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Tlie , PLANTEES LOAN and SAVINGS BANK, AUGUSTA, GA,, Organized" 1870. Oldest Savings Bank In Eastern Georgia. Largest Snvlugs Capital In City. 1? a y ? Interest and Compounds every C mcntlis. TKOS. J. ADAMS, PROPRIETOR EDGEFIELD, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 189T. VOL. LXII. NO. 50. J. M. COBB'S, - . al lier ill WATCH THIS SPACE EVERY WEEK. -YOU KNOW JUST WHERE TO BUY THE CHEAPEST, BEST ?ND CLEANEST Line of Goods, viz: Dress Goods, Pomestio Goods, Calicos, Percales, No tions and Fancy Articles. The Seamless Ladies' Black kose, 10c. Ladies Hemstitched Handkerchiefs, 5c; Cambric Handkerchiefs, 2Jc. Full stock Gents', Boys' and Children's Ready-made Clothing, Hats and Caps. SHOES ! SHOES! SHOES! SHOES! I From 25c. Per Pair to $5 00, - f OUR LINE OF SHOES IS ESPECLALLY GOOD. COTTON PRICES. Good Jeans at wholesale prices "jy the piece. BSy*We want your business, and to get and keep it we must sell you the best goods for the least money. SEND; YOUR CHILDREN TO SCHOOL s^And Give Them an Education. -AND SEND THEM TO " LOWER IO J&.Z_G??LS? '9 FOR TI?EIR SCHOOL HATS. We can seil you any kind of Hat at 25c. Nicer ones at 50c. up. SCHOOL HOSE seamless fast Blacks, Tans or Browns, 10c. pair, 5 for 25c. School Umbrellas, warranted to turn rain, good article, at 50c. Better ones 75c. and SI. SEE THEM. Everything in Dry Goods -AT BALK DRY GOODS CO. 604 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA. GA. EDGEFIELD INSTITUTE. -REGULAR SESSION BEGINS MONDAY,5 SEPTEMBER 13th, 1897. HIGH SCHOOL I>E33P^HTMESlSrTr E. C. DENNIS, Instructor. Latin, Greek, Higher Mathematic.?,.Engl'sh, and usual branches. Stu dents prepared for college or business. Intermediate and Primary Departments, Miss Elise Carwile and Miss Sudie Davis. Teachers. Careful and thorough instruction in usual English branches. Tuition SI.00 tc $3.00 per month. Ten per cent discount where three or more corns from one family. Students from abroad can secure good board at reasonable rates. For further information apply to Edward O. Dennis. ggQ ACRES IN NURSERY Ogg O . . 9 Over One Acre Under Glass .WE HAVE HAD.-. ~ .EXPERIENCE IN. FRUIT - GROWING AND KNOW THE BEST VARIETIES FOR YOUR SECTION. 8^-ITyou need FRUIT TREES, GRAPES, PALMS or PLANTS, write us and Illustrated Catalogue will be mailed free. Address JE*a J". BercKiiians, Established 165G. AUGUSTA, GA. Fruitlaml Nurseries. S?TNo agents connected with oui- esia'iilishinont. and ilia Golton 6i aili LARGE STOCK OF ENGINES. CHEAP AND GOOD. L0MRARD;IRi"*W.WPPL' AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, AND SUPPLIES. REPAIRS, ETC., QUICKLY MADE loss before you buy. MANY NEW'1 Interest in the output of bicyoles for 1898 does not begin and end -with the new bevel gear that is attracting so much attention just at present. The new chainless comes as an experiment seeking popular favor, and the num ber that will be in use at the close of next season will be very small when compared to the number of chain wheels, although with a reduction in price and moro perfected details the bevel gear is undoubtedly the coming wheel. The bevel gear will not be the only HANGER ECCEN TRIC new. feature in bicyc|os for next \ year. Chain wheels are'too popular, j and too many of them are in practical ( use to be cast aside in au instant for ? the new high-priced affair. A year or , two ago most of the cycling public was ( made up of people who could afford to j pay the steep prices demaaded by the , manufacturers for their products, j Since then times have changed, and , keen competition has become rife, , which has brought the cost of bicycles, i down to a level that^akas^LnnsaihleX ?vnr^muutx^iziYOlMj^ to buy them. And j with increased numbers there is an in- ( creased demand for a cheaper price and . better quality. Outside of the chainless variety, bi- ? .ycles, in all probability, will be - oheaper next year than ever before, while details in construction will re oeive more attention than formerly, for many have learned from bitter ex perience that low prices, good quality and simplicity must be combiued to insure successes in bicycle construc tion. Fixity of pattern has been put forth as an explanation by some for the present chaotic condition of the cycle trade. And it is true that in the present type of bicycles manufacturers think they have attained that point when departures will bo in the nature of retrogression rather than improve ment. A local maker has perfected au ar rangement of a hollow axle containing an-absorbent wick, doing away with the necessity of frequent oiling of the bearings; has devised an eccentric chain adjustment