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TH0S. J. ADAMS, PROPRIETOR. EDGEFIELD, S. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14,1894. _-:---i--' r VOL. LIX. NO. 42. 7 Weak Mothers and all women who are nursing babies, derive almost incon ceivable benefits from the nourishing properties of Scott's Emulsion This is the most nourishing food known to science. It en riches the mother's milk and gives her strength. It also makes babies fat and gives more nourishment to growing children than all the rest of the food they eat. Scott's Emulsion has been prescribed by physicians for twenty years for Eickets, Marasmus, "Wasting Diseases of Ohildren, Goughs, Golds, Weak Lungs, Emaciation and Consumption. Sendfor pamphlet on Scott's Emulsion. FREE. Scott & Bowne, N. Y. All Druggists. 50 cents and $1. SILVER BLOCK, I207 BROADWAY, AueusT?. ?-A. We offer to the Farming and Country People a special line of j goods, honest, strictly solid leather Shoes, which cannot be excelled | for style and durabilitv, at the lowest possible prices. SILVER SHOE CO. brand Shoes acknowledged the best in the 1 city. Our Goods are especially made for us, and we sell nothing but we can guarantee, and at Rock Bottom Prices. A trial will make you | our friends and cnstomers. Remember, Silver Shoe & Hat Co. Leaders in Good Honest Goods, at BOTTOM PRICES.; WM. F. SAMPLES Formerly with E. T. Murphy cfc Co., now with Arrington Brothers & Co., Groceries and Plantation Sunplies, ?ni -oT>r\ \ T~. cr^T) T? "c HP 'A ri mi CT A fs"A 621 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA. (Xorth side street, half block above Railroad Crossing.) He cordially irrvites and would be gladi to wait on all his friends and acquaintances. WW MIS 101'! One of the Largest Organization.s Devoted to High Class Cental Practice in the Unite d States. Pledged to the Promotion of Scientific D entistry at Moderate Prices. TEETH WITHOUT PLATES. Almalgam Fillings. 50c. up Platina Fillings.-. 75c. up Gold Fillings.$1 00 up Best Set of Teeth (either upper or lower set.). 8 00 A Good Set of Teeth for. 5 50 Extracting Teeth. 50c. Crowns and Teeth Without Plate:? at Same Rates. PERFECT FITTING ARTI FICIAL TEETH and Best Workmanship Guaranteed, or Money cheerfully refunded. Only the Best Material Used. J 810 Broad Street. [Over Mullarky & Harty.] Augusta, Ga. ?iaS/ES?iEsnxr ??? TUTT, - WHOLESALK AND RETAIL Grocers and Commission Merchants, -AND DEALERS IN FLOUR, CORN, SUGAR, TEAS, MEAL, OATS, COFFEE, RICE, LARD, HAY, MOLASSES, SPICES, MEAT, BRAN, SYRUPS, CAN GOODS, Etc AND EVERYTHING IN THE GROCERY LINE. We have NEW BAGGING, PIECE BAGGING, and SUGAR BAG CLOTH, NEW ARROW TIES, whole re-bundled TIES, and piece TIES. We make a specialty of these goods and sell them at VERY LOW PRICES. Call to see us when you come to Augusta. We want the TRADE of EDGEFIELD COUNTY and will make it to your in terest to give it to us. Mr. HILLMAN THOMPSON is with us and will b? glad tovmeet his friends. 843 Broad Street, AUGUSTA, GA. KE Y St ates ville, ? JXT.O., - DISTILLERS AND JOBBERS IN - Pire OMMic?l C. Hai Made Con aid Rye Whiskies Apple and Peach Brandies, We make a specialty of pure goods for private use and medicinal pur pos?s. Our brands are all recognized as standard, and we sell nothing but hign grade goods. We are sole proprietors of the celebrated Key brand of old-fashioned hand made Corn Whiskey and Apple Brandy, packed in cases of one dozen bottles. We quote as fellows, in lots 1 to 10 gallons: N. C. "Poplar Log" Corn Whiskey, $1.25 to $3.00, according to age? Rye Whiskey, $2.00 to $3.00, according to age. / Apple Brandy, $2.00 Peach Brandy, $2.75. Extra charge for jugs. We can Burnish Corn Whiskey in cases of 1, 2. 4, G, and S dozen Dottles to case, in pints, half pints, and quarts, ready for use, at low prices. Can make special prices on barrel shipments. We have the largest stock In the country of old corn whiskey, ripened and mellowed by age, and espe cially recommend it for private use. WM. SCHWEIGERT The Jeweller, Corner Broad and McIntosh Streets. AGRICULTURAL. Cultivation of Orchards. On no other part of the farm is so little attention bestowed as on the orchard. This is the more singular as so much is required of it. The farmer knows L nust fer tilize and cultivate his fields if he wants a crop to harvest, but with the orchard he expects to gather where he has not fed or tilled. If he would only stop