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|THE NATIONAL BANK OF AUGUSTA L. C. HAYNS, Pres't. P. G. FORD, Cashier. Capital, $250,000. Surplus and - Undivided 1'rofits M ?littles of our magnificent Kew Vault I ming 410 i=afoty-Lock Boxes. Differ-1 Sizes are offored'to oar patrons andi ublic at $3.00 to.$10.00j>er nnnntn, ? $125,000 VOL. LXVIII. EDGEFIELD, S. C.. A SONG Ol A mermaid sat on a moss-gowned rook, Sing ho! for the belle of the sobbing sea! She flipped a kiss at a jabberwock, And flirted her tall in glee, j She flashed a smile at a circling auk, And shook the spray from her scaly froo'x And the sunbeams bunched in a prize cake walk Her tresses of filigree. A merman swam to tho rock's damp base, Sing ho! for the dade of the sad sea wave! And ne swam around with aquatic grace And a word with the maid did crave. Bhe smiled through tho spumo on her girl ish faop, And her brown eyes googled to flt the case, And she slid on the rock to make a place For the prince from a coral cave. Dne arm encircled hor scaly waist. Sing bv! Tor the gall the follow had! And the salt of her hps he did boidiy taste And said it was not hajf bad. 3e told her a sweater one never graced "he shell-decked halls of the wild sea waste o maid moro lovely, no maid more chaste From Trisco to Ba?ydad. e maidon listened as.maidens will, ing hoi for th? ears of the tru-tful dove! A Bargain o By riARGAR] opa, going down the stairs, met i coming up. Both girls were and both were slight of figure r of face. But Philippa was nd her eyes sparkled, while s drooping lashes rested on a ; delicately pale and trauspar h* leaf of a jasmine flower, room somewhere in the up of the housD there issued a .: t of noise and confusion ,4ung of chairs across the floor p . cf small b it vigorous feet, ir . of small but determined ..r through all a curious, in DI id like the shrilling of some ..asset. etulein," said Phiiippa, laugh . frowning and puckering her louth into a little pout of dis am glad you have come! Now ll be some peace. I went in to h the'children a few minutes arie was busy. ught I would try a little kin aing all to myself; but they espect for me as soon as they ut that I didn't know how he king's crown. Then I tried . cm a story about the bee. ained'about its being such a little insect, and gathering >m every opening flower, and and then I told the children ey were little bees themselves, JW busy and happy they could you came. ;en I went out of the room a nd1 what did . jmmy do but juzz'and bumble so_lo.ud you '*.... ' ?piH-selt:,fhiiV. tfndl.'g?: ; - ^un'G the rcom bumping ' ^"-1 fllM&KT- ' ' TI l r"- -, Fanay'g^aHhe-^gerTC^ag^ ; bumuTe f?'Sf &fti ''Tfi^y^ ?s?ll ' p against the Angel so hard fell >wn and began to cry. ink ey're playing bee yet. how o you manage when thin ; that way?" . tren ;led on Evelina's pale rather perplexing," she said; aink we can straighten it out t, and make the bee useful, af you " can straighten it out, of -. ' cried Philippa, "because you now! I- suppose-it must be .he experience, isn't it?" ippose so," said the other, sim ad soberly. "The knowing how ood deal, of course." . then she went on up the stairs . Philippa went on down, smiling inging to herself. They were vel vet-carpeted stairs, and the hall was wide and softly lighted by the stained glass window on thc landing. In the parlor sat Philippa's mother, talking to a visitor, who listened with an anxious expression of countenance and an evident effort not to appear ab sent-minded. Mrs. Somers perceived this presently. "Oh, you're thinking about the chil dren," she said, smiling easily. "Don't let them worry you; they will be quiet immediately. Fraulein has just come ^r?