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Office No. 61. Residence, No. 17. Wednesday, Dec. 23. LOCAL AND PERSONAL, gW?.; ,. . . , . Misases Edwarrlina and Marion Blalock are spending Christmas in Edge?eld. Miss Lillian Smith is at home for : the holiday" from her school at ?riffin, Ga. Sermou suitable for season Sun day morning at 11:30 at Edgeiield "?lsthodist choreh. TV hat shall I do with 1915 V Sub ject for Sunday night sermon ai Edgefield Methodist church. Our exceeding and eternal weight of glory is. snbject for mill chapel sermon Saturday night at 7:30. This Thursday ni?ht there will ^-bc 3 Christmas prayer meeting at the Methodist church. Everybody - invited. Some of the young men are com plaining because Mr. Shannonhouse ?as shipped all of tte mistletoe to ~Kew York. ?.'Misses Hortense and Royal Peak aro at home from their schools in Marlboro and Florence counties for the holidays. R.Mr. C. M. Mellichamp lost a S10 bill on the streets of Edirefield Sat-1 urday. If found by an honest man it will be restored to its owner. The prohibition > petitions are I being circulated in practically every community in the couutv. Do not j vfail to put your name on one of j them. Master Julian Mims Corleysentj the writer a tine, fat 'possum a few .days ago, consequently oui Cbrist -mas sock will not be altogether empty. Mrs. J. P. Nixon accompanied g hy her two sweet little children, of Clark's Hill have arrived to spend the holidays with her sister, Mrs. ? W. H. Dora. Miss Mamie Dunovant is spend ing the holidays with her parents, | Jlr. and Mrs R. L. Dunovant, hav ing spent the fall season at her Ir?efeocl- at Winlaton. On account of rain the monthly tion service is postponed to third oday night in January to be held Methodist church with Rev. E. , v. Bailey to preach. The new Baptist church will be dedicated early next spring and Dr. ,M. D Jeffries will be invited to preach the dedicatory sermon. Olh sr former pastors will be invited to ti present. The Advertiser job office has keen . turning out some especially attractive work during the pa*t r?ek. Send us your . orders if you t?ve printing of any kind. Satisfac tion guaranteed. Professor C. C. Ross, Miss Ma r?e Sill, Miss*- Gladys Chappell, liss Marcelle Gwaltney and Miss istelle Turner arc all at their homes for the holidays having left Edge peld immediately at the close of ?hool. Let every member of Methodist fnnday school be present for j?bristmas session next Sunday terning at 10:30. Be sure to bring j [ourself. Then if you can bring an fering for the orphanage and one >r missions. AU of the stores and banks in lisrefield will be closed Friday and tturday, December 25 and 26. All ?oessary purchases can be made the 24th and nobody will be in-1 jmvenieneed by the merchants and leir clerks taking a rest. rW bat's the matter around Red ill? Are there no old bachelors ft? The Advertiser usually pub ?hes about a dcz*>n marriage no es from Rose Cottage about Iristmas. Up to this time Cupid ?JDB not to have made a single rre. No Paper Next Week. following a long standing cus I," that of giving the makers of j Ie Advertiser one week of respite ni their regular grind, we will issue any paper next week. Our ?hanical force deserves a rest, there is no season of the year! fhich they will enjoy it more during the Christmas holidays, next issue of The Advertiser ^appear on the 6th of January. Europe Takes Three Times as Much Food, One Third as Much Cotton. Here is striking evidence of the changed conditions brought about by war: In October this year the United States shipped abroad. 1,-034,614 bushels cf corn as com pared with 343,899 in October last year, and 19,532,380 bushels of wheat this October as compared with 7,424,584 in October last year. In the same month, however, we exported only 497,180 bales of cot ton as compared with 1,517,838 bales in October, 1913. In other words, foreign countries in October of this year called for practically three times as much corn and wheat as last year (and the same thing is true of beef), j while th?y took^only one-third as ?much of our cotton. Cotton ex j putts will improve, of course, but will be insufficient at best. With a three-fold demanc5 for corn, wheat and beef, therefore, and a greatly diminished demand lor cotton, there ought not to be any question as to what crops will be the real "money ? crops" in 1915. And once again let ns ask, Are YOU ready-you, yourself, person ally-for the'changed conditions in Southern farming? Or have you thought of the matter simply as a problem for the other fellow and which you will somehow manage to escape? If so, it is time to wake up and face the real situation with which every single Southern far mer will have to deal next spring. Get ready for it. I -Progressive Farmer. True Devotion. Little Katharine had a big dog which she loved dearly. One cold night she asked if the dog could come into the house for a while. Her moth er said: "Yes; but as soon as he be gins to scratch, you must put him right out." Later Katharine was heard to exclaim: "O, Bettie, don't scratch; tell me where it itches, and I'll scratch it for you."