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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1911-07-05
Round Trip For The Remains.

Here is a story which Ex-Secre,
tary of War Dickinson tells OF how
a colored man planned to save
money when his brother died. The
darkey went to the station agent in
his little town, which was about
fifty miles from Memphis, Tenn,
and asked solemnly:
Boss, how much is it to fetch
a corpse from hyuh to Memphis?"
The agent told him.
well, boss, how much is it to
fetch corpse on a round trip from
hyuh to Memphis?
This information was also given
but the agent added:
Il never heard of carrying a
corpse on a round trip"
"Well, boss, you see, it's dis
way" explained the darkey. dis
hyuh corpse is my bruvver, an we
got a whole lot of kin folks up in
Memphis. All dem kin folks would
come down hyuh to look at the
corpse an dey would jes' eat me
outen house. an home. / thought I'd
save money by fetching dis corpse
up dar an lettin. 'em take look
at him. Den / could bring him
back an bury him quiet an peace
full"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1911-07-05
Centre Spring Picnic.

at a meeting of the Edgefeld
Light Dragons held at the Office
of Thurmond & Nicholson Satur
day afternoon, it was decided tt
hold the. annual picnic at Centre
Spring on Tuesday, July 25th
The following committees were ap
pointed to arrange all of the details
for the picnic:
Table Committee: J R Blocker
] R Tompkins, B E Nicholson, +
w Powell, S A Holstein, 2 I
Boone.
Floor Committee: L w Cheat.
ham, Roger T Hill, G A Mays, r
.H Nicholson, o w Allen, A R
Nicholson, Jr., ] S Hughes, L I
May.
Badge Committee: J F Payne
S T. Brunson.
Refreshment Committee: B E
Zimmerman, j w Pollattie.
Pit Committee: G. B Thinner
man, Roger T Hill, J B Nicholson.
Confederate veterans and news.
paper men invited as guests.
One has only to study the per-
sonnel of the several committees to
know that the picnic will be con-
Quoted upon a high plane, COM
pairing with the record made by the
Dragons during previous years.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1911-07-05
Clark's Hill to Entertain the
Savannah Valley Clubs.

Editor Advertiser: The Clark's
Hill Agricultural Society will be
the host at the annual barbecue
to the Savannah Valley Associated
Farmers Clubs on August 3rd
next.
Members of the respective clubs
composing the Association will be
our guests on that day. Those
coming by train are advised to get
tickets to Meriwether G. 6 w. G.
R'y. where they will be met
and conveyed to the club grounds.
Trains leave Augusta about 6.l5
and 1910 a. M, and returning pass
here at 5.l5 and 7.S0 a. m. Each
member of this club will be allowed
to invite three friends in addition to
the above, and should he elect to
invite more, each additional ticket
will costs him fifty (5O) cents.
Badges will be provided in ac-
cordance with the above.
J. w. johnson,
Sec'ry Clark's Hill A. s.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1911-07-05

and out of the Pennsylvania station
are among the most modern and
best equipped in the world. No
wooden coaches are allowed to en-
ter the station, all being construct
ed of steel and other metal. The
coaches are equipped with tele-
phones, SO up to the moment the
conductor gives the signal for de-
parting a passenger can converse
with friends and business officers in
New York.
The Pennsylvania road also en-
joys the distinction of operating
the fastest long distance train in the
world, making the journey from
New York to Chicago in about II
hours. The average speed for the
entire distance being SO miles per
hour. Allowing for the time consum-
med in making five changes of loco
motives much of the distance is
made ate0 and more miles per hour.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1911-07-05
Death Of Little Grafton Talber.,
(Contributed.)


