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THOS. J. ADAMS, PROPRIETOR. EDGEFIELD, S. C., THURSDAY MARCH 17, 1892. VOL. LVn. NO. IO. . MAMMON WORSHIP. . The Most Subtle, the Most ] tensive, the Most Power that Ever Existed in ( World. BX REV. D. 0QLE8BY-BY RE QUE "V Man is a worshiping animal, every age, and among all nati and tribes, some form of worsl prevailed, r Where the true G wad not'known,idols were su bs ti ted. The character of the worship] is transformed into tho liken? of the object worshiped. Her the character of any people molded by the religion of the pc plo. - And the civil government any people is always 'exactly wh the religion of the people m ake The laws are elevating or d pressing on society in exa proportion, or correspondingly,, the religion or system of worsh is elevating or degrading. "Ck is love." Pure Christianity is tl highest type of religion concei able. The golden rule is the sui Of all good in human intercours No higher orbetterstate of sociei is conceivable than ia con taine in the fatherhood of God and tl brotherhood ot man. The sm total of true Christianity : supreme love of God and universe "love towards man. This acted on does away with all the distinctior and divisions ki society. Apply : to any nation or people and th "rough places would be mad smooth and the crooked place straight." We are spending millions o dollars yearly to wry the gospe - trotover our world, to convert th heathen from idolatry, and at th same I time we have secreted entrenched and hidden inside o our form ol: Christianity all ove the land of C hr i s te u do m, the mos subtle, the most extensive, am the most powerful form of idolatr that ever er?stedtin our world. Iiis Mammon worship.-* Mo ne] ts the god which presides over thi business of this business world. It assumes the lofty position o: being equal to any of the works o: creation. To illustrate : God make! 'ancTwilT grow and make an oal tree. Man makes a dollar, and il .wiil grow too and produce anothex dollar. The process of growing .they call it drawing interest-fr just as if he dollar possesses witalily. Here we have the essence .of idolatry; The thing which man : makes, called money, is set up by ..society all over our world on ranquality with man, "the noblest work, of-God." This false principle engrafted ?un money, or this1'idolatry, knocke ?ut the foundation of true religion. It destroys the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. It assumes that man can create something and invest it with vitality. Hence it makes man 'equal with his Creator. This is not .only true in theory, but a thousand fold more, practically. It is this false * principle in money that makes the great difference in the condition of'men in society. It repeals or nullifies God's law of labor. God said ; "In the sweat of thy face shall thou eat bread." Sut the. priest of Mammon eats ?3 Ibis bread in the sweat of the other fellow's face."" He don't "have to work." He sends his money out foraging and it brings in the products of the toilers, houses, lands, mortgages, stocks, bonds and money. This Mammon god is the greatest robber that ever set foot on this world of ours. He has gathered into the coffers of a few of his high priests untold mil liana ol! dollars, while millions of the robbed toilers are homeless and penniless. He has divided ' society into millionaires on one side and tramps, paupers, beggars and thieves on the other. So long and as Mammon worship prevails the gulf between the rich and poor will become wider and deeper. The remedies now in vogue are, and forever will be, failures. Let us look at them : The Government proposes, as fast as Mammon worship makes thieves, murderers and other criminals to put them in peni tentiaries or other prisons. So the prisons are made larger as they be come too small, and should we run on in this line long enough, the majority might be on the inside. The church tries to counteract j the evils of Mammon worship by i so-called charity. They propose soup-houses, poorhouses, asylums' i etc., but these too will have to be y enlarged from year to year on tb is i line. There is no stqplpirig place, is Our form of GbriBtiamtyvIt adulterated. It bias foolish] extended its energies too much : trying to keep men out of hell : the future world, while the go Mammon, peoples this world wit hell. Our Churchanity is a failur We many go on teaching an preaching on this line until ti crack of doomp" and society wi sink instead of rise highe Mammon worship, or usurj drags down with greater fore than our emasculated Churehanit lifts up?