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Soven Ru?i . cf Life. Lhc upstairs ii you wish to be bl pood health! "Up bow* many flights?" Only out* flight of .seven steps. I will des.cri.be (bern. ' - ' First Step.- Eat wheat, oats, corn, fruits, beef, mutton, plainly cooked, in moderate quantity and but two meals a day. Second Step.-Breathe good air day ?md night. Third Step.-Exercise freely in the open air. Fourth Step.-Retire eaJy and rise early. Fifth Step.-Wear flannel next your skin every day of the year and so dis pose your dress that your limbs may be kept warm. Bathe frequently. Sixth Step.-Live in the sunshine. Let your bedroom be one which re ceives a flood of light and spend your days either out In the sunlight or in a room which is well lighted. Seveuth Step.-Cultivate a cheerful temper. Seek the society of jolly peo ple. Absolutely refuse to worry and. above ali. don't be afraid to laugh. Live above. Sickness cannot crawl up there. Disease prowls about in the basement. Ranly does it get upstairs. -Dr. F. G. Butler iu Chicago Journal. The Shade He Wanted. Delacroix, the painter, was walking out one day in Paris with a friend of his wheu he fell into a brown study. .'What is up with you now?" said the friend. " "I can't get a certain shade of yel low," replied the artist. "What sort of yellow?" Just then a cab drove past "The very thing!" the painter gasped out. "Stop, stop!" "I am engaged," the cabby replied without stopping. Delacroix started iu pursuit and at a steen place in tho itue des Martyrs overtook the cab. Opening the door, he said in tones of entreaty to the pas senger inside: "Do please tell your driver to stop. I want your complexion for a painting on whi'-'j 1 am at work. There is a color merchaut close at baud. 1 shall not detain you above live minutes, aud in acknowledgment of the service you render me I will present you with a sketch of my picture." The bargain was struck. Delacroix got his yellow, and a few mouths later the "fare" received a sketch of his "Assassination of the Archbishop of Liege." Truth In Jest. According to bist rieal tradition, the conquest of Finland was foretold in jest that souu became earnest by its conqueror. Peter the Great, to his jest er, Balakireff. Balakirefi" bad vexed the czar by too impudent a joke and bad been summa rily banished with the menacing in junction never to appear on Kusslas soil again. He disappeared discreetly, but one day uot long after l'eter, glanc ing out of a wintlow, saw his unmis takable figure autl quizzical counte .nance jogging comfortably by. perch ed m a country cart. Impulsively he ran dowu tu him and demanded to know why he had disobeyed. "* h"r*,''r disobeyed you." was the His Examination Concluded. In tho evidence before a parliamen tary committee concerning the opposi tion to a railway Hodge scored a point which accentuates a certain legal fic tion with reference to skilled wit nesses. A Scotch farmer was giving his tes timony in favor of the bill. "Is it true." said the wily K. C. in his most searching style, "that you, sir. said to Mr. Guild that you were willing to give your evidence on the 1 other side if they would pay you bet ter?" "Aye." said the pawky farmer, "and''" (after a pause? "let me jist pit the same question to ye-if ye had been offered a bigger fee. wad ye no hae been on th'ifber side yersel'?" It Is needless to say that the K. C. did not cross question the witness fur ther.-Pearson's Weekly. Pipes Frozen by Warm Spells. It is a curious fact that water pipes | under ground will often freeze during ! the warm spell that follows a cold . snap. The explauation made for this interesting phenomenon is that after a cold wave a large quantity, of heat is taken from the ground i*? the work of chaugiug the frozen moisture into wa ter, and thus, ou the principle of the ice cream freezer, the pipe is chilled, enough heat being taken from it to freeze it. Cause For Thanks. "Alas!" sighed the tramp dramatical ly. "No matter where 1 turns, there's a hand raised against me." "Which shows you ought to be thankful fer one thing," sa-d the farmer. ?.What's that?" "That it ain't a foot that's raised." Self Possessed. Mrs. Many-kids-There is ore thing about our girls-they are always self possessed. Papa Manyklds (grimly) Yes, they're too self possessed. 