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THOS. J. ADAMS, PROPRIETOR ?DG?F1ELD, S. C., WE??ESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 189? The PLANTEES LOAN and . SAVINGS BANK, AUGUSTA, GA., Organized 1870. Oldest Sarins? Itank in Eastern Georgia. Largest Savins? Capital in City. 1> a y s Interest and Compounds every 6 months. VOL. LXII. NO. 48. itt ~ A Ha. J. M. GOB 3 WATCH THIS SPACE EVERY WEEK. -YOU KNOW JUST WHERE TO BUT THE_ CHEAPEST, BEST AM CLEAREST Line of Goods, viz: Dress Goods, Domestic Goods, Calicos, Percales, No tions and Fancy Articles. The Seamless Ladies' Black Hose, 10c. Ladies Hemstitched Handkerchiefs, 5c; Cambrio Handkerchiefs-, 5Uc lull stock Gcate', Boys' and Children's Ready-made Clothings Hats and Cap.?. ! SHOES ! SHOKS! SHOKS! finora* ! SHOES! SHOKS! SHOES ! SHOES! From 25c. Per Pair to $5.00, ? OUB LINE OF SHOES IS ESPECIALLY GOOD. COTTON PRICES. Good Jeans at wholesale prices by the piece Tw^w W??* *T?Ur busiuess> ?ad *o Set and keep it wc must sell you the .?est goods for the least money. . * SEND_. 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This vessel, which is the invention of a Baltimorean, Simon Lake; is, as far as* intentions and appearance are concerned, unique: It u intended for commercial work, including the ex ploration of the bottom of river?j lak?svbays ?ud evan seas, foi- treasure se?kiug and other purposes of a kin dred character. The vessel presents a curious ap pearance. The cigar-shaped hull has two big iron wheels attached to it near the bow. These wheels are about as large as an ordinary cartwheel, and are of solid metal. The edges of the wheels are corrugated and cogged like those of a cogwheel. A smaller wheel of a similar character is attached to the boat at thc stern. The wheels are intended to enable the vessel to run along over the bottoms of rivers and other bodies of water, the propeller of the vessel supplying the necessary mo tive pDwer. The boat will be so ar ranged that the divers can come in and go out of the vessel while she is on the bottoms of rivers. The Argonaut, says the New York Journal, is thirty-six feet long ami nine fee; iu diametcr,built of steel and strongly ribbed, to resist the water pressure She is propelled along the bottom by an electric motor taking current from a powerful storage bat tery. A strong electric searchlight is lo cated in the bow, capable of lighting up a pathway iu front of the craft as she moves along the bed of the ocean; Lenses are also arranged to project beam of light to either side of th boat, so that objects may be seen i tbo vicinity of the vessel as she passe along. Her speed is estimated to be abov eight miles au hour on the surface an about live miles on the bottom. St .will have au electric storage capacil for a run of about 2000 miles. Tl crew will cousist of a captain, an e giueer and four divers. It is claimi that one mau can handle her if necc sary. When not engaged in saving val ables from wrecks along thc coast, s is to mu on the surface of the sea wi her string of barges like a tugboat a her tow. She is also to sink hers and barges to thc bottom of the co and run over the hard sands as if i were a locomotive with a train of cr The inventor of the craft propo to look for some of the 2000 ves; sunk and the $100,000,000 lost au ally at sea. The boat may also beu in laying foundations for piers, lif houses, bridges, docks, break wat etc. She may also make journeys am beds of coral and sponge for bush purposes, or to take down seien and pleasure parties for an in view of old Neptune. The boat i: be able to descend to a depth of^ feet or more, and is to bo sun! raised at the will of the operator, The Argonaut will make her trip.in the Chesapeake Bay du the next few weeks. Probably first vessel that the inventor wi! tempt to find is the New Era v went down off Asbtiry Park, N. J 1852, -with 200 passengers and a amount of specie aboard. Another queer craft which ele ityhas made possible, and whicl ventor Knapp, who constructed i lieves will revolutionize the spe oceau travel, was recently launel Toronto. It is called the roller and is certainly a novelty, thotl| exactly the first of its kind. Owing to the strange nature craft a large crowd gathered to ! mas3 of steel drop, or rather rc to the water. No doubt many c expected to see the boat disapp of sight below the waves, but they wore disappointed. Prepi to the launching the hugo L cylindrical steel rested on stock ten feet back from tho edge slip, and in order to launch hei well greased with soft soap, we from the stocks to the edge water. When all was ready were removed until