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? in iii H mi i un.I in i n J THE NATIONAL BMOF AUGUSTA I L. C. HAYNS, Prfcs't P. 0. FORD, Cashier. Capita!, $250,000. Undivided Profila } $110,000. Facilities of oar magnificent Nev Yanlt containing 410 t-afoty-Locx Bosos. Differ ent Sises am offered to our patrons and tho public at $3.00 to 910.00 per Annntn, THOS. J. ADAMS PROPRIETOR. IBB PLANTERS LOAN AND SAVINGS BANK. AUGUSTA, GA. Hjt Intewtt oa Deposits, Aocounts Solicited, L. O. HATITB, President. W. O. WABDLAW, Cashier. VOL. LXV. NO. 15. IN h The cactus towers, straight and tall, Through fallow fields ot chaparral ; And hore and there, la paths apart, A das Icy peon guides his cart. And yokes of oxen journey, slow, In Mexico. , . And oft some distant tickling tells Of muleteers, with wagon bells, That jaugle sweet ac ross the maize, And green agave bi alka that raise ' Bich spires of blossoms, row on row, In Mexico. . .. ' Upon tbe whitened city walls The poldon sunshine'softly falls Un archways set with orange trees, On paven courts and balconies. . Where trailing vines toss to and fro, In MaxliM). .And patient little donkeys fare With ladea! saddle bag.-?, and beir Through-narrow ways quaint water jars, Wreathed'round with waxen lily star.-, And scarlet poppy buds that blow, . In Mexico. .' ?. ' ?h.. <.... ? . ? j THE DES 1 A TBUE ie slanting shaita.of, the setting jun glanced along the level poofa'atid jjilded the-ripples ' and. shimmering ?n'p?als ot.'the quiet', river-the Greda river-that lay along the edge of the Adobe desert, like a band of braid at the bottom of a woman's skirt. A, moment later the red-sun dropped* be hind the Wahsatch moan tains, and the day was snuffed out like a caudle. ^eat b??sk cloud C up- over the hills 8Mi aS&L Witff'l majestic swiftness'it lifted its head?' spread out its dark wings, shadowed the waste and filled the wild canyous wita awful gloom. Far rout toward the'Yoothflls; j the', unshod ;feet of n mountain cayuse were beating the hard face of the desert, urged on by the cruel spurs of his pitiless master. For more than six hours the horse and rider had been simmering in the sn ai mer sun, and now they welcwmed the shadows,ducked their heads and dived i in under the. cloud; the horse eager for . the copi, and.the rider for the cover of, night'i; 1 : . ' - Across the desert another rider is urging his . steed of s eel, his pilot pointing into the storm-swept night *T^IEna*traTfc^ ??S**6 locomotive, a ??J?ted States mar shal and his deputies sit staring at the .^liich the daring driver is ! m .71 JV UUV* -- . bent upon iht it is falling'fn . roof bf the ca! light ^SJheirt - are ranning-ne ride.r.31 know tb ""-Ty' river, jandy*'' 'the cayuga7 H he brae Tho ric ' mOUnt^ Otnn^.-. t?e*tailroad bridge, which he knows /"?' '. ' must' '/be ?ear at hand, bat' glancing *-i.' ; backrhe sees "the light of the locomo Ti-, ; tiye and changes his mind. Just over the river stands Green Bi ver station, with its water-tank, v* ,Vr3*^?r?>.the iron, horse will stop ts . ^j^^rink^?f the lone rider can reach the >?*?T??tation before the train leaves he can /:t?vr*J??v?.the country which- he does not ^.^"J??V,, 'j&? the .locomotive comes nosing ^.wftitfHoaslynp the bridge the horseman Ul ?grmAjip spurs iuto the cayuse, and * {heToaming animal plunges into the t'r^TxiaTtgg'riveT: Tho swift' current c?r yriagrhio?<h>wn8tream, and the engine's headlight shines fall uponjhim as me i-'is swept ander the bridge!: 0 y nriijnWw'thn ibitngdrtnirnn^riiiTr" is* * stopped,and the occupants of the dark car come ont to look for the man and horse.., Long before? theyjreach .^be! river bank below the bridge, hWever,' '.,.'.-? .the little cayuse has touched laud, leaped upon the level bank and gal pipped up to the station. . . f ?-?Kl While the men wer?' stilll's?arcning for 'him.along the river, the weary ?t?ffijwgneyrorr^thir agent that egular ivain had passed, that the at tfi?Jbr?ge WJB*? speciaBthat ouid.not be likely to-stop at the tank, and if it did ' it would not take passengers. And so, beih^*??n/y;nn^rrtiot ?wisit ing to be seen, the traveler ;tethere3 his tired horse at the rear*of the hotel?! se:ured a room and retired, ^^jg^.ejitlxihe^k.ex.hegan callins the ] agent at Green Biver, and when he )?f\ >ify Hdsi?j'imT^f y?4???gedy " occurred at Coyote on the ig of that day. A lone desper lo.'had taken the 'town, robbed the ition, killed the operator (who wes agent also), stolen a horse and es >ed. A, special with a United States j 3hal hnd gone down the road to forSS*jfcurdei er. The descrip hat th?:new Operator had gotten the frightened people led the ag??t at Green River,to" believe that ^tii? desperado, had -been there but a .'moment ' before.