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^_'__s_ _'_ * ' ? " G TlIOS, J. ADAMS? PROPRIETOR EDGEFIELD, S. C., WEDNES ; RY '?8, 1895. VOL LIX. NO. 52: A literary genius remarks that Japan tte us an epic and China an epitaph* Kew Mexico ranks ?ighth in its but? j?it of silvefi and seventh in its oui* put bf gold: Strange to say; t?? improvement id firearms has hot increased th? mur derous result bf battles. ? French picture dealer says that all bf his unsold pictures are sent td the United States; where they bring fancy prices. _ A recent parliamentary return shows that there are upward bf $21, 000,000 bf unclaimed money in var ious Government departments of Great Britain. Of the 12,000 miles which form the land girdle of China, 6000 touch Rus sian territory, 4S00 British territory, and only 400 French, while 800 may bo described as doubtful. The deliberate judgment of Judge ie "that the continuance of the Turk ish Government after the last slaugh ter in Armenia is an insult to decent humanity the world over, and tho Eu ropean politics that treats it feebly or overlooks it is a hideous crime." The mountainous regions of the western part of North Carolina truly afford a typical section for both sum mer and winter resorts. This fact has been taken advantage of by Northern people, who are now fonnd in large numbers, enjoying life in this most delightful spot. If any one believes that the interest in .the horse is to give place beforo the inroads of electricity, let him attend some great "horse convention," sug gests the Farm, Field and Fireside, and note the attention paid the splen did specimens of endurance and intel ligence there on exhibition. Land suitable for fruit culture in . California commands a much higher price per acre than in New York. Anywhere near railroads the price is from $100 to $300 per aol?, withou*. any improvements, and of course if there are buildings and fruit trees planted, the price is more. The large majority of contempor ary authors of international fame are small men physically. Kipling, Bar rie. Jerome. Howells, Stockton, Sted . sen, Salins, are fcohe of them above medium height, and several of them are actually diminutive. Marion Crawford and Conan Doyle are tall, athletic-looking men, but they are tho exceptions that prove the rule. Dr. .Joseph Parker, of the City Temple, London, is warring with the reporters for reporting his sermons. He thinks that newspaper reports in .terferewith the pro5t3 of his pub lished sermons, and has been asking advice as to how he can prevent re porters taking notes of his addresses. It is believed hi3 only remedy is to make a contract with his audience that they will not publish his ser mons. _ The age limit in the Chinese army is elastic, if there is any truth in an edict which is attributed to the Chinese Emperor. The document grants a piece of silk, ten bushels of rice and ten pounds of meat to sol diers upward of eighty years of age. A double quantity is allowed to those who have reached ninety years. A patent of nobility is granted to those who have survived their hundredth year. _ A man in Australia had a new and brilliant idea not long ago in regard to the interpretation of thc clause in his marriage vows : "Till death us do part." His wife died, luckily for her, as the following facts demon strate, and since he was bound only till death to his wife, the husband re fused to pay her funeral expenses. The court promptly decided that a husband's duties only cease when the undertaker's bills are paid. Says the Electrical Review: In 1891 a young electrician, now in Paris, on looking through Carnegie's great steel rail plant at Braddock, Penn., casually suggested that elec tricity could bo made to operato the widely separated pieces of machinery at a saving of many thousands a year. Recently Andrew Carnegie visited the plant for tho first time in two years and saw electricity doing the work. This improvement, together with others, makes it possible for eight men to do the work 500 did in 1S91. An unusual thing, related by th6 Cleveland Plain-Dealer, in connection with the court is the holding, by the United States Grand Jury, that Scrip tural quotations may be libelous. H. A. Busby, of Means, Harrison Coun ty, was indicted for writing letters and postal cards to David Handley, of Columbus, Ohio. On the envelope of the letters were the quotations : "Owe No Man Anything,"- "Let Us Walk Honestly," and "Many Years Thou Shalt Bo Troubled." He was indicted on four counts on tho ground that the language used was libellous and calcu lated to injure the character of Mr. Handley, A SUGAR MILL OL? AND NEW PROCESSES IN LOUISIANA; Grinding the Cane In tho Roller MM-Bolllng the Extracted Juice-The Modern Way of Slaking Sugar; ?F a Michigan chemist realizes his expectations, says the .Chicago Record, the sawmills iii the North will become active competitors of the Louisiana 6ugar plantations^ This A FIELD OF SUGARCANE. audacious