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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1904-12-21
Cold Spring.

We wish you, Mr.. Editor, and
all our readers a merry Christmas.
Nav this be the best and happiest
Christmas of all our lives. ls
there pot some child near your
home that has no father or moth
er, or whose parents are too poor
! for Santa Claus to come to see?
Wont you send that one a present?
If you will make somebody's
child happy you will be glad
yourself.
All! of our schools will close this
week. for the holidays. The books
will all lie forgotten for few days
and the mind will be turned to
merrymakipg. We often have said
and still believe that vacations in
our colleges and high schools are
thorns in the flesh.
The time is short, 0 my dear
friends, you who are letting mis-
erable Misunderstanding run on
from year to year; you who are
keeping wretched quarrels alive
because you cannot quite make
un your mind that now ia the day
to sacrifice your pride and kill
them; you who are passing men
sullenly upon the street, not
speaking to them out of some silly
spite, and yet knowing that it
would fill you with shame and
remorse if you heard that one of
those men were dead Tomorrow
morning; you who are letting your
[ueighbor starve till you hear that
he is dying of starvation, or let
ting your friends heart ache for q
word of appreciation or sympathy.
Which you mean to give some day,
if you could know, and see, and
feel al, of sudden that "the time
is short" Eow it would break the
spell! How you would go INSTANTLY y
and do the thing which you mig hi
never have another chance to do
Brooks.
Tbs Charleston Hotel was head
quarters for the members of tht
grand lodge of A. F. M. There
were abo.t two hundred in at
tendance on the grand lodge. This
lis q fine looking body of men all
suppos d to be perfect physically
upright and hon est and OF goot
report among all men.
Mr.. Charlie Holmoa, of Modoc
was at Rose Cottage for dinne
last Sunday. Mr.. Holmes is on'
of the leading business men o
his community.
DR.. c. C. Brown at Sumter i
the treasurer of the aged minister
{ relief board. Ind asks that ever.
+ Baptist church and Sunday schoo
,iinSthe state, taLea,yn, collection fo
;s:le--s.sa a.aai rdd Sun s.,ss s5Ss:
Tho EdgefieId =assoclation " 4 4
:: take this cole ction.
Rose. COTTAGE.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1904-12-21
Worst of all Experiences.

Can anything bs worse than TO
feel that every minute will be
your last? Suvh was the expert :
ence of Mrs. S.. H. Newsnn, Deca-
tur, Ala. "For three years" she
writes, Il endured insuffera ole
pain from Indigestion, stomach
and bowel trouble. Death seemed
inevitable when doctors and all
remedies failed. At length I wat
induced to, try Electric Bitters1
and the result was miraculous. i
improved at once and now4I'm
completely recovered. For Liyer,
Kidney, Stomach and Bowel.trouh=.
les Electric Bitters is the only,
medicine. Only SOC. It's guaran-
iced by The Perm Drug Store.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1904-12-21
EDITOR
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SuDscrlntiop Pri"e-ee-s to any
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s. Rates for Advertlslns-Une lncn
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insertion; SOC. Want Nnfices, one cent
! SiI,ersNord, each {eearfi otner ioca'
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:. ...Ia-crion; five cents per line for .eac9
subseauent insertion. Obituaries anu
Tributes of Respect, Notices of'fnanks,
and ali personal notices OF polltlcai
1 nature, are charged for as regular a9-
tyerti,ements. Liberal contracts mace
FOR, three, six, and twelve montns
Write for terms.
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of mankind.
The Daughters of the Confe dera-
cy realized nice sum from the
proceeds OF. the oysters sold on
Friday. They are planning 20
build 8 hall.
The New CeDtury Club me! at
tho hospitable home of Mrs. b.
F. Lewis on Friday afternoon.
Arbor day will be celebrated j n
February when the ledge will be
planted around the school grounds
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1904-12-21

1st That it will be to the great
detriment of Edgefeld county if
200 square miles of her territory
sbstaken from Ber, nor will it be
totthe advantage or. interest Of the
majority of the citizens living in
the area proposed to be cut, if
such result is obtained. Rec
ognizing this and further recogni-
szing and appreciating the import
ance and advantage of retaining
their present county citizenships
/. .wesrespectfully and urgently re-
quest those of our follow citizena
living in tie territory to be cut to
vote and Use their influence
against the formation of said new
county
End That each and every ore of
our citizens are urgently request
sed o.use their influence to carry
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1904-12-21
PROCLAMATION.
sTATE OF SOUTH. CAROLINA
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.