the cylin held by but a single support, i given signal this was knocke Slowly the cylinder started ch soapy'incline, and then, movii tie faster, it leaped into thew; a great splash. The waves i leaped high on the opposite s: slip and the crowd there i freely sprinkled. Over and craft rolled until she touched posite side of the slip, and was quiet on the water it was ehe drew but a little over tw water. The craft just launched is ! nhip. Mr. Knapp's ideal fo ger service wonld be about 1 diameter and nearly SOO feet engines that would make C( tiona a minute, The trial b -4 CRAFT INSTRUCTED. twenty-two feet in diameter and 100 feet long, and tapers to fifteen feet, so that each end is kept well out of the water. As it is a passenger boat it will be the strangest ever floated. The j passengers will be on ? platform bn the insid?, swinging frbni the shaft,1 With the wheels of the engine gravitat ing against the inside of the cylinder; The paddles which willprbpei the snip will be fastened in rows on the out side of the cylinder.-New York Jour nal. American Pi o due ts In Encl an rt. United States Consul Lathrop, at Bristol, in a report to the State De partment, gives some information con cerning United States products in England. He says"the United States, Canada and Denmark supply Eng land with bacon. The United States enjoys more than half the trade, send ing, in 1890, 2,751,518 hundred weights of 112 pounds. During the first six months of 1897 there was a large increase in the shipments from this country, amounting to 1,830,162 hundred weights. The report notes that there is a scarcity of pigs in Eng land and in Denmark, and says the United States and Canada are expect ed to keep up tho increased ship ments. Leather is a product which has made an appreciable advauce in Eng land. The colored leathers of Chi cago and Milwaukee have been more largely sold. The goat dud sheep leather from Philadelphia and Penn sylvania districts have also found an eulargad marketj almost entirely at the expense of the German ?nd French manufacturers; Thero has also been ? o//er a c n is it d ie .y ie n ed !S U he ith nd elf ast she irs. ses sels nu sed filt ers, oug less tifie side } to 300 c or trial iring . the it at ,-hich ., in large ctric i In t, he ed of led at ? boat ;h not of the seethe ?ll, in ti them car out in this arntorv ?ulk of ;s about of the : slides, ?re built . of the planks der was md at a d away, awn the ag a Ht titi with t caused ide of the vas very over the the op Tlien all se&r.*hat o feet oi but a trial r passen 50 feet in long, with )0 r?volu oat is only an improvement in fancy leathon from Newark, N. J. COUNT TOLSTOI* Sketch of the Career of tho Great Ku niau Novelist anti Social Kcformcr. Count Lyof Nickol aivitch. Tolstc tho most prominent of tho Bussi: novelists, is also a social reforme His great ancestor wa3 Peter Tolstc thc friend of Peter the Great. T author of "Anna Karenina" is n< uearly seventy. "Anna Karenina pronounced Tolstoi's masterpiece. Luna herself George Meredith sr she is the most perfectly depicted male character in all fiction. Tols believes in the literalness of 1 words of Jesus. He holds that ' only rule of life is the precise liv up to the maxims of the Sermon the Mount, As a youth Tolstoi feuded the University of Kazan, i at tho ago of twenty-three he ente the army and went with his brothe the Caucasus. He fought in the ' mean War, and at its close resig his commission and devoted hin to literature. One of his ear works, "War aud Peace," is most praised by Bussians. It deals tho invasion of Bussia by Napol Since he brought ont "Anna Karen in 187G Tolstoi has given himsel to social problems, with the hop supplying mankind with a b moral and religious philosophy that which now obtsinH in t; "Kreutzer Sonata" appeavec presenting s certain theory which BO shocked some pindana iii America that it waa 'r?led" by the authorities. In 189.2 Cotfc Tolstoi finished his autobio gr?jy, which, with his diaries, he do poisid with the Eumyanzoff Museum. TRIELING IN A HOUSE ON WHEELS. A Emily's Long and Novel Journey _.j Across tho Continent. ?iouse on wheels is on its way to NetfTbrk City, While at Morrisville, 1?| the owner, M. 'E. A. Laskey, san-?e had traveled from Port Ange le.