THOS. J. ADAMS, PROPRIETOR. EDGEFIELD, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1893. _ - r-? ----- 4> VOL. LVIII. NO. 39. Scott's Eht?feion mun WWII --B of Cod-liver Oil, with Hypophosphites of Lime and Soda, is a constructive food that nourishes, enriches the blood, creates solid flesh, stops wasting and gives strength.'' It is Ior all Wasting Diseases like Consumption, ' Scrofula, Anomia, Marasmus; or for Coughs and Colds, Sore Throat, Bronchitis, Weak Lungs, Loss of Hean, and General Debility. Scott s Emulsion has no equal as nourishment for Babies and Growing Children. ? Buy onry*the genuine put up in salmon-colored wrapper. . . .* >. Send for fampkt on Scott's Emulsion. FREE. Scott & Bow no, N. Y. All Druggists. 50 cents and 91. WHAT WE T?i5 Guarantee loan anil inifeslpent company-7 r, Ps OF WASHINGTON, D. C. .A. PERPETUAL LIFE MEMEEHSHIP, lo? per month phares, absolutely guaranteed to mature in 96 months. 50^ per month shares, absolutely guaranteed to mature iu 120 mouths. The guarantee is plainly stated in the certificate and by laws of the j Company, investing members allowed a suspension on payments on notification to the otiice for a term not exceeding six months at any one time; no fines to be charged. Liberal withdrawals returning full monthly payments with interest at the rat* of 6, 7, and 8 percent. Borrowiug members cannot borrow exceeding 60 percent, of the value of their property. The Guarantee Savings Loan and Invest ment Company is a company chartered under the laws of West Vir ginia with home office in Washington, D. C., as a banking company for | the purpose of doing a building ?.rfd loan business or to loan money on any improved real estate. Borrowers of this Company must carry stock in the Company the maturity valne of stock to equal the amount! the wish to borrow. Loans will be made in every instance where titles | are right and the application is made in good faith. For any other information call on W. C. BATES, at J. H. Tillman's law officc.EdgeMd, S. C SILVER BLOCK, I207 BROADWAY, AuewsT/i GA. Wc offer to the Farming and Country .People a special line of goods, honest, strictly solid hather Shoes, which caLiiot be excelled for stvie and durability, ut the lowest possible pricos. ^mmrCVEE SHOE C?fWtt?^hjeg a^nWfeftgEd the host in rhV cit^y Our Goods are especially made for us, and we sell nothing but we can guarantee, and'at Rock Bottom Prices. A trial will make you our friends and customers. Remember, Silver Shoe & Hat Co. Leaders in Good Honest Goods, at BOTTOM PRICES. WM. F. SAMPLES, Formerly with E. T. Murphy & Co., now with Arrington Brothers'& Co., Groceries and Plantation Supplies, 621 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA. (North side street, half block above Railroad Crossing.) He cordially invites and would bs glad to wait on all his friends and acquaintances. THE UNITED STATES TOOTH-SAVIN ASSOCIATION, One of the Largest Organizations Devoted to High Class Cental Practice in thc United States. Pledged to the Promotion of Scientific Dentistry at Moderate Prices. TEETH WITHOUT PLATES. Almalgam Fillings. 50c. up Platina Fillings.-. 75c. up Gold Fillings.$1 00 up Best Set of Teeth (either upper or lower set,). S 00 A Good Set of Teeth for. 5 50 Extracting Teeth. 50c. Crowns and Teeth Without Plates at Same Rates. PERFECT FITTING ARTIFICIAL TEETH and Best Workmanship Guaranteed or Money cheerfully refunded. Only the Best Material L'sed. 810 Broad Street. [Over Mullarky & Harty.] Augusta, Ga. njEi^rsEsi\r db TUTT, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL Grocers and Commission Merchants, - AXD DEALERS IN - FLOUR, CORN, SUGAR, TEAS, MEAL, OATS, COFFEE, RICE, LARD, HAY, MOLASSES, SPICES, MEAT, BRAN, SYRUPS, CAN GOODS, Etc AND EVERYTHING IN THE GROCERY LINE. We have NEW BAGGING, PIECE BAGGING, and SUGAR BAG CLOTH, NEW ARROW TIES, whole re-bundled TIES, aud piece TIES. We make a specialty of these goods and sell them at VERY LOW PRICES. Call to see us when you come to augusta. We want the TRADE of EDGEFIELD COUNTY and will make it to your in terest to give it to us. Mr. HILLMAN THOMPSON is with us aud will bo glad to meet his friends. 