^their governess-and they are al ways good with her. They just adore her-a perfect treasure, Cousin Jose phine! It's wonderful how we happened to ge.: her, and at such a price, too!" "She is a kindergartner?" asked th? visitor. "Yes, and thoroughly trained-sup erior in every way, we think. I call her one of Philippa s bargains. Philip pa jot her, of course. She is the clev erest child about such matters-always picking up the prettiest things for her self for almost nothing; and she seems to have picked up Fraulein in much the same way. "You see, when Fraulein-not that she's German, but we call her that because the last one was, and so it's easier to remember; her name is Dodd or Dobbs or something, I forget well, she lost some position-that sh? expected to have in the fall, I believe and so was glad enough to come here Philippa happened to hear of her, anc we congratulate ourselves every day oi being so fortunate. Philippa, dear come in!" she called, hearing the girl'! light step outside She looked np proudly at her tal daughter, whose smile was as sunnil; sweet and good humored as her own. "Now, mamma," cried Philippa, gai ly, when Cousin Josephine was gon( "put on your little bonnet right awaj and come with me and see my 'shut-ir people! And then, this afternoon, i you're not too tired, there's just th sweetest bit of a hat at Madame Mej er's. I saw it yesterday-precise! what I want to go with my green suit and such a bargain!" Off they went presently, with a ru? tie of silken skirts and a ripple < merry talk and laughter. .At one o'clock Evelina -met the: coming home to luncheon. She wi just leaving thc house, and Mrs. Son ers stopped her on the steps. _yZ ? "Were the children good to-day?" si asked kindly. "You look a little pal Fraulein. You must take care ofi you We cannot have you getting sic lat would the children d \ ? ? ?. \ F THE SEA. Ah! aweet ia the taste of the tomptor'? pill Whea coated with sugared love! He tickled her ear with a sea-gull's quill The gull with the song so sharp and sririll And his words to the maid were of sweeter trill Than a melody from above. But a handsomer mermaid swam anear, Sing ho! for the flirt that butted in! And.the merman dived in the waters clear, Say, wa'n't it a bloomin' sin! And he swam away with his new-Iound dear, And the maid on the rock shed a briny tear, And sho dug his words from her o'er-fed ear with the polat of her dorsal fin. Alone on the moss-gowned rock sat she. Sing ho! for the girlie that got the shake! And she said: "Waat chumpies wo mergirls be! That guy was a bloomin' fake! There are just as good mei fellows in the sea As ever were caught, now you hear me! But for beautiful Gall wi h a full grown G That suoozer can have the cake!" -Denver Post. f Philippa's. % ET JOHNSON. S "Her eyes look tired," said Philippa, thoughtfully. "But the hours are short," said her mother, easily. "She ought to be able to rest enough in the afternoon to be fresh for her*work in the morning. "Oh, no, I can't get sick! I can't get sick!" said Evelina, as she walked away. 'They prize'me so!" A little j bitterness was in her smile. She tuck ed the little threadbare fingers of her gloves closer into her shabby muff, the spring air being raw and chilly, and hurrying swiftly down the crowded avenue-for car fares.count up fast and must he saved-turned down into a side street, where there shone the tempting windows of a modest restau rant. She ate her luncheon here and hur ried back, not home, but to the crowd ed avenue again, and toward the very store to which Philippa, after a hur ried luncheon, had already hastened in her carriage. And so it chanced that, seated in the inner room of Madame Meyer's Fashionable Emporium, trying on the bit of a hat, while Stubs, whom she had brought with her, investigated with equal enjoyment some silken flowers left within his reach, Philippa, in the mirror, saw the reflection of Evelina entering the door. "So the little Fraulein must have a spring hat. too!" she smiled. And then she frowned in wonder, for the little Fraulein had slipped away somewhere aixi taken off her wraps, and now was moving about in her trim black gown ..ai-if-she belonged there; and-yes, was larking to a customer who had just ^^^j^f??ft^^hilippa, sitting np is that you^glady in tho front room trying the red and purple bonnet on the fat lady with the gray hair, who ought to knew better?" "That,' said madame, glancing up, "that is Miss Dobb. You know her, mademoiselle?" ."I-yes-but I didn't know-is she a saleswoman here?' stammered Philip pa. "Sometimes," said madame, cautious ly. "Eh bien- Those leafs-' "Oh, never mind the hat!" Philippa cried, impatiently. "I want to know about that girl-who is she? Tell me, please!" Madame's keen black eyes changed and softened with ready feeling. "Truly?" she said. "You care to know? It is not much