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TTjrna ? AT? i MS Pl? OPP.TRTOR EDGEFIELD, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 1894. VOL. LIX. NO. 15. COMING TO SILVER. ENGLISHMEN HOLD A BI METALIC CONFERENCE. ADMIT THEIR MISTAKE. They Realize That the World is Facing: a Great Danger, Which Threatens Trade. Balfour on Double Standard. LONDON, May 2.-The inter national bimetallist conference was formally opened in the man sion house to-day. The opening address was delivered be ex-Lord Mayor Sir David Evau6, A large number of delegates were present, including some of the best know of the British and foreign financiers. Among them were Sir William Houldsworth, member of parliament; W.L. Lidderdale, ex governor of the Ban tc of England ; Sir David Barbour, ex-s?cretary to the India couucil : Henry Chaplin, member of parliament; Brooks Adams,of Boston, Mass.; M. Van denberg, president of the Bank of Netherlands, Amsterdam; G. M. Hoissevain, of Amsterdam ; Al phouz Allard, of Bruspels, George DeLavelleye, of Brussels; Henri Cerdu8chi, of Paris, president of the French Bimetallic Lesgue; David Murray, president of the Chamber of Commerce or Adelaide. South Australia, and president of the South Anstralian BimHie League; Hugh M. Matheeon, al derman, and Sheriff Dimsdale, a London banker ; Thomas Salt, late president of the bankers' institute : Sir Malcom Fraser, agent general in London for Western Australia, and A. J. Balfour, ex-chief secre tary Ireland. Letters were read from Arch bishop Walsh, of Dublin, the piiiF??Bjits^iJ^- Bank- of;JFr:mcev and others, regretting their inabil ity to be present. A paper was read by Professor Shield-NicH?raon on the fall in the general level of prices in relation to the apprecia tion of gold and the divergence in the relative value of gold and silver and a general discussion of the subject followed. The conference was presided over by Lord Mayor Tyler. Cablegrams were road from United States Senators Sherman, Voorhees. Aldrich. Murphy, Brice, Platt, Davis, Carey, and Cullom wishing success to the con ference in the cause of bimetallism in England. A. J. Balfour, m the course of the discussion, said he did not believe the government regulation of coinage, if it were done in the direction of making it more stable and a fairer measure of value, could be justifiably opposed. The nations of the world were now, he said, standing face to face with a great danger which could only be aver ted by the rehabilitation of silver to its proper commercial function. lu order to do this international action was absolutely necessar}'. Balfour said that there were three questions with which- bimetallism had to cope. They were tnese : Was a double standard possible? Was it just? Was it expedient? Scientists and economists answer these questions with an overwhelm ing "Yes." He would not say whether the closing of the Indian mints was a wise step, but he did not doubt that it was the most striking attempt that a civilized government had ever made to solve a monetary difficulty that was directly due to monometallism. Mr. Balfour said he saw, signs of a change in English opinion. The leading commercial men had abandoned their form of hostility to bimetallism and come to the conclusion that the only way to meet the grave danger was to res tore silver to its former place as a circulating medium. Mr. Balfour also said it was a mere dream to suppose that each state was able to regulate its own currency independently. It was absurd to talk of taking an isolated view of British curreucy when then action of the United States, which had not been taken in concert with or from any friendly feeliny toward Great Britain, had forced upon England and India the adoption of the astounding system wheh now pre vailed in India. England's pre sent isolation was selfish and stupid, He spoke personally a for no parly, hp said. Leonard H. Courtney, mem of parliament, read a paper "The Practicability of Maintain a Ratio Between Gold and Sil Under an International Bimetal Agreement," and a disscussion the paper followed. Letters support of bimetallism were ceived from General Francis Walker, Archbishop Welsh a Professor E. B. Andrews, Brown university. A letter was read from Mr. H. Cannon, president of the Chi National bank, oi New York, which the writer said that the i lution of the problem of bimet lai6m rests with Great