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I THE NATIONAL BANK OF AUGUSTA I L. C. HATNB, Pree't. F. O. FORD, Cashier. j Capital!, ?250,000. i Sorplnsand ? <fcl Ok 000 ?I mlivided Profits s <P I ? JjUvU t FAet?tio* of ?ur niarnlfK-i'nt New V?n|| kontatuiug .si'J .-?fotj-.lx>ck IJoxe?. lMfT??r. lem Sizi's ar?' nfjore?! to our patrons &ud I the public ai *3.i?0 to $10.00 per annum. VOL. LXVIII. EDGEFIELD, S. C.. WEDNESDAY. JUNE U. 1903 NO 20. 7? A STUDY IN FEMINir By RUTH t?iUiiuuiuiHiuii?iijiuiiiir On a crisp afternoon in carly au tumn Juno was walking across the campus. The Crock professor when she entered the class room greeted her as Miss Lawrence, and in the registry her Christian namo was Eleanor. But if you had watched lier progress down the straight path, you would know ?why tho girls called her Juno. They had given her the name in her fresh man year. Now she was a senior and it fitted her still better. She was tall. There was rhythm in her motion, and vigor, as if ail her muscles had been ... doveloped in harmony. Her head turned the least bit to ene sid? and slightly tilted backward, thc erect shoulders and straight back, thc grace and poise of the whole body as she walked all befitted a goddess. Her hair was black. It was parted and coiled loose ly just above the line of her neck with out breaking the natural contour of the head. The eyes leo were dark and . be checks rosy. It was in coloring rather than in beauty of feature that thc charm of her face lay. As Juno opened her Iliad and knotted her brows, Mary Tilton, watching her In a corner, felt like protesting against the inflictions of education. Theoreti cally, to be sure, there was propriety enough in Juno's reading the Iliad; nothing could have suited her style better. But Juno had displayed no af finity for Greek nor for any oilier branch of learning. It seemed to Maty preposterous that such a girl should ' be made to mope over bosks. It would be quite as sensible to cap!ure a young deer and compel it tc study logarithms. Juno belonged out of doors. She should be free. It ought to bc enough for anybody to sec her a beautiful, strong, natural being. Juno would have en dorsed Mary's views if they had come up for consideration. She had not formulated any like them in her own mind, but she lived up to them. t. She placed no strain upon her Intelcct will ingly. She fell in cordially willi na ture's plan regarding her person. Such aids to its realization as the morning plunge, a full allowance of exercise in the open air, and nourishing food, she employed generously. She took pains that her dressmaker should acquiesce In the designs tba', seemed to have been conceived in Paris with special refrence to her figure. Thc beauty of her hair was-enhancd at home by the .activities of her- maid; at college it Jjl^irr Tilto who delighted to brush it m-pr^SiWniif did- not revel. selfishly in her hattrr!rra!trae^venbss. She was perfectly willing that others should enjoy it. As the class left thc room, Juno and Mary walked away arm in arm. It was the last recitation in thc afternoon. "Come out for a walk," Mary sug gested. "Let's have supper cn the hill. We can wrap up warm." "You always know just what wiH suit me. Mary," said Juno. "I want to get off somewhere, and have a chance to think.' Mary looked up in vague alarm. She never before had known Juno to want to think. But she said nothing. When Juno reached her room she threw her Iliad on the desk and her self on a couch, where she lay with eyes closed, her hands clasped over her head. Mary Tilton meantime ^an up two Sights of stairs to her room. She extracted from the larder, which is mere requisite a part of a college girl's room than a desk, four eggs. These she put on thc gas stove to boil. "Twenty minutes." she said to herself; "Juno won't eat them unies-.; they arc hygienic." Then she ran down the two flights to a small grocery store that thrived under the '.ollege roof on the patronage of thc students, to mount once more with the materials for sand wiches, fruit, and a jar of milk. The college supper bell was ringing when, lunch basket in hand, she knocked at Juno's door. The "Come!" sounded drowsy. "Did I wake you up?" asked Mary contritely. No matter. I'm ready. I was dread fully tired, and I don't want to look played-out tomorrow." "Anything special?" "Kent is coming." "I thought you forbade him to come again,' rose to Mary's lips. What she said was: "You ll have a good time." "On the contrary," said Juno, "he bores me a good deal." The next day was Sunday. The girls did not meet until evening. Mary spent the holiday