843 Broad Street, - AUGUSTA, GA. WM. SCHWEIGERT The Je grelle jr, Corner. Broad and McIntosh Streets. Ga AGRICULTURAL Cotton Seed for Hogs. Many of us can remember whon hogs were fed on cotton seed, boil ed, and also the supposed disas trous affecta from their use. As our ] people have been discussing the use and value of cotton seed of | late, we give one more suggestion from a correspondent of some pa per. He makes a strong case in favor of feeding them to hogs : "Contrary to prevailing opinion, cotton seed, if properly mixed with other food, so as to make a prop erly balanced ration, is the cheap est hog food we possess and per fectly safe. They are to be found ou every farm and are now being | sold at one-half their value con sidered aB a stock food, as com pared with the market, value of corn. There is an abuudaut crop of sweet potatoes, which can either be marketed or preserved to ad vantage. Cotton seed and Bweet potatoes mixed in proportion of one of the former to three of 'he latter, and boiled together will give a hog food superior in every respect to corn and absolutely safe. "To those not having potatoes and using corn as a sole fattening ration, I would Euggest to mix cot ton seed and corn bushel for bushel and grind together or cook. "Fed according to either method, every bushel of cotton seed is worth to the farmer as much as a half bushel of corn, or at the pres ent price of corn 35 cents per bushel, while their present market price is less than half." A Chat About Oatmeal. Annie L. Jack, In Good Housekeeping. No one can live long in a Scotch community without noticing the healthful look of the children whose food consists largely of oat meal, compared with those fed on fine grains, or even groats, which are the same only without the husks. This chaff or husk, how ever, which if left in the meal, con tains some pointe that actas al stimulant on the coats of the bowels to keep them active without medicine, and render this food of great benefit to the dyspeptic. There is no method of cooking oat meal equal to the making of por ridge, and when properly prepared it is geuerally a favorite dish for breakfast. "What makes your oat-1 meal porridge so so good?" is a frequent question in our house from strangers, and they think the meal muBt be of superior quality. But to prepare it properly the wa ter muBt be boiling, necessary salt added, and the oatmeal then stir red in slowly by sifting it through the fingers. The process must not be hurried if lumps would be avoided. When it begins to boil up well, stop stirring and close the pot tightly. Set at the back of the stove while you cook the rest of the breakfast. Lift the porridge without any more stirring, as it is this that breaks the grain and makes it waxy. The Scotch do not stir with a spoon, but with a smooth, flattened stick called a "spurtle/' that any one can make according to their own idea. This gives more evenness to the mixing, and if cooked in this way the por ridge will be sweet, whole-grained and wholesome. Cotton Option. Exchange. There is a movement on foot in some sections of the State to buy no fertilizersuiiltss the companies! will agree to take cotton, and in do ing so be sure that the number of j pounds are not increased. If the companies will not give cotton op tions use no commercial fertilizers but make all you can at home and you will not have to pay so much money that goes out of the State to build up other States to the detriment of our section. Buy less fertilizer, plant less cotton and more corn. Old Hickory's Ways. Washington Pout. Gen. Armstrong, assistant com missioner of Indian affairs, thinks that Andrew Jackson was one of the greatest men this country ever produced and has a number of stories which were told him by his uncle who was au intimate friend of Old Hickory. One of them is very characteristic of the man. Lewis CasB, secretary of war, was over at the White House one day with some important papers for the President to sign, among them being a court martial find ings. "Cass, what is this?" inquired Jackson as he was about to write his name to the document. "It is a court martial," answered Cass. "What have Ito do with it?" asked the President. "It dismisses au officer from the service, and the President must sign such orders." Jackson toyed with the paper and said musingly: "Dismisses him from the army, eh? Why?" "Drunkenness; getting drunk and falling down on parade or something of that kind," answered the secretary. "Who ordered the court?" asked Jackson. "Gen. Scott," anew?red Cass. "Who is it?' inquired the Presi dent, with more interest. "Inspector General Kiaun," re plied Cass. "What!" shouted Jackson. "My old friend Kraun 1 Cass, just read what that paper says." The secretary read the usual form of the court martial sentence in such cases. The President then took the paper and