Britain. Dr. Arndt, the eminent Germ financier, expressed views simi) to those contained in Mr. Cannoi fetter. The bimetallist8 had a banqu this evening. Henry Chapti former president of the board agriculture, was the chief speakf He reiter ted his familiar opinio on the siiver question. The Serpent's Powers. The FoJtnightly Review. The power of continuing mol io: less, with the lifted head proje ting forward, foran indefinite tin is one of the most wonderful i the serpent's muscular feats, at is of tho highest importance to tl animal both when fascinating i victim and when mimicking 6on inanimate object, as, for inst.anc the stem and bud of an aquat plant; here it is only referred toe account of the effect, it produc< on the human mind, as enhancin the serpent's strangeness. In th attitude, with the round, unwinl ing eyes fixed on the beholder face, the effect may be very curiov, and uncanny. Ernest Glanville, a Sout African writer, thus describes hi own experience. When a boy h frequently went out in the bush in quest of game, and on one c these solitary excursions he sa .do#a. raxontin.tbo shade,ofs^'jU low on the bank of a sfc?Moi stream ; sitting there, with chee" resting on his hand, he fell into boyish reverie. After some tim he became aware in a vague wa; that on the white sandy bottom o the stream there was stretched i 1 mg black line which had no been there at first. He continuel for some time regarding it wi thou recognizing what it was ; but all a once, with an inward shock be came fully conscious that he wa looking at a large snake. "Presently, without apparen motion, so softly and silently wai it done, the snake reared its hea( above the surface and held it then erect and still with gleaming eyei fixed, on me in question of what ] was. It flashed upon me then tha' it would be a good opporlun^ty t( test the power of the humun e) e on a snake, and I set myself the task of looking it down. It was s foolish effort. The bronze beac and sinewy neck, about which the water flowed without a ripple, wem as if carved in stont , and the cruel unwinking eyes, with the light coming and going in them appeared to glow the brighter the longer I looked. Gradually thera came over me a sensation of sickening fear, which, if I had yielded to it, would have left me powerless to move ; but with a cry I leapt up, and seizing a fallen willow branch, attacked the reptile with a species of fury. * * * Probably the idea of the Icanti originated in a similar experience of some native." The Icanti, it must be explained is a powerful and malignant being that takes the form of a great ser pent and lies at night in some deep dark pool ; and should a man in cautiously approach and look down into the water he would be held there by the power of the great gleaming eyes, and finally drawn down against his will, powerless and speechless, to disappear fore ever in the black depths. The Bumps on Your Face Are caused by impure blood, and will never be well unless you cleanse it and build it up in rich ness and purity. Botanic Blood Balm, the great blood purifier and tonic, is what you need. One bot tle will clear your complexion and purify your blood. Try it. Price $1,00. For sale by druggists. Don't forget that Ramsey & I Bland deal in hard ware and farm mplements. They defy competi-i tion. Their store is calculated to please all tastes. What and How the Eastern Asiatics Eat. F. G. Carpenter, in Gospel in all Lands. In China I visited the rat restau rants, and watched the cooking of dogB and cats in the soup. I priced dried rats at many a butcher-shop, and waB offered plump, juicy pussies for less than the cost of their raising. I was told that tha flesh of dogs would make brave the men who ate it, and I watched not a few people who smacked their lips as they conveyed bits of cats from their bowls to their mouths. These Chinese dog restaurants are largely patronized by the poor peo ple of Canton. They are usually on- the ground floor, and they con sist of a kitchen at the front and a dining room in the rear. From nails on the walls and in the ceil ing hang the dressed bodies of doge, which look not unlike the carcasses of pigs, and which hang tail downward. Just below these, upon great beds of coal or in oven like stoves, are pots, in which dog and cat stews simmer away. The meat is cut up into bits as big as the end of your finger, and is fried