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Edenfield Advertiser TITOS. J. ADAMS,.EDITOR WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 4,1895. The Constitutional Convention meets on next Tuesday. The Co lumbia Register says: "Predic tions of a three weeks session of the constitution?.\ convention are likely to come to naught. Why, the Edgefield delegation alone is good to talk three weeks by itself. In addition to the boll worm the caterpillars are getting in their work in the Mississippi Delta. In Washington, Sunflower, andlssa quena counties they have appeared in large numbers. The farmers are mixing Paris green and other destructives preparatory to a war to the knife and the knife to the hilt. The State Farmers' Alliance had its annual session iu Columbia Wednesday. Ja*. L. Keitt,of New berry, was elected president, Rail road Commissioner Wilson vice president, and J. W. Reid re-elec ted secretary. The offices of treas urer and State lecturer were abol ished. Hon. W. J. Talbert rep resented Edgefii-ild at this gather ing of the old guard. How They Vote in *Massacbu? setts. Art. XX. No person shall have the right to vote, or be eligible to office under the Constitution of this Commonwealth, who shall not be able to read the Constitution in the English language, and write his name : Provided, how ^^-^ever, that the provivions of this amendaient shall Dot apply to any person prevented by a physical disability from complying with ita requisitions, nor to any person who now has the right to vote, nor to any person who shall bo sixty years of agc and upwards at the time this amendment shall take effect. Market Slowly. The Columbia Register gives the following good advice as to marketing cotton : "The weekly financial review is sued Saturday by the banking home of Henry Clews & Co, New York, says : "The yield of cotton may jje expected ?ofaU considera bly short of our largest recent can hardly be regarded as a mis fortune ; for, with the inevitable higher prices, the net return to the planters will be much hetter than that of th 3 larger crops which sold so low that virtually no profit was made on them." But, the farmers should remember that though the cotton crcp is short, higher prices are not "inevitable." If the far mers will not rush their cotton to market, higher prices will be re realized; but, if they glut the market at the beginning of the season, the shortness of the crop will be of no advantage to them speculators will reap the benefit after the crop is out of the haEds of the farmers. The Register's ad vice, often iterated, to the farmers is to market their cotton cs slowly as their necessities will permit, so as never to allow- the supply to greatly exceed the demand ; if they do this, buyers will soon run up the price in their anxiety to supply their mills with full stocks. This advice cannot be given too often, and farmers will find profit in following tt. A crop of cotton was never made more economical ly than this year's and consequent ly a good price for it will bring better times to most of the far mers in the South." Selecting: Seed-Com. The question of seed corn for next year should be settled now by going into the field and select ing the most perfect ears possible from the most prolific stalks. The ears selected should be large, even grained, well filled to the very tips and well covered with shuck, and after selecting them keep them separate from all other corn. It is a good plan to shell as soon as dry and put in a tight barrel or box and cover with three or four inches of ashes in which salt in proportion of about one to ten has been thoroughly mixed. This will insure against weevil and will not injure the germ if thoroughly dry before putting away. Every year also the question comes up as to whether we should reject the top and butt grains or plant the whole ear. The result of aseries of experiments running through several years along in the seventies, about 10 per cent, of the grains from the tip of the ears fail ed to germinate, and of those thal did come up fully one-half were weak and never showed proper