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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

Monterey, Dec. 19.-Mr. Warren
Lanier of Anderson, is here visiting
his mother, Mrs. Mamie Lanier.
Mr.. Marshall Clinkscales of the
B.. M. L, Of Greenwood, came home
Saturday to spend Christmas with
home folks. 4. - -
Mrs. w. A. McClain and Miss Lula
Clinkscales spent Thursday afternoon
with Mrs. Mamie Lanier. @
Mr.. S. A. Ables 4 Of Warrenton,
passed through this section enroute
to Flatwoods to visit his sister, Mrs
S. w. McClain. 4 ~ ....,,ss s. .
Miss Sarah Nance spent Saturday
and Saturday night with Miss Lula
Clinkscales. ~ ~ ! ~. Z, ~ !.
Mrs. s. W.. McClain of near Lati-
mer, spent Sunday with Mr.. w. A.
Claim and family
Messrs. Alvin and Albert Met Claim
spent Sunday evening here with rel
atives and friends. ~
= Messrs. Arthur Sutherland and
Bennie Napier spent Sunday after
noon with friends in the Nation.
Mr.. and Mrs. Belton Ammon spent
Thursday night in Greenwood with
relatives. IS z ~. IS
Mr.. Paul Wilson Of Warsenton,
was calling in Monterey Sunday at
ternoon. NJ, ~
Messrs. CIV. Price, o. N. Lanier
and Bennie Napier were among the
visitors to the city Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Gillian spent
Sunday with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. J.. Ammons. 70
Miss Sadie Ammons spent Sunday
night with Miss Tena Gillian. l
5. MR. G. Price of Prices Mill,
spent awhile Monday enroute home
from Abbeville. !. z. 49, M
We apprehendst that Mr.. Alvin Nc
Clsin,wills move his blacksmith shop
up about Martins store. Where q
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UNCLE SAM is
ALERT IN PRO- .
NOTING GOOD
HEALTH OF ALL

