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The PLANTEES LOAN and SAYINGS BANK, AUGUSTA, GA., Organized 1870. Oldest Savings Bank in Eastern Georgia. Largest Savings Capital in City. I* a y s Interest and Compounds every C months. THOS. J. ADAMS, PR?PPJETOE. VOL. LXII. NO. 44. J. M. COBB'S, Fall id f?r Oneil! WATCH THIS SPACE EVERY WEEK. -YOU KNOW JUST WHEEE TO'BUY THE CHEAPEST, BEST AHB CLEANEST Line of Goods, vi/: Dress Goods, Poniestic Goods, Calicos, Percales, No tions and Paney Articles. The Seamless Ladies' Black Hose, 10c. Ladies Hemstitched Handkerchiefs, oe; Cambric Handkerchiefs, 2*c. Full stock Gents', Boys' and Children's Ready-made Clothing, Hats and Caps. SHOES! SHOES! SHOES! SHOES! I From 25G: Per Pair to $5.00, | OUR LINE OF SHOES IS ESPECIALLY GOOD. COTTON PRICES. . Good Jeans at wholesale prices by the piece. J6?>r"We Avant your business, and to get and keel) it Ave HMWt sell you the best goods for the least money. SEND_ YOUR CHILDREN TO SCHOOL *t,Aii(l (?ive Them an Education. -AND SEND THE31 TO .? 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Principal ggQ ACRES IN NURSERY QCQ . e a Over One Acre Under Glass .:.WE HAYE HAD. .EXPERIENCE IX. FRUIT - GROWING AND KNOW THE BEST VARIETIES FOR YOUR SECTION. t&Tli you need FRUIT TREES, GRAPES, PALMS or PLANTS, write ns and Illustrated Catalogue will be mailed free. Address Established 1S5G. AUGUSTA, GA. Fruitland Nurseries. &3?"No ageuts connected with our establishment. CANE MILLS, ii Alista Cotton Gins and Presses, LARGE STOCK OF ENGINES, CHEAP AND GOOD. LOMBARD ? IR?" "'HfWM'"1' AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. MACHINERY AND SUPPLIES. REPAIRS, ETC., QUICKLY MADE S?tTGet our Prices before you buy. GUARDING 1 ? x Work Performed by the U. Service on Ocean, The work of tho life-saving service of the country during the past year has been so creditable as to bo highly pleasing to the governmental officials here. There have been fewer dis asters and more lives saved on tho coast in the last year than over before in the history of the country. With out question the life-saving service cf the United States is the superior of that of any Nation in the world. This is demonstrated every day. Many stories are told, and many novels writteu of the hardy and sturdy volunteer life savers of England, but these veterans do not compare with tho trained, brave life crews of our own country. During the fiscal year 1895-'96 there were 4620 disasters on the coasts of the British -isles. Despite the efforts of the life savers 458 lives were lost. Along the immense coast of this country, including also the great lakes, there were, during tho same period, 6S0 disasters and only twenty lives lost. The figures of rescues aro not given, but the lives saved by American lifo savers arc far in excess of the number saved by the English. There are 256 life-saving stations in this country. Of these fifty-five are on the lakes. There are only fourteen stations on the Pacific coast, and these do comparatively little work. Few disasters are credited to this coast. Tho Cape Cod district of this country is the worst of any section, furnishing more disasters than the same stretch of any other part of thc United States. From the eastern extremity of the coast of Maine to Bace Point on lape Cod, a distance-of 415 miles, there are but sixteen stations, ten of these be ing located at tho most dangerous points on the coast of Maine and New Hampshire, which, although abound ing with rugged headlands, islets, TUE SU] rook*, reefs and lumcate channels that would naturally appear to be replete with dangers, aro provided with nu merous harbors and places of shelter in which, upon short notice, vessels can take refuge. The portion of the Massachusetts coast included, al though less favored with s.^.ie resorts, enjoys tho excellent guardianship of tho Massachusetts Humano Society a venerable institution, operating un der the volunteer system. On account of this protection, thn general govern ment has deemed ii proper to place its stations within this -territory only at points where wrecks aro unusually fre quent; nt least, until other dangerous parts of the coast shall have beeu pro vided for. Tho life-saving stations upon the ocean beaches aro generally situated among the low sand-hills common to such localities, sufficiently back of high-water mark to bo safe from tho reach of storm tides. They are plain structures, designed to serve as bar racks for the crews and to afford con venient atorage for the boats and ap .?aratus. Mo..t of those upon tho Long island and New Jersey coasts have been enlarged from tho boat houses j put up to shelter the boats aud equip ments provided for the use of volun teers before regular crews were em ployed. Those built later are more comely in appearance, while a few, located