vigor throughout the season, tas seling and shooting unevenly and from two to eight days late. The g ains in the middle of the ear seldom failed m a single instance to sprout, grow off evenly, tasseled and silked well together. The grains from the butts of the (?are, no matter howirregular in shape, sprouted as universally as those from the middle, but did not grow 6 : or? with such uuiform vigor nor tassel and shoot so evenly, but in thia patch was always found the earliest and some of the largest ears. In saving seed for these experi ments I always shelled one inch from each end of the ear and the same from the middie, and these were planted in separate patches and of considerable size. As a result of these experiments I con cluded that an early variety of corn might be produced by plant ing only butt grafas, and always selecting the earliest from these for next year's seed, and had im proved greatl}' on my original seed when in 1879 I unwisely dis posed of all my seed except what I wished to plants and lost it all. That year we had no rain in the spring to bring up corn uutil April 20, when there was a heavy down?our and not enough fell on my field to lay the dust from that time until late in September. Texas Stockman and Farmer. Senator Marion Butler and our South Carolina Reformers. We cannot see the consistency in inviting Marion Butler, the Populist Republican senator from North Carolina to address an au dience of Reform Democrats in South Carolina. Senator Butler represents principles in direct an tagonism to the principles sup ported by the Reformers in our own State. In the first place he owes his election to an unnatural and abortionery coalition with Republicans. As a part of this trade, he gave his support to Pritchard, an avowed Republican, an avowed Republican, and advo cates principles and a political policy a's widely divergent from the views of our South Carolina Reform. Democrats as the poles. Hence, there can be but two inter pretations placed-upon the posi tion occupied by Senator Butler : He must either believe in the re publican doctrine, or he has sold out his honest convictions and his people for office and power. Again, this North Carolina Pcpulist-Re publican senator believes in ap pealing to the negro and bringing that race prominently forward in politics. This was evidenced by the fact of the legislature that e lected him, and which body he absolutely controlled, placing ne groes in office over white men, and honoring Fred. Douglass by ad jouruiug in his honor. Now, our South Carolina Reform Democrats believe that this is a white man's ?government, and in order to em phasize and perpetuate this doc trine, we have called a constitu tional convention with the avowed end in view of disfranchising the negro. Now, we ask the intelligent, thinking Reformers of South Car oliua, do they not consider that Marion Butler was cs n.uch out of place.in addressing an audience of Reform Democrats in our State as a-Keiilnckj?-drovs-irog" would be trying to lead a choir in a Chris tian church? You can't deceive the people by any such rot. They are not ready as yet to accept as their political guide and counsel lor a man who owes his office to a coalition with the party that has brought such wrongs upon the South, and for so many years rob bed aud oppressed our people. And neither do they care to take into their arms a man whose arms a man whose garments are reeking with the oder of the nigger. If the position of Marion Butler is to-day right, then the Democrats of South Carolina and other South ern States were wrong in throwing off the yoke of African rule in the days of reconstruotion ; and in stead of going to work and cap turing their State governments from Yankee Republican free booters, they should have gone in with those robbers, and shared the plunder of their own property. The Headlight is a dyed-in-the wcol Reform paper, but we don't lake any of that Marion Bijtlerism in our'n. We try to be consistent, and practice what we preach ; and san't see any sense in organizing JUT Reformers to combat the dan gerous power of the negro one ?veek, and then fall down and wor ?hip a man who owes his office to n degrading political amalgama tion with negroes. To one week ienounce the antis for trying to vote the negro, and the next week honoring a man who has been guilty of the very offense that we condemned. And neither do we believe that the intelligent white farmers of this State can be lead off on a :old trail after Marion Butler's Populist-Republican party. He ian secure the support of a few imbittou3 office-seekers and po litical cranks, but the rank and file of the Reform party have cut their eye-teeth, and know the ring )f the true from the ring of the false. Our people do not intend to ?ver agin be lead into the support )f any gold bug ticket ; and neither viii they be lead into following men a hybrid politician as Seua ;or Marion Butler. "Sufficient inlo the day is the evil thereof." -Piedmont Headlight. Weather for August. Weather Observer C. A. Long, of rrenton, sends us the following lata of the weather for the month ust ended : Max. temp. 91 ; date 8th and :9th. Min. temp. 67; date 22ud. Mean temperature, 79.5. Number of days clear, 7, partly iloudy, 17; cloudy, 7. Prevailing wiud direction 12, south. Total precipitation for August, 895, 11.49 inches; 1894, 7.60 nches; 1893,13.20 inches. For 8 months ending Aug. 31st 895, 49.76 inches. Total precipitalion for 8 months nding August 31st 1894, 35.56 nches. CORRESPONDENCE INFORMATION FOR THE PEOPLE. If You T>on't Sec Wliat you Want, Ask For It, "EDITOR ADVERTISER : llave you eve used,and v:hat do you think of, but termilk soap.". The beet recipe for making it ii to'grate a tablespoonful slightly roiinded (nutmeg greater is thi befit as it makes finer particles) ii a glass of waler. Dissolve thii by Miring. If not acid enough, J spoonful of vinegar should b< added; if too acid, sweeten wit! goose-neck sorghum to the taste. EDITOR ADVERTISER: Do you knov who is the author of those beantifu lines : "Nigger at the woodpile piekin' u] chips Just as nigh heav?h as a nigger evei gets?" They have been attributed t< Ben Tillman and up to date h< ha? not denied their authorship MR.EDITOR: What do these letter Car. Cum. & Chi. on the tickets sob from Edgelield to Augusta mean^in< why are these tickets so long; they an eight or ten inches in length. Car. Cum. & Chi. mean Carob na Cumberland and Chicago Rail road Company and the tickets an so long because when the railroac builders cut off the Cumberlant Gap & Chicago end ol' the roa< they forgot all about the ticket and they stand in statue quo still long enough to take you al the way. MR. EDITOR : From present indica Hons who do you think will be th next Governor of South Carolina, am who will succeed Irby in the Unit.e< States Senate? Pol Iv put the kittle on and we'i all take T. To the second question ?ve gi vi the same alphabetical answer. MR. EDITOR: Does Ben Tillmai wipe his nose on his coat sleeve? 1 has been so reported by the Anti pa pers. Not habitually ; he does so, how ever, on rare occasions simply t< show that he is sprung from tin loi.us of he people. Fifty orsix ty j*ears ?o handkerchiefs wen not in ui real use in EdgefieW County, from 1785, whei Edpefiekl made a coun'v, l< 1840, our li: 'y yeomanry wi pee its her 3r hi > nose on a fence rail Of course the pesage cf the eiocl law has precluded a return to thi: good old custom, for wo ha?e'n tho ru i ls. PROF. FULLER REPLIES. Or Rather Ans we.rs Some Querie.? Ol' Prof. Dunovant. I want to thank my. friend Prof, J. D. Du no vant for his kind stric tures on my views of school teach ing, and also for his kind sugges tions. Prof. Dunovant asks, "Why not tako up the study of history in stead of the fourth .reader"" Tc answer this question intelligently it is necessary to discuss the teach ing of reading to a very short ex tent. This makes it necessary to define reading. Mr. F. W. Parker ker says, "Reading, getting thought by means of written or printed words arranged in sentences." From the very few children that I find able to read in tell i gen tl j% I think far too many teachers have adoptad this definition; and in teaching they have