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Edgefield Advertiser THURSDAY, AUG. 24,1893. L0GAL2 BREVITIES. Senator Butler cam6 from Wash ington to attend the funeral of his niece, Mrs. Dugas, on Monday. Cotton is opening slowly in these regions, and a few cotton hampers could be now sold in this market. "The world is still deceived with ornament," is no less true to-day than when. Shakespeare.'wKto these lines. . - Mr. J. M. Westbrook, of Beech Island, has already sold in Au gusta eight bales of thiB year's cotton. Judge Campbell's bakery will soon be on the public square, he having rented one of ' Senator But ler's stores. - Meat is still quoted and sold at 10? to 10?, and there has beena break and slight decline in other kinds of provisions. The election for Auditor is be ing held to-day, Wednesday. The second primary will be on next Wednesday week, Sept. 6th. The sales bf our "Samlog" dur ing court week amounted to $500. "Samlag" is the Norwegian name tor dispensary ; don't forget this. Mr. John R. Durisoe, of the Edgefield Farmer, has received an appointment in the government printing office in Washington, D. C. Rev. B. 0. Berry, of Parksville, has finished his labors at Barr's Chapel. The result was that ten adults and twelve children joined the church. Having "injuncted" everything in sight, Judge Hudson has fiually "injuncted" himself. He says he couldn't fight the devil and Tom Walker too. Mr. R. L. Fox, our popular jew eller, who has been at the World's Fair for the past two or three months, will reach home about the v28th of August. Mrr.T. W. Waites and family, who have been living in the Bun combe part of our town, will move "back to their h?rne in the Modoc section about the first of Septem ber. We regret tp lose such good citizens. Jerry Gardner says he believes the Tillmanites will drink them selves^to death to make the dis pensary pay, and that the antis ?will perish before they will buy a drop just to make the dispensary a financial failure. The Granileviile factory has just sold 1T100 bales of cotton, goods for expori. This is the biggest sale of the season and the first"f?reex port. Perhaps the tide is aboutit? turn,and good times are almost here-the k indy ou have read about butnever felt or saw. . In the United States Court, held at Greenville last week, Jesse C. Duffie, an Edgefield bey, a cripple and quite young, was convicted of robbing a postoffice in this county and sentenced to a reformatory in Columbus, Ohio, for three years. Great sympathy was expressed for the youthful criminal, and Judge Simon ton 'was as lenient as possi ble. The New York World's figures show that there are $325,000,000 out of circulation in the United States. This huge amount has been hoai*ded by the people ,-in their financial scare. And this money' the World says, has been hidden away in the people's socks. It may be true, but doesn't reflect on Edgefield in the least. We haven't got the money to hide away, and if we had we haven't got the socks to spare. An item, from au exchange, which fits everywhere: A local newspaper is often accused of bia3 in regard to giving personal notices or mentioning the coming or going of some and.omitting others. The fault is with the people and not with the editor. He is always will ing and even anxious to tell who. comes and goes'if he can find out." If you have visitors, let us know who they are and where "they come from. You will find.us as ready to "notice" one as another, patrons or otherwise, friends or foes. Our object is to give the news. Goinpr to Vote. The beautiful oil painting above represents one of the candidates for Auditor leading a friend to the polls to vote for him. This friend j has a bottle of Samlag in his hand to which he clings with grim clutch. In the distance the box and the manager await the, arrival of the belated voter. The hour is late. It is only one minute to 6 o'clock; The polls are about to close. Will they "get there?" If the little man would drop his bottle of Samlag they could get along faster, but he won't do it. Do you want to know i the little man's name? Well His name is Sam , And he don't; care a damn, He'd rather be a nigger Than a poor white man, The constitutionality of. *he dispensary law will be settled for good and all by our Supreme Court in November. * Rev. John Lake preached in Aiken last week in the Baptist Church. His discourses .were highly commended by the local press. Senator W.H.Timmerman,wife, and dsraghter, are spending a few weeks at Hillman's