Complete 'refutation of the claim
that the government does not con.
Germ itself with the loss from pre-
ventable disease is contained in the
annual report of the Surgeon .Gener-
al of the Public Health Service sub
mitted to Congress to-day. Activi-
ties ranging from the prevention and
cure of blindness, scientific studies
of pellagra, the protection of the
health of industrial workers, the
prevention of the introduction Of
typhus fever, Investigations of child
labor and health insurance, the er-
adication of communicable diseases
and the control Of the pollution of
navigable streams, are recorded and
demonstrate conclusively that the
national government is vitally con-
cerned in the health Of its citizens.
The most striking achievement of
the year relates to pellagra, an af-
Fiction which in certain states de-
stroys more lives than tuberculosis.
Pellagra is no longer "a disease of
mystery as the Public Health Ser
vice has clearly shown that it is
caused by a restricted diet and that
it may be prevented and cured by
means of properly balanced ration.
The practical application of this
knowledge has already resulted in
q material reduction in the preva-
lence of this affliction in all parts
Of the country and It. Is confidently
believed that in another year even
more marked Involvement will be
observed. 1s.H
In the eradication of trachoma, a
contagious disease of the eyes fire.
quently terminating in blindness,
such marked success has been OBJ
tanned that the methods followed, the
converting Of private residences in
to small hospitals and the holding
Of free open air clinics, have been
adopted by the Egyptian govern
ment. During the year 1,700 per-
sons were operated upon for !, the
relief Of partial or complete blind
ness, nearly 1000 received hospital
treatment, while more than $4,000
were treated at hospital dispensaries
and clinics. When it is realized that
large proportion Of these people were
doomed to years of suffering ter
minating in at least partial blindness
and that they have been restored to
lives Of usefulness, in some instances
even being taken from county poor
houses where they had been public
charges for the greater portion Of
their days, the Importance Of this
ynoaf hanofi coyf 1.,orlr cap|ka srn,o.
ined. The total cost Of this under
taking, including the remodeling Of
patients, was less than $4,000 for
the year. =
Increased interest was shown by
the government. in the health of ru-,
raj dwellers and Congress has re-
cognized, by making an appropria-
ton for studies in rural sanitation
that the welfare of the !. country
resident is not to be neglected. Dur
ing the past three years 80,270
homes in Is different counties of 13
+. 4. q d +. "a. 2 . u
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states were visited and complete
sanitary surveys made of the prem
ises. In every instance definite re-
commendations were given to rem
edy such evils as existed, as for ex-
ample the pollution Of wells, the
presence of disease bearing insects
and the improper disposal of ex-
creta. In addition, 22,234l homes
were revisited, mostly at the re-
+, quest of the owners, in order that
I the government agents could inspect
the improvements instituted. Where
.. ever this method of bringing the
lessons of sanitation directly to the
irural, dweller has been followed q
marked reduction has been observ-
ed in the prevalence Of typhoid fe-
yer, hookworm, malaria and other
preventable diseases -
Attention has also been given to
the health of the children of the ma
ton, more especially to rural school
children. Over $4,000 children. at
tending the public schools were ex-
amined during the year. in order to
determine their mental status and
the causes and percentage Of mental
retardation and deficiency. In adj
dition 1000 physical examinations
were completed for the determina+
ton of physical defects. -
The health Of industrial workers
has been safeguarded to a greater
extent than at any time in the
past. Studies have been made Of
the occupational hazards of steel
workers in many Of the leading in
dustrial establishments of the coun-
try and insanitary and harmful con-
ditions corrected. In the zinc mines
of Missouri methods have been
adopted which should 60 far toward
eradicating tuberculosis from that
district. Investigations of child Ia
bor and Of health insurance have al
So been made 1.J ~ |
What is regarded as the largest
and most important single under
taking of this nature yet inaugurated5
the investigation Of the pollution 5of
the Ohio river, is still in progress.
Surveys Of the Atlantic Coast and
New England watersheds have; how
ever, been completed and the extent
and effects Of their pollption is now
known; this knowledge demonstrates
that Federal legislation : to prevent
the contamination of water sources
iss necessity. 81 =, nc lg:9 ':l%s
Better provision for the health Of
travellers has been obtained by safe
guarding the water supplies Of COM
mon carriers and through the pro-
mitigation of regulations governing
the transportation Of persons suf-
fering from communicable diseases.
Energetic efforts have been made
to prevent the introduction Of all
communicable diseases and to con-
troll those already with u.s. Typhus
fever has been combated. at, all
points on the Mexican border and
disinfection plants established where
the clothing and persons OF all In
coming aliens have been disinfected.
At one station alone, Ell Paso, Tex
as, $4,000 persons were inspected
and treated in such manner as to
their freedom form this high
ly fatal Infection.
Plague eradicative measures at
New Orleans have been continued.
Over 371, 1000 rodents, the carriers
Of plague infection, were either trap
ped OF killed and more than 100, 900
were carefully examined. No hu-!!
man case of the disease has occurred
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mans heart is he ought to be also
As this first will ring of week spent Atlanta
wishing each and every her mother there Tor
Christmas. ment
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Special Offer on Victrolas and Secure

and we will set it aside for you, delivering il
Christmas Eve, After Christmas pay us St
month until you have paid, in all, $4,000
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-02-23
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HOUSING QUESTION IS VITAL
Practically No More Important Things
Can Be Given Attention ny
City Planners.

It may be said that there Is n9 plane
of human existence in society which
the housing question does not touch.
There Is no form of vice, crime, deDll-
ity or shiftlessness which bad housing
does not tend to nurture. Keeping up
appearances Is often decried, and de-
serves much of the reproach cast upon
it. when it simply means unwarranted
extravaganza to maintain a position
which ones income does not justify.
but among the poor it is an ever
present aid to the maintenance OF SELF
respect and is to be encouraged rather
than decried.
During his campaign for the presi-
dency the late Benjamin Harrison ut
tered an epigram which made him the
target of much criticism. He said: "A
cheap coat makes a cheap man." and
this statement, which was intended to
epitomize his views OH the protective
tariff, was twisted into meaning that
people whose clothes were cheap were
purchasable. This was not true, and
It would be no more true that bad
housing made bad citizens under all
circumstances. But, next to an made
ouate and unwholesome food supply,
poor housing does stand as the most
deleterious element in our civic hfe.
Sanitary research shows how import
ant is the reaction Of adequate light
and ventilation on the health, stamina
and moral character Of individuals.
Bad housing furnishes the fruitful nur-
series of disease germs Of all kinds,
while at the same time creating con-
ditions which prevent the building up
of resistance to their inroads.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-02-23
IS KING OF URBAN TREES
Elm Famous for Developing Fine Sym
metry When Allowed to
Grow Alone.

