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Ederefield Advertiser Tl'OS. J. ADAMS,.EDITOR WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21. The Georgia peach growers had an interesting meeting in Macon. Washington, Ga., has just sold $30,000 of city bonds at $106^. Good credit, that. Michigan is to try an ineome tax-law on her own account. All incomes of $1,000 andmore, up to $2,500, will be taxed one quarter of one per cent ; from $2,500 to $5,000 one-half of one per cent. This law ought to give good re sults. Constable Crawford's com mission has been finally revoked by Governor McSweeney. He was suspended from the force after the killing of Mrs. Stewart and has not been on the pay roll einer?. After his acquittal he said that he would apply for reinstatement, but his name was dropped along with the other batch of twenty-four. Gov. Roosevelt spends the entire time from 10 a. m. to 5 p. m. every day in "seeing people." When the Legisture is in session the hours of from 10 to ll and from 2 to 3 aresreseved for its members. The time of guests is divided into minute portions, each caller receiving a card with the time allotted to him written upon it. The Supreme Court on Saturday last filed an opiniou in favor of the dog. In a Newberry case it WJ.B held by the circuit judge that the dog was not property and was not a subject for larceny. The Supreme Court bolds that the dog is property and can be stolen and that a party can be in dicted for stealing a dog, that the dog is valuable notwithstanding the common law, which is against the doctrine of the decision filed Saturday. There is a rankling suspicion in some quarters that the Republican coddling of the little old ex-Con federate veteran, Gen. Joe Wheel er, who saved the American army at Santiago from the retreat and disgrace which Shafter proposed, is indicative of a purpose on the part of the mana gers to inviegle him into the position of a tail for the McKinley kite in 1900, since it has been determined thai hobart must be dropped. For the sake of the old warrior's repu tation it is to be hoped that the seductive wiles of the enemy will not be sufficient to overcome his own sense of decency and honor. SOUTH CAROLINA COTTON. The government bulletin on the cotton crops of the Southern States says this of the South Carolina situation : "In South Carolina cotton of early planting is doing well every where and some is putting on squares freely ; late planted is not all up, and some fields have been replowed and planted in corn. The stands of cotton are generally[fair, but the plants are smaller than usual at this season. Sea island cotton is in splendid condition, and some blooms have been noted." There is a tendency these warm days to take to water because it is pleasant to dabble in it. Boys near streams are apt to overdo the thing. Girls who have convenient bathing tub or bath rooms may keep the skin clean, especially when they resort to the bath twice a day, just to keep cool. One may spend one-third of his time in warm weather bathing and chang ing clothing and thus keep very clean, bat he never lives long to enjoy life. It would be impossible to find au octogenarian who had been in the habit of constant bach ing during during his long life. No one would advocate dirt on the person but physiologists and best physicians will tell yon that if the skin is thoroughly cleansed of all secretions with alkaline soaps every day that it is not best for the health. Dr Thomas J. Hillie thus speaks in the Medical Record : "Cleanliness is an excellent habit. It is not, however, an absolute essential, nor an essential at all to good health and mental accivity. "The healthiest man the writer ever saw is alive and well today at 94, and he took a bath only occasionally -once in tho Mercey ! at Liverpool in 1838 and agixin in : the North River in 1878, both of j which was accidental, the gentle- < man being slightly intoxicated : when he fell. Almost ail people j who live to an extreme old age j are found to be those who ere not j overfond of ablutions, but who 1 otherwise are careful in their man- 1 ner of living."-Ex. To relieve Sick Stomach daring Pregnancy, Tone Up the System and give Courage for the I Ordeal, talc? Simmons Squaw Vine Wine or ? Tablet*. For aale bj G. L. Penn ft Son. - . > TILLMAN TELLS HIS TALE. All About His Transactions With the Penitentiary. Columbia, S. C.June 13.