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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1912-03-20
SAGE OF "MUDVILLE.' y
Good School at Parksville
Longing For Sunshine.Name
Corrected. The Old Sol
der.

Why such name, Mudville?
Well now, if you were in this To-
cality, ] guess you would think 1t
very appropriate.
What are we doing on the farm?
Nothing. If you stay in the road,
and don't stop to know whether you
can drive through a mudhole, you
will find the hole not much more
than the balance of the road, but
you try it out in the fields, in the
woods, or anywhere else, you may
get your team out, but tits doubt
full.
Very few have hauled their guano,
and if this weather continues, don't
see how they can, and really if
there has been as much as fifty tons
shipped to Parksville, l am not
aware of it. No one seems to be
fretting about it, and tits no use,
for the ground will not do to plow
before the first of April with no
more rain.
Very little grass or weeds have
made their appearance, and the
plum trees and briars seem to be
afraid to put out, but when the
weather moderates, just watch yege-
tatien grow. Peach buds are be-
ginning to swell just a little. There
is one thing that the wet weather
has not affected and that is the old
goose, for, she has been sitting more
than a week.
The little lambs + think would
enjoy few days of sunshine, and
the pigs, too, / think would enjoy
it, and / know the writer would.
Small grain i e oats, for / am sor-
ry to say but little wheat is sown,
is beginning to show up some, but
what was left after the severe cold,
and freezes was almost drowned,
and wish few exceptions, p crop
cannot be made, for the stalks are
not there. Quite a number of far
mers failed to get in fall oats, and
expected to SOW after Christmas,
but can't now, and it should teach
all of us lesson. Sow grain in the
fall, If we have to SOW it in cotton
and corn fields before either is
gathered.
/ see that the county board of COM
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1912-03-20

missioners has notified all persons
not to do any work on the public
roads without permission of one of
the board. Now, Mr.. Editor, if we
are not allowed to do any work on
the roads, how are we going to go
anywhere; for I know of several
holes and bogs, that if we are not
allowed to fix up a little, we will
have to stay at home. l don't think
they mean what they say. But mean
to say if you do, we will not pay
for the work done. We folks over
here would like to be allowed to fill
up holes in the road, or we might
lose a mule or horse, and though we
would not like to disobey orders,
friend Fowler will continue to drag
his split log, and another young fell
low run his spring tooth cultivator
over some of the roads, and leave
it to a Jury to say whether we shall
pay for damages.
There has been good deal Of
complaint about the roads not being
worked, but / just want to say that
with the force at work on the gang
averaging about twenty men and
boys) that tits the height of fool
ishness to suppose that they can
possibly work the roads as they
should be, with between 1900 and
1900 miles of road and twenty
hands and one machine. Why sir,
three forces like the one we have
could not more than give the roads
anything like justice in twelve
month, and no one man or three as
the case is, can do an impossibility.
A two dollar commutation tax
on those who are liable to road duty
seems enough, but really is 1t just
to make a man who owns net foot
of land, no mule or horse, nor a We,
hicle of any kind pay as much as
the man who owns acres and mules
and vehicles. An eighteen-year-old
boy, (vho the law says belongs &c
his parents till twenty-one9 whose
note is null, and not allowed te
vote, or,have any say in, ,Egatters OF
any kind, as to how his tax shall
go, i for one say that Inieoi
sshould not be taxed to work roads
no more than to vote fer officials
(which he is not alSowed.)
How then? Why sir, put a road
tax ON all property of every kind,
lands. mules, horses, COWS, sheep
hogs, wagons, buggies. etc. Now
imagine 1 can hear some fellows
say. We are taxed to death now,
but all are not that way, for in con
versation with a man of considera
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1912-03-20

