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HE NATIONS!. BANK OF AUGUSTA C? HAYNE, Pres't. F. G. FORD, Cashier. Capital; $250,000, . Undivided rr,,nts } ?110,000. Facilities ot our magnificent Kew Vanlt 'oontalulng 410 > ate ty- Loci Boxes. Differ ent Sizes are offered to'our patrons and the public at 83.00 to 910.00 per annum. THOS. J ADAMS PROPRIETOR. EDGEFIELD, S. C., "EDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1900. ns PLANTERS LOAN AND SAVINGS BANK. AUGUSTA, GA. Faji Interest on Deposits ?cconstB Solicited. Ii. O. HATH?, President. W. C. WARDLXW, Cushier. VOL. LXV. NO. 48. ^Watches an Sterling Silver X Cat Glass, Silv( ?j? Large Size Lock Chain fl W Baby's Size 30c. Send for ( ftTi?L Jne Best alld Most Com for Watch ana* Jewelry H ^|^.Engraving, "lite. Wf"- WiVl. SCHWEIGER Iff 702 BROAD STBEET, Corner Washington and KU Mfliiiis i J lis ? STONE WOKK Estimates for all classes of work it fully furnished. .C. R.; Job mm Is complete imd op-t therefore, to All yon assuring satisfactioi such prices as WILL SAVE A CAPSULE FOR LUNCH. The Grocer Forcasts a Great Future for Condensed Food Products. . "See that handsomely dressed lady that went bul just as yon came in?" inquired the' grocer. 'Til bet my head against a one-cent postage stamp you can^-gness what she wanted: N'o? I'll tell yon. She wanted a glass of water and ? pinch of salt. Yes. Then she whipped a little box out of her pocket, took a capsule out of the box, and; put ting the salt in the water; floated the capsule .down her throat. Then she ^,langhed, thanked me, and said that ^g??.hgr hin ch eony^I^ie^caysnleA.wega . TfiTed wirb, extract ot ueyr: "The idea of concentrating foods has been getting in its work In preparations for soups. A little box holding less than a quarter of a pint has concen trated within it vegetables and meats sufficient to make a quart or more of soup. A genius out in California dis covered that SO per cent, of the potato is water. He proceeded to drive away the water, and then shipped five times as much potato as it was possible to ship before desiccation. "Don't you remember that it was said at the time of the war that prices were so high in Richmond, Va., that people brought their confederate money in a basket, and took their family sup plies of meat and vegetables home in their pocketbooks?"We're coming to pretty much the same thing if this con renrratioTi grjes -on. It does not take much imagination to see that the time may be near at hand when the grower of garden.truek will take his stuff not to the grocer, ont to. the. back door of the manufacturing chemist, who will . make it into various vegetable ' ablets. "Then we shall have our tomatoes in tablets, our parsnips in pilules, and let tuce in lozenges. The pint of milk will be represented in a tablet the size of a trouser button. . This is not at all fantastical. Some time ago a chemist announced that he could and would produce food to sustain life from ordinary coal tar, and that to it might be given the most delicate and entranc ing flavors, and it might be made charming to the eye. "If vegetables and other things that are now perishable are thus made into tablets, it is easy to see that there will not be the-.waste that we now have. Gcod-bye to the garbage man, who now: carries away the profit of the grocer in his-odorous wagon. With the tabule business in full : swing, there would be no need;for the grocer. He would go, and the places that have known him would know him no more forever. In ids place there would be fellows along the street with little trays in front of them, like suspender and shoestring men, selling all kinds o? vegetable tablets. More than this-" Here the grocer was called away by a customer.-Indianapolis News. The Happy Side la Fiction. Mr. Marcus Stone bas opened up a subject which, were our silly season not so packed with wars and rumors of wars, might well provide the public with a theme whereon to moralize in print. Talking to an Interviewer for the benefit of the "Young Man," Mr. Stone declared that both in literature and art it is easier to-picture sorrow than joy. According to Mr. Stone much of our modern realism, with its depressing morbidity and its gloomj philosophy, is due solely to the ease wherewith it can' be produced. "I hav< . only to paint a coffin on a trestle ii an empty .room," says the artist, "am I cannot help impressing somebody.' The real difficulty is to paint the brigh and happy side of life, to give th? world mirth and refreshment. We an inclined to agree with Mr. Stone. Th< average reader of the books, at anj rate, prefers the book that makes hin happy, to that which closes in sorrow In tragedy, of course, there must bi sorrow, butjt is not the pitiful, sor .