1 wish ? they'd get some one else to possess them. j Liszt's Advice. Being asked one day whnt one should do in order to become an efficient piano player. Liszt replied laconically, "One must eat well and walk much." We are sellingasook at Tlc worth twice ?.he money. F. G. MERTINS, 854 liroatl St, Augusta, Ga. 100 sets of buggy harness soon to arrive. Full assortment of car riage and wagon harness. We tony iniarge quantities and our patrons get the benefit of the advantages thus gained. Ramsey & Jones. - Noblet in Mean Attire Where did etiquette require nobles to appear before their sovereigns nieanl> dad? This singular custom eba rae; ii ?zed court ceremonial io ancient Mex.. < under the Aztec dominion. Wben th. ?native lords and grandees had oceaalm to Beek the presence of Montezun-.-. they were under the obligation, a? !?. tibio de Beuevente. who aecorupanhnt the Conquistador Cones, testifies. ?>i assuming a voluminous mantle of pom material (una manta grosera y pobre., with which they covered and concealed their ordinary robes, in token of nul? jection and humiliation. These were manufactured out of the leaves of tlu aloe tree by the commoner classes Etiquette required the strict observ ance of this custom by all those win came Into the emperor's presence, wPh the exception of persons of the mya blood. Any one seeking audience ?. the emperor had to don these comnmi clothes on bis arrival at the palace. Barefooted and wretchedly clad, be was led before the sovereign and wltb downcast eyes made bis request, with every outward sign of abject subserv ience. lt Cam? Back. "John Burroughs, the naturalist, dined with me one night" said a mag azine editor of New York, "and among my guests was a young nature writer of the new school. "This young man told a wonderful story about the intelligence of oysters. He said be was going to put the story in bis new book. Ur. Burroughs gave a dry laugh and said: " 'Let me tell you about a cat This story is quite as authentic aa the other one, and it should do for your book nicely.' v "The venerable student paused im pressively, then said: "'A Springfield couple bad a cat that age bad rendered helpless, and they put it out of its misery by means of chloroform. They buried it in the garden and planted a rosebush over its remains. The nest morning a fa miliar scratching took them to tbe front door, and there was that cat waiting to be let in, with the rose bush under its arm.' " Curious Village Names. There Is In Dorset a group of villages which in some form or other have us their eponym the stream in whose val ley they are situated. The stream is named Puddle, and the villages bear the names of Puddle Hinton. Puddle town. Tulpuddle, Affpuddle, Turner's Puddle and Bryan's Puddle. One ls reminded of tbe riddle about the letter "m." Some, like Queen Mary, "have lt before;" some, like King William, "have it behind." Poor things, poor things! "The inhabitants of these vil lages,' says Marcus Dimsdale, who writes in the Cornhill Magaziue on "English Village Names'." "sent to a former postmaster general-if 1 am rightly informed, Cecil Kaines-a re quest that they might be allowed to change their names and replace them with more euphonious substitutes which they obligingly supplied. Back came the official reply, curt, overbear ing, inexorable, 'Puddle you are, and puddle you must remain!'" UOJf iv. .. --. . way.? writes the name of the saint at the close of the letter instead of the date. Bishop Huntington learned all these things quickly and began "to prac tice them at once. The first time he had occasion to write to bis old friend Dr. Hale