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C. HAYNS, Praa't. F. G.FORD.essliler. Capital, $250,000. UnflT^ed'profltg j $110,000. . Facilities of onr-magnltlcent New Vault locntainiiig 410 Safotyi-Lock Boxes. Dlffar >?: Sizes aro offered to jour patron? and tba public at $3.00 to ?lO.OOjpor annnm. THOS. J. AHAMS- PROPRIETOR. THE PLASTERS LOAN ARD SAVINGS BARK. AUGUSTA, Q?. J?UHB?l?WIM.MIHI M IM Pays Interest ? on Accounts Solicited. L. a HAXOTC, President. W. C. WABD?AV, Cashier. VOL. LXIV. NO. 49. .Hf, yea, old friend, I'd gladly spend Apeaceful time togejQjer, To'idUy walk and redd and talk And love the world and weather. . int faitb^my deaiy*ee who comes hero ^ j f r? "^W mbck at sit ?e ?t'tfer;* . .ft A vi I take thia blow, I humbly go v.WJbat hie- commands, that mast be so ? I haste along to join tho throng ?- r,**t "Who slave at book ?nd barrow [? .?a jr.:*??Tour poldon, pray; .you'rein my way;( ' This walk is rather narrow.- iii Whet ! you resist? By foot and flat, ' Good air. go^oek tho g\Utor!'V > > f ?T??rOfl% I Inow,' but iqeiMre So/ ? I rs 3knd'g?ve"?ccTtxothf<r blow for blow, j 9 ImpqUed.by-Bread-and-Butter. ?r.*n* 1 A FIGHT WITH M? AV. Sifo/1/ of an Impressionable Tl i . BYcJ.OHN * ' ' t ' ' ' '. ?* T ? . B" / \ ? * *k 'I "?J. i 1 Harold .?fesjwij ( badi been ?ill* for? four weeks with typhoid fever, and .: li;vwas*nbw !only a shadow of his real self,1 "subject tb n?rvo?s starts and chills, and with just strength enough to turn in b'ed" '1 It was in - the clij.ll hours of r early dawn-thafcdie' -woke\.?w?th ?' "start and* j missed tho " familiar figure that had haunted his- bedside for so long-a s?u vblue nnd white figure with kind, quiet face above it and cool, helpful hands that always did just the right.thing., "Nurse," he caj?ed? 'faintly, and/ A moment more "brought the clay nurse ?ii! from the * next: room. Her blue and white uniform was gone and her stiff | white cap. In their p,lace she wore a ?-tftf^j^|lt^l)er hair was plaited **^^h%Tleav?n&rai3 that hung below her waist. She turned up the. \ gas, drew a' stool to the bedside and sat down. "The night nurse has gone," she began, quietly,,. "You. are.so>muoh better' we thought I conld manage alone. You have slept nearly all night, Ifttr. Western, and now I shall'get you "your milk, and you will go to sleep again." He-followed her lazily with his eyes while she lighted the alcohol lamp and put the porringer of milt over it Then she . sat down on a chair, her head dropped ou her breast and she slept soundly for five minutes; waking when the milk was hoi as easily as though she were some sort of machine - .adjusted to rest just so long. "So there wore two of you," he said, as she came forward with the milk. She sat .down pn the stool by the beds ido, holding the drinking, tubo to his mouth. This action brought \ her quite close, and he noted, as he drank, the soft sheen of her hair, the delicate curve of her, cheek, the long lashes shielding her eyes," the firm, Bweef mouth.and the strong white hands that ! were ministering to his ueuds. "Yon Jae Nur so. Pimjle, ". ha .said,^ aaJl?.,finished. "I doa't-. remember, the ogffirlgafe^''-l - 3* She^ahowed two dimples ^as ah?lin swered, "Yes, that is what you have called me* ever:'since I came/* "My nametis.Wade*-Emily "Wade/*; 1 * 'I ' like my name . best," * he *ani :<.?' swered. TXTfiTT^ "Very,weil;, but noir yon ?re -to-gb b to sleep." **"-?^*BuTthe patient was not so'easily disposed ot .L.L1L - - - ~'r"^*'"Nnr8e Dimple," he began as she turned away, "dp patients ever re member what they said and did when they were delirious?" "I don't know," she answered, *Tf they do they^neVerispoke to me of it. I hope they, do^nrot^for most of thom would 9<& aTffiained of' thonftfeives if they did." r "You meant th*t for me^ and you know I remember that I insisted on your galling me garold or I wouldn't take j my m edi ein e or my nourishment. And you did ,it, too." And he laughed weakly at the1 r?inembranee. "I shall call you something worse than your Christian- name ifcyoa talk any more. Go to sleep. And she passed her. hands over his forehead *? . until drbwsmess overcame him. .? " The" next two weeks were very hazy to the young man and consisted of long naps with occasional irritating . calls to drink gruel or milk. At last came a morning when the fog.cleared fr om . his. brain and'he woke refreshed. Before him stood the nurse in a fresh blue and white dressiTOd^'Wow'y'cap a"bove "Tier soft" brown^hair., t . . . t * ^A.