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Oldest Newspaper In; South Carolina. _ ^. VOL. 76. EDGEFIELD, S. C., WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 22,1911 NO. 42 WEST-SIDE FAIR. Highly Creditable Exhibits. List of Awards. Several Excel lent Addresses. Hurrah for Parkville. The third annual fair of the west side fair association has passed into history without an untoward inci dent and the concensus of opinion by disinterested ri ai to rs is, that it was a decided success. The people on Tuesday, who are interested in this enterprise suffered intense uneasiness on account of in clement weather, but Thursday morai ug, the first day, the sun came oat, and old Sol shined out in his resplendent glory, shedding his ra diant pleasure toward the eastern horizon and by ten o'clock the clans began to come in from Greenwood, McCormick, Plum Branch, Modoc and Augusta, and by 12 o'clock the grounds were well covered with happy people, intent upon having a good time, and adding their pres ence and encouragement to an enter prise which in my judgment, if en tered into in the proper way and spirit, means more for the west-side than anything ever put on foot. At 13 o'clock speaking was an nounced at the stand, the program being in the hands of the writer, who introduced Col W. J. Talbert, the president of the association, who in a few happy and well chosen words welcomed the visitors to our fair, to our homes, and our hearts. We have nothing too good for you, and if you fail to get what you want when among us,i t is because we haven't got it. He spoke of the great good accomplished by such exhibitions, and urged our people to persevere in this enterprise, and in this add to the sum total of the great material improvement of this great commonwealth of whicb the south had always been the foremost promoter. The statesmanship, the happiness of the United States has always depended, and must forever I depend opon the energy, the enter prise and the patriotism of the southern people. Col. G. D. Mima, of Faifa, who is ? candidate for the state senate, waa then introduced, who in his happy vien spoke as follows: It is with inexpressible pride from a heart full to overflowing with gratitude, that I desire to re turn thanks for the cherished and coveted privilege of being your guest, and to occupy your rostrum in a public way as speaker. I am aware that I am not only addressing; you, but through the Agents and facilities of conveying information my words will be heard by countless hundreds. The early years of my maturity were here with yon, where the rose of my youth blushed with pride and pleasure never, never to be for gotten. It was here nat I began the toils of lifo, a homeless and pen ny less stranger. It was here that I met the good men and the noble wo men, who were ever ready to minis ter to my needs in sickness as well as in health. It was here that I be gun real life with my wedded com panion who is to-day the idol of my heart and the Queen of my home. These fond memories of the past, enter into the weave of a cloth of gold, whose jeweled borders have trailed down the path of life ever beau ti i'al to me, and to the glory I hope of those who follow in my foot prints. And I had rather be a eitixen of this grand old county so dear to me and to you, surrounded hy my friends enjoying their confi dence and good will, than to wear the costliest crown that ever sat upon the head of ft king. I am proud that I was born in this grand southland of ours, the garden of the world. It is here that the sun ripens the golden grain ia its bearded sheaf, and where the cotton bleeches be neath the stars, and where the lilies of the valley raise their white faces in search of the dawn of day. Oh! I rejoice with you in the glory of these old red hills, where dowers bloom and the crops grow with which we feed our people and clothe the world. Therefore the southern farmer is told and persua ded to believe that he is cock of the walk and bull of the woous, the master of the situation. We start ed this spring with our negroes and mules, the plows and the hoe, and by the aid of the sunshine and a lit tle rein Mother Earth has made fair response to the touch of the hand of man. We have harvested o IT cotton as fast as busy