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Edgefield Advertiser THURSDAY, AUG. 17,1893. L0GAI2 BREVITIES. There will be an Alliance rally at McCormick next Friday. Baconyhas fallen abott 2 cents in this market. It is now 10$ cents. Court adjourned on; Saturday \ last, after a session" of only one . week., The les* religion there is in a church the moro oysters and ice "-cream it takeB to run it. Nearly everybody left town last Sunday to attend Mr. Watson's tent meeting on Log Creek. Mr. Asbill, who taught in our High school last session, is reading law with AV S. Tompkins, Esq. . Misses Mamie and Annie Wilke and Ida Edwards, o?. Charleston, are visiting Miss Emmie Timmous. Mr. Wigfall Cheatham, of the c Edgefield Chroniclo staff, will leave in a few day s for the World's Fair? Misses Lou Gary and Mary : Evans left on Saturday morning for Chicago and the World's Fair. Rev. G. W. Bussey, having closed his protracted meeting at Red Oak Grove, is now conducting one at ' Parksvillo. ?> Misses Mamie and Annie Lou Covar are spending several days 'with relatives and friends in Aiken county. There was quite a severe hail storm in the Red Hill vicinity last * week, which did considerable dam ; age to the cotton. Zack Boon writes us that silver money "was good enough for Paul and Silas, and it's good enough for him," and'so say we all. Rev. Thomas H. Leitch is now preaching in Texas. The papers in that State say he is next to Sam Jones as a crowd-drawer. The Mountain Creek Church con tributed last week $14 to the Con gie Maxwell Orphanage. W. N. Burnett, of Edgefield, contrib uted $5. Rev. J. M. White has returned . to Edgefield. Mr. White with his good lady will teach a school in the Sweetwater section during the coming year. The MisseB Teague, daughters of Dr. B.H.Teagae, of Aiken, arid ? grand-daughters of Dr. Horace ParkerfOf our town, are visiting 'relatives here! . ; The protracted meeting at Rocky Creek Church conducted by Revs. Qto. A"."Wtighir^?M*fliiison, has closed with six accessions "to the church as the result. Messrs. C. D. Mobley and A.- J. Coleman were in town last Satur day. These gentlemen report cot-' ton crops elegant, corn crops so so. the early corn very. poor. > Miss Laura Davis, of Rixeyville, Va., desires a position to teach in a school or family. She teaches English, French, and music. Best references given and required. Those of us in Edgefield who can't get to the Midway Plaisance go to the dime readings that now Tage in this community, and we have the mostest, fun, all for 10 cents. In Virginia if you ask a native how far it i<% to a certain point, he may reply that it is "two looks and a hoot 1" A look is as far as you can see and a hoot is the distance a human voice is supposed to carry. .Jn the account of the falling of the bridge at Clemson, an account of which we publish in another column, two Edgefield boys were hurt, S. T. Carter and M. A. Hol stein. We hope neither is seriously injured. .? It is officially stated that $500 of thfc Peabody fund has been paid to Superintendent of Education Mayfieid for the teachers' insti tutes in the various counties, and yet Edgefield has had no institute this year. Cotton in the county has im proved so much during the last few j days that the prospect of a heavy yield is very encouraging. Mach still depends, however, on the sea sons during this month and the oarly part of September. Miss Eliza Mims, who will have charge of the art .department in the Edgefield Institute, has juBt finished a portrait ot Miss Mamie Sheppard, the deceased daughter of O. Sheppard, Esq., that is a most touching and beautiful like ness of this lamented and gifted young maiden. An unknown author gives the following crude chunk of wisdom : "Let no man be discouraged be cause he is persecuted. No one flings rocks at a dead cat-nobody passes resolutions against' a grave yard. It is the man who has force and power who, is envied and maligned by little souls." "A Northern exchange says they have got hold of a reportMlown South that there is a fellow up in Minnesota who whenever he goes . on a spree, insists on paying a year's subscription to his tow? pa per. He has already paid for the pa per until Jan. 1,1937; and the Press Association of Alabama is making frantic efforts to find out what brand of liquor he drinks." The ADVERTISER had a subscriber who did this way, but since the bar rooms were closed he has stopped 'it..