conspicuously at popular sea side resorts, make some pre'u sions to architectural taste. They arc all desig nated by names indicating thi ir locali ties. In the majority of stations the first floor is divided into four rooms-a boat room, a mess room (also serving for a sitting room for the men), a keeper's room and a store room. Wide, double-leafed doors and a sloping plat form extending from the sills to the ground permit tho running out of the header equipments from tho building. The second-story contains two rooms; one is the sleeping room of the men, the other has spare cots fo: rescued people, and is also used for storage. The more commodious stations have two additional rooms-a square room and a kitchen. In localities where good water cannot bo otherwise ob THE MOUTAU. tained cisterns are provided for water caught from the roof. There sur mounts every station a lookout or ob servatory, in which a day watch is kept. The roofs upon tho stations on those portions of the coast exposed to view from tho sea are usually painted clark red, which makes thom dis tinguishable a long distance off short?. They are also markod by a flagstaff sixty feet high, used in signaling pass ing vessels by the international code. The stations (other than the house of refuge) are generally equipped with two surf boats (supplied with ours, life hunt compass and Miler outfits), a THE COAST? I nited States Life-Saving m Lake and River. Xs boat carriage, two sets of breeches buoy apparatus (including a Lyle gan and accessories), a cart for the trans portation of the apparatus, a life-car, twenty cork jackets, two heaving stiHis, a dozen Cost?n signals, a dozen ?g nal rockets, a set of the signal flag?of the international code, a medicine chest with contents, a barometer, a thermometer, patrol lanterns, patrtol checks or patrol clocks, the requisite furniture for rude housekeeping by the crew and for the succor of rescued pejp ple, fuel and oil, tools for the repair of tho boats and apparatus and fox minor repairs to the buildings, and the necessary books and stationer] . At some of the stations the Hunt g?: 1 and projectiles are supplied, andat;i few the Cunningham rocket apparatus. To facilitate the transportation bf boats and apparatus to scenes of ship wreck a pair of horses is also provided at stations where they cannot be hired, and to those stations where tho sup plies, mails, etc., have to be brought by water, a supply boat is furnished. All the stations on the ocean coast of Long Island, twenty-nine stations on the coast of New Jersey, nine sta tions on the coast between Cape Hen lopen and Cape Charles, and all the stations between Cape Henry and Hat teras inlet are connected by telephone lines. Tho station buildings upon the coast are all constructed with a view to withr stand the soverest tempests. Those located-as many necessarily are-_ where they are liable to be undermined or swept from their positions by thfe ravages of storms and tidal waves, are so strongly put together that they may be overthrown and sustain but trifling injury. There are instances on record where they have been carried a long distance inland-iii* one case a half ?? mile-without sustaining material ciamuge. This substantiaf"construc tion also enables them to be easily and cheaply moved when threatened by the gradual encroachment of the sea, which, upon many sections of thc coast, effects in tho course of years great changes in tho configuration of the coast line. At Louisville, Ky., are dangerous falls iu the Ohio River, across which a dam has been constructed. Naviga tion there is dangerous, and a station is established. The floating station at Louisville is a scow-shaped hull, on which is a house of two stories, sur mouuted by a lookout. Besides the housekeeping furniture there are but few equipments; two boats, called life skiffs, and two reels, each with a Ra pacity to hold a coil of five-inch man illa rope, and so placed in the boat room that a boat can be speedily run out from either, or, if desired, that TEE HREECHES BUOY. they can bo run out of the boat room, with the lines upon them, for use else where. The station is usually moored above the dam at a place which will afford the readiest access to boats meeting with accident, but it can be towed from place to place when neces sity requires, as was the case in the great floods of 1883-'84, when it was of incalculable service in rescuing l^cople from tho upper stories and roofs of their inundated dwellings, and in distributing food to the famish ing. On these two calamitous occa sions the crew of this station rescued and took to places of safety over 800 imperiled persons-men, women and children-among them many sick and infirm-and supplied food and other necessities to more than 10,000. The number of men composing the crew of a station is determined