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Edgefield Advertiser ?THURSDAY, AUG. 3,1893. LOGAh" BREVITIES. If you have turnip seed prepare to, sow them now. Delightful rains on last Sunday afternoon and night. Melon growers .of this county are not finding remunerative"sales for their crops. Miss Lucy Arthur is visiting relatives and friends in and around Johnston. The ADVERTISER Job Office does ^all kinds of job printing. Send *U8 your orden?. Satisfaction guar ; autoed. The cotton crop is about two weeks late in this coun ty, and . the picking season, as a consequence, will be behind time that much. Miss Maggie Miller, of Beech Island, who has been visiting the family of Mr. -N. L. Branson, has returned home. Mr. R. F. Ables, a bright young gentleman of tne Batesburg sec tion, is reading law .with the firm of Sheppard Bros.. Cotton is coming out wonderfrJly and with a favorable fall two-thirds of a crop may be made in Edge field county, but the plant is too small to make a big crop. Dr. Manly Timmons will be absent from his office during the whole of next week in attendance on the State Dental Assocition, which meets in Columbia, There is a woman whose pastor recently asked after her health. Her reply was : "I feel very wei 1,but I always feel bad when Jami well, ) because I know I am going to feel * worse afterward." Sensitive people can purchase Humphreys' Specifics by simply asking the druggists for the needed number .alone, without disclosing or mentioning the disease for which it is a cure. When you discover that the people whom you regarded as your friends are in the habit of saying unkind things about you, remem ber that you have possibly said unkind things about them. Secretary of Agriculture Morton has decided to go out of the seed distributing business, and will turn over all the remaining stock of seeds to Drs. W. E. Lynch and W. B. Penn, of Edgefield, to be| "burnt. W. L. Durst? Pr?sident of the Greenwood Cotton Mill, has just returned from Providence, Boston and Chicago and purchased the ^ nec^aiMMMftachineryX to fill the ^flfflTan^inaHfe^Mv?el^^ running to its full capacity. A writer in the Southern Culti vator says that,, "if every bloom and young boll was pulled .from a stalk of cotton on the 1st. of July it would increase the final yield of the stalk, and that it would be profitable to do this, if the labor did not cost too-much." Twelve or fifteen yoarsago R. B. j Carpenter was a circuit judge in this State. To-day he is the presi dent of the California State Senate, legal adviser of various big rail road corporations, and receives twenty-five thousand dollars a year for,his services. But where is John McDevitt? A* Georgia exchange puts it thus : . "The yellow-legged young ^ rooster flappeth his wings and tries his untrained voice in pride and pomp as he feeleth himself wax fat and strong, and seeth the feathers of his tale assume length and luster. But his days are short, camp-meeting time and the Methodist preacher draweth nigh." Edgefield Hussars. The regnlar meeting of this troop has been changed from the 5th to the 19th of August, by order of Capt. Mays. 0,189 Families. & According to the census pf 1890, which we have just received, there are 9,189 families in Edgefield county'with An average of 5.37 members to each family. Peterkins Cluster. - Frpm all accounts the Peterkin's Cluster cotton is ahead of all col ton in the county, and those who have*pianted it, and haven't let the grass take it, are fortunate. Cotton and Corn. We are having good seasons and cotton. ?B fruiting wonderfully. Many farmers have told us that this plant is fruiting better than they eyer knew. The" com crop, we fear, will be a, comparative failure. Tent Meeting. Rev. A. B. Watson will begin a tent, meeting at Log Creek, near Col R.A. Hugues's, on Monday, August 7th. Rev P.B. Kinard furnishes the tent and will pro bably assist Mr. Watson in the ser vices. There will be preaching three times each day,merning,afternoon, and night. An Aered Citizen. .V Mr. Bennett Holland died athis residence three' miles from town on last Friday night. Mr. Holland was taken sick on his eighty first birthday and lingered only a few days. The deceased pos sessed in an eminent degree those rare and homely virtues, honesty, industry, and frugality. His re mains were interred in the family burying ground near Little Stevens Creek Church, of which chu; ch he had been a member for many years. Mr. Holland left a widow and four Conference of the Edgefi* County Presbyterian Cb ure!ie Held With the Edgefield Vii \ v ^ .l?ge Uhurch- Sunday, July 30th, 1893. : The Presbyterian churches . Edgefield