*. J " '. . .; 'VA' Dont Forget. Don't forget the barbecue of the Edgefield Guards at Centre Spring on Friday of this week. A band from Augusta will furnish delight ful music, and the occasion bids fair to. be a most happy ?nd enjoy able.one. ' Cotton Good. Everybody is bragging on the cotton crop prospects in this broad county of ours. From the Savan nah to the Saluda, and from Ninety Six to. Trenton it is all the same -way : "More fruit on the cotton, than I ever saw before." .ii > Six in the Field Mr.'J. W. Johnson, once coroner of Edgefield county, announces this week for Auditor... This makes six aspirants from-whom ;the read ers of the ADVERTISER have the privilege of selecting the best man. Let .it be done decently-and in or der, y A Big Rattlesnake. An enormous rattlesnake was killed in our suburbs on Monday. His body was as big as a man's thigh, and he carried fifteen rattle! on the end of his tail. This is the first rattler seen in this region in" twenty years. His snakeBhip came out of his hole probably' to see Bob Gardner's breeches. Press DeVore's Cotton. Dr. Prescott DeVore has gather ed twelve bushels of corn from the thre?-quarters of an acre patch of corn and cotton planted together, that we made mention of some weeks ago. Besides this corn he will get a bale of cotton from the same patch and twenty bushels of cotton seed of the Peterkin Clus ter variety. Advertised Letters. List of letters remaining in the postorBce .>.t Edgefield C. H., July 31, 1893 : Babe Brooker, S D Ed wards, William Foster, Caleb Hampton, Willie Hutchinson, J M Lovelace, Minnie S Lyon, Henry R Thomas, Billy Williams, Miss Rosy Griffin, Miss Mattie Halbond, Mrs Liner Keys, 2, Mrs Jessie Seigler, Martha Workman, Ida Toney. A Sad Death. A telegram received by Rev. A. B. Watson Tuesday morning brought the-distressing intelligence of the death of his niece, Mrs. Chloe Watson Wannamaker, at her home in St. Matthews, Orangeburg county, on Monday night at 12 o'clock. This charming young woman was the daughter of Mr. John C. Watson, of the Ridge, and was well known and much loved in this community, where, as Miss Watson, she had made many warm friends. Our kindest sympathies are extended to the bereaved father and afflicted ones. Good Place to Go. We desire to call the attention of .our readers to the advertisement of L. F. Padgett, of Augusta, Ga., that- appears in our columns to day. - This house is perfectly re liable and'will do ju?t as they ad vertise, or better. Their catalogue ought to be in ihe hands of every body intending to buy goods of any character to go into the house. We know the concern to be per fectly reliable, and can assure you that you will be fairly and hon estly dealt with. When writing to them or when buying goods from them, please mention this paper. Dime Reading. At the residence of Dr. J. W. Hill, on Thursday night of this week, there will be a Dime Reading given by the ladies of the Presby terian Church. The following is the programme for the occasion : "Scharwenka's Polish Dance," (piano solo), Mr. Jas. T. Bacon. "Power of Prayer," (recitation), Miss Floy Beddick. .'For You," (song), Miss Marie Abney. "Berceuse by Chopin," (piano solo)l Miss Florence Adams. "Rondeaux et Variations," (four hands), Misses Bracie and Angel Ch ea th am. "Luna," (song), Miss Eliza Mims. Reading, J. T. Parks. Male Quartette, Messrs. Jacobs, Cobb, Mims, and Beall. "Jamie Butler and the Owl," (reading), Mr. John Kennerly. "Ah, Non Volar" Arditi, (song), Mrs. K. W. Cheatham. "Twittering of the Birds," (piano solo), Miss Julia Prescott. "The Cows are in the Clover,"' (song), Miss Belle Mims. "Famine Scene from Hiawatha," Miss Mary Butler. "Go and Tell Aunt Dinah her old Gray Goose is Dead as Thun der," (song), Thos. J. Adams. _ Dots from the Dark Corner. DEAR ADVERTISER : I have tried in vain to get some one more com petent than myself to give you some dots from Dark Corner, but my efforts have proved futile, therefore it has fallen to my lot to make, my maiden effort. In the meantime I fear it will go to the waste-basket. I will try, however, to give you something that may be interesting to some one. We are at this writing having some heavy rain, which will ma ture the corn crop, the best by th? way that has been raised in "this locality for years. At the same time fears are entertained that the continued wet weather will dam age the cotton crop, which is very fine, in fact the best, at preseut, for the past ten years. The farm ers are exultant over the prospects of being able to pay out (his fall and have a few dollars left, be sides have corn enough to carry them through next year. A great many of our farmers have profited by the experience of f ormer years, and have been planting more coin and less cotton, and*it is to be hoped that in the neal? future the good old times of hog and hominy will be as in the days of our boyhood. Then, and not until then, will the farmers be inde pendent. Last year Mr. B., as he is known tc>uB, not only set the example,but talked it to the people to plant three acres of " corn to one of cotton and sow extensively