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Edgefield Advertiser THURSDAY, APRIL 28,1892. m m THOS. J. ADAMS,.EDITOR j NEVER BEFORE. Never since 1876 has Edgefield county been able to pay ber debts, dollar for dollar, and as soon as .contracted, until, this year; and yet the antis would have yon believe that Tillman don't^know any thing about financial matters and cares as little. If the county j f of Edgefield owes you anything, all you have to do is to step up to the Captain's office and get your j t check, present it to Capt. Bill jl Btevene and get your money. When before in the history of Edgefiled county has this been Ic the case? p t Gov. .Tillman's speech on Saturday was magnificent, and { must have excited the admiration j and wonder even of his enemies. g Although he spoke for more than t two hours not for one moment! did he lose the attention of his I large audience. The Governor ? defended himself ably and sue- t .ossfully against all the accusa- a tionBof his enemies and made I tba for and wool fly. f tl f 1 The day was Tillman's, the whole meeting was Tillman's-a perfect ovation, even the antis were captured, and the hand primary showed seven to one. In proportion as men are real com, and not counterfeit, they scorn to enjoy credit for what they are not. "Paint me," says Ben Tillman, "free pass, cows, and all." ? I ^e.1)0y8 .kep^ the mourners bench, Governor, some of the antis are comm' through." The Governor would reply: "I'll open it directly, if the devil don't get -em before I do." Eil Some Of the boys came to the meeting last Saturday with their mouths open. They didn't want | j io waste any time opening their mouths when the "Tillman yell" was called for. Gov. Tillman must have been delighted at the reception which he received at his own home. He doesn't wear his heart on his j sleeve for daws to peck at, but his countenance showed that hs felt deeply and gratefully. Every time Ben Tillman would ?1 make a hit, and that was all the time, the dinner horn boys won ld rise up and holler. They said: "Gov'nor, we can't holler. settin' down. We can't do the subject justice." asked that all him before When Tillman those who voted for and didn't expect to do so now i should hold up their hands only i seven responded. These half i repented and let their hands droop, c but the boys made 'em hold 'em up c long enough to be counted. Gov. Tillman is undoubtely the * best stump speaker in the State, 7 and we verily believe the best in, * the United States. South Carolina 1 has reason to be proud of this bril- 1 1 an t meteor that has shot across her political sky, this phenomenon of brain, vim, common sense, and originality. No man can listen to Tillman for half an hour, unless his heart j be filled with the devil's hate I and venom, and not be thoroughly convinced of his sincerity of purpose, his whole-souled de votion to the cause which he advocates, and that ?he is honestly and earnesstly trying to do his duty. This is all that heaven demands; why should mortals ask for more? Orr and Sheppard evidently had some nice little tricks, some charges aganst Tillman left over from the Greenville meeting, which they had fixed np for the Edgefield meeting, but 16 and behold at the Edgefield meeting Tillman had five tricks and counter charges to their ona and they forgot their own little charges in vain efforts to answer his. They were on the defensive from the word j go, although Tillman ia the I attacked and they are the attacking | parties. What a general Ben Till man would have made ! Tillman's repartee, his quick ness, the rapidity with which he punctures a hubble or flattens out a fool is wonderful. In his speech last Saturday, reviewing the political career of ex-Gov. Sheppard, he said: "In his career of ten years of public service what has he ever done for the people?" A little anti with more brass than brains stood up on the left of the stand and said: "He's done a heap." Tillman stopped, delib e ral ely folded his arms, turned I to the little anti and asked: "What?" The anti hemmed and hawed, he didn't know what, and sat down completely dumbfounded amid the cheers and jeers of the j audience. The boys toted Farmer Ben rom his carriage to his seat on the tand on Saturday. Gov. Sheppard lad 'to walk-his sheep weren't trong enough to.tote him. One ardent grey haired old Till aanite, after listening to the Gov ernor for some time suddenly ?roko out with: "Boys, Ben talks o us like all of us was his dad Ues." - Gov. Tillman's homo organ, the Sdgefield ADVEBTISER, styles the Conservative ticket "the Radical icket." "Like master, like man." -The State. The ADVEBTISER said no such hing, and Lord Angus, thou hast ied. We were amused on Saturday to observe the difficulty with which. Col. Orr remembered the name of he head of his ticket. He kept ?ailing him "Hampton." The ruth is Orr didn't know his* head rom his heels, for Ben had him itanding on his head half the ime. Tillman said at the meeting on Saturday : "I am not a member of he Baptist or any other church md I confess that I am nothing rat e poor sinner"-and old Edge