-whole egg thia time, Mr. West-" ern, and you look as though you could - take it. " > ' \ . ^ Be; took1 hi* egg and askei*!:meekly : ^if fi^ might be allowed to talk and was granted .ten.. minutes. ? After he had /^learned'the day of the week and.momh he asked suddenly: t, "Did that. night nurse ever come back; or have you taken care of me alene all this time?" ."Not quite alone,'* *sne answered. "Your sister, Mrs. Allbrigbt, sits . with you every other afternoon, and Miss Violet Grant takes the.; alternate ' day. She sits in the dressing room "a and rings the bell if you stir. She .' iii too shy to run the risk of your wak ing and finding her here. She has Brought"a HbuupK of these-violets every morning early and inquired for you." "She is a-little wood violet herself," he exclaimed, gallantly. "But yon, Nurse Dimple, are a very rose for j freshness this morning. I prefer roses." "Sparelyour compliments,Mr.lvest erti You are getting too veil to. be allowed to talk nonsense." J; "Yes, I am better, : thanks to your cure, " he said, soberly; "bat if I am not to be allowed to say what I think and feel toward you I shall wish, my eelf back into the. days of weakness acct delirium, when I made you do : what I wished."_. 1 "Your ten .minutes are up, Mr. West ern, *'* Mis? Wade said, a little sharply, and she sei about tidying up the room with unnecessary swiftness. Ha^ld-tsoirtinueuMTrTgairr ewh'day," anif seeing that direct lovemaking was .distasteful to his nurse^and? that su>re.carefut advances must ba made, . ba iarned to studying hoi' lfljes-. and dislikes^ talking-over books-wi^i'' *er * and- ge tiing ht?t? t<* Yead passages, Jxjmn. bisx>r her favorites. Thus e very real .* *gftd*bleasant friendship sprung; Up be* v? J Jun ru. nSMnmasMsanwflsVBS?Hn ' How glad thence .of softest blue Which fills the sky above usi " * How fair the scene of restful green; Ah, sure the gods must love us. Tne brlght.sprlngtuae.the Bummer's prime, . The fall with leaves-a-flutter, The winter's birth-yoiLaU tho eartk Is beautiful, but beauty's worth Xs naught to Bread-and-Butter. Alas ! sweet art, that we must part, Bat" so decrees the tyrant. ' * ' ? Ambition gast, ppr boat jour breast, .Por you'ro'a vain aspirant. Lovot go your way. Quiok, quick, obey I Tlstreksoa that you mutter Why,1 what*tttefyou that claims a due Against the power all,grovel to-f . Tho tyrant\Bredd-and-Bntter?_t -Edmund Vance, 'In4the'Chautauqua. ^^,.A-dft> A-Atr-A-AA A AA * CONSCIENCE. 1 Youth and a Trained Nurse. C *Bdft il?ss Wade could not helpsaee ing that the lad was growing to love.? 1/er, and many long- honre et night she debated the question, with herself. Harold'wae much younger than Miss Wade, very handsome and would*soon be very richy It was a temptatibtia'to ifhe<wom,!&k who knew just what the world Jia4 to offer her,-&.\ She .'.had nursed eight years and knew ' that two more were ."about as " many as the average nurse could do.., Than, would come some oner to become matron of an orphan asylum or some, similar position, or elset; she wouldbe obliged tc* hunt Soi a chance its com panion to some nervous crank or old jperson. It was^nqt a tempting future '. ?to looKfcrfWai-d. 'to, and 'here before her was ease if she would take it. ' ^ The thought of .Violet Grant always intruded just as she had made up her m iud that she would encourage Har old's lovemaking.' ? "I am afraid she' love? him,*" was the thought that closed all soliloquies. Little i Violet Grant, with'her shy tribute of flowers, her patient waiting in the little dressing room and her oager questions about Harold's wel fare. It brought Harold's thoughts to a troubled pause, too, whenever he was .allowing himself a day dream about Miss Wade. He au J Violet had been schoolmates, and he admired her shy, sweet ways and had given her many reasons to think she was dear to him, though he had never di rectly proposed to her. "But, oh, -dear." he would sigh, "she is just as I E.-id, a violet, while my Nurse Dimple is a full-blown roso. I wish- she wouldn't bring those con founded flowers." ' s '.. . Miss Violet" was in love in her Own way with Miss Wade, too, considering -he?rthe- savior*f tho boy she loved PO tenderly; the 1r them niaibj th sibie )r}v?' quite fre:;. ?Wouldst; iu a day o Misa Wade," . pretty bl4sk*n<l e?