of oats and ?ther ^WM^iWWW^r \ crop is m^or?th?n^Bree - oPcofrr'f?"1 one of cotton. Raise your own meat, keep all the stock on the place that you can well feed, and keep your lots well rilled with litter from the woods, and all the spare time when you can't work in the farm, especially in wet weather, rake up your litter and leaves so that it can be rotting ready for use either in the compost heap or to put on the posr galded places and washes. Small farms well man aged will pay if you make your own manure and buy less guano. ... Mr. M. B. Sturkey is building a first-class mill and gin at the old Rogue Shoals mill-site one and a half miles from Plum Branch. He says he will have his saw-mill in operation by the 10th of Septem ber, and cotton-gin and corn-mill by the 15th, if not providentially delayed. With his nerve, push, and grit he will get there. Fearing that I trespass on your space I will close. More in the near future. MA BE SAULT. Plum Branch, S. C. Out of Meat. The following, from the Augusta Evening News of Saturday, looks as if Augusta is about to get out of meat: ; ? "Augusta'6 wholesale merchants are confined to a caBh basis in do ing businesa which will greatly affect trade. The packing houses and other business cencerns of the West are demanding of their customers here currency by' express for all goods. This means that the merchants must send the actual hard ?ash for meat and other Western produce, otherwise no goods will be shipped. No checks, no New York Ex change, but the money itself by express. If ah Augusta merchant buys a carload of meat he must check the money out of Augusta banks, put in a package and express it off. The Boston canned goods houses are now demanding sight drafts for all-goods bought of them, when befor? thie they wmld sell'-on "90. days' time. . - The sight drafts must be given on the arrival of the bill of lading. In New Orleans the banks will not discount any drafts, no matter if they are gilt edged. The sugar and molasses houses want cash, when hitherto they sold on 60 days' time. To sum it all up : The country is getting now on a strictly cash basis. As to what this will result in, merchants differ. Some few think it may bring about a crisis, while others look for better times when credit is in a measure done away with. . The Evening News called on Mr. Paul Mustiu and asked him what would be the effect of the Western demands here. He said our merchants would stop buying meat, as the banks will refuse ta give; them the cash to ship off, for if the currency is all sent away there would be no money to handle the cotton crop with. Mr. Mustin says, he haB quit buyingmeat on this account, and sayB all the others, with possibly one or two exceptions, would stop buying. The effect is that he only sells for cash and does not accept checks for his goods. Some few thousand dollars, possibly ten, were shipped by express for meats, but that's over with now. Mr. Mustin says the people would rather do without the meat for awhile and hold their cash, and he sums it up as a temporary sus pension of ?business. *" 1 r . P The cotton crop ot this year, according to the Augusta Chronicle, will bring into the United States $200,000,000 in gold. There will, be a plenty of money, too, to move the cotton crop. Wall street un derstands the situation. As soon as cotton begins to move actively the balance of trade, as between this country and Europe, will rapidly turn in our favor. Gold will pour in for our cotton and the financial situation will be greatly improved. .- . . . c ." . . Horses, Cattle, Dogs, etc. The Humphereys' Medicine Campany of New York, will mail on application a Complimentary Copy of Dr. Humphreys' Veteri nary Manual (500 Pages) on the Treatment and Care of HorseB, Cattle, Dogs, Hog, Sheep and Poultry. TIE CIOLERAI?SIT?ATION Progress of the Pestilence in New York Bay. QUARANTINE, S. I., Aug. 13.-At 9 p. m. Health Officer Jenkins is sued the following cholera bulle tin: Two suspects were isolated at Hoffman Island early this morn ing, but owiDg to the rough weather in the lower bay were not removed to Swinburne; Island Hospital. If th? wind ^moderates they will be transferred during the night. They are Maria Reno, aged four years, Pasquale De Padro, aged fifteen years. The bacteriological exam ination shows that Guiseppi Adamo who was removed yesterday is suf fering from cholera, and that Francisco Caiolo, Paolo Marini and Georquis have not developed the disease. The census of the hospital to night shows : Cholera patients, 14 ; patients not having cholera, 3; convalescent, 1 ; suspects on Hoff man Island, 2. Total, 20. All of the patients are improving. The disease is mild in character. Two more' nurses were sent to Swin burn Island to-day. ; - ? The steamer Helena arrived to day from Genoa. All were well on board. All the steerage passengers had been detained five days at that port and their baggage was disin fected before embarkation; The cabin passengers were examined and provided with paooports, on which was a written statement of their route of travel for ten days before arriving, so that,detentions on the railroads may be avoided. The vessel was disinfected and' allowed to proceed after the exam ination of the steerage passengers. THE ?ELLOW IEVEE. A Favorable Feature of the Sit uation at Pensacola. PENSACOLA, Aug. 13.