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TO . M?STE BS LOAN MO SAVINGS BANK. AUGUSTA, CIA, Paya lateral OB Deposita. Aeronata Solicited. L. C. Hayna, President. Chas. C. Ho ward, Cashier. VOL. LXVIII. pE H1TI0NAL BANK OF AUGUSTA L. 0. BLITSB, frat V. G. fOaD, CaaMer. Capital, ?>250;000. Faculties of oar mseniapeat Ker Vc. ni t? Utnloc 410 Safety-Lock Bozos. Differ-1 g ls ea ?re ofored^to oar parr?n o andi public ?S 08.W ?o.910^?jpax annum. EDGEFIELD, S. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER, 4,1903. NO. 45 . lis m June the Seventeenth. 1876, just one hundred years to the day after the Battle of Bunker Hill, was a red let ter day in the life of Dick Talbot ? In the first place, he was fourteen years old on that day; and, in the oast place, he had pitched Ms club, the Ttfmountains, to victory, over their bitter rivals, the Wonders, in an exciting 21 to 20 game, of ten in ?laff Ia tho next place But waR until we get to it. Attar the game and the Wonders bad gone home defeated to Hyde Park lt befan to rain hard. The iain began at five o'clock, and It came down rs kt lt intended to make a clean, all nig?t job pf it As the boya ran into aid Bky High Gimcrack's old red bani, out of the wet Dick said: "Say, fellers, this ls just the kind of weather"in which to go in swim . Bing!" No Eoo&er were the words uttered than the boys began to get out of their clothes and into their bathing trunks, which were hanging in the bam. Then, with wild yells of laughter, they all started for the water in the, rain, and Dick was t!*e Sirst to dive off the little pier which ran fro? the. barn thirty feet out into the' bay. Ope boy after another fol Laped, and soon they were all'splash ing awou^d, ?ucki a g each other and play luff leapfrog. About a quarter of a mile from the pier was.' a small white schooner yacht lyins at anchor.. She had been there for a week. Nobody seemed to Know anything about her, or very lib . tie, which amounted to this: Her owners, two mysterious looking men, were seen around the village a good deal, but for what purpose nobody seemed to have much of an idea. They were evidently enjoying a vacation. "Say, fellows," said Dick; "I am go lng to s vim out to have a peep in at that yacht Dick swam out to the mysterious yacht and boarded her over the bows. Nobody seemed to be aboard Dlok went aft and looked into the cabin. Nobody there. He went down the companionway and locked around He was about to go up ou deck, when te heard somebody weeping in a boat alongside, and then a man's voice, saying: "Hurry up, Bill! Here take her. Send her down into the cabin out of the way. Hoist the anchor, then up ?ail, - quick. Stop your snivelling; young one. Nobody's going to hurt yer if yer?l be nice and quiet like." Then Dick heard steps overhead. He drew back as the companionway was darkened and a little girl came sobbing down into the cabin. He could, hear them- hauling up the an chor and hoisting sail while peering .to the little girl's face. He recognized her as Mr. Roget Baldwin's, daughter Nelly. Mr. Bald win was the richest man in Dorches ter and Nelly was his only child Pick gasped. "What is the matter, Nelly?" Then Nelly Baldwin sobbed as if her little heart would break as she re plied: '?The bad men stole me off the porch while I was playing with Fido after dinner." Dick did not wait to hear any moro. He said: 'TU save you. Don't worry," and se was on deck hke a flash. The yacht was going through the water at a spanking galt, the sails were up and there was a man at the wheei. - Dick shot past him like an ar row from Robin Hood's bow and took a header over the stern, while the man at the wheel yelled: "Here! What are you-who-say, Bill, wing that duck, quick!" By that time Dick was a little astern, but not out of range of the bullets that whistled around his head, ene of which ploughed a furrow along bis scalp like a part made by a comb .and brush. In two minutes the yacht was far away and Dick was alone with the blood and rain run ning down his face and a mile of water between him and land. With a "Now for it!" Dick's jaws came together like a steel trap, lock ing; in his determination to save Nel ly Baldwin from the fate of poor llt . tie Charlie Ross, who had been stolen two years before and was never beard of afterward. Stroke after stroke, on and on, toward that distant pier, Dick swam through the dark and rain. Steadily, splendidly through the waters he ploughed, until it seemed ages since he had leaped from that pier! Nelly might' never again be heard pf! The thought was madden ing! Then the tears ran down with the blood and rain! Another dip, and his eyes were clear and be could see lanterns