^ ali ci ... MiesvWade wont up to her ?, . . with'hofr cheeks'. ' "And you planned rto, i-ob heiv'-'Tshe scolded at her reflec fjE^?.inUJie'Lglass... "Well, that's oV?r^f you mercenary wretch, ".and with the; same Ann expression she wore when_ controlling^ a\]delirious., patient sha went "downstairs. . .... . ,.. ' ' Harold was asleep when she came into.the room, and lie lookod'boyish, even with a six weeks' growth of silky beard on .his. chin. "What a fool I was to think the ^boy could be happy with ma or wouldn't hate me in a year," she thought and laughed grim fe ? ? : 'J T /ThVnext day Harold was well enough to be dressed and wheeled out on the veranda* ,.It was.a-June morn ing, and Yiblet Grant came up the path with her .arms full of roses. . 16K overheard you say you liked-, rosea better than violets,Harold," she said, simply, "and, oh, lam soglad to see you getting well." Harold took both her hands and pressed them warmly,1 reddening sud denly with something like shame. Miss Wade, came out, just then with. ? magazine in her hand and declared she would have to read them a story, else they would talk too* much for her patient's good. So Violet produced a bit of embroidery, and Harold leaned back luxuriously ia his chair and" quietly studied the two befovo.-him. -, Violet.was small-and very fai?, with faintly p;.nk cheeks which blushed eas ily and prettily, and big blue eyes*that had never lost their baby expression of doptu and innocence. Her hands were very small and slender and handled. vhex embroidery ';fl.oss as thotigh" meant for such work only.. She wore a pale pink muslin that floated about her softly, making it seem as though she perched on her-chair like a butterfly. One tiny pointed toe tapped the floor as she rocked back and forth. The big ; blue eyes sought Harold's and; smiled frankly and happily, while the color deepened in her cheeks. Harold answered the smile and turned embarrassed toward tho reader. In her . he saw a face- and -figure we often describe as comfortable, and to suc?iw'e {afb* in8t:nctively*iri tim? of distress of any kind, but at other times fail to admire. "How big she is 'side of Violet," thought Harold, "and how much older she seems out here in the' sunlight than she did when I. was sick. Why, she must be 30. What a fool, I wast" ' And he turned once more toward the girl of 18 with a love glance that sent the blushes racing over her sweet face. i At the close o? the story Miss Wade went in to make ah eggnog, and'Violet rose toggo. I)fi .'. "I shall be 2.1 next week>7 Said Harold, "and then I shall have some thing to tell you Violet, my Violet," he whispered, as she gavel hhn Ker hand. "I promised lather I wouldn't engage niyseli infill:j was (31, but I didn't p'?m?se' ?ot to lov?any,one. B? "you Tove me, " Violet?" MI'Jl:tell ? you next-, week,"'she an swered, with a laugh', and ."r?n, '/iwaV, blushing.-Chicago Becord.' _ ; Every y.ea**3, ?80,00A OOO passenger! travo! on the world's 414,540 miles ol railway, which- thus transport every two Ivo months t wi co thc entire po pu latios ?lv^?'ir?!d. . .. <wT <r>l?* ' ^THbk ?. ADAMSPROPRIETOR. EDGEFIELD, 8. C., WEDNESDAY, NO VEMBER 8, 1899. m? PLANTERS LOAN ANO SAVINGS AUGUSTA, GA. Pays latest 1 on Deposits. I ACCOU??S ] Solicited. L. C. HAYNE, President. W. C. WARDLAW, Cashier. VOL. LXIV. NO. 45. I J i M Ksi n WA f.IT RR. WA It HEX WA I, TTE lt. #8? I THE REAtt?E ^- -{I : Simple, Primitive VV ! of the Tra You will hear diven anBwetB ?B to what kind of people the Boera are. The more short-sighted and intolerant travelers may say that the Boers are a dirty lot who don't use table napkins, an illiterate set of brutes who never heard of Kipling, an utterly unrefined people whose knowledge of art is nil; in short, a backward, stupid, un pro gressive, half civilized set who are too thick-headed to know they are stand ing in the path of that Juggernaut car, civilization, and must in the end be erushed beneath its wheels. ' It is a mistake to take Paul Kruger and his surrounding politicians as types of the Boor. Also it is a mis take to take the dweller in the towns as typical. To unearth the real Boer one must seek the wide* and solitary veldt, the hidden valleys, the distant hills, and there, on his farmt draw him BOERS GATHERED.FOR THE LC ?ut and study him. Yonr true Boer despises tho town. He is essentially an agriculturist and a hunter. He is extremely conservative, and with strangers brusque and taciturn, but if he finds you are harmless ho can be very hospitable. He does not drink doep. Ho is religious,with a gloomy, stern religion which makes him be lieve, as did the Covenanters, as much in the Old Testament as in the New. He is moral. He does not believe in divorce laws. He marries early in life, and is convinoed the highest blessing is an abundance of children. He is sturdily built, as a rule, thanks to his way of life, which is the same as tb".t c' MB lather a*> ~ ?nnARtira for infinv ?T?