- -A^.religi?n)},?lat cannc l^society hdgber-than it is in al the land -or- Christendom, is no the religion which tho world needi and it wills be repudiated, an< ought to be. But how can th? world secure the. true? How cai true ChTiflianity be attained' Churchanity: i? now being re pudiated. The church has driftec away from. the masses.' It hai lost its grip on the masses. Why' Because it is the pillar on whict usury stands. It teaches that in terest on money, or usury, is right The church claims to be, and is the only organized moral force tc destroy evil. When it fails, then what. But it has failed. It ie captured by Mammon. It teaches that interest is right. ' It puts evil for good, darkness for light and bitter for sweet, but Mammon worship must be destroyed. If it is not, then slavery is the doom of the. human race forever. To suppose that Mammon idolatry will not be wiped out, is to admit that liberty, equality, republican governments and Christianity, too, are all impossible things. Moro than that, it is admitting that the great God who made the world is going to be defeated by this idol Mammon-usury. This conflict between the true God and idolatry has been raging for nearly six. thousand years. In the earlier ages idols were made of material substances, wood, stone, 5 tc. As often as idolatry has been driven from one battle-field, it has ^trenched itself in another. It has:taken its last, stand .inside ot Cfi?^IsnT?r?^ o&urch bas been captured by it. It joined the church and has been baptized, and now, so far as business is ?soncerned, it runs the church. So if it is destroyed (and will be), it ?rill have to be destroyed in spite af the present Churchanity. It is a sad state of things.- - Sin, national sins, always bring their own punishment. Chattel slavery did ; so will usury. The crisis is here. We are nearing the seventh one thousand year period. The world has been "groaning and travailing in pain" until now, and it is about to be born again. The ?eventh one thousand year period is God's mil len him-that is to be the Sabbath of refit tc this tired work 6? ours. When the laws of civil governments are in harmony with the Divine laws ; when they are just and equal and right, then the millenium is here. This Man? mon idolatry, usury, is going to die. It is in the death struggle now. Our country is to be the decisive battle-field. The high priests ?of Mammon (the money power) know that if they are van quished here, it will only be a question of timo untik they aTe vanquished everywhere. Hence the conflict will be a bitter one. [ would not dare to describe it if I xrald. But we are looking it in the face. We cannot dodge it. [t is on us ; *nd it will try men's 30uls. The seventh vial is being poured out. All the other vials ?vere local. Some on the earth; 3ome on the sea ; some in the rivers; showing that the agitation, md commotion in society w;as imited to localities. But the jeventh vial was poured out on ;he air, showing that the effect vould be universal. The prophet, Daniel, describes ;he same scene: Looking down ;he stream of time he beheld the great governments of earth, like towering mountain peaks, come ap and go down. The Persian, grecian and Roman, followed by i government which he desoribes in one place as "a little stone cut >ut of the mountains without lands," and in another place as ho "people of the saints of the Most High, taking the kingdom or 1 government and possessing it for- 1 iver, yea, even forever and ever." 1 We are witnessing the closing ip of this vision. The angel said, Then he poured out the seventh nal: "It is done." This closes tBeloDg campaign of 600dHyears, The great army of organized laboi that are now moving on the enemy's works and propose in November to take possession of our own Gov enment, are the . army which the prophet said and described aB the I 'People pf the Saints of the Most High." " . _[ The Three Drawers. The scene was set in a drawing room in Montague Street, and a strange idea came into her mind. She was romantic, and all kinds of strange ideas constantly flitted in and out of her pretty little silly head. Stamping as hard as ehe could an ' elegant patent leather boot on the carpet, throw ing back her shoulders, her dress tightened over her bosom, which was heaving like the Mediterran ean, and pointing to the Japanese cabinet in the corner of the room with a commanding gesture, she' Baid in the peremptory tone of one who will not brook con tradiction, whom nothing ? can turn from a set purpose : "Open one of those three drawers." The young man precipitated himself toward the cabinet. . "Don't be in such a hurry, pray. First hear what I have to say." He stopped suddenly, as if she had told him that the drawers ?vere charged with dynamite, ready to explode as soon as the . cabinet eras touched. "Open one of those drawers ; and be careful how you choose, for in each one I have placed an an s wer td the favor'you have been begging and praying for so long. I have made up my mind to let this speak for me, and if you put your hand on the paper on which 'Yes' is written,,then I must yield to (rou. Then I am yours. But if ;he paper in the drawer says 'No,' it must be.". ,"I am sure it will be against ne," said her.BaBsanio, who was a ot so poetical as he was an ' ar len t love* "Oh, I say,;, it ; ie not Fair, you know; it's wily too iruel of you, 'pon my soul it is." ^?oTrmu8t take your chance." inerr?p??? ^^?