by the number of oars required to pull the largest boat belonging to it. There are some five-oared boats in the At lantic stations, but nt all of them there is at least one of six oars. Six men, therefore, make up the regular crews of these stations, but a seveuth mau is added on tho first of December, sc that during the most rigorous portion of the season a mau may be left ashore to assist in the launching and beach ing of tho boat aud to see that the sta tion is properly prepared for the com fortable reception of bk comrades ant the rescued people they bring witt them on their return from a wreck also to aid in doing the extra worl that severe weather necessitates Where tho self-righting and self-bail in g boat, which ?Hills eight oars, i: used, mostly at the lake stations, i corresponding number of men is em ployed. The crews aro selected by tho keep era from able-bodied and experience! rorfme? residing in the vicinity of the respective stations. Each station has a keeper -who has direct control of all its affairs. The position held by this officer will he recognized at once as one of the most important in the service. He is, therefore, selected with the greatest care. The indispensable qualifica tions for appointment are that'he shall be of good character and habits, not less than twenty-one nor more than forty-five years of age; have sufficient education to be able to transact the sta tion business; be able-bodied, physi cally sound, and a master of boat-craft and surfing. Upon original entry into the service a surfman must not he over forty-five years of age, and sound in body, being subjected to a rigid physical examina tion as to expertness in the manage ment of boats and matters of that character by tho inspector of tho dis trict.' Only Nino Tears Old and Swam tho Ten nessee. Lizzie Hagar, aged nine, is now tho pride of Hill City, near Chattanooga, Tenn. She swam the Tennessee Biver LIZZIE HAOAK. one day recently. At tho point where the feat was performed the river is three-fourths of a milo wide, and sho was in tho water nearly half an hour. The feat was made more remarkable for so young a swimmer by the fact that she accomplished it without rest ing, and almost wholly ^by straightfor ward swimming. . She changed her /positiva by floating-occasionally, but rsWxbptfoa- pro# . j The feat was performed on a wager" made by her father that shs could ac complish it. He followed close in her wake in a skiff, so as to be on hand if she took swimmer's cramp or met with any accident. Lizzie learned to divo and swim before she was seven years old, and is never happier than when indulging in her favorite pastime. "Pa's" Orders. A ludicrous episode of the Civil "Wal is told in a Southern paper: During the early months of tho war a certain brigade was being drilled in Virginia. Brigadier-General-was a Louisianian, and his son, also of that State, was his Adjutant. Thc General's voice wns not RS strong as it might have been, and his son often re peated his orders for him. On the occasion in question tho brigade was marching iu fours, aud the Brigadier General gave tho order, "Head of the column to the left." His son, the Ad jutant, dressed to kill, galloped for ward, and when he reached the head of the column shouted in his powerful voice, "Pa says head of tho'column to the left." Discipline had hot been perfected then, and what "Pa" wanted very nearly broke np the ranks, hundreds of men laughing as they marched at the Adjutant's infu sion of domestic relations into Hilli ary tactics. A Musical Mousetrap. Acting upon the idea that mice are very sensitive to music a Belgian manu facturer has substituted a musical mousetrap for the common trap. In stead of baiting the apparatus with a bit of chee30 or lard the inventor has hidden in a double bottom a small music box, which plays automatically various popular airs of the country. The mice, ho insists, are drawn irre sistibly toward the music box, and in order to hear better they step into the trap and find themselves prisoners! According to recent Government tests by Lieutenant Vladimiroff, of the Russian Navy, pure caoutchouc should stretch seven times in length without breaking. Five and a half ounces of grapes are equired to make one glass of good wine. TRICYCLE PATROL FOR TAKING Pl It is in activo use by tho Dayton (Ohio oonveuieut method nf handling au arrest, TINIEST HORSE IN THE V/ORLD. ? Shetland Pony That ls no Bigger Than t a St. Bernard Dog. The tiniest horse in the -world is only twenty-one inches in height, and is the property of the M?rchese Car ps SMALLEST HORSE COMP ABED WITH A DOO. cano, a celebrated nobleman horse fancier, whose four-in-hand of small Shetland ponies have taken first prizes at every horse fair in Europe for four or five years. The M?rchese Carcano told the Rome correspondent of the