well. A very pleasant letter from the Senator in another column. "Cool as a cucumber," is not a piece of slang buta scientific fact, ^the?.fe^^afti?e| j&f^the '*vegetable alw?yi oeirjgf a *de{free'bek>w that of the surrounding atmosphere. Locusts are playing the wilds up in Greenville county, the seven teen year variety ; they are num bered by the millions, and are so voracious that they eat the blades of the corn to the very stalk. They even eat the leaves of the trees, briars, and everything green that, comes in.tfieir path. A Welcome Addition. Mr. Ira P. Culbreath, Clerk Jno. B. Hill's efficient and'courteous deputy, expects to bring his familj' to Edgefield to live,?ia the early fall. This will be a welcome ad dition to our society. Another Merchant Goes. Mr. Jas. M. Cobb leaves for New York this week to make his usual fall and winter purchases of dry goods. This* is the firstN?eparture of the season and indicates the character of the man, "to get there first," and when Cobb goes north the people rejoice with? exceeding great joy. ?? V Leave for New York. Messrs. Alvin; and-jlSdg?r Hart, of the firms of Alvin H?rt*& Co., and E. B. Hart & Co., will leave our town DUs'ne^t Monday for the metropolis, "New York, to buy fall and winter goods. 7/hile goods are cheap these? enterprising gen tlemen propose to get the best arti cles at the lowest figures. Wise merchants! happy customers 1 Distressing1 Accident. On Friday last the little four year-old son of Mr. S?m L?rick tell into a well at his home about five miles from Batesburg and re ceived such injuries that he died within fifteen minutes after being taken out.: The father has been crazed by the horrible fate of his child and has to bo watched to prevent him from committing suicide. Two Rustirats. Dime reading Monday night at 8:30 o'clock in the Y. M. C. A. Hall for the benefit of the Baptist Church. If the weather should be unfavorable, the entertainment will be postponed to Tuesday night. To assist in the programme, Sylla Backstitch and. Doria Squeezer fast, two "rustirats" .. from Geor-. gi a will come over from Augusta on the, night train in time to par ticipate. Refreshments will be servBd^and everybody should at tend. i\-f~-~J^^ - ? rt . Mrs. Douschka Dugas. All that was mortal of this be loved lady, only daughter of Mrs. Gov. Pickens, was laid to rest in our village cemetery on Monday last. The immense concourse of weeping friends at her obsequies testify at once to her popularity and their sympathy and love for Ihe bereaved mother. May the divine benediction rest upon the home and hearts thus made lonely and desolate, and Maj the dews on her grave fall as sweat As the pitying tread of an angel's feet. Medical College of Georgia. . "Vfe call attention to the adver tisement of the famous old insti tution which appears in another .column. Many an Edgefield phy sician has graduated at the college in the days that are gone and many more we are safe to predict will matriculate there in the future. The next term begius on the first Monday in Octobor prox., and closes on the 1st of April. The faculty is now composed of the following strong'names: DeSaus sure Ford, M. D., Dean ; Thos. R. Wright, M. D., Secretary ; George W. Rains, M. D., LL.D., Emeritus Professor of Chemistry ; DeSaus sure Ford, M. D., Professor of the Principles and Practice of Sur gery; Thos. R. Wright, M. D., Professor of Anatomy and Clinical Surgery ; Theodore Lamb, M; D., Professor of the Institutes and Principles of Medicines, and Dis eases of the Chest ; W. H. Doughty, Jr., M. D., Professor of Pathology ; J George A. Wilcox, M. D., Professor '. of Obstetrics and Gynecology; i James M. Hull, M. D.,' Prof essor of Diseases of the Eye, Ear, and Throat; Eugene Foster, M. D., 1 Professor of the Practice of Medi cine and Sanitary Science ; R. B. GJass, M. D., Professor of Materia JVledica and Therapeutics; Thos. D. Coleman, M. D., Professor of physiology*; Joseph Edgerton Wil met, -M. D., A. M., Ph.D., LL.D., Professor of General and Medical 1 Chemistry, and Practical Phar- I macy; A. S. Tinsley, M. D., De- , monstrator of Anatomy; L. C. Spece, M. D., and Henry C. i Doughty, M. D., Assistant Demon- ( etrators of Anatomy and Prosec tors to the Professor of Anatomy. Contributed Local. The dime reading at Dr. J. W. Hill's on last Thursday evening wa?""the first given" by the Presby terians and among the m any enjoy able ones given by Methodists and Baptists as well, this one should hold no unimportant place. Not knowing that this