fingers oould pick it. We have ginned it as fast as whirl ing saws could separate the lint from the seed. We have carried it to market aa fast as mules and wag ons, engines and cars oould haul it. And then we are told that we aim ed too high, over-shot the mark and made too much of ft good thing. We must take the half price t they pay us, and pay full price that which we buy. We can and we can't, We could and we won't, We are beat if we do And we are damned if we c 01 The cotton growing area is r the one thousandth part of the c land of this world. This fact is true tooday as it was when our fo fathers cleared away the und brush and built their cabin hon in the trackless woods. We hi hidden here in this southland a pri less inherent monopoly provided nature for no other people on 1 face of God's green earth. 1 very soil upon which we stand capable, and ready to respond the sacred call, "Give us this d our daily bread." And from t same clod that gives food to t hungry will clothe the back of t naked. : The rose and tbe deadly nig shade will grow side by side on t square foot. The corn, syrup a: hay, are harvested from the sar field. The flocks, herds and poult graze side by side in the sar meadow. Life is as sweet to us here as it to the kings of Europe. But must remind you that cotton King, but the Liverpool and Ne York gamblers and speculate have taken bis golden crown. King Cotton in his six steel bel over a Manila jute robe, has i ereased his wonderful and ind: pensible progeny from two doz-bal in the early years of the seventeen century, to 12,168,681, bales 1910, and the end is not yet After clothing the vast number ! yea, the countless millions, we ha' enough to spare to the Bird-rm who with his cotton wings flies in the aerial regions beyond the sigl of human eyes. With their cottc sails the great ships of the ses ride the waves of the briny dee] In their cotton houses the armies < the world are sheltered from tl tempest, the iee, and snow. Wit their cotton and rubber wheels, tl autoist spins over the billa an across the plains. With cotton an rubber tubing the engines, cars an pullmans, are held fast to their iro rails. With cotton hose the fii fighters protect towns and ci tic from destruction and ruin. Wit cotton belting the machinery of th world is set up to lightning speed changing the dormant to activity polishing the crude and rugged int brightness. Through a cotton oi diaphragm the human voice is sounc ed to the utmost parts of the earth And with a diet of cotton oil th human body is nourished and mad< strong. And now my friends tba cotton is king is true, and that it i a benefactor to the world of man kind, except to the poor devils of u who tug and toil 313 days in tb year to produce it. And at thii particular hour I must tell you tha the scales of justice are far out o: balance and the conditions are rap idly going to the bad. If *,he conditions here in th< South, with disaster staring us ii the face, were picked up and se north of the Mason and Dixon line those northern people would have fifteen cents for every pound of cot ton in less than 60 days or know the reason why. What are you go ing to do?Doyou propose to continue to feed the ravenous masses of thc relentless bears and financial sharks of the world by giving them thc moderate results of your labor at half price. Do you, or can you, feel justified in feeding the fires ol unscrupulous convictions therebyjin tensifying the havoc wrought. No! in the name of our country and for the sake of our homes and our lov ed ones, No! We will enthrone our king around about our homely man sions where he may breathe the pure uncontaminated air, and bask in the sun-light of high Heaven until his whiteness will be blended with blue. The storm clouds have gathered I know, and if we are weaklings we fall to rise no more. We must be strong of nerve and dauntless of heart and follow our colors to the last ditch, for "to the victors be long the spoils?" A spirit of financial despotism is deeply set, the spectacle is a ghastly monster, coiling it's dangerous ten tacles about the neck of the com mon people. With the gaudy and immoral influences of wealth on the part of the ri ch, and with povertyand its baleful effects on the part of the poor, makes the