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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. HORC? Before the sibyl with her haunted eves Two sisters sat with delicate arms enlaced; hutched as she dealt the curds and, with out haste, Bpelt oat the rune of their two destinies. Brown-haired and gold-haired, fresher than the dawn, Poppy and white anemone wera they, A flower ot autumn aud a flower of May, They watched to see their fates from dark nea j drawn. I IN A SING The Terribie Trial of a i "What a beautiful young womau! And yet her bair is white as snow. " ' "And her complexion fi ea h as is a child's. Strange, id it not?" Thus commented two loungers on a hotel porch. But they did not; know the history of that snowy hair. . *.**?* From the time Harry Wells fell in lore with Mamie Clausen at church socials until their marriage in the First Presbyterian church, the entire community gave minute consideration to their affairs. Mamie's father, John Clausen, was a prominent commission merchant in a Pennsylvaniatown.gen erally considered wealthy, and always lived like a ' man of means. Mamie was pretty, dashing, a local belle and a general favorite. Harry's family lived a few miles from town, and they, too, were people of reputation in the county. The marriage was in every way a suitable one. Harry was educated at Princeton, and although he bad nt one time the reputation of being wild, he bad sobered down, and was such a fr?nk, manly young fellow that be was generally forgiven any indiscretion. *-Tbe marriage was the occasion of general rejoicing. Mamie's father gave ber au unusually good send-off, and tho details were sent far and wide through tbe state. Harry bad studied law for a while, and bad settled down into a country notary, drawing up deeds, and doing back-work of that sort They lived about four milos out of town, and two miles from old John's. He bad built 'hem a pretty modern cottage on a detached portion of bis farm. Harry bad his office, au ornamental little structure, a few rods from the bonse, and thar J they lived as happy as, two birds. Gradually Harry picked up business, and, finally, through bis fatber,he be came trustee for some minor heirs. They were an odd lot "of children, with a half-crazy motherland no end of ebal lands and mining investments. 'Tjfarry nj_ "worst. thing was that it obliged him fo go to Scranton now and then, and leave Mamie. When Harry bad to go away, Mamie would get in ber phaeton and drive to tow , and there were always some of the young people ready to go out and keep her company. Har-y al ways insisted that she must not stay alone. One August afternoon Harry bad an unexpected summons to go to Scran ion about a snit connected with the minor be rs. He bad recently sold some of their property, and had leen making various collections, which left in his hand3 forty-five hundred dollars. When he found that he must go off at a few moments' notice, be wrapped up a bundle of papers and this money and took them into the house. Mamie was making preparations for a picnic they were to go to the next day, and begged bim to wait until the day after. "Bnt, my dear child, I haven't time even to go to town and put these in the bank, so you'll have to take caro of them. I'll try and get back iu two days at the furthest, meanwhile no body will know that the money is here." Then he explained to her the value of the papers, and Lauded her a can vas bag, in which was the forty-five hundred dollars belonging to the minor heirs. ; "Where shall I keep it, Harry? Be tween the mattresses?" "Just Uko a woman I No. But I declare I don't know where to tell yon. . The most insecure p?ac3 ap parently is often the most secure. Any place, dear, but between the rant tresses. I leave that to you. But you must guard it, if necessary, with your life; for remember the money is not ours, and at all hazards I am respon sible. I don't really suppose there is the least danger, for'no one knows I have it But one ought to take proper precautions, and I beg of yon not to admit any tramps while I am gone. Tell Sarah not even to allow them to eat a biscuit." "All right, dear; we won't let the tramps have a drink, even, and I'll take care of the money, you may be aura" Harry bade his wife good-by, and Mamie gave up the picnic. At the end of two days she received a tele gram from bim, saying be bad been detained, and telling ber to get some one to stay with her for two days,when he would be at home. She drove into town, and one of her old friends went out with ber. At the end of two days ehe had another telegram saying that be was detained until the next day. Her friend went home, and in