form of church entertainment was to become such a ruling fad, it has not been our course in the past to chronicle them, Hereafter we will give a brief sketch of such as we are f t?nate enough to attend. The pleasure of an enterrai ment is always enhanced '?y a go beginning, and in this instance instrumental duet, "Rondeaux variations," plaj'ed by M?SE Brade and Angeli Cheatham wai suitable and delightful introdi tion to the programme. Miss Marie Abney whose voi is always an acquisition to ai performance, charmed her hear? with that rare and popular bj lad, "The Danube River,'' afi which Miss Florence Adams re dered "Lichner's Pearly Cascade a piano solo. Mr. J. T. Parks then read wi unusual skill the humorous diale selection, "Why Sackey Schmidsl girl went back on him." It is a pleasant task to voice tl sentiments of the public in tl admiration which attended tl singing of Miss Eliza Miros, in tl song "Luna." Mr. Weaver, of Charleston, ga^ the selection "Asleep at tl Switch" in a brilliant and inte asting manner. It is unnecessai to mention the singing of the ma quartette who have already mac themselves famous in former ei tertainments. This one is con posed of Messrs. Jacobs, Georf Mims, J. M. Cobb, and E. W. Beal md we must by no meau6 omit I mention the other quartette ( ?vhich Misses Lillie Jones an Tweetie Hill compose two, wi jamed us back to the days of Aul Lang Syne in that ever admire ballad "Juanita." t Much merriment was elicite luring the reading of "Jamie an the Owl" by Judge John Kenn? ri; Mrs. K. W. Cheatham sustaine ber already exalted reputation i \he vocal selection, "In old Mac rid." Bright and popular Miss Juli Prescott executed the piano s?l< 'Twittering of the Birds," wit nuch taste and skill. Duet by Misses Alice Cheathai ind Florence Adams. Miss Cheal lam's beauty and grace at th piano aside from her skilful pei formance, won the admiration au ipplause of all present. "The Famine Scene from Hia ?vatha was given in so pathetic manner by Miss Mary Butler as t ira\v tears from the eyes of som )f her audience. Miss Mary Miras, youthful an pretty, recited the "Last Hymn. Miss Belle Mims whose assisi mee is always appreciated san affectively, anti beautifully, "Th 3owe are in the Clover." F. Hillman's Electric Well and it Virtue-The Edgefield Peo ple Tiiere. DEAR^ADVERTISER: I am her it the sornew.hat noted Electri Wells of Georgia. This place wit] XB electric shafts and its minera md medicinal waters is famous fo Its beneficial and curative effect ipon rheumatism, nervous prostra tion, and paralytic sufferers an< ias wrought some wonderful an< ilmost magic cures. The water ire valuable remedial agents fo renal and cystic affections as wei is some other ailment*. Edgefield is represented here b; MTS. Jack Bunch and her daughtei Mrs. Eidson, of Johnston, and he ?or. Herbert, this scribe, wife, an< laughter, and Mr. Pinckney Tim merman of the Pleasant Lane sec tion. The latter has been cure< >f his rheumatism and is now la boring faithfully upon the farn sere and sleeping in the electri? shaft at night as a prophylactii measure.. Three trains pass each day ex jept Sunday to and from Washing ton, the terminus of this brand road. There are quite a number of in ralids here. We are stopping at the note here whose proprietor, Mr. Hunte: md his estimable wife, are both natives of Edgefield. There is i Mr. Overton and wife living hen also from Edgefield, who furnisl good board at cheaper rates thai at the hotel. Respectfully, ^ W. H. TlMMERMAN. Hillman, Ga. Horses, Cattle, Dogs, etc. The Humphereys' Medicine Campany of New York, will mai! on application a Complimenter) Copy of Dr. Humphreys' Veteri nary Manual (500 Pages) on the Treatment and Care of Horses Cattle, Dogs, Hog, Sheep anc Poultry. President Cleveland is report?e to have made this remark to i Congressman who called at th< White House the day after the ex tra session opened for thepurpos? of presenting the claims of one o: his constituents to an office : "] will not look at a single paper, no: listen to a single application, uuti this silver matter is settled, an( I am amazed that anybody shoul< think of coming to me upon thesi trifling matters when this night mare is hanging over us." -|DOUSCHKAPICKMSMJGJ - TJie Death of this Well Knovt [ and Brilliant Lady in Edgefield J Who has not known or read < Douschka Pickens, the darling i old Edgefield and the sweethea in days gone by of all the boys i Carolina? Edgefield was her childhood home, her girlhood^ home ar later the home of her your 3 womanhood; in that home si : died this morning. The sad nev came to the city and it was ri . c?ived with deep regret here, f( this was the home of her youri married life. Here she lived ? , Mrs. Dr. Geo. C. Dugas, for h was the young Georgian wh 1 wooed and won the belle c Carolina. Her death was unexpected following a brief illness, an 1 deepest sympathy is extended t her devoted mother, to her husband and to all the family. Cut off ii the prime of young womanhooi her death is a sad blow to thos who loved her and long will sh be mourned and longer still wil her memory be cherished in oh Edgefield.