with chestnuts and garlic in oil, or is stewed into a sort of soup. At the restaurant which I visited I was told that I could have a pint bowl of cat flesh for ten cents, and as a special dainty I was offered fried cat's e3res at two cents apiece. The cats are skinned before cook ing, but the dogs are prepared for the pot in the same way that we make our pork. The season for rats is in the winter, and cats are good at any time of the year. Pigs aro the scavengers of the city, and they root their way into every quarter and turn up thc ground and wal low in the mire on the very edge of the emperors palace in Poking. You see pigs for sale in every market, and the sucking pig iii the piece de resistance at every feast. It is never eaten in the roast, how ever, but is hashed up into bits and stewed, and this is the case I with all kinds of Chinese meats. Small. bits are a necessity whore. ? chop-sticks .are used, and the re sult is that most Chinese dishes are soups or stews or roasts cut fine. There is little beef used in China, and goods cows are practi cally unknown. The Chinese use oil in the place of butter, and the Indians U6e a sort of a substitute for butter in ghee, which is a sort of clarified butter. The Indians are milk drinkers, and the sacred cows sup ply many a family with a great part cf their food. The Chinese are the greatest fowl-raisers in the world, and they rank high among the egg-eating nations. They uever eat an egg unless it be boiled hard or pickled, and the Chinese pre served eggs are one of the features of their gastronomy. It takes forty days to cure an egg properly. It is not fit to eat before that age, and after that the older the better. Lime, salt, and vinegar, are mixed together in the pickling, and the egg, when ready for use, is black as coal. All the principal nations of the East which have a large number of Buddhists, are, to a great ex tent, non-consumers of meat. The Buddhists believe that their ances tors are trotting around inside the feathers and under the fur and hair of the animal creation, and they believe it is a sin to take ani mal life. According to the theory of transmigration of souls a man may be chewing up the choicest bit of his great-grandfather's body when he masticates a tenderloin steak, and the tenderest wing of this year's spring chicken may have trotted around under the ani mation of his grandmother's soul. To people of delicate sensibilities possessed of that faith which moves mountains, such gastronomic re membrances would spoil their feasts. It is for this reason that the Burmese and Siamese eat so lit tle meat, and it is largely due to this that you find but little meat, con sume d in the greater part of India. There is fine game all over China, and you can get wild ducks for five or six cents apiece. Ducks are cheap in Japan, and at Peking I found the finest of venison, pheas ants and hares. I think the mar kets of Peking are as fine as those of any capital in the world, and the richest of the celestials live very well. Some of their dishes are more costly than terrapin stew, and bird's nest soup costs five dol lars a plate. It is made from the nest of the swallow found in the caves of some of the islands of the Pacific ocean, and the exporting to China of those nests is quite business. The material of the ne is made of seaweed, crushed the bird in its crop and drawn o in fibers with which the nest woven and fastened to the side a cliff. These nests are seldc larger thau three inches in dian: ter. It is a big job to clean thej and thev are cooked with pigeoi eggs and spices into a soup. Whi cooked they look like isinglass, ai it takes an artist to prepare the for the table. Among the otb curious things consumed by tl Chinese are shark fins and salt< ducks. Duckp are salted and dri< as we dry beef, and you will fir salted ducks and geese everywhei The Chinese are very fond > pumpkin seed and watermek seed, and at their big dinners the often have these beside each pla for their guests to nibble at b tween the courses. Col. Denb our minister to China, described dinner to me at which there we: sixty courses, and dinners of 01: hundred courses are not unknow: In looking over a Chinese bill < fare I see many appetizing tid-bit Here, for instance, is a course ( ducks' livers, one of the fried roo] of the mouths of pigs, another ( the cooked webbed-ftet of duck a third