place of Harry came a third telegram, and so every day for ten days be was ex pected borne, and every day came a disappointing telegram. By this time she had become accustomed to her charge, which she had se' like a bag of seed-beans in a corner of a dark closet opening from ber room. The afternoon of the tenth day was a hot, murky afternoon. Mamie had gone upstairs to. take a nap and re fresh before dressing to meet Harry, who was expected borne after the longest absence ho bad ever made from ber. After a time Sarah came up and told her there was a tramp downstairs who wanted something to eat and who wouldn't bs driven off. "You oughtn't to leave bim a min ute alone, Sarah. Go.down aud watch him, and I will come down and send him off." ', She dressed herself qnickly and went downstairs, surprised to find how late it had grown. When she reached the kitchen she found also a SCOPES "Life will be sad for you and yours, heigh ho !" Th" sibyl told the autumn-oolorod maid. "But will my lover .love mo?" "Ay," she said. "Why, then, I shall be all too happy so." "With earthly lovo you never shall be fed," The sibyl told the lady white as snow. "But shall I love at ullV" "Ay, oven so." "Then happy I shall lire and die," she said. -Nora Hooper, in London Academy. LE NIGHT. t 'oung Wife Left on Guard. messonger with another telegram, which announced another disappoint ment, but the next day withont fail, Harry wrote, he would be home. As Mamie turned into the kitchen she heard the tramp and Sarah in evident discute. "Ies," said the fellow, "when that time comes your mistress will have another ironing table, helping you, instead of wearing her Sunday clothes every day." "An* spoilin' everything for me <o do over. I think I soo her. I've work enough to do," answered honest Sarah, not indisposed to have a chat over her work. Mamie found a graceless looking fellow, unshaven and ill-dressed, who, with a certain gentlemanly instinct, rose up as she came in. "I suppose my girl told you we had nothing for you, and that it will be a great kindness if yon will leave as soon as possible-." "Yes, she did just that, madam,but I took it upon myself to believe that it wasn't so urgent. The truth is, I'm very hungry aud dead tired, and I didn't believo but that you would give me something to eat; at least I've waited to ask you in person." Women are soft-hearted creatures. Mamie went and got him some hing to eat herself. Tho darkness that had been increasing for some time came down rapidly, and ther3 burst one of those terrific thunder storms that gather so rapidly and with such force in that country. After its strength was. spent, there fell steady sheets of rain that brought the creek over tbs bridges before morning. "Madam, it's no use talking. You can't send a fellow out in such a storm," said the tramp, as the three stood on the porch watching the storm. "Tm sorry, but I've no place for jon." "What! in a house Uke this? It's a pity there isn't a cranuy for a stow away. I was walking around it, wait ought to hold three people." "You are very impertinent. I tell you I have no place for yon, and the 'storm is already breaking away." Even as she spoke tho rain came down in bliuding sheets, and light ning streaked the heavens, "Well," he said, carelessly, "wo don't go mach on manners on the road, but I know I wouldn't send a dog out .?nob a night ns this. I'm not a particular chap, ieastwise not nowadays, and I'll buve to insist on your giving me some sort of shelter, if it's only your dog kennel." The man spoke with decision. Mamie felt that after all they were really in his power. "1 will keep you on one condition," she said. "There is a loft to the house, a sort of garret, which is very comfortable. It is closed with a trap door, and you may sleep on tho lounge there if you will allow us to lock tho door on the outside." "Bless my stars and garters!" bo said, looking at her curiously, "I don't care if yon lock tho door." They took him upstairs, and he climbed up the steep attic stairs. The women shut the door ns be politely bado them good night, aud they fas tened the padlock, hearing him chuckle to himself as he kicked off his boots. 