On Sunday June 95th at 2:3o
o'clock in the afternoon after a
brief illness of only two days and
after everything that a faithful
physician and devoted loved ones
could do to stay the disease, the
soul of little Wilbur Grafton Tai
bert, second son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Lester Talhert of Antioch, took its
flight to Heaven to be with Him
who always cares" Only three
years and nine months was allotted
to his life upon earth. Too pure,
too sweet, too lovab.e and affection
ate was darling little Grafton to
share the sin and temptations of
this world, so Jesus sent His Angel
and bore him away to the glory
land. 1t is a natural protest of the
heart to know the meaning and pur-
poses of death and we wonder why
our happiness is sorely marred and
why the vacant place is made at our
fre-side and at the table, but Then
we know that Jesus cares" and its
through His divine love for US that
He takes His pure ones back to be
with Him where all is love and hap
piness, and when the Mists have all
rolled away, our wonderings will
cease and then we'll under
stand. Little Grafton has on
ly preceded US to look back upon
earth and beckon Papa and Mama
and loved ones to come this way"
We would not wish to have him
back for the Lord gave him and the
Lord hath taken him away. His
little body was inferred in the An
tioch cemetery Monday morning.
Rev. J. T. Littlejohn spoke words
of tenderness and comfort to con-
course of friends and relatives.
Lovely flowers from sincere friends
covered his grave. Jesus said:
"Suffer the little children to come
unto me, and forbid them not, for
of such is the Kingdom OF Heaven"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1911-07-05
Starting The Stopped.

One day an old farmer borrowed
a mule from his neighbor; after he
had finished his work he sent his
fourteen-year-old boy to take il
home. The boy had gone about a
half mile when the mule stopped
and positively refused to 60 any
farther. After the boy had almost
pulled his arms off, trying to get
him to 20, an old doctor came
along, and asked: "Why, my son,
what is the matter with your
mule?"
why, sir, can't you see, he has
balked," cried the boy.
WELL" said the old man, open
ing his case and taking out a bottle
labelled "Carbolic Acid" well
see what we can do for him." and
he poured some of the acid on the
mules back, and in much less time
than it takes to write it the mule
was galloping down the road at a
rate he had never gone before.
The boy looked up il surprise,
and said: { doctor, have you got
any more of that stuff"
"Yes," answered the man.
We'll, doctor, are you sure you
have got a whole lot more of its"
he asked.
Il think have plenty. What did
you want to know for?" he asked
with a smile.
swell, 1 wish you would poul
some on me, doctor, for I've got tc
catch that mule" answered the boy
-Ex,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1911-07-05
sALUDA's RAILROAD.
Augusta Northern Leading
From Ward to Saluda to be
Completed by October
the First.

Several days ago The Advertisers
represen tative, while en- route to
Columbia, chanced to meet direc-
tor of the railroad now being con-
structed to Saluda, and by close
questioning we managed to draw
from him certain facts concerning
an enterprise which has interested
many Edgefeld people as well as
Saludians.
The road is 1l-miles in length,
and about seven and a half miles
leading from Ward have been gra-
ded. The track has been laid for a
distance of nearly four miles. A
locomotive and cars have been pur-
chased and are used in laying the
track.
The first station will be at Bell,
about six miles from Ward. Here
the Independent Construction Com
pany which has the contract for
grading the road has purchased
900 acres of land. In about a
month a civil engineer will be en-
gagged to survey and lay out site
for town on this land. There
will be another station between Bell
and SaIuda. On being asked when
the road would be actually ready to
deliver freight in Saluda, this gen.
tleman stated that it would be open
for business by October lst. The
work is being thoroughly done
which requires more time than if it
were carelessly performed. Search
ty of labor has also retarded the
progress to some extent.
Our informant believes that Sa-
luda has a great future. The lands
are being improved, and of course
the development, especially that of
the rural country along the route,
will be very materially hastened by
the railroad. The wonder is chat
the people of Saluda have accom-
plished what they have, having no
railway facilities to aid them.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1911-07-05

watt to her all good wishes.
Mrs. Geo. White and children, of
North Augusta, are visiting rela-
tives.
Miss Lyle and Petula LaGrone
left on Thursday for Chic go, ILL.,,
to visit the home of Mr.. Harris, a
friend of their fathers and upon
their return will spend several
weeks in the mountains of North
Carolina.
Mr.. Avery Bland, of George
town, has been visiting his mother,
Mrs. G. G. Waters.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1911-07-05
Stroyn-Hitt.