which regulates the chain's tension without disturbing the alignment of the rear wheel; has pro vided dust-proof buttonholes in the hubs, which permit of spokes being taken ont and replaced immediately, and dispenses with the wrench for ad justing the handle bar or saddle by providing simple but at the same time radically new contrivances for holding the seat po3t and handle bar stem in place. To regulate the height of the handle bar it is only necessary to turn a col lar, which action will leave the handle bar free to slide up or down. Revers ing the operatiou secures tho handle bar in place. The saddle adjustment is manipulated by pressing a small lever which projects from tho side of the frayne. * This aefic* .. will incline upward a tapered eccentric disk inside the seat post tube, freeing the post. When the lever is released tho pres sure ou the Baddie renders the adjust* PHINGS N BICYCLES. UNG POPULAR, ment firm. As both handle bar and.| seat post tubes are slotted to receive the internal adjustments, they cannot j be inserted out of line with the frame. And these are but a few of the good things that the manufacturers have in store for the riding public next year. There are to be gear oases galore. Up I to this time few makers in this coun- | try have made any attempt to fit gear cases to their bicycles, chiefly because.') there has not been a very large demand for them. The much-mooted question of power | transmission will resolve itself in the minds of many riders, whose analysis sf the subject does not comprehend its strictly mechanical phase, into a Btudjjjj > af internal gearing solely a mitigatiohj ! af the nuisance of mud clogged and; I stiffened chains, a reform which gear j ?jases alone could -accomplish without sacrificing the many points of superir : arity which the chain possesses over a ? combination of bevel gears. Unless ? sonie unexpected discoveries are made"! -yny --, ? ?5? o re- vue * ?r J>^~^ present chainless patterns, a chain- : driven machine will be preferred as possessing fewer disadvantages, espec ially cs the addition, of a gear case will be an effectual remedy for one of the principal drawbacks which bevel frears are iutended to overcome'. There are several new designs of banella bars on tbe market. One in particular has a device which will ab sorb the vibration before it enters the bar. The bar is rigid in steering and is also rigid in climbing a hill, as the pull tends to strengthen the spring by which it is fastened to ttfe head. New York Journal. Couldn't Talic to SATO Ills .'leard. Several days ago a well-known member of the Allegheny county bar, who is also prominent in Grand Army and Veteran Legion circles, appeared at his haunts, shorn of a fine gray beard which had added much to his dignified appearance. He had worn whiskers so long that his acquaint ances often wondered what he would look like without them. When he re turned from a trip to Canada minus his beard everybody had to look twice to seo if he really was the colonel. Some of his friends told him he was not so handsome, and became in terested enough to ask why he had b?\aved off his hirsute appendage. He na? explained, probably dozens of times, that it was all an accident. He says that while ho was in Canada he went to a French barber shop to have his mustache and beard trimmed a little. He could not speak French, and talked to the tonsorial artist by signs. When he thought he had made known to the Frenchman what he wanted he leaned back in his chair and the barber started to work. The first clip took a large bunch of whiskers from the left cheek, and before the colonel could explain, two or three more clips were taken, and nearly half of his beard was gone. He looked in the mirror and was mad, but he could not speak French, and, therefore, he had to let the. barber complete the job.-Pittsburg Chronicle. Crime and Atmosphere. Dr. W. L. Moore, chief of the weather bureau at Washington, who is both physician and meteorologist, states that during the months of Jan I uary, February and March 1200 BU? ? cides were reported in the United j States. In July, August and Septem I ber there were 1600. There were 1700 murders and fifty persons lynched or i hanged during the three cold months, j and 2500 murders and 113 hanged or ! lynched during the three hot months, investigations are being conducted in regard to the connection between crime and atmospheric conditions. The hide of tho hippopotamus, in (tome parts, is two iAohea thick, Leaves Ectter Than Lightning Bod?, fi The green leaf is the best conductor of electricity-that most powerful and destructive of all the forces of Jhe 'earth. To guard onr homes and