^" When the special lied up to the station and stopped, : - "the agent told the marshal of the ar rival of the stranger. ; ^'That's our man,"said the marshal, ft^^Aiw he immediately surrounded the .-little wooden hotel, which was called the Palmer' *House. Then, having se cured the number of the stranger's room, tLa marshal and one of his men W6nt up. They tried the door; it was locked. They knocked, and the man said, "Come in." The marshal said he could not and asked the occupant of ?.;'<^a?;th? room to .-come out; and the man J answered, .?'Wait till I get;my boots .U^S&on," for he loathed to die half-dressed, jaw* '-Suddenly the door flew open,nndthe hunted man leaped into the hall. Before the marshal or his deputy could raise a 'V^j.?r;hand, the desperate man began unload ; ing-ar.couple of rapid-firing, six . shouters in the narrow hallway. The ,. two'officers? retreated,for the first shot ? had jarred the hanging hall lamp out ~ - and left them in tho dark. Covered ^^r-rbyhis~owirsmoke,-'the- desperado fot *3 ??^4 i*16 man ^own"?> **?e stairs, and 4 ?I ?miare fie hldUieou missed he was al ready over the back fence mounting his horsc-'^The horse was shot, down i^T&onejof the posse.ancLjthe desperado * was compelled to foot it Leaving-the desert lands,he headed for the canyon, and'at dawn rested . whew tho "trail touched the Green river, Here ht foaud a brush hut, a 1EXIC0. In liquid syllables, tho crle3 O' fur fruit renders faintly rise; And under thick pul me: to rhodes, t Ami down cool-covered colonnades, ' Tbe tides of trafQo gently ll ow, ' iii C*i?slco. ' ??hen twilight falls-more near and olear The" tender cou thorn skies appear, And down green slopes of blooming lines Como cascades of cathedral chi mus; . ; And prayerful figures worship low, J In Mexico. . ?Aland ofiutes and witching tones; Of silver onyx, opal stones; ' A lazy land, wherein all seems Enchanted into endless dreams; And never any need to know, in Mexico. " Of life's unquiet, swift advance; .,.?, ' But slipped Into such gracious trance,'. - The restless world speeds on, unfelt; v Unheeded, a* by those who dwelt In olden age:?, loni; ago, In Mexico. -Evaleen Stein, in Kansas City Journal. - i ? V A \ E STORY. fe YARMAN. J r30r^F'* WV V W W WJ *& t* t . & S J f? I sheepherder and- a rude -Rowboat on ?the banks of the s wollen'stream. "Ferry nie over, " said? the stronger,, as the shepherd came*'yarning from his hut. "Xot for your fleece, my : baqk~ 8heep,"said the boatman; "yonriver??? danger on s." "So'a this," saiJ tho man, flourish ing his firearms. "Ferryrme over P. ?^H\.. ;\y- -r ~ . y j jirrnj '.. When fha boat had reached the mid- I die of the wild river the desperado brought his gun ont again nnd ordered' the boatman to head her downstream,' pointing out the way with his loaded revolver. The^terrified sheepman tried to tell the fugitive (hat the river was impassable, even at low water-that a little way down the Graud joined the. Green, and the two,forming the Colo rado, -went leaping; plunging, , boiling and churning* through th? Cataract Canyon, through '. which (the Indians 'sa:d) no * white man had passed and lived. The hunte*.! man only smiled and twirled his pistol. The two men would dash through wild . cataracts, over white foaming falls, and the next hour their frail boat would be drif ling silently between the softly shaded walls that gave back, in echo, the fiantes tr'ripple of water, br the almost /wtusjpjECgd ' w ords, few Deiqw there was no escape. The little resting.place on which -the two men found themselves was filled with drift wood. Hanging to the rock that had wrecked them was a long'rope that had been in the boat; this the desper ado fished out. '.. "We'll build a raft," said the out law.' Ho made the sheepman carry cedar logs, limbless hud scarred, cross ties and pieces of bridge timber that had drifted.