scientist declares that he can make granulated sugar out of saw dour, and in support of the claim be exhibits a substance which looks, smells and tastes like gi acose. He says that he first converts the sawdust into starch and then turns the starch into sugar, which, ho declares, crystallizes into as pretty granulated sugar as was ever tamed out of a sugar trust re finery. But his most astonishing claim is that when he has perfected his pro cess he will have no-uso for a tariff or bounty, for he will make sugar cheaper than Cuba, China, Germany 'or any other country can possibly produce it. While he has been working on his sawmill sugar the beet-sugar makers of Nebraska and California have been endeavoring to cheapen their processes, and the farmers have been learning how to develop and improve the sugar beet so as to secure not only larger? beets and moro to the acre, but a greater per cent, of sugar in the beets. The reason for nil this activity and enterprise is found in the fact that Louisiana sugar planters produce only about one-sixth of all the sugar that is oonsumed in the United States, and as tho area of the sugarcane-growing section is limited the sugar producer : must look to sugar beets and "early j amber" corn to make up the other i five-sixths of the sugar. As it is, the beete of Nebraska and California only produoed ono twenty-fifth as much sugar as was raised in Louisiana last year, or only l-150th of the total amount consumed in this country in 1893. In the sugar mills of Louisiana ma chinery has taken the place of the hands who used to grow sleek and fat during the sugar season, for the old fashioned open-pan baUrtries withUhe fires under the kettlej^tWe given ray . t^.p^'VJ, f?ilYi'i "iT* 'fijirPnns.gncl , pumps,, and steam. Kf^on?; havo{re p]aced the hand bnckets ancrTTipjpers .whioh us?d to transfer the juice and syrup from ono kettle to another. On some of the smaller plantations, how ever, the old order of things prevails, and the sugar house is as picturesque and interesting as it was when slaves whistled and sung at their work, for the sugar-making season then was a feast of sweets and a succession of jol lities. The sugarcane is ready for the har vest in the first days of October. The tall cane, with its "arrow" shooting up to the plume, has been growing and secreting its sweet juice all sum mer, and when some of it has befen run through a little handmill and the juice shows about fifteen per cent, of 6ugar the planter gives the word and the hands sharpeu their broad cane knives. They first strip the cane of its leaves with tho dull side of the knife and then'the tops ar? cut off as far clown as tho experienced cane cutter believes the maturity of the cauo will permit, for, while tho ' sugar planter wants every inch of cane which will j yield up sugar, ho does not want to grind and handle an inch more than is necessary As soon as the first | cane knife slashes the field his mill runs day and night and everything counts. When the top has been cut off the knife is buried in the stalk ns near the ground as possible, and the cane is tossed to one side, where it WOEK ON A SUG waits for tho wagon gang to haul it away to the cane shed. The field hands begin work at 5 or 5.30 o'clock in the morning, and cut enough cane during the day to keep the mill supplied while they aro cut ting, and at the sumo time to pilo np enough cane in the cane shed to feed the mill all night. The cane is first weighed while on the wngon on plat form scales, and it is then dumped in the caue shed, which is an open, heav- j ily built wing of the sugar house. The '< cano which is to be ground at once is \ dumped near a traveling platform or conveyor, which enrries tho cane to the roller mill, where it is crushed. The cane shed is usually iu possession of the colored women, who tako up the cane by the armful aud spread it on the moving slats of the conveyor, j which is inclined at un angle of about I thirty decrees so that tho cano is brought directly over the sugar mill. The cane is not dumped on the carrier ?without regard to an even attribu tion, but is placed on so that it is fed between tho rollers in au even thick ness; If tod much cane were placed on one side and too little on the other the expensive,- all-important rollers might be broken because Of the uneven pressure. The wagoni follow each Other rap idly; and while ono gang of wdmon is attending td the carrier another gang is cording up1 the surplus cane for the night shift: Tue roller mill is a pondefdris piece bf machinery* massive in all. of its' parts; for sugarcane has ? totigh, hard skin and eanndt be crushed by tender methods; Twd mills, One df three' and the tither of twd rollers, constitute th? five-roller Bystem, and nin? rollers are ueed,iu some mills. The cane; carried to the first mill on the conveyor; first passes between threo rollers; two df them over one. As soon as the sugar cane is crushed or ground by this