} Wash. A cyclometer attached to a vheel gave the distance covered as 6311 miles. . "he house is occupied by a man and wiis aud five children, two of whom were born ou the road. Tho house is tvrdvo feet long and six feet high and is/entirely home-made. Inside are a folding table, a camp stove, a high ctyair, rockiug chair, folding bed and oilier conveniences. . Tho family left Port Angeles on March 22, 1894, and has been on th road ever since. RIDING A SEA MONSTER. Florida Coys Ilnvo Fun With Huge Sc Turtles. Florida boys have one kind of e: citing sport which the young folks < A STEED OF THE SEA. more northern lands know 1 about. It consists in catching huge sea turtles which frequent bays along the Southern coasti Florida. The turtles, from whic made the green turtle soup so fare to restaurant fare, are confined h? COUNT TOLSTOI. world, fishermen in huge pens o in 1890, crawls," consisting of fenc morals ing from the shove out into eminent When the fisherman wants r e for market one of the boys, -whose ainy brown body is stripped bare, tanda in tho prow of the boat as it i pushed from the shore. He watches itently, and presently he sees one of tie big turtles taking a nap on the leal white sand of the bottom. Ho ives quickly, and, swimming down rom behind, seizes the turtle firmly J the shell. Of course the turtle rakes up and like a bucking broncho i ON WHEELS. begins to dash and plunge wildly about, seeking to throw its plucky rider. Not succeeding in this, it darts quickly to the surface, where the boy gets his first breath; Then down again it goes tearing through tho water and beating the foam with its flippers. But its rider never lets go for a moment, and presently tho great turtle grows exhausted, and the boy, by hiting on the front end of the shell iorcea it to the boat, where it is quickly loaded aboard and taken away to market. It is great sport, and the boys enjoy it as much as our Western boys like a lively young pony to ride. SHOES FOR HUNTING-DOCS. Canvas Covering to Prevent thc Animal's Feet From Getting Sorti. They do many strange things in Ne braska, but tho latest and strangest is puttiug shoes ou bird-dogs; Colonel Robert Coffin, a veteran sportsman of Randolph, is responsible for "the inno vation. _Npw_hnndjeds of dogs in all 3 have been'trained field while ha'nt nUXTING-DOG WITH SHOES ON". _ day's pursuit of game shod w: somethiug more durable than wi nature provided. Heretofore it 1 been almost impossible to hunt w the same dogs more than two con cutive days. Their feet would beco too sore. The way Colonel Coffin overci this difficulty was to fit his dogs v canvas shoes that covered the : closely and were tied snugly at ankles. Great difficulty was iom\( teaching the dogs to wear the si and hunt. Now all old huntsmei Nebraska equip their hunters . these canvas shoes. The Birds' Balance of Power. In a receut lecture Professor men Stone, of Philadelphia, cited i facts to show that birds are nat great check on the excess of in and that they keep the balanci tween plants and insect life, thousand caterpillars, it has be< timated, could destroy every of grass on an aero of culti ground. In thirty days from th< it is hatched an ordinary catei increases 10,000 times in bull tho food it lives and grows on is table. The insect population singlo cherry tree infested wi hides was calculated by a prov entomologist at no less than T OOO! The bird population of vated couutry districts has beei mated at from 700 to 1000 per mile. This is small compare the number of insects, yet i bird consumes hundreds of everj day the latter are pr< from becoming the scourgi would be but for their feathe ernies.-Youth's Companion. The Pickpocket Got Hold of a Ex-Bepresentative Harvey of Sumner County, is a snal and usually carries around wit his pocket a live bull sm which he makes lots of fun. pocket "touched" Horner a cus at Wichita Monday and 1 to get his hand iuto the pock the snake was kept. The sh? him scream and Horner hele til the police arrived.-Kai Times._ A Wonderful Bridge. In the Forth Bridge tl horizontal pull of 10,000 to chief spaus, aud a weight c tons on their bases. Hali British ircnclatls might be 1 ? them without causing ai strain, HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS. When to Beware of Hot Water. Do not put hot water or any kind of rater upon woolens that have had iquid grease spilled upon them. First jprinkle buckwheat or rye flour over ;he place and let it absorb the grease, brush off tho flour, and apply then fresh flour until all the grease is ab sorbed. Bags For Silverware. In making bags or cases for silver ware an unbleached material should be employed. Sulphur is generally used in the bleaching processes and it tends to blacken and tarnish silver. Rubber in any form is another thing that should never be kept near silver, ware. Silver is best wrapped in blue white or pink soft tissue paper, and unbleached cotton or flannel bags. To Steam Velvet. To remove creases from velvet is quite easy when one