The Advertiser acknowledges the
following announcement of the
marriage of Miss Weinona Strom
and Mr.. Robert M. Hit:
''Mr. and Mrs. Charles Strom an
nounce the marriage of their daugh-
ter Weinona to Mr.. Robert Melvin
Hit Thursday, June twenty-ninth
Nineteen hundred and eleven Plum
Branch, South Carolina.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1911-07-05
Excursion Rates to Columbia, s. c. and
Return Via Southern Railway,

Account of South Carolina State
Firemen's Association, June 81
20, 1911.
Account of this occasion, the South
ern Railway will sell from June 26
to 2s inclusive, round trip tickets
from Edgefeld s. c., to Columbia
and return for 1920 good return
ing July /, 1911. Proportionately
reduced rates from other points.
For further information, call on
Southern Railway ticket agents, or,
address
Jno. L. Meek, AGPA.,
Atlanta, Ga.
Alex. Fl. Acker, TPA.,
Augusta, Ga.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1911-07-05
PEACH TREE BoRER.
Clemson Professor Tells How
to Exterminate This Pest
So Annoying to Fruit
Growers.

In order TO combat this insect
with the least labor and expense it
is necessary to understand two
points in its life history and these
points are fully explained in this
article.
The full grown insect, a beauti.
full clear-winged moth, lays its eggs
in fall on the trunks of the peach
trees at the surface of the soil. The
worms Matching from these eggs
bore into the bark and these worms
are the borers. When full grown
they come ont of the tree into the
soil to change to resting stage or
pupa. These pupae occur very close
to the tree, about one inch below
the surface of the soil. A few
stragglers may occur two or three
inches from the tree. These pupae
later changeto the beautiful clear
winged moths mentioned above and
which lay the. eggs for the next
generation. There is only one gen
Grafton each year.
The important points for US to
know are, the time these insects
come out of the trees into the
ground, also the time at which all
the eggs have been laid. Knowing
those two points we can then COM
bat the pest inteliigently. e
The worms begin to come out In
to the ground on July l. More
come out each day, the greatest
number coming out August 3 and
on September they are al llout.
The full grown insects appear
July 90, the greatest number occur
ring ON August %. On September
90 all have appeared to lay their
eggs except few stragglers. Dc.
tober Is all the eggs have hatched
and gone into the outer bark.
Pull up the earth around the
base of the tree eight inches high
on or before July 10. This buries
the papae and very few moths
emerging therefrom viii be able to
-rsash the.sH face.
If there are infested trees in the
neighborhood that were not mound
ed. moths will come in from such
orchards and lay eggs. These eggs
are laid on the bark at the surface
of the soil. The mounds are taken
down October Is and if any eggs
were laid, they will seeibht inches
high on the trunk where the worms
can be easily located, and not in the
crown below the soil. Therefore,
mound the peach trees eight inches
high between July Land 10. Take
down the mounds October 25. IF
your neighbors do not do it, then
you will have moths come in from
the outside and lay eggs. Walk
through the orchard November Is
at which time the worms are in the
outer bark about eight inches high
and can be easilv located by their
castings. They can then be easily
taken off with a knife. Do not de-
pend on your knife, but urge your
neighbors to mound just like you
have done. For further particulars
write US.
Prof. A. F. conradi,
State Entomologist.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1911-07-05

We can save you money on all
kinds of Harness, have large assort-
ment to select from. Wilson &
Cantelou.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21

placed anywhere, at. tracts and kills al
 flies. Neat, clean, ornamental, conscn- ient. cheap. I.astsaII season. Can't spill or tip oyer. will not soil Tor injure anythinr. Guaran .eed eilcct- i've. 0f All dealers or sent prepaid for s0c, HAROLD SOM FRS
 150 Do xalb Ave.
 Br0ollsns N. !.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21
Was President For a Day

From the WaSulIBtOH IoSl.
 q was in the town of Atchison, Kan, the other day and happened to ask for whom the town was named" remarked Richard E. Stuart of Chicago at the Dewey last night. q was told that the name was given in honor of David R. At chison, a famous citizen of Missouri, who served in the United States Senate with distinction back in the days of Polk and Taylor and Pearce. In those days the president pro tenn of the Senate was in line for the presidency In case the Presi- dent and Vice President should die or re- sign, and Atchison always claimed that he had been President of the United states a single day.
 ,'That day was March I, 1S49, and it came on Sunday. General Taylor was due to be ina1gurated as President, but he would not have the ceremony on Sunday and neglected to take the oath as President prior to he time that he took the oath in front of the capitol on March 5. As Senator Atchison was president pro tenn of the Senate. he insisted that the failure of Taylor to take the oath left a vacancy in the presidency after the hour of noon on March 4 and thus the presiding of ficer of the Senate was really President for that short interval.
 'Tayor did not give near so much at tention to the matter as did the Missouri senator who was careful to have it in his biography. Some day there may be bill Introduced in Congress to honor him with a bust in the capitol, as one of the Pres idents of the United States Atchison lived many years after he left the Senate, dy- ing in 1S66 and he was originally from Frogtown, Ky. I think there have been
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21
Controversy Over Fasting