-The penitentiary investigation com mittee resumed work at noon to day. Chairmau Stevenson and Senators Hay and Livingston were the only members present. There were no interesting developments. Mr. Stevenson had written during thp recess to Senator Till man, exGovernor Evans and others j about the charges made against them. Evans had ignored the communication and Senator Till man's lette was read and it was not insisted that he be summoned. Senator Tillman's letter is as fol lows: TRENTON, May 26,1899. Hon. W. T. Stevenson, Kershaw s.e. Dear Sir: I have your letter of May 20th. I hardly think it worth my while to appear before your committee to answer the trivial matters brought out in the Neal investigation. I do not see in what way Col. Neal's dereliction or misconduct or his transaction in regard to the bricks and book case etc, can affect me. I am in the dark as to the exact nature of one of these mattters to wit : The account ot the commissary book and would be glad to know the nature of that account, items and dates. I will state for your in formation that I have no recollec tion whatever of ever having obtained any groceries or anything else that could be charged on a book of that kind from the penitentiary except an occasional mess of vegetables which were sent to me by Colonel Neal as a com pliment, I suppose, and I am sure I paid for anything else. In regard to my running a farm with con victs, I will state that 1 never ran a farm while in Columbia at all in the common sense of the term. I rented five or six acres of lend which I sowed in oats in the fall and worked .with my carriage horses and then sowed in peas after the oats were cut for pea bay. There was little patch at the executive mansion which wss similarly treated and the convicts who kept the yards and grounds clean helped to gather in the hay as well as that on the rented ?and the lact year I was at the man sion and Colonel Neal would never take any pay. The labor of cutting five acres of oats and pea hay one year, you can estimate so as to see about the extent of the account if it is still open. The matter was so trivial I attached no importance to it then or now. You may con sider it in a different light. In re gard to the brick, I will say that Colonel Neal at bis own suggestion once, while at Rock Hill, offered to ship me a car load, of brick if I would pay the freight, saying that they would cost him very little, and he would make me a present of them. I accepted the offer, and when Colonol Lipscomb sent it to Colonel Neal with a letter inquir ing whether Lipscomb had any fights in the matter. He replied "no," that it was a mistake and there the matter dropped. Neal also presented me with a plain book case with glass doors worth five dollars. I will say that shortly after I retired from the executive office, I let Colonel Neal have a cane mill and copper evaporator which cost $700, leaving it to him to determine the price. He paid me i$100 and I therefore did not feel that in accepting the small gifts that I did, that it was an imposition on him. I never dreamed that the articles were not charged to his account and settled for. Since I have discovered that the State is the loser I, of course, am willing to pay for each and all of these things. There is one other item of which no mention has yet been made that I have seen, though I have not followed the testimony closely. He shipped me a small lot of oats one time from somewhere and would never send me any bill although I wrote for it twice. I make these state ments for your information and satistaction and leave it to your discretion as to what use you will make of them. I am yours respectfully. B. R. TILLMAN. Remarkble Rescue. Mrs Michael Curtain, Plainfield, 111., makes the statement, that she caught cold, which settled on her lungs ; she was treated foi a month by her family physician, but grew worse. He told hei she was a boneless victim of consumption and that no medicine could cure her. Her duggist suggested Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption ; she bought a bottle and to her delight found herself beoefitted from first dose. She continued its ase and after taking six bottles, found herself sound and well ; ?ow does her own housework, and is as well as she ever was.