knows the secret. Take a very hot iron, perferably one with a removable handle, and set it ru a table with the smoothing eurface up. Wring out in cold water a double thickness <5i soft muslin and the pile will'rise gradually as the steam pene: trates the material. This treatment is also useful to ?"ive a new and fresh appearance to slightly worn velvet. Effective Dish Washer. A whisk broom is a more effective dish washer than the mop made of cords and sold by house furnishers. ; lu every kitchen there should be two brooms of different sizes, kept perfect ly clean by rinsing them under run ning water aftor every using, hanging them over the sink to drain and dry. Once or twice a week they should be j dipped in a hot -jlution of washing ; soda and water, and they will last long j and keep clean and sweet. School, Lunches, j Seo to it that the lunch basket is j made attractive and that its contents are bountiful. This means much to the sensitive boy or girl who must open tho basket or pail, with dozens of curious eyes watching the opera , tion. Uso paper napkins, which are i very cheap, if you do not want to risk 1 linen ones. Wrap bread, meat and cake in par affin paper to keep moist. The same paper may be used two or three times. Put in plenty of bread and butter, cut neatly, the buttered sides togeth er. Sponge cake, graham wafers, cream gingerbread, oatmeal crackers, figs, apples, dates and oranges are much to bc preferred to rich pastry, pickles, confectionery, etc. Put in a small cup of jelly occasion '.pple a-ucl sago, jelly mirv be uteri for a Mit jelij, orV&'te^ i Lt 1?re is a us on the I 100,000 a dozen mug upon av undue Apple Fritters.--One pint milk, two teaspoonfuls soda, salt, two eggs and flour for a not too stiff batter. Pare and core six large apples, chop them very fine and mix in batter. Fry in lard, and serve with sirup or sauce. Poached Eggs With Tomato Sauce _Poach six eggs in usual mauncr, place on buttered toast and p^"v ovei tomato sauce. This makes a .ost de lightful and savory breakf; t dish Half a pint of the sauce w .1 be re quired for six eggs. Chicken a la Marengo-Cut th chicken up in joints and roll well i flour. Fry the pieces in cocoanut bu ter, season while cooking, and as soo as done place in a hot dish in tb shape of a pyramid. Make a thic gravy in the pan with the remainir butter and pour over the chicke Border with parsley. Economy Pudding.-Take ono quii of bread crumbs, one egg, ons tc spoonful of baking powder, two cu fuis of sugar, and one teaspoonful ea of ground cloves, ginger and nutme Soak the crusts and stale bits of bre in cold water until soft, squeeze o' and beat up with the other ingredien If desired, one tablespoonf?! of di ping or butter and any kind of dr fruit may be added, first chopping ? flouring the fruit. Put in a two-qu bucket well greased, aud boil in ake two and one-half or three hours. Sweet Potato Salad.-Boil and p three large sweet potatoes, cut i half-inch dice, mix with two stalk! chopped celery and pour over French dressing made as follows: into a soup plate one saltspoonfi salt and one of pepper. Add tl tablespoonfuls of olive oil and stir til the salt is all dissolved, then the vinegar, two tablespoonfuls,^; gree3, and a teaspoonful of onion j Mix well with the salad and ! stand in a cold place for two hi Serve on lettuce leaves, or with ? nish of pickled onions and parsley Iced Stuffed Tomatoes.-Scald peel six small tomatoes. Cut o stem end in a slice and scoop ot seeds before standing the tomate ice for two hours. When ret serve, chop one small new c a bunch of cress, and a small parsley rather fine. Pour ove mixture a dressing made from teaspoonful of salt, one teasp pepper and three tablespoonful oil beaten together with one spoonful vinegar, and fill it in mato shells. Serve each on a I leaf "heaped round with fiuely-c ice._ A Word Curiosity. If your tongue be in good co for doing a little acrobatic wc reading the following word ci aloud. It may be familiar to i you, for it is one of the treasui we dug out of an old scrap-boo If you stick a stick across a stick, Or stick a cross across a stick, Or cross a stick across a stick, Or stick a cross across a cross, Or cross a cross across a stick, Or cross a cross across a cross, Or stick a cross stick across a stie Or stick a crossed stick across a stick, Or cross a crossed stick across a c Or cross a crossed stick across a s Or cross a crossed stick across t stick. Would that bo an acrostic Fifteen j cars ago thu Diamc near Helena, Mont., was bi niuety cents. The purchase forSSOOO. Receutly a Scotch paid SI,800, OOO for the mine Johnson s \*niu