to consider he would realize that trees, like men, can die of starvation and if only imperfectly nourished only inferior fruit can be produced. To be profitable orchards muet receive as good care as other crops. To call attention to their require ments the Cornell Station has is sued a bulletin on the cultivation of orchards. Some of the points insisted on are the necessity for good drainage, natural or artificial, the value of good tillage in in creasing the available food supply and conserving moisture and the general superiority of level cul ture. Sod is sometimes allowable in apple and standard pear orchards, but never in other fruit planta tions, says the bulletin. Even then it should be pastured closely with sheep or hogs. If the stock is fed at the same time the land will fare better. Watch a sod orchard. It will begin to fail before you know it. The remedy for these apple failures is to cut down many of the orchards. For the remainder, the treatment is cultivation, fer tilizing, spraying-the trinity of orthodox apple growing. Potash is the chief fertilizer to be applied to fruit frees, particu larly after they come into bearing. An annual application of from 500 to 700 pounds of muriate of potash i may be used to the acre in mature orchards. Cultivation should be gin early and be continued often. It may be stopped late in the sea son and a crop can then be sowr> upon the land to serve both as pro tection to the soil and as a green manure. Crimson clover would seem to be the best for this pur pose. Chinese Swine. The American swine of to-dav are very different from their Eng lish ancestors, who a few centuries ago constituted one of the chief sources of British wealth. The improvement in the race is largely owing to the introduction of the Chinese and Neapolitan breeds. The crossing of the former upon the English hog has resulted in the production of the Berkshire, Essex, Poland China, Small York shire, and Suffolk breeds. The Chinese hog is remarkably prepoteut, as is shown by the ten dency of the modem breeds to re vert to the original type. This is doubtless owing to the many cen turies of in-breeding which have so firmly fixed its characteristics. One of the most important of these is its propensity to fatten under the most adverse circumstances. ThiB superabundance of fat pre vents the flesh of this breed being highly esteemed in thiscountry,but it has had a moBt valuable effect in modifying the lean, gaunt hogs of England, while the Neapolitan has added delicacy of flavor. The original Chinese hog is of a very pecular shape. It has a long body, with short legs, very heavy jowls, small prick ears, short head, neck, and snout, and the eye6 wide apart. In color it is white or black, or a mixture of both, with the white predominating. To Measure an Acre of Land. Few farmers know the size of their fields or how many acres they contain. It is desirable-in fact, indispensable-for good work that a farmer know this, otherwise he cannot apportion seed or manure for it ; nor can he tell how much time it should take to plow, har row, or cultivate it. A goDdcottou cord, the size of a plow Hue, should be kept for this purpose. To make one, buy 67 feet of cotton rope, one inch round; fasten a ring at the end, aud make these rings pre cisely 60 feet a part. This is four rods. Tie a piece of red rag in thb centre. One acre of ground will be a piece four of these cords long, and two and one-half wide equal to 16 by 10 rods, making 160 rode to an acre. The advantage of the rings is that one person can measure alone by driving a stake in the ground to hold the rope while he stretches it out. Tho rope should be soaked ? in tar and then dried. This will prevent its shrinking. Last yeal a neighbor of the writer had a heavy sod plowed by contract at ?