-Chicago Tribune. Tree Yields a Fortune. Brazil boasts of a giant tree that produces a revenue of over two thou sand dollars a year. It is a rubber tree-probably the largest in the world. For one hundred and twenty days every year lt produces 22 pounds of rubber daily. The trunk of the tree is over 27 feet in circumference.-The American Boy. The Yachting Accident. First Seaside Bore-"I can remem ber hearing a strange, gurgling sound; then I suddenly saw before me a huge mass of foam-and do you know what I did?" Second Seaside Bore-"Yes, old top; you let the foam settle a bit. and then had a good swig." Greece Rich in Marbles. Among other minerals the marbles of Greece must be placed in the front rank, no country being so rich in this product as the Hellenic kingdom. Seemingly inexhaustible beds are to be found in Attica, Euboea and the Peloponessus. Why Hand Shaking ls Dangerous. Bacteriologists recently found under the fingernails of men, women and children no less than thirteen different kinds of disease germs, including those of tuberculosis, diphtheria and influ enza. The Alternatives. "I've got to choose between paying my doctor and keeping up my life in surance policy; I haven't enough money for both." "Stand off the M. D.; if your policy lapses you'll die sure." Daily Thought. Life is short. Let us not throw any of it away in useless resentment. It ls best not to be angry. It is next best to be quickly reconciled.-Sam uel Johnson. Formation of Hailstones. According to a German scientiet, hailstones are formed by the elec tricity of thunderstorms which they accompany. Engineering Ants. The ants of South America have been known to construct a tunnel three miles In length. Readily Paid. One thing about the wages of sin is that a man doesn't have to go to law to collect them. Our machinist is an experienced plumber and can repair gins, en gine*, boilers and all kinds of ma chinery. When in need of an expert machinist call on ns. Edgetield Auto and Repair Shop. Will Surety Stop Thai Cough. OJ? m IM mts RR n's WISE FLEECY STAPLE MUST PAY'RAN SOM INTO THE COFFERS OF WAR. Nation Rings With Cries of Stricken Industry. By Peter Radford Lecturer National Farmers' Union. King Cotton Qas suffered mere from the European war than any other ag ricultural product on the American continent The shells of the belliger ents have bursted over nls throne, frightening his subjects and shatter ins --5 markets, and, pa/sie-Qrrickenj the nation cries out "God save the king!" People from every walk ot life have contributed their mite toward rescue work. Society has danced before the king; milady has decreed that the family wardrobe shall contain only cotton goods; the press has plead with the oublie to "buy a. bale"; bankers have been formulating hold ing plans; congress and legislative bodies have deliberated over relief measures; statesmen and writers have grown eloquent expounding the inalienable rignts ot "His Majesty" and presenting schemes for preserv. ing the financial integrity of the stricken staple, but the sword of Eu rope ias nroved mightier than the pen of America in fixing value upon this product of the sunny south. Prices have been bayoneted, values riddled and markets decimated by the battling hosts of the eastern hemisphere until the American farmer has suffered a war loss of $400,000.000, and a bale of cotton brave enough to enter a European port must pay a ransom oi half its value or go to prison until thc war is over. Hope of the Future Lies in Co-opera tlon. The Farmers' Union, through thc columns of the press, wants to thanlf the American people for the friend ship, sympathy and assistance, giver the cotton farmers in the hour of dis tress and to direct attention to co operative methods necessary to per manently assist the marketing of al! farm products. The present emergency presents ai grave a situation as ever confront?e the American farmer and from th? viewpoint of the producer, would seen: to justify extraordinary relief meas ures, even to the point of bending