wrote across the bottom where he was about to sign his name : "The within findings are disap proved, and Col. Kraun is restored to his duty and rank." He passed the paper back to Secretary Cass and said, with his usual vehemence : "By the Eternal, Ca68, when you and Scott serve your country as well as that man has you can get drunk on duty every day." . A young man from Tennessee, son of a friend of Gen. Jackson's, came to Washington for a place. He looked about and found what he wanted. It was in the war de partment and filled by a very effi cient Whig, whom Secretary Cass would not remove. The young man told Jackson the situation, and Cass was sent for. "Cass," said the President, "this young man, son of my old friend, says you have got a place in the war department filled by a Whig which you won't give him." Secretary Case explained that the duties of the office were of a peculiar kind, and he could get no one to fill the place if the man now in it should be removed. Jack son flared up. "By the Eternal, Cass, do you meau to tell me you have an office in your department filled by a Whig which can't be filled by a Democrat? Then abolish the office!" The young man got his place. Cost of the White House. San Francisco World. Most people believe that the $50,000 a year which the President gets as his salary is the sum total. This is a mistake. The estimate of the amount which Congress is appropriate this yearlies before us, open at the page relating to the President. We see that $36,084 is asked for him, in addition to his salary os $50,000, to pay the salar ies of his 8ub-ordinates and clerks. His private secretary is paid $3,250, bis assistant private secretary $2,250, his stenographer $1,800, five messengers each $1,200, a etoward, $1,800, two door-keepers who each get $1,200, four other clerks at good salaries, one tele graph operator, two ushers getting $1,200 and $1,400, a night usher getting $1,200, a watchman who gets $900, and a man ti take care of fires who receives $864 a year. In addition to this there is set down $S,000 for incidental ex penses, such as stationery, carpets, and the care of the President's stables. And further on, under an? other heading, there is a demand for nearly $40,000 more. Of this $12,500 is for repairs and furnish ing the White House, $2,500 for fuel, $3,000 is for the green house) and $15,000 is for gas, matches and the stables. The White Houde, all told, copts the country, in con nection with the President, con siderable over $125,000 a year. The furnishing of a room adds more to its cosiness and cheer than anything else, except the good na ture of the occupants. Ramsey & Bland's new designs in furniture of every description are sure to make you good natured. The prices are in tune with the times. Come in and look at the fine display. Something very pleasing to the eye is sure to be found in the large as sortment. A few days ago a vessel in Chi cago was loaded with 75,000 bushels of grain in eighty-eight minutes. This illustrates what modern ap pliances and improved machinery can do and are doing. BIMETALLISM. All Other Issues Should be Su ordinated to lt. ST. LOUIS, Mo., Nov. 28.-At t day's session of the bi-metalicle gue the following preamble ar resolution was adopted : Whereas, It is an indisputab lact that the monetary revolutic inaugurated in 1873, by changir the money standard from gold ar. silver to k'old alone has resulte< in twenty years in doubling tl value of money ?nd reducing tl general level of prices 50 per cen : Therefore this conference cal iipou the advocates of monet?r .-reform everywhere to make moi ?fcary reform the paramount issi: ?ind to vote for no candidate wh is not is favor of the free coinag of both gold and silver at the rati of 16 to 1, as it existed in th: country from the foundation c the Government and for indefinit ages throughout the civilize World until 1873. Americans mus act for America independently c jvhat other nations may do or ma not do and to this end we urge th organization of silver league throughout the entire country, th members of which shall pledg themselves to do all in their powe to carry out these principles, am (hat the mining and agricultura Jet?tes unite inclose conpact an< Subordinating all other issues aii< ??11 party considerations to this on purpose, work together 'o secun this all-important ?eform. ? Resolved, That a committee o five be appointed to take this move ment in charge with power to taki action when the time has come fo further action. H