$2.50 per acre. Three persons stepped it off. One said it was four acres ; another made it a little over five, and the third Baid it was three and a half acres. The contractor sent over and got this rope, and all five men measured it, and it was found to be just three and a half acres. He had paid to have the grass cut off it for three years at $1 per acre, or $5 each sea son, counting it to be five acres in extent, thus losing $4.50 through ignorance. Get a measuring line, and when not in use, put it away, so that the hands cannot get at it, or they will be very apt to cut a piece off it to tie up harness; thus making it worthless for measuring purposes. Planting- Too Deeply. There is never any necessity for deeply covering seed of any kind. Whether it is done either by hand or machinery, the seed is pretty sure to be planted too deeply. A blight covering, well packed down over the seed is better than de pending on the amount of soil above to pack it. In the spring time especially, planting should be shallow because now the melting snows and the freezing of the sur face soil in winter have left it so moist that ft very little covering of the earth ie sufficient. With very small seeds, sowing on the surface is all that is required. The rains will wash all the soil over them that is needed. The Lunatic Asylum. The Board of Regents of the State Lunatic Asylum held their annual meeti . ' ** office of the the annual r( good many e be of great i generally. The reporl ber of adm will be only about 307, as com pared to 311 during the year pre vious. The average daily popula tion will be a little higher. Last year it was 765, while this year it was 778. The reports will show that the total number of patients under treatment during the year was 1,108, as against 1,115 last year. Dr. Babcock says that these figures show that there has been no real increase of insanity in the State during the year, in propor tion to the population of South I Carolina. He says also that they show that it is the duty of the State to provide quarters for at least 800 patients, as during the year this number has been in the asylum at one time on several oc cassions. Dr. Babcock says that the cost of running the institution per capita will be about $2 less than it was last year. Last year the per capita cost was $132.35. This reduction is due, he thinks, to the close economy practiced to the general reduction in the cost of all food stuffs, save meat, and the increased yield from the asylum farm. Again the board has managed to make many internal hygienic and other improvements. The Game Law. Colombia Journal, 26th ult. The attention of the Governor was called to the game laws of the State yesterday by the inquiry of a man who wished to hunt on his own land. The Governor showed him the Acts of the Legislature relating to the subject. They are in effect that no partridge, wood cock, deer, quail, or wild turkey can be killed in the State before the' 1st of November, and after that time for five years from De December, 1893, it is unlawful for any one to kill any of these named animals unless they are on that person's land. Friends may be in vited to hunt on another's land and in that case the law does not apply. Persons outside of the State coming here to hunt are required to pay a license fee of $25 before they are allowed to hunt at ail. For violation of thia law the penalty is $10 fine or ten days im prisonment. One is not allowed to expose for sale any of the named animals ex cept such as are killed on his land. See the very beBt $1 50 shoe in the world at J. W. Marsh & Co.'s, Johnston. Buy shoes from J. W. Marsh & Co., Johnston. CORRESPONDENCE [For the ADVERTISER. Dots from Mine Creek. Not having seen anything in your paper from this section in some time, we take the pleasure to send you a few dots. The farmers are about through picking their 5 cent cotton, and have gone to sowing grain. Surely the farmerB will get convinced about raising cotton this time. Those that are in debt will cer tainly have to adopt some other plan besides raising cotton to pay their debts with. Sugar cane has been getting the juice mashed out of it this fall around here. Those that planted it this time say they will make enough syrup to do them. Mr. C. L. Temples says amidst these hard times the women keep on endeavoring to get him to fall a victim to their fascinations, and insinuating at him to take stock in" matrimony, just at a period of his life when he ie most unpre pared, like Prussia was when Napoleon landed hiB grand army on her soil to drive her into war. Mr. J. R. Rodgers bas been visit ing the fair sex in the Big Creek Bection. We think he means busi ness of a peculiar kind. Last Tuesday we all went to Mt. Willing to vote, the famous old place where the soldiers used to meet and drill before the late war. The. Hon James Suddath was pres ent on the occasion. He is in favor of Jiaving a Constitutional Con vection, but he says we ought not to send a man to the Legislature more than one term. AYe have not had any visitors aroind here of late, but the fever hasi visited a good many of our : . .t-u""'. olirvnf. ing at those pre tty gm BO,., .... Long may the old ADVERTISER exist and boom and flourish. P.J. . Mine Creek, S. C. "THE GREATEST IS LOVE." The following quotations are made by the Rev. Alfred Momerie, L. L. D., in an article in the Octo ber Humanitarian. They are the words of geniuses : Napoleon has said : "Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and myself founded great eni,,.