after joining the church be placed "St. Michaelis day" after his signature. A ' reply from tbe doctor came, and after his name be bad writ ten in n foll, round band, "Wash day." A Little Awkward. "Nearsightedness must be very em barrassing at times," remarked a Brooklyn resident to an acqut ntanco thus afflicted. "The other morning, for example, a man addressed me on a crowded bridge trolley, and io the course of ' conversation he roundly abused a chap- whose political and business methods he disliked equably. In fact, be became ?cutely personal ID bis. denunciation. "Before ho left tbe car be was in formed by il friend near bim that I was tbe man- he bad been abusing. It didn't worry me at all, but it must have been a bit disconcerting, for bim. don't you think?"-New York Globe. Th? Sun. It has been stated that no one bas ever seen the sun. A series of con centric shells envelops a nucleus of which we know nothing except that it must be infinitely botter than the fierc est furnace and that lt must amount to more than , nine-tenths of tbe solar mass. That nucleus Is the real sun. forever bidden from us. The outer most of the enveloping shells Is about 5.000 miles thick and ls called -the "chromosphere." It Is a gaseous flood. Prompt Rebuke. "Orlando, you' mustn't put your arm around my waist" "Why. Gloriana, it's been there for half an hour." "Well. 1 didn't notice it all just now."-Chicago Tribune.. Th? Real Victim. After a man bas been sick a week his wife locks worse than be does from taking care of bim.-Atcbison Globe. Advantage is a better soldier than rashness.-Shakespeare. Postum, Cream of wheat and Grape Nuts at B. Timmoiis. Let us have your orders for Crep Paper, Tissue Paper, Paper Flow ers, etc., for the Chrysanthen!un Fair. We carry Dennison's paper, che only paper with which satis factory results in decorating eau bx obtained. Wr?. Lynoh&Co. J The Mullet In Gulf Waters. The mullet ons always attracted a goodly share of attention. His fame is uot circumscribed by the boundaries of the gu.f. Whether tho visitor be from the Atlantic or the Pacific coast ? op-from thc shores of the M edi terra- j nean or the Baltic, he wants to see. es- j amine and least on the mullel. He is the best known fish that swims. Rame have a prejudice against him: but, like :L?I feelings of this ns ture, it rests on an unsubstantial foun dation. It cannot bear investigation, for the ru lill et plays a greater part in appeasing -he craving for sea foods thau any nsb thal inhabits the waters of the gulf. Ile is here in sumiller and winier, in fall and in spring. When tlie fisherman contemplates bis plight, when luck is against him and a feeling of depression creeps over him. the mullet, always ready to give bim a helping hand, rushes into bis seine aud contributes to bis fortune and to the gastronomic pleasure of the thou sands of people to whom they are ship ped. He Is a regular standby. In prosperity and in adversity be ls al ways here in abundance.-Pascagoula Chronicle. Helping Him Out. He was well groomed, sober, evi dently Intelligent, but he looked wor ried as he approached a policeman on Broadway, near Long Acre square. "Officer, I know my name und all that sort of thing." said he. "but I don't know where I live. Wbat'll I do about It?" "Advertise." said the bluecoat with a stony stare. "What are you giving me?" "Honest." continued the worried one. "Pm a Btranger In New York, (?ot here this morning Had the address of a boarding bouse on u slip of paper n friend gave me. Went there, engaged board, left my trunk and theu went out on business. Now I've lost the strip of paper somehow, und I've for gotten the street and number. What'l' I do?" "Advertise." repeated the bluecoat but less bluntly. "Then go to a hole and wait for an answer. Another way ls to write to the friend who gave you the address." "Thank you." said the lost one grate fully.-New York (?lube. Life's Day. The time that has elapsoj(l since the first appearance of life ou earth bas been variously estimated at 100.000. 