The gold standard cannot bi maintained by issuing bonds anc borrowing gold, and we denounc? tne issue of bonds in times o: j??ace as not only without authority of law, but utterly indefensible at public policy and we call upor Congress to immediately put astor, to this lawless and reckless use ol the public credit. What is needed now is moro standard money to pav debts and taxes with and not more promises to pay gold. We de nounce also the proposed policv ol delegating to banking institution organized for private gain thfl right to issue and regulate the pa psr currency of the country, a power which the general govern ment alone should exercise. Do .Not Sleep on the Lett Side. There is little doubt that au im mense number of persons habit ually sleep on the left side, and chose who do so can never, it is said, be strictly healthy. It is the most prolific cause of nightmare, and also of the unpleasant taste in the mouth on arising in th? morn ing. All food enters and leaves the stomach on the right side, and hence sleeping on the left side soon after eating involves a sort of pumping operation, which is any thing but conducive to sound re pose. Tha action of the heart is also seriously interfered with and the lungs unduly compressed. Hence it is best to cultivate the habit of always sleeping on the right side, although Sandow and other strong men are said to inva riably sleep on their backs. It Pays to Raise Ho?s. Greenville Mountaineer. A good many farmers in this section are realizing the truth of this proposition. Mr. W. H. Sel man, of Toney Creek, is entirely satisfied with his experience this year, and is much better off than when devoting all his energies to growing cotton. He has raised forty-two hogs this year, and has sold thirty-nine of them, retaining three for his own family use. One hog sold at Pelzer weighed 364 pounds, which at 6 cents per pound yielded $21.84, equal to the vale of a baie of cotton weighing 425 pounds. Mr. Selman says that this hog was fattened on twelve bushels of corn at 70 cents per bushel, he fixes the cost at $8.40, making a profit of $13.44. He can make ten bushels of corn per acre, and cul tivate ten acres as easily as beean four acres of cotton. Tho corn mi) fatten eight hogs, which is equivalent to eight bales of cotton, with far more profit in the trans action. Mr. Selman is on the road to prosperity, and so is every other man who makes cotton his surplus crop. When this becomes the rule amoug our farmers, their lands will increase in value and they will again become the lords of creation, A NEEDED LAW. Will Our Legislators Look Into Its Merits? YorkTiUe Yeoman. This State is suffering at the hands of a fire insurance trust. The lunatic asylum, and probably some other public buildings in the State, have been special objects of this rapacious money sucking trust. They refused at one time to carry the risk on the asylum un less the electric wiring was fixed as they wanted i';. Some' changes were afterwards made in the wiring, and then the insurance companies demanded an exhorbitant pre mium. Every business man in the State (and they pay a large part of our taxes) is suffering from the extortionate charges of this trust, which is known as the Southeastern Tariff Association. In behalf of this element of our citizen taxpayers we call the at tention of the Legislature, to these facts and suggest that they endeavor to better conditions by the passage of such laws as would meet the exigencies of the case. We are reminded of these things at this time by the agitation of this identical question before the Legislature of Georgia, now in ses sion at Atlanta. A bill has been introduced there which, if passed, promises to abate or restrict the powers of this unholy association. This association of insurance com panies is so strong that they havo on numbers of occasions compelled independent companies to cancel policies they had written in this territory. We suggest that a law be pissed authorizing the appoint ment of a board of three or five men to be known as the insurance commission and that they be em powered to regulate rates. The tariff association will fight tho effort to pass such a law, and do all "they bah tb'keep it from getting on" the statute books, but we need re lief and look to the Legislature for help. Suggestion About the New Con vention. Abbeville Prcat and Banner. 1. The first thing to put in that instrument should be a paragraph forever forbidding the State or any municipality in the State, to li cense the sale of whiskey, and that no whiskey should be sold except by the dispensers. 