to tel!. She is a little teacher, this poor Miss Dodd. She and her mother have live more than a year in the same house with me. She love her teaching, oh, so much! And she have study three, four years, to fit her self. But in the fall, she tel me. she have lose the situation she expec', be cau?e she was so seeck, oh, ver', ver' seeck! And the medicines and doctors, and at last the hospital, they eat up all her money, her little savings, pauvre petite! "And when she was all cure her courage it is gone, and all the schoo*" are fill. There is no place-the? sh? must take what she can e<^- JJllt- >'es the private pupils- mademoiselle, thej do not payb.cr well, those peoplt ,hc Tca'di. She have not tell rm y are, but they have money y do not pay her half whai she is wort', I know. They do no1 unnerstand bow she have work, hav< study, for the know. So now she corni to me to sell the hats. That, it is new but she is quick, and in the busy times the afternoons, she work for me. But i is hard, that!" She shrugged her shoul ders and spread her hands with an elo quent gesture of generous indignation Philippa's cheeks had turned as pin: as the roses in her hat. She sat quit still gazing at her reflection in th glass and the little black figure movin to and fro in the dim background. "Thank you," madame," she san briefly, when the voluble millint paused, her ample bosom heaving wit the warmth of her generous feeling "It is-Lard, as you say; but thini like that do happen, I suppose. Aboi the hat-" "Parfaite, I do assure you!" cri( madame, returning to the subject wit a facile grace. "And then, the prii -consider! Twenty dollars for a h worth-" Philippa's cheeks grew pinker sti and a flash of something proud, indi nant, came into her ey *s. "Yes, I will take the hat," she sai "and pay, if you please, madame, whs ever it is worth. I believe I am-si or bargains! Please send it home 1 j morrow, with the bill. Come, Stut Good afternoon, madame!" She swept away with dignity, t fascinated Stubs dragged after her one. -reluctant hand, and left madai bewildered by her sudden change mood. j "0 Ph'ippa!" shouted Stubs, c^i-short legs makin? heroic efforts to ki up with his sister? rapid pa^e. (?e Ph'ippa! I saw Fwauicin-1 saw Fwi e lein in the mlll'iier's shop!" Tl "Indeed! You don't say so!" k. turned Philippa, with polite surpr: o? "Strange. So did I!" "She's got no burfday, Fwaul has!" His shrill, small voice trated above the roar of the ? "She told us so-tomorrow-a bu Fwaulein has!" "Indeed!" Philippa said again, ly. "What are you going to giv< Stubs?" She turned -non him w sudden and discor rting sev "You're going to give uer somct What shall it be? Flowers, Stubs? es, violets, candy, Stubs?" "Cawamels!" shriked Stubs, in tasy. "Cawamels and choc'let cwez pounds an' pounds!" "Pounds and pounds!" e< Philippa, recklessly. "And flo too! O Stubs, we'll make it up tc my dear-somehow we'll make j to her!" And then Stubs caught the no something strange and sorry in hi? ter's voice, and looking up, h tears in Philippa's merry eyes. She was all ready for Evelina next morning when that unsuspe young person came up the stairs a and pausing at the door of the Iii where Mrs. Somers sat, tapped s and came in. The little "Fraulein's" delicate was paler than usual, and her < manner was a trifle flurried. "I thought, Mrs. Somers," she b -"I have been thinking for some that I ought to tell you-I am afr; shall not be able to go out with children. I-" "Oh, is that you, Fraulein?" Philippa, coming out casually from hind the window curtain, and ta a position of much firmness and di ty beside the b!g table in the midd! the room. "Mamma will excuse You know it is I who made the rangement with you in the first pl so if you are going to resign or i thing, will you please do it to n "Oh," said Evelina, flushing fair "I was going to say--' She looked ? fully at Mrs. Somers, /who, smil rose and -left tiTiTfeooi. and then turned to Philippa with'an-?