moving about the pier. He ' summoned all his strength and packed it into one long, tremendous shout1 Some of the lanterns seer.dd to drop off tte plor. Those who carried them ere getting into row boats. It seem ed to Dick as if he were dropping out of a balloon, as if he were dying un der a mountain, and then-ia gasp two white arms in the air-and a blank! ! When he opened his eyes men and women, boys and girls seemed to be about him. In the army he jaw Mr. and Hrs. Baldwin. He gasped bis story into ?heir eager ears, and then away he went into the land of obli vion again. In Usa than five hours that yacht was captured br a revenue cutter off Nix's Oat* ia Maasa?busetts Bay. Do you think that Dick went to .Barrar?! is better e< m Vi . ONIONS FOR MARKET. Hon- to Prepare Thom-A Topping: Board-The Crate System. * Tho old -way of topping onions hy get ting down on your knees or sitting down on a low stool all doubled up is by the crate system of storing them al together done away with, says an onion grower who gives some information in American Agriculturist on preparing them for market. I have made for top ping purposes a topping bench of seven eighths inch spruce lumber G feet long by 4 feet. Take two four inch nieces four feet long and place them four feet apart. On these nail the six foot strips, Bot torr BOTTOM OF TOPPING 13 ENC H. which are also fou? inches wide, one Inch'apart. Nail firmly and clinch the nails, placing the outside strips flush with the ends of the crosspieces. aa~the .first cut shows. Around the edge nail a six inch strip, and the topping bench Ie done. When ready to begin topping place this bench on top of two crates if you wish to sit at your work or on top of two barrels if you wish to stand, "n it ?mpty the onions freon..the crates. As you pour* out each crate rustle the onions around, and all the dirt and other small stuff which may have bepn gathered up with them will pass through the slatted bottom. The rus tling will brighten up the onions won derfully. The bench will hold when heaped up six crates, or nine bushels, Place one of the crates you have emp tied at your left, and, sitting erect on a crate, you are ready for operations. To begin with, you must have a sharp knife, and keep it sharp, ns a dull one will surely tear the skin of the onion, and as soon as that is done lt begins to rot. It may seem a simple operation to cut off an onion top. hut there is a right way and a wrong one. The wrong way is to seize the onion and cut the top off by drawing the knife toward the body. This cuts the top off on the opposite side from your body and tears the onion down the other side. The. right way to top is to hold the onion firmly in th? left hand and with the knife seize the top an Inch from the I bulb and cut up. This makes a clean cut through the top. Never top onions close to the bulb unless you want them to begin to grow at once, and do not top them until vou want tc market them, as they keep bet ter with the tops on. In the old way, unless spread thin, this rule does not apply, as the tops draw moisture, which causes the onions to heat and mold, so that they rot and spoil. With the crate system the onions never heat or mold, not even if they are put in with the tops entirely green. They will dry out and come out splendidly any time before the next summer. Handle onions as you would eggs at all times, for a bruise or cut will make them rot. By this way of topping a good spry boy will top six bushels an hour, and he will not feel half as tired as in the old way. There is a large shrinkage in onions from keeping, not only from rot, but by shrinkage of the bulbs themselves, j I think it is quite as much or more than potatoes. My crates were made in a box shop and cost $10 per 100, but I have not TOPPING BENCH COMPLETE. been able to get them made for that price since. Some of my neighbors had some made last year and had to pay 20 cents each for them. With decent uscge they will last at least ten yeari,. They are not an expensive outfit?" Increasing; the Valne ol Manare. It will pay well to give moxe.