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THOS. J. ADAMS, PROPRIETOR _ EDGEFIEID, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1898. YQL LXIIL NQ' L W V^' w c FaS WATCH THIS SPACE EVERY WEEK. -YOU KNOW JUST WHERE TO BUY THE o nfl m SST, Lino of Goods, viz: Dress Goods, Domestic Goods< Calicos, Percales, No tions and Fancy Articles. Thc Seamless Ladies' Black Hose, 10c. Ladies Hemstitched Handkerchiefs, 5c; Cambric Handkerchiefs, 2$c. Full stock Gents', Boys' and Children's Ready-made Clothing, Hats and Caps. I SHOES ! SHOES! SHOES! SHOES ! I Fm 25c. Fer Pair io $5.00, OUR LINE OF SHOES IS ESPECIALLY GOOD. COTTON PRICES. Good Jeans at wholesalo prices by tho picco. SSTWe waut your business, and to got and keep it wc must sell you the best goods for the least money. ?^And Give Them au Education. ?AND SEND THEM TO_ FOR THEIR SCHOOS, HATS. We can sell you any kind of Hat at 25c. Nicer-ones at 50c. np. SCHOOL HOSE seamless fast Blacks, Tans or Browns, 10c. pair, 5 for 25c. School Umbrellas, warranted to turn rain, good article, at 50c. Better ones 75c. and $1. SEE THEM. Eve Tr L 604 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA. EDGEF -REGULAR SESSION BEGINS MONDAY," SEPTEMBER 13th, 1897. SCHOOL 33S3?3^.JF5LrE,?a:E3K^^I?,. E. C. DENNIS, Instructor. Latin, Greek, Higher Mathematics, English, and nsual branches. Stu dents prepared for college or business. gntermediate and Primary Departments, Miss Elise Cannie and Miss Sudie Davis, Teachers. Careful and thorough instruction in usual English branches. Tuition $1.00 to $3.00 per month. Ten per cent discount where three or moro come from one family. Students from abroad can secure good board at reasonable rates. For further information apply to _ . ; 1EL?&SVV'&?,I?C? O. dennis. Principal ACRES IN NURSERY Or One Acre Under .WE HAVE HAD. PORTY' YELAJFLiS' EXPERIENCE IN FRUIT AND KNOW THE BEST VARIETIES FOR YOUR SECTION. 8@ri? yon need FRUIT TREES, GRAPES, PALMS or PLANTS, write ns nud Illustrated Catalogne will be mailed free. Address JP, 3TB Berokmans. Established 1856. AUGUSTA, GA. Fruitland Nurseries, CSTNo agents connected with our establishment. ?l i iii Gil is ii Presses LURK STOCK OF ENGINES. CHEAP AND GOOD. I n&?90nn / i&GH WORKS AND SUPPL1 IUSOTDMEIU I COMPANY AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. HACt?ISEBT AN? SUPPLIES. REPAIRS, ETC., QUICKLY MAI?! C?TGiit our Fricas before yon bny. Some person -with a love for large figures Las said that in Christmas week n 0,000 is handed over counters of luis city as tribute to Santa Claus, says a New York correspondent. That snm may sound suspiciously great, and the statistician might bo charged with the evil of exaggeration, butwhen it is remembered that gifts for 3,000 OOO of people are purchased hero $20, 000,000 do not seem too large for the total. An average of a trifle over 36 per person is large, or small, accord ing to the financial rank ol the reader, and in Now York it is particularly dif ficult to strike a fair average, because of the extremes of poverty and wealth. The Fifth avenue millionaire gives his wife a $30,000 diamond necklace while the father of the east side brings joy to the heart of the child of tho tenements with a gaudily painted ten cont toy. Ono Christmas, a half a dozen years ago, William K Vander bilt gave his wifo, now Mrs. Belmont, a pearl necklace that cost him $1,500, 000 to gather the fifteen feet of stringed pearls together. That same Christmas more than ono child found delight in t HOW NEW 1 o nickel toy. Christmases back John D. Rockefeller sent a check for $100, 000 to the Fifty-seventh Street Baptist church ns a holiday offering, and tho samo day the organ grinder of Mul berry Bend dropped a couple of cop pers in tho plate of tho Italian church in Roosevelt street. So much for tho extremes of Christ mas giving in New York. Fully one-half of tho Christmas shopping is done tho day and tho night beforo Christmas; not one-half financi ally, but numerically. The moderate ly poor, the poor and the very poor must wait until thc very last minute to get their small funds together for the great ovont. Tho money gift of the employer to the bread winner of the family is made tho day before Christmas, and often times the extent of that gift determines the scope of tho Christmas shopping for tho family. Again if Christmas comes near tho end of the wcok, as it