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THOS. J. ADAMS, PROPRIETOR. EDGEFIELD, S. C., THURSDAY MARCH 17, 1892. VOL. LVn. NO. IO. KOCK-A-BYE, BABY. UNIDENTIFIED Kock- a-by, baby ! On the tree top, When the wind blows, the cradle* will rook; When th? bough bends the cradle will fall Down tumbles baby, cradle and all. Rock-a-bye, babyl The meadow's in bloom; Laugh at the sunbeams that dance in the room, Echo the birds with their own baby tune, Coo in the sunshine and flowers of June. Rockabye, baby ! As softly it swings, Over the cradle the mother love sings; Brooding of cooing at even or da wu, ^'What walt, it do when the mother is gone? Kock-a-bye, baby!So cloudless the skies, -- i Elue aa the depths of your own laugh-! ' lng eyes,' Sweet IB the lullaby over your nest That tenderly sings lit tle baby to rest Rock-a-bye, baby! The blue eyes will; dream -V5 Sweetest when mama's eyes over them beam; ?? Never [again will the world seem so fair; Sleep, little babyl There's, no cloud in the air Rock-a-bye, baby! The blue eyes will burn And ache with that your manhood will - learn; Swiftly the years come with sorrow and care, With burdens the wee dimpled should ers must bear Rock-a-bye, baby! There's coming a day ' Whose sorrows a mother's lips can't kiss away Days when its song will be changed to a moan Crosses that baby must bear_all alone, .. Rock-a-bye, baby! The meadow's in bloom; Hay never the frosts pall the beauty in gloom,; Be thy world ever bright as to-day it is seen. Rock-a-bye, baby'. Thy cradle is green. A Pioneer Queen Bee. *?Hoi Many of the Register's readere are familiar with Wall's extra ordinary feat, in 1849 in driving, according to his statement, a swarm of bees across the plains. ? day or "two since, aa ono of .(fer business mm was coming down town he happened io discover ! a large bee quietly resting on Wall's sholder as preparations were being ouse lawn. "Say Wall, what are you doing with that bee on your shoulder?" Wall was startled for a moment, but, recovering his usual composure, spoke with gravity, carrying conviction - of un tarnishable truth. "I'll tell you, and it's the solemn truth, if ever I spoke it in my life. That bee is the queen of the swarm that . I drove across the plains. She has been hunting me for years, and knew me the moment I called hex name. You see, she is getting a little gray, but I knew her on sight, She piloted the swarm, and I used to feed her from my own molasses can. That bee is the last of bei race, and I shall take care of hei in her old age. I tell YOU, John, that bee brings up many remin iscences of that memorable trip, Several times that swarm stood by me in an hour of peril. They could scent- an Indian several miles away, and they got to really enjoy an Indian attack. The fad is, they understood tactics as wei! as the best trained soldier? When the queen sounded ai alarm every bee was under arms ready for fight. First a skirmisl line was thrown out, and yoi could see more or less uneasinosi among the red-skins as one *nc another would claw at his ears eyes, or nose,'but when the orde: to'charge'was sounded and thi bee battalions began to move ii double . quick,' a route am stampede always followed. It i a fact, John, if ever I told th * truth in my life. What I am say ing is true. Those bees fought al my battles across the plains, an? this is my old ' queen' sure en ough."-Napa (Cal.) Register. When some people have th toothache they imagine that i hurts everybody in the n?ighboi hood. Do not regard life as a war ii which , you niust waste you energies in efforts of retal i at io and vengeance. A conntry hotel hostler asked deaf stranger what he should fee his horse with, and the deaf ma said "Hay?" Lager beer mugs in the shap of pug dogs sitting on their hin legs and colored to life are no shown in the crockery stores li baled "genuine growlers." The last male descendant ( Pulaski, the Pole who aided tl patriots of 73, is said to be earn in a scanty living RS a peddler i Savannah, Ga. FOLLY OF THE FLIRT. I Is "Full Dress" Conducive to Virtue and Morality? NEW YOBK; April 10.-Before the regular sermon of the day in Association hall this morning Mr. Dixon reviewed, from the Chris tian point of view, the recent j startling and tragic scandals in I American society. He said : The American colony in Paris, was recently shocked by the report of a pistol f rom .the private rooms of an American wife and mother. A husband had sought to wash the stain of dishonor from his home with the blood of the scoundrel who .had j wrecked its ii. ? i Tl i ' ,... .'. '.'