tht constitution and straining businesf rules In order to lift a portion ot tnt burden off the backs of the farmer for unless something ls done to ched fhe invasion of the war forces Hipor the cotton fields, the pathway of tht European pestilence on this contlnenl wil) be strewn with mortgaged homei and famine and poverty will stalk ovei the southland, filling the highways "ol industry with refugees and the bank ruptcy court with prisoners. AU calamities teach us lessons anc the present crisis serves to illuminati the frailties of our marketing meth ods and the weakness of our credii system, and out of the financial an guish and travail of the cotton fannel will come a volume of discussion ant a mass of suggestions and finally ? solution ot this, the biggest problen in the economic life of America, if indeed, we have not already laid thc foundation for at least temporary re lief. Mo;*e Pharaohs Needed in Agriculture Farm products have no credit ant perhaps can never have on a perma nent and satisfactory oasis unless wt build warehouses, cold storage plants elevators, etc., tor without storage anc credit facilities, the south is com pelled to dump its crop on the market at harvest time. The Farmers' Onions in the cotton producing states havt for the past ten years persistently ad vocated the construction ot storage facilities. We have built during this period 2,000 warehouses with a ca pacify of approximately 4,000,000 balet and looking backward the results would seem encouraging, but looking forward, we are able to house lest than one-third of ?ie crop and ware houses without a credit system iose 90 per cent of their usefulness The problem is a gigantic one-too great for the farmer to solve unaided. He must have the assistance of the bank er, the merchant and the government ?n production we have reached the high water mark of perfection in the world's history, but our marketing methods are most primitive. In the dawn of history we find agriculture plowing with a forked stick but with a system of warehouses under govern mental supervision that made the Egyptians the marvel of civilization, for who has not admired the vision of Joseph and applauded the wisdom of Pharaoh for storing the surplus until demanded by the consumer, but in this ags we have too many Josephs who dream and not enough Pharaohs who build. SALE. I have a fine lot of [Seed Rye to offer, was grown on my farm at Ellenton, S. C. Put up in bags of one and two bushels, price ?2.50 per bushel, F. O. B. Ellenton. Send in your orders early. H. M. Cassels, Ellenton, S. C. lill Stock M Sale. Five Shares Sibley Mill Stock of Augusta, Ga., to be 'sold front of Court House on first Monday in January, 1915, for cash. A. G. OUZTS, Ex'or. Dec. 15-3t. ELROY G. SMITH Eydralic and Sanitary Engineer. Water Supply,, Good Roads, Laud Sub division and Surveys. Investigations, Reports and Plans. 316 Harrison Bldg. Augusta, Ga Kiwo's NEW LIFE PILLS The Pills That Do Cure. After four in our family had died of consumption 1 was taken with | a frightful cough and Jung trouble, 1 but my life was saved and I gained g B7 pounds through using W.E.Patterson, Wellington, Tex. PRICE 60c and $1.00 AT ALL DRUGGISTS. ,^0ur large ste with everything is now. We inv goods. We give Universal Percu Sets, Scissors ? Handle, Enders -vv- at 25c. each, B Keen. Kutter I Winchester 2Q-( ing Horns, Bicj Our goods are STEWAF The selection o? gentleman friend assortment of art tiful: Suit Overcoat Raincoat Shoes Slippers Drop in and let of these goods. And we are ready with a large Assort ment of Candies, Friits of all kinds, just what Santa Claus will need to fill his pouch. Large Stock of Fireworks Let us fill your orders for fruit cake incredients 'Everything Fresh All of the season's delicacies in our fancy grocery department - ck has never been better supplied that is needed for the home than it ite our friends to call and s?e these herewith a few artic es: lators, Daisy Churns, Savory Roasters, Carving md Shears, Pocket Knives in Stag and Pe arl . Dollar-Safety Razors, Durham Duplex Razors rass Andirons, Brass Fire, Sets, liard Pressfes, tfeat Choppers, Automatic Air Rifles, Rifljes, Sauge, Guns, Leggins, Hunting Cfoats, Hu?rt eles, Wagons, Tricycles. always the best quality ^nd our prices are reasonable ?T & KERNAG j gefield, South Carolina1 . a suitable gift for f atjher, is made easy at our store, ides that are useful a? well Hats Gloves Cravats Suspenders Suit Case Hand us show you through dur la^ge stock Dorn & Brother or A large as beau Hose kerchiefs Umbijella Collars Cuffs Mims