scene between the two classes, the most ghastly gorge that the eyes of man ever saw. And now let us turn our eyes from the scene along the dark paths of the busy world. And let our ears catch a sonnet from the sweet voice of the birds, and let our heart bask in the sunlight with a hope, that the supreme Architect of the Universe will ic his righteous way, lower the towering castles of the rich and unruly, and raise the mounds of the poor,weak and nee? that the two great armies of 1 earth may march onward togetl for the one common cause of go< For gradually,as we devoutly hoi the new order of humanity is co ing into the world. Long and hs has been the struggle of its comir The life of man beginning in sa1 gery, has not issued into the emp of promise and glory all at once, in a brief period of endeavor. ( the contrary, our race has risen ages of toil and sorrowful evolutic But tbe movement from darkness dawn has been always discernab Where the clouds have rested m( darkly on the human landscaj they have parted, and through t rift has ever been Been patches blue sky and glintings of the eterc stars. May the morning soon da\ when every land from pole to pol from moifhtain to seVshore, and the farthest isles of the sea, shs feel the glad sunshine in its brea! And may the day soon come wh the people cf all the earth, arising least from the heavy slumbers ai barbarous dreams which have long haunted the benighted mind ,men, shall join in glad acclaim usher in the golden era of humar ty and the Universal Monarchy Anglo-Saxon -man. For surely say to you that this our country h been shown to Dragon's teeth, ai the earth has been plowed with mi fire breathing Bulls of oppressio and the seed of discord have con forth. And let me say to you th the spirit of reformation has put its lips the bugle, and the blast wi be sounded to the uttermost par of this country, calling the tru patriotic and loyal men, from tl ranks and file of the old guard, wi are ever ready to go .on duty aroun the tree that bears the golden fru of our liberty and our freedon And may the artist of all the fi ture generations, not fail to paint i fiery letters of gold amidst the stai and stripes on the proud banner c this nation, the grand insignia < equal and. exact right to all, an special privileges to none. .Now for the kind attention, fo bearanjk ?r?J goodly interese ihuii fest in^Bf?, allow me from the bo tom of my heart to thank you. Mr. J. M. Bussey was then calle out, and spoke of his ambition whe he bought the land, it being a na ural park, of making it the mean of great good by converting it int good use by offering to his neigl bor for purposes of encouraging th raising of live stock, as well as th improvement of our agricultura products. He also gave a word o welcome. [ Then came voices for Fowler Fowler, who had refused to mata an address, but the call came as ; summons to duty, and Mr. Fowle: never shirks a duty and he cam< forward and made one of the mos practical talks I ever heard. Mr Fowler can not be given too mucl .redrt for the success of this 3rc annual show, for he has been in stant in season and out of season, working night and day, if necessary for its success. In fact he has beer almost the whole thing in working up premiums and enlisting the sup port of the peo plo in contiguous territory. In speaking thus of Mr Fowler, it is not our intention tc disparage the efforts of the office re and the ladies, and our citizens gen erally, without whose willing co operation the fair would have been a dismal failure. "Honor to whom honor is due." The announcement was then made for dinner which was served by the association, and consisted of hash, ham, and coffee, after which we had the trial of horses on the track and sports for the amusement of the young people. I should not at this juncture fail to mention the presence and aid on both days of Mr. H. Fowler of Laurens, S. C., who represents the American Agriculturalist. We look ed around in vain for our brethren of the quill, and was overjoyed to meet Mr. Fowler, who is represent ing the Agriculturist, one of the greatest farm magazines in the coun try. When we found neither of our county editors,norany one represent ing our great dailies, we came near dying of despair, especially