in the library working up history topics. There was no evidence In Juno's Monday recitation that her friend had confined her exertions to her town subject. At an early hour in the afternoon Kent Thorpe was shown into the college drawing room. The fortunate circumstance that his great grandfather had married Eleanor Law rence's great-grandmother established a blood relationship between student and guest that made jt within the bounds of college discipline for them to leave the building together. As they did so, it was observed from several windows that, the tall stranger with fair skin and hair and manly bearing did not look out of place beside Juno They did not return until sundown During the evening they conversed sc daftly in a corner of the college draw ing room, Kent looking a if the whole institution was weighin] him down A spectator would have detected a mis chicvousness in Eleanor * demeanoi that she hardly could have introducet for the purpose of allaying his discom Attire. At bedtime, when Mary was brush lng the black glossy hair that tool more of her attention than her own Juno raid: "We tramped for miles Then he read me a magazine artic! ihat he has written. Here are hi sketches for it. Aren't they beaut ?ul?" She spread them out on th couch, her long hair slipping over ho. white arms as she bent down. Mar atonr* hrmfc in hand: nit orinar Ile* i ig of Juno. ?IE CONTRADICTIONS. CRAFT. staccatos of admiration. "His article isn't so good." Juno admitted, "but I can put it into shape for him." Mary repressed her surprise at this budding of literary criticism. "Has he gone?" she asked. "No. He missed thc train. He tele phoned that he would como again to morrow." Mary grinned behind thc screen of Juno's hair. "Then look out for tomor row," she said soberly. "Nonsense!" said Juno. At 10 o'clock, according to college rules, every light must be out. On tho Sunday night after Kent's second call Juno obeyed, and so did Mary. Cut when Juno, in a loose gown and soft slippers, rapped on Mary's door she found her friend similarly arrayed and perched on a high window seat, in thc moonlight. She climbed up beside her and laid head in her lap. "Have you come to tell me anything, Juno?" asked Mary roguishly. "Certainly not." Juno spoke severe ly. "I don't feel like talking at all. I never shall marry him," she asserted with contradictory irrelevance. Marj' van her fingers through thc soft hair. She said nothing. "He's just my age," remarked Juno, "and stunning to look at." "Well?" Mary ventured. "He is awfully fond of golf and walk ing and all that." "Well?" "Ho says we have tho same tastes in music and bcoks and such, tilings." "Very likely," asserted Mary. If Juno should develop any predilections at all in those directions, it seemed likely that they would follow Mr. Thorpe's. "But I don't ?are for him. Besides, I never could stand being tied down j even if I did love anybody." '"SThat docs he say to that?" "He says he will make mc. He says I should bc freer than ever." "He doesn't know her," thought Mary. "But he doesn't really core for mo." Juno explained. "He is misled because he never happened'to come across my type before." "Some of that is true," said Mary, ? adding to herself, "and he won't again.'' "There are quantities of other wom en that would be just as congenial and stimulating to him if ba knew them." "Then it is your duty to toll him so." "I tried to, but he interrupted me.' ?i? -II .?Mn r - ;- A ' ' -? "It wasn't very nice. He said 'Damn the other women!'" On Monday afternoon Mary found Juno bending over the manuscript of Mr. Thorpe's article which by free uso of a pencil she had rendered absolute ly illegible. "When on earth did you do all that?" she asked. "I've done nothing else all day. There! read it and see if you think, of anything else to do to it. I have been over it so many times that I know it by heart. I simply cannot look at it again. Mary took up the sheets. "No, give it to me!" said Juno. "I'll read it to you. I'd like to." "Why did you.do all that?" asked Marv holdly. "I don't know. Yes, I do too. I want him to know how much I care for him as a friend." On Tuesday Jur>.o received a letter. To the judicial mind the gratitude that ,it expressed might have seemed ex cessive. "It was too good of you to bother over my miserable art if le, dear. Yes, dear, dear, dear. I will say it. How can I ever thank you enough? And not for that only. How can I tell you what your grand, sweet, womanly nature has done for me? Oh, Eleanor, I love you. Yes, I will say that tco." On Wednesday, as Juno came out from thc college