"The elm is essentially self-suffi-
cient tree. It does not thrive In
groves" Walter Prichard Eaton writes
in the Century. "It has standard
type of its own, and it either attains
this type or Is lost to view. The elm
which comes to maturity Is usually
the one which has lodged in favored
spot where there is no competition,
such as a river meadow, where the
spring freshets have dropped the seed
on fertile soil and the roots can get
lsdown to water.
"We all know the type, the noble
trunk of massive girth tapering very
gradually upward to the first spring
of branches, and then dissolving in
those branches as a water Jet might
dissolve in many upward and outcurv-
ing streams, till the whole is lost in
the spray Of the foliage. Like many
other trees that grow alone, it devel-
ops an exquisite symmetry; but with
the elm this symmetry is not only one
Of general contour, but of individual
limbs Not only is the silhouette SYM
metrical, but the skeleton also, branch
balancing branch. That is what gives
1t it's remarkable fitness to comport
with architectural lines, with geome-
trically designed vistas. 1t has a
formal structure and a consequent dig
nifty which makes it the logical shade
for village street, chapel, library,
the scholarly procession in cap and
gown. Add to that dignity its arched
and airy lightness and its splendid
size, and you have the king of urban
trees"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-02-23
OBSERVED THE USUAL 0MENS
French Astronomer Claims the Stare,
as Always, Foretold Coming
of War In Europe.

In a recent number of L'Astronomie
Camille Flammarion publishes an In
genious memoir, illustrated with
quaint woodcuts from sixteenth CEN
tury work on prodigies, in which he
shows that all the celestial and terres-
trial omens of war in which our fore
fathers so firmly believed duly ush-
cred in the great conflict now raging
in Europe. These include O the
total solar eclipse of August 81, 1914,
visible in Europe and Asia; (2) Della
vans naked.eye comet, known as the
war comet" discovered at the close
Of 1913 and destined to remain visible
for the next five years (from which
the superstitious might augur seven
years of war;; (3) the transit OF Msr-
curry on November Z, 1914; (4) the fall
of 35-pound meteorite in England
last October; (5) the great Italian
earthquake of January 13, 1915; (6) q
"tricolored" star, Of which M. Flam-
marion promises to furnish particu-
lars later, only remarking for the
present that it was an optical effect
much exaggerated by the popular
imagination; and lastly all sorts Of
remarkable weather, including win
try day in June of last year, with a
minimum temperature of Al degrees
in Paris. It would be too bad, adds
the Scientific American, to refute this
accumulated evidence Of the futility
of modern science by seeking for pre-
vious periods Of year or so in which
similar omens were manifested and
no war followed.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-02-23
TESTS OF MILK PRODUCTION
Cost of Feed Must Be Considered In
Determining Value Of coW-Fat
= - Content Is Factor.

y You cannot tell by the test alone
the value of cow. It depends as
much on the amount Of milk she gives
bas on the test of the milk. A cow that
gives 10000 pounds Of three per cent
milk produces 300 pounds of butterfat
!. and cow that produces 5000 pounds
OF FIVE per cent milk gives no more;
one viii produce as many pounds OF
butter in year as the other, and in
asinuch as the fat content of milk Is a
fair indication of the other milk solids
present, then the 10000 pounds OF
three per cent milk is worth more
for food than the 5000 Of five per cent
milk. Therefore one cow is as valuable
as the other from a business stand
point, provided it did not cost any
more to keep one cow than another.
This third factor must therefore be
considered in determining the value
Of any cow-the cost Of production.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-02-23
FOR RHEUMATISM.

As soon an All attack of Rheuma-
tism begins apply Sloan's Linim"nt.
Dom, waste time and suffer unnec.
essary agony. A few drops of
Sloan's LinimenL on the affected
parts is all you need The pain
goes at once. A grateful sufferer
.wri,es:-''I was suffering for'three
weeks with Chronic Rheumatism
and Stiff Neck. Although I tried
many medicines, they failed, and /
vas under the care of doctor. For
',unatrly ] heard of Sloan's Lini.
ment and after using it three or four
days am up and well. l am EN-
pluyed at the biggest department
store in s. F where they employ
from six to eight hundred hands,
and they surely will hear all about
Sloan's Liniment.-H B. Smith.
San Francisco, Cal.-Jan. 1915. Al
all Druggists. Q
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-02-23
CARING FOR LITTLE CALVES
No Good Results Can Be Secured From
Half-Starved, Stunted Animal
d Keep Them Growing.
tBy N. A. sRoNsoN.)