'Td take tho key, mum," said Sarah. Mamie took the koy with her, aud the two descende 1 to* shut up tho house. After they had made every thing secure they went back upstairs. "You must sleep in ray room to night, Sarah," the mistress said. Sarah dragged in her bedding and made a pallet on tho floor, and then, after the custom of women, they ex amined the closets, looked nuder the bed and piled the chairs against the locked door. Tho rain was still fall ing heavily and the right block as ink. The mistress and maid went to bed, and, although worried, went to sleep. After midnight Mamie found herself awake, and a bright light shining in the room. She started up and saw that it was tho moonlight. The storm had cleared away at last. She got up, una ola to compose herself immediate ly, ?md went to the window. The moou was shining brightly. As she stood looking at the peaceful scene before her she saw away down the road, for it was as bright as day, sev eral horsemen. It was such an un usual sight at this hour that she stood watching them as they came nearer. To her surprise they tamed np the laue leading toward her house, and on reaching the gate came into the yard. She was almost paralyzed with fear. The truth flashed across her. They must have learned that she was alone-that she had this money, and they had come to get it. For a mo ment she was paralyzed. She remem bered Harry's last woras: "You must guard it with your life if necessary." She ran to the sleeping Savah and wakened her. She got down Harry's rifle. The sleeping giri was soon thoroughly awake, and she explained to her their condition. "It's the tramp hat's done it." "The tramp? No. Sarah, the key, the key of the attir*. " She flew up the stairs, unlocked the padlock and opened the trap. The man sprang np at the sound. "Come, come with me." His own senses alert, and hearing the noise of the horses below and steps about the house, he followed her without a word. At the foot of the stairs she stopped. "I have a large sum of money in the house, and those men have come to get it, thinking that I am alone, If they kill me that money must be guarded." "What have you? pistola, shot guns?" ho whispered, taking in tho whole situation. "Here is my husband's rifle. It is loaded." "Hist! Where are they going to break in?" The steps came boldly on the piazza to the front door. "Get behind me. I will fire at the first man who enters. How many barrels are thero?" "Six, all loaded." "Very well. Keep this cane in your hand for me in caso I need it." There was no storming of shutters. They heard the key applied to tho door softly. It opened, and a man followed by two others confidently en tered. The first figure walked dir. ct ly to the stairs. He had taken bnt a step wheu three shots cunio iu rapid succession. There was a heavy thud; this man dropped, and the other two turned and fled. Sarah rau to tho wiudow,and two horses galloped down the lane. "Don't faint, madam; there is work yet to do," said the tramp. Mamie caught hold of the rail for support,and then went into the room. "Get a candle, Sarah." Tiley lighted a candle and gave it to the tramp, who went down stairs, the two women following with restora tives. The man had falleu backward, and lay with his' face up aud head toward the door. "Aha!" said the tramp, curiously, holding tho light up and peering into the dead man's face, "he's fixed. Shot through the head." Mamie advanced and gazed at the white face, across which a thin, thread like stream of blood was trickling. She fell back with a wild shriek. It was hev husband's dead body which lay before her.-San Francisco Argonaut. QUAINT AND CURIOUS. Deadwood, S. D., has a curio in the shape of a whistler. The most re markable foat that he performs with his mouth is to whistle two tunes, dis tinctly, at the same time. He can whistle the air with the alto as well as two persons could. Ho is a former soldier, and was with General Miles through the Porto Bican campaign. A German-American woman has founded a home for lonely cats in Spreenhagen, near Berlin. All kinds of cats are to be well cared for in a villa especially built for the purpose, anil standing in lo* acres of beauti fully wooded grounds. The new es tablishment will be a boon to those rather numerous female testators anx ious about the future of their pets. The LofKJpn Chronicle's Vieuna cor respondent reports a snvgioal triumph thieved by Dr. Schroetter. A 12 -ysar-'otd^bcry"RwaHowed'ii*piece of lead tba size of a half sovereign. It passed the trachea into a bronchus of the second order. Dr. Schroetter ex tracted it without performiug trache otomy or using aniesthetic.M. Never theless the operation was painless. This is believed to have been the first time that such an operation was ever performed without a dangerous surgi cal op?ration. A curious circumstance concerning the body of Admiral Spotts ha3 boeu reported from tho Falkland Islands, where ho died 17 years ago. Tho Falkland physician who attended him I during his fatal illness was pi osent at I the exhumation of the body when the cruiser Badger was sent for-it sevoral mouths ago. Tho coffin had disap peared, but the