks of our citizenship the next generation. The best news yet emanating from the legislative halls: "The appropria tions will be less than 1914 and the tax levy will not be increased." Improvement 'of rural conditions is almost impossible without public road improvement. In fact, bad roads are a bar to progress all along the line. Nothing has been said recently about Columbia's "square meals." Proba bly they are not so "square" while so many legislators have to be provided for. How glad we are that the Germans are not making more progress in the east. The further they go into Russia the more difficult are the names to pronounce. If cotton continued to rise as wheat has done, it is probable that some of . us would be selfish enough to want the war to be like Tennyson's brook-go on forever. Hereafter, men in Alabama, like the moon, can be full only once a month, a law having been enacted restricting j the ordering of whiskey to once a mon th | by an individual. The headlines say Charleston will hereafter pay more attention to grain. The great trouble with Charleston now is that too much attention is given to j "corn" and "rye." The farmers of this county will re flect th* interest they are taking in their own business by the way they at tend the meeting to be held in the court house Saturday. If you are a farmer, be one who will encourage the county demonstration agent by your ? attendance^ upon the meeting which will be held in the court house next Saturday. This has been a busy and altogether harmonious session of the legislature, but there is much real work yet to be done. Unless every day is turned to profitable account, there will be much unfinished business carried over to the next session. I The starting of the plows suggests that the State-wide planting of cotton will 6?on begin. Wonder if Charleston county will ask to have no part or par cel in this State-wide movement? No guano, no western stock and prac tically no western corn have been ship ped to Edgefield yet this spring. Keep this up and our people will owe many thousands of dollars less nex ; fall. From their standpoint, the suffragist orators make one mistake. They fail to promise lower taxes in return for the ballot With "lower taxes" em plazoned upon their banner, their cause WOUld Win overnight. It appears that a law will be enacted limiting the number of cars for a freight train. Why not limit by law the number of bales of cotton that a farmer shall haul at a load, or the number of mules for his team? Tn his charge Monday, Judge Sease, who is holding court in Charleston, is quoted as saying: "Should grand and petit jurors in this county perform their duty as do jurors in Spartanburg, and other, counties which could be named, there would not be almost 90 cases on the criminal docket. Charles I ton couifty is not much larger than I Spartanburg county when it comes to numbers. " Fertilizers and Economy. Throughout South Carolina the far mers will meet next Saturday to dis cuss two matters that should be of vital concern to every farmer at this time. Commercial fertilizers and econ omy will be discussed at these meet ings which have been arranged by the county demonstration agents. Mr. P. N. Lott, the efficient demonstration agent for this county, is putting forth every effort to make the meeting to be held in the court house next Saturday a success. As farmers are not espe cially busy at this time, a large num ber should attend the rally next Satur day. More Ships Needed. There seems to be a better feeling now in business all along the line in this country and conditions wculd im prove more rapidly if ships could be had for taking American products abroad. A congested condition exists at some of the leading Atlantic ports because of the lack of shipping facili ties. Dispatches from Baltimore, state that the grain elevators are filled to their maximum capacity and there are yet 4,260,000 bushels of wheat on the railroad track awaiting ships to be ex ported. There are at present more than 85.000 bales of cotton at. Norfolk. ready to be loaded on ships for export. Because of the limited means for! a. . orting coal to South America the i- -.i ..rn.. . ampton Roads ?3 now $7 per ton ;n con. mat can be bought at at $2.50 per ton. The lack of necessary vessels to transport American products abroad is being felt throughout the countrv. It is to be hoped that congress will yet pro vide some relief. Even after the war closes and a normal status is restored, business will still be retarded through the shortage of vessels. The supply of vessels will have to be increased sooner or later. Then why not now? Spring Campaign May Bring End. Judging from isolated statements that are made here and there in the press concerning the plans of the na tions engaged in the European conflict, it appears that every preparation pos-1 sible is being made for a vigorous cam paign in the spring both in the east J and along the western battle line. New weapons