^?SlJ doubt and distress in her face; that perverse young lady was unrac "I don't think, however, that it necessary for you to go on," obser Philippa, lightly, playing with a par knife which lay upon the table, " cause I know what you are going say. I should have spoken to you a: way this morning. I saw you yesterd Fraulein, at Madame Meyer's; a frankly, to teil you the truth, I do see how you can carry on millin< and kindergartening, successfully, the same time." "I can't," said Evelina, with a 1 tie rueful smile. "That's just the trc ble. I thought I could-I hoped so; L I am not very strong, and now-" "And there is another thing, Fra lein," continued Philippa, judicial! "I was going to speak to you tod; because-I am very sorry \SJ?????SS? but we have ^r^^JgaB??Bm we-havq_nc> -. . ^c^-satisfi?d?'^affiHBHBBHI back a little, the crimson color comii up in her white cbeei. "Indeed, ye have said, and Mrs. Somers, that yt found ray work-" "Oh, not your work," said Philipp with a haughty wave of the papa kniie. "It is-to be quite frank wi' you, Fraulein-it is thc terms that a not satisfactory to us." "Thc-terms!" said Evelina. The terms," repeled Philippa, firn ly. She avoided the other's astonish< and incredulous eyes. "Miss Somers." said Evelina, after moment, her voice a little shaken, " seems to me there must be some mi take. I always supposed you knew; thought surely you understood that came to you for scarcely half whar. ought, what I should usually receiv It was so late, you know, and I need* -why, that is why I have to go Madame Meyer's! I-" "Exac-tly!" said I'hilippu, with spiri "That is just what I object to. Why c you do it? What right have you to ? on teaching my little brothers and si ters for scarcely more than half wh; you are worth. It isn't fair, it isr right; and I can't have it go on ar longer, Fraulein, clo you understand? person like you. who knows aboi kings' crowns and saltcellars and.cit and^j??*^1101' how to make ' Wr?tTOed bee useful instead of demora '""izing! Oh, I learned something yeste 1 day-you needn't think-" "Miss Somers!" said Evelina. H voice was very quiet. "Miss Somers! J "It is the knowing how!" said Ph 5 lippa, sternly, emphasizing her won ' with vicious stabs of her weapon im t the felt table-cover. "You have work? b for it and studied for it; and that ye ' should go on using it up on Stubs ar 5 Tommy and Fanny and the Angel f< ' - It's absurd! If you want to stay hei ' Fraulein, and work over their your 1 ideas, you'll have to agree to do it f< " -what it's worth; or else you may g " and sell hats all the rest of your lif L; if you want to! I don't care!" '? "Miss Sonws!" Evelina said agar e Philippa looked, and what she saw i e the little Fraulein's smiling, tremuloi ^ face, the comprehension, wonder, r lief and gratitude, went to her girlis J* heart. J "Fraulein-Miss Dodd," she sai earnestly, dropping her defiant ma: ner as she did her paper-knife, " 5! mean it, truly! We didn't know, mar 1 ma and I, we didn't understand; ai >d it was all my fault, because I didr 'h stop to think. And now, if you wou " stay and let us make it up to yo at Miss Dodd, and pay you what it worth-to you-to us-" "Miss Somers," Evelina began on ' more; but the rest of her reply w be forever among the secret things id unwritten history, for at that mome t' the voice of Stubs was heard in tl Ck halL o- "He saved thc situation, mamma ,s! said Philippa, telling about it afte ward; "just barely saved it. For fro he the way that Fraulein looked, I kne by in another minute she would ha tne cried, and if she had, I don't dou of that I should have too. But with Stu and Tommy, yelling like little demoi his and Fannie and the Anp op tumbling over their bouque "0 and having to bc picked up and pctte au- and all of them explaining at the ti of their lungs that it. was FrauJ^ re- birthday, and offering her^^ ?3R. creams and kisses, wejdjtH bs very tragic. So^^? ein ter take her i]^?m and she thought she would, and-j all. "But I'd like you to underj marum- " Philippa concluded in sively, "that I haven't lost my vi tion, because sue is a bargain. * ever we may pay for her she'll be more, as you'd know yourself i should spend one single morning nursery with Stubs!"-Youth's panion. STRANGER THAN FICTIONS Stories Wholly Different from Anj Kefore Sren in J'rint. [From the Chicago Tribune.] TUE MAX AND TUE PHOTOORArnJ "This is only the first print the negative," said the photogrs "When we have retouched the none of these wrinkles will sho\f? "If they don't," replied the mj?