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Edenfield Advertiser rHOS. J. ADAMS,.EDITOR THURSDAY, MAY 18,1893. GREAT FOK FORT ROYAL. Since the unbottlingof the Port Royal Railroad by Gov. Tillman, that load, and the city of Port Royal, now of course nothing but a hamlet, is looming up to large proportions. It seems that a lino of ships, twenty-five ia number, will soon be put- in commission to run from Port Royal to Liverpool, Havre, and the Mediteranean ports. Somehow or other we be-j lieve that Port Royal has a bril liant future and that the prosperity of that port has something to do with the future of jour own town. The following anont the line of j ships we clip from thc Augusta correspondence of the Columbia] Journal. AUGUSTA, Ga., May 12.-J. A. Wellsford, of Liverpool, represent ing William and Edward Johnson, of Liverpool, arrived this morning I for the purpose of negotiating for J their line of ' ships to enter Port Royal harbor and to give that town direct trade with Liverpool, Havre, and tho Mediteranean an ports. They have about twenty-five ships they can place on this line. Mr. Wellsford was met in Au gusta today by Mr. Pat Calhoun by special appointment, and they go to Port Royal this afternoon to investigate the harbor. The pro babilities are that Mr. Wellsford wilt succeed in making arrange ments which will be mutually ac ceptable to the owners of the Port j Royal and the ship owners. A FAIR PAPEK. The Aiken Journal and Review, not a Tillman's paper by any means has tho fairness lo say the follow ing as to Governor Tillman acts and doings in tho matter of tho Denmark lynching. It is refresh ing to know that an opposition j aper has Hie moral courage to stand up for tho truth and right in the face of its. own friends, who howl at every Hiing emanating from Tillman. "As for Governor Tillman's moral connection with the affair, he is as guiltless as any other in dividual who was absent from actual participai ion. It is quite well known that wo are not an ad mirer of Governor Tillman nor his methods; but wc shall elohim ju? tice as we see it. He had no mo tive to send a victim to the mob. He merely misjudged its temper. Having been instrumental in saving one negro from their fury by a simple message, and twenty others having escaped, tho Gover nor had a right to assume that Peterson's chances were entirely ?Rafq. ff tie-warp_innocent--He-f thought that a crowd which had been hounding tho night for two weeks in search of something to devour must have had time to come to its senses. Ho was mistaken ; but that is no manner of justifica tion for an attempt anywhere to put off the sin of a lyn&hing mob on the shoulders of Governor Till man." Three lynching bees and one legal banging for rape within two weeks, one fiend committed to jail for trial, another to the peniten tiary for safe keeping, both being charged wirh the samo diabolical crime, within the same time, be sides a prisoner in the Richland jail condemned to die for the perpetration of this heinous offense tell a sorrowful story of the de pravity of many of the present generation of negroes, As long as the rape fiend is abroad Judge Lynoh will continue to hold court, and despite'all that maybe said to the cont rary, his sentences wiil be executed by an outraged peo ple.-Rock Hill Herald. Will the negroes never learn any thing? During the past three weeks there have been six outrages committed by negro men upon unprotected girls, and women, in this State. In three cases the brutes have been caught and lynched, in two of them they are still at largo, and in the last he is in jail. It would seem that tho negroes would have learned, ero this that quick death is surely the penalty for this offense, but it has not been tho effect of the examples made of the brutes. So far _from being suppressed, the crime is on tho rapk" increase in this State, until now it has be come unsafe for a girl, or women to remain alone anywhere in the country or on the outskirts of any town. It is* a horrible condition of things.