ield says: "Come to my arms, benjamin, my boy, with all thy aults-and which of my sons has ess? Tlove you still." If the Edgefield Chronicle could, nth his little squirt gun, squirt i hundred thousand gallons of lish water and a car load of dirty idjectives upon Ben Tillman it couldn't make a single man, wo nan, or child in Edgefield county >elieve that Ben isn't a diamond >f the first water. The meeting was opened by >rayer by Rey. A. B. Watson of our rillage Methodist church. During his prayer Gov. Tillman uncov ired-Gov. Sheppard kept his hat >n. There was an instinctive rev irence, an evidence of natural, in )orn religion on the part of Gov. rillman in that act. The riff-raff, the rag-tag and job ta il of Edgefield county, if :here be any such, may be behind rillman, but the large majority of lis followers in Edgefield county ire as honest, intelligant, and wave as can be found behind any jody, and the individual who says >r insinuates to the contrary perpetrates an infamous slander. The Augusta Chronicle on Sun lay published the addre&s?s'of the candidates at the campaign meet ng here last Saturday, and along irith it a picture, or what purported ? be a picture, of Gov. Sheppard. Fhis picture was not a picture of 3ov. Sheppard at all, but a combi ?ation of Judas Iscariot, Benedict Vrnold, and Nebachadnezzar, and ve protest against it in the name >f "peace and unity" in Edgefield jounty. Ben Tillman must have studied ;he methods of Gen. Forrest in var and applied them to his poli ;ical campaigns. Forrest had two naxims : "Get there first with the nost men" and "war means fight ing and fighting means killing." Ben generally manages to get there ?rst with the most men and he ilways kills his antagonists and skins them, or, as an old negro re marked at the stand on Saturday, :'Dat Tillman man kilt 'em and Bkunt 'em and hung 'em on a pole." - The News and Conrier of Mon day gives the following about the campaign meeting at this place last Saturday : Themost important feature of the meeting, however, we think, was when Mr. Tillman, as re ported, "undertook to test the sen timents of the audience by a hand primary and about half the crowd signified their preference for him self." According to the best esti mates, it is stated, "the audience was very nearly evenly divided." Suppose this had been the first one the News and Courier evert old, wouldn't there have been danger of choking to death? This is one way we know it was not the first, be ean, se we haven't heard of any oi 'em getting choked. The only banners displayed in the procession and on the stand were, as a matter of course, Till man banners, and were the handi work of Mrs. Davis Padgett. One of these banners represented s goat standing up in. a chair, and s sheep falling to the ground, having been butted off by the goat. The sheep's tongue was lolling out at if in the death struggle. The other banner represented Ben Till man standing up with a hand ham mer in his hand, beneath him s ring which he had broken in three pieces and was in the act of strik ing again. Previous to the meet ing these-banners were?, on exhibi tion in the rear of the Farmers Bank, where large crowds of goatf and ring smashers went in to ad mire and applaud. Mrs. Padgett deserves great praise for her pa triotism in getting up such unique and attractive banners. t SAT?BDAY SALMES SICKENED SHEER BRAVE BEN BATTLES BRAVELY. OLD EDGEFIELD STANDS BY HER FIRST LOVE. Not in Anger, -Not in Wrath, The "Blinker" Came That Day And Took the Sheep, The Sheppard's Sheep And Carried 'Em All Away. The clans began to gather at au early hour on last Saturday. They' came from the east, from the west, from the north, from the, south. They came in wagons, car riages, buggies, on horse back, but more than all other they rode the festive mule. As both the candi dates for Governor were from Edgefield it was expected that P large concourse would assemble, but such an outpouring was en tirely unlooked for. The speaking was in the Acad emy grove, amidst whose historic shades in the past, Calhoun, Mc Duffie, Toombs, Pickeni, Gary and the Butlers have addressed Edge field's assembled hosts. The stand was occupied by Gov. Tillman, Gov. Sheppard, Col. Jas. L. Orr, Rev. A. B. Watson, Attor ney General McLaurin, Farley, Dixon, Youmans, Timmerman. County Chairman Gary, and others. The following account we clip from the Columbia Register : "If the meeting at Greenville last Saturday was a success, it would be difficult to know how to charac terize the meeting at Edgefield to day. It had been expected that as both candidates for Governor are from this place the meeting would be much more evenly divided than was the one at Green ville, but the results showed that it was even stronger for the Governor than was the crowd which assembled in the Piedmont sec tion. The meeting was held on the old groun'ds near the academy which has witnessed so many political discussions. The crowd numbered from 2,000 to 2,500 people, a good number of ladies appeariug among them. The ladies seem to be.tak ing an interest in the politicai^is cussion whtch is going