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THOR J. ADAMS. FBOFBIETOB. EDGEFIELD. S. OiTOESDAY. FEBRUARY 2.1. 1894 " TOL lg. NO. 4. _ 1 1 -^-- - j _ " . TTn-uT mr\ nTTTTi TT'TPT T BABY IN AN INCUBATOR A Novel Way to Rear a Mite of au Infant-It is Thriving:. AUGUSTA. Ga., Feb. 13.-A baby is being raised rn an incubator in a well known and popular family cf August?.. The names are with held in deference io the desiro of the father. The baby is a mite. Its father and rnothor are strong, hearty people. The iiltle one was born five weeks ago and since that time has been in the incubator. The child is getting along nicely and is developing well. There is now every reason to believe that the lit'le one will soon be nursed to strength and vigor. The incu bator is constructed in a small bath tub. There are three com . partments. In the lower compart ment is kept a burning lamp. The lamp imparts heat to the second compartment, which is filled with water. The warm water regulates and equalizes the air in the third Compartment, in which the baby resides. The whole affair is under direction of a well known physi cian. He constantly visits his charge and is watching the progress of the case with, if possible, more interest than the parents. This treatmeut of the little one will at tract the attention of the medical fraternity. Th? success of the care taking of the tot up to this time has been pronounced. Just now the interesting patient is kicking as vigrously as all con cerned could desire. A Fish With a Rubber Corset. Foreet and jStream speaks of a curious find in the Cape Ann fish market, at Gloucesier, Mass. It waB nothing less than a mackerel with a rubber band around the body. The band had been put on the fish when quite small, and stayed thare in spite of the rapid growth of the wearer. The fish'3 body under thf> band did not grow which caused a depression in the full-grown body of about three inches in depth The dep-ession - "was covered with a healthy skin in no way unlike thr.t on the rest of the body. The fish measured in length fourteen inches, diameter of body each side of the depression, seven and three fouths inches, diametor of depression, five inches. The fish was undoubtedly in rt healthy condition and the band was'soun.d and could be stretched like any other band. The Earth's Motion Made Visible. In tho Decemb?r issue of Popu lar Astronom}', Eliza A. Boweu shows how the earth's revolution may be made manifest to the eye. Dr. L. Swift in popular Astronomy, pays: Place on the floor of a room free from tremors and air currents a good size bowl nearly filled with water and sprinkle over the su face of the water an even coat lycopo dium powder, and across this make a narrow blaok line af pulverized charcoal. Place the bowl so that the black line shall coincide with a crack in the floor, or if the room beenr-peted laya stick upon the floor exactly parallel with the mark. Aft^r a few hours it will be found that the line is no longer parallel with the stationary object, but has moved from east to 'est, proving that, during this int ^-i, the earth has moved from to east. "? . The reason appears to me y be that the solid floor has with" the earth and bowl moved from west to east, and so has the water also but a slower rate, as there is a slight iuertia, of which the yielding liquid does not instantly partake, to be overcome. It will be seen that the lines or charcoal mark al ways moved from east to west. "Boiled onions," says an ex change, taken about an hour be fore going to bed, will usually relieve any but the worst cases cf insomna. The heart of a hot on ion placed in the ear will often rc Sieve the eare ach. The syrup obtained by sprinkling a sliced ''ii .jon with sugar and baking it in the oven will usually relieve a croupy child. Eating raw onions will generally check a cold in the head. Onions are strong remedies but not every one takes to them gracefully. One of the important, it might almost be said indispensable, things with which every farmhouse should b; supplied, is a lantern. This is such a self-evident fact as apparently to need neither asp.ei tion nor confirmation. English Taxes. Temple Bar. Birth is taxed, marriage is taxed, death is taxed. Commodities are taxed, manufactures are taxed, trades aro taxed, hou6? s are, taxed incomes are taxed. We are taxed to for our buller, if weare pros perous enough to keep one. We are taxed for our footman, groom, or gardener. The carriage we keep is taxed, the omnibus we take is taxed, the cab we hire is taxed, the railway train