- Ex. AN amusing *tory is told of Mustapha Pasha, formerly (ho Turkish ambassador at Eerliu. At hisreceptioiiihewas in the h?bil of giving a bonbon to each cf his lady visitors, but on one occasion he presented Ihroo to [he same lady. Flattered ly the unusual attention she begged a ?friend, who spoke Turkish, lo ascer?aiu thc reason of this preference. The ambassador's explanation was very sample: '"It was because her mouth is nearly three times as big as that of tho other ladies.". EDITOl-^AL PARAGRAPHS. Iowa raised 220 million bushels of con. last year. --o The Southern Baptist conven tion is iii session at Nashville, Tenn., this week. The Southern Baptist Conven tion will meet next year in Dallas. This will a great Texas trip. When you find a men eternally harping on the greatness of his ancestors, you may be sure that he is nothing much himself. The place of poet laureate of England, made vacant by the death of Tennyson, has been offered to the art critic John Ruskin. Breaks oh the levees of the Mis sissippi river have caused the inundation of cotton lands on its banks. This is a forced reduction of acreage that cannot fail to benefit the producer here. Arkansas city is under water. A special says : "The backwater is rising at the rate of six inches in 24 hours. The town is under water." Let us return thanks that we have water, but riot that way. -o An appropriation having been made by the Legislature, Gov. Tillman has had a handsome granite tomb placed over the grave of Gen. Francis Marion on his Belle Isle plantation about fifty miles from Charleston.. The McDuffie Journal wants to go on record for these political predictions: "Major Black will bethe next United States Senator for Georgia, and Boykin Wright of Augusta will be the next Congress man from the Tenth District. "A Railway Party in Politics," is the title of an article m the May number of the North Ameri can Review, and this is just the kind u a party that Chamberlain is trying to organize in South Carolina in his Wire Workers' League. The Columbia State is now com plaining of Gov. Tillman that ''the quart bottles made for the State Dispensary by the Augusta factory are a little too large and permit of an extra drink or two in. the neck." The State evidently don't know a good thing when it sees it. The missionaries in China report the f! bingam Sf . .. ' si an Ch bo cou In . . J expenses, the gate . ,^ciptsat the Columbia Fair will need to exceed a daily average of $80,000 for the 183 days from May 1 to November 1. Sundays included. That means 166,000 paid admissions each day, which about four times the average number up to date. The Chaplain of the,. Senate of Nevada has been accused of plagiarism. One of the memhers complained that the good man introduced in his remarks the other day, the same ideaB the Senator had heard expressed at a funeral two years ago. Inquiry shows that it was the Lord's prayer that the Senaior had reference to. -o It is said that the antis are grooming ex-President Chamber lain as their candidate for Governor in 1894. With that rape-endorsing platform on which he could stand, it would be a very suitable com bination, and as strong a one ns they can well mak*.-Ex. We don't believe a word of that. There is no anti in this State so foolish as to take up with Cham berlain openly. Chamberlain will have lils finger deep in the political pie next year, no doubt, but he will be oui of sight, behind the curtain; but all the same he'll be pulling the wires. Tho efforts of Jervey to get out of prosecuting the Denmark lynchers, on the ground, ?hat it would be unconstitutional, so to do is very iveak. and silly It shows that Till roanhas him in tbe hole and ho don't know how to get out. Solicitor ?3ra\vley was sent to Edgefield nearly as core of years ago,to prose cute in a case in which the solicitor, Voumans,was disqua!ified,or rather ?io, Youmans,asked to be relieved from the prosecution. Still later Solicitor Cothrane,of Abbeville.was sent here by tho governor to prose cute Clisby for the killing of Bland, Solicitor Bonham asking to be re ieved. We also remember that Judge Mackey was sent here to loki court in place of Judge Carpenter. These precedents show i hat Jervey has no ground to stand i m and no good reasons why he j mould not undertake the prese- i :u^ion of the Denmark lynchers. '{ Eighteen banking institutions went under, or up the swamp, in Indiana last week. It is stated that "President Cleveland made one million dol lars during the last Congress by operating in Wall Street. That is a conservative statement of his profits." This we get from the Columbia State; supposed to be friendly to the President. o On last Thursday and Friday the heaviest fall of rain ever known in that region occurred in Southwest Texas. Thousands of acreB