^dfSOTroW'iirbich modern novelist ' affect, it is'sublime, as in "Lear." -TV -sar ?\ ?^arr^ ware, Clocks, Fine iL >r Plated Ware. T bracelet, Sterling Silver, 75c, *)? ?ne. /ft plete Workshop in Hie City }!v epairing, Diamond Setting, ff J t &.CO., Jewelers, % AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. /AV 5 lis Streets, AUGUSTA, GA., il ol lari or Granite. XE.VTL? HONE. i Marble and Stone solicited, and cheer US5, Proprietor. o-datc. We aro prepared, F order with promptness, n by doing good work at YOUHONEY. can enjoy Laniu s moc&ery or Tate ror putting bis hook in the nostrils of "this Leviathan" for Garrick to attract playgoers with a happy ending; but we could" .wish, nevertheless, that modern novelists would realize their own limitation-, and give mankind in place of cheap pathos and cynical philosophy, books, that breathe the joy of existence, picture the cheerful side Of life, and cud happilj-.-London Globe. COLORADO'S BURNING MOUNTAIN. lt Has Been On Fire for Over a Hundred Years. for m?re^flian "?ne^??u??reJ^y^rsf1^-} situated just west of here. So close is it that its shadow envelopes the town at 5 p. m. at this time of the year, and yet the people hereabouts think no more of it than of the beautiful Grand river which washes the feet of the huge pile wbe/e the fire has burned so long. To the tenderfoot, however, the glitter ing patches of deep red lire, where it breaks out on the side of the moun tain, and is exposed to view, there is nothing in all this state quite its equal. The lire is fed by a big vein of coal which the mountain contains. Just how the coal became ignited is not known. The oldest resident says it was on fire when he came here, and the Tte In dians, who once lived in this section, say it was bunting many years before the first white man crossed thc conti nental, divide. The supposition ls that the coal was ignited by a forest fire at an early date in the present century. . It has smoldered and steadily burned until tliis day. At night, when the moon ls dark, is the best time to .see the fire. Then it is that it resembles the regions of inferno as given us in the ..word-painting of Dante. The earth covering the coal ls loosened by the heat and falls away, exposing the sheet of fire. The.escaping gas probably assists in stripping off the rocks and dirt, and wherever the vein of coal approaches the surface the fire can be seen.. The first fire I saw was fully 50 feet square. It had a peculiar red tint, while the burning gas coming up at the base of the coal vein added a bright blue color ing to the .scene. lu many places the surface of the mountain has sunken, 'showing where the fire has burned out its course. Efforts have been made to extin guish the fire. Some time ago a com pany which owns a large amount of coal land here constructed a ditch from a point several miles above the moun tain into which it succeeded in turning the water which goes te form Elk creek. Previously a shaft had been sunken in the mountain, and into this shaft the water was permitted to flow. The shaft was soon filled, but the fire was above the level of the water, and the effort was a failure.-Newcastle corre spondence Kansas City World. The Gardener Told Them. A party of young men and women were bicycling along a country road. It was a sketching class, and every eye was wide open for an artistic sub ject Suddenly the whole party dis mounted with various exclamations of delight and surprise. Just within the fence on the left grew innumerable graceful stalks, each bearing aloft globes of pale green that shaded Into gray and purple. "How enchanting!" said a young woman. "How decorative!" said A young man. "Just what we are looking for," said the teacher, a full-fledged artist. A gardener was standing near at hand. "Do tell us," cried a girl, "what those beau-oo-tiful things are." "Which?" replied the gardener. "Why, those," said the girl. "Them," said the gardener, with a chuckle, "Them's onions gone to seed.