-Avery fa vorable feature in connection with the yellow fever situation occurred at 6 p. m. this evening. The State health officers gave official assur ance to Mayor Chipley that the guard could be released which was stationed at the residence of Mr. Waite, and the family and friends confined in the house since the death of Mr. Waite, as after an investigation it was decided that he did not die of yellow fever. The guards are continued at the residence of Mr. Wood, father of little Ellen Wood, as the investi gations in this caee have not been completed. It is now nineteen days since Capt.Northup died, more than ten days since Mr. Waite and Ellen Wood were taken sick, and four days since they died. Had these three persons, or any one of them, died of yellow fever, more new cases would have existed here. At 6 p. m. no new cases have been re ported to the board of health. Surgeon Carter, who arrived here yesterday, has been ordered to Brunswick, at that place has re ported two new cases of yellow fever there. This leaves Surgeon MacGruder as the only representa tive here of the national depart ment, but Surgeons Murray and Hatton are expected to-morrow. There is much rejoicing over the decision of the Waite case. NO NEW8 FROM BRUNSWICK. WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.-Surgeon General Wyman of the Marine Hospital Service received no in formation to-day from Brunswick, Ga., regarding the yellow fever outbreak. Dr. Carter, who has been at Pensacola, Fla., will leave there to-night for Brunswick to direct the medical campaign. He will be succeeded at Pensacola by Dr. Hutton, who came on from Detroit yesterday. Dr. Hutton was in com mand of Camp Ferry, the yellow fever hospital of Florida, in 1888. Before leaving Pensacola Dr. Car ter telegraphed to Dr. Wyman, con firming the verdict of the local medical authorities in the Waite case, that the victim did not die of yellow fever. As to the Woods case, however, he could npt express an opinion. Dr. Carter also re ported that the cordon around the naval reservation at Pensacola had been completed and was in suc cessful operation. CHARLESTON ON THE SAFE SIDE. CHARLESTON, S. C., Aug. 13.-The Charleston board of health to-day ordered quarantine against Bruns wick, Ga. Tha step is purely pre cautionary, and little uneasiness is felt either by the authorities or the people of the city. The health department announces that similar action is to be taken in regard to other cities in which yellow fever may be. Reunion Co. K,15th S. C.V. There will be a reunion of Co. K, 15th S. C. V., at McCormick, on the 26th day of August, 1893. The members of the old company are earnestly requested to turu out. All old "Robs" are respectfully in vited. S. E. FREELAND. SOUP CPPIDP COLLEGE ?COLUMBIA, S. C. Session begins September 26th, Foi Courses il Classical, Literary, Sciei tifie, and Law; with eleotive studit in higher classes. New Gymnasium Well appointed Laboratory, Chemica Physical, Biological, etc. Necessar Expenses, from $145 to $210. For further information address tb President, JAMES WOODROW. Erskine College Due West, S. C. Opens first Monday in October nex OFFERS CLASSICAL AM) SCIENTIFIC COURSE Large and handsome building con pleted. Delightful climate. Now in the 54th Year of its Existent Totiu Expenses for Board and Tuition, $15 Write for Catalogue. W. M. GEIEE, President. GREENVILLE, S. C. Session o? 1893-94 begins Wete?ay, Sept. % Attendance, 242. Corps of Instructor! 18. Course of study, thorough an comprehensive. Department of Music-Wade I Brown, (Artist Graduate of New Eng land Con. of Music) Director. , Full Conservatory Course-In Pian? Voice. Violin, Organ, Viola-Harmon and Theory. Assistant instructors ar Conservatory graduates. Department of Art thorougbl equipped. Health record, unrivalled. Terms of board, tuition, music, etc low and reasonable. Daughters of Ministers of the Gos pel are accorded reduced rates. Two girls coming from the sam family are given special rates. Correspondence requested. Send for new catalogue. Address, A. S. TOWNES, !