-es; but the creations of our genius rested upon force. Josus alone founded his empire upon love, and to i his day millions would die for Him." Richter has said : "Christ was the holiest among the mighty and the mightiest among the holy. He lifted with his pierced hands empires off their hinges. He turned the stream of history and still governs the ages." Rousseau has said: "If the life and death of Socrates were those of a sage, the life and death of Jesus were those of a God." Matthew Arnold has said : "As the course of this world ?B forever establishing the pre-emi nence of righteousness, so too the course of this world is forever es tablishing what righteousness really ?R-i. e., true Christianity." John Stuart Mill haB Baid: "The new commandment; the recognition that the greatest are those that Berve, not those who are served ; the reverence for the weak and humble, which is the founda tion of chivalry, tb.9 idea that they, and not the strong, have the first place in God's regard and the first claim on their fellow men; the parable of the good Samaritan; the injunction, 'He that is without sin let him cast the first stone;' the precept of doing as we would be done by, and such other noble moralities as are to be found in the authentic sayings of Jesus of Nazareth, these surely are in suffi cient harmony with the intellect and feelings of every man and wo man as to be in no dangerof being let go, after having been once ac knowledged as the creed of the best and foremost of our species. There will be shortcomings enough for a long time in acting OL them ; but that they should be forgotten or cease to be operative upon the human conscience, while human beings remain cultivated or civil ized, is once for all impossible." Carlyle has said : "We understand ourselves to be risking no new assertion, but sim ply what is already the conviction of the greatest in our age, when we say that, cheerfully recognizing, gratefully appropriating, whatever Voltaire has proved, or any other man has proved or shall prove, the Christian Religion once here can not pass away ; that in one form or other it will endure through all time. Were the memory of this faith never so obscured, as indeed in every age the coarse passions and perceptions of the world do all but obliterate it in the hearts of most, yet in every pure soul, in every wise man, it will find a new missionary, a new martyr, till the great volume of universal history is finally closed and man's desti nies are fulfilled on this earth. It is the height to which the human species were fated and enabled to attain, from which, having once attained it, they can never retro grade." The Fear of Death. Dr. J. W. Roosevelt, in Scribner's Magazine. Familiarity wiih death is apt to alter one's earlier conceptions of it. Two ideas are very generally accepted which experience shows to be false. One is that the dying usually fear death ; and the other, that the act of dying is accom panied by pain. It is well known to all physicians that when death is near its terrors do rot seem to be felt by the patient. Unless the imagination is stimulated by the frightful portrayal of the supposed "pangs of death," or of the suffer ings which some believe the soul must endure after dissolution, it is rare indeed that the last days or hours of life are passed in dread. Oliver Wendell Holmes has re corded his protest against the cus tom of telling a person who does not actuallv ask to know, that he When death appears to be as little teared as sleep. Most sick persons are very, very tired ; sleep-long quiet sleep-is what they want. I have seen many people die. I have never seen one who seemed to fear death, except when it was, or seemed to be, rather far away. Even those who are constantly haunted, while strong and well, with a dread of the end of life, forget their fear when that end is at hand. As for the act of dying-the final passage from life to death-it