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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1912-01-10
The Growing South.

y The south is forging ahead at a
great rate. The fourteen southern
states, with Missouri and Oklahoma,
have a population of 32,000,000. or
only 100000 less than the tstal pop
ulation of the United States in 1880.
Since 1880 the sixteen southern states
have increased the annual value OF
their mineral production from $780,
100000 to s34O,OOs.OOO, as against
$3.50, 100000 in the whole country in
1880. Their manufactured products
have a value within $4,000 100000 OF
the value OF the whole country thirty
years ago. In 1880 the railroads OF the
country had an aggregate length OF
$4,000 miles. The southern states now
have $1,000 miles. From southern
ports were exported last year goods to
a value only s1OO.OOO,OO0 less than the
value Of all exports from the country
in 1SS0.-Chicago American.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1912-01-10
AN EXCLUSIVE POOR FARM
No One Can Be Admitted or Assisted
Except Those Who Once Paid
Taxes.

Providence, R. l., enjoys the use OF
the most valuable poor farm owned by
any municipality in the world, all be-
cause Ebenezer Knight Dexter in 1924
made a bequest leaving big, stone
strewn meadow and several parcels OF
land for that purpose. Today the
property is valued at no less than
s1,000,000 and is in the center Of one
of the most fashionable residence dis
tricts of Providence. But while this
is a poor farm, 1t is very exclusive
one, to say the least. BY the terms OF
a very rigid and iron clad will, none
can be admitted or assisted except
those who once owned and paid taxes
upon real estate in Providence or
whose father or mother was real es-
tate taxpayer in that city. No other
Rhode islanders and no person from
any other part of the United States
or from any foreign country may
knock at the portal to obtain admit
tance and secure shelter and food.
The Dexter asylum is more than
selfsupporting. With limited at
tendance, so to speak, 1t is said that
the interest on investment or income
is enough to furnish every inmate a
trip to Europe each winter, with ac-
commodations at the best summer ho-
tells in the summer. During the hard
times in Providence, when there was
a great need of work for poor people,
an old clause in the Dexter will pro-
yiding for stone wall built around
the place was taken advantage of and
many poor people were given work
National Magazine.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1912-01-10
RAuditor's Notice.

Allpersons owning property of any
kind whatsoever, or in any capacity,
as husband, guardian, executor, ad-
ministrator or trustee are required TO
make returns of the same to the Audi
tor under oath within the time men
toned below and the Auditor is requir-
ed by law to add penalty of so per
cent to all property that is not return
ed on or before the goth day OF Febru-
aryin any year.
All male citizens between the ages
of q and 60 years except those ex-
empt by law are deemed taxable polls.
The township assessors are respect
fully requested to meet me at the ap-
pointments for taking tax returns in
their respective township and they are
also required to make tax returns for
those who fail to make their own with
in the time prescribedby law. The 81
per cent penalty will be added far fall
ure to make returns.
For the convenience of tax payers. L
or my representative will be at the
following appointed places on the dates
mentioned to receive tax returns:
Roper's, Monday Jan. 15.
Meriwether, Tuesday, Jan. l6.
Collier, Wednesday Jan. II.
Red Hill, Thursday Jan. 18.
Clark's Hill, Friday Jan. l9.
Modoc. Saturday, Jan. 20.
Parksville, Monday Jan: %.
Plum Branch, Tuesday Jan. %.
Morgan's Store. Wednesday Jan. "a.
Liberty Hill, Thursday Jan. 25.
Cleora. FRIDAY Jan. 26.
Pleasant Lane, Saturday Jan. II.
Meeting Street, Monday Jan. 20.
Johnston, Tuesday Jan. 80.
Herrin's Store, Wednesday Jan. 81.
Trenton, Thursday Feb. L.
|. The office will be open to receive re-
turns from the first day of January till
the 20th day of February as prescribed
by law.
Auditor, E. c. S. G.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1912-01-10
TO LAUNDER PAPER MONEY
Indiana Man Devlses Machine That
VIII Wash and Iron Soiled
Bills.