corpse was absolutely unchanged, even tho features having retained the exact appearance that they presented on the day of death. This wonderful preservation was duo to tho action of the peat water which satur ates tho islands. It had embalmed tho body completely. Under the corner of a room in the House of the Vestal, which is being excavated in the Bomuu Forum, a workman lately turned np a spadeful I of gold coins. They are 370 in num ber, all stamped with the head of the Emperor Anthemins, who was killed by the emperor-tusker Bicimer when he plundered Borne in A. D. 472. An other Hud of coins had been made at Ossero, in the Austrian island of . Ch er so, south of Fiume in the Adri atic. It seems to be the collection of a numismatist of classical timos, and comprises 475 coins, rangiug from the year 254 to the year 4 B. 0. A curious phenomenon is that metal never rusts in the waters of Lake Titicaca. You can throw in a chain or an anchor, or any article of ordi nary iron, and iet it lie for weeks, and when you haul it up it will be as clean and bright as when it came from the foundry. And, what is stranger still, rust that has been formed upon me tallic objects elsewhere will peal off when immersed in its waters. This is frequently noticed by railway and steamship men. Busty car wheels aud rails, and even machinery, can be brightened by soaking them iu the waters of Lake Titicaca. M-.iBlc-LovIng Hat in Dundee. Miss Lulu Frazier of Dundee, N. YM was singing while she attended to her household duties in the kitchen the other morning. When she turned toward the stove she saw a large gray rat sitting on its haunches and eyeing ber intently. She was startled. She stopped singing. The rat dropped to its feet and started to run away. Miss Frazier gained her self-possession and agaiu began to sing. The rat pricked up its ears, stopped and sat upon its haunches. This procedure was repeated two or three times. Tho rat showed that it was most pleased with "rag-time" pieces, and when two or three of the newest pieces wers snug tho animal showed a desire to dance. After Miss Frazier had en- j tertainod the ratfor about teu minutes ste fracture 1 its skull with a broom stick.-Ne York Sun. Nri'hborly Tiej. "The telephone is a great sooi&l factor." "That's so. Wo wouldn't have called on those people next door at a il if wo hadn't wanted to use their tele phone." It is estimated that the population of Italy includes about 50,000 Jews. LORD KITCHENER The conqueror of Hie Khalifa is no General Roberts and it is he whom the the disasters that their armies have me map ont an entirely new campaign. H iant military men in tho world tooday. QOOOODOOOOOC^OOQOOQQOQ???; g AEADIA, THE BEAUTIFUL T^ < o _~ Scenes in Southern Louisiana Wfie O Rich Rice Fields Lie.' O ?QOOOOOOOQOQOOOOOQQDOC AYOU NEZ PIQUE, La.-In Southern you may sit under an' brella tree," look at gree and eat white bl ackb errie may watch the chameleon tu: let, blue, green, brown or g hear the mocking bird pour fo: wild melody fr or see a flight c like great sm ricefleld. This suKrop ghostly with S; ablaze "-witb'^K whdbe fire of co red bird; its p intense sunlig Bwift twilight a is weird and It looks as if it had oeeu ? froai a fairy book and did not belong to geography at all. It is midwinter, yet the dooryards of Acadia, St. Landry and Caloasien parishes are abloom with roses. Christmas trees of live oak or holly or mistlotoe, still bright in tho little farmhouses, were dressed on Christ mas Day with fresh flowers gathered out of doors. The umbrella tree is common. Every farmer has< half a dozen to HARVESTING BICE IN SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA. lend. It is easy to borrow the use of ono on a rainy tree, and as it is chained to the ground by its roots no one ever forgets to return it. Its branches radiate from the trunk like umbrella stays. Its foliage forms a waterproof covering like an umbrella top. Its trunk is the handle. It will keep one entirely dry in a subtropical storm. In summer it affords perfect shade from the sun. A tramp once explained his wanderings through Louisiana by saying that he waa a traveling tinker, mending umbrella tree?. The green rose, the only one I have ever soen, is not as large as the- red rose, nor does it display its petals as fully, but it is distinctly a rose. If some Northern florioulturist would develop the green rose further it might become a prized and unique bloom in the beautiful sisterhood of flowers. Boutonni?re and bouquets of green roses might become a feature of St. Patrick's Day in New York, i White blackberries are much esteemed in Acadia and Calcasieu, bo cause they are superior in flavor to the black kind. Some regard them as a concession of nature to the color prejudice. They differ from the blpck blackberries mainly in complexion. In Louisiana is what popularly is known as the "dishcloth plant." 