2. That no county in this State should be allowed a greater num ber of Senators than every other county is allowed. We have seen the statement inprint that Char leston is the only county in the United States which has two Sena tors. 3. Instead of catting up the counties into small sections allow two Senators, and forbid "that any new counties shall not be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other county; nor any other be formed by the junction of two or more counties, or parts of counties, without the consent of the people of the counties concern ed as well as the Legislature;" that consent to be ascertained by a popular vote of all the people in the counties which it is proposed to mutilate. This is substantially the provision of the Constitution of the United States in reference to the formation of any new States, and would apply with equal force to the formation of new counties in a State. It is just and fair. Almost a New York Daily. That Democratic wonder, The New York Weekly World, has just changed its weekly iuto a twice-a week paper, and you can now get the two papers a week for the same old price-$1.00 a year. Think of it! The news from New York right at your door fresh every three days-104 papers a year. We have made arrangements by which we can furnish this paper and the twice-a-week New York World all for only $2.25 a year. Here is the opportunity to get your own local paper and The New York World twice every week at extra ordinarily low rates. THE ADVERTISER, Edgefield, S. C. For the land's sake farmers have to use sound judgment in the rota tion of crops, and in employing modern methods in their work. Ramsey & Bland applies the same rules to their business. Everything that is modern and everything de sirable is right on deck at Ram sey & Bland's big store. The very latest goods and the very lowest prioes can be found at their store, CONSPIRACY DISCOVERED. Populists Advise Negroes to Burn Houses. ST. Louis, Mo., Nov. 28.-A spe cial to The Globe-Democrat from Sylvania, Ga., says: A wholesale plot of incendiarism was unearth ed in thi3 county, and seven negro culprits, self-confessed, are now in the county jail. About two weeks ago the house and barn of State Senator Wade, who was absent in attendance upon the Legislature in Atlanta, were burned at midnight. The men arrested yesterday con fessed the whole story. It was that following the recent elections they had been advised by some white men to organize and burn out the people who deprived them of their right to vote. They then formed themselves into an oatbbound as sociation for the purpose of incen diarism. Their first work was on Senator Wade's property, because he had no right to represent them in the Senate. They were to have burned the homes of two other well known citizens if they had not been arrested. The community is so enraged over the affair that a strong guard was placed about the jail last night to prevent lynching. Off With His Tail. By Rev. D. J. Burrell. It was in Arcady. The Council of the State, made up of patriarchs with gentle eyos and long beards, sat meditating on measures pertaining to the public weal. The door was suddenly thrown open and a lad, breathless, with cheeks flushed and eyes bulging out with excitement, after several vain efforts to articulate, at length succeeded in saying, "Your Hon ors-there's mad dog-rampaging the street!" . "Mad ' 'dog, rampaging - the streets!" In a moment all was confusion. The aged counsellors sprang to their feet and stood silent, with suppressed excitement. Then as with one impulse they all hastened to the front windows of the Con silium. "There he is!" cried out one of them presently. "Where" Where?" "See hin.? Yonder by the cross roads at the market!" "Ah, yes 1 And how he is foam ing and raging ! Woe to any help less ones that may chance to come before him." "See by the Pueriilum," cried another ; "the lads are just coming from morning school! They will surely be bitten by this mad beast 1" And bitten they were. One and another of them were torn by his poisonous fangs. "Oh, this is horrible !" cried one of the venerable men at the win dow. "What shall be done about it?" "Aye, that's the practical ques tion, what shall be don? about it?" "Let us consult the Legalia Con vel?a!" The Legalia Convel?a were the books of law, the accumulated wisdom of many ages. The ages sat solemnly bending over the books. Day