^?cairy^it^?ny ' rato, I shall haye this consolation : if you choose the answer you .van t, it will be fate that gives me io you. Tell me, do you believe in fate?" "I don't know," he answered, hesitating between the three irawer8. He paused every now md then to look into her face for riddance, but he found none there ; io closing his eyes and trusting to Providence, he elected for the middle drawer. Ha opened it, took out a tiny roll of scented pink paper, and handed it to . her. tWeli, what's my sentence?" "' "Read it yourself," and she held up the rose-leaf of paper up >n which was written one j word]-' Yes. So she was his. 'His, his, his 1 A.s if to take immediate . possess- ' ion, he put his arm . about, her, ' and pressed her to him. She did aot resist. She had given her svord : and she resigned herself to her fate. "With her lips clinging to his, the young man was not,, en tirely happy ; for . after a" j few moments of supreme ecstasy, he became suddenly cool. "What's the matter, darling?" me asked, noting the change, and iooking amorously into his eyes. 'Are you not happy now?" ; "Not quite." "Not quite 1 Am I not yours?" "Yes : but I owe you, don't you ;ee, to chance. I won you by ?hance. You did not come to me )f your own free will ; did you, aow?" and the poor fellow looked so ridiculously disconsolate she jould not help -laughing in his face. "Don't be so silly," she said, tightening her arms about his aeck, and standing on the tips of 1er toes to reach his lips,, for he held his head high in the air ; ?rou "you needn't look so glum : For, if I must tell you, you old tarling, I put the same answer in avery one of the drawers I" Brooklyn Life. Mr. T. E. Wiley, 146 Chambers st., New York City, "says that Ayer's Sarsaparilla cured him of i dry and scaly humor, from which aehad suffered intolerably. He adds: "I have not now a blemish >n my body, and my cure is wholly iue to Ayer's Sarsaparilla." 25 bu shel 8 Seed Wheat, 20 bushels Seed Barley, 15 bushels Seed Rye, ?t E. J. NORRIS'S. \ HA?' i THE H?S?S. IA NEW METEOR HAS FOASH ED IN THE POLITICAL ' . Skies and Scores the TinrdParty "With* a Fuud of Illustrcive and Characteristic . Anecdotes.; A ? (Atlanta Conatitation.) The pending campaign in Geor gia has'brough t forward, aclass of men and rough a nd tumble lght< ing which Georgia has not kown since the days of the old democrats. Since the war, political conies in Georgia have been betye white republicans,-scalawags^ carpetbaggers, backed by t&eH roes,-and the democrats, oom ing the patriotism, culture,-; refinement of the 'South. haye been practically no con tess.' Democratic campaigns haye bo? easygoing. The alder and mb;e prominent men have been noni nat?d for the offices. They saun tered about easi ly, spoke ' out y when they cared to and enjoyed a leisurely political picnic. Tie candidates for congress woiid make a series of appointments ja week apart and speak to their al miring constituents. They hal things all their own way. But now the democratic pariy has been confronted by a new con dition Of affairs. Thus confronted the 'democracy is fighting for life with all that implies-white supremacy, tjae control of the state and the politi cal salvation of the people. The two sides are arrayed and glariug at. each other and both fighting for all in it. These conditions ,have resulted in bringing to the surface a set of young bright campaigners who aire making fun and fight throughout the state. Ham's Descent. Down from the mountains, hes coin? a young feilowc who hereto fore has.been unknown throughout the state orilyin his own bailiwick as a country/ editor. He had be.?n amemberofjhe legislature, was nothing to be done to .attract attention. Alighting in a county in the tenth congressional district where the brash and breezy cam paign between Black and Watson had attracted his attention j he proceeded to make a speech for democracy that has caused ; all Georgia to look upon him ., as '?? the wonder from the mountains. H. W. J. Ham if. a tall, strap ping, smooth-faced