.A?, ir | - iess. The echoes of that pistol shot rang around the civilized world. It startled many a villain. It should carry: a solemn lesson to the heart of the giddy woman of society. Within the past few days twp continents., hare been again shocked over the sad revelation of the disgrace of a proud and honored name among the social celebrities of America. Again the conflict has centered around the sacred name of wife and mother. What makes these incidents of specially dark import is the insight they give in the condition of the so called , high society of today that circulates. between the Old and New Worlds. AWFUL PACTS. A woman correspondent of the St Louis Post-Dispatch, writing from Paris and commenting on one of these events, says that "there can be imagined no at mosphere in which a woman, pretty, unprincipled, and vain, with the seeds of vice lying dormant in her nature, could find readier encouragment for the up springing of the evil growth than in this circle of society. "I have seen a woman of color, who was also a woman of most immoral life and antecedents, [ed., to , .a... western widower whose mistress she had been for j years before their union was legal ized, the guest of more than .one of the most honorable American families in Paris, and that long after her history had been spread abroad. A tremendous scandal finally put a stop to her career as a society lady. I have known s woman who had been divorced foi the same state of ariah s that led Air. Deacon to, shoot M. Abeille who had married her lover and come to Paris to live, intrusted bj one of the leading ladies of the American colony with the chap eronage of that lady's, young daughter at a French watering piace. I have met repeatedly al the leading houses of the America! colony an elderly. American womat who was' living openly, anc undisguisedly.with the hnshane of another woman. I could g< on multiplying such instances bj the score. But I have narrated enough of them to show that i Mrs. Deacon chooses to agaii run with the hares of respectability after going hunting with th< hounds of immorality, she cai easily manage to do so." THE DOWNFALL OF SOCIETY. j j This is Bad reading for th student of the society of today If it be true, this is one of th most startling facts in the histor of the social order of the Nine j|teenth century. It as aurel, points to the downfall of such social order, as did the st enc! which rose from the decay in j society of Rome presage the da ? when Goth and Vandal woul build on the ruins of the city one mistress of a world. It seems to me that there are e few things plain men and wome it should learn from such facts : First-That to enter such circle of society is not only not a honor, but rather to compromiE ono's character for honor, integrity purity, manhood and womanhooe Second-It is time fathers an mothers of wealth learned that t a rear a daughter in one unendm d whirl of sejfish vanity and id! n idiocies, surrounded by a set < unprincipled libertines and rake is hardly conducive to the pr< duction of a woman fit to presic over a home. THE UNDRESS' HABIT. Third-The style of dances ar social customs of this set is ali >f in need of a restudy and revisio ie It is worth considering, at leaj g whether the custom of socie n women appearing at all soci functions in EO called full dress just the thing to develope vi and manhood and womanhood r For nowadays "full dr means as. nearly undressed as police will allow. Is it just the thing for woi who olaim to be the leaders modern society to habitu appear before men, in their ho and in public halls, in a coi tion of nakedness, whose vulgai passes the limits of sane cussion? If any woman is enough to believe men have two eyes in their heads they . wake to the fact by and by. spade is a spade. It is a fact that anatomical display in the bo at the opera of today far exce in area that which is seen beb the footlights. I am not c m at i zing. I simply ask information. Does all this m pure, strong women and t men? FLIRTING FOOLS. Fourth-It is time so cal high society learned an old, truth-that home is the holy holies of human life. The rx who allows a libertine, or ? male biped, to enter his home, a under any pretense of social 1 or custom pay court to his wi forfeits the divine right of ] fatherhood and manhood ; and merits the contempt of mankii The wife who seeks the attenti of other men than her husband a fool of Unfathomable proportio and when she receives the first these attentions by whicn m pay court to women, she is leani over the brink of the deepest h that opens on this earth. It is a good time to think some of these facts Pet Problems of the Ancien Among the problems with whi it pleased the ancients to prep! themselves was one which bears aDj instructive manner on t . doctrine of limits. It may be th stated : The swift-footed Achill i stated in pusuit of a tortoise whi L was 10,000.yardairom h?mAd??] j running ??0 time faster than t . tortoise. Now, when Achilles ht traversed the 10,000 yards, t tortoise had traveled 100 y?rd ; when Achilles had traveled the [ 100 yards the tortoise had travel { one yard; when Achilles hi 1 travered this yard the tortoise w i still the 100th part of a yard ' advance; when Achilles hi { traversed this 100th part of a ya; > the tortoise was the 10,000th pa . of a yard in advance ; and so ? j forever-the tortoise being at eac y ?tage in advance of Achilles t ? 