county held their fi] union-conference, in our villa Presbyterian Church, on Sund last. The morning services coi menced at 10:30,a. m., Kepoi were read by delegates from t several churches in the count namely, Edgefield, Johnston, Tre ton, Ropers, and Highview. I W. E. LyncH was made ch a i rm a Dr. J. W. Hill made the repo from the Edgefield church, ai Messrs. Frontis, of Johnston, ai Pickens, of Trenton, represente thev churches inv their respectr towns. Mr. Jacobs, in the absent of delegates, made a few remar! in reference to the welfare of tl church at Ropers and Highview. All information was encouraj ing. The church at Johnston wi especially to be commended for i enthusiasm in the Master's cans the Sunday-school work at th? place being systematically an thoroughly carried on. Th? Edgi field SUUCPy-school is not td Y less commended for the manner i which it is conducted. At Johi ston, in connection with the churcl ?B a Lady's Aid Society consisti? of only three members, bul whic has done effectual good. The raise between fifteen and twent dollar s yearly. Mr. W. S. Jacobs, the pastor, ea -plained the. purpose of the meei ing, which was to bring th churches together in the count; and thus bring about unity,-as "ii unity there is strength." After thii feature of the prc -gramme, there was a prayer meei ing conducted by Dr. J. W. Hill,th subject assigned for the occas io i being that of prayer. This is ai inexhaustible subject, and as Di Hill said could have been properly divided into two topics ; however the observations made were con eise, comprehensive, and practical abd given in such a manner tba those present made an applicatioi of them to their own hearts. We do not judge by ourselves on thif occasion, but have the experience of additional ones to testify to the same fact. At the conclusion of these exer cises, Mr. Jacobs said if there were any present who wished.to make any comments they would be glad to hear them. Messrs. Jacobs, Tompkins, Lake, Cobb, and- H>x ?made some very interesting re sponses. They hoped that the grayer meetings would in future 1 iiinP?tTrrfrijfended, and expressed themselves as ha^ifllNttBP greatly benefitted and encouraged by the talk made .by Dr. Hill. They were happy to see him, though a mem ber and an honored one of another profession, glad to testify to the efficacy and necessity of prayer, and that often tho encouragement of a layman was a greater aid to us than the eloquence of an or dained minister. The afternoon session convened at 4 o'clock. Mr. Hix of John ston, made the address on the du ties of eldership. After a song, the meeting adjourned on account of the ominous appearance of the weather. ?The remainder of the programme was left to be finished at the next county conference. F. -? Items from Elmwood, MR. EniTOR : The crops in this part of the commun i tv are doing tolerably well, but in other parts they are suffering much for rain. Corn and cotton are badly injured, especially that which has been poorly cultivated, and will now scarcely make anything. Some people have been going to too many picnics, and let the grass get the start of them, which it ' still has, and will have until frost. So much picnicing don't make corn and cot-, ton grow. The people ought not to commence the picnics until the first of August, as work ought always to be done before the frol icking. Mr. Editor, I think you are mis taken as to Senator Gordon's mean ing in his Greenwood speech. You said he meant the negro when he asked "Will. yon blot out the sun and moon that lesser lights may shine, will you clip the wings of the mighty eagle and pinion him, in order that bats and owls may soar aloft, and pin down the tall oaks and mighty cedars of Lebanon that the blackjacks may thrive?" I think Senator Gordon's meaning was that Tillman, his administra tion, and his supporters, were the lesser lights, bats, and owls, and the blackjacks, too. The Senator also said "Come back I" Who did he mean tc come back? If he meaut the Reformers they have never been anywhere to come back, but if he meant the so-called Con servatives, as they style themselves, he hit the nail on top of the head, as they bolted the regular Demo crat convention, and then ran an independent ticket for governor and State officer*), and bid for the negro vote, Mt'Vere" awfully de feated and their pants let down a >button-hole lower. It was good for them. The pnopte served them juBt right by giving them a real Waterloo defeat, which these old sore headed broken down aristo cratic politicians have not gotten over yet. They may just as well rest easy; they are laid upon the shelf, to stay. Senator