postoffice with Mary, j she said; "I'm not used to getting so many love letters a day. Do I love him?" "No," said Mary, decisively, "you don't." Juno looked relieved. "He wants to come up again on Saturday," she said, "but I have written him not to. I was good, wasn't I?" "Very," said Mary. On Thursday Mr. Thorpe wrote that there were some points in his article that they positively must talk over to gether. "I shall bc firm, Mary," said Juno. "It won't do at all for him to come." "Why, Juno?" and Mary looked into Juno's eyes. "He goes to California next month," pursued Juno, evasively; "probably I never shall see him again." Friday was Juno's afternoon at home. She always served tea to the girls. When Mary arrived the couches and chairs were filled and several guests were on the floor. Peals of laughter announced that Juno was en tertaining the company with her own version of some incident in college lifo. She never appeared more brilliant or more irresponsible. Mary, who al ways slipped into a corner on these occasions, sat watching her friend wist fully. She could see in the vivacious face no suggestion of the week's siege that Juno's heart bad undergone. Would Kent Thorpe, or any other man, siic asked herself, ever be Juno's con quering hero? Her answer came un expectedly. Au she tried to go out un noticed while the jolity was in full twing, Juno opened the door for her. "I telegraphed him to come tomorrow," she said in an undertone. Mr. Thorpe must have known tho lime table by heart. Doubtless it was his custom, moreover, to keep his dress-suit case pacVd- These facts favored his arrival In response to Juno's te . at an hour that antici pated thc usual one for morning calls. Punctuality, however, did not so much characterize his manner when, al dusk. Juno torc her hand from his at the col lege gateway. Mary Tilton found the history topics .ich in suggestion that Saturday. In place of Marj' Queen of Scots, she would see Juno; Sir Philip Sidney javo place to Kent Thorpe. At sup per Juno's seat was empty. Mary round her in her room in an attitude 3f dejection. Her face was the picture 3f despair. "What now?" Mary tried to speak gayly. "He has gone." "To California?" "No, to his hotel." "Then you have not parted for all time?" "I should think not," cried Juno. "Oh, Mary!" and the goddess burst into tears. Mary was to say the least perplexed. Mr. Thorpe had expressod a strong dc sire to'come. Juno had summoned him of her own will. He had -promptly rc? sponded. Now she wept because ht had not gone. Whatever the reason, it was sufficiently agitating to sec Juno in tears She somehow suspected that tears, in the case of Juno, meant down fall. It was the first time that she had i,cen her cry. "It's hideous!" Juno proclaimed. a3 soon as she could speak. A comiral look aided her aa she removed thc irace? cf tears. Marj' waited In silence for further enlightenment. "It's sim ply hideous," Juno repeated, "to adore anybody as I do him." "Then you will go to California with him?" Mary smiled as she spoke. "No, but only because he has given up going. I would go to thc moon with him if he wanto* me to."-Now York Evening Post. QUAINT AND CURIOUS. The first ice cream ever sold as c regular article of commerce was slapped by a Cost?n merchant named Tudor in 1S05. He sent a load to Martinique. Another girl has been found who likes needles. In Ashland, Pa., the oth er da>\ a IC-year-old girl was operated on in the state hospital, and no less than 12f> needles were taken out of her bands and arms. It scms that she did not like to go to school and as an ex cuse would stick needles into'herseir. < She semed to have suffered no great I inconvenience from doing so. < Thc four-year-old son of a French ' packer recently disappeared, and the ' authorities instituted a search, but 1 without result. Tho same day, how ever, thc boy was returned in a pack- ' ing case which had been seut to a cus- ' tomer as containing goods. The child had apparently got into the empty j case, fallen asleep, and had been packed up. Luckily, the lid only fittei .loosely, and the boy is none the worso f^ the[adYeirture^jm The Eskimos possessed the most re narkablo place of worship in the vorld. It was a sealskin church, forty sealskins were stretched over a ight framework, and in this tent, 18 feet by 12, services were held every y Sundav. But the church came to an intiirrrr;-r-nd. One hard winter the Eskimos' dogs, being half famished, lined on the sealskins, and only the r Traine was left. The Eskimos have f now erected a dog proof tabernacle. f A procession of the unemployed that 