-Free trial bottles of this Great Discovery it all Drug Stores. Only 50 ornts md $.00, every bottle guran'^d. The horse has the smallest stom ich of any quadruped io proportion ;o its size. THE ROSE IN THE GARDEN. He followed ber into the gard eu,.where A rose bloomed sweet and red, And be saw ber stand beside it there And gracefully bend her head : She kissed the beautiful, fragrant rose. And he beard her gently sigh, Then be followed after, upon tip toes, And his heart was beating bigh. He stood where the maiden had stoou beside The beautiful, blushing rose, And he lovingly bent his head and sighed And be buried his mouth and nose Among tbe petals so sweet, so rare, That the fair maid's lips bad pressed, But a bumble bee that bad got there Proceeded to do the rest. Chicago. Times-Herald. $50,000,000 For Cornstalks. Steps are being taken to form a cornstalk combine, with a capital of $50,000,000. Its promters say that if they are'succesful in carry ing out their ideas, 250,000,000 tons of cornstalk that are barned or left to rot by the farmers of the United States will prove to be as valuable as coal, or about $6 per ton. W. B. Tate, representing a syndicate of St Louis, Chicago and Cleveland capitalists, is now in the city, preparing the way for ? meeting of the promoters of the combine, which is to be held at the Waldorf-Astoria on August 15, when the scheme of financing and the details of organization will be perfected. While he was reticent when eeen yesterday, he intimated that the combine would not have for its object the stifling of com petition, but simply the develop ment of the corns tl k as a com mercial commodity and the crea t ion of markets for . its several products. j Mr Tate has been in communica tion i-, the last few days with several well-known promoters of this city, and from one of these the purposes of the new trust, along with some interesting figures, ! were secured. Over 250,000,000 tons of corn stalks are grown in the United States every year, the acrc?ge averaging 80,000,000 and the yield about three tons to the acre. Of this immense amount, two-thirds or about 160,000.000 tons, has 1 heretofore been regarded as sheer . waste and litter, le?s than one- < third of the total weight of the < stalks being serviceable as fodder I for. cattle. This waste matter hm ? been a serious trouble to farmers a long time, not because of ar understood loss of revenue by it, 1 but simply because of the necessity < of getting rid of it by burning or ( otherwise, in order to free the soil . of ern encumbrance. Science bas demonstrated now that this so-called waste has * value all its own, and reckoned at t its present market price it is now known that the farmers of the c country h?7e been throwing away j or burning up and otherwise , destroying $900,000,000 a year for two decades at leaet, or $18,000, 000,000. It is a safe estimate that twice that enormous sum has been alio we dj to go to waste in om stalk s in this country alone in tue present centry. A company organized a few years ago by Mark W. Marsden, of Philadelphia, which has two factories, one in Rockford, 111, and another in Owensboro, Ky, has been successfully manufacturing . six different products from corn stalks. These are cellulose, which is used for the lining of battle ships, serving as an automatic lak s topper, the glue of which is well known ; a first-class card board, a splendid paper, an unequalled foundation for dyna- ] mite, a patent cattle food and a glue. If these products and others that the cornstalk may in the future s be capable of yielding that the proposed combine intends to bandle. Whether or not the Marsden Company will enter the combine is not known, but accord ing to Mr Tate the success of the scheme does not depend upon the securing of the Marsden patents, he intimating that the promoters of the trust control their own process. Mr Marsden has a contract with the Government for cellulose at $400 per ton, and it is figured that he can manufacture one ton of cellulose from 15 tons of stalks, or $400, worth of cellulose from $90 worth of stalks, not counting his by-products. Ground corn stalks, cooked and sweetened with molasses and pressed into bricks, is regarded as one of the most nutritive cattle foods yet placed on the market. The paper and cardboard manufactured from cornstalks are already recognized as exceptionally superior articles. It is the dust of cellulose that is used for making powder and dynamite. By reason of its powers of absorption ard retention of nitro-glycerine, it is declared to be immensely superior to sea is land cotton, which heretofore bas been the chief base for higb ex plosives. The glue manntfactured from cornstalks fiada a ready market with jewellers and artists. Mr Tate will leave for Washing ton in a few days to look afier several patents for which he is negotiating. As far as could be learned, the trust will erect five factories in ?be Northwest and Southern corn belts, and immediately upon organization will begin operation. Volcanic Eruptions. Are grand, but Skin Eruptions rob life of joy. Bucklen's Arnica Salve, eures them; also Old, Bunning and Fever Sores, Ulcers, Felons-, (J?rns, Warts, Cuts, Bruises, Burnn. Scalds, Chapped Hands, Chilblains. Best Pile cure on earth. Drives out Pains and Aobes. Oniy 25 otu. a box. Cure gua ranteed. Sold by all Druggists. ....j The following is the ..