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THOS. J. ADAMS, PEOP'E. 1 EDGEFIELD, S. C., , DECEMBER 3, 1885. i VOL. L.--N0. 52. PARTING. Weep not that we most part, Partings are short; eternity is long. Life is but one brief stage, And they that say life ends with life wrong. List to thine own heart's cry Love cannot die. What thought so far away ? Thy thoughts are still with me and thee mine, And absence has no power To lessen what by nature is divine. List to thine own heart's cry Love cannot die. Then weep no more, my love, Weeping but shows thy trust in mi small. Faith is by calmness proved. For know this truth : Thou canst not at all Unless thine own heart cry Love cannot die. -AU Ute Year Mourn - - A COLLEGE FOR FARMERS, The Need of Better Facilities Agricultural Education? A Practical Farmer Pleads for Pra cal Education tor the Sons of Fai era-Marked Contrast Between A ?ir .of Ike iWuw and Courier : Oed. Pope, of the Columbia /?cj'wtoysays "he laughed heartily / at Capt.. B. E. 'Tillman's Bennetts % ville speech," and* then explains that "eve?ylody laughed, including the . speaker, until they sat down cn his . resolutions,' and then'hedid" "not laugh so much." Nero fiddled while Rome was barning, and if Col. Pope can "' only see cause for laughter in that speech and those resolutions, he ie lesa of a patriot and statesman than I give him credit for being. He knows fall well that while there wae much laughing it was anything but I a comedy vand that the farmers be hind the railing would have passed these resolutions if they had had voice in the matter, and I believe the farmers within the railing-the dele gates-would have passed them had there been no adjournment and eau cussing. None of my lRcts was con troverted, none of my arguments was . met and overturned, and although I was "sat upon" I am not crushed or silenced. I expected nothing else, attacking as I did the College in the house of ita friends, and the board ol agricnlture in its own house. I did not go to Bennettsville to pass resolu tions, but to point out to the farmers of this State how they are duped and j robbed of their just rights by our lawmakers. What I sought was an I audience of intelligent farmers. The farmers did the listening, the poli ticiaoe the voing, and that explains why the resolutions failed to pass. Doubtless my attempt, single hand ed and alone, to reform some of the abuses and right some of the wrongs ander which our farmers suff r, can ?only be likened to Don Quixote's tilt against the wiudmill, (my arguments met only wind, not refutation,) but could I speak to South Carolina as I spoke to Marlboro' there would be some fine somersaulting to get on my side, I imagine. I may be a crank-I acknowledge to being an enthusiast on the subject of agricultural advancement and en lightenment-but, if so, I am more than satisfied'with my company. J sent that epeech to Gen. Stephen D. Lee, president of the Mississippi Ag ricultural and Mechanical College, and asked for facts and data to sus tain my position. Here is the reply of that distinguished soldier, who rose as rapidly as any officer in the Confederate army, and always sus fained himself grandly in every po sition he occupied. South Carolina is justly proud of him, and it were well for her to give ear to what he says and profit by his counsel. As a civilian he is doing more for the farmers of his adopted State than all the "Confederate brigadiers" from Virginia to Texas. GEN. LEE'S LETTER. AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, MISS , \ October 21, 1885. j Capt. B. E. Tillman-My Dear Sir : On receipt of your letter I mailed yon such literature bearing on the ^matter in hand asl could find, iaclr?fl Itters, le? port, &c, some extending JRolt starting of the college. I ttfpl you new a copy of a letter written last January UT Col. Edgar, of the Ar kansas Industrial College, which will obviate the necessity of my writing at length except to add. I also mail a copy of the report of a Convention ol Agricultural College Presidents in 'Washington in Jciy last, marking my ?arts af the discussions. I point to 'ref. Knopp, also, as the ripest agri culturist io that convention. I have read your speech. . You are in tke .main correct. Unless onr - Southern people change, onr boys will be "hewers of wood and drawers of water" to strangers. Any system of farming that gradually impovei iahes land is criminally wrong. There are lands in the old country to day that bear one hundred fold more than they,did in the days of William the Conqueror. Oar present system is in direct violation of the commonest principles of agricultural science, rob bing the land constantly and not re storing the plant food extracted and moved off in the crops. The best - larmer is only a modest engineer of nature, as to her laws. He must comprehend the sciences underlying agriculture, including all the natural sciences, to attain success a? a farmer. Yet oar farmers take their smartest boys, expend thousands to make them professional men, who have books .