fellow, with the air of acomed?an. His arguments are almost entire ly in stories. : j ? "The conditions in Georgia now," he will begin, "are significant) be cause all the old elements which have always fought democracy, the rounders, snoHy gosters, shouJ der* hitters and sons ot guns, the j dis cordant eleni?nis, every atom, of which is a stforni center orjpojitical disintegration are mus tered Under this piebald banner of so-called reform. They remind me j of a little story." An Opening Story* 'fJohnny . was^jeading in his third reader and he came on the story of the three Hebrew children. Their names staggered him.. The teacher . explained to him; they wore pronounced Shadrach, Mes hack and Abednego, charging him to remember this as he would pro bably encounter the names7 again. A day or two after he did and he felt over them again. The teacher explained for a second time and warned Johnny that the next time he failed to pronounce them he would lick him. A day or two after while reading along, Johnny suddenly stopped, raised his fists to his eyes .and commenced to blubber." "What's the matter?" the teacher asked. "Them same three durned fel lows. Boo-hoo." Light on the Platforms. In discussing the platform of the new party he tells, j of how they started out with the St. Louis platform, then the Ocala platform, the Feder .lon of Trades at Wash ington and finally the Omaha plat, form. The Omaha platform does not represent any idea of the Ocala platform which is the pride of the farmers. "Omaha platform," says he, rem m i nd s me of John's pants. John was going to a party and had bought a n-3W pair of hand-me down pants. When he tried them on he found them three inches too-long.- He asked -Sally to'-c them off and hem them np. Sal didn't want John to go to the pan and vowed she wouldn't do i They passed some poper and san words about it. The good o mother-imlaw learning of - tl alteration thought Sally too ha; on John, so she quietly got tl pants, cut three inches off ai hemmed them up again. The si ter-in-law who from another roo: had heard the altercation, thougl she would take a hand in pacifin matters. She found the pani later and took off another three ii ches. Sally, after looking aft? Ehe household affairs,repented an took three more inches off thor Then she aroused John from hi nap and told him he had better g on to the party. ? John dresse quickly in the dark and wen When he got to the party an stepped quickly into the light h sut about the same figure as th Omaha platform when you tur on the Ocala search light.' The -Little Boy's Pants. Then he goes right into anothe] "When talking about their plal form." says he, "you cannot tel what they mean. It is like th little boy whose mother mad bim his first pair of pants an proudly Bent him off to the kin dei parten. He returned home cry ing. The boys at school hac laughed at him. We went to hi mother and told her that he wan! ed a pair of store pants for wit these on he couldn't tell whethe he v as going to school or comin home." Lord, What a Liar I've Been! Into another he goes in thi way: "Mr. Watson, elected as a demc erat, abuses the democrats ah says they have done nothing fe the county, but have gone back o: every pledge. When I hear a ma: say that I want to tell him th story of a fellow who wanted t jump a stream on a Texas prairie "The stream looked like it wa about seven feet wide. He didn! notice that the grass drooped ove on either side about three feet jj^^rs* t>??l> to-iolrc-n xttD and Z over. Here he came lickety-splil When he got within three feet o: where he thought he was going t rise he went through the grass int the water over his head. H couldn't swim a lick. He caugh hold of the wet, slick grass anc got his head out of the water. H thought it was time to pray. H said {0 Lord, I never stole a horse. His hold slipped and under h went again. He managed to gral the grass and got his head abov the water a second time. Thi time he said, 'Lord, have mere; upon me. I never branded anothe man's cow ran away with anothe] man's wife nor burned a house ii all my life.' His hold s lip pei again and he went under. Ge.ttin, to the surface a third time wit] greater difficulty he thought h would be honest with the Lord. H said, 'But O Lord God, what a lia I have been." He Had All the Bait in His Pocket. One peculiar feature of thii campaign is that the third part; orators, relying, as they must largely on the negro vote, are ver confident to say nothing agains the republican party. This moun tain oratorical genius commenti with great vigor and effectivnesi upon tnis peculiar silence and thet proceeds to explain it by saying that lust for * office is the leve: that moves these fellows. Thi democrats have all the offices They want them. Hence the abuse of the democrats and silence as to the republicans who have none and this like most other thing: reminds him of a story. "A white man traveliug along a river road," he says, "came upon an old darky and a little darky sitting on the bank fishing. Grown weary waiting for a bite the little darky was nodding anc suddenly tumbled off the bani into the river. The old darkv threw down his pole and dived down after him. He pulled hin oat, caught him by the feet and slung the water out of him, turned him over and set him down witt a thump, and said : 'Now, wake uj an' set dar, you lazy little rascal an' don't you fall in dat water nc mo.' " "The white man who had stop ped said admiringly: That was a very brave act, old man-thc boy is your son, I suppose.' "No,' said the old darky in dignantly 'de little rascal ain't no kin to me, but he mount j ist ae well'er been. , He had all he ha: in his pocket." The Groom and the Codfish Ball ' Another one of the peculiaritie of this campaign is that the thir party leaders advise their peopl not to read democratic literatur or to hear democratic speakeri the classical and picturesque ad vise pf Mr. Watson to his follower being to ''keep in the middle o the road aud wait until I come. Our mountain genius finds in thi heretofore unheard of propositioi a rich field for his wit and satire He says there is somthin] wrong with the party whos adherents fear to hear the othe side, that it is the man with th< paste diamond who is afraid o the light, that something is rottoi in Denmark, when one white mai is afraid to hear another talk. - It reminds him of a fellow ut. m the mountains who got marriei in the olden days and went bj stage on a bridal trip to Charleston At the hotel the waiter brought j dish of cod-fish balls, and he hac never seen any. He supposed them to be fritters. He str.ck hij fork in one of them apd took a bit? of it. He liked the taste of it bu little and the smell less. Afte] several frantic and unsuccessful attempts to masticate anc sequester it his stomach became critically rebellious. He took it out of his mouth, slipped it undei the edge of his plate and turning to his wife, said; "Sallie, th( landlord looks like a clever mar and I wouldn't hurt his feedings so we won't say anything about it but I'll be d-d if there ain'l something dead in that bread." When thc Cyclone Struck Him Illustrating the idea that whee the election is over in the tenth Watson will wonder where he wa? when the cyclone struck him, Hare says he is reminded of t he pat rot whose owner wanted to broat him of cursing. He was told th< first time the parrot cursed tc throw a bucket of water on him and whirl the cage round and round. Th? next morning *as he went bul the parrot exclaimed, "It's a d-^-rd hot dayj"*, ., .Ti? : " "?mme^ateTy"' the man slung a bucket of water through the cage, whirled it round and round until the parrot was almost killed. Thc parrot gathered himself together, shook the water out of feathers, looked up at his owner, and shrieked, "Where in the h-wer J you when the cyclone srtuck us." Ham's Prize Mule. Commenting on the idea that the third party stand, no chances Ham points out that the best men who started out with it have re turned to the democracy. It re minds him of a man with a mule. He was a long, lean, lank Georgian with jeau? pants, red shoes anet one gallus fastened with a nail at One end and a button at the other. ? He was galloping his mule up ' and down jn font of a country dorcery. The mule was a forlorn looking specimen, one ear set forward and the other backward. His hip bonee stood out like pegs on a hat'rack and his ribs showed through hie hide like a hoopekirt through a calico frock on a windy day. He was sore backed and wind galled and sad dle rubbed and harness marked all over. The fellow would gallop up and stop and as a sort of general challenge ta the crowd would swear he had the best mule in Georgia. Yes," said one of the hangers on lounging over the balustrade, with three or four drinks of corn liquor under his hickory shirt, "he's a durn good mule." "How do you know," said the rider sharply. Because I see the buzzards had him and he*got away." Petit Mrs. Lease. After jumping on the woman's suffrage plank he asks the boys in a confidential way if they have ever seen Mrs Lease. "Well,I have," says he. ^"Well, boys she is a plumb sight, If I had a hound dog that would bark at her as she passed by the gate, I'd kill him before night. She could sit on a stump in the shade and keep the cows out of a one-hundred-acre corn field without a gun.. She's got a face that's