^atten tion than is done on the average farm to the preservation of barnyard ma nure, first, by guarding it from thc sources of loss which occur in the ordl- \ nary open barnyard, and, second, by treating it with materials calculated to reduce the losses from escaping am monia on the one hand and to increase its content of phosphoric acid on the other. To accomplish this purpose add phosphate appears to be a material pro ducing large and profitable immediate increase in effectiveness of the ma nure, and experiments strongly suggest the possibility that the finely ground phosphatic rock from which acid phos phate is made may be found an eco nomical substitute for the latter, by using lt as an absorbent in the stables and thus securing an intimate mixture with the manure In Its fresh condition. r . - Plants For Crude Dragrs. A number of common plants, occur ring in some instances as weeds, fur nish when properly collected and cured crude drugs such as are now imported in large part from Europe and else j where. A recent farmers' bulletin of the department of agriculture contains descriptions and cuts of such plants, j methods of collecting, handling and curing and a list of dealers in drugs who are buyers. quipped ?than TYPE and N. 'OSTSend Q. HOPE JONES , He Returns to the Show Butt ness and Delivers & Lecture [Copyright, 1903. by C. B. Lewis.] u mfmt\ ITIZENS of Bull's Ferry - I m had the honor of Informing . m J? you by yellow posters past ed on the walls of your his toric and picturesque town that I would open my show in this hall this evening, and I am before you. Three years ago, while traveling about the country with an unparalleled aggrega tion of dead and living wonders, which included an Egyptian, mummy made in'Chicago and a what-is-it that ate raw beef before the audience and play ed poker with me behind'the scenes, I became possessed of the idea that I could do more for humanity by selling my show and going into the windmill business. Time has shown me my mis take. Not that every succeeding wind mill erected in this country does not tend to make humanity happier and more content, thereby adding to the general goodness, but thc business has so many opportunities of skinning Un cle Reuben that conscience compelled me to abandon lt. This show business is on the square. It goes when the wind blows, and it goes without any wind at all. You pay for what you get, and you get what you pay -ior. There is nothing to conceul and no extra charges! to dispute about when the show closes. I can take your money at the door and then look you in the eye ''from the platform without feeling that I have robbed you. "Do not get the idea that this is a side show or a branch menagerie. It is a combination show and lecture. While I strive to attract the eye by exhibiting some curiosity, I also strive to attr:0i the ear by delivering a lecture and seeking to arouse you to new aims and ambitions. In my modest way, at 10 cents admission, I am doing more for the moral standard of America than any session of congress. No matter whether you are steeped in depravity or have yet to steal your first harvest apple, my combination cannot fail to turn your thoughts to higher channels. *'I now call your attention to this plaster of paris bust of Christopher Co lumbus on the one hand and to the stuffed kangaroo on the other. You may infer that both are dead, hut the ambitions that swayed them during life live on and are lanterns to guide your footsteps. I shall not insult this large and intelligent audience by supposing that there is one single person within sound of my voice who has got Chris topher Columbus and Julius Caesar Bur rell mixed up together. Christopher stands by himself, like a brick house In a ten acre lot. You can't mistake him for any one else, and you can't go around the corner and lose him. Like me, Columbus wasn't satisfied to hang around the village post office and chew tobacco and talk of crops. He had a feeling within him that he had to soar and overcome. Obstacle after obstacle bobbed up to discourage him, and men "WB NOW COME TO THE KANGABOO." laughed his ambition to scorn, but he hung on by his teeth, and his time came at last He went into the show busi ness, the same as ms, though on a big ger scale. "Pause and ask yourself what effect hi3 discovery of America has bad on the world. What would the world be today without her? I know that my next stopping place is Taylorville, but when Columbus set out he didn't know whether he would bring up in hades or Halifax. In his own mind he was con vinced that there was another conti nent to the weat. He had the courage, the fortitude and the ambition to sail in search, and we who are here tonight are profiting by lt No man can detract from "his greatness, and no man can wish for a nobler example to guide him. I may incidentally observe that thc nose and one ear of this bust hive been broken, and the left eye is gouged out, but do not let those trifles have any ef fect lu sizing him up as a man. He was not noted for his beauty, and his ways were of the slipshod order, but we must look at him mentally instead of phys ically. I wish to be looked at that way myself. There are no more Americas left for me to discover, but I have tho same aims and ambitions that surged back and forth in