^and books of cases, precedents, &c, to hit any case that arises, while of j the dance they make a farmer-the boy who has tc anderstand nature and her laws. Then again the edu cated gentleman who has been train ed for literature or the professions goes to farming. Never having had that technical drilling necessary to make a farmer, which is deemed so essential in all other professions, pur suits or trades to insure success, he ' Bas to serve a long apprenticeship, and often dissipates hie capital before he learns anything about the buai with love for ctl . rn lbi ness, or, if be makes money, dot at the expense of the land. The same loyalty that ie used educating young men for other p suits in their own colleges will in agricultural colleges when pro] ly conducted. The trouble has b the literary professors who have bi pot in charge of agricultural colle -men not in sympathy with agrie tore or the industrial classes in t way, men who have always mc their living with their brains a having no belief in any other tba literary training, or sympathy w labor-hence the general fa?u These remarks with the literati sent you will give the key to succi The very heading of the Federal 1 endowing these agricultural colley is "To benefit agriculture and t mechanic arts." Now, we are winning daily on I farmers in this State. We now hs in attendance 350 students, 190 college classes, the balance in 1 preparatory department Had accommod?t'nus we would have 'io but we are fuL. Whenever wa h< a farmers' institute we get from 15 20 boys. These institutes are "far, era' experience meetings^". Th pe" ! "Itv attepdflflpWttgKMMbar with the konara pr*s out, giving1 . scientific : and practical .hearings, exchanging views sad an swering questions. These"1 institutes are growing in popularity and aie great educators themselves. Tho trouble in the collegs is to find worlhor the boya The boy who does not work is looked down on, and they are marked in their work as they are in their studies. Whet h er they work or not they are com pelled to go there the same as-they are compelled tc go to the recitation room. We have recitations in the morning, work in the afternoon, study at night and early in the morning. Education comes first, work second. The boys are thus more healthy, more contented, less disposed to "sow wild oats," and, above all, do not lose their respect for the class from which they sprung. Besides this, labor, paid for at eight cents per hoar, goes far to enable poor boys to pay their board. We have a 2,000 acre farm, 400 acres in good cultivation, the bal ance pastnrsge; 300 head of stock' 35 pure breed, the-balance grades, &c. In a few years our sales of stock will be $10,000 annually. Wc now sell milk and beef to students amount ing to over $500 per month. The creamery is a success-run entirely by students. We can't supply one? filth of the demand for our buttor. It takes precedence over Northern cream ery bntter wherever it comes ic com petition with it? We send to morrow to the Aberdeen isir 30 head ol splendid stock, showing ihe Holstein,. Devon, Hereford, Galloway, Jersey and their grades. We have 100 com mon cows, being served by pure breed bulls, and are grading np all the time. In two years we will sell each year a large number of pure breeds and say 100 or more grades. Our dairy herd will be a splendid one. We are blazing out the track that ev eay farmer will be able to follow in, and giving our experience, failures and successes for the benefit of our farmers. We have a splendid pro fessor of agriculture, scientific and practical-got him from the Michi gan Agricultural College. Around our farm land has gone up steadily. Our ensilage feeding ia a success. The object lesson caused 21 silos to go up within three miles of the Col lege in August and September just past. Our farmers are doubling t neir stock, running wire fences around what was supposed to be their Wortl aut lands, for pasture, &c. Our cream ery has moved the butter line South hundreds of miles. In horticulture we will soon ship fruits. We have 5,000 