1 look place in 17t?4 says the London Ex- 1 press, did not meet with any great sue- t cess cr public sympathy. In that year t wi?s went oat cf fashion, and the wig- > makers of London wore thrown out of 3 work and reduced to distress. They ? petitioned George III to compel gentle men to wear wigs by law. As the wig- 1 makers went in procession to St. J Janies to present their petition it was noticed that most of those persons who j 1 wanted to compel other people to i 1 wear wigs wore no wigs themselves. | 1 This striking thc London mob as very j inconsistent, they seized the proces sionists and forcibly cut off all their hair. An interesting discovery was made recently at Peterborough cathedral ] during the progress cf some evacua tions in connection with the underpin ning of the south wall of thc sanctuary. Three stone coffins, one very large and two smaller, and the stem of a Saxon cross, richly ornamented with mould ing of a well known Celtic pattern, were discovered. The spot is thc north eastern extremity of the Saxon church which was destroyed by fire by the Danes, and propably formed part of a monastic burial ground. Archaeolo gists believe the small coffins may have been those nf the children of one of the kings of Mercia. The cross is to ba preserved in the cethadral. Athletics in Our Navy. The navy department has issued b special order announcing the allot ments of athletic outfits to naval ves sels according to their complements, and saying that they will be supplied at once. These outfits include balls, baseball bats, mitts, masks, protectors and bags, being gloves, footballs, foot ball trousers, stockings and belts, pro tectors anl bags hoxin? gloves fenc ing gloves and masks. The fencing outfit is designed for the special use of officers. On the request of squad- | ron commanders trophies will be fur nished their commands as follows: Vessels having complements of 300 or mor i: Rowing, a gilded rooster; failing, n small model of a navy cut ter under sail; baseball, a blue and gold banner; football, a gilded wood en football: fencing, crossed broad swords. Vessels having complements of less than 300: Rowing, a silver roast er; sailing, a small model of a navy whaleboat under sail; baseball, a red and gold banner; football, a silver wooden football; fencing, crossed broadswords. All trophies arc to be suitably mounted and so arranged that thc necessary inscription can bo en tered upon them yearly, and are also to be protected by glass cases.-New York Commercial Advertiser. The telephone can no longer be le gally used by Gorman physicians in d k l nt ing proscriptions to druggists, because of the chances of fntul misun derstandings. S DUELLING FOR ? I FUN. I 0999999999999*99999999990 Duelling not for honor, but for fun, ls ODO of the latest pastimes Indulged a by the gayest of nations. And they :all this fencing with but ton less foils, Jo the merry Gauls, "la poule sang lante," I. e.. thc bloody hen. For these ensanguined poultry contests thc fol lowing regulations have been bud lown: "Swords with buttonless blades, face uncovered, right ann bared, ordl inry kid gloves if desired, lipper pari )f the body clothed In a vest Utting lightly to Mic skin, belts forbidden, !*ach fencer to bc assisted by two sec PHOTOGRA TUE DUEL BETWEEN : Dnds. Tho competitions will consist jf two-niinu'.c bouts, and will stop at ] the first blood." The hi st public eve nt 1 ?f this kind took place early in .March I at Neuilly, near Paris, the fighting Jocks (or hens) to lead off being M. La berdesque and M. de Vllett*. Thc lut ter received a scratch on tho foreaun. Then the police intervened. After a perfunctory though clamorous official . demonstration, the officers of the law withdrew, and then the Series of duels continued and more of thc brave Callie birds bled for fuu.-Collier's Weekly. RfKINQ ON ? NEW SPORT By Day Allen Willey. THF eastern coast of Florida, between Daytona and Or monde Includes a stretch V?f sand which is about thirty niles lu length and remarkable or Its smooth and hard sur uco. It ?s so linn that it is utilized is tl boulevard by boise vehicles ol' .arums kinds and by automobiles, licycles, and by what ure locally ermed "sand-sailers." During the win er season, when the resorts mentioned ire largely patronized, nearly every va riety of vehicle operated by steam or gasoline can be seen upon the beach. The photographs show ti collection of he various automobiles which have icon used here during the past winter. They include not only a break, but run ibouts of various kinds. In the picture ire no less than seven different