on. Among the banners carried on the occa sion were two executed by a young lady which were the objects of a great amount of attention. One was a picture of a man with an uplifted hammer and a broken ring at his feet. "Tillman smashed the ring." The other showed a somewhat belligerent goat stand ing on a chair from which he had just knocked a sheep and warning him that he can't get in Ben's chair. Although there was a great amount of enthusiasm quietness and order characterized the meet ing to a marked degree. There was no attempt at howling down and the speakers were listened to with close attention. It was a crowd which appeared to desire argument. They got plenty of it, and since the argument in this campaign is all on the side of the administration the crowd after hearing it was on that side too, as the hand primary taken at the close of Governor Tillman's speech showed, The Piedmont " Shanghai'' says that his opponents are welcome to all the feathers they can pluck, but if meetings of this sort are kept up he and his consorts will before long be calling on the executive committee to withdraw them from any further joint discussions. When both the crowd and the argument are against a man he has little- to hope for in the way of discussion. The meeting wa3 called to order at ll o'clock and prayer was offered by Rev. A. B. Watson. In opening the meeting Chairman Gray said : When a small band of farmers two years ago last March met and expressed their demands and their purpose to reform the offices of South Carolina, little did the peo ple think that one in the humble walks of life, an honest farmer from Edgefield County, would fill the highest office in the gift of the people, but such is the fact. Popular government is a reality. The majority does and must rule. We ha\e to-day tivo of the brighest jewels of Edgefield aspiring to the highest office in the State. Give them both a fair hearing. We cannot make flesh of one and fish of the other. Without further comment I introduce to you Gov ernor B, B, Tillman Governoi Tillman Avas greeted with loud and enthusiastic cheer ing. He spoke as follows : I was born in Edgefield as you all know. I have been away eighteen months. I have been Columbia to perform the pub duty,.and I need not tell you tl it affords me ' pleasure the m exquisite to look my friends a fellow citizens in the face. Sir Walter Scott in one of ] novels gives the history of c Rob Roy, a Scotch freeboot His hand was against every mi that is he resisted oppression a outlawry was pronounced agaii him. The war against him was strong that he was compelled change his name and acknowled allegiance to the chieftan of a other clan. On one occasi he was hunted by troops:. the King of England; jyh in the fastuessus of the mou tains, beset and surrourjde a stranger came to his camp. ] had changed his name to Campbe He escaped and got back ai found his wife leading his f< lowers. They burned his cab and destroyed all he had. i when the stranger approach) him on a matter of business ai addressed him by his assumi name, the vigor of the free-bo: Scot broke forth and he said : n foot is on my native heath, vn name's McGregor. I who ha been equally traduced, slander? and abused ever since I took \ the cudgel for popular rights say am glad to be among you to loe these men in the e) and let y< judge between us: They are tl solicitors. I am to defend mysel I appreciate your applause ar good will. I believe and wi provo that I have earned i [Voices: "You have."] I wi reared among you and I want ask if there is a man who hi ever known me to do ' an act \ dishonor or dishonesty, to te IT falsehood or do anything little < mean. [Voices: "No. We nevi have." . I have a rough outside. ,Gc didn't make me of silken materia to bamboozle men, to give 1} service, or pretend what I do ni mean, but my heart beats i warmly as any man's for the pei pie of South Carolina, and thoi who know me best love mo mos I am'the best hated man in Sout Carolina. I come here now as candidate. I ask you to re-ele< me Governor. [Voice: We'll c it.] When I was put forward 1: the March convention two yea; ago I said : you ask mo to lead a forlorn hope. It is a long, stump and hard road between here an the State House, but if you gh me that banner I am going 1 fight. I fought and won a victor for the people, not a victory c Tillman over Earle. [Applause. I said after I was nominated I wi! be watched closer than any Go^ ernor of South Carolina ever ha been. Was I a prophet? 