Gordon said he did not come over here to electioneer for any man. It didcot look so when he ? laude"d*6&?atoT^ It's true Senator Butler has filled his office satisfactorily to his con stituents, but it is high time when the next election comes off to elect some other man. I don't believe in giving one man all, and others who are as well qualified none. I have heard men on different occasions discussing the Dispen sary law. They said they were well pleased with it, and believed' tl it would work well and be^a great ti benefit'to the young and rising generation, and save many young | f< men from drunkenness and ruin. Most of the opposition comes from the antis, and they don't all oppose the law, though some of the antis are kicking and making a mighty fuss and rumpus. But that won't do them any good. They had bet ter quietly submit and obey the law, for just as sure as they vio late it they will get into trouble and law suits, which may cost them a great deal of money. It's mighty easy sometimes through heat of passion for men to get into a difficulty, but hard to get out, and when they do get out they are badly worsted, and then they can pee when it's too late, how foolish they were. The Charleston News and Courier and tho Colum bia State have given some unwhol some and unsound ad dee. People had better be careful about taking their advice. Remember if they get you into law suits and trouble they are not going to pay you out, you will have to get out the best you can, and do all the paying. The whiskey men- murmur and complain and say their rights have been trampled upbn and taken away from them, and monopolized by the State. Well, years ago the State monopolized the country people's rights and deprived them of selling whiskey, and conferred their rights upon you rum-sellers of towns and villages and they sub mitted without a murmur. You have not been treated any worse than the country people, whose rights you have Leen enjoying for many years, but, {,0,oiuel that was all right." You then said that | P1 was a good law, and commended the Legislature for-, taking away c^?^tr7*-p???l?s rights and con ferring . them - upon^yettr - country people have just as much right to sell whiskey as the town people have, but they did not com plain as the whiskey men now do, and bid defiance to the law. No, the country people quietly sub mitted, and acted with more sense and'better judgment than whiskey mon now do. LOOKIR ON. Elmwood, S. C. ti P ii ?! c: o: w P' n Is le tl a J Lb; tl si m nc tl C Sc ir lt N al w u: ti The Negro's Chances in Africa. Savanna. New.. Bishop H. M. Turner, of the African Methodist Churoh, who has been in Africa in the interest of the mission work of his church since January, has returned to his home in Atlanta. Bishop Turner while he .did not go to the Dark Continenet in the interest of the colonization of the negro "directly, yet he made that question an im portant part of his observation. He comes back to this country advocating colonization earnestly as the great hope of the negro. He came in contact with , some who had gone to the land of milk and j ^ honey, as it has been held up to tho colored brother by emigration agents from Georgia, and says, they are doing fairly well. Many of them are prosperous* The Bishop, however, does .not nelieve in sending the scum of his race to Africa, but he.thinks the chances for prosperity are best with the intelligent negro. Common laborers he says, can be had in abundance there for 25 cents a< daj and the negro- in this- country coud not compete with them. His idea is to encourage the colonization or emigration of negroes capable of employing the natives and helping to civilize them. The great draw* back to emigration, he says, has heretofore been the lack of trans portation faciliiies, there being no steamship line to Africa. This, however. Bishop Turner is at work to overcome.-He says he is now negotiating with European and New York capitalists to establish a line of steamers from New York to Liberia and says the outlook for early success in the movement is good. When this line is establis hed Bishop'Turner Will lend his influence toward inducing the emigration of the better class of negroes from this country. . The best way to avoid scalp diseases, hair failling out, and premature baldness is to * use the best preventive known for that) purpose-Hall's Hair Benewer. Vi,; _ -: . k "-. '.'XV'' CEETE&?BEE1TCII1SC Ln Edgefield Boy Up There Si R very thin g is Lovely and th Goose Hangs High, But Not Too High to .Get a Bite Occasionally. DEAR ADVRRTISER : Please dp he favor of publishing Preside ?raighead's letter in the Grec