*~New York World. I WI THE TBA? 11 \ RAILROADS' 1! ONE of the greatest sources of annoyance and perplexity to every railroad superintendent ' the "hobo." The members of this easy-going gentry have selected the road cf steel as a natural successor for their purposes to the "king's high way" of a century and a half ago. It is stated pa good authority that the various railway lines of the country spend each year more than a million dollars in attempts to keep their lines free from tramps. It is easy to understand, says the New York Herald, why the "hobo" prefers the railways to the highways. In the first place, they offer the most direct routes between towus, and, in spite of beliefs to the contrary, the genuine "hobo" prefers not to stray any further than ls .necessary from these centres ' of population. It is easier to count ties than to pick one's way through thc uncertainties of country dirt roads. The- railroad is never muddy in wet weather nor very dusty in the dry season. Moreover, there is rlwnys the alluring possibility of stealing a ride on the trucks, the "blind baggage" or within the friendly shelter of some-box car. "NV..ile the railway is a great boon to the members of the genus hobo, it can not be said that the reverse is true. In fact, so-great a dislike do thc rail way officials show to the free and in dis Timinate use <f. 1'iolr property that they spend thousands of dollars in em ploying men to drive the tramps oil trains and away from the line. A single line of railway-one of the more important companies-spends up ward of $40,000 every year in fighting tramps, and it is probable that most of the through lines pay out not less than $25,000 apiece in attempts to keep their lines clear of these unwelcome travel ers. If these men arc driven off one train they catch onto the next that comes along.. If they are sent to the peniten tiary they serve their terms and return to the ro..d. No amount bf bealing or imprisonment serves to discourage them, and the problem of dealing with them is a source of continual perplex ity, to railway officials. The use of the railways by the invet erate hoboes menaces not aloue the BEADING SIGNS ON DOX CABS. property of the companies themsel but also the peace and security of the sections through which they pass, which is practically the same ns say ing of the whole country. On this point the oplnlou of an expert Is available, and Is interesting as showing how the present lax system of policing the rail way lines tends to keep filled I he ranks of the vagrant and criminal classes. Mr. josiah Plyut, who has spent many years among tramps stu dying their ways and habits, says: "All the great railways are spending thousands of dollars ou their 'detec tive' forces, ns they call them, and they are all overrun bv mobs of ne'er do wells and criminals. There are no worse slums in the country than are to be found on the railroads. Reform ers and social agit 'cs are accustomed to speak of the congested districts of the large cities as the slums to which attention should be directed, but in the most congested quarters of New York City there nre no greater desperadoes nor worse scenes of degradation than may be met on the "iron highways" of the United States. A number of rail roads are recognized by vagrants and criminals as the stamping grouud of particular gangs that are generally found on the Unes, with which their names are connected. "Take the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad, for example. For NIGHT BATTL several years a mob of cutthroats an .hold up' men, called thc 'Lake Shor Push,' were operating on that propel ty. The hangman's noose and lon ST MB mk sentences to the penitentiarjpve weakened the gang and remo^ its terrors, but originally lt was a bng criminal combination. .'fe "The men had no leader or imi tation in the strict sense of theprd, but they were bound together,.areli as criminals and thugs can berthe determination to keep the Lak?ibre Railroad, from the outcasts' p<t of view, in their own hands, nndnere have been times when it wasU a man's life was worth to be cauj by the gang on a freight train. Thdiad made up their mind that a sydjate of ruffians was as appropriate aniike _ : go en ea th di: tn ja ca be I.' Pt El th pr ti ti: S< tt 'tr lu ^1 tl gi tl: Pt w BBEAi ? ly to succeed as any other kind of, dicate, and for several years they? ied toll, in the shape of money or thing else of value that they could on all strange wanderers found o: property which they had pick as their territory. If a man w they located beating his way pS'a freight car refused to pay toll tjjy pummelled him until he ncquie8Cei$a their demands, and then, if they; I jjif peued to be drunk, they were as HI $y as not to throw him off the tc .t? Only a' few of the original gang jiro alive or free to-day, but It stflg hooves a man beating his way q Lake Shore to be on the lool' men of their stamp. "Besides holding up tra?