nun * ver Tonic, is a ONE-DAY Cure, It cures the most stubborn case of Fever ia 24 Hours. A DECLINING INDUSTRY. ame Skill No Longer Required in Mak ing Famous Straw Hats. A strike in the gentle, smiling valley >f the Arno, says a Rome correspond ent of the Pall Mall Gazette, hs3 drawn ttention to the straw-plait industry here. It is one that is greatly affected >y change of fashions, and has its pe iods of prosperity and depression. The days have gone by when tha prop*, ?rty about Florence was divided imong a few manufacturers of straw lats (what the English call Leghorns), svho when marrying their daughters 5ave them a dot of several thousand 3f scudi, (each scud! being worth four shillings), and a straw hat. the strands of which, less than a millimetre Sn width, were made of straws so fine that, after being woven, a magnifying glass was needed to distinguish them. Now rich travelers travelling through Florence go no more to the Via Porta Rossa to pay 100 francesconi (?22 for a straw -at to take home as a present. Fashion has transformed the Flor ence straw industry. The profit now comes from the quantity, not the qual ity; and consequently the hand work at one time sought after and well paid has gradually decreased in price until ' " the wages cf the workers are Infamous. When the wholesale price of a hat, all made and sewed, ls a penny or two an ri there are those at even a lower price-it is easy to imagine what com pensation the straw-workers get for the twenty-five to thirty-five yards of made strands which are necessary for one .tat. The skill formerly required in the plaiting is, however, no longer requir ed. Once it was an art, now every one can do it-the boys and gins who drive the cattle Lo pasture, tho women at home, beggars, all those who have j nothing else to do. In the mouutains J thc men who break stones have been seen at straw-plaiting in their few leisure moments, and even men who drive coal carts. This "vulgarization" and overproduction will, in the end, be the death of the industry. There have been immense exportations,- es- . peciilly to America, and, consequent ly, an overstocked market; and until some means are found of diminishing the production the industry will go from bad to worse, with the gravest consequences to those who liv9 by it. exporters who buy the ? which raises the duty on workea from 25 to 35 per cent of its value. Be sides the Italian productions have to struggle, in America, against the com petition. Increasing day by day, of the Japanese and Chinese straw. The out look is indeed dark, for no matter how thr? poor Florentine straw-plaiters protest and strike, they hava no rem ertv. It is n question of overproduc tion for a constantly diminishing mar ket. _ Johnson's Chill and Fe ver Tonic is a ONE-DAY Cure. It cures the most stubborn case of Fever in 24 Hours. Fa*.alit/ From Anaesthesia. The consensus of opinion xmong Eu ropean physicians of eminence as to the comparative fatality attending the use of chloroform and ether, and the specific characteristics of each, in practice, may be expressed tlrus: First - The usc of any anaesthesia is attend ed with an appreciable risk, and no care will prevent an occasional loss of life. Second - Chloroform acts much more promptly and much more powerfully than ether, both upon the respiratory centers and the heart. Third--Th*? action of chloroform ?3 much more persistent and permanent than that of ether. Fourth-Chloro form is capable of causing death either by primarily arresting the respiration or by primarily stopping the heart, but commonly both respiration and car diac functions are abolished at or about the same time. Fifth-Ether usually acts very much more powtr fully upon the respiration than upon the circulation, though occasionally, and especially when the heart is fee ble, ether is capable of acting as a cardiac paralyzant, and may produce death by cardiac arrest at a time when the respirations are fully maintained. Sixth-Chloroform kills, as near as can be made out, proportionately, four or five times as frequently as does ether. It is regarded, finally, as doubt ful whether one-third of the deaths from anaesthesia are reported.-New York Tribune._ Quinine and other fe ver medicines take from 5 to IO days to cure fever. Johnson's Chill and Fever Tonic cures.in ONE DAY. REAIiIiY SEBIOTTS. "Where's Brown, the scorcher?" "Laid up." "What's the matter ? Wagon ? "No." "Excavation ?" . "No." "Trolley car ?" "No. Another scorcher." "Oho ! Then it's really something serious, isn't it ?"_ Why take Johnson's Chill & Fever Tonic? Because it cures the most stubborn case of Fever in ONE DAY, ni