of farming lands were cov ered with water from a depth of two to five feet.v We in South Carolina don't know anything of such disastrous downpours as this. -o Assistant Attorney General Buchanan has decided that the property of incorporated towns and villages is subject to taxation. Such property generally consists of wagons, carts, wheelbarrows, etc., used for working the streets, and does not amount to much in any single case, but in the aggre grate will foot up a good round sum. $40 Found. MR. EDITOR: California is a lovely country, the sick get well, the poor get rich, cyclones and frosts are practically unknown. A hundred to three hundred dollars per acre is made each year on fruits with irrigation. The Cali fornia Land and Water Exchange, of Dayton, 0., control large quan tities of land in .California which they plant, cultivate, riay taxes for ten years, paying you $40 per acre as your part of the profit, they keeping the balance for the care and cultivation. They give an acre of land away with each four certificates. All they ask you to do is to pay for the irrigation, which can be done in small pay ments each month. They will send you the names of ninety per sons who last year received from $25 to $500 on one year's invest ment. President .Harrison says, "Half of the good things of Cali fornia have not been told." The Hon. Jeremiah Rusk says, "Truly California is a poor man's para dise." To five-acre holders tho California Land and Water Ex change, of Dayton, 0., give a free return ticket to view the property. Why should any one be poor when such a chance remains open and you do not have to do any labor or work, to get the profits and do not have to leave home. Write them to-day and get full particulars. A CALIFORNIAN. A Superstition About Trees. . - w oOUl -vu and gods, granted on ac count of their great age ; and they are believed to be endowed with power of intercession for those in trouble. Hence the unfortunate seek shelter under them and pour out their woes to the sympathetic spirit. This explains the weird trees so often seen in the choicest productions of the Japanese artist. There is a legend that when the lord of Yamato wished to furnish hiB house completely from the trunk of the finest cedar in his park, the axes of the woodman bounded from the bark and large drops of blood flowed from every strook."-From "A Japanese Floral Calendar," in Demorest's Family Magazine. Raising Crops by Electricity, Philadelphia Record. A practical, scientific use of electricity is made in France to stimulate the growth and increase the product of lield crops. An ap paratus which has been successful ly used is called the geomagnetic fer, and consists of a high pole set up in the field where the potatoos or other crops are growing. It supports an insulated head of galvanized iron, which terminates in the air in a sort of plexus of points and branches made of cop per. This collector of electricit}" communicates by wire with a network of other wires, which ramify through the earth around the foot of the pole, and among the growing roots, beets, cabbages, potatoes or other crop buried deep enough to be out of the way in cul tivating the crop. It is found by experience that this apparatus collects the electri city which always exists in the atmosphere, and which is made especially manifest by storms, rain, wind, &c, and trensmits it to the earth and the stratum of air nearest the earth. The resulting | stimulus to the crop is very marked 1 In one test within a superficial ? area of 32 meters the potato yield, .' I'D proportion to the yield of ad joining areas not electrically ' stimulated, was as 91 to 60. An- \ other report showed 63 kilogram? of putatoes, as against 3S kilo grams grown under ordinary con ditions. Other ro^t crops and ' grapes give equally good results. ? OBITUARY. EMMA SWEARINGEN, gentle, lovely EMMA, died at Ropers, March 9th, 1893, aged fifteen years, eight months,and eleven days. The eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Swearingen, she was a joy shedding light on all around her, as she met each duty promptly. It was so at school, where she' was eyer a favorite. Her excellence there was attained by diligence in study, and good deportment. At Sabbath 8chool||she was a faithful attendant,and loved to sing the songs of praise. She loved to read Talmage's sermons, and sometimes read aloud to the famijy. Sometime before her