we travel by is taxed. The house dog is taxed, and so also the heraldic device on our note paper. Everything we drink is taxed beer, spirits, wine, tea, coffee and even for tho water we drink, there is the water rate. Light is taxed through the medium of the gas rate. The land we walk upon is taxed, the tobacco we smoke is taxed, tho gold or silver jewelry we wear, the eau'de Cologne per fuming our handkerchief, the figs we eat on Palra Suuday, the Christmas plum pudding, these are all taxed. Even our anti-bilious pills are not free. All these, and they are but a few of the taxes that exist, are mostly imperial taxes for the purposes of government-some of them, how ever, are assigned fo the County Councils. There are also local rates, which are but local taxes, for the poor, County paving, watering, &c.,' sewers, School Board, and Vestry. Householders lodgers, married and single, men, women, and children, are all taxed in some form or other for taxation is devised to reach every one. The late . Lord Sherbrooke, (Robert Lowe.) when Chancellor of the Exchequer, calculated that one-ninth of our income is taken from us for imperial taxation but the proportion is more now, and is growing. Local taxation is not much less. Worse than Ben Tillman. A tnerican Society in'.he Dara of Washington, by Griswold. Washington had determined up on placing the capital where it now is. He had substantially laid out the plan which brought the capital building, in the final loca tion of it close to the top of a slope which commands a view of the very large and substantially level ground east cf the capitol where, by this plan the city was tobe built. But this level tract took in a large piece of the ground belonging to Mr. Carroll, and some belonging to the Custis family. On this ac count, Edmund Randolph, Wash ington's attorney.general. attacked him ina pamphlet, which was the mode of political warfare in those days. He urged that the locatiou of the capital, and especially the p lan of the city, was simply the. result of nepotism on the part toe President, who desired to give value by the location to the lauds of his relatives, the CustiseB aud Carrolls. Mr. James Ross, of Pitts burg, was Washington's ftgent^for the sale of his lands in Penu&jl vaniftf He came to Philadelphia to settle his accout, and peut word to the President that he would wait upon him at his pleasure, and was invited to breakfast with him the next morning. On arriving, he found all the ladies-the Custises, Lewises, Mrs. Washington, and others in the parlor, obviously in great alarm. Mr. Ross described them as gathered together in the middle of the room like a flock of partridges in a field when a hawk ib in the neighborhood. Very soon the President entered and shook hands with Mr, Ross, but Jooked dark and lowering. They went in to breaskfast, and after a little while the Secretary of War came in and said to Washington : ''Have you seen Randolph's pamphlet?" "I have," said Washington, "and by the eternal God he is the damndest liar on the face of the earth ;"and as he spoke he brought his fist down upoo the table with all his strengfh,and with a \ iolence which made the cups and plates start, from their places. "What a wonderful girl," ex claimed the enthusiastic professor of history, "was Joan of Arc ! think of her leaving her peasant home and going out, as one inspired, to lead the armies of Franco! Was she ordinary flesh and blood? Was she human? Who knows what she was made of? "Ido solemnly remarked an ear nest student at the foot of the class. "She was Maid of Orleans."-De troit Free Press. FEDEKAL EECEIVEES. Proposed Investigation of Man agement of Hoads. St. Louis Republic. WASHINGTON, D. G. Feb. 12. There is a movement to urge upon the Judiciary committee an inves tigation of the management of railroads under recievers appoin ted by the Federal courts. So many complications have arisen lately, as the system of receiver ship control has spread, thal the matter has been brought before the committee in several of its phases. Recently Govenor Till man of South Carolina memoria lized Congress on the subject, stat ing his troubles wiih the railroads which ran through his State, grow ing out of the refusal of the re ceiver to pay State taxes, and the absence of legal machinery through which he could force them to, as they were nominally the agent of the Federal court which appointed them, and ouly throught those courts could he have brought action. The Tillman memorial was very bitter against the Judges of the United States courts and