when "ye" editor had requested me to re port the meetingjbut we survived by the kindly offices of H. P. Fowler. The day closed amid tho shouts of the multitude. Friday morning, November 17 th, lbs day dawned bright, and it was evident that the crowd would be much larger tl an the day before. This, however, was explained upon the grounds, that Commissioner E. J. Watscn was scheduled to speak at eleven o'clock, and the children from our own, and adjoin ing schools were to have a public parade. The pat ade around the track by the Parkdville and Modoc schools, the children singing was simply beautiful. Strong words of commendation were heard on ali sides with reference to the M school float, beautifully. Aecoi by the deft fingers of th?fatr y pupils and the principal, Mrs E. Walker. Prof. Western ma of the Parksville school bore self as a dignified Commander. The word now comest that missioner Watson could not be 1 and the meeting was cofflPerted a genuine educational rally. Talbert in command, introduced efficient county superintender education, Prof. W. W.Fuller. undertake to report this ^peech replete with good advice and couraging words would -be a i of supererogation, and 1 refi Suffice it to say, EdgefieltJ seem have the right man in ' the r: place. Col. Watson being ahsent, < gressman James Byrnes being r. eat was presed into. sefpiqe. urged education, first from a m< tary standpoint.. The educated in our high schools, statistics sho averaged $2.00 per day^while college graduate got an averag< $6.50. Then of course ibero v higher motives from a majal and ligions standpoint, and b?; urged boys not to "quituate'V'?chool early. The girls did nctJtoeed s advice, but went on getting education, whioh made the une cated boy uncongenial, making accept in his stead, the ;ftand o man of education and culture, then gave us a good speech on tariff giving some eye opening ures with reference to how the 1 mer is being fleeced by the tar gambling in futures, et<?W/.; Congressman Byrnes is withs bright young man, and force speaker. Dinner was announced, i then came the judging of horses Prof. Jackson of Clemson, wi Prof. Haddon gave a lecture corn judging at the stand. The t daj s were happy ones, if expres3i< from visitors are an indication, a the people departed for tjieir hon declaring our fair a success, decl i.rg their intentions, if alive to tend the next in 1912. " '.I _ The following is . Jk^J?f cs have done our best to make it co plete but if we have missed t names of any,we beg pardon for ii the fault of a press of duties, a not intentional. Best saddle horse or mare, 1 prize, Miss Stella Carroll, $5.C 2nd Dr. Adams, $2.00. Best barne horse or mare, 1st prize Miss Stel Carroll, $5.00 2nd WN Elkir $2.00. Best stallion, 1st prize J Bussey, $5.00 2nd W W Fowle 2.00. Best mare and colt 1911. 1 prize, T J Barrett, $5.00. Best dari cow, 1st prize DAJ Bell, $5.0 Best dairy heifer, 1st prize A Wilson $3.00 2nd W G Blackwe $2.00. Best bull (any breed), 1 prize W W Fowler, $5.00 2nd J Stone, $2.00. Best Berkshire boa 1st prize, J M Bussey, $3. CO 2n W W Fowler $2.00. Best berkshii sow, 1st prize, J M Bussey, $3.01 Best Essex boar, 1st prize D ] Dorn $3.00 and W P Parks, $2.0C Best Essex sow 1st prize, W ] Parks $3.00. Best display chicken 1st prize Marie and Marion Morga $3.00 2nd Glover Morgan, $2.00 Best wheat, 1st prize W R Parki $2.00, 2nd W N Elkins 200 pound slag. Beet oats, 1st r>rize W N El kins, $2.00 2nd J C Morgan 20i pounds blag. Best peas, 1st prize, W N Elkins, $2.00, 2nd J M Gar nett, 300 pounds slag. Best yellow corn, 1st prize W N Edmunds $2.00 2nd J M Bussey 200 poundi slag, 3rd W N Edmunds, 50 poundi soda. Best white corn. 1st prize W N Edmunds, $2.00, 2nd^ E G Mor gan 200 pounds slag, 3rd 50 pounds soda. Best sweet potatoes. 