Whereas petitions signed Dy more
chan one third Of the qualified cleo
tors of those portions Of Abbevilie;
Greenwood and Edgeheld counties
embracing within line beginning
at the mouth of Stevens Creek ON
the Savannah River, and running
M the said river t0a point opposite
rhe lower end Of Cedar Island,
thence By line running south 81
degrees east 14l2 chains TO stake on
Greenwood County line; thence
along the lower line OF Greenwood
County south 1924 degrees east l4O
chains to mile post ON Z y w z
Railway near G. M Siperts; thence
along straight line TO Tilinan
White place; thence to house to w
TLovelace; thence across Cutfep-
town Creek at point near China
Grove Place; thence along the line
of, Edgefeld and Greenwood Coun-
ty line 10 iron pin in MartintoWu
road. thence down Martintown
Road to centre point Of upper
bridge over Turkey Greek; thence
along the middle uf Turkey Creek
TO Big Stevens Greek; thence along
the middle. line of Big Stevens
Creek to the mouth of said Creek at
Savannah River, the point of begin
ming. have been filed with me in
accordanceSWith law, asking that
;tEzs-snu nrull--yssnergs5th thysaUic ounties be
;ffthes proposed new countS, astabls d
/ posed name, ,the NUM- ber of inhabi-.
/ santssstheaareaYthe axable proper.
Ff;y, as foWn By; the last tax returns,
and that the proposed lines do not
run nearer than eigh6 miles OF any
Court House now established, are
set forth in said petition.
NOW, THEREFORE,, I. D. c..
HEY WARD, GOVERNOR of the
State of South Carolina, in compli-
ance with the requirements of Sec
tion 575 of Volume One, Code of
Laws of South Carolina, 1902, do
hereby order an election in the ter
ritory to be cut off for the new coun-
ty, On the third day of January,
1905, to be held in accordance with
the requirements Of law, at which
election the electors shall vote
"yes" or mo" upon the question of
creating a new county, and upon
the name and County Seat of the
proposed County.
In TESTIMONY whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and caused
the Great Seal of the State to be al
fixed at Columbia this Ninth day of
December. 1904, and in the 129th
year of the Independence of the
United States of America.
SEAL.
D. c. HEYWARD, Governor.
by the Governor:
j. Il. CAN'T, Secretary of the State.
The voters at the Pleasant Lane
precinct, within the proposed ter
ritory to be cut off, will vote at
Liberty Hill precinct, and those in
Meriwether will vote at Modoc.
The first named manager will
meet us at Edgeield on the first
Monday in January to receive tick
ets, boxes and instructions.
MOQOc-E U morgan Jr, II T.
Bunch, P r Waits, w S Middleton,
clerk.
Rehoboth-R Fl QuarIes, J P
Strom, j L Gilchrist, G Strom, clerk.
Liberty Hill-O D White S z
SeigIer, K Corley, DR. l. w Shep-
pard, clerk.
Plum Branch-W H Parks, BM
Sturkey, ] w Blackwell, ] w Mil
ler, clerk.
G. E. QUARLES,
ELLEEY SHEPPARD;
D. T. MATHIS,
Commissioners State and County
Election.
Edgefeld, s. c., Dec. 10, 'o4.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1904-12-21

Just received car load of "Old
Hickory" ard "Blue Grass" wagons
and two car loads of "Rock Hill"
aud Hackney" buggies. We want
to sell you.
RAMSEY & ZONES
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-09-16
Why Change?