100th part of the distance Achill* \ had traversed in the precedn \ stage. The tortoise then remai: t always in advance of Achilles Tc i somo distance however minute > and therefore Achilles can nevi I overtake ' the tortoise. But v 1 snow that Achilles, travelir > faster than the tortoise, will ove: \ take it Therefore, Achilles wi I and will not overtake the tortoise f which is absurd. The ancien } were strangely found of problem J of this sort. Thus there was tl B famous problem about the ai j? between two exactly equal bundle of hay' at exactly equal distanc "This ass, "says the sophist, "wi e attempt to eat neither bundle I for, by whatever line of reasonin e it could be shown that he woul Y turn first to one bundle, by a HE . of reason precisely similar it ma Y be shown that he would turn first f. a the otheri But he cannot tur ? first to both. Therefore, he wi! I turn to neither." ' Another c y these problems was thus worded ? "Epimenides, the Cretan, say ,e that the Cretans,are liars. Nov Epimenides himself is a Cretai a therefore Epimendes is a liai n Therefore Cretans are not lian Therefore Epimenides is a liai a Therefore," &c, ad infinitun n Other stated the problem in ; ie more simple from: "When J man says I lie, does he lie or doe I he not lie? If he lies he speak ? the truth if he speaks the trutl 0 he lies."-BOB ton Herald. ig Nobody knows just what is goin? te to happen in the future, but h >f should make ready for a crop jus s, the same. i The expression, "My stare e- alive 1" was first used by a younj lady who went forth to learn hoi , to skate. She saw seven. id 30 You cannot register after voi Di are twenty-one unless youregistei ;t! during the year you come of age. ty Call at Ono?. al And get first-class choice of thosi . beautiful French Sateens, only 16c. i ,B yard, at W. H. TUHNBB & Co. CORRESPONDENCE^ MR. EDITOR: The great Shep pard boom that was expected by, his supporters to sweep the county [ike a political cyclone has failed lo materialize, and his shattered forces have recoiled, badly demor ilized, from the first conflict with the opposing faction of Gov. Till man. The people of Edgefield under-] stand very well ?th?t Mr. Shepn pard's nomination' was made more for the purpose of making an or ganized fight against Gov. Tillman for the benefit hereafter pf wary and shrewder politicians, than the sxpectation of his election. The politicians indicated were ready to nominate any man they were willing ; to sacrifice. The peace and unity convention, tak ing advantage of Mr. Sheppard's impatient ambition, simply ac corded him the honor of leading a forlorn hope while prudently keeping out of harm's way them selves. Had peace and unity been desired, or the hope of success en tertained, Sheppard would not have secured the nomination, and the singular and unprecedented spectacle of two gubernatorial can didates from the same county would have been averted. . Nothing could be conceived bet? ter calculated'to divide and dis tract the people of this count} , than the course - pursued by this | so-called peace and unity conven tion, and their actions belie their | profession. The nomination is no compli ment to Mr. Sheppard, but is an evidence that the wire-pullers pf the convention were perfectly will ing to see him dig his political grave ' in an ineffectual effort* to defeat Gov. Tillman in his own j county. Gov. Sheppard is badly deceived and places a low estimation on the firmness and character of the adherents of the.present &$mimefr ration, il he believes very many ' are so weak-kneed as to sacrifice their principles for their personal preferences! On the contrary he will soon learn that a majority of the voters of this county are ready to vote against him, because he represents nothing but himself, notwithstanding his loud profes-l sions of loyalty to the farmers'| platform and demands. Had Gov. Sheppard been a sagacious leader with fixed princi ples he would have hesitated long before turning his back on brave Ben Tillman, who in the conven tion of 1886 offered him the lead ership of the fight then being j made. He owed his defeat then to those who are pitting him now against his old friend. Gov. Sheppard wept back on j Ben Tillman and the instructions of his constituents in. the May convention of 1888, and it is re ported he did so because he desired, the re-nomination of Gov. Rich ardson upon the promise of being himself nominated in 1890. In the meantime Ben Tillman had swept the State and smashed the slates of the politicians. Where then was Gov. Sheppard? In Columbia in conference with the ringsters, devising schemes to defeat Ben Tillman and thwart the will of the people. Some of Sheppard's con ferees went so far as to swear that "Tillman should should never be Governor." Did Gov. Sheppard endorse