mill it becomes "bagasse," and, by another horizontal conveyor, is taken to the mill which has two rollers, one over the other, where it is squeezed again. The "bagasse" is now almost dry and is carried to the boiler-room, where it is used as fuel under the boilers. It is also used as a fertilizer. When tho cane and bagasse are BOILING THE crushed the juico runs do^n, a greenish, sticky liquid, through a strainer to a well or vat, from which it is pumped to the clarifiera. Here milk of lime is stirred in and heat is applied. The lime neutralizes the aoids in the juice, for tho moment the cane is cut a chemical chango begins in the juice, part of it fermenting and becoming acid. Tho thick scum which rises when the limo is stirred into the juico is removed and the clarified juice is drawn off into the first kettle, where the old method of making sugar ie used. On some plantations the juice is bleached by fumes of burning sul phur before it is taken to the "bat tery." This ?B dono in an open box, in which the juice drips through the sulphurous fumes. The large open kettles, four or five of them, in which the juice is boiled to a sirup and then to sugar, stand in a row close to one another. In the first kettle the juice is boiled to a cer tain density, which is determined by a glass-^flair_that loo^s like a large bulbectthermometer, called a sacchra-' meter. This is placed in the liquid and floats in a perpendicular position. The more sugar there is in the liquid the higher above the level of the liquid tho tube will rise. The tube is divided into degrees BO that the sugar maker by simply placing the sacchia meter in the juice can tell when it has reached the proper density or thick ness. The juice is constantly skimmed o? the impurities which rise to the top in thc form of soura, and this scum is frequently made into rum. The juice becomes a sirup in the seoond kettle, aud as it grows thicker and thicker it is transferred from one kettle to the other, tho workmen dipping it out in long handled buckets. The last kettle is called tho "strike pan," and here the sirup is cooked until tho man at tending it, by pinching some of the thick, olear ?irup between his thumb an I finger, can draw the sirup out in a candied string, which is exactly the test that is used at a candy pulling party. When the grain is felt and the sacchrameter shows that the proper density has been reached tho heavy sirup is bailed out into cooling vats made of wood. As tho sirup cools the sugar crystallizes, but it is mixed with the molasses whioh will not crystallize, so it is scooped out of the cooling vat into large hogsheads mado of cypress wood, which have a largo number of holes bored in the bottom. Pieces of sugarcane plug these holes loosely, allowing tho molasses to drip down AK PLANTATION. J into the molasses tank. The sugar made in this way is not pure white and it is soft grained, but it is taken tc tho refinery, where it is grauulated. This is the old method, rapidly i passing out of use, for, compared to the modern way of making sugar, it is expensive nnd wasteful. Its one I rodeeming feature is its picturesque* j ness. Bnt tho hard-headed, sold I blooded, unsympathetic Northern men j who have gone to Louisiana and built i extensive sugar mills, with all that is ! progressive, scieutific and modern, I with their chemists and polariscopes, I delicate sacchranieters aud other in ? struments, electric lights and tiny locomotives for hauling cane, Corliss valved engines and hugo pump?, re gard picturesqueness as m much lost motion mid therefore a waste. They have arranged their machinery so that the sequence of manufacturo is un broken, and the juice and sirup go from tho mills to the clarifiera ond oa to the fiivislied product uutouohed by hand. Steam cofls take the place of open fire?, deep r.-ctangular pana have bepn substitute:! for the kettles and rapidly revolving centrifugal machines do in a minuto what tho hogshead strainers did in a week. After the juice hos been treated -with lima and sulphur it is pumped into thc first clarifier, whidh has a steam Coil in the bottom. From one to the other of four clari fiera the sirup goes, skimmed con stantly all the time, fot when 16 ia pumped into the taciturn pan no skim? mer cari get at iL Sadchrametef testa ar? made at every patij and when the proper" density Las been eecufedin the last clarifier the sirup is" primped into a settling tank,- and from there it goea td the vacuum pari; The vacuum pan is described by it? name. Itis ailinc?os?d.spherical vessel with copper steani c'dils in the bottom* and can be madti air-tight. Ari air-? pump and condenser remove th? air, thus making a vacuum. Sighthole? are provided and a lamp throws its light through thick glass upon the sirup so that the concentration can be watched closely. In a vacuum liquid boils at a much lower temperture than 212 degrees, the boiling point in open air, and as there is no atmos ! CANE