fruit trees joining on, and ft commercial nursery sf near 50,000 trees for sale. We will have twelve acres of B tra w ber ries in the spring to cse- and ship. We expect soon to have atf evapora tor for drying fruits and vegetables. We analyze all fertilizers sold in the State. Our faoulty and students are enthusiasts. We know we will suc ceed. Our L gislaf ure has been most liberal, giving us the same aa the State JTjniversitv at Oxford-$27, e a handsome income ter, fruits, vegetables, pure tie, grades, ?cc. I thank you for your pleasant let ter. I hope you will succeed in hav ing a good agricultural college estab lished in Somh Carolina, in loyal . hands. Separate it from the uni* versity or it will be smothered to death. The atmosphere is not con genial. Yours, truly, STEPHEN D. LEE. I will now supplement the admira ble letter from this grand soldier statesman with a few extracts from his letter to Col. Edgar, of which mention is made : "We have steadily gained on the farming and industrial classes and our popularity is as steadily increas ing. The boys in attendance are mostly all from the farms and indus trial classes in the towns and cities. The sons of wealthy parents have al most ceased to attend. ''The Federal law is intended to reach the industrial classes and 1 think we are doing it in onr Missis sippi institution. We are essentially an agricultural college, because we did not have money to make the me chanical feature equally prominent, and because most other colleges have selected the mechanical and abolished the agricultural as intangible, where as the agricultural is the a^-absorb ing feature at the South ana should be developed and helped. We as sume that the State University should furnish a strictly classical and litera ry education. We ignore the classics so ss not to antagonize, and to make our institution more technical and practical. We aim for a good Eng lish edncation and a thorough knowl edge, j tactically and technically, of the sciences underlying agriculture. We aim to furnish education suitable to industrial people rather than to fit them for the professions, as the mass es belong to industrial people. Our in ?nr win )er eeo ?en gea ml my ide md n a ith ire. ure see. aw ;es, the the ive in the .;e re, )ld to 2e it ! expenses are very small. Last ; fifty boys got through on $50, ' nearly all for $100 or less. We i military 'discipline throughout, an office]; of the United States ac as teacher of tactics, &c. Until session we were regarded as an p?riment, now we are regarded i success. Last commencement we three thousand visitors on oar and agricultural day. They v. mostly farmers. The law apport; ing students to counties did not w well, and was repealed. It has b unnecessary for the State to furn books, &c., to boys, as we are so ch that poor boye see they can aim obtain an education by their own forts. In brief, Colonel, my opin is you cannot ride, two horses at OE Ton must either be the ordinary cl sical and literary college, or 3 must be industrial and practical ? put on no airs. It has been the f; of all agricultural schools that hi been made adj une ts of such claasi institutions that sooner or later I agricultural feature is lost, or ph so subordinate a part as to discourt oung men from entering it. - At c "iseissirjpi University foraijtog ti nd Gci??ncC (TUB an income*>3r?i0,000. The first-year they had three stu dents, the second year two, and'dn ring the last eight years they did not have a sanglastudent in the curricu lum of agneu?tare." And then, in answer to- .a" letter asking leave to publish his letter to me, Cen. Lee says : "My duties here are all executive. I do no teaching. You will find the college people will fight you with all their might, for they will not want to give up the farmers' money, and will 27 to throw discredit on agricultural ocation. But there is no sensible reason why a farmer should not have a special training as well as the doc tor, lawyer, engineer, preacher, &c, and that, too, after having obtained general culture. If unable to obtain both, of course the special should come first." CONTRAST SOUTH CAROLINA AND MIS SIS3IPP?. Contrast this Mississippi Agricul tural College, which Gen. Lee has created-for it is his creation, and so acknowledged by the papers of that State-contrast it, I say, and its re suits with the pi- ifni, contemptible, so called agricultural annex to the South Carolina College at Columbia, a classical and literary kite with "ag ricultural" written on its tail. See the results of an agricultural college tn