pub lio buildings from its destructive aotion, we erect our lightning rods, whose sharp points quietly drain the clouds, ,or, failing to do this, receive the dis charge and bear it harmlessly to the earth. But ages before Franklin pointed the first lightning rod td the storm, God has surrounded the dwell ings of man with a protection far more effectual than this; for since the crea tion of organic life every pointed leaf and blade of grass has been silently disarming the clouds of their destruc tive weapons. A twig covered with leaves, sharpened by nature's exquisite workmanship, is said to be three times as effectual as the metallic points of the best constructed rod. And when we reflect how many thousands of these vegetable points every large tree directs to the sky and consider what must be the efficacy of a single forest with its innumerable leaves, orv of a single meadow with its countless blades MEW BAR of grass, we see how abundant the pro tection from the storm is, and with what care Providence has guarded ns from the destructive force.-London Eoho. The Locust Bean Tree. On account of the high price of for age for horses in South Africa, and also of the small supply, an enquiry is being made as to whether the locust bean tree cannot be acclimatized in Cape Colony, The carob or locust <^<fcv CTC?U t>- u jrjirg- puu, Hiin/U muuvu Excellent food for horses, and is at the same time more portable than forage, and it is for tl ase qualiiies that it is desir?d to introduce it. The carob is a tree much resembling the apple tree and flourishes in the countries around the Mediterranean. The pods have been imported into England for horses. Tho Arabs and Moors use the sweet pulp for food very largely. The locust tree of America is quite distinct from this. Henry Varley, London's B utclicr-Prencher He left the cleaver for the pulpit, built a church in London, England, and is now preaching to large audi ences in this country. He is, consid ered one of England's foremost evan gelists. China's Great Wall. The great wall of China was recently measured by Mr., Unthank, an Ameri can engineer. His measurements gave the height as eighteen feet. Every few hundred yards there is a towef twenty-five feet high. For 1300 miles the wall goes over plains and moun tains, every foot of the foundation being solid granite and the rest of the structure' solid masonry. The Rev. Dr. George C. Baldwin, of Troy, N. Y., has been marrying couples for over fifty years, and his list is said to -have reached a total of 3000. At the reoent gathering of Hoger Williams's descendants in Providence, a movement was begun to raise a great monument to the founder of Rhode Island, The waters of North America are stooked with 1800 different varieties of fish. A Thoughtful "Woman. First Farmer-"My ole woinau i.. ther most thoughtful and generous soul alive." Second Farmer-"Dew tell?" First Farmer-"Why, when she goes through my overalls after market doy, she jes' keeps ont a quarter fer me ter ?ive rais.tionftrieB on Sunday," Grasses. The best kind of grasses to sow upon a marsh subject to overflow, according to some of the best authorities, are four pounds red top, two of fowl meadow grass, four of timothy and one or two of alsike clover per acre. In many cases low lands can be easily drained or partially freed of water by the digging of ono or two ditches. If this can be done, it surely should he practiced, for low lands are the rich est and best for grasses. Growing Apple Seedlings. In the propagation of the apple from the seed considerable skill and experience are usually regarded as necessary, the principal trouble being to get the seeds to germinate and the plants started. The seeds aro usual ly bought from nurseries, and many of them come from cider and vinegar factories. They cost from $6 to $9 a bushel usually, and a bushel will, with skill and care in germination, usu ally produoe about 65,000 seedlings. They may be collected at any time after the seeds are ripe and kept in a ! cellar until the time to prepare them for planting. They may be prepared in March, near planting time, or pre paration may be made 'during the winter. If prepared during Decem ber and January, hang them in a well for two or three days to souk. Then mix them with three times their bulk of sand, ordinarily damp like common soil. Place the mixture in tight boxes, small in size, flat and convenient to handle. Put these on the north side of a building that is shaded and corer with damp earth or wet sawdust. When this freezes solid, oover with boards and place litter over the boards to keep them frozen till planting time. In the case of protracted warm winter weather, when it is not possible to keep them -frozen, they should be re moved to an icehouse. During the early thaw in March remove them and thaw out slowly. Then drill in rows and oover one and a half inches deep on strong, rich soil. When the ground crusts over, break the crust carefully with a garden rake several times until the seeds show in rows across the plat. Hoe, plow and hand-weed dur ing the season, giving them- attention at least once a week during the sum mer.