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THE NATIONAL BANK OF fliJ??STA L. C. HAYNE, Pree't. P. G.FOBJD, Cashier. Capita^ $250,000. Undivided Froflts }$110,000. Facilities of our magnificent Kew Vault contaiuing 410 t-afety-Loci Boxes. Differ ent Sizes are offered to oar patrons and the public at $3.00 to 810.00 per annum. THOS. J. ADAMS PROPRIETOR. EDGEFIELD, S. Cf THE PLANTERS LOAN AND SAVINGS BANK. AUGUSTA, GA. Pay 8 Interest on Deposits, Account Solicited. L. P. HAYN-E, President. W. 0. WiJlDLAW, Cashier. NE8DAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1900. VOL. LXV. NO. 8. i*s?. TRUMPET ANO FLACi Cha last bu gi o's dying ech?os 'altor Gown . tue narrow Valley The doubtful battle tarried in so long: A3 turning (rom their headlong charge tho scattered horsemen rah j, The chiming rooks repeat that fading song. . From tho heights where eag?os hover, day dark clefts the buck leap over, The thousand giant .voices of the crag, In reverberating chorus speed the musical, . sonorous Sliver summons of the Trumpet to tho Flag; "Awake! awakel your splendid robe out shake! Float proudly, lovely Sister, for your mighty Brother's sakel The unanswered guns have spoken; we have conquered; they are broken, As the mists ot mora before the morning break." With a mountain-ash for neighbor In a chasm thunder-lifted, Struck In sodden turf beneath a stormy sky, Bose the Fing, round whose encumbered stall the uncounted doad were drifted Who dloi to set its haughty folds so high. Bat sha trailed her drooping vesture with a mourner's heedloss gesture, Marm'rlng: "Yea, and should my 'brold ered skirts be spread, Whon the chlldron ot my glory Ho about me rent and gory: All tho faithful ones who followed where I led? Alas! alas! their faces in the grass: - Tho breezes 1 Ift their draggled plumes to flout them as they pass. .0 Thoa crael mighty Brother, thou did'st ory thom on each other With the breath that Ulla thy throat of thrilling brass!" Then swift upon those tender tones of womanly compassion, Like sword from sheath the ringing an swer sped: "Who flies the kiss of stoei shall And his end ia worser fashion, A straw death, strangled slowly on his bod. Let the slave, the sot, the ooward, by Ig noble fears devoured. Count each measured heart-beat, sparo their hoarded breath, Yet the traitors shall be hunted by the fato they neverfrontod: These thy chlldron -nay not taste that seoond death. Away! away! to seek some noble fray. From pleasant crimes of genial peace, that soul and body slay; From the sin that still deceives you, till ,the sated demon leaves you, And the clay-bogotten broto goes back to clay." He said; and straight his loud last word a sooro of pipes sot playing To bid the victors close their ranks again. Aad growling as old soldiers growl, but sulkily obeying, The muttering drums took up the deep refrain. While tho banner, In the vayward, spread her wings to waft them forward, .By many a stubborn combat stained and tom, On the opal sky of even, ere she vanished ia olear heaven To frosher fights by younger warriors borne. And lone and chili the night wind swept the hill, ' When o'er tho yet unburied slain that strange dispute grew still: The old feud our kind inherit of the war ring soul and spirit; Sian's heart, and m au's Indomitable will. -Edward Sydney Tylee, in the Spectator. OOO?00000000090000000?OCOO ?TflE DUFFER QF THE REGIMENT. | ?9000090000009000000000000 OW aren't you real ly awfully hard on bim, poor fellow, Stella? I must say I lice him." "It's all very fine for yon. Cou sin Jane, to ?talk like that, seeing that you haven't been proposed to by him on an aver age once a fortnight ever sinoo the Seventh were quartered here." Stella was generally voted the pret tiest and the nicest girl in Exminster by tho Seventh, who paid her coni-L iu large numbers, but none with such assiduity, as little Tommy Lascelles, "tho Duffer," as he was called by his brother officers who, notwithstanding, were roughly kind to him-kindness for which they hardly guessed "the Daffer" was supremely grateful; he had the softest heart hidden away in a rather quaint little body, and-other things of which nobody snBpeoted him, or perhaps this story never would have been written. But to return to Stella. "Now," said she, "if it was Major Lansdowne, I could understand your championship, whereas the Lascelles boy- Beally, Cousin Jane, where can your eyes be?" Almost as she spoke the door opened and "Major Lansdowne" was an nounced, then "Captain Fr elie," and a few moments later "Mr. Lascellos." Tho last comer was relegated to Mrs. Ogilvie's tender mercies. Ap parently Stella was too much occupied with her other guests to have a word