Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-07-27

EDGEFIE1D, s. 9.
what We want most, signs the Com
moner, is not always what we most
Let those who invent the fashions
progIde for ladies a modest, church.
going hat, prays the Christian Regis
ter.
Perhaps at one time married life
WAS one grand, sweet song, admits
the Philadelphia Record, but nova
days it seems more Ikea talking ma
chine.
The Pharaoh who was SUPPOSED to
have persisted In the Red Sea died
and was embalnsed, asserts the Chris
tian Register. and his mummy re-
mains to this day.
It Is a wa.Dte Of time, warns the
Philadelphia Ledger, to advise peo-
ple whose mental construction impels
Them to indulge in panics when there
Is nothing to be scared about.
Prophesies the Cincinnati Enquir-
er: It will some day be discovered
that the real reason for the present
I crisis in our affairs Is caused by the
desire OF young men and women to
get along In the world without pro-
ducing anything. The country has
been d~epopulated and the cities food
ed with young people whose ambition
1t is to make a living with their
brains rather than with their hands.
Why not the either? A correspond
emit suggests it in a note that gives
the New York Mail a pause: 1--WE
should have a. national musical instru-
ment. The violin is too difficult, the
piano is too expensive, brass and
tube instruments are. not suitable for
home use. We should choose the
either. which al be played by any
! body in any apartment, tenement, cot
tage, camp, or dugout. The either can
be national" Well said! The either
is not noisy like the horn, nor occult
like the violin. This country has
some millions of pianos, bought for
the daughter Of the home, but mostly
misused, or unused. "The either can
be national" says this correspondent.
The only trouble is that it Is already
international. The observer at the
ONCE window has heard its strains
floating out from cottage windows
while tramping the roads OF Ger
many, Switzerland, Austria. Italy and
Russia Other people discovered its
advantages ahead Of the Americans.
with a miilioa Immigrants pouring
INFO the county this year, the prob
lens of distribution, employment,
education. and the general w%9ell-being
OF society become portentcus to the.
Christian Register. There is room
enough for a million men, women,
and children Il they could be put in
the right place and given a chance to
earn their living with healthful con-
ditions and be stimulated to improve
the chances of education; but, If they
are to come In at ~haphazard, to be
crowded into the East Side of New
York, to be. jammed into our mines
and steel works, and there left to
work out their own salvation, crime,
poverty and misery will increase. AL
ready the criminal record of the Unit
ed States surpasses that Of the west
ern European nations. and the worst
elements Of anarchy and semi-saV-
agery imported from the southeast
Of Europe are becoming defiant, law
less and difficult to control. We have
native d~elinquents enough without
Importing all the criminals of South
ern Europe that can be struggled in
10 the country.
It is easy to point to the uncer-
tainfies OF medical science and the
disagreements of medical authorities,
but such criticisms seem extremely
trivial whenever we think Of the Won
derfuI achievements that are to be
credited to the progress Of medicine,
declares the New York Evening Post.
when we think Of smallpox almost
unknown; Of diphtheria reduced,
witbin n score mr. so Of wears, from