-.general scheme of working roads in Ntevs Jersey, and that State is famed foi her good roads :. New Jersey adopted a, system; oi State aid several years ago, which hat? deservedly become highly popular, especially in the farming communities. Under this State aid law the cost of building macadamized roads is divided between the State, the country sjnd tbe adjoining property owners, It is so framed that no road can be improved except upon the petition of the property . owners residing along the line, they pay 10 pl c. of the cost, the State pays onerthird and the county the remainder! This is an equitable.arrangement, because the value of property ajpng the improved line is enhanpedj because the wealthy inhabitants of the cities and towns whoj n?e the roads for pleasure and profit pay their share of cost of ^con struction and maintenance, -Vand because the people of the to't??tjr furnish the greatest amount of travel. ; The popularity of . this lajw ia evinced by the fact that the/ high way commissioner of New^ Jersey has petitions on file in bis office for the improvement of roadB re quiring many times the appropria tions made- by the State Legis lature, and the greater part of his time is consumed in listening to the pleadings of farmers ?ro?-. all parts of the State, urging that their roads may be the first to be impoved under the State aid law. ! To permanently care Melancholy, Difficulty .of Breathing- and Swimming of. Head, ase Sim mons Squaw Vine Wine oe Tablets. For . tale by G. L. Penn & Son. >. The Southern Chautauqua Asso ciation, which has been commis eioued by the Secretary of-Statef: and whose Board, of Corporators comprises the most eminent educators of the State, will found a summer Assembly in 1900-Upon, the Iale of Palms, near Charleston where the people of the Southdean be given equal facilities for ?u'm mer education with these obtain able now only at northern resorts. Tbe object of the, Association is stated iu its commission to bu "The advancement of Literary, Sciyutific, Moral .and Aesthetic Culture, and the promotion of the mupe of popular education fay the establishment and maintenance' of jolleges, schools and lect?re^iialls, jombined with elements of-.enter [aiument and recreation .appro priate to out-door life. Special accommodations -a& Tea sonable rates will be provided -for teachers attending and . Special., Chautauqua rates will alan be fur nished on all railroads. Por -full information, write to the 'Seore :ary, St. Julien Grimke, Oharles ;on, S.C. Pare blood Ie fill of Life and y i tali tr, .and :arries Vigor to the organs of ?ic-body. Dr: M. V. Simmon* Liver Medicine create? rieb,' pare. >lood. For sale by G. L. Pean & Son. WH?TTS T PAYING $? PER DAY FORJEEOTE" WHEN" Y GET THE BEST AN?) MOS FOR 50 OR PER DAY AND TAKE YjOUR * GET TH PAY FOR ONLY WHAT 1 THE C0M??I [s the only European. Plan Hotel i solicited. S. C. & Ga L. P. PETTYJOHJ I -Tfeg^r High ?na &nr?ftg TmMj ?uaraatoftd for tea yea aB tit* latest sjMfeek?eafc, ben mrotod wood vwerk. Price $!8.0< tetm*j refunded siter 80 days liMtM good as UM (46.00 to V MM ky agf.ats. Semd f?r tx rt niara atti state -vt V? mr* \**?*v*tten tor Purni ti Aatttaas, earpe?a, Sew inf Baily earriaees, ale. '. ..: ^ Address, \ i?I0?II?2Br? Jewelry, I Pocket Boob, Diamonds, ToM Articles. Clocks,' Brass Tables, Cut Glass, Fine Umbrellas, I8END;FOB OUR 1898 CATALOGUE WE Miter! p, JEWELERS, 702 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA. ; Glos ai)9 Presses. GET OUR PRICES. Complete Cotton, Saw, Grist, Oil and Fertilizer, Mill Outfits, Gin, Press, Cane Mill, and Shingle Outfits. Building, Bridge, Factory, Furnace and Railroad Castings, Railroad, Mill, Machinists' and Factory Supplies. Belting, Packing, ?Iniectors, Pipe JPittings, Saws, Files, Oilers, etc. We cast every day. Work 150 Hands. AUGUSTA, GA. undry, Machine, Boiler, Press and Gin Works ?ktT" Repairs Promptly Done NOTICE. Please take notice that the books of subscription to the capital stock bf The ?dg?field Building and .Loan Association, a proposed corporation, will be opened in the .room known as the Y. M. C. A. .Hall, upstairs, b?ck of the Bank of Edgefield, in the- Town of Edge field, South Carolina, on Friday 16th day of June, 1899, at 10 o'clock A. M., and remain open as long thereafter as may be neces sary, for the purpose of organizing the Edgefield Building and Loan Associatation. This ''notice is given, by the undersigned by virtue of a commission issued to th?m on the 6th day of June, 1899 by the Hon. M. R. Cooper Secretary of State for the Slate of South Carolina. Dated the 12th of June, 1899. 