of fish fins, and a fourt of pigeon egg?. The bread of di feront Asiatic nations is worthy c mention. In China, India, Japar and Korea, by no means all th people live upon rice. In Kort China much wheat is used, an Northerh India is one of the great est wheat growing districts of th world. The Chinese boil ali thei broad instead of baking it, or, i baked al all, it is browned afte boiling. In North India and Nort] China millet is largely used. Bot! Chinese and Japanese are fond o sweet cake, and in Japan one o the most popular cakes is almos exactly like our nponge cake. It i said to have been brought ove from Holland by the Dutch Chris tians when they came to Japai years ago, and you will now fin< .it all-over tho couutry^--^Wi-.-^ Some of the best candy I havi ever eaten I bought of apig-tailec merchant in tho Chinese city o Peking. He had nut candy of al kinds, and he told me he import?e some of his nuts from Mongoln for hip shop. The Smyrna fig past< is noted the world over, and yoi will find it in ev^ry confectioner"! store in the country. A largo part of the 280,000,00( inhabitants of India eat with thei: fingers. The Burmese do not knov the use of chop-sticks, and tin Siamese have the same table uten sils as were used by Adam anc Eve. The 400,000,000 Chinamei use in the neighborhood of 1,000, 000,000 chop-sticks every morning noon, and night, and 'he Koreat carries his chop-sticks with hine wherever he goes. The chop-sticli is about as big around as a slate pencil, and not much longer. The} are made of wood, ivory, or metal and the emperor is said to use chop sticks of gold. It is customary al a first-class hotel in Japan to give each guest a fresh pair of unused chop-sticks at every meal, and the sticks are so cheap that they cost practically nothing. DELEON, TEXAS, July 23,1891. Messrs. Lippman Bros., Savannah, Ga. GENTS-I've used nearly four bottles of P. P. P. I was afflicted from the crown of my head to the soles of my foot. Your P. P. P. has cured difficulty of breathing and smothering, palpitation of the boort, and rcliovod me of all pain ; ono nostrils was closed for ten years, now I can breathe through it rr-adily. I have not slept on either side for two years, in fact,dreaded to see night come, now I sleep soundly in any position all night. I am 50 years old, but expect soon to be able to take hold of the plow handles : I fool proud I was lucky enough to get P. P. P., and I heartily reconimond ii to my friends and the public generally. Yours respectfully, A.M. RAMSEY. THE STATE OF TEXAS, ) County of (Jomanche. \ Before the undersigned authority on this day, personally appeared A. M. Ii a m se}-, who after being duly Bworth, znys on oath that tho foregoing statement made by him relative to thu virtue of P. P. P. medicine is true. A. 1VT. RAESEV. Sworn to and subscribed before me this, August 4th, 1891. J. M. LAMBERT, N. P., Comanche Co., Texas. Australian Rouerli Riders. Macmillan's Magazine. "Open the gate!" roars the manager. "Look out, you boys!" and with a mad rush, out flies the colt through the open gate, liken, shell from a howitzer. For twenty yards he races at full speed, then "propping" as if galvanized, shoots upward with the true deer's leap, all four feet in the air at once, (from which the vice takes its name,) and comes down with his head between his fore legs and his nose (this I watched narrowly) touching the girths. [But the rider has swayed back in his saddle with instinctive ease, and is quite pre pared for a succession of lightning like bounds-sideways, downward backward-as the agile and fran tic animaljappears to turu in the air, and to come down with his head ii>the place where his tail was when he rose. For an instant he stops ; then perhaps the spurs are sent in so as to accentuate the next perfor mance. The -crowd meanwhile of six or seven hundred people, mostly young or in the prime of life, follow cheering and clapping with every fresh tatempt on the part of the frenzied steed to dis pose of his rider. A few minutes of this exercise suffice to exhaust, and steady the wildest colt. It is a speciep of "monkeying, a deyice of the buck-breaker, who ties a bag on to the back of a .timid colt, and he. frightened out of his lift, as if by a monkey perched then:, exhausts himself and permits the rider to mount and ride away with but little resistance. Sometime, indeed, the colt turns in