From Current Literature f
 The fast is to Upton Sinclair, in his own words the key to eternal youth, the secret of perfect and permanent health. He would not take anything in all the world for his knowledge of it. It is natures safety valve, he says an automatic protection against disease MT. Sinclair does not venture to assert that. he is proof against vrulent dis eases, such sas smallpox or typhoid Although he claims to know one ardent physical culturist, a physician who takes typhoid germs at intervals in order to prove his immunity. Mir. Sinclair would not care to go that far. It is enough for him to know that he is proof against the common infections which beset man and against all the chronic ills. He ex- poets to continue so just as long as he stands by his present resolve which is to fast at the slightest hint of any symp- tom of i'll being, a cold or, a neadacne "a feeling of depression or coated tongue or scratch on the finger which does not heal quickly.
 Those who have studied the fast as a cure explain its miracles, according to MT Sinclair, in the following way
 "Superfluous nutriment is taken into the system and ferments and the body is hlled with greater quantity of poison- ous matter than the organs of elimina- ton can handle. The result is the clog ging Of these organs and of the blood vessels-sueh is the meaning of head aches and rheumatism, arteriosclerosis, paralysis, apaplexN Brights disease. cirrhosis, etc. And by imparing the blood and lowering the vitality, this same condition prepares the system for infection-for colds or pneumonia. or tuberculosis, or any of the levers. AS soon as the fast begins, and the first hunger has been withstood, the secre- tions cease. and the whole assimilative system, which takes so much of the en- ergfes of the body. goes out of business The body then begins sort of house. cleaning, which must be helped by an enema and a bath daily, and, above all. by copious 'water-drinlsing. The tongue becomes coated, the breath and the per. spiration offensive; and this continues until the diseased matter has been en- tirely cast out, when the tongue clears and hunger reasserts itself in unmistak- able form. a
 s.The loss of weight during the fast is generally about a pound a day. The fat is used first. and after that the mus cular tissue; true starvation begins only when the body has been reduced to the skeleton and the viscera. Fasts of 40 and 50 days are now quite common-I have met several who have taken them"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21
tBREAD-MAKING
 AN ANCIENT ART

From Harper's Weekly. -
 The housekeepers of America today make 70 per cent of all the bread, yet q the. remaining 30 per cent made by the bakers involves a capitalization of over two hundred and. seventy millions of dol :. lars, Anything, then. that we can dis cover of the present-day status of the art ofsbread-malSing is of importance and of interest. The first known making of bread refers back to the prehistoric lake ! dwellings of Europe,- where there have been discovered the grains of barley, aoats, rye and wheat, together with the .charred., remains. of cakes of bread and the rude stone grain-crushers and meal ing-stones It is true that these pellets of wheat and barley are but humble representatives of the highly bred grains that now glorfy the farmers field, and it is true too, that the loaves were for the most part but the crushed grains, and covered by glowing ashes, just, in fact, as the muleteers of Syria today make their uneavened cakes but it was bread.
 of meal and water will begin to fer ment in. the course of day, the value of leavened bread must inevitably have been discovered prior to civilization We all remember the story of the flight of the Tsraeltes out of Egypt, how 'the people took their dough before It was aleavened, their kneading- being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders Exodus xiii; SD;s sleavened bread-i e., bread as we know it-must at that time have been universal. Early, too, must have been the, specialization sof the art of baking; first, doubtless, in the largest households, as witness the interesting story of that most unfortu- !. nate chief baker in Genesis xl; and af- terward, as the reader may readily find, : s~to a definitely segregated trade, as in Hosea vii.
 There have always been bakers, but, on the other hand. from the beginning of human time bread has always been baked in the home, particularly and de- fnitely asithe vocational duty of women. There must appears this most curious ,wapd interesting of facts that contem- poraneous with the history of man from the earliest to the latest times there has z. heep an unremitting conflict be- tween home-n1ade bread and the bakers loaf.
 fif
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21