ille News, touching the rece roubles at Clemson, and the bo; esolutions. The1 News had sevei al se leports in reference to t oll?ge. " . We are all satisfied, and ever hiing is moving smoothly. The re already 345 students here ai lore come in daily. There was ittle dissatisfaction at first, b nat has all passed away. We ha plendid fare, good beds, and i scellent president. The Colle 3 beautifully situated am OJ >vely trees that shade the cam pi ie mountains are seen in the di ince, and the group of professoi ou se s with the main build ii )rm an imposing picture. Ne; s is the old Calhoun mansio nd on this hill where once walk? tie greatest statesman South Car ina has ever produced a lot < inner boys are drilling and worl ag, and learning' the mysteries? griculture, and how to obey, thi : ever called from' the plow overn as Ci ucind a tu s was the lay be ready. We expect our un >rms in a few days. - Hurrah f< lemson and the farmer collei oys! EDGEFIELD BOY. (The followinjg are the resoh ions alluded to by our correspond ut.-ED. ADVERTISER ) "Whereas, - the certain false r< orts calculated to produce wron npressions cone-..ning the mai gement of our College have bee irculated by the Greenville Ne^ ? July 22nd inst. ; and wheres e consider it of the gravest in ortance that these reports be d< ied, therefore be it "Resolved, 1st. That we th ophomore class of Clemson Co ge, do hereby emphatically den tat there has been or is any 'tr ou bl nong Clemson students, cause Y th? fare or mess arrangements "2nd. [That we deny further tba ?ere has been or is any 'mutiny ;rike, or protest, or concerte lovement whatever. "3rd. That we, considering th i agni tude of the undertaking lis being the largest. boardin, ollege in the South, express oui ?Ives as well pleased with, th lanagement of the same. "4th. That a copy of these reso itions be furnished the Green viii ewe for publication, hoping tba ll other papers interested in th elfare of Clemson College wil nblish them." P. G. L \NGLEY, JR., P. G. TOMPKINS, R. H. WELCH'; Committee. JPjS^-These resolutions wer? oanirao^ly^n^orsedjbvthe en re corps of cadets/"' - A Duel To The Death. LOUISVILLE, Ky., July 30-Towi ?arshal T. J. Blunk and Edwarc raham, a tough, shot and killoe ich other in Parkland, an in jrporated suburb of Louisville aturday evening. The marshal had closed two ol Graham's cows in the pound, anc -raham broke the gate down anc tt them out. Blunk, who is t hite haired man of seventy ?cured a warrant aud attempted y serve it on'Graham who resisted he marshal called some boys, one f whom was his son Maurice nd started to overpower Graham raham opened fire on the crowd nd Marshal Blunk began to shool Iso; he brought Graham to the round at the second shot. Graham lised up, however, and aiming al ie old marshal, shot him in the reast. The game old man fell iit drew himself up to his knees bot Graham near the heart, and )11 back dead. Gaah am attemp )d to rise, but the marshal's bui lt had touched a vital spot, and e. too, fell buck dead. Maurice lunk also shot at Graham, but il ? not thought the bullet took ef jct. Graham is from Indianapolis ; e is said to have killed three len before. A National Usury Law. tlaiita Constitution. . In Capt, Howell's letter printed nder the head of "Editorial ?orrespendence" in . Sunday'e ?onstituti in the misplacing of a age of the manuscript mixed up rhathe wrote on the subject ot eury. What he said on this sub ?ct is this : "If the Government roposes to continue the control f the currency of this country, it 3 a duty it owes the people to fix uniform rate of interest, and 'hatever rate of interest is charged i excess of this rate should be eclared usurious and. illegal, this iw should be enforced ap rigidly s the laws relating to counterfeit ag are now, We need a national sury law and uniform rates of aterest fixed by law sp that the umblest man in the land can get louey at t ne same rate as the rich peculator. There can be no healthy tate of finance when it has put the price of money up by a com bination of circumstances to 819 .per cent one day and in a week dropsit to 3 per cent. There is fairness ?in making a Georgia farmer par 20 per cent per anuum for money and the New York speculators per cent. It ia as easy to regulate^ the rate of in terest that one man can demand of 'another "as it to regulate the num ber of grains to a dollar. Governor Tillman on the Fin a n x clal Question. Kow York World. . The wise solution of the silver question vitally affects the welfare of ?very laborer and producer in the United States, as well as the predominance of the democratic party. - The repeal of the Sher