-Evening News. MRS. DE. G. C. DUGAS DEAD. Mrs Douschka Pickens Duga died at her home near Edgefield ? C., yesterday morning, was the sad news that shocked and grieve* hundreds of Augustans yesterday for very few of . her friends kne? that she had been sick at all. Three weeks ago she was ii Augusta visiting relatives, ant then she was slightly indisposed but no alarm was felt over he: condition. About ten days ago she grew some worse, and since that tim* she began gradually to sink, when yesterday morning at 8 o'cloci her soul took its flight to its eterna resting place. Mrs. Dr. Dugas was i thoroughly charming and lovabli woman, and from her earliest childhood she has been the idol of Edgefield, and when a young lady,she was one of the reigning belles of South Carolina. Every one in Edgefield county loved and admired her, and by kindness and sweet charity she had drawn around her a host o? friends who will greatly .mourn her loss. Mrs. Dugas was the youngest daughter of th? late Gov. Pickens of South Carolina, who was one ol the most prominent and foremost men of his time. She was 36 years old, and leaves three young children, her mother and a husband to mourn their irreparable loss. The deepest sympathy of the entire community is extended to the grieved family in this their hour of grief and trial. The following dispatch was received^yesterday morning : Edgefield. S. C. Aug. 19-Mrs. Dr. George C. Dugas died" -afr-Iier home in Edgefield this morning^ She leaves a husband, three bright little children, and a mother to mourn her loss. Mrs. Dugas was kind-hearted and popular, and beloved by the whole of Edgefield. The funeral will take place Sunday morning in the village cemetery. Augusta Chronicle. Former World's Fairs. The first great international ex position was that held at London in the Cristal Palace, in 1851. The next similar undertaking was the "exhibition of the industry of all nations," held at New York in 1853. This was held in Crystal Palace, which was. afterward des troyed by fire. A similar exhibi tion was also held in Dublin in the same year. In 1854 an exhibition was held in Munich, which was at first very successful, but cholera appeared and caused such a fright that the enterprise was abandoned. The first great Paris international exposition was held in 18551. The second English international ex hibition was held in 'London in 1862. Next in order were those held at Constantinople in 1863 ; Bayonne, 1865; Dublin, 1865; Cologne. Oporto and Stockholm in 1865 ; Melbourne, 1866 ; Agra, 1867. Then came the great Paris ex position of 1867, followed by several smaller ones at various places, until ?1873, when a very fine one was held in Vienna. The next important display was the Philadelphia centennial. Again a number of smaller ones, then the 1 great Paris exposition of 1880, and ' now the World's Columbian Exposi tion in Chicago, the greatest of all. Executor's Sale. [ , \XTE will sell at the town of Plum YV Branch on the 0th day of October ) next, a plantation known as the James , Jennings' place, containing 1,300 acres, more or less, said farm being on Byrd ? Creek. Will sell the whole or divide ? it into lour different tracts to suit pur \ chasers. Said land is bounded as fol - lows: North, by lands of Thomas - Moton, White, and Deal ; East, by lands of Hon. W. J. Talbert, and Mrs. N. P. 1 B. Cartledge; West, by lands of Mrs. i; Price Morgan and A. Talbert. , TERMS: One-fourth the purchase 1 money in cash, the balance in one and 5 two years, W. D. JENNINGS, Sr., J. H. JENNINGS, Executors. CANDIDATES. FOR AUDITOR. lama candidate for County Auditor, and will abide the result of the pri mary. , J. W. JOHNSON. I am a candidate for the office of Auditor, and will abide the result of the primary election. BEN J. W. RUSHTON. lam a candidate for the position of Auditor, and will abide the result of the primary election. ALBERT