Why should there be change in the
national administration? What's the
matter with Roosevelt? Has anything
gone wrong? Has il been necessary to
issue bonds to pay the running expenses
of the government? Is there any money
in the treasury? Has the soup house as
serted its supremacy since the palmy
days of Grover? Has Theodore Roose-
welt betrayed any trust reposed in him,
or has he manifested any symptoms OF
spinal affection? Has the so-called DEM
ocratic party advanced any assurance to
the American people that they are any
more proficient in the twentieth century
than they were in the nineteenth Can
they satisfy the honest, industrious, pro-
ducing citizens of America that they seek
for anything but to again grasp the sur
plus and again empty the treasury, as
they have on every previous opportunity?
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-09-16
DAVIS WILL NOT DO.
Too Old for the High Position TO
Which He Aspires.


DIR. J. b. McFatrich, editor of the
Third Ward Republican, Chicago publ
cation, says:
1T may be that former Senator Henry
Gassaway Davis is planning to have his
money talk for him during the campaign.
1t is only on this hypothesis that his re-
ply to the notification address of John
Sharp Williams can be satisfactorily ex-
planned. The octogenarian vice presiden-
tial candidate of the Democracy at the
White Sulphur Springs function indicat-
ed that he is sadly deficient. in so far
as present issues are concerned. He had
nothing to say upon any of the questions
which interest the voters of both parties.
A careful reading of his address fails
to disclose where he stands on any vital
issue.
1.-The man who is popularity supposed
to carry the State of West Virginia
around in a shawl strap had not word
to say regarding the trusts He omitted
an allusion to labor and capital. So far
as the speech indicates there Is no such
thing as the Philippine question. He had
nothing to say about the tariff. He is
certainly old enough to have heard of the
Monroe doctrine, but not line of this
important bit of Americanism can be
found in his speech. For all he says
there is no such thing as the Panama
canal and the closest observer cannot
learn whether he believes in the open
door or reciprocity or any OF the things
which men discuss. And has not Uncle
Gassaway heard of the United States
navy?
For a speech which was looked for
ward to as a sort OF keynote essay, the
utterance of the old gentleman with the
barrel is a great disappointment to the
Democrats. TO the Republicans it is
merely an evidence of the fact that Mr..
Davis does not possess, at his advanced
age the necessary mental equipment to
properly appreciate the great public Ques-
tons which must confront the next pre-
siding officer Of the Senate.
"Of course. Uncle Gassaway is thor
oughly respectable old gentleman. He
is also possessed OF much wealth and for
man who has slipped over the 50 mark
is well preserved and active. But there
is vast difference between minding his
own personal business and attempting
at the sunset of life to take a hand in
the strenuous work of conducting the
great affairs of a big nation. AS Vice
President Henry Gassaway Davis will
| not do"
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-09-16
WHEN HILL WI QUIT.

david Bennett Hill sayahe will aban'
don politics when Parker electedl
-yhenx Parker Is electsa sfr. David
Bennett Hill
Announces that bis speaking voice wa
suddenly grow still;
He says that for rude politics he really
shall not care,
When Parker has been planted in tns
Presidential chair
O, gentle reader. with alarm do nos
grow cold and stiff;
There's much OF virtue in that When,
as Shakespeake said of IF"
When Parker is elected''--it's str'6'
ing trait OF Dawes
That always in his statements there's
a little phrase that saves.
You see, it would have sounded like an
unexpected joke
Had he said he'd retire the day that
Davis said: I'm broke"
WHEN Parker is elected. | shall put
campaigning by"
Was how he emphasized it, and he wink
ed the other eye.
w men fdFkPT Is elecIeU. lItH bHc otoA0
will shine at noon
And we will shovel snow along about
the month OF June,
The birds will put on trousers and the
crocodiles viii sing,
The frogs will be electing Mr. Stork to
be their king,
And when these things have happened,
il you think TO notice it.
WHEN Parker is elected" David
Bennett Hill will quit.
"Whcn Parker is elected why, he
might as well have said
That he'd be chasing ballots when the
rest of us are dead,
And that we'd hear him talking when
the Last Days trumpet called,
Or that he'd drop his scheming when he
ceased from being baled.
When Parker is elected--he will quit,
and also then
Well learn that David Bennett Hid
is growing hair again.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-09-16