<v"f. - milk. He is a good horseman, and a remarkable marksman. He under stands that the man who can shoot straight and without excitement makes, nowadays, the best soldier. He fears Qod and loves his country, bat cannot understand the need of a ta iga th er er. He is, in fact, the back woodsman of last century in the United States, come to life again in Africo. At the first hint of gray in the East ern 6ky, at the first crow of the cock, the farm household is up and stirring, and breakfast, with the usual strong .offee the Boer loves, is over by the time the sun rises. The men are out and about at once, looking after just' the same chores as on an American farm ia the West, save those who are ?ff to replenish the larder by shooting CHTJROn AND PARSONAGE TTPICAIi OP THE TRANSVAAL. a springbok,a hartebeest or some suoh species of deer. The women have plenty of work abont the house. The genuine old Boer farm furnishes it self every necessary to its occupants. The furniture is ofton made by the farmer, or he has great, unwieldy, carved chests and bureaus which have come to him from his ancestors. He eau'make his own shoes. His women dress and weave his own sheep's wool and make their and his clothes from it. There is almost nothing he needs to buy. He does not care a rap for neckties or collars or store clothes, and a full beard is fashionable. All KRAALS OP KAPFIB HI he really has to buy is farming imple ments, nnd of these he prefers the primitivo .sort, though enterprising agents have introduced suoh things as mowing and other machinery* IRS AT HOME 1 rays of tlie People gj msvaal. 81 During the day hs -works leisurely, ?ontent to make a living out of the jround. He dines heartily at noon ind sups heartily at evening. His day lordly differs from that of any farmer n any country, only, if no syigs at lis work, it is likely to be a psalm ;hat he eings. He smokes a great Jeal while he goes about-a habit de lved from his forebears in Holland, ?e is fortunate in haying no winter io frost, no snow, only tho dry sea son, when his cattle suffer, and the .ainy season, when the rivers and louds are flooded. His honso and barns are low and roomy-simply furnished as to tho louse rooms. The great featherbed is usually the most noticeable feature, unless, perhaps, he glories in a little harmonium for his daughter to pick out hymn tunes on of a Sunday. Just )RD'S BUT?EB, PIETERSBURG. before the sun goes down, at a time which varies very little all the year round, the Boer calls his family to gether, and they have household prayers and pious singing. No lights are needed, or if one is, it is an old fashioned lanthorn, or, more likely, a rush dip, floating in a cnp of home made tallow. Ere the daylight has fairly gone tho farmer has bolted the door and everybody is in bed. He has no amusements, according to European or American lights. Knowing nothing cf theatres or pic ture'galleries, he does not want them. He hardly ever reads anything save the. Bible, and that is a saored d"< and win?- -*?* --j don't take their families to hotels, though some may stay with friends, but drive the two or three days' jour ney in the big white-canvassed wr.gon, drawn by from twelve to sixteen fat, white-horned oxen. They make camp "OTJTSPANNTNG. " A BOER FAMILY BEST ING AT THE CLOSE OF A DAY'S TBEK. near the town in a meadow probably by the stream, and live in and under the wagon during the Nachtmaal, cooking for themselves the food thej have brought along. Th congrega tion gathers, during thin time, day and evening. Their neighbors meet between whiles and gossip and per haps transact a little business. They would not belong to the human family if, of course, the lads and lasses did not walk and talk and court and ex change vows. These are the great outings, the picnics, of the year, and small tradesmen and peddlers are on hand with knickknacks and trumpery to sell to the young folks, so that, outside the services, the meeting is a kind of fair Sometimes also there may be a wrestling match or jumping match between young men, in which all, old and young, will take a deep interest. So the Boer farmer and hunter pur sues his even way, as his people have ever done, and if what he considers the accursed gold had never been found in his land, he might so pursue it to the end of tho chapter. It is to be feared, however, that foreign capital and railroads and telegraphs and lightning-rod agents have broken ?LP ON A BOER FARM. up his idyllic life