1 foresaw the policy of the opposi tion. I said a bolt if there wa any would come from the othe side and it did. The Haskellite went out and appealed to the pees We used to have stagnaticj?B politics.' Along in 1882 and'lSS the Democratic ' candidate couldn't get a respectable crow to hear them for they had th nomination already and yo couldn't help it. You are here t swallow me if you like me, Shep pard if you like him better, bu the thing is not fixed. [ Applaus?. We have at last a genuine Demo eratic government of the people [Voices: Tillman, Tillman."]" have already told you what wer the issues in 1890. It was no whether Tillman or Earle shouh be Governor, but whether the peo pie or the ring should rule [Voice: "The ring's broken." Yes, we broke a little ring but th pieces are wriggling togethe again. The issue now means tha if I am made Govenor the peopli will rule, but if Sheppard is mada Governor, the banks an< corporations will rule and yoi can't deny i t. Sheppard appears as the nominei of another March convention Last year my enemies were saying even through thepress, that Till man has made a good Governor [Voices: "He has."] When th< Legislature adjourned and thej saw signs of disintegration , anions the politicians in the movement and as soon as the Legislature go home, charges of abuse anc misrepresentation were heraldec throughout South Carolina Were these papers bought? I bank president of Greenville waf heard to say, "We'll raise $100 000 but we'll beat this man [Voices; "He'll never do it."' $100,000 can't buy the farmers o: South Carolina, but a very fe? thousand can buy a few penny-i line newspapers. Which was tb< lead dog which all these f?llowi follows followed? [Voices: "Ber] Tillman."] No sir; you've got t bad case of Tillmania. I neve: opened my mouth till last week 1 took all their abuse like a mar from Edgefield. N. G. Gonzalet led, the editor of that infamouf Haskellite, independen}; paper ir Columbia, a paper founded on hate and malice to keep alive strife : that Gonzales, who was out of t job, might live, and two of yotu papers copied it notwithstanding Haskell's appeal to the negro They spread broadcast these slan ders and asked for a March con vention. Our executive commit tee said : we'll let them back inte the party. We only ask that they support its nominees and not for get their registration certificates! Did they come back like the prod igal son ! No, they came breath ing hate and revenge which they have al way s had and they've got it to-day. Who got up tho March convention? I've good proof. [Here the speaker read an extract from The State claiming credit for the address.] Who of you has forgotten that when I was nomi nated by a March convention they said those methods were undemo cratic? Earle fought me from Greenville to Colletcn on ijhe ground that such methods were un democratic, but when they held a March Convention thom selves they admit that I was years ahead of them in statesn ship. The last March conven adopted the farmers' movem They said put Tillman out of way and we'll take anybody. Tillman out of the way and p< and unity will prevail. ' movement is not aimed at Tillrj but at Tillmanism. These fell do hate the one-gallus.crowd ; 1 hate the two-gallus crowd, and even if a man wore tl galluses and pulled thc bell over a mule they couldn't v him to have a voice in the govi ment. Let us look at this demane theirs for a direct primary? Ei meeting they had demand?e primary. What did they do Columbia? They, didn't wan primary. Just as Sheppard 1888, when you sent him to couvention instructed to vote a primary; disobeyed your structions and voted against He - said at Greenville that didn't favor it then, and judg from the way it was hushed he don't want it now. Who composed the March C vontion? Gonzales had gre desperate. He issued a call foi meeting of the Haskellite C< mittee, and the next day cal on Luke to shoot or give up glin. Well, Luke shot, voice : "He didn't hit nothing He shot a call signed by thirti men. Who issued it? [A voi "Haskell."] No, Haskell was sharp for that. The speaker tl briefly commented on the n who had signed the for the Ma: Convention. Sheppard says once the office has sought the m Orr said I cannot take an orri and so can speak my mind plair and ho did speak plainly. The convention was larg made up of men who appealed the negro two years ago. Tb were six or eight Haskell men their nominating commitf There are Haskellites on the I ec?tive Committee, and when tell you that this movement Haskellism in disguise, it h asses the souls of these gpntlenii But there is an old adage, "T me your friends and I'll tell y who you are" They are hand glove with the Haskellites. Listen to this their platfori "We are a borrowing people a our interests demand that capi be invited here for investme that competition in lending m be developed and money chef ened. Our one hope for becomi an independent people with si plus money is to encourage t coming of new population a: investments in industries whi will develop our natural ' indi tries, which will develop our n tural resources and give hoi markets for the productions of o farms." We want capital to coi here, but we want it to come i terms of equality and not as t master of the Democrats of Sou jCarcJina. LikeT Grattan, rath than have corporations rema your boss and have privileg which you do not enjoy, the whi ?men of South Carolina may go rags, but they will never we chains.. We don't want to borre under conditions .of lingerii death which will catlse you to loi your land. Listen again. "We favor tl speedy adjustment of the matte now pending in the courts betwee the State and various eorporatioi on a common sense and businee