loyal hands ! I have examined the catalogue and curriculum cf the South Carolina College, but do not ure to go into details. "By their fruits shall ye know them," and I venture to say that this institution, rhich last year had sn ly ten agrie ui ;ural students, will never cause our armers to take any pride in it or lend their eons there to be taught 'agriculture." It may turn out a ew agricultural ^dudes to become the anghing stock of practical men, but i practical scient fie farmer, to become i beacon light in his county, never, it ia an admirable place to lay the bundation for a profession or to ed u iate a rich man's son as a gentleman if leisure, but to make a successful armer the hand and head must be rained together; he must know how o work in order to do it or have it lone, and a special scientific train og is needed to enable him to make arming a success, and not rob the and. Bat I am going over the same ;.' ou nd that Gen. Lee has so well cov ered. I am a farmer and feel the teed of that very training, and tens if thousands in oar State feel it and noora over the time wasted in get ing a smattering of Latin and Greek. iVhat Mississippi has done South karolina can do. Oar lands have ?reater need of scientific farming than tera. They are older and more worn, ,nd our people are too poor to edu ate their soins as gentlemen of leisure ny more. We need fewe: planters nd more farmers-farmers who are uperior to the clods beneath their set. It is not right, it is not jost, it 3 not wise to leave our agriculture a the deadly grip of ignorance and mbecility and take the "farmers' loney," as Gen. Lee cal 1B it, to edu ate professional men or those likely o choose a professional life. Jfhere j a ghastly heap of skeletonpat the sot of that professional ladder, and v&y^crhTO Tmrefc-^e-fceldJ with a ?iant'S grasp to keep from being push d off. Is it statesmanship "trrvpa riotiam to use all the money the \ Itats can ?pend in higher culture 'to L aerease this army of non-producers, J o fill these already overflowing pro essions more full and tax the farm ra to do it, while leaving agricul ure, our prominent interest, to lan ;uieb, and give it no recognition worth be name ? The agricultural colleges f Michigan, of Kansas and of Mis issippi all give, the lie to the asser ion that agricultural education, pure nd simple, is a myth. Mankind have een taught for centuries that there ras but one royal road to learning, be classics ; but the latter half of his nineteeth century has come to ecognize the scier ??e as a ither road j hat may be travelled, and bachelor t f science is now regarded as equal t o bachelor of arts. c A PRACTICAL AC E. Said President Willits, of the lichigau Agricaltural College, in his naogaral address, on August 19, 885 : .11 " This is an institution of applied cience. The sciences are first with he facts and then with the laws of he material universe, and then they ;arner a harvest of comfort and ma erial wealth that is so obvious and 0 charming and so delightful to the enses that in this practical age we j cknowledge their untility. There- i ore the practical man and the so call- f d practical scientist command a iremium. Practical men are paid 11 he highest wages. The theoretical nan, who develops the principles of 1 science, is not to be ignored, but it 11 s the man who can apply the princi pes envolved by the theorist that ] t iommands the situation. This, there ore, is the age of applied science- j t ipplied to commerce, manufacturing ind all the varied industries of mod ting this ex sis a bad Bale ere ion ork een isb eap lOSt et ion ice. las rou ind ate ive cal tbe 178 ?ge lur^i me fear I ero life. A State's progress ist and ured by the bounds of its ap; lave sciences, and its prosperity by and ! amplitude of the practical arts, this reason we have the demand our system of education shall inc both theory and practice and thai State shall furnish both." Those South Carolinians who 1 to the New Orleans Exposition' winter saw the results of that syi of education. Acres and aorei machinery and manufactnred : ducts, all betokening a lesseninj labor, and more brain power, thou wealth, and all from the North. South could only exhibit raw mab and natural products, the frail muscle, and we ali know that muscle is principally expanded raising one product, cotton. An so besotted, PO blind, so little aliv the lesson there taught that we not strive to bring some of this " .plied science" down here ? Then, again, to come back to a cultural education-though agri ture rightly conducted is an app science, or rather an application ?aj? jthe .sciences;-Mr.ffllli taj J^o^?Sfo?feT?