his tracks, and being unmanageable in his paroxoysms, charges the crowd whom he scat ters with great screaming and laughter as they fall over each other or climb the boundary fence. But, very shortly, with lowered head and trembling frame, he al lows see him to be ridden to the gate of egress. There Le is halted,and his riders takfog hold of his'leit'ear'w'itn his, bridle band, swings lightly to the ground, closely alongside of the shoulder. Did he not ST alight, the agile mustang is capable of a lightning wheel and dangerous kick. Indeed,one rider dismounting carelessly discovered this to his cost after riding a most uncon scionable performer. What is Going on in JinitOWM. Harpcr'H Young People. "Mr. Wallie Robinson celebrated his birthday on Tuesday last. There was a magic-lautern show, cake, ice-cream, and a call for the doctor in the eveniug." "While on his way to school last Friday morning Jimmie Ton.kins met an imaginary Indian behind the Methedist church. With great prefence or mind Jimmie threw a glass agate at his imaginary foe, and dispersed him. The only bitter part of the victory lies in tho fact that the glass agate went through the window of the cnurch, and smashed a pane of glass, at an ex pense of Jimmie's allowance for four weeks. Nevertheless, it was an act of bravery not soon to be for gotten." "Experience has taught us that it is foolish to have toothache on holidays. The best time for tooth ache is half past eight o'clock in the morning when school is in session. Wise boys will avoid it at all other times." May-Day Customs in Ancient Times. Harper'* Weekly. Early on May-day morning il was the custom in Lincolnshire, up to the middle of the present cen tury, for the swains to place branches of various trees at the doors of the marriageable young women of the village. The twigs all meant something, and were sup posed to be emblematical of the character of thc recipients, or of the feelings ol' the donors, some times quite the reverse, wicken, the local name for the mountain ash. "sweet chicken," for instance, oak, a "joke"; and plain ash signi fies "trash." This last, probably, was usually anonymous. In Huntingdonshire, about the same period, a doll ornamented with bits of gay-ribbons and silks, candlesticks, spoons, snuffers, and the like, was suspended from a rope stretched across the streeton the 1st of May. She was supposed to represent Flora. She had at tendants and garlands, and the at tendants carried the garlands to the Queen of the May herself. The Queen was chosen in the morn i] by her peers at thft village scho? and by the same cabal she was d throned at night. It is explain by Cuthbert Bede that "a paras was her sceptre, and her crown wreath of flowers. These she ? ways bore with grace and dignit arrayed in a white gown and white veil, and a bag that displa ed a white pocket-handkerchiei Preceded by her maids of hon with the garlands, and followed 1 her other attendants of both sexe her majesty made a right legal to from door to door, depositing in h bag, and by the side of handke chief, all the substantial gifts mai by her loyal subjects, these tithe usually edible, being consumed the coronation banquet. After tl sovereign and her court had pa taken freely of the votive ofbrinf they played "I spy," "Thread-th needle," and "Blind-man's bluff' and they were usually all ill tl next day." The young people in Cornwa used to hail May-day as "Dippir day." They were wont to g<ithi the flowering branches of tl whitethorn or the narrow-leave elm (called May boughs) whic had just put forth their leave and which they distributed arnot: their friends. In the afternoon a the boys of the village, armed wit buckets, cans, dippers, or "squirts sallied out and availed themselv? of a license which the season coi ferred to "dip" or douse all person of whatever rank or age, who wei not fortunate enough to be protec ed by the display of the sprigs < the elm or hawthorn which we] passed about in the morning. The Bishop Capers Incident. Charleston Sun. In appointing thc commissionoi to represent South Carolina 1 locating the position of the Sout Carolina troops at the battle e Chicamauga, Governor Tillma significantly overlooked Bisho Capers, who took part in the battli This slight arises doubtless froi the advice "alleged to have bee 1 given the Columbia Guards at th time of the Darlington disturbanc not to obey