-Western Farm Journal. 1-- bia 'iwkeyrFm~BrBeinrr. ?. believe that the average turkey raiser make? a serious mistake in dis posing of. his breeding stock every year and recruiting his flock from young and often immature birds. Young turkeys do not make number one breeders. While it is very true that a yearling hen will lay more eggs in a single season than a three or four year-old, still from practical exper ience I have become convinced that the latter will produce a greater per centage of "poults" with sufficient vi tality to carry them to maturity. My turkeys this year vary in age from yearlings to six and seven year olds. As each hen has a leg band, it is little- or no trouble to trace them accurately. After a close observation I am well satisfied that the oldest hens have paid the best. They have invar iably proven the best mothers, a greater per cent, of their eggs have been fertile, and the poults hatched have seemed to possess a greater de gree of vitality. One of my oldest hens, during the fore part of May, made her nest and brought off sixteen fine, strong "poults," but owing to au accident, for which she was not entirely to blame, every one of the youngsters perished. Later, she made two un successful attempts to bring off an other brood, but failed in both in stances. In the first instance, crows destroyed the nest, and the second time a mowing machine wheel put an end to her hopes. One of the most striking instances illustrating the hardihood of old hens is the exp ^rience of a neighbor a few years ago who succeeded in keeping ono hen thirteen years. While she was not as prolific as compared with her? earlier years, yet in the aggregate she reared as many "poults" towards the last as during her more youthful years. Good authorities on turkey raising agree that breeding stock can be kept with profit ar. long as they live. While I do not know that I would put it quite as strongly, I feel confident that breeding turkeys can be kept with profit much longer than they usually are. In my earlier experience with turkeys, I was a viotim of the vigorous young stock craze, but I am getting further and further away every year, as I begin to see the errors of such a "course. The fact that a domestic pullet will lay moro eggs than a two or tbree-year-old domestic hen, and, Lenee, is the more profitable, does not argue that the young turkey hen will be better than an older one. A do mestic hen aud a turkey hen are two very different creatures, and are bred and raised for two entirely different purposes, generally.. . There is another great advantage in keeping old stock. By so doing, it greatly lessens the expense of procur ing a tom every year to avoid inbreed ing, "if the breeder doesn't wish to go to an extreme, with old stock, he will have no trouble in keeping stock three, four or even five years without a change. From actual experience I feel perfectly safe in saying that a breeder can keep turkeys until five years of age and still have them strong and vigorous.-American Agricultur ist. Farm and Garden Notes. Every farm han a place for sheep that no other stock can fill. Food wisely fed will always come back doubled if fed to a good animal. It is poor economy to keep young stock unless it is kept growing everj day. '.Make it a rule to sell as little feed as possible end to buy as little as pos sible. Teach the young horses to walk well and a good foundation is laid for tho faster gaits. For want of sufficient moisture a tree may starve with its roots in tho midst of plenty. Thorough grubbing is the surest way of getting rid of, elder, sassafras and persimmon. A light daily feed of oats can nearly always be given to the weanling colts at this time with benefit. One advantage in using *he drill or seed sower is that the seed will be distributed more evenly. Always keep the plow sharp; it makes better work and is easier for both the team and plowman. When the tools and implements are stored away be "sure that they are properly cleaned and painted. The best systems of cropping are in variably those whioh call for the most thorough preparation of the soil. Feeding, watering and grooming regularly will aid materially in k?ep ing the horses in a