those sentiments? His subsequent course will show. We find his name signed to a call for a convention early in 1892. That convention was composed largely of Haskellites and those who had done, every thing to make the ad ministration of Ben Tillman a failure, and of those who were willing to injure their own State if thereby the people's administra tion could be made odious. We can't see how any man can be so deluded as to place the least con fidence in the sincerity of those who now profess conversion to the reform measures, whose whole course heretofore has been one of bitter antagonism. Who is there of those that fought for the eman cipation of the people base enough now to surrender his cause, desert his leaders, and sacrifice all that wea so hardly won, and blot out all hope of future progress? To whom are you asked to surrender? Tc eleventh hour converts, erratic politicians, and trimmers. There is one thing, however, thc people of Edgefield have gained ; we will always know hereafter where Gov. Sheppard is. Thal of ^e&hnsband. Beri'Tillman has a firm hold oh the ?earts ?nd affections of the people^because he has advocated the^-?emands. His fight.^and iause^i theirs, and to him is due their Allegiance and unswerving fideli^-eo long as an enemy re m?i?stin the field to oppose him. Had ^v. Sheppard profited hy the lessor^, of history, he would be standing; with Ben Tillman, a 3tau neb ~and ardent advocate of th? pwjple ; he would have learned that ijie great names that emblazon/ the p?ges of the history of this re public of other lands and_ fcimes^w?re leaders in the fight for the T ?margement of the peoples' liberties,, the restraint of power, and the diffusion of the blessings of goojl government, by the people, for thji people. Go$ Sheppard should appeal in vain for support to those who be liovec?they were right two years ago, and, if we are not mistaken, be will find that most people ?re not disposed to shift their posi tions and ?hange their principles to conform to the variable moods of office seekers. TOM A. HAWX. Adventure With a Tiger. As iye walked along through the jungle I failed to keep up with the either members of the party, who had got on some distance ahead, when suddenly I heard a rustle .in the under-wood, and almost' at the same moment an enormous tiger presented himself and prepared to spring upon me. I had-ijeyer seen a more magnifi ceni^beaet, and I could not help admiring him, notwithstanding the fctanger of my position. But there was no - time to^be lost. I iintn^aiately -presented my rifle and fired- AB ill luck would- have it, n??her shot struck ; and in an other'second the tiger was on me anJ:h?d^i??\m me down^his, 'cliiiws3^ I had no particular sensation of fear, and I remember thinknig quite calmly, as I lay on the ground; the tiger's hot breath coming against my face : "It's all up with me now." But at that moment my faithful little Mungo came to the rescue j he bit the tigert tail so severely that the beast immediately released his hold and turned around to seize its new adversary. But Mungo, as sharp ?nd wary as he was plucky, was off in the tall grass in an instant The tiger followed, but the dog had the advantage ovei him, ?s it could run through the grass ?nd unde the brush-wood at a pace which the other could not ke?p up with. In fact, it was almo?t comical to see how the great ere ature bounded about ii its useless ch?se after th? dog But T knew that the tiger, disap point?d of seizing Mungo, would bf back again to attack his master; so I reloaded my gun and stooc waiting his return. In a shorl time he was before me once more and again I leveled my gun ai good as .1 could, considering the pain in my left sheulder. Th< first shot missed, but the seconc struck the tiger in th? shoulder crippling him, made him roll abouj in agony. Reloading as soon as possible, I went near to him, aimee very deliberately and this tim? gave him his quietus. Scarcely had I done so before Mungo cam? bounding up to me, looking inti my face and whining.-Chambers'i Journal. A. "VAXiTJAJBHiB PRESENT. A. Year's SxOsoription to a Pop ular ^ixricaltxrral Paper Given Free to Our Readers. By a special arrangement wit! the publishers we are prepared ti furnish free to each of our reader a year's subscription to the popu lar monthly agricultural journal the AMERICAN FARMER, publishei at Springfield and Cleveland, 0. This offer is made to any of ou subscribers who will pay up arreai ages on subscription and one yea in advance, and to any new sub scribers who will pay one year ii advance. The AMERICAN FARME enjoys a large national circulatior and ranks among the leading agri cultural papers. By this arrange ment it cost you nothing to receiv the AMERICAN FARMER for on year. It will be to your advantag to call promptly. Sample copie can be seen at our office. Tne*Spring is Upon Us, And we are receiving this week nice line of Spring Calicoes, Ginj