doos this year, many will get their week's pay on Thursday night. Another potent v ?rn for delaying tho B?O*"*%?nr ' last minute isthat thingb aro ^ueaper on Christmas Evo than earlier in thc week, Toys and games and clothing have suffered from tho rough handling, there aro rips and tears which, however, can bo easily sewed up; paint has boen scraped off, parts of games lost and numerous other mishaps have occurred, all of which induces the shop owner to make a material reducation in his prices. Again, ho does not want to carry o siuglo pieco of his Christmas stocl; over for a year, as he loses tho uso oi the mousy. So he is eager to mart things down to tho real cost, or a triflt below, if noeds be, to got rid of them, People who have to watoh the pen nies are quick to recognise these ad vantages. So Christmas Evo is lin great shopping timo for the lowe part of town and the East side. Vesc; street is the Christmas Eve stampiu; ground of the old First and Four tl Warders. The people for the mos part o? this district esteem themselve lucky if they can spend $2, and ns thi sum has to supply tho Christmas din ner, as well as to bring Santa Clau to an abnormally largo family c children, sharp bargaining must b done. Push carts lino tli9 streets fror Broadway to tho North River, and al most anything from heavy clothing household furniture, kitchen utensils to tiny gimcrack toys can be bough! Ton cents is tho prevailing price fe the average run of thing:;, and at squeeze this can bo brought down t nine, or even eight cents. Grand street is the centro of tl great East side. Tho Bowery bo buys the Bowery girl a ninoty-nhv cent diamond ring there, and si1 reciprocates by purchasing a sevoi caret, soventy-ninc-cent diamond stuc Women with .".oven or eight childvc toddling'alon;; in open-mouthed woi dei P??i?p to get through tho alarr 'ORK SHOPS. ie Great City's Counters ay Things. ing crush-with, their trancelike oharges in some remarkable way. A man with a hobby horse on one shoulder, a ve locipede in his hand, a Christmas tre? under his arm, big dolls sticking out of every pocket, a dozen paokages hehl in some miraculous manner in tho other hand, stops and buys a five pound box of candy for forty cento, stows it away somehow, and goes on as happy as themilk'oriairoridingthrougib the Park in his victoria. Tough girls not above sneaking-tj roll of ribbon nuder their wraps, weifb it uot for the hordes of detectives which fill the stores of Grand street, buy to tho limit of their purses, but buy sharply. "lam goiug to buy a bennie for Jimmie, " says oue to her friend. "Say, mister," to tho floorwalker, "where do I buy der bennie?" "Hey?" "Der bonnie? What floor is youse selling them on?" "The bennie?" "Yes, yor hungry-looking guy, dor bennie. Don't yor sposo I'se got do price? I want to buy a bennie like 1 LCIIE SPENDS ITS MILLIONS FOR HOLIE dis." Hero sho caught hold of a man wearing a blue overcoat and held the coat for tho others inspection. "Oh, a coat-on tho fifth floor, front." "What d'yo ti'nk of dat? Do g^y didn't know what a bonnio was. He must bo new ou Grand street." Then they take the elevator and she tells the man to let her off "where dere Sellin' de bennies." Foiu'teonth street and Sixth avenue is where the biggest part of the city, a goodly section of Brooklyn, a largo part of Jersey and a big portion of all the suburban towns within fifty milos of New York do their shopping. Old Clmrch In Virginia. Ono of tho very few old churches still standing and practically un changed is St. Luke's, at Smithville, Isle of Wight County, Va. It was built in 1632, as attested by tho date on some of tho bricks, under the su perintendence of Joseph Bridger, whoso descendants still live in the county ai r. worship in the church. The recoil - of the ^mily, whioh are unbroken for u ~vriod of 150 years, es tablish tho dato of the building of the church, and aro full of interesting de tails of early colonial history. It appears that St. Luke's was or iginally so well built and of such ex cellent material that no repairs were made to it until 1737, 105 yoarB after its completion. At that timo it was ordered "that Peter Woodward do the shingling of the church with good cy pres shingles of good substance, and Avell nailed, for 700 pounds of tobacco, OLDEST I 300 pounds being now levied." ] was again rcshingled in 1821, eighty four, years later.