kinds of autos, including the motor bicycle. The "sand-sailers" consist of a frame work spread on three bicycle wheels, to which is attached an ordinary sprit sail. The rear wheel is used to steer the "craft," and it can be operated quito close to the wind, while in run ning before the wind lt frequently at tains a very high speed. Some of the j bicyclists who uso the beach for a j course have titted up sails which aro j VAHIO US TYPES OF SELE-PItOPI PEACHES Ol fastened to a mast attached to the framework, and are used in coasting before the wind. Cue*"! l'?lr<lH Live Longest, Many people declaim against 11 ie cruelty of keeping birds in cages, but it ls a well-proved truth thal cage-birds live about six times as long as a wild bird, and the hird Invariably becomes so fond of its owner and ils surround ings that, when Hie cage is thrown open, it will nm Hy away, lt suffers so little from solitude that, if a prospect ive mate is introduced, It hits her on the head at first for lief impudence In daring to intrude into il private apart ment.-Nev." Verl: i ress. TIM; P.ri Muli Olllicr. Tho da.'.i and bravery displayed by the little British force in th? storming of Kano were quite up to I ho traditions of the service. The Prit ?sh officer maj be criticised for lurk ol' ".slimness." bul when it conies lo leading straight i:ii( un ugly breach bo can Rive them al curds ?nd spade?,-Ottawa Citizen. Church With a Strange History. Here is a remarkable little mediaeval church, vb Ich was discovered through i dream. A young woman living in a Tillage ?ear Pirot, In Servia, diva med me night of a bnrird church. She spoke, of it to the prefect and the local dcrgy.fbttt they only laughed at ber. *he pei?sisted in her statements, how ever, and ultimately induced the peo de to ?dig at a spot sue Indicated. Here, . tb thc intense surprise cf every une bUfrLkc dreamer, the ruins of a nie lineval-v church were found. These ivere rujwHt as a tiny chapel, and since PH OR A FREN >j?>- .?.-=5? L&B E K D ES (J U ii AND M. Dil (hen. hundreds of people have made C pilgrimages to thc place. The chapel II is simply crowded with tablets, sacred v cons and other tri bu rcs of the faithful. v CHAPEL WILT FBOM TUE KI" I XS or A MEDIAEVAL CHVKCII WHICH W.V.S DISCOVERED TH1IO?QII A DREAM. [From a riwto.l The woman whose dream led to Its dis covery is thc' presiding genius of the [?lace, and receives so many gifts fruin [be worshipers thar shu is already quite rich. Our photograph shows tho dream .burch and Its discoverer, with her ehll ilren.-The Wide World Magazine. Tho Source of s..jj,.,iy. At last the iloetor consented to smile, the nurse was already hi ngiling: tho shadow had been lifted from the sick room, and everything was well; and after profusely bathing her eyes Aunt .lennie came down to the breakfast table where her two small nieces were scated, wondering whai had turned th? house so topsy-turvy that morning. ..(?ness whai I know, girlies!'' she said, gnyly. ."There is M little baby .LED VEHICLES USED OS TUE FLORIDA. -From thc Scientific American. brother upstairs. He came this morn ing when you were asleep. What do you think ol' tlnitV" "l>ld he?" exclaimed the sharp-eyed Edith. '.Then 1 know who brought him." "Von dr?'.'" "Yes, it was the milkman. It said so on his cart yesterday." "Said what?" asked Aunt Jen ide in astonishment. "Why, 'Families supplied daily!'" was the quick re[dy.-New York Times. Tins L'uppor I'lnnt. The pepper plant-pl|K?r nlgruin which produces the while and black pepper of commerce, is a climbing, vine-like shrub, found crowing wild in the forests oi! Trcvancor? and the Malabar coast ol' India. Pepper is en tirely tropical lu its requirements. The white pepper is Ibo black pepper de corticated by maceration and rubbing. Duluth, Minn., is to have an immense (.?cctrlcal power pla Ut which will rival ?bat at the "Soo," A HISSING LINK, Strange Animal Connecting: Rep- I tiles and Mammals. In Permian times, -which wnp nbom lidday In tho great geological pnst.' | jere lived ninny strange and wlerd 1 rea tn res belonging to the vast reptll in clase The fossil sunlight, which .c ea ll coal," was just forming lu Penn-1 ri va ti 1.1 mid no mammal had yet trod 1 ?ion this earth. The comparatively brief period of tim .orld's. history embraced by the Per ilnn ami Trias saw some remarkable j CH DUEL. LiiilTi?, AT .S10 L l LL ?. J -From Collier's Weekly. i banges among back-boned animals, ?ot only of our continent, but else rlicre; it saw the disappearance of the rrat frog and saiamandcr-liku ampbib- ' ins, and the coming of dinosaurs and narine