000 to 200.000.000 year?. To tax our powers of compr?hension as little a. possible Dr. H. Schmidt of Jena has taken the shortest estimate aud has tried to make understandable tbe live great evolutionary periods tbrougb which life has passed by comparta;: them with a day of twenty-four hours Tbls ls the result: The areheoxoic pe rlod (02.000.1:01) yearsi is represented by 12 hours 30 minutes; paleozoic (.'M. 000.000 yearsi. s Pours 7 minn les: mesozoic (lLWW.OOO yearsi. 2 hours SH minutes: cenozoic (3.000.000 yearsi. 4:1 minutes: authropozoic (100.000 yearsi 2 minutes. If the last period, the age of man. be compared In Its subdivi sions by the same seale it is fouud that the "historic'* oort iou covers oul.v of Indian caste bas little conception of what suSferlng tbe custom involves. Its tragedies exteud even to the bum ble, commonplace matters of everyday life. A little incident witnessed by Prince Bojidar Karageorgevitch aud chronicled lu his "Enchanted india" needs no comment. Stones and dying sticks were thrown at a little pariah girl whose shadow as she passed defiled the food of a Brah man. He merely threw away the rice, which the dogs soon finished. But the bystanders who witnessed tbe girl's insolence in going so near a holy man-she, so base aud uuworthy-dew at the unhappy creature, who ran away screaming and dropping the load of wood she was carrying on her back. Meat on a Spit. It was the custom in mediaeval times to servo roast meat on a spit and to pass it round the table for each guest to cot off what be liked. In France one still finds chicken livers and ba con served on small spits. It is probable that many people con tinued to prefer fingers to table uten sils even after these were perfected and In general use, for knives were certainly invent* ? at the period when Charles XII. chose to butter bis bread with bis royal thumb. Wanted One Saved. "My task in life." said tbe minister complacently, "consists in suving youug men." "Ah." replied the maiden, with a soulful longing, "save a good one for mo, won't you?" His Big Hit. "Jones made an awful big hit at the banquet the other night." "ls that so?" "Yes: he was called on for a tpce^ and refused."-Detroit Free Press. Happy Thought! Voice From Witbiu the Taxicab Sbay. rhoofer. bow much do I owe ye "Seven dollars and fifty cents, sir." "Well. shay, back up till ye come t< 30 cents. That's all I got."-Life. Wealth is not his that has it but bis that enjoys it. Itter Succeed when everything else fails. In nervous prostration and female weaknesses they arc the supreme remedv, as thousands have testified. FOR KIDNEY, LIVER AND STOMACH TROUBLE it ia the best medlc:ne ever gold over a druggist's counter. The County Treasurer*. - ... '. ?? open for tht purpo?&Oi. n.v <. > ' ... i N< S from the 15th day o?X)ct. ^-JJ LO tlie 15th day of March 1910 inclusive. A penalty of one per cei. c v/i; be ad ded to all unpaid tax?s ai i r .o h'Z day of Jan. to the 31st oi . n. : J!0, of two per cent, irom the ls. -.yetti h. to the last.day ol' Feb'. 19. . -? ; penal ty of five per centirom thc ..rar. day ol' March to the 15th day of March 1910. The tax levies for the ye ar 190J asa as follows:. h or State Purposes 5i iniils. " Ord. County ??. u " " ?.ons. School tax 3 " " Special County1'tax 12 " " Bacon S. D. Special 2 " Edgefield S. Dv 2 " " Long Cane S. D. " . 3 " " Liberty Hill S. D. 3 " " Johnston S. D. 3 " " Plum Branch Si J). No. 13 " " White lownS. 1). 3 ?. " Parksville S. D. 3 " "Washingtons.!). 