'It produces a green pod, which yields, when opened, a large piece of cellular FUiiriNG PLANT FOR R] vegetable tissue, often used in kitch ens as a "dishcloth." The native horses and cattle in this part of the State formerly lived on sweet potatoes, grass and hay. When 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. eye as Calcasieu. The Calcaeieu prairie is the largest in the State about fifty miles long ami from five to forty miles wide. The parish itself, which is also the largest in the Com monwealth, comprises 4000 square miles, and is about two-thirds the size of Connecticut. Here the land is firm and solid. Ia digging wells the farmers have to go deeper to Hud water than they do in Wisconsin. The land, which is now fifty to sixty feet above the Gulf of Mexico, was once its bed, and con tains a great deal of sand. The roads are sometimes dry witlain twelve hours after a semi-tropical rain. There is BO little mud, except in proximity to rice marshes, that one may ride a bicycle along a highway covered with water. This is the upland, and yet it is the rice country. The explanation is sim ple. From a foot to two feet under the soil lies a bed of clay which is im pervious to water. Wherever land lies in a shallow saucer shape, so that its edges are slightly higher than its interior, the falling rain will fill it to the rim and form a marsh, because the water cannot percolate through the underlyiugbed of clay and escape. In Louisiana you will find the low grounds hard and dry and marshes on the ridges. The alluvial laud which lies in the Mississippi bottom seems to be plan tations part of the time and part of the time Mississippi Paver. Swamps are not unknown there. "We are having a Louisiana bliz zard," said a Northern settler in Cal casieu parish. "The thermometer has fallen to seventy degrees above zero." The children in the country go to PUERTO RICO'S WONDERFUL LACE TBE THE F?DRE OF ITS OWN STICK -LACE school barefoot all winter. In a coun try schoolhouse, on a sharp midwinter day, there was only one child who wore shoes. All the children had shoes at home, but they did not care to wear them. The well-to-do French farmer, with land by the league and cattle by the hundreds, with money bnried in the ground or hidden in hollow trees or deposited in the bank, goes barefoot the year rouud, exoept when he visits THWE3TERN LOUISIANA. the parish town. His winter dress is a straw hafc, a calico shirt and a pair of blue cotton trousers. He goes with out collar, cravat and shoes. ' tis feet are as insensible to cold as aro the hands of a Northern man who never wears glovos. It is a common sight in Acadia, on a winter's day, to seo a mau from the North, in a heavy ul ster, talking to a barefooted French farmer in his shirtsleeves. ?.Sllonclrf? a Gun." Thore is a gret.t deal of ignorance as to what "silencing a gun" means. A gun is silenced when the gunners are disabled or driven back and the gun or guncarriage damaged. It is a common enough phenomenon for weapons which have thus been si lenced to re-open Aro after repairs havo been made, the gunners rallied, or a fresh gun crow obtained. It is a rare thing for a gun to be so damaged by hostile fire that it cannot be refit ted and brought into action again. "I saw," say? Prince Kraft, of tho Gor man Artillery in the battle of Grave lotte, "many guns during the cannon ade lyiug miserably ou the ground 'winged,' that is, with a broken wheel. But not ono was withdrawn; the injured guns were always speedily repaired with the help of the wagons, which were near, so that at the close of the battle I could not tell exactly how many pieces had been put tem porarily out of action."-Army and Navy Journal. Uer Cindi. "Mildred," said her mother, "I don't believe that young man cares for you at all. In my opinion he comes here to see you merely because*, he has no place else to go." "Oh, mamma," the girl replied, "you are mistaken-you wrong him. I have proof that he loves me." "What is it? Has he asked you to marry him?" "No, but I accidentally said I ' had saw ' the other evoning, and he immediately afterward said something about 'having came,' just to make mt feel that he was somewhat shy on grammar. You needn't tell me that anything less than love-deep, soul ful, everlasting love-would induce a mau to do that."