man law and a disregard of the silver plank in the national demo cratic platform will ultimately destroy both political parties and produce a hew allignment, with the creditor and manufacturing States on one side, and the debtor and producing States on the 'other. If weare to have the gold standaid and silver becomes. a mere . com modity,, there will be grinding poverty and distress in the home of every wheat grower and cotton raiser in America, , and the next presidential election will find plutocracy, intrenched in New York, confronted by a solid South and West, battling for. the prin ciples of democracy, whatever, may be the banner they unfurl to the breeze. The present crisis is the result of a conspiracy brought on by the failure of the treasuy to redeem silver certificates as coin (silver or gold, as allowed by law), begun by Harrison and continued by Cleveland. The* [repeal of the Sher man law without . rehabilitating silver may restore confidence, but just as it will double the pur chasing power of gold, it will also double the number of paupers and slaves in the United States. B. R. TILLMAN, Governor. Dr. "Woodward's Story. 'Aiken Review. Dr. J. 7/. Woodward, a pro gressive farmer of Montmorenci, was in Aiken last week, and re lated to us the following story of the narrow escape of two of his children: He says they went out .in his cotton field near his house to play. For- several hours they amused the ra selves, ti rider the tall branches of cotton, utterly oblivious of the flight of the hours. As they could not see beyond the tall cotton, in making their -return, they took a direction away from home. Wandering vainly, the night was overtaking; the little fellows apace. Theywere missed, of jyjarse. an d_ searchwainnstituted, the premises being scoured without. avail. The cot ton field was then sought, and in a little while their cries were heard and the'trail of sound taken up. The elder of the lads was dis covered perched aloft on a very tall cotton stalk, looking over the field for ' signs of his home. Lifting theilittle fellow from his eyrie the overjoyed father led the two back to the house and turned them over to their mother. He then purchased two bells, attaching one to each of his children so that in the future, should they wish to play in the cotton it may be done. The doctor says his belled child ren attract considerable attention about Montmorenci, but it can't be helped. He will take no chan ces of losing his idolized pets in his tall cotton. Seminoles Incensed. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., July 30 Little Tiger, chief of the Seminole Indians, is on his way to Tallahas see to see Governor Mitchell about the flogging of his boy by a white man named Henson, near Cocoanut Grove, Biscayne, Vay County. Th? boy persisted in poaching on Hen eon's land, and defied him. The flogging incensed little Tiger, and he threatened to go on the war path. The whole tribe are much wrought up over the affair, and white settlers are apprhensive of trouble. Little Tiger will not reach Tallahassee for several days yet. He will, it is said, demand big money damages for the- insult "to his trib?, and if he don't get it they will be ugly. Governor Mitch?ll has been' advised to pacify the chief, and " the matter may be referred to the Interior Departmont for settlement. Re ports from Biscayne confirm the threatening demeanor of the Indians in the country west of there. Ayer's Ague Cure never fails to neutralize the poisons of malaria, and eradicate them from the sys tem. This prepration is purely vagetable, contains no harmful ingredients, and, if taken ac cording to . directions, is warranted to cure fever and ague. Try it, . " i . A VIVID DESCRIPTION OF THE WORLD'S FAIR AND ITSWONDER! UL EXHIBIT By Our Fair Correspondent-You May Not be Able to go, so Read This, the Next Thing to lt. WINDSOR HOTEL, MONTREAL, CANADA, July 28, '93. DEAR ADVERTISER : While going through the great Fair and trying to see as much of it as possible," I could not then find time to at tempt to write any description of what I saw. Besides it is very laborious and tiresome to walk through it day by day for a week and try to get only a glimpse of the numerous and various and wonderful things that are there. It is impossible to give any sort of description that would give" any fair idea of it in a short letter. If it were written, in a book, and each article described in its history and in all its aspects, it would fill a series of volumes. The fair grounds are situated on the border of the lake, seven miles from the city. There are ample and various ways of reaching them. The elevated