8 Everybody has way Of doing things
and this is my way Of taking care Of
the calves.
I have ten good cows which I raised
myself, and 1 found out that to raise
good cows you must begin at the be-
ginning. No good results will come
from a half-starved. stunted calf.
3 I let the calf suck the cow the first
two days. It is better for 1t and
the mother, too, and the calf. is more
apt to get all the milk than would
be, thus getting it out of the cows
bag and into the calf's stomach,
where it should be, with less trouble
and better results.
At the end Of this time I milk the
COW and feed the calf; tie the calf
where it cannot see its mother, and
If the weather is cold wrap some
thing around it when the barn doors
are open. Never allow a calf to shiVer
II you want it to keep well.
For the first two weeks I feed new
milk as soon as nilked, and then l
begin to mix in separated milk by de-
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-02-23
BUYS DOG TO RECOVER RING
Man Kills Animal and Finds His 5000
Gem In Stomach, as He
Had Suspected.

While William A. Thompson was
trying to drive pup away from him
the animal closed on his fingers and
pulled off and swallowed a 5000 dia-
mond ring. Mr.. Thompson was not
certain what had become Of the ring,
but when he failed to find it he sus'
pected the dog. He bought the ami.
NAL, nominally a ten-cent pup, from
H. R. Rogers, the negro owner, for
$40 after much parley, took the dog
home, killed him and found the dia'
mond ring in his stomach.
He was luckier than a man In a
neighboring town who owned valu.
able vase, a family heirloom. His dog
poked his head into the neck Of the
vase and it stuck. The owner cut OIL
the dogs head to save the vase and
then had to break the vase to get out
the dogs head to bury it.-Beckley
(W. Va.) Dispatch to New York
World.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-02-23
Old Men Are on Top.

Oldish men still remain on top IN
this war after year of hard fighting.
The four conspicuous commanders are
Joffre of the French. Won Hindenburg
Of the Germans, French Of the English
and Grand Duke Nicholas Of the Rus
slams. All are well up in the sixties.
That is an unusual circumstance.
Caesar was young man when he in
vaded Gaul. Alexander was boy
when he made his great conquests.
Napoleon became the military meteor
on earth before he was thirty, and he
and Wellington were only forty-siy
when they met at Waterloo for the
last fight either ever witnessed.
Washington was but forty-tive when
he wintered at Valley Forge, and he
was not yet fifty-six when CORVALLIS
surrendered to him his army at York
town. Grant was only forty-three as
he stood at Appomattox. Stonewall
Jackson had won military record for
all time before he was killed at thir-
ty-nine.
Won Molke was the exception, as he
was seventy when, As years ago this
summer, he trapped the armies OF
France in six weeks. But these seem
to be the days when age gets the
plums.
Didn't our governor just designate
as Pennsylvania three greatest men
one seventy-three, another seventy.
five and a third seventy-seven?-
"Girard," in Philadelphia Ledger.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-02-23
FREE Flower SEEDS
Hastings Catalogue Tells You All
About Them

No matter whether you farm or only
plant vegetables or flowers in small lot
you need Hastings 1916 Catalogue.
It is filled (1oo pages) from cover to
cover with useful farm and garden infor-
nation.
Ittells of seeds of kind and quality that
you can't buy from your merchant or
druggist, seeds that cost no more but
give you real satisfaction and real gar
den.
1t tells how every customer can get abb
solutely free five packets of easily grown,
yet snowy and beautiful flowers.
Hastings is both the best and largest
seed Lrm in the South, the only firm that
you should buy seeds from.
When you plant Hastings Seeds, you
meet "Good Garden Luck" more than
half way. Write today for their big 1916
Catalogue. 1t is free. A postal card re-
quest will bring it. ZIG. HASTINGS CO.,
Atlanta, Ga.-(Advt.) 4
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-02-23
Citation.
State of South Carolina,
County of Edgefeld.