this great man's soul as he sat on his doorstep and though; of tho future. "We now come to the kangaroo. Hav ing been dead for the last fifteen yearn and being stuffed with hay, he has lost much of his natural artfulness, but he ls here to point a moral and can do it dead as well as living. When nature had created all other animals she de cided to bring forth something that could Jump twenty-seven feet without touching the grass. The kangaroo, ? which up to that time was a bobtailed j animal walking about on four legs, of ever for turni EW SUPPLY [ us your orders. Satisfaction fered himself to be experimented updo. He had aims and ambitions and aspira tions. He wanted to rise above tbe bog and the hyena. Nature took him in hand and made bim over ns you see bim tonight. "He is all hind legs and tail, and his beauty is nothing to brag of, but where on the face of this earth is a thing on legs that can outjump him? He holds the record, and it will never be taken from him. You don't grow bind legs like his, and you must be content with jumping a four rail fence, but the mor al lesson should not be lost upon you. He that would rise will rise. He that would soar will eventually push his way to the front a nd-head the pro cession. As I stepped off the cars this afternoon I observed seventeen men whittling away' at shingles in front of a grocery, while a jackass stood look ing on and nibbling at a rojtSfelde this tle. There appeared to be no swelling ambitions, no high aspirations, no sigh ing for fame. But the world tums, and men turn with it, and who Bball say to what heights that crowd of eighteen may not attain when my com bination reaches Bull's Ferry again? "Citizens all, I nm glad to have met you. I am glad to have taken in $2.80. at the door. I am glad to have Incited you to greatness, and I trust that In. making your way out of the ball you" won't break the backs off any chairs er. smash auy kerosene lamps." * M. QUAD. ' - .SS] A Dry Cellar. A damp cellar is au abomination and a menace to health. Cement lt your self, advises the Farm?JournaI. It will cost you only a few dollars for cement. Once experienced, you wouldn't part with this great comfort and conven ience. Smooth tbe cellar door, inclining lt sjightly toward one side and one } ?MhMfc inc?il CELLAR FLOOIl CEMENTED AND DBAINKD. end if the cellar drain is at one corner. Along this side and end make a shal low, rounded trench. Lay from an inch to au inch and a half of cement over the floor, making the open drain at side and end. as shown in the cut. Any water that now gets into the cellar is j at once carried by the open drain to the } outlet drain, and there is no mud in the cellar. It Paya to Herd Tnrkcya. A peculiar thing about herding tur keys, especially if the poults have tur key mothers, is that once their day's route ls established they will go the same round each day and generally on schedule time. The best plan ls to keep the flocks restricted to the territory ad jacent to their coop until the "poults are feathered, when the broods can be flocked together and started out to the woods and fields. Here is where the herder is needed. The losses from va rious sources - strays, hawks, foxes, minks and weasels, hunters and dogs a little later in the season-make big in roads into the flock unless guarded. Ordinarily this would be rather dull work for a boy or girl, and none should attempt it unless there were two for company. The route taken by the flock eould be through all the stubble fields where sufficient grain food would be gleaned, in the pastures and cut meadows, where the poults would do good work on grasshoppers, crickets and other in sects, and into the woodland, where they will dust themselves in the fine dust of some rotten log to rid them selves of lice. Even when it ls imprac tical to guard them the entire day much can be done by way of Insuring their safety by having them roam in the di rection showing least danger. This can be done by starting them right In the morning and feeding them a short dis tance away from home on their return at night.- Cor. New England Home stead. A Dangerou* Item. "I see that choice Bengal tigers have been marked down to $1,000 each." "For goodness' sake, don't let my wife read that paragraph! Here's my knife; cut it out. If those tigers are on the bargain counter she'd want at least two."-Cleveland Plain Dealer. Progressive Victory. Mrs. Pince-nez-I can congratulate myself that all my daughters have married well. Mrs. Lorgnette-H'm ! All my daugh ters have married well twice.-Life. Wary. Mrs. Farmer - Here, poor man, are some cold sausages. Weary Willie - Scuse me, mum, but don't your sign sny "Beware of the Dog?"