like basis so that all may bear just share of taxation." Noboc bothered the corporations till l g there. They had their own swe will. Because we have resist? their encroachments they have a saulted us. None of us want t oppress corporations. They ? into the United States courts ar get orders to tie up the taxes au throttle the government and ss we ought to compromise. Look i Coosaw. Those who were oppose to me favored Coosaw and as soo as we commenced to try and n cover that property the cry went u you'll have to pay those taxe compromise! adjust! I am n< of the compromising sort. Whi I am I am. [Voice: "And ye can't be no ammer."] Listen to this platform: "*\\ denounce the proposition to ii crease the poll tax to $3 a yea because it would unjustly put burden on people not able to ber it. We pledge ourselves, howeve: to use every just means to furthe develope and improve our publi school system, the deficiencies c which cannot be overlooked." Thi matter of a $3 poll tax is aime at me. The other is taffy lik they've been giving you since 1871 The speaker here went on to de fend his advocacy of the poll ta as a matter of justice and a bene fit to the schools. He then too up some of the minor planks c the platform and showed how un sound and inconsistent they an and continuing he said: "Shep pard was Governor, Speaker of th House, Lieutenant Governor and member of the Wallace House Has he ever done any th in g for y ou the farmers? ["Nofnol"] Whei Sheppard accepted the nominatioi he said go home, and tell the peo pie that it is dishonorable to mak charges which you can't prove an< promises you can't carry out. Thi was aimed at me, threshing ove Earle's old straw. They neve: proved that I told a lie. I san then it was incipient rottenness Well, wc found one officer who hae stolen. We found three Count; Treasurers behind $10,000, and al over the State the Comptrolle: General found Treasurers' ond Au di tors' offices out of shape-mis takes, irregularities-amounting to about $80,000. At Greenville Sheppard made comparisons between my govern ment and his in '86. Governor do you stand by it? Sheppard-Yes. Then, Governor, you said what was not true. Shepparel-I took it from youi ?-?Ml.m m ? .I printed letters. You mnsn't dodge behind T man's letters. Come up to \ rack. Here's the Comptroller .Gi eral's report. [Here he ' cited 1 ures to show that expenses " h not been increased, as Sheppi had declared, and showed wh< this administration had been co pelled to pay $10,000 for stei graphers which had been paid the Counties under the other G ernors.] They tell you that T: mah has "broken ?ll his promis Col. Orr says I never tried to ki any of them. [Col. Orr, int rupting : "No, I said you had carried them out."] If you rec lect, I never said on any stump elsewhere in South Carolina tl I could do anything. [A voie "Didn't you say the tail could] wag the dog!" That was the a ministration I referred to, not t Legislature. You never saw t tail wag me: . But if this thi should go by default, you'd see t tail wag him [pointing to She pard.] He's hanging on to Or coat tails. When I made my fi] inaugural I told the Legislatn they were elected on a platform c manding rigid economy, the at lition of useless offices, reduct! of offices and payment of office according- to 'labor aud abilil Did I break my pledges? j voice : "No. Didn't you have t Legislature?] Yes; a Tillm? Legislature, .so-called; but the was lots of rotten driftwood in When the Legislature came bai a second time I asked them in n message to carry out these pledgf They didn't, and these men s: I broke my pledges. The speaker then took up tl Coosaw case and showed hr unfounded are the charges that ] acted in an unbusinesslike wa He then took up one of tho ch arg in Col. Orr's speeches. Orr sa he couldn't accept any office. [ voice: "Didn't yon say so? Yes, I said so iii 1S86 and 18SS ai wouldn't accept until the poop couldn't find anybody else. If had refused I'd have been a cowa: and there's no such blood in m veins. They charge that I have arraye class against class, father again sou and brother against bro thc I know some families split ov matters of property, but if the were no principle at stake; i matter of conscience, nothir. between a man and his God stake, would there be this divisioi Is this attacking anybody? O says I don't represent the true me and women of South Carolina, you are not the true men and wi men of South Carolina I cion know who are. He says I want Legislature subservient to me. said I wanted a Legislature i sympathy with me and subserviei to you. I stood by the platforn The railroad bill which they passe was not in accord with that and vetoed it, and then they said Til man wants to boss. The speaker then showed ho the . first Legislature wasted ii time over, trivial measures and Y had bills drawn up represehtin his ideas and how the pape] howled about administrate measures. Who divided ne [You.] That is false as hel You divided youreelves b appealing to the negro against th white man. Let's get back to m Piedmont mutton. Orr says didn't reduce taxes and couldn reduce