Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-08-17
Union.
The Lord loyeth q cheerful giyer
and. adds the Washington Herald. a
man who raises thunder when things
are being taken away from him.

man who raises thunder when things
are being taken away from him.
An old Oxford graduate recently
came all the way from Cornwall to re-
visit the scene OF his youth. AS he
entered the gate a bill was presented
10 him for goods supplied to him
when he was an undergraduate nearly
half q century before. "God bless me.
strl" he roared, @do you think that !
come up here once in every halt-cen-
tnry for the pleasure Of being dun.
ned?.
..To be successful" says q writer on
business topics, "the retail merchant
must not only advertise regularly in
the daily ne Esoaper. but he must make
his announcement look like news"
No exception can be taken to the first
part Of this assertion, but the second.
IS open to amendment, thinks the Phil
adelphia Record. The. business an
nouncement which merely looks like
news VIII not necessarily be q trade
winner; it must actually be news.
Readers of newspaper advertising are
almost Invariably in quest Of %up-to-date
information that will Tighten the Ia
Dor Of selection. They want real
store news. /,
It is easy enough to say that we
shall always have the poor with us.
1t Is easy enough to say that poverty
Is inevitable and that the weak and
insficient must always lag behind in
the race OF life. These are the COM
monplaces of the economist and the
scientist, but they never reach the
heart of the question, declares the
New York World. We shan always
Shsye the poor with us, but is 1t nee
essary that we should have 80 many
OF them with us? Poverty Is newt
able, but Is so much poverty newt
able? The weak and inefficient must
lag behind, hut must they lag so far
behind that they "a no longer earn
their bread in the sweat Of their
faces? What makes a great nation is
not charity but an Independent, self
supporting people, and democracy can
not afford to turn a deaf a to this
insistent challenge of socialism.
There died in Indiana the other day
q man who had but one ambition, and
who passed away foolishly believing
he had accomplished 1t. He was a
sober, honest man who boosted that
he never had done and never would
do a days work in all his life. relates
the New York Mall. His habits were
Clearly and his conduct was inoffen-
siye. He-slept in stores or warehous-
es and got his food and clothing by
begging. The hour of death found
him still convinced that his life had
been spent without labor. That man
was. one OF the most remarkable vic
TINS OF self-deceptfon that ever lived.
His life was one Of the most labort-
cus that can be imagined. The state
ment that he was a person Of high In
~telligence is unbelievable. for II he
had been he would have realized that
his lifelong effort to avoid honest toll
was a species Of slavery tenfold baser
than the most sordid drudgery that
falls TO the lot Of human beings.
HHrZNEN LENIL eeE
Nature, unhampered, makes every
thing she touches beautiful; the nat
ural world presents many varieties Of
picturesqueness and oddly and
strangeness and gorgeousness and
plainness and even LONELINESS, but
never ugliness, and in this sense it is
always beautiful, propounds the Ches-
ter (Pa.) Republican. Whatever there
is of ugliness on earth is provided
by man. He makes and allows the
accumulation Of filth and pollutes the
streams whose waters should flow
clear and pure. 1t is man whose com.
mercial instinct and Indifference and
selfshness create those things which
offend the physical idea of beauty and
permit those things that are detrimen-
tai to the health and morals of a COM
munity. The Importance OF the rap
ldlygrowing crusade against ugliness
in municipalities cannot be overestt-
mated. 1t does not deal with architec-
tnraI incongruities, though they would
be practically impossible in a com.
munity properly educated along the
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