W. RUSHTON. I am a candidate for.County Auditor, and will abide the result of the pri mary election. WALTER J. PADGETT. I am a candidate for the position of Auditor of Edenfield county, and will abide the result of the primary election. JAS, B. ADAMS. I am a candidate, not at the solicita tion of friends, many or few, for the position of Auditor, and will abide the result of the primary election. JAS. D. FRASER. SOUTH C3B0LI0B COLLEGE, COLUMBIA, S. C. Session begins September 26th, Four Courses: Classical, Literary, Scien tific, and Law; with elective studies in higher classes. New Gymnasium. Well appointed Laboratory, Chemical, Physical, Biological, etc. Necessary Expenses, from $145 to $210. For further information address the President, JAMES WOODROW. Erskine College, Due West, S. C. Opens first Monday in October next. OFFERS-CLASSICAL AND SCIENTIFIC COURSES. Large and handsome building com pleted. Delightful climate. Now in the 54th Year of its Existence. Total Expenses for Board and Tuition, $130. J?j^" Write for Catalogue. W. M. GRIER, President. iii Female Goto, GREENVILLE, S. C. Session of 1893-94 1? We?nesday, Sept. 27. Attendance, 242. Corps of Instructors, 18. Course of study, thorough and comprehensive. Department of Music-Wade R. Brown, (Artist Graduate of New Eng land'Con. of Music) Director. Full Conservatory Course-In Piano, Voice, Violin, Organ, Viola-Harmony and Theory. Assistant instructors are Conservatory graduates. Department of Art thoroughly 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 same family are given special rates. ' Correspondence requested. Send for new catalogue. Address, A. S. TOWNES, ' President. THE EDGEFIELD Male and Female THE Trustees announce to the pub lic that_this school will open on MondayTSeptr-4,. 1893, and continne ten months, forty weeks, with a recess of one week at Christ mas. There will be three departments, each carefully graded : The Primary, embracing 2 years. The Intermediate, embracing 4 years. The Academic, embracing 4 years. Provision is also made for Music and Art Departments, under competent teachers. Arrangements for studies higher than the Academic will be made hereafter, if it be deemed best to do so. The rates of tuition will be as follows : In the PrimaryDepartment, first and second years, per month.. $ 1.00 In the Intermediate Department, 1st and 2nd years, per month.. 2.00 In the Intermediate Department 3rd and 4th years, per month.. 3.00 In the Academic Departmen t, 1 st . and 2nd years, per month. 3.00 In the Academic Department, 3rd and4th years,permonth. 4.00 In the Music Department, per month. 4.00 In the Art Department, per month. 3.00 From these charges will be deduct ed the pro rata amount allowed for each pupil from the public school fund. The trustees have committed this school to the management of Dr. L. R. GWALTNEY. He will be aided in each department by competent teaohers. It will be seen that the basis of financial support which has been in operation for sev eral years has been abandoned, the trustees having fully decided that it is better to have fixed rates of tuition for all pupils. If the citizens of Edge field will heartily stand by "The In stitute," they will have a good school in which they may takr a commenda ble pride. The Principal is well known. He returns to Edgefleld to become the pastor of the Baptist Church, and to give his matured experience to the work of educating our boys and girls. Good board can be had for $8 to $10 per month. W. E. PRESCOTT, Chairman. Liquor, Morphine, Tobacco, Etc. The liquor, morphine, and chloral habits absolutely cured under guaran tee. Particulars given by letter or in person at my office, which is open all hours of the day. There is no use to go away from home and spend hundreds of dollars for treatment, when you can be cured at home for a much smaller amount. J. GLOVER TOMPKINS, M. D. Edgefleld, C. H., S. C. Work the Roads. ALL road-overseers in the County are hereby instructed to call out their hands and have the roads put in thorough good condition by the first day of September next. Herein fail not. J. A. WHITE, D. Wi P A.DGETT, j;W.BANKS, County Comm'rs. Subscribe t? the Edgefleld AD VERTISER. PRIZES ON PATENTS. How to Get 2,500 Dollars for Nothing. The Winner Has a Clear Gift of a Small Fortune, and the Losers Have Patents that may Bring i Them lu 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 conn try, needing nothing but encourage ment to produce pratical results. That encouragement the Press