2 " " R. R. Bonds^Wise T's,p 1} . " ? i. ? ? pick?hs - 3 " " " " " Johnston " 3 " ? ? ? ?? Portion-pine Grove 15 " " " " " Portion Blocker 15 " " " " " Town ?dgefiekl i " " School Bonds " 1 " " Corporation Purposes 2k " All male citizens between the ages of 21 years and 60 years except those ex empt by law are liable to a poll tax of one dollar each. A capitation tax of 50 cents each is to be paid on all dogs. A commutation road tax of $2.00 ?ach must be P^Lby able bodied male citizens betwee^Ple.'ages of 18 and 50 years. No checks or drafts will be accepted n payment of taxes unless the party ;iving same can beheld personally re ponsible for its payment. ; JAS. T. MIMS. - Co. Treas. E. C. Cotton I Augusta s Lc ading Furniture Store # v."' i ; ir i RSV I Ipi a" I i f pli j Tri want our Edgefield friends to know th.it vve are ai A-ays prepared, to take care ot their interests to the bot possible -id - antage. Being large buyers-carlond shipments-we can aiwa^s make clobe prices. These who have been our regular customers can ttstify to this We ca . sa e you money on furniture or i:i ta?*t on an. thing that yoes to furnish a home. Do you need a suit ot Furniture; \ ariirobe,' dining table, sideboard. b?d, rock rs, dining chairs, Window >h.ul?s, stover, mattresses. Bed room suits $n up. Chairs 3*'c up, and iron beds $2 no. Do not fail to ca'l to see u- when you come to Vu ?ustti E. M. ANDREWS FURNITURE CO., 972 Broad Street, - Augusta, Ga. Cotton Seed Meal and HUHS. mmw^mimm^^im^mmmmmmsm I take this mean;: of n-t; ; '?< <x . ) *y ;' jr i lgj ~WyT P?? ny friends and ?he/pul: ! ri 1 :'? IA .? -^y IIS ....*>. f< tf% fcS? ceep a large stipp?v cf ir . ; n \-.;) [?.: \\ tL* r h -J .i (jj ... ai ?J^C-? ?i ? a*^ ton Seed Meal a?f t? #t,,,.: ^ JOLC??1 U f JLAOJL ?V?? gi on hand and can Hi! ?hmv . ai . ."f?? ??/ reasonable prices. War -:\ ^^^^^^^^^E^^^^S^E^^^x?.-1 I ? - --s ft^g site of old depot. } iv; -?U . ___ [Q&l -litited A i , , j vve desire to announce to ths Edge-g _L_-... >| field public that wa will conduct our S ITTHEM^ ; J Sales stable at the county Fair groan is during the pres- m I' * u"~i"' U^eni season, and ' ^ HUNTERS' SI J. ? 1 ipi;. . 5 PARKER Have just received a shipment of Kentucky horses which our Mr. Can-feS) SAuSty ?? ^) te*c;i r<?sent*y purcLassd in person from the farms around Lexington. frS 1,1<)X' I j '/. s c rc shovfirg High Class Horses, Brood Mares, Combination Horses, pS I RI?MIX? :TO:; j.;;^ Kor^c? with Spec ct, Family Horses and Mules. ?SK And Other ??::: . j.^j Sj I SKILLED RE^Air.-t! Ii yow ?SG in nee; of any stock call at our stables and inspect ours. We Sg I " - ' ^ '? ?M can please you. ??? I ooo Broad St., - A?g"st.a, Ga - J53 ^5 g Below Ga. R. R B.in!c ^| '^'.'^^ '* j ^ ^ ?f^g' ^ ?Pl j Johnston, S. C. I ? I?MI1IIIIHI II i i III nu i III ra i Tty rr i i i i ir II II I I a II MM III.i i i i III IMBI III ? - ^y||i HILE we are a hew iii iii solicitiii^ . (. busin ; | are not strangers to the people of Edgefieid couiity. and we propose to S condubtour business on such a high plane that we shall merita share of your g patronage. But unless we can make it to your intere t to trade with iis-in other g wrords, save von nioney-we do not exp ct yo * to )at o z ii . S - ... -i jj j j i ^fiWmVi i tn O ur store is wellstead w.t.i hagons, Budgies, Harness,Saddles/ i . aJ -an. ia. Large assort \\ c desire tu cali J.-,..C..I aiLjiiliu? tu oar Hackney Liu ?r?; i s and iVMjrons. Thc c i.s ;>..sitively :noiliiim boiter ult ibo ni.i. k i lur Axe \\\ ?ney. t'ry une ut t'.iein. Jar Tyson & Julies Undies :aro alsu uiicxuelJ U. .uki ^ij?^d i?lii'lliSiliil?S* Th ? hvli ..<,).?...ii., aro iuviced Lo tuspdct our Furnttare and II JU.io Furnishing Departments. l>cd room soils, wardrobes, Dining tables, Library tables, Chairs, Rockers, China closets, Ru^s, Art squa os, shades, and in fact'everything that.goes to make a hume comfortable and attrac tive. I. ..ll bo u pleasure to sh JW th J ladios through our stock. ix m Undertaker's Supplies XV il :re to call atlenti >.i d> oar ?to?k jf Undertiker's suppaes. Can fill orders for any thing fr? in the cheap culfiu tu ;? big?i-priued metallic case, Our Hearse is ready to respond t? J ll ralis, whether dav or night. Again wo respectfully solicit a share of your patronage. jaasas -"?"'""-"HMIIIIIII I I I ii i sacs nana EBMmBBcaaMMggBMBtMBMBBgMC Johnston, S. C0 IBM