them. If I couldn't reduc them why in God's name does h abuse me for not doing it? The Governor then went on t show how the Legislature ha failed in carrying out reforms an confessed its inability to deal wit pressing questions and explaine his reasons for his treatment c the bill to extend the time for th payment of taxes; he explaine the free pass matter, and roferrin to the charge that many outsid lawyers have been employed b the State showed where in othe administrations $21,000 has bee: paid in the Chisolm's Island case The Agricultural Hall matter wa also taken up, and the speake showed where he had tried t protect the people. He then too] up more of Colonel Orr's charge and then referring to Sheppan said : Indirectly he accuses me o dishonor. In his speech at Green ville the other night he used lan ' guage, well I hardly know word to express my opinion of it. [2 voice : "Say d-n it and let it g at that."] When I said I wouh rather go to hell with you than gi to heaven with the other fellows meant every word of it, but I quali ; tied it at the time and said that '. meant it in a figurative sense only ! He criticised that expression an< the papers didn't put in m) . qualification. Now I make ni : pretensions to religion or to beinj a church man. But I am not ? member of the Baptist church wh< :' drinks liquor and gambles. ] humbly say I am only a poo , sinner. I am rough and uncouth . but before God I am honest. [Yes ! and we'll go to hell with you. i Sheppard says we have survived Chamberlain, Scott and Moses anc , can survive Tillman. What righi has this man to put me on a plani ? with these men when he knowi that in integrity, truth and virtu< i he is not my equal? Now for Col. Orr, the Piedmont , giant, the Shanghai. No I wil not call him a Shanghai. [Orr: "A game cock."] No, you're too big ' and blundering for a game cock, but you're game all the same ; Who is he to say that I am un worthy to unlace the shoes of W, ; H. Wallace? The Governor then reviewed Col. Orr's record, Bhowing up some of the matters he referred ! to at Greenville, and said : Ho ' not only helped to put a negro over a Confederate soldier, but he 1 was a Republican office-holder ' himself. [Col. Orr: "That is not 1 true."] He denies it. Well, all I know is that Iiis father was Min ister to Russia and he was there i with him. [Col. Orr: "I was his private secretary and drew no ? salary."] Your father got $17,500 and that waf enough for both of you. Hero the Governor would have stopped, but calls for him to call up the mourner? were so loud that a hand primary was asked for. The Governor asked all who- had voted for him in 1890 and had lost faith in him to ' hold up their hands. I counted only two. He then- asked all who intended to vote for him at the fall election to hold up their hands. Fully nine t?nths "of the crowd responded. The Governor then said: "Now I beg you asa special, favor to me, no matter what the other speakers may pay, to listen . to them respectfully and show them fair Play. ' _ A HORRIBLE FEAR. Tho Terrible Thought in a Mother'* Mind Pou? Not Prevent Her Shopping. Two women and a baby were the dramatis personas of a typical feminine episode the other afternoon. The mother of the baby. Airs. A., with her precious charge, a lusty boy ot thirteen months, drove over to pay a visit to a friend in Brooklyn who was staying with a resi dent of that city witb whom Mr?. A. was slightly acquainted. .Tb* friend whom she had come to sw had jost left but'the lady ot the house pleasantly ro ceived her, and ?ho remained foi a little chat. Mention chanced tr? bo mad? of hem stitched bed linen and Mrs. 13 remarked that a certain Brooklyn shop waa offer lng wonderful bargains in that, line, whereupon Mrs. A. confessed her need and desire for thes6 articles, and in the end carried off Mrs. B: in her carriage to gnide her to the desired shop. Ar rived there, the dilemma of what to dr with tho baby was finally solved by Mrs. B., who was snrh she could amuse him long enough for his mother to accom plish her purpose. With some misgivings Mu A. left and ?.Irs. B. found within five minutes of her disappearance that she had un dertaken a serious responsibility. The child became frightened at being with a stranger and cried vehemently. Mrs. B. kept lum in the cai ringe as long as possible, then got out and walked with him, but, as all Fulton street began to get interested, she in despair thought she must hunt up his mother. She went into the shop, the baby screaming at the top of his voice, and made her way, embarrassed and irri tated, through the crowd to the linen counter. Mrs. ?. was not there nor ap parently anywhere clso itt the shop, for Mrs. B. made search as thoroughly as her roaring charge would permit with out success. "Where can Mrs. A. have gone?" she reclaimed in her dispair to the coach ?nan when she came out again. '"Sure," said that functionary stolidly from thc box, "it'll be in the fifth floor she'll be by this time." It was nearly an hour later that Mrs, A. appeared, excited and breathless, and poor Mrs. B.'s arms ached, head ached and