the Supreme Court itsell, accusing them of partiality toward the rail road corporations and against their creditois. Governor Tillman addressed the committee on the bubject, and two bills are before it. This week the Judiciary Committee has had up the McGanu resolution for an in vestigation of the action of Judge Jenkins in enjoining the employes of the Northern Pacific from ?trik ing. This resolution was the re sult of a shower of petitions and protests sent to the Committee on Labor by the labor or0anizations, and there is no doubt that the more recent order of Judge Dun dy against the men of the Union Pacific coupled with his order for s&laries of $13,000 tobe paid to the five receivers of the road, will pro bably be called to the attention of Congress from the same sources. "They're Thar Tit." On the evening of the Gth of May, 1864, (the second day of the fighting in the wilderness of Spott 3ylvania), Genenal J. E. B. Stuart, finding it necessary near nightfall to ascertain whether or not the line of Federal earthworks in his front had been abandoned, Bent an orderly to the Eleventh Virginia Cavalry, in line near by, with the request that the officer in command of that regiment would send him a good man for the performance of a hazardous duty. Private Jim O'Meara, of Company F, was selected, and reported to the gen eral. General Stuart, replying to his ?salutation, simply said: "Yon se?, 'that line of earthworks? I wan& to know if it is manned. R.ioM} down within seventy-five or a hundred yards of it, and then tvirn to the left and gallop parallel with it. If the Yanks are there, you go fast, and they'll shoot be hind you." "All right, gineral. I know it," said Jim with an appre ciative wink. He rode within seventy-five yards of the Hue, started in the twilight on his run parallel with the Hue, which, being well manned, was immediately illumined. The fusilade did not cause Jim to swerve, When he had gone nearly half the length of the line his horse received a bullet through his nose, midway between tho nostril and eye. Jim deliber ately stopped, unslung his carbine, took as careful aim as he would have done at a squirrel, fired, and resuming his parallel course, com pleted his run the entire length of the line, and slowly riding to where the general stood at the head of his command, touched his hat and reported, '"They're thar yit, gineral," Two classes of farmers from the North will (lo will in the South eventually. One is the dairyman, and the other is the fruit cultiva tor, Climate, sqil and cheap lands are all in bis favor, There are some difficulties to be overcome aside from the important matter of choosing the right location. As a rule, the northern farmer is ener getic for a year or two at least, after.seting in the South. His training and the necessities of a warmer climate are largely the reason for this. Then tho competition is as yet but slight,for he ip handling a busi. ness among people who are unac customed to it. The northerner generally fail, in raising cotton, and is wisely learning to let it alone.-American Farmer. A DUEL WITH A BOA. A Wager of an Engineer Which Nearly Cost Him His Life. - I A Newark (N. J.) engineer who served on the engineering corps employed in the construction pf the Nicaragua Canal, and is home on a sort of a furlough, recently told a writer for the Pittsburg Dis patch the story of a duel with a boa constrictor by a fellow^eri gineer. Life in the canal country is dreary, and various schemes are resorted to in order to relieve the monotony. One of the party stated one evening that he could kill ;a boa single-handed. Th? rest of tl?, crowd tried to convince him he wak' wrong, bul he stuck to the ?sse$ tion. Finally a handsome bet was made that he could not dispatch a boa alone if the deadly reptile wai in its natural condition. The young engineer promptly accepted i the terms of the wager. The next! day a gang of natives were sent into the forest to find a boa. They continued their search for some time, and finally came upon jusi the article they vere looking for; It was a well-grown specimen of the boa species, fully fifteen feet ? long. It had eaten heartily a few days before it was discovered, aud; it was, therefore, torpid. It waB captured without difficulty and taken back to camp. It was de posited in a room, where it was se curely bound and then left until its sleep should be over. The' young engineer who was to meet the undulous monster of the forest j in a duel to the death repented of: his rash bargaiu many times, but^ he never let anyone