not tried to de velop in the children anything more than the power of getting thought from written or printed papers. If teaching reading be on ly teaching the children how to get thought from written or print 3d pages, then we may leave off the fourth reader. I believe that the teaching of reading should de velop in the children, "The pow 3T to gain from the written or printed page the thought and feel ing expressed th6re, and the power ii 60 delivering the words orally that the same thought and feeling shall be awakened in the hearer." Prof. Dunovant may suggest the training of vocal organs, and there by attain the art of expression through the correlative science of pitch, power, emphasis, and quali ty of tone. I know that the proper irill inthe use of vocal organs eorve useful as a drill. But the only way to get children to read so as their reading will awaken in the hearer the thought and feeling of the author is to give them plenty }f exercise in reading orally some book which has, rightly arranged, thought that contains every varie ty of feeling. The foui th reader ls the best book for this particular purpose for the fourth grade I bave ever seen. That is why I suggested it. But if Prof. Duno vant will suggest to me any histo *y that will serve the above place is well as the fourth reader I will ;ladly use it instead of the fourth .eader. Professor Dunovant objects to 'Tarbell's Language Lessons." He luggosts we teach language through ts correlative science. Is science i primary study? Should not we each children tho correct use of auguagein the primary grades? I ny one who knows much about he correct use of language knows t is a liberal art which is acquir ed both by theory and practice. Jut almost everybody will admit iractiee has more to do in acquir ng the art of using correct lan guage than anything, for many leople have learned the art of us ng fairly good language without mowing any thing of the science if language. The very fact that ;ood ueuge determines the law of anguage make? clear the fact, we earn to use good language by us Dgit. As for giving reason? for the usc: t language." Good usage has uthorized many things in the lan gage for which no reanon can bi? ivei;. The rules of syntax do ot make us speak correctly it on PURE LIQtn We have made a Specialty o for private Consumption. As we reasonable figure than any dealer ca: Our Specially, is our Celebrati " Harves Which we furnish at $3.20 pe We make no shipment of li different brands. As we sell on a remittance must accompany order. . jgfiT" Write us for Complete J DISTILLERS, D Remember we Prepay all Exp: ly serves as a measure for our lan guage, just as the try-square does no' make the piece of timber square, but shows when it is square; so parsing does not make our expression correct, but serves to show us when they are correct. Then let us learn to make our lan- ! gu-ige correct by practice as the j mechanic Wrns lo square his tim- j ber by practice. I think the great j use of theory in learning tho art of using good language j.? to Herve an a measure for our language, and as adelence against the-adop tion of incorrect expressions we may hear. Prof. Dunovant, misunderstands the idea of "learn to do what we have to do by doing." This does not mean to learn theory by do ing, nor doe?$ it mean everything has to be learned by practice. Bul thit, theory and practice are com bined in many of the arts, both useful and liberal, itiyd in most of them practice is paramount, that is lo say, it is more important lo learn doing than the theory ol' do ing. Now as l?