temper ached sadly beforo that wel come moment arrived. "Oh, did he cry, bless his heart?" ex claimed tho mother, seizing the baby. "I was so afraid he might, brit I just couldn't lose those wonderful bargains." Mrs. B. deemed a reply useless and only gasped in relief as she sank back in the cushions. The cream of the affair came, however, a moment afterward as they were rolling toward upper Brook lyn again, the baby gradually slacken ing his sobs under the soothing of his mother. ? . TA??T do you know," said Mrs. A.; with only a half laugh, "I was pursued from counter to counter with the dread ful possibility that you might run off with Harold. One reads such shocking things of babies being stolen, and you know," apologetically, "young mothers are so foolish." At this Mrs. B. could not even gasp. Her Poiut of View in New York Times. TIic Antiquity of thc Organ. The organ is the most magnificent and comprehensive of all musical instru ments. While the pipes of Pan-aside from that mythical personage-indicate a very ancient use of pipes as a means of producing musical sounds, the "water organ of the ancients" furnishes to the student of organ history the first tan gible clew regarding the remote evolu-' tion of the instrument. In the second century the magripha, an organ of ten pipes with a crude keyboard, is said to have existed, but accounts of this instru ment are involved in much obscurity. It is averred that an organ-the gift of Constantine-was in the possession of King Pepin of France in 757; but Aid helm, a monk, makes mention of an or gan with "gilt pipes" as far back as the year .700.-Daniel Spillane in Popular Science Monthly. What Bacteria Aro. Bacteria are simply microscopic plants, the smallest form of vegetable life. In some instances they aro so small it would be necessary to place 15,000 of them end to end in order to make a row an inch in length. . They are of widely different forms, some round, some oval, some flat or rod shaped, while still another class are the exact counterparts of small cork screws. In all cases they are so minute that one needs a powerful microscope in or der to study them, and in no case can they be perceived simply with the naked eye. When countless millions are grouped, together they may probably be seen, but in this case they may be said to resemble an approaching army, of which we are totally unable to distin guish a singlo soldier.-St. Louis Re public. Hats lu tho House of Commons. No honorable member sits in the Eng lish house of commons without his "pot" hat on his head. If he rises to address tho house, greet a friend or cross tho room he must hold his shiny tile in his hand. Should his name bo mentioned in the speech of another member he lifts his hat respectfully. If it is in his hand when his uamo is uttered etiquette re quires him to clap it hastily on his head in order that he may lift it with proper deference.-Youth's Companion. Tho Movement of th? Sun. Professor Dimer, of Germany, has dis covered that tho revolution of the sun as shown by the movement at its equator is once for twenty-five days and'twelve hours of our tune, while at or near its poles the revolution may be only once in forty-six of our days. Tliis would only be possible with a movable and gaseous surface like that of tho sun.-New York Times. A UnanimouH Conviction. Every man who hates his enemies be lieves that there ought to bc a hell, no matter whether ho believes in tho Bible or not.-Ram's Horn. Tho First Manufacturo of Rubber. The successful manufacture of sur gical instruments was accomplished in 1820, and the wonderful capacities of this strange product then began to be known, and the commercial world realized tho fact that a now force had entered the industrial field, which was distined to play an important part in the arts and manufactures of the Nineteenth century.-Youth's Companion. Tho farmers have a little goat; 11 is head's as hard as steel, One day, before an awful crowd, He made that big ram reel. ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR CONGRESS. The friends of Col. W> J. TALBERT, recognizing In's ability and fitness, his Christian virtue, and the deep interest manifested by him in the welfare of the whole pejople-his known opposi tion" to monopolies-his advocacy of a better system for circulating the cur rency of this great country-his in terest in. the general welfare of the people and especially of the farmers, hereby announce him as a candidate for election, under the Democratic rule, to the House of Representatives of the United States from the Second Congressional District of South Caro lina. MANY CITIZENS. FOR SCHOOL COMMISSIONER. The friends of Capt. L. CHARLTON, appre ciating his faithful service in the late war, as well as during the past political war strife of our country, and knowing that he isa straight out Democrat hereby announce him as a candi date for thc office of School Commissioner of Edgefield county-pledging him to abide the rs suit of U>e primary. The friends of the Rev. P. P. BLALOCK knowing him to be an enthusiast on education, and fully competent to perform