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NEW SOCIETY LEADERS WIVES AND DAUGHTERS OF DEM OCRATS IN " LIMELIGHT. Many Women of the Official House holds, and Th-ir Kinsfolk, as a Rule, Hail From the Conserva , tive Element. * _ With the passing of the Taft admin istration and the consequent unset tling of a social background bulk up during the years of Republi can supremacy a change has come over the face of Washington life. Whether Wash ington s o c i e t y will continue to be as brilliant as it has been here tofore remains to be seen. That the women of the in coming official households as a rule will be of the type more given to the consideration of serious affairs is practically assur ed. The president and Mrs. Wilson and the vice president and Mrs. Marshall and their kinsfolk hau from the con servative old Presbyterian element. Neither the presidential nor the vice presidential family bas heretofore in its several ramifications "gone in" strongly for society, per se, and it IB not regarded as likely that the advent in high political position at Washing ton will materially modify the habits of a lifetime or the heritage of gen erations. Mrs. Wilson and her daughters, moreover, are women who have assid uously cultivated their talents. Each in her own right ls a woman of attain ment, Mrs. Wilson and her second daughter, Miss Eleanor, being accom plished artists in oil, Miss Margaret Wilson a student of vocal music, and Miss Jessie Woodrow Wilson a stu dent of sociological problems and an active worker in behalf of social bet terment projects. The Wilsons have a large circle of relatives who are to spend much of the next four years at the capital. By virtue of their affiliation with the White House family these will be fac tors in the new regime. Among the women of political householders who are bound to come forward in the next regime are Mrs. William Jennings Bryan, her daughter, Mrs. Richard Hargreaves, and her young daughter-in-law, Mrs. William Jennings Bryan, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. William Jennings Bryan, Jr., have been living at Washington throughout the winter, and Mrs. Hargreaves has passed the winter with her parents, accompanying them on their various trips. Mrs. Albert Sidney Burleson and Mrs. Josephus Daniels, whose hus bands have entered the cabinet, are also likely to be dominant factors in the new order. Mrs. Burleson has gained much lo cal note for her ability to write enter tainingly of Washington life in its official phases. COSSACK USES A DAGGER Footman of the Russian Ambassador Becomes Center of Interest of Washington Crowd. Using a dagger to repair the har ness, the Cossack footman of the Rus sian Ambassador to Washington, in terested a curious city crowd, the oth er day. The driver had just started to turn round a street when the har ness snapped. One of his horses fell, but got to his feet again in a moment, and then the team made a dash down the1 hill. The Cossack jumped from his seat and grabbed the horses. A lady occupant was assisted from the carriage, and stood on the curb'while the Cossack, with the daftness of an expert harness maker, used the dag ger to repair the broken harness. The ambassador's Cossack attendent ; always has created a furore whenever 'his carriage has been seen. The foot ma a 1B a giant personage, wearing a skirted coat and a sort of fez hat ?He always carries a dagger and a big i gun hung over his hip. Borrowed Book Makes Trouble. A borrowed book not returned forms 'the basis of a libel action which will .shortly come before the Bavarian courts at Bamberg. A professor lent the Socialist poet. Henrich Heine's, poems to a friend, but, as the book had not been returned at the end of eight weeks, despite frequent warnings, the professor sent him a postcard on which was pasted the following cut ting from a newspaper: "The German .buys no books. He borrows them and never gives them back." The borrow er felt himself libeled, and, though he has not yet returned the volume, in stituted proceedings. It appears that the borrower lent the volume to a lady, who in turn lent it to some one else. Peculiar Burial Whims. One is always hearing of the cob bler whose dying wish is that his tools shall be buried with him; of the old navy pensioner who desires to be put to rest in the uniform in which he once strutted about so proudly; of the shoeblack (and thia happened In Lon don quite recently) who said he should not "rest content" were the emblems ot the trade he followed not buried [with bim. GINGER SNAPS. Intense application is the thief of time. A man of vision ls one who sees Invisible things. Some men are effective and some are merely noisy. Nature sets a good example by observing her own laws. Self-made men are not nearly so plentiful as self-unmade men. In business ventures the out come depends on the income. There is always a fine crop of lemons In the garden of love. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, and few have the price. There ls always room at the top, but who cares to live in an attic? Most of us are poor from choice, the choice having been forced up on us. Few people are far enough along to take post-graduate courses in honesty. There would be less trouble In the world if closed Incidents would stay closed. The people who are able to take the rest cure are the ones who do not need it. By th!eir fruits ye shall know them, but you must look below the top layer. Duty and inclination are pleas ant companions when they travel in the same direction. J. C. LEE, President FARMERS, MERCH If you are going to b we invite your inquiries. COMPLETE HOUSE ; We manufacture and < stairs, interior trim, ste pews, pulpits, etc., rou; lath, pine and cypress sh and siding. Distributing agents foi Coatright M?tal Shingle Tin# Estimates chc?rfu: Woodard I AUGUSTA, ' Corner Roberts a Our Mot Dain Vertici We desire to announce 1 the cel?brate-I Dain Vert dumping rakes. These machines are cons tia.1 manner and do the woi such confidence in the Dai every one we sell. If they after a fair trial we toke th be asked? We know that the most modern lines and possible manner. The ma and rakes are made is the 1 Now is thd to provide io you can not do so better th er and self-dumping rake, the strong points in these ments. I STEWART & SOME POSTSCRIPTS. Th? New York police win try mo tion pictures for the identification ot criminals, the idea being I to record their peculiarities of walk and car riage. The experience of German railroads has been that the maintenance cost of electric locomotive* has been less than that of cars fitted with individual motors. A North Carolina inventor's knife for paring horses' hoofs is mounted at right angles to the end of a handle and provided with a guide to insure | an even cut. One employe or passenger Is in jured for every 12,053 miles covered | by trolley cars in the United States! and one for every 178,666 miles cov-j ered by automobiles. A Russian artist has invented al method for painting several theatrical scenes on the same canvas, the pic tures changing as the light thrown | on them changes. IRRELEVANCIES A sincere sin is superior to an as sumed virtue. "The smut song must go," says, an Inter-Ocean editorial. So it does. Anecdosia is the malady you ex perience on hearing the same story j for the eleventh time. It is astonishing how cheerful peo-J Die are in spite of the verses and j tfclngB that are written to cheer 'em. j Race horses are divided into two ? classes-movable and stationary. You read about the former; you bet on i the latter. DIPPY DOPE CASTLE F. E. Gibson, Sec. and Treas. ANTS, BUILDERS, uild, remodel or repair, BILLS A SPECIALTY. ?leal in doors, sash, blinds ?re fronts and fixtures, zh and dressed lumber, tingles, flooring, ceiling r Flintkote roofing and s, Ridge Roll and Valley Hy and carefully mane. -umber Co. GEORGIA, nd Dugas Streets. :to: Quality Service il Lift Mower to the farmers that we sell ical Lilt Mower and Self tructed in the most Substan .k satisfactorily. We have n mowers that we guarantee . do not prove satisfactory em back. What more could they are constructed aiong do the work in the easiest terial of which these mowers Dest obtainable, r harvesting your hay, and an to purchise a Doin mow Co ne in and let us explain modernly constructed imple KERN AGUAN. RARE MEDALS IN MUSEUM Division of History In National Re pository at Washington Has a Notable Collection. Among th 3 exhibits in the division of history in the National Museum are several interesting collections of medals. These medals include a se ries awarded by the United Stat98 government, comprising naval medal of honor, the certificate of merit badges of the navy and marine corps, the Dewey congressional medal, the West Indies naval campaign medal, the campaign badges of the army and pavy and the decorations given to the members of the army, navy and ma rine corps for proficiency in the prac tice of small arms. These medals, twenty-four in number, make a unique display and are conspicuous on ac count of their bright colored ribbons. In addition to the governmental medals are several collections of per sonal medals of distinguished men. chief of which Is the Maury collection. These medals were awarded to Com mander Matthew Fontaine Maury, whose studies and scientific Investiga tion of the currents and meteorology of the ocean did much to Increase the safety of navigation and promote the interests' of, commerce. Commander Maury's researches were recognized by several foreign nations and there are in the collection six/gold medals, as follows: A special gold medal presented by William m., king of the Netherlands, in 1856; a special gold medal con ferred by the free city of Bremen, in 1855; the Humboldt gold mpdal from the king of Prussia, in 1865; the Aus trian gold medal of science, given by Francis Joseph ?. of Austria, in 1868; a special gold medal from Napoleon DI of France, in 1859; and the gold medal of honor of the universal ex position, Paris, 1855. In addition, there are thirteen silver medals given to Commander Maury by Pius IX., in 1860, commemorating notable events in the history of the Roman Catholic church in his time. Another unusual medal in this col lection of historical relics is that pre sented to Joseph Francis by congress, in 1888, for his services to humanity in inventing and perfecting appliances for the saving of life at sea. His In vention, the Francis life car, was first used in 