- for hundreds of - miles down the mad river, and were gnawed like the liitching post in front of a country church. . Whep.be had ashed a lot of these together he told lie ?heepmau to get aboard, and thf meepman said he'd dio;first ? Xs A <Vfv. I "AU right," saul the'smiling viliain, acd the wild report of his revolver felled the-canyon.fcnd went on and out through side canyons, thundering its echoes back to the two men there in ihe awfut gorge. The bullet whirred "past the shepherd's ear. j Once more on the breast of the boiling stream the men, now on the rude r.aft, werei Jemptinc ?ate. They lay fiat c?o.wn?;hanging'to the ropes, sometimes beneath,., sometimes far ab'ove.the'iund.toi-rent'; leaping from fhe crest'of ?i?gh falls, sliooting rapids and capering over awful cataracts. At Jthe-end of au, hour they emerged from -the-narrow-canyon and entered a long .stretch of deep green water, slowly 'fit?ving, sun-kissed and quiet. So. still seemed the beautiful river that they were obliged to-take markers on th? shore to Bee if they really moved. Ear away, at the end ?of the stretch of peaceful-water, ' the river seemed to end. Across'its path a wa?'rose, red and high. The water, running, over, and flowing down ihe face pf Jihe cliff, bad streaked and striped-' the red sandstone nntil it looked in the sun light like a' beautiful-piece of tapestry, and the desperado "calledit-,Tapestry Wall, and so-Ht has 'been called ever since. . The. Jiyer.. however, did- not end ?er?. ' Swinging in a long, graceful curve, growing swifter and swifter, it sucked into a narrow pass and became a.ragi'.ig, frothing cataract. < For some moments they-saw noth ing and heard only the. awful tumult of the boiling river, and then with a slam the raft hung upon a HK rock .iiat split, the. current .near the middle of the stream. When the shepherd had wiped the spray.from his eves he saw that he was alone. The force of th?'sbock had thrown his companion into the water. He had lauded, and now came limping along the bank of the river. The desperado smiled out over the foam at the helpless shepherd, who be gan to hope that the fol low. would shoot him and end the awful suspense, but the fearless outlaw did .nothing of the sort To the shepherd's ?fnaze ment, the man on shore-safe and free from the mad river-began to undress. Whon he had stacked his wet garments on a rock he walked a few rods > along the bank nnd plunged iu. Midway between the rock and the shore there was a whirlpool-a suck-hole, as the shepherd said-aud it was to avoid' this that the man had gone so far up stream. I He was an expert swimmer, but he was weakened from overwork and the long fast, and so the current proved too strong for him. It carried him past the shepherd, and suddenly his feet pointed to tha suck. Bound and rat nd, faster and, faster, as he cams at each tura nenvflv thc 001k ai the funnel, the J oom eil man whirled, while the shepherd looked on, power less. As he drew near the fatal centre the force of the water stood him up; he waved his haud, smile 1 at the shep herd, and shot down to the bottom of the foaming river. Knowing that to remain there was to perish, the shepherd succeeded iu l eaching the shore. Half starved he reached the" cabin of a miner ,who was washing gold in the canyon of the Colorado. There we found bim-a white-baired young mau-while on our xyay to the San Juau goldfields in 1893,''and from bis own lips heard this story.-Saturday Evening Post. INVENTIONS OF THE CENTURY."" Marvelous Changes Which Hilve Occurred in Land and Water Travel. A simple enumeration of the great" inventions of the century and the dis coveries made iu the scieuces of medi cine, surgely, chemistry, astronomy, bi ology and archaeology would be suffi cient to show that in these buudred years tho horizou of human (bought "and'knowledge has widened out so far that lhe circle which bounded . them bofore seems almost insignificant in the comparison. Take, for example, the marvelous changes made in meth ods of travel on land and water by the use of steam and electric motors. Up .? the present century all the wit aud ingenuity of men' exercised through all the ages past had evolved nothing better for tho purposes of travel than | the sailing vessel by sea and tho ; vehicle propelled by horse-poWer on 'laud. ! No great-improvement had been made in these things in thousands of years. But this century ba? witnessed the invention, the swift development .aud the generaj introduce iou of motive ! agents .which have almost annihilated time and space, aud wrought 'munges of inconceivable magnitude in society, industry, commerce and national life. . Equally far-reaching and revolu tionary have beou the applications of electrical science as seen in the tele graphic systems knitting all the world together, the telephone, electric light ing, and, in these lal eat days, wire less telegraphy. To this century also , must be. credited a vast ostensi?n of Jabor-saving machinery, of which the s?wing machine, the reaper and th-" typewriter are prominent examples. Perhaps the most gratifying feature of it all is that the advance in every depaitment of science and knowledge has inured so largely to the benefit and comfort of the people at large. Take as one simple instance the in vention of th? P.am?