the duties of Schoo! Commissioner, respectfully announce him a candidate for that office, and pledge him to abide the result of the Democratic primaries, and to support the nominees of the party. ' FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER. According to promise given to my friends two years ago, I offer my name to the voters of Edgefield county for the office ol' County Com missioner. I will abide the result of the primary election and will support all the nominees of the Democratic party. M. L. WHEELER. Mil, Shoes pp We are still doing our best to sustain a First-class Clothing, Shoe and Hat House. We don't attempt but a few lines of . goods-CLO THING, SHOES, HATS AND GENTS* FURNISHING GOODS-but We propose to do this in first-class order. lt is reasonable to suppose that where one gives his time to a very few special lines that he can do better, than if he should carry everything. So when you wish a Suit of Clothes, Hat, pair <5T Shoes, or anything in Gents' Fur nishing Goods, call to see us. We can show you the latest styles, first-class goods?and at prices that will give sat isfaction. CLOTHING.-Everything in the Clothing line that is kept by any first class clothingestablishment, for Child ren, Boys and Men. A first-class $5.00 suit of Clothes for $3.00. .? 12.50 suit for $8.00. $16.50 suit for $12.."-0. All the finer grades at cor responding low pr.ices. We have a full line of samples of goods for suits, and any one wishing "an s?lect his goods and we will have suit made by first-class tailor, at much lower price than is usual for suit made to order. GENTS' SHIRTS.- -V. full stock,of the very best fitting Shirts, in laun dries! arid unraundried. All the latest styles in Collars. Large stock of Cuffs. Immense stock of Cravats made spe cially for us. Complete line of Gents' Underwear. SUSPENDERS- Large stock and the best quality. Harris' Wire ?Buckle. Something very durable HATS.-Tremendous large stock of Hats. All the latest styles. Immense stock of ??traw Hats, from very cheap ones to the finest grades. First-class assortment of Trunks and Valises. SHOES.-The most complete line of Shoes ever shown in Edgefield. We know that we can do better for you than it is possible for you to do else where. We buy very large stocks, and have advantages that cannot be ob tained except by persons dealing in special lines. Styles for Children, La dies and Men. Large stock of Ladies'Slippers. For quality and price we cannot be excelled. Give us a call and save money. E. IB. HAJR/T & CO., EDGEFIELD S. C. CITATION. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF EDGEFIELD. J. D. ALLEN, Esq., Probate Judge. WHEREAS, J. W. MILLER hath made suit to me to grant him Letters of Administration, of the estate and effects of B. H. Miller. THESE ARE, THEREFORE, to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said B. H. Miller, deceased, that they be and ap pear before me, in the Court of Pro bate, to be held at Edgefield C. H., on the 6th day of May, A. D. 1892. at ll o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why said ad ministration should not be granted. Given under my hand and seal this, the 18th day of April, A. D., ~~ } 1892. Published on the 20th J L. 8. > day of April, 1892, in the (-' Edgefield ADVERTISER. J. D. ALLEN, 2t J. P. E. C. WHY IS THE W. L. DOUGLAS S3 SHOE GENTLEMEN THE BEST S h OE IN THE WORLD FIR THE MONEY? It ls a seamless shoe, with no tac tai or wax thread to hurt tho feet; made of the best nae calf, stylisa and easy, and became tee make mort thoa of thu aradc than any other manufacturer, lt equals hand Bowed shoes costing from $4.00 to 83.00. ?fie 00 Gennlne Hand-sewed, the flnewcalf ?DO? shoo over offered for $3.00; equals French Imported shoes which cost from $8.00 to $12.00. QA 00 Hnml-Sewcd Welt Shoe, line calf. ?j>*ra stylish, comfortable und durable. Theben shoo ever offered at this price : same grade aa cus tom-made shos costing from $8.00 to |9.00. CE O 50 Police Shoci Formen, Railroad Men %P%Jp and LetterCarricrsall wvnrthcm; flnocalf, seamless, smooth Inside, heavy tbret soles, exten sion edge. Ono pair will wear a year. AA SO Uno calf; no better shoo ever offered at 9<&? this price; one trial will convince those who want a shoo for comfort and service. CO 25 and $2.00 Workingman's shoes} ?JJaba are very strong and durable. Those who have given them a trial will wear no other maka. nnUC! $'2.00 nnd SI.75 school shoes ara DU'S worn by the boys everywhere; theyseU on their merits, ns tho Increasing sales show. a orl?nc S .1.00 Hnnd-sewed shoe, best LdUlvS pondola, very stylish; equalsFrench imported shoes costing from $4.1?) to tG.OU. ImdieH' 2,30, $2.00 nnd Si.75 shoe far Kisses aro tho best fine Dougola. Sty list and durable. Caution.-Seo that W. L. Douglas' name and price aro stamped on the bottom of each shoe. . tF-TAKE NO SUBSTITUTE..*! vi os 1st on local advertised dealers sap pixing; yon. W. L. DOUGLAS, Brockton, Mus?. Sold W J. M. COBB, EDGEFIELD, S. C. HAMLET. Our jack. ''HAMLET," will, afterdate, stand tl.p s?ring season at Mr. Eidson's at Fruit Hill. . STOCKHOLDERS, 4-7-92-lm