-Chicago/ lute: Ocean. 5 Biggest Sweet Potato Grown, A Kansas farmer, John Graham, of Abilene, has grown a sweet potato which ho says is the largest in the world. It is twenty-five inohos in cir cumference and nine inohes in length. It" weighs nibo and three-quarters pounds. A Pooplo "Who C!o?i?.-?t UakO Flw?.~~'' The Papuans of the Malay coast bf New Guinea are still in the most primi tive stato. They are wholly unac quainted with metate and make their weapons of stone, bones and wood. They do not know how to start a fire, thongh fire is used among them. When a Russian asked them how they made a fire, they regarded it as very amu* >AY GIFTS. ing, and answered that when a par son's firo went out, ho got some o? a neighbor, and if all tho fires in the vil lage should go out, they would get it from tho noxt village. Their fathers and grandfathers had told thom that they remembered a i'rae or had heard from their ancestors that there was a timo when fire was not known, and everything was eaten* raw. The natives of the southern coast of New Guinea, having no iron, shavo themselves with a pieco of glass. For merly they shavod with flint which they could sharpen quite well and used with considerable dexterity. WERE BORN ?N 1815. Ladles Who Claim to Bo the Oldest Liv ing Twins In tho Country. The olaim of tho Nowell brothers, of Missouri, that they aro tho oldest pair of twins in the country, will not hold, according to a correspondent of the Chicago Times-Herald. Mrs. H. H. Johnson, recently of Kankakoe, 111., and now of Omaha, Neb., and Mi's. David Noggle, of Janesville, "Wis., are one month older. Those ladies are the twin children-Polly M. and Anna M.-of Benjamin and Eunice Mosher Lewis, and were born at Bristol, N. Y., May 29,1815. They wcro the young est of fifteen ohildren. Tho twins went to Milan, Ohio, when about seventeen, married there, and in 1837 Mrs. Nogglo came to Wisconsin to live the lifo of a pioneer. Mrs. Noggle is a woman of native ability and can tell mauy interesting tales of early lifo in Wisconsin. Sho is tho mother ol Keeping Mineral Fertilizers. There ought to be no trouble in keeping mineral fertilizers until spring in good condition for drilling or put ting ia the hill if you put it in a dry place. So far from losing its effective1 ness we think the i phosphate will be more effective than when it came from the factory. Wo have often used new phosphate and have generally found it so moist that if is hard to drill, but: when kept six months the phosphate will be dried out, and while less in weight will for . that reason have its fertilizing properties in more concen trated form. We usually kept bags or barrels of phosphate in a room adjoin ing the horse stable. No doubt the snlphurio aoid in phosphate united with the ammonia from the horse manure. : But if we had this to do over again we should mix the phos phate with either cow or horse manure, trusting that its snlphurio acid would j unite with the ammonia of the manure pile and-with the lime of its original compound. It is possible every win ter, we believe, to thus mix phosphate and manure together and reducethem both to a condition of fine powder. Such a ' fertilizer will, we believe, be more effective on any crop than either the manure or the phosphate used, separately. Drawing Sand on Gardens. That the texture of heavy soils may be greatly improved by intermixing them with sand has long been under stood. It is not mnoh practioed, how ever, booanos even whore sand can be had near the Seid to be benefited by it the work cf loading, drawing and spreading it is enormous in proportion . to the benefit. Most of the advantages of making clay soil more mellow and less retentive of water are seoured by running underdrains through the piece. Yet it is a fact that melons will grow much better in sandy soil than they can be made, to do on clay, however mellow the soil be made. A half a load of sand brought and dumped where a melon hill is to be*, and prop erly fertilized, will bring better melons than can be grown without it. Whether this'will pay is more doubtful. We saw it done once, the man making the experiment having plenty of sand ' much sand'did les3 to make the gar den noil friable than did the good un derdrain which the farmer's son after wards put under it. Utilizing Waste Deans and Feas. We seed dealers at the beginning of every