know it, and j was "dead game," as the saying goes, from first to last. Boas often remain torpid for three weeks, and it was nearly a fortnight be fore the pinioned snake showed signs of returning activity. The engineers then appointed a night for the combat, and the young man who was to face the serpent went into active training. * It had been stipulated that his only weap.w waB to be a knife, and the young man relied on his clear brain, iron nerve, and supple wrist to carry him through the encounter in safely. When work was over on the ap pointed day those who were in the secret entered the room and pro ceeded to cut the ropes with which the serpent was bound. It had been coiled up and several bands placed about it. There were all severed but one, and the snake's opponent entered while his com panions beat a hasty retreat to safe coigns of vantage from which to watch the strange battle and to give succor in a last extremity. The young engineer was lightly clad and carried in his right hand a long knife, highly ground and sharpened. The monster, half famished as it was, was in a most angry humor, and its horrid head oscillating to and fro with distend-j ed jaws and viciously shining beady eyes must have made the young man's fleah creep. He strode straight up to tho boa, and with a lightning stroke of his knife cut the remaining band that bound it. He jumped back the instant the strok had fallen with tho celerity of a tiger cat, but his swiftness was snaillike compared with that of the serpent. Quicker than thought the boa descended upon his enemy. Before the mau could move the snake had fallen Upon his arm, had wound its way up its entire length, and was biting at his shoulder. The arm around which the snake had wound itself was the young fellow's knife arm. Luckily the hand and wrist were free, ile did not wait to transfer the knife to the other hand, but summoned all his power and cut at the coil of the Berpent nearest his pinioned hand. It was a splen did stroke, a backward cut, and it went olean through the body. The uppor portion of the slimy coil dropped to the floor and the in trepid engineer had won his bet. The entire coutest lasted but a few seconds and so quickly did it pasB that the breathless onlookers scarcely realized what had hap pened. The young man was pretty thoroughly exhausted, Hisshoul. der was quite badly lacerated by the teeth of the snake. The strangest part of the episode was that tho young man'e arm was lame for weeks, and ail its length was a spiral black nncT blue where the snake had encircled it. Subscribe to the'Edgefield AD VERTISER. -I I The Indiana Ideal Butter Maker. farm, Field and Eireside. ? : Mrs James Kiley, Thorntown, Ind., took a premium at the World's Fair ou butter. .Her suc cess drew from the editor of the "Journal," published at Delphi, Ind., the following remarks : "An Indiana woman took first premium on butter at the Worlds's Fair. I cunsider this the highest tribute paid Indiana by the World's Fair. "Show me a State where women makes good butter and I'll show you a State where the women are superior in all other lines. No woman can make good butter who has not good judgment. No wo man can make good butter who is not clean. ^No woman can make ?bod butter who is not a good house keeper. Show me a woman who has good judgment, who is clean, who is a good housekeeper, and I'll show you a woman who will know how to raise children, who will knowhow to treat her husband, who is as happy on a rainy day as when the sun shines, "The woman who knows how to make good batter will not permit the family catto make its bed in the Sour barrel or push its cold and dewy nose over the peach pre serves in the pantry. She will not permit "domine.ck" chickens to roost on the-back porch, nor -will she wean the family calf in thb kitchen. She will not place winter apples on the cold, damp flour in the cellar, where the rats drag their hairless tails over them ; neither will she place her milk crocks where mice can nibble at the cream, lo?e their footing and drawn in tho swim. The woman who makes good, clean, sweet butter will not comb hei hair over, the kitchen stoves or pare her corns with the bread knife. You will not catch her using her husband's tooth brush or oiling her offspring's hair with melted laad. In the hot summer months flies do not buzz around her pantry like bees .swarming on a June day, neither .iocs she go^addling-around mak ing pie in her bare feet. "You will find her Mother Hub band belted down and her 'dish rag will not resemble the waBte with