*" .. robbed freight cn-' whether any o+' ever brm saw to it that, the ladder did not slip, and the other climbed down to the side door of the car, broke the seal, opened the door, and threw out on the ground as much plunder as he thought could be carried away, the same being picked up later by the rest of the gang scattered along the track. The two men would jump off the train as soon ns it slackened Its speed sufficiently to allow them to do so, rejoin the 'push,' and help in distributing the plunder among the 'fencas' in neigh boring cities." The method generally adopted by the railway companies In ridding their lines of tramps, and the one which is being followed by the Central road a-t the present time is that of scaring tlie great number of hoboes'away from the line by making examples of a few of their number. The Central employs on its Hudson River division four de tectives who are empowered to make arrests in any county of the State through which the line extends! These men are the general officers of the detective force, and in the per formance of their duty they are able to call upon other railway employes who hold local commissions In the Va rious towns along the line. Since the order was Issued to use more stringent efforts in getting rid of the tramps these detectives and their local assJst F. WITH TRAMPS. ants have been exceedingly Ja*y. Be ginning at the southern end < the di vision they have worked theliway to ward Albany, riding on frelgl trains, lug through the yards in the differ? t towns and raiding the hoboes' mps along the railroad property with e aid of thc local police force in the fiferent places. Half a hundred imps have been arrested and sent to il, and a number of their established naping spots along the line have en broken up. The problem of dealing with this llsance ls a less serious one for the astern roads than it is for those of e West. In the first place, in this irt of the country the tramps are dis-, lbuted over a great many lines. In ie second pince, towns are closer to ;ther, and it is always possible to irn ;the hoboes over to local magis ates to be dealt with. In the West, )wever, where the towns are further mrt, the question of what to do with ie hobo after he ls caught is often ? .ave and difficult one, and some of ie Western roads have adopted thc )Iicy of permitting the tramps to ride (MG UP A CAMP,! mdisturbed pn their freight trains so ong as they do not interfere with the allroad property or steal the cars. Che tramps themselves are well aware is to which lines have adopted this wiley, and they' are to be found in jreat numbers along all these roads, .t ls a well-known fact among their fraternity that the' railways will not mt them off trains in passing over ;he Rocky Mountains or across the Southern desert. The lines in these jectlons . have suffered'so much from Ires started by tramps that had been sut off. trains that they prefer to ?.^,."., -liAtu rt ct fnnn 4*i.rtirt>l%t rn tl, rt? tl.rt.? { METHOD OP BOBBING A BOX CAB. .fer to Salt Lalee City, so far as beat ?g one's way ls concerned. It is estimated on good authority at there are no less than 100,000 pr? ssional hoboes in the United States, lese men travel from end to end of e country over the railroad lines, tod live ny preying upon the property it the companies or upon the people )rho live along the roads. The cost of nwilllngly supporting them amounts ) hundreds of thousands of dollars fvery year, but thus far no way has }een fourd to successfully suppress ihem. Snored in tho WronR Key. j The night clerk of a leading hotel of Washington, D. C., says that last win ier a Southern Congressman came tc Mm and demanded that his room bc changed. When asked what displeased him, he replied, angrily: "Well, thal German musician in the next room and I don't get along well. Last nigh! he tooted away on his clarionet sc that I thought I never should go tc Bleep. After I had caught a few winks I was awakened by a pounding at inj door. 