to spare, and the little man sat beside Mrs. Ogilvie, sipped his tea, and talked. Presently he rose to go. "This is a long good-bye," he seid, Yery gravely; "you know we are or dered to the front-to-morrow I go north to see my people, and on Thurs day we sail." Mrs. Ogilvie saw Stella's face grow deadly pale; she saw, too, that young Lascelles had noted it, and that he glanced toward Major Lansdowne. "Do believe me," he said in his quiet, gentle way, "that if I can shield him for yonr sako in any way it shall be done." An expression of complete bewilder ment on Stella's face, noted by Mrs. Ogilvie, was quite lost upon young Lascelles, whose eyes seemed sud denly to, have grown curiously dim. * ? * m m Across the bare, brown veldt a sol itary horseman made his way. "Bath er a good horse," he had said, which was hardly doing the animal justice. It was the fleetest in the regiment and had won many a race before young Lascelles had bought it. Inside his coat lay the despatches, which did they ever reach their des tination, wonld save the lives of hun dreds of his fellow soldiers. Just then an agonizing pain id his head, another near his head, where a ballet grazed his ear and sent the warm blood over his face, turned him Bick and faint. Every moment he seemed more and moro to lose control over his limbs, b?t he clutched his horse's mane with one hand and guided it with the other, pfflred himself together with a su preme effort of will, and at last rode jato.N-. Ho fainted as somebody helped him off his horse, bnt his work was done. ?*?*** In her pretty drawing-room at Ex ?niu s ter sat Mrs. Ogilvie and Stella. The morning papera liad j?sfc ar rived, and they had rushed to opei them. Stella suddenly laid down the papei and burst into tear3. Mrs. Ogilvie crossed tho room auc put a pair of " very kindly, motherly arms round the sobbing girl. , "What_is it, child?" she whispered, ' ' Stella pointed to a name in the lisi of the "seriously wounded." It wa: that of Lieutenant Lascelles, of the Seventh Regiment. ??Mrs. Ogilvie's eyes held a question which Stella answered. "I love him,' she said, "and have loved him foi ageB-and now he will never know.' "Never know!" That was not Mrs. Ogilvie's idea at all-and the next pas senger ship to "the front" carried the two ladies on board, bound for a cor tain town in South Africa, where t hero lay wounded, but mercifully aol "unto death." What passed at that first meeting who can tell? How Stella went inte that hospital ward, and he, seeing hex coming, could hardly believe the evi< dence of his own eyes. "I have 'como," she said simply, "just to tell you that I love you,, thal I have loved you all along, and that ] can't live without yon." The nursing sister is wont to de clare that it was a mysterious thing the rapidity of Mr. Lascelles'a recov ery dating from that visit, and soon after he was invalided home on sick leave. During the time he was in England there came a day when England's Queen distributed to her bravest sol diers some little irou crosses with the words "For valor" thereon, and the one whom sho specially singled out to speak to him word no man would care to forget so long as he lived was no other than little Lascelles, "the Duf fer of the Regiment."-London Morn ing Leader. GRASSHOPPER GLACIER. Icy Tomb of Tlioiuanils of th? Lon;. l07Ce<l Insect*. There are many remarkable glaciers in that part of the Rocky Mountain uplift that orosses tho southern bor der of Montana. ? part of this region has hitherto boen unmapped and its more elevated portions were unvisited and unnamed until last Bummer, when a geographical party piloted the way up the mountains and discovered some of the largest glaciers in tho temper ate regions of the western world. Here rises Granite Peak, whioh, ac cording to Mr. Gannett, is the cul minating point of Montana, 12,821 feet high. Among the gladers found in these mountains and recently described by James P. Kimball is Grasshopper Glacier, which derives its name from tie enormous quantity of grasshop per remains that are found on and in the glacier. Periodically the grass hoppers that thrive in the prairie to tho north take their flight southward, and must needs cross the mountains. Their favorito route seems to bo across this wide glacier, and in the passage -scores of them succumb to the rigor of cold* and wind, fall helpless upon tho snow, and are finally entombed in the ico. In the course of time bil lions of them have been the victims ol this glacier. They "are, of course, carried by the ice river down into the valley and deposited at the melting edge of the ioc, and Mr. Kimball says that thousands of tons of grasshopper remsius aro the principal