1st prize $2.00 2nd Mrs. S' N Dorn, 200 pounds slag. Best ruta bagas, 1st prize Mrs. S N Dorn, 2.00. Best collards, 1st prize, W N Elkins $2.00, 2nd E G Morgan 200 pounds alair, 3rd Mrs. S N Dorn 50 pounds soda. Best staple cotton, 1st prize, J E Bell, $2.00. Best long staple cotton, 2nd prize, J O ?eigler $2.00 Best cotton on stalk, 1st prize W R Parks $1.50. Best variety vegetables 1st prize, E G Morgan, $1.50 2nd W N Elkins 50 pounds soda, 2nd E G Morgan, 200 pounds slat:. Best 5 stalks corn 1st prize W W Fowler $1.50, 2nd W R Parks, 200 pounds slag, 3rd J M Bussey, 50 pounds soda. Best boys farm display, 1st prize W N Edmunds, $2.00. Best boys corn display, 1st prize W N Edmunds $1.00. Best farm display, 1st prize 2nd 3rd 4th 5th. W W Fowler, W R Parks, W N E'' munds, J M Bussey, Dr. Ad' 100 pounds soda each. Best d' y J butter 1st prize Mrs. F P .ite, j $2.50 2nd Mrs. J M Bus? . bale P V bay. Best corn judg ig by boy John Edmunds first, $4.00 2nd W N Edmunds 100 pounds soda. J E Barrett, third 1 bu. corn, 4th J C Bussey, J C Bussey $1.00. Best school exhibit, Parksville first $5.00 2nd Modoo, $2.50. Best school pa rade Parksville first, $5.00. Best I fancy work 1st Mrs. J ? Morgan, $5.00 2nd Georgia Cartledge $2.00 3rd Mrs. T. G. Talbert $1.00. Best floral display, 1st Mrs. Virginia Stone, $3.00 2nd Mrs. Camilla Tal bert 12.00 3rd, Mrs. W P Parks 1.00. Best loaf bread 1st Mrs. E T Christian, 25 pound sack flour. Best biscuits, 1st Mrs. R A Price 1 case baking powder, Best variety cakes 1st Mrs. W P Parks, 25 pound sack flour. Best variety of canned fruits, 1st Mrs. W R Parks, $2.00. Best preserves, 1st Mrs. R A I'rice, 25 pounds sugar. Best cake, 1st Mrs. J W Miller 25 pound sack flour. Best ash cake, 1st Mrs. T P Rob ertson. Blue ribbon winners, C Y D Freeland, best mule colt, T R Cart ledge best horse colt, T G Talbert, 2nd best. Others, W W Fowler, W P Parks, J M Garnett, D N Dorn, J M Bussey, J F Stone, D A J Bell, Herbert Parks took blues on differ ent exhibits. More Anon. We Need More of This Kind of j Farming. Over at Edgefield, South Caroli na, we met Col. R. B. Watson, of Ridge Spring. The colonel is now in his 76th year, but unlike so many, he is neither too old nor too lazy to farm. In fact he .is one of the most enthusiastic farmers we have seen this year. He had a large plantation, but divided it up among bis children, and retained fourteen acres around his home, upon which he can take the "blue ribbon" this year for both cash returns and vari ety produced. The colonel is not near any big city, either. Ridge Spring hasn't over 1,000 inhabitants in it. He shipped the great major ity of his stuff north and all over South Carolina. We are going to give you the yields and figures as given us by Mr. Watson and we want you to read them over until you commit them to memory. It wi'J do you good: Se ven acres in peaches, sold $2,400.00] hickens sold 600.00J sold 200.001 75 cents 75.00 Oats grown, 50 bushels, at 75 cents 37.50 Asparagus roots, 100,000 at $1.00 100.00 One bale long-staple cotton 75.00 Milk and butter from two Jer sey cows and calves 125.00 Beans sold from seven rows 14.45 Irish potatoes, one barrel sold 5.001 Tomatoes 6.00 ! c Total from 14 acres $3,637.95 Don't this make some of yon grumbling young fellows feel small? Of course you will commence "if" ing and "butting," but these facts remain the same. The truth is it takes certain efforts to produce cert ain results.and if you have not made them you can not tell anything about the results, but you can go on and "deny facts" to the end of time and to your own personal loss and disadvantage.-Editor Hunni cutt of the Southern Cultivator. Heyward County an Impossi bility at Pr?tant. Columbia, S. C., Nov. 16.-By the refusal, of the governor to en tertain a petition for an election of the Heyward county question, the entire matter will have to go over until after the session of the Gener al Assembly. At the last session of the General Assembly a measure was passed aimed at ill-formed counties, and the new county that it is proposed to form out of parts of Aiken and Edgefield counties would have come under the act. When the measure was sent to the governor he vetoed it, although he had annulled the election order made by Governor Ansel, on the grounds that one of the lines of the new county would pass through the town of Ellenton and that the con stitutional requirements as to area had not been met. Since the ques tion was agitated last year a part of Edgefield county, that would have been included in the new county, has been annexed to Green wood. The promotors of the new coun ty, of which James U. Jackson, of Augusta, is foremost, deolare that a new survey will be made so as to come within the requirements of