JUICE. pherio weight on the liquid the heat causes the liquid to boil furiously, with great jets shooting above the turbulent surface, as though a tre mendous agitation were going on, yet the heat is nearly 100 degrees below boiling point. By using the vacuum pan the sugar maker avoids burning any sugar in the simp and thus keeps his sirup from becoming brown. In this curious inclosed airless kettle the sirup is boiled down under a slight heat until cyrstallization is effected, and then tho valve at the bottom is opened and the whole charge is dumped into the mixer directly be neath the vacuum pan. The mixer is a troughlike arrange ment in which an agitator revolves-a long shaft with steel arms, which in re volving mixes the sugar, so that the.} crystallization progresses uniformly. When the grain is of the right size the mushy sugar mixed with ?. .; lasseB is shoveled into the cent.. . machine. This is a kettle-shap sel which>r.evolyest 1200 times ute: 'TtalnieWre^er^ - molasses in the sugar caught np THE CAUBIER. centrifugal force flies through the per forations, leaving the sugar dry and snow white. The sugar is then dumped to the granulator and placed iii bar rels. This sugar, although of higher grade than the sugar made by tho open kettle process, is not as large grained nor as glazed as tho sugar made in tho rofinerior.. Hero the orude sugar is made into sirup, ogain strained through bono blaolc filters, bleached, reolarifled, put through vacuum paus, granulators and oeu tifugale, until the grain is large and the crystals well formed and glazed. The refining is a prooess apart from the sugar plantation and sugar house, and requires machinery whioh is too expensive and occupies too muoh space for the sugar planter. The'procesfi of extracting sugar and sorghum sirup from tho "early amber" cane of the Northern and Western States is almost identical with the Louisiana method, but tho diffusion process used by beet sugar makers is altogether di?erent. A Tragic Tragedy-Play. A tragio occurrence is reported from Przemysl, tho Galioian fortress town. A. theatrical entertainment by ama teurs took place in whioh a spy was stabbed by a patriotio Pole. When tho patriot had to stab the spy he ac cidentally thrust the dagger right into the heart of his fellow-actor, who fell dead on the 6pot.-New York Post. K?chard W. Thompson, Biohard W. Thompson, Secretary of the Navy under President Hayos, is still alive at the age of eighty-five. He has personally met every President of 15. W. THOMPSON. the United Stales except two. He recently published a book of recollec tions that ha:j uttruojod considerable attention, 7ELTET AND JET. . i - _____ I ^^^^^^ l'IIEY ARR LEADING FEATURES IN?F?SHIONABLE EXHIBITS. - Sa/jei Advice to "Women of Moderate Income-How to Dress Well \ at a Comparatively Small Cost. r ______ "lt ET and velvet, according to the \\ . New York Ledger, are just now ^ll prominent features in fashion .v. able exhibits. Certainly, there ts nothing more becoming, stylish and ele?ani than velvet and jet. Tbc soft n?s* of tho fabric makes it particu larly effective, and na good velvet ?.eeo?dittle/?f any, trimming, there is something to be said on the score of the^economy of making an investment in t?Hs material. As long as a bit of velvet lasts it has its uses. There is probably no article that has so little waste about it. This fact should be taken into Consideration by all women wh^f-inepmes are limited. It is not the,, ?mount of money we spend, but' thejuinaterials we get to show for it thalriell in the long run. The woman who buys half a dozen dresses a year, dresses that aro so inexpensive that thfr'purchaser flatters herself they are only trifles and really amount to very little, is the woman who is always complaining that she has nothing to wear, Qnd, indeed, she has not, at least nothing that is of practical use in emergencies. Her cheap dresses are not good enough to save care fully, and she never has any that may be, called striotly elegant. If the money Bhe spends for these half dozen costumes' were put into two, even though she had to wait some time be fore -she conld buy these two, she One ol tne ueo? U?._ the country makes it a rule to put away money to buy one good dress a year, and it is a good one. Little by little she denies herself articles that she thinks she can get along without, because of the satisfaction she finds in the possession of something quite out of the common. Among her present season's investments is a skirt of good black velvet, "all silk," she com placently murmured to herself, as she put it on lor the first time. A shower of fine jets over the front of tho skirt she mado for herself at a very small cost, and with this she wears waists of various sorts. One is a lemon-yellow silk striped with black velvet ribbon, the edges of the ribbon finished with very narrow very fine jot trimming. A collarette and belt of velvet, lined with yellow and edged with jet, completes