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Edgefield Advertiser ?THURSDAY, AUG. 3,1893. L0GAI2 BREVITIES. If you have turnip seed prepare tex 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 j all kinds of job printing. Send ~ue your order??. Satisfaction gu ar 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 tue Batesburg sec tion, is reading law with the firm of Sheppard Bros. ?Ci '". '' ? f - ? ?? Cotton is coming out wonderfully 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 [ami well, because I know I am going to feel * worse "afterward." ft 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. bursty President of the Greenwood Cotton Mill, has just returned from Providence, Boston and Chicago and purchased the i-s. necejsafv^ifl.achinerv\ to fill the mill and in a few weeks it wirkj>e|1 running to its full capacity. _ A writer in th*? Southern Cul ti vator says that, "if every bloom and young boll was pulled.from a stalk of cotton on the lst.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 yoars ago R. B. Carpenter was a circuit judge in this State. To-day he ie 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 fiappeth his wings and tries \h"?8 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 regular meeting of this troop has been changed from the 5th to the 19th of August, by order of Capt. Mays. 9,189 Families. According to the census of 1890, which we have just received, there are 9,189 families in Edgefield county" with an average of 5.37 members to each family. Peterkln's Cluster. . From ali accounts the Peterkin's Cluster cotton is ahead of all cot ton in the county, and those who have*planted it, and haven't let the grass take it, are fortunate. Cotton and Corn. We are having good seasons and cotton is' fruiting wonderfully. Many farmers have told us that this plant is fruiting better than they ever knew. The corn crop, we fear, will be a.. comparative failure. Tent Meeting. Rev. A. B. Watson will begin 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 sex vices. There will be preaching three | times each day, merning,af ternoon, and night. An Aged Citizen. Mr. Bennett Holland died athis j 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 j rare and homely virtues, honesty, industry, and frugality. His re mains were interred in th? family burying ground near Little Stevens Creek Church, of which chu) ch he had been a member for many years. Mr. Hollandieft a widow and four sons. Conference of the Edgefield County Presbyterian Churches, Held With the Edgefield Vil lage Church-Sunday, July 30th, 1893. The Presbyterian churches of Edgefield county held their first union-conference, in our village Presbyterian Church, on Sunday last. The morning services com-1 mepced at 10:30 a. m.. Reports were read by delegates from the several churches in the county, namely, Edgefield, Johnston, Tren ton, Ropers, and Highview. Dr. W. E. Lynch was made chairman. Dr. J. W. Hill made the report from the Edgefield church, and Messrs. Frontis, of Johnston, and Pickens, of Trenton, represented the, churches in- their respective towns. Mr. Jacobs, in the absence of delegates, made a few remarks in reference to the welfare of the church at Ropers and Highview. All information was encourag ing. The church at Johnston was j especially to be commended for its enthusiasm in the Master's cause, the Sunday-school work at that place being systematically and thoroughly carried on. The Edge field Sunday-school is not td be less commended for the manner in which it is conducted. At John ston,^ connection with the church, is a Lady's Aid Society consisting of only three members, but which has done effectual good. They raise between fifteen and twenty dollars yearly. Mr. W. S. Jacobs, the pastor, ex plained the purpose of the meet ing, which was to bring the I churches together in the county and tims bring about unity,-as "in unity there is. strength." Alter thia feature of the pro gramme, there was a prayer meet ing conducted by Dr. J. W. Hill,the subject assigned for the occasion being that of prayer. This is an inexhaustible subject, and as Dr. Hill said could have been properly dividea into two topics ; however, the observations made were con cise, comprehensive, and practical, and given in such a manner that j those present made an application o? them to their own hearts. We ?o not judge by ourselves on this accasion, but have the experience )f 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 ix made some very interesting ier sponses. They hoped that the ptaver meetings would in future, be bett9f^afc$ended, and expressed | themselves as having"-feeej? jgeatl benefitted and encouraged by the talk made .by Dr. Hill. They were happy to see him, though a num ber and an honored one of another profession, glad to testify to the efficacy and necessity of prayer, md that often the encouragement jf a layman was a greater aid to is than the eloquence of an or dained minister. The afternoon session convened it 4 o'clock. Mr. Hix of John-1 3ton, made ihe address on the du ties of eldership. After a song, the meeting adjourned on account j Df the ominous appearance of the j weather. -The remainder of the programme was left to be finished ?t the next county conference. F. Items from Elmwood. MR. EDITOR : The crops in this part of the community 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-J ton grow. The people ought not to commence the picnics until the first of August, as work ought always to be done before the fro! 