forever, or, rathor, will soon do so. It was not, however, all peace. As the American back woodsman was continually on his guard against Indians, io the Eoor is ovoi ready to take the field against a kaff?? tribo ot the British. Then tho plough and the hoe are laid aside, and tbe rifle is cleaned carefully, but not now for a pleasant hunt after game. The call to arms ie simple; mobilization is primitive. Thcro is no squabbling about volnn teering, or enlisting, or drafting. Ex cept the -women, the very old and the very young, everybody responds, even boys of thirteen and fourteen-but the average Boer boy is a pretty stout and healthy lad, and has been taught to shoot since he was ten or eleven. Each man takes his horse and his rifle and proceeds to the rendezvous of his district. The pastors oro with them, and with prayer and psalms the larmer-soldiere march out to defend their country* A SULU SULTANA'S WORK. The Haler's Mother Has MnOe a Flae IVitli Her Own Uandi. The Sultana Dowager, as we might call the mother cf the reigning Sui f an of the ??la Archipelago of the Philip OUR SULU SULTAN'S ?LAG. pine group, writes tho Manilc corre? | 8pondent of the New York Times, has shown an unexpected practical side of' her character lately by actually mak ing.with her own hands a copy of the royal standard of Sulu. The flag is red and tho field carry ing the five stars is blue. These two colors appear in very many dif ferent shades. The four small stars in the blue field are the four principal tribes of Sulu, while the central and largest star is for the Sultan him self. The wiseacres say ho would do neall! to be somewhat more modest and take* a less conspicuous place in the galaxy, as there are two tribes not more than fifteen miles from the capital whose Dattos, or chiefs, ore very powerful and who are" not on very friendly terms with the Saltan. The Hattos wield the most absolute power imaginable among their fol lowers, who seem more like slaves than independent members of the community. The Datto is. alwayB accomp anied by a sword-bearer, T.'ho juunger fol lowers, carries the silvor box contain ing the beetle root and lime. These substances they roll np in a wad and chew continually, much to the harm of their teeth, which get coal black/ and their gums, which turn a bright' red. A third follower in the retinue car ries the umbrella. A fourth, and the most powerful and long-haired man of the lot, takes the part of tho beast of burden and carries the Datto himself about oi. his shoulders. In the lower left-hand section of the Sultan's flag are two implements of warfare. The upper one, white in color on the red body of the flag, repre sents one of the borongs, or huge knives almost universally carried in peace as well as in war, while the; lower, also white in color in the flag,: is a section cf a spearhead, which im-1 plement is only used in fighting and' in the chase. I presume there have from time to time been exhibited specimens of the Manila insurgents' flag by returned, soldiers who captured them in battle. These have golden-colored stars on the white field, representing tho ohief tribes engaged in the uprising against our forces, whilo the rising sun in the centre stands for the rising of the, young republic as pronged by Aguin aldo. A liualiraneer's Armor. The accompanying illustration is a photograph of the armor used by Ned Kelly, the notorious Australian bush ranger. Kelly, having been in his AUSTRALIAN RUSHR ANGER'S ARMOR. more peaceful dpys a blacksmith, says the London Strand, manufactured armor for himself and comrades from old boiler-pla*es, and to such good purpose did tuese protective coverings serve them that for two years the gang defied all the efforts of the police of Victoria to capturo them. They wore at last surprised, and many of them shot whilst drinking at a hotel; not, however, until ?400,000 had been spent by the Government in its en deavors to stamp out the gang. Ned Kelly was tried and exeouted in Mel bourne jail, and his armor, which shows many marks of police bullets, is at present in possession of the Vio terian Government, C. HAYNS, Praa't. F. G.FORD.essliler. Capital, $250,000. UnflT^ed'profltg j $110,000. . Facilities of onr-magnltlcent New Vault locntainiiig 410 Safotyi-Lock Boxes. Dlffar >?: Sizes aro offered to jour patron? and tba public at $3.00 to ?lO.OOjpor annnm. THOS. J. AHAMS- PROPRIETOR. THE PLASTERS LOAN ARD SAVINGS BARK. AUGUSTA, Q?. J?UHB?l?WIM.MIHI M IM Pays Interest ? on Accounts Solicited. L. a HAXOTC, President. W. C. WABD?AV, Cashier. VOL. LXIV. NO. 49.