'What's thc matter?' I asked, ?'If you please,' said the German, 'dol you vould schnore of der same key You vas go from B fiat to G. and il spoils der moosie.'"-Argonaut. j. The Evaporation of Troon. t Some curious facts concerning tree? 'have been discovered. A single oal of good size is said to lift 123 ton; of water during thc months it is it leaf. This moisture ls evaporate, and rises to form ruin clouds. Prou this estimate of the labor of a singh oak we can gain some idea of the im mense force whr., the forests excrl In.equalizing the evaporation and pre cipitatiou and preventing periods o< Inundation and drought.-Cincinnai Enquirer. An Uncanny Quest. It Is rumored that moro than om employe of Parisian hairdressing firms have been seen of late tra vella; West and South In Ireland, bent or exploiting a new country for the "hail harvest." Red-gold hair, the fashion able French shade of the year, h most uncommon on the Continent where dark and blonde locks only ari to be readily obtained. But, observes the Freeman's Journal, the true Miles Ian possesses the finest red-gold bah In the world. Hence this quest. CHINA'S CRUEL FASHION. Jnppoaed Origin of Biniing tho Feat of Children. AH who liavo tho slightest knowledge? of China have heard of the custom of binding the feet of Chinese girls, but few are acquainted with the painful process adopted to secure the diminu tive feet which the Chinese prize so highly? lt ?H not known how this ct viol custom originated, and the Chinese themselves seem fo be uncertain as to when it was adopted, but tradition re lates that a certain Empress of China, somewhere back In the twilight of Chi nese history,.was afflicted with club feet, and compelled all the ladles of the court lo Ufiid their feet, in the attempt to secure artificially tho same deform ity which nature bad inflicted upon her. There are two distinct styles of bind ing the feet in vogue among the Chi nese, but the process is the same in both cases, the different results being se cured by the way in which the bind ing is done. The instrument used is a small roll of firm cotton webbing about tvro and one-half inches wide. This webbing must have no stretch or give to it. and is woven especially for such use. The process is usually begun when the girls have reached the age of six or seven years, though in some cases where a particularly dainty pair of "golden lilies," as the Chinese call those poor deformities, is desired, t?i? binding is begun as early as tho third or fourth year. The foot, is taken and all the toes ex cept tho great toe bent under the in step, which is thus forced up. When this has continued for some time and .the foot has become quito pointed in shape and the instep considerably arched, the binding is extended and the hool and toes drawn together, thus pre venting ibo . growth of the foot in length. In the stylo of binding In north China greater pains are taken to preserve the pointed effect, while in Bouffiern China the shortness of the foot, is so much desired that the point ed PITPCI is almost lost and tho feet become mero stumps. The excruciating pain endured by Chinese girls in the process of foot binding is impossible to describe. Tak en young, while the feet are growing, they are bound and wrapped so tightly with the webbing that circulation, is almost entirely cut off, and the band ' ago is loft on just as long as possible, often for weeks, for it is a saying that every dressing of the feet loses a mite of daintiness. But the worst of it is that the toiture is drawn out through a lifetime, for the binding can never cease. Tho seams and fissures caused in the foot by their distortion become <??"<?" ~~1 ?'ton muicrene sets in and neun ji.i.-? iii.