reptiles. Turtles made their ' ppearancc, and the strang!, mammal- A ?ko reptiles, the auomodonts ran their i ourse, passed across the s rage, and rent out of existence. Mo.;t important I f all even.ts that took place iu the 'Hassle period was the advent of laminais, and, while these were no irger than rats, and seem to have had i nany features in common with their nomodont associates, they marked the mite "l^MW fii^,'^Qjipsvpiili nee, has witnessed such a complete volution In the life of tho Riche. The igc-tat ion, too, was changing: those 1 ant, overgrown mosses, which had lined In the carboniferous, practically sappcared with the Permian, while rus and cycads increased and con- : ors appeared in numbers. The world 1 id changed, our continent had in .eased In size, and thc close of the r?as looked upon a new landscape, L?opled by a new racv of beings. Mr. Ca HT, ol' thc State Normal School, [ilwauke?, Wis., has patiently recoil ] meted one of these primitive actors j . KTRANOF. ANIMAL OF AXCIF.NT TIMES 1 ,f the stage, long since forgotten, for c air delectation. Head down and tail [ 1 is the way that anomodont C mown as "Embolophoras dobo via nus" i vas discovered. The si ra ta was slight- 1 y Inclined and composed of peculiarly y ?efractory cement of iron and sand, vbich made the extraction of the bones ( i matter of extreme difficulty and pa- ? ?(lice. , Patience ultimately had itt? reward ] md th" specimen proved to be nearly ? ina tomat ically complete, the only parts , ticking iieing the ri Its and part of the i feet, which were present lu other sped- i mens of tile .??...une animal. T' > ivstora Lion here shown was made after a most [...ireful study, measurement and com parison with all hones of like creatures. The body is drawn somewhat elevated from the ground. At Hist it seemed probable that thc belly was dragged on tho ground, but an attempt to place the bones of the fi re limb in such a po sition showed such not to lia ve been thc case with the animal. Tho tall would naturally seem to have boen pretty long, if for no other reason than to preservo the symmetry of the ani mal, hut tho hones ?trove otherwise. When alive Embolophorns dollovlauus must have been about the size of a pony, only of vastly different appear ance and possessed of tho habits of an alligator. A Kctnniint nt OM NIMVCHIO. The most notorious part of the whole structure-and which yoi rea m I ns-was the press yard. Here it w is thar peino forte et dure was inflicted upon prison ers charged willi felony who with the view of saving their property from confiscation, refuse I to plead at the har. This dreadful punishment of be ing pressed to death was, however, abolished in ITTli. A Major Strang ways, who was Indicted for murder, having refused to plead, was con demned to this savage peino forte et dure. Ile died in eight minutes, and many of those who witnessed the dreadful sight threw stones at him to hasten his eud.-Chambers's Journal. Merc Opinion. A woman bi 'l old as long as shu eau keep lier daughter in short skirts. People who are disposed to cry over spilled milk have damp handkerchiefs most ol' the l'une. Il isn't always the most powerful lo comotive ?lilt has Hie biggest whistle. There is many a man who would ho willing lo lose I he respect of a town ghipful of peuple in order to wiu a $2 prise.-Chicago Uccurd-IIernJd. Large Shipments of the best makes of wagons and buggies Just received. Our stock of furniture, housefurnishings ls com plete. Largo stock COFFINS and CASKETS flways on hand. All calls for our Hearse promptly responded to. All goods sold on a small margin of profit. Call to seo me, I will save you money. j. P. COBB, Johnston, S. C. Unparalleled Chance. The Greatest Bargain Ever Offered. ?undred and forty-five thousand of Closes July 1st. Between now and ruly 1st wo will sell our concert grand iprlght Mendelssohn plano for one mndred and seventy-five dollars and viii prepay freight and furnish stool, nusic book and handsome scarf with fHE STERLING each instrument. We have over ono our instruments now In uso. For over twenty years our pianos were ono ot the leaders of tho well known south ern house of Ludden & Bates. We also sell organs and our world re nowned Stirling Pianos. For fuli Information address Derby, Con n AND DEALERS IN Cement, Plaster, Hair, Fire Brick, Fire Clay, Ready Roofing and Other Material Write Us For Prices. Corner Reynolds and Washington Streets, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. BASKET CONVENIENCES. No matter how unimportant an arti le of house furnishing may seem, it icvertheless is swept by the