BY w. T. Kinnalrd, Probate Judge.
Whereas, Miss Eliza NJ. Minis, of
ABOVE county and State made suit
to me, to grant her Letters of Ad.
ministration of the Estate and eff
fects of Miss Mamie E. Lake.
These Are Therefore to cite and
admonish all and singular the kin
dred and creditors of the said Miss
Mamie E Lake of above County
and State, deceased, that they be
and appear before me, in the Court
of Probate, to be held at Edgefeld
G. H., S. c., in my Office on the
oath day of February, 1915 next,
after publication thereof, at IL
o'clock in the forenoon, to show
cause, if any they have, why the
said Administration should not be
granted.
Given under my Hand, this 4th
day of February, A. d., 1915.
w. T. KINNAIRD.
Probate Judge, E. G.
Feb. 9, 1915.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-02-23
MunIcIpal Enterprise.

Rochester, N. Y, has an annual e1-
position that is partly a municipal en-
terprise. The exposition was started
by a number of private concerns, but
its success was so great that the city
government provided it with an expo
sition ground of As acres, fitted up
with handsome buildings. Here both
manufacturing and agricultural ex'
hibits are shown, the former including
the lines that have made Rochester
famcns such as cameras, optical
goods, shoes, clothing, Office fixtures
and prepared foods.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-02-23
Authority on Steel Production.

ftuIIl0iity On SSCCt EToOuStiOUs
Sir Robert Hadfield, who has been
selected by the British government to
assume charge of the engineering
works that 1t has obtained power to
take over for the manufacture Of war
material, is one of the greatest liv-
ing authorities on the production Of
steel. In addition to the Bessemer
medal, which is the blue ribbon of the
Iron and Steel institute of Great Brit
ain, he has received equally high
awards from similar societies In al.
most every country Of the civilized
world. Inventor Of manganese steel.
he is chairman Of the Hedfield Steel
Foundry company Ltd, at Sheffield,
one Of the biggest ordnance and pro-
jectile concerns in the United king
dom, in fact, in the world.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-02-23
slLAeE REDUCES FEED COST
Kansas Station Conducts Test on Pro-
! duetion Of Butterfat During Sum-
ner and Winter.

] An experiment conducted at the
Kansas experiment station shows that
silage reduces the cost Of producing
butterfat from 30 cents to 21 cents.
The herds in this case were Of suffi-
cient size to give reliable data and
eliminate the difference that might oc'
cur between two cows.
The lot which were fed silage gave
seven pounds more milk in the sum-
mer and 95.5 more in winter per
month than the herd which were fed
dry iced. The butterfat was also in
creased by .46 in summer and 4.6 In
winter. The difference in the cost OF
fesu mas even greater.
The silage-fed COWS saved so cents
per month in the cost OF feed.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-02-23
Treasurer's Notice.

The County Treasurer's Office will be
open for the purpose of receiving taxes
from the 18th day of October, 1915, to
the 18th day of March, 1916.
All taxes shall be due and payable
between. the 18th day of October, 1915,
and December 31st, 1915.
That when taxes charged shall not be
paid by December 31st, 1915, the County
Auditor shall proceed to add penalty
of one per cent. for January, and II
taxes are not paid on or before Feb
ruary 1st. 1916, the County Auditor
will proceed to add two per cent, and
five per cent. from the 1st of March to
the 18th of March, after which time all
unpaid taxes will be collected by the
Sheriff
The tax levies for the year 1915 are
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-02-23
His Accustomed Place.

Seven-year-old Frances was watch
ing her papa start for the Office and
reporting his progress to mamma,
who was a little near-sighted.
"The cars stopping for him." said
Frances.
"Has he got on?" asked mamma.
Eyes, mamma. He has jumped on
and taken his place on a strap
Puck.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-02-23

FOUNTAIN mas D6eu
set in a niche pro-
vided in the front
wall of the struc-
ture between two
stores. The out
er edge Of the
porcelain water
bowl Is flush
with the face Of
the brickwork,
30 that it does not
jut out in the way
Of pedestrians.
BY placing the
fountain here, in
stead Of erecting
a pedestal at the
curb, as is fre-
quently done, the
sidewalk was left
free from obstruc-
tions. The foun-
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-02-23
Just Picks the Kind.Hearted.

George, you're always happy and
smiling. Is everybody coed to you?"
''No, I wouldn't jes' say dat, boss.
Dere's some pow'ful mean folks in dis
worl', tat when l discover EN- jes'
nacherally don 'sociate wifi em."-De-
troit Free Press.