^cbn egel&t sha]J edacatefthe scholar a? d yet 1 the artisan, that shall make the m>[ i of cuitare and yet preserve the fort \'er& We .believe it is, and that ; tljie I Agricultural College, of Michigan ?s such an institution. This leads us to consider the general purposes of thy .college. The fi rat one we'will no?? is that it seeks to foster and' encour age the industrial impulse. 'Tb? country is fall to repletion of lawyers, doctors, clerks, agents and brokers, p percentage honest, worthy ? able, la borious gentlemen, ornaments to their profession ; but a large proportion living by their costs, j agglers in the; strict sense of the, term, making a precarious living, seeking, soma ot. them, to wear clean clothes at the expense of a clean character-alf ot them desiring to live without work. We have enough of euch. As a iule they have a hard time, and did they but know it a little hard manual la ' bor would be a tonic to their man hood. Bat, in the first place, they are shirks naturally, and in the sec ond place they have had associations that led them to believe manual la bor degrading. Mere drudgery, we. grant, is not ennobling in any pursuit but to say or believe that intelligent labor is degrading, is a reflection upon' the Divine mind which created hands as well as brains. They go together.! Drudgery, without intelligence, is slavery; labor, with intelligence, is freedom. Whatever interests a man has growth in it. Greek roots have; made some very small men, the other; kind some very large ones. There is health and vigor in knowing how to do something, there is better health1 md more manly vigor in doing it. A. man with a trade has a moral capa-j bility; it is a fence around his ener- | 7?ea to keep off trespassers. The fews used to say, " He that teacheth lot his sou a trade doeth the same as if he taught him to be a thief." You ?ive a man something for his hands ;o do and you take hostage for good citizenship. The habit of daily toil 3 a better conservator of the peace han a paid constable. Our prisons ire filled with loafers, our poorhouses ,vith beggars and our politics with lemagogues gravitated thither for he want of the little moral purpose ying behind a good day's work. So ve believe that the best legacy one ian leave to a son is a willingness to j vork. We believe that institution is j >est that not only teaches the law, mt teaches a trade ; that not only caches a science, but what to do with t ; that teaches the application as veil as the theory, and above all, hat teaches that all labor ia honora ile. "There i- moral influence around nstitut ons as weil as surrounding nen. They have character as well -no two alike. The air is full ol J he predominating purpose. A true lormal Behool is full of the teacher's vork. Instructors ta'k about it, tudent8 write and orate about it ; BC nth a law or medioal school, each it ?lied with a pervading Btrength, a predominating sentiment which give? haracter to the institution and to tb ! tudents. To a like degree is it trot hat an institution like this, where a; j tated times all work with their banda viii tarn ont students that manual J abor is not dishonorable, that t?kjaV ileasure in robust work directed b ? ntelligence. Such an institution he a uch morale in it and about it tb t oung men will leave its halls an j n ter th? shop or go to the farm wit li io se usc of humiliation or disgrace, '?pable of managing affairs of Stal e nd of putting their hanJs to work nt my thing worth doing. We belie\ e his collage has the power to mii s uat such men, and we proclaim to a|H he world that we do not wantayourlg nan who is ashamed to work with tis hands as well as his brain. If be :an accomplish more by brain work ifter he leaves us, well and good, we lo not object ; but whether he can br tot he will not feel above work on the arm or in the shop, fie will do that iheerfully because he will feel there s no disgraca in it. That is the initial loint in the character of the young nen we seek to send out. We want 10 loafers here, and we shall mourn iver a loafer who carries oar degree vith him to the busy world to which ve accredit him." IS IT HERESY ? AU thie, no doubt, is downright ?eresy to many men in oar State; bat LS sare as the sun rises and sets we nust come to believe in this doctrine ind practice it before there cao be my return of prosperity to our State, rhe negro has ceased to be a mudsill ipon which to stand, or an umbrella inder which we can be