*"?----- - -. _o. uu wimont it now, and wonder bow our fathers managed to live nuder such privation. So in a thousand other things the comfort of the -world bas been greatly advanced, and today there is to be found in the bornes of the great mass of the people comforts and conveniences, and even luxuries, the thought of which never entered the minds of onr forefathers. And who will not say that for all this the world bas boen vastly improved, and the condition of its people infin itoiy bettered? QUAINT AND CURIOUS. A pet flea has been known to live six yearF. . . Surgeons say that J. C. Orr, of Fort Worth, Tex., has a sot of teeth in his lungs. Illinois monument dealers want a law enabling them-to seize tombstones for bnd debts. Nearly 8000 cats were received last year at the London Institution for Lost and Starving Cats. The Ked sea would reach from Wash ington to Colorado, and is three times as wide as Lake Ontario. ? At the last elections in Bavaria only 39 per cent, of those- entitled to vote took the trouble to do so. Malaga usually has about 16 rainy days a year, and,.at, least 200 days when there is not a cloud iu the bine sky. " ' - - ? The people of ancient Tyre were such experts in dyeing that Tyrian purple remains unexcelled to this day. . . There was a superstition among the auciont Romans that, it was unfortu nate wheu starling ou n journey, to meet a frog in the road. In traveling from Rome to this country, however, the old superstition became twisted, as the old-fashioned negroes believe it a sign of good fortnne to meet a "hop toad" in their path. In Waukegan, Wis., is M old church which has no steeple, b use of a court mandate forbidding i \ a con struction. In 1862 a se. storm swept over the town, hurling orig inal spire against the bonse . door and wrecking it. The owne* the house got ont an injunction : . bin ing the trust?es bf the church from building another spire, and this order has held for 38 years. The goose was a part of every me dieval feast in Europe. It is saidto have been the first domesticated fowl, and was regarded by the Egystians as sacred. At one time its use at feasts was restricted to those of royalty. In Greece their flight was regarded as au. omen for which people watohed anxiously. The breeding of geese was an important iudustry in some parts of Europe during the Middle Ages. Cnt liiat Prefer? Her Fish Fresh. Mr. Foster of Islewortb, Eng.,owns an angling caf. Mr. Foster's garden fronts on tho Thames, and ever since Banjo was a kitten be bas caught small fish in the river by diving for them. One night recently while Mr. Foster was at dinner he heard a great commotion in tho garden, and going to see what was the matter, he found the. cat struggling with a large fish With great difficulty the Ash was taken from, him and placed in a bath of water, ; jiving for two days, It measured 17 inches aud weighed ovo* tW9 pound"! oooo?coecocccce i Vi?fllfl THE BO ooo 0 The Burghers la M 8 ' the Pield of o and on ? e- o T0U0HI1?G RELIGIO US C?BEM05IE?. O ocoooooooooocooo?bc?obooo "TV^ "TOTHING has been moro ex \ traoi denary i^^ohnection . [ ^ with the South.-;African war <; than the lack e.r. news that has come from tho Boer side. Of thc foreigners Within-the Boer ranks, tho most picturesque and. one of tho ablest ia Count $3 Villebois Mareuil, -who won fnrao inlbe Foreign Legion, French Army, and' who,'it is eaid, threw up his comxfiissiou and joined the Boers because "ie was not given the rank of Brigadier-General, which he felt he deserved. But it appears that it'>w?svHot per sonal ambition but genuine, sympathy. A TYPICAL BOER LAAGER; FOR3?ED OF 1 for the Boer cause that. inflrienoed him. Not only Js Colonel YJllebois Marenil a brilliant soldier, brili a dis tinguished writer as well, a?c?