New York World that he is about to make a tour of the world with his team of Shetland ponies, and will also take with him his smallest horse, Leo, which has won the gold medal at the Milan. Leo, the smallest horse, is a full grown animal which has been reared on the stock farms of the Mar?hese, and is the surprising result of a num ber of interesting experiments. The smallest Shetland ponies are never un der eight hands high, which is equal to thirty-two inches, and is eleven inches taller than Leo. The latter is no less remarkable for his perfect symmetry tban for bis minute propor tions. He is a beautiful chestnut, with shaggy tail, which reaches almost to the ground. His neck measures ten inches, aud his head from his face is just about six inches. From his fore legs to the hindlegs Leo measures just as much as his height, and his chunky legs are exactly ten inches long. A Bright Bet?rt. Sergeaut Garrow once had an archi tect in tho witne?s-box and thus in terogated him: "You arc a builder, I believe?" "No, sir, I am not a builder; I am an architect." "Ah, well, builder or architect; architect or builder; they are pretty much the same, I suppose." "No, totally different." "Oh, indeed.' Perhaps j DU will [ state wherein this great difference consists?" .-^An^ra^^t^dr^gon?eives the de sign; prepares" -?n^???. ^?i tbe specifications-in snort, supplies the mind. The builder is merely the machine; the architect the power that puts tho machino together and sets it going." "Oh, very well, Mr. Architect, that will do. A very ingenious distinction without a difference. Do you happen to know who was the architect of the Tower of Babel?" "Thero was no "architect, sir; hence thc confusion there." What Sonic- Plates Cost. Tho plates that are most popular among multi-millionaires aro of Min ion ware. They cost $2710 each. A plato of plain gold costs just about tho same sum. They aro very handsome, as they well might bo at the price. These gems for tho tables of the rich have an exquisite painting in the cen tro of each. They are painted by tho celebrated Boullinicre, and the de signs are taken from old miniatures. The coloring of these little pictures is simply exquisite, and every tiny detail of the face,, hair and costumo is worked out with the daintiness of perfection. The picture is surrounded by a lace liko pattern in raised acid gold. The edges of thc plates are open work in a lace design, decorated -with a running pattern in gold. Tho Bishop and His Bun. Tho Bishop of Worcester, England, once had occasion to travel through Banbury by rail. Being desirous to test and at tho samo time to encourage the far-famed industry of that town, and tho train having stopped for a short time at the station, he beokoned to a small boy standing near at hand and inquired the price of the cele brated buns. "Threepence each," said the boy. The Bishop thereupon handed him sixpence and desired him to bring ono to the car, adding: "And with the other threepence you may buy one for yourself." The boy shortly returned, complacently munching his Banbury, and handing the threepence in coppers to the Bishop, exclaimed: "There was only ono left, guv'nor." Baptist Union. There is a little corner in kersey cloth this year, one New York house having bought up about the whole available supply. ?ISONERS TO THE. POLICE STATION. ) .'Olico department, and affords a quick and ; AGRICULTURAL TOPICS. Surface "Water in Well?. Wells are often dug in depressions, the idea being that in such places springs of -water are most apt to be found. But if so dug the well should ke stoned and cemented for twelve or more feet from the surface, so that shallow springs cannot finu entrance. The deeper springs will generally be free from surface impurities. Then if the well is filled around about so as to turn surface water from it, there wi 1 be little danger that it will be con taminated in any way.-Boston Culti vator. Catting- Corn Fodder With Reapers. Some farmers who have reapers which rake off the bundles at the side use them for cutting corn fodder. This maohine works quite well on sowed corn, but there is little of that now among farmers who know their busi ness. Drilled corn left far enough apart to cultivate between can be cut with the reaper, but it is rough work for the machine. Tb? stalks are heavy and full of juice. Only one row can be cut at a time, and this is not left in so good shape for binding as if cut by hand. Working on rough, soft ground is likely to injure if not break the reaper. When Disease Come?. The chicken business is all very nice until disease comes along, and then comes the rub. At the season-Aug ust and September-when the weather is hot and cool by spells, that specter of the poultry yard, chicken cholera, is very likely to stalk abroad. Now, we are free to say that we have never