good, thrifty con dition. The best covering ?or roses during . the winter is well rotted manure. For Iceland poppies use branches and leaves. Plant crocus mammoth yellow on the lawn. It'blooms early, and makes a fine show, its deep golden blossoms appearing in clusters of six or a dozen. To keep the cannas over the winter, cut off the tops and place them in boxes of sand, in a warm, dry ceuar. If exposed to damp they will rot and decay. Nothing is prettier in th? way of an autumn bouquet than a mass of scarlet salvia set olf by a few dahlia sunflow ers. But use the yellow sparingly.. Keep it subordinate to the stronger color, remembering that it is used only os a foil. An excellent covering for the holly hock is a nail keg with both ends knocked out. Place one over each plant, and fill in about it with leaves. Then put something over the top to keep out the rain. When snow cornea bank up well about the keg. Single roses make beautiful hedges. They maybe planted now or in the spring. - They will^ompk^ejy^cover a and give their large single flowers and later 'heir brilliant scarlet "hips" or seed vessels, in great abundance. To clothe a trellis or wall, or to hide un- , sightly buildings they are most ex cellent. - LATE NEW INVENTIONS. For church and grave decoration, a hollow sectional cross is used as a flower holder, the interior being divided into a number of water-tight compart ments, with orifices to support the 3tems of the flowers in the water, thus keeping them fresh. A new tool case for cyclers consists of a retangular box to be strapped on to the frame of the bicycle, with both sides hinged at the bottom to drop down and bring the tools in view, each of which slides into a rubber sheath to prevent it from rattling. A handy hose holder for sprinkling lawns has a pointed rod to be pushed into the ground and support a revolv ing metal disk which has loops through which the hose nozzlo is passed and held by means of thumb screws which tighten the loops. A Massachusetts man has invented a tumbler brush and chimney washer, which will fit any size glass, the bristles being set in opposite sides of a double pivoted stem, which has handles to open the brushes soutward until they strike the glass. Fogs on the ocean or navigable streams may be dispersed for some dis tance ahead of a vessel by means of a new in zention, consisting of an arched distributing pipe with jet tubes set in one side to discharge water or other liquid in spray against the fog. To draw a measured quantity of liquid from a receptacle a new faucet has a double-acting valve which closes one outlet as soon as the other is open, thus preventing the pouring of. the liquid into the measuring glass while the discharge pipe is open. Horseshoes which can be attached to the hoof without the use of nails have a broad steel band attached to the front aud sides of the shoe, ending in screw sockets at the rear to draw the band tight over the hoof by means of screws inserted in the rear of the shoe. A California woman has patented a cover for milk cans which is perforated around its sides near the bottom, so it can be closed tight to prevent spilling ol the milk and can be pulled up a short distance in the can to allow ven tilation ' without insects getting in side. Tho Oldest Plow-Maker. Chicago has the oldest plow-maker in the United States. His name is David Bradley, and he is at the head of a big manufacturing company on the west side. Mr. Bradley first worked at the business in Syracuse, N. Y., in 1832. In 1835 he came to Chicago, which then numbered about 2500 inhabitants and a camp of several thousand Indians, to help erect the first iron-foundry established here. Mr. Bradley was the first man to bring pig-iron into Chicago. In connection with the f oundry whioh he helped build was a maohine-shop, and the establish ment soon began along with its other , business the manufacture of plows. Mr. Bradley, by the growth of hi* business, was finally'forced to build s 1 little town of his own, which is known as Bradley, 111. Mr. Bradley has ' passed his eighty-fifth birthday, bul ' is still hale and hearty, and thoronghl j enjoys the prosperity which hard wor? I i has brought him. The active businesi ? ! has been surrendered to the sons, J Chicago Tribune, ? Quinine and other te? ver medicines take from 5 to 10 days to cure fever. Johnson1 s Chill and Fever Tonic cures in ONE DAY. \ Th9 Education of the indian. That the Indian has a capacity for higher education appears from, facts' given in the eighteenth annual report of the Indian Industrial School at Car lisle, Pa. During the past year five students from Cai "isle has attended" Dickinson College, one at