Claims Company proposes to give. NOT SO HARD AS IT SEEMS. A patent strikes most people as an ippallingly formidable thing. The idea Is that an in ventor must be a natural genius, like Edison or Sell; that he nust devote years to delving in complicated mechancial problems and ;hat he must spend a fortune on ?elicate experiments before he can ^et a new device to a paten tab la de cree of perfection. This delusion the company desires to dispel.It desires to ?jet into the head, of the public a clear comprehension of the fact that it is not the great, complex, and expensive inventions that bring the best returns to their authors, hut 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 PatentOfflce. Edison says that the profits he has received from the patents on all his marvelous inventions have not been sufllcient to pay the cost of his ex periments But the man who conceived the idea of fastening a bit of rubber cord to achild(s 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. THK LITTLE THINGS THE MOST VALU ABLE. Comparatively rew people regard themselves as inventors, but 'almost ?verybody 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 [ would make them in such a way." ,'What was the man that made this saucepan thinking of?" grumbles the sook. "He never had to work overa stove, or he would have known how it 3ught 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 bufferers for get about their grievancet and begin to think of something else. If they would sit down at the next convenient opportnni.y, pat their ideas about car windows, saucepang,and collar buttons into practical snape, 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 patentedjthe^flfteen puzzla. A TEMPTING OFFEB.J 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 yiew, 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 his invention through the company. He must first apply for a 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 : % u-;-S1892. "I submit the ?within described in vention in competition for the Twenty-five hundred Dollar Prize offered by the Press Claims Company. u_?? NO BLANKS IN THI8 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 be well worth doing without it. The architect whose competitive plan fora club house on a certain corner is not accepted has 3pent 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 if 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 improva 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 he worth patenting. The simpler thebetter, '?ne person who best succeeds in carabirung simplicity ap,d nopqhirity, 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 Stales. Address the Press Claims Company, John Wedderburn, managa attorney, 918 F street, N, W. Washington, p. C, The Union Mutual Life Insurance Co., lb Policies are tie Most Litera! Now Offered to the Pole. Is the only existing Company whose policies are, or can be subject to, the MAINE NON-FORFEIT UEE 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 f ?e 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 (less 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 the Com pany a reserve greater or less, ac Ord 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: m 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 ?ve premiums, and then discontinues, the insurance will continue 7 years and 357 days longer. If the policy is a twenty year en dowment, same age, three years' pay ments will give an extension of 8 years and 160days; five years' payment 13 years, .100 days. If the policy is a 15 Tear Endowment, ($1,000)same ag?, three years' payments will secure In surance to the end of the endowment Esriod and $13.68. in cash if insured ves till that time, and in like manne r ten years' payment, secures insurance for the full 15 years and $592.17 in cash. These extensions vary with the ?ge 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 : 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 wonld 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. Tfee Yalne o? Maine Law Ertensioas as Comparei witi Paid-np Vaines: As 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 afforded 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 and Twelve policies of. $320,147.28 The policies are free from ALL restrictions, and incontestable after ONE YEAR. ? grace of one month i9 given in the payment of premiums. For further information call on, or address, B. B. EVANS, Manager for South Carolina^ Office, No. 1,Advertiser Building,