-here with are presented extracts-from a letter contributed by him ito La Liberte, of Paris. It gives march that is new concerning the Boersy from whose sido little hus been published. " Colonel Villebois-MareuU \rates: "If you consider both men and things, bore is a curious mixture of very ancient and modern methods. The concentration of troops was car ried out by railway with the greatest ease and wiM?ont a hitch, as with. who serves out provision? .. liberality to which our commissariat "BLINDFOLDED:" AN ENGLISH OFFICER CARRYING A MESSAGE TO THE BOERS, officers have not accustomed me. The meat is admirable. Bread for the army is baked in Glencoe by a Frenchman named St. Croix, some of it in the ovenB left there by the British. If bread should run out there'is Boer bisouit, which is softer, more palatable and far better than ours. "The Government still keeps the men supplied with tea, coffee, rice, potatoes and condiments; it is your universal provider, this Government --your tailor, outfitter, saddler, shoe maker, and all without the slightest fuss, without the bother of filling up forms. All you want is a voucher from the field cornet, who is respon sible to his own conscience for the reasonableness of the orders he signs. "With its marabout tents, its kitchen in the open air, its Irish stews, the Boer laager would give the illusion of an Algerian camp but for the enormous wagons, drawn up in line or in square ; the multiplicity of animals and the silence and calm of the men. "Guard duty is taken in turns by successive groups all night long. The tent of the general, the major or the GENERAL JOUBERT, WITH HIS i (Thu Genornl ls seated In the centre. 1 ap nt the side, ls his SOD, and the man lu fr field cornet serves as a dub for any one who likes. The life of the chiefs is for me a mystery of physical aDd in tellectual endurance in tho midst ol Ibis continuous invasion. "Th wu m IIB pnaiihtasBti) ae w .ompenses, no altercations nor coercive measures, everything being done free ly at slated hours as a duty. Though there is no restraint, there is never a reprehensible act. j "The laagers have a commissariat department that ivorks with admirably regularity iu spite of the extreme -strain that is put upon it. . "But after all the laggers are chiefly interesting for the spirit that animates them. An atmosph?re o.e deep relig ions feeling pervades the samp, which commits everything to God-th? fate of tho Transvaal, the defense of its liberties, and tho rights of its people against the aggressor. If you compli ment a general ho replies: 'God has permitted it.1 The Boer, whose secret I aspirations are thus encouvaged, lifts eyes.of faith to heaven. Tho pastors are among tho men, living their life, pr?sent?t their death, simple, like the others, although tronted with epecial respe.pt. "Any man who has seen the Boers, ?HE.WAGONS, HASTILY INT BENCHED, WI night after night, gathored in groups, some on horseback, others on foot, punctual, in all weathers, taking up their nightly stations, is constrained to bow before the superior power which can transform lives so free as theirs and mould them to the needs of war like discipline. '"'The rain is often heavy, night falls, but they press stoically forward with out noticing it, and until tho'hour of dawn, crouching among" the rocks ~ - '5 ...'..''' ?- I * ' A - -<?v?. ? .-?. . hi . :.*;<. _ . A,. .. along a siope, uog^cu m iu? luu? u> drenched in the flooded fields, they will keep vigil or sleep under the southern sky, offering their lives in continual sacrifice to their oountry. "No man who has seen them in bat tle, their eyes ever on the alert, their deadly magazines rifles in their hands, quick to change their position or to strengthen - a weak point, inflexible, and yet at the same time generous, stoppiLg their fire as'soon as it has produced its effect, refusing to pursue after the enemy has been put to flight DOBBS HOLDIN? JL BTJBIAIi SEBVICE OVEB BRITISH SLAIN. (The correspondent of the Dally Telegraph with Gon'uriU French's column at Naauw poort writes with rogara to the burial of the unfortunate Suffolk mon: "Our bury-" lng party sent out was received by 'the Boers sympathetically. They rendered assistance also to our men. Over the grave they sang a hymn, and some of the loaders made Impresslvt speeches, ex pressing abhorrence of tho war, regret ting the heavy losses on both sides, and declaring the hope that the war would soon be ended.") -no man who sees them suoh perfeot masters of their strength can fail to JON AND STAFF, AT BREAKFAST. ?ho young maa on the right, with hat turned ont of him is General .Toubert's chaplain.) understand that they are a people apart, these extraordinary Boers sure of their eye as of their nerve, of their resolution as of their endur ance," Georg? kyaob, ariki of tbs ZUM? trated London News in Natal, who was* taken prisoner by the Boers, describes a hymn service in the Boer laager be hind Lombard's Kop, from which th? Transvaal "Long Tom" daily bom bards Ladysmith, as