death she dreamed of going to heaven and see ing loved ones gone before. She thought if heaven was like her dream represented, it was a fairer place than earth. Her young life on earth is end ed, but she has gone to "the house not made with hands, eternal in the heaven." Her place on earth is vacant, and we miss her bright, gentle smile, but she is free from sorrow, pain, and parting in the land beyond the stars. "We knew that the pearly gate of bliss for her had swung ajar, That her ear had caught trie angelic strains from the beautiful land afar, Though we saw not the white wings unfolded to take the upward flight. Out of this world of sorrow, to the pathless fields of light, Yet we know the Savior called her up to his loving arms, Shielded safe forever from care and woe and harm, By faith we behold her safe in the ten der Shepherd's care, Our patient "darling," we called her, now an angel bright and fair. But we bend in meek submission to our Father's chastening hand, Though in human meekness we can not understand. But when our tired feet from earth's time-worn path may rest, Then wiH we see and understand that what God does is best." OKE WHO KNEW AND LOVED HER. ' Notice. ONE or more County Commissioners will be at Rocky Creek bridge, near J. T. Ouzts's, on Saturday, the 3d day of June, 1S93, at 12 o'clock M., for the purpose of letting the contract to build a new bridge at that place. Specification made known at that time. J. A. WHITE, J. W. BANKS, County Commissioners. i this ?S and pay thc .... *?l! y \ Kt.'KNITl'UK, #?. just ns cheap ns you CHU buy ??92 thom in lii'jte cltiei freight lu your depot lien- arc ?i few samplet-: A No. 7 Hut ton Cooking Stove with 20 cooking ii te it M?U, delivered to any depot., for fis Ot) A 5-holu Cooking Hange with 20 cooking utensils, delivered to any depot; tor ?1300. A large lino of Stoves in propor tion. Special agent for Charter Oak Stoves. A nice Parlor Suit, upholstered In ?rood plush, fashionable colors, de Mvervu any whore for $30.00. Alarse Mae of i'arlor Suits to Helect Irom. A Bedroom Suit, large glass, big belstead, enclosed washstand, full suito pieces; chairs have cane seats, delivered anywhere for 122 00. Other Suits both cheaper and moro expensive. 25 yds. of yd.-wide Carpet for $7 50. 1 pair Nottingham Lace Curtains, pole, 2 chains, 2 hooks, 10 pins, all for $100. A nice Window Shade, 7 ft. long, S ft. wide, on spring rollers.wlth fringe lor 50 cents. No freight paid on Shades and Cur tains unless ordered in connection with other goods. ?? Send for Catalogue. Address Xv. IT. PADGETT, 1805 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga. GEO. B, LAKE REA"L ESTATE - AND - INSURANeEAST, Office over Bank of Meld. tfo Advance, Ohl Prices for Cash. Ladies, you are respectfully invited toan inspection of my beautiful stock [if prints (" Se; Zephyrs at U'.f ; Zeph ?retts (" 7c; Ginghams Qi Sand 10; Scotch Ginghams, Pecales, Normandy Zephyrs (fi 8, 10 and 12; beautiful and new effects. Dress Flannels, Batiste, Tunkin Sloths, Irish Lawns, Beiges, Cream ind fancy cold Nuns veiling, Bourette .Mot hs. Our 10c line o? DRESS GOODS are he prettiest we have ever broughtons J. M. COBB. 2 m. Buy your Straw Hats-cheap this season-from J. M. Cobb. -THE Union Mutual Life Insurance Company. OIF ^O?^TL^nSTO, IMPOSTE. Incorporated, 1848. Its Policies are the Most Liberal Now Offered to the Public. Is the only existing Company whose policies aro, or can be subject to the MAINE NON-FORFEIT URE LAW. WHAT IT IS. The Maine Non-Forfeiture law protects policies from forfeiture by reason of default of payment of premiums. It provides that, after three years' premiums have been paid, failure to pay any subsequent premiums shall not* forfeit a policy, but it shall continue in force for its full araouut until the reserve (less a small surrender charge) upon the policy is exhausted. The reserve is a sum made up of portions of each and every pre mium paid upon a policy in anticipation of its maturity. Beginning with a small portion of the first premium, it is increased each year by the addition of each subsequent premium, and grows larger year by year, until, at maturity, it exactly equals the face of the policv. When a policy is discontinued therefore, there is in the hands of tho Com pany a reserve, greater or less, according to the character and ago of the policy. Instead of permitting the Company, upon non-payment of premium, to confiscate this reserve, the Maine Non-Forfeiture Law requires the Company to continue the policy in force until the policy holder receives an equivalent for it in extended insurance. How IT WORKS. If n person, aged 35, pays throe years' premiums upon a twenty payment Life policy and then discontinues payment, tho policy wil be continued 4 years and 257 days longer; it he pays five premiums, and then discontinues, the insurance will continue 7 years and 357 days longer. If the policy is a twenty year endowment, same age, three years' payments will give an extension of 8 years and 150days; five years' payment 13 years, 300 days. If the policy is a 15 Year Endowment, (.$1,000) same age, three yeo"?' ?ayments will secure insurance to the end of the endow**"- ' d $13.68 in cash if insured lives till that time . years' payments secures insurance . cash. age of the insured, the class of made; they are stated in each iber of payments, so that the - what he is entitled to if he What It Has Done. The Company Has Paid over Two Hundred Death Claims, in con sequence of this law, aggregating in sums insured more than Four Hundred Thousand Dollars. In every case there had been a default in 'he payment of pre mium, and, except for this law, the policies would have been of little or no value. Instead of this, the insurance in each case was extended to the time of death, and the Company was required to pay to the beneficiaries under the policies the sum of $418,335.77. T?e il? o? lie Lai E?MS as Comparefl WITH IF-AJED-TTIP YAL??ES. It is the custom of many companies to provide in their policies that, upon discontinuance of payment of Premium, paid-up policies will be given, without the option of extension. This was the practice of the Union Mutual before the Maine Non-Forfeiture Law was en acted, but it now substitutes for paid-up values the more advantage ous plan of extended insurance. The objection to the paid-up system : is that the amount of paid-up insurance which is given upon the dis- ] continuance of payments upon a policy, unless it has been in force a j great many years, is insignificant, and of little or no value as protec- , tion ; and it leaves the insured who ceases payment without adequate insurauce at the very time he needs it the most. ! The great advantage of the extended insurance afforded by the ? Maine Law over the most liberal paid-up system is strikingly shown by . tjie following comparison, and it will be observed that the paid-up ; value is insignificant in comparison with the amount actually paid by the Union Mutual. The result of two hundred and twelve policies ' was this : If the insured had received paid-up policies instead of ex- 1 tended insurance, the Company would have had to j pay in settlement of the claims only. $98,197.50 ; Whereas, in fact, it did pay under the Maine Law, $418,344.77 I Making a difference in favor of the beneficiaries under Two Hundred and Twelve policiei of $320,147.28 j < The policies are free from a?restrictions, and incontestable after 1 ONE YEAR.' A grace of one month is given in the payment of premiums. ll For further information call on, or address, < B. B. EVANS, ; c \ Manager for South Carolina, ; c Office, No. 1, Advertiser Building, j EDGrEI^IEXjiD, - S. C. 18931 IS? Our Shoe stock comprisas bc Latest novelties in Boots, Oxford, Black and Tan Colors. Buy our- ! Calf Brogans from 90^ to $1.50. I for Gents, at $1.25 anti $1.50. W Staudard Screwed Goods, also Lad Oxford Ties m Black, Tau and Ch Childrens' goods. Buy "J. M. Cob ou?s. : Our Hats in fur, felt, wool, a complete-remember we carry the OUR CL Don't fail to examine our (Hot save you money in --Tailor-Fit." < line of Gents' Negligee Shirts, u? Handsome novelties this season in and Marsailles Shirts. Our goods will be sold on SMA J. IVS DIO AL Ro tish, ox - MANUFAC MOULDINGS, FURNITURE GENERAL ULT -A.I_.IJ TTS ipi|yiy|lOiill|| i I EIC AU Work GK B. COT Corner Trenton aw EIDOEIFIEIJID, CL -H The Lost Boy. TF JOHN K.BUCHANAN, who left 1 his home in Chester, S. C., on 4th of November last, will only make known to Ins father his whereabouts and con dition, he will greatly relieve thc suspense and anxiety about him, and he will not be interfered with. JOHN H. BUCHANAN, Chester, S. C. 1893. Harper's Bazar. ILLUSTRATED. Harper's Bazar is a journal for the home. It gives the fullest and latest information about Fashions, and its numerous; illustrations, Paris design?, md pattern-sheet supplements are indispensable alike to the home dress maker and the professional modiste. No expense is spared to make its artistic attractivness of the highest crder. Its bright stories, amusing comedies, and thoughtful essays satisfy ill tastes, and its last page is famous is a budget of wit and humor. In its weekly issues everything is included which is of interest to woman. The serials for 1898 will be written by Walter Besan t and Fdna Lyall. Christine Terhunr Herrick will fur nish a practical series, entitled "At "he Toilet." Grace King. Olive Thorne Miller, and Candack Wheeler will be Frequent contributors. The Work of ivomen in the Columbia Exposition ?viii be fully represented with many illustrations. T. W. Higginson, in .Women and Men," will please a culti vated audience. HARPER'S PERIODICALS. PER YEAR: ETAHPKR'S MAGAZINE. 4 00 U WEEKLY. 4 00 " BAZAK. 4 00 " YOUNG PEOPLE. '1 00 Postage Free to all subscribers in ;he United States,Canada, and Mexico. The Volumes of the Bazar begin ivith the first Number for January of Mch year. When no time is mentioned lubscriptions will begin with the S'umber current at the time of receipt )f order. Bound Volumes of Harper's Bazar or three years back, in neat cloth )inding, will be sent by mail, post mid, or express, free ol' expense provided Hie freight dees liol exceed ?ne dollar per volume), .for ??=7 00 per 'olume. Clolh Cases for each volunte, suira ile for binding, will he sent by mail, iost-pa?d, on receipt of $1 Ot) each. Remittances should be made by Post ifllcc .Money Order or Draft, to avoid hance of loss. Newspapers are not to copy this dvertiseinent without the express if Harper <fc Brothers. Address: HARPER & BHOTIIKKS. New York. 93 I 1893 ? D SUMMER. .th useful and ornamental goods. Opera Slippers, Blucker Ties in Standard Screw, Wax and Patent Calf Congress and Balmoral Shoes e carry the finest line of Gents ies French Kid Buttoned Boots and ocolate Colors. Beautiful line of b's" $1.50 and $2.00 Ladies' Boots. HATS. nd straw goods aro beautiful aud celebrated Elk and Stetson goods. ?OTHING. bing Stock bet?r? you bay. We can Good suits from $1.25 to $25.00 best ?laundried end full dress Shirts, i Gents' Colored and Fancy Percale LLL PROFITS for CASH only.' . [. COBB, Edgefield, S. C. ' Dressed. UTRER OF - of all Kinds, BUGGIES, , of all kinds. ""REPAIRS Master's Sale. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, EDGEFIELD COUNTY. Court of Common Pleas. THE AMERICAN F RE KU O LD LAND MOKTGAGE COMPANY OK LONDON, (Limited) against FRANK P. SMITH. PURSUANT to the judgment of foreclosure in this cause, I will oller for sale at public outcry, before ihe court-house, town of Edgefield and State of South Carolina, on the first Monday in June. lSi)H. (being the 5th day of said month) between the legal hours of sale, the following de scribed mortgaged premises, to wit: All that tract or parcel of land in the County of Edgefield and State of South Carolina, to wit : One hundred and fifty (150) acres, more or less: bounded on the north, by lands of A. R. Smith:.-cast, by land? of Mrs. .Josephine Smith: south by lands of the estate of- Goggans: and west, by lands of B. F. Smith. Terms of Sale: One-half cash, and tlie balance on a credit of one year, with interest from the day of sale. Purchaser to give bond and a mort gage of the premises to secure the payment of the credit portion, or all cash at the purchaser's option. Purchaser to pay for papers. W. F. ROATH, Master E. C. Medical Card. To whom it may concern-regardless of color, race, or previous Condition of servitude: TO yon who never intend to pay, conic nj) like men and get your notes, an?! I will give you a full and clear receipt, without money and with out price. To you who intend to pay, call on me on or before the 1st day of May. By so doing you will save costs. I return thanks for past patronage, and ask f<v a continuance of the same. Diseases of women and children, and chronic diseases a specialty. My services at all times will be ren dered to poor widows and orphan children free ol' charge. W. 1). JENNINGS; Sr. M. D. "Work the Roads. To Overseers of Roads in our Divisions: THOSE who have failed to work their respective roads are urgently re quested to do so at once, and ,>ut them in good condition, or the law will be enforced against all defaulters. D. W. PADGETT, J. W. BANKS, C. C. E. C.