Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1920-08-25

naked savages IN the Jungles OF
Africa, alone to smile at the hor-
row of what We term a civilized
life. Just think of the consequences
should a fertile land as Beech
Island was lade waste and torn to
pieces like the Germans devastated
parts of Belgium and France.->/
The deadly sword must be
sheathed by some sort of agreement
among the nations who have lately
destroyed 80 much, and nothing but
the Christian religion of The Bible
can make this world a safe place to
live in; so let us emulate the exam
pie of the good people and cult.
vate these three sisters Off peace
and prosperity. The Religion of
the Bible, efficient schools, and
successful system of agriculture,
teach the South that there is no life
so independent and that of coun-
try gentleman-and check this wild
rush of 80 many country people
moving to town where they cease
to be producers and become con-
sumers, many of whom exc out a
miserable existence, struggle with
debt and living in some close little
shop breathing musty,alr.
Tn fact the boil weevil is not
worrying the people of Beech
Island much, they know that by
combined action they can use every
known method to DESTROY them.
and if they cannot, why they feel
safe. When corn is now selling
for near three dollars bus hel, hay
at fifty dollars per ton and such
things as peas, potatoes, pumpkins,
peanuts, small grain and all sorts
of vegetables and fruits, with good
pasture lands and where velvet
beans and other cover crops grow
80 easily, they are not going to cry
over the boil weevil and worship
old King Cotton. They know that
there are too many mouths to be
fed in the city for any ,dilligent
farmer to ever want a market to
sell other things besides cotton,
they do not have to be the slaves
to cotton, tho they recognize that
cotton will always be good money
crop, provided the farmers by
proper cooperation will control
the price of it and not be dictated
to by a few men in Liverpool
England.
No better country exists for rear
ing live stock, aud when think
of what ] read lately about so many
people out around the regions Of
that waterless waste about Arizona,
who make a living from rearing
stock who live on cactus, and few
wild grasses, with water to haul
sometimes forty miles away, why
we people in Edgefeld, with our
fertile land. all abounding in
streams of living water, we eap
surely get along, if necessary with
out any cotton; / remember that
during the war between the States
no cotton was sold at all and yet
we made plenty to eat at home and
besides fed the hungry armies of
both the south and the North.
In addition to Gov. j. H. Ham
mond, there are other distinguished
men and women who were reared
in this fertile soil. Gen. Marcellus
Hammond, who was the father of
the queenly Mrs. Annie Walker,
who lives here in Edgefeld some
times with her daughter, Mrs. Stel-
la Walker Blalock- Gen. Ham
mond say, who was West Point
graduate with honors, was a gal
liant officer in the Mexican war.
That beloved scholar James R.
Randall married sister OF Mrs.
Walker. The present learned Jurist
Henry Hammond, who is the Judge
of the Superior Court at Augusta,
Ca. the late lamented Joseph La
mar who so gracefully adorned the
Supreme Bench of the U. S. Court,
the gallant Thos. J. Lamar, Bar
ney Dunbar of commercial renown,
that eminent Baptist Divine, What
ley Lamar, and others, sprung from
this good land, and the soil of
Beech Island is consecrated with
some of most precious dust which
when animated with life, ever fell
on the field of battle, in the vari-
Gus wars in which they were en-
gagged, or ever struggled along the
industrious parts of peace. AS we
think of them, we are led to ex-