follows: "Abont fifteen ?nenj mostly abont thirty or forty years, were crowded into thc tent, which was excessively hot. Two candles were stnck in bottles placed on empty cases; the men squatted around, two or three reading from the same hymnbook. They had.laid their pipes besides them and-' their rifles were stacked about the tentpole. They sang well in lusty, olear voices free from any nasal twang. The effect was strikingly picturesque, the strongly marked, earnest faces in the candle light thrown out against the dark back ground ot the shadows behind. Simi lar scenes were to be witnessed at each laager every evening, sometimes in three or four tents at the same time. " A letter from Sir George White to General Schalk Burger was taken by TH THE STORES AND ANIMALS INSIDE. Lieutenant Orlebar, of the Nineteenth Hussars, during the siege of Lady smith. He was accompanied by an orderly with a white flag, and when he reached the Boer outposts he was blindfolded and conducted to the General, the orderly being left be hind in charge of the'picket. His eyes were not uncovered again until he was inside the General's tent, which was sumptuously famished, there even being a big bed in it. When-General Burger's answer WSB ready, the Lieutenant was again blindfolded and conducted back to the outposts. m' - - _ TY? ,',_ . .. . ?. his secretary ana tne leiegiop?. ... while close at hand and under the samo canvas his sturdy spouse waa placidly peeling potatoes as if no fatal issues wore hanging in the balance. The rites of hospitality were observed by the Commandant General ordering the native wench Eva, who has ac companied him and his good spouse through many a fierce campaign, to bring the national beverage, coffee. Monkeys and Music. The keepers of the monkey house at the Zoological Gardens are dis ciples of Professor Garner in believ ing that monkeys have a rudimentary language, or at least a code of signals. One keeper deolares that no matter what the monkeys are doing a peen? liarly shrill, call from one of them will Bend the entire number to the top of the cage in a panic, ' where they shiver with fear and only descend again with the most cautious move* ments and wary glances. A long drawn-out hiss produoes similar re sults, doubtless from their inherited fear of snakes. Some queer experiments were re cently made upon tho animals by a number of street musicians who vis ited the Gardens. One of them played a violin, and the monkeys showed every symptom of delight. They stopped their play and crowded the bars, sitting in silence with heads thrown back, seemingly in a state . of perfect enjoyment. The shrill notes of a piccolo suddenly set them in a rage, and they flew around their cages chattering and soreaming and shaking their swings until a flute player sounded a few notes on his instru ment. That produced quiet again, but did not equal the violin in subdu ing the monkeys to complete attention to the music-Philadelphia Beoord. John Chinaman as a Workman. . ?. o When he is paid by time, the Chi naman does not work more than he can help. When he is on piecework, however, his affection for the almighty dollar, developed in his race to the highest degree, makes it his tendency to scamp his work, and very ingenious indeed can be his dwices in this di rection. Bunning a machine topi would seem, therefore, to be the work wherein he would be most effective, but even then he wants a smart shop foreman, not of his own race, to see that tools are running at an effective speed and cutters held up to their work. What can certainly be said at present is that it takes more of him 'to do an equal amount of work in a given time as compared with the Eu ropean. It took eleven coolieB to carry the luggage of a representative of Engineering from a hotel to a rail way station, where ono man and a handcart wonld have sufficed. Thia overplus of labor and infinitesimal coinage is responsible also for the ter rible amount of theft of small loose parts, or even fixed pa: ?s, of the loose or fixed plant on the railways.-Lon don Globe. Baller's Friendship For the K rag ort. It is recalled that General Sir Bed vera Buller was, prior to the South African war, on terms of friendship with the Kruger family, and that they were wont to exchange cards of good wishes every Christmas, their friend ship datiug from twenty years ago, when Buller had a regiment of Boers undo* his command ia th? war against 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. 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.