after day they had turned over the parchment leaves with no mentionable results. Meanwhile the original mad dog had bitten many others and there were now sources aud hundreds of mangy curs foaming at the lips, in hiding at every corner and ready to spring forth upon the passers by. The people mourned. There was lamentation in almost every house. Boys were bitten and limped, or were carried to their homes, where, after weekB of lingering pain, they died in awful spasms. Still the deliberations went on at the Concilium. Th3 aged func tionaries were unwilling to do any thing without the authority of law, and as yet they had boen able to find nothing. At length, as they were poring over the Convel?a, agleam of sud den joy lightened the face of one of them and he cried, "I've got it, here it is!" They looked up eargerly, then all beading over the book, read as follows: "Be it ordained : That in case any beast shall so range and rage and raven as to endanger the pub lie safety, his tail shall forthwith be cut off. "His tail cut off 1'?; " ' "Tail cut off!!". "Tail!!!" "What good will that do? A dog don't bite with his tail." "No, but he isn't apt to bite so hard if his tail is cnt off." "Doubted! Doubted!" "Well, anyway, if we abbreviate their doings." "Why so?" "Because there won't be so much I of the dogs to regulate." "Besides, we shall lend a respect able air to the whole business in this way." "How?" "Why, after cutting off their tails, it will be evident that the law has nothing more against them. This will make rabid dogs respectable, and biting a legitimate business." "Yes, and it will increase our revenues." "How do you make that out?" "Why, we can levy on the people a tax of one dollar for every tail cut off." "Enough of this nonsense. ,What we-want to do is to gut rid of this whole infernal business. A dog with his tail cut off is just as hard to regulate as a dog with a tail as long as a cucumber vine. And it is not economy to increase the public revenues by a drain on the people's purses. Neither do you gain any thing by making mad dogs respect able and a bad business legitimate. What we want to do is simply and solely to stop this rabid biting in the streets." (It was a prohibi tionist who spoke a fanatic.) Then there was silence for a long while. The license men could find nothing to say. "I have it, I have it!" at length cried one. "Where?" Then he read: "Be it ordained: That in case any beast shall ?0 rage, and raven as to endanger the public eatety, his tail shall forthwith be cut off." "Why, that's precisely what we had before." "l'es, but it is enough; it will suppress the evil ; no need of our exceeding the law." "How do you make that out?" "Why, don't you see, the law doesn't say where the dog's tail shall be cutoff!" "Well?" "Suppose wi cut it off just back of his ears!" It was done. The dogs' tails were cut off just back of their ears. That was cur tailing the business with a ven geance. It was prohibition. There was no license about it. ( There was a big ado for a little while. Dog-owners bst their pa tience. The dogs themselves were, for a season, more rabid than ever, and then their carcasses smelled bad for many days. But the mad dog business w.is over with. The streets were quiet and secure. Boys could go out and play without endangering their lives. Everybody said, "Why didn't we think of it before?" And when the old counsellors died, the one who had the happy thought, they built a monument over him bearing this inscription : TO THE MEMORY OP TEETOTAL IS PROHIBITUS, THE SAGE, Who originated the maxim, "The proper place to curtail a bad busi ness is just back of its ears." 100 Rugs, all the latest patterns, worth 75/, no duplicate, at Ram sey & Bland's. J W. Marsh & Co., Johnston, have the best $1.10 shoe on earth. |Thousand?^ I of Womens \ Suffer untold miseries from a sense of dell- J X cacy they cannot overcome. S ? BRADFIELD'S ^?j?J^J j Female Regulator, ""o0^^ > / ?CTS AS R SPECIFIC. I f It causes health to bloom, and Joy to reign ? j throughout the frame. r S lt Never Fails to Cure. ? < "MT wife has been under treatment of J J leading physicians three years, withontbeno- / \ flt. After using three bottles of Bradiield'fl p ) Female Reculator she can do her own v r cooking, milking and washing. t % . . N. 8. BRTAN, Henderson, Ala. J S BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO., Atlanta, Ga. ? C Sold by drugsUUiUCl.PO mr bottle. \ See the very best $1.50 shoe in the world at J. W. Marsh & Co.'s, Johnston.