keen, ritical eye of the Inventor and manu acturer to seo if lt can be Improved. )ne would think nobody would bother ibout baskets, that those on the mar cot were good enough and that ther6 vere other things more worth while. Bat lots of new things In baskets are .Topping np. Every one knows thai icrap baskets are apt to break on thc ?dge, especially where thc family Is argo and there arc careless young people. A tough, serviceable straw now LOGICS, pretty enough for the most fas li.iious, which is built, into scrap bas kets, and to make it. more durable the edge is protected with aluminum, lt looks like nickel, so bright and sil very 13 it. But nickel for such uses would be heavy. Aluminum has scarce ly any weight. These baskot3 will al most, last forever. Of the same straw, aluminum bound, is a little ooneshapecl basket lined with leather. This is for the maid and in tended to hold knives and forks when removed frcm the table. Everyone knows that when dishc-3 and knives, forks and spoons are piled indiscrimin ately on trays the knives and forks arc apt to slide off on the floor. Tills lit tle basket permits them to be gathered all at once quietly and taken from the dining-room without fe?.r of mishap. Useful for the picnic hamper ls a small flat basket with a half dozen or more grass-woven rings, like napkin rings, fastened in it. They will hold securely bettles of wines, eggs or such things whose breaking would spell ruination to the other contents of the hamoor- Philadelphia Tricara ph. The results of the German census of IMO. have just been male public by the Imperial Statistical Bureau. The returns show that at that date the city of Frankforton Main had 28S.9S9 In habitants, (today over 300.000). Of those 17.r>,909. or GO.9 per cent, wero Protestants. 88,457 (30.G per cent.) Catholics. 21.974 (7.G per cent) Jews, and 2,049 persons ?0.9 per cent) were dissenters or unsectarian. The follow ing figures give the number of forelgn ?rs who were then sojourning or resid ing in the city: 2.?SG Austrians, G94 Swiss, 472 Americans. 34G Russians, 217 British, 202 Hungarians and 95 Hollanders. Among thc German sub jects in Frankfort's population there were S9 whose mother tongue was Eng lish. Powerful Chinese Drugs. "I have always heard that Chinese medicines aro very powerful," said tho city salesman, "but I never had any idea what a tremendous effect they were capable of producing on the sys tem till I saw a Dovers street China man take a pill the other day, and then I realized that ono dose of a Ce lestial compound can safely be war ranted to kill or cure. Never In my born days did 7 see such a pill. How on earth the follow ever got it dov n Is a mystery. If was fully as big as a pigeon's c.^g, and. so the patient told me afterward, fearfully bitter. "Ppon inquiry. I found thai that was a fair sample cf most Chinese reme dies. No matti-r what the nature ol the medicine, it is generali/ made up Into enormous pills, whose naturally had taste is modified by nothing but a little licorice. These pills we inclos ed in wax capsules which preserve them from the air and "keep them from being broken to piren before their time. Aside from the pills 'the"only remedies used by orthodox Chinese in New York are a remedial oil whicn? they rub on the temples to cure head ache, and a liquid made by boiling down the loaves, stems, seeds and roots cf certain plants in a quantity of drinking water. "According to my Dovers street au thority," continued the salesman, ac cording to the New York Times, "this fluid medicine is oven worst- than the pills, for it has to be cooked till it is almost like a syrup and drunk scald? lng hot." RAGOUT OF MUTTON. Mix two tablespoonsful of vinegar with four lablespoonsful of salad oil in a deep dish, and add an onion, cut into slices,, a pinch of powdered cloves and half a teaspoonful of black pepper. Put some rather thick slices of roast mutton into the pickle and leave them for an hour or two. turning thom once or twice during thc time. Then put the moat into a stewpan in layer^wilh sliced onion, carrot and celery be tween; pour in sufficient nicely flavor ed thick brown sauce to cover the meat, put a piece of buttered paper over it, place thc lld on the pan. and put it into a moderately hot oven for two hours and a half. At the end ol tJ/.at time take out the meat and ar range it on a hot dish, place a border of boiled macear or i around it (which has been finished with but&r and a little gate! Parmesan cheese), with Inked tomatoes intervals; strain the sauce over the meat and scatter some finely chopped parsley over it.