-uini .Loi... un t"v. -i- ? ? ? ? ^ women. tb whom it has become the I badge of respectability, and whose ele gance and distinction ure measured by the greatness of their deformity. The most advantageous marriages aro made by those whose "golden lilies" are the most petite, and those otherwise unde ' sirablo become prizes if possessed of j tiny feet. Tho custom is peculiar to the Chinese, ! for the. Mongols and Manchus have I never adopted it: but so dpar is it to j tho Chin?se that tho greatest emperor of the present dynasty, who successful ly Imposed upon tho Chinese tho wear ing of the queue-as a badge of sub jection, did not dare to risk his author ity in an attempt to stamp out the cus tom of binding feet, though he pro hibited the practice within the limits of his capital at Pekin. The work of j missionaries is. however, beginning to j make itself felt, and native societies are at hist pressing to abolish this cruel 1 and ancient eustom.-Lcslie's Weekly. A Vt'hnlnbono Arbor. I Captain John H. Devereaux has re . fused a cash offer of S300 for tho jaw? ! b?ii? of a whale which was killed in i tho harbor at Charleston. S. C., about 14 years ago. I The jaws measure 12 feet each, and just now they are used as a grand en . trance to a summer house, on Sullivan's Island ma<le entirely of the bones from the wini Ie. Tho house is prettily ar ranged and the vines which cover it give it a most handsome .appearance. Tea was served In this little house the other afternoon and tho fact was brought out then that Captain Dever eaux had just refused the offer for the bones. The whale was considered the largest of its kind that ever drifted to south ern waters. Captain Devereaux" is tho supervising architect for tho government at Charleston and it was his idea to build the arbor with tho most artistic effect. Back of tho main entrance the ribs have been put up as a covering and a support for the vines and the large bone of the whale's tail is used as the throne seat in the arbor. The bonos are thoroughly bleached and superstitious negroes who have to pass that portion of tho islam? on moon, light nights go by at a double speed. There is a seating capacity for 25 per sons in the whale house.-Baltimore Sun. Bnhln?. und >'nmcmnl(1n. A correspondent writing to the Morn ing Tost dmws attention to the inhu manity of nursomaids and mothers in wheeling babies into the sunny streets without proper headgear. Now horses have sunbonnets, ho points out taunt ingly, and straightway makes a pa thetic appeal to the sympathies of mothers. But there really scorns to be something remarkably tough and last ing about fi baby's head. No one who has ever seen an infant asleep in its perambulator, the hoad hanging over the side at an augie'that would breaks." adult nock, bumping monotonously against tho wheel, while the nurse dis cusses tho Paris fashions with a friend, cnn doubt thc durability of the Infan tile eraniunii-Loudon Globe. Two Stores, Jackson Street, Near Broadway, Augusta, Ga . -''il ,? Oi?(. 'it . ilfllfv Fine Stock of mi! -.. LACES, EMBROIDERIES, HOSIERY, WHITE GOODS, LINENS, ETC. AGENCY FOR JOUVIN'S GLOVES, AMERICAN LADY CORSETS AND BUTTERICK'S PATTERNS. MAIL ORDERS SOLICITED. IY. J. RUTHERFORD. R. B. MORRIS. W. J. RUTHERFORD & CO. MANUFACTURERS OF AND DEALERS IN Lime, Cement, Plaster, Hair, FIRE BRICK, FIRE CLAY, READY ROOFING, AND OTHER MATERIALS. Write us for Prices. Cor. Reynolds and Washington Streets. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. SEMD as OME DOLLAR Cot tala ad. oat ma Hod ta u with 11. (Ml, ind w? will und 70a alt SEW ("PROVED rAKLOtt GKS ORGAN, by freight C. 0. U., .object toexamlea lloo. 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If You -Want A good Buggy-the easiest running, best riding, with the lougest staying qualities-see my line of Open and Top Bnggies, Carriages, Phaetons, etc. The best Wagon made, our OwensL "o and Russell Wagons. Anything in the Harness line, Bugpj Robes, Whips, Saddlery, otc., xre can furnish it to you at prices as cheap as tLe cheapest. The finest toned aud best made Piano on the market vre can show it to you, or thc best Organ for the least money. Call and let us show them to yop. The finest selection of Sheet Music ever seen in this section, come and look through our line of classical and operatio vocal and instrumental^ music And last, if the sad necessity ever comes to you or yours when you shall need anything in the Undertaker's line, our Hearse and entire line of Under takers'Goods are at your services, .. , You are cordially invited to visit my store and let us show you anything you wish to see or hear. , . JOHNSTON, ?S. O,