Metzger Col lege for Women. Others have attended the Carlisle High School, some have been to the normal schools of the state, Drexel Institute at Philadelphia, and the nurses' schools at Philadelphia, New Haven, and Hartford. One of the pupils, after graduating, from a New England normal school, was employed last year in a high school in Connecti cut, and taught so successfully aa tb be recalled and given a permanent sit uation as teacher. Thus far no diffi culty has been experienced in placing , all those who showed a desire for higher education than is given at Car lisle. There, for manifest reasons, the - education is of a practical industrial character, as best fitted to make the Indian self-supporting In his changed condition. As a further means of In ducing the Indian boys and girls Into civilized family and national life, the outing system has been adopted. During the fiscal year 1897, there were placed out from the Carlisle School, for longer or shorter periods, 410 boys and 319 girls. Of these 104 boys and 101 girls.remained .out all winter, at tending district and other Americaniz ing schools with the young people of the families in. which they resided, earning their board with their work out of school hours. By an extension of this system the school could? eco nomically care for 1,500 children, or about twice the present number en rolled. The children placed with fam ilies ?ast year earned a total of $20, ?48.39, of which the boys earned $13, 185.27, and the girls $7,263.12. From these amounts the boys saved $6,426. 03, and the girls $3,288.21. Boye and girls who have been out a number of times haye acquired the ability to earn full wage?. Why take Johnson's Chill & Fever Tonic? Because it cures the most stubborn case ofFeverin ONE DAY. li Plays Possum. Just why any owl should be called from the fact that it Is clever in a way not common among Its cousins. Mr. Saville-Kent, a naturalist who has just written an interesting rnbk on Australia, '? pays especial attention to the morepork, which was called to his notice one day as he saw drive by a van filled with screeching, tumultuous parrtts, cockatoos and butcher birds. A pair of moreporks, mere fluff-balls, with gleaming golden eyes, were among this rabble and Mr. Saville-kent at once bought them and transferred them to his domestic circle. The owls ?.urned out to be such marvelous "quick-change" artists that the amuse ment they afforded the family, which owned a camera, was boundless. The pecvliar specialty of the morepork is that it can stiffen, itself so that even close ?t hand it is impossible to dis tinguish it from the dead branch of a tree. Again, it assumes a dignified cast of countenance which Is ludicrous, or is sentimental, sad or even gay, as it chooses. The morepork has been grossly slan dered and called the Australian goat sucker,' but its friend, Mr. Saville Kent, has at last freed it from that stigma, and explains in this latest work that it only keeps the goatsucker company-another instance of the evil results of choosing disreputable asso Ielates. _. Johnson's Chill and Fe* ver Tonic ls a ONE-DAY Cure. It cures the most stubborn case of Fever in 24 Hours. It is proposed by the llayor and many thinking people of New Haven, Conn., to begin in the schools a study of the city ordinances which apply to the care of the streets, the rights, of the road, and the acts that violate the laws of good order and health. Tho reason for this suggestion is that in many cases the parents are either ig norant or Careless about _ the most common provisions of the ordinances. It is argued that if the children are made to study the laws they will be able to prevent many violations of them. Half of the accidents happen- . lng day by day are due either to care lessness or to some violation of the common laws of the roads. Johnson's Chill and Fe* ver Tonic is a ONE-DAY Cure. It cures the most stubborn case ofFeverin 24 Hours. ? At the Socialist Convention in Ham burg there were several remarkable features. The most remarkable prob ably was the ubiquitousness of the red flag. When the 200 Socialist delegates made their pleasure trip through the Hamburg harbor red was the prevail ing tone all over the shipping and on shore. The longshoremen and steve dores waved red handkerchiefs, and one enterprising caulker, as the steamer with the excursionists drew near his vessel, quietly painted in huge crimson letters on the side of the ship the legend: "Proletarians of all countries, unite!" Eight pence ls a pretty low rate for coffins, yet this is what the Guardians of the Preston Workhouse in London have secured a four years' contract for. lier's bones lia Sin/*