which hustlers at round houses wipe their engines. She will not prod her husband at the midnight hour ask him if he lock ed the door between the kitchen and the woodhouse, but she will go and Fee for herself and let her weary husband rest. If necessary she can harness a horse and while she will not, ring the snout of the pig'thet persists in rooting up her oleander bed, yet she .can tell the hired man how to do it. "I love the women that makes good butter. They are a constant joy to men. But the women whose butter tells you of greasy crocks and moldy churns, which comes to you streaked as though grained by a door painter, its breath remind ing you of a friend with a bad tooth, such a women can never hold my hand should I became a widower." Gov. Tillman has had a Charles ton man to compile some very in teresting figures as to the railroad in thia State. The roads have claimed that their taxes were higher in proprotion than other property. The South Carolina road has fought this assessment hardest and here are the figures : Market value of bonds and stocks 1890, $6,158,113, return made by the company $3,361,295, assesed by the Board $4,080,180. About two thirds of the market volue. Co lumbia & GreeLvTeroads; market volue of stocks and bonds $3,265, 000, return by the company $1.306, 617, valuation by the Board $1,924, 480. The Board have thus let the road off at a little more than one third the value of the property. The Air Line road; value of bonds and Btock, $3,738, 763. Return by company $1,216,698, valuation by the Board $2,240,200. It will be seen from the above figures that the Board have let the railroad off as light if not lighter than the citi zens return their pioperty. The equity in the claim of the railroads is too obscure, in fact there is none.-Times and Democrat, After a Halifax minister had married a young couple the other day, the groom took an envelope from his pocket, and, looking sig nificantly at the clergyman, laid it on the table. When the couple had gone the good man opened the envelope to see the size of his fee. He was surprised to read on the piece of paper inclosed the pen ciled words: "I'll see you later." STATE BANK CUEEENCT. Tracey Introduces a Bill for a New Flexible System. Representative Tracey, of New York, has introduced a bill drawn up by H. Osterberg. of New York, to provide for a flexible system of bank circulation. This bill pro poses to allow State banks to issue circulating notes under the super vision of the Comptroller of Cur rency up to one-third of their paid up capital, provided that no one bank shall issue more than $1,000, 000. Each bank is required to keep on hand at all times not less than 25 per cent, of the amount of its notes out-standing in coin or its equivalent in lawful money of the United States. Provision is made for the levying of a tax on the cir culation of these banks for the pay ment of the expense of adminis trating the law, and for the crea tion of a reserve fund to be in fested in the bonds of tho United States, or stich State bonds as may be approved by Congress, to be held as an additional security for the payment of the notes. ,The element of elasticity is given to this proposed bankiug currency by authorizing the Comp troller of the Currency whenever, in his opinion, the exigencies of the occasion demand of not less than one-third of the banks hav ing circulation under the act, to permit banks to issue au addi tional amount of circulation not to exceed 20 per cent, of the paid up capital. The retirement of these addi tional notes whenever the occasion for their issue has passed is insured by imposing double the tax upon them that is imposed on their or dinary circulation. It is proposed to fix the lrnit of the circulation under this act to $1 per capita, based on the last preceding census, unless ali the circulating notes of the United States other than bank notes shall be retired, and in that event itJs^rojwetUo ma^e Jthe limit $15 per capita. The bill has been favorably con sidered by SecretaryCarlisle. The Weslyan ChristiA Advocate of Georgia comments as follows concerning the rebellious element in this State: "It is manifest that there is a combined determination to make the dispensary law in South Caro lina as odious as possible. Gov enor Tillman and the police, who are trying as best they can to en froce a right law. are paraded as schismatics or incendiaries, while the whiskey ring and the associa ted press pose as the great con servators and the advocates of peace. There isnothing more in famous. Mr. Tillman and the police may make mistakes, but their mistakes are nothing com pared with the curse that comes on the country form this league against prohibition laws of all kind. The whiskey men and the tools they have boughtare determined to rule the land, and it is high time for some determination on the part of honest men, We have been under the heel long enough." This non-partisan journal makes out a true bill against those who are fighing the dispensary law. Surely the thoughtfu', warning words of this religious newspaper will arouse all loyal citizens to a sense of their dnty and responsi bility, and cause them to side with the goverment in the fight now raging.