1850, twelve years after its invention, when 200 lives were saved from the wreck of the Ayrshire off the New Jersey coast. The Francis medal is unusually large and heavy, being nearly three and one-half inches in diameter and about one-half inch thick, i FROM OAK HILL CEMETERY Rare Views May Be Had of Potential Beauty as Well as Actual Uglinesa. One of the rare views of the lower und undeveloped Rock Creek valley Is that which may be had from a point In Oak Hill cemetery, that point being the tip of the high spur near the broken shaft above the grave of Maj. Gen. Jesse Lee Reno, who was killed at the battle of South Mountain. Around you is a close array of tombs, among them being the grave of the twin sons of Baron Boilleau, the Godoy and Cartwright monuments and the Willard and Matthew tombs. The oaks rise high above you and it is easy to believe that their bare branches, whipped and swayed by the winter wind, are singing sadly. There is a good deal of green turf even at this season, and on many of the graves are wreaths and crosses of holly and laurel, telling of recent visits even at old tombs. Southeast, eaBt and north one looks down the terraced slopes, which are thickly studded with white and gray monuments under which sleep so many of those that once were dwell ers here. Among the brown, bare oaks an occasional cedar or holly tree gives a touch of kindly green to the otherwise dreary outlook. Lower Rock Creek In its actual ug liness and its potential beauty Hes far below. You see red and yellow clay banks, where the earth excavated from many cellars and foundations has been dumped. Gray ash heaps are also in the picture. Some old build ings, especially the ruin of Lyons' mill, are prominent The new city ls stretching out from the east toward the edge of the valley and in places has grown to the very edge. New houses, mostly gray and yellow, some of them with red tops, are reaching toward the valley along the line of Massachusetts avenue. The whole scene shows the scars of many city dumps. When this part of Rock Creek val ley shall have been parked the vista from the vantage point In the solemn tomb city of Oak Hill will be one of the most impressive in the world. Strawberry Production. "* In 1909, the last federal census year, according to figures recently1 compiled, the crop made the enormous total of 5*56,000,000 quarts, worth close to $20. 000,000. This affords a fair idea of the magnitude of this money crop. By states Maryland was the leader in strawberry acreage, followed in the order named by Tennessee, Missouri. New Jersey, Michigan, Arkansas, Del aware, Virginia and New York, others scattered. Massachusetts waa cred ited with a little over 2,000 acres. A Tireless Pair. "Talk about your long hours, 1 know a couple of hands la a factory that never stop day or night all tb? year round." "Impossible! Where T" s. "On tne factory clock." *'?nM&?? FIRE INSURANCE E. J. NORRIS, Agent Edgefield, South Carolina Representing the HOME INSURANCE COMPANY, of New York, and the old HARTFORD, of Hartford, Connecticut. The HOME has a greater Capital and Surplus combined than any other company. The HARTFORD is the leading com pany of the World, doing a greater Fire business than any other Co. See Insurance Reports PRUDENTIAL LIFE "HAS THE STRENGTH OF GIBRALTAR." ? ' i E. J. Norris, FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE. ir*e Pr?o of Roo fin m RTRIGHT SHINGLES What could be better for town or country buildings than a roofing that won't burn-won't leak-that is lightning proof-lasts as lcng as the building itself, and never needs repairs ? Cortright Metal Shingles meet every one of these requirements. Beware of imitations-None genuine without the words " Cortright Reg. U. S. Pat. Off." stamped on each shingle. For Sale o?? Stewart & Kernaghan Don't Read If not interested. Bat you are obliged to be interested where mon ey is to be saved in the purchase of necessities of life both for year self and livestock. We are now in our warehouse, corner of Fenwick and Cumming streets, two blocks from the Union Passenger Station where we have the most modern warehouse in Augusta with floor space of 24,800 squa.e feet and it is literally packed with Groceries and feeds from cellar to roof. Our stock must be seen to be appre ciated. Our expenses are at least $450.00 a month less since discon tinuing our store at 863 Broad street, and as goods are unloaded from cars to wareheuse, we are in a position to name very close prices. If you really want the worth of your money see or write us ERRINGTON BROS. & CO. Augusta, Ga. Feed Economy i n.,nih rt isn't th? amount calei ^is a step toward greater profits. It isn't th? amount eaten that counts, but what is digtsltd and turned into marketable products. ft&& Animal Regulator puts horses, cows and hogs in prime condition and insures perfect digestion. Tbat pays! Ask the men who use it, or test at our ru*. 25c, 50c, 91. 25-lb. Pail, 93.EO "Your money back if it feils" te0> Healing Ointment r (or Powder) cores joriM and wound*. 25c, 50c. Sample ire?, /tffjj^^ Get Pratts Profit-sharing Booklet W. E. LYNCH Sc CO., L. T. MAY, JONES & SON, TIMMONS & MORGAN, Edgefield, and S. T. 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