season have more or less of beans and peas on our hands, whose percentage of vegetation is too low to make them of any value for seed pur poses, while they are too good to throw away. These are usually util ized either by selling them to the grccerymen, who handle them as col ored beans, or to the farmers to feed to sheep. In my own disposing of hhem I havo usually had them ground and then fed to my cows and horses. As beans are apt to cling to the mill stones (so my miller tells me), they are ground with two or three times their bulk of corn. My horses will not eat tho bean meal, while the cows relish both bean and pea meal. Either of them is exceedingly rich feed, hav ing a larger proportion of the flesh forming constituent (protein) than corn, while peas are also valuable for fattening animals, as our Canadian neighbors well know, though inferior in this respect to corn. The fat made from peas is whiter in color than that from corn, as can be readily seen by comparing Canada fattened turkeys with those raised in the States. As a milk producer, bean meal is a great favorite with those dairymen who are so fortunate as to be able to obtain a supply of old beans at as low a figure aa corn sells at. Liko all very rich foods, bean meal should be fed with discretion; a wise proportion, I incline to believe, is but little more than can be safely fed of cottonseed meal if the feeder intends to keep a good cow. There is another kind of bean and pea waste which I have been using more or less for. the Jast forty years that I believo is but rarely used to tho best advantage; indeed, in many cases it is not used at all, but con signed to the dung heap. I refer to the waste from now beaus and peas. That of which I have spoker previously is the waste caused by age, tho peas and beans being as sound ai ever, but simply too old; that which ] now speak of is tho waste picked riddled and winnowed out of them t< make them in condition to be sold a: seed. This waste is made up of th< half beans and peas, and that smal grade which passes through thc wires of tho sieves used in racking and win nowing, and the sprouted, Bki: cracked, rotten or otherwise defectiv ones which aro hand picked out. Thi class of waste is confined mostly t the growers and the wholesale uealer in beans who contract for the ero; just as winuowod, and do their ow sorting and hand picking. Sue waste cannot bo ground, as there : too much foul stuff among it to mali it healthy food. There aro two ways by which it CE be utilized, by feeding to sheep just i it is, leaving it to the instinct of tl animal to reject the rotten peas, or t feeding it to pips, in which case it t quires some manipulation. My fir experience in utilizing beans was wi the hand-picked waste of the wholeso grocers. Purchasing about twen bushol of these at about twenty-fl' conts a bushol, I put the quanti needed for the next day's feeding soak over night, the next day cook them with a quautity of beef scrap u til they were soft, and while the mt was scalding hot thickened it by st: ling 'in meal. I fed several pige through the winter wholly on this, with the exoeption of a daily throwing in of uncooked Hubbard squash. .The animals did fairly well under +his reg imen, but the gain from t:\'e invest ment was not sufficient tc warrant a repetition. The beaus, a'cer soaking .for twenty-four hours, were so im proved in appearance that with very little hand pioking they- were usually in good oondition for family use, the defects being mostly but staius on the surface, whioh were removed by the water. 7/hen, therefore, beans are high-priced, the poor man might save a penny when he can buy this olass by the barrel at the usual price at which they - J sold, viz, about ono oent a quart.. The pea waste which is left from those I raise for seod purposes, a moss of halves, small sized, skin cracked or rotten peas, I have been able to utilize with results that were much more satisfactory; for whereas hogs, if not brought pretty near to the borders of starvation, will uot eat beana unless ncobmponied wfth other food, they always welcome peas. My way of preparing them is first to soak, or rather sink them in water, when the rotten ones rise to the sur face and are easily skimmed off. By pouring the peas into the water rather than water on to the peas, and in either case giving them u little stirring, I find I am