profitably -protected from the Bun s rays. Three ourths of the people of this State are armers, and must continue farmers vhether farming pays or not. Our ands are growing poorer constantly, md ander the system generally pur sued can never be built op. Nothing mt an institution similar to that in tfisBsisippi, which was modelled after hat of Michigan, will ever cause a ?hange till it is too late and many of .he personal owners have lost their andB. We need farmers, trained as inch on a model farm conducted on ?883- ' practical and scientific princi fdied who can go into every county ol . the ! State and demonstrate the feasifc l^or of mating land yield an income the investment and not grow po f?pe We need an institution where we (?tule educate our sons and have them W:- tarn to ns not ashamed to work hit ashamed of their origin, not aeha ot the calling their lathers and fathers have followed, hut wi and anxious to take it up and monatrate that they have not gor college for nothing but to equip tl 'selves for tha battle of life. ME of arts used to be the goal of l?giste endeavor. Master of PC i of J has long been considered an equ glittering prize. Let master of t culture be the next step in the wot adornment. As God is roy judf who^fcnow little if anything abm after seventeen years' study, car sore those accustomed to cons anybody, however, trained, " ? enough for a farmer," that law, m ?iB? or divinity are easier thing? master jjor, st least, I believe ther. 4^Ti QinQTrfc<e>s^ ^ir tn~ -ffTinViVj; y4hose profession8 with whom I am ac quain ted. THE PROPOSED REMEDY. Now for the remedy, for we have had argument enough to convince any save those who are both blind and deaf. .-. Gen. Lee tells us that a farmer can be trained and equipped for that pur suit just as easily and as certainly os soldiers are trained at West Point. It has been done and is being done every day in Michigan, Kansas and Mississippi. All of these institutions are alike in that they give a thorough English education, have college farms upon which practical agriculture and paying agriculture is carried on, and the students made to work enough not to get out of the habit, if they had 1 earned it at home, and the seienc ej which underlie agricnltnte are de monstrated, illustrated and practiced .by the students, who tbns learn their practical value. Agriculture ia the goddess whom they worship there, -and boys are taught that it is a noble ?ursuit and worthy of their ambition. t here is experimental work carried on, too, to solve new theories and es tablish new principles, but it must never be lost sight of that the boy lives during his collegiate course on .'a well-equipped model farm, conduct ed mainly to show the application c f 'methods which have been recognized as essential to successful and profita 'ble farming, so as to let the student leave the college thoroughly satisfitd that M farming does pay," when ra tionally pursued. The wild scramble now going on to get away from the farm would cease and the farmers of the-State could feel assured that they would have their boys benefited bv Wounding $his school, whether th _ graduated or not. Such a result can never be attained at the South Caro lina College. Let our Legislature dig up the corpse of agricultural educa tion which has been buried at Col um bia, carry it to some healthy up coun try county which will subscribe the most money towards establishing such an institution as I have described, locate it near some accessible town on a large farm such as they have in Mississippi and put it in loyal hands, and it will soon return to its life and grow strong and robust. In a few years its farm would become a Mece* to which the farmers of the State would go as on a pilgrimage, and its commencements be only second to cur Siate fairs, indeed more instructive. One word more and I am done. The Act of Congress of July 2, 1S63 gave to each State land script to tba amount of 30,000 acres for each rep resentative in both Houses of Con gress, the proceeds of which were to be invented and the interest used as * fund " to establish at leant one in stitution of learning the leading ob ed of which should be the encour igement of agriculture and the me manic arts." Will any one pretend ;hat the South Carolina College is inch an institution ? Gen. Lee cal ls ?his fund, which in this State is $102, )00, "the farmers' money." The nterest is $11.520. Half of it goes ;o the Clafflin University at Orange jorg to educate negroes, and the )ther half to the South Carolina Col ege. Let our lawmakers do justice ind carry out the agreement made by ^ft%nfct-wrih fhe Ti/dted States in good faith. Keep the South bolina College open and give it all nectoo.:-.