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 "WilJ. you 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 !" Who did he mean to come back? If he meant 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 noil on top of the head, as they bolted the regular Demo crat convention, and then ran an independent ticket for governor and State officers, and bid for the negro vote, but" were" awfully ' feated and their pants let dow button-hole lower. It was good them. The p^opl** served tb just right by giving them a r Waterloo defeat, which these < sore headed broken down arie eratic politicians have not gotl over yet. They may just as w rest easy ; they are laid upon 1 shelf, to stay. Senator Gordon said he did i come over here to electioneer : any man. It did. not look so when lauded^&^atqr^Butler? t?^hie'ski It's true Senator Butler has fill his office satisfactorily to his cc stituent8, but it is high time wh the next election comes off to el( some other man. I don't bolieve giving one man all, and others w are as well qualified none. I have heard men on diff?re occasions discussing the Dispe sary law. They said they we well pleased with it, and believ it would work well and be^a gre benefit1 to the young and risii generation, and save many you] men from drunkenness and mi Most of the opposition comes fro the antis, and they don't all oppo the law, though some of the anl are kicking and making a migh fuss and rumpus. But that woi do them any good. They had be ter quietly submit and obey tl law, for just as sure as they vi late it they will get into troub and law suits, which may co them a great deal of money. Il mighty easy sometimes throuj heat of passion for men to get in a difficulty, but hard to get ou and when they do get out they a badly worsted, and then the can sue when it's too late, ho foolish they were. The Charlestc News and Courier and tho Coluo bia State have given some unwho some and unsound ad /ice. Pe op: had better be careful about takir their advice. Remember if the get yori into law suits and troub] they are not going to pay you ou you will have to get out the bei you can, and do all the pay inj The whiskey men murmur an complain and say their rights hav been trampled upon and take away from them, and monopolize by the State. Well, years ago th State monopolized the countr people's rights and deprived ther of selling whiskey, and conferre their rights upon you rum-sellers o towns and villages and they But mitted without a murmur. Yo have not been treated any wors than the country people, whos rights you have Leen enjoying fo many years, but, '*0,.ome-! tha was all right." You then said tha was a good law, and commends tho Legislature for taking awa; country-peoplejs^rights and con ferring them upor?~yO?v --leb country people have just as mud right to sell whiskey as the towi people have, but they did not com plain as the whiskey men now do and bid defiance to the law. Nc the country people quietly sub mitted, and acted with more senBi and'better judgment than whiskey mon now do. LOOKIR ON. Elmwood, S. C. The Negro's Chances in Africa Savannan News. Bishop H. M. Turner, of th< African Methodist Churoh, wh< has been in Africa in the inter?s of the mission work of his enure! since January, has returned to hil home in Atlanta. Bishop Tur?ei while he did not go to the Dari Continenet in the interest ofx th< colonization of the negro "directly yet he made that question an im portant part of his observation He comes back to this county advocating colonization earnestlj as the great hope bf the negro. Ht came in contact with some whe had gone to the land of. milk anc honey, as it has been held up tic the colored brother by emigratiar agents from Georgia, and sayt they are doing fairly well. Manj of them are prosperous. The Bishop, however, does not oelievt in sending the scum of his race to Africa, but he.thinks the chancer for prosperity are best with the intelligent negro. Common labore rt he says, can be had in abundance there for 25 cents a_. day and the negro, in- thisv country could t?o! compete with them. His idea U to encourage the colonization oi emigration of negroes capable ol 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, s 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 to1 use the best preventive known for that purpose-Hall's Hair Renewer. THE TE&?BIE AT CLEMSON. I An Edgefield BOT Up There Says R very thing- ls Lovely and the Goose Hangs High, But Not Too High to Get a Bite Occasionally. DEAR ADVERTISER : Please dp us the favor of publishing President Craighead's letter in the Green ville News, touching the recent I troubles at Clemson, and the boys' resolutions. The1 News had several false leports in reference to the coll?ge. " We are all satisfied, and every thing is moving smoothly. There are already 345 students here and more come in daily. There wag a little dissatisfaction at first, but that has all passed away. We have splendid fare, good beds, and an excellent president. The College is beautifully situated among lovely trees that shade the campus, the mountains are seen in the dis tance, and the group of professors' houses with the main building form an imposing picture. Near us is the old Calhoun mansion, and on this hill where once walked the greatest statesman South Caro lina has ever produced a lot of farmer boys are drilling and work ing, and learning the mysteries of agriculture, and how to obey, that if ever called from' the plow to govern as Cincinnatus- was they may be ready. We expect our uni forms in a few days. . Hurrah for Clemson and the farmer college boys! EDGEFIELD BOY. (The following are the resolu tions alluded toby our correspond-1 eut.