| aged man who had sat for his porH "I won't take the photograph^ want them to look e<actly like I STRANGE CASE OF MR. BKILES. For years the Rev. Samuel Ski) Ripley, Brown county, UL, had annoyed by a large and conspij wart on the back of his hand. In the effort to remove it ht tried everything he had ever he? or could think of, short of ampu^. the hand, but in vain. The wart clu At last a member of his congrega told him that if he would rub it a grain from a red ear of corn, a same time saying: "Leave me, and never come back!" and then the grain of corn, the wart disappear for good. Mr. Skiles followed the prescri faithfully, although he said he h faith that it would drive the away. It didn't THE MYSTER/Jug KENTUCKIAN. "Berkele;',*-said a we]1 ]{nown h0T.? man yesterday morning, at one of fi down town hotels, as he introduce ?Ifquaintance to a distinguished ing stranger in a broad brimmec rnd long frock coat. "I want ye enow my friend Bludraw of tuck}'." "Gi'id to know you. Col. Bludr said the man addressed as Berkel "I am not a colonel, sir," replk other, stiffly. GUAINT AND CURIOUS. An inmate of an insane asylum] Vienna has to be closely watched prevent him from standing on head, which he wants to do all time. Novel first-aid-to-the-injured box?1 are to be scattered in the streets Paris, France. Outwardly the appaf ot us resembles a lamp post letter box il contain- - n..^rn?lL^medicini Of the four hundred inscribed da* dabs found in the ruins of BabyleS3r the expedition sent out by the Germai Oriental society, but two have ye been deciphered, one explaining tb< Babylonian cuneiform characters an< the other containing the litany chant ed by tho singers of the temple of Es agila on the return of the god Mai duk to his sanctuary. It was disclosed by examination made In the Washington city pcs office, covering a period of about/tw and a half months, that 979,820 plied of paid matter and 5,900,000 pi^ces^ unpaid (or "franked") matter/ o? classes went through, the unpa id ter on some days running as ligj 135.000, 127,000, 126,000, 125,000 122,000 pieces, while the percen^ per day would often go to amout crawling up as high as 93 percent single day, and averaging 85 )3-4 cent every day. In looking through any oW pa register in England one discovers a certain period a large number of tra ial entries, in whi li lt isflnentio that the deceased was buried in vs en. There .vas passed in 1678 an ? 4-sepi'iri?..> on po?n n- "i" $-5 tl| arr* affidavit ..ould be made wit! eight dajs after a death, before a j tice of the peace or a minister of ligion, that the deceased was buri| only in wool. Its object was the c. couragement of a native industry 1 the lessening of the importation linen from beyond the seas. ~-_ A rather curious performance h just been made with an automobile Copenhagen. Thc town posses**" circular lower 100 feet in pcig! which was formerly used for / ast rtomicaj^jjiu-poses. Its top lr or retfimed by ascending a spiral p; sage 12 feet bread, which winds 1 tween the outer wall of the tower a an inner circular wall. An auton bile of five horse-power, weighing J pound?, and carrying three perso ascended the tower recently by t passage, taking one minute to do i journey, and afterward making 1 much more dangerous descent m equal success. It is of interest to call that the Czar Peter the Great, visiting Copenhagen in 1716, made| same ascent and descent in a riage drawn by four horses. A Httleadlng Verb. A clergyman of Philadelphia, a ower with seven grown-up daughj left home for Phoenixville, his n( town, and wrote back that he had news which would surprise them, had just married a widow witt children. Tho seven grown-up dj tors had an awfiil^ time until turned-alone. One of them mustered u ask "Where is our heaven, I hope." "Eut f ow with six children rried." "Oh, I married^ man."