-} assistance, but do not rob the farmers to do it, and for every dollar tbns spent to educate tbe men who are most likely to enter the professions give the agricultural college a like amount. Farmers are ever slow tn perceive their true intereet?, more so than any other class of men. Their thoughts move in a sluggish current and they are not eapily etiired, bat efforts are being made to arouse their resentment against the South Caro lina College, and I think it would be wise in the friends of that institution to give up the "farmTB' money" gracefully and help establish a farm era! college. They had better com promise the nutter ere the s'orm. which is brewing, shaken the founda tions of their beloved college, and, perhaps, topples it to the ground. I appeal to the lawyers o! the State who govern ns, and who, by reason of their culture, are able to see thc utili ty and value of technical education as applied to farming, tn help estab lish sach a colleg , and I appeal to the News\ and Courier to throw its powerful influence in the scale and give that aesis'ance the farmers have a right to expect. I express it as the humble opinion of a backwoodsman who is simply a farmer, that free trade is a barren ideality, which is dwarfed into insignificance alongside this grand question of technical and industrial education. I hiv* not bean able in the space allotted me to pre sent the subject in all its aspectp, and there are many arguments that I must leave out, but I trust that I have so successfully set the question afloat that it will not be allowed to sink out of sight any more. B. R. TILLMAN. Hamburg, S. C., Nov. 16, 1885. THE ADVERTISER one year and a Waterbury Watch for $4 50. 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Made only by BROWN CHEMICAL CO..BALTIMORE, Ml LADIES' HAND BOOT-useful and sttracUre, ea ?r ,_ taming list of prixea for recipes, information abet R K^.KTT'?IBWT!? i"T? ?y rfpalpT In medicine, i majjid tu rnTli^aW^driL?" on receipt of 2c. stamp. ?8 m ? * r? 00 gp O td o SO p* W et 2 00 cf 9 ? P m o m SS t=3 gg w ? 50 9Q Fall & Winter. Miss MEDORA COVAR Livitos the atteution of tho Lad ir s of Edgelield and surrounding country to the Large and Attractive Stock of Goods just received, which erhbraces the very Latest Stylos of Hats and Bonnets, lt. rds Feathers, Pompons, Neckwear, and ovorytbing usually keptin a FIRST CLASS MILLINERY ESTABLISH M ENT, af. prices lower than ever before known in Edge?eld. Give mea call. Miss MEDORA COVAK. Edgefield, Oct. 27,1885. T, HE SOUTH CAROLINA PENI TENTIARY BOOT and SHOE F AC PO RY has now been in successful ope ration three years, and in that time has wen red an enviable reputation for the Make-up and Quality ol' its goods. Deal irs throughout the country who were prejudiced iu favor of other makes, are low only too gl d to replace thur old ilocks with, the products of this Facipry, md orders are daily received from all sections otSthe State, and numberlessin piiries for "sample lines" from which o select an order. The reputation of hese goods for "durability" stands un ivalled. One dealer writes: "I shall ?evor sell any but Penitentiary Shoes; hero is more money in them than iu myth in g that I have ever handled." Another says: "The case of 'stitch lowns' shipped me on Tuesday haye cone like 'hot cakes;" send me two nore cases." Another, buying his first bill, writes: 'Goods received, open up splendidly, un confident of a 'big run' on them." These are but a few of the many letters jeing constantly received. Ask your lountry merchant for SOUTH CAROLINA 'enlteutiary Shoes. Take those of NO iTnKU Penitentiary. All of our goods ,ro sum ped on the bottom : A. C. Din ?RT, Columbia, S. C. Salesrooms : 2<?0 King St., Charleston, I. C.; 716 Broa 1 St., Augusta, G.; and 'olumbia, S. C. Tun? S, 1SP3. ** O T LI E?? FRIEND! ?.