able to secure a large pro portion of the rotten ones. After soak ing the peas twenty-four hours the water is drained off, and I boil them to a soft, pulpj*. condition. lu the pea-growing countries I understand it is the practice to feed after they -ore soaked and swollen without cooking, but as the waste J am handling is old, and as I utilize heat that would other wise be wasted,- I prefer to oook them. My hogs, which average 200 pounds live weight, eat heartily six^quarts each of this waste, measurecTwhen dry daily, and grow like woeds, weighing considerably more than one of the same lot kept by my neighbor, who feeds his on the mixture of cornmeal and shorts. As the peas fed would otherwise be-thrown on the dung heap, the cost of feeding them is merely the labor attondin for it will not undergo allegiance tc any country. GovernnienTs often ex perience considerable troiblein pre- I j serving the allegiance of peopl?T*%e?Jh have conquered, but as a rule a piec?^ of property or real estate has been looked upon as likely to remain in th? same place for a considerable period of time. This little island, which has received the name of Falcon Island, proves an exception to the rule, however. No sooner has it been annexed than ii disappears off the faoe of tho globe, leaving only a dongerous reef to indi cate its former whereabouts, and oom ing up in a few years' time, when the country which has performed the an nexation has given up all claims. Our old friend, John Bull, always on the watch to increase tho imperial empire, was the first to encounter it. In 1889 the British corvette Egeria was sent on a omise among the South Islands, with orders from the British Admiralty to seize npon any islands or coral reefs that had hitherto been unclaimed, and to take possession in the name of the Queen. Cruising around sheUJnoticed from afar off a prominent island, toward whioh she sailed. Tall palm trees were growing on its southern extremity, whioh was a commanding bluff, rising 150 feel from the lovel of the sea. Having reported the results of hie voyage to the Admiralty, next yeal they sent out a transport ship with orders to make further discoveries and reports. What was the dismay of the Captain of the Egeria, who hap pened to be in commond of .the trans port, on arriving at the place where he had the year before left the island sporting the union jaok, to find that ii had disappeared from view! Instead of the beautiful island standing out so prominently from the ocean, was a low and dangerous coral reef, with the sea beating and surging up against it. Two years later France, also seized with the inordinate desire of annexing new torritory, sent the oruiser Du ohaffault to the Pacific Cruising around she found her way to Falcon. There, instead of finding a sunken reef, whitened with the foam of the breakors, the vessel's orew discovered an island the exaot shape of the island found by the English corvette in 1889. Scarcely two years had passed awaj when a brig sent out by France tc revisit her possessions found hor way to Falcon Island. It had again dis appeared, it being simply a reef dan gerous to navigation. Whereupon France was obliged to give up al rights of possession.-New York Her aid. _ Versatile Slr Claude. Sir Claude de Crespigny has led ai adventurous life, having been sailoi soldier, steeplechaser, war corres pondent and aeronaut. In the las! named capacity he holds the recorc for he is the only living balloonii who has crossed the North Sea, as di tingaished from the Channel, his con panion, the professional aeronaut Sin mons, having been killed soon afte Novol Snow Flow. A pneumatic snow plow, driven t electricity, is certainly as up-to-date machine as any one coula desire use in winter. Its novelty oonsis in the fact that the snow is blown c the track by a blast instead of beii swept away or removed by some so of snowplow. Quinine and other i ver medicines take from 4. to 10 days to cure fever. Johnson's Chili and Fever j Tonic cur?s in ONE DA K STOP THE WASTAGE. Aa Expert Tolls How Agricultural Eo Bouroes May Be Tuireascd. The wonderful loss, to farmers brought about by the neglect to prop eriy utilize the resources and to em- t ploy knowledge that is considered in dispensable in other kinds 01 busi ness is one of the causes of depression in agriculture. This is moro particu larly the oase in the South than