-Press and Reporter. When Daniel Webster, the cele brated statesman and lawyer, vis ited England after he had attain ed fame enough to preceede him, an English gentlemau took him one day to see Lord Brougham. That eminent Briton recived Dan iel with such coolness that he was glad to get away and back to his room. The friend who had taken him at once returned in haste and anger to Lord Brougham. "My lord how could you behave with such unseemly and discour tesy to so great a lawyer and states man? It was insulting to him, and has filled me with mortifica tion." "Why what on earth have I done, and whom have I been rude to?" "To Daniel Webster, of the Sen ate of the United States." ''Great Jupiter, what a blunder! I thought it was that fellow Web ster who made a dictionary and nearly rained the English lan guage,' And then the great Chancellor quickly hunted up the American eenntor,and, having other tastes in common beside law and politics, they made a royal night of it. inc saloon. Press and Banner. Some of the advocates of the license systtm who oppose the dispensary talk very freely about the number of dispensaries now in existence in this State-sixty-leaving the in ference that tho dispensary was ,as bad or worse than the license sys tem. Under the license system we had one thousand barrooms, which gave employment to, it is estimated, some five thousand men. The saloons were kept open after dark, and in a greater or less num ber of instances furnished a place for gambling, and lounging places for loafers, while they gave resorts which evil persons might frequent for the perpose of taking advantage of drunken victims of drink. If there were a thousand dispen saries instead of sixty, the dispen sary would still be much belter than the barroem. Left Him a "Loan." The Waterbury! "Colonel, can you loan me" "No, sir, I can't. And ii" I could, I wouldn't. I have been lending you money for a year, and you make no effort to return it." "But I wanted to know if you wouldn't loan me" "And I tell you beforehand that I won't." "Well, then don't. I wanted to borrow your fountain pen to make out a check for what I owe you, but .if you're in no rush, I am not." The church of God allied with the whiskey elements is of the un expected and yet there are a few illustrations of this strange mis alliance to be found in South Carolina.-Reform Advocate. FOR THE THOUGHTFUL. SELECTED. God's best friend is light. Character is the great, and in reality the only, educator. No Christian ought to feel weak while he knows that God lives. Don't scold the world until you know what is in your own heart. One of the most 'foolish of all foolish things is fooling with sin. The man who knows a great deal never has to call attention to the fact. John Wesley said he dare no more to fret than to curse and swear. If the world likes you right well it is a sure sign that you are like the world. Innocence is not afraid to look into any eye, nor the slander of any tongue. If you say no to God to-day it may be that you will never have the chance to say yes. No man can see the beauty of the divine character until he has been born of the Spirit. The kind of righteousness that takes people to heaven is not the kind that brags on itself. Eternity is a globe whose hemis pheres are the Everlastings, and whose equator is the Now. Let us treat each other kindly on earth, as it will avoid much confusion when we meet each other in heaven. All chemical forces aro the reve lations of the mind of God, the flowers are God's beautiful thoughts; the mountains his mag netic thoughts ; the stars his bril liant, thoughts. Prayer is so mighty an instru ment that no one ever thoroughly mastered all its cogs. It sweeps along the infinite scale of man's wants, and of God's goodness. There is nothing in secular knowledge that will renovate the heart or purify the life. Chemis istry has never yet found a prepara tion that will wash the crimson stains from a sinful heart. As tronomy never tells us how far it i is from the depth of sin to the j cross of Christ. Philosophy has j never found a power that will lift j a lost world from its degradation. 