and engines of destruction are i being prepared, raw recruits by the I millions are being seasoned for service, I and additional supplies are being pro j vided, all to the end that a struggle j for the survival of the fittest be made i as soon as the passing of the winter weather makes it possible. Up to this time, notwithstanding the fact that the war has been waged for more than six months, no decisive vic tory has been won. The real strength of the contending forces, the ability of one side to cope with the other, has not been tested. When the armies are marshalled in the spring and are hurl ed against each other as effectively as military genius can direct, let us hope that there will be a giving away, a perceptible retreating, that will mark the beginning of the end. While all of the nations have apparently been en gaged in war to the hilt, yet all the while they have been preparing for a still greater struggle, and it is the result of this crisis that we are waiting. The Advertiser's prediction is that within the next ninety days one can with some degree of definiteness or certainty forecast the length of the struggle. Would chat the war itself could be brought to a close before the passing of spring. Due to the fact that 1 am asent for the Ford car, and having all repair parts in stock and a first class mechanic, can afford to do first-class livery cheap.. Edgefield Auto Repair Shop. An Humble Instrument. The split log drag, humble instru ment that it is, has done a gr?ai "work for humanity, smoothing ruts out of roads and making the way of Jife smoother and easier. The contrivance was first used by a South Carolinian and later was {riven to the world by a Westerner. - Columbia Record. Voice From Dispensary County. If the money 3pent for whiskey in Bamberg went into clothing and shoes Bild groceries-the necessaries of life think how many poor children who now barely have enough to wear pos sibly would be warmly clad and better fed. Whiskey is the worst enemy of the negro race-and the white man, too, for that matter. -Bamberg Herald. Hard at Work. Governor Manning got right down to business from the start and we predict that he is going to keep at it until South Carolina is restored to her prop er piase among the States of the na tion. One of the first declarations of the new governor struck the right key note, that is that part , of his initial message refering to the enforcement of law.-Hartsville Messenger. Either First Used. As mnch as dental science has done for suffering humanity, it is not en titled to claim the discovery of the use of ether as an anesthetic. This dis covery was made by a young South Carolina medical student who pervad ed his preceptor, Dr. Crawford W. Long, of Jefferson, Ga., to use the anesthetic in a minor operation on a colored boy.-Columbia Record. Pays to Buy at Home. The "Make in U. S." movement will probably be successful, whether it is popular or not. Most of our imports have been cut off, and we will have to buy American goods, whether we want td or not. The forced experiment will doubtless convince us that we have been wasting a lot of money every year on imported goods when we could buy better goods for less money at home. This is 'true of cotton goods and of almost everything else.-An derson Mail. "Harbinger of Better Times." The Charleston social clubs have agreed to obey the liquor law strictly, and all of them are installing individual lockers for the members. The club bars will be done away with and the clubs will not sell liquor to members. Charleston is feeling the impetus of the law enforcement wave that is sweeping over the State, and the ac tion of the clubs is a harbinger of bet ter times. When the better element of a community obeys the law volun tarily the problem of forcing the crim inal element to do so is simplified. Sumter Item; V fr i Smile Provokers t * j "How did you know your patient | had appendicitis, doctor?" 'I operated on him."-Philadel phia Public Ledger. "Did your uncle remember you in his will?" Yes, he directed his executors to collect the loans he had made me." Boston Transcript. Brown (on fishing trip)-Boye, the boat is sinking! Is there any one ?here who knows how to pray? Jones (eagerly)-I do. Brown-All right. You pray and the rest of us will put on life belts. They're one shy.-New York Globe. ''Please, ma'am, said the little girl from next door, mother wants to know if you will lend her your new mechanical tune player this af ternoon." "What an extraordinary idea! Is she going to give a dance?" 'No, ma'am. We're tired of danc ing to it. She wants to keep it quiet for a couple of hours so that the baby can sleep."-Washington Star. Zealous Sentry-Afraid I can't! let you go by without the pass j word, sir. Irate Officer-But, confound you! I tell vou I have forgotten it. You know me well enough. I'm Major Jones. Sentry-Can't help it, sir, must| bave the password. Voice from the guard tent-Oh, don't stand arguing all night, Bill; shoot 'im.