1 MITCHELL P. WELLS, ' EDWARD J. MIMS, WILLIAM W. ADAMS, Board of Corporators. HE USE OF .00 TO $3.00 L ACCOMMODATIONS "OU CAN T COMFORTABLE ROOMS r 75 GENTS 1EALS WHERE YOU PLEASE. EBBST. fOU GET AND NO MORE. : n Augusta, Ga. Your patronage isl . trains pass the door. . % PROPRIETOR. ST-BARG) hat ya? want. ire? Stoves, V JIMMBM, The Padgett FyraH sd Street, UlI Drummond 559 Broad St., AUGUSTA, - GA. Keeps ONE of tbe best and tidiest. Boarding* - Houses IN AUGUSTA. Country friends and strangers' patron age respectfully solicited. "1 FARMERS BAM CF EDGEFIELD, S. C. . * ir? * State and Colt? Depsitary. * * * Paid-up Capital, $58,000 * * * SQTOI?S ari MtoM Fnnonooo.00. * * * A. E. PADGETT, President. W. H. TIMMERMAN, V-Pres. J. L. C?UGHMAN, Cashier. W. H. HARLING, Ass't Cash'r. * * * Pays Eight per cent, annual divi dends. Does a General Banking Business. Acts as Guardian, Administrator and Trustee for Estates. Pays Interest on Deposits by spe cial contract. Money to Lend on Approved Se curity. YOUR ACCOUNT SOLICITED ON BUSINESS TERMS. -SHIP TO if i Cn -Cash Bayera of les, . Purs, iBee&wa?? TALLOW, ETC. LLSO OLD METALS OF ALL KIN DS Write for Prices. 10-512 REYNOLDS STREET, AUGUSTA, GA. VINS! THIS ELltfAJfT 8 COOKING STOVE >nly *KXOO. 117x17 iaeb oven, ?wm . ta** ries; largs Anea aai J-?a a pad tafctr. We * Ma up wWfc forty fktBM ot vare ?jag the Imtmt stew ?are. " ?fi fisto Ka. S Ctitims 0to*i, -?Ith 40 f?aoea m? ware fer m.oo CASH. uf? Co. #; ?ttjuX,Ga. E very Dog ? ? * I Has His Day V AT THE . . N. Y. RACKET STORE. The reason why is that it will rain bargains for forty days and longer. Bargain Dog Days we call 'em, and it has already commenced to shower. Dr. Bill Jennings used to say that the reason every dog didn't have his day was that there were more dogs than there were days. This isn't the case at the New York Racket Store, for there Every Day is a Bargain Day And we don't keep anything else but bargains, for instance in New Spring Goods are shown, all over the store, the story of brilliant ano cess in the right collection of New Goods. Each department is brim ful of the best and most beautiful ; and the most pleasing feature of all is the prices, which open the pocket book, with the magic key of economy. For an .Illustration of This Truth Glance over the following brief but interesingt list of items, which is only a drop in the bucket: 1 lot 46-inch Silk Warp, all.wool. $126 Henrietta, our price fl 00 Fine English and Kew England Percales, from 5c to 10c Fine Dimities, Ducks and Piques, from 7_a to 25c Fine White and Tinted Lawns, from 5c to 25c . Fine French and American Organdies, from 10c to 15c and 25c Best Calicoes at 5c, and Madras Goods at 6?c Finest Kid Gloves, all colors, from 75c to $1, easily worth $150 ?Hen's Ready-made Suits fi om $3 50 to $15 ! . Boys' Ready-made Suits from 50c to $4 \ Underwear for men from 19c to 50c.' Ladies' Undervests from 5c to 25c Hats for Men and Boys, many styles. Straw, Felt, Crash, a superb specialty, ranging from 10c to .$2 50 Gaps for Men and Boys, many styles Ribbons-Sash Ribbons, Trimming Ribbons ' ' Laces in endless variety Jackonet and Hamburg Trimmings, another superb specialty .Matting, Rugs, and Window Shades . White Goode-See our prices before buying Lace Curtains, Sil kal ines, Spangled Tissues, and other fashionable Draperies. Unbleached Goods. Umbrellas, Parasols, Fans And, last but not least, SHOES, SHOES, SHOES. Oxfords for Ladies and Children, black, tan and ox-blood. J. W. PK^K, NEW YORK BACKET STORE. SPAINS 1899 ANNOUNCEMENT. To Our Many Friends of This County: Our new and handsome Spring stock of Men's, Youth's and Children's Clothing, Hats and Furnishings is now ready for your inspection. We have also a large and novel line of Ladies' . S,hirt Waists, Collars, Neckwear and Belia, We need no introduction to you, but have this to Bay : We appreciate your kindness iii the past and wil assure you the same courteous treatment for the future' Kindly Remember Us. ' . \ *. ' /.C/LEVY'SSM&C?., T?lL0R-fl7 CLOTHIERS tjUGUSJA, $? W. J. RUTHERFORD. ?B. B.'MORRIS. WJ. RUTHERFORD & CO., -MANUFACTURERS OF -AND DEALERS IN Lime, Cement Plaster, Hair, Fire Brick, Fire Clay, Heady Hoofing AA1) OlhhR MATERIAL TO TTS TOE; PBIOBS. Corner Reynolds and Washington Streets, > AUGUSTA, GA I. WILLIE LEVY, 844 BROAD STREET? High Art Clothing. The Latest and Best in Hats. ,/ Shirts, Collars and Cuffs-.Celebrated Makers. .;; Neckwear-the nobiest creations. Underwear and Hosiery-the best. Handkerchiefs and Suspenders. GRAND OPENING* Entire New Spring Stock HEW STORE ?P CHOICE? GOODS. SOUVENIRS) ALL|ARE INVITED.TO.CAU.