the constitution. This portion will ?ie presented to the governor next year. Should the General Assembly pass the ill-formed county act over the veto of the governor, then the Heyward county movement would be forever lost. Mr. J. R. Strother Successful With Stock. In writing of his recent visit to Edgefield, tho editor of the South I ero Cultivator had the following to say concerning Mr. J. R. Strother's success: We met many "blue" farmers on our recent trips. Many well-to-do cotton planters would tell us they hadn't the money to subscribe for the Cultivator. They had our sym pathies to be sure. But we met one farmer who paid us for two years' subscription without our asking him. He looked cheerful and talk ed cheerfully, This farmer was J. R. Strother, of Edgefield, S. C. He came into the fair with a jack and several mares and mule colts. In conversation, he said: "I live in the back part of Edgefield county where the land is strong but hilly; here Bermuda grass grows well and I am getting more into the live-stock business from year to year. See this mule? He is not three years old, yet he has made me a good crop. I sold the one I raised one year older for $300.00 last spring, so I put this one in to tend the crop. I had intended the older one to plow. He commenced plowing at sixteen months old. I only feed my mules at dinner and give them a few ears of corn at night when they come in from plowing. Then I turn them out in a good Bermuda pasture. This saves all hay and fodder and one feed of corn. My mules do well and are ready for a whole day's work in the morning. We do not appreciate the value of Bermuda grass. Then I keep Jer sey cows to sell for milkers, some sheep, about 50 head. I find I can keep this number free of any worms or disease I sell my lambs in Aiken1 at $6 each. This, with the wool from my ewes make the sheep business pay me well. In fact, I am making more money out of stock than out of cotton, though I have a large farm." Report on Temperance. The following is the very excel lent report on Temperance made by Dr. D. A. J. Bell at the Edgefield association which was held at Plum Branch early n September, the report Your committee confesses to very little faith in temperance, as applied to strong drink, believing that the Bible teaches total abstinence in things that are wrong, and temper ance in things that are right. We feel that we are suffering now from the teaching of the fathers that "it is the abuse and not the use" of strong drink, that the Bible con demns, which caused the necessity of teaching temperance in the use i of such a deadly beverage. We be [ lieve that the best thought of the religious world to-day is, that the ! spirit of the teachings of the Bible is for total abstinence, and against the so-called temperate use of in toxicating beverages. We cannot find in the scriptures any express command against graft, gambling in futures, or the oppression of thc trusts, yet we believe the spirit of the teachings of the Bible is against these things, and in like manner, while we can find no express com mand saying thou shalt not take a drink, we do find the injunction to avoid the very appearance of evil; and from this, together with the whole tenor of the teachings of Holy Writ, we are of the opinion, that as Christians, we are plainly taught the doctrine of total absti nence. We are glad to report that the cause of total abstinence is making progress. Where a few years ago in some communities every man who felt like it took a toddy without any compunction of conscience, to-day we find numbers who have con scientious scruples against it, and refuse to touch it at all. Of course, we have much to do to bring public opinion up to the point where it will enforce our prohibition laws, as they are enforced against the man who traffics in seed cotton, or who steals chickens, for you know, that for these seeding trivial offenses, men are sent co the chain gang; but it is our duty, as Christians of every name or denomination, to so educate our people against lawlessness as to enforce all laws, showing them that the crime is as great when they vio late the prohibitive features of the dispensary law, as it is to trafilo in seed cotton, or steal money or dry goods. The liquor question is one