-Philad There is n? the leasts "This mber Chests and Their Con tents Get the Hardest KindJolts. lt tue Sandy Hook rroving ??uuds the tests of charged shells for I guus are severe ia the extreme, er they are carefully inspected on val from the factory, they arc Ked in a-new limber chest, just" ns [hey were to be carried ou a long Jch across a rough country. The I wheh follows applies equally to Jchest and its contents. The front |k of the gun carriage, to which chest is attached, ls taken from [tongue and wheels, and the axle sade fast to a platform strongly Jt of bard wood. This platform nts the bed of au oscllating table, but ls a play of about eighteen inches on ie bed lengthwise of the axle, and a similar, play of about a foot at right ogles to the axle. The bed or table in which the pta't ^e-t^^?frr^'fr winni"- th"*, axle -is slides to tho lower end o^ the in which it plays, and strikes the per with the full force, of Its rht of approximately t* ? and momentum it ga1 SM o t or o fojjt-and n , '? . tilts back, iii?fc-t ix pintie*, .jg against the opWtc bumper 7 a thud that jars tue earth, and operation is repeated three times a ute for fully twofoty-four hours, i chest and its o/ntcnts thus get '?bout 0000 jolts. niTy one ol' which ? tardfcht be expected' to break open :i J .nuidar proof saf.'. and iL' not a bolt ^4?3tartod in ilic chest and thc amimiiu 1Viii i has not exploded the chest is re ? ! poi ted all right and the ammunition > lids probably satisfactory. Tfce test of .he limber chest ends wah t two days of an ingeniously crue] cession of thunderbolts. It is con :red suitable for mountain roads it las undergone this prolonge' hqmke. and its exposure to n .rainstorms and other meteorologi vigarics for about a week, after ;t is more in the nature'of a res general cooling off than a furthe -Thc ammunition, however has mor - i haiti treatment in store. It unes inti iJlJtt^: swentbox, a c!ian:be:' of tort ui t ' J^hjro the temperature is lot) degree nH8 tho humidity is uinety-llve, am IrJiore it si ays a monti). If th,? ose!' | !ator! has opened any seams or crack p?a ti$e shell case, tho moisture of th box will find its way in [the charge. "When thc nmmu. [comes out of the sweat lit Whitfield's Pulpit. Visitors at the rooms of the Amer- j lean- Tract Society, in Nassau street, says the New York Sun, lately have been confronted by a queer sort of wooden cage on stilt-like legs. Those who looked twice saw tacked on it this sign: I GEORGE . WHITFIELD'S . PULPIT. i m Tho frame ls about sj* feet high, with the floor of, the vcS?\t about three feet from thc gvojpmT The wood is said to be bla^cJc^wnlnut, but age nud successive j&nts of paint4 satin and varnish have done much to li'de its identity. The most striking feature <tf the pul pit is the number of hasps, hooks and hinges which bind ifs frame. Those who have charge of the relic are quick to call attention to this fact and to offer thc explanation that thc pulpit is of- the folding variety. It was con structed in that way so that It could easily be carried in a wagon or even a strong man. UBER CHESTS FULL OF FIXED HON. It has been exhibited only a" few |hncs in this country, once at the Cen muial Exhibition itt Philadelphia, in Y Vi* A SKETCH 1S70, and at Chic'so: :. Vj* FRANCE TO HAVE Design of M. Roty's "T France is to have a new stamp which will be symbolical, the Figaro pre dicts in making the aunouceuient, of tbe national artistic taste. The design to be employe* is the beautiful figure of "The P'^rf' by Rory, the well known f -graver of French medals. It is already used on some French coius. KI. Trouillot, who succeeded M. inlier md as Minister of Commerce, Posts and Telegraphs, has followed up the proposals of bis---predecessors aud adopted M. Roty's ?T?b^Jtor the na tional stamp. M. Roty as-^designer of commemorative medals has hardly an equal. He is the author of a medal struck in 1S01 typifying the Franco American union. The actual work of jngraving the stamp has been intrust ed to KI. Mouehon, one of the French masters of the art. BRAVES GF THE FKE3IDEN?5. RUTHERFORD Ii. HAVES. A monument made of granite quar ried at Hummerston Mountain. In Ver nont, near scenes dear to the Hayes "amily, was erected in ISSI, in Oak vood Cemetery, Fremont, Ohio, by ex ?resident Rutherford B. Hayes, on the leath of his wife. Since then he, too, las been interred there. he Sower" to Be Used. Automatic Speed Regulator. The subject of this article is an ira proved fire escape, which does not pend upon the coolness and nerve of men to put it in operation or regulate, it when once in action. Recent loss of life by fire shows there is still an unfilled want in this direction, and John Williams submits the invention -7 rn : fe