-London Tatler. ''Say, Brinson, you'll take Smith ers home, won't you? You see he's in no condition to get there alone. | You live just around the corner. Lean-him up against the door and ring the bell. "Not me. You'll have to find somebody else." "What's the matter with you? You know Smithers." "Yes, I know Smithers. And you bet your life I know his wife!" William's Talcum Powder 25 eents size for 15 cents while it lasts. Everybody knows this celebrat ed brand. Penn & Holstein. Ten Livestock Suggestions For - February. .'? 1. The young animais need espe: cial care at (his season. The ma ture stock will get along without, shelter and with scant feed and when grass comes will fully recover flesh lost during the winter; but the young stOL'k need dry quarters and liberal feeding. If they fail to get, riot only enough feed, but also the right feed, they probably never get over the injury. 2. If any one wants proof of the folly of allowing the stock to run all around the barns or stables he has only to drive through the coun try at this time and keep his eyes open. Why can not the lots be ar ranged so that the barn or stables may be approached from at least one side without having io wade through mud and filth? Of course, the barn yard has always been the horrid thing that it now is, in wet weath er, but that is no reason why it should not be improved. 3. The muddy, unspeakable barn yards and lots may always be with us in the winter time; but one thing we insist on: Give the young pigs and the calves a clean, dry place to sleep and keep them out of the mud in cool weather as much a? possible. Why is the open shed, with earth floor raised above the surrounding ground, not moro common in the South? Our stock do not.need pro tection from cold, but the young things especially do need protection from rain, and mud. 4. Look out for lice. Stock poor ly fed and cared for are easy prey for the blood-sucking little pests thal do so much damage to stock at this season of the year. If the ani mals are infested the stable? are also, and it will be necessary to clean out all litter or bedding and give the stables the same treatment as the stock. The coal tar disin fectants on the market are probably the best remedies for colts and calves. Any non-irritating oil may be used for the hogs. 5. It is not too early to make pre parations to kill the ticks that have passed through the winter or that may hatch from eggs laid late last fall. If no ticks are allowed to ma ture on the cattle this spring and drop to the ground all will be dead / by July' 1. There is no more effec tive time to attack the ticks. Let us get at it in good season and dip or treat the cattle regularly-every last one of them-until all th* ticks are gone. When the pastures are once clean they are easily kept clean. 6. This is the month lo prepare for late spring grazing if it was not Cauada field peas, rape and oilier t Classified Column. J -I- -I- -I- -I- *?> -I- -?* -?* i- -I- -i' -I-I- -I- -I* -I* ^ -I- -I* -I- > ?i* *? Best Truck Seed-Grown es pecially for seed. Any variety the followiug: Cucumber 55c a pound; cantaloupe, Rocky Ford grown, 55c; melon: Watson 40, any other melon 35; tomato $1.35; extra 25c, corn, weevil proof, big yielder, dol lar pieck, bushel three. Cotton, up land long, selling 14c, heaviest yielder, dollar fifty bushel. Profit fifty to five hundred dollars acre trucking. Send 4 cents stamps for inst.uction. L. A. Stony, Allendale, S. C. Thousands of Pounds of Cheap est High-Grade Seeds: Cucumber, any variety, 44 cents a pound; Eden, Burrell's Gem Canteloupe, 44; Wat son melon, 40, Rattlesnake 35; Kolb gem, 29, one-quarter pound 14 cents; Tomato, any variety, $1.35, one-quarter pound 40 cents; Okra, 25, one-quarter pound 9 cent6. Postage paid on quarter poundf. War corn, very prolific, only weevil proof variety, $1.00 a peck, bushel $3.00. Big money trucking; three crops a year, same land. Directions for cultivating and marketing given on receipt of 4 cents in stamps. Upland long-staple cotton selling at 14 cents. Write for price of prolific seed. L. A. Stonej-, Allendale, S. C. LOST: An umbrella with silver handle, inscription "S. E. R. " Left in Methodist church Sunday night. Finder will please return to Thoa. H. Rainsford. FOR SALE-Lumber cut any dimension, Mill now located on my farm six miles north-west of Edge field, a lot of fine white oak and some heart pine. Prices reasonable. W. F. Holson. . FOR SALE-Georgia ribbon cane syrup in 35-gallon barrels at 35cts. per gallon. Also gallon eans 45cts. Shipped direct from farms. J. S. Chapman, Morgana, S. C. l-20-3t-p. i OR RENT: Residence of seven rooms and pantry, near High School. Well on back piazza, and all neces sary out buildings. Apply to J. L. I M i ms. 1 eco ps sown in ~ February and early March will furnish grazing ?ti April ind May. If good grazing is ex pijctnd only good ?oil should be used, and in no cas3 is it worth while to sow rape on any but very rich, good land. 7. While most pasture plants for spring and summer do best in the South when sown in the fall, there are a few exceptions, and ihen many failed to sow last fall. For instance, there is probably only one better summer pasture plant for the South than lespedeza. It is a great plant for the South because it is a legume and will make some growth on poor soils. If you have made no other provision for summer pas tures, or in any case, SOW SOtRQ lespedeza the latter part of this month or in March. 