* President. THE EDGEFIELD Male and Femali THE Trustees announce to the put lie that this school will open o Monday, Sept. 4,1893 and continne ten months, forty weeki with a recess of one week at Christ mas. There, will be three department: each carefully graded : The Primary, embracing 2 years. The Intermediate, embracing 4 year The Academic, embracing 4 years. Provision is also made for Music an Art Departments, under competer teachers. Arrangements for studic higher than the Academic will be mad hereafter, if it be deemed best to do si The rates of tuition will be as follows In the Primary Department, first ~ and second years, per month.. $ l.C lu the Intermediate Department, 1st and 2nd years, per month.. 2.C In the Intermediate Department 3rd and 4th years, per month.. 3.( In the Academic Department, 1st and 2nd years, per month. 3.C In the Academic Department, 3rd and 4th years, per month. 4.C In the. Music Department, per month. 4.C In the Art Department, per month. 3.C From these charges will be deduci ed the pro rata amount allowed fe each pupil from the public school furn The trustees have committed thi school to the management of Dr. L R. GW?LTNE1? He will be aided in each departmer by competent teachers. It will be see that tbe basis of financial suppoi which has been in operation for se^ eral years has been abandoned, th trustees having fully decided that : is better to have fixed rates of tuitio for all pupils. If the citizens of Edge field will heartily standby "The Ir stitute," they will have a good scho< in which they may take a commend! ble pride. The Principal is well knowi He returns to Edgefield to become tl pastor of the Baptist Church, and t give his matured experience to tl work of educating our boys and girl Good board can be had for $8 to $] per month. W. E. PRESCOTT, Chairman. I Liquor, Morphine, Tobacco, Et The liquor, morphine, and chlor; habits absolutely cured under guarai tee. Particulars given by letter or i person at my office, which is open a hours of the day. There is no use to go away froi home and spend hundreds of doll ai for treatment, when you can be cure at home for a much smaller amount. J. GLOVER TOMPKINS, M. D. Edgefield, C. H., S. C. Work the Roads. Mt AUL road-overseers in the Count are hereby instructed to call oi their hands and have the roads put i thorough good condition by the fin day of September next. Herein fa not. J. A. WHITE, D. W.PADGETT, J. W. BANKS, County Comm'rs. Executor's Sale. WE will sell at the town of Plui Branch on the 9th day of Octobi next, a plantation known as the Jame Jennings' place, containing 1,300 acre more or less, said farm being on Byr Creek. Will sell the whole or divid it into four different tracts to suitpui chasers. Said land is bounded as fol lows: North, by lands of Thoma Moton, White, and Deal ; East, by land of Hon. W. J. Talbert, and Mrs. N. I B. Cartledge; West, by lands of Mr? Price Morgan and A. Talbert. TKBHS: One-fourth the purchas money in cash, the balance in one an two years. W. D. JENNINGS, Sr., J. H. JENNINGS, Executors. Notice of Application fo Homestead. NOTICE is herewith given to a! concerned, that Mrs. Sallie I Hughes, widow of the late A. ? Hughes, deceased, has filed her petitio in this court, praying that a homestea be assigned to her out of the propert of the'late A. J. Hughes, as prescribe by law. I will pass on the same tb 12th day of September, 1893. W. F. ROATH, Master E. C. i \ i PRIZES ON PATENTS. How to Get 2,500 Dollars for Nothing. The Winner Has a Clear Gif t of a Small Fortune, and the Losers Have Patents that may Bring Them In Still more. Would you like to make twenty-five hundred dollars? If you would, read carefully what follows and you may see a way to do it. The Press Clams Company devotes much attention to patents. It has handled thousands of applications for inventions, but it would like to handle thousands more. There is plenty of inventive talent at large in this coun try, needing nothing but encourage ment to produce pratical results. That encourgement the Press Claims Company proposes to give. NOT SO HARD AS IT SEEMS. A patent strikes most people as an appallingly formidable thing. The idea is that an inventor must be a natural genius, like Edison or Bell; that he must devote years to delving in complicated mechancial problems and that he must spend a fortune on delicate experiments before he can get a new device to a patentable de gree of perfection. This delusion the company desires to dispel. It desires to get into the head, of the publio a clear comprehension of the fact that it is not the great, complex, and expensive inventions that bring the best returns to their authors, but the little, simple, and cheap ones-the things that seem so absurdly trivial that the average citizen would feel somewhat ashamed of bringing them to the attention of the Pr*ent;Office. Edison says that the profits he has