railroads, street cars, drives, boats, and other means of transportation, carry the people to and from the Fair by the thous ands in a very short space of time. Everything goes in a rush, every body moves in a push, It is as Julian Ralph says : "The voice of the genii of the West crying clang clang, hustle I Clang clang, be lively!" On reaching the grounds the whole spectacle is almost bewilder ing. The huge white buildings cluster around the lagoon, and large statues are placed all through the enclosure. There are a large number of buildings, but some of the main one ate, the Transportation build ing, 'Manufactures and Liberal Arts, Agricultural building, Elec tricity building, U. S. Government building, Fine Arts building, Wo man's building, Fisheries building, Music Hall, etc. TRANSPORTATION BUILDING. From the elevated railroad we reached first the Transportation building. Here we saw exhibited all the different kinds of trans portation from the earliest ages to the present time, from rude carts and wooden rails to the magnifi cent and luxurious palace cars of Pullman and Wagner, and all the progressive improvements in water transportation, from the canoe to the finest and largest modern ves sels; very interesting were the models of the three ships m which Columbus came over. In this de partment were many foreign ex hibits. The Jjerman^anti -Fr?nchi h?ct specimens of their best cars. They cannot compare with Pull man's, however, but seem to be very pretty and comfortable. The peculiarity of their structure is that the cars are divided into sec tions of four seats each, and are not open like our cars, something like our sleeping cars with the divisions permanently fixed. The model of the Victoria, the ship that went down a short time ago in which so many lives were lost, attracted a great deal of attention. MUSIC HALL. We visited Music Hall. Thomas's Orchestra was thundering forth some of the finest pieces of the great master composers. It was a great treat and ..we enjoyed the whole programme thoroughly. This hall is devoted to concerts by famous musicians, and contains no exhibits, but the interior and exterior are highly ornamented with carvings and statuary. The acoustic properties are very fine. The place was crowded with peo ple pushing and pressing along, and I was not expecting to see any one that I knew. But in this great crowd I met Misses Mary and Marion Haskell, two of my school mates in Columbia, and was pleased and delighted to meet a familiar face in that vast throng of strangers. WOMAN'S BUILDING. We visited the Woman's Build ing. It was adorned by the beau tiful statue of a woman. This em braced exhibits of woman's work, from the plan of the building to the smallest item. It is thehead quarters of the lady managers, and there are their reception and com mittee rooms. Cpntributions are there from women in all parts of the world. It is a proud and grand display wof woman's work. We were rather tired after a days' tramp over an extended ter ritory and were longing for a rest, so we went to the Childrens' Build ing to rest a while. . CHILDRENS' BUILDING. This is the place where all sorts of gymnasiums, games, etc., are provided for the entertainment of the children. Women leav? their babies there to be cared for while they are seeing the Fair. People leave their children there and get checks for them like a ' piece of baggage. George enjoyed the gymnastics and other sports, very much, but he took good care to keep at a safe distance from the meek room. I did not blame him, for many of the babies that were left were crying and seemed to be much distressed and greatly neg fected. LIBERAL ARTS. We visited the great Manufac tures and Liberal Art Building, [t is said that no one has ever seen 3 very thing in that gigantic build ing. The whole Paris exhibition ?ould have been placed within its ?valle. There I saw the huge Co. umbian clock and tower, showing ;he time at Greenwich, Madrid, Paris, and Chicago; Tiffany's wonderful $1,000,000 show case of liamonds; beautiful Italian stat ?ary; the old watches of Crom well, Milton, Lady Jane Grey, and >ther distinguished persons ; Hin loo idols j China service used by iueen Victoria : fae simile of the Salon of the Dutchess of Metter lich ; fae simile of Japanese house ind parlor with furnishings ; the celebrated Dore vase, and thous mds of things, enough to occupy me's time indefinitely. We spent a whole day in the art nuseum. Every kind of art is here. Rosa Bonheur's cattle pic ures, many works.in bronze, beau ifni frescoes, marble figures, char loal, pastel, and porcelain. The apestry pieces are very finermany if