the Governor's orden Gen. Capers has not given an; public sign concerning the repoi of liif action, but we have hear it stated on good authority th? privately he has been heard to sa that his real atlirude in the mal ter has been misrepresented. The Governor's Guards, accorc ing to this version, were debatin the subject of marching out of th armory obedience to the Governor1 orders. The streets were filled an blocked at the lime with excite* citizens who wera said to be detei mined that the company shonL not go to Darlington. The situa tion was believed to be critica' So much so, that Gen. Farle; himself, who was iz the armory a the time, and who believed tho twenty-five of the members of th c?mpauy would most certain!; have loft the building if the orde had been given, did not advise th movement to be made under th circumstances as he felt that : riot-with possible bloodshed would have been precipitated. Ii the advice given by the sold ie bishop he was moved, it is said, lr the same considerations whicl weighed with Gen. Farley, and i such was the case, it is highly unjust that his action shouh continue to bear the accepted in terpretation. They Want Names. The Russell Art Publishing^, of G-2S Arch St, Philadelphia desire the names and address of ? few people in every town who arc interested in works of art, and t< secure them they offer lo send fret "Cupid Guides the Boat," ? superbly executed water colo] picture, size 10 x 13 inches, suita bio for framing, and sixteen ollie! pictures about same size, in colors to any one sending them at onc< the names and address of ten per sons (admirers of fine pictures^ together with six two-cent stamps to cover expense of mailing, etc The regular price of these picture! is $1.00, but they can all bo securee free by any person forwarding tin the names and address promptly. This is the season of the yeal when the farmers' minti stubbornly contemplates the purchase o: farming implements, and otho necessities in the hardware line As usual Ramsey Sc Bland have prepared to meet ^very demane along that line. Visit their store before laying in your supply. Il would delight you to view and review the beautiful lines ol harness which Ramsey cfc Bland, received this week. Magnificent is tho word. DEMOCRATIC CLUBS. [For the ADVERTISER. Wise Club. Wise Democratic Club met ou April 21, aud re-organized. Thirty members were enrolled, and the following officers were elected: President-S. B. Maye. Sec'ty and Treas.-J. P. Sullivan. Executive Committee-J. N. Faif, R. G. Lundy, P. F. Ryan, W. A. Hobbs, J. C. Rainsford. Delegate to County Convention -T. H. Rainsford. J. P. SULLIVAN, Secretary. [For the ADVERTISER. Hiblcr Clnb. The Hibler Democratic Club was I regularly orgauized to-day, April 28th. The following officers were elected : President-W. A. Cheathara. vice-President-Geo. E. Dorn. Secretary-R. B. Dorn. Corresponding Secretary-M. S. West. Treasurer-L. J. Williams. Executive Committeeman-L. J. Williams. Executive Committee-W. A. Reynolds, F. J. Rankin, E. A. Rod-1 gers, O. D. White. Committee on Registration-E. E. Rodgers, W. A. Reynolds, F. J. Raukin, T. J. Lyon, Thos. Aiton. Delegates to County Convention -L. J. Williams, Geo. E. Dorn, F. J. Rankin, 0. D. White, J. K. Cor ey, W. A. Reynolds, J. R. Cheat bam, T. J. Lyon, M. S. West, R. B. Dorn. Resolved 1. That we endorse Gov. B. R. Tillman in maintaining aw and order, and pledge him our support. Resolved 2. That a copy of these proceedings be furnished the Edge field ADVERTISER for publication. R. B. DORN, Secretary. [For the ADVERTISER. Tribute of Respect. WHEREAS, It has pleased the Su preme Architect of the universe to remove from our midst our late other, JAMES M. PARKMAN, who ied on March'll, 1894 ; -and where- . as, the intimate relations held by our deceased brother with the mem bers of Grove Lodge No. 52, A. F. M., render it proper that we should place on record the evidence of our appreciation of his merits as aman and as a worthy brother Mason. Resolved, 1. That in the death of JAMES M. PARKMAN this Lodge has been deprived of an active and zealous brother, an honest and upright mau, whose virtues en deared him not only to his frater nity but to his associates generally. Resolved 2. That this Lodge tenders its sympathy to the widow and children of the deceased in this their sad affliction. Resolved 3. That the Lodge be draped in mourning