> the "overtaxing of tho memory mid giving the mind in digestion." . "The memory is tlust r'-pre di lative power which tiring: before I he mind concepts of absent ob jects, as they are or were, and re sogn?zing them.r I know that to have children to memorize words or sentences without-making an appeal t: their understanding is a mistake, a mistake which teach ers often mutee. Of course this should be avoided. ~J Prof. E. 0. Hewett one of the 5 best psychologists I ever read af ter, says; "lu the years of. child hood from infancy- to the age of twelve or fourteen memory is the characteristic faculty." If the memory is not traiued during that period it can never be developed, i and if the training is "ptor^?sJ^0^' ^lWlUBllHiuiiMi<iiiw-?tftir'iir^ over taxing nor giving the mind indi gestion. David P. Page, tho author of "Theory and Practice of teaching" says : Langvage Lessons may be begun at an early age. The pur pose of these lessons is to instruct the pupil in the correct use of lan guage both in speaking and in writing not by precept, and mle, but by praclicei Tbis is the prop er introduction togrammar proper, or the formal study of language. Prof. Du novan t seems to have thought I meant to take up the study of philology, in the fourth grade, when I said "literature."! He asks ; "What good can Mr. Fuller expect to get from tho j study of literature in the fourth' grade?" If I were to ask Prof. Dunovant what good he expected to get out of the study of history in the fourth grade, he veiy ?eadi ly would say; the good I expect to gi>t out of the study of history is a knowledge of the heroic deeds of our ancestors, and thereby encour aging pupils to emulate their ex amples of bravery, daring, and patriotism. The good I expect to get from the study of literature in the fourth grade, is some knowl edge of what our greatest ances tors thought and how they express ed their thought, hoping thereby to inspire emulation of their lan guage, thought, and influence for good in the world. II. J. FULLER. P. S. I wish to say, by way of postscript, that ill health and oth er business kept me from replying to Prof. Dunovant sooner. R. J. F. ^ George Johnstouc's Defence. "I stole Jem britches-I 'knowledge de corn, But twan't no crime, shore's you're born Ef de motive am right, den whar's de sin? I stole dem britches to be baptized in! Fur my onliest pur was clean wor'd out : Dey guv up de ghost wiirn I 'gun to j shout, But'1 liri on am mighty and must, pre-! vail, Tho'it land dis nigger in a county jail. The chain-gang's got; me, and the coal mme, too. lint w'a! contd a'fenceless cull nd man do? Wnen de jedgeand rte jury 'lowed it was a sin To steal dem britches to be baptized ?ti? Tell'all de folks howdy, and good-bye, loo, I'll meet, 'em in heaven when my work is I brough, Fur my hean is while, tho' my skin be black. I'm gwine to travel on de shinin' t rack. In de judgment, old (j abriet, he's gu im1 to say : '.George's straight as a .shingle and ?.lear as day/' He'll shout to de world dat ii wan't no sin To steal dem britches td be ?ap i/.ed ?ii!" The Hayner Distilliiii Co Springfield. Ohio, ship liquors di rect lo consumer. Write' tor price list. i ?RS FOR FAMILY USE. o.i> f furnishing absolutely pure WHISKIES, WINES, BRANDIES ?tc., are distillers, are in a position to furnish a better article at a more ii afford to do. pd it Home Rye" Six Years Old jr gallon and prepay all express charges. iss quanily than two gallons, but orders may be divided among very close margin we cannot allow time on shipments, consequently Price List, Reference tte, &c. THE HAYNER DISTILLING CO., JPORTERS & WHOLESALE LIQUOR DEALERS, BOX 290, SPRINGFIELD, OHIO. ress Charges. THE SOUTH AND NORTH AMERICAS NEW YORK AND CHICAGO LLOYDS. -(o) H. A. SMITH, General Co. Ag't. for Edge field. ,THE LLOYDS system, established in 1688, (over two centurie* ago) by Edward Lloyd, is made nw./ more thorough sud psrfec! through regular business progression. A LLOYDS COMPANY HA? NEVER FAILED. MANY PROMINENT BUSINESS MEN ARK IN IT, because, as business people, they are bound to accept the sa v. ing feature of the Lloyd?, coupled willi equal, if not greater reliabili ty than is ofreied by any other insurance in existence. The Lloyi' oller a uniform 'cut of fifteen per cent, ou the old line prices, and ii case of excessive rates having been made, they give even greater rel i- I than this. Among our policy holders in Edgefield we name a fev\ : Jones & Son, E. J. Norris, Alvin Hart. W. B. Penn, Mrs A. E. Lewis Mrs. S. A. Dozier, .Ins. A. Bennet, R. P. Holloway, R. L. Fox. Tnt most prominent Northern corporations and concerns, well known