haras, etc. Call and examine tnein. Very truly, W. H. TUKKEE & Co. Club Meetings. Holet Club Endorses Tillman. * ' EDITOR ADVERTISER : Please publish the following preamble and resolutions unanimously and enthusiastically passed by the Huiet Democratic Clnb, April 9th. WHEREAS, We, the members of Huiet Democratic Club, now in mass meeting; assembled, believing in the movement started in 1890, relying upon the wisdom of our present executive, and confiding in his future actions do hereby adopt the following resolutions : Resolved. ?. That we fully en dorse the actions of our present Governor, and believe him to'have come up to th? expectations of th? majority of his constituents in the discharge of the executive duties. Resolved 2. That as we sup ported Tillman in 1890, and be lieving him still worthy of the highest office tho State can give, so we will support him in the en suing campaign and election and ?rill use every effort in our power to see him again occupy the guber natorial chair. Resolved 3. That a copy of these resolutions he sent to the Edgefield ADVERTISER and Edgefield Monitor for publication. Signed J. B. SUDDATH, Pres. B. W. CROUCH, Sec. Old Meriwether Speaks in the Same Tones. Pursuant to the order of County Chairman Gary, the Meriwether Democratic Club met at Holder's shop to reorganize, elect officers, delegates, etc. The club was caPed to ' order by President Townes. Secretary Holder being absent, H. L. Bunch was appointed temporary secretary by the chair. The election of permanent offi cers. ie suited as follows : President-H. H. Tovr.es. Vice-President-G. W. Medlock. Sec. and Treas-W.'S. Lanier, Local Executive. Committee-L, .W. R?eese, Jl T. Swe?rengin, and W. & Lanier. - jB^trati?n Cojnmjtteer--4<. D: ^BMS67~P: 15/ Larm"amVrand & 7W.T Medlock. Delegates to County Convention -H. Hi Townes, L. W. Reese P. B. Lanham, G. W. Medlock, and W. S. Lanier. Chairman of Executive Com mittee-L. W. Reese. The full corps of officers, and delegates are strong Tillmanites. Everything passed off quietly. Further comment unnecessary. H. L. BUNCH, Sec. And So Does Gray. WHEREAS, The present State Ad ministration h?s given general satisfaction to the farmers of the .country and has endeavored, as we j believe, to faithfully: serve the peo ple. Therefore be it . Resolved 1. That we have un diminished confidence in our pres ent St?t?^nic?rsT^ih their patriot ism and ability, to administer suc cessfully the affairs of the State, | and think that it - is but justice to them and to those who" elected them to office to continue them in office for another term; that they may have a fair oppor tunity to show to the world who they are. Resolved 2. The Columbia Reg ister and the Edgefjeld ADVERTISER are requested to publish the sam?. The above was passed by Gray I Township Democratic Club. J. W. AITON, Pres. J. M. RAMBO, Sec. It is Tillman Too. Moss Township Democratic Club met at Cheatham's store, April 9th, at 3 p. m., and enrolled sixty-five members with the following offi cers : President-A. L. Branson. vice-President;-S. B. Hughes. Sec. and Treas.-P. W. Cheat ham.JJ Executive Committee-L. Cor ley, R. B. Hughes, L. R. Branson. County Executive Committee man-L. R. Branson. Delegates to County Convention -W. M. Corley, A. L. Branson, L. Corley. A. L. BRUNSON, Pres. P. W. CHEATHAM, Sec. Cannibal Cookery. A friend of the writer, who foi more than forty years has been ir the employment of the Dutch Gov ernment, bears personal witnest to the prevalence of this custon in Sumatra up to recent times He was once making scientifi< investigations in the interior o that island, and was being enter tained in the most hospitable manner by the native Rajah, o chief, of the place he was then ic A feast had been made to which he was bidden, and to which he went, taking his own native servant with him. The banquet had proceeded for some time with out interruption, when at last, as crown of the feast, a beautiful brown roast joint was brought from the back of the house to the open airy place where the repast was be ing held. This was cutup without remark and handed round, and the Dutch gentleman vas on the point of eating his portion, having raised part of it to his lips, when his servant rushed forward and stopped him, saying: "Master, do not eat; it is a boy." The chief, on being questioned, admitted, with no small pride at the extent of his hospitality, that hearing that the white man would feast with him, he had ordered a young boy to be killed and cooked in his honor, as the greatest delicacy obtainable, and that the joint be fore them was the best part the thigh. Early travellers in New Zealand always express aston ishment when they discover the cannibal propensities of the in habitants, that so gentle and pleasant mannered a people could became on occasion such fero cious savages. Earle, who wrote a very readable, intelligent, and but little known account of the Maoris very early