-Judge. Life n Serions Bnilneii, "Do you know that sour looking fel low sitting there alone?" "Oh, yes. But don't try any of your tricks on him. He's the editor of a comic paper and can't take a Joke." Lng out FIRS' OF MATER] Guaranteed. OUR WORD y.It is generally considered a perfectly safe and profitable thing to conceive a ?tonic admiration foe the wife of )ur chief. The lady likes it and len .she wants a little variety, hav Jg heard all your best speeches tfrtce over,-she generally goes to her jjnsband and suggests that he gets you a better appointment, and you both 1jj|art your round again with fresh part airs. Your chief likes it; he is. re leased from the arena of tea cups and allowed to play the big game in his dwn fashion. I made a successful ?art and might have been a mighty $pd among Anglo-Indians only I made a big mistake: I fell in love, "lola Hampton was adorably pretty, ld years younger than Sir George, lat on earth Induced him when on leave to marry a child of elgh and bring her to Simla fresh )m the schoolroom was a question abed by all his friends; but Slr >rge knew his wife better than we I was young in those days, and i may add good looking. .Violet informed me one morning lat she was a wicked woman-and the same breath that I must love iv eternally; also adding that I must Iways remember thai she was Sir sorge's wife and that she must re ject his name. ?A few days after I ?received the fer of a much better appointment tie first step, really, on the big ladder of Clvh* Service promotion, a lucky plum to fall into a youngster's mouth. ?When I told Violet she burst into passionate tears, and asked me if I could be cruel enough to accept lt ajid leave her. She sobbed in beart I broken fashion. I looked at Violet; she was tremb ling with grief and passion. She wore some white muslin gown, and looked pitifully girlish, and oh, so awfully ! pretty. Tear"s suited her. I did love hex. I was only a boy in years as she a girl. I took her little sob bing figure in my arms and promised as she clung to me that I would re , fuse" the appointment and stay on, her ausband'3 humble secretary. Violet J whispered broke.ly that she would ' love me forever, and that I was the dearest boy in the world. V It was very nice to feel her soft, warm kisses on my mouth, and her little fingers ruffling my hair; nicer than fame, position, riches, dreams of power. I kissed Violet Hampton that lan guid, lazy afternoon, and I sold ray birthright for a mess of pottage. Sir George gave me a keen glance under his bushy eye-brows when I' told him-I had declined the excellent appointment offered me. "Of course, you know your own affairs best," he ?said, slowly; "and for my part I vsfcculd haye been, very sorry to loose ' the "nest secretary, lt" as ever pleased the fates to send me; but in declining ! this rise you are acting like a fool and singing your diplomatic death warrant Are you wise, boy? Is anything worth it" Time passed. I watched my juniors climb on and pass me. Men, my in feriors in brains and class, began to patronize me. I was talked of as the man who had mulled his chance; [missed his opportunity. I attained the dignity of the pointed-out moral; I was considered an excellent example of a fool. And Violet, she loved me after her fashion, and at all events never re ! placed me by a rival; but little by lit tle school-girl Violet blossomed out Into a great lady and a woman of am bition. Violet was ruled by her head, not I by her heart. I had the the fresh early (fragrance of her heart certainly, but by degrees Violet realized that hearts are inconvenient luxuries, and really not worth cultivating. She was always sweetly gracious to her husband's secretary, and some times more than gracious. Of course it was an understood thing that we should marry when it pleased Sir George Hampton to close his eyes on this weary world. Apropos of our marriage, a remark Violet made on the subject will explain how far our de votion went, and show how nuxch I had got for my youth. "How foolish it is for women to tire men of them before they marry them! You would be sick to death of me by now, Jack, if I had not dis covered that morality pays better than vice. As lt le, you anticipate our marriage. Yes, you actually look forward to some unknown day of liappiness. Thank me, Jack, for be ing so wise." Sir George died, died as he would have chosen, suddenly and in harness. Violet broke down absolutely, and mourned him bitterly. "I never pretended to love him," she cried, turning savagely on me. "We will work up a position to gether," I said. "You!" she shot a balf-contemptu ous glance at me. "Oh, you're no good ;you lost your chance years ago." I looked at her. She had the grace to flush and begin some half sentence of apology, but I took myself out of her life from that hour. When Lady Hampton's year of widowhood came to an end she as tonished Anglo-India by marrying one of its greatest men. She took up the position of "First Lady" as to the manner born. She ls a past mistress of diplomacy, and a great social leader. I may also add she ls getting stout. For myself, I have Just had a small rise. I am one of the crowd. 1 listen when the big lions speak, and bow my head, as beseems one not in author ity/ r-CLASS wo: AL just arm FOR IT. They Are the Best of Food When Well Cooked. AS TO LINES AND HOOKS fellow Perch and Bull-Heads-They Come in Where They Are Most Needed-The Despised Sucker Take the Boys Fishing Often aa Possible. I wish to say a few words concern ing the great value and usefulness of what are usually termed the "common varieties" of tish. These include the fellow perch, rock bass, bull-head, sucker, pickerel and the like. These fish though they do not command the attention of writers and fisb-cultur Ists that trout, salmon, black bass, white fish, and shad ^ave, still hold a very important place in the fish supply of the country, and furnish .pleasure and food for many thou sands of people. The class of fish above referred to do not require the care and attention to make them plentiful that is necessary with the finer or game varieties. Artificial propagation is not required, and about the only thing really needed to keep a plentiful sup ply in the waters to which they are adapted, is to' protect them while they are in their spawning-beds, and fish for them only by angling by hand with hook and line. In this way you get the greatest amount of actual en joyment in the capture of the fish, and who is there that does not relish a mess of fish caught by himseiff bet ter than those purchased, or procured in any other way? Another point con cerning these common fish, is that as a rule they are easily caught and it requires no especially fine tackle to take them, though the most success ful fishermen are careful in the ar rangement of their hooks and lines, ind also keep their hocfk properly sharpened, and well-baited, A com mon cane pole, such as can be pur chased for a small ? .nount will be found equally as serviceable as a high priced split bamboo, jointed rod. These fish also inhabit large rivers, lakes and bays which are accessible to the millions. They are also found in the canals to which thousands resort in summer for the capture of a mess of fish. In such wa.ers as these, the oner grades of fish cannot live and thrive. Therefore the ordinary bull head, with his great powers of en durance, ls a welcome and valuable in habitant of this class of waters. The yellow perch with its white, flaky flesh, when properly cooKed, is the equal of any common fish in the coun ty. The bull-head is also a most ex cellent fish, and I have made many a good meal on the usually underrated' sucker and mullet. -? great many harsh things are said against the pick erel, but it is a good fish, and a suita ble inhabitant for the kind of water In which it belongs, lt ls not a suitable companion for the trout nor is there a luffici?ncy of food for them In trout waters, but there is plenty in our large lakes, rivers and bays, and many a day's sport have I had pickerel Ash ing. As a table-fish, they are not, in my opinion, equal to the yellow p^rch or bull-head but when properly pre ' pared are very palatable. While -iey do not possess the game qunh'ties of the muscalonge still in some waters I have found them io have consider able "fight" in them, and one of eight or ten pounds weight, affords notb sport and an exercise of skill ti? land. Who has not seen a row of bars-foot ed urchins sitting on a bridge or the bank of a stream, angling for suckers? And what a happy expression they bear on their faces when they trudge home with a string of them long enough to drag on the?ground! Many a great man, and angler as well, has taken his first lessons in fishing from latching the slow-going fish that gains his subsistence by sucking .e nutri ment from the stones on the bottom of the stream. The value of our com mon fresh-water varieties is very great. They come in where they are most needed, and with our extensive watered area, no one need be denied the privilege of fishing, or cultivating a love for this harmless and healthful pastime. When the head of the family decides to take the little ones out fish ing, and they are all gathered In the boat, each one furnished with a rod, no salmon fisherman with his rod bending under the strain of a twenty pound salmon, enjoys with a keener delight the fun than the children, as the perch and rockbass come flopping In over the side of the boat-A. Farmer. LIVE STOCK NOTES. We have often urged the need, In a treeless pasture, of some shelter to afford the animals protection from the excessive heat of the sun. If this shelter be of a more permanent char acter with a roof and sides, it will break the force of a driving storm. The cold storms at this season are especially injurious to young animals. Cows require care to prevent them from falling off in the quality or quantity of their milk. Bran, ground oats, flaxseed meal and cotton-seed meal are among the kinds of food that Increase the quality of mPk. Pigs should be kept in growing con dition and fattened early. City buy ers like small pork. Poutry.-Eat or otherwise dispose of old stock and select good layers and give them warm winter quarters and atundant food. . i NEW 8NAPPY FALL S?tfS AND OVERCOATS. FRESH FROM THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS MAKERS. ELIGANT NEW FALL STYLED -:..-O Irrere is cha: a?te? and dignity in our CLOTH ING. There is the touch of the hand tailored gar ments-a made-for you appearance that stands the scrutiny of the most expert tailor . . ' 9 MEN'S SUITS single and double breasted the best of all the best from $8.00 to $25.00. MEN'S OVERCOATS. None better for the price we ask for them?anywhere $8.00 to $25.00. There are years of Clothing experience behind every garment we sell. JJ^-Remember the GRAND PRIZE DRAW ING FEBRUARY ist. Look into this, it will be worth something to you. Large stock of Boys and Children's Suits and Overcoats. I. G. LEVY'S SON & CO Correct Dresse re for Men and Boys. AUGUSTA, CA. SI HIS SHIP HIS PRISON. Perilous Experience of the Captain of a German Vessel. A decidedly unusual but uncomfort able and dangerous experience was tbat cf the master of the steel sailing ship Ernate, which was recently related in the Maritime Court at Dantzlg, Prus sia. He left Manel, a port on the Baltic, with a cargo of planks on April IS for Oldenburg. Capt Engellaudt, who also is the owner, remained at the wheel during a gale which over took the vessel next night at 4 o'clock in the morning went to his cabin to change his wet clothes. He had just got into dry under clothing when the vessel tipped over and he found himself standing on the roof of the cabin, of which the sea had hermetically closed the door. By loosening the boards of what was now the floor he got into the hold, which contained only loose* aaijs. Fortunate ly some shelves of a high cupboard standing in 'the cabin remained intact and from them he collected two tins bf condensed milk, three pounds of prunes, some rice, sugar and sausage. He also found a hammer. For twelve days the man lived in his prison, eating as sparingly as pos sible and drinking sea water, which appears to have had no ill effect He spent his free time in hammering on the steel bottom of the ship to at tract attention of chance passing ves sels and slept quite well af nights, for after the first few days the sea was smooth. He knew when it was day, for a dim light penetrated the water. On the twelfth day the Norwegian* steamship saw the wreck and sent ? boat to take it in tow. Engellandt had fallen asleep, but hearing foot steps over his head, he began knock ing with bis hammer and shouting. The Aurora's men returned to their ship for tools and bored a hole through the wreck's keel where they heard the knocking. When they drew out their borer a man's finget followed, and they soon learned that Engellandt bad food for four days more and wished to be towed ip land, for it was impos 1 sible to release him In the open sea. He a|so desired to have the hole plug ged again, as he was afraid that the ?loss of air would cause the ship to {sink lower In the water. The Aurora to wed -?.je~ wreck safely to Neuf?Jhrwass?r, where with consid erable difficulty it was attached to a huge crane, a plate was loosened and the imprisoned captain freed. Engel landt was perfectly conscious, and ' even able to walk alone. He i? thir ty-two years of age and married. He has no idea what became of the three men constituting his crew.-Chicago Chronicle. INSURANCE . FIRE Insurance,HEALT H Insurance, ACCiDENT Insurance, Fidelity and Indemnity Bonds of all description issued. Your Business solicited. GRIFFIN & MUS . A, Q t IFFIN. E. J. MlMS Office Over May & May's Store. Groceries ! # PLANTATION SUPPLIES & I am prepared to save you money on Staple and Fancy GROCERIES. Always get my prices before baying. I represent SMITH BROS., of AUGUSTA, GA., and cad supply you with Gro ceries at Augusta Prices. Give me a call. 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