-ED. ADVERTISER ) "Whereas,-fche certain false re ports calculated to produce wrong impressions concerning the man agement of our. College have been circulated by the Greenville News of July 22nd inst.; and wherean we consider it of the gravest im portance that these reports be de nied, therefore be it "Resolved, 1st. That we the Sophomore class of Clemson Col-* lege, do hereby emphatically deny that there has been or is any 'trouble among Clemson students, caused by the fare or mess arrangements.' "2nd. ;That we deny further that there has been or is any 'mutiny,' strike, or protest, or concerted movement whatever. "3rd. That we, considering the magnitude of the undertaking, this being the largest boarding College in the South, express our selves as well pleased with, the management of the same. "4th. That a copy of these reso lutions be furnished the Greenville News for publication, hoping that all other papers interested in the welfare cf Clemson College will I publish them." P. G. LANGLEY, JB., P. G. TOMPKINS, R/H. WELCH,* Committee. |^J\S^These resolutions were unanirac^sly-^n^rse^by_^the en tire corps of cadets. A Duel To The Death. LOUISVILLE, Ky., July 30-Town | Marshal T. J. Blunk and Edward Graham, a tough, shot and killed each other in Parkland, an in corporated suburb of Louisville,! Saturday evening. The marshal had closed two of Graham's cows in the pound, and j Graham broke the gate down and (let them out. Blunk, who is a white haired man of seventy, I secured a warrant aud attempted j to serve it pii*Graham who resisted. The marshal called some boys, one of whom was his son Maurice, ! and started to overpower Graham. Graham opened fire on the crowd, and Marshal Blunk began to shoot also ; he brought Graham to the ground at the second shot. Graham raised up, however, and aiming at the old marshal, shot him in the breast. The game old man fell, but drew himself up to his knees, shot Graham near the heart, and fell back dead. Gaaham attemp ted to rise, but the marshal's bul let had touched a vital spot, and he. too, fell buck dead. Maurice Blunk also shot at Graham, but it is not thought the bullet took ef fect Graham is from Indianapolis ; he is said to have >Uled three | men before. A National Usury Law. Atlanta Constitution. . "In Capt, Howell's letter printed under the head of "Editorial Correspondence" in . Sunday's Constituti in the misplacing of a page of the manuscript mixed up what he wrote on the subject of usury. What he said on this sub ject is this : "If the Government proposes io continue the control of the currency of this country, it is a duty it owes the people to fix a uniform rate of interest, and whatever Tate of interest is charged in excess of this rate should be declared usurious and. illegal, this law should be enforced as rigidly as the laws relating to counterfeit ing are now, We need a national U8urylaw and uniform rates of interest fixed by law so that the humblest man in the land can get I money at tue same rate as the rich I speculator. There can bo no healthy state of finance when it has put1 the price of money up by a com bination of circumstances to 819 .per cent one day and in a week drops it 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 is 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 an ; cial Question. New York World. . The wise solution of the silver question vitally affects the welfare of every laborer and producer in the United States, as well as the predominance of the democratic party. .The repeal of the Sher man law anet a disregard of the silver plank in the national demo cratic platform will ultimately destroy both political parties and produce a new allignment, with the creditor and manufacturing States on one side, and the debtor and producing States on the [other. If we are 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 withont . 