harder and sharper than a butcher's cleaver. I could take her by her heels and split an inch board with it. She's got a nose like an ant-eater, a voice like a cat fight and a face that is rank poison to the naked eye." I will pay within ^c of the Au ; gusta market for cotton, i E. J. NORRIS. The Emigrants' Wagon. With a red, hazy shimmer the Texas prairie seethed and quivered' in the heat of the summer sun Tired birds with dusty wings pan ted beside the sandy beds of dead rivers, thirst-crazed cattle pawed weakly at the roots of dying cotton woods-and the brazen sun glared over the desert. A covered wagon drawn bv twc oxen slowly clanked along the road. A fiery-eyed man with sunken cheeks and bony fingere sat at the front driving. An emaciated woman, wan and ghastly lay within, her eyes resting upon him, her hands feebly caressing a babe. Behind her, their bare, bony limbs crossed in the last death struggle, lay two other child ren-a girl of perhaps fifteen and and a boy, a year younger. .Vs the wagon crushed across a e?ndbed.in the run of a winter stream, a board nailed to a cottonwood on the bank caught the woman's gaze, but her dim, glazed eyes could not decipher the words it bore. She glanced toward her husband : "Thirteen miles," he groaned. .'To night?" she whispered. "Yes, Lucy." he said, and, bend ing tenderly kissed her; For even these dying outcasts of the desert could kiss each other. Grim death rode with them, his yellow-fever hue rested upon their parched skins, but love was also there-stronger even than death. And slowly the plague-craft trundled onward toward the near est town, where the man and wo man hoped to obtain water and medical assistance-she, for the baby; he, for her. It was darx when they came within sight of the town, and he, knowing the way, drove directly for the public well. "Halt," cried a voice. "Are you from Brownsville?" But the hollow-eyed, spectre-like driver heeded not. "This is quarantine," said the voice, and a gunlock clicked ominously in the soft, hot night air. "Halt, or I'll fire." - But the hollow-eyed, spectre-like driver heeded not. a Two fierce flashes pierced the darkness,' and the weary oxen ?tartBff?oTwafd as the . succeeding reports boomed heavily across; the plains. . The scent of water was in their nostrils, and soon they were quaf find deeply from the trough be side the public well. The gaunt driver neither moved nor.spoke. The woman was silent. The weary oxen trudged on be yond th? town, and sunrise found them plodding onward. : All day the ? Western prairie seethed and quivered in the red, hazy glare of the summer sun, and the plague-wagon with its load ol dead crept onward. Great, dron ing flies crawled about the silent faces of the; voyagers, and dusty winged vultures hovered above One gaunt, red-beaked old fellow for a time rode On the seat beside the spectre-driver,1 then, g??winf bolder, plunged into the; depths oi tho wagon. .oicO .: csbvoiO j " And the heavy wagon.: slo wi j clanked ahd^oreaked along.-Chica go" Tributte.i>"* croiJcrhoad ra|"?A b7 ? C ARD. From the firt?t of October I will be at tho . mammoth dry goode store of J. B. White & Co., Au gusta, Ga., where ? will be pleased to see and serve "m'y iriends and the people of Edgefield count; generally. W. J. LANHAM late with Alvin Hart Co., Edgefield, S. C. There can be no health loi either mind or body so long af the blood is vitiated. Cleanse the vital current from all impuritiei by the use of Ayer's Sarsaparilla This me dicino recruits the wastec energies, strengthens the nerves, and restores heal th to the debil itated system. Clover is a very great consume] of lime among farm crops, and this explains the marvelouf effect of sulphate of lime or lane plaster in making clover catch On heavy soil a dressing of om hundred pounds of gypsum pei acre rarely fails to bring good clover. Wood ashes may be saved fo] the strawberry vines as well ai for trees. The best time to applj them is in February or Mareh before the plants shall have begui to bud. Scatter the ashes freelj along the rows, and do not tx afraid of allowing too much. Dandruff is due to an enfeeble! state of the skin. Hall's Hai Renewer quickens the nutritiv? functions of the skin, heavng an< preventing the formation o dandruff. Will sell Plow Hoes at 3*clb. b; hundred. E. J. NORRIS. NERVOUS DEBILITY cured by the use o? AVER'S Sarsaparilla Tones the system, makes the weak strong. Cures Others will cure you. Land for Sae. /CA ACRES of land Ave miles fKJU north of Edgefield, half in woodland. On the place there is a comfortable dwelling house, barn, stables, black smith shop, gin, store house, excellent well of water, and springs, and Ave or six