is absolutely without evidence that the oft re peated assertions of its painful ness are made. Most people are unconscious for some hours before they die; and in the rare cases where consciousndss is retained un impaired until a few minutes be fore the end, the last sensation must be of perfect calm and rest. It is worst than cruel to add to the natural dread of death which op presses the majority of us while in good health, the dread of dying. There is surely fear enough in this suffering world; let us not increase it by adding imaginary to real causes. Almost a New York Daily. That Democratic wonder, The New York Weekly World, has just changed its weekly into a twice-a week paper, and you can now get the two papers a week for the same old price-$1.00 a year. Think of it! The news from New York right at your door fresh every three days-104 papers a year. We have made arrangements by which we can furnish this paper and the twice-a-week New York World all for only $2.25 a year. Here is the opportunity to get your own local paper and The New York World twice every week at extra ordinarily low rates. THE ADVERTISER, Edgefield, S. C. Do not be fooled by anybody who offers you something for noth ing. J. W. Marsh & Co., of John ston, will give you the best goods for the least money. Ex-Senator Ingalls dropped this epigram in a recent Kansas speech : "It would be better for the country if women entered politics, but not so good for the women." Go to J. W. Marsh & Co., John ston, for best quality of goods. We carry a larger stock of Bug gies than all the houses in Edge field couuty combined, conse quently we are ia a position to save you money. Ramsey & Blaud. TBE IEMDOOM KILLED LAST SATURDAY NEAR CAVEN S, After a Chase of Sixteen Miles. It Looks Like a Large New foundland Dog. Piedmont Headlight. The strange animal that has been terrorizing our county for several weeks past, and that has appeared at different points above the Air-Line, has at last been killed. On Saturday morning the crea ture was seen to cross the Bun combe road, near Cavins, which is in the lower section of our county, and not far from Woodruff. It was never before seen in that part of the country, but the people had heard of it through The Headlight, and were on their guard. It came by Cavins post office, where a party of hunters was. organized aud started in pursuit. At the fork of Tyger it passed Mr. Simeon Thom as', where that gentleman's son or ganized another party and started in pursuit. They followed the animal for eight miles, via Walnut Grove, and up by Miller Bros.' saw mill, where it cut across a field through the Means place and into the public road at Moore's bridge. There the party lost the trail, When Mrs. Walker saw the beast run past her house, into the road when she blew a horn that brought the hunters to her. She told them what direction they must take, when the party soon came up with thfi animal that woo an *rr.-i~ ?3"T-; The animal kept in the middle of the public road, and only left jit twice to cut through bushes. The race lead by farm-houses, but the people were warned in time by the cry of "Mad-dog 1 " Two farm ers were met iu the road, when they wera told to look out for the whaugdoodle. Just at this time I the beast had taken refuge in a clump of bushes, and the travell ers did not see it until it emerged again in view, close to them, when they started off at a pace that would have done credit to Maud S. In fact, you might have played a game of seven-up on their coat tails as they dashed down the road, the animal at* their heels. For some distance the creature passed through a thick settlement, and was seen by the farmers and their families. They wou'd rush into their houses and close doors. To ward the end of the race, the ani mal became very much fagged out, and could only trot slowly along. , It made no attempt to attack its pursuers, but seemed anxious to get away. When Mr. Bearden killed the animal, a number of perBons went to see it. The general verdict was that it is a mammoth Newfound land dog. but it is the largest of the species ever seen. ' It's feet were enormous, and twice the size of any dog's. It had a main as long as a man's hand, but its hair was shorter. If it is a dog, it has been crossed with some other ani mal. There were about 25 men en gaged in the chase, but on Sunday the whole settlement turned out to view the body. There were three