in the present century, speaks of the gentle man ners and kindly ways of a New Zealand chief, whom afterward he discovered to be an inveterate cannibal. He rel?tes that he visited the place where was cook ing the body of a young slave girl that his friend had killed for the purpose. The head was severed from the body ; the four quarters, with the principal bones removed, were compressed and packed into a small oven in the ground, and covered with earth. It was a case of unjustifiable cannibalism. No revenge was gratified by the deed, and no excuse could be made that the body was eaten to perfect learned that the llesh takes many hours to cook, that it is very tough if not thoroughly cooked, but that it pulls in pieces, like a piece of blotting-paper, if well done, He continues that the victim was a handsome, pleasant-looking girl of 16, and one he used frequently to see about the Pah. To quote his own words: "While listening to this frightful detail we felt sick almost to fainting. We left Atoi (the chief who had killed the girl), and again strolled toward the spot where this disgusting feast was cooking. Not a native was now near it, a hot steam kept occa sionally bursting from the smothered mass, and the same dog that we had seen take the head of the girl now crept from beneath the bushes and sneaked toward the village. To add to the gloominess of the whole, a large hawk rose heavily from the very spot where the poor victim had been cut in pieces. My friend and I sat gazing in this melancholy place. It was a lowering, gusty day, and the moaning of the wind through the bushes, as it swept round the hill on which we were, seemed in unison with our feel ings." Earle goes on to relate how he and three other com patriots, whom he summoned from the beach for the purpose, with the Englishman's usual impertinenc? and intolerance of customs differing from his own, determined to frustrate Atoi's intention. They together visited the hill where the flesh was cook ing, and destroying the oven, buried the remains in the earth. They found the heart put on one side for the special delectation of their constant friend and com panion, Atoi. Earle was afterward good-humoredly told by the chief that their interference had been of no avail, as they had found the grave where the flesh had been buried and opening it soon after he and his friends had finished cooking it and eaten it all. Earle argued long and probably loudly with the chief upon this question, Atoi asked him what they did with the thieves and runaways in England, and he told him ''flog 1 them or hang them." Then," re . plied the Maori, "the only dif i terence is that we eat them aftei j we have killed them." The same chief told him that before the ' introduction of potatoes the people 3 in the interior had nothing to eat f but fern roots and kumera (an - other edible root) ; fish they neve] g abd in the rivers, so that humar flesh was the only kind they evei r partook of-Gentelman's Maga> zine. 'mejrocKei-uaniuiercutt. Until the reign of the Empress Josephine, a handkerchief was thought, in France, so shocking an object, that a lady would never have dared to use it before any one. The word even was carefully avoided in refined conversation. An actor who would use: a handkerchief on the stage, even in the most tearful momenta ..of the play, would have been unmerci fully-hissed; and it was only in the beginning of the present, century that a celebrated actress, Mlle. Duchesnoise, dared to ap* pear with a handkerchief in lier hand. Having to speak. of this handkerchief in the course of the pieee, she never could, summon enough courage to call, it by its true name, but ref erred.to it asa light tissue. A few years later, a translation of ono of .Shake speare's plays by Alfred de Vigny having been acted, the word handkerchief was used for. the first time on the stage, amid cries .of great indignation from every part of the house. I doubt (saya.a writer) if even to-day French elegantes would carry, handker chief if the ,wife of.. Napoleon I. had not given the signal for adopting them. The Empress Josephine, although really lovely, had bad teeth. To conceal them, she was in the habit of carrying small handkerchiefs, adorned with costly laces, which she constantly raised gracefully to her lips. Of course, all the ladies of the court followed her 'example, and handkerchiefs have rapidly become an important part of the feminine toilet>-St.James Gazette. J. WM. THUR ATTORNEY ATVk EDGEFIELD, - - Office on Law Rd MANLY' TIMMONS, _..DMTAL SURGEON. Hours from 9 a. m. to .$ p.'niK Tompkins Avenue. - I HAVE OPENED A PIB8T-CLA68 Mauri & Fancy Grocery STOBB, ' 3NTo. I TompkinsAVe. Where I will be pleased to receive the patronage of the public. LE. JACKSON; Agit, GEORGE B. LAKE, - AGENT FOB - The MUTURAL LIFE INSUR ANCE CO., of New York. The largest and beet Life Company in the world. 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