material at tho lower edge of the glacier. We hear very often of rocks and sand as forming the terminal moraine of gla ciers, but boro is a glacier whose principal morainal material is grass hoppers. These insect romains are washed ont of the ice in furrow*, wherever the sun's heat has grooved the surface into runlets of desponding water. The grasshoppers permeate the glaciei from top to bottom. No fragment ol ioe can be broken so small as not to contain remaius. Most of the insects have been reduced to a coarse powder, and the fu rrows of them washed oui by the rnalets and naturally deposited in parallel Hues are very dark in color. The Sirdar. Kitchener's wonderful industry, his undisturbed patience, his noble per severance, are qualities too valuable for a man to er^oy in this imperfect world without complementary defects. The general, who never spared him self; cared little for others. He treat ed all men like machines-from the private soldiers, whoso salutes he dis dained, to thc superior officers he rig idly controlled. The comrade whe had served with him and under him for many years in peace and peril Waa flung aside incontinently as soon as he ceased to be of use. The Birdai only looked to tho soldiers who could march and fight. Tho wounded Egyptian, and latterly the wounded British soldier, did not excite his in terest, and of all the departments ol his army the one neglected was that concerned with the care of the Bick and injured. The stern and unpitying spirit ol the commander was communicated tc his troops, and the victories- whick marked the progress of the River wai were accompanied by acts of barbar ity, not always justified by the harsh onstoms of savage conflicts or the fierce and treacherous mature of the dervish.-From the Pi ver War, bj Winston Churchill. Not at Home to the Minister. The minister of a rather out-of-the way parish on the "borders of Wales ia no great stickler for any form of eti quette, and particularly wishes that his visit to the member.! of his flock shall be as homely and informal as possible. Quite recently he called unexpect edly on a widow, who lives in a cot tage on the outskirts of the village and surprised her in the midst oi washing a lot of clothes. She hurriedly hid behind a clothes horse and instructed her little boy to say that she was out. Tho youngster opened the door to the visitor's knock, "Well, Johnny," said the parson, "and where's your mother?" "Mother's not in, sir; please, she'i gone down the street on an errand," replied the lad, with questionable promptness. "Indeed!" replied- tho clergyman, with a glance at the bottom of the screen. "Well, tell her I called; and say that the next time she goes down the street it will be much bettor that she should take her feet with her." Tit-Bits. A BOER GIRL IN THE When young, Boer girls aro bandee eyes are blue,? their hair light, their fAe take 9s in men's shoes. They attire Un gay -with ribbon aud brass jewelry. 03003O00QQC0QGC0O0000G0Q0Q ? THE PEARL-BUTTON INDUSTRY DF? ? THE MISSIS3?FF1 RIVER, o OOOdOOOOOOOCOOOOOOQOOOCGOO EARL buttons are made, for the most part, from fresh water mussel shells. In less than three years clam digging for this purpose in the upper reaches of the Mississippi River has developed from an occa sional pursuit into a science. The bivalves taken up resemble the salt water article as much as a rhinoceros resembles an elephant. They are not fit to eat, they look raw, even when some adventurous tenderfoot boils them, and they have a taste weirdly compounded of catfish and musk. They aro in reality mussels, and they are wanted not for their meat but for-1 the beautiful mother-of-pearl lining.? of tba shells, from which battons and hundred of fancy articles are made. A thousand men are engaged in this new industry, most of them working on their own hook, and they make from S'iO to $125 a month, according to their facilities and application. The shells when dried are sold by the ton to the local concerns that are known as button factories, though they do not often make buttons. They aie in reality polishing shops and are fitted np with a vast number of steam driven wheels and brushes, emery ciroles, etc, for smoothing the iu M?SSEL FISHING THROUGH T teriors of the sholls and grinding off the rough outer covering. This ma terial is shipped East to factories where buttons are made, as well as hundreds of other useful and, in many oases, beautiful articles. Clam shells from the upper reaches of the Mis sissippi River are turned into shirt buttons, the big buttons, sometimes as big as a silver dollar, that are used on women's cloaks, cuff buttons, mother-of-pearl arabesques with which brushes and combs are