received from the patents on all his marvelous inventions have not been sufficient to pay tbe cost of his ex periments. But the man who conceived the idea of fastening a bit of rubber cord to a childe ball, so that it would come back to the hand when thrown made a fortune out of his scheme. The modern sewing machine is a miracle of ingenuity-the product of the toil of hundreds of busy brains through a hundred and fifty years, but the whole brilliant result rests upon the simple device of putting the eye of the needle at the point instead of at the other end. THE LITTLE THINGS THE MOST VALU ABLE. Comparatively if iv people . regard themselves as Inventors, but 'almost everybody has been struck, at one time or another, with ideas that seemed calculated to reduce some of the little frictions of life. Usually such are ideas dismissed without further thought. "Why don't the railroad company make its car windows so that they can be slid up and down without breaking the passengers' backs?" exclaims the traveler. "If I were running the road I would make them in such a way." ,'What was the man that made this saucepan thinking of?" grumbles the cook. "He never had to work over a stove, or he would have known how it ought to have been fixed." ' ''Hang such a collar button 1" growls the man who is late for breakfast "If I were in the business I'd make buttons that wouldn't slip out, or break off, or gouge out the back of my neck." And then the various sufferers for get about their grievancet and begin to think of something else. If they would sit down at the next convenient opportuni.y, put their ideas about car windows, saucepana,and collar buttons into practioal shape, and then apply for patents, they might find themselves as independently wealthy as the man, who invented the iron umbrella ring or the one who patentedjthejflf teen puzzle. A TEMPTING OFFER.* To induce people to keep track of their bright ideas and see what there is in them, the Press. Claims Company has resolved to offer a prize. To the person whs submits to it the simplest and most promising inven tion, from a commercial point of view, the company will give twenty-five hundred dollars in. cash, addition to refunding the fees for securing the patent. It will also 'advertise the .invention free of charge. This offer is subject to the following conditions :" Every competitor must obtain a patent for bis invention through the company. He must first apply fora preliminary search, the cost of which will be five dollars. Should this search show his invention to be unpatentabh he can withdraw without further ex pense. Otherwise he will be expected to complete his application and take out a patent in the regular way. The total expense, including Government and Bureau fees,will be seventy dollars. For this, whether he secures the prize or not, the inventor will have a patent that ought to be a valuable property to him. The prize will be awarded by a jury consisting of three reputable patent attorneys of Washington. In tending competitors should fill out the following blank, and forward it with their application : "-,-,1892. "I submit the ?within described in vention in competition for the Twenty-five hundred Dollar Prize offered by the Press Claims Company. U _I? NO BLANKS IN THIS COMPETITION. This is a competition of rather an unusual nature. It is common to offer prizes for the best story, or picture, or architectural plan, all the competitors risking the loss of their labor and the successful one merely (selling his for the amount of the prize. But the Press Claims Company's offer is something entirely different. Each person is asked merely to help himself, and the one who helps himself to the best ad vantage is to be rewarded for doing it. The prize is only a stimulus to do something that would bowell worth doing without it. The architect whose competitive plan fora club house on a certain corner is not accepted has spent his labor on something of very little use to him. But the person who patents a simple and useful device in the Press Claims Company's competi tion' need not worry ii he fail to secure the prize. He has a substantial result to show for his work-one that will command its value in the market at any time. The plain man who uses any article in his daily work ought to know bet ter how to improve it than the mechanizal expert who studies it only from the theoretical point of view. Get rid of the idea that an improve ment can be too simple to be worth patenting. The simpler the better. The person who best succeeds in combining simplicity and popularity, will get the Press Claims Compay's twenty-five hundred dollars. The responsibility of this company may be judged from the fact that its stock is neld by about three hundred of the leading