nature, while the gullible many, he inn
AGNES. viii joyfu.ly count upon bis meek
IL retiring into private life as soon as he
has seen his party triumphant in the fall
elections.
Il is a grotesque position. that Of the
WoifeTt's Kooxt politician. TO gain bis
ends he promises TO keep ont of all par
ticipation In the results he IL working for.
1t must have been at some cost in self
respect that this sop was given 10 the
more respectable wing Of the New York
democracy. men who will not train with
Hill, and who do not scruple to say So
Rlft with those at whom the shot was
aimed Hill's promise will avail nothing
They know the man. He has no friends,
nor has he any enemies who believe in
him, except as to his limitless power for
evil politics in whatever he undertakes.
II is quite probable that he viii retire
from politics before the first OF January,
1865, but it will be, not by his own voli-
ton, but because Of the defeat of his
party at the polls in the preceding No
vember
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-09-16

the jonrneyuen an increase Of wages from
$40 to x4.75 day; the agreemefsf runs
Trenton. N. J.-statIstics show that the
increase IN the number Of manufactures in
New jersey in the last ten years is almost
double that 81 any other state, the percent
age being ~.
Kansas city Mo Among the noteworthy
improvements at Kansas City are s1.Ot0.-
600 soap factory; 100000 oil refinery and
pipe line: &1.Oy.0OO packing plant; railroad
elevators, additions to terminal facilities
costing 100000
Harrisburg. -Four hundred men and
women are to be given employment IN new
industries at Lochiel. near Harrisburg. The
large farm Of former United States Senator
], ID. Cameron is to be transferred into an
Industrial village.
Canonsburg Pa Employing 1900 men,
the Standard Tin Plate Company has re-
sumed operations.
Minneapolis Eastern capitalists are CON
templatin2 the establishment OF large
soap factory at Minneapolis
Salem. Ore.--One hundred Thousand dol
lars is to be invested IN a linen mill at
Salem, giving employment TO 100 persons
the first year.
Plttsburg. The capital stock Of the yell
low Creek Coal Company OF Wilkosbarre,
Pa, has been increased to Slp0,TD the
coal land In Brush and Saline Townships,
Ohio.
GAINESVILLE, OFT is positively stated that
the mines Of the Crooksville district will all
Pittsburg. More than 1000 Of the 1,JCO
men laid of in the last three months by
the Westinghouse Electric aud Manufac-
turing Company OF East Pittsbnrg have
been taken back The Westinghouse Ma
chine and Air Brake Companies are rushed
with orders.
Detrolt.-A new 100000 passenger
steamer ordered by the Anchor Line To be
built by the American Shipbuilding Com
papy.
Toledo.-Marine men are specializing on
an increase of sailors wages with the open
ing OF fall trade The wages are now 81
per day, or % cents higher than In pre-
Fort Collins. Colo. Fifteen thousand dol
lars has been subscribed for the establish
ment of a canning factory at Fort Collins
The enterprise Is being promoted by the
Fort Collins Beet Growers Association
Milwaukee.-Capital stock of the Wiscon-
sin Bridge and Iron Company increased
100000 to meet expansion OF business.
New Bedford, Mass. --Compnny organized
with capital stock OF 100000; will erect a
$1,000 spindle MILL
Wilkesbarre, Pa--The 800 striking miners
at the Barnum Colliery OF the Pennsylvania
Coal Company, at Pittston, have returned
to work.
Pittsburg.--An unusually heavy move
ment OF coal and coke Is reported. At
Youngwood alone 400 .loaded cars are
awaiting movement
Detroit Six-story addition to plant Of
the American Lady Corset Company, giving
employment TO 700 more persons.
Ovid, Mich.-Board Of Directors elected
for proposed factory.
Mcpherson Kan.--The assessors report
shows an increase OF 2,t67 acres of broom
corn planted this year over last year.
Norwalk. Conn.-Industrial differences
between manufacturers and their employees
In the Norwalk district have been adjusted
satisfactorily to both sides.
New York.--The new S9,000.oO0 Hotel
Aston will be opened for business Sept. TO-
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-09-16
YOUNG DEMOCRATS
Those whs Voted for Mckinley Prob
ably VIII Support Roosevelt.
(Kansas City Star, independently