BILE means, but a few days ago, he
said that he was willing and thought
it right to tax property for roads
and bridges and that ne would vote
for it to be done.
We all want good roads and can
have them if we are willing to pay
for them, and we want a man at the
head Of roads and bridges who is
able and willing to give his time
(all of it) to the work he has in
hand, having no other work on his
haldsor mind, but be continually
on the go, and such man can be
found if his salary is large enough,
say twelve or fifteen hundred
dollars a year. Yes, more money! l
hear a fellow say. Well pray tell
of anything being done as it should
be without the means to do it with,
Give us some split-log-drags over
here, and try us and see if W will
use them. ~
There is another matter, (but say
some, the state is too poor) the SOL
der! Don't the taxpayers, or a large
per cent of them, honestly wish
they were all dead9 Well just give
them a few more years, and they
will have gone over the river, for
the very y youngest are now past SIX
ty years of age, and what is the
state of South Carolina doing for
these still living? They did their
best to save the south from defeat,
but failed, not because they did not
fight and live on short rations, but
from the fact that they were over
powered, not whipped, nor ever will
consider that they were, but the
odds were against them. And now
when they have come to that age
best described in the 18th chapter
of Ecclesiastes of the Book OF
Books from srd to 9Th verses, yes,
their once strong limbs are becom-
/ ming weak, even the strength Q.
the jaw is about gone The teeth
that oace tore the cartridge about
gone, the eye that looked down the
barrel of that rifle is dim, his hear
ing is dulled, his hair white md Ii,
strength almcst goRe And what shy
the lawmakers about such? If no,
in words they do ssy in their ac
tions, the cid soldier is not worth
his keep" Very well the silver cord
will soon be loosed, and then they
shak return co dust, and South Caro-
lima will not be burdened wita
| them any more, Cor thear apiris'
will have returned to God who gaVs
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1912-03-20

come here to practice, and will be
in partnership with DR.. S. F. Stroth-
er.
About 90 from here went over to
Augusta to view the ci ity while
flooded.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1912-03-20

70 q den1ole tors aEQ 2g nJS "a
Virginia, North and Soath Carroll.
na: we appreciate, Chat owing to
the unusual winter, little work has
been accomplished on the farm
generally in your county, and,
therefore, there is great deal to be
accomplished in short time. For
this reason we are fearful that our
demonstrators will become more or
less discouraged and in their great
anxiety to plant their crops in time
will not give sufficient attention to
the thorough preparation of their
seed beds. We hold, and l think
that you will agree with us upon
reelection, that it is the wiser policy
to get your crops in little late on
a thoroughly prepared seed bed than
at an earlier date on a poorly pre-
pared one. Doubtless you have
heard it said that half of the culti-
walton OF the crop should be done
before the seed is put into the
ground. We see no reason for dis
'eouragement or alarm, for, general
ly speaking a late spring means a
late fall. Nature provides for and
takes care of US in this way. We
sincerely hope that you will not for
get the great Importance of thor
'oughly preparing your seed beds.
This Office is now preaching the
gospel of thorough preparation.
Won't you help US spread it?
Very truly yours,
w. w. Long, Z
Field Agent.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1912-03-20
Cleora School.

Dear Advertiser: As we are hav-
ing some pretty sunshiny days to 60
to school, allow nae to come in, and
tell you the news around Cleora.
The measles has not visited our
school yet, but it is close by.
Mr.. P. w. Cheatham has been
very ill with the measles but is up
again.
We had Sunday school last Sun
day afternoon, a large attendance
and had good lessons.
Mr.. MINI, We would be glad to
have you with US in our Sunday
school.
Cleora is very dull little tow n.
1t could build up faster, but the
old bachelors around here have not
got the brass on their face to ask
the young girl if she will be his
sweetheart. But it is leap year now,
and the girls have a chance tc
speak for tn emselves. 1t is not That
the boy wouldn't like to have lit,
tie housekeeper if they could make
up their minds to pop the question.
Mr. Minis, if you could see our
school house yard, you would thinl
we were going to join the contest.
Our teachers have had the ground
all cleared so nice, it looks like it is
ready for flowers.
Miss Lottie Corley visited her
sister, Mrs. w. E. Byrd last week
in the Pleasant Lane section.
Miss Bessie Cothran spent last
week with her brother Mr.. Strom
Cothran.
Mr.. Willie McGhee, who ha,
been in bed for the last four weeks
with broken limb, we are glad te
say, is able to be up again. 81
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1912-03-20