>K.:S CHILD-BIRTH' ^ The time has como at last when tho terriblefurony incident to this very critical perh'd lu a woman's lilt* can be avoided A distin guish d physician, who pawed tho greatest portion of his lite (forty-four year?) in this branch of practice, left lo child bearing woman t.lds priceless logacv and lifn-savir.g appliance, "THE MOTHERS' FRIE\D,'* and to day there aro thousands of the best women in our land who, hav ing used this wonderful remedy before con liniment, rise up and edi his name blessud. Wo rt'Cwive letters from every section or the country thanking ns for pl will* tili-* preparation in the reach ol' sutl'.irinsr woman. One lady from North Ca-ol ?na writes us that she would like to thank the proprietors on her klines for bringing it to her no tic", as in a previous confinement she had two doctors, and they woro compelled to uso chloro form, instruments, etc., and she si i tittled almost death; but this limo she used "MOTHERS' FRIEND," and her labor was short, quick, and almost like magic. Now, why should a wo man snffor when she can'avoid it? Wo can prove all we claim by living witnesses, and anyone interested cr.n call, or have their husbands do so, at our office, and see tho original letters, which we cannot publish. This remedy is one about which we .minot publish certificates, but it is a j nost wonderful liniment to be used after | .he first two or three months. Send for our treatise on the Health and Happiness of Woman, mailed free, which jives all particulars. THE BRADFIELD REOULATOR Co, Box 2S, Atlanta, Ga. Sold by all druggists. This has no relation to mee, color or n evious condition-it mr ans Jewelry ! lewelry that is Jewelry ! Go to PKNN'S md see it Ai Gr Tr o W Ri Ba fl Ar "There Is Plenty of Room at the Top." AND O U R AIM IS TO KEEP The Best Shoes in Augusta at the Lowest ? ... i-. - ; ... -, . .. 20 Lexical Points for Consumers. 1st When you buy, you want to buy a KOO d Shoe. Isn't that so ? 2d. When you buy a Shoe, you want a dealer to tell you exactly what a Shoe la. Isn't that so? 3rd. N. M. Mnrphey <fe Son never mis represent a shoe merely to sell it. Isn't that so? 4th. They represent the oldest Shoe House in Augusta. Experience .is cer toinJyjjTorth^sonwthln^ Stir. Having moneytobuyw?thj?na'? buying exclusively for cash, and from' manufacturers, they get the lowest pri ces. Isn't that so? 6th. They are good buyers. Isn't that so? 7th. They are conscientious men. Isn't that so? 8tb. They are not like some dealers, wanting to make a barrel of money on me pair of Shoes. Isn't that so ? 9th. They believe in the low profit sys ;em. Isn't that BO? 10th. N. W. Murphey & Son are the >nly Shoe Dealers in Augusta that buy md sell Shoes exclusively for Cash, [sn't that so? ll tb. N W. Murphey & Son am the inly Shoe Dealers in Augusta that sell ipecial Shoos with the price marked dainly on the bottoms. Isn't that su ? | 12th. They originated that system in Augusta. Isn't that so? 13th. N. W. Mnrphey & Son are the only Shoe Dealers in Augusta that seil the celebrated James Means $3 Shoe. Isn't that sot 14th. N. W. Murphey A .Son aro the onlv Shoe Dealers in Augusta that sell the A. A. Battle $2 50 Shoe. Isn't that so? are the only S'fioe Dealers in Augusta that se the Great f2 99 Shoe, for ladles. Isn't that so? 16th. They sell more Shoes to the peo Sle of Edge?eld County than any other, hoe House, in Augusta. Isn't that so ? " 17cb. N. W. Murohey <fe Son are betU r known asselllng a good 8hoe than any other 8b"; ? House in1-Augusta. Isn't that so? " , . ; F tb. If our goods were not sa tis facto ry to the people, then our trade would falloir. Isn't that so? 19th. But the many imitators of our system, and the rapid growth of our trade, proves that our system is a good one. ' Isn't that sd? 1 ' 20th. And we know that Imitation is the sincerest flattery. Isn't that so ? Every wearer of Shoes owen one big duty to himself, that is, either to )atroniz3 us or to say which of tbe above points is not well taken. N. W. MURPHEY & SON. Sept. 8,1885 -40] ,104 Broad St., Augusta, Ca. Lees. WHELBSS & C0.f COTTON FAOTOHS AUGUSTA, GA. IAVING TWENTY YE \RS EXPERIENCE in handling COTTON, we iel warranted in promising satinfactiou to those who may favor us with jeir patronage. SPECIAL ATTENTION given to WEIGHING and ELLING. SST Consignments solicited. [Aug. 18,1885. Raiircad Schedules, harlotte, Columbia & Augus ta Railroad. -o ?1CHEDULE in effect Sept. 14, 1884 : SOUTHWARD. Nn. 52-MAIL a-d EXPRESS. - Leave atesville,.7:45 a rn rrive Charlotte.10:45 save Charlotte. 1;00 p m rrive ac Columbia. [B].5:15 save Columbia, [B]. 5:25 ?esvil?o,.7:20 itesbnrg.7:27 idge Spring,.7:51 ard's.8:02 ibuston..'.. 8:13 ?en ton. 8:30 mniteville. 9:0t Arrive at Augusta, Ga.,. 9:38 NORTHWARD. STo. 53, DAILY-MAIL AND EXPRESS. Leave ignsta, Ga,. 8:45 a m ?anitevillo. 9:26 enton,.10:07 hnstou,.10:24 ard's. 10:35 dge Spring,.10:46 itesbura,..,.11:07 ie3ville.11:13 rive at Columbia,.12:42 p m ave Columbia, .12:52 rive at Charlotte,. 6:15 ave Charlotte.7:15 rive Statesvillo,. 10:15 No. 47 DAILY-MAIL AND EXPRESS. 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