in the South, are in the Lloyds, such as Austin, Nichols & Co., Simpson, Crawford & Simpson, Postal Cable it Telegraph Co., ol' New Yo-k, Jordan, March it Co., Edison Electric Light Co. of Boston, Spreckl?f Sugar Refining Co., J. B. Lippiucott it Co. of Philadelphia. P. Loi fi lard & Co., of Jersey City, Armstrong, Gator it Co.. Burnell it To Henry Sw in born it Co., Daniel Miller ? Co, of Baltimore. IN SOU'. H CAROLINA the largest concerns ure in it. Applications for Ii^u rune* received'at The ADVERTISBK Oliice. Mav 1, 1895. JOHNSTON and EDGEFIELD, DEALERS IN p Vehicles of all Kinds, FURNITURE and COFFINS, Jan. 29-1895. Fine Harness, Saddles, - HARDWARE Lause StocR of Engines, ^^^Sisair^ h^/fD ADn < IRON WORKS AND L-t^TVlDAKU I SUPPLY COMPANY. .AUGUSTA, GKA. Machinery and Supplies. Repairs, etc., Quickly Made. Get our Prices before you buy. WM. SeHWEieERT & 0o.( -RELIABLE JEWELERS Has all the Newest Goods of the Season in Diamonds, Watches, Jewelry, LADIES SHIRT WAIST SETS in Gold and Silver. LADIES rINE SILVER BELT BUCKLES with fine Silk Ribbon. STERLING HLVER SPOONS and FORKS lower than ever before. Watch and Clock Repairing Promptly Attended to by Competent Vorkmen. 7 OB. JIB O AD and 7 TI? S TTEJ^T, AUGUSTA, GA WHAT DO YOU THINK! LEWlS F. ^VILISAR. 937 BROAD ST., AUGUSTA, GA., IS SELLING AN OAK MANTEL FOR $3.00, AND ONE WITH A 15x24 GLASS, A TILE HEARTH, A TILE FACING, AND A BRONZE FACING FOR JUST $17.00. Palmetto Business College, WlLLISTON, S. C., Next Session Begins Sept. 26, 1895. One of tho most complete Commercial College? in the South, uition rates reasonable. First class board $S.OO per month. We ave large and comfortable Dormitories that will accommodate one undred and fifty boarding students. Military regulations. Perfect itisfaction guaranteed For further particulars, address. J. R. A. mitlock, Julv 16- tf. PRHSIDENT. Wofford College, L\s. H. CARLISLE, L. L, D., Pres. rOFFORD COLLEGE FITTING SCHOOL, A. G. RE M BE RT, Head Master, Expenses for one year, from $150 to $200. ext Session begins Oct. 1, 1895. - For Catalogne, address J. A. GAM EWELL, Spartan burg, S. C. July 30-2m. FRENCH BEEF. -(0) Flat to be Built. HE Township hoard will be at tiaws and Mackies Mill on Stevens reak on Satiudny September 14th at > o'clock,a. m., for the purpose of let ng the Hat to be built there, reserving1 e right to reject any and all bids. M. A. WHITTLE, Sup. P. B. LANHAM, J. P. ATKINS. Aug. 19-tf. Now is the time to ie Advertiser. take My name is Norman ; On the Grampian hills My fattier feeds his Hock. The report that I had gone out of business, or contemplated that step, is a mistake. lam still on the ground floor and have reduced the price of beef to 5 and 8 cents, i'll always be glad to see my friends aud to make more friends. To make more friends To setl more beef And sell more beef To make more friends. NORMAN YOUNGBLOOI). French Chef. OSBORNE'S and Telegraphy, Angnntn. Ga. No theory. No text booka. Actual bmlneia from day of entering. College gooda, monty acd business papers used. K. K. fare paid to Augusta. Write for handsomely Illustrated catalogue, New Goods! New Goods! -??1 m y ?now That there isa place in Augusta where von can get something nice and tempt ing to eat in the FANCY GROCERY line ? DOSCHER & CO., carry a full line of the latest Home and Foreign Delica cies, When you visit Augusta come and see us. Prices will plea&e. y?i?r" CPQ8?HER&CO. i eoe "BROADWAY, GIN HOUSE And Country Property INSURED. Apply to W. J. McKERALL, A GT., EDGEFIELD, S. C.. ALWAYS IN THE LEAD. /. C. LEVY ? CO,, TAIL0R.FI7 CLOTHIERS, AUGUSTA, - GEORGIA,. llave now in store their entire FALL AND WINTER STOCK OF CLOTHING The largest stock ever shown in Augusta. We aim to carry goods whic.i are not only intrinsically good, but which also, in pattern, style, and knish, gratify a cul tivated and discriminating taste, and at the same time, we aim to make our prices so low the closest buyers will be our steadiest;.customers Polite atten tion to all. A call will be appreciated. I. C. LEVY & CO. TA ILOR-FIT CLOTHIERS. 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