celye pay. for time and expense
while in actual service.
advocate constitutional amend
ment to the general school law,
section 1929 which says as it stands
1T shall not be lawful for any per-
SON who is less than six or more
than twenty-one years of age to at
tend any of the free schools of this
state" proposed amendment) or
whose parents, guardian or custod-
ian does not pay three dollars state
and county tax over and above poll
and compound, the authority to ad.
NIT worthy children of poorer
parents, vested in the trustees. This !.
amendment would regulate the edu-,.
eating of the negroes in the same.
manner as the educational and other
specific qualifications regulated and
eliminated the negroes from the
ballot box, and will work no hard
ship on any American Anglo-Saxon..
child. .-~-.-
Put out of the reach Of our me-
groes the ballot box, the whiskey
bottle and the spelling book, and
set before them good examples and
they will be a more docile, obedient
happier people and race.
am opposed to re-establishing
the dispensary in this county. I
have oftened wondered of some de-
cent way of handling whiskey that
it would not be the forerunner of
degradation and crime, but with
knowledge of the past and in view
of what is going on at this hour in
Columbia, the uncovering of fraud
and official rottenness, 1 despair.
This matter however must and of
right be settled by the ballot. Let.
the voice of the people establish
and maintain local self government
and home rule.
/ therefore favor the Initiative
and Referendum as the highest at
tainment in a democratic govern
ment, but l oppose the doctrine of
the Recall.
l am opposed to gag law and ring
rule, which are the hot-beds of
official despotism, fraud and decep-
ton. These conditions always pre-
vail where primogenature in official
lineage forms the political organism
L am unalterably opposed to vest
ing arbitrary power in any official.
1t is monarchical in its effect, and
contrary 10 the fundamental prin.
,iples of government by the peo-
pie, for the people, and denies con-
'titutional liberty, and ties the
lands of the people against their
egitimste interest and welfare.
lam opposed to mob violence as
ta
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1912-03-20
Candidate for State Senate An
nounces His Platform in
Detail, stating His Po-
sition Clearly.
To the Citizens of Edgefeld Coun-
ty, Gentlemen:
The following are some of the
measures and principles of state and
county government for which I
stand.

I am in favor of inaugurating a
system of building and maintaining
good roads, and as a primary move,
to exemplify the benefits of a thor
ough system Of our public highways,
l advocate legally authorizing the
county supervisor to employ COM
petent civil engineer to re-survey
and cooperate with the road au-
thorities from time to time as oe-
casion may require in building some
permanent roads; and as a source of
revenue to aid in the work, | favor
a motorcycle and automobile license
and a special license on manufae-
turers of and dealers in commercial
fertilizers.
/ advocate working all able-bod-
led convicts on the public roads, e1-
cept 50 many as may be necessary
to maintain the lunatic asylum and
the poor and helpless who are in the
care of the counties.
I advocate joint resolution by
the general assembly urging Con-
gress to make an appropriation to
aid in building rural postal high
ways.
| advocate a constitutional pro-
yisioA creating pardon commission
of six, the Governor to be the 7th
member, and to preside as head of
the commission. The commission
ers to be, elected, two every two
years, by the general assembly, sim
|ilar tp The regu on5 crealing ana
|sss e .I.'|'' & ||.l ,'|'|s
Ito co|heiaef appI Iieatj e'ss ffor aza5IsE
ling cbnpicts, the colaplission % IN re-
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Continued on page 8.
New-York tribune., 1912-01-03
HELD ON FINGER PRINT TEST
Faurot Proves Week-Old Impressions
Cannot Be Photographed.