them covering the side of the ong room- There I met Miss Uice Spring, the art teacher at he "College for Women," and liss Fnlkerson, the vocalist. GOVERNMENT BUILDING. N The Government Building is ery large, and I believe the most utr?cate and tba hardest to see of ill for it contains ? vast variety of xhibits: Models of the Govern nent departments at Washington ; he Patent office ; the Smithsonian nstitute, which is very curious ind interesting, containing many ?ld relics, such as Washington's iword and pewter camp service, md a vest embroidered by Marie in toinette, the twelve goblets used it the Passover feast, silverware >rought over in the Mayflower, etc. ELECTRIC BUILDING. Wc visited the Electric Building it night. It is a very brilliant tight, and the place is lighted up io as tobe equal almost to'day ight. A very wonderful thing hen is Edison's latest-invention, he-kinetograph for taking instan aneous pictures. It reproduces he speech of a person and the ikeness also. I reckon I have gone far enough is I could not describe the whole ixposition. I have only touched ipon a few things, but it is well vorth seeing by all who can go. I vould not have missed it for any onsideration. We have seen the ;reat lakes, some of Canada, Nia ara Falls, the St. Lawrence river, nd Montreal. If I have a good pportunity I may write you again MAMIE J. NORRIS. The Case Dis missed? Mr. Richardson, of the Southern C spross Company, oalled on iovernor Tillman to-day in re erenee to the arrest of an agent of he company at Clintonwood for violating the dispensary law. The .gent delivered a box of whiskey o a consignee and was afterwards unrested. Mr. Richardson showed the Governor that the violation was unintentional on the part of the .gent. There was nothing about he box to indicate its contents u fact everything would throw off uspicion. The box was labeled 'canned tomatoes" and the agent Lidn't know that it contained inything else. All these cir iumstances were related to the jovernor and with the consent of ;he Attorney General the case igainst the agent was dismissed. Agents hereafter will be given specific instructions how to act mder such circumstances. As an after-dinner pill, to strengthen the stomach, assist ligestion, and correct any bilious tendencies, Ayer's Pills are con sidered the best. Being sugar ;oated, they are as agreeble as my confection, and may be taken try the most delicate. fl LESSENS PAIN-INSURES SAFETY to UFE of MOTHER md CHILD. My wife, after having used Mother'? Friend, passed through the ordeal with little pam, was stronger In one hour than tu a week after the birth of her former child. J. J. MOGOLDEICX, Beans Sta., Tenn. Mother's Fritad robbed pain of ita tnror and ihortensd labor. 1 hare tho htaltttort child lerer taw. ' - Mas. L, M. ?MXXX, Cochran, Ga. Se n t br expraaa, charge prepaid, on receipt of price, fl ?0 per bottle. Book "To Kothen'* malled free. PRIZES ON PATENTS. How to Get 2,500-Dollars for Nothing. The Winner Has a Clear Gift of * a Small Fortune, and the Losers Have Patents that may Bring Them in Still more. Would you like to make twenty-five hundred dollars? If you would, read sarefully what follows and you may see a way to do it. The Press Clams Company devotes much attention to patents. It has bandied thousands of applications for inventions, but it would like to handle thousands more. There is plenty of inventive talent at large in this coun try, needing nothing but encourage aient to produce pratical results. That ?ncourgement the Press Claims Company proposes to give. NOT SO HAIJD AS IT SEEMS. A patent strikes most people as an ippallingly formidable thing. The idea s that an inventor must be a natural remus, like Edison or Bell; that he nust devote years to delving in complicated mechancial problems and ;bat he must spend a fortune on lelicate experiments before he can jet a new device to a patentable de rree of perfection. This delusion the company desires to dispel. It desires to jet into the head, of the public a clear comprehension of the fact that it is not the great, complex, and expensive inventions that bring the best returns :o their authors, but the little, simple, ; ind cheap ones-the things that seem io absurdly trivial that the average ' citizen would feel somewhat ashamed )f bringing them to the attention cf. : he Pa ten t;Offlce. Edison says that the profits he bas .ecei ved from the patents on all his narvelous inventions have not been efficient to pay the cost of his ex periments* But the man who conceived ;he idea of fastening a bit of rubber cord to a childes ball, so that it would ;ome back to the hand when thrown nade