else where, although much has been done ..within the past few years to check this loss. The Southern people aro just beginning to appreciate the advan tages, of employing their other re sources than those of cotton produc tion. In the past the South has been too largely dependent upon the colored man and .the mole. The result bas . been, and will continue to be, so long as they practice a one-crop system, that they will be, subject to periods of encouraging depression. In other words, where the farmer put all of Iiis eggs in one basket and meets with some acoident he is confronted by the loss of his entire source of support until nature has time to. produce an othercrop. Should it fail a second and third time the poor former is left in a desperate way. -In the South tho wonderful 'resources for feeding tho North upon early vegetables have not .been utilizod as they can bo. There has been, and will continue to bo a large wastage of products upon the\ farm, most particularly in the failure to properly utilize cotton seed and its products. Where favorable terms, with the cotton seed oil mills cal^be made it is well enough to sell tho-excess of cot ton seed and either exchange it or buy cotton seed meal. The intelligent larmer, with the aid of the experiment station or the officers of the agricul tural college of his State>san readily figure out whether it is mor>p?ofita- - blotto sell and buy or to keepundf feed or use as a fertilizer. If the far mer, keeps his cotton seed iio fchould at onoe'provide for feeding it to stock. Cheap: sheds can . be con, struoted to properly protect the cattle from the cold rains which ore so try ing on stook in, the winter, and the manure carefully preserved in a,shed wit-give; the farmer a double profit f fact, I might say a treble profit er m thia way, by preserving his md'fed in order- to make 'it profitante." The use of kainit in a compost htap cannot be too highly recommended, as it preserves to the former his valuable [?jtrogen and serves os a preventive of ' ^s^'enqm-fetd?^jg^^ie addition of the ocid phosphatena?kes" "o c?Hr - plete manure that is highly satisfac tory for all kinds of crops and on almost all kinds of soil. We advise every farmer to do some close figuring and see if he oan afford to sell his cot ton seed at ten dollars a ton or ex change it for 725 pounds of cotton seed meal. It will be one of the most pro fitable rainy days' work he ever di l if he will calculate all of profits and losses and carefully study how he could bave several dollars per ton by feeding stock and preparing his fertilizers at home. He may find that he is selling his birth right for a mess of pottage when ho ^arts with his cotton seed at prevail ing rates. He may hud that he con save largely by producing more fertili zers upon the farm and by buying sim ply the potash salts and the acid phos phate necessary to properly utilize his present wastes. Stop the wastes upon tho farm. Uti lize its produots in on economio man ner. Prevent loss to live stock and fertilizers by exposure to the weather and cold drenching rains. Avoid in judicious soles of valuable farm pro ducts and the purchase of fertilizers that should be saved upon tho farm. Where fertilizers ore bought let them be supplemented to those produced upon the farm, and purchase those in gredients necessary to perfect the fer tilizer products of the farm. Avoid wastage of lobor by cultivating un profitable lands ond see that all culti* vated land is well fertilized. DR. JOHN A..MYEBS, Ex-Director West Virginia Experiment Station. Johnson's Chill and Fe ver Tonic is a ONE-DAY Cure. It cures the most stubborn case of Fever in 24 Hours. After a lapse of 2,307 years, a voting potsherd bearing the name of Themis tocles has been discovered, it is said, by German excavators in the Areop agus. Until now only three other such "ostraka," or potsherds, eontainlng the names of men of lesser note, have been found at Athens. From the term "os traka" has come our word, "ostra cism." Themistocles was banished in the year 470 B. C._ Johnson's Chill and Fe* ver Tonic is a ONE-DAY Cure, It cures the most stubborn case of Fever in 24 Hours. A codfish taken off Nantucket car ried a gold watch In his stomach. Pre sumably that he might know when his time had come. Why take Johnson's Chill & Fever Tonic? Because it cures the most stubborn case of Fever in ONE DAY,