8. The nft'v bom lamb, calf and colt and the litter of pigs as soon as they come have a value beyond that generally recognized. They not only represent a speculative or fu ture value, but they actually repre sent the keep of the sire and dam and the risks and investment in these animals from six to twelve months. If these facts were kept in mind more care would be taken to properly provide for the care of the new-born on our Southern farms. It will pay to give special and in telligent Attention for the savin? of even one pig will pay for all the attention a sow and litter require. See that all young are born in suitable, comfortable, clean quar ters. 9. The females that are to pro duce young this spring need care ful attention and feeding. Exer cise which is regular, but not vio lent, and feeding that is moderately liberal and with abundant supplies of protein are the two important points. The brood sow needs sonie I thing more than corn, the brood mare more than corn and fodder, and the cow more than the stalk fields or cottonseed hulls and meal, if they are to bring forth strong healthy young and produce an abundant milk supply to nourish them. 10. It is important that the horses and mules that have been idle du ring the winter be given some prep aration for spring work being rush ed into hard work and full feed. At least, two week? should be taken to ju t such work stock on full feed ai d gradually hardened to do a full d.iy's work. The collars should Copyright 190<>. by C. E. ? IN time of distri cause, a bank its aid, and it is 2 those without one r< not sooner heeding have one. Start a 1 OFFIERS: J. C. Sheppard, pres.; E. J. Miras, Cashier; J. H. DIRECTORS: J. 0. Sheppa Rainsford, John Rainsford B. E C. Fuller, E. J. Minis,J. H. Alli Plant Oats ai the Cottoi We have BEST of all Y Fulghum ( Appier's ( Your order oi have our be; ARRINGTON ! WHOLESAL See Charlie May. 9 also be broad, ?mooth, h\rd and clean; Tbe South has much to an swer for in the poor collars it conv" pel* its horses and mules to do its work with.-Proirrssive Farmer. Letting Prosterity Pay. There is a price of war that is more important, more dreadful, more unjust, and that takes far long er to pay than any other, and it is a price also that has to be paid in the only wealth, which is life. The merequestion who wins the war has nothing to do with it. The ques tions who was right or wrong, who began it, who gained or lost ternto r*, who paid tribute to whom when peace was declared, how the taxes rose or fell, w-hieh industries proa peredor which deciyed-all these questions are neglible when com pared with the longest price of war, which all righting nations have paid and must pay. All the prices of war fall most heavily upon the future. Great" Britain we still pay hea-y taxes every year for the Boer War and other wars of the past, right and wrong, glorious and inglorious. But the longest price of war is wholly paid by .future generations, and hurts the future only. The peo ple who will live in the years to come get none of the glory for which rulers wage war; they, at least, are innocent; they art at the mercy of the past, which did not consult them, but which makes them pay.-Dr. C. W. Saleeby, in The Youth's Companion. Try This For Neuralgia. Thousands of people keep on suf fering with Neuralgia because they do not know what to do for it. Neuralgia is a pain in the nerves. What you want to do is to soothe the nerve itself. Apply Sloan's Liniment to the surface over the painful part-do not rub it in. Sloan's Liniment penetrates very - quickly to the sore, irritated nerve and allays the inflammation. Get a bottle of Sloan's Liniment for 25 cents of auy druggist and have it in *he house-against Colds, Sore ' and Swollen Joints, Lumbago, Sciatica and like ailments. Your money back if not satisfied, but it does give almost instant lelief. To Prevent riiood Poisoning apply at once the wonderful old reliable DR. PORTER'S ANTISEPTIC HEALING OIL. a sur gical dressing that relieves pain and heals at the same time. Not a liniment. 25c. ? ^<0O Zimmerman Co.--No. 60 ess, no matter the account will render it such times tftat egret their folly for * the injunction to )ank account today. Pres.; B. E. Nicholson. Vice Allen, assistant ashier rd, Geo. W. Adams, Thos. H. . Nicholson, A. S. Tompkins. C. m nd Help Solve i Problem arieties : Genuine Texas Oklahoma r inquiry will st attention. BROS. & GO. E GROCERS AUGUSTA, GA.