1 Liquor, Morphine, Tobacco, Etc. The liquor, morphine, and chloral habits absolutely cured under guaran tee. Particulars given by .'etter or in person at my offlce, which is open all hours of the day. There is no use to go away from home and spend hundreds of dollars for treatment, when you can be cured at home for a much smaller amount. J. GLOVER TOMPKINS, M. D. Edgefleld, C. H., S. C\ 1 7 ??VV l? tibMX VYMiL. Put Pillows Under the Feet In stead of Under the Head. A most important discovery^has recently been made by a German professor that will materially im prove the physical and mental strength of all who follow its les son, if the discovery is really gen uine, as the professor claims it is. Superstition or legend or the custom of years has had an influ ence upon us while we slept that has been almost as great as the like influences while we are awake. It has been vaguely understood that if we sleep with our head to the north it is much better than pointing in any other direction can possibly be, while lying upon our left side is a certain indication we are free from heart disease, and lying upon our back is quite as certain a sign that weare intend ing to snore. Adding to these, the idea'has possessed us that our head must be higher than our feet, entirely overlooking the fact that the typi cal American, ever healthy, vigor ous and good looking, is invariably represented in foreign papers as sitting in a very low chair with his feet on the convenient mantel piece some yards, apparently, above him. But Professor Fischer has chang ed -all that ; he has demonstrated by a series of painstaking and careful experiments that we should sleep with our feet slightly ele vated, or the head a trifle lower than the feet, as he puts it, and this condition he advises bringing about by placing pillows under tho feet and none under the head." The advantages claimed by Pro fessor Fischer resulting from this manner of lying are that the, intel lectual repose is much more pro found than obtained by the present prevailing method ; also that amel ioration of the nervous system is greater; that the effects on the veins is better and consequently the condition of the blood is im proved and weakness of the:lungs" is thereby largely overcome^ If iii trying the effect of this position for sleeping any unpleasant sensa tion is experienced, the feet will be found to have been too high, and therefo/e they should be low ered little by little by using pil lows of less thickness, until the proper height is reached, which is readily determined by the im proved feeling of the sleeper. WOMEN LIKE IT. For women especially this mode of sleeping is recommended by the professor, and he claims to be in receipt of endless communica tions from ladies throughout Ger many who have found untold re lief in following his simple pre scription. In an essay recently read by the professor the advant ages to the physical nature from this manner of sleeping were shown to be unmistakable and easily understood as such by the lecturer's audience in the plain but convincing language employed. Briefly, the professor urged that the veins are better kept filled with blood, the blood flowing to ward the brain is conducive of a. clearer, more rested mental condi tion upon awakeuing.and the heart finding easier action is not called upon for such hard work, and therofore the tired feeling often accompanying the first awakening is done away with. W. N. BURNETT, Successor to GEO. B. LAKE, CYCLONE & FIRE INSURANCE. Office over Bank of Edgefield. N. G. EVANS, JOHN GARV EVANS, EDGEFIELD. S. C. " AIKEN,S. C. Evans Brothers, Attorneys art JL*a.w EDGEFIELD, S. C. f?BF Will practice in Stare and Fed ?ral Courts. Also in Courts of Georgia -- ; ^ Work the Roads1 BY order of the board of County Commissioners of Edgofield county, ill overseers of roads will put their respective roads in good condition by the 1st day of April, 1S94, removingall loose stones, and cutting all overhang ing branches of trees. Special atten tion must be given by overseers to bridge ditches. In case of failure to attend to duties the law will be enforced. J. A. WHITE, D.W. PADGETT, J. W. BANKS, _C. C. E. C. ' Peterkin-Cluster. PETERKIX-CLUSTER COTTON SEED, for sale or exchang?. Ap oly to H. IL BUTLER, Edgefield, S. C. or ADVERTISER Office?