tenant bouses in good condition. Excellent neighbors, and the health is proverbial. The Boil is good and will produce anything that will grow in this lati tude. The place will be sold as a whole or divided to suit purchasers into lots of 50 acres. For particulars apply at the ADVERTISER office. Notice to Teachers. TEACHERS and applicants to teach will please take notice that the time for examining those who wish to teach in the public schools in Edgeiield county hss been changed from the first Friday and Saturday in October to'the 3rd Friday and Saturday of the same month. Friday has been set apart for the examination of white appli cants and Saturday for colored. JOHN B. HILL, S.C. E. C. For Sale or Rent. ?P to the 1st of October the beauti ful place belonging to John R. Abney in the suburbs of Edgeiield village can be bought. Besides the residence and servants house and sta ble, there are three tenant settlements on it. The placa contains 143 acres, about 100 of which is cultivatable, and the balance in woods. It can be bought as a whole, or in three parcels of from 45 to 50 acres each. Only $1,000 cash required, the bal ance on time. D. R. DUR1SOE, Agt. Splendid Farm For Sale. QAQi ACRES of fine land, about LAJ LL-Z two miles from Trenton, 100 acres just cleared, and made ready for the plow, balance'! n woods. Borders the railroad % mile. On it are 2 dwell ings,! barn, 1 crib, 4 stables, buggy house, wagon shelter, horse lot planked in, and a good well, all complete and brand new. The land lies well and is beautifully elevated. A fine oppor tunity -for^-^atermelon-?rafsi n^r,-as" there is a railroad switch on the place. Kow is the time to get the cream of a newly settled place. Will sell cheap and on easy terms. If desired will sell also on the place 3 fine young mules ages 4, ? and 6, and wagon. For particulars apply to D. R. DURISOE, Real Estate Agt* Edgefield, S C. Tax Notice. IWILL be at the following places, on the days and dates named, for the purpose of collecting- taxes. The levy for the preseut fiscal year is as follows : For State tax, 4>< mills; or dinary county, 2 1-16 mills; bridge, 1 mill; court expenses, 9-1G ?mills; school tax, 2 mills. Total mills 10.^. A poll tax of $1 on all male citizens between the ages of 21 and 50. There is a special tax cf 2 mills on all property in the corporate limits of the town of Edgefield, including: R. R. property, to pay interest on the bonded debt of the town. Also a special tax of 3 mills for school purposes on all property in the Ridge Spring school district, including R. R. property ; also a special tax of 3^ mills on all property in Shaw town ship and that portion of Trenton school district formerly belonging to Shaw township, including all the property of the C., C. & A. ll. R. and C,U. G. & C. R. R. in said township and school district, levied to pay one annual instalment and interest on bonds issued to aid in thc construction of the C C. G. & C. R. R. : Trenton, Saturday, Oct. 15 Johnston, Monday, " 17 LongBrrnch, Tuesday, " 18 Wards, Wed'y til 12 rn" 19 Ridge Spring, " afr 1 pmu 19 Holson's X Roads, Thursday, " 20 Mt. Willing, Friday, ? 21 Richardsonville, Saturday, " 22 P. B. Watson's, Monday, " 24 Forrest's Store, Tu's'y,t'l 2 pm" 25 J. C. Caughman's, Wednesday, " 26 Kinard's, Thursday, " 27 Peurifoy's, Friday, " 2S Dennys, Saturday, " 29 Colemans X Roads, Monday. " 31 A. P. Colemans, Tuesday, Xov. 1 W. W. Owdom's, Wednesday, " 2 A. S. Werts, Thursday, " 3 Haltiwanger's, Friday, " 4 Willicms's Mill, Sat'y, till 12m " 6 Stevens Bros., " afr I pm " 5 Pleasant Lane, Monday, " 7 Kirkseys, Tuesday, " S Rosa, Wed'y.t'l 12mw 9 Callisons from 1 p. m. Wednesday, 9th, to 12 m. Thursday, 10th. Minors, Th'r'y, afr 1 pm 10 Longmires, Friday, Xov. ll Plum Branch, Saturday, " 12 Parksville, M'n'y, till 12m" 14 Mouoc, " afr lpm" 14 Clarks Hill, Tues'y,t'l 2 pm" 15 J. M. Holder's, Wednesday, " 16 Colliers, Thursday, " 17 Red Hill, Friday, " 18 Quarles's, Sat'y, t'l 2 pm " 19 Meeting Street, Monday, " 21 From the 22nd of Xov. until the 20th of Dec. at the Treasurer's office at Edgefield C H, after which time 15 per cent, penalty will be added to all delinquents. W. L, STEVENS, Treas. E. C. Alwavs ask for "J. M. Cobb's" $3.00 Gent's Shoes and $2.00 Ladies' Shoes, We buy these goods in such quantities as to be able to sell you for $1.00 per pair less than you can find them any where. Our "Crown" brand for $1.25 and $1.50 cannot be duplicated either in quality or price outside of our store. When you want a good calf lined shoe or genuine Standard Screw brogan call for Marcy Bros. goods sold only by J. M. COBB, Sole Agent. 2 cars Flour, 1 ' ar Tennessee Meal, at E. J. NORBIS'S. V