a title, the fact remains that he Is the member of that distinguished body and one who promises to give an &C., count of himself.
 Mrs. Lea came to Washington several weeks before the opening of Congress, but returned shortly afterward to their home in Tennessee. Her plans to spend the spring season at the capital were changed and she went instead. to their summer home in Denver, accompanied by her two
 interesting little children.
 In Mrs. Lea one has a delightful rep resentation' of the genteel woman of the south. She is several years her hus- bands junior, is strkingly pretty and embodies in her personality the charm
 ing attributes which history and TO- nance have long rendered to the daugli- ters of Dixie. Before her marriage to MT. Lea, about five years ago, she was Miss Mary Louise Warner of Nashville, Tenn. Her friends refer to her affection- ately as Mary Louise" and declare thai the combined names represent the sweet. ness and charm of their owner.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21
Switzerland's Famous Wonderland


 For those who appreciate the joys of travel among divers lands and varied peoples, the Engadine may be said to en- joy a cosmopolitan position, for the Val ley of the Inn, if followed far enough, conducts one to the Austrian Tyrolese frontier. The different post routes are in easy communication with the Italian takes and the Valtellain. The celebrated valley of the Engadne is situated in the extreme southeastern portion of the can ton of the Grisons and of Switzerland as while. This high-lying valley is divid- ed into two parts-the upper and the low CT Engadne One of the principal charms of the upper Engadine is found in its wonderful lakes, which follow one after another from Maloja to St. Moritz. The universal fame of the Engadine is due not only to the beauty of it's scenery, which attracts thousands of tourists, but also to its inyigorating climate and it's famous mineral springs at St. Moritz.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21
Women of the Democracy
l the National Monthly.

FrOm the NatiOna1 MOnthIy.
 One of the most charming and interest ing women included in the new congress sional roster is Mrs. Luke Lea, wife of the young senator from Tennessee. Mir. Lea's career in the world of public af- fairs has been as astounding as it has been interesting and considerable distinc- ton attaches to him by reason of the fact that at the age of 31 he is occupy ing a seat in the United States Senate MT. Albert J. Beveridge of Indiana, whose service in the Senate concluded with the adjournment of the last Congress, long enjoyed the title of Boy Senator.'' Whether MT. Lea will exactly enjoy such
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21
Democracy Is Making Good

True to their platform pledges and in keeping with their ante-eleetion prom ises, the democrats of the House have started out to fulfill their compact with the people. fe4
 Rarely has the democracys been afford- ed brighter prospects than those which are presented to the party at the open ing of the extraordinary session of the SiXty-second Congress, and never has it taken better advantage of it's opportuni- ties The degree of harmony in every action taken has been as gratifying to the democrats as it has been surprising to the republicans. The latter have pre- dicted democratic discord and division, but instead they have found a united party which they are obliged to confront with divided forces. It is the minority, rather than the majority in the House. which is split in warning factions, and the developments thus far in the session
 indicate that the breach will continue to widen rather than heal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21

would be when he approached the church.
 One morning, as he marched down the road to holy worship, his bare feet shin ing in the sunlight he saw approaching him the money lender to whom he had not been able to make a payment for more than d month. Without a word the count stopped down and rolled his trousers up to his knees.
 Then making a deep bow to his cred- itor. he explained:
 M seur will un' erstan' ze precaution. I see sieur advance wiz ze great fe- rocious look. Eet ees evident zat m sieur will bite. Eef he bite ze bare leg-bah! Ze leg will recover. But. msieur! l have but ze one pair of pantsl"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21
The Bite of a Money Lender

r FTUIH IIIt IUUUIdT NdEdHIIIV,
 One of the men attracted to a south Florida coloney not long ago was the Count de la Londe. He joined the set tlement because of glittering advertise ments he had seen regarding the ease with which money could be made in the orange grove business. Before long, how eyer, he was in the clutches of money lender, and he was so reduced that, in walking to church, five miles from his grove, he carried his shoes slung over his shoulder, so that the only wear on them