yet, in all the years that we have raised chickens, been able to define cholera-to corner it, so to speak, and to tell just exactly what it is. ' Per haps tho old-tims chicken cholera of our grandmothers has played out. We have dysentery among our chickens at times, particularly among the very smallest ones when in brood ers, and then it often proves disas trous. But when grown fowls take the dysentery it does not spread, only one or two at a time being affected. There is, however, another disease that comes in the autumn that carries off the chickens, young and old, and will keep it up sometimes till all are gone. It is what we call limberneck in the South, and we suspect very ?trongly that it was the cholera of the olden times. It is nothing more nor less than the natural result of carelessness and im purity combined. It comes of the chickens eating the maggots contained in dead animal matter lying about on the surface of the ground in some fence corner or other out-of-the-way place, and it will kill the chickens jnst as long as a new one comes along and is contaminated by it, Why chickens should peck, scratch about and eat the maggots in such stuff we Jo not know; but we do know that they will do it, and th^at it will kill them, too. So, if disease comes along now, and the chickens begin to die suddenly search for the cause of the disease and bury it. Bury all the chickens that die, too. Suffer nothing dead to lie unburied on the premises.-The Epito mist. Mammoth Clover. * There is no better hay for general farm use than the old clover and timothy mixture, provided it is cut at the right time and properly cured and secured, writes George T. Pellit. But with the common clover there is a difficulty in the way of securing such a mixture of the very best quality, in that the clover reaches maturity so much earlier than the timothy. The mammoth variety of red clover possesses some advantage in this respect, as it reaches the proper stage for cutting at about the sany time timothy does. We do not liko mammoth clover alone, for in a favor able season it does not long retain an upright position; but when grown with timothy the latter supports it, and the hay is also much easier cured than pure clover. At the proper time for cutting mam moth clover the weather and ground are usually hotter and dryer than when common clover is at its best, and dif ficulty is sometimes met with in get ting the hay properly cured without having it "meadow burned" and losing a large per cent, of its value. In such cases it is best cured in cock. While the mammoth does not produce as much aftermath as the common, yet we have found that by keeping all stock off in the fall, the second crop has reseeded the land and kept the stand up for five years, there being more clover present this year than in any crop since the first, and when taking up the hay we found on most portions of the field a fine stand of young plants from last fall's seeding. The field before cutting presented a somewhat ragged appearauce because of the clover climbing upon the timothy and leaning it this way and that. Had it been all clover, the crop would have been fiat and badly damaged. In mowing the field this year the timothy came to the horses' sides and specimens of clover stretched to four feet. Yield of hay, twenty-nine good loads from eleven acres; quality, fine; horses extremely fond of it. There is more waste iu the stems of the mummoth variety, but we do not consider this a loss, as larger crops are produced and the stems, used as an absorbent, make the best of manure to return to the land. Insects That War With the Mosquito. There are two natural enemies of the mosquito, the dragon fly and the spider. The latter, as we know, wages constant warfare upon all insect life, and where mosquitoes are plentiful they form the chief diet of their hairy foe. The dragon fly is a destroyer ol mosquitoes in at least two stages ol life. The larva dragon fly feeds upon the larva mosquito, and when fully de veloped the latter dines constantly upon the matured mosquito. The dragon fly as a solution of the mosquitc pest question is not sati: ?'actory, foi while there is no serious difficulty tc be encountered in the cultivation ol dragon flies in large numbers, yet it is manifestly impossible to keep them iu the dark woods where mosquitoes abound, the hunting ground of the "darning needle" being among tin Howers and dry garden^ where th( sunshine prevails. For ?'iisveryim portant reason the Rehe;i:<* of hunting jue kind of insect wit'1 ?t lother muai be abandoned as unp;.ictieable. J Washington Star. The PLANTEES LOAN and SAYINGS BANK, AUGUSTA, GA., Organized 1870. Oldest Savings Bank in Eastern Georgia. Largest Savings Capital in City. I* a y s Interest and Compounds every C months. THOS. J. ADAMS, PR?PPJETOE. VOL. LXII. NO. 44.