for thirty days, that these resolutions be entered upon the records of the Lodge, that a copy of the same be published in the county papers, and a copy thereof be presented to the family of our deceased brother. W. L. STEVENS, J. H. ALLEN, J. L. MCDOWELL. Committee. Bees in the Branch. Thc Saturday Review. The part played by bees on a ceetain occasion was, if the Abbe della Roca is to be believed equally effective. "Amurath, the Turkish Emperor," says our authority, during one of his sieges, had made a brejbh in the wall, and was about. ,0 storm the town, when he found that about the |1 breach the inhabitants had placed numerous hives of bees. The Janissaries, brave a?? they were, dared not face the insects, and re fused to advance." There is also a story which we cannot bring ourselves to believe, of a privateer's crow of forty to fifty men capturing a Turkish gal ley with five hundred seamen and soldiers on board by means of a swarm of bees judiciously thrown "among the unspeakable ones. However this may be, there arc enough authentic instance s of strange methods of attack to pro vide amply sufficient material for the casuist in deciding what is fair and vhat is unfair in war. Burning naphtha boiling lead, birds, carcesses of men and horses Chinese stinkpots, besides the im plements, already mentioned, have all been used for offensive or de fensive purposes in actual warfare. And what with our modem systems of dazzling by electric light, sub marine attacks, flying machines, and elaborate tethal apparatus, it seems not improbable that we are on the eve of resorting to some of the more fanciful methods of Eastern warfare, which, fifty or a hundred years ago, would most distinctly have been regarded as so many attempts to hit below the belt. $100 in Gold Premiums. We will allow a commission of 15 per cent, on all cash subscrip tions obtained for The Columbia Weekly Register, the money in all cases to acompany the order. And we will give also Three Cash Pre miums of .$50.00, $30.00, and $20.00 in Gold to the persons sending us the three greatest number of cash subscriptions at $1.00 each by the 1st of September, 1894 ; the sub scriptions may be foi warded as taken and an account will be kept, giving due credit for all names re ceived. In the contest for the three cash prizes no commissions will be allowed. lu sending in subscriptions in competition for the cash prizes, state that fact. Fer one dollar a year (money, not stamps,) you may get The Co lumbia Weekly Register, publish ed every Monday and Thursday. It contains the latest telegraphic news, full market reports, all the news of the State capital city and correspondence from all parts of Soutn Carolina. This is a fresh and original paper-no plate mat ter. The Register stands squarely Ly the interests x)f the farmers. When you conclude to take a weekly just remember that you can, if your mails will admit of it, get The Register a first-class paper twice a week for the same pric6 you would have to paper for a pa per coming to you only once a week, aod very likely containing more news of another State than of. your own. The Register ought to have thirty thousand farmers and their dollars at its back won't you be one them, and at once? Remit to Charles A. Calvo, Jr., Proprietor, Columbia, S. C., by P. 0. money order, registered letter, or Express draft. You may get The Columbia Daily Register, con taining the latest news, for $6 a year or 50 cents a month-a com pact and well filled newspaper. The Method of Exorcism: RECOMMENDED FOR SAM TAYLOR. The Nineteenth Century. The process of exorcism was truly a terrible ordeal. The patient was made fast to a chair-tied so tightly that she bore the marks for years-and was compelled to swal low "the whole potion," a pint sack, salad oil, rue, and other in gredients. The demoniac's head was then forcibly held over a dish of burning brimstone, asafetida, and "other stinkinggear." Under the effects of the sickening draught, the stifling fumigation, the loud adjurations of the officiating priests, and the cries of the ex cited bystanders, the patient strug gled and screamed, talked non sense, and frequently swooned away. The ritual used was most proba bly that of the Flagellum Darno-. num, published by the Franciscan Menghl in 1582. Mr. Stamp one day cried out to Sara's devil, "Ah. 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