that will not down, and it is tho duty of Christians, in the home, in our churches, in cur schools, on the hustings, to stand for total absti nence, and lor laws to suppress the sale of such a deadly enemy to the cause of Christ, as one of the funda mental Christian duties. It is needless to recount the heart aches, the distresses, the actual want oaused iu fatherless homes, and be side debauched firesides caused from the use of strong drink. In our own experience we have seen enough to melt the heart of adamant, as we PLUM BRANCH NEWS Many Visitors to Augusta Fair. Managers of Parktville Fair Highly Com mended. Oar town furnished the following visitors to the Augusta fair: Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Blackwell, Miss Ida Sanders, Miss Louise Card, Miss .Tessie McMichal, Miss Juanita Mil ler, Mr. Thomas McAlister, Mr. James Collier, Mr. Ellison Miller, Mr. Calvin Sanders, Mrs. Brack nell, Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Miner, Mr. C. Y. D. Freeland, Mr. John Seig ler. Mr. B. D. Deason was in town on Wednesday. Mr. J. A. Wideman of Fairfax has been on a visit to his brothers, Jchn and Sam Wideman. Mr. N. H. Fender attended the Powell-Britt marriage at McCor mick on the 14th inst. Mrs. Luther Bracknell has return ed home after a stay of several weeks with her mother, Mrs. Still well, of McCormick, bringing with her to grace the fireside of their home a little daughter, Louise. Mr. and Mrs. Cochran have not yet found a name good enough for their fine little daughter that came to their home last week. Miss Elloree Anderson spent Sat* urday in McCormick on business. Mr. James Strother of the Red Hill section has moved into our community, and will engage in farming. Rev. J. O. Wilsen of Lander Col lege preached in the Methodist church Sunday. Mr. I. J. Porter of Willington spent Sunday night in town as the guest of Rev. J. Earle Freeman. Mr. N. H. Fender spent Sunday with friends in Lowndesville. The latest thing to inlist the at* tendon of nearly all our people was the West-Side Fair at Parksville. Nearly all of our people went on Thursday,or Friday and all seems at isfied that they were paid for their t-ipr-^i?a-iaiteyjd^ HtlrnoTatea interest in agriculture, stock-raising, needle work, and in a number of other things. The Parksville peo ple are to be congratulated on the Buccessful way in which it was man aged, and the fair is an evidence of i wide-awake community. The hope of the south is in better farming-learning not only how to produce the world's cotton crop on :he smallest possible acreage, but ilso the biggest possible yields of ?rain, forage and feed crops, for inman food and for feeding live jtock, so that we may be independ mt of "speculators" and "raiders" ind prepared to hold cotton when )ver the time comes to hold. And avery man who is farming so poor! v .hat he can not do this is a draw back to our entire section.-The Progressive Farmer. KEEP A'GOIN. i you find a thorn or rose, Keep a-goin' ; I it rains or ff it snows, Keep a-goin'; Taint no use to sit and whine Vhen the fish ain't on your line, Sait your hook and keep on tryin'; Keep a-goin'. i the weather kills your crop, Keep a-goin', f you tumble from the top, Keen a-goin'. Suppose you're out of every dime, iettin' broke ain't no crime, ?ell the world you're feelin' prime, Keep a-goin'. lave looked into the emaciated aces of innocent sufferers brought .bout by strong drink; yea, the ?lood of the slain by this demon ries aloud to us from the ground. Let us go to our churches with re tewed determination to stand gainst it, to fight it, to preach gainst it, to pray against it, until here shall be no need for the dis ressed father, or heart-broken wife, ir mother to ask, "Is the young aan safe?" It is estimated that in twenty ive years, if there were no new re mits, all the old drunkards would ?e gone, and the whole world would ie sober. Where are the recruits to ' ome from, if not from our homes; ,nd I would ask every Christian ather and mother in the old Edge ield association, if you have a boy o contribute to the great army of ecruits that must be had to carry n the traffic in ardent spirits? \v*e lose by asking, "Is the young man afe?" D. A. J. Bell, For committee. Gents' kid gloves. Smith Marsh Co.