Three OF the men believed to have had
mart in the Ferdinand Fuchs Jewelry rob-
berv on the night Of November 20 were be-
fore MAGISTRATE Appleton In the Jefferson
Market court yesterday They were Henry
Millings. Samuel Berger and Louis Kess-
Ter. and all were held for the grand jury.
Kessler and another man were arrested
the day after the robbery and were ar
raigned in court on charge Of burglary.
but were discharged on account of lack OF
evidence Finger prints were found the fol-
lowing day on safe in the Fuchs place
which the police thought belonged 10 Mil
Ilings. Thereupon Millings. Berger and
KessIer were arrested. The lawyer for the
prisoners contested the trustworthiness OF
the finger print evidence, and thereupon 1t
was agreed TO make a test TO prove the
truth of Captain Faurots claim that the
finger prints on the Fuchs safe must have
been made recently. because 1t was impos-
sIble, he said. to photograph such prints
later than forty-eight hours after they had
been made.
The test consisted OF finger marks on the
inside of the door Of an old safe at Police
Headquarters and the safe was locked for
five days. The prints were so faint when
it was opened yesterday that 1t was i'm
possible to reproduce them. On this fact
the trio were held for further examination.
New-York tribune., 1912-01-03
ARRESTED YEAR AFTER FIGHT
Victim of Stabbing Sees Piece of His
Skull in Court as Evidence.

circular piece Of bone about the size
Of a quarter, with piece of knife btade
imbedded In II. was a silent witness yester-
day, when Thomas McDermott was ar
raigned In the Harlem court, charged with
stabbing Michael Boyle in the head. Boyle,
the owner OF the piece of bone. was along.
II was a part OF his skull. three-quarters
OF an inch in diameter and three-sixteenths
of an inch thick.
Boyle said that he attended an affair In
a tenement house at 12ith street and AM
sterdam avenue one year ago next Tuesday
night There was brawl. and he charged
that McDermott stabbed him in the head.
His wound was dressed at the Harlem Hos
pital, and he went home, but bad pains in
the head several weeks later sent him back
10 the hospital, where his skull was tre-
manned and the piece OF knife blade was
found in the button" which was removed.
After i've months In the hospital Boyle
came out with a silver plate in his skull.
McDermott had been missing until yester
day morning, when Detective Sharpe ar
rested him at his home. No. 404 West 65th
street. He was held without bail for Gen.
eral Sessions. He IS twenty-one years old
Boyle is a year older
New-York tribune., 1912-01-03
FALLS: is SHOT IN BREAST
Plaintiff in Suit Is Mysteriously
Wounded in His Home.

Thomas Lynch, jr OF No. 4ol West 2itn
street. a tea and coffee merchant. met with
a peculiar sccident yesterday morning ~
his home, and was taken 20 Bellevue Hos.
pital with bullet wound In tho breast.
His condition IS said TO be serious
Mr.. Lynch has a suit for damages ~ 'e
Supreme Court. He went 10 court yest'r-
day with his wife, but returned 20 ha
home to get some necessary papers. Ar-
cording to friends. he started toward th'
bureau In which the papers were Kept "hen
he slipped on a rug. lie fell against ths
half open drawer Of the bureau. In which
Law a revolver The revolver was dis
charged and the bullet entered his right
breast.
His daughter, hearing the report rar
into the room and found her father lying
unconscious on the floor. She called DIT
Mundy, OF No. 967 West 23d street. He
treated the wounded man. and advised thai
he be sent to Bellevue Hospital.
New-York tribune., 1912-01-03

flee first. He has ordered 1000 badges-not
all for women-and they are not yet ready.
So he got a badge somewhere. and the
ceremony OF appointing the first special
deputy was on.
Perhaps I had better hand II to you
suggested the Sheriff. as the camera man
waited with the 1ashlight
mo, you pin II right on me. Mr.. Har-
burger" said Mrs. Crosby, who Is a
kindly faced woman with gray hair. ard
Sheriff Hamburger did as his special deputy
told him.
Mrs Crosby said last night: II haven't
had time TO find out exactly what my duties
will be, but suppose they will be along the
lines OF police work. The Woman's Demo-
cratic Club has always advocated police
women, and Sheriff Hamburger, knowing
this. I suppose. thought making us deputy
sherffs was the next best thing.
II expect TO be on duty in the dance halls
and make arrests, il necessary. I'll do any
thing have to. Suffrage? oh. yes, | am
a suffragist but that has no bearing on
my work as deputy sheriff. 1 would arrest
a suffragette just soon as any other per-
son II she were breaking the law. II they
try breaking windows I'll pull them in"
New-York tribune., 1912-01-03
423 KILLED IN STREETS
Vehicular Accidents Increase In
1911, Autos Staying 142.