to be inlaid, baoks of pocket-knives, shirt studs, oheap scarf pins, buckles, ear rings, bracelets and even finger rings. It requires close examination by an ex pert to tell this mother-of-pearl from the genuine South Sea article, and there is practically no difference in structure or appearance. The most picturesque feature of the industry is the constant looking for pearls. Thousands upon thousands of clamp are opened and examined carefully for every fair pearl that is discovered, yet a find of almost any OUT. eort is apt to pay tho searcher for his trouble. The poarls are common enough, but generally they aro not larger than a mustard seed, and are valuoless. Not infrequently, one is found that will fetch in its raw slate from 34 to $10, and instances are many cf even greater treasure troves. Mussels are obtained with various kinds of apparatus. Those which have been or are now in use are the hand rake, the tongs, the rake hauled by means of a windlass, the dredge operated by steam, and tho bar with hooks. The last named, a very in genious contrivance, came into use in THE NATIONAL BANK OF fliJ??STA L. C. HAYNE, Pree't. P. G.FOBJD, Cashier. Capita^ $250,000. Undivided Froflts }$110,000. Facilities of our magnificent Kew Vault contaiuing 410 t-afety-Loci Boxes. Differ ent Sizes are offered to oar patrons and the public at $3.00 to 810.00 per annum. THOS. J. ADAMS PROPRIETOR. EDGEFIELD, S. Cf THE PLANTERS LOAN AND SAVINGS BANK. AUGUSTA, GA. Pay 8 Interest on Deposits, Account Solicited. L. P. HAYN-E, President. W. 0. WiJlDLAW, Cashier. NE8DAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1900. VOL. LXV. NO. 8. r.eincdy For I Ii o Locntt Plague*. The plan consists in catching and smearing a few of the locusts with "lo cust fungus," a preparation which is cultivated in the Bacteriological Insti tute at Grahamstown, Cape Colony. Tile Insects are then allowed to return to the swarm, which they infect with what is presumably a fatal disease. The same preparation* applied oil damp soil in places where it is kiicwn Ju* ensts will swarm leads to their com-' plete destruction. Twenty swarms are said to have been destroyed in this manner.' Although this statement is open to doubt, it may be remembered that a celebrated bacteriologist once proposed to deal with the rabbit pest in Australia in much the same way. It is quite.possible that a similar rem ad v might be found for the. malarial mosquito, for it is only by such means that its extirpation could be brought. -Chambers's Journal. What a "Linio Girl Thought. * *A party of friends of the late "Vice President Hobart were visiting "Wash ington, and of course spent au hour in the Senate chamber. Among them was a little girl of ten who paid close attention to the proceedings. Two days afterward he met the child, who presently asked: "Do you sit there every day listen ing to those old men talk?" "Yes, dear." "Do yon have to?" "Yes." "I'm real sorry. It's an awful thing tobe Vice-President, isn't it?"-Phila delphia Saturday Evening Post. now the Boers Hobble Domes. This is the way Oom Paul's men hobble their horses to prevent them running away at night. Every one of the Boer soldiers now fighting the British in South Africa is mounted, and a camp scene showing the.ponies grazing while tethered in this way is quite picturesque. The custom is said to be a cruel one, and no doubt the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals will start a crusadeagainst it in due time. Sw ipplng Beauts tu a Zoo. Horse "swapping" is a dull and un eventful branch of industry compared with the gorgeous possibilities that are within reach of the animal men in Central Park in New York City. Who would be content H ith trading a spav ined horse for a blind mare, when he hears of the trading that the folk in the employ of the city did during ' the last three months? They Vswapped" a bnck nylghau for two cassowaries, two zebus for five bald j eagles, one back nylghau for two llamas, and, final and crowning deed of al I ,'tHey excban gecTf" hippopotamus for a select and valuable bunch of as sorted beasts, cousis tin g ot one lipnesa, one tiger, .two leopards, two pumas and two antelopes. Apparatus For Opening DllUcult Doors. In a new invention a single cell is made to open the most difficult of doors, even at a distance of fifty yards. The apparatus can be fixed either inside or outside the door. It will also lift or shoot strong bolts. It works with a single-pressure of a knob. It is especially adapted for asylums or jails, where emergencies requiring just such an appliance are likely to arise. Benefits or New Fonds. The introduction of new foods is an excellent plan for both the health aud commercial prosperity of a nation. Nearly all of what are regarded as in digenous fruits and vegetables have been imported to us from other lands. Of the food plants now in use only pumpkins and a few grapeB, plums and berries were originally found on the soil. An Appalling Pun! "I 6ee it stated," remarked the Horse Editor, "that the mouaroh cf Abyssinia may make trouble for Eng land in South Africa." "I don't think," added the Snake Editor, "that the Abyssinian Monarch will strike Menelikes for the Boers." Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. r j . A SEEMINGLY IMPREGNABLE P It is against such impregnable p go. In the fight around Colenso a h almost unscalable hill, and in the fae a berg, behind which the Boer marks drag the gun up the rocky slope. A HISTORIC FORTRESS." I in poping Rains That th? Italian flor, eminent trill Restore and Preserve. Tho imposing mina of the famous Costello Carpinets near Reggio d'Em ilia, the CaDossa of once on a time, perched on precipitous rocks, were to CAX0S2A CASTLf. Lave been sold bj auction recently, but the Italian Government stepped in and informed the heirs of the Jate Count Valdrizki, the present owners of the caste!lo, of the intention of the State to purchase the property. It was within the now dilapidated walls of the castle that Emperor Henry IV. humbled himself before Pope Gregory VII. in 1077, by waiting three days, barefooted and in sack cloth, for the pa.pal pardon. Ref erring to this re markable incident, Bismarck gave ut terance to the now proverbial words, in his struggle against the supremacy of the ultramontanes in 1872, "To Canossa we shall not go." The castle was partially destroyed by the revolu tionary burghers of Reggio in 1255, and during the centuries which have since elapsed the touch of time has gnawed mercilessly at the once almost invincible stronghold. Several of the halls and chambers of the castle are still intact, and both the Italian and foreign archaeological associations which were prepared to bid for the historical ruins at the proposed auc tion are now most anxious that the Italian Government preserve the castle from further decay in default of re storing it to its pristine condition. Forgot the Puddluc Bar? The story of the green servant girl who boiled a watermelon is more than rivalled by the story of the experienced girl, who boiled the plum pudding. She was the sort of young person who more than anticipated any directions with the assurance of her knowledge on the subject, so that the woman of the household gave her but one im portant hint about the Christmas pudding. "Be careful not to let it boil down," she said; "put plenty of water ia the kettle, and keep putting jnore iu us.it boils, out." "Yes'm," ?was the response." There was no doubt but that she obeyed that in junction to the very letter. She had put in plenty of water and she had added more from time to time. Bot another little item she had neglected -she had not put the puddiug into a bag. Faraday's Sympathy For Newsboys. A writer in the Century tells this new anecdote of Faraday: The great physicist and his frieud Hoffmann were walking one day together through the streets of London, where both were then professors, when Faraday stopped a newsboy and bought a paper. Hoffmann asked him why, with his house supplied regularly with all the papers he need ed, he stopped to bny a paper from a boy in the street. Faraday replied: "I was once a newsboy myeelf and sold papers on the street." Our Soldiers Kat Cnsh-Cush. Some of our soldiers in the Philip pines ha\ e learned to eat cush-cush. Brave fellows! It is one of my old friends-a tuberous vegetable of the middle tropics, second cousin to the potato. Its flesh, when boiled, is gel atinous. You slice it up and eat it with butter, pepper and salt. It takes a stranger several months to acquire a taste for it. The first few meals produce a dangerous cholera morbus. -Victor Smith, in the New York Press. OdITiON THE BRITISH ASSAILED. ositione as this that the British have tc envy naval gnu had lo be taken up thi3 e of a murderous tie from the peaka of men lay. lt took twenty-six oxen jlc THE NATIONAL BANK OF fliJ??STA L. C. HAYNE, Pree't. P. G.FOBJD, Cashier. Capita^ $250,000. Undivided Froflts }$110,000. Facilities of our magnificent Kew Vault contaiuing 410 t-afety-Loci Boxes. Differ ent Sizes are offered to oar patrons and the public at $3.00 to 810.00 per annum. THOS. J. ADAMS PROPRIETOR. EDGEFIELD, S. Cf THE PLANTERS LOAN AND SAVINGS BANK. AUGUSTA, GA. Pay 8 Interest on Deposits, Account Solicited. L. P. HAYN-E, President. W. 0. WiJlDLAW, Cashier. NE8DAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1900. VOL. LXV. NO. 8.