old bullet wounds in the animal, around which the hair had shed. But the question is, whether or not this is the original whaugdoo dle that has been depredating in the upper part of our county? Par ties in the city saleday tell us that the strange varmint was seen both last Saturday and Sunday around Fingerville, and if this be true, there must be two of the creatures among us. We hope that the ani mal will not be killed until it thins out a few more dogs ; besides it is doing a great work in guarding corn-fields and chicken-roosts. If it will linger with us until water melons get ripe, it will guard many patches at night from the depredations of ebony-hued suf frage-slingers. J W. Marsh & Co., Johnston, bave the best $1.10 shoe on earth, A survey has been made for a new railroad, which is to be built from Hendersonville to Brevard, 1ST. C. It is said that the construc tion of the new road is to begin right at once, and its projectors claim that they will have it oper ating within two or three months. Sixty-pound rails, oak ties, and iron bridges are to be used. Tran sylvania county, through which the road is to run, has voted a sub scription of $60,000 to it. When completed the road will be about twenty-five miles long. A Dispensary Haid. ANDERSON, S. C., Nov. 7.-Sheriff Games and Chief Constable Fant raided the place of business of Mr. John O'Donnell to-day, and captured between seven hundred and a thousand gallons of whiskey. The whiskey was in barrels, and buried about a foot under the ground in the cellar. The loss to Mr. O'Donnell will amount to nearly two thousand dollars. This is the biggest whiskey haal ever made in the State. Blasts from the Ram's Horn. No crape is worn in Heaven. Get God for a beginning and you are on your way to wealth. As long as sin can hide its head it feels safe. God reigns in the heart that will not harbor hate. An opportunity to do good is a chance to please God. One man living in godly life will make many others want it. Not a stone was thrown at Stephen until his ^face began to shiue. God loves everybody, but it is hard to get a sinner to believe it. A Doubtful Prophecy. spleen gathered during the past two years in Democratic constitu tions that could not digest the pills given by the party doctors. The spleen is off now, the impeded cir culation will be restored to its nor mal conditions, and the work of the Democratic party will bo ap preciated for what it is worth. People who want fedeial pap be long naturally in the ranks of the Republican party, but the majority of people are not after pap. As a rule the reverse of the vote of an off year occurs in the Presidential year. Time and again the Demo crats have won just such contests as the Republicans won on Tues day only to see the landslide the other side in the next two years. Window Shades from 25/ up. Rugs from 25/ up, at Ramsey & Bland's. Don't be fooled by anyone, buy goods at the cheapest place, a dol lar saved is a dollar made, buy from Ramsey & Bland. 100 Rugs, all the latest patterns, worth 75/, no duplicate, at Ram sey & Bland's. Our $4.00 Bureaus are the talk of the town, no duplicates, at Ramsey & Bland's. _ To all Whom it May Con cern ! APETITION will he presented to the next Legislature of South Carolina, convening next November, A. D. 1894, to lay off a new county out of the northern or Saluda portion Edgefleld county, S. C. As more fully shown by a certified survey of James M. Forrest, giving the boundary lines as follows: Commencing at Saluda river and running the Lexington lice to the Aiken line, and from thence to Lybrand's mill, from thence to Lotts, from thence to the Abbeville line, from the Abbeville line to the Saluda river, and thence down Saluda river to the Lexington line. S. T. EDWARDS, J. D. WILLS, ZED CROUCH, A. J. COLEMAN, JOE ATTA WAY, BAILEY MATTHEWS MIKE KEMPSON, S. M. SMITH, DR. KKVNERDY, B. F. SAMPLE, DR. BUSTER, JonN RAUCH, DR. KIRKSEY, LUTHER DEAN, JAMES BLACK, and others. 250 Acres in Nurseries. 37th Year. 1 Acre Under Glass. Fruit Trees & Plants. Specially adapted to the South ern States and sub-tropical coun tries. Rare Conifera? and Broad Leaved Evergreens; 10,000Came lias ; 8,000 Azaleas ; 50,000 Palms ; 25 acres in Roses; Geeen house and Bedding plants and everything suited to needs of Southern Horti culturalist8. No agents. Send or ders direct to us. Catalogue free. Address P, J. BERCKMANS, Fruitland Nurseries, AUGUSTA, GA