newspapers of the United States. Address the Press Claims Company, John Wedderburn, managa attorney, 918 FJstreet, N. W. Washington, JD. C. The Union Mutual Lie Insurance Co., OE" I?OH/riiA3SrU, "M"AT"N"?J. Its Folies are tte Host Liberal Now Offered to fte Pole. Ia the only existing Company whose policies are, or can be subject to, the MAINE NON-FOEFEITUEE LAW. WHAT IT IS: The Maine Non-Forfeiture law pro tects polices from forfeiture by reason of default of payment of premiums, lt provides that, after three years' pre miums haye been paid, failure to pay any subsequent premiums shall not forfeit a policy, but it shall continue in force for its full amount until the reserve (lees a small surrender charge; upon the policy is exhausted. The reserve isa sum made up of por tions of each and every premium paid upon a policy in anticipation of its maturity. Beginning with a small portion of the first premium, it is in creased eacn year by the addition of each subsequent premium, and grows larger year by year, until, at maturity, it exactly equals the face of the policy. When a policy is discontinued there fore, there is in the hands of tbe Com pany a reserve greater or less, accord ing to the character and age of the policy. Instead of permitting the Com pany, upon non-payment of premium, to confiscate this reserve, the Maine Non-Forfeiture Law requires the Com pany to continue the policy in force until the policy-holder receives an equivalent font in extended insur ance. HOW IT WORKS: As If a person, aged 35, pays three years' premiums upon a twenty pay ment Life policy and then discontinues payment, the policy will be continued 4 years and 257 days longer; if he pays five premiums, and then discontinues, the insurance will continue 7 years and 357 days longer. If the policy is a twenty year en dowment, same af e, three years' pay ments will give an extension of 8 years and 150 days; five years* payment 13 ?ears, 300 days. . If the policy is a 15 "ear Endowment, ($1,000) same age, three years' payments will secure in surance to the end of the endowment Bsriod and $13.68 in cash if insured ves till that time, and in like manner ten years' payment secures insurance for the full 15 years and $582.17 in cash. These extensions vary with the age of the insured, the class of policy, and the number of payments made; they are stated^ in each policy, in years and days, for each number of payments, so that the policy-holder knows at a glance exactly what he is entitled to if he discontinues his payments at any time. WHAT IT HAS DONE : A The Company Has Paid Over Two Hundred Death Claims, in consequence of this law, aggregating in sums insured more than Four Hun dred Thousand Dollars. In every case there had been a de fault in the payment of premium, and, except for this law, the policies would have been of little or no value. Instead of this, the insurance in each case was extended to the time of death, and the Company was required to pay to the beneficiaries under the policies the sum of $418,335.77. The Valne of Maine Law Eit ens?oas as Compared with Paid-np Values: It is the custom of many companies to provide in their policies that, upon discontinuance of payment of Premium, paid-up policies will be given without the option of extension. This was the practice of the Union Mutual before the Maine Non-Forfeiture Law was enacted, but it now substitutes for paid-up values the more advantageous plan of extended insurance. The objection to the paid-up system is that the amount of paid-up insurance which is given upon the discontinuance of payments upon a policy, unless it has been in force a great many years is insignificant, and of little or no value as protection ; and it leaves the insured who ceases payment' without adequate insurance at the very time he needs it the most. The great advantage of the extended insur ance anorded by the Maine Law over the most liberal paid-up system is strikingly shown by the following comparison, and it will be ob served that the paid-up value is insignificant in comparison with the amount actually paid by the Union Mutual The result of two hun dred and twelve policies was this : If the insured had received paid-up policies instead of extended in surance, the Company would have had to pay in settlement of the claims only.*.. $98,197.50 Whereas, in fact, it did pay under the Maine Law. $418,344.77 Making a difference in favor of the beneficiaries under Two Hundred .nd Twelve policies of. $320,147.28 The policies are free from ALL restrictions, and incontestable after ONE YEAR. A grace of one month is given in the payment of premiums. For further information call on, or address, B. B. E V A. N S, Manager for South Carolina, Office, No. 1,Advertiser Building, BDO-EF?ELID? S I O i