It costs the United States govern
ment one and one-third cents to manu-.
fac sure a 81 bill. When the bill be-
comes soiled through, continual han,
ding it IS sent to the treasury depart.
ment, which destroys it and issues a
nice Few clean bill in its place. The
same may be said OF all other paper
currency of large denominations.
; Now comes a Shelbyville, Ind, In
ventor, F. B. Churchill, with ma,
chine for washing, ironing and other.
wise laundering paper money. Accord
ing to the Inventive Age, Washington,
the treasury department redeemed
100000 in soiled bills last year
and issued new ones in place of them.
Eighty per cent Of the bills might
have been washed at cost Of one
tenth of cent per bill and reissued
at considerable saving in cost to the
treasury department.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1912-01-10
HOW HISTORY is DISTORTED
Russian Textbook Shows Curious In.
stance of 1'asnpering With
->ench History.

Reasons of church, STATE or other
policy have frequently, caused the
scholars of one country to tamper with
the history of another with which 1t
has been intimately connected. A
curious instance Of such distortion
of French history was that found In q
Russian textbook, used in all Russian
public schools. and edited by a great
Russian scholar, Ilovaiski. The fol-
lowing may be cited as an illustra-
ton:
Louis XVI. was a good and peace
ful king. After long and famous
reign, in which he was most happy in
his choice of minister Of finance, he
died quietly In Paris. beloved by all
his people. His death was caused by
a hemorrhage. Il
"The successor of Louis XVI. was
his son, Louis XVII. During his reign
the brave royal army, commanded by
General Napoleon Bonaparte, captured
the larger part of the European con-
tingent for the French crown. But
the faithless Napoleon showed ten
dencies toward misusing his power,
and was suspected of harboring dis
honest schemes against the legitimate
ruler. With the help of his majesty
the emperor and autocrat of all the
Russias, his plans were frustrated, and
he was deprived of all his posses
sions, honors, and rights to a pension.
He was then exiled to the island OF
St Helena, where he died. THE Sun
day Magazine.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1912-01-10
Mason and His Precious Gold Pieces

Mason and His Precious Gold Pieces.
John Mason, the player, has carried
three $40 gold pieces in his change
pocket ever since the new issue OF
that specie, the two new coins, st.
Gaudens' with and without "In God
We Trust" and the old piece with
.Iiberty's" head. At the stage door
of the Thirty-ninth Street theater in
New York recently an old man
begged the actor to help him secure
a nights lodging. John tossed the
beggar supposedly two silver half dol
lars, but in reality two Of his favorite
gold coins. The old man, noting the
denominations, actually ran after his
benefactor and pulled at his coat, in
tending to inquire If the gold were
really given him in earnest. Before
he could open his mouth, however,
Mason pushed him back, exclaiming,
mot twice in one night, old man."
"But do you mean it?" asked the beg
gar. Certainly" answered Mason.
Forty dollars, mister" cried the man.
mot on your life," called Mason, as
his cab moved away, and then to his
companion, "Think Of that-because
/ give him more than he asked for he
thinks I'm easy-demands $40"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1912-01-10
Mr.. ]. q. Dukes pIouahlna.

In spite of the distractions OF the
Tobacco oompany's reorganization, Mr.
James B. Duke bestows much atten-
ton upon the work Of developing and
Identifying his three thousand acre es-
tate sDuke'ssPark near someryille, N.
J. Not infrequently on his tours Of
inspection he personally! directs the
laborers. One day he took the plough
from the hands of q slow. law Rkwar d
foreigner, saying:
: reHere, let me show you how to
plough d furrow., rye not. forgotten
how. I did that when I was boy in
South Carolina" ..sr .g..5r,a
+. Another day he took the place OF
the boss of a; gang Of workmen and
before he got through he dismissed
five for ineffl flciency, -. - -,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1912-01-10
Good Thought, Anyway.

Little John Brice loves to walk with
his daddy through the woods. Last
Sunday these two had famous walk
together, soaring, up rabbit or two,
andlooking for SQUIRRELS. 4 r8 z
Suddenly John stopped, in listen
ing attitude. Then, II know what what
makes the vino. he announced. s
saIt,s the trees Whispering" he in
formed his father. who had been walt
ing for the result. gas- lia..i ,-c..:
Perhaps heo5is ,right.-cleTeland
Leader.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1912-01-10
Treasurer's Notice.

The County Treasurer's office will be
open for the purpose of freceiving taxes
from the 18th day of Oct, 1911, to the
18th day of March, 1912, inclusive.
A penalty of one per cent will be
added to all unpaid taxes after the 1st
day of January to the 31st of January
1912, of two per cent, from the 1st day
of February to the last day of Febru-
ary 1912 and penalty of five per cent
from the first day of March to the 18th
day of March, 1921.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1912-01-10
For Sale.

House and adjoininglot of sacres near
public square. Orchard, garden good
we'll, pasture, barn, buggy house
and other outbuildings. House
piped for acetzlyene gas. For price
and terms apply to w. A. Byrd at
Edgefeld or
w. A. Strom,
Pleasant Lane, s. G.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1912-01-10


All male citizens between the ages
of 81 years and 60 years except those
exempt by law are liable to poll tax
of one dollar each. A capitation tax
of so cents each is to be paid on all
dogs.
The law prescribes that all male citi-
zens between the ages of 18 and 55
years must pay 81 Communication tax
or work six days on the public roads.
AS this is optional with the individual,
no Communication tax is included in the
property tax. So ask for road tax re-
ceipt when you desire to pay road tax.
Positively no taxes received after 10th
of March.
Co. Treas, E. c.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1912-01-10
Trespass Notice.

;, All persons are hereby warned
not to hunt or trespass in any man
ner whatsoever upon the lands of
the undersigned. The law will be
enforced to the fullest extent against
all trespassers.
Mrs. Emily Johnson,
w. F. West.
Nov. l4th, l0ll.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1912-01-10
Rshiinrld ths Rand.

my wife is much interested in the
comet" amai{ 20 Sym .
"The comet? The comet was here
last year." ~
II know. She's putting old news
papers under the carpets throughout
the house and catching ur with the
news as she puts 'em down."
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1912-01-10
Thu Sullivan Law.

Magistrate-Did he carry, concealed
weapons? +y-,,. e. sSY,g
Policeman-Yes; he had his fists in
his pockets.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-20
Getting Together For Efficiency
By BOYD r1sHEn-Eniciency Society

Exclusive Service The Survey Press Bureau.)
 When Louis D. Brandeis of Boston, acting as attorney for the shippers be- fore the interstate commerce commits
 sion in their fight against a threatened increase of freight rates declared that
 the railroads of the country could have a million dollars a day. by increased efficiency of operation, the railroad managers immediately exclaimed in chorus: show us howr' And the na- tlon echoed: Show us howl"
 It developed that Mir. Brandeis was
 quoting as authority Harrington Emer- son, whose profession Is called effici- ency engineering and that Mir. Emerson
 was but one of group of special in dustrial engineers. All these make 1t their business to show us how to ac- complish in any industry results simf-
 lar to those secured by Taylor at the Midvale Steel works in Philadelphia.
 These how" men specialize in diff
 ferent kinds of business and in the countless branches of business. Like
  go from client to client criticisins, standardizing and systematizing well es- tablshed enterprises
 Their systems and methods are gen. eraIly termed. ''scientific management" I"
 The chief feature is a careful timing with the stop watch of the motions of specialized workmen, mainly the un- skilled and the establishment for the benefit of foremen and worl<men of
 uniform instructions on the basis of the economical motions of the most expert and efficient workman on the given
 jcb. Other features are cost aecount- ing, stores Keeping. planning and rout- ing of work, and organizations -charting- These various features are emphasized. neglected or supplemented according to the needs of the special case or the system and experience of the individual engineer.
 MT. Brandeis' pronouncement gave the efficiency engineers great boost.
 They were quick to make capital out of the unexpected popular attentloh' Many began to make large claims about their ability to reform and vitalize in- dustries Many new men skilled, pos sibly. in some one department or busi- ness. Jumped to enter the field as eff ficiency engineers and recklessly began tt tackle jobs of reorganization and systematizing far too big for them. l At this point the Efficiency Society stepped into the breach. Drawing to- ether more than a thousand men of accomplishment in almost every line of work and industry, it effected early in | the year an organization which pro- poses to study and furnish the stand
 ards for judging the various methods | cf efficiency and scientific infringement
 and for appraising the industrial eng1- neers who propose to install them | Railroad presidents and deans of coll leges, heads of manufacturing corpor-
 ations and progressive worknen iu mills. newspaper men and government officials--a surprisingly varied list
 proposed to turn their joint efforts to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-20

the promotion of all methods for in- creasing the percentage of result or product for given expenditure of hu- man effort.
 Especially at the start the society ex- poets both to help establish profess sional standing for and to apply pro- fessional checks upon the efficiency l.engineer. It wishes to make him more careful in his claims and to prevent him from discrediting the new calling by attempting jobs too big for him. It will attempt the difficult work of eliini- hating fakers without unduly judging individuals.
 But this is merely the superficially obvious work of the society Its real function is much more fundamental. Printers Ink ma gazine, in a recent ap- praisal of the new society. said: or sanized only last March by some of the biggest men in industry and com merce, the Efficiency society is already more than 1000 strong in membership and Is fairly on its way to realize it's ambition to become the great national how" society. Its president is James c. Cannon. president of the Fourth Ma tional bank, New York city.
 "rhe plans of the society have been taking form ever since spring. If they can be carried out in any considerable measure-and there is no apparent req son why they should not and many reasons why they should-tney viii constitute the society an influence in business comparable to the government and second only to it in power''
 The secretary of the efficiency so- ciety. H. F.1J Porter, has withdrawn from active work as an industrial en- gineer to devote his time wholly to the work of the society at its headquarters, 29 West Thirty-ninth street, New York city. The Efficiency society does not hope 10 obtain it's great power as a strong fighting organization. but as a "get-t to- gether" organization. In this respect lit differs from some of the great or ganizations dealing with industry such as the National Manufacturers associa- ton and the American Federation Of Labor. It hopes to acquire a genuine
 
 resent and champion the interest of Industry as whole, and not the special interests of either of the contracting parties.
 It is interested in securing by scien- tific methods bigger and better results. II is reasonably expected that the ben efits of these results will accrue to three parties; to capital, in the form of increased output from the same in-, vestment and working force: to labor. in the shape of less fatiguing work and markedly higher wages; to the consuming public, in the guise of cheaper wares. It will regard any in creases of results which are not will ingly and equitably shared between these three parties as highly detri- mental to the efficiency movement. Ir this connection. 1t considers the ob- jections raised by laboring men and others to some forms of scientific man
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-20
How People Sleep

From the Milwaukee Wisconsin.
 The American or the European, in or. der to get a good nights rest. ordinarily requires soft pillow under his head. but the Japanese stretches himself on al rush mat on the floor. puts a hard, square| block of wood under his head and does| not sleep well if he does not have 1t.
 In China they make a great to do in| reference to their beds There are very| few low scarcely rising from the floor. but are often carve dexquisitely of wood. Like the Japanese, the Chinese never| makes his bed any softer than Is possible| by the use of rush mats.
 It is a curious fact with reference to| the sleeping habit of the various peoples| that while, those in northern countries| do not appear to be able to sleep well un- less they have lots of room in which to| stretch their legs, the inhabitants of the tropics often curl themselves up like| monkeys at the lower angle of a sus- pended hammock and sleep very soundly that way.
 The robust American will cover himself| with a pair of blankets and throw his window open to the air even in the dead| of winter, and sometimes he will not com. plain if there is bit of snow on the window sill in the morning. But the Rus sian, on the contrary, likes no sleeping place so well as the top of the big soap. stone stove in his dwelling. Crawling out of this biistering- bed in the morning, he delights in taking a plunge in cold, stream, even if he has to break through the ice to do so.
 In Lapland the native crawls. head and, all, into a bag made of reindeer skin, and sleeps warm and comfortable within it. The East Indian, at the other end of the world, also has sleeping bag, but it is more porous than the Laplander's Its. purpose is to keep out the mosquitoes rather than to keep it's occupants warm.
 The American clings to his feather pill. low, but he has long since discardde the old feather bed in favor of the hair or straw or felt mattress. The feaher bee has been relegated to the country, and many persons who slept on it in theii chiIdhiod found 1t uncomfortable in theiI later years.
 But the German not only sleeps on al feather bed, but underneat hone as well The feather covering used in Germany however is not so large or thick as the one used as a mattress, and the foreignef| who undertakes to sleep beneath it ofteI finds his feet suffering from cold. whih his shoulders are suffering from heat
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-20

Strange" she said, q will go down to see it myself tomorrow"
 A moment afterwards she chatted with Percival.
 MT. Duval," she said 'it must be all off, the engagement and every thing
 It had been hard day on Percival and this was the final stroke.
 But what have I done?" the young man pleaded.
 What have you done? What have you failed to do? Nothing"
 q can't catch your argument, I cer- tainly cannot
 Well, then,' answered Miss Moody with an air of finality, why did you permit me to pose in that window, with the eyes of everybody in Birmingham glued upon me- What will the people say? What will dear old aunty think I am ruined, and it's all your fault
 What could I have done?' demand ed the suitor. "You were determined. couldn't have stopped you with a sledge hammer"
 "So you confess, you man with
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-20

W endures the fame of Maud
 Muller.
 To contend that she did not rake the meadow sweeter than any other girl of her age could have raked it would be ridiculous, and the argument that in her bare feet-the same which in spired the tender passion in the corru- gated bosom of the profligate judge she looked otherwise than charming {. would be absurd.
 But wherein can be found sane req son why Maud Muller is better known today than the maid of Orleans or Charlotte Corday? Why is it that every man in America is familiar with the homely task of the Muller maid, where. as the majority, perhaps, would re- quire second thought before entering upon an elaborate account of the noe. turnal adventure of Lady Macbeth?
 Neither of these questions can we answer. And because we cannot, we are beginning to despair lest the world an hundred years from today will know nothing of Maud Moody, pretty and de. mure Maud Moody of Duluth, who when the story is told every man will admit, outpointed her cousin the Null Ter maid, in a thousand different ways.
 There is, however, no good reasons why one. on this account, should give vent to copious tears.
 For who in Birmingham today can name the woman who milked the COW which kicked the lamp which fired the city of Chicago?
 And who, without painful plying of memory, can call the woman whom the strenuous Mir Roosevelt precipitated through the portals of the White House?
 And yet the deeds of these women are rememtered-th one in virtue of the splendid city which has sprung up from the ashes of the heel-kindled fire, and the other in spite of the splendid effort of the former President to for get.
 Therefore, while in future years pos  sbly no man will smile with comfort able knowledge when the Moody girl is mentioned, it stands to reason that some will recall the story of her ad- , venture.
 The maid of Duluth before consent ing that we tell how cn one occasion she stepped across the border ol con yentionality, insisted that we state on our reputation for veracity that such unusual action on her part Is not her most pronounced characteristic. It is evident that she is an impulsive and