According TO statistics issued yesterday
by Edward S. Cornell, secretary OF the Ma
tionaI Highways Protective Society," the
pedestrian who attempts to dispute the rlsht
Of way with the automobile, the wagon or
the car invariably receives an adverse de-
cision. Unlike the ocean rules, which are
so strictly observed that catnoat may
force a liner on a mud bank, the rules OF the
street are lightly regarded
Fatalities resulting from vehicular trafnc
in this city during the last year showed an
increase OF IS per cent over 1910.
OF this increase the automobile account
cd for IS per cent The deaths of 1911
were 423, as compared with 376 In l9lo'
The increase in accidents was even larger,
for 2,O04 persons were injured in 1871
while the 1910 tally was only $50.
The deaths were apportioned as follows:
by automobile, 142; by cars, 100, and by
wagons, 172.
Chief among the causes OF this increase,
according to Mr. Cornell. is the confusion
concerning the Callan law. The law did not
slpersede the city ordinance which fixed
eight miles an hour as maximum rate or
speed, but this fact has been overlooked by
many automobile owners and some otficials.
Decisions have been rendered which up
hold the right Of the pedestrian waiting for
q car or desirous OF walking slowly to make
an approaching automobile slacken speed,
bat when it comes to an actual test the
automobile has the weightier side OF the
Convictions for manslaughter
against drivers who have overridden the
rights of pedestrians are very rare.
In the accidents which occurred in New
York City last year the owner Of the car
WAS at the wheel in only IL per cent Of the
cases. The 10y ride" continues as the chief
danger to pedestrians. Upon sixty occa-
sions the driver responsible for the accident
ran away.
In New York State, exclusive of this city,
there were last year 230 fatalities due to
yehicuIar traffic and 1869 injuries. OF the
fatalities the automobile accounted for 1872,
trolleys for 81 and wagons for 81.
An encouraging feature OF the work OF
the National Highways Protective Society
was the fact that the number Of children in
New York killed by vehicles was per cent
less in 1911 than in 1910.
New-York tribune., 1912-01-03
GIVES RAILROADS RELIEF
Long and Short Haul Clause Not to In
terfere with Competition.

Washington, Jan. 2.-The Interstate Com
r,erce Commission held to-day that where
,uo or more carriers are competing for
business at equal rates between two points
thew should be allowed to continue the
competition. despite the long and short
hon, nrovision of the law.
This ruling, the commission explains,
will enable competing carriers TO meet the
rates to a particular city or to a freight
oroup made by any other competitor which
NAV make reduction, although dis
elimination against intermediate points
NAV thereby be increased"
The commission may change the rates
ON compliant OF intermediate shippers, II
nav are found to conflict with any other
part Of the law.
Interstate carriers must conform TO the
long and short haul provision In all In
stances where their freight traffic provide
Cor higher rates 10 intermediate points
that are not consuming or producing points
for the commodities shipped. orders were
issued by the Interstate Commerce Com
mission to-day granting the carriers until
Nav /. 1912, 10 comply with this require
,aant
New-York tribune., 1912-01-03
VACCINATED IN THEIR SLEEP
Health Department Men Visiting
Lodging Houses at Night.

Lodging houses In this city are the scenes
of numerous vaccinations in these days and
the method being used Is said to be one OF
the most unusual ever employed by the
Health Department
The vaccinators OF the department invade
the lodging houses after everybody has
gone to bed and without any ado whatever
they pull the covering away from an arm
and vaccinate the sleeping owner thereof
before he knows It.
Marked improvement in the sanitary COLI
dition OF lodging houses has resulted In the
last six months from the Board OF Health
rules and regulations requiring bathing IA
cilties and ventilation. All beds must be
two feet apart, and in every sleeping room
1t is required that there shall be 100 cubic
feet of air space for each bed.
In every lodging house the board re-
quires at least one shower bath for every
fifty beds and one bathtub for every twen-
ty-five beds. 1t is the duty Of every owner
or keeper OF lodging house TO inform the
Department OF Health Immediately any Ill
ness is discovered in such place
Although there has been improvement. yet
Commissioner Lederle believes there Is
room for betterment. and he expects to ac-
complish more In that direction this year
than has ever been done before.