a fortune out of his scheme. Tlie nodern sewing machine is a miracle >f ingenuity-the product of the Kiil )f hundreds of busy brains through a lundred and fifty years, but the whole irilliant result rests upon the simple levice of putting the eye of the needle tt the point instead of at the other end. rHE LITTLE THINGS THE MOST VALU ABLE. Comparatively rew people \ regard hem sel ves as inventors, but'almost sverybody has been struck, at one i me or another, with ideas that seemed ?alculated to reluce some of the little notions of life. Usually such are ideas lismissed without further thought. "Why don't? the railroad company nake its car windows so that they can >e slid up and down without breaking ?he passengers' backs?" exclaims the Taveler. "If I were running the road ; would make them in such a way." ,'What was the man that made this saucepan thinking of?" grumbles the jook. "He never had to work over a itove, or he would have known how it mght to have been fixed." "Hang such a collar button !" growls ;he man who is late for breakfast "If I ?vere in the business I'd make buttons ?hat wouldn't slip out, or break off, or gouge out the back of my neck." And then the various sufferers for get about their gTi evan cet and begin to think of something else. If they would sit down at the next convenient apportuni.y, put their ideas-about car windows, saucepans,and collar buttons into practical shape, and then apply for patents, they might find themselves is independently wealthy as the man. who invented the iron umbrella ring ar the one who patented^the^fif teen puzzle. A TEMPTING OFFER." To induce people to keep track of their bright ideas and see what there is in them, the Press. Claims Company bas resolved to offer a prize. To the person whs submits lo it the simplest and most promising inven tion, from a commercial point of view, the company will give twenty-five hundred dollars in cash, addition to refunding the fees for seeming the ?latent. It will also 'advertise the invention ree of charge. This offer is subject to the following conditions :' ? Every competitor must obtain a patent for his invention through the company. He must first apply fora preliminary search, the cost ol' whJLcb trill be five dollars. Should this search, show his invention to be unpate?taV.c ae can withdraw without further ex pense. Otherwise he will be expected So complete his application and take jut a patent in the regular way. The Sotal expense, including Government ind Bureau fees,will be seventy dollars. For this, whether he secures the prize ar not, the inventor will have a patent that ought to be a valuable property to him. The prize will be awarded-by ijury consisting of three reputable patent attorneys of Washington. In ending competitors should fill out the following blank, and forward it with cheir application : ?-,-,1892. "I submit the ^within described in vention in competici?n for the Twenty-five hundred Dollar Prize offered by the Press Claims Company. ?_n NO BLANK8 IN THI8 COMPETITION. This is a competition of rather an unusual nature. It is common to offer prizes for the best story, or picture, or architectural plan, all the competitors risking the loss of their labor and the successful one merely [selling his for the amount of the prize. But the Press Claims Company's offer is something entirely different. Each person is asked merely to help himself, and the one who.helps himself to the best ad vantage is to be rewarded for doing it. The prize is only a stimulus to do something that would bowell worth doing without it. The architect whose competitive plan fora club house on a certain corner is not accepted has spent his labor on something of very little use to him. But the person who patents a simple and useful device in the Press Claims Company's competi tion' needTnot worry if he fail to secure the prize. He has a substantial result to show for his work-one that will command its value in the market at any time. The plain man who uses any article in his daily work ought to know bet ter how to improve it than the meehanizal expert who studies it only from the theoretical point of view. Get rid of the idea that an improve mentcanbe too simple "to be worth patenting. The simpler the better. The person who best succeeds in combining simplicity and popularity, will get the Press Claims Compay's twenty-five hundred dollars. The responsibility of this company may be judged from the fact that its stock is neld by about three hundred of the leading newspapers of the United States. Address the Press Claims Company, John Wedderburn, man aga attorney, 918 Ffctreet, N, W. Washington, J). C.