a costume that is simply regal in appearance. Another waist is of pale-blue chiffon striped with darker blue velvet ribbon with a silver embroidered edge. The collar and belt, of course, match, and a fringe of tiny silver-lined beads with jet falls over the front of the skirt. The most stylish skirts are without trimming, but there are many ladies who do not seem to care for this, and ornament their skirts in various ways, in one model there are velvet flowers uppliqued on in lines down the edges of the plaits, in others there are very full rose ruchings at the foot of the skirt. Others have embroidered edgeB with fine beads and heavy cord silk. Embroidery of all sorts is some times seen on skirts, but this is merely for variety and is not considered the extreme of fashion. All of the ornamentation is concen trated On the waist, and certainly there is quito enough of it. Never has there been such an evident effort to overdo all reason and sense as ap pears in the present styles. A concert waist has enormous sleeves shaped like beer kegs. Around the neck is a collar made of braided velvet. From this there are dusters of loops pro jecting on either side. Below this collar is a yoke edged with wide vel vet ribbon, with very large bows on the shoulders, and below this is a fall of lace that extends to the waist-line in front, and covers tho tops of the voluminous sleeves. Tho distance between the outer edges of these sleeves, with this enormous frill over them, is almost incredible. It is im possible for tho wenrcrto pass through an ordinary-sized door without touch ing tho casiugs on either hand. This waist is woru with a skirt of satin with velvet belt and long ends, and large velvet bows set at intervals on the waist. TUE POKE BONNET. Tho poko bonnets suggest in a mod ernized idealized form tho headgear of the immortal spinsters of Cranford. Cranford, that dream city of the Amazons, where "economy was always elegant," and where tho delicately, sensitively fibred maidens declared "though some might be poor, wo were all aristocratic." The poko bonnet seems to have all the traditions of feminity to insure its adoption by the distinctively feminine corps of women, and it is rather la mentable that it is not particularly becomiug. Among the prettiest sort is the ont illustrated herewith, It ie of blacl; velvet which is always more or lesa beautifying in effect, if the complexion ia not too much like putty, and even then it is better than almost any other PAKISTAN POKE BONNET OF BLACK VELVET. I texture to subdue, the defects. Tho plumes and bows and strings are black. The one enchanting note of color is given by the bandeau and rosettes which are of vivid geranium red velvet. Any becoming color may be most ef fectively introduced in these bandeaux. A bandeau of soft red velvet in a poke bonnet that frames a fair face surmounted by gray hair is appro priate and pleasing. Attention to a few simple rules wiU assist any one to select from tho var ious hats of the season one distinc tively suited to her peculiar needs. ? . , _;UIU uv UKI tuc ?y_w with broad* frontal trimming or hats with wide straight brims, as they have a tendency to emphaize the "point edness" of the face, giving it the look of a flat-iron or a wedge. Such faces should be surmounted by hats with rolling brims and bonnets of high oval shape or trimming. SHOUT CAPES. Short capes are greatly affocted for winter, and are particularly nice for dressy occasions when au elaborate toilet is worn, adapting themselves bettor than any other form of outdoor wrap to the requirements of the pre vailing largo sleeves. An especially charming model is SHORT, DRESSY CAPE. built on circular lines of Lincoln green velvet. A deep flounce of Renaissance lace, cream tinted, falls from the shoulders, where it is headed by a band of sable, whioh also edges tho bottom of the cape. A sable thibet trims tho neck, its long stole ends reaching far below the knees. CHINCHILLA. Chinchilla, says Harper's Bazar, is very decidedly tho fashionable fur for those who have mifficiedt color in lip and cheek to wear it becomingly. There is great choice in this fur, the inferior skins lookiug brown and dingy beside tho clear gray shads seen in the best qualities brought from Af rica. An undulating collarette in two rows, or with a stole front, is tho favorito shape, as mauy insist that a mass of this fur when seen in largo capes is not effective. It is, however, a charmingly warm and velvety fleece. It is at its best when combined with black or with seal skin. A POUCHED FOR WAISTCOAT. Ermine, which is so fashionable for capes, collars and various purposes of trimming, has found further resources for usefulness in the waistcoat worn with tho tailor-made coat. It is made with a box plait aa? a pouch effect in front quite as successfully as if it were velvet. BODICES. Bodices are still cut off at the waist line, trimmed all around aud worn over, and rot underneath^ tho skirt. Stout hooks must be provided to holc? ; skirt aud bodied together, else the re ; snit may bo disastrous iu tho extreme, Highest of all in Leavening Powe LULLABY. Dear little girl, pood-night, good-night! The pretty birds In their nests are still ; We watched tho sun as he sank from sight. Over the tree tops on yonder hill. Two stars have come since the daylight went/ Away over there in the sky's dark blue, They must bo angels that God has sent To watch my baby the whole night through, Dear little girl, good-night,' good-night* I hear the frog3 in the meadow coll ; They croak aad croak in the evening light, Down in the pond by the old stone wall. I think, perhaps, that they tell the flowers Never to fear, though the world ls dari4 They know the flreflv lights the hours All night long with his cheerful spark. Dear little girl, good-night, good-night. Dear littlo head, with your silky hair, Dear little form that I hold so tight, Cozy and warm in the nuraery ohatrl White lids are veiling the eyes so clear, Over their blueness the fringes creep Slower and slower I rock yon dear, My little girl is asleep, asleep. -Good Housekeeping HUMOR OF THE DAY. Only the untried man wholly trusts himself.-Dallas News. What nine men out of ten want is a home with hotel comforts.-Puok. A preferred creditor is usually one that doesn't fight for prompt pay ment.-Pock. These balloon sleeves evidently come of a desire to widen woman's sphere.-Boston Transcript. A man who is a complete failure ia nearly always particularly fond of giv ing advice. -Atchison Globe. It was a junior in the Abilene High School who wrote "Evening Dawned at Last."-Leavenworth Times. An egotist reminds one of a lizard ; lop off a bit of him, he squirms a little and straightway grows on again. Some future generation, If we make no mistake, Will kick about the biscuits That papa used to bake. -Dstroit Tribune. If you can't remember what the string tied on your finger was io re mind you of, you are getting old. Atchison Globe. ? : .?...?=* . t ?WTO-^MS! , ; ?..?..' . .r. - '-j-r.* ....vi' is really reconciled .with his wife?" Crandall-"Yes, I am sure of it, for she reads what ho writes and he eats what the cooks."-Truth. * 'They say it is electricity, " said Pat, as he stopped before the incandes?ent street-light, "but L'll be hanged if I see how it is they make the hairpin burn in the botthle."-Yale Record. Sympathy-"My lord," said an overworked parson to his bishop, "J have not had a holiday for five years." "I am very sorry for your congrega tion," replied his lordship, with a Bmile."-Tid-Bits. Hostess-"I am going to ask you to take a charming widow down to din ner. Will you?" Burrows-"Cer tainly. I'll take her anywhere that there is a crowd to protect me." Boston Transcript. Loud sobbed the tramp ; tne great wet teara Left large and brluy tracks. "Pray what," quoth I, "if not too bold, Your heart so sorely racks?" 'Alas !" sobbed he, "I've just been told About this income tax." -Boston Budget. We often sneer at the Egyptians foi being a slow people, but on the eon trary they must have been a very busy race. Even tho mummies appear to have been pressed for time.-Rock land (Me.) Tribune. "But, Emma, how can you prefer the plain and shabbily-dressed Julius to my elegant and handsome broth er?" "That is quite simple; your brother is in love with himself, and Julius with me."-Life. "I think Miss Smith and Mr. Jones must be engaged ; they have had theil portraits taken together." "Indeed: I am glad to hear it. I knew when ] introduced them that she would bc taken with him."-New York Pr JSS. A Huge Moorse-Head. What is probably one of the fines! moose-heads in the world was taker to Bangor, Me., this week by G. H. Crocker, of Pitzburg, Mass. The ani mal was shot up in Aroostook County at the Ox Bow, and the moose weighed 1400 pounds. It is about absolutely perfect in size, shape and spread o: the antlers. The antlers spread sixty inches, and when it is considered tha fifty-one inches is a large spread, som? idea of the immense antlers of thii mouse is obtained. The largest set o antlers of which there is any record i sixty-one inches, and this moose sur passed that animal in the shape auc formation.-Boston Herald. Loat Sugar in Morocco. An important article of trade ii Morocco is loaf sugar, which is ii general demand for presents. Every person approaching a superior, whos< favor or good will it is desired to pro pitiate, is bound to bring a gift Hi cannot appear empty-handed, and th< form that is most commonly taken ty tho gift is loaf sugar.-New York Dis patch. A Stern Disciplinarian. General Count von Heseler, of th< German Army, is a stern old soldiei and a strict disciplinarian. He ha boen known to stop a subordinate ii the street and make him remove hi boots ami stockings to see if his iee were cloau. -Chicago Herald. ^_'__s_ _'_ * ' ? " G TlIOS, J. ADAMS? PROPRIETOR EDGEFIELD, S. C., WEDNES ; RY '?8, 1895. VOL LIX. NO. 52: