Edgefield advertiser. (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, July 15, 1908, Image 4

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BEDS FOR COWS. ' In drying off a cow it ls customary tot to milk her entirely dry the last few times: But one week after this her udder should be milked thorough ly dry, said a speaker at the Wiscon sin farmers' course. If this, is not done the small amount of milk left in her udder may cause garget. The farmers were urged to lay a floor^of Inch boards on top of the cement floorings for cows and calves. Gar ret, caked udder and rheumatism hayo resulted from cows lying on ce ment floor. Experience shows that Calves are much more comfortable when they lie on boards over the cement floor. . Good Crops in Mexico. - Good crop conditions are reported from all parts of Mexico. The sugar case crop which is now toeing har vested is Ihe largest in the history o! the country, while the yteld of cof fee exceeds that of any previous year. There ia. a shortage of corn and wheat In some sections, but the prospects aro favorable fer good oops of these two cereal? this year.-Moody'* Maga zine._ Anti-Mcnopoly Crusade. .Uncle .Jeptha-The railroad is Sellin' tickets te? Chicago fer $4. They can't afford io do lt at thal price. Uncle Steven-No; -that's what Hiram said. He went an* bought nine ticket's an' didn't use one of 'em. Said If he had money enough he'd keep on buyin' till he'd busted up the hull railroad monopoly. He's got it in fer the trusts. Hlhas-Puck. ' A, NATURAL TIMIDITY. \New Arrival (cautiously)-"Can I put my valuables In the safe?" St. Beter (loftily)-"No necessity for that up here. What are you thinking of?" .New AiTrlvaWWell, I've had so 'much trouble with some of "those im pregnable institutions down in New York that I feel kind of nervous." Life. THE DOCTOR'S EXPECTATIONS. "I am glad to find you so much bot .ter, old man. Does the doctor expect '?you. to be out soon?" "I think he expects me to te out the amount of his bill. He sent it in to-day."-TLe Catholic Standard End Times. AM He Had. ' Wife-What do you mean by bring ing those muddy feet in here? ' Husband-'Scuse me, m'dear (hie); "did'n' have any othersh t'bring. Had hard tlihe gettin* theesh in.-The Bo hemian. _? i ANTIDOTE ?OK SKIN DISEASES - That's what TETTEBIXZ ls; And ic is moro. It is an absoluto cure for eczema, totter, ringworm, erysipelas and ail other Itching cutaneous diseases. In aggravated casc3 of these afflictions Its curt? ba-ve been phe nomenal* It gives instant relief and effects jKTmanont cures. 50c. at druggists or by mall from J. T. SHUT mix E, Dopt. A, Sa vonna'.!. Ga. Forbearance-is one of the virtuos our enemies do. not possess. Hicks' Cupadinc Cares Headache, Whether, from Cold, Heat, Stomach, or Mental Strain. No Acetunilid or dangerous drugs. It's Liquid. Effects immediately. 10c. 25c., and 50c., at drug stores. General Ainsworth. Once an. anny medico, now major general, adjutant general and boss of th? whole military works, Fred Cray ton ^Ainsworth' is .fifty-five years old and still climbing. According to peo ple who know, Ainsworth is as am bitious as Julius Caesar or Napoleon Bonaparte, and has a heap more sense than either. Just now the gov ernment is saving $500,000 with every ^passing year owing to its adoption .of a card Index system Invented by General Ainsworth which makes the full history of each and every pen sioner and soldier immediately avail . able. He knows everybody In Wash ington, and everybody knows him ?nd lies him. Happy days, general! -Washington Star. Increace in Lunacy. Within tho last half century, there has been a remarkable Increase bf lunacy in ireland. In 1901 tnere were 25,050 lunatics in Ireland, or one in every-179*of the population. In 1851 lhere were enly 350- in the entire county' Antrim *and Belfast, but to day- there are 2,300, an increase of :t,95Q. In 1881 the percentage of lun atics per 10,000 of the population in langland was"30.4, in Scotland 34, and In ireland 30.5. Last year the fig ing, and perhaps this is not a mat ures were: England 40.8 per 10,000 of the population: Scotland, 45, and 'ireland 56.2.-Boston Herald. NOW THE ENGAGEMENT IS OFF. .She-I've just been to New York J cr thrge weeks. He (absently)- Why didn't you ask ter my copy? Note-All jokes on "Three Weeks" will hereafter be throttled, and de stroyed.-Cornell Widcw. ^ Some men cannot tell the truth until they get mad. So. 29- 'OS. DIFFERENT NOW. Athlete Finds Better Training Food. Ii was formerly the belief that to become strong, athletes must eat plenty of meat. This is all out of date now, and :taany trainers feed athletes on the veil-known food, Grape-Nuts, made of wheat and barley, and cut the meat down to a small portion, once a day. "Three years ago," writes a Mich, man, "having become interested In athletics, I found I would have to stop eating pastry and some other kinds of food. "I got some Grape-Nuts and was soon eating the food at every meal, for I found that when I went on the track, I felt more lively and active. "Later, I began also to drink Postum in place of coffee and the way I gained muscle and strength on this diet was certainly ?reat. On the day ot a field meet In June 1 weighed 124 pounds. On the opening of the foot bill season in Sept., I weighed 140. I attributed my fino condition and good work to the discontinuation of Improper food and coffee, and the using of Grape-Nuts and Postum, my principal diet during training season being Grape-Nuts. "Before I used Grape-Nuts I never felt right in the morning-always kind of 'out of sorts' with my stom ?eb. But now when I rise I feel good, and after a breakfast largely of Grape-Nuts and cream, and a cup of Postum, I feel Uko a new man." ."l.TSere'a a Reason." Name given by Postum Co., Et tu o Creek, Mich. Hoad "The Road to Wellville," In t-kgu. Ever rood tho abuvo letter? A now os? appear? from time to time. They art* genuine, true, and IuU u? human Jauefest, DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM Formal Declaration of Principles of the Democratic Party as Set Forth By the Denver Convention. Following is the Democratic nation al platform: We, the representatives of the Democrats of the United States in national convention assembled, af firm our belief in, and pledge our loyalty t otlie principles of the party. We rejoice at the increasing signs of an awakening throughout the country. The various investigations have traced graft and political cor ruption to the representatives of pre datory wealth and laid bare the un scrupulous methods by which they have debauched elections and preyed upon a defenseless public through Ihe subservient official* whom through have raised to place and power. The conscience of the nation is now aroused to free the government from Ihe grip of those who have made it a business assat of the favor seeking corporations; it must become again a people's government, and be admin :stre."< in all its departments accord ing to the Jeffersonian maxim of ''Equal rights to all and special priv ileges to none." "Shall the people rule?." is the overshadowing issue whietjManifests itself in all the questions now under discussion. The Injunction Flank. The courts of, justice are the ' bul work of our liberties and "we yield to none in our purpose to maintain their dignity. Our party has given to the bench a long line of distin guished judges who have added to the respect and* confidence in which this department must be jealously main tained. We resent the attempt of the Republican party to raise a false is sue respecting the judiciary. It is an unjust reflection upon a great body of our citizens to assume that they lack respect for the courts. It is the function of the courts to interpret the laws which the people create, and if the laws appear to work economical, social or political injus tice, it is our duty to change them. The only basis upon wbcti the in tegrity of our courts ca i stand is that of unswerving justice and pro tection of life, personal liberty and property. If judicial processes may be abused, we should guard them against abuse. Law Should Be Modified. Experience has proven the neces sity of a modification of the present law relating to injunctions and we re iterate toe pledge of our national platforms of 1S96 and 1934 in favor of the measure which passed the United States Senate in 1896 but which a Republican Congress has ev er since refused to enact, relating to contempts in Federal courts and pro viding for trial by jury in cases of indirect contempt. Questions of judicial practce have arisen especially in connection with industrial disputes. We deem that the parties to all judicial proceedings should* be-treated with rigid imparti ality and that injunctions should not issue ^n any cases in which injunc tions would not issue if no industrial dispute were involved. The expanding organization of in dustry makvs it essential that there should be no abridgement of the right of wage-earners and producers to or ganize for the proection of wages anrt the improvement of labor condi toins to' the end that such labor or ganizations and their members^should not be regarded as illegal combina tions in restraint of trade. We favor the eight-hour day on all government work. We pledge the Democratic party to the enactment of a law by Congress, as far as the Federal jurisdiction ex tends, for a general employer's-lia bility act covering injury to body, or loss of life of employes. We pledge the Democratic party to the enactment of a law creating a department of labor, represented separately in the President's Cabinet, which department shall include the subject.of mines and mining. The Railroad Plank. We assert the right of Congress to exercise complete control over inter state commerce and the right of each State to exercise just as complete coutrol over commerce within its bor ders. tVe demand such enlargement of the powers of the inter-State com merce commission as may he neces sary to enable i.t to protect persons and places from discrimination and extortion and to compel the railroads to perform their duties as common farriers. We favor the efficient super vision and ral-e regulation of railroads engaged in inter-State commerce. To this end we recommend* the physical valuation of the* railroads by the in ter-Statc commerce commission, such valuation to take into consideration the original cost of construction and all elements of valne that will render the valuation made fair and just. We favor such legislations as will prohi bit the i*ilroads from engaging in business which brings them into com petitions with their shippers, also leg islaton wheh will assure such reduc tion in transportation rates as condi tions will permit, care being taken to avoid reduction that would compel a reducton in wages, prevent adequate sendee or do injustice to legitimate investments. We heartily approve the laws pro* hibiting the pass and the rebate, and we favor any further necessary leg islation to restrain, correct and pre vent such abuses. Tariff. .We welcome the belated promise of tariff reform now affected by the Re publican party in tardy recognition of the righteousness of the. Demo cratic position on this question; but these people cannot safely entrust the execution of this important work to a party which is so deeply obligated to the highly protected interests as is the Republican party. We call at tention to the signigeant faet that the promised relief was postponed until after the coming election-an elec tion to succeed in which the Repub lican party must have that same sup port from beneficiaries of the high protective taiff as it has always here tofore received from them; and to the further fact, that during years of un interrupted powed no action whatever has been taken by the Republican Congress to correct the admittedly existing tariff iniquities. Wc favor immediate revision of the tariff by the reduction of import du ties. Articles entering into competi tion with trust controlled products should be placed upon the free list: and material reductions should be made in the tariff upon the necessa ries of life, especially upon articles competing with such American mau ufactures as are sold abroad mor cheaply than at home; and gradu?t reductions shoul? be made in sue other schedules as may be necessar to restore the tariff to a revenu basis. Existing duties have given to th manufacturers of paper a shelter be hind which they have organized com binations to raise the price of pul and of paper, thus imposing a ta: upon the spread of knowledge. W demand the immediate repeal of th tariff on pulp paper, lumber, timbe logs and that these articles be place* upon the free Kst. Publicity of Campaign Contributions We demand Federal legislation for ever terminating the partnershi] , which has existed between corpora tions of the country and the Republi can party under the expressed or ira plied agreement that in return fo the contributions of great sums o money wherewith to purchase elec tions they should be allowed to con tinue substantially unmolested ii their efforts to encroach upon th rights of the people. Any reasonable doubt as to the ex istence of this relation has been for ever dispelled by the sworn testimony of witnesses examined in the insur ance investigation in New York, an< the open admission unchallenged b; the Republican national committee o a single individual, that he himsel: at the personal request of thc Repub lican candidate for the presiden^ raised over a quarter of a million o; dollars to be used in a single Stat* during the closing hours of the las campaign. In order that thi? prac tice shall be stopped for all time, w demand the passage of a statute pun i?hing with imprisonment any office cf a corporation who shall eitho contribute on behalf of, or consent t< the contribution by a corporation o any money or thing of value to bi used in furthering the election of j President and Vice PresuVnt of th? united States or of any member ol ll:? Congress thereof. We denounce the action of Lhi lier'.iblican party, havi,.?- <?ome;</r< onlroi of the Federal gevernmc "t for its failure to pass the bill intro doced in thc last Congress to com pel the publication of toe names < j contributors and the amounts con irib;.ted towarl campaign fe ads, au: point to the evidence of their in sincerity when . they sought by ar absolutely irrelevant &n? impossible amendment to defeat the passage oj the bill. Tho Rights of the States. Believing with Jefferson in "th? support of the State governments ir all their rights as the most competenl administration for our ?imestic con cerns and the surest bulwark againsH anti-republican tendencies" and ir "the preservation of the general gov ernment in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet-anchor of oui peace at home and safety abroad.'; we are opposed to the cenfralizatior implied in these suggestions, no* frequently made, that the powers ol the general government should be extended by judicial construction Economy in Administration. The Republican Congress in sessior just ended has mar1*; appropriation! amounting to . $1,003,000,000, ex ceeding the total expenditures of th? past fiscal year by $90,000,000 and leaving a deficit of more than $60, 000,000 for the fiscal year. We de nounce the needless waste of th( people's money which has r?sult?e in this appalling increase as i . shameful violation of all prudenl conditions of government, as no les; than a crime against the millions ol working men and women from whose earnings the great proporition o? these collossal sums must be extorted through excessive tariff ; exactions and other indirect methods. Pensions. We favor a generous pension policy both as a matter of justice to th? surviving veterans andr their de pendents and because it tends to re lieve the country of the necessity of maintaining a large standing army. Natural Resources. We repeat the demand for internal development and for tbe conservation of our natural resources, contained in previous platforms, the enforcement of which Mr. Roosevelt has vainly sought from a reluctant party and to that end we insist upon the preserva tion, protection and replacement of needed forests, the preservation of th.e public domain for home seekers, the protection of the natural resources in timber, coal, iron and oil against monopolistic control, the develop ment of our waterways for naviga tion anr? every other useful purpose, including the irrigation of arid lands, the reclamation of swamp lands, the clarification of streams ,the develop ment of water power and the preser vation of electric power generated by this natural force from the con trol of monopoly; and to such end, we urge the exercise of all powers, na tional, State "and municipal, both sep arately and in co-operation. . Panama Canal We believe the Panama canal will prove of great value to our country, and favor its speedy completion. Banking. The panic of 1907, coming without any legitimate excuse, when the Re publican party had for a decade been in complete control of the Fedral government, furnishes additional proof that it is either unwilling or incompetent to protect thc interest* of thc general public. It has so linked the country to Wall Street that the sins of the speculators are "Visited upon the whole . people. Income Tax. We favor an income tax as part of our revenue sj'stem and we urge the submission of a constitutional amendment specifically authorizing Congress to levy and collect a tax upon individual and corporate in comes to the enc> that wealth may bear its proportionate share of thc burdens of thc Federal government. The Navy. The constituional provision that a navy shall be provided and main tained means an adequate navy and we believe that the "interests of this country would be best served by having a navy sufficient to defend the coa?ts of this country and pro tect American citizens wherever their rights may be in jeopardy. Popular Election of Senators. We favor the election of United States Senators by direct vote of the people and regard this reform as the gateway to other national re forms. Minor Issues. Other planks in the platform call for an immecVate declaration of th< nation's purpose to recognize the in dependence of tho Phillipines; de nounces the growins increase of office hollers under tho Republican admin istration as in -Healing a d?lib?r?t; purpose to continuo the Republicans in power; demands that the House of Representatives shall again become a deliberative body, controlled by a ma jority of the members and not by the Speaker; favors an immediate, liberal and comprehensive plan for improv ing every water course in the Union; condemns the action of the.present Chief Executive in using the patron age of his high office to secure the nomination of one of his Cabinet of ficers; pledges the party to the en actment of a- law to regulate the rates and services of telegraph and tele phone companies, calls for honest and rigid? enforcement of the civil service laws, favors the immediate admission of Arizona and New Mexico as sep arate States, declares that rides anl regulations in relating to free grazing lands should be left to the people of the States where the lands are sit uated ; favors the extension of agri cultural, mechanical and industrial education, believes in the upbuilding of the American merchant marine without new or additional burdens upon the people and without bounties from the public Treasury; favors the application of principles of the lanri laws. Of the United States to Hawaii, in tue interest of homesteaders; de mands for the people of Alaska and Porto Rico the full enjoyment of the rights and provisions of a territorial form of government; favors Federal aid in the construction and mainten ance of post roads, deprecates the use. of the navy for the collection of pri vate debts, and advocates the organi zation of all existing national public health agencies into a national bu reau of public health ; insists upon the full protection of our citizens at home and abroad) and demands that all over the world a duly authorized pass port issued by .the government of the United tSates to an American citizen shall be proof of thc fact that, he is an American citizen and shall entitle him to the treatment due him as such. Horrible Tragedy At Home of North Carolina Merchant SHOT DEAD WITH HIS OWN GUN Two White Men Enter Home of Mr. John M. Morris ia search of Money ..and When He Awakes Shoots Him With His Own Gun. M?nroe, N. C., Special.-Two un known white men, one clad in the garb of a woman, entered the home of Mr. John M. Uorris, a well-known farmer-merchant of the county liv ing two miles east of Weddington Academy, at 3 o'clock Saturday morning to burgularize it; Mr. Mor ris was awakened by the intruders amii shot dead in his bed by them, his own gun being used, and the bur glars made good their escape after securing a small amount of money from the home and store of the mur dered man. ?*?he explosion of the gun awakened Mrs. Morris, who was sleeping with a child in another bed, and she found the bed on which her husband lay on fire. This r-he. thr?W on the floor and extingmsh?d andi saved the house from being burned. By the light of the flames, she recognized the two assassins as white men, one of them wearing a dress, supposedly as a dis guise. Coroner Sykes, empaneled .a jury and held an inquest, examining about fifty witnesses. t The verdict of the jury was that MT. Morris came to his death at the hands of unknown par sons. Two white men of the' neigh borhood, however, are suspected of the bloody crime and the officers are now searching for them. These sus pects lok) parties that they were g" ing away, saying to some that they were leaving for -a picnic in Stanley county and to others that they were coming to Monroe, and it may bp that these are the burglar-assassins: The home of Mr. Morris is located in the same building in which he con ducted a store, and robbery was what led to the brutal murder. When tho burglars entered the sleeping room they found Mr. Morris' gun in a rack on the wall and when he awoke shot him with it before he could move. The assassin was standing within a few feet of the bed and the rYscharge of the gun set the bed clothes afire. The load entered* the dead man'.5 side just below the ribs, tearing a great hole through tho body. Death was almost instantan eous. The gun used with such deadly effect was carried off by thc burglars when they fled. Mrs. Morris, bereft of her husband in a moment and without warning. and with no protection left her, not ?ven a pistol, and with two assassins just leaving the house, was terrified beyonrli bounds, but her self-possess ion did not leave her, and with the child clinging to her side in fright, and not understanding the catastro phe, she went outside and gave the alarm. It was a weird sight which met thc gaze of the first hurrying men who came to the rescue. Tho dead man lay half way across the bed where he had been peacefully , sleeping only a few minutes before. The burned bert clothing told another part of the story, and an open door in the house where the two men, who were seen by Mrs. Morris escaping told thc re mainder of the story. Men with lanterns, and armed for an emergency, sought about the house and store for traces of the burglars and assassin, and scoured the nearby sections but without avail. The burglars had successfully eluded de tection and were doubtless making tberr hasty retreat from the scene of the crime when the sea'chcrs arrived on the scene. About $25, which Mr. Morris was known to have in his possession at the time, was missing when, ii) tho early irray of the day, friends of the stricken woman, who had come to her aid, instituted a more system atic search than could be made in thc darkness of the night. Out in the back yard of the dwelling which was a store, with rooms built to the side for the family, was found the pants of thc dead man with the pocket? rifled. Mr. Morris had about $12 on his person when he closed his store. Says tho Baltimore American:' A sound mind In a sound body ls still the college Ideal, and there never will be a return to the days of cadaverous scholarship:!, when tho student went through the dull round of study with out appeal to his physical nature, at the age when tho demands of the latter are closely linked to health and success in thc bullio of Ufo. A Gentle Hint. Senator Fulton at his annual Ore gon salmon dinner In Washiugton, told a tipping story. "In Astoria," he said, * there used to be an old fisherman who brought me the first of every month a present of a splendid sal moa from his master. I always gave the old fisherman a tip. ."But one morning I was very busy and when the old man brought the fish I thanked him hurriedly, and for getting his tip bent over my. desk again. He hesitated a moment, thee cleared" ?his throat and said: "Senator, would ye -be so kind a*, to put lt In wiitin* that ye didn't give me no tip this time, or my wlfe'l! thlmk I've went and spent It on rum.,r -Washington Star. SILVER HOLDERS. The hostess who dislikes serving cheese, marmalade, sauces and cat sups in their Jars or bottles has found the silver covers, which were pro vided for them a few years ago, a welcome Invention. It I3 only recently, however, that the prices of these covers were not. prohibitive for the housekeeper on a small income. Now, fortunately, the boxes to hold cheese, caviar, marma lade and covers for catsup and sauce bottles come in plated silver. vThey are so reasonable in price that tho 'woman of moderate naeans need no longer be deprived cf these dainty ac? cessorles to a well-served meal. New Haven Register. .-. ROOTS FOR THE BROOD SOW. Roots may be sliced or pulped and mixed with the grain or may be giv en whole as a noon feed to the brood ?ow. Some care must be used in feeding roots, as they are laxative In effect and if fed In excessive amounts may bring about profuse ac tion of the bowels. Some eastern farmers recommend the use of sil age. If neither is available, clover or alfalfa hay, sheaf oats or corn fod der may supply the bulkey require ments of the ration with good result?. Charcoal, ashes and salt should be accessible at all timer-Weekly Wit ness. The literary style of men of action, when these men have a stylo of their OTvn, probably owes- its -excellence largely to the lack of that self-con sciousness, maintains The Diai, that, painful striving for effect, which mani the utterances of men of letters, "Tne mere writer," says the London Specta tor in a late instructive article, "who must, like a silkworm, spin out his precious material from inside him, can hardly hope to rival the man o? genius whose imagination has been quickened and whose tongue bas been loosened by what Burke calls the 'ov ermastering necessities' or events." The men who make writing a profes sion are commonly the men who dc not do things to write abcut, as Walter Bagshot used to complain; and, he might have added, the men who do things are us lally too modest to write ?bout them. Feminine Finance. The director of a Philadelphia bank not long ago spoke to his wife with reference to her account, whioh had been overdrawn. To his suggestion that the matter should be seen to at once, the wife replied that she would immediately adjust the difficulty. A day or two after that the husband Inquired whether she had done what he suggested. "Certainly," replied the wife; "I. at tended to that matter the very next morning after you first spoke to me about it. I sent to the 'bank my check for the amount I had oveedrawa." IlarpEr's Weekly. A Candid Answer, Here ls an Incident that really oc curred In a school In a Massachu setts town: A little girl -was discovered In the aisle between the desks performing antics, when the teacher, who had stopped out of the room for a few minutes, after first reque?t/lng the children to be orderly, returned. "Why do I see you there and not In your seat, Nelly?" asked the teach er. "Because I did not see you coming back," answered Nelly promptly. Nev/ York Times. LATE FLUFF DUFF. Stone enough dates to make a cup ful, st ev/ until tender, then put through a colander. Mix with a cup ful of. sugar in which a teaspoonful of cream of tartar has been sifted. Seat the whites of five eggs with a pinch of salt until perfectly stiff. Add the yolks of two and whip again. Now mix lightly, little by little, with the sweetened dates and turn Into a buttered baking dish. Sprinkle over the top a half cupful finely chopped nut meats and bake in a moderate oven fifteen minutes. Serve with cream, plain or whipped.-Washing ton Star. Turtle Soup For All. T view with unspeakable loathing "The Simple Life." I deem it a mor bid recrudescence of a bad ancestry which ruined its digestion by sur feit or starvation, and transmitted the disease to its offspring. It is the relic of mediaeval mysticism and religious individualism. Of course, the fact is that under a rational system there would be champagne and turtle soup for all the heads and gastronomic or gans that could stand such "potent herbs."-Victor Grayson, M.P., in the Labor Leader. A SIMPLE WARDROBE. * A bedroom door closed to another apartment may be converted into a wardrobe by nailing a shelf above 1he liri el of the door and putting hooks beneath, and also along the closed i'jor beneath. Hang cretonne curtains (rom thc shei.' to the floor and tack them on the sides to the door jambs Lo keep out the dust.-Boston Post. Admiral Capps will join the fleet in thc Pacific to consider recent criticisms of armor belt line and other construction. Amen' for the education of Far young or old, who are unabli Thirty Day Scholarships will complete you. Big demi ?nee Course year round, W "Jenny Kissed me," Too. (With the gTim knowledge that the Hunt heirs will shoot on sight.) Sarah kissed me when we met, So did Kate and Sell and Dora, So did Jane and Violet, Dolly,* Claribel and Flora. They all liked me pretty well, And-dear girls!-they never hld it! I don't like to kiss and tell-.. Still, they did lt. Later in the day I met (And saluted) Maude and Daisy, And I also kissed Cozette, Clara, Julia, Ruth and Maisie 0, I'm sorry for Leigh Hunt. I who've had so many, many! While .poor Leigh's one vaunted ?tun'. "Was with Jenny. -(H. S. H., in Richmond Times-Bl* patch. _ Everything ?n Proportion. For many weeks the irritable mer chant had been riveted to his bed by typhoid fever. Now he was con valescing. He clamored for some thing to eat, declaring that he was starving. "Tomorrow you may have some thing to eat," promis?d the doctor. The merchant realized that there would be a restraint to his appetite, yet ho aaw, in his vision, a modest steaming meal placed at his bed side. "Here ls your dinner," said the nurse next day, as she gave the glow ering patient a spoonful of tapioca pudding, "and the" doctor emphasizes that everything else you do must bo In the same proportion." Two hours later the nurse heard a frantic call from the bed chamber, "Nurse," breathed the man, heav ily, "I want to do some reading; bring nie a postage stamp."-Harper's Weekly. Our Restaurants. It is a puzzle to me that native Americans are, as a rule, unsuccess ful in the conduct of restaurants, cabarets, posadas, inns and other eating-houses. It seems that we must forever depend cn the Frenchman, the Hungarian, the German, the Itali an or the Syran, and now and then the Spaniard, fer good meals a la carte or table d'hote at a reason able prie?. Once in a while the Irish come to the front and are amaz ingly successful. I suppose there ls a knack in the business which Americans have not a?quired.-New York Press. In Mississippi where the Govern ment pays little attention to ro:ids, the value of-farm property has In creased .38 per cent in five years. In Illinois where hundreds of miles of hard roadways have been constructed since 1900, the average increase of farm lands has been almost 60 per cent., notes the New York Americau. Thia country will have arrived at its highest point of prosperity when there is a better system ?f canals, when the great rivers are dredged and made navigable, when every State is grid ironed with hard roadways. The sen timent for national action concerning these needs is so strong and so in sistent that it must ultimately bear fruit. The Wrong Tense. ^Dorothea's father was sitting be fore a 'window In hia country home with Dorothea on his knees. He was looking across the fields with unsee ing eyes, when the lassie broke in on his reverie with, "What are you look ing at, papa?"^ "I was locking i-'o the future, my dear." "The future, papa! I though It waa into the pasture!"-Harper's Weekly. DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE. Her mother: '"I should rather you would net go sailing with that young man, Clara; I don't believe he knows a thing about a sailboat." Clara: "Oh, tout he does, mama; he showed me a letter of recommen dation from a New York firm he used to work for, and they speak very highly of his salesmanship."-JCircle Magazine. She Liked That Best. "I suppose you did all the theatres and amusement places on your trip to London, Mrs. Com eu p?" "Yes, but at most of the shows they talked so much and I didn't know what it was all about." "Which did you like tho best?" "Oh, the Christmas pandemonium -'as so nice and quiet."-Balti more American. The cynic says there are two kinds of people in the world-bad ones and those who have not been found out. PROOF FOR TWO CENTS. If Voa Suffer With Your Kidneys and Hack Write to Thia Mau. G. W. Winney, Medina. N. Y.. In vites kidney sufferers to write to him. To all who enclose postage he will re ply, telling how Doan's Kidney Pills cured him after he had doctored and bad been in two dif ferent hospitals for eighteen months, .suffering intense pain in the back, lameness, twinget when stooping or lifting, languor, dizzy spells and rheu matism. "Before I used Doan's Kid ney Pills," says Mr. Winney, "I weighed 143. After taking 10 or 12 boxes I weighed 162 and was com pletely cured." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box Foster-Mllburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Thought without action is an evil, and so is action without thought. The Old Standard GROVE'S system. You know what you a: is simply Quinine and Iron in a M?LLEDG mers, Clerks, Merchants, War 3 to classify and put the corre( i in our Sample Rooms, or six and for cotton graders and cott lite at once for further particu y?MWi nunn it?tii %\ Thc Planter's loan:: S : and Savings Bank jj % ; Augusta, Ca. ; ; - ? Pays Interest on Deposits, .. - * Jfr Accounts Solicited. . . ^ LC.H?YNF., CHAS. G. HOWARD\? - . RESOURCES OVER $1,000,000. .. Xi-H-i-t innnnniH-H* YOU 73. EDGEFIELD, S. C., WEMEIDAY, JULY 18, 1908. ?M-11 ll 1 H-Ml l-l M IIWA THE NATIONAL .BANK OF AUGUSTA, J ; AUGUSTA, GA. , , L. C. HAYNE, CHAS. E. CLAJiK, .. President. d?snier.T CAPITAL $250,000.00. Surplus & Profits $190,000.03. The business of our out-of-town friends '$* receives the same careful attention aa. t.ii nt .j* of our local depositors. Tho accounts of ?careful conservative peoplesolicited. . NO. 29. How many American women in lonely home's to-day long for this blessing to come into their lives, and to be able to utter these words, buts because of some organic derange ment this happiness is denied them. Every woman interested in this subject should know that prepara tion for healthy maternity is accomplished by the use of LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S VEGETABLE COMPOUNi) Mrs. Maggie G?mcr, of West Union, S. 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