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 iu the United States. B. R. TILLMAN, Governor. Dr. Woodward's Story. Aiken Review. Dr. J. 7y. Woodward, a pro gressive farmer of Montra orenci, 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 them sel ves. u nder the tall branches of cotton, utterly oblivious of the flight of the hours. As they could not see beyond tho tall cotton, in macing their -return, they took a direction away from home. Wandering vainly, the night was overtaking the little fellows apace. They were imisjed, of course, and search wal^instituted, the premises being scoured without. avail. The cottonfield 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 cot ten stalk, looking over the field for ' signs of his home. Lifting the .little 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 Montmorency 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. The 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 9to his tribe, 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 Department for settlement. Re ports from Biscayne confirm the threatening demeanor of the Indians iu 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 td . directions, is warranted to cure feyer and ague, Try it. ,1 ' . ??r.--..',?0.b3?^?w4??L-.v', A' >?;- - y . A yira DESCRIPTION OF THE WORLD'S FAIR AND ITS WONDER! UL EXHIBIT By Our Fair Correspondent-You May Not be Able to go, so Read Tins, the Next Thing to lt. WINDSOB 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 cf 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 m 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! 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 are, 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 in which Columbus came over.. In this de partment were many foreign ex hibits. The jGerman-aad French had 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 s'.eeping 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 strawers. WOMANS BUILDING.-* We visited the Woman's Build ing. It was adorned by the beau tiful statue of a woman. This cm braced exhibits of woman's work, from the plan of the building to the smallest item. It is the head 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 of woman'? work. We were rathe.: tired after a days' tramp over aa extended ter ritory and were longing for a rest, so we went to the Childrens' Build ing to rest a while. V CHILORENB' BUILOING. This is the place where all sorts of gymnasiums, games, etc., are provided for the entertainment of the children. Women leave 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 >aggage. George enjoyed the lymnastics and other sports, very auch, but bc took good care to :eep at a safe distance from the beck room. I did not blame him, or many of the babies that were eft were crying and seemed to be ouch distressed and greatly neg ected. LIBERAL ARTS. We visited the great Manufac ures and Liberal Art Building, t is said that no one has ever seen verything in that gigantic build ng. The whole Paris exhibition ould have been placed within its rails. There I saw the huge Co. umbian clock and tower, showing he time at Greenwich, Madrid, .aris, and Chicago ; Tiffany's wonderful $1,000,000 show case of lamonds; beautiful Italian stat ary; the old watches of Crom rell, Milton, Lady Jane Grey, and ther distinguished persons ; Hin co idols ; China service used by lue en Victoria : fae simile of the alon of the Dutchess of Metter ich ; fae simile of Japanese house nd parlor with furnishings; the elebrated Dore vase, and thous nds of things, enough to. occupy ne's time indefinitely. We spent a whole day in the art luseum. Every kind of art is aere. Rosa Bonheur's cattle pic ares, manyworksm bronze, beau iful frescoes, marble figures, char oal, pastel, and porcelain. The ipestry pieces are very fine,many f them covering the side of the mg room- There I met Miss .lice Spring, the art teacher at ie "College for Women," and liss Fuikerson, the vocalist. GOVERNMENT BUILDING. N The Government Building is ery large, and I believe the-most itricateand the hardest to see of ll for it contains ? vast variety of schibits: Models of the Govern lent departments at Washington ; ie Patent office ; the Smithsonian ?stitute, which is very curious nd interesting, containing many ld relics, such as Washington's ?rord and pewter camp service, nd a vest embroidered by Marie .n toinette, the twelve goblets used t the Passover feast, silverware rought over in the Mayflower, etc. ELECTRIC BUILDING. Wc visited the Electric Building t night. It is a very brilliant ight, and the place is lighted up Das tobe equal almost to day ght. A very wonderful thing len is Edison's lat'- it invention, ae-kinetograph for taking instan meous pictures. It reproduces ie speech of a person and the keness also. . I reckon I have gone far enough a I could not describe the whole ^position. I have only touched pon a few things, but it is well or th seeing by all who can go. I ould not have missed it for any msideration. We have seen the reat lakes, some of Canada, Nia ira Falls, the St. Lawrence river, ad Montreal. If I have a good pportunity I may write you again MAMIE J. NORRIS. The Case Dismissed, Mr. Richardson, of the Southern Ixpreas Company, oalled on overnor Tillman to-day in re menee to the arrest of an agent of ie company at Clintonwood for iolating the dispensary law. The gent delivered a box of whiskey ) a consignee and was afterwards rrested. Mr. Richardson showed the overnor that the violation was nintentional on the part of the gent. There was nothing about ie box to indicate its contents i fact everything would throw off ispicion. The box was labeled canned tomatoes" and the agent idn't know that it contained nything else. All these cir umstances were related to the rovernor and with the consent of ie Attorney General the case gainst the agent was dismissed, .gents hereafter will be given pecific instructions how to act. nder such circumstances. As an after-dinner pill, to i trengthen the stomach, assist , igestion, and correct any bilious < mdeneies, Ayer's Pills are con- \ idered the best. Being sugar oated, they are as agreeble as ny confection, and may be taken , y the most delicate. .ESSEN!'? PAIN-INSURES SAFETY lo LIFE of MOTHER and CHILD. My wif 3, after having used Mother's :riend, passed through the ordeal with ittle pain, was stronger In one hour ; han in a week after the birth of her ormer cldld. J. J. MoGOLDBIOK, < Beans Sta,, Tenn. Mother's Friend robbed pain of Its terror ad shortened labor. 1 bar? tho hmlthtott h lld I ere i mw. ' I Mas. L. M. Amur, Cochran, GS. Sent br erpreta, charnijirnald, on receipt f price, fl SO par bottli. Book "To Motten'? nailed free. FRIZES 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 carefully what follows and you may see a way to do it. The Press Clams Company devotes much attention to patents. It bas 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 ment to produce pratical results. Thal ?ncourgement the Press Claims Company proposes to give. NOT SO HARD AS IT SEEMS. A patent strikes most people as an ippallingly formidable thing. The idea is that an inventor must be a natural genius, like Edison or Bell; that he nu??t devote years to delving in complicated mechancial problems and ;hat he" must spend a fortune on delicate experiments before be can get a new device to a palen rabi 3 de gree of perfection. This delusion the ;ompany desires to dispel. It desires to get 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 to their authors, but the little, simple, ind cheap ones-the things that seem so absurdly trivial that the average citizen would feel somewhat ashamed >f bringing them to nie attention cf? : he Pat e n t?Offi ce. Edison says that 'the profits he bas received from the patents on all his narvelous inventions have not been sufficient 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 come back to the hand when thrown nade a fortune out of his scheme. The nodern sewing machine is a miracle >f ingenuity-the product of the tbil )f hundreds of busy brains through a lundred and fifty years, but the whole Dril! i ant result rests upon the simple levice of putting the eye of the needle it the point instead of at the other end. fHE LITTLE THINGS THE MOST VALU ABLE. Comparatively rew people \ regard hemselves as Inventors, but 'almost iverybody has been struck, at one i me or another, with ideas that seemed calculated to reduce 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 ;raveler. "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 sock. "He never had to work over a itove, or he would have known how it )ught to have been fixed." "Hang such a collar button !" growls :he man who is late for breakfast "If I ?rere 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 grievancet and begin to think of something else. If they would sit down at the next convenient opportuni.y, put their ideas ^about car windows, oaucepans,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 or the one who patented^the'fif teen puzzle. A TEMPTING OFFER." To induce people to keep track of their bright ideas and see what t here is in them, the Press. Claims Company has resolved to offer a prize. To the person whs submits to 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 securing the patent. It will also ?advertise the invention free 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 for a preliminary search, the cost of wbjicb. will be five dollars. Should this search, ?how his invention to be unpate?taWc ae can withdraw without further ex pense. Otherwise he will be ?xpected to complete his application and take out a patent in the regular way. The total expense, including Government ind Bureau fees,will be seventy dollars. For this, whet Uer he secures the prize or not, the inventor will have a patent that ought to be a valuable property to him. The prize will be awarded-by i jury consisting of three reputable patent attorneys of Washington. In :ending competitors should fill out the following blank, and forward it with ;heir application : "-,-, 1S92. "I submit the [within described in vention in competition for the rwenty-flve hundred Dollar Prize offered by the Press Claims Company. NO BLANKS IN THIS 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 be well 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' need*not 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 meehan i zal expert who studies it only from the theoretical point of view. Get rid of the idea that an improve ment can be too simple "to be worth patenting. The simpler the better. The person who best succeeds in combining simplicity and popularity, will getf he Press Claims Compay's twenty-tive hundred dollars. The responsibility of this company may be judged from the fact that its 3tock is neld by about three hundred of the leading newspapers of the United States. Address the Press Claims Company, John Wedderburn, manari attorney, ?18 FJstreet, N. W. Washington, ;D. C.