Some allowances must be made, of
course. for the optimistic representations
of politicians at the approach of every
great election. 1t is part of the game
to manifest confidence, even il the policy
of claiming everything" has been dis
credited by the best political managers.
But the declaration that. according to
more or less careful canvasses. those
young Democrats who boted Bryan and
voted for Mckinley will remain in the
Republican party, is quite plausible.
Those old Democrats in whom the party
spirit is still strong in spite of the trying
alignment of the Democracy four and
eight years ago, may be expected to re-
turn to the fold pretty generally this
year, but there is nothing except parti-
san feeling to draw them, and this does
not exist to any great extent among the
younger generation, especially among
those who have already broken over the
lines TO vote for Republican Presi-
dent.
Indeed. President Roosevelt appeals
with especial force to the young men of
the nation. Considering his achieve
ments, he is still young man himself
He is in intimate sympathy with the
spirit of early manhood. He is vigorous
in mind and body, and is active in both
He is strongly progressive. His leader
ship has been inspiring to all classes.
but more especially to those in whom
ambition is assertive, His policies ap-
peal forcefully to those who would make
| stronger and better nation. He stands
for those reforms that are regarded as
| essential to the perpetuity of personal
| liberty and civic righteousness.
The belief that President Roosevelt. in
| his splendid fuhllment of an obligation
assumed as a result of accident. has earn
| ed an election at the hands of the people
he has served, is especially strong in the
| hearts of the younger generation of vot-
| ers
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-09-16
The Lone Fisherman.

1t is only one Of the curi0sties Of an
American national campaign the result
of which Is foreordained but IL arouses
more than a slight degree OF interest
Where is the Lone Fisherman, the man
who has been twice President of the
United States? Where is he. and what
is he going to do between the present
time and the Sth of November?
What is he thinking about-this Lone
Fisherman, and what are his inclina-
tions? We are all interested in him as
we should be interested in any ex-Presi-
dent of the United States, and, being
interested. we have also a curiosity.
What about Cleveland? Is that portly
and forceful old gentleman going to have
anything to DO with politics this year, or
is he simply intent upon the considera-
ton of the subject of lines bait, and all
that sort of thing?
The impression seems TO prevail, and
one apparently justified, that the Sage
OF Princeton is not much interested in
the Sage of Esopus. The Sage Of
Princeton has at least a certain caliber,
and the two men do not fit.
Still, we all want to know what the
Lone Fisherman is going to do.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-09-16
ROOSEVELT AS PRESIDENT.
Some of the Prominent Achievements
of the Administration.
Chicago Tribune.)

NoultdSO lTlDuiie-l
What, positively, has he (RoosevelD
accomplished?
He has handed over to Cuba the gov
eminent of the Cuban republic.
He settled the anthracite coal strike
which for half year had demoralized
the industries of the country.
When Great Britain. Germany and
Italy We're attacking Venezuela he in
duced them to desist, thus preserving the
inviolability of the Monroe doctrine.
The three commissioners appointed BY
him to discuss the Alaskan boundary
question gained a complete victory for
the American contention.
The Cuban reciprocity treaty, which
had been defeated by one Congress, was
passed in a subsequent special session,
because Roosevelt insisted.
By the creation of bureau of COM
merce and labor, for which his infu-
ence is solely responsible, the President
has taken the first definite steps toward
the solution of the trust problem. Light
will be let in on the management of the
trusts. Then, when their evils are defn-
itely, not vaguely, ascertained a proper
corrective can be applied.
The door to China's trade has been
kept wide open to our trade.
But the most enduring benefit the
President has brought to the country has
been the assurance that the Panama
canal would be finished. In the isthmian
imbroglio the President acted always
within the treaty rights of this nation;
his official conduct was eminently cor
rect. But were it not for his exceptional
adroitness and vgor during the crisis the
prospect of the interoceanic canal would
still be years in the future. For nearly
400 years man has dreamed of piercing
the American isthmus. But it remained
for President Roosevelt to bring these
dreams within sight of realization. His
tory will record his connection with the
Panama canal as the most momentous
feature of his first term.
Thus Theodore Roosevelt has been an
upright and painstaking, vigorous and
useful, honest and patriotic President.
1t seems both wiser and fairer for the
American people to re-elect him rather
than to elevate in his place an untried
jurist who. however exemplary his per-
sonal character, has had practically no
experience whatsoever to fit him for the
most difficult position in the world.