-Chicago Times. Tlie Art of Puffing. The writing of a "puff" is an art in itself. If the effort abounds in honeyed words, overflows, so to spoak, with praise and commendation, a large portion of the reading public is in telligent enough to take it with the proverbial grain of salt, or perhaps rejeot it entirely as unreliable. If, however, it is a paragraph or artiole that actually gives some information, and only incidentally commends the firm upon whose instance it is in serted, it may be expected to accom plish some. good. The majority of puffs overleap themselves in tho desire to make of the personages or com modities of which they deal, "creatures oo bright or good for human nature's daily food." THE CURIOUS LACE TREE. On? of the Many Marvel* of Oar Little Puerto Kico. Some exquisite lamp shades, nap kins and centre pieces have come from our dear little Puerto Rico this winter. They are made from tue inner part of LACE ROSETTE AT END OP STICK, SHOWING THE NAT ?BE OP THE FLBBE. the lace tree; to be more explicit, from a lace-like fibre, which grows be neath the bark. The outside of this curious tree very much resembles the white and mottled mistletoe boughs one sees exposed for sale during the holidays, but the inside of the younger limbs and branches is a mass of the lace fibre, sometimes pure white in color and again yellow, tending tc brown. Though the lace tree is ap parently a very hard wood, the interioi fibre may be unwrapped in sheets, IE-WHIP, WITH LASH TWISTED FB?SI 1103ETTE FltOil THE SAME FIBRE. which the Puerto Eican ladies convert into drawn work or embroider in bright colors. Whips are made of the branches, a part of the branch being loft for the stook and the fibre lace drawn out to form a topknot rosette. A long lash is plaited at the other end. The manufactured lace fibre is very expensive, but nothing can be more beautiful than the effect of light through the lamp shades. The cocoa nut palm grows sheets of fibre on the outside, so that it looks as if it ie tied up in old mats, but the lace ! -eegrows. its delicate textile fibres ir vast improvements in color- ?a . . - - The women of Puerto 1 tiful decorative work with lace, the net of the fibre that it lends itself to the i designs. It is dyed the briguteai,. . and made into flowers, which are ap plied to the lamp shades of the same or arranged in shapes of brilliant moths and butterflies. Tho large fire fly of tho tropics is exquisitely simu lated. On tho centrepieces for table adornment, the Spanish rose is fre quently imitated. This rose is white ** 'he morning, pink at. noon and a ii ?>p crimson at night, hence there are three roses to go with the centrepieces and these are daintily attached by means of minute fibres to correspond with the hour of the day. Each color of the rose has a meaning. The white rose signifies that the daughters of the boase aro too young to think of mar riage; the pink rose that they are so ciety debutantes, and the red rose that they are married. Tommy ?he a Humorist*. "Tommy Atkins is a regular hum orict at times," the subaltern con tinued with a grin. " Did yon evei hear the story of the court-martial in tho-Hussars? No? Well, you must know that, justas in the ordin ary trial, a prisoner may object to the presence of a juryman whom he thinks has already some prejudice or grudge against him, so at a court-martial he is always asked if he is satisfied with the officers selected to try him. Well, this particular Tommy, when t^e pres ident asked him the regular question, looked at the officers sitting solemnly before him and auswerod : 'Certain ly; I object to the 'ole blooming lot of yev.' I believe that they were so astonished at this startling reply that they had to put off the trial till they could make out what was the right thing to do under the circumstances." -St. James's Gazette Correspondence. Always Ucarty For a Meal. Perhaps you fancy the birds don't work. Just watch them next time you have a chance, and you'll find they are busy every minute of the clay. During the summer thrushes get up before 3 o'clock in the morning, and don't go to bed until after 9 o'clook at night, so they work nearly nineteen hours. Blackbirds are not I nearly so industrious. They only work seventeen hours, but during that j time they feed their little ones be tween forty and fifty